Chapter 698: Mysterious General
Of course, they were accompanied by more than 10,000 soldiers and horses who had been captured along the way. Except for the more than 1,000 soldiers with better qualifications and higher ranks, these soldiers had been selected and sent back to Huai County for detention. The remaining nearly 10,000 soldiers were all was brought over.
After the army arrived, although the soldiers were resting, the craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers accompanying the army did not stop. They were sent to cut down trees and make various siege equipment.
Two days later, the army finally reached the destination of this battle, the city of Anyi in Hedong.
When the army arrived at Anyi City, they did not rush to attack the city. Instead, they set up camp on the south bank of Sushui, ten miles north of Anyi. After all the camp arrangements were made, Huangfu Chaobo and his party were escorted by the white horse Yi Cong and the cavalry. Go to Anyi City to explore the situation of the city.
Anyi was originally the name of a city in ancient my country, located in Xia County, Shanxi today. In the early Warring States period, the Wei State's territory was mainly in the east of Hedong, and its capital was Anyi. As Wei continued to expand its territory in the east, Wei's main territory became the Henan region. In addition, Anyi was located in the east corner of the river, which was not conducive to controlling the eastern princes and stabilizing its hegemony. In the sixth year of King Hui of Wei, in 364 BC, Wei moved its capital to Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan). During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Anyi became the seat of Hedong County and the seat of Anyi County.
Zhongtiao Mountain is located in the south of Anyi City. Qinglong River, Tianyan River, Baisha River and Yaosian Canal flow through the southeast. Mingtiao Ridge pillows it in the northwest. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south. The city is divided into four parts: the big city, the middle city, the small city and the Temple of King Yu. The small city is in the center of the big city, the Yuwang Temple is in the southeast corner of the small city, and the middle city is in the southwest of the big city.
The shape of the city is like a trapezoid, with walls on all four sides made of rammed boards. Except for the north wall, the other walls are not straight. The east wall is three miles long, and the west wall is about nine miles long. It twists and turns with the undulations of the terrain. It is the most curved of the four walls. The south wall is seven miles long, and the north wall is five miles long. There is a moat on the outside. The outer wall of the city is about two feet high, making it the largest city in Hedong County.
The horse was stationed about one mile north of Anyi City. Huangfu Chaobo and his party carefully observed the situation in Anyi City. Pang Tong described the situation of Anyi City in detail to everyone.
Looking from outside the city, you can see that the city walls are heavily armored. After several months of preparation, Jiang Pei has managed the city to be airtight.
After looking to the north for a while, the group turned to look east and west before turning back to the camp. What they didn't know was that when they were inspecting the city, there was also a group of people watching them on the towers of the city wall.
On the tower of the city wall in the north of Anyi, Jiang Pei was leading a group of people to look at Huangfu Chaobo's army outside the city. Although they were a mile away, they could clearly see the two murderous cavalry in the distance, and several people surrounding them. On top of the city tower, in addition to Jiang Pei and several of his generals, there were also Jiang Shan and a masked general, as well as representatives of several other forces in Hedong. Behind them are their own personal guards.
"General Xu, how do you like watching the troops outside the city?" Jiang Pei said cautiously and expectantly to the general beside him;
Except for a few people including Jiang Pei and Jiang Shan, no one knew the identity of this general. I only know that this is a guest general Jiang Pei specially invited from elsewhere. Although the generals in Hedong were a little dissatisfied in the first few days, within a few days, the talents displayed by General Xu had convinced all the generals in Hedong. Impressed. He was able to arrange and execute the military affairs arranged by him very well.
After nearly half a month of preparations, although Anyi City's defense is not watertight, it can at least be said to be far better than before. This time, after hearing the news that Sizhou's army had arrived, Jiang Pei led everyone to the north tower to observe the movement. Nowadays, the Hedong army has completely withdrawn into various counties and does not have too detailed control over the movements outside the city.
"In Xu's opinion, the cavalry of these two schools are elite cavalrymen who have fought in hundreds of battles. Especially the white horse Yi Cong of that school are elite cavalry who have experienced battles for a long time. Especially not long ago, they went to battle outside the Great Wall with General Baima. The Xianbei people have been fighting for more than a month, so they cannot be underestimated. However, the governor can rest assured that no matter how elite they are, they only have two schools of cavalry.
snort. . . "General Xu snorted coldly;
"In this case, I can rest assured," Jiang Pei heard what General Xu said and said with relief, "I will worry about the general for the rest of the war."
"Don't worry, sir. Everything has been arranged. We are just waiting for his army to arrive." After saying that, General Xu turned to Jiangshan and said, "General Jiang, are all the troops and horses ready?"
"Please rest assured, general," Jiang Shan stepped forward and responded: "All the troops and horses have been arranged according to the arrangements of the military advisor. We only need to wait for the general's order to act according to the plan."
"Okay, then let me and General Pingdong meet at the foot of Anyi City to decide?" After hearing this, General Xu's fighting spirit suddenly surged out of his body.
At this time, Huangfu Chaobo and others had returned to the camp. Huangfu Chaobo, who returned to the camp, immediately ordered the generals to be summoned for discussion. What he didn't know was that there seemed to be more complete preparations in Anyi City, and those preparations seemed to be far beyond their expectations.
Huangfu Chaobo didn't come up with any good plans during the discussion. According to the intelligence he knew in advance, there seemed to be an army of thirty to forty thousand in Anyi City. Since there were no elite cavalry in Hedong, Jiang Pei's attitude seemed to be determined to defend it. city. However, fortunately, Huangfu Chaobo had already thought of this possibility before going on the expedition, so he didn't care about it.
According to the news sent back by the cavalry reconnaissance in the past few days, the other cities in Hedong are also in an attitude of defending the city to the death. There is no sign of soldiers and horses from the cities in the entire Hedong territory going out of the city to support, so the only thing that can be done now is to attack the city. Fortunately, the soldiers and horses of Hedong have never been strong, and Huangfu Chaobo is still confident about the siege.
Moreover, Huangfu Chaobo has ordered all the captured ordinary soldiers to be brought to Anyi City for the purpose of attacking the city. There is a moat outside Anyi City. To attack the city, the moat must be filled first. Huangfu Chaobo can't do such a thing with his own soldiers and horses.
On the 5th, the battle of Anyi City officially began. According to the prior arrangement, this attack on Anyi is a siege of three missing one. Zhao Yun is still the commander of the troops. Yang Feng and Zuo Xiao are responsible for the attack on the north wall, Su Zhi is responsible for the east wall, and Wang Yong is responsible for the west wall. No soldiers are arranged to attack the south wall of Anyi.
As the siege horn sounded, the well-prepared siege towers were approaching the city wall, and the crossbowmen on them were also ready to shoot at the top of the city wall as soon as they were within range to cover the soldiers filling the river. Behind the siege towers were catapults, which were also slowly approaching the city wall.