Northern Dynasties

Chapter 537
When the enemy came to the garrison again, Du You'an, as the garrison master, did not stay in the garrison, but was still in Fancheng.

Du You'an led the soldiers of the headquarters to take advantage of the Ye Chai battalion to achieve great success and successfully defeated the enemy's former division.However, Fancheng, which is close at hand, not only did not send troops to help during the night attack, when Du Youan led his troops to chase and kill the enemy and returned, he saw that the defenders of Fancheng had entered the enemy's remnant camp, picking up what was left by the enemy. armory staff.

Seeing that these people blatantly robbed him of his battle results, Du Youan was furious. Even if he ordered to detain those defenders of Fancheng who hadn't retreated in time, he himself went into the city to question the defender Liu Fanggui.

Although Liu Fanggui is higher than Du Youan in terms of position, but Du Youan has many brothers and holds prominent posts each. The entire Jingzhao Du family is also deeply rooted in Xiangyang, so naturally Liu Fanggui is not taken seriously, let alone he still occupies reason.

So after the meeting, Du Youan unscrupulously questioned Liu Fanggui, but Liu Fanggui could only smile and apologize, evading that this was all self-assessment by his subordinates, and he would definitely give him a satisfactory answer after finding out who was responsible.

Du Youan lived in Xiangyang since he was a child, and he knew the official and folk customs here. Of course, he would not be easily fooled by Liu Fanggui. He still forced Liu Fanggui to give a definite answer. Liu Fanggui must return the supplements as soon as possible for the consumption of the battle.

When it comes to this question, Liu Fanggui no longer blindly nods and bows like before, he just refuses to give Du Youan an accurate answer.

The two were still entangled here when news of the enemy came again, and the enemy army had already launched an offensive against Xia Ruogarrison.

After hearing this, Du Youan's expression changed, first he gave the extremely slick Liu Fanggui a hard look, then he stood up and left angrily, saying a harsh word: "Wait until I come back, it won't be like this!"

Liu Fanggui watched Du Youan leave, and even put away the smile on his face, he put on his iron armor and climbed to the top of the wall to watch the enemy's situation.

Although the open space outside the city garrison in the north of the Han River has been controlled by the cavalry of the Western Wei Dynasty, there is still a waterway boat and boat connection between Fancheng and Xiazao garrison, so Du Youan was able to return to the garrison by boat, and the enemy did not go to the garrison. The garrison launched an attack.

This inevitably made him secretly relieved. Although the speed of the enemy's re-arrival exceeded his imagination, the camp last night was not completely ineffective.Not to mention the actual damage caused, it also obviously made the enemies in the back road more cautious, and no longer rushed directly to those smaller fortresses as they just appeared yesterday.

But Du You'an soon discovered that the enemy's behavior was a bit strange. It seemed that it wasn't that he returned to the fort before the enemy launched an attack, but that the enemy was not prepared to attack the fort at all.

The enemy did not put on an attacking posture, but wandered outside the city looking for it, accompanied by what seemed to be measurement and observation. After selecting a few locations, they began to build equipment with thick and long wood.

"The thief is building a stone cannon?"

The reason why I can't be sure is because this distance is a little farther than the usual stone cannons, but apart from this possibility, Du Youan can't think of anything else, no matter whether the enemy wants to use stone cannons to attack the city, it is always right to make some arrangements in advance .

So under Du Youan's order, the defenders began to hang thick linen felt, fishing nets and other things from the city head, and then wet them with river water. With these thick things covering the outside of the city wall, it was equivalent to imposing pressure on the city wall. A layer of protective cover can be used to greatly offset the impact of the cannon stone.

When the defense arrangement in the garrison is completed, one of the enemy's siege cannons outside has already been built, and the other is slower, and the tip of the cannon has not been installed yet.

Since a thick tent was erected around the base of the stone cannon, the defenders could not see whether the stone cannon was operated by manpower or animal power, so they had no way of assessing its power.But seeing that the stones picked by the enemy soldiers from the embankment were not small, it also made them feel uneasy.

Bang!
There was a loud noise outside the city, which was the sound of the launching of the stone cannon. The defenders of the city lowered their bodies to find a nearby bunker, and at the same time couldn't help looking up at the location where the cannon stone fell.

There was a loud plop, and the defenders trembled when they heard the sound, but soon discovered that the stone cannon did not hit the wall of the fort, but fell directly into the river behind the fort.

After a false alarm, the defenders who felt that the enemy's stone cannons had such a large error burst into laughter, and some even shouted mockingly to the outside of the city: "The thieves don't know how to use siege cannons. It's ridiculous to show off your clumsy skills here!"

But Du Youan looked back at the point where the cannon stone landed on the river and the unsettled waves on the river surface, his brows were tightly frowned, the range of this stone cannon was a bit too long.

At this distance, their fortress could only withstand the bombardment, but it was difficult to make any form of counterattack, and even the communication channel with Fancheng was covered by this stone cannon!
After realizing this, Du Youan immediately regretted it, regretting that he should have treated Fancheng defender Liu Fanggui so badly before.

Although he had already offended someone, after realizing the danger of the situation, Du You'an still bit the bullet and ordered his soldiers to raise a flag for help in the direction of Fancheng, hoping that Fancheng would send an infantry army to attack the enemy and destroy these two fighter jets with super powerful ranges. Strong siege cannon.

At this time, the guards in the fortress hadn't realized the real danger, and they still laughed at the thieves with poor skills, but with a roar, the enemy's second stone cannon was also installed and activated. , the second cannonball drew a parabola in mid-air, and fell directly into the fortress with a loud rumbling noise.

This cannon directly shocked the defenders in the fortress so that they could no longer speak. The cannon stone directly hit and smashed through a building, and after landing, it was buried in the ground for several minutes.

While the defenders in the fortress were still in shock, Li Tai ordered a cavalry unit that had been waiting for a long time to attack the fortress, walked around the fortress, and shot with bow.Although the damage caused is limited, it adds another wave of pressure to the enemy to suffer from multiple attacks.

With the constant adjustment of the angle of the stone cannon, every place in the fortress was also bombarded by stone bullets, and many buildings were destroyed, making the soldiers and civilians in the fort like ants on a hot pot, constantly fleeing everywhere in the fort Wandering, he neither dared to stay in the building anymore, nor dared to stand directly in the open air, and some panicked and timid ones even hugged their heads and cried loudly.

The top of the garrison castle is also not stable. Du Youan is still shouting hoarsely to organize the soldiers to fight back, but the soldiers on the top of the wall are already in a mess, except for some confidant Qujia soldiers who are still following his orders Using bows and crossbows to fight back against the enemy's rangers, the remaining people have no fighting spirit.

As for the direction of Fancheng, there was no movement at all, and there was no intention of reinforcements at all.Liu Fanggui didn't seem to have seen the call for help from Du Youan's order, not only did he not show any signs of going out of the city to fight, even there was no sign of mobilization at the pier outside the water gate.

"Dog thief, dog thief!"

Du You'an roared in the direction of Fancheng, if he couldn't help himself, he would have rushed into Fancheng at this moment and hacked to death Liu Fanggui, an idiot who doesn't understand the principle of cold lips and teeth.

But full of anger is not conducive to improving the current situation. As the enemy's stone cannons continue to adjust their angles, the landing point of the cannon stones is also constantly moving towards the city wall.

When the next artillery bombardment came, Du Youan only felt a shock under his feet, and immediately saw earth and rocks splashing on the top of the wall, and a section of female wall was rubbed by the artillery stone and immediately collapsed and flew up.

This cannonball also became a blow that completely disintegrated the fighting spirit of the defenders in the fortress, and the panicked soldiers even jumped directly from the top of the city.Seeing that the city wall was under direct attack, Du Youan's family soldiers immediately did not dare to stay any longer, they surrounded Du Youan and escorted them into the castle, and they wanted to go to the water gate near the river in the castle.

"No, don't go to the water gate, you can't escape! Once the bombardment falls into the water, you will die without a place to die. Get out of the fort, surrender, and surrender to the captives and the Wei army!"

When Du Youan talked about this, his mouth was full of bitterness. It should be known that just this morning he was a victor in defeating the bandit camp and a hero with meritorious defense, but he didn't want to leave the city and surrender in a blink of an eye, begging the enemy general for his life.

The gate of the fort opened, and several defenders walked out without their armor. Soon after they walked out of the gate, they knelt on the ground and begged loudly for mercy.

Li Tai raised his hand to signal the suspension of the offensive, and then ordered the defenders in the city to line up in front of the gate of the fort.

Seeing that thousands of soldiers had already surrendered, and the guards had already been surrounded by his subordinates and stepped forward, Li Taicai waved his hand to signal a group of troops to enter the city to clean up and accept them, while he stayed in the formation, waiting for the generals to surrender. was escorted into the front.

"The sinner Du You'an, pay a visit to the general. The former blatantly rejected his teacher and insulted the military prestige, because he was favored by the leader and couldn't bear to abandon the country and vote for him. Now he is abandoned by his superior general. Although the sinner hates himself, he can't bear it." All the people in the city are Jiang ghosts, I implore the general to be lenient and take them in..."

Du Youan walked forward, not daring to look up at Li Tai, knelt down on the ground with a plop and said in a sad voice, his tone can be described as sincere and sad.The huge gap in fortune naturally filled him with a sense of humiliation, and this sense of humiliation soon turned into hatred and all gathered on Liu Fanggui who turned a blind eye to his plea for help.

Li Tai didn't pay attention to Du Youan immediately, but turned his head to look at Du Zhaohui and Chen Yuchen in the army behind him, and said with a smile: "You two return quickly to attract the rear army, tell what you have seen and tell the rear people, If you dare to wander around again, you will be punished with military law!"

"The last general takes orders!"

After hearing the words, the two of them hurriedly saluted and looked at Li Tai with a little more reverence than before. After Chen Yuchen took the order, he couldn't help but said: "The king uses soldiers like gods, and breaks fortifications like mowers. , It is really admirable! The final general is honored to serve under the command of the envoy, and is willing to be the pioneer minion!"

(End of this chapter)