Horse on the World

Chapter 982 The Last Battle in Pingzhou
As the weather gets warmer day by day, and the dawn gets earlier day by day, Zhou Yi stayed up all night, staring at the top of the city tower, watching Lieutenant General Ge Wen quietly sneak into the center of the battlefield with two thousand soldiers, bit by bit Gradually approaching the opponent, until he could no longer move forward, he lay down quietly on the ground, mixed with the dead bodies all over the ground, and then let out a long breath, Ge Wen's strategy was at least half successful .

The Shenwei cannon position of the Dingzhou Army is the sharpest offensive position, but on the other hand, it is also the place where the concentration of troops is the least. If you can successfully disrupt this position, it is not empty talk to break through by yourself. What's more, even if you can't break through, Being able to destroy a batch of the opponent's Shenwei cannons will also be of great help to future wars. It is not easy to forge Shenwei cannons. I believe that there are not many such weapons in Dingzhou. Every time one is missing, it will help the future more.

Zhou Tong is above the four gates of Pingzhou. Except for the current east gate, the other gates only left five hundred soldiers to confuse each other. Scarecrows are often used in the city to put on armor and pretend to be soldiers, and its main force is now concentrated in the east. Above the gate, as long as Ge Wen successfully rushed into the opponent's artillery position, he would immediately go out of the city to fight.

The palms of his hands were sweating from nervousness, Zhou Tong laughed at himself, at the critical moment of life and death, he still couldn't avoid it after all.

A round of red sun jumped up from the horizon, and almost at the same time, rumbling war drums sounded in the opposite barracks, and the Dingzhou army swept out. Standing on the tower, listening to the alarm bells ringing at the four gates at the same time, the circle turned around Head, looking at the opponent's formation, "It turned out to be four attacks at the same time, yes, I am already at the end of my strength, and the opponent has a strong force, of course they swallowed me alive."

Slowly drawing out his saber, Zhou Tong said in a deep voice: "Brothers, get ready, we will either rush out alive, or we will die gloriously in the battle, let our souls go home!"

As the first artillery shell passed through the sky and hit the top of Pingzhou City heavily, it exploded violently, and the siege of Pingzhou City by the Dingzhou Army officially began. Guo Quan mainly attacked the east gate, Wei Xin attacked At the south gate, Jiang Heiniu attacked the west city, Xiong Dehai attacked the north city, and the four gates attacked at the same time.

The deafening sound of cannons resounded between the sky and the earth, and the rising smoke obscured the rising sun. More than [-] soldiers under Fengli Division launched an attack at the same time outside the east city wall, which was about five miles wide.Under the cover of the cannon, they passed the opponent's catapult and the shooting range of the eight-ox crossbow without hindrance, and advanced towards the city wall.

"No!" Tian Feng frowned, "General Lu, no matter how powerful the mighty cannon is, how can the opponent's trebuchet, eight-ox crossbow and other heavy weapons hit back at all? What monster is Zhou Tong doing?"

Lu Dalin was also puzzled.

But the changes on the battlefield have already given them the best answer. On the battlefield that Master Fengli had just rushed over, where there were originally many dead bodies, there was a sudden burst of shouts, and figures one by one fell from the ground. He jumped up, held his sword and gun, and rushed crazily to the artillery position which was only more than 1000 meters away from them.

"Oops!" Lu Dalin, Tian Feng, Guan Xinglong and others turned pale at the same time. They were prepared for the other party to steal the camp and harass them, but they never expected that the other party would make such a move. Time to attack the artillery positions.

"Tian Xinyu, Tian Xinyu!" Lu Dalin shouted, "Take your subordinates and quickly go to reinforce the artillery positions."

Tian Feng bit his lip. If Zheng Zhiqiang saw the opportunity quickly, it would be fine if he blocked the opponent from the artillery position, but if he let the opponent rush into the artillery position, it would be bad.

Guo Quan, who was commanding the troops to attack the city, also noticed the strange situation on the battlefield. He turned his head and saw the figure leaping from the ground behind him. He was also shocked, "Wang Zhen, take your people back and kill them all!" !"

Wang Zhen responded, and just turned around with his men, the four city gates on the east gate wall opened at the same time, Zhou Tong took the lead, and jumped out with a gun, "Brothers, kill, follow me and rush up, let's go home Already!"

Guo Quan frowned into a Sichuan character, he knew that he had made a mistake.Looking at the number of enemies pouring out from the four city gates, one could almost conclude that they were all of Zhou Tong's troops. The opponent went out of the city to fight alone. It was unexpected, and it was also unexpected by several generals.

Meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!Guo Quan couldn't think of anything else at this time. He rushed forward, stopped them, and disturbed them. Behind him, there were countless reinforcements. The generals would definitely react immediately and mobilize troops to surround the opponent. And all you have to do is block your opponent.

Zheng Zhiqiang knew that there was trouble. His navy and marines had only a mere 1000 people on the artillery position, and the opponent not only had more people than himself, but also a group of deadly soldiers. As soon as the two sides fought, Zheng Zhiqiang immediately noticed this. , "Stop them!" Zheng Zhiqiang roared, if this group of desperadoes rushed into the artillery position, it would be a big trouble.

The artillerymen didn't bother to fire their cannons at this time, they drew their weapons one by one and rushed forward.

Ge Wen roared and waved his saber, striding forward. There were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, but he was getting closer and closer to the artillery position. He had clearly seen the high cannon of the Shenwei Cannon. body.

"Kill!" He beheaded one person step by step, approaching step by step.

Zheng Zhiqiang's eyes were red, he slashed left and right, and chased after Ge Wen.

Ge Wen rushed into the artillery position, swung the saber on the ground, and a torch was picked up high by him, and flew to the box on the side with a whoosh. He knew that it was filled with gunpowder for the Shenwei cannon.

A Dingzhou army rushed over from the slanting stab, jumped up in the air, caught the torch halfway, and fell to the ground. Before he could stand still, Ge Wen's big knife had already struck him, and with a sound of cracking, he was With a clean cut, the sprayed blood soaked the powder box behind him.

Ge Wen frantically waved the broadsword in one hand, and held the torch in the other hand, he slashed down and split open another box, looking at the black powder inside, Ge Wen laughed wildly, "Die, let me die! "The torch was randomly thrown into the black powder.

There was an earth-shattering bang, and the huge explosion blew Ge Wen out of sight. A Shenwei cannon beside him was also lifted high into the sky, flipped a few tendons in the air, and fell heavily to the ground , has become a piece of scrap iron, with this explosion, the sound of explosions one after another on the artillery position suddenly came one after another, one after another, the Shenwei cannons were overturned to the ground, and the black shells were flying in the air. fly.

Zheng Zhiqiang fell to the ground suddenly, covered his head with his hands, and curled up tightly, trying to reduce his body area as much as possible.In the distance, Wang Zhen who was rushing back stopped abruptly, "Damn it, it's useless to go back!"

"The whole army turn around and wipe out those bastards!" Wang Zhen roared angrily.

Fengli's division was at a disadvantage because they were unprepared, and the opponents rushed out at the east gate. For a while, Zhou Tong had the upper hand in terms of strength. In addition, Guo Quan called Wang Zhen back to help in order to return to the division to rescue the artillery positions. During this time, the artillery position was not rescued, but it disturbed our own formation. As the saying goes, Zhou Tong's troops had the idea that the mourning soldiers would win, and desperately killed them. The troops killed people on their backs, and rushed out a bloody path abruptly.

"Kill!" Zhou Tong rushed out of the crowd covered in blood, and bumped head-on into the battalion that Wang Zhensha had returned. Both sides' eyes were red at this time, and they bumped into each other again amidst loud shouts.

Under the banner of the Chinese Army, Lu Dalin's face flushed with anger, he hadn't suffered such a loss for many years.

"Master Fengli can't stop it!" Tian Feng said beside him.

Lu Dalin glanced at the artillery position, the situation was under control at this time, Tian Xinyu's unit had arrived, and formed the formation before the artillery position, while Zheng Zhiqiang's unit was checking the Shenwei cannon in disgrace.

"No problem!" Lu Dalin uttered two words from the root of his teeth.

"Order Lu Dabing, Li Feng, and Buyangu's cavalry to go around the perimeter and set up another line of defense for me."

Guo Quan finally failed to stop Zhou Tong's desperate assault. After the Luoyang army smashed Wang Zhen's counterattack, they rushed out from the gap. The battalion entered the city almost without encountering any resistance. The abnormal situation made them know that something was wrong, so they went straight through the city, and joined forces with Guo Quan, who was embarrassed and ashamed, and chased after him. go.

Zhou Tong, who broke through the encirclement, hadn't come to catch his breath. In front of him, teams of Dingzhou cavalry appeared in his field of vision. Amid the shouts of victory, the cavalry charged.

Surrounded by their own soldiers, Lu Dalin, Tian Feng, and Guan Xinglong came to the artillery position. As for Zhou Tong's remnant soldiers, the three of them had no interest. It was impossible for Zhou Tong to break through the charge of the cavalry, even if a small number of troops escaped Go, in front of the Dingzhou cavalry, they can only be caught up one by one and beheaded to death.

But none of the three had the joy of victory. In fact, they lost this battle. If it weren't for the absolute superiority of the Dingzhou army in terms of strength, they would definitely not be able to stop Zhou Tong from breaking through.

Zheng Zhiqiang's face was scorched black, and he came up to him in embarrassment.

"How is the situation?" Guan Xinglong asked.

"More than 200 Shenwei cannons were blown up, and the artillery lost about [-] people. Others killed and injured more than [-] people in the battle with the opponent's assault soldiers, and more than [-] soldiers of the opponent were wiped out."

The faces of the three generals became even darker.

"My lord once said that a lion fights a rabbit, and a lion fights a rabbit. We were too careless and thought that the victory was a sure thing, which led to such consequences. I will write to the lord to apologize!" Lu Dalin said sadly: "Before that, Let General Tian Feng take over the whole army, I will stay in the criminal camp and wait for the command of the lord!"

Tian Fengdao: "General Lu, this matter is not your fault alone. I would like to jointly write a letter to plead guilty. Before the Lord's order arrives, I also ask General Lu not to be the pick. In front of us, Qu Yongjie still has tens of thousands of troops. Waiting for us to pursue it!"

"I'm also willing to jointly sign a letter to plead guilty!" Guan Xinglong said, "General Lu, please withdraw your order. No matter what, we still wiped out Zhou Tong's troops and rushed down to Pingzhou. At least the merits and demerits will be equal!"

(End of this chapter)