Horse on the World

Chapter 995 Dingzhou soldiers, advance! (2)

The victory and surrender of the enemy's important generals basically means that the Dingzhou Army can capture the formidable and difficult Luoyang City without paying too much loss. How can the generals in the account who have planned to pay a heavy price not be excited? ?This is thousands of lives!
"How much military power does Zhan Degong have? How much can he actually control?" Li Qing suppressed his excitement and asked.

"Zhan Degong now has about 4 troops under his command, and he can absolutely control about half of those who are loyal to him. The other [-] people have been allocated to him from the Imperial Forest Army and the newly recruited army in the near future. In this uprising, we can follow Zhan Degong anyway. Therefore, Zhan Degong will gradually deploy the [-] troops to the defensive positions outside the city, and let them be gradually consumed in our offensive. When we approach Luoyang City At that time, he will only have soldiers who are absolutely loyal to him, and at that time, it will be easy to surrender." Hu Dong said.

"Okay!" Li Qing slapped his hands, "It seems that our deployment is indeed about to change. Hu Dong, can Xie Ke guarantee that this achievement is a sincere surrender?"

Hu Dong nodded and said: "Yes, in order to express his sincerity to us, Zhan Degong agreed with us to place a group of people around his family. If he dares to turn his back on him, we can destroy him right away." His family!" A murderous look flashed in Hu Dong's eyes.

Li Qing looked at Lu Dalin, Chen Zeyue and the others, "The previously deployed troops to attack the east gate are suspended, Guo Quan!"

"The last general is here!" Guo Quan hurriedly stood up.

"Your Fengli Division, together with Wei Xin's Violent Bear Battalion, supplemented by Lu Dabing's Red Cavalry, will launch an attack on the position outside the south gate controlled by Zhan Degong, and clear the defense outside the south gate as soon as possible! "

"Obey!" The three generals who only got the mission of feint attack before were overjoyed, jumped up, and answered the order loudly, looking at Hu Dong with kind eyes.

As for Xiong Dehai, Jiang Heiniu, and Qian Duo, the eyes of Qian Duo seemed to be filled with annoyance and annoyance. In the blink of an eye, the old hen turned into a duck, and the fat flew from its beak. Now it was their turn to feint.

"A lot of money?" Li Qing glanced at the corner where he kept grinding his teeth, and his fierce eyes swept over Hu Dong's body.

"The last general is here!" He was thinking about whether it would be an extra cream for the money he paid for Hu Dongyi's sap, and jumped up with a snap, standing upright.

"After your Tiger Battalion has quietly moved to Fengli Division, the battle outside the south gate will not be easy. Guo Quan and Wei Xin will face tens of thousands of enemy troops. After laying down the outer positions, their own losses will not be small. At this time Once you occupy Gongxian City, you must rush up as quickly as possible, control the south gate, and cover our army's large forces to protrude from the city."

"Observe!" Qian Duo suddenly beamed with joy, and the idea of ​​just planning to beat Hu Dong Sap immediately turned into a military discussion to take this cute guy to have a few drinks to express his gratitude.

"Changsheng battalion, whirlwind battalion, Yizhou battalion, you rush into the city immediately after the tiger battalion takes control of the Xinnan Gate, don't worry about the battle on the city wall, just move forward, advance! Separate Luoyang City for me .”

"Yes!"

In the early morning, the thin mist has not cleared yet, the earth-shattering sound of war drums sounded in the distance, the loud bugle sounded, and teams of cavalry rushed from a distance, rushing towards Luoyang City, behind them, The neat infantry phalanx chanted slogans, accompanied by the sound of drums and bugles, and stepped forward in neat steps. Behind them, there were countless chariot battles.

One after another, banners were roaring in the wind, and the Dingzhou Army's attack on Luoyang officially began.

Standing at the head of Luoyang City, he could only vaguely see the attacking team, and Zhan Degong couldn't see any joy, anger, sorrow or joy on his face, and said to the orderly soldiers beside him: "The Dingzhou soldiers have started to attack, give orders to the ministries outside the city , stick to the front line, and fight until the last soldier, and you must not retreat, and those who retreat will be killed!"

"As ordered!"

"Send a letter to Lord Hou. Our department is ready to meet the enemy's attack. Please tell Lord Hou that the Chief Assistant and the Emperor, our department is determined to live and die with Luoyang City, and will never back down."

"Yes!"

When the Dingzhou soldiers advanced about two miles away from the defensive position, the sound of the bugle changed suddenly, and the cavalry accelerated suddenly, passing at high speed hundreds of meters away from the defensive position. The rain of arrows flew out, and there was no sign of weakness on the ground. Feather arrows, eight oxen crossbows, etc. rained down on the cavalry passing by at high speed.

From time to time, cavalrymen fell off their horses, and from time to time Luoyang soldiers fell heavily. Dingzhou first suppressed the enemy with cavalry, in order to prevent the enemy in the line of defense when its own infantry lined up and installed long-range strike ordnance. The Luoyang generals in the defense line were actually paying attention to this. A battalion of cavalry was on standby to counterattack while the enemy's infantry was in formation. But when they saw Dingzhou Teams of cavalry rushed past at high speed, and the frontline general immediately dispelled this attention. The opponent suppressed as many as [-] cavalry in front of the infantry position. die.

The two sides shot at each other in this round, and it was the Luoyang soldiers who took advantage. After all, they had a line of defense to rely on. Although the Dingzhou Red Cavalry was elite and their horses were strange, but the opponent's arrows were raining down, and there were eight oxen crossbows in them After a cup of tea, he lost more than a hundred riders.

But when the red cavalry finished their harassment and retreated to the infantry's wings, the good days of the Luoyang soldiers came to an end.

Rows of soldiers have formed a typical triangular-cone offensive formation. There are as many as twenty such triangular-cone offensive formations on several miles of forward positions. What is even more frightening is that In just a cup of tea time, behind these infantrymen, there were already a forest of long-range trebuchets, the number of which was no less than hundreds.

The drums of the Dingzhou Army stopped, and the horns also fell silent. On the battlefield, there was a strange and extremely quiet scene in an instant. It seemed that even a needle could be heard falling to the ground.

A Dingzhou cavalry leaped out of the battle, holding the Dingzhou military flag in his hand, skimming along the front of the [-] triangular cones, and waving the military flag in his hand. He roared hoarsely: "Dingzhou army, advance!"

"Dingzhou Army, advance!"

What responded to him was tens of thousands of Dingzhou Army soldiers shouting in unison!

"Dingzhou Army, Wan Sheng!"

"Dingzhou Army, Wan Sheng!"

Boom!
A battle drum sounded.

The infantry took a step forward in unison and gave a shout.

dong dong!

Two more drums!

The infantry began to advance.

Boom boom boom boom!The war drums rang continuously, and the Dingzhou infantry uttered loud shouts and began to speed up their advance. At the same time, hundreds of trebuchets behind them raised their high throwing arms almost at the same time. The sky became dark, and the stone bullets passed the Dingzhou soldiers who were trotting forward, and fell towards the defensive position.

"Hidden!" A Luoyang officer yelled, and with a short body, he got into the cave for hiding soldiers in the trench.

With a loud bang, stone cannons weighing more than ten catties fell from the sky one by one, and landed heavily on the ground. Some of them got into the softer ground, and some hit the harder ground. Above the ground, it bounced high again, and fell again.

The parapets trembled and swayed under the impact of the stone cannons, and finally fell down reluctantly. The stone cannons fell on the outer wall of the bastion, shaking the whole bastion.

The stone cannons seemed to be endless, falling from the sky non-stop. Some ditches were forcibly filled by these stone bullets, and the fallen parapet masonry and soil were poured on them. In these places, there were no soldiers hiding in them. The reason for survival.

"Talbusters, fight back!" The commanding officer at the front line in Luoyang ordered loudly. Compared with the opposite side who threw hundreds of trebuchets on the battlefield for several miles at a time, their counterattack seemed very weak, with dozens of catapults Amid the strike density of the planes and the overwhelming saturation bombing on the opposite side, it seemed so weak.

Tao Xing hugged the spear, shrank his body tightly against the ditch, just now a companion beside him was hit on the head by a stone cannon, and under his gaze, his head slammed There was nothing at once, red and white sprayed all over his body, at that moment, he felt that his soul was also taken away along with that companion.

He knew that man very well, they were neighbors, they were recruited by surprise this time, just for the sake of one member of the family enlisting in the army, and they could get fifty catties of grain, and there were two elders in his family, and two younger brothers and A younger sister, only relying on a little ration every day, the family is already so hungry that they can't even walk. With fifty catties of grain, they can live for at least another month.He and the neighbor named Er Gouzi followed the officer recruiting soldiers on the street without hesitation. Under the watchful eyes of his parents and the crying of his brothers and sisters, he left, leaving behind a bag of Fifty catties of grain.

"Close to the ditch, don't show your head!" An officer's call came from somewhere, as if it was the officer who called them into the army. Tao Xing pressed his whole body against the ditch wall in a daze, and there was a buzzing in his ears. ring.

In the sky, the sun's rays shot down suddenly, shining on Tao Xing's face, he looked up at the sky, and the stone cannon that blocked the sky suddenly stopped.

"Is it finally over?" he thought.

"Ready to fight, get out of the trench, and get ready to fight!" The officer's voice rang again.

Without hesitation, Tao Xing held his spear tightly, stood up straight, and jumped out of the ditch. In front of his eyes, there appeared black enemy soldiers with hideous faces, howling and rushing towards his position.

Tao Xing also howled and rushed forward, together with the surviving companions around him, he hated these people, if these people hadn't come to Luoyang, he would still be cleaning tables in the restaurant in the city, facing Guests can bring back some good wine and food leftovers for their families every day, and sometimes they can get a considerable tip income when they meet generous guests, but when Dingzhou soldiers come, all of these are gone. For fifty catties of food , he sold himself.

"Kill!" Tao Xing yelled wildly, he felt that it didn't sound like his own voice, but it sounded like it was coming from some distant place.His eyes suddenly went dark, and he couldn't see anything else, only the spear, the big knife, and the iron shield gleaming in front of him.

With severe pain in his chest, Tao Xing lowered his head, a spear pierced his chest, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he saw that his opponent was also smiling.Tao Xing fell down.

(End of this chapter)