Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 957 Internal and external cooperation
The Southern Huns soldier who surrendered to the city stared dumbfoundedly at the bottom of the city. The rolling traffic was rushing across the frozen moat. In his understanding, although there was a foot of snow on the ice, it stands to reason that the ice below had been cut open earlier. It had been cut open, and the carriage should have fallen into the water, but this did not happen. The other party just rushed through the moat that was more than ten feet wide!
Of course, some carriages got stuck on the ice, but because the carriages were wide and buoyant, they did not sink into the water. The soldiers reacted quickly and immediately jumped out of the carriages and walked through. Countless people crowded into the city wall in the blink of an eye. below.

At this time, the Southern Huns soldiers responded and shouted shrilly: "The enemy is attacking!"

"The enemy is coming!"

Hearing the sound, the guard on the city wall stood up in panic and looked around. He was immediately stunned. The formation on the opposite side probably did not have tens of thousands of people. And now the defenders on this city wall were on duty during the New Year. There are only a hundred or ten people in total. If the opponent is to get on the city wall, I am afraid that this side will collapse instantly!

While the guard at the top of the city sent people to the city to ask for help, he quickly asked all the soldiers resting below the city to go to the top of the city to resist. At the same time, he was lucky because the enemy might not be able to climb the city wall!
In his opinion, the enemy did not seem to have brought any equipment for siege, and even there were only a few ladders. Moreover, due to continuous snowfall, the sloping wall of Jinyang City was covered with thick ice and snow. The enemy should It's impossible to climb up!
However, something happened again that stunned him. Hundreds of Youzhou Army soldiers each took a short pickaxe in their hands and knocked it into the ice of the city wall. Then they alternated their arms and used the short pickaxes to crawl towards the top of the city!

At the same time, the Southern Huns guard discovered that these people's shoes seemed to be specially made. They seemed to have saw teeth and could step on the ice. There were ropes hanging around their waists. They were preparing to climb up the city!
Normally, if the Jinyang city wall is not frozen, it would be difficult for the Youzhou Army's pickaxe to be driven into the solid wall, but it is different when it is covered with ice. Under the strike of the pickaxe, a The pit actually helped the soldiers climb. In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of soldiers climbed up more than one foot, while the Jinyang city wall was only six or seven feet high!

The southern Xiongnu guard at the head of the city was really anxious now. He shouted: "Shoot arrows, shoot arrows!"

"Shoot them all!"

Before he finished speaking, several arrows shot at him from the city at the same time. One arrow hit him squarely in the face. The guard screamed and fell down the city wall. He could not die anymore.

As soon as the guard died, the defenders at the top of the city were even more panicked. Although they were commanded by other guards, their courage was gone. In addition, due to the huge disparity in numbers, although some people shot arrows to fight back, they were soon overwhelmed by the overwhelming arrow rain from the city. Unable to stand out, some defenders were shot down and killed. Others only dared to hide behind the city wall and tremble, waiting for reinforcements to arrive in the city.

At the same time, another outer gate of Jinyang was also captured. The leading general was Zhang Liao and Gaoshun. The two men also attacked the inner gate and encountered stubborn resistance.

Other Youzhou soldiers also rushed forward. The morale of the Southern Huns soldiers completely collapsed and they were all killed in a very short time. The Youzhou soldiers rushed down the city wall, opened the outer city gate, and then joined forces with the incoming friendly troops. , began to attack the inner city.

At this time, King Guli didn't know how many people came from the Youzhou Army and what tactics they used, but they knew that if they didn't mobilize all the soldiers in the city immediately, everything would be over!
King Zuoguli, who had just ascended the position of Shanyu, quickly ordered the tribal chiefs to summon their soldiers. At this time, King Youguli came over and whispered: "What should we do with the people of the Shang clan in Bingzhou?"

At this time, less than a quarter of an hour before the siege, the spies reporting from the city head rushed to the royal tent of King Guli on the left and right sides. After hearing the news of the siege, the Southern Huns who were already drunk were so frightened that most of them woke up. He quickly stumbled around and crawled around, making all sorts of ugly appearances for a while.

At this time, everyone heard the shouts of killing coming from the direction of the city wall, and their faces were all pale. Why did the Youzhou Army attack the city today!
This kind of situation, let alone them, was extremely rare even in the Central Plains, because the risk of siege in winter was too great, but Yuan Xi instead used the frozen wall to quickly attack the city, catching the Southern Huns by surprise.

Zhang Liao personally held the shield and rushed forward. He smiled at Gao Shun and said, "We may not be able to fall behind others this time. It will be a great achievement to defeat Jinyang first!"

Gao Shun nodded silently, and with a move of his hand, the soldiers from the trapped camp began to climb the wall wearing thick armor. They climbed two city walls in a short period of time. It was a great test even for the soldiers from the trapped camp, but Gao Shun knew that Yuan Xi gathered several generals together, with the purpose of attacking the inner city in the shortest time to minimize losses!

The inner city is much more difficult to defeat because in front of it is the Wengcheng and the city wall is also vertical. The defenders in the southern Xiongnu City have begun to increase their numbers at this time and are constantly swarming to the top of the inner city to defend.

The Youzhou Army was naturally unwilling to be outdone. While fighting with the defenders, they tied a rope to the arrow hole in the city wall, and then threw the other end down. When the soldiers below the city saw it, they quickly climbed up the rope.

The generals responsible for attacking this city gate were Zhao Yun and Zhang He. They personally supervised the battle and began to launch a fierce attack on the inner gate.

Soon there were more and more people at the top of the city. The hundreds of people who came up from the southern Xiongnu city were unable to suppress them at all. After hundreds of Youzhou soldiers boarded the city, the situation was completely reversed.

A Youzhou soldier faced the spear formation of the Hun soldiers on the opposite side and rushed over waving a ring-headed sword. Several spears of the Southern Hun soldiers poked out his chest and stabbed him in the breastplate, causing him to stagger. Two The tip of the gun broke instead.

The Southern Xiongnu soldiers were extremely panicked when they saw this. The Youzhou soldier roared, stepped down and slashed, directly splitting the head of a Southern Xiongnu soldier into two halves. The worn leather helmet on his head actually failed to block the blade in the slightest.

Of course, the Youzhou Army climbing the city wall moved much faster than the reinforcements. In less than a stick of incense, the first dozens of Youzhou Army soldiers had climbed to the top of the city. Seeing this, the defenders at the top of the city had no choice but to force themselves. They rushed up to kill them, trying to drive them off.

Because the Bingzhou Shang clan has declined, the two kings did not invite them at all today. King Zuo Guli immediately said: "Send someone to issue an order and ask them to send troops together!"

But then the shouts of killing and the news coming from the city left the two kings stunned.

All the Bingzhou Shang clan rebelled, and their 2,000 slave soldiers divided into two groups. At the same time, they encouraged a large number of Han people in the city to attack the two inner city gates respectively. With the Youzhou army attacking from both inside and outside, the city gates would soon be unable to be defended!
Seeing that everyone present was stunned, King Zuo Guli pulled out the scimitar from his waist, raised it high, and shouted: "There are still 20,000 prairie men in our city. If we fight the enemy wholeheartedly, even if the city gate is breached, we can defeat them all." Destroy the Han Dog! "Gather everyone together and fight the Han Dog. Success or failure depends on this!"

The Southern Xiongnu nobles present also knew that life and death were on the line. They immediately raised their scimitars high and shouted: "Kill the Han dogs! Kill the Han dogs!"

Yang Feng thrust out a spear and stabbed to death the last Southern Huns defender behind the city gate. Then he stepped forward and hit the door latch with his palm. The city gate suddenly opened, and the Youzhou soldiers from outside poured in.

When they saw hundreds of slaves behind the city gate, they were stunned for a moment, and then heard Yang Feng shout: "Those with white cloth on their heads are all friendly troops!"

Zhang Liao and Gao Shun led the people to rush in and bowed their hands to Yang Feng. Then, under their leadership, the army quickly rushed through the streets and rushed towards the Southern Huns reinforcements in the distance.

Yang Feng wiped the sweat from his head and felt a little weak, so he sat down against the city gate and started to pant. The beating heart in his chest slowly slowed down.

Her health has been deteriorating in the past few years, and the time to activate the secret method has become shorter and shorter every time. Her body has become more and more overwhelmed, and the sequelae have become more and more severe. It took her a long time to fight with all her strength for just half a quarter of an hour. It takes time to recover.

A leather cloak was draped on her body. Yang Feng turned her head slightly and found that Yuan Xi was leading people into the city.

Yuan Xi said softly: "Thank you for your hard work, leave it to me later."

Everyone followed Yuan Xi into the city. Yang Feng looked at Yuan Xi's back, tightened the leather cloak around him, leaned against the city wall, and closed his eyes.

At this time, the city was full of fighting soldiers. The soldiers who had previously climbed the city retreated to both sides to rest for a while. The Youzhou soldiers who rushed in from behind took their place as the vanguard and formed a formation to advance through the streets.

These Youzhou soldiers were already very familiar with siege warfare. The archers quickly occupied the high ground and the houses on both sides. The infantry formed a formation and launched an encirclement and siege against the Southern Huns soldiers who were pouring over in disorder.

They got the order to kill anyone who stood in the way without mercy, and they also recharged their strength. Their murderous nature was fully aroused tonight. They lined up in formation, like an iron wall, and pressed against the Southern Huns soldiers.

Most of the Southern Xiongnu soldiers were in leather armor and were unable to withstand the heavily armed Youzhou soldiers. They quickly dispersed, but when they turned around to run away, they found that there were enemies on all sides.

The Hun soldiers were furious. Let's just fight in a melee. If you leave the formation, can you still block and kill us all?
The two sides soon crowded together, and people continued to fall down with knives and bullets, and then were stabbed to death on the ground. The ground was piled with corpses.

A Southern Xiongnu soldier fell to the ground, trying his best to dodge the weapons and crawl forward. All he could see were the faces of the Xiongnu soldiers wearing fur hats, and almost none of the dead Youzhou soldiers wearing iron helmets could be seen!
He was frightened and confused, why were all his own people dead?

With a bang, his vest was pierced by the ring knife and he died on the ground.

The Youzhou soldier who stabbed him to death retracted his knife, and his companion behind him said, "I'm tired, let me rest."

The companion nodded and said: "Okay, lean on my back."

The two of them just silently supported each other to rest and took the opportunity to catch their breath. The Youzhou soldiers were not iron men, but they had extremely rich experience in melee combat. In this situation where it was difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, the Southern Huns soldiers often fought independently, but the Youzhou soldiers all Two or three people defended the enemy back to back. Not only did they have few blind spots, but even if they were injured, they would be supported by their companions so that they would not fall to the ground and be killed.

This gap in experience led to a one-sided situation. The Southern Huns soldiers were far behind in terms of equipment and experience, so the outcome could only be that the Southern Huns soldiers were wiped out.

After fighting in the city for less than an hour, King Guli learned that most of the city had been lost, and the Southern Huns soldiers who had thrown in had never returned. This meant that at least half of the 20,000 people were dead!
And the news came that the enemy was approaching the king's tent. King Youguli heard this and said to King Zuoguli in panic: "What should we do now?"

King Zuo Guli immediately made a decision, "Open the other two city gates and leave immediately."

(End of this chapter)