Chapter 700: Conquer Wenxi
After one day of filling the river and two days of attacking, Zhao Yun's troops have basically attacked the city wall. Only the last blow is left. Zhao Yun is ready to capture Wenxi tomorrow morning.
However, Su Zhi's troops are different. Although they have only attacked for one day, the loss of soldiers is basically the same as Zhao Yun's troops. In just one day, the casualties have reached nearly a thousand people, not including the losses of filling the moat the day before.
For such a result, Huangfu Chaobo felt very sad, but he had no choice. There were only a few people who could lead the troops independently. The other generals were either limited in ability or inexperienced, and could only rely on the war to slowly hone their skills.
At night, the camp of the Sizhou Army was as quiet as usual. The number of soldiers patrolling the night doubled. Influenced by Pang Tong, Huangfu Chaobo and his men were more cautious, so the safety of the camp was also more important.
In Anyi City, south of the camp, the lights were still on in the prefectural mansion. Jiang Pei and his subordinates were sitting in the meeting room, along with the general surnamed Xu and several of his generals.
"General Xu, isn't the time coming yet?" Jiang Pei looked at the general surnamed Xu and said cautiously;
"Prefect, has the intelligence from all places been reported?" said the general surnamed Xu;
Jiang Pei glanced at his nephew, Jiang Shan nodded, stood up and said: "Replying to the general, the news has been sent back from Wenxi, and it can only hold out until tomorrow at most. If Zhao Yun attacks fiercely tomorrow, it is estimated that Wenxi County will be breached before noon tomorrow. As for the Yishi, the situation is much better. The general leading the troops is Su Zhi, and I have never heard of him. However, tomorrow is the second day, and it is estimated that the offensive will be intensified."
General Xu nodded, and after a moment of hesitation, he said: "The defense of the Sizhou Army camp has been obviously strengthened in the past few days, and our arrangements should be ready to start." At this point, Xu The general surnamed Xu stood up and said, "Sir, you can send someone to pass the order."
"Order the garrison commander of Wenxi to hold out until noon tomorrow. After noon, I will allow his army to withdraw from Wenxi. The garrison commander of Yishi will be prepared. At the end of the Si hour tomorrow, the ambush troops in Anyi City will arrive behind the Sizhou Army and attack it. Order the army in the city to prepare for internal and external cooperation and annihilate Huangfu Chaobo's 30,000 people under the city."
"At the same time, please give orders to the two county magistrates of Linfen and Jiangyi, asking them to send out the army to capture Lengkou Town before noon tomorrow, and nail it firmly there for me. You can also notify Henei, and they can also take action."
A series of orders came out from the mouth of the general surnamed Xu. If Huangfu Chaobo could hear it at this time, he would know that he had become a turtle in a jar. Unfortunately, Huangfu Chaobo and his people now knew nothing about their situation. Although Pang Tong had noticed it, he had never expected that Hedong had prepared such a big trap for Huangfu Chaobo, and the forces involved in this trap were so wide.
On November 16, the Sizhou Army had been attacking and besieging Anyi for the eleventh day. Although there was no siege in the next few days, Anyi had closed the city gate for more than ten days. In these days, no one could leave the city. Although there were only tens of thousands of people besieging the city, Anyi had no elite cavalry. Although there were several cavalry in the city trying to break out, they were all surrounded and annihilated outside the city by Hu Yandu's cavalry.
Under the city of Wenxi, Zhao Yun looked at the city in front of him with a calm face. After several days of fighting, he also found some abnormalities. The first is that the army has been in the territory of Hedong for more than ten days. It can be said that there have been several battles, but no reinforcements have been seen in either Anyi or Wenxi.
The second is that Zhao Yun actually found an elite group of soldiers in Wenxi, just like Anyi. There are not many people, estimated to be about a thousand, but they can always resolve the crisis on the top of the city when the war is critical.
As a veteran general, Zhao Yun has already smelled a hint of crisis from this,
so today he is ready to attack the city with all his strength and end the battle in Wenxi as soon as possible. However, he only talked about these speculations with Yang Feng a little, and other generals in the army did not reveal any wind.
With his order, the 5,000 Baima Yicong part was divided into five parts, cruising around the battlefield, paying close attention to the surrounding situation to prevent reinforcements from suddenly appearing when they attacked the city.
He led a school of combat soldiers and Yang Feng and another lieutenant each led a school of guards, and 15,000 soldiers and horses attacked the city with all their strength. More than 3,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 soldiers who were injured in the siege in the past few days were left in the main camp to guard.
As the horn of the attack sounded, the three schools of soldiers who had been prepared for a long time marched towards the city wall in the morning mist with a firm step. Then, the thunderous roar sounded again over the city.
This time, Zhao Yun did not spare any more strength and led the army in person. He was the first to attack the city wall in the first round of attack. Then, within a quarter of an hour, Yang Feng and his men on the other two walls also attacked the city walls one after another.
What surprised Zhao Yun was that after his army attacked the city wall, the defenders in the city did not retreat. Instead, under the command of the generals, they launched a vigorous counterattack against the army that attacked the city wall.
After successively resolving the three counterattacks of the Hedong Army, Zhao Yun finally fought with an elite army of more than a thousand people. Although there were already hundreds of Longxiangying soldiers under Zhao Yun's leadership who attacked the city wall, Zhao Yun still spent a lot of energy to block the counterattack of the opponent's elite soldiers of a thousand people.
After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the Hedong Army on the top of the city was finally wiped out. Then, Zhao Yun led his men to open the city gate. The two thousand white horse volunteers who had been prepared quickly rushed into the city and wiped out the fleeing Hedong Army soldiers in the city.
At this time, Zhao Yun had time to check the situation of the elite soldiers who had just fought with him. These soldiers were obviously taller and more powerful. After carefully searching several generals, Zhao Yun finally confirmed his thoughts.
These soldiers were indeed not simple. They turned out to be Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army. Fortunately, although his Longxiang Camp lost nearly a thousand, they also wiped out these Xiliang Army in Wenxi City. As for the few soldiers who escaped from the city, they were all captured by the white horse volunteers cruising outside the city.
In this battle, Zhao Yun's troops had nearly 30,000 troops, and the Longxiang Camp lost a thousand soldiers, and the ordinary guards lost 4,000. There were 5,000 Hedong soldiers and 1,000 Xiliang soldiers in Wenxi City. About 3,000 were killed or wounded, and the rest were captured.