Chapter 897: Breaking Through the Village Wall

Yuan Shu's soldiers in Yulou City didn't notice at all that in a forest a few miles outside the city, there were a few pairs of eyes staring at the city gate they had opened.

"Boss, today is the second day that the city gate will be opened. It seems to be half an hour longer than yesterday. It seems that tomorrow will be longer. The general should start preparing to attack the city, right?" One of them looked like an ordinary farmer. asked the dressed man to another man beside him;

"Bah," the man spat out a piece of grass root he was chewing and said, "How do I know? Just go back and report the situation here to the general. Where did you get so many troubles?"

The two of them were the Anton soldiers sent by Zhang He to monitor the situation in Yulou County. Except for a few people at the south gate, there were also people sent to the north and west. However, the east gate was not convenient to hide because it was close to Jueshui. That's why no one was arranged to conduct surveillance. They have been monitoring the outside for several days. Starting yesterday, several gates of Yulou City began to open.

It only opened for half an hour yesterday, and the defenders at the top of the city were looking around as if they were facing a formidable enemy. They looked around carefully and looked at the posture. As long as there was any trouble outside the city, the defenders at the top of the city would be there without saying a word. The city gate was closed. Fortunately, nothing happened outside the city all day, which made the defenders breathe a sigh of relief, so the opening hours of the city gate were extended by another half hour today.

At night, the replacement soldiers rushed outside the city, and the soldiers responsible for surveillance during the day quietly returned to the hiding place of the army and reported to Zhang He the movements of the defenders in the city at the end of the day.

In the dense forest southwest of Yulou County, Zhang He stood there and listened carefully to the reports of the soldiers monitoring the three walls of the city. He fell into deep thought. Just now, someone had been sent from the camp to send news that today's close encounter with Ji Ling's army had already begun. The army lost thousands of people, but the visitor only told him about the fighting situation in the camp, and the lord did not even ask him why he captured Yulou.

Even so, Zhang He also knew that with every day that passed, the Anton Army's losses would increase by thousands of casualties. Moreover, this was only the loss of the camp's offensive and defensive operations. Once the army retreated south to join forces, Ji Ling's army would receive the news. They will definitely attack the army at all costs, and the losses there will be even greater.

Although there is sufficient food and grass in the camp, judging from the attack of Ji Ling's army today, everyone underestimated Ji Ling's determination. He had already begun to invest a large number of elite soldiers in the battle the next day. In this afternoon's battle , several rounds almost allowed Yuan Shujun to gain a foothold on the wall, and with the input of a large number of siege rams, there are already signs of loosening in several places of the wall. Once the wall is breached, everyone will tear it apart face to face. If they kill, the Anton Army, which does not have the advantage in numbers, will definitely suffer.

While Zhang He was deep in thought, several leading captains and Sima beside him looked at him with inquiring eyes, waiting for him to make the final decision.

After pondering for a long time, Zhang He finally made a decision, gathered a few people over and said, "You all should already know the situation at the camp. Now there is no time for us to delay any longer, so I have decided, We will attack the city tomorrow. However, although there are only 3,000 remaining soldiers in the city, we cannot attack the city rashly to prevent the siege from taking too long and the defenders in the city to be able to react, in case they take away the food in the city. If the fire burns it all, it will be a waste.”

As he spoke, Zhang He picked up a branch and drew a map of the surrounding areas on the ground while explaining tomorrow's war arrangements to the six generals. After hiding here for a few days, Zhang He had already figured out the situation in Yulou County and the surrounding twenty miles. These things had already been imprinted in his mind, so he quickly reported the surrounding situation to Everyone has explained it clearly.

After explaining the war arrangements of each unit, Zhang He asked each general to repeat their tasks before ordering the soldiers to rest and prepare to attack Yulou tomorrow day.

The fighting on the third day became more intense because last night,

Ji Ling has received a report from the soldiers responsible for inspecting the irrigation situation. The cavalry of the Anton Army has appeared on the west bank of the irrigation. Although this wave of cavalry only has about a thousand people, it proves that the Anton Army is already preparing to try to rescue the trapped people. One hundred thousand troops.

The Emperor of Shouchun also sent people to convey the news that the Yuzhou Army was showing signs of gathering a large army. If they were quick, they would arrive in Huainan in ten days to half a month. Both news prompted Ji Ling to increase the intensity of his attack. He must capture the camp before the Yuzhou Army reinforcements arrived, or at least severely damage Huangfu Chaobo's army.

This time, Ji Ling put in all the catapults he had prepared for two days. Nearly a hundred catapults began to attack the wall of the Anton Army camp. Nearly a hundred stone bullets hit the wall like hail. After nearly half an hour of stone-throwing, the wall to the north of the Andong Army's camp was finally smashed with more than a dozen gaps. The camp behind the wall was even more in shambles. In nearly half an hour, Ji Ling moved towards Nearly a thousand stone bullets were dropped in the camp.

When the catapult was finally overwhelmed and almost damaged, Ji Ling finally ordered to stop the catapult attack, and then the infantry launched a crazy attack regardless of losses. The wall had lost its defensive significance, so Huang Zhong immediately commanded the army to retreat to the camp, using the complex terrain in the camp to block Yuan Shu's army layer by layer.

After a half-day attack, Ji Ling's army finally took control of the entire north wall of the Andong Army camp. At the same time, after occupying the north wall, Ji Ling sent his troops in separate groups to launch a fierce attack into the Andong Army camp.

On one side, Ji Ling's army was attacking desperately, and on the other side, the Anton army was blocking desperately. The two sides fought in the Anton army camp. Unfortunately, Huang Zhong had been prepared for this. The camp was arranged in a complicated way, like a maze. After Yuan Shu's army entered, they were frightened at every step and had to be on guard against the Anton soldiers who came out from their side at any time.

Starting from noon, the attack on the camp began. In nearly two hours, Ji Ling's army entered the camp less than a hundred steps, but had lost nearly 5,000 soldiers. This surprised Ji Ling. Seeing that it was getting dark, Ji Ling had no choice but to order a withdrawal. However, during the retreat of the army, the camp wall was completely destroyed, and everything was filled into the trench outside the camp wall.

The crazy attack of Ji Ling's army surprised Huangfu Chaobo and his men. Originally, everyone thought that the camp could be defended for at least five or six days, but they did not expect it to be breached in less than three days. Fortunately, from the beginning, everyone was preparing for the reinforcement of the camp, the central camp, and the rear camp. Now that the outer camp was breached, they were not in a panic.