Chapter 433 Dingting
The Han troops on the wall of the outpost were already shaking like chaff.
Many of them were local tycoons from nearby, and they could show off their power with swords, but who had ever seen such a terrifying sight.
The thieves below were so densely packed that they were more numerous than the ants on the ground. How to fight this? Aren't you going to die?
At this moment, they were full of resentment towards Liu Zhi who arranged them here.
But there were still many disciples and tribesmen of the Four Lius of Zhongshan on the wall of the dock. They gritted their teeth and kept pushing down the defensive equipment such as rolling logs.
As for the arrows and the like, they were sparse. After all, most of the Liu family were farmers, and how many of them knew how to shoot a bow?
This level of resistance was naturally not noticed by the three generals of Hanoi Town.
Especially Han Hao, the leader of the three generals, had already shown off his prowess to the king in the Battle of Handan, and then rose to prominence, and now he is the general of Hanoi Town, and he can be said to be highly reused.
Of course, Han Hao's rank still belonged to the field corps. This time, he was only sent here to command the local garrison troops. But even so, having the experience of leading three thousand soldiers is rare for any general.
Since he is a general, he can no longer act like a warrior. Therefore, Han Hao tried hard to control his excitement and did not attack with the armored soldiers. He was observing the battlefield like the military generals did.
And this observation really gave him a different experience.
This is a kind of calm detachment, as if looking at the battlefield from a more objective perspective. This feeling is completely different from when he was a fighting general and rushed with his head covered.
Han Hao understood that different standing positions determine different visions, and different visions determine different thoughts.
Seeing the sparse arrows on the dock wall, Han Hao had a thought at that time:
"The enemy army is very weak and cannot recruit archers."
So Han Hao ordered the warrior Han Biao to lead fifty armored men as a trap, and took the lead in climbing the wall under the sparse rain of arrows.
Han Biao is a member of Han Hao's clan. As Han Hao gains a foothold in the Taishan Army, Han Biao and other Han clan members will naturally become stronger.
You can say that this is nepotism, but in this era, using people for kinship is the basis of meritocracy. If I don’t know you, how can I tell if you are capable?
Therefore, whether it is military generals or civil servants, the recommendation of talents is done among friends.
This is the case with Han Biao. Although he joined the Taishan Army relying on Han Hao's relationship, his bravery is not bad.
After receiving the military order, Han Biao only took one look, found a crenel with weak defenses, and rushed forward with his head covered. The same was true for the fifty armored men behind. Following Han Biao, they stepped forward bravely.
Seeing Han Biao like this, Han Hao was thoughtful and once again had a deeper understanding of the way to be a general.
Han Biao's main attack point was a corner pavilion slightly east, where several Han soldiers with long swords were waving randomly.
These Han soldiers paddling in the water did not see Han Biao because of their perspective. Then Han Biao led his men to kill him.
As soon as Han Biao led his armored soldiers up the wall, he asked the guards to plant flags.
The Hanoi soldiers who were attacking the fortress from all sides cheered excitedly when they saw their flag flying on the wall of the dock. For a time, warriors continued to climb up the dock wall.
Yang Mao, who was at the back to watch the battle, was surprised to see how smoothly the battle was going, and turned to sigh:
"I never thought that the garrison soldiers in this town would have the courage to ascend first."
The battle ended about half an hour later, and the Han army's outpost wall was captured.
After leaving a battalion of troops here, Yang Mao ordered the entire army to move forward and launch a general attack on the enemy forces in Dingting.
This time, Weijun Town was responsible for the main attack. There were three battalions and 3,000 soldiers in the town.
The general Wei Zhong gave an impassioned speech in front of three thousand brothers, which inspired the soldiers of Wei County to be excited and enthusiastic.
Without further action, Wei Zhong personally led his troops towards Dingting in front.
At this time, Dingting was a little distorted under the scorching sun, and even a little quiet. But the dense antlers and trenches hinted at a tragedy.
The garrison soldiers of Weijun Town lined up in a fan shape and pressed forward according to the training methods. The generals of each battalion took the lead in person, followed by soldiers carrying flags.
They strode forward in single file, their heavy armors burned by the sun, and the officers were dripping with sweat and panting heavily under their helmets.
In order to boost morale, the war drums in the rear did not stop when the troops in Weijun were marching.
The toughest battle is about to begin.
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The battle in Weijun Town suffered a heavy blow from the opposite side from the very beginning.
Because the trenches were too complex, the original three battalions of Weijun Town were divided into more than ten pieces. However, the Han army could rely on trenches to continuously move and support each other.
Moreover, Wei Junzhen's heavy armor also became a drag here. They often slip and fall in the tunnel before encountering the enemy, and then never get up again.
This method of trench warfare has never been encountered by local soldiers such as Weijun Town, even the fifth battalion of the Taishan Army. This is Liu Zhi's new strategy based on his past experience in dredging water conservancy.
Liu Zhi deployed about 3,000 men here, which was actually roughly the same strength as Wei Junzhen. However, because of the maneuverability of the tunnels, the generals of Weijun and Town on the front line suddenly felt that there were seven or eight thousand people on the opposite side.
As a result, the war became more and more painful, and the general Wei Zhong had no choice but to ask for reinforcements from the rear.
When Wei Zhong's request for help was sent to Yang Mao, his judgment on the original information was greatly deepened.
Before the war, Yang Mao judged from the number of enemy flags that there should be about 20,000 people here.
But then the enemy's front wall was breached, causing Yang Mao to doubt this judgment.
With such a strong force, why would they only put so few people at the outpost? And from the subsequent torture of the prisoners, it was learned that there were only three to four thousand Han troops on the opposite side.
So Yang Mao was a little angry at being fooled.
But just when he overturned his previous judgment, Wei Zhong came to ask for help again?
Aren't there only about three thousand people on the opposite side? Why did Wei Zhong say there were seven or eight thousand people?
At this time, Yang Mao fell into huge doubts.
He didn't know whether what the prisoner said was true or whether it was the strategy of the Han general opposite.
At this time, the Tianxiong Army in charge of Li Fu's original left wing sent the latest battle report, saying that Han cavalry was found in the woods to the west.
At this time, Yang Mao began to study the terrain to the north.
First of all, there is the large forest to the west. This place is lush and green. If you want to hide a few soldiers, you can hide thousands of people. And now the military report sent by Li Fu proves that it is the cavalry of the Han army lurking in this woods. The forest is only about one mile away from the Dingting position.
At this position, the cavalry will arrive in an instant.
If the Han cavalry launches an attack, the Weijun garrison already fighting on the battlefield will be in great danger.
And Yang Mao not only discovered this, he also saw a wheat field behind Dingting. These wheats are growing very pleasantly, and it is entirely possible that they could become an ambush site for the Han army.
At this time, Yang Mao broke out in cold sweat.
An unknown premonition enveloped his heart, so he made the worst decision in this battle:
"Send gold and order Wei County to withdraw its troops."
Although the military staff were surprised by Yang Mao's decision, no one came up to dissuade him. After all, judging from the situation on the front line, Weijun's soldiers were indeed unable to fight well and needed to withdraw first to rest.
As a result, Wei Zhong, who was already fighting on the front line, did not see the reinforcements he expected, but instead heard the troops coming from behind.
Now he was a little angry.
It's so embarrassing. Hanoi Town played so brilliantly just now, but when it was our Weijun Town soldiers' turn to take the field, they had to be withdrawn. It was really a disgrace to Wang Ji's children.
That's right, the children of Wei County call themselves the children of Wang Ji.
In fact, Yang Mao's decision cannot be wrong, but he received the wrong information.
At this moment, he gave up the attack on Dingting, and instead waited for the arrival of Cai Que's central guard army as the king said. To put it bluntly, Yang Mao was very unsure of his subordinates' combat capabilities.
After learning that the opposite side might be the main force of the Zhenbei Army, he did not have enough confidence to fight. So I want to wait for Cai Que's elite troops to arrive.
But in fact, Dingting was at the end of its tether at this moment.
Liu Zhi never expected that the Taishan bandit on the opposite side would be so brave. Their armor and fighting skills far surpassed those under his command.
Even the cohesion that Liu Zhi was proud of was no more than evenly matched against the Taishan Army on the opposite side.
In fact, Liu Zhi didn't know.
The garrison soldiers he faced actually had great potential.
These garrison soldiers selected from the field guards often come from the same place in the grassroots army. These people eat, live and train together, and are then assigned to garrison points together.
The teamwork between them is no worse than Liu Zhi's teamwork.
Therefore, Liu Zhi actually fought very hard.
And the five hundred Hejian soldiers he originally deployed in that forest were of very limited use now. Because in the middle, a large enemy cavalry regiment gathered there.
And from the constant mobilization of teams into the forest from the opposite side, it can be inferred that the river cavalry has also been exposed.
What worries him even more is that this is only a part of the enemy's army, and the main force on the opposite side has not yet moved forward. The reinforcements originally promised by Lu Zhi have not yet arrived.
How could this not make Liu Zhi despair?
He thought of what he had said to convince the clan elders before.
"Now that the world is in chaos, I, the Liu family, have encountered the same predicament as before in the last years of Xinmang. How can I, the Liu family of Zhongshan, be rich and noble for generations? Isn't it just because my surname is Liu? If I, the Liu family, don't save this Han Dynasty, Who else can save the Han Dynasty? And if the Han Dynasty dies, we and the Liu family of Zhongshan will be the remnants of the previous dynasty, and we will not be able to live in peace for a night!"
It was through his great righteousness that the country was in disaster and the family was destroyed, the four people in Zhongshan came together.
But now it seems that I, the Liu family of Zhongshan, are really going to die in Dingting.
At this time, Liu Zhi could not help but think of the words of a clan uncle:
"If the Liu family of Zhongshan is dead, what does the revival of the Han Dynasty have to do with us?"
But who would have thought that Ming Jin had withdrawn his troops?
Liu Zhi ignored his ecstasy and ordered his troops to clean the battlefield and continue to reinforce the trenches.
At this time, Liu Zhi had time to count the casualties of his tribe. In just a short time, more than 800 tribesmen were dead. This made his heart become heavier and heavier.
But no matter what the future holds, one more moment to live now is a moment.
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But the death that awaited Liu Zhi never came.
On the contrary, around the end of the Shen Dynasty, he waited for reinforcements.
A soldier rushed into the position and reported to him that Han Heng, Gao Zheng, Lu Chong, and Xue Shen, the descendants of the Zhenbei Army, had led thousands of reinforcements to within two miles, and told him to insist on the arrival of reinforcements. .
Just looking at the dust rising to the north, Liu Zhi knew that the soldier was not lying.
Reinforcements are really coming.
The news quickly spread to every Liu tribe in the Dingting front, and the joy of surviving a close call boosted the morale of the tribes.
On the opposite side, Yang Mao actually knew better than Liu Zhi that enemy reinforcements were coming from the north.
His sentries had already brought the bad news from the north.
At this time, he still didn't understand that the Han army opposite Dingting might really only be a few thousand.
At this time, Yang Mao did not dare to delay any longer and ordered Weijun Town and Hanoi Town, which had already rested, to attack Dingting together. Then Zhaojun Town and Dongjun Town were ordered to bypass Dingting to block the reinforcements from the north.
The position must be captured before enemy reinforcements arrive.
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Han Heng, Gao Zheng, Lu Chong, and Xue Shen were all powerful warriors from Daibei.
In fact, they met on Guangyang Road and talked with each other. They all received Lu Zhi's military order to go south to rescue Dingting.
But the common identities of these four generals cannot help but make these insecure heroes think too much.
Why are they the ones who go south to rescue people from the north?
Do you want to consume them?
In fact, they were very distrustful of Lu Zhi. They felt that he seemed to be a great scholar, but his methods were crueler than those of border warriors like them.
A normal person would not be able to think of using iron weapons to disrupt the grasslands and then use a vicious plan to drain the firepower of the Han people in the border areas.
So with this heavy distrust, the four soldiers walked very slowly.
But no matter how slow it is, this road will eventually arrive one day.
On August 6, at the end of Shen Shi.
The nearly 5,000-strong horse infantry from the Fourth Department of Daibei finally arrived within two miles of Dingting.
Here, they can smell the bloody smell coming from the direction of Dingting. From the dust in the sky, they can also know what kind of tragedy the Dingting battlefield is at this time.
At this time, the four generals Han Heng, Gao Zheng, Lu Chong, and Xue Shen hesitated.
It happened that a nearby village elder sent loads of water to work for the army.
So the four generals took the opportunity to order the officials to drink water and rest, while they surrounded the village elder and asked about the situation in Dingting at this time.
This village elder was a rich man from a nearby Wubi village, and his family also had dozens of servants.
Originally, he was ready to live out his old life, but his son, who had previously served in the county, went south with the Prime Minister of Zhongshan and never came back.
Everyone said that his son was dead and his head had been chopped off by Taishan bandits from the south.
The boss of this village fell ill, and he hated the Taishan bandits to his bones.
But he knew that he couldn't get revenge on his own, so he did what he could. He had also joined the army in his early years and knew that a large army must be tired and thirsty when moving quickly.
So when the disciples who were farming outside came to him and told him that a Han army was coming from the north. He brought all the men and women from the dock wall to carry water to work for the army.
For no other reason than to allow these Han soldiers to kill a few more dog thieves.
At this time, he saw four Han generals surrounding him asking about the situation in Dingting. The countryman didn't know that these four people were afraid.
How can this be done? If we don’t coax you to kill the thief, who will avenge my son?
So the village elder had an idea.
Families, come and give me your monthly tickets. There is a real battle tonight to see how Xiao Chen defeats his opponent.
(End of chapter)