Chapter 46 Willows and Flowers in Desperate Situation
Thirty thousand soldiers were divided into three siege teams. The shield camp was in the front, the bow and arrow camp was in the middle, and the siege equipment camp was behind. In the sound of earth-shocking drums, they rushed to the towering ancient city wall!
Yizhou army, Yanzhao's hot-blooded men, are indeed brave, but the siege is their weakness. Although every officer also knows the siege in the east and north of the city, and they have also summarized some skills and experience in siege, they are still unskilled in the actual siege.
It is directly manifested that in the face of the stone throwing machine and bed crossbow of the defending army, hundreds of soldiers were still killed by stones and arrows. Of course, they knew to speed up the charge while the garrison re-operated the gap between the stone thrower and the crossbow.
Even if the Yizhou army was not afraid of death, their attack stopped abruptly to the wall. They could only build the ladder on the wall. In the face of the enemy's dense arrows, the Yizhou soldiers could not climb the ladder at all.
The number of casualties on both the offensive and defensive sides is one to five. After losing 5,000 soldiers, the Yizhou army retreated helplessly. Lv Bu led his generals and soldiers who were still shooting the enemy with bows and arrows. The attack was brilliant, and only dozens of people were slightly injured.
The Xiliang army guarding the city was beaten into a turtle by Lv Bu, and they all hid behind the arrow pile. According to the situation, as long as Lv Bu's side does not climb the ladder, the Xiliang army defending the city will not fight back at all and let Lv Bu attack.
In this way, the originally spectacular siege battle turned into Lv Bu's personal performance show. And Lv Bu is not close to the 200-meter area of the city wall. That area is a dangerous area of the innate realm. Lv Bu is not a fool.
At noon, Lv Bu saw that the Western Liang soldiers on the city wall were no longer quiet, and suddenly got up. Dong Cheng and Yang Ding, the owner of Xiliang, ignored their image and led the bodyguards to leave the gate tower in a hurry. Then, more and more Xiliang soldiers left the aisle of the city wall, not even the stone throwing machine and the crossbow.
With the strange retreat of the Xiliang soldiers, more and more volunteers walked to the wall, and these volunteers hid behind the arrows one by one with fear.
The bizarre performance of Xiliang soldiers, Lv Bu was puzzled: What happened? How did the dominant Xiliang Army abandon the city? What do the Xiliang generals want to do? ......
Lv Bu is brave, but his wisdom is indeed limited. Otherwise, he would not be played with by Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun. Chunyu Qiong, who was dejected, was not. Like a dog, he smelled the delicious food from the vision in his sight: Could it be that the city in other directions was broken by the allied forces? ... In this way, we can only deal with the current situation according to the second plan formulated by Commander Yuan Shao!
Chunyuqiong's spirit was suddenly uplifted, and he once again commanded the army to launch a siege. The siege battle was surprisingly smooth: the volunteers on the city wall just symbolically shot arrows, and casually threw rolling wood, gravel and other city defense equipment under the city without a goal. When the Yizhou army climbed the ladder, they fled in confusion.
After Chunyu Qiong successfully climbed the towering wall, he looked at the area where the Xiliang army was retreating to the west of the city. At this time, the smoke and dust from the streets of the south of the city covered the sky and the sun.
In Lv Bu's sharp and wild eyes, Chun Yuqiong commanded the soldiers to open the gate in time and let Lv Bu's iron cavalry enter the city. Lv Bu did not say hello to Chun Yuqiong, and led the army to the depths of the city. His goal was the mansion of a large rich family. There were no beautiful women and rare treasures... Those things were Lv Bu's favorite. This is the ultimate goal of Lv Bu's participation in the Allies.
And Chun Yuqiong's performance was more strange than the hurried retreating Xiliang army. He did not send troops to defend the wall in the south of the city, but led the army straight to the north of the city. Like Lv Bu, he did not lead the army to chase the fleeing Xiliang army.
If Lv Bu hadn't led 10,000 iron cavalry to harm the rich clans, the whole southern part of the city would be too lonely. Many ordinary people were afraid of the disaster, so they fled from the hot city from the gate in the south of the city one after another.
If the south of the city is the area where people gather to escape, then the west of the city is the area where the Xiliang Legion gathers. When the surviving soldiers gathered at the gate of the west of the city in the east, south and north of the city, the senior officials of the Xiliang Legion did not see the figures of Li Wei and Guo Yan.
Without the presence of the big leader, the surviving people should also consider the plan to survive. In the three-day battle, the 200,000 troops of the Xiliang Legion were only 70,000 or 80,000 in front of them, and Ma Teng was blocked in the front, and Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Gongsun Zan and other allied forces pursued in the back. The situation was critical.
After the sum of Sanpin generals Yang Feng, Dong Cheng, Yang Ding and Shi Li Ru, the commander of the Xiliang Legion, they decided to surrender to the Ma Teng army stationed in the west of the city.
Among the senior management of Xiliang, only Yang Feng and Ma Teng have a good relationship. Although Yang Feng's power is now second to none in the Xiliang Legion, as a rising star, Yang Feng has been suppressed by Li Wei, Guo Yan and others, and Yang Feng has always been depressed. As a marginal force of the Xiliang Legion, he has been dealings with Ma Teng in the dark. In the past few years, Ma Teng, together with Han Sui and Liu Yan from Yizhou, attacked Chang'an City. Yang Feng acted as an internal helper.
Of course, before the sneak attack, the plan of Ma Teng and others was seen through by the poisoner Jia Xu, and Yang Feng kept his own peace. Of course, the poisoner Jia Xu deliberately concealed the secret of Yang Feng as the insider of the sneak attack plan from Li Yu and Guo Wei. This is also a friendship that Jia Xu sold to Yang Feng.
Under the protection of the super general Xu Huang and 100 bodyguards, Yang Feng and Li Ru walked out of the gate to Ma Teng's camp to make peace.
Of course, Ma Teng also saw the dust flying in the city, the birds flying, and the faint sound of fighting. So Ma Teng was ready to block the Xiliang soldiers who fled from the west of the city. Ma Tengwan, who was waiting, didn't expect that Yang Feng, the third general, actually walked out of the city with a white flag.
In the face of Yang Feng's surrender, Ma Teng's majestic face began to soften. He raised his hand and motioned the archer behind him to put down the bow and arrow. In the face of Yang Feng, Ma Teng was not angry or hateful. After all, the failure of the sneak attack a few years ago had nothing to do with Yang Feng. It was caused by the behavior of the two sons of Liu Yan, the pastor of Yizhou. Before the sneak attack, the two sneaked into Chang'an City to look for flowers and asked Liu. As a result, they were caught by the poisoner Jia Xu. After coming and going, Jia Xu mastered Ma Teng, Han Sui and Liu Yan. The conspiracy of a joint sneak attack on Chang'an... Under Jia Xu's plan, the Xiliang Legion pushed the boat along the water. As a result, it thwarted the sneak attack of Ma Teng and others to attack the city and killed Liu Yan's two sons on the spot.
Yang Feng, who came on the face, saw that Ma Teng was very face-front, so he boldly urged him alone to march ten meters away from Ma Teng.
In the face of his former allies, Yang Feng came straight to Ma Teng and said, "Ma Taishou, at this time, on behalf of the Xiliang Legion, I will surrender to you and hope Ma Taishou will accept it!"
Ma Teng didn't expect that the Xiliang Legion could lower his arrogant head to him. His face was stunned when he heard the words, and then he slowly said to Yang Feng, "General Yang, I take your intention, but my ability is limited. The pool in Fufeng County is too shallow to let go of the Xiliang Legion. Big fish... General Yang, you came forward to seek a way to survive for the Xiliang Legion. I can't refuse people thousands of miles away, and I won't fall into the well... General Yang, to make a long story short, if there is no army chasing you after two hours, I will open the door of convenience for you and let you pass through my defense zone!"
After listening to Ma Teng's straightforward words, Yang Feng was immediately moved. His eyes turned red, and he squeezed his lips and nodded heavily to Ma Teng. Then, under the enthusiastic attention of Ma Teng, Yang Feng returned to the city with Li Ru, Xu Huang and a hundred bodyguards. Yang Feng conveyed Ma Teng's intention to another general. Other generals expressed their understanding and acceptance. After all, Ma Teng is also a part of the rebel alliance army. Ma Teng has no right and can't immediately let the Xiliang Legion escape through his own defense zone. Ma Teng wants to see if there is an alliance army chasing the Xiliang Legion gathered in the west of the city.
In Ma Teng's understanding, through the war report on the second day, he also saw that the relationship between the parties of the alliance army was not enough, but had their own ghosts: the princes of all parties did not join hands to attack the city, but fought separately - the north of the city decided the order of siege by grabbing the lot, and the east of the city was to fight for success and profits... If it weren't for Cao Cao Cao's secret. The weapon serial stone thrower, if the soldiers of the allied army are killed, they may not be able to capture the city!
There must be some tricks and unspeakable plots in it. According to his intuition, Ma Teng decided to limit it to two hours. If there were no other allies besieging the Xiliang Legion from the city after two hours, he could only give Yang Feng a favor and let the Xiliang Legion go!
In two hours, even riding a snail can rush from the other direction of the city to the west of the city. In this way, Ma Teng also has excuses and reasons to explain to other allies.
Even if an ally blames him in the end, he can take the opportunity to refute. Ten thousand steps back, can his 30,000 soldiers resist 70,000 or 80,000 desperate mourners?
In the confrontation between the two sides, time passes by a second, and the generals of Xiliang are simply living like a year. In order to prevent the allied forces from besieging the inside of the city, the Xiliang Legion did not wait for death: they put the refuse horses on the streets and put the crossbows behind the horse array.
And the allied forces in the city only guarded the area in the center of the city, and did not send troops to chase the Xiliang army gathered in the west of the city. At this time, only the western region of Chang'an City is silent. The south city occasionally has a little ripples, and the east city has gradually changed from lively to tranquility. Only the people in the north city are boiling, the war horses are hissing, and the killing sound is shocking...
Two hours finally passed. Ma Teng saw that there were no other allies chasing the Xiliang Army, so he commanded his generals to dismantle the resistance. At the same time, the gate of the west of the city opened, and the Xiliang soldiers swarmed out and fled to the northwest through the defense zone of Mateng at the fastest speed.
70,000 to 80,000 Xiliang soldiers completely disappeared from sight. Ma Teng did not send troops to take over the defense of the city. He just sent troops to take over the armory, granary, treasure house and other material gathering places of the Xiliang Legion in the west of the city. Like the new weapon bed crossbow, Ma Teng did not let go of one, and all of them were confiscated as a victory.
After all this, regardless of the night and hunger, Ma Teng led the army back to Fufeng County. He didn't want to stay near Chang'an City for a moment, because he sent out to explore the scouts of Junqing and come back to tell him the situation in the north of the city. At this moment, Ma Teng is chilled. It's true that Huaiyin Marquis is not Huaiyin Marquis, but Hanxin (Han Xin)... Ma Teng's personal feeling: If Han Xin knows his ending, it's better to be an ordinary person. Don't become a marquis! The result is so chilling...
Ma Teng thought that his beloved daughter Ma Yunqi was still in the coalition camp in the north of the city, so he ordered Ma Chao to pick up Ma Yunqi. The wise and brave Ma Chao imagined his sister Ma Yunqi's relationship with Tai Shici at this time, so he asked his father Ma Teng more: Father, what should I do if Yunmei doesn't want to come back?
Ma Teng frowned slightly and said to Ma Chao: Women's University doesn't want to stay, Chaoer, if Yun'er doesn't want to come back, you can escort them to a safe area...
Ma Chao shook his head helplessly, and then he said goodbye to his father Ma Teng and led a hundred halberd warriors to the north of the city.
What makes Ma Teng feel cold? What is the situation that makes Ma Teng's daughter safe?