Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 318 Battle of Liaoxi City

Liaoyang City.

Lin Shiyue sat in the upper seat, and Zhang said that Zhan Youwei, Cao Chong, Du Fu and other Andong Protectorate officials gathered together to deal with the upcoming Andong battle.

"My husband has just received an order. The specific strategy is to fortify the wall and clear the field, gradually resist and consume the enemy, step by step lure the enemy to the Liaoyang city, and finally annihilate the rebel army under the Liaoyang city!"

Although Lin Shiyue is a girl, but because she was always taught as a boy when she was a child, she has a firm heart despite her gentleness, and she can be alone.Since Li Fei brought [-] Anton cavalry to leave Andong thousands of miles to attack Mawei Station, she has participated in Anton's affairs, and managed Anton in an orderly manner. All the generals and officials in Anton admired her. So they are willing to listen to her.

"Ma'am, are you ready to cross the sea from Dengzhou to capture Pingzhou City and cut off the rear of the rebels?" Zhang said that in recent years, he has become more and more general-like.

"General Zhang is really sharp, and my husband is indeed ready for this move. As long as we lure the rebels deep into the city of Liaoyang, my husband and the [-] Anton cavalry from Dengzhou will act." Lin Shiyue said with a smile.

"So, one hundred thousand rebels will be destroyed!" Zhang said with a confident smile.

As Li Fei's most important confidant general staying behind in Anton, Zhang said that he knows exactly how many cards Liaoyang City has, not to mention whether there are still 20 troops after the rebels have killed Liaoyang City, even if [-] troops attack Liaoyang City, I'm afraid I have to bang my head and bleed!
In order to annihilate Lu Zhihai and other [-] rebels who attacked Andong, the whole of Andong was mobilized.

On the front line in western Liaoning, Yuan Kui personally deployed defenses on the city walls. He wanted to block the rebels in the western Liaoning and Yingzhou areas for at least four days, so as to buy time for the rear to evacuate the people and clear the walls.

Yuan Kui was favored by Li Fei for his meritorious service in guarding Gewuzhou City when the Bohai National Army invaded. When Li Fei left Andong, he deliberately transferred Yuan Kui from Gewuzhou City to Liaoxi.

Although the two cities of Liaoxi and Yingzhou combined have only a little over [-] second-line garrison soldiers, Liaoyang City has sent [-] Anton cavalry to assist in the periphery. confidence.

However, the order from Liaoyang City was not to defend the city, but to wait for the people to evacuate and fortify the walls and clear the fields, to exhaust the enemy army, consume the enemy army, and lure the enemy army to go deep.

To say that Yuan Kui is definitely a general, from the orders of Liaoyang City, he can roughly guess the final strategic goal of Liaoyang City.

One hundred thousand anti-army came aggressively and slowly arrived at the city of Liaoxi.

The Chinese army has a 7000-strong Baizhan Modao army and a 7000-strong iron cavalry.The [-] ordinary anti-army soldiers on both sides are also neat in appearance, with bright weapons and armor.

The [-] battle elites that An Lushan left in Pingzhou City were the [-] Modao Army and [-] cavalry among them.

It has been more than ten months since the An Lushan rebellion. During these ten months, Lu Zhihai has grown to the current [-] army based on the [-] elite fighters. , so the number of the Modao army remains the same, but the original three thousand cavalry has developed into seven thousand cavalry through some war horses obtained from the Xi and Khitan tribes in the early stage.

Even for the other [-] ordinary soldiers, Lu Zhihai trained for at least three months.

It can be said that Lu Zhihai's [-] rebel army is much more elite than other rebel troops in Hebei, the south of the Yellow River, and Guanzhong.

With such a large army in his hands, Lu Zhihai felt very proud, and felt that a mere Anton Governor's Mansion would not be enough to resist him no matter what.

"attack!"

Lu Zhihai didn't even bother to talk nonsense, and as soon as he arrived at the city of Liaoxi, he ordered the army to launch the first wave of tentative attacks.

"Kill!" Thousands of anti-army soldiers rushed towards the tall city wall of Liaoxi.

On the city wall, Yuan Kui looked calm, not panicking at all.

Liaoxi City has already become a real fortified city after the high city wall was built at the beginning. If the rebels wanted to attack, he would have to let the rebels smash their teeth, no matter what.

"Shoot!" As the rebels rushed within a hundred meters of the city wall, Yuan Kui ordered the archers on the city wall to shoot arrows.

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Originally, he had no intention of defending Liaoxi City for a long time. Not only arrows were consumed without any scruples, but bricks, stones, and rolling logs were also consumed without any scruples.

In the face of Yuan Kui's attack regardless of consumption, none of the rebel soldiers could even successfully climb the city wall in the first wave of the rebel attack, leaving only four or five hundred corpses, and hurriedly retreated.

The first wave was only a tentative attack and failed to attack the city wall. Lu Zhihai was not disappointed and was preparing for the second wave of attack.

This second wave is the real attack, not only assisted by siege vehicles, but also dozens of catapults!More soldiers and ladders were used than in the first wave.

Boom!Boom--
Huge boulders were thrown by catapults and smashed on the city wall of Liaoxi city. Although the city wall of Liaoxi city was deliberately built more than a year ago, it was very tall, but under the impact of dozens of catapults, some places were constantly smashed The entire city wall seemed to be shaking.

"Kill——" The densely packed rebel soldiers began to climb the city wall, and the truly tragic offensive and defensive battle began.

Yuan Kui looked indifferent, and personally led the defenders on the city wall to defend.

The dense rain of arrows, bricks, rolling logs, etc. continued to kill and injure the rebel soldiers who attacked the city.It was too crowded. A rebel soldier had just been hit on the head by a brick, and his head was bleeding. Before his body fell to the ground, he was hit by a rolling log and two arrows. Not necessarily dead, but at this moment, he is so dead that he cannot die anymore.

Looking at the soldiers who suffered heavy casualties under the heavy rain of arrows, rolling logs, bricks, etc., Lu Zhihai frowned tightly.

However, soon Lu Zhihai smiled disdainfully.

"It's so crazy, regardless of the consumption, I want to see how long you can last!" No city can withstand the consumption of the defenders of Liaoxi City. Lu Zhihai estimated that within two days at most, the Liaoxi City will run out of ammunition and food. , At that time, how will the guards stop his army from entering the city.

Lu Zhihai thought he could capture Liaoxi City in two days at most, but he miscalculated.

Yuan Kui is not a good stubble either. After two days of crazily smashing down without regard to consumption, the storage in Liaoxi City is indeed almost exhausted. Bricks, stones, rolling logs, arrows, and the corpses of rebel soldiers are piled up under the city wall. thick layer.

On the third day, Yuan Kui ordered the fire to be set on fire, and once the fire was burnt down, a huge fire suddenly ignited.

Under such a fire, it was impossible for the rebels to continue to attack the city. Lu Zhihai could only grit his teeth and watch the fire burn.
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