Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 426 A fierce battle at the city gate, Jiang Wei's surprise attack

At the beginning of the day, outside the Pingcheng Gate and Ancheng Gate of the southern city of Chang'an, the Cao Army and the Han Army were fighting fiercely.

Under the long-range bombing by catapults, the Han army has been able to build trench bridges on the moat, and then approach the city through the cloud tower. The crossbowmen on the cloud tower will shoot arrows to cover the infantry below climbing the city wall.

It’s just that in that case, in order to prevent accidental injury to teammates, the catapults in the rear will choose to stop fire and let the infantry sprint up with ladders if they knock down their own siege troops.

So taking advantage of the time when the catapult ceased fire, the Wei army would immediately organize a defense. This section of the four-kilometer-long city wall was densely packed with thousands of ladders. The crossbowmen fought back.

Then the infantry on the city wall would use rolling stones, wood, lime and even hot oil to throw them down. The Han soldiers who fell fell from a height of seven or eight meters, and there was even a four-meter-high moat below. The tree covered with snow was kicked, and a large number of Han soldiers fell down, causing extremely tragic casualties.

The Han army in the back is still flowing, like ants carrying the enemy's crossbows, rolling stones, wood, lime and other defensive equipment, crossing the moat, and then bravely climbed up, hoping to kill the city wall and put The city was captured.

It's a pity that Wei Jun's defense is tight, occupying the convenience of defending the city.What's more uncomfortable is that the eight-meter-high city wall of Chang'an City made it miserable for the soldiers to climb the city, resulting in serious casualties.

Shen Chen in the distance looked at all this with a serious and dignified face.

This way of siege caused great casualties to soldiers, but he had no choice.Compared with the number of people in the city, his troops are not much different. Even if Chang'an City is surrounded by wind, it is difficult for him to attack Chang'an with superior forces. He can only choose to attack by force to create opportunities for the sneak attacking troops.

So sometimes casualties are inevitable.

However, the strong attack on the city soon had an effect. As the Wei army raised the black flag in the distance, the Cao army in the Anchengmen area in the southeast was immediately transferred to the east city, which caused some mistakes in the defense there, and was almost attacked by the Han army. city ​​walls.

Now the main force of the Wei army is completely entangled by the Han army, and they can't muster too many manpower to defend other places. They can only rely on cavalry or nearby infantry to take the rescue method of putting out fires on the spot.

Ma Dai and the others launched a surprise attack in the east city, which would cause the Wei army close to the east city to be transferred and form a defensive gap, which naturally helped create opportunities for the frontal Han army.

It's just that the Wei army on the city wall also reacted quickly, quickly mobilizing manpower from the west to fill the gap and drive the Han army off the city wall.

Seeing the time passing by every minute and every second, if it continues like this, today it will be futile work again, and it will go back with heavy casualties, but at this time, a horse gallops from a distance, reporting to Shen Chen: , General Wu Shan and the others have entered the city, please send someone from Zhangcheng Gate to help."

Shen Chen was refreshed, and immediately ordered: "Quick, the cavalry go over immediately!"

"only!"

The messenger rushed to deliver the military order.

At the same time, above the city in the distance, Zhong Yao's position was on Taichang Street behind Ancheng Gate.

Because the front city wall was the key target of the catapult, it was almost impossible for him to defend on the city wall, so he built a high platform close to 20 meters in the city, about [-] steps away from the city wall, and stood on the platform to watch.

This height and distance are absolutely safe and can overlook every corner of the city wall. The only problem is that Zhong Yao is old. He is 76 years old this year and his eyesight is not very good.

Therefore, he needed several generals Fei Yao, Yang Ke and others to help him watch what happened in the city to avoid any mistakes.

It coincided with Shen Chen storming the city, Wei Jun's main attention was on the south of the city, and then Ma Dai launched an attack in the east of the city, they were quickly attracted by the movement in the east of the city, and somewhat ignored the situation in the east of the city.

When Wu Tao and the others were found at the Zhangcheng Gate, they were already climbing the city, and then passed the news to Zhong Yao. Wu Tao and the others had already captured the city gate and opened the city gate. Now they are waiting for Shen Chen to send The cavalry rushed to help quickly, and cooperated with the inside and outside, and raided Nancheng from inside the city to win in one fell swoop.

At this time, Yang Ke noticed cavalry galloping towards the northeast holding a red flag, and immediately said in horror: "Taiwei, Dongcheng has also been raided."

Zhong Yao said calmly, "You lead the team yourself."

"Yes."

Yang Ke hurriedly climbed down the high platform, and hurried to the east of the city with the rear supervisor team.

The supervising team is Zhong Yao's last manpower.

Although he was a defender of the city, the catapults outside the city were bombed like this every day, and the casualties were also not small.

So when the enemy attacks, every time he has to go all out.

Soon at the end of the day and the beginning of the evening, Zhong Yao gave an order, and the two thousand supervising teams who were supervising the battle behind Ancheng Gate immediately set out to reinforce Zhangcheng Gate.

The two city gates were three to four kilometers apart. Yang Ke let out a roar, and the soldiers of the Wei army lined up and rushed from Taichang Street to Baihu Street in the northwest. It took two quarters of an hour before they arrived. Late.

At this time, Wu Tao has completely seized the gate of Zhangcheng Gate, and it is much better to enter the city. Although there are still many gates in the inner city, the difficulty is far less than that in the outer city.

More importantly, the Baihumen leading to the inner city palace was also occupied by Wu Tao. He sent people to arrange an array of 500 people on the left and right sides of the city wall to prevent the enemy from raiding their rear from the city wall. They have deployed manpower to take charge of the enemies behind them.

In this way, the entire city wall above the Zhangcheng Gate, to the Baihu Street behind, and then to the Baihu Gate leading to the inner city are now firmly controlled by the Han army. Once Shen Chen's cavalry arrives, they will be able to pass through the two palaces directly. door, and went to Weiyang Palace, the enemy's stronghold.

It's just that although Shen Chen sent a large group of cavalry to help, they still had to cross the water and the moat, so their speed was not as fast as the battle supervisor team waiting in the city. At this moment, the battle supervisor team had already rushed to the street in front of Baihumen.

"Arrowers prepare!"

Wu Tao shouted.

All the soldiers took out their serial crossbows.

Seeing that even Baihumen had been robbed, Yang Ke was shocked and immediately ordered an attack.

In the afternoon, the sun hangs in the sky near the west, and the scorching sunlight shines on the earth, giving people an uneasy hotness and dullness.

The White Tiger Gate is not a position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but Wu Tao and the others must seize the White Tiger Gate before the reinforcements from the rear arrive, otherwise the White Tiger Gate will be closed, and they will have to go north and circle around the Zhicheng Gate.

The first to attack was the central army of the Wei army. They lined up in a neat line, holding shields in front and sharp spears protruding from the rear, and then rushed directly towards the formation of the Han army.

"Throw!"

Wu Tao shouted without hesitation.

The soldiers in the front row immediately raised the position of the hand crossbow, pulled the trigger, and countless crossbow arrows immediately drew an arc in the air, and then shot towards the Wei army below.

Immediately afterwards, almost without Wu Tao's order, all the soldiers put their crossbows away from their waists, and took out their ring-shoulders.

The distance between the Han army and the Wei army was more than 60 meters. This is the limit attack distance of the hand crossbow. Most of the hand crossbows were shot on the shield with clangs, but some unlucky ones were shot to death by the thrown crossbow arrows.

Under normal circumstances, if they wait for the enemy to come within 50 meters, they will definitely kill more people. Except for the soldiers in the front row who have shields, most of the soldiers in the Wei army only have leather armor at most. It is not easy to defend against crossbows at close range possible things.

However, the enemy has already run wildly. If you let the opponent get closer and fight again, your own formation will be unstable, which is really not worth the loss.

"kill!"

Following this sound of spring thunder, the Wei army soon collided with the Han army like a tide.

Wu Tao and Shan Yi rushed to the front, and Wei Jun heard a series of dense bow strings and crossbow arm trembling sounds from far and near, and dozens of arrows and crossbows hit their heads and faces. loss.

Yang Ke raised his head and took a look, and found that the Han army had actually built a row of ladders on the palace wall around Baihumen to attack, and dozens of crossbowmen were shooting arrows upwind.

At the gate of Baihumen below, the Han army set up a circular defensive formation, firmly occupying the city gate, and did not allow the Wei army to attack at all.

Immediately after the two sides met, both sides shouted and shouted to hide and kill, arrows shot knives and guns poked, both the enemy and us fell to the ground in the blink of an eye, but most of the Wei army fell to the ground, because they not only had to fight head-on, but also fought in the back row. There is a risk of being shot by an arrow.

Seeing this scene, Yang Ke knew that if he wanted to win the Baihu Gate, he had to get rid of the crossbowmen on the palace wall. He immediately shouted, and the Wei troops on the left and right wings immediately circled towards the palace wall.

The outer city wall is eight meters high, but the palace wall inside the city is much shorter, only about three meters in height. Soldiers about 1.7 meters in length hold spears or halberds over 1.8 meters in hand, which is enough to kill the crossbowmen above. Poke it down.

At this time, the layout of Baihumen and Zhangchengmen was not very favorable for the Han army, because the city wall above Zhangchengmen had to be guarded, and the Wei army had already organized hundreds of people to come and try to take the city gate back.

The lower Zhangcheng Gate and the palace roads on the left and right sides of Baihu Gate must also be guarded. Less than two kilometers to the south is Taichang Street, which is also the location where the Wei army is currently resisting the main force of the Han army outside the city. As a result, only about 500 people defended Baihumen.

Jiang Wei and Deng Ai were in charge of the palace roads on the left and right sides. In order to take care of their juniors, Wu Tao and Shan Yi were guarding the most difficult Baihu Gate, while Wu Dang and Deng Ai were guarding the city wall above the Zhangcheng Gate. Huo Yang was in charge of the In the direction of Taichang Street in the south, Jiang Wei is in charge of North Street.

The North Street is now empty, and the head can be seen at a glance. There is probably no enemy attacking. Jiang Wei then climbed up the palace wall with a ladder to watch the situation in the direction of Baihumen. He saw five hundred Han troops defending against two thousand Wei troops. difficult.

At first, Wei Jun bumped into them head-on, and was thrown into disarray by the bow and crossbow. Then Wu Tao and Shan Yi seized the opportunity, led the soldiers to charge, and chopped down dozens of soldiers. Wei Jun suffered many casualties.

But then Yang Ke let the Wei army on the left and right flanks raid the palace wall, and repelled the crossbowmen above. Without the suppression of the crossbow, the disadvantage of the Han army's numbers was quickly reflected.

The two sides fell into a bitter battle.

In the chaos, there were shouts of killing from front to back, and the shadows of swords and guns on the left and right. The Wei army rushed towards the Han army's formation like a tide, causing the circular formation's defense line to shrink back.

Although the Wei army suffered more casualties, this is the territory of the Wei army after all. Hundreds of thousands of Wei troops came to the south of the city wall and palace road to help, and the reinforcements from the rear are still coming. , or even forced out of Zhangcheng Gate, the situation will be very bad.

Jiang Wei's position was a little farther away, but he was quickly spotted by several Wei soldiers, shouting and rushing towards him, and several halberds and long spears poked at him, unless Jiang Wei had eight hands , otherwise it cannot be resisted at all.

He had to jump off the ladder like those crossbowmen, and then several captains came over and said, "Marquis, what should we do now?"

"Take the ladder and follow me!"

Jiang Wei pointed to the road ahead without hesitation and said: "This road is straight and several miles long. It is impossible for the enemy to detour and attack from this side. It is useless for us to defend here. It is better to climb over and go around behind them Sneak attack."

A captain said: "But the general ordered us to stay here. Once the enemy really raids from our defense line and causes the flank to be defeated, then"

"Well"

Jiang Wei hesitated for a moment.

This is the problem that generals on the battlefield often face.

I have an area that needs to be defended, and I can't leave easily, but among the chaos, I suddenly found a fighter.

This fighter may turn the whole situation around. If you choose to turn a blind eye, the battle situation will fall into a stalemate, and even gradually become unfavorable to our side, eventually causing the whole situation to fail.

But if you choose to seize this opportunity, it means you have to give up your defense zone and violate military orders. Once the enemy passes through your defense zone, the situation that was originally a possibility of failure will become a doomed situation.

So this is a dilemma.

Most generals often choose to turn a blind eye, even if they know that this fighter is likely to win their side directly, but they still adhere to the idea that if you don't do it, you won't make mistakes, and stick to your own job.

Only a very small number of people would choose to give it a go, just as according to the original plan of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing sent troops from Dingxiang to pursue the Xiongnu Shanyu.As a result, Huo Qubing captured the Xiongnu captives. After learning that Shanyu had fled to the east, he immediately changed direction and pursued Shanyu.

Sometimes it is more necessary to adapt to the situation on the battlefield than to stick to the rules.

After a brief hesitation, Jiang Wei made up his mind, turned his head to look at the left side of the wall, but saw Deng Ai also standing on the wall looking at him.

The two looked at each other as if they had a good understanding, and smiled at each other. Deng Ai then gestured to him, signaling him to do it without worry. He will help him look in the direction of the city gate, so don't worry.

Jiang Wei bowed his hands to Deng Ai, and said without hesitation: "According to orders, if there is any situation, I will fully bear it."

"only!"

The captains stopped hesitating and responded immediately.

Soon his group of about three hundred soldiers assembled and hurried north with ladders on their shoulders.

At this time, the war has reached a fever pitch.

More and more Wei Jun came from the rear, and the defensive pressure of their 3000 men was already very high.

Especially in the direction of Baihumen, Yang Ke kept yelling at the soldiers to attack fiercely, Wu Tao Shan Yi's defensive line was shrinking back, and it was already approaching the direction of the city gate.

In this chaos, no one noticed that Jiang Wei had already led the soldiers to the north palace wall.

　In the past two days, I should also be in the sun, and I feel sleepy from time to time. I sleep one day during the day and one night at night. I sleep for more than 12 hours, but today is much better. It is said that May is the peak of the second sun, everyone pay attention to safety, Beware of catching a cold, there will be Chapter 2 today. After you feel better, continue to work hard to maintain the level of more than 8000 words in two chapters a day, come on!

　　
　
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