Chapter 279: The Xiliang Army Goes Hard
The catapult bombarded the town wall for an hour, and finally knocked down the town wall. After a "rumbling" sound, the town wall finally couldn't hold up, and a section of the wall about two feet long collapsed. With the collapse of the city wall, Li Guang's central army sounded the horn of attack, and then soldiers who had already prepared well rushed towards the gap in the city wall. Seeing this situation, the soldiers guarding here, under the leadership of a warrior in the town, resisted for a while according to the previous plan, then pretended to be unable to resist, and retreated towards the town. At this time, Li Guang and other generals from the Central Army Office outside the town were overjoyed when they saw that the soldiers had finally entered the town along the gap. While ordering the soldiers to step up the attack, they sent cavalry to continuously patrol around the city walls to prevent the town from being defeated. Scattered and fled.
Li Guang originally thought that after the soldiers had entered the town, he would be able to defeat them quickly and then open the town gate to lead the army into the town. He didn't expect that half an hour had passed since the town wall collapsed, and his soldiers were still there. They kept pouring into the town, but the gate to the west was still not opened. You must know that at this time, nearly a thousand soldiers have poured into the town from the gap, and these soldiers are not all junior soldiers under the command of the alien lord, half of them are intermediate and above soldiers brought from Rongyang City. soldiers. Seeing this situation, Li Guang, who was cautious by nature, dismounted one of his personal guards, Du Bo, and led fifty Xiliang iron cavalry under him, and entered the town through the gap to check the situation.
At this time, in Taohua Island Town, a tushā was going on. When the hopeful soldiers of Dong Zhuo rushed into the town from the gap in the town wall, in their view, the breach of a city wall meant that the city had become their possession, and the next thing to do was to defeat the few people in the city. Dare to fight the enemy, and then the whole town will become a paradise for his group. But what they didn't expect was that there were not only daring enemies to greet them in the gap, but also an impenetrable ditch and parapet. When Dong Zhuo's soldiers in front repelled the defenders who were resisting all around, they rushed up to the gap in the broken wall happily, but he was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him. He saw the broken wall waiting in front of them. Below is not the enemy soldiers who rushed to deploy defenses and the panicked people because of the collapse of the city wall, but a trench with a length of several hundred steps and a width of about ten feet, and behind the trench is a parapet. Seeing such a parapet as tall as a man in the wild, they would not pay attention to it, but the problem is that in front of the parapet is a trench about one man deep. If the two are added together, there is a difference in the height of two people, and they Now he doesn't even have the most basic climbing tools, only the weapons in his hands. What is even more frightening is that there are still a row of gunmen and several well rails standing behind the parapet. Although Dong Zhuo's soldiers rushing up the broken wall stopped themselves instinctively, but he forgot that there were other soldiers following him continuously behind him. As a result, Dong Zhuo's soldiers who rushed into the gap were continuously pushed into the grave by their companions behind them.
Standing behind the parapet, Dian Wei quietly watched Dong Zhuo's soldiers pouring in through the gap. Seeing that there were more than two or three hundred soldiers entering the town, Dian Wei suddenly raised his right hand, He yelled loudly: "Gongnu hand, alternate three sets, shoot!"
As soon as the words fell, the archers and crossbowmen, which had already been divided into three rows, raised their bows and rhubarb crossbows and shot towards Dong Zhuojun in front of them. A steady stream of bows and crossbow arrows rushed towards Dong Zhuo's soldiers like pouring rain. These Dong Zhuo's soldiers who entered the town rushed towards the arrow rain in waves as if they were going to die. Wave after wave, one after another, in a steady stream.
The tushā in the town was still going on, and Li Guang's personal guard, Du Bo, quickly led his fifty soldiers and rushed to the broken wall. He was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him. Chung's soldiers yelled: "Retreat, everyone, get out, hurry up..." As he said, he ordered his subordinates to maintain the retreat of the soldiers here,
He quickly ran towards Li Guang's direction. He wanted to report the situation in the town to Li Guang as quickly as possible, at least to prevent the soldiers from dying in this trap. As for the subsequent attack, he had to wait for Li Guang to make arrangements before making a decision.
Soon, after Li Guang, who was in the Chinese army, got the report from his subordinates, he suddenly realized that he had been tricked by the enemy. No wonder the soldiers had entered the town for more than half an hour and hadn't opened the town gate. He hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, the town wall had already collapsed by his own side, and he was not afraid that the town could be filled in a short time, it seemed that his attack had to be adjusted. Seeing that the soldiers under his command finally withdrew from the gap, Li Guang found that more than a thousand soldiers were left in the town in just half an hour. The elite soldiers under his command are far from comparable to those of the alien lord. While ordering the army to regroup, Li Guang thought about the strategy to defeat the enemy. It seemed that the opponent wanted to defend the town to the death. After a little thought, he thought of a countermeasure, and the military order was conveyed like flowing water.
"Come here, order the catapult to go forward twenty steps, attack the town from the direction of the gap in the town wall, and throw all our stone bullets into the town. The parapet can also hold back thousands of our troops. Order 500 soldiers from the southeast two divisions to participate in the attack. At the same time, order the two divisions to attack the city with all their strength after receiving the attack order from the central army. Order Li Li , Two hundred soldiers were drawn from the five hundred Xiliang iron cavalry of the personal guards, dismounted and participated in the attack. The attacking soldiers were ordered to carry siege ladders and shields, with sword and shield soldiers as the vanguard, followed by spearmen, and at the same time, two hundred archers from the headquarters were dispatched to go with them. Covered by the sword and shield soldiers, attack to both sides along the gap, and occupy the two ends of the gap!" Following Li Guang's orders, the soldiers of each department began to follow orders. Seeing his subordinates obeying orders in an orderly manner, Li Guang couldn't help feeling proud, and said to the guards beside him: "Since they want to die, I will show them what is called a majestic formation, and pass the order down." , captured the city, and the rich and silk prisoners inside, I will not take any of them, but distribute them equally to the soldiers!"
Hearing the news from the Chinese army that the captives were allowed to be taken by the army, the morale of the Xiliang soldiers below was greatly boosted. In the past, the reason why Dong Zhuo's army was able to attack the city was that the army burned, killed and looted, and did everything, so the soldiers were willing Desperately, now that they heard the general's order from the Chinese army, the army could not be overjoyed. Although this is only a small town, the matter of looting is quicker than eyes and hands. With this order, Dong Zhuo's army's morale was even higher. It usually took an hour to get ready, but today it only took half an hour for all the soldiers and horses to be ready.