Lord of the House

(asking for a red ticket)

Outside the city of Huangpi, the soldiers were like ants, flooding in like a tide.

Huangpi and Hanjin have been occupied by the Jinghu Army for a long time. After the defeat of Shangrao, the She family abandoned Jiangzhou and fled north of the river. The speed of action was beyond Hu Wenmu's expectations, so they gave up Hanjin and Huangpi and did not have time to confront them. It was completely destroyed, so that the luxury family got two relatively complete fortified cities.

Huangpi City is surrounded by a moat that is more than ten feet wide, and the banks are shaded by ancient willows. If the two armies were not facing each other, the autumn sun would be right at this time, which is the perfect time to talk about the moon and enjoy the scenery under the willows.

Although the wide moat provided a protection for Huangpi City, it also restricted the defenders from going out of the city to counterattack.

Out of the four gates of Huangpi, there are stone bridges on the moat, and these four moat city bridges are also the only four passages in and out of Huangpi City.

When the Huaidong Army was about to approach Huangpi City, Ao Canghai ordered Yu Wencheng to advance on foot and ride to cover the four stone bridges and block the defenders in the city.

Sun Jichang was originally the defender of Linqing. In the ninth year of Chongguan, the Yanhu bandit was on the side, and the army pointed directly at Linqing. Sun Jichang led his troops to surrender to Yanhu before the first battle. Such a general should be very pustular, but the fact is quite the opposite. After Sun Jichang surrendered to Yan, he worked extraordinarily hard in the fight against Jinan. He even took the lead and climbed to the top of Jinan City first, almost beheading Lu Jingyan under the knife.

Regardless of the Datong battlefield behind, or leading his troops to clean up northern Shanxi, and leading his troops to advance into Guanzhong with Ye Jiluorong, Sun Jichang worked very hard, made many military exploits, and won Ye Jiluorong's trust.

In detail, Sun Jichang surrendered to Yan without fighting in the first battle of Linqing. It is rumored that Sun Jichang used to be a general of Jinan town, and was in the rank of commander of the cavalry. He was cut down for the people, but luckily the army was well-connected, but he was demoted to Linqing as a general. Sun Jichang held a grudge because of this, and only joined Yanhu after Chongguan nine years.

Ao Canghai didn't have time to study the truth of these rumors, but Sun Jichang could ask Ye Jiluorong to send him to guard Huangpi and plug the gaps in the Huaidong Army. Most of them would not be incompetent. As one of the newly attached troops to join Yanhu, Sun Jichang's troops can also be called the elites with excellent armour.

Sun Jichang naturally knew that if the Sicheng Bridge was easily blocked by the Huaidong Army, then the Huaidong Army's scorpion crossbows and catapults would recklessly push into the moat and madly suppress the city head.

Sun Jichang led his troops to guard Huangpi, and the first thing to solve was the problem of grain storage in the city. In such a short period of time, there was no way to bring in more materials before the Huaidong Army came over. Once the Huaidong Army's catapults were pushed to the front of the moat city, there would be no catapults built in the city to counter them.

The Huaidong Army must not be able to easily seal the Sicheng Bridge. On the one hand, Sun Jichang gathered his bows and crossbows in front of the city tower, piled up the bricks, stones, and wood, lit firewood and boiled the oil in the big iron pot. In order to prepare for the Huaidong army to directly seize the city gate, he ordered the city gate to be opened, sent troops out of the city, and drove the Huaidong army away from the Sicheng Bridge.

Sun Jichang also made some simple shield vehicles in the city, and asked the soldiers to push them out of the city to fight, and the two armies fought hand-to-hand on the moat bridge.

Although the defenders who fought outside the city could be supported by bows and crossbows on the city tower, the outer end of the moat bridge was already 80 paces away from the city tower. Although the bow and crossbow at the top of the city could reach the Huaidong army's position, the force was low. The Huaidong army used shield carts to form a wall, and raised the shield as the top. Looking from the city head, they were densely packed like fish scales.

The defenders attacked from the moat bridge and fought each other, shields against the shields, and the dense shields were piled together. The spear and spear could not find the gap for the jab, and they slashed with their knives. Soldiers on both sides kept falling, but very Quickly call the soldiers behind to fill the gap. After the Huaidong Army's formation, the scorpion crossbow and the tip crossbow, which were projected with a twisting force, were able to project arrows and stone bullets as large as a city wall, as thick as a spear, into the enemy's formation. The casualties caused to the defenders were even greater than the casualties on the line of engagement between the two armies.

The defenders retreated, and the Huaidong Army did not pursue, so the soldiers behind the side were able to catch up quickly, digging trenches with shovels and picks in front of the moat bridge, to completely block the defenders; Sun Jichang could only take turns sending When the defenders went out to fight, they suddenly sent cavalry to attack to prevent Huangpi City from being completely blocked by the Huaidong Army.

After the She family voted in Yan, Shewenzhuang did not hold back, and detailed the failures of Yongjia, Kuaiji, Jin'an, and Shangrao, etc., to General Beiyan to know that when Sun Jichang was besieging Yangxin, he and Jiangdong at that time were closely related. The Zuo Army had dealt with and suffered defeats, but he did not have a direct and profound understanding of the large-scale use of weapons by the Huaidong Army in the siege battle.

If the Huaidong Army really had the ability to force hundreds of catapults into the city in a very short period of time, it would not be a good thing for the Huaidong Army to completely control the periphery of the moat.

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It was Cheng Wencheng who commanded the battle under the city, and Ao Canghai accompanied Lin Fu to stand on the viewing platform of Zhaohu Mountain to watch the battle.

The Third Town Division of the Changshan Army was a force reorganized after the Shangrao War, on the basis of the resistance army in eastern Jiangxi, and absorbed the resistance forces in northeastern Jiangxi.

The origin of the resistance army in eastern Gansu is relatively complicated. There are the old troops of the Ganzhou army, and there are old soldiers who returned to the fields from the East Fujian army in the early years, but they are mostly the resisting people in eastern Gansu. It was composed of generals and soldiers of Jiangxi nationality selected by the Ministry, and they fought with enemy general Han Li at Qimen. It's just that the number of the Ganzhou Resistance Army was quite small. By the end of the Shangrao War, it was said that there were six or seven thousand people. When the third town division of the Changshan Army was formed, although a large number of grassroots military officers were added, the number of troops and horses quickly expanded to 15,000. With thousands of people, it can be said that the third town division is still a young force that has not experienced **** battles.

Cheng Wencheng, Pan Wenshu and other generals fought in the Huangpi City without rushing or rushing, and they were quite normal. Although the enemy cavalry rushed out in a hurry, they were a little flustered and some unnecessary casualties, but they were generally stable. Hooked scythe to kill enemy cavalry. Due to the limited width of the moat bridge, even if the defenders rushed out with heavy armored cavalry, they could only drive out six or seven cavalry at a time. Crossbow blocked.

"The traditional way of building a city and then digging a city and river is afraid that it will be eliminated." Lin Fu did not intend to completely seal Huangpi City in one day. He was satisfied with the performance of Yu Wencheng's team, and stood on the high platform with Ao Canghai to watch the battle. Speaking of the defense of the city, "Dig a long trench, although it adds a defense, but it also limits the channel for counterattacks and loses the possibility of active defense, which is beneficial for us to push the trebuchet directly to the city to kill the enemy; but see Sun Jichang We won't give in easily, we have to prepare for street fighting!"

The viewing platform was built on the west **** of Zhaohu Mountain, and it was three or four miles away from the Huangpi Dongcheng battlefield.

The new affiliated army voted for the new master, and they fought so hard that the two sides were entangled around the moat city bridge for a long time. These dogs and **** really think they can win the battle of Jingxiang..."

This is how morale is. Once there is the desire and confidence to win, the will to fight will be firm; before Chaishan’s troops and horses are out, the desire and confidence of Huangpi’s defenders to win will obviously not be easily frustrated, which means that they will give The Huaidong Army, which stormed Huangpi, brought a lot of trouble, and might really fight brutal street battles.

Lin Bie said: "Heavy crossbows, flaming oil cans, etc., don't need to be saved - since Huangpi's enemies are so hard and hard to chew, they must break their bones and kill their spirit!"

The kerosene tank is a pure consumable. Although the smoldering coal's adjuncts bring sufficient raw materials to the kerosene tank, it is not an unlimited supply. The use of heavy crossbow weapons still faces serious wear and tear. A heavy catapult will often fall apart after hitting more than a hundred stone bullets.

Huangpi is the first battle. If the heavy crossbow and kerosene tanks are all used up in Huangpi, the next battle will require the soldiers to fight with their flesh and blood - but then again, the battle of Huangpi is to dampen the enemy's spirit, and it must be done. Fight hard and fast. When the Chaishan Raiders attack, they will directly hit the enemy's spine, causing the enemy to be in chaos. The Huaidong Army will focus on chasing and destroying at that time, and will not rely heavily on heavy crossbows.

De Lin Fu reminded that Ao Canghai called down the messenger, ordered more heavy crossbows to be pushed onto the battlefield, and handed over to Yu Wencheng to command and use them.

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At this time, Gao Zongting boarded the viewing platform from the back and said, "The scouts have just returned from the west bank of the Han River. It seems that the Jingmen guards have the possibility of surrendering to the enemy..."

"Hu Wenmu is indecisive. Whether the Jingmen should be defended or abandoned, I am afraid that when the Jingmen is encircled, there is no accurate decision. How can I hope that the Jingmen guards will have the determination to defend the city?" , "I just hope he can keep Jingzhou for a few more days."

Lin Fu was not very familiar with Jingmen's defenders. His original intention was to directly order Hu Wenmu to abandon Jingmen. Later, out of various considerations, he did not directly interfere with Jingmen's defense-Jingmen would likely fall soon, and Lin Fu was not surprised. Ji Luorong couldn't even eat Jingmen, and the battle in Jingxiang was easy.

Lin Fu said: "The enemy army is in eastern Hubei, and there is a huge shortage of food and grass, but they also know how to fill up their crops in Huangpi first; even on the side of Tiemen Mountain, Yanhu rushed to send thousands of cattle and horses so that the defenders could eat them. For a while; Hanjin West City is close to Hanshui, we cannot surround Hanjin to death, we can always supply food and grass to the city from Hanshui - Hu Wenmu only left Jingmen a month's food and grass, and wants Jingmen guards to stick to it The will is really difficult..."

After all the lands in Henan were destroyed, it was indeed a problem for Yanhu to raise food for the southern battle. However, Yanhu, especially the Yanxi Hus, were nomadic tribes. At the same time, a large number of herds were migrated south, and the cattle and sheep raised in the wild, It did solve some of the food problems for Yan Hu.

In the concept of ordinary people, the Hu people tend to herd horses, but in fact, the Hu people in Yanxi tend to herd more cattle and sheep in the grasslands.

According to the situation of the spies who sneaked into Yanxi, in the Yanxi grassland, a family of Hu people of five to seven people often herds dozens of horses, dozens of cattle, and two to three hundred sheep.

In northern Shanxi, southern Yan and some areas in Henan near the Yellow River, due to the sharp decline in the population, a large amount of cultivated land was used as pastures for the Hu people who migrated inward. , The scale of two or three hundred cattle and thousands of sheep.

However, on the whole, Yanhu's food and grass in Jingxiang is still in a state of extreme shortage, and it needs to be supplied from Luoyang to the south through Nanyang. supply.

In the early days, when the food and grass were the most scarce, Yanhu gave priority to supplying the defense line of eastern Hubei, and also considered the possibility of cutting and encircling the east of Hubei for the Huaidong army, and needed to reserve sufficient food and grass. Only when there is food can people not panic, and can the guards have the confidence to hold the city.

"Perhaps Ye Jiluorong's slaughter order was also a factor," Gao Zongting said. "After the Nanyang Massacre, the traitor Han Li massacred more than 2,000 women and children at Pengwanling, and Tian Chang also killed more than 1,000 prisoners at Shiheyi. Before the **** slaughter, there were very few fortresses in Jingnan counties who dared to rise up to resist. When Yang, Herong and other cities were included, they all offered their cities to surrender when the enemy soldiers arrived. Zhou Fan was surrounded by Jingmen. Pu Jieshi has already led 15,000 men on foot and cavalry to the southwest to attack Yiling, and Hu Wenmu has no courage to send troops to fight the enemy in the field!"

Lin Fu has long been trained to be hard-hearted. Hu people kill, burn, loot and loot. Naturally, they have to pay with blood and blood, but he knows that the bloodiest and most tyrannical slaughterers are precisely those rebel generals who surrendered to the past. He hated it even more. Grit your teeth.

Lin Bie held the saber at his waist, his knuckles turned white, and said, "Blood debts always need blood to repay, this day is not far away, let them run rampant for a few more days!"

He would not spare any of the rebellious officers who surrendered to the enemy and participated in the massacre, as well as the officers Yan Hu, but those who surrendered... Lin Fu thought that Ma Yigong and Zhen's lack of manpower to expand the offensive against Hanyang Li's after the war. Consider throwing a large number of prisoners onto the Goryeo battlefield.

Gao Zongting said: "Perhaps a part of Huaidong's water battalion will go upstream and make a landing on the front line of Jingzhou, which can attract more cavalry from Yanhu to the vicinity of Jingzhou..."

In Jingzhou city, only 30,000 soldiers and horses are enough. In order to prevent Huaidong soldiers and horses from landing from Jingzhou to help, Yan Hu moved more cavalry to the south, which is also an inevitable move.

"Let's wait until the Yanhu soldiers and horses encircle Jingzhou!" Lin Fu said, "For now, we should fight Huangpi first..."

Gao Zongting was not in a hurry to suggest that Lin Fu should send troops to Jingzhou to feign, and asked, "How about Changxuanling?"

Ao Canghai said, "Sun Jichang didn't dare to drive his troops too far out of the city, and there was no obstacle in the fortress built in Changxuanling..."

Changxuanling is located in the north and west of Huangpi City. The southern **** is 14 or 5 miles away from Huangpi City. The mountain is not high, but it extends for more than 30 miles to the north. Base, is to prepare both hands.

The first is the siege of Huangpi, which will not be pretentious, but will fight with real swords and guns. If Huangpi City can be captured quickly, it will solve a lot of troubles in the future. Another is to consider that there may not be enough time to take Huangpi City, Chaishan troops may have to advance to the hinterland of Xiangsui, and Lin Fu will consider leading the elite cavalry to bypass Huangpi City and go deep into the hinterland of Jingxiang to fight a battle of annihilation. After Ling is in Huangpi City, it can become a temporary supply base for the Huaidong Army to enter the hinterland of Jingxiang.

In any case, the Huaidong Army built a fortress in Changxuanling, and when Huangpi City was not trapped, it directly extended its tentacles to the depths of the Eastern Hubei defense line, which would further send the enemy's troops in Shicheng and Suizhou to Dahong Mountain. The southern foothills and the first line of Xiaochang Shuangfeng Mountain are attracted.

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The third division of the Changshan Army led by Yu Wencheng was a young and inexperienced unit in the Huaidong Army, but it did not mean that the generals did not have the spirit of daring to fight.

Sun Jichang led his troops to subjugate Hu, and the armour was extremely good.

Yan Ji collapsed, and a large number of troops from the three sides and the Beijing camp failed to flee south, or were captured, died or surrendered. In particular, the Jingying Army was not strong in combat. Because it defended Gyeonggi and the imperial family, it could be said that it was equipped with the most sophisticated armor in the world. In addition, in Yanjing City, there is a huge arsenal, which reserves a large number of soldiers, armors, bows and crossbows, which must be captured by Yanhu.

Over the years, the Huaidong Army has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build armor. Although Yu Wencheng's army was officially established in only four months, the rate of generals wearing armor has reached 50%, which is higher than that of the Chizhou Army, Jinghu Army, and Huaixi Army. .

However, the newly attached army who surrendered to Yanhu was a well-equipped town army, frontier army or Jingying army before they surrendered. Relying on the later capture, the armored rate was even as high as 70% or 80%, and the bows and crossbows used were not comparable. The Huaidong Army was half a point behind.

The only difference is that the Huaidong Army has more heavy weapons.

Lin Bie asked Ao Canghai not to save the consumption of heavy crossbows in the first battle of Huangpi, so Ao Canghai asked the soldiers to push forward a batch of heavy crossbows such as scorpion crossbows and scorpion crossbows.

Bed crossbows and a large number of crossbows can only be used to shoot the enemy flat. When the two armies are engaged, the bed crossbows and crossbows that can only be flat-fired are ineffective because they cannot be placed in front of the battle; The penetrating power of the scorpion is limited, and there is no way to deploy a large number in the formation; the Huaidong Army's scorpion crossbow and tip crossbow with a projectile range of three or four hundred steps, in addition to attacking the enemy's block, can also be directly placed in the formation to attack the enemy's formation. It can show great advantages.

The scorpion crossbow and the scorpion crossbow are all equipped with small wheels under the crossbow frame, and they can go out and retreat with the infantry.

At the point of contact, both armies use armored soldiers, and both use shields and spears to stabilize their footing, so that the other side does not have the opportunity to break in. The lethality of ordinary bows and crossbows on armored soldiers is also limited.

And when a stone bullet weighing 20 to 30 kilograms was thrown from a distance of 300 to 400 paces, even if he was wearing an iron helmet and armor, if he was hit, he would not be able to escape the end of his head and bones. When the giant spear is thrown, the iron armor is pierced like mud through the river - when a body is nailed to the ground by the spear, struggling and screaming, its shocking power is definitely not comparable to that of one or two heavy feather arrows inserted into the body. .

Seeing that the front line had stabilized, Yu Wendeng deployed more scorpion crossbows and tip crossbows behind the line or on both wings, with dozens of stone bullets and several giant arrows at a time, to attack the defenders who had left the city to fight.

At first glance, the Huaidong Army was not too strong to be confronted, but the more the Huaidong Army fought, the more stable it was, especially the increasing number of heavy crossbows in the rear and on the flanks—Sun Jichang could not resist such a large number of casualties. The army would not give him the temptation to easily approach the city and give him a chance to smash and kill him with a rolling stone ram. In the end, he could only sit and watch the Huaidong army dig a long trench outside the moat bridge.

After asking the Huaidong Army to dig a long trench to completely block the passage for the counterattack out of the city, Sun Jichang had the opportunity to truly experience the power of the Huaidong Army's intensive use of war weapons.

Dozens of catapults were assembled at a distance of about 400 paces from the base of the city wall across the moat.

The piles of materials were unloaded from the baggage, and quickly assembled into a heavy catapult with a height of more than ten feet. Under the bright moon with a missing corner, it was like a giant beast lying there with its tail raised high; In closer places, several nest cars quickly stood up.

The moonlight is very fast, so Sun Jitang can clearly see the size of the stones removed from the carriage at the city head. He thought that if such a big stone hit the city head directly, he did not believe that he would temporarily use a log at the city head. The built war tent can stop it.

Sun Jichang believed that even if there were skilled craftsmen in Huangpi City, they would not be able to build one in three to five days, while the Huaidong Army erected more than 20 in one night outside the moat...

Stone bombs weighing more than 100 kilograms were thrown, and the enemy building in front of the city gate was hit, and it collapsed in one piece. And the nest carts standing close to the moat are also the bed crossbows and smashed crossbow shooting platforms of the Huaidong Army near the city.

Under the smashing fire of the Huaidong Army's hurling crossbows, bed crossbows, and crossbows, the defenders were unable to gain a foothold in the city section covered by arrows and stones, and could only hide from both sides, or directly to the caves under the city.

And every time a stone bullet weighing more than 100 catties hits the city wall on the front, the ground will shake, and the wall wrapped in masonry will also crack with clear traces, which makes people suspect that more Hit a few times, and this section of the city wall will collapse.

The defenders scattered, and no arrows were fired. The Huaidong Army immediately sent soldiers and civilians swarming down, filling the soil-filled cloth bags into the moat, and at the same time filling in several channels for advancing troops directly close to the root of the city wall.

Because the Huaidong Army's entry channel was staggered from the city gate, Sun Jichang had no way to go out of the city to fight back.

Because the Huaidong army used heavy crossbows to cover and strike the city wall very strongly, the nest trucks set up the bed crossbow to shoot flat, and the scorpion crossbow was used to projectile the city wall, and the defenders of a section of the city wall could be driven out. After gaining a firm foothold at the top of the city, fight with the defenders coming from both sides.

Sun Jichang also saw that he could not directly stop the Huaidong Army from reaching the city's head, so he considered fighting in the city. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Since the heavy catapults of the Huaidong Army could only be fired outside the city, the defenders retreated into the city and opened up their depths to avoid direct hits by the heavy catapults of the Huaidong Army. It also avoids the disadvantage of insufficient heavy crossbow. Of course, as long as you are well prepared and fight in the city, the defenders will still have a favorable geographical position.

East Hubei itself is a wasteland. When Hu Wenmu abandoned Huangpi, the generals and civilians evacuated, and the luxury family did not leave their children in Hanjin and Huangpi. Except for a small number of Ding Zhuang craftsmen, there were 30,000 defenders in Huangpi City, among them Sun Jichang. There were 20,000 troops from the headquarters, and 10,000 soldiers from Marquette, a general sent by Luo Xiancheng.

It has to be said that Yanhu's method of restraining the newly attached army is very effective.

A high-ranking general like Sun Jichang would never consider surrendering at all, and those ordinary soldiers, not to mention Yanhu's military household system to win over them, as long as they participated in the massacre of the city, their hands were stained with blood. He also blocked the escape route in his heart, and became more crazy when fighting.

Although the Huaidong Army used heavy crossbows to clear the city wall so that the infantry could use the ladder to directly attack the city head, but after reaching the city head, the heavy crossbow could not distinguish the enemy from the enemy, so they could no longer effectively cover, and they had to be one foot by one inch at the head of the city. to compete with the defenders. From the time when the soldiers approached the city, it was not until the fourth day that they completely occupied the Dongcheng Gate and opened the passage to directly enter the Huangpi City from the Dongcheng Gate.

However, Sun Jichang dug a trench inside the East City Gate, laid down several barricades on the East and West Long Street, and opened up to fight street battles.

Ao Canghai was not afraid of the war of attrition, so Yu Wencheng's troops took turns to attack from the east gate to fight street battles, and Zhang Gou led his troops to enter the battle of Jingxiang from the north gate. How can the army win the final victory without the determination to fill in tens of thousands of lives? My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter