Qian Song

Chapter 137 Victory
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In fact, Li Cun can personally command this battle.

It can even be said that Li Cun came up with the overall strategic conception of this battle.

But in the end, Li Cun still gave this opportunity to someone else, to be precise, to Han Shizhong.

The reason why Li Cun is like this is definitely not because Li Cun wants to be lazy.

——No matter how lazy he is, it is impossible for him to miss the goal.

In fact, with Li Cun's current status, it is no longer suitable to do everything by himself.

If Li Cunzhen has been doing everything by himself, let's not say that Li Cun will be exhausted, just say that after the Huben army leaves Li Cun, they will definitely not be able to fight any battles.

Row.

Now the Huben Army is only developing here in Liangzhe, and even only in the eastern part of Zhejiang. Li Cun can command the Huben Army by himself.

What if the Huben Army develops and grows in the future to the point where it needs to divide its troops to fight in several places?

Could it be that Li Cun still can't do the avatar technique?
Therefore, Li Cun is bound to cultivate some generals who can stand on their own.

Based on this, if he could not fight in person, Li Cun would definitely not fight in person, and try to create opportunities for his generals to exercise themselves.

In addition, handing over the command of this battle to Han Shizhong can also win Han Shizhong's heart.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Why would Li Cun not do it?

After getting the command of this battle from Li Cun, Han Shizhong was really rude.

Han Shizhong immediately summoned all his old subordinates with Li Cun's token, and told them, you have to help me in this battle, and you can't let the governor and I show a joke.

Not to mention the past affection, just to say that Li Cun trusts Han Shizhong so much, if they help Han Shizhong win this crucial battle, Han Shizhong's position in the Huben army will be worse in the future, and Han Shizhong will be fine. Will they be okay in the future?
The point is, this is the governor's promotion of Han Shizhong, and they are helping Han Shizhong in a disguised form to help the governor save his face.

The key point is that Xie Yuan, Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, Hu Yantong, Xu Shi'an and others also want to prove through this battle that the governor did not misunderstand them, and that their abilities are worthy of the positions given to them by the governor.

Han Shizhong didn't talk nonsense, and directly arranged Xie Yuan to command the bed crossbow and god arm bow, arranged Xu Shi'an to command the trebuchet, and arranged Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, and Hu Yantong to each be responsible for the attack on a city wall.

Before the war, Han Shizhong told the quartermaster again that he wanted chain mail, and the more the better.

Not long after, the quartermaster found a thousand sets of chain mail for Han Shizhong.

When Han Shizhong saw it, he felt that it was not enough.

At this moment, two battalions of very special soldiers came.

The soldiers of these two battalions, each with 500 soldiers, are equivalent to another army. The average height of the soldiers must be over 1.8 meters, and all of them are strong.

Surprisingly, the soldiers of the two battalions each pushed a rooster cart, and the rooster cart was equipped with sophisticated chain mail.

The soldiers of the two battalions came to Han Shizhong.

A strong man about two meters tall said in a low voice: "I am Meng Long, the commander of the front battalion of the heavy armored infantry, and he is Xiang Hu, the commander of the rear battalion of the heavy armored infantry. The governor heard that you lack chain mail and called me the second battalion." All people are under your temporary control."

Han Shizhong had never heard of the heavy armored infantry.

But at this time, these so-called heavy armored infantry came at the right time, saving him from looking for soldiers wearing chain mail.

Han Shizhong said sincerely: "The governor really flatters me!"

Not to mention, Han Shizhong immediately assigned tasks to the soldiers who were going to fight...

After the night fell completely, Han Shizhong gave an order, and the trebuchet commanded by Xu Shian took the lead in launching the attack, and the overwhelming rocks were thrown towards the city of Xiuzhou as if they didn't want money...

The sound of these trebuchets shook the heavens and the earth, and everything they hit was destroyed. They penetrated seven feet into the ground, and they were used to break into cities, temples and pavilions, and they were all shattered.

Li Cun looked at it for a while, and then asked the generals: "Can you see the difference between Xu Shian's trebuchet?"

Many generals looked at each other in blank dismay. Didn't he throw stones into the city? What's the difference?

Qi Fang's eyes were more thieves, he observed carefully for a while, and said: "If he throws a dozen stones, one of them will fall on the city wall."

Li Cun glanced at Qi Fang appreciatively, and thought: "A general who left a mark in history after all, still has some potential."

Er Ganzi and other generals observed carefully for a while, and found that it was indeed what Qi Fang said.

The second pole was puzzled: "Governor, why is his trebuchet so accurate?"

Li Cundao: "You went to the trebuchet to have a look, but he divided the cannon stones into two piles, and one pile of cannon stones was about the same size, and he marked it on the wire."

Er Ganzi ran over to have a look, and sure enough it was exactly the same as what Li Cun said. When he came back, he immediately admired him and said: "The governor is really a god."

Li Cun said with a smile: "This is one of the skills of using the trebuchet. You usually read more military books. Famous generals rely on accumulation over time, rather than blindly rushing."

Li Cun said again: "Look again, what's the difference between Xu Shi'an's trebuchet?"

This time even Qi Fang couldn't tell.

Seeing this, Li Cun could only point out: "The rhythm is well controlled. He divided the thousands of trebuchets into five groups, and each time they fired one group at the same time, one after another, it was so suppressed that the defenders did not dare to show their heads easily to stop our army." Soldiers climbed the walls."

Soon the bed crossbow commanded by Xie Yuan also showed its power.

Under Xie Yuan's command, several bed crossbows would snipe at one person at the same time every time, and sometimes, the soldiers holding the god arm bow would also snipe together.

The arrow of this bed crossbow is a short spear. When the arrow is shot, the person is immediately nailed to the wall. The death is extremely terrifying. Even if you hide behind the shield, the shield can be pierced , nail you to the city wall.

The terrible thing is that Xie Yuan can snipe a person with several crossbows at the same time, if one crossbow misses, how many crossbows can miss?
Therefore, it can almost be said that as long as they are targeted by Xie Yuan, there are very few immortals.

If the five hundred bed crossbows were released, hundreds of Xiuzhou defenders would be killed in one wave.

But this crossbow is powerful, but every time it is shot, it needs a winch to pull it apart, which takes a long time.

Therefore, regardless of the fact that there are five hundred bed crossbows, Xie Yuan can't use the bed crossbows to shoot indiscriminately. He only uses the bed crossbows to suppress the Xiuzhou defenders where the offensive is tense.

Xie Yuan and Xu Shi'an cooperated extremely tacitly. As soon as they made a move, they overwhelmed the defenders in Xiuzhou City so that they did not dare to show their heads for a while.

Li Cun looked at the cooperation of Xie Yuan and Xu Shian, and explained to the generals: "This is what I often tell you, the rich can cover firepower, and the poor can intersperse tactics. When fighting, you must learn to use what you have. weapons, of course, you can’t fight such a rich battle all the time, so you still have to learn tactics…”

Taking advantage of this gap, the soldiers of the Huben Army began to move under the city wall with siege equipment such as siege carts and wooden curtains. Wall climbing tools such as watchtowers and ladders also moved under the city wall at this time.

What needs to be explained here is that the moat has long been filled in by Sun He and Qi Fang. There are countless paths through which various siege equipment can pass. Han Shizhong's attack on the city this time saved a lot of effort in this part.

In addition, Li Cun also asked people to prepare a large number of trench bridges and folding bridges, so crossing the moat is not a problem at all.

Han Shizhong's command, false and real, real and false, bloomed everywhere on the three walls of the city, and dispersed the few defenders in Xiuzhou City. Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, and Hu Yantong fully understood Han Shizhong's rhythm, Under the suppression of Xie Yuan and Xu Shian's firepower, they personally led the charge, and the cooperation of the few people was perfect...

Judging from the current situation, Han Shizhong and others are progressing very fast and smoothly in attacking the city.

It seemed that Han Shizhong and the others could easily capture Xiuzhou City.

but--

It's just an illusion.

In the city of Xiuzhou.

Chen Yun personally went to the city to command.

He was leaning on a saber, with arrows flying around and huge boulders smashing across, which was extremely dangerous.

Several times, the bed crossbow arrows like short spears were just above his head, and even flew past his ears.

But Chen Yu still stood still.

There will be a heart that must die, and the scholar will not be greedy for life.

If your commander is not afraid of death, the soldiers below will dare to play with you.

When a commander is fighting, the most important thing to shout is to follow me, and the last thing to shout is to charge me.

Chen Yun is like this, and he does it by himself.

Under Chen Yun's example.

The soldiers in Xiuzhou City were not afraid of life and death, and smashed down the rolling wood and thunder stones that had been prepared long ago. Some even picked up the artillery stones of the Huben Army and threw them down. At the same time, they poured gold juice and hot oil down.

The most frightening thing was that Chen Yun ordered hay to be bundled into balls, lit and thrown down the city.

It's like throwing a fireball down.

When the rolling wood thunder stone hits a person, the person becomes a meat paste, and the golden juice and hot oil, when it touches a person, scalds off a layer of skin, and the golden juice is also poisonous, very vicious.

Wherever the big fireball passed, there were no soldiers of the Huben Army who did not dodge, and many soldiers of the Huben Army fell to their deaths because of dodging the fireball.

The most troublesome thing is that after the siege equipment such as watchtowers and ladders were stained with oil, they were rolled by the big fireball and burned immediately.

Facing the attacks of trebuchets and bed crossbows, the defenders in Xiuzhou had no choice but to take their lives.

For example, if we go to a total of five people for the same task, you can shoot at most two of me at a time, and I will complete the task for the remaining three.

Seeing this, Han Shizhong knew that it would be impossible not to use Li Cun's precious heavy armored infantry.

So, Han Shizhong commanded Li Cun's heavy armored infantry, covered his face and even his body with canvas, poured water on his body, one person climbed first, and the two followed.

That is, when one person attacks, two people follow behind. If the one in front falls or dies, the one behind will step on the corpse of his companion and climb up.

It can be said that at all costs, I don't want casualties, I just want to win Xiuzhou City.

Seeing Han Shizhong using Li Cun's precious heavy armored infantry like this, everyone felt sorry for Li Cun.

You know, these two battalions of heavy armored infantry were selected by Li Cun from among his hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

In the south where the height is relatively short, it is really not an easy task to find [-] heavy armored infantry soldiers who can wear such heavy equipment.

Li Cun was also very distressed, but he still closed his eyes as if he didn't see it.

The future opponents of the heavy armored infantry are cavalry, or even heavy armored cavalry. If they can't even survive this level of battle, then they will get the highest treatment in the Huben Army for nothing.

After Li Cun closed his eyes, the heavy armored infantry climbed up the city desperately. Even if the ladder caught fire, or even a fireball fell down, they didn't care. One fell down, and the other went up to make up for it, and fell down again. One, the third made up, all three were dead, and there was a second group and a third group behind.

Seeing that something was wrong, Chen Yun immediately recruited death squads.

The principle is that if both father and son are in the army, the father will stay; if both brothers are in the army, those who are married and know how to be a woman will stay.

After the death squads were recruited, these people rushed out of the city without their lives, and then burned the ladders and watchtowers to fight to the death with the soldiers of the Huben army in the aggressive area.

Later, Wang Ziwu even personally led the horse army in the city to rush out of the city, hoping to rush a wave of Huben army soldiers gathered under the city wall to buy some time for the Xiuzhou defenders.

But as soon as Wang Ziwu and his five hundred horse army rushed out, Xie Yuan took Wang Ziwu away with a wave of fire.

Then, Xie Yuan commanded the bed crossbow and the god arm bow to shoot and kill these horse troops.

After a while, the horse army left behind two or three hundred horsemen, and then retreated back to Xiuzhou City.

In short, in this offensive and defensive battle, both sides are the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, each showing their magical powers.

The two sides fought all night, not wanting to give in to each other.

However, when it was almost dawn, a large number of soldiers from the Huben Army, which was superior in all aspects, killed the top of the city, and they continued to climb up the city. Even Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, Hu Yantong went to the city wall and took the lead in fighting the defenders of Xiuzhou!

At this time, there is no suspense about the outcome, and the Huben Army will definitely be able to attack Xiuzhou City.

However, the defenders of Xiuzhou City, including the people, still resisted steadily under the leadership of Chen Yun.

——Although Xiuzhou City will definitely be captured, as long as they delay for another half an hour, they will win the bet with Li Cun.

The two sides fought bloody battles on the city wall of Xiuzhou, and neither of them backed down half a step.

Under the city, Li Cun looked at the time and said, "Okay, let's stop here, if you wait any longer, I might lose."

Not long after Li Cun's words fell, a loud noise that shook the sky and the earth exploded at the forgotten South City Gate...

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