Chapter 810: First Battle in Taiyang

In addition to dividing his An Dongdong into two and the player's army into three, Huangfu Chaobo also divided the 30,000 soldiers and horses of Kong Yu's Yuzhou Army into two. Huang Zhong and himself received 15,000 each, and The remaining players have 20,000 troops and 10,000 troops on each side.

As for the 5,000 assault cavalry and 5,000 Yuan Rong crossbowmen of the Guards, except for the 1,000 each that supported the player's coalition, the remaining 4,000 were equally divided between the two armies, that is, Huang Zhong and his own army each had two. Qian Tu cavalry and Yuan Rong crossbowmen.

After the troops and horses were allocated, the coalition camp began to get busy. When the army first set up camp, each department was in its own camp. Since it was decided to divide the troops and attack, then the troops and horses of each department must be assembled separately, and then they are ready to go out. Grain, fodder and materials, and then divide the troops to attack.

Because the army carries its own food and grass for the expedition, all the food and grass it needs must be prepared by itself. Each family brought some food and grass with them on the expedition, but it was not enough, so many players went to Pingyu City to purchase.

Fortunately, Pingyu was the seat of Runan County confirmed by Confucius. Xu Jing, the prefect of Runan, led an army of 20,000 to guard it, so both soldiers, horses and food were sufficient.

Under Huangfu Chaobo's negotiation and Kong Ni's order, all soldiers and horses purchased a batch of grain and grass in Pingyu. As for the grain and grass needed in the future, it will be determined by the progress of the war. If possible , we should still be able to harvest a lot of food and grass by capturing the various cities of Yuan Shu's army.

Early the next morning, the three armies, which were well prepared, set off one after another.

Zongheng Tianxia and other player coalition forces left Pingyu and set off towards Gushi County in the southeast, where the first battle of the player coalition forces will take place.

Huang Zhong's West Route Army headed toward Yang'an County in the southwest. He planned to take Yang'an and Langling first, and then cross the Qantou River to attack the three cities in northern Yichun.

Huangfu Chaobo led the army to the direction of Feiyang. Huangfu Chaobo gave full power to Zhang He to command the army. Huangfu Chaobo would give full power to him for the next war.

You must know that historically, Zhang He was one of the five good generals in Cao Cao's camp, and he was the general who defeated Zhuge Liang. It can be said that his ability is still unmatched, so Huangfu Chaobo is ready to give him this opportunity.

After the army in the middle carried the food and fodder required by 50,000 people for half a month, they broke out of camp and headed towards Feiyang, a hundred miles away.

Two days later, Huangfu Chaobo's middle army arrived at the foot of the city of Haiyang. The city was named after facing the sun of the sea bream. It is now located in Linyang Village, Linquan Town, Linquan County, Anhui Province. It is said that the establishment of its city can be traced back to the Warring States Period. Chu State during the period.

Feiyang City is five miles long from east to west and four miles wide from north to south. It has four gates. Two miles outside the south gate is the Feishui Wharf. The city wall is about two feet high and about ten feet wide. Under the rule of Kong Min, Taiyang was located in the hinterland of Runan, so the city defense was not repeated. However, after Yuan Shu's army occupied Taiyang, he organized civilians to repair the city wall several times.

If you need to cross the river, in addition to ferrying from Feiyang Pier, you can cross the river at the bridge more than ten miles east or twenty miles west of Feiyang.

After Yuan Shu became emperor, all the cities under his rule were ordered by Shouchun to reinforce the city walls and strengthen defenses. Therefore, after receiving the order, the Feiyang County Magistrate and the garrison reinforced the city walls again. At this time, the city defense The supplies are complete and the strength is about five thousand garrison troops.

The sea bream water is about ten feet wide, so the moat on all sides of the sea bream city was dug manually, and then the sea bream water was diverted into it to become a living water moat. More than fifty miles east along the Bream River, you can reach Gushi City, the first city that Zongheng Tianxia and other player alliances need to attack during this expedition.

On the 16th, Huangfu Chaobo's army, which had rested for a day, began to prepare to attack Haiyang City. After a day of careful preparation, Zhang He was fully prepared on how to attack Haiyang.

The two thousand cavalrymen were divided into five parts by Zhang He, with every two groups forming a team. Except for the 400 cavalrymen who stayed in the center position, the remaining four teams of cavalry were sent out from a distance to monitor the area of ​​20 miles in all directions of Haiyang City. The enemy is coming.

In this attack on Haiyang, the army was divided into three parts.

Adopt the strategy of surrounding three and missing one. Zhang He led the first school of the Shenwu Camp to attack the north gate, Dong Fang led the soldiers and horses of the Baotao Camp to attack the east gate, and He Man led the first school of the Yuzhou Army to attack the west gate, leaving the southern wall unattacked.

As for the remaining 10,000 Yuzhou Army and 10,000 player soldiers and horses, the elites among them will be drawn out to support the three-sided attack, and the remaining ordinary soldiers will be used as the initial force to fill the river and attack the city. In other words, They became glorious cannon fodder.

However, Huangfu Chaobo also made a promise to the lord players who were cannon fodder soldiers. After the city was destroyed, he would first make up for their losses. This calmed the resentment of the lords. The reason for this is that from the beginning, Huangfu Chaobo never thought of using his Anton Army as cannon fodder, so the soldiers and horses dispatched were all elite.

At this time, the Chinese army's war drums sounded, and the battle in Haiyang City officially began. This also meant that in the second year of Zhongping, the war against Yuan Shu officially began.

As the war drums sounded, the river-filling soldiers who had already been prepared ran towards the moat under the Taiyang City under the cover of their own bows and arrows.

Fuyang County is a small town. There are only a thousand archers among the five thousand defenders, and they need to be assigned to three city walls, so there are only a few hundred archers on each city wall. Facing an army of 50,000 people attacking the city, although they tried their best to defend, they were still stretched thin.

It's just that the generals in the city had to resist desperately, because after Huang Yi led Yuan Shu's imperial army to Xincai City, he sent varying numbers of imperial soldiers to each city. Their purpose was to monitor the officials and generals of each city and let them Lead the troops to resist the invading enemy with all their strength and destroy the enemy to the maximum extent.

Although the defenders in the city tried their best to stop it, they still could not resist the soldiers filling the river outside the city. Under the cover of the archers and crossbowmen, it took only half a day for thousands of soldiers to cut off the water flow of the moat, and then filled in more than ten strips on the moat. Siege channel.

Zhang He saw that at noon, the siege passage had been filled with sufficient numbers, so he ordered the army to withdraw their troops and wait for lunch before attacking the city.

At the head of the city of Taiyang, when they saw the crowds of people like ants retreating like a tide under the city, the county lieutenant and magistrate of Taiyang at the head of the city breathed a long sigh of relief. Although the city had not yet been formally attacked, the light The filling of the river in the morning put a lot of pressure on the people defending the city.

You know, there are only 5,000 soldiers in Taiyang City, but the enemy troops attacking the city are thousands of archers and crossbowmen alone. The locust-like rain of arrows makes the people at the top of the city almost unable to stop them. .

However, even so, the two had to command the defenders to defend with all their strength, because there were two hundred imperial guards sent by His Majesty the Emperor in the city of Taiyang. If they had other intentions, these elite soldiers would first attack them mercilessly. The two of them beheaded.