15. Pre-war painting machine
Since Huating City had not surrendered before, this resistance became even more intense and tenacious.
Under the command of Sheshi Ding An, the military and civilians used wooden boards as slides to push Shiwan, who had shot the Xifan stone thrower into the city, and then retreated one after another, smashing the wooden donkey cart that Xifan arrived in the city.
The foreign soldiers wrapped the iron sheet on their heads and hit the city gate with huge wooden beams. The Huating guards used earth bags and bricks and stones to seal the entire city gate corridor, leaving the foreign soldiers helpless.
When the bloody battle reached dusk, the destroyed remains of the wooden donkey cart used by the foreign army to attack the city and half-burned and half-extinguished firewood were piled up to half the height of the city wall, and the bodies of the foreign soldiers were covered with bloody bodies, but Huating City still stood firm.
At night, the city soldiers lit torches and hung them down with ropes, burning all the objects and corpses piled on the city walls to prevent them from becoming the steps for foreign soldiers to climb the city in the future.
In the raging fire, most of the city gates in Huating were incomplete, and several pillars stood tall in the fire, representing the unyielding fighting spirit.
Hao Yan woke up in the smelly trench. The trauma made him feel that he had all the blood flowed. He moaned and grabbed the edge of the trench and slowly crawled out of the pile of dead people full of limbs. Then he stretched out his hand towards the burning Huating City Wall, "Save me, save me..."
But the figure of the shooter shaking on the top of the city. When they saw a half-dead person suddenly crawling out of the trench below, they were not sure of their identity, and they dared not help.
Although Hao Yan suffered a severe injury, his mind was particularly clear in the cold wind. He tried his best to shout to the horse-faced wall: "I was sent by the Tang family reinforcements opposite him to report the news, please pull me up!"
Sure enough, a wheel was erected at the head of Huating City, and Hao Yan tied the rope thrown from it to his body. With the sound of the wheel turning, he was slowly hung up.
His feet left the ground and grew higher and higher. He could see a group of foreign soldiers guarding there pointing at him and shouting something. Then arrows kept flying in, and it seemed that the thief wanted to shoot him to death.
"Dog thief, national hatred and family hatred, I, Hao Yu, will return it ten times in the future!"
In Shang Jiezan's tabernacle, this great speech has no patience. Why hasn't Huating City been captured yet?
"This place has become a dangerous place, and this theory must retreat quickly." Shang Jiezan finally woke up.
"Didn't you mean to defeat Gao Yue on the opposite side?" Lu Xu Li asked carefully.
"No, don't fight. Gao Yue had told this article before that he was Xingyuan Yin and the judge of Fengxiang and Longyou. Now the one who came to rescue Huating was only Fengxiang's Tang soldiers. Gao Yue must have Xingyuan's Tang soldiers as the backup. When this new force arrives, he will attack me. I will regret it at that time." Shang Jiezan made a quick decision.
But at this time, the main force of the Xingyuan Dingwu Army had already rushed to Gaoyue's camp while the night was running for dozens of miles.
Generals Gao Gu, Zhao Guangxian, Guo Zaizhen, Cai Fengyuan, Xu Si, Sun Bingqian, Tang Jingyan, Hou Lan, Cheng Junren, Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan and others all entered the west wing of the tent, and Robai was in front of Gao Yue.
The secretary-in-chief Su Yan and the military commander Ximen Can entered from the east wing and performed the guest tribute to Gao Yue.
Now Gao Yue is sure to win!
It turned out that the main force of the Dingwu Army first arrived at Shibilei at the junction of Fengzhou, Fengxiang and Longzhou. Then Gao Gu stubbornly took charge of the entire army and quickly came out Shibilei to reinforce the nearby Longzhou counties such as Nanyou, Wushan, etc., and the governor Han Qingxian and the general Li Wanrong of the Neiyuan Xuanwu, Li Wanrong, to kill and kill thousands of Xifan cavalry that were robbed here. The Dingwu Army chased for nearly 200 miles and killed more than 700 foreign soldiers until it drove the foreign cavalry out of Anyi Pass, the southernmost south of Longshan.
Anyi Pass, compared with the Great Zhen Pass in Longshan, is very small and narrow. At this point, Gao Gu asked soldiers to cut down the huge trees on both sides of the pass and fill the pass, so that Xifan could not use it to enter and exit the pass in a short time, and then enter Neiyuan City.
At this time, Ximen Can, the military commander of the Dingwu Army, followed the temporary road and "successfully connected" with the military commander of the Yining Army, Ju Wenzhen. In this way, the Dingwu Army marched quickly and rushed to the Huating Weishui Decisive Battlefield.
Almost at the same time, the scouts from Liangyuan City sent messages: The three thousand shooting soldiers from Fuyuhuai had received help from the three thousand sharp cavalry of the Jingyuan camp. They went out of the natural danger Wuma Mountain and approached Tiehua Mountain in the east of Huating City in a separate way;
In addition, Hun Yu, who received information about beacons at Danzheng Gorge, and Liu Haibin, the governor of Jingyuan, joined forces with 15,000 troops. He also went south along Diaoke Gorge and copied the back of Lai Shang Jiezang.
"Didn't Shang Jiezan ask for a decisive battle with Ben Yin? At this moment, Ben Yin fulfilled his wish." At this time, Gao Yue was really as if he was flying three feet of aura on his head. The Yining Army and the generals of the Dingwu Army sat under the tent, bowing down to listen to Gao Yue's attack and dispatch:
Shang Jiezan said that Xu Li's total army was only 30,000. Among them, the one who was called the elite was the seven or eight thousand Dongtai Imperial Guards presented to Shang Jiezan by Zanpu. They were soldiers from the main division of the Xifan Plateau. They were persevering and brave, heavy armor and good at shooting, and they all held eight-foot long scepters in their hands. Now they were divided into three camps on the left, middle and right, like a crescent moon, and arranged formations west of Huating City;
The other 20,000 soldiers were the "border army" hosted by Shang Jiezan, one quarter was "Gui" and three quarters were "Yong". There should be only about ten thousand people who could be put into the front battlefield;
In addition, Tiehua Mountain, a commanding height in the east of the city, should also have a small-scale soldier on it, providing flag language and intelligence to the entire battlefield.
"In order to avoid our deployment exposed to Tiehua Mountain, the entire army must attack at 4 o'clock in the morning." After saying that, Gao Yue pointed to the mountain on the west side of Shang Jiezan's main camp on the sand table. "Shang Jiezan is always smart and is suitable for ambushing the valley here. He will definitely lie down here and support the iron cavalry to attack while our army is halfway through. Our army has already noticed it on the carriage of the Ziwang Tower - Gao Gu, Zhao Guangxian, and Zhang Jingze!"
"After the festival!" The three generals clasped their fists together and prepared to receive the order.
"You three generals led the Dingwu Army, the long swordsman, the swordsman, and the crossbows of all infantrymen of the Yining Army, and were listed as teams, and they were stationed in the double ranks. They controlled Tang Jingyan, Sun Bingqian, Hou Lan, Cheng Junren and other slings, and were separated from the left, center and right three wings. They used the first drum as the horn, wade through the water and attacked Shang Jiezan's Dongdai imperial camp."
"After the festival, the military strategy is to avoid the real and attack the virtual. The imperial guards in the West and East Dai have always been known as elite..." Zhang Jingze made a cautious suggestion.
Gao Yue immediately said, "Yining, Dingwu armies, attacked the elite of Xifan!" Then he paused and said, "Strike the snake and hit seven inches. As long as you defeat Shang Jiezan's elite central army, the other foreign soldiers will inevitably be frightened - Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan!"
"Due to the festival." Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan stepped forward to receive the order.
"Five cavalry battalions in Fengxiang, and I have three cavalry battalions in Xingyuan. All of them are assigned to your command. Combined with the eight battalions and 4,000 elite cavalry, use the second drum as the horn to exit our army's left wing. The goal is to occupy the nameless valley east of Huating City. If there are Xifan Cavalry there, they will be killed and then attack the rear of Shang Jiezan's central army."
"Now." Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan received the order.
"Guo Zaizhen, Cai Fengyuan."
"During the Festival." These two were enemies in Chang'an City, but now they are often regarded as right-hand men by Gao Yue. Although they have rarely had sex in private, they have never delayed their cooperation on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!