Chapter 371 Fierce Battle with Yongfeng
A life and death fight is unfolding in the small tea shop town.
Linghu Shili, the general under Linghuye, led an army of more than ten thousand to attack Yongfengcang.
Whether it is its geographical location or the countless grains and grass it stores, Yongfengcang is of extremely important significance to both parties. Losing Yongfengcang is equivalent to being defeated by the Linghu Group for Chang'an. A cut from it directly cut off the connection with Hedong County, Tongguan, and Luoyang, turning Chang'an into an isolated city.
But it is not that easy to hold Yongfengcang.
In order to cooperate with Linghuye's main force's attack on Chang'an, Li Guohua united with the Chen family of Qi County in Luoyang and the Qin family of Donghai to form a coalition. Whether it was Zhang Quanyi of Luoyang or Weiyi of Tongguan, they could only muster the spirit of 120,000 points. In response, there was no time to pay attention to the direction of Chang'an.
In Wei's view, no matter how important Yongfengcang is, it is still more important than Chang'an.
The main elite force will naturally be concentrated around Chang'an to defend Linghu's main force.
So Linghu Shili's attack on Yongfengcang is a bright card for everyone, but it also leaves you with no choice.
The ones guarding Yongfengcang are the inspection brigade.
In Wei Zhengdao's view, even if Yongfengcang can no longer hold on, as long as Chang'an can persist, there is still a chance of recovery. Anyway, the inspection team is not our son. Let them go to Yongfengcang to fight with Linghu Shili. If they can hold it, everyone will be happy. If they can't hold it, at least they will wear down and hold back Linghu Shili's army, and also let them Li Dachui's power in Chang'an was greatly weakened, which was more conducive to Wei's control of Chang'an.
But for Li Dachui, Yongfengcang tried his best to hold it. Even if he couldn't hold it, the longer the better, which was related to their plan to take time out of Chang'an.
The longer it lasts, the more strength Shuzhong will be able to draw from Chang'an.
If Yongfengcang is not lost for one day, it can also threaten Chang Lei's troops who are marching towards Chang'an.
Chadian, Niukou, and Cangping are the three fortresses defending Yongfengcang. If you want to directly threaten Yongfengcang, at least one of these three fortresses must be captured.
Linghu Shili chose the tea shop.
Niukou is next to the water, and Cangping is close to the mountains. They are both supported by natural dangers. Only the tea shop is built on the Yi Zhan plain. Although it has the most people stationed, it is the easiest one to attack.
The problems that Linghu Shili can think of can naturally be thought of by everyone in the inspection team. Stationed in the tea shop are two thousand elites led by Luo Liang and more than a thousand young and strong auxiliary soldiers.
For a small military town like Tea Shop, which is more than a thousand paces long and a hundred paces wide, more than three thousand people are enough. And it is also the upper limit that this military city can accommodate.
There is no shortage of food in the city, and eight deep wells and built reservoirs ensure an adequate supply of water.
Here, Luo Liang made full preparations to welcome the arrival of the enemy.
The thick snow was put to good use.
Thousands of people in green clothes transported the snow to the city more than ten feet away, and built a thick slope. Then they poured water on it, making it smooth and slippery, and the light was discernible. Looking over the city, it is clear at a glance that the bow feathers can easily cover the entire slope.
If the enemy wants to attack the tea shop, they must first climb over the snow wall or remove it first. However, if the thick and frozen snow wall wants to be removed, it is difficult to remove it. Isn't it an easy task, and it is even more difficult if you have to act under the eyes of your opponent.
After crossing this snow wall, you are faced with this trench more than ten feet wide between the snow wall and the city wall. This is a death trap. If you don’t go down, you can’t attack. Go down, It's not much different from sending your head to the enemy's knife.
Although Linghu Shili did not have enough brains compared to Linghu Zhishu, he was also very experienced in leading troops in war. I have never eaten pork, and I have eaten pigs running away. After all, I have been fighting for many years outside the customs. It may not be possible to introduce new formations, but I can still draw the gourd in the same way.
He only took one look at the situation in the tea shop and knew that it was impossible to fight hard.
But you can use this thing like snow, but I can’t?
As a result, more snow was transported over, and they began to build snow walls under the slope created by the tea shop defenders.
The defenders on the city were naturally not polite, and their arrows covered the area built by the opponent one after another.
After paying the price of more than a hundred casualties every day for more than ten consecutive days, Linghu Shili thickened the outer snow wall, then built up the steps. Finally, under the cover of rows of large shieldmen, Start raising the snow wall.
This time, it was the tea shop defenders’ turn to be uneasy.
Because if this continues, the snow wall outside will soon be higher than the tea shop's city wall. Once it becomes like this, the enemy will have a condescending advantage over the tea shop.
Fortunately, building such a snow wall is still under attack from the opponent, and the area that can be built is also limited. Although the snow is very large, the amount used is also too large, so it is not so easy. It can be shipped.
So the offensive surface built by the attacker is only one or two hundred steps long. Soon, the two sides started an extremely bloody fight over the distance of two hundred steps.
A springboard made of bamboo more than ten feet long was carried up the snow wall, and then with a rumbling sound, it was directly set up on the wall of the tea shop. The brave soldier held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other. Howling, he rushed over from the other side of the snow wall.
Above the city, arrows were flying like locusts, and the rain of arrows was so dense that they collided with each other.
The defenders were holding hook-and-scythe spears that were two to three feet long and pulled the opponent's legs and feet. As long as he hooked the hook and pulled lightly, half of the person fell to the ground, and the next step was not to fall into the ground. The trench was shot into a hedgehog.
But even so, there were still groups of fierce soldiers who rushed up the city wall and fought with the defenders.
Luo Liang pulled out a straight knife from the chest and abdomen of an enemy. Blood spurted out as the blade was pulled out, all over his armor, and then dripped down the armor leaves to the ground. His opponent screamed before he died. The sound made Luo Liang stunned for a moment.
The enemy was very young, probably only as old as his nephew. The motherly scream he made before his death was an authentic foreign accent.
Exactly the same as Luo Liang.
Both of them were once good men outside the Pass, and they all once fought with the Yuan people, but now, they are drawing swords from each other and killing each other.
It was this little Leng Shen who slashed Luo Liang's body with a knife. It collided with Jia Ye, sparks flew everywhere, and the huge force made Luo Hu kneel down on one knee. The enemy who slashed him was stabbed into his body by four or five spears protruding from his body in an instant, then he raised it high and threw it down the city.
This ferocious guy was on the verge of death. His curses before his death still had a foreign accent.
"Touer Luo, are you injured?" came the greeting from his companion.
Luo Liang jumped up and rushed to the edge of the city wall. He jumped up on his toes with a spear, threw it with his hands, and stabbed an enemy on the springboard. Then he said loudly: "It's okay, kill them back." !”
The soldiers in the city roared and counterattacked wave after wave, finally clearing the springboards, and then pulled them all back into the city.
Panting heavily, Luo Liang leaned over and looked at the trench between the snow wall and the city wall. The corpses accumulated in it were already half as high as the city wall.
"Let Qingzhuang pick up the body." Luo Liang said, "Then return it to the enemies outside the city!"
"Why return it to them?" A school captain said unconvinced: "I think we chopped them down His head was hung on the city wall to intimidate the enemies."
Luo Liang shook his head.
"You are from Chang'an, and you don't quite understand the Western Army. The more you act like this, the more fierce they become, and the more it arouses their desire to fight! So there is no need to make them more motivated to fight. On the contrary. , if you return the remains of the war dead to them, it will also give them a sense of sympathy, and they will not be so rude to our brothers who died in the war in the future. Moreover, they will transport these hundreds of corpses at one time. Do you think it won’t affect their will when you return to camp?”
“You won’t peel off the armor leaves either?”
"The armor leaves need to be peeled off!" Luo Liang said: "Returning their bodies is a sign of respect for the soldiers. Taking off the iron armor does not allow the enemy to use these things to attack us again. Linghuye's troops can't produce enough iron armor. Gao, let’s take one, and he’s missing one! Peel off the armor leaves, wrap the body in linen, and return it to them from the west gate.”
“Ours.” "How many casualties are there?"
"Not much less than the other party!" The captain lowered his head: "These dogs are very fierce!"
"These are all fighting against the Yuan people outside the customs!" The elites who have been killing for many years are certainly fierce, but there are not many such people under Linghu Zhili's command. He will not be willing to use such fierce soldiers to fight us every time. If we can't win today, it will definitely be easy next time. Quite a few. A tough soldier like this will only play a backbone role in the general army.”
The captain nodded silently. If the more than 10,000 people outside the city were all the fierce soldiers who rushed to the city today, this battle would be really rare.
“The officers and soldiers of the inspection brigade are actually better at individual combat effectiveness than these people. What’s worse is their courageous spirit of not taking other people’s lives as their own, nor taking their own lives as their own!” Luo Liang sighed. He said: "After a few battles, I got over it."
"General, I heard that the army outside the pass also killed women and children?" The captain was a little curious.
Luo Liang glanced at his opponent and said calmly: "If you ever encounter a child who is not as tall as a wheel and shoots you an arrow contaminated with poison unexpectedly, you will die in agony like this. You won't say anything about old people, weak women and children! But that is a dispute between ethnic groups and countries. Such things should not happen here."
"Yes, yes. Brothers are jealous of each other!" The captain smiled.
Luo Liang glanced at the other person again. This guy was the child of a wealthy merchant family in Chang'an. His family hired masters to teach him martial arts since he was a child. He was also very talented, but it was obvious that he had not experienced any cruel reality.
It doesn't matter, he will understand after a few more battles.
(End of this chapter)