Daming Military Empire

Chapter 102 Taking Two Cities Lightly
Lu Xiangsheng has a habit of commanding battles, that is, to arrange everything first, and let all the generals be responsible for commanding their respective teams, and he, once the battle starts, he is only responsible for charging, taking the lead and rushing to the forefront!

This time is no exception, everything has been arranged, all soldiers have their own generals to command, and he just needs to wait for the charge.

Under the command of their respective generals, teams of musketeers quickly boarded the well, lined up in three rows, and waited for an order before they could shoot and suppress the thieves on the city wall; The soldiers with long halberds and long halberds have already put the ladders on their shoulders, and they only need to wait for an order to rush to the bottom of the city wall and start the battle of climbing the city.

Finally, all the musketeers were in position, and the deputy general Zhang Liwei commanded loudly: "The first row aims and releases, the second row aims and releases, and the third row aims and releases."

Following Zhang Liwei's command, the musketeers shot towards the city wall in rows. Jinglan is 150 steps away from the city wall, which is the precise strike range of the flintlock. If this distance hits, it will definitely be a shot. a hole.In addition, the well fence is more than one meter higher than the city wall, condescending, and the thieves on the city wall will become targets as long as they leave the base of the city wall.

The fire suppression was successful. The bandits on the city wall didn't know what they meant at the beginning. After the first round of gunfire, almost half of the bandits on the city wall turned into sieves. They finally knew how powerful the flintlock gun was. He squatted under the arrow stack, not even daring to lift his head.

Seeing this scene, Lu Xiangsheng raised his Guan Dao and shouted, "Come on."

Then, he rushed towards the city wall with a big knife in his hand.

The soldiers carrying the ladder at the back were already familiar with his style. As soon as he finished shouting, everyone immediately shouted: "Come on.",
Then, he carried the ladder and rushed towards the city wall.

Naturally, the bandits on the city wall would not sit still. As soon as they heard the noise below, the leader of the bandits on the city wall frantically commanded the surviving bandits to lift up the rolling stones and trees and prepare to throw them down.

But as soon as they left the arrow stack, they didn't even stand up straight. They were greeted by Zhang Liwei's loud shout: "The first row aims. Release, the second row aims. Release, and the third row aims. Release."

As a result, another part of the thieves became sieves, and now, the thieves never dared to show their heads again.

This time the siege of the city could be said to be a piece of cake, Lu Xiangsheng rushed to the city wall and cut down a few small bandit leaders who didn't have eyes, and all the bandits surrendered.

This battle is really impossible to fight. At the beginning, I was crushed under the arrow stack and couldn't lift my head. Then a general of the army rushed up and was so fierce. The sword danced like lightning. Flying, there is no time to react, how can you fight?
Seeing how amazing the power of the flintlock gun was, Lu Xiangsheng had a new idea. On the one hand, he ordered the [-] defenders in Pingyang to change their defenses and clean up the battlefield. Come and wait for dispatch.At the same time, he also sent someone to inform Cao Wenzhao on the side of Fenxi that after the capture of Fenxi, he should leave it alone and quickly lead the army to Huozhou to listen to the order, and leave the rest to the [-] Pingyang defenders. up.

The siege of Huozhou was as fast as lightning, and Fenxi was naturally not too slow, so the [-] army led by Cao Wenzhao and the [-] transport troops left in Lingshi arrived outside Huozhou city almost at the same time.

Judging from the situation at the scene, it doesn't take so many troops to capture a small town with only 3000 to [-] people garrisoned. One thousand musketeers is enough, and any more bullets will be wasted, and what Lu Xiangsheng will do next Things need a lot of musketeers, because he wants to ambush the bandit cavalry!
He simply redistributed the army, and asked Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong to lead [-] spearmen, [-] shield soldiers, and [-] musketeers to protect [-] transport troops, and transport the wells and ladders under Huozhou City to Zhaocheng in the south took Zhaocheng in one go.

And he took a group of generals including Cao Wenzhao, and led the remaining [-] musketeers, [-] cavalry, [-] pikemen, [-] halberd soldiers, and [-] transport soldiers, and brought food, grass, and tents to Zhao. rush to the official road between the city and Hongdong.

The rebels staying behind in Huozhou and Fenxi had already spread the news of the official army’s attack to Yicheng, but this official army was too funny. 2000 people went to attack the city where more than 2000 people were stationed.So the leaders of the rebel army in Yicheng didn't take it seriously. They were concerned about King Lu Yan of Yangcheng. According to reports from spies, King Lu Yan was resting outside Yangcheng, and his wounded soldiers seemed to have recovered. It's almost there, and it may be a few days before heading to Yicheng.

As for Huozhou and Fenxi, let the official army attack first, and then wait for the official army to increase its troops. If the official army does not increase its troops, then it goes without saying, and it will definitely not be attacked.

Unexpectedly, after five or six days, there was still no movement in Yangcheng, but Huozhou and Fenxi reported urgently one after another that the army had increased, and the increase would be tens of thousands. Huozhou and Fenxi might not be able to defend Living!

At this time, these leaders of the rebel army don't know how to fall into the trap anymore, they are idiots, they gathered together and made a conclusion, since King Lu Yan has arrived in Huozhou, let's go to Huozhou and do it with him, as for Yangcheng, let's leave it alone, It takes five or six days from Yicheng to Yangcheng, and these five or six days are enough for King Lu Yan to go from Huozhou to Yicheng.And Yangcheng didn't know how many soldiers and horses Lu Yanwang had left behind. If they didn't take Yangcheng, they would face the enemy.

The discussion result of the leaders of the rebel army was the same as Lu Xiangsheng guessed. They gathered all the cavalry together and asked Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng to lead the horses and rush to Huozhou first to see if they could keep Huozhou. If not, they would retreat to Zhao city.The infantry set off later, as long as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng could stay in Huozhou and Zhaocheng for four or five days, then Lu Yanwang would really go to see the Hades.

The cavalry of the 36th Route Rebel Army is not a small number. If the ratio of officers and troops is [-] to [-], it will be [-] to [-]. Of course, the rebel army has not yet developed to that point, and the proportion of cavalry is not that high, but The base number is there, there is no [-] to [-], but there is still [-] to [-].

The next morning after receiving the news, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng set off with more than 5 cavalry. If the cavalry ran wildly, they could run eighty or ninety miles in an hour. If they were on the road, they could run fifty or sixty miles in an hour, so Gao Yingxiang and the others had already crossed Hongdong and rushed to Zhaocheng by noon.

As I was running, a large canyon suddenly appeared in front of me. In the "Nine Lands" chapter of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", this kind of place is called an encircled area or a dead area. It is a very dangerous place. Just don't enter this kind of place.

It stands to reason that when the army passes through the canyon terrain, they should send scouts to go first, and wait until they are sure that there is no danger before the whole army passes through.But this is between Zhaocheng and Hongdong, and now King Lu Yan is attacking Huozhou and Fenxi, there is no urgent report from Zhaocheng, that is to say, Zhaocheng is still the sphere of influence of the rebel army, and there is no possibility of enemies Army appears.Besides, the canyon is nearly 150 steps wide, and the mountains on both sides are about [-] steps away from the official road. Ordinary archers cannot shoot so far, and both sides of the official road are gravel, so you can see through it at a glance. It was clear that there was no ambush at all, so Gao Yingxiang did not send out scouts, nor did he stop the army, but went directly into the canyon.

(End of this chapter)