Great Han Empire

Chapter 141
Feng Yi heard the sound of thunderous war drums outside the city, and rushed up the tower in a hurry.

Pan Feng hastily greeted her.

"The ant thief started to attack?" Feng Yi asked, striding to the edge of the city wall and looking up.

In the camp of the Yellow Turban Army in the distance, the sound of drums was loud and the flags were fluttering. Teams of Yellow Turban Army soldiers were rushing out of the camp.

Pan Feng looked as usual, and smiled slightly: "The ant thief can't wait." Then he turned his head and shouted: "Any news about other city gates?"

"My lord, not yet." The attendant standing in the distance replied loudly.

"If the ants attack from all four gates at the same time, our defensive force will be too scattered. My lord, look..." Pan Feng asked in a low voice.

"The enemy is false and real, and we have no way of determining their main attack direction. That's it, one day is one day." Feng Yi looked straight ahead and said expressionlessly, "I'm here, advancing and retreating with everyone. "

Pan Feng was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "It's so cold, my lord should go back to the government office. The soldiers will fight bravely without your lord supervising the battle."

"Hmph..." Feng Yi sneered, his tone undeniable, "I'm just sitting here. I want to see if Zhang Niujiao can attack."

Pan Feng knew his temper, so he didn't try to persuade him any more.

Feng Yi looked up at the gray sky, and suddenly said, "It would be great if there was snow."

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Li Hongce galloped his horse.

He was surrounded by densely packed warriors, behind him were colorful battle flags, and his ears were filled with the roar of galloping war horses.He felt as if he had fallen into the torrent of the Rushui River, as if he would be doomed at any moment, and completely lost his freedom and confidence.

He remembered that in the days when he followed Murong Feng, he had dreamed many times that he was leading thousands of troops to gallop on the prairie, and he could still clearly feel the excitement in the dream.The dream is vivid in my mind, as if it was yesterday.Although the dream has already come true, he has no excitement of galloping on the battlefield at all. Instead, it is replaced by the heavy responsibility on his shoulders. This kind of responsibility often makes him breathless and even feels suffocated.

It turns out that commanding thousands of troops is not a glorious thing at all, but a burden, a burden that the soul cannot bear.

Just like now, any soldier knows that they rushed to Yingtao battlefield at high speed, for nothing but to seek death.Facing 20 Yellow Turbans, how many of these 5000 people can come back?But everyone has no complaints or regrets, not even a word of complaint.What are you doing in the army?Isn't it just for this day, for this day to be able to stain the battlefield with blood.How many people really join the army to enjoy the glory that war brings them?Those who can enjoy the glory are the survivors of the war, and more people are the victims of the war.

Du Kangting, Zuo Xiao and his soldiers performed a bloody classic death.This violent death shocked Li Hong.The blood on the Dukangting Plain was deeply engraved in his heart.

He felt responsible for the lives of fifteen thousand soldiers, for their selfless trust and the honor in their hearts.

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The scouts galloped towards the horse, and when they approached the army, they suddenly tightened the reins. The horse suffered from pain, and immediately hissed, and its huge body almost flew up into the air. run up.

Li Hong kicked the panther's belly tightly, and quickly caught up with him, keeping pace with him.

"My lord, the Yellow Turban Army launched an attack at noon today."

"Four doors attacking at the same time?" Because the roar was too loud, Li Hong could only roar loudly.

"Yes, my lord. The details will be reported in the middle of the night."

Li Hong nodded, stretched out his hand and patted the scout's shoulder vigorously, and shouted: "It's hard work, go and rest."

The scout bowed to Li Hong emotionally, then steered his horse away.

Li Hong turned his head and gestured to the bugle soldiers. The sound of the horn that stopped advancing suddenly pierced the huge and thick roar, soaring into the sky, resounding through the winter evening.

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The meaning conveyed by Zhang Niujiao is very clear. Today, the Yellow Turban Army at the West Gate and the South Gate will be the main attack, and the Yellow Turban Army at the North Gate and East Gate will contain the enemy.

His main purpose was to lure Li Hong's leopard army to the battlefield of Yingtao to destroy them.The elimination of the Leopard Army will also completely eliminate the last threatening main force of the official army on the Jizhou battlefield, and the development of the Yellow Turban Army will be very smooth this year.

Because of his correctness, Yang Feng, Bai Rao, and Wulu, the three most powerful leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, rushed to Yingtao with their troops.If this goal is achieved, the benefit distribution in the later stage will still be very generous.

Bai Rao and Wulu's troops were the first to attack.

There are differences and opinions, and those are all things that we think about when we are not at war.When you're on the battlefield, you can't be sloppy. If you fight, you fight. If you don't fight, you don't fight. The enemy will not have any tacit understanding with you, let alone show mercy.A little negligence is a matter of life and death.

Bai Rao didn't know martial arts, so he stayed behind to direct.Master Wulu rushed to the city to supervise the battle with a group of disciples.His disciple Xingyun rushed forward with the first batch of siege troops.

The defender of the city is Geng Gu, the meritorious Cao Shi of Julu County.He doesn't know much about martial arts, but he is not afraid of death.He took the lead and stood on the edge of the city wall. Like other soldiers, he raised big stones and smashed them down hard at the Yellow Turban soldiers who were climbing the ladder.

Along the city wall, hundreds of ladders are lined up, and on each ladder there are soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army fighting bravely, not afraid of the long arrows and stones all over the sky.Above and below the city wall, there are piles of busy soldiers everywhere.From time to time, huge Lei Mu and boiling water will fall from the sky.The sound of war drums, shouting to kill the body, is earth-shattering.

Seeing the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army flying, falling, and screaming in the air, and seeing more and more corpses under the city, Xing Yun became angry.

He took off his long robe, revealing a short jacket.Holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, Xingyun turned his head and yelled at the soldiers in the distance: "Suppress the bow and arrow, shoot me a volley, volley..."

A small group of soldiers immediately gathered together and shot dense long arrows at the top of the city wall on the ladder that Xing Yun was about to go up.Two soldiers who stretched out their upper bodies and threw stones were shot dead immediately, and one of them fell to the ground screaming.

"Brothers, kill..." Xing Yun raised his saber high and yelled at the siege soldiers who were lying behind the shield, and then, like an agile ape, he climbed up the ladder at high speed.Several yellow turban soldiers immediately broke away from the cover of the shield soldiers and followed closely behind.

A huge pole was thrown into the air, rushed out of the city wall, and then smashed into the ladder.

Xingyun roared and raised his shield to push it up.The shield was immediately shattered by the heavy pole wood, Xingyun felt as if he had been hit hard, almost turned over and fell off the ladder, and the left hand holding the shield immediately lost consciousness.Relying on inertia, Lei Mu rolled down along Xing Yun's back.The few soldiers following him were unable to dodge in time and were immediately thrown off the ladder.

"Kill..., go up..., go up..." Xing Yun on the ladder opened his eyes angrily, and kept roaring at the soldiers below.More soldiers rushed out from behind their shields and climbed up the ladder.

Xingyun Zhandao chopped off the ends of three spears one after another, and finally gave him a chance.He raised his painful left hand, grabbed one of the broken spears, exhausted all his strength, and with a roar of a tiger, he jumped up the city wall, and at the same time, he chopped the enemy inside the city wall with his sword.

The officers and soldiers shouted, and several nearby soldiers rushed over at the same time, preparing to block the gap.Xingyun's saber flashed, blood spattered, and several enemies were slaughtered in a row.Three or four Yellow Turban soldiers took advantage of this gap and jumped into the city wall one after another.More officers and soldiers rushed over.

The breakthrough is opened.

Geng Gu, who was in the distance, was attracted by the sound of fierce fighting. Immediately, he saw the danger, picked up a spear on the ground, and rushed to the middle of the city wall, raised the spear and shouted: "Soldiers, kill... then I kill..."

The reserve soldiers who had been crouching on both sides of the city gate tower heard the shouts and came out. They followed closely behind Geng Gu and frantically rushed towards the defense point broken by the Yellow Turban Army.

"Boom...boom..." More than a dozen ladders and the Yellow Turban soldiers on the ladders were pushed and hit the ground heavily, and then there were dull crashing sounds and miserable screams of ladders and people hitting the ground one after another. .Like rain, the long arrows raged in all directions without thinking, and devoured one life after another in a sudden.

"Kill... ah..." Xing Yun was covered in blood, looking crazy, leading the soldiers forward bravely.

"Kill... ah..." Geng Gu yelled wildly, his eyes were about to burst, he thrust his spear into the body of a Yellow Turban soldier, and before he could draw out his spear, he was immediately chopped down by three Yellow Turban soldiers rushing forward up.

The officers and soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then the flames of hatred exploded. The soldiers looked like madmen who had lost their minds, their eyes were red, they kept shouting, and they killed them desperately.Xingyun bears the brunt.But when his knife penetrated the opponent's body, his own head had already been chopped off, and then the hand holding the knife was cut in two.

The officers and soldiers sacrificed more than 20 lives, finally regained the defense point, and killed all the enemies who rushed to the city wall.

Wang Dang's knife had been chopped off, and the gun was stuck in the corpse of the officer and soldier, so he couldn't pull it out for a while, so he had to pick up a spear and rushed towards Pan Feng who was aggressively killing him.

Pan Feng has been eyeing this black boy since the Yellow Turban Army began to attack the city.This kid has already climbed up the city wall four times, and he seems to be unbeatable. After each time he was driven down, he popped up from another place after a while.

Pan Feng chopped off with an axe, implying the sound of wind and thunder.Wang Dang's complexion changed, knowing that he was meeting a master, he immediately yelled: "Come here, kill..."

The spear set aside the iron axe, and immediately pierced Pan Feng's lower abdomen.Pan Feng didn't have time to change his tactics, so he quickly took two steps back.Wang Dang swung his spear horizontally and immediately assassinated the two defenders.Pan Feng's big ax roared again.The king stretched out his spear to block it, and the spear broke.Pan Feng roared excitedly, the ax sped up and headed towards Wang Dang's head.Wang Dang's figure flickered, and the short spear in his hand flew towards Pan Feng, who had already squatted down.He casually grabbed a battle knife on the ground, and aimed a sharp blow at the iron ax that had slowed down.

Pan Feng dodged the flying spear, but he didn't dodge the knife. Immediately, his hands trembled, and the long ax almost flew out of his hands.

Wang Dang paid no attention to him, turned back and rushed into the crowded place where the crowd was fighting, and shouted loudly: "Retreat..., withdraw..."

Zhang Niujiao pointed to the battlefield where the sound of killing was loud, and shouted loudly, "Where is Heizi? Where is Heizi?"

Sun Qin Xiaoyuan showed a look of fear on his face, and said cautiously: "He is on the city wall."

"This bastard, when will people not worry about it? Ming Jin, stop the war and tell him to come back." Zhang Niujiao yelled fiercely.

"Marshal, we just occupied a small corner on the left side of the city wall, can we fight again to consume them more." Sun Qin whispered.

"It's not easy to take down Yingtao. But our goal now is not Yingtao, but leopards. Order, stop attacking."

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Under the dim candlelight, Feng Yi slowly raised his head, looking at Pan Feng standing in front of him.

"My lord, the Yellow Turban Army has withdrawn."

"How's your loss today?" Feng Yi asked softly.

"The meritorious Cao Shi Geng is dead."

Feng Yi was silent, and it took a long time before he let out a long sigh.

"The defenders at the four city gates lost a total of more than 700 people. The west gate and the south gate suffered the most losses. In addition, the scouts outside the city secretly reported that the leopard army had moved towards us."

Feng Yi's face changed drastically, and he cried out: "What is he doing here? Is he throwing himself into a trap?"

Pan Feng hesitated for a moment, then said cautiously: "Maybe Mr. Li has a clever plan to defeat the enemy?"

Feng Yi smiled wryly, "Tell me, what tricks does he have?"

"According to adults, if we wait until it snows, there may be a chance of survival. Did he come for this chance of survival?"

Feng Yi smiled helplessly, and said, "Since he has such arrogance, let's take a gamble with him. Immediately draw [-] elite soldiers from the four city gates, and reserve them as the final counterattack force. You lead the army yourself."

Pan Feng's face changed, and he said in surprise: "My lord, our defense force is seriously insufficient, and you still have 1000 people as a reserve army, don't you..."

Feng Yi looked at Pan Feng for a long time, then sighed suddenly, and said earnestly, "Lord Captain, if you are Zhang Niujiao and want to eat the leopard, what would you do?"

Pan Feng glanced at Feng Yi, and said in a low voice, "I will take down Yingtao first, and then deal with Leopard. I want to ensure that I am invincible first."

Feng Yi lowered his head and did not speak.

He flipped through the bamboo slips in his hand, and said in a low voice: "You are right, this is indeed a good way. But the problem is, after you have captured Yingtao, what are the leopards doing? Siege the city?"

"Yingtao is the bait. Before the fish eat the bait, the bait must be worn on the hook no matter what. Therefore, as long as the leopard is nearby, as long as the leopard is not wiped out, Yingtao is safe. Zhang Niujiao continues to attack the city , just put pressure on the leopard, force him to take the bait, and consume our defense power."

Pan Feng understood.Since Zhang Niujiao's beating of Yingtao was just for show, Feng Yi could of course keep 1000 people down and launch a strong counterattack when the city was breached.

He immediately asked: "My lord, if it snows, where is our life?"

Looking at the slightly flickering candle, Feng Yi suddenly laughed, and said lightly, "By that time, we are already dying and vulnerable, so where is there any hope?"

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In the middle of the night, in the big tent of the Chinese army, all 25 senior officers above the rank of Fengyun Iron Cavalry were present.

A huge piece of black cowhide hung on the inside of the big tent.On the black leather, Li Hong drew a layout map of Yingtao City with a cinnabar brush.

Everyone sat on the ground, huddled together, listening to Li Hong's analysis and arrangement of Yingtao battlefield.Zhao Yun added firewood in the big tent and poured water for everyone.Gao Lan lay on the mattress with his head resting on Tian Zhong's lap.

"Where is the vitality of Yingtao City? On the day when it snows, whether it is night or day, it is the hours when it snows." Li Hong took a sip of water and continued to talk, "Now we don't I know on which day and when the heavy snow will fall, but it will definitely snow this month. So Zhang Niujiao is waiting for the opportunity to destroy us, and we are also waiting for the opportunity to defeat him. It depends on who can grasp the opportunity better and be more effective. "

"My lord, what if it doesn't snow?" Wen Chou asked loudly.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a scream in the big tent.Everyone turned around and saw that Yan Liang was raising his bowl-sized fist and was about to hit him for the second time.

Tian Zhong immediately shouted: "Hutou, you have violated military discipline, stand up for me immediately."

There was a burst of laughter in the big tent.Yan Liang quickly stood up with an embarrassed smile on his face.As a result, everyone laughed even harder.Wen Chou lay on Shehu's back and almost burst out laughing.

Li Hong wiped away the tears on his face, barely stopped smiling, but seeing Yan Liang's appearance, he still couldn't help laughing wildly.

After arguing for a while, Li Hong signaled Yan Liang to sit down, and continued: "Zijun asked well. We only brought dry food for ten days, including people and horses. So if it doesn't snow within ten days, we can only retreat. There is no one. The method. Do you know the specific missions of each part? This time, the military marshals lead the team to carry out the missions in person, make sure not to make mistakes, and do not come into direct contact with the enemy." Li Hong said with a smile: "Whoever is greedy for merit and the enemy Conflict, military law. Have you seen Zishan? If you punch someone, you will be fined to stand, not to mention that you violated military orders."

Everyone burst into laughter again.

"Are there any questions?" Li Hong asked with a smile.

"My lord, what if Zhang Niujiao thinks that we have no intention of fighting him decisively, so he simply abandons our plan to encircle and annihilate us and directly attack the city?" Yan Wuwei asked.

"Retreat." Li Hong said: "Zhang Niujiao must have a time to encircle us. If this time is exceeded, he will naturally give up and attack the city directly. He has occupied Yingtao City, what are we still doing here?"

"My lord, in order to entangle us, Zhang Niujiao will continue to attack the city. The defenders of Yingtao City must have suffered heavy losses. If it snows and we entangle Chu Feiyan's main force, Zhang Niujiao will still easily take it down." What should we do if we have left Yingtao City?" Yan Rou asked.

"Retreat, retreat immediately. When Zhang Niujiao breaks through the city, he will rush to encircle him immediately. At that time, we must retreat at full speed to avoid being entangled by the enemy." Li Hong said resolutely, "As I said just now, this time we can If Zhang Niujiao can't be defeated, the decisive factor is not us, nor Zhang Niujiao, nor does it depend on whether it will snow or not, but whether Lord Feng can hold Yingtao City."

Li Hong pointed to the blood-red gall pottery city on the black cowhide, and said loudly, "If the gall pottery city can't be defended, everything is over."

Suddenly his heart beat violently.After the pottery is over, will we also be eaten by the Yellow Turban Army?He suddenly felt that this plan was too risky, and he was simply making fun of his own soldiers.

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(End of this chapter)