Chapter 703: Cavalry Attack

At this time, Su Zhizheng and Zuo Xiao were staying in the middle army, commanding the soldiers to attack Yishi County. Next to them were 10,000 Long Xiang camp soldiers, 5,000 ordinary guards, and 5,000 ordinary guards and several Thousands of auxiliary prisoners were in the camp.

Both Su and Zuo were Zhongling generals. According to the regulations of General Huangfu Chaobo Pingdong's Mansion, each of them had two hundred personal guards. Of the four hundred cavalry, except for one hundred who stayed with him to act as messengers, the rest All three hundred cavalry were thrown away by Su Zhi. Of course, this move was just out of habit. Su Zhi did not really think that there were reinforcements for the Hedong army.

At three o'clock, the third wave of attacking soldiers finally stepped onto the city. Suddenly, the soldiers below the city let out deafening shouts. Su Zhi also looked at each other and smiled. This was the first time in two days that soldiers had attacked the city. Since this was the first time, it proved that the defense of the city's defenders had some omissions. No matter what the reason for this omission was, at least it was beneficial and harmless to the family.

Although the soldiers at the top of the city only lasted for less than a quarter of an hour, and were quickly driven off the city by the Hedong Army's counterattack, Su Zhi did not care about this. With a wave of his right hand, the next wave of attacking soldiers were like The tide surged towards the city wall.

At this moment, suddenly the guards around him reported: "General, look, Uncle Xie and the others are back. But aren't there twenty of them? Why?"

Su Zhi also turned around and looked behind him. Their central army was standing between the Yi clan and Anyi. Behind Su Zhi's tribes was Anyi. At first, when Su Zhi arranged his cavalry to scout, he also arranged it in the direction of Anyi. A group of people were gathered, and the leader was escorting the captain and twenty cavalry, but looking at them now, only a few cavalry had returned, and judging from the situation, they were still in a state of embarrassment.

While they were talking, Uncle Xie and several others rushed to the center of the army. They were all in a miserable state and had a few arrows in their bodies. Turning over and dismounting, Xie Dubo quickly rushed to Su Zhi and said loudly: "General, a large number of cavalry suddenly appeared in the direction of Anyi. It seems that there are thousands of them. In order to cover me and wait for me to come back to report the news, brothers have been killed. Kill, please make preparations early."

The faces of Su and Zuo changed greatly when they heard this. Where did most of the cavalry come from? Didn't it mean that Hedong didn't have most of the elite cavalry? It is by no means an ordinary cavalry person who can leave most of his dozens of personal guards behind.

"Who is this person from, and how far is he from here?" Su Zhi asked immediately;

"Going back to the general, what General Wei has seen is that they should be the Dong thief's Xiliang cavalry and the Flying Bear Army. The flags in the army are Fan's big flag and Dong's big flag. Wei and others are five miles east of the camp. When he returned, he had already warned Captain Zhao that the camp was closed and the cavalry should be almost at the camp. "

After Su Zhi heard this, he learned that the camp was ready for defense, and he felt a little relieved. The opponent was just a cavalry, and he believed that they would not attack the camp. But the 20,000 soldiers and horses around him are already in trouble. Now about 3,000 soldiers are attacking the city. There are 10,000 soldiers and thousands of ordinary guards and wounded soldiers around him, but the camp is nearly two days away from here. Miles.

If things were fine on normal days, it would only take a quarter of an hour or two, but now it is not possible. More than 10,000 Dong thieves and cavalry will arrive in an instant, and once they retreat, the army in the city will definitely follow. At that time, under attack from two sides, it is still unknown how many of our 20,000-strong army can escape.

However, I don’t care about that much now. Glancing towards the top of the city, Su Zhi said: "Send the order, withdraw the troops!"

Then, in the military formation, the sound of ringing gold rang out, and the soldiers who were attacking the city were stunned for a moment, but they quickly reacted, took turns to cover, and retreated towards their own central army. Seeing this situation, the Hedong Army at the top of the city burst into cheers. Ordinary soldiers did not know why Sizhou's army retreated. They only knew that the enemy retreated and they escaped another disaster.

Seeing the siege soldiers slowly retreating to their own formation, Su Zhi ordered the army to form a circular formation.

Slowly retreated towards the camp.

But as expected, when he saw the siege army retreating, the city defenders immediately reacted. Then, the city gate, which had been closed for several days, opened, and several soldiers and horses ran out. In front of them were five thousand Xiliang cavalry. Look, Under the banner with the word "Dong" raised by the cavalry, not only the generals, but also the ordinary soldiers knew that the army of Dong thieves had entered Hedong.

Following the cavalry were five thousand Dong Zhuo's infantry, and then there were five thousand Hedong soldiers. If we add the soldiers on the city wall now, there are nearly 20,000 people in the small Yishi County. Soldiers.

Seeing this situation, Su Zhi became even more worried about the future of his tens of thousands of infantry. However, he did not show it on his face. A series of military orders came out of his mouth, and the army was quickly formed into a circular formation. All siege equipment was destroyed, and then the army slowly moved towards the camp.

Unfortunately, the military formation had only traveled half a mile, and the five thousand cavalry in the city had already caught up with them. Facing the cavalry coming behind them, many soldiers in the military formation turned pale. There was no way for ordinary soldiers to deal with it calmly in front of the cavalry.

Su Zhi looked at the situation in the formation and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the only ones whose morale was unstable were the ordinary soldiers, while the 10,000 soldiers of the Longxiang Camp still stood in the formation without changing their expressions.

In a moment, the cavalry was already two hundred steps away. Seeing this, Su Zhi immediately ordered the army to stop advancing and line up to prevent the cavalry from charging.

With the order from the central army, the entire army stopped. The atmosphere in the air immediately became tense, and then with the rumbling of horse hooves, five thousand Xiliang iron cavalry rushed towards the army like a dark cloud.

What relieved the soldiers in the formation was that the cavalry turned around and left after reaching a hundred steps away. Of course, they also took advantage of the momentum of the horses to throw a batch of short guns into the army of Sizhou, but because of the distance, it did not cause much damage to the soldiers in the formation. The five thousand Xiliang iron cavalry stopped about three hundred steps away from the army, quietly watching the army, and did not charge directly, but the archers in the formation did not relax, fearing that the cavalry would suddenly rush up.

Unlike the reaction of the soldiers in the formation, Su Zuo and the others looked even uglier, because they had seen the other side's purpose, which was nothing more than delaying the action of their army and waiting for the arrival of the infantry behind and the cavalry from Anyi. By that time, there would be nearly 20,000 cavalry and nearly 10,000 infantry, and their 20,000 troops would be in great danger.