Chapter 13 Battle Flag Volume

Let's say that Li Wei and Yang Neng decisively put down Gao Jie's rebellion in Tanzhou, made great contributions to Daqi, and saved the base of Tanzhou. The military and the people united and determined to stop the invading Li Tang from suppressing army.

Li Qian and Yang Neng learned about the attack time of the Tang army from Gao Jie's cronies captured, accelerated the operation of urban defense and fortifications, ready. At the same time, multiple messengers were sent to the leaders of the rebels in various places to ask for reinforcements.

Xue Tao, Liang Yu, Dou Mei and Song Wentong did not know what had changed in Tanzhou, but they still marched according to the original plan and soon arrived at the city of Tanzhou. In the middle of the night, Xue Tao and Liang Ying led 10,000 troops and went straight to the north gate. Dou Mei and Song Wentong led 10,000 troops to garrison the camp.

Three piles of fires were indeed ignited on the north wall. Then, the north gate of Tanzhou opened. Tang soldiers flew to Xue Tao and Liang Yu. The two generals were overjoyed and ordered Tang soldiers to kill into the city.

Tang Bing roared and rushed into the city. As soon as he entered hundreds of soldiers and horses, he could only hear the sound of "ploping" everywhere. It turned out that Li Jian and Yang Neng had already ordered the soldiers and civilians to dig a lot of pits at the gate of the city, and placed iron thistle, horse guns, ground astringent, hoofs, ground gun racks, paving brocade, golden vertebrae and so on. Tang soldiers fell one after another. Entering the pit, people and horses were disturbed, trampling on each other, killing and injuring countless people.

Li Qian and Yang Neng urgently ordered the volunteers defending the city to release arrows. In an emergency, arrows fell on the head of the city, killing the Tang soldiers inside and outside the city and turning their horses upside down and crying.

Xue Tao and Liang Yu were shocked and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw their troops. In this battle, the Tang army damaged more than 2,000 people and withdrew back to the camp.

When Dou Mei and Song Wentong saw Xue Tao and Liang Yu's defeat, they couldn't help sighing and scolded Gao Jie and Tu Sheng.

The next day, Tang Bing reported to Dou Mei and four other generals: "Two heads hung on the north gate of Tanzhou, one of which we seem to have seen!"

Xue Tao, Liang Yu, Dou Mei and Song Wentong came to the outside of the north city. Song Wentong took a closer look and finally recognized Tu Sheng. Song Wentong said, "I have seen Tu Sheng. This person is the Tanzhou thief who went to Zhang Zimian a few days ago to beg for surrender. I saw that ten * were detected by other thieves in the city and killed them. There is also a head, which I guess is Gao Jie. If I guess correctly, Gao Jie must have drifted away this time. We stole chickens and eroded a handful of rice!"

As soon as Song Wen's call fell, he saw Li Jian shouting at the head of the city: "The Tang generals of the city listen. Gao Jie betrayed Daqi and wanted to be your inner responders. He has been killed by the generals of Daqi! We are fully prepared and not afraid of you coming to fight. If you don't believe it, come and fight. Grandpa Li will accompany you to the end!"

Tang soldiers and generals listened and looked at the high Tanzhou City. They saw the "Daqi" military flag with a yellow background on the top of the city hunting in the wind. Rows of volunteers stood on the wall with weapons, majestic, and Tang soldiers and Tang generals couldn't help but feel furious.

Dou Mei said, "Tanzhou City is high and deep. We definitely can't take down our soldiers and horses. Let's wait for General Zhang's army to arrive!"

Soon, Zhang Zimian's 50,000 soldiers and horses rushed to Tanzhou City. Xue Tao, Liang Yu, Dou Mei and Song Wentong talked about the setback of the attack. Zhang Zimian was shocked when he heard the news and sighed softly: "I didn't expect that there was a master in the thief army. Is it strange that Gao Jie, a young man, didn't fall into a plan? Now you deserve to have a different head!"

Xue Tao asked, "General Zhang, for today's plan, shall we fight Tanzhou?"

"I have different opinions about Gao Yu's mobilization of elite soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains to besiege and suppress the Huangchao bandits from the beginning. Through more than three years of operation, the thief is now becoming more and more powerful. He is definitely not a soft persimmon, which can be picked up by us. Our army came from afar, and the thieves waited for work. If the nearby thieves came to reinforce, our army would inevitably suffer losses. Now there is only one way, which is to attack Tanzhou City. I have set it for three days. If you take Tanzhou within three days, it will be the best; in case you can't take it, you have to defend the base and attack elsewhere!" Zhang Zimian said slowly.

"Why?" Liang Yu's face was puzzled.

Zhang Zimian explained: "No matter what the nature of the war is, what they fight for is consumption, supply, and equipment. Now, our second-way army is suppressing the Huangchao thieves in the south of the Yangtze River. This man eats horses and consumes a lot of time. If you attack a city, you can't fight quickly. If you stay under the strong city for a long time and last for a long time, the army will be chaotic, chaos will change, and change will be defeated!"

Cao Quanyan nod his head and praised: "General Zhang has three flavors of Sun Wu's military tactics. If he can win, he will fight. If he can't win, he will find other ways. Huang Chao's thief plagiarized and cunning, and wanted to solve them by fighting a few battles. It's like asking for fish. It's impossible!"

Zhang Zimian pulled out Shang Fang's sword and covered his face with frost: "All the generals obey the order! Cao Quanyu and Yao Qing led 10,000 troops to attack the East City; Cao Yi led 10,000 troops to attack the South City; Xue Tao led 10,000 troops to attack the West City; Liang Yu led 10,000 troops to attack the North City. I, Dou Mei and Song Wentong led the remaining more than 30,000 horses to camp in the east of Tanzhou to intercept the thief soldiers who reinforced Tanzhou. Attack Tanzhou for up to three days. If you can't take down Tanzhou within three days, you must withdraw from the battle, concentrate in the battalion, pull out to Qiaokou Town, and turn to attack other states and counties.

"Yes!" After saying that, the generals received the arrows one after another and deployed the siege.

A few days later, according to Zhang Zimian's deployment, Tang Jun surrounded Tanzhou like an iron barrel and attacked him at the same time. Tang will organize death squads, quickly build a flying bridge, set up a ladder, and climb to the top of the city. Li Qian is responsible for defending Dongcheng and Beicheng, and Yang Neng is responsible for defending Nancheng and Xicheng. Li Jian and Yang Neng saw that the Tang soldiers and ants came to the city, and urgently ordered the volunteers to use wolf teeth, Naimu and other city defense equipment to attack the Tang soldiers, and let the people pour hot oil on the Tang soldiers. The Tang soldiers who climbed the tower were blocked with dense arrows, and then the commandos sent out a countercharge to suppress the Tang soldiers down the city. The Tang army suffered heavy casualties and was full of corpses. More than a dozen attacks on the first day were repelled by the soldiers and civilians of Tanzhou Daqi.

The day after the attack, Cao Quanhan used a number of stone throwing machines to send flying stones to Dongcheng at the same time, and organized archers to shoot intensively at the head of the city. The soldiers and civilians had to escape. Cao Quanyi took the lead, holding an iron whip in his right hand and a shield in his left hand, and killed the city along the ladder with the death squad. Cao Quanyu was the first to climb to the top of the city, blocked the arrows fired by the volunteers with a shield, and whipped several counterattack volunteers. Tang soldiers rushed up and fought with the volunteers on the wall. After a fierce battle, they finally occupied the East City.

Seeing that Dongcheng was lost, Li Qian and Yang Neng quickly reduced their troops and retreated to the inner city to defend. Tang soldiers rushed into the outer city of Tanzhou like a tide and continued to attack the inner city. Li Qian and Yang Neng commanded the soldiers and civilians to fight to the death, and the situation was very critical!

Maybe God bless Daqi. At this point in the Battle of Tanzhou, Zhang Zimian's army should be sure to win. The balance of the war has obviously favored the Tang army. At this juke, the sound of killing outside the east city was shocking. Sun Mei and Shang Rang led 50,000 horses to appear in front of Zhang Zimian's camp! The "Daqi" military flag flutters in the wind!

It turned out that after Sun Mei received the urgent documents from Yue Lingfei and Li Wei, Monk Rang and others decided to send troops to rescue Tanzhou first, and then transfer their troops to the north to relieve the encirclement of Dongting Lake islands. Sun Mei and Shang Rang arranged the defense of Jiangzhou and raised 30,000 troops and went straight to Tanzhou. When passing through Hongzhou, Xu Jian and Mi Shi also ordered 20,000 troops.

Shang asked the command department to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to kick the Tang camp, demanding that they must pull out the "Zhang" flag of the Tang camp and stick to Zhang Zimian's battalion. Xu Jian and Mi Shi led their troops straight to the East City and attacked Cao Quanyu's rear army. Sun Mei and Shang Rang led 30,000 horses to sweep other attacking the Tang army from the North City.

Zhang Zimian was shocked and urgently ordered Dou Mei and Song Wentong to lead the troops to stop Li Tangbin and Kang Shiming's soldiers. Li Tangbin waved the hammer and blocked the way when he met Dou Mei. Li Tangbin hit Dou Mei with a hammer. Dou Mei hurriedly raised the wind ring knife to separate. The second general fought more than 30 times. Dou Mei was timid and left. She was caught by Li Tangbin and hit the back armor. Fortunately, she only touched the outer armor. Dou Mei was dizzy and hit the horse in a hurry. Chi, his own soldiers quickly came forward to rescue and intercept Li Tangbin from fighting.

Li Tangbin roared and rose up his power. He knocked down more than a dozen Dou Mei's own soldiers one after another, and took six or seven hundred volunteers to Zhang Zimian's army tent. Tang soldiers could not resist and fled one after another. Li Tangbin rushed to the front of the flag of Tangying and saw the word "Zhang" on the flag turning back and forth in the wind. Li Tangbin hammered several times in a row and broke the flagpole into several sections. Tang Bing was stunned and did not dare to approach the battle.

The seven-treasure dragon shovel in Kang Shiming's hand has been pestering Song Wentong. Song Wentong supports King Yu to open the mountain and fight with Kang Shiming in 40 or 50, which is difficult to win or lose. Zhang Zimian saw that the Shuai flag was broken and the three armies seized their anger. He couldn't help but secretly complain. He also received an urgent report from the Tang generals who attacked the city, saying that Sun Mei and Shang Rang's soldiers were like wolves and tigers, killing the Tang soldiers stopped attacking the city and turned to deal with the "thief" reinforcements.

Zhang Zimian stamped his feet in a hurry and wanted a good pot of food. Now all the reinforcements of Sun Mei and Shang Rang have been messed up. If they continue to fight, they will definitely not be able to take advantage of it, and the loss will be greater. He had to order all the Tang soldiers inside and outside Tanzhou City to quickly retreat north to Huzhen's military station in Qiaokou Town, and make plans for each other.

Li Qian and Yang Neng saw Daqi's reinforcements rush behind the Tang army in the inner city. Sun Mei and Shang let the Chinese army they led down the mountain like a fierce tiger, killing the corpses of the Tang army in the siege of the city all over the field, bleeding into a river. Where the "Daqi" military flag passed, all Tang soldiers fled one after another.

Xue Tao, Liang Wei and Cao Xiang's soldiers and horses were suddenly attacked by volunteers, and their feet were in chaos. Li Qian and Yang Neng ordered the rebels in the inner city to leave the city and cooperate with Sun Mei and Shang Rang to attack the Tang army.

The Tang army was defeated and scrambled to escape for their lives. Cao Quanyu was chased by the soldiers led by Xu Jian and Mi Shi on the way back, so he had to turn around and fight. Xu Jian waved the golden dipping axe, Mi Shi waved the trapped dragon halberd, and fought against Cao Quanyu. Cao Quanyi waved iron whips and fought against the two generals without fear at all. While the soldiers of the two sides were fighting hard, Cao Xiang led a Biao army to kill Cao Quanyu. Xu Jian and Mi Shi saw that Cao Xiang was ugly and had strong martial arts skills and hurriedly returned to Tanzhou.

Zhang Zimian led the defeated soldiers and fled back to Qiaokou Town, count the number of people, attacked the city with 70,000 soldiers and horses, and damaged more than 40,000 soldiers and generals, which was very troublesome. Hu Zhen said, "General Zhang, now a lot of our army's grain and fodder have been taken away by thieves, and their spirit has been lost. Staying here is tantamount to chronic suicide, and the whole army is bound to be destroyed. I think it's better to find another way. We don't have to bury with Gao Yu!"

"Our army's long-distance attack is about surprise and quick decision. Now the opportunity of the war has been lost. This time it was defeated by Sun Mei and Shang Rang. I really can't swallow this breath!" Zhang Zimian shook his head and sighed.

"We have been around Jiangnan for more than a month, and we didn't even get the tail of Huang Chao's main force. Instead, we were repaired by the thief's division. Like you, I can't swallow this breath! General Zhang, don't do it or stop. We simply try our best to attack Jizhou and Qianzhou, which are weakly guarded by bandits. Maybe we can get a vote. If we win any of these two states, we will have a supply. Hu Zhen's eyes turned and came up with an ideas.

"Well, let's try it!" Zhang Zimian responded weakly.