Chapter 117 Guan Daokou's Death War 1

Cao Wenyao led his troops to arrive at Guandaokou on April 8 and stopped again three miles north of the Bingbao at Guandaokou. As he ordered Yu Fuxiang to continue to command and camp, he took his generals out of the Bingbao and began to stop and take a full view of the temporary earthen castle in front of him.

After taking a look at this small earthen castle, Cao Wenyao couldn't help but sneer at the military fort here. In his early years, when he followed his brother Cao Wenyao as a soldier outside the customs, Daming's best thing was to build a fort outside the customs, and the Tunbao he had seen can be said to be countless, like the Xing Tianjun at the entrance of the official road. He really doesn't pay much attention to the castle built.

"It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous that the thief wants to block our army with just a small earth castle! You have also seen it. Do you dare to take down this castle on behalf of me?" Cao Wenyao pointed a horse whip at the earth castle with a high flag of the Xing Tianjun in front of him and said to the generals.

As soon as the words fell, several presidents hugged their fists and shouted, "I'm willing to invite you to fight!"

Seeing several generals coming out to fight, Cao Wenyao was in a much better mood. What he was worried about was that his generals were scared because of the first battle. Now it seems that at least these people dare to fight, which shows that this battle can still be fought.

Cao Wenyao didn't talk nonsense. He ordered two Mr. Qian to immediately prepare equipment to attack the military castle of the imperial court. He himself gathered his troops to watch the enemy in the back.

Liu Yao did not expect the officers and soldiers to come to discuss with them this time. As soon as the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were ready to attack, he immediately ordered to fire.

The two armies took a breath. As soon as the war began, Cao Wenyao led his troops to attack Lushi County, which was ready to attack. At the same time, when Yu Fuxiang met Cao Wenyao from Shaanxi, he was also ready, so this time, all kinds of artillery brought by Cao Yu and the army were close. There are as many as a hundred, including the French-style bead cannon, the front-mounted general cannon, the light and easy-to-carry tiger squat gun, and even two large-caliber general cannons, which are specially used to attack the city.

So as soon as they opened fire, the firepower of the officers and soldiers immediately suppressed the artillery on Liu Yaoben's side, but Xing Tianjun's side did not give it in vain. Their biggest advantage was that the quality of the artillery exceeded the other side, but that the gunners of the Xing Tianjun almost all had undergone basic and systematic gun operation training, so the accuracy should be high when firing. There were a lot of gunners in the imperial army. After two rounds of gunfire, the artillery on the side of Xing Tianjun began to become much more accurate, and the shells that were fired began to fall into the artillery array of the officers and soldiers, and soon overturned several cannons of the officers and soldiers.

In a word, at the beginning of the artillery battle between the two armies, the two armies fought very fiercely, and both sides also had their own losses. They could not distinguish a high or lower, and then the officers and soldiers began to send generals to attack the burg.

There is nothing to describe this kind of attack. In a word, in front of Xing Tianjun's firearmed shooting, the officers and soldiers could not get much benefit at all. Soon after a day, they repelled the officers and soldiers' three attacks, so that Cao Wenyao's offensive on the first day could only withdraw troops hastily.

After this day, Cao Wenyao had to put away his contempt for the earth castle in front of him, which did not look very strong, and also had to put away his contempt for Xing Tianjun. The group of Xing Tianjun troops guarding in the castle fought very tenaciously. Moreover, the bright-eyed people can see that their training is quite sufficient. They are not as chaotic as the thieves that Cao Wenyao met before, but they have been very orderly from beginning to end, and their obedience to orders is far more than the officers and soldiers under Cao Wenyao's command.

Xing Tianjun's performance surprised Cao Wenyao a little. Only then did he believe Yu Fuxiang's evaluation of Xing Tianjun and knew that he had a hard bone this time.

So in the next three days, Cao Wenyao constantly sent his officers and soldiers to attack the earth castle in turn, but every time he hit his head and blood in front of the earth castle without exception. Cao Wenyao was so angry that he personally killed two generals who did not obey the military order, which forced his command. The officers and soldiers continued to attack the earth castle.

However, although in a few days, Liu Yao has successfully commanded the troops to repel the attack of the officers and soldiers, it is not easy for him. After all, the officers and soldiers are much stronger than him, especially the number of artillery is far more than the artillery at hand, and he has always held the initiative of the battlefield. In the past few days, in the fort Many of the artillery were destroyed by the artillery fire of the officers. The bigger problem was that they had limited ammunition at hand, and such a large amount of consumption was unbearable. What's more, because the officers were blocked here, they could not get the replenishment of ammunition, so that the inventory in the fort began to be a little unsupportable after a few days of consumption.

Another problem is that the lifespan of the fire pipe in their hands is limited. In a few days, the ammunition fired by each fire pipe is no less than two or three hundred rounds, so that the life of the limited pipe is quickly consumed. On the fourth day, the self-fired fire in the hands of some fire hands can no longer be fired, and they There was no new fire gun on hand to replace, which gradually weakened their firepower.

Although under the mobilization of him and his subordinate officers, the soldiers of the Xingtian Army played a strong combat effectiveness and showed a fierce and fearless style, in the past few days, although they killed and injured a large number of officers and soldiers, they also paid a lot of casualties.

There are a large number of troops on the side of the officers and soldiers, but Liu Yaoben's troops are very limited. The officers and soldiers can launch attacks one round after another, but the soldiers in the fort can't rotate frequently. They can only stick to the front wall. In a few days, there have been many casualties, and everyone is quite tired.

This is also the most worrying thing for Liu Yao. If the officers and soldiers attack in turn, what he is most afraid of is that his soldiers and generals can't stand up one by one, but before the arrival of the reinforcements, he can't get any supplement at all, and can only stick to it here.

These days, under the artillery fire of the officers and soldiers, the originally weak wall has been bombarded with holes. Some places have even collapsed, revealing the logs in the inner side, which also forces Liu Yaoben to constantly take advantage of the gap between the battle and send people to repair these damaged walls. In this way, It is even more burdensome for the soldiers of the Xingtian army.

At the end of the fourth day, Liu Yao was also injured, because every day, he appeared in the most violent place of the offensive, so that he became the target that the officers and soldiers were aiming at. At the end of the day, Liu Yao himself was hit by more than seven or eight arrows. Fortunately, he was wearing an iron. A, blocked a lot of arrows for him. Even so, an arrow still penetrated through the crack of the armor and shot through his waist. If the arrow turned a little more inward, it might hurt Liu Yaoben's intestines and kill him.

When the generals saw that Liu Yaoben was injured, they asked Liu Yaoben to retreat and have a rest, but he was rejected by Liu Yaoben. He sat on the gate wall and watched the command of the battle while untied the armor. He asked the medical staff to help him lift the arrow from his waist on the wall. After a simple bandage, he put on again. Jia climbed to the wall and shouted for a fierce battle.

Seeing that Liu Yao was so brave at a young age, his subordinates had nothing to say. They all rose up and killed a group of officers and soldiers who had attacked the wall one after another.

After dusk, dark clouds began to cover the sky, and then looked at the Guandaokou Bingbao. At this time, it was already dilapidated. The wall of the fort was full of potholes and craters, and some places also collapsed. The walls of the three western fortresses in the northeast were covered with blood. In the trenches under the pass wall, there were still seven The vertical eight lay full of the corpses of officers and soldiers, and the broken weapons and damaged weapons were thrown everywhere. The wall of the canyon was like a reed flower, densely covered with feathers and arrows fired by the officers and soldiers, swaying slightly in the wind.

Liu Yaoben's face was slightly pale. He held the wall and looked out. The officer slowly retreated again. He turned his eyes to the direction of Yongning County and said, 'Marshal, when will you get there?' Yaoben has tried his best! But I don't know if I can make it for you to go back to the teacher!'

Looking at Liu Yaoben's back, many soldiers of Xing Tianjun looked at him with admiration. Many people knew that the relationship between Liu Yaoben and Xiao Tianjian was very unusual, but Liu Yaoben did not do anything disgraceful because of Xiao Tianjian's love for him. On the contrary, Liu Yaoben asked himself everywhere in the army. It was very strict, and whenever there was a war, he always stood in front of him, which was enough to make everyone unable to despise him. Seeing that Liu Yaoben was tired and a little fluttering, the guard quickly came forward, put Liu Yaoben under the narrow wall, and loudly greeted the medical staff to come over and change the medicine for Liu Yaoben.

When the medical guard untied Liu Yaoben's armor, he found that his wound had cracked again because he ran back and forth, and the blood had soaked his clothes. So he quickly gave him the wound medicine to stop bleeding with tears in his eyes and told him not to run away like this again, otherwise the arrow wound would never heal, and Liu Yao Ben gritted his teeth and smiled, "It doesn't matter! This injury is nothing. It's just a piece of cake! Just wrap it up for me. It's no big deal!"

At this time, several generals walked to Liu Yaoben, looked at the sky hesitantly, and glanced at the soldiers around him. Liu Yaoben saw that these men had something to say, so he waved to let the idle people disperse, and then asked them, "What's the matter?" But it doesn't matter!"

"sor! It won't go on like this! Today, 30% of the fire gun in the camp is useless, and there is not much gunpowder left. It seems that it is going to rain. If it rains, even if we use self-made fire, I'm afraid it will have a great impact! If the reinforcements don't come again, I don't know if I can hold on tomorrow!"

"Yes, Brother Liu, today, the wall in the north of the castle was collapsed by the officers and soldiers again, and some officers and soldiers almost attacked it. Even if it is repaired tonight, I'm afraid it may not be repaired. Once it rains again, it will be even more impossible!"

"..."

Liu Yao listened quietly to several generals and finished talking about the problem. Then he put on his clothes and stood up and said, "I'm not blind. I've seen what you said, but you have to remember that no matter what, we have to stick to it here until the reinforcements arrive. If it's not expected, Uncle Liu should have sent his reinforcements, and the general must have received the news that he should be on his way!

Not to mention that the fort wall collapsed in one or two places, what if it all collapsed? Even if you fill in your life, you have to drag this group of officers and soldiers here so that they can't enter Lushi County! This is the task given to us by the general. Even if we die, we will complete it!

If the order goes on, there is no need to ramify the soil and repair the wall. Prepare the soil bag as much as possible and fill it with the soil bag. Once there is a collapse, fill it directly with the soil bag. If the grass bag is not enough, just use clothes and trousers to fill the soil. In short, we only have two words, that is, insist until the commander-in-chief comes back here!

Today, I'm here to say something. If I die, Xiao Xiao'er will take over and continue to command. Xiao Er will die, Zhao Xiang will take over, Zhao Xiang will die, and Li Hu will take over. If it goes on like this, we will all die, and the team will take over. Anyway, I have one mind. Even if we are all, we can't give up here! Do you all remember it?"

When he heard Liu Yao's words so decisive, several of his subordinates also completely gave up all their thoughts and immediately straightened their chests and replied loudly, "Yes! Don't fight to the death!"

"Okay, go down and have a rest!" By the way, go to see the wounded and tell the medical staff to treat them as much as possible and let them eat better! ..." After shaking his body slightly, Liu Yaoben waved his hand to let them disperse, and then slowly sat on a pile of soil, pressed the wound on his waist hard, and a big drop of sweat appeared on his forehead.