Daming Military Empire

Chapter 101 Entering Pingyang
When Lu Xiangsheng heard the scout's report, he couldn't help but sneered, these bandits are really naive, knowing that there are 30 to [-] people waiting for him in Yicheng, would he still foolishly jump in?Pingyang Mansion is not the top of Mount Hua. There is only one way to enter. There are many ways to enter Pingyang Mansion. It is the most difficult way to go from Yangcheng to Yicheng through the mountains. ?

It takes at least five or six days to cross the mountains from Yangcheng to the west to reach Yicheng, and it only takes five or six days to go from Yangcheng to the north to extend the official road to Fenzhou. The south of Fenzhou is Lingshi City, which is the imperial court in Pingyang. The last stronghold.Lu Xiangsheng originally planned to enter Pingyang Mansion from Fenzhou, and first went to Lingshi City to rest for a while before going to suppress the bandits. At that time, there were still [-] to [-] bandits in Huozhou to the south of Lingshi City. Now the main force has gone to Yicheng. It would be good if a few thousand people guarded it. If we don't take it at this time, when will we wait?

After studying the map for a while, Lu Xiangsheng came up with an idea. He ordered the deputy general Zhang Hongye to lead the [-] soldiers injured in the raid to stay in Wang Jiayin's camp to bluff, while he took the [-] main force to detour to Lu'an Mansion to Fen state to go.

Traveling day and night along the way, the army arrived in Fenzhou five days later. Lu Xiangsheng did not immediately enter the boundary of Pingyang Prefecture, but first sent someone to Lingshi City to find out the situation.

The thieves really thought that he would directly attack Yicheng in the southwest, and all the main force went there. Huozhou and Fenxi near Lingshi City only left two to 3000 troops to guard.

Naturally, such a good opportunity cannot be missed. Lu Xiangsheng immediately led the army to secretly move to a valley more than ten miles north of Lingshi City to hide, and then secretly ordered the prefect of Pingyang to do so.

The next day, a strange scene appeared in Lingshi City. The magistrate of Pingyang didn't know what was going on in his head, but he sent four thousand out of the only five thousand defenders, two thousand to Fenxi City at the southwest gate, and two thousand to Zhengzhou. Huozhou City in the south, set up camp less than [-] steps below the city, and built siege equipment!
Sending 2000 people to attack a city guarded by more than 2000 people is crazy, right?The more than 2000 thieves in your city are just paper!
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" has it: The law of using troops is to encircle them if they are ten, attack them if they are five times, divide them if they are twice as many, fight them if they are few, escape them if they are few, and evade them if they are not strong.If you want to attack the city, not to mention ten times the strength of the troops, at least five times the strength of the enemy, even if you go to attack the city, you are looking for death. I am afraid that everyone will die before they reach the city wall. !
The defenders of Pingyang City seemed to have taken the wrong medicine. They didn't care about the art of war at all, and they just worked hard to build siege equipment, and the siege equipment they built was still very monotonous, that is, ladders and wells.The ladder is fine, anyway, there are only two pillars and some horizontal beams, no one can make a mistake; the well fence is a bit strange, the city wall is obviously only two people high, but they built a well fence that is three people high, and it is still there. The ones without wheels stood there and built row after row. I don’t know if they really didn’t know how to build them, or they miscalculated the height of the city wall.

The thieves on the city wall were laughing like crazy. From time to time, some thieves jumped onto the arrow stacks, stood on top of them and taunted vigorously, swearing obscenely all of a sudden, what:
"Hey, those on the other side, are you out of your mind? Do you know that Jinglan needs wheels?"

"Oh, I'm so scared. Didn't you make so many well rails without wheels to laugh us to death?"

"You are bluffing like this, don't you want to lure us out of the city to beat you, are we as stupid as you?"

"Hey, it's time for dinner, your mother told you to go back to eat, hahahaha."

The defenders of Pingyang seemed to be possessed by a demon. No matter how the thieves on the city wall ridiculed them, even if they built their heads covered, the ladders were enough for tens of thousands of people. The rows are as wide as the city wall, but they still keep building, keep building.

On the afternoon of the fifth day, they finally stopped. At this time, the well fence was already as wide as the opposite city wall, and the ladder was placed all over the floor, probably enough for 3 to [-] people.They just left the wells and ladders there, but the people went back to the camp to rest.

The thieves in the city are not fools either. With the advantage of the city wall, more than 2000 of them can completely crush the opposing government army, but if they rush down to fight them on flat ground, they may not be able to beat them with twice as many people.These thieves are not as battle-tested as Wang Jiayin's men, they are just farmers who have just put down their hoes, they have such a brute force, even rolling stones and wood may be stronger than the officers and soldiers, and they even draw bows and shoot arrows at them Yes, anyway, to defend the city, just draw the bow and shoot down. A rain of arrows can always hit dozens or hundreds of people.But if they fought with real swords and guns, it is estimated that two or three of them would not be able to defeat an official army.

The thieves on the city wall did not come down, and the officers and soldiers below the city wall did not attack, so the night passed in peace like this.

In the early morning of the sixth day, when the bandits on the city wall looked down again, they were so scared that they almost fell off the city wall.

I don’t know when countless officers and soldiers came under the city wall. They were too dense to count. Those with muskets were trying their best to climb up the well, while those soldiers with swords and shields, spearmen, and halberds were standing with ladders. Row after row, with this posture, I am afraid that they want to spread the ladders all over the entire city wall.

It was naturally Lu Xiangsheng's army who came. He left 8 transport troops to guard the camp, and the remaining [-] horses. He personally led [-] to attack Huozhou City, and Cao Wenzhao took the other [-] to attack Fenxi City.

At this time, [-] troops gathered under Huozhou City, and Lu Xiangsheng stood in front of the ladder in the middle and waited quietly.

In fact, it does not take 3000 horses to attack a small city guarded by only 4-[-] people. The reason why Lu Xiangsheng arranged this way is that first of all, he used a brand-new tactic this time, that is, to use flintlock guns to suppress firepower. It has been done, and the specific effect is still unknown. Naturally, more people should be prepared.

Then, time waits for no one, he has to make a quick decision to win Huozhou and Fenxi in one fell swoop. Although Yicheng is located in the southwest corner of Pingyang, it is actually more than 200 miles away from Huozhou. That's why the magistrate of Pingyang was asked to build siege equipment first.

If he had led an army here from the beginning, things might not have been so simple. The thieves in Huozhou and Fenxi would definitely have informed the 36th Battalion in Yicheng immediately. If they responded immediately and sent all the cavalry to help, It only takes two days to go and come.

Even if his 36 troops come here, he still has to build siege equipment. It is impossible for people to climb the city wall out of thin air, and no matter how many people there are, it will take a day or two to build siege equipment. By then, the siege has not yet begun The bandits' cavalry arrived, and the 9 battalions of cavalry could add up to 6 to [-]. If [-] people attacked a city guarded by [-] or [-] people, they would not be able to get down for ten days and a half months. At that time, let alone attacking the city, it is a question of whether his [-] army can retreat unscathed.

So he asked the prefect of Pingyang to send 2000 people to build siege equipment. In this case, the bandits in the city will only think that the prefect of Pingyang is crazy. Even if they send someone to notify the bandits in Yicheng, Yicheng will not How would you care.And once the siege equipment is built, as long as there are enough people, it will take an hour or two to break the city, and the bandits will be powerless by then.

Finally, there is another very important reason, that is, he does not want to cause too many casualties. After all, he has a total of 9 people, and the bandits have more than 20. Time is running out.

(End of this chapter)