Chapter 705: Heyang's Offensive and Defensive Battles
Li Jiancheng looked at Liu Lan, a scrivener who seemed to be modest on the outside, but there was a sense of confidence in his speech.
Li Jiancheng asked rhetorically: "There are so many generals here who have no plans, and Ru'an dares to make a big statement here."
Liu Lan hadn't opened her mouth yet, and Li Yuanji said on the side: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this Liu Wenyu is a resourceful person, you might as well listen to him."
Li Jiancheng showed a skeptical look, but seeing that Li Yuanji recommended it like this, he couldn't help but give him face, nodded and said, "You can try to say it."
Liu Lan said: "The trouble of Beizhong City lies in the reinforcements on the pontoon bridge in Henan, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must destroy the pontoon bridge if he wants to isolate Beizhong City." Weichen has a strategy, he can build hundreds of trees upstream of the pontoon bridge, carry firewood and go straight downstream, and set fire to the pontoon bridge. ”
Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji glanced at each other, and they all showed a feasible look of this plan.
Li Jiancheng smiled and said to Liu Lan: "This is Wang Jun's strategy to break Wu, it is really a clever plan, and it is worthy of King Qi to appreciate you so much."
Liu Lanqian said: "Weichen also came up with this strategy by coincidence, and he didn't dare to take credit in front of His Royal Highness the Prince."
Li Jiancheng laughed when he saw Liu Lan advancing and retreating so clearly, adding a little appreciation.
The next morning, the sky was overcast, and the turbid waves on the Yellow River were rolling and the water was turbulent.
In the mist, hundreds of rafts are heading down the river from upstream. The rafts are filled with straw figures, each of which is connected together by long chains, and the front end of the raft is equipped with hook nails to hook and pull the pontoon.
Under the turbulence of the turbulent Yellow River, the river rises and floats, and the raft travels down the river from the upper reaches of the river, moving extremely fast.
But soon the beacon tower of the Zhao army along the upper reaches of the river appeared. The raft of the Don Army.
Why is there a beacon tower on the south bank? It turned out that Su Dingfang was worried that the Tang army would follow Er Zhurong's example of smuggling across the Yellow River and attack his back. Therefore, a beacon tower was set up in Heyin on the south bank of the upstream as an early warning. The beacon tower was in the current Tang Army when it was on a raft. immediately told Su Dingfang.
Su Dingfang was standing at the head of Zhongtan City at this moment, looking at the Tang army raft that appeared on the Yellow River, and couldn't help but smile lightly and said to the left and right: "I knew that Li Tang would have someone to make this plan to destroy our army's pontoon bridge. ”
The Tang army's raft was less than two miles to the Heyang pontoon bridge, and the Tang soldiers on the raft set fire to the straw man. The straw man had already been poured with fire oil, and when the Tang sergeant was a little pawn, a fire broke out on the straw man.
The fire raged, and hundreds of rafts on the floating river caught fire at the same time, and the rafts were connected by iron locks. On the surface of the river, there was a sea of fire, and the raft rushed to the pontoon bridge along the Yellow River. After the Tang sergeant on the ship set the fire, he fled directly from the small boat behind the ship.
Seeing this scene, Su Dingfang gave an order at the head of the city, and hundreds of small boats near Zhongtan City in the pontoon bridge came out together, but saw that on each Zhao Jun boat, the soldiers were holding long poles tied with iron forks. But when he saw the Tang army ship coming, the sergeant of the Zhao army ship raised an iron fork and fork boat to refuse.
Su Dingfang's method achieved miraculous results, and he actually cracked the fire attack of the Tang army in one fell swoop. On the shore, Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and other generals were dumbfounded.
Li Jiancheng saw that Liu Lan's tactics to him were fruitless, so he was furious and replaced Liu Dewei with anger, and ordered Qu Tutong to personally lead 10,000 elite troops of the Zuowu Guard to attack the city.
This time, the Tang army recreated siege weapons, and there were more than a dozen nest cars alone. There are also crashes, and the ladder is even more numerous. This time the attack was pressed by Li Tang's army, and Beizhong City was attacked by the Tang army like a storm.
The Tang soldiers under the city faced the city gate. There were no less than six charges, under the blows of the Zhao army. Despite the heavy casualties, they built a fish-beam avenue under the city with their flesh and blood leading to the city.
On Fish Liang Boulevard. The Tang army and the Zhao army fought to the death, and the two sergeants were full of bones.
The battle on the city wall was even more fierce, and the Tang army even almost broke through Heyang City in a charge in the afternoon. It was the Tang army who was responsible for digging soldiers, and finally dug through a city wall in the eastern corner of the city.
The Zhao army is now too late to stop, the Tang army took advantage of this gap to enter the city wall, at this time Su Dingfang just rushed to Beizhong City, personally led his own soldiers to rush up to fill the gap, and forced the Tang army that attacked Heyang City out of the city wall.
In the end, the female wall was moved to temporarily fill the vacancy in the city wall.
But in any case, on this day, the Zhao army held Beizhong City at the cost of thousands of casualties. Although the Tang army also suffered more than 2,000 casualties, the Tang army had an almost endless number of reserves.
After Liu Dewei and Qu Tutong failed to conquer Heyang City, Li Jiancheng simply withdrew all the two troops and ordered the general Chai Shao to attack the third wave tomorrow, so as to conquer Beizhong City in one fell swoop.
After dawn the next day, the Tang army unanimously agreed that Beizhong City was within reach. After yesterday's construction, the nest car has surged to more than 20, and the craftsmen of the Tang Army even created a stone-throwing car.
Chai Shao ordered the 300 men and horses of his department to be the first to climb to the dead, but whoever was the first to kill the head of the city, regardless of the officers and soldiers, was to be recounted on the spot. After this reward, the Tang soldiers all geared up, drew their knives and sharpened them in the night, just waiting for tomorrow to fight.
The next day, before dawn, Chai Shao ordered 300 dead soldiers to attack Heyang City at night.
The Tang soldiers infiltrated Heyang City very smoothly, and also opened the city gate, and when the cavalry rushed into Heyang City, the city was empty. It turned out that Sergeant Zhao had already withdrawn from Beizhong City.
It seemed that he punched with all his strength but missed, thinking that he would be able to take Su Dingfang's head in the next moment, but this blow made Li Jiancheng immediately very angry.
After the loss of Beizhongcheng, on the south bank of the Yellow River, Su Dingfang looked at the pontoon bridge hanging on the river, and was set on fire by Sergeant Zhao with torches from the north bank to the south bank.
After the fall of Beizhongcheng, the pontoon bridge obviously did not mean to defend anymore, and Su Dingfang even gave up Zhongtan City in the river and retreated directly to the south bank.
The general on the side asked Su Dingfang: "General, our army has even burned down the pontoon bridge now, and the Tang army has no warships to build a pontoon bridge, so I think it should be very inconvenient for them to cross the river." ”
Su Dingfang shook his head and said: "This is the hundreds of thousands of Tang troops on the opposite side that you underestimated, it may be difficult for others to build a pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, but for more than 100,000 people, it will only take a while, and the Tang army will build another pontoon bridge on the Yellow River in two to three days." ”
"What about us, General?"
Su Dingfang said: "Our army has less than 2,000 men, and it is very difficult to hold the southern city, and it is difficult to do anything else." The only hope now is whether the North Shore Inhover will be able to take his chance. How can I say that I, Su Dingfang, also bought him seven or eight days, which is enough for him to show the strength of the grassland fan. (To be continued......)
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