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Chapter 420 I Have Been Enduring You For A Long Time
Yanmen County.Fanshi County.

At the foot of Fanshi County, Liu Wu and Zhou Jun, wearing sheepskin jackets, surrounded the city.

Gao Chu, Captain of Yanmen County, looked at Dingyang Khan's big banner with a wolf head, and knew that it was Liu Wuzhou himself who had come to the city.

Yesterday Liu Wuzhou took down Nao County in a fierce battle. The front of his troops was very sharp. After a day's rest, he turned to attack Fanshi County, and then his troops approached the city.For Gao Chu now, Fanshi County is an important town in Yanmen. He has been running it for a long time, and he has repelled Liu Wuzhou several times under this city. If this city falls, then the whole Yanmen will be lost.

Now Liu Wuzhou's army is assembled, determined to win.

However, Wang Zhibian, deputy captain of Yanmen, led [-] township soldiers to garrison in Wutai County. They were too busy to protect themselves and were unable to support Fanshi County. got the news.Lingqiu County is where Feihu Road is located, and it is the only channel for reinforcements from Shanggu County to enter Yanmen County.

Liu Wuzhou's move is obviously to cut off the flying fox way, and then he will catch the turtle in the urn and take down the entire Yanmen County.

Woohoo!

The sound of the ox horn pulled Gao Chu's thoughts back, and the wolf-headed flag personally bestowed by the Turkic Khan trembled in the strong wind.

On the loess hillside outside the city, a team of Liu Wuzhou's cavalry lined up on the hill, looking strong and strong.As dozens of people blew the horns, the army moved forward densely on the hillside.

Under the city, Liu Wuzhou's army spread out, ready to attack the city.Swords and guns are like forests, swords and halberds are like mountains, and the army moves slowly.

Gao Chu saw that the east side of the city where he was now had a slightly lower city wall. Liu Wuzhou deployed more than 6000 horses here, apparently to attack here by force, while there were hundreds of cavalry cruising in the west and north of the city, only the south of the city had no troops. This is the normal siege method of encircling three ques and one, so that the defenders will not have the will to defend to the death.

In the city of Gaochu, there are only [-] town soldiers stationed there, and the strength of the two sides is very different.Although Gao Chu was known for being good at defense, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help but feel uneasy when so many people came to attack him.

All the cavalry in front of Liu Wuzhou dismounted, and the soldiers began to fill up the trenches under the city with leather shields and earth bags on their backs.The soldiers arrived at the city one by one and began to line up. After the trenches were filled, they were ready to climb over the sheep and horse walls to enter the city.

Gao Chu came to the east of the city in person, and he expected Liu Wuzhou to attack the lower part of the city.

Fanshi County has been in operation for two years, and Gao Chu has already built it like an iron barrel. He once said to his subordinates that the five failures of defending the city are: one is big, small and weak; But there are many people; the fourth is to accumulate goods outside;

To fight against the outside world, the inside must be settled first. Gao Chu first ordered that all the squares in the city had closed their gates long ago, and the inside of the squares was locked from the outside, so no one was required to enter or leave.The civil officials in the county, as well as the party leaders and neighbor leaders maintain order in the city, and all those who trespass and walk around will be killed.

As for the yamen servants and arresters, they are all conscripted. They are responsible for picking out a thousand strong people from the city to carry civil engineering and arrows to the city wall.There were also two hundred women who cooked and treated the wounded.Under Gao Chu's arrangement, everything in the city is in order.

Gao Chu personally led 300 township soldiers to station in the east of the city, ambushing 300 people in the cave of Tibetan soldiers, and another [-] people behind the city gate.There is a flag tower in the city. Once the battle situation is unfavorable, you can wave the flag and send troops from all over the city to reinforce the city gate.

Seeing the enemy's army gathering, Gao Chu commanded the peasants to temporarily build three enemy tents in the east of the city overnight.The enemy tent is five feet wide, built with solid wood, painted with wax paint on the outside, and has five windows on the inside, which can accommodate twelve shooters inside.

Three enemy sheds, plus a two-storey archery tower that can accommodate 20 people on each floor, plus two horse-faced walls, the defense of the east of the city immediately went up to a new level.

Liu Wuzhou's army quickly filled the first trench, and the cavalry shot arrows towards the city with horse bows. Although the horse bows had a short range, Liu Wuzhou's army hired many Turkic cavalry.Turks are good at archery, so when a round of arrows comes down, they shoot densely and fiercely.It didn't take long for the enemy tents and archery towers to be filled with densely packed arrowheads.

There were not many defenders on the city wall, and they only showed their heads when Liu Wu and Zhou's army began to climb the city.

In the north of the city, a group of Liu Jun soldiers who were about to climb the city stripped off their clothes, then poured down a bowl of strong wine, shook the bowl, and stepped forward with a knife.Liu Jun's soldiers passed by the filled ditch, and as soon as they climbed over the sheep and horse wall, their feet fell on the ground, and many people jumped up in pain.

It turned out that Gao Chu had planted ground ash, hooves, and antler wood behind the wall of sheep and horses.

After paying the price of being stabbed at the feet of more than a dozen people, Liu Jun's soldiers climbed over the sheep and horse wall. The city wall made of loess was right above their heads. Can climb above.

Mayi is a border county. It has been fighting with foreigners outside the Great Wall for a long time, and its soldiers are extremely brave.After drinking the strong wine, those quick-tempered soldiers climbed up the wall without even waiting for the escalator to hook the rope, biting their knives, and climbing the gap in the city.

Immediately after Liu Jun's soldiers climbed up the city, five or six village soldiers patrolling the city rushed from all sides and fought fiercely with them.

The defenders used guaitu guns, grasping guns, and guaibian guns to defend the city against Liu Jun. Some defenders used file axes to chop the hands of the Pancheng people.

However, as Liu Jun climbed the city with more and more soldiers, it was impossible to cover everything in three hundred steps to the north city wall.Several soldiers of Liu Jun occupied a support point on the city wall.At this time, Gao Chu commanded his subordinates to fight out from the cave where the soldiers were hiding. Dozens of people blocked several soldiers of Liu Jun on the city wall.

However, Liu Jun under the city was not afraid of the obstruction of the arrows, and more and more people climbed up the city wall.Gao Chu had been on guard for a long time, and the civilians on the city wall immediately piled sandbags into earth barriers to block several dangerous city walls on both sides, so that Liu Jun's soldiers who climbed up the city could not go around by turning left and right.

Unless he jumped back from the city wall, or jumped directly into the city, and after falling half dead, he was hacked to death by the back-up of the village soldiers who were watching the city.

But for Liu Wuzhou, the battle for the city wall was only secondary.Liu Wuzhou sent two hundred soldiers to raise the battering hammer and began to approach the city gate.

Even though the arrows on the tower were aimed at the vicinity of the battering ram, every step forward was extremely difficult.

But Liu Jun's soldiers finally brought the battering ram close after costing more than a dozen casualties.

Dozens of Liu Jun soldiers braved the rain of arrows on the top of the city, swung their arms and pulled the leash, and bombarded the city gate with battering rams.

A burst of dust and dust fell straight down, and the copper nails on the city gate were shaken off.

Seeing this scene, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help touching the iron beard on his chin, and said with a smile: "The city is about to collapse!"

boom!
Not long after Liu Wuzhou finished speaking, there was a loud bang from the city gate.

The city gate cracked, and Liu Jun's soldiers beside the battering ram let out a roar.

The soldiers of the city gate poured into the city gate like a flood breaking an embankment, but at this moment, Gao Chu let out a sneer on the tower.

Not long after, a series of mournful shouts came from inside the city gate, and Liu Jun soldiers who had entered the city gate fled out of the city gate in a panic.

Inside the city gate, blood was dripping, and three gate knife carts were pushed out at the same time. The blades of the knife carts were covered with blood and flesh, and corpses were piled on top of them.

Seeing the scene, the smile on Liu Wuzhou's face instantly froze, and his hands were raised in the air.

But at this moment Gao Chu shouted loudly: "Put the nail row on, Yasha beats."

As the voice fell, on the top of the city, eight nail rows with sharp blades hung on them, and three yakshas roared down from the top of the city.The Lei Mu full of spikes was thrown from the city, and smashed fiercely into Liu Wuzhou's army gathered in front of the city gate to attack the city.

In front of the city gate, it was thought that the city was broken, but Liu Wuzhou's 200 siege soldiers were rushing forward together, but they were nailed and rowed, and Yasha Leihou was caught upright.There was wailing in the city, and Liu Jun's soldiers were smashed to the ground. The charging formation of more than [-] people seemed to have been crushed in half by several iron plows, leaving a bloody mud.

Gao Chu yelled again: "Pour hot oil, roll wood and beat stones, all of them will be smashed to the bottom of the city."

The hot oil has never been used for rolling wood and beating stones on the city, but this time a cover tilted down and was sandwiched between the city wall and the sheep and horse walls.Gao Chu used all his backhands to defeat the morale of the attacking Liu army.

Liu Jun's soldiers immediately ignored the officers' obstruction, rolled out of the sheep and horse wall, and collapsed across the board.

As for the hundreds of soldiers of the Liu Army who remained at the top of the city, except for a few brave men who resisted stubbornly, the rest also jumped from the towers and jumped from a distance.This stepped on the ground, hooves and staghorn wood at the foot of the city.

The soldiers hugged their feet one after another, wailing and wailing. Sergeant Liu Wuzhou suppressed the top of the city with a strong bow for a while, and only then did fifty or sixty return to the camp, and the rest were wiped out.
Liu Wuzhou's siege battle ended in a disastrous defeat. More than 200 soldiers were killed and more than 300 were injured. The vigor of the siege was exhausted.However, the casualties of the rural soldiers guarding the city in Gaochu were less than a hundred.

After defending Liu Wuzhou's round of offensive, Gao Chu immediately sealed the city gate again, repaired the damaged part of the city wall, and resettled the wounded soldiers. Although Liu Jun was defeated in the attack on the city that day, seven or eight of the supplies for the defense had been used up. Eight.

In the next three days, Liu Wuzhou led his army to attack the city again. This time Liu Wuzhou's army adjusted its tactics and became more cautious. The two armies won and lost each other.

At dusk of the fifth day, it was another day of fighting, when Liu Wuzhou was about to order his troops back to camp after another day of futile work, when he heard the report from his subordinates, he suddenly turned pale with shock.

Under the setting sun, countless cavalry came from all directions and surrounded Liu Wuzhou's barracks heavily.

This cavalry is the long-lost prairie cavalry in the Youzhou Army.

Yinghe Fu rode a good horse that was a tribute from the Western Regions, and was marching among the army. He looked at Liu Wuzhou who was surrounded by the chaos army from a distance, and sneered slightly.

Every time Youzhou goes to war, Liu Wuzhou will come to join in the battle, which has almost become a routine. He has harassed the rear several times and took advantage of the fire to loot, but Liu Wuzhou has always been guarded by Turks, so although Youzhou can destroy the opponent several times, he has no chance. send troops.

But this time when Dou Jiande attacked Youzhou, it was no surprise that Liu Wuzhou was a hero again, and sent troops to attack Yanmen again. Little did he know that Li Chongjiu had already arranged a network of heaven and earth for him to drill.

"Liu Wuzhou, don't you know that I have endured you for a long time?" Ying Hofer swung his horsewhip and said coldly, "The army will attack immediately and wipe out Liu Wuzhou."

(End of this chapter)