Chapter 740: The Elite Troops of the Hedong Army Disappeared

Jiang Pei had actually begun to prepare for Huangfu Chaobo's second attack, but what he didn't expect was that Chang'an would undergo such a drastic change, and that Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou army would arrive so quickly. After receiving the news from Chang'an, Jiang Pei changed his past hesitation and quickly made arrangements.

The officers and soldiers in the city thought that his successor Jiang Shan had led more than 20,000 elite soldiers out of the city. In fact, the real destination was that Jiang Shan had led 25,000 elite soldiers and thousands of craftsmen and their families to leave Hedong. Went to Shangjun in Bingzhou.

Not only had the country fled, but Jiangyi's Leftover King and Linfen's Xiongba had once again emptied the county seat and fled. Because everyone knows that Hedong without Dong Zhuojun's backing cannot stop Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou Army. In fact, as early as last year after Huangfu Chaobo safely evacuated, several people in Jiangshan expressed concerns about the prospects of Hedong. As early as that time, they had already begun to transfer property and craftsmen, and they really decided to run away after receiving news from Chang'an.

However, only a few of Jiang Pei's true confidants knew about these things, and no one else knew about them. At this time, there were only 40,000 ordinary soldiers in Anyi City, but there was still a lot of food, grass and property. Jiang Pei knew that he was unlikely to survive, so with the intention of killing Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou Army as much as possible, he accumulated a large amount of money and food in Anyi Tun.

In his opinion, 40,000 soldiers plus enough money and food for a year's army can reduce the Sizhou army to 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers. In this way, Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou army could only fight in Hedong. Nearly 100,000 troops were lost. As long as his vitality is seriously injured, someone will naturally jump out to attack him.

It’s just that he imagined the war too simply. Soon he will discover that war is not a civil matter where one plus one equals two. This is the drawback of literati leading the army. They always regard war as simple as the government affairs they handle.

Although there are no tens of thousands of elites in Anyi City, there are still sufficient defensive supplies. When he discovered that the Sizhou Army had begun to attack the city, Jiang Pei also ordered the Anyi Army to start a counterattack. But what made him feel helpless was that although his defensive equipment was no less than that of the Sizhou Army, his counterattack seemed so weak.

The moat outside the city was still being filled in bit by bit by the Sizhou army, even though the equipment at the top of the city caused considerable losses to the soldiers below the city.

The river filling progress in the morning was very satisfactory to Huangfu Chaobo and others. Although nearly two thousand soldiers were lost, the river filling army had filled out twenty siege passages. This was only outside the north wall of Anyi. According to the situation, if the east and west city walls are added, there will be fifty passages filled in by soldiers.

The filling of the river in the morning was just the appetizer before the war, and the real war began in the afternoon.

After lunch, following an order from the Chinese army, the siege soldiers who had already recharged their batteries began to approach the city wall. For a moment, arrows and flying rocks intertwined into sky curtains over the battlefield, and then rushed towards the opposite side. Soon, the screams of wounded soldiers could be heard everywhere on the battlefield.

In the first round of the attack, Su Zhi was commanding soldiers from the first school and garrison troops from the third school. Most of the lieutenant generals and generals were survivors of the previous Hedong War. Like Su Zhi, they all held their breath. , hoping to avenge the past humiliation on the battlefield and avenge Zepao who died in the battle last year.

So as soon as the war started, it became intense. Soon, under the protection of the shield soldiers, the soldiers carrying the siege ladder quickly arrived at the bottom of the city. Soldiers continued to fall down from arrows along the way. Someone immediately stepped forward to replace the injured soldiers and continued the attack with the ladder.

As the siege ladders climbed up to the top of the city, the most brutal ant attack began. The defensive materials that the defenders at the top of the city had already prepared were dumped towards the bottom of the city as if they were free of charge. Rolling stones, wood, and hot oil, under the orders of the general at the head of the city, the soldiers of Anyi fought back desperately against the Sizhou army attacking below the city.

At this time, the offensive equipment outside the city had basically stopped attacking. Only some elite crossbowmen on the Jinglan car were still shooting at the city head.

But it was difficult to pose much threat to the defenders at the top of the city.

The siege equipment has basically stopped attacking, but the defense equipment has not stopped, causing great losses to the attacking soldiers below the city. However, the most casualties in the battle against the city were during this period.

However, this situation did not last long. To the surprise of the Sizhou generals under the city, the Sizhou army's first round of attack had already reached the top of the city. As the first soldiers attacked the city, the Sizhou army outside the city heard loud shouts. Although the soldiers who attacked the city were quickly besieged and killed by the defenders, the first battle to attack the city greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers.

In one afternoon, Su Zhibu launched two rounds of attacks on the city. However, in the end, they only attacked the city but failed to defend it. In the end, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops.

That night, in the Sizhou Army camp and in Huangfu Chaobo's tent, the strange behavior at the top of Anyi City made all the Sizhou Army generals feel strange. According to the intelligence obtained in advance, there should be tens of thousands of elites in Anyi City. Although they cannot be compared with the elites of the Sizhou Army, they are not even inferior to the ordinary defenders of the Sizhou Army.

You must know that the two rounds of attacks this afternoon were just ordinary defenders of Su Zhibu. The elite soldiers had already attacked the city twice before they even went out. Such anomalies made everyone feel very strange. Could it be that the Hedong Army wanted to leave its elite behind like last year and wait for the Sizhou army to divide its forces?

But that's not right. The Sizhou army has been in Hedong for more than half a month. They have already captured all the cities around Anyi, and there is no support from Anyi.

Or maybe the 20,000 soldiers are hiding somewhere outside the city, and when the Sizhou generals are tired, they will suddenly appear and deal a fatal blow to the Sizhou army.

The Sizhou generals discussed for a long time but couldn't come up with a reason. Finally, when Huangfu Chaobo was about to end the meeting, Pang Tong suddenly said, "Maybe we all guessed wrong. The tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Hedong are not here at all, but fled directly from Hedong..."

After listening to Pang Tong's words, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind. Yes, it is indeed impossible for NPCs, but it is different for players. Take Xiongba and Shengzheweiwang for example. Didn't they come to Hedong from Hongnong? Now they know that Hedong has lost the support of Chang'an and it is impossible to resist the attack of the Sizhou army. How can they stay on this broken ship?