Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 913 Capture the Outer City
At this time, Yan Yishan led the crowd to kneel outside the city, and Yan Yishan said with a dead face: "Since the envoy won't allow the general to enter the city, then he will have to lead him to die outside the city."

Cao Xuefei's face was extremely ugly, and he said to Cao Zhongheng in a voice of hatred: "How else can I deal with it, can't I really kill him?"

"If you don't allow him to enter the city, you may force him to surrender to the enemy; but if you allow him to enter the city, it will not be appropriate." Cao Zhongheng couldn't help frowning.

Cao Xuefei looked at Yan Yishan, who was kneeling on the ground outside the city, trembling all over, could not help showing contempt, and said: "Yan Yishan is a coward, there is something to fear, let them enter the city, and reorganize someday."

Although Cao Zhongheng felt something was wrong, he couldn't think of a reason to object for a while.After all, there is nothing to be afraid of with these thousand or so remnants and defeated soldiers.But he was always cautious, so he pondered for a while and said, "Father, it's better for the children to lead the troops out and welcome them into the city."

Cao Xuefei nodded and said, "Alright."

Soon, Cao Zhongheng led Baiqi out of the city against the wind.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the sand and dust were blown onto people's faces by the strong wind, almost as painful as a knife.

But if it's just wind and sand, it's not enough to make Cao Zhongheng feel cold. The cold in his heart at the moment is because of the remnant soldiers scattered along the road, but he can't count how many people there are at the moment, they just throw away their helmets. A, with disheveled clothes, looked panic-stricken in the wind and sand. Their faces covered with dirt from the wind and sand seemed to have a look of bewilderment and fear for the future fate, which was almost more distinct and unified than the clothes.

Many soldiers seemed to be exhausted, standing dejectedly in the wind and sand, letting the sand and dust gradually bury them. In the vast wind and sand weather, these black spots were densely packed, and I don't know how many people there are?Seeing Cao Zhongheng riding by, many people just raised their heads slightly, but many people seemed to have lost the strength to raise their heads, and just stood silently in the wind and sand, turning into stone sculptures.

So many defeated soldiers did not cry, yell, defend, or even have the courage and confidence to survive. This kind of morale that was almost desperate made Cao Zhongheng feel unspeakable fear. What kind of World War I did the army go through, and what happened?Is the defeat too tragic, or the defeat is too thorough, so that the soldiers mourn so much, is the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom so powerful that it is so daunting?Is it true that their Cao family's foundation is really going to be lost?
Cao Zhongheng sighed involuntarily, he barely stopped himself from thinking about it, and said worriedly: "Let's enter the city!"

He gave a brief order, and then galloped back to the city, allowing the soldiers to shout loudly in the wind and snow: "Enter the city, enter the city!"

At this time, the wind was even stronger, and Cao Zhongheng had already gotten used to the pain from the dust hitting his face, so he felt even more numb at this time.He drove to the city gate without stopping, and suddenly couldn't help but look back at Fang Huangyuan. The sky was full of yellow sand, the land was vast, and those black spots were quickly converging towards the city gate. He turned his head, as if Put those negative emotions behind you, and then use your usual calmness to instruct the school officials at the city gate how to deal with these remnant soldiers.After the arrangements were made, Cao Zhongheng rode his horse and stood behind the city gate, watching indifferently as groups of defeated soldiers passed by his horse.

Suddenly, inadvertently, Cao Zhongheng found that among these defeated soldiers, some seemed to be very uncomfortable with the sand and dust, and they were still covering their faces with their hands under such circumstances.And take a closer look at the costumes of these people, who also look like rout soldiers. Although their faces are covered with dirt, covering his original face, their eyes are not dazed and fearful!If these people don't look carefully, they won't be able to find it, but once they find it, they will feel like a wolf in sheep's clothing standing among the sheep, no matter how hard they try to hide it, they can't hide his existence!
"No, close the city gate!" Cao Zhongheng couldn't help shouting.

All the defeated soldiers and statures stagnated suddenly, and the Guazhou defenders at the gate of the city were also stunned for a moment.

"They are not a rout!" Cao Zhongheng raised his voice.Suspicion rose in his heart, an ominous feeling swept over his body, and he subconsciously shouted: "Close the city gate quickly! Kill them!"

At this moment, everyone was stunned for a moment, and several of Cao Zhongheng's personal soldiers reacted first, and rushed towards the city gate in the direction Cao Zhongheng pointed.Dozens of soldiers guarding the gate of the city, after being startled for a moment, also rushed forward with spears in their hands, trying to close the gate of the city.

Yan Yishan didn't know where there was a flaw in the painstakingly planned plan.He gritted his teeth, pulled out the saber in his hand, and shouted loudly: "The children are fighting for me! As long as you hold on for a while, the army will come." After saying that, he went to meet the relatives of Cao Zhongheng who were rushing towards him. A soldier hacked a soldier to death.

At the same time, Sun Lixing, who was following closely behind Yan Yishan, raised his hand and a nine-shot firework flew into the sky with a piercing whistling sound.Hiding on a mountain two miles away from the city, Tuoba Lion, who had just stopped to rest for a while, got excited, got on his horse, gave orders loudly, and galloped towards the east gate of Guazhou City with [-] cavalry.

Following Yan Yishan and Sun Lixing's attacks one by one, those remnants and defeated generals who seemed to be at a loss in Cao Zhongheng's eyes suddenly seemed to be different people. The army hacked and killed, especially the 300 soldiers who had just discovered that they were obviously different from Yan Yishan's soldiers were even more powerful. Soldiers in Guazhou were often killed in two or three rounds alone.These 300 people quickly gathered together under Sun Lixing's yelling command, and formed a group of three people into a hundred small three talents, and quickly killed the few Guazhou soldiers guarding the city gate. The dead guarded the city gate.

And Yan Yishan's "defeated soldiers" were originally his carefully selected confidants, who marched in the sand and dust, and played the role of the lost soldiers who were devastated. Cao Zhongheng.At this time, a violent attack broke out. Everyone knew that this was a matter of life and death, and they were all brave.But the city gate guards did not expect the remnants of the defeated soldiers to suddenly become desperadoes, and they were caught off guard. In an instant, they were slaughtered to death, only Cao Zhongheng was left to die by a dozen of his own soldiers. To protect them, Yan Yishan led people to surround a corner of the city gate.

"Cao Zhongheng, the general situation is over, why bother fighting trapped beasts?"

Cao Zhongheng saw the "defeated soldiers" outside the city pouring into the city like a tide. At a glance, there were only about 1000 people, but how could the other party only have this thousand people prepared.And Cao Xuefei at the top of the city had always been looking at these defeated soldiers. When the change happened, his expression changed drastically and he quickly dispatched troops to attack the city gate, but the firework signal Sun Lixing fired into the sky, Let his heart sink.

Sure enough, he faintly heard a large group of cavalry galloping in the wind and sand.Frightened and furious, he hurriedly ordered the guards at the top of the city to prepare their bows and arrows to kill the enemy, and at the same time desperately urged the troops in the city to snatch the city gate.

No matter how much Cao Xuefei and Cao Gang speculated, they never expected that the opponent's capture of the city would happen so suddenly.

There were 1000 special battalion soldiers led by Sun Lixing, who was more powerful than ordinary soldiers, and [-] people guarded the city gate desperately.And in this process, Tuoba lion led [-] cavalry to rush towards Guazhou City with all its strength.

Two miles is only 1000 meters. For the cavalry sprinting at full speed, even if there is a strong wind and dust, they will have rushed over in less than two or three minutes. One can imagine the effect in sandy weather, more than 3 people were shot dead.At this time, the defenders in Guazhou City had just begun to besiege and kill a thousand "broken soldiers" who were guarding the city gate.

The result can be imagined, 1000 people suddenly gave way to the road, and nearly [-] cavalry swept over from the gate of the city. Along the way, people shouted horses, hoofs sounded like thunder, and the roar was ear-splitting.

The sudden war plunged the whole Guazhou into chaos. The people ran all over the streets, the doors and windows of the vendors were closed, and there were Xiangfu cavalrymen riding tall horses everywhere, rampaging in the city of Guazhou.

Although Cao Xuefei guessed that there would not be too many Xiangfu troops rushing in, and they still had an advantage in strength, the defenders were caught off guard by today's incident, and the [-] defenders under his command first learned that they were sent The [-] reinforcements were defeated and their morale plummeted, and now the city was broken again in a daze, most of them didn't have the judgment ability like Cao Xuefei, they thought that the whole army of the Xiangfu Kingdom had arrived, they suddenly panicked, and their combat power had already been exerted Less than half of usual.

However, Cao Xuefei was extremely decisive at this time. He decisively led the main force to retreat into the inner city while fighting, and then closed the gate of the inner city firmly.

Guazhou was the old nest of Jinshan Kingdom back then. It has been in business for many years. Regardless of its size and population, its city defense far exceeds that of Ganzhou and Suzhou. The defensive equipment is even stronger than the outer city.Now there are still [-] troops and [-] people in the inner city, and there is plenty of food and grass, so it is not so easy to attack.

The war lasted for three hours and it was almost over.Nearly 4000 of the 5000 defenders left in the outer city of Guazhou died, and the remaining 1000 surrendered and were disarmed. In addition, Cao Zhongheng, the son of Cao Xuefei, died in battle.However, Xiangfu Kingdom lost only more than [-] people in battle.

Just outside the city of Guazhou, the people in the city thought that these Xiangfu army would kill and set fire like the foreign enemies they had experienced in the past. , the reality turned out to be quite different.

Next, Tuobashi ordered the outer city gates to be closed and no entry or exit was allowed.

(End of this chapter)