"Report, general, that the bandits have marched to the edge of the Raoyang River in large numbers and are trying to build a pontoon bridge."
On the 20th day of the western lunar month of the sixth year of Jian'an, at the end of the hour, in the lobby of the city guard's office in Xiandu City, Yang Yi was discussing city defense matters with several close generals. Suddenly, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps, and a man The Junhou, who was dripping with sweat, rushed up to the hall in a hurry. He kneeled down on Yang Yi and reported anxiously.
"Hiss... pass the order: send more reconnaissance cavalry and investigate again!"
A few days ago, the sentry sent by Yangyi to investigate in western Liaoning just reported that the Youzhou cavalry was dispersing to pacify various places in western Liaoning. Yangyi thought that he still had ten days to prepare, but he never expected that Youzhou cavalry was dispersing to pacify various places in western Liaoning. The state army rushed over so quickly that Dang even took a breath of cold air involuntarily.
"promise!"
Hearing Yang Yi's unkind tone, the Ranger Marquis who came to report did not dare to delay at all, and hurriedly left the hall as soon as he made his promise.
"My lords, since the traitor army has arrived, a fierce battle is probably around the corner. I also ask you to return to your headquarters immediately, mobilize all the troops, and speed up the construction of city defenses. There must be no slack in the slightest."
After all, Yang Yi is a veteran in the army. Although his courage is a little lacking, his battle experience is not bad. When the battle is about to come, he has no intention of holding any more seminars, so he immediately goes to the army. The Taoist general ordered all the confidants to be sent away...
"Woo, woo, woo..."
The Youzhou Army arrived at Xiandu City much earlier than the Liaodong Army soldiers expected. No, not long after noon, smoke and dust were already billowing on the distant horizon. Although it was still visible The true appearance of the Youzhou Army was unknown, but just by looking at the size of the smoke, one could tell that the enemy numbered no less than a hundred thousand. The sentries at the city head who were alerted immediately blew the emergency horns frantically.
"Asshole, even if the bandit army wants to attack the city, it will be tomorrow. You are so panicked, why don't you quickly close the city gate, pull up the suspension bridge, and speed up the repair progress? Anyone who dares to delay will be killed without mercy!"
Wan Tao, the guard of the west gate of Xiandu City, was taking a nap in the city gate tower. Suddenly he heard the chaos outside. When he woke up, he didn't care about criticizing the armor. He jumped out of the city gate tower with his shirt off. Bu grabbed the city plate, looked into the distance, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes. He was obviously frightened by the strength of the Youzhou Army, but he saw that all the soldiers under his command had panic expressions on their faces. , Wan Tao had no choice but to pretend to be calm and roared, finally suppressing the commotion at the top of the city.
"Stop the whole army and camp on the spot!"
Wan Tao was indeed right. At the end of the day, the Youzhou army arrived at a distance of about two and a half miles in front of the city and stopped pushing forward. Following Gongsun Ming's order, in addition to more than ten thousand cavalry troops leading their horses, Directly ahead, waiting for the enemy in formation, hundreds of thousands of troops quickly gathered on the spot, and the fields were busy chopping firewood. At the same time, the repair of the city's fortifications was also in full swing. For a time, the sound of ping-ping-pong-pang-pong was heard all over the city and below...
"Dong, dong dong..."
Wan Tao was right again. Early the next morning, before the sun had risen, a burst of war drums sounded in the Youzhou Army camp. Soon, the gates of the three camps on the left, middle and right were heard banging at the same time. The hole was opened, and a large number of Youzhou troops marched out to the beat of drums, pushing all kinds of siege equipment and meandering towards the bottom of Xiandu City. Before three o'clock, the three-way siege troops had already reached the west and north sides of Xiandu City. The east and south sides were completely surrounded, leaving only the east side facing the Liao River. However, a large number of cavalry troops were dragging upstream in the north and south directions from time to time to prevent the defenders from suddenly rushing out from the east gate.
"Don't panic. Our city is well-defended and has plenty of wood and rolling stones. It cannot be attacked by anything other than a bandit army. Keep your spirits up and let the bandits from Youzhou have a chance to see the majesty of our Liaodong soldiers."
Wan Tao said yesterday that the Youzhou Army would come to attack the city today, but he just said it casually, but he never expected that he would be right. Not only that, the focus of the Youzhou Army's attack would actually be on At the east city he was guarding, at this time, while secretly regretting his crow's mouth, he had to pretend to be ruthless and cheer for his soldiers loudly.
"Let's get started."
Wan Tao's encouragement seemed to have some effect. A sparse war cry soon sounded from the top of the city. Gongsun Ming didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he just issued the message in a calm voice. The general's order for the general attack.
"The thieves are coming, hurry up, prepare each battalion for battle, prepare for battle!"
As Gongsun Ming's order was issued, a burst of drum beats sounded immediately in the Youzhou Army's formation. Soon, three thousand infantry soldiers lined up in a neat square formation and began to move forward, but the speed was not Very quickly, but Wan Tao didn't dare to be careless at all, and immediately started shouting.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Just as the defenders at the top of the city were on tense alert, the more than 30 counterweighted heavy trebuchets in front of the Youzhou Army array and the more than 100 light trebuchets equipped in the front began to roar almost at the same time, but the sound of the machine reeds was loud. Suddenly, stone bullets whizzed and hit the top of the city. The sound was very loud, but unfortunately the accuracy was not very good. Among the more than 130 stone bullets, only 20%25 did not actually hit it. On the top of the city, although some losses were caused to the defenders, they were not serious. Only one soldier who failed to get out of the way was killed by random bullets, and two others suffered some injuries. Compared to the more than two thousand soldiers and civilians who defended the city, such damage was almost negligible.
"Don't move, hide it, move the thieves' infantry closer and then attack!"
Although he was frightened by the huge power of the more than thirty heavy trebuchets of the Youzhou Army, Wan Tao's tense heartstrings immediately relaxed slightly when he saw that the accuracy of these trebuchets was so bad.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Wan Tao wanted to wait for the infantry of the Youzhou Army to charge forward. Unfortunately, the infantry of the Youzhou Army not only failed to charge, but stopped more than eighty steps away from the city. At this time, the Youzhou Army infantry completed the verification. However, the state army's trebuchet troops started roaring again. This time, what was fired was not stone bullets, but cupping jars - the jars were very ordinary, and they looked like ordinary wine jars, except for the mouth of the jar. But they were extremely small, and they were all blocked with rags. Before launching, all the longer rags had been ignited. Other than that, there was nothing unusual about this batch of cupping jars, at least in Wan Tao's view. , he didn’t even deliberately tell his soldiers to stay vigilant, he just watched those cupping jars falling from the sky quickly...
