Chapter 51: To withdraw or not to withdraw

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Lin Jian stood at the head of the city, looking at the eight hundred Shao Wu elite soldiers led by Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang who attacked from the secret gate.

The terrain around Yangxin City determined that the captives would concentrate a large number of troops in the Zhulongpo Valley on the northwest corner at the critical moment when they were about to attack the city. Not only is there a steeper path leading to Zhulongpo, which is more convenient to control and control the siege of the West City and the North City, but they also thought that the West City Gate and the North City Gate were surrounded by a trench and a frozen soil wall, and this valley, which was more open and flat than other places, was safe and could not be interfered with by the defenders.

More than 1,300 steps around Yangxin City, except for the outer masonry of the four city gates, the rest of the city wall sections are all built and rammed. From the moment the captives besieged the city, Lin Jian made people dig two secret doors six feet high and four steps wide in the northwest corner of the city wall, and used wooden beams to support the top and side walls. In order to prevent the captives from discovering and sending troops to achieve a surprising effect, the secret door was dug from the inside out, leaving the outermost layer of more than a foot of earthen wall until the last moment.

Lin Jian knew that the defenders only had one chance to use the secret gate to go out of the city to counterattack, so he used it when the captives mistakenly thought that the northern city was about to be broken and attacked the city with all their might.

Indeed, the elite soldiers of Shao Wujun were drawn out of the city wall and the counterattack interception troops, and more than one-third of the elite troops were drawn out of the defensive troops, and there were no elite veterans as the backbone of the city defense, and the morale of the people's brave auxiliary soldiers was available, but the combat experience was insufficient, and the casualties were several times that of the front, and the top and bottom of the North City Tower were under great pressure. If it weren't for the reinforcement of Shao Wu's elite soldiers, if the captives and rebels outside the city continued to maintain such an intense offensive, Beicheng would indeed not be able to support it for long.

This was the last moment to decide the victory, almost more than 7,000 captives and rebels in the northwest valley of Yangxin fully spread out to the north city gate and the north city wall of the north city to climb the ladder, like a tiger like food to make the most ferocious pounce, completely ignoring the protection of the weak part of the waist and eyes; The eight hundred Shao Wu elite soldiers led by Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang attacked from the secret door, as if a sharp knife stabbed him in the waist.

At such a close distance, in about ten or twenty breaths, the two soldiers engaged in battle, so that the captives and rebels who spread out from Tanihara to Yangxin Beicheng had no chance to adjust or shrink at all, and the formation was directly crushed from the flank......

The transmission of the formation collapse is very fast, just like a pebble thrown into the water, the water waves will quickly ripple away: the rebels who are supporting the ladder to the wall at the foot of the city to climb up the siege are the first to find the armor who went out from the secret door, and at first they wanted to send someone to intercept it, but in such a short time, they can't organize many people and strong protection, more than ten or twenty people, and they are all short knives and thin shields, and they will be killed in three or two strokes. The people who climbed the ladder also jumped down in a panic, and they didn't want to use a big shield to cover the stone and rolling wood poured down from the city, and they wished that their father and mother would have two more legs to run.

Although there is moonlight in the four fields, it can only be seen closely, not far away, and once the people's hearts are panicked, they will only flee back and forth. The rebel Mo Ji's headquarters had long had no morale to attack the city, and its troops were among 7,000 people, and they dispersed as soon as they heard the news. The rebel Zhao Jinlong's troops were on both sides, if it weren't for Zhao Jinlong's borrowing of captives to supervise the war, there would not be much strong willingness to save the war, especially Sun Zhongwu and Zhou Zhizhong's two generals, watching the soldiers in the city counterattack from the secret gate, no matter how many armor soldiers, seeing the front of the rout, the cavalry fled back with more than 100 cronies, and the captured general Gugeta was leading the two thousand Donghu elites who dismounted and wore armor to be sandwiched between the two rebels of Mo Ji's headquarters and Zhao Jinlong's department, and the formation of the two wings collapsed, especially the rout on the south side pressed the armor soldiers who came out of the conflict to flee to the north slope. Directly attacking the captive array, the captive general Gugeta did not expect the rout to occur from the flank chain at all, and wanted to organize troops to suppress the rout on the south side, but God did not give him a little time, and he could only flee back surrounded by guards.

The northwest corner of Yangxin City and the southeast valley of Zhulongpo are said to be not small, and the depth is 13,400 steps wide, but it is not big, and once the seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses are deployed, the entire valley is a little unable to be placed.

The Zhulong Slope is not steep as a whole, but it suddenly cuts down in the southeast. The slope here, it is easy to walk down, but it is difficult to climb up, coupled with the cold road ice, the slope is extremely steep and slippery, panic, ten people climb the steep slope, almost four or five people want to slip, one person slips and falls and a long list of people behind him are washed down, and it is a mess.

On both flanks, due to the need to guard against the counterattack of the defenders of the north and west gates, the construction of enclosures and frozen soil walls formed obstacles, leaving only a narrow passage for troops. In other words, the passage of troops was enough to enter and exit, but when it was dispersed, everyone rushed to build the first and fled north.

A more important reason is that it is the Donghudu clan that guards the passage in and out of the army.

The overseers did not see the defenders of the city attacking through the secret gate for a while, and when they saw the rout coming, their first reaction was not to let the rout disperse the troops in the enclosure, forcing them to continue the siege. Where did you think that there were more and more routs, and they were directly mixed up with the Warlord.

After all, there are few people in the overseer team, who knows how many defenders have counterattacked in the city, and in the past few days, the overseer team has been forced to die, and the new Han army also hates them to the core, and the overseer team will be killed in a short time. The captives behind the battle even thought that the rebels had rebelled again, and they wanted to organize troops to block it, and the already narrow route for sending troops was even more chaotic......

When the defenders in the city sent troops to counterattack from the secret gate, Nahe Xiongqi, Zhao Jinlong, and Mo Jiben were on the innermost high ground of the valley to watch the entire battle situation, so they were able to retreat to the Zhulong slope in time, and when they saw this chaotic situation, they wanted to cry without tears.

Ye Jiduodi also came over on crutches, and organized the elite soldiers to go downhill to countercharge.

"It's too late! The battlefield is too narrow, the attacking defenders are pressing the rout, and Lin Tie is at the head of the city to command the direction of the attack, and no matter how many people are organized, they will be scattered by the rout first! "Na Hexiong Qi bitterly advised Ye Ji Duodi not to send troops, but to guide the rout to evacuate from both flanks, as long as the elite soldiers on the slope are kept watching, they can suppress the defenders' long-distance pursuit of the rout, so as not to collapse the entire battle line.

Ye Ji Duodi hated to whip the ground, they were on the top of the slope, they could clearly see that there were less than 1,000 soldiers out of the city to counterattack, but more than 7,000 soldiers and horses in the valley under the slope were scattered, like crops in the field, the wind blew to the east, it fell to the east, the wind blew to the west, it fell to the west, the defenders who gave the city to counterattack pressed the harvest life, and even killed each other in order to escape the way, there was almost no passage for them to organize a counterattack on the Zhulong slope. All they could do was hold the camp and divert the rout from both flanks to minimize casualties.

The two thousand elites who dismounted from Donghu and fought in armor were also scattered by the rout, and the defenders who attacked had a special straggler who was staring at Donghu dismounted and armored, and in the two black and dark secret doors, there seemed to be two elites hidden, probably to prevent them from organizing elite soldiers to fight back from Zhulongpo.

"Report!" The messenger sentry rode over from the side with a long longitudinal horse, "Eighteen miles away, a large number of enemy soldiers were found, the number is unknown, the outpost has engaged with it, the enemy's bows and crossbows are very fierce, the attack is very sharp, if there are no reinforcements, at most two hours will be delayed to approach Yangxin ......"

"Withdraw!" Nahe Xiongqi suggested to Ye Ji Duodi with difficulty, the soldiers and horses under the city were completely defeated, and the soldiers and horses in the siege of the west city and the north city were also completely scattered, and the soldiers and horses in the south and east cities did not wait for the order from this side, and the defenders in the city took the initiative to retreat as soon as they attacked. It is still unclear how many soldiers and horses Lin Jian transferred from other places, but they can still master the elite battalion of 3,000 cavalry to fight a counterattack, and if the defenders fail, they can also avoid Yangxin City, if they lose, they will either be defeated or avoid the camp to wait for reinforcements. The defense capability of the camp cannot be compared with Yangxin City at all.

"What about the two thousand Donghu men down the slope?" Ye Ji Duodi yelled at Na He Xiongqi, he knew that there was not much time left for him to make a decision, either resolutely send troops to intercept the reinforcements of the Jiangdong Left Army, or resolutely retreat, otherwise when the Jiangdong Left Army cooperated on the two routes to fight in one place, they would not have the advantage of the battle at all.

The night was dark, and there were hundreds of campfires burning along the slope ridge and at the head of the city to enhance the lighting, and the brightness could barely see the general movement of the entire battlefield.

They didn't know how many reinforcements from the Jiangdong Left Army came from the east, and they didn't know how many troops they had to send to intercept them to be effective. The number of troops is secondary, and the key is night fighting.

If it were not for siege warfare, very few generals would be willing to organize night battles when they could not control their troops, or their ability to control them was greatly weakened, and a little carelessness could lead to a chain of defeats for their own side, and the previous battles had shown that the Jiangdong Left Army was more capable of night battles or night marches than them.

But retreating like this, Ye Jiduodi is unwilling. He brought nearly 20,000 elite and newly surrendered Han troops from Donghu before and after, and more than 10,000 people, and he finally retreated with only three or four thousand people, which was a great shame and defeat that he had never encountered in his life!

Why didn't anyone think that the Jiangdong Left Army would dig a secret door!

Ye Ji Duodi vomited blood with hatred in his heart, they were prepared for the Jiangdong Left Army to counterattack from the city, so they organized manpower to build fortifications outside the city gate, but no one thought that the Jiangdong Left Army would dig two secret doors directly from the heel of the city wall in the northwest city.

These are the two secret doors that have been exposed, who knows if there are other secret doors on the 1,300-step-long city wall of the entire Yangxin City? The anti-counterattack and anti-charge systems they built before have all failed! If you still want to continue to attack the city, then you can build a trench to envelop the entire Yangxin City, then you have to build a trench of more than 4,000 steps, is there enough time?

Even if the reinforcements of the Jiangdong Left Army are repulsed, this Yangxin City will not be able to be stormed, and the two Han armies can no longer have the morale and will to fight forcibly attacking the city.

Ye Ji Duodi made a difficult decision: "Xiongqi, I will leave a thousand people for you to break off, the blood of Donghu Nan'er can't flow in vain in the wilderness of the southerners, if you can save more, save more......"

Zhao Jinlong and Mo Jiben didn't care about gathering the defeated troops in their headquarters, and took dozens of cronies to follow Ye Jiduodi back to the camp, preparing to retreat westward.