Chapter 028 Hammer Protects the Lord
The first year of Yuanxing (AD 402). May.
I led the army south with Huan Xiu and met the thief soldiers in Linhai.
The number of thieves is not large, so they were defeated after several small-scale battles. Although we repelled the thief soldiers, we were surprised that they could harass from Yongjia to Linhai. It seems that Lu Xun's momentum is far beyond our imagination.
We arrived near Huiji and found that the surrounding counties, including Huiji City, were occupied by thieves. And thieves and soldiers are constantly being transferred from the south to strengthen the guards of Huiji.
There is nothing to be done in the battle from Hainan to Huiji, but a group of strong soldiers emerged in these battles. Zhu Chaoshi is the best among them. He is the younger brother of Zhu Lingshi who joined the army under Huan Xuan's account. In this Eastern Expedition to Lu Xun, Huan Xiu specially transferred Zhu Chaoshi from Jiankang to serve as the chief bodyguard of the Chinese army.
The Chinese army is a forbidden place in the army, so those who guard the Chinese army are all personal soldiers. The guards are only responsible for daily guards and do not participate in the war. Only in extraordinary times will these guards go into battle.
There are usually two types of extraordinary times: one is an ordinary extraordinary period, that is, the Lord wants the bodyguards around him to accumulate achievements for promotion, and send bodyguards to participate in the war when they are foolproof; the other is a very extraordinary period. When danger comes to the Chinese army, they are responsible for covering the retreat of the main generals and the troops.
These guards also seem to have nothing to do. I have been with the Chinese army for a long time, and I have turned a blind eye to them, and I don't have much impression of Zhu Chaoshi, who is the chief bodyguard. Until that day, he participated in the war in person.
Although Huan Xiu is the main general, he has been a civilian before. This battle from the south is basically under my command. With repeated victories and momentum, Huan Xiu, the general of the army, was also quite itchy. As the general of the North and the commander of the army, he has not personally led the army. After the deployment of attacking Huiji was completed, Huan Xuan had the intention to fight a siege battle.
Huan Xiu probably doesn't know about bandits like Lu Xun. They are like grass mustard. Although grass mustard is easy to remove, it is difficult to deal with. If you don't pay attention to it, it will be covered with your clothes.
Since Huan Xiu wants to participate in the war in person, I am also very happy.
Huan Xiu took the lead in attacking a small city around Huiji. There are less than 3,000 thieves defending the city, and there are more than 8,000 attackers on our side. Military Law Cloud: Ten siegers surround the city. Our expedition is an elite division, with 8,000 to 3,000, and the siege is not a big problem.
Before dawn, he began to bury the pot and make rice. At sunrise, Huan Xiu led the army to the city and began to attack the city. I did not participate in this siege, but planned a battle deployment to attack the Huiji with several other generals and staff in the Chinese army's account.
Towards noon, we received an emergency report from the front - General Fu was trapped in the enemy.
Hidden in the enemy array? Everyone in this war report was shocked: 8,000 people against 3,000 enemies will be surrounded and fall into the enemy. Was it raided by the enemy's army?
I was busy arranging the rescue of the army, and I ordered 2,000 soldiers to pick up first.
I met Huan Xiu who was defeated halfway. Huan Xiu was overjoyed when he saw me. He also briefly described the battle to me with guilt: it turned out that when Huan Xiu attacked the city with all his strength, he was ambushed by the enemy. Although there were only 1,000 ambushes, the unprepared Huan Xiu army was in chaos. In the hand-to-hand battle, Huan Xiu was almost buried in the battle.
Huan Xiu heard that I had arranged a large army to rescue, so he calmed down and ordered me to take these two thousand soldiers to pick up the troops behind.
As soon as I led my troops to the slope built to attack the city, I witnessed a fierce battle: our army was scattered by the thief soldiers, and a group of soldiers in the east and west were connected with the thief soldiers. Thieves kept rushing out of the city, and our army was overwhelmed.
In addition to scattered attacks, hundreds of thieves formed a siege in one place. There were only 20 or 30 people in the siege, and these 20 or 30 people were all guards of the Chinese army. It seems that the reason why Huan Xiu can escape from the siege is all due to the achievements of these guards.
The most conspicuous of the bodyguard is Zhu Chaoshi, the chief bodyguard, because he uses a unique weapon - hammer.
The hammer has a long handle, which is powerful. It seems that even standing far away on a high slope, I can hear the sound of the hammer cutting through the air. Once it is found that a thief wants to retreat to escape the attack of the long hammer, the long handle of the long hammer will suddenly break into a few sections connected by a chain, and the hammer with a long handle will suddenly turn into a flying hammer with a chain. The hammer head led the long chain and flew out and hit the target directly. Make the enemy nowhere to escape.
After the flying hammer hit, Zhu Chaoshi shook his hand and put the hammer back in his hand. I don't know how he twisted the hammer handle, and in a blink of an eye, the chain merged into a hard long handle. Seeing Zhu Chaoshi's exquisite weapon, I felt that the moon knife I carefully made was also dwarfed.
This scene is quite similar to the scene where I fought under Wujun City. It was so wonderful that I almost forgot that I came to kill the enemy and save people, not to watch the battle. Fortunately, Liu Zhong, who was beside him, reminded him in time.
I ordered Meng Longfu to lead 500 soldiers to the city to save people, and Liu Rongzu led archers to cover on the slope.
When the thief saw the rescuers arrive, they did not dare to fight, and Mingjin retreated to the city.
Because the dirt slope cut off the line of sight, except for Meng Longfu and Liu Rongzu's hundreds of soldiers, the enemy soldiers did not know how many soldiers I brought.
The so-called soldiers are not tired of fraud. When your army is stronger than the enemy, you should show that you are weak; when your army is weaker than the enemy, you should show that you are stronger. At this time, we should not only hide the army that came to the rescue, but also hide myself. I know the weight in the eyes of the thief soldiers, so I hope that when I watched the battle on the slope just now, the thief soldiers did not find me.
Meng Huaiyu took more than a dozen soldiers to the city to gather the scattered soldiers, and then deliberately retreated into groups and retreated to the distance as exhausted soldiers.
Half an hour later, Meng Huaiyu, Zhu Chaoshi and Meng Longfu led 1,000 people to the city and began to attack the city.
With these three fierce generals, the siege battle is in full swing. The defenders of the city suddenly fell into exhaustion. Because the thieves did not have a chance to set an ambush, they no longer played the same trick to disturb the enemy. In the previous war, I had seen the bravery of Zhu Chaoshi and Meng Longfu, and I was afraid of going out of the city and dying.
The offensive and defensive sides have formed a state of stalemate.
But soon, this sticky state was cracked by our army. Because when I lined up under the city with a thousand troops, the heart of the city was greatly shocked.
I personally sat in the city, and Sun Jigao and Kuan led the team to assist. Many of the thieves know us. Seeing that Kuai En and I came together, I was already scared. Shouting "Liu Nu is coming!" It's me who is afraid of me; shouting, "The black face is boiling stars!" What I'm afraid of is En; shouting, "Liu Nu and the black face are here!" I'm afraid of both of us.