Chapter 0440 - Unexpected

"It seems that this time, Gao Huan is in a catastrophe!" Zhang Guan Li Dai sighed, the night breeze was blowing, but it couldn't blow the heat in his heart.

It has been more than ten days since he was trapped here, and every day he looks at the rebel army that continues to gather under the city, Zhang Guan Li Dai's heart continues to sink, he is not afraid of death, but is worried about others. In reality, he is an officer, but this is the first time he has encountered such a situation, and this heavy sense of responsibility makes him both happy and a little afraid.

Zhang Yuan handed over the team to him, and in this team, everyone pinned their hopes on him, if he couldn't bring this team back completely, he really didn't know how to face Zhang Yuan and everyone.

For the first time, Zhang Guan Li Dai's heart was heavy, and he was out of breath, he finally realized Zhang Yuan's mood a little, and gradually knew that Weishenme Zhang Yuan was in front of them, and his smile became less and less, more of a strange majesty and alienation.

"When he decides to fight the princess, he is destined to pay the corresponding price!" Ma Yun showed a reserved and immature and shy smile, and his deep eyes were full of pride and joy.

More than 10,000 people were trapped in Peiyun City, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Yuan led the army to rescue, and he fell into the enemy and a desperate situation, which did not allow him to be proud and proud, an army of hundreds of thousands of people, even if the strength was not good, but the number of people was there. If it weren't for that, their 10,000 people would be enough to make up more than 3,000 young and strong, and more than 1,000 would be enough to fight against ten, or even hundreds of elite soldiers, and they would not be trapped in this small city, which was not even six meters high.

"Jack Ma, what do you say Gao Huan should do next? If you run away, it would be a pity to run away, you have wasted so much time and energy, and you have taken such a big risk......! Zhang Guan Li Dai asked. There is a glimmer of hope in the words Gao Huan left behind, now the war between the Yuan and Han Dynasty has just ended, but both sides are preparing for war, Zhang Yuan's Xihe City is the front line, but he left, if something happens, how much responsibility will he have to bear!

"Run, no, he won't run, according to the information you got me. Gao Huan is a man with a city in his heart, cautious and far-sighted, although he is not good at leading troops, he is only a good move. It's extremely difficult to deal with, and it's a situation like this today. Only by capturing Peiyun City can there be a breath of life. Gao Huan won't fail to see it. If it were me, I would have already started to prepare, and if I was in a hurry, I would be able to storm Peiyun City before dawn. As long as Peiyun City is captured, the lord will come from afar, although there are elite soldiers. But there are no siege equipment, so you can only retreat! ”

"Then we'll give him a good blow in Peiyun City, and let him know that we are not so easy to bully!" Zhang Guan, Li Dai and Ma Yun looked at each other and smiled.

As Ma Yun expected, after learning that Du Luo Zhou's army was defeated. Gao Huan arranged for someone to contact Wei Jing in full swing, and now the four rebel armies in Zhuolu Prefecture, the strongest and weakest have been destroyed, and there are two left, one is him and one is his brother-in-law, Gao Huan does not want to see Wei Jing also destroyed no matter what.

On the other side, Wei Jing exchanged for his generals to arrange the siege of the city.

Things were as Ma Yun expected, and they were also unexpected, they still underestimated Gao Huan's ability a little, although the rebel army was in its infancy, and the upper and lower levels were extremely chaotic, but Gao Huan was not Du Luo Zhou, his wrist was extremely strong, and in a short period of time, with the help of Liliang before the uprising, he attracted a large number of people, although he didn't dare to say that he was commanding like an arm, but he was more than twice as strong as Du Luo Zhou.

Before dawn, the time was about three o'clock in the morning, Gao Huan organized a group of vanguard troops with a number of 10,000, the strength of the vanguard army was not strong, but it was not weak, it belonged to the average army of the rebel army, and the average force reached about 15 o'clock. The siege equipment is very complete, crash cars, flying bridges, ladders, nest cars, chariots, Linchong Lu buses, and a small number of simple catapults.

"Woooooooo............oo

The sound of bull horns resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the small Peiyun City was in chaos.

"It's really unexpected, fortunately, I was prepared, otherwise, this would have been really caught off guard!"

When Ma Yun and Zhang Guan Li Dai hurried to the city wall, watching the little bit of fire gradually approaching, they gasped at each other, they came really fast, this Gao Huan really can't be underestimated, he is so decisive and cautious, not a panicked attack. Because of the huge black shadow that was pushed and carried by the soldiers, the two of them could vaguely see that it was a siege weapon.

"Even so, I'm afraid this battle will be unstable!"

Zhang Guan and Li Dai smiled bitterly, they had been prepared, but the other party did not attack in a panic, and the idea of attacking the light in a dark way was afraid that it would be difficult to achieve, and it was afraid that it would become a tough battle.

Shaking his head, Zhang Guan Li Dai did not lose heart, but commanded his subordinates to supplement the defense with high morale, as for the original guards and city lords of Peiyun City, they already didn't know that they had run to that corner.

Since the Duluo Zhou Uprising, many officials in Zhuolu Prefecture have abandoned the city and fled for the first time, and very few have really stayed to resist. This kind of thing is extremely common in troubled times, because it is good to meet the army of another country in troubled times, but if you encounter the rebel army, then there is no good end for you as an official, and it is a lucky thing to be caught and killed.

Soon, the rebels launched an offensive, which was so loud that it was discouraged.

There are more than 10,000 people, and there is no boundary.

The four walls of the small Peiyun City add up to only thirty-five kilometers, and the width of the city walls is only five meters, which still includes the battlements.

Under the light of the torches, the nest car stopped two hundred meters away from Peiyun City.

The nest car is a kind of observation car specially used to observe the enemy's situation, the bottom of the car is equipped with wheels, which can be pushed, two long pillars are erected on the car with a solid wood, the top of the pillar is set up with a roller axle (pulley), a small board house is tied to the wheel with a rope, the board house is 9 feet high, 4 feet square, there are 12 lookout holes on all sides, and the outside is covered with raw cowhide, so as to prevent the enemy from destroying the arrows. The house can accommodate two people, and it can be raised several feet by roller cart, so that you can observe the enemy soldiers in the city during the siege.

Gao Huan's general, Xue Xiuji, ordered: "Attack the left!" ”

"What a troublesome opponent!" Zhang Guan Li Dai looked at the moving rebel army, sighed, and said to Ma Yun: "Ma Yun, Peiyun City will be handed over to you next!" ”

"Don't worry, I will organize the first batch of young people to come over to help before dawn!"

Ma Yun nodded, and then left the city wall directly. He is no longer needed here, and Peiyun City, which is in turmoil, needs him to suppress it even more. There, the mob is full of moles, and if it is not yet dawn today it is time to eradicate them, and it is in the day when it is really tricky.

"Then hurry up, I don't know if I can do it at best!" Now Zhang Guan Li Dai has only a team of 3,000 people in his hands, of which 1,000 elites have not been used, and the city is guarded by 2,000 ordinary Liangzhou soldiers and young soldiers, these are the only people in Peiyun City who can be used with confidence in the Eastern Han Dynasty people or soldiers who followed them away.

A team of 10,000 people. There are more than 100 wooden ladders, dozens of ladders and flying bridges, and a small number of chariots, Linchong Lu buses also began to be pushed by ant-like soldiers, slowly approaching the city wall. Rows of rudimentary catapults are placed separately, facing the city walls.

"The trebuchet sniped the opponent's trebuchet with all its might. Wreck them completely! Zhang Guan Li Dai naturally will not give the other party a chance to exert his power. At the same time, the bed crossbow was ordered to be aimed at the car.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was changed to an equilateral triangular roof and renamed "pointed wooden donkey cart". It is made of a log with a length of 1~1.5 zhang and a diameter of 1.5 feet as the ridge, supported by an oblique column, wide at the bottom and pointed at the top. It is seven or eight feet high, covered with raw cowhide, with six wheels under it, and there is no bottom in the carriage. Workers can land on the cart and push it inside the vehicle. The car can accommodate 6~10 people. This kind of car can more effectively avoid the damage of enemy stone arrows.

Peiyun City is a border state city, there are a small number of bed crossbows in the city, but it has been shelved for too long, when Zhang Guan Li Dai took it out, most of them have been decayed, and finally dismantled and reassembled after selecting haode parts, and only seventeen bed crossbows can be used, each side of the city gate except for the west facing the enemy, eight are arranged, and the other three sides are only three on each side of the emergency.

"The general has an order, whoever is the first to attack the city wall will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to the third level! After the city is broken, the knife will not be sealed for three days! ”

A cavalryman galloped by, bringing news that had made the rebels hungry.

The drums were beating, the war drums were beating, a white light rose on the horizon, shining on the earth, and the rebel army waiting for standby could no longer suppress the agitation in their hearts, and in the sound of war drums, they surged towards Peiyun City, which was mighty and mighty, like a surging wave, and Peiyun City was a reef in the sea.

The fighting power of the rebel army that released the beastly desire in his heart was very amazing, and in the face of the arrows shot down from the sky, it could not extinguish the impulse in the heart of the rebel army, and soon, the dense iron nails were swept away, and then the first trench was filled, and the rebel army showed no signs of stopping.

"Tell the commander of the thousand soldiers, the southern city is in an emergency, the second trench has been filled, and the other party is coming straight to the moat, please make a decision!"

"The first batch of Qingzhuang will arrive soon, you go to Peiyun City to find the military advisor, and let him send Qingzhuang to Nancheng first!" Zhang Guan Li Dai's face remained unchanged, and he sent away the soldiers from the southern city, and turned his gaze to the city wall again.

The sky was getting brighter, the torches were gradually extinguished, the screams did not stop for a moment, and under the walls, blood flowed and corpses were everywhere, and as the darkness disappeared, the rebel attack slowed down considerably.

The first two trenches had been bulldozed, and at the moment when the sun had just risen, Peiyun City was left with only a moat of Zuihou, while Nancheng had already begun to fight.

"This old man, I ask how far it is from Peiyun City!"

Zhang Ji and his entourage were dusty, and after defeating the rebel army of Procter & Gamble, they rested for the night, and then went directly to Peiyun City under the mountains.

And after receiving the news from Ma Yun and them last night, he didn't dare to delay for a moment, Zuihou decided to divide the troops into two roads, and Zhang Ji led the archers to give up the hidden galloping road and move forward quickly. And Han Fu and Zhuang Zheng led people over the mountains and took shortcuts.

"General, this is the territory of Peiyun City, and you can see Peiyun City from the northwest twenty miles ......!" When the old man saw such a large group of people, he was already stunned, and when he was brought to Zhang Ji, he trembled and looked cautious, for fear that he would accidentally make the general in front of him look unpleasant and cut off his head.

Now the soldiers in Zhuolu Prefecture are in chaos, the people are displaced, and the old man's family is also hiding in the mountains, but they are in a hurry, and they don't have to rush the belongings, and they can't rest assured that they stay in the mountains for a while, so they secretly run back from their families, but they are still discovered by the keen archers.

"Thank you, brother, this thing is given to you, it is considered a reward, if there is anything in the future, you can ask someone to come to Xihe City of the Han Dynasty to find me, and report my name Zhang Ji!" Zhang Ji looked at the honest old man in front of him, smiled indifferently, threw a money bag to him, and then hugged his fists and urged the horse to shout: "Let's go......!" ”

Watching the team of people gallop by, the old man was stunned on the side of the road for a long time, looking at the money bag that he hurriedly took over, he didn't know what to think, thank you, right? No, hate, right? No, it's just confused, I feel incredible, not only didn't kill him, but also gave him money? It seems that it is not an insurrectionary army!

Well, I don't want the army of the imperial court, what is the way this is coming from? (To be continued......)