Chapter 157 Failure
Pang Zun's head was handed over to Tian Jun. Looking at the frightened head, Tian Jun sneered and tied it to the saddle. At this moment, the Fenggao camp was full of people kneeling and begging for surrender. The war it's over.
A guard next to Tian Jun who was watching the city at all times saw the flag on the city and hurriedly told Tian Jun:
"Tian Tou, Qu Kuai asked us to divide our troops and attack the small village by the river."
Tian Jun finally came to his senses after being reminded by the guard. He immediately called to the cavalry team, opened the wall door wide, and headed straight for the small village.
Zhang Chong, who had been watching the battle on the top of the city, could clearly see that the Feng Gao soldiers in Xiaozhai were obviously trying to escape by boat. How could this be done?
Zhang Chong has been thinking about these ships for a long time. Only by taking the waterway can they quickly march to Fenggao to support Guan Yu's troops who have attacked Fenggao.
And once these Fenggao soldiers are allowed to run away, not to mention the difficulty of turning in, but to let these soldiers break into the Fenggao battlefield, they will think of reinforcements and boost their morale, which is not conducive to Guan Yu's strategy.
Tian Jun also realized this, so he sent troops to surround the small village. Originally, many people in the Fenggao army had already left the stronghold and rushed to the ferry crossing. However, they were caught off guard by Tian Jun's attack and suffered heavy casualties. The remaining soldiers knelt down and begged to surrender.
Tian Jun selected a few loud ones from the prisoners and asked them to shout to Xiaozhai, saying that as long as they surrendered, all those who were willing to join the army would be treated equally. Those who didn't want to, returned home after the war.
If other bandits said this, the Feng Gao soldiers in the village would not believe a word of it. But it was the Taishan thieves who spoke, and they believed him. Because from what they had seen and heard, the Taishan thieves dealt with prisoners in this way.
Didn’t you see that when we captured the younger brother of the Bao clan leader, didn’t he also return the grain to his family? The same is true for the recent Taiyotei ones.
In the past, there was a reason why Zhang Chong gave grain to surrendered prisoners and returned them home. In this way, the bravery and benevolence of the Taishan Army can be spread through these surrendered prisoners. Even if they are dragged to fight the Taishan Army again in the future, the resistance will not be fierce.
But now that it was finally coming to fruition, I heard that the people below were willing to accept surrender. The Fenggao soldiers in the village only had a brief discussion, and they all agreed to open the wall and surrender.
Together with the fleet parked on the Mouwen River, the Taishan Army won a great victory in this battle and captured a mountain of baggage.
It was also at this time that Fei Jun came to report with his flag:
"The Yingxian soldiers retreated."
It turned out that Zhang Chong, in his military report to Meng Ju, ordered him to cruise outside Ying County to induce Ying County soldiers to return for reinforcements.
Sure enough, when Magistrate Ying County saw the dust stirred up by Meng Ju's troops on the top of the city, he immediately urged Ying County soldiers to return for reinforcements. As for the prefect's orders, he could no longer care about them at this time. After all, he also has to understand the difficulties of his subordinates, right?
In the end, Zhang Chong stayed in Mou County, and then personally led 1,500 soldiers to board the fleet moored on the water of Mouwen, rowing all the way towards Fenggao.
And what is the scene like in Fenggao at this time?
At this time, Guan Yu had just experienced a fight. On this battlefield where the sword was broken and the sword was broken, he was sitting on a dead horse, panting slightly. The previous fight was tragic to him.
As soon as he arrived at Fenggao and before he could set up camp, a group of soldiers rushed out from a camp outside the city, intending to defeat them before they were stable.
There were about two hundred soldiers who came out, each with armor and armor, and they were extremely elite. They formed a small formation in twos and threes, and under the leadership of several fierce generals, they directly attacked Guan Yu.
At that time, Ding Sheng and Wang Zhang of Guan Yu's tribe were camping, and only Guan Yu's own soldiers and Chen Huan's archer team were protecting them. From this we can also see how well the general's control of the military plane outside the city was, and it was hitting Guan Yu seven inches away.
But who is Guan Yu?
While he ordered Chen Huan's troops to attack the enemy with arrows, he ordered Ding Sheng and Wang Zhang to change their formations. Then Guan Yu led his fifty guardsmen to meet them.
This enemy soldier came with great ferocity and considered himself brave, so he did not take the Taishan bandits seriously.
It’s no wonder that often these thieves and bandits are no match for one Han soldier. Now, if we only look at the thieves who number only a thousand or so, I can defeat them with only two hundred soldiers. Therefore, when these Feng Gao soldiers came out of the camp, they were as angry as tigers.
Especially the first three warriors, all wearing two layers of armor, one holding an ax, one holding an iron awl, and one holding a long-handled ring-headed sword, they are extremely fierce.
But unfortunately, they met Guan Yu, the unique Guan Yu in this world.
Guan Yu, who was wearing armor and a bow, held a spear in one hand and a ring-shaped sword in the other. He met the ax general first. As soon as he raised the ax, Guan Yu stabbed him in the neck with a spear.
As soon as the ax general died, the two generals next to him were frightened. Knowing that they could not defeat him one on one, they immediately attacked the green turban together. The one wielding the iron awl threw the iron awl at Guan Yu in one fell swoop, while the one holding the long-handled broadsword stooped and slashed at Guan Yu's legs.
But Guan Yu held the spear in his right hand and struck the ground with the sword in his left hand. He struck the hand of the strong man holding the iron awl. Then the man's palm flew to the side with the iron awl in his hand, and the man also covered his severed hand. , fell to the ground and wailed.
The man over there who was wielding a long-handled ring-headed sword was very happy when he saw the green turban holding it so big that he just put the spear on the ground to block his sword.
This man is really stupid, how can a wooden spear withstand his hundred-link steel spear? But the sound of gold and iron intersecting, and the strength of the rebound in his hand, made the general stunned:
"This man actually used an iron spear?"
Then his Liuyang leader rose into the sky with Guan Yu's sword, and the rest of his body hit the ground heavily.
The soldiers who were originally charging with these three generals were frightened when they saw that two of their three warriors were dead and one was wounded in a moment. The injured one was still moving desperately on the ground.
How come these soldiers don't know what kind of courage these three generals have? This green turban, he, he, he is not a human being.
But fighting between armies is not such a trivial matter as fighting between generals in front of the battlefield. Guan Yu's instant kill of three generals actually only damaged the morale of this wave of armored soldiers, but he was still far from defeating them.
These soldiers were the elite of Fenggao camp, and they had the arrogance of masters of discipline. Although they were panicking at this moment, they still managed to form a circular formation and wanted to slowly retreat into the stronghold.
But with such an elite group of soldiers, how could Guan Yu allow them to retreat safely? On the one hand, he asked Chen Huan to continue shooting. Although the enemy soldiers were all soldiers, the effect was not great, but it still served the purpose of disturbing the enemy. On the other hand, Guan Yu reorganized his troops to form a cone formation, and with him as the head of the cone, he once again penetrated the enemy's formation.
There were two soldiers facing Guan Yu, but they did not have the courage to face Guan Yu directly, so they abandoned their weapons and walked away, causing the circular formation to be broken directly.
Guan Yu did not miss this opportunity, and led his guards to drill through the gap, and then stabbed the enemy soldiers in the back, killing them until their heads were rolling.
At this time, Fenggao camp's circular formation could no longer hold its position, those behind were frequently looking back, and those in front were also retreating. It was also at this time that Ding Sheng, who had already formed a formation, formed a column and went straight behind the Fenggao Camp. Then he turned right and formed a three-row horizontal formation directly behind the Fenggao Camp. Fenggao camp was blocked.
It stands to reason that Guan Yu should be happy to see Ding Sheng's fighter control so well, but when he saw the expressions of the Fenggao soldiers in front of him, he felt a thump in his heart and secretly cried out.
I saw that these remaining Fenggao soldiers were still looking around and had little fighting spirit, but as soon as they saw that their retreat was cut off, a fierce look appeared on their faces. These Taishan men were going to fight hard.
Then the remaining more than a hundred soldiers turned around and launched a desperate charge against Ding Sheng's horizontal formation.
Ding Sheng arranged a three-row horizontal array. Under normal circumstances, this thickness would be enough. However, these Fenggao soldiers were all armored men and were not afraid of the swords and axes of the front row. Under the impact of several row leaders, they directly broke through Ding Sheng's horizontal formation.
The Feng Gao soldiers behind were also of high military quality. They poured in through the opened gap without hesitation and directly broke Ding Sheng's formation.
This situation stimulated Ding Sheng to cry out, shame, shame, when did his Ding Daqi break through the formation, and then he led his soldiers to intercept and kill him. Although he left behind fifty soldiers in the end, more than a hundred soldiers rushed back to the camp.
The fifty soldiers who were heavily surrounded were stabbed by the Taishan soldiers' rifles and retreated step by step. The innermost soldier was now squeezed with his feet off the ground. He was struggling hard, trying to breathe more. air, but in the end it was squeezed to death.
But no one cares about him anymore. The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more soldiers are squeezed into the inner circle. They are already wearing bulky armor, and now they are surrounded by robes that have been lifted up. Life is here It is so fragile that as long as you squeeze the person next to you a little, a part of the robe that has been squeezed to the critical point will die immediately.
"Stop, stop... and ask them if they are willing to surrender."
Guan Yu also discovered this situation. It was okay to kill, but killing like this was really too cruel.
Following Guan Yu's order, the Taishan infantrymen in the front row stopped, and then the military officials everywhere began to speak with a Taishan accent, asking whether they would surrender.
What else to say, I can only surrender. At the last count, only thirty-four of the fifty soldiers survived, and the rest were squeezed to death in the circle.
The Fenggao garrison in the city originally sent a cavalry out of the city to rescue the trapped soldiers, but in the end no one was saved, and the cavalry was ambushed and killed by Wang Zhang and his troops.
At this point, the military strongholds inside and outside Fenggao City no longer sent troops, and they all stood firm and planned to fight Guan Yu's troops. Guan Yu's tribe also began to set up camp in the wilderness east of Fenggao, build equipment, and make fires for cooking. After all the troops were full, at noon, they formed a team in the wilderness to the east of the city and attacked Fenggao.
Fenggao City is high and deep, with rich reserves. There are also military strongholds outside the city that want to respond. Ding Sheng led his troops to attack the city three times, but failed. Wang Zhang led his troops to attack the city twice, but failed. In the end, Guan Yu led his troops to attack, but he was unable to defeat them.
In the final analysis, it was not that Guan Yu's troops did not try their best, but that there were too few soldiers, and the defenders of Fenggao City were determined, so they could not conquer it for a long time.
Now, the city can't be fought out, Guan Yu can't attack, and the inside and outside of the city are facing each other again.
The deadlock was not broken until Zhang Chong's fleet came up against the Mouwen River.