Horse on the World

Chapter 937
Qiu Zhi came to Qingtan because he was really worried about this place, even if the commanding general guarding here was his most trusted and capable Zu Yan. Once I inspected Qingtan, I wanted to use my actions to make Zu Yan, that is, the [-] defenders stationed at Qingtan, pay more attention to this battle. Don't be paralyzed by the dangerous terrain of Qingtan. At the time of full attack, how steep the Nine Swords Peak is, isn't it also conquered by the state army?
On the frontal battlefield of Bozhou, Qiu Zhi is confident to withstand Lu Dalin's attack, but Qiu Zhi also understands that once the battle starts, the attack of the Dingzhou Army must not be an isolated point, but the entire front, including Qingtan Inside, they will all be the targets of the Dingzhou army's attack, and the frontal Lu Dalin will definitely do his best to launch a fierce attack on his frontal defense line, so that he has no time to turn around and take care of Qingtan, so as to ease the attack on Qingtan by the Dingzhou Navy Marine Corps. pressure.

The enemy attacking Qingtan must have come from the sea. The giant naval ships cannot approach Qingtan, but they can send a large number of marines to land. If Qingtan falls, the Laihe River will be lost.

"Good journey, old general!" Zu Yan helped Qiu Zhi onto the horse, and held the rein, reluctantly.
"Little Zu, I will leave Qingtan to you!" Qiu Zhi tapped Zu Yan's helmet lightly with the whip in his hand, making a loud clang.This is Qiu Zhi's consistent way of showing closeness to his subordinates.

Zu Yan smiled and said: "Old General, don't worry, people are in the position. If I lose the position, I don't need to raise my head to see the old general. I will wipe my neck here!"

Qiu Zhi was slightly startled. Looking at Zu Yan's smiling face and resolute expression, he finally said nothing, nodded, put his feet on the belly of the horse, and ran towards the direction of Bozhou City until he could not see Qiu Zhi's back. , Zu Yan turned his head and said loudly: "Go back to the fortress, immediately call all the officers above the school lieutenant for a military meeting."

On the sea tens of miles away from Qingtan, the huge fleet of the Dingzhou Navy is moored on the sea surface. Qinzhou is in danger, which makes it impossible for the Dingzhou Army to continue to implement step-by-step tactics in Bozhou. Otherwise, even if Guo Quan's Fengli division protrudes from Qingzhou and forms a stalemate with his opponent, it will not be of great help to Dingzhou. Li Qingxin's order has been issued and must be Taking Bozhou, controlling Laihe, posing a threat to the hinterland of the Central Plains, forcing Shang Haibo to shrink the front line, in short, is to let Shang Haibo get out of Qinzhou automatically, otherwise the Dingzhou Army that controls Laihe It can threaten the flanks of the Luoyang army at any time and make them lose everything.
It is already mid-September, and the task of capturing Bozhou and entering the Laihe River within two months is not easy, especially the opponent is Qiu Zhi who is old and mature. In order to cooperate with Lu Dalin's attack, the Dingzhou Navy launched a massive After entering, Deng Peng's flagship Qiyuan also sailed to the sea off Qingtan.

In Qiyuan's spacious command and operation room, a group of generals gathered beside the huge sand table, all frowning at the model of the fortress on the green beach.

｜"Qiu Zhi deserves to be a veteran on the battlefield, he has a unique vision. Not only does the fortress strangle the Laihe River, but the design of the fortress is also unimaginable. This is the first time I have seen the Z-shaped defensive position, but it is matched with the sinister here. The terrain becomes a perfect match, and if you want to fight it down, there is really no other way than exchanging human life for human life." Zhuang Youbao shook his head.
"If we have time, we can actually focus on annihilating Qiu Zhi's main force first. As long as Qiu Zhi is defeated, Qing Tan will naturally be defeated, but now that time is so urgent, I'm afraid we have to pay a huge price! "Deng Peng is not optimistic either.
"Zhiqiang, if you have any difficulties in the Marine Corps, you can bring it up, as long as we have it, we will satisfy you." Looking at the main attacking general this time, Zheng Zhiqiang, the commanding general of the Marine Corps, Deng Peng said.
After several years of war experience, Zheng Zhiqiang, the former street ranger, is no longer as young as he used to be. The beard on his face makes it easy for people to ignore his real age. In fact, he is not yet 30 years old. Most generals in Dingzhou are very young. Young, except for a group of foreign generals like Deng Peng, Lu Dalin, and Tian Feng who gathered under Dingzhou's command for various reasons, most of the direct generals in Dingzhou are extremely young, which is why Dingzhou is more attractive to young and promising people. One of the reasons why some people joined is that in the old bureaucratic system, a young man of Zheng Zhiqiang's age, no matter how talented you are, is probably only a school lieutenant at most, and Zheng Zhiqiang is now a high-ranking student in Dingzhou Fuzhou. The position of General Yuan, commanding more than [-] marines.
"General, can you dismantle some of the Shenwei cannons on the Qiyuan and lend them to me?" Zheng Zhiqiang looked at Deng Peng and said.

"Each Shenwei cannon weighs several thousand catties. Even if I give it to you, how can you transport it to such a dangerous terrain?" Deng Peng shook his head, "And during the transport process, the other party only needs an intensive attack from a trebuchet , the precious Shenwei cannon may be destroyed."

"I can always figure out a way." Zheng Zhiqiang gritted his teeth and said, "Most of the positions above the Qingtan Fortress are built of huge stones. Catapults and eight-ox crossbows have limited effects. Scorpion cannons can at most scratch the opponent. Itching, it can't play any role, but as long as I transport up a Shenwei cannon, I can blast his position, and more importantly, it will shock the enemy psychologically, let them know that the position they thought was indestructible will not be destroyed after we set it up. In front of the soldiers of the state army, it is nothing at all."

Deng Peng pondered for a while, "You're right, well, I'll give you three doors, too many are of no use."

"Thank you, General. I have to ask the General to lend me the artillery."

"A few people may not work, and there may be casualties. I will give you 30 men, and each cannon will have ten experienced gunners. As long as you can transport the cannon within the firing range, it will play a huge role."

On September 28, more than [-] marines from the Dingzhou Navy landed on Qingtan, and the Battle of Qingtan officially kicked off. He Ping and Tian Xinyu's ministries launched an attack on Bazhou at the same time on a front hundreds of miles long.

In Qinzhou City, Guan Xinglong stood on the city with a knife. Five days ago, under the attack of Qu Yongjie and Zhou Tong with more than [-] troops, the Dingzhou Army voluntarily gave up all the surrounding areas after resisting for ten days. At this time, Guan Xinglong's [-] troops have lost more than [-], and more than [-] people are stationed in a big city like Qinzhou. The troops are already slightly insufficient. Guan Xinglong immediately ordered all the above men in Qinzhou City Ding Jue issued weapons and went to the battle to assist in the battle. With all his strength mobilized, the city's defenders only increased to more than [-] men, and nearly [-] of them had never received any military training, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low. If the opponent is allowed to attack the city, it may cause collapse under the brutal siege battle, Guan Xinglong resolutely decided to lead more than [-] members of the Hengdao Division out of the city to fight, trying to delay the opponent's direct attack on the city as much as possible.
Time, for both sides in combat, time is the most precious.

Yizhou has already started to mobilize the whole state, but it will take at least half a month to gather troops to assist Qinzhou. This is the result of Guan Xinglong's anticipation that the opponent will launch a large-scale attack on Qinzhou in advance, and asked Yizhou for help. Quanzhou has suffered heavy losses over the years, and has not recovered. It is already good for them to protect themselves, and they can't count on it at all. What they can count on now is the quick return of the Qi Nian Division, and the entire strength of the Qi Nian Division is less than three With more than ten thousand people, it is not realistic to break through the opponent's heavy blocking and reach the Qinzhou city. In order to take down Qinzhou city, the opponent will spare no effort to block all possible reinforcements.

Fortunately, Guoshanfeng defeated Wanli's Department in Qingzhou, which made Guan Xinglong feel fortunate among misfortunes. Now Guoshanfeng has also restrained Wanli's Department in Qingzhou. , Chenghua and other enemy troops, the 8-[-] Luoyang army cannot enter Qinzhou to fight. If Guoshanfeng is defeated, what situation Qinzhou will face, Guan Xinglong can hardly imagine.
With the sound of war drums on the opposite side, teams of skirmishers leaped into view, hundreds of Mengchong vehicles, siege vehicles, and countless ladders rushed towards Qinzhou City. On the land where corpses were strewn across the fields, the Luoyang army once again launched a rush.

Countless stone bullets streaked across the sky, and some of them crossed the city wall and fell into the city. There was a rumbling sound. Some houses were destroyed again, and more stone bullets bombarded the city wall heavily. With one blow, the city wall under your feet would tremble, and the shrill howl of the eight-ox crossbow resounded across the battlefield. If you look around, there are all figures of eight-ox crossbow flying in front of you. It seems that the opponent threw a one-time attack from the front. I'm afraid there are as many as hundreds of eight-ox crossbows and catapults.
"It's really a big scene!" Guan Xinglong laughed at himself. As long as it's Lao Tzu's turn to defend the city, he always faces an extremely dangerous situation. It was like this in Dingyuan back then. Three thousand defenders faced tens of thousands of barbarian troops. Little by little is the situation of the city being destroyed and the people dying. In that battle back then, the reputation of the one-armed general was achieved. Li Qing even wrote the inscription with his own hands. It should be said that there are only [-], and facing hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, the danger is even more dangerous, because the Luoyang army is not comparable to the barbarian army that was incapable of attacking the city. They have at least a hundred ways to attack the city. Attack the city.
But now, the opponent is adopting the simplest and most savage style of play, round-the-clock attacks, trying to submerge themselves with crowd tactics.
"You underestimate yourself too much!" Guan Xinglong sneered, you are good at attacking the city, but I am also good at defending the city.
With a bang, a stone bomb hit the tower, and the wooden dome of the tower behind Guan Xinglong was shattered with a crash, and the debris fell. Guan Xinglong waved his hands angrily, and waved the debris away. Weapons have improved a lot. The range and accuracy have almost caught up with the Dingzhou ordnance, which makes the Dingzhou army no longer have the previous advantage over long-range weapons.

The eight-ox crossbows densely covered the city began to fight back, and the catapults in the city also started to fire, and the two sides began to suppress each other. However, compared with the number of sieges, the city was obviously not enough.
"Wang Peng, Wang Peng!" Guan Xinglong shouted, beating the iron shield beside him with the knife.

The iron shield was lifted suddenly, and Wang Peng jumped up with a sleepy face, "General, I am here!"

"I know where you are!" Guan Xinglong said angrily, pointing at the siege soldiers who were approaching below, "Leave the city, intercept!"

"The last general obeys!" The drowsiness on Wang Peng's face disappeared immediately, he reached out and grabbed a spear on the ground and ran down the city, shouting as he ran, "The first cavalry battalion, follow me!"

Last night, Wang Peng went out of the city three times to fight back and almost stayed up all night.
(End of this chapter)