Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 388 Gao Yiyuan (5K)

Just three days before Wang Zheng led the army to set off.

The Jizhou army attacked No.20 for five days.

The south wall of Fenggao City collapsed on a large scale. Yuan Tan was overjoyed, and the morale of the whole army was also boosted. Not only did the offensive become more violent, but all the boulders that had been hoarded before were also used. The southern city wall pursued fiercely and hammered continuously.

During this period, it's not that Chang Xi never thought of taking the initiative to destroy Yuan Jun's biggest threat to Feng Gao first. Unfortunately, because of the strict protection of the Jizhou Army and the fact that Feng Gao did not have a Tianzhu camp stationed here, instead Lost a group of cavalry.

Chang Xi was greatly distressed, but he never dared to venture in again, and even planned to arrange manpower to break through and go to Xiapi for help.

After all, although only one city wall has serious defensive loopholes at this time, it does not mean that Fenggao City will be unable to defend immediately, but the road to Xiapi is not too short. .

And on the second day, amidst a loud noise, Fenggao's southern city wall finally couldn't support it. A large amount of rammed earth and bricks were scattered in the wailing, and then completely collapsed!

Amidst the cheers and shouts of killing, countless Jizhou troops rushed in from the collapsed city wall.

However, Chang Xi and the Tian Army were well prepared. After all, this was not a sudden shock caused by an unprepared earthquake. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Nan Chengqiang would not be able to hold on sooner or later. Chang Xi stepped up his arrangements since yesterday.At the moment when the city wall collapsed, a large number of soldiers of the Celestial Army also greeted it without fear.

At the gap in the collapse, the two armies faced each other directly!

This indicates that this offensive and defensive battle has entered the most brutal and bloody stage.

Melee!

Hand-to-hand combat!
In the past few days, the people in Changxi conscripted the city and temporarily rushed to repair a terrain similar to an urn city in the gap, and also prepared weapons similar to knives and carts.Similar in size and use.

Seeing the collapse of the city wall, Jizhou soldiers rushed into the gap with joy, completely unexpected to crash into such terrain.

Eighty infantrymen were placed on three sides of the urn city, and there were knives and carts and heavily armed soldiers of the heavenly army below.Under this kind of three-dimensional attack, the Jizhou soldiers who rushed in immediately suffered a big loss, leaving hundreds of corpses behind in an instant.

However, in Yuan Tan's view, even if there is a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair behind this gap, it is easier than directly braving the enemy's arrows and arrows to climb to the top of the city.

So even knowing that the guard had already made preparations behind and regarded this place as a meat grinding ground, Yuan Tan still ordered Yuan Jun to charge towards the gap.

Although they didn't directly make meritorious deeds several times, they continued to push the front line forward, giving Yuan Jun more room to maneuver. Soon after, under Guo Tu's advice, they finally pushed the chariot used for the siege directly to the under the city.

After all, the urn city behind the gap was built temporarily. Compared with the high walls, it is far less sturdy. According to Guo Tu's idea, as long as the urn city at the gap is broken first, the defender's geographical advantage will be reduced again. It is even more difficult to completely block here.

Even if it can't, it's feasible to use it to smash the enemy's knife cart, which is more cost-effective than letting soldiers face it with their flesh and blood.

After all, when the moat was filled before, the people who drove here have almost consumed the land. Now the people who are fighting under the city are basically veterans of the Jizhou Army. .

With the joining of the second batch of Jizhou soldiers, this time Yuan Tan's general, Gao Lan, one of the Four Court Columns in Hebei, also went into battle in person, leading the new force army to start a bloodier fight with the Tian army at the gap in the city wall.

Because of the superiority of the terrain, with the cooperation of the archers on the Wengcheng, until now, the Heavenly Army has no less advantage than the city wall.

Even, due to the soil and mountains of the Jizhou Army, the soldiers behind the city wall are safer than those on the city wall.In just one day, nearly a thousand people were killed and injured by the Jizhou Army!
At the most intense time, the gaps in the city wall were filled with the corpses of soldiers on both sides.

Realizing that Chang Xi's preparations were far more adequate than imagined, Yuan Tan and Guo Tu looked at each other in silence, regretting that they had underestimated the thief before, but they had no choice but to continue attacking head-on.

In addition to the catapults constantly throwing boulders, the Jizhou Army's army is also attacking the city and the gap in turn. Under this kind of crazy attack regardless of the cost, after the daily battle, when seeing the casualties counted by his subordinates, Chang Xi also It's the skin that keeps twitching.

Not only the Heavenly Army, but also the original Fenggao garrison, even his direct line troops suffered heavy casualties in the past few days.

What's more troublesome is that since the reinforcements have not been seen for a long time, Chang Xi has discovered that the morale of the army is much lower than when the defense began. After all, he knows Wang Zheng's battle plan to attack Beihai. But the soldiers may not be clear about it. Many people think that Wang Zheng gave them up on his own initiative.

However, whether it is "powerless rescue" or "unintentional rescue", there is actually no difference in essence.

If the fight continues like this, everyone knows that if Yuan Tan is really ruthless and continues to attack like this regardless of the cost, I am afraid that in half a month at most, the outer city of Fenggao City will be completely lost!

Fenggao is not as powerful as Pengcheng. Once the outer city falls, it is basically impossible to persist for long if you want to rely on the inner city to continue the stalemate with the enemy, or continue to fight in the alleys.

This speed is much faster than Chang Xi originally expected.The reason was that the large-scale trebuchets that could destroy the city walls disrupted his preparation and deployment.

Half moon
According to Chang Xi's thinking, before Yuan Tan entered the territory of Mount Tai, most of the main force of the Heavenly Army had already approached Beihai. It stands to reason that even if the battle there had not been completely resolved, it should have basically come to an end.

But it is unrealistic to expect a large group of people to rush directly from Beihai to Fenggao within half a month.

So the reason why he is still insisting on it now is not that he believes that Feng Gao can continue to defend, but that he sent it to Yuan Tan and voluntarily gave up.

Either he can't bear such a huge loss, after all, he is now alone in the depths, not to mention that Linzi in the rear has just been conquered not long ago, and people's hearts are unstable.

Or, after receiving the news that the victory over Beihai has been divided, they were worried about being flanked by front and rear, so they voluntarily withdrew.

What Chang Xi didn't know was that after receiving the news of the Xuzhou army's attack on Beihai, Yuan Tan knew very well that if the Xuzhou army continued to advance westward, Linzi would not be able to defend it either.

But if he captured Feng Gao, wiped out Mount Tai, and immediately sent a message to the nearby Yanzhou army, he might be able to stand firm and wait until his father solved Gongsun Zan in Youzhou before coming to support him.

Under such circumstances, facing Taishan County, which could be used as a vanguard and a springboard, how could Yuan Tan give up?
A great opportunity is in front of him, and he has decided to completely take down Feng Gao at any cost!
And by this time, both sides had already fought for real. Yuan Tan also felt that the strength of the Fenggao garrison was not damaged, so he thought it was the elite of Wang Zheng's side, and wanted to break his arm first and weaken it in advance. The strength of this rival!
Therefore, the huge sacrifices that have been made did not deter Yuan Tan at all. On the contrary, at this time, Yuan Tan had arranged to send a signal through the lights and shades, notifying the internal response who had sneaked into Fenggao in advance.

And after two consecutive days of fighting in the gap in the city wall, Chang Xi and his men and horses were all exhausted, and they had to guard against the enemy's night attack. Under such circumstances, the defense of the city was inevitably reduced to a dangerous critical point .

At midnight that day, more than 100 Jizhou troops sneaked into the granary in Fenggao City with a large number of hidden fire starters.

Due to the exhaustion caused by days of high alert, these people are also the elite of Yuan Tan's command, and they have become very familiar with the terrain in the city through this period of time, and they chose an excellent time to sneak in, they have been close until When the granary was within a hundred paces, it was discovered by a group of sentries.

Realizing that their whereabouts had been exposed, the Jizhou army gave up covering up, shot and killed the secret sentry, and then rushed over in a big way.

That night, red flames and black smoke rose into the sky from both southeast and southeast sides of Fenggao City, and they continued until dawn.

After receiving the news, Chang Xi turned livid and remained silent for a while, and then ordered the entire city to search and arrest. Most of the [-] Jizhou soldiers who burned down the two granaries in Fenggao died at that time, and only a dozen people escaped temporarily. , and were subsequently arrested one by one, but the bad influence and huge results they caused could never be recovered.

Most of the food and grass were turned into ashes. This incident dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the defenders, and caused great confusion and uneasiness among the people.

All kinds of rumors began to spread crazily in the city and the army.

Even though Miao Lin reacted quickly and immediately suggested that Chang Xi use some means to appease people's hearts, Chang Xi followed suit and ordered people to bring tens of thousands of shi of grain, and piled them under the city in the open air, so that the soldiers could see them when they turned their heads. , still failed to eliminate all the negative effects.

This chaos inevitably reflected in the strength of the city defense.

When he saw the first blaze soaring into the sky, Yuan Tan jumped up and laughed wildly.

And not long after, the second act made Guo Tu and others celebrate with each other!
Everyone is full of confidence, and the capture of Fenggao is just around the corner!
Early the next morning, the Jizhou army launched another full-scale attack.Not surprisingly, they felt the weakness of the defenders. Just a day before, they would have left hundreds of corpses within walking distance if they wanted to advance, and they would not even last long before being repelled by the enemy again.

But now, Yuan Jun has entered the depths of the gap in the city wall twice, and even almost broke through the defense line of the defenders!

At the critical moment, Chang Xi also went all out, and personally led a group of soldiers to the front line, raised his arms and shouted wildly to boost morale, and only then forcibly repelled the Jizhou Army's attack this time.

But this is undoubtedly a clear signal.

This is no longer a near miss, but a life after disaster!
That night, Chang Xi convened all the generals to discuss the plan to break out of the siege. There was no other way. If he abandoned the city and fled at this point, he would indeed give up halfway, and the credit would be completely lost, but it was not a dereliction of duty. After all, the enemy facing him was countless His strong army is several times larger than himself.

But if he kept going, Chang Xi was also worried that he would be completely trapped, and he would not be able to escape even if he wanted to.

He is currently very optimistic about Wang Zheng, and he is quite satisfied with this young monarch, but he is willing to do his duty faithfully, but he has to risk his life
I'm sorry, he Changxi is not willing.

The attack and defense of Fenggao City in the past few days has been brutal, and Wang Zheng is not aware of it.

But he guessed it.

Because when he quietly brought Yuan Jun to the foot of Tuqiu Mountain not far away, Wu Yuan, who stayed behind, brought two pieces of news.

The first news is that Yuan Jun of Tuqiu Mountain has changed defenses!
The two troops at the foot of the mountain and the mountainside, because there were not many people, could not see any obvious mobilization, but the 2000 troops guarding the top of the mountain were dropped to the front line of Fenggao.

It was replaced by a 1000-man army with a large number of demoralized wounded soldiers who took over here.

This is Yuan Tanjun's rear granary!

As for the second message?
It was the new guard, and Wang Zheng couldn't help but change when he heard the news.

Gao Lan, Gao Yiyuan?

Is it the Hebei Sitingzhu who fought with Xu Chu and Xu Huang in the Battle of Guandu, but was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun who rushed to the battle when Liu Bei was defeated and left Jingzhou?
At this time, the top of Tuqiu Mountain.

The wind was blowing weakly, blowing the loess weakly, and even the tall flag in Tunkou was listless, curled up on the flagpole.

There are noisy voices everywhere, and at a glance, there are a group of tired and listless voices everywhere.

After all, after paying so much, the failure to capture Fenggao already made these Jizhou soldiers very depressed.

And when he saw the dawn of victory, he was transferred back from the frontline battlefield, which was tantamount to depriving him of the opportunity to make meritorious service at a critical moment, so let's not mention that kind of dissatisfaction.

The credit is second, but the key is that Yuan Tan has long promised that he will not seal the sword for three days after entering the city!
Even if the major general has already said that after counting the merits, and even the looting after breaking the city, regardless of the women's treasures, they will still leave a share, but how can this be compared?

Needless to say, gold and silver treasures must be left by others
As for women and girls, let alone!
But at this moment in the arena, there was only one person who was still holding his head upright, looking seriously at the direction to the west, where a big fire was burning, shouting to fight, the two armies collided continuously, turning everything into ruins, countless The huge movement composed of human voices can be faintly heard from far away.

Seeing this scene, the few remaining night watchmen couldn't help secretly admiring it. It was already midnight, and when they came to the rear camp, Captain Gao still paid so much attention to the battle situation. It was really rare.

And unlike them who are bound by military law and have to do it, this is the highest officer here today, purely voluntary!
This is really a loyal minister!
It's just that these people were wrong. Although Gao Lan was staring at Feng Gao's direction at this time, the reason why he was so exhausted but still didn't go to sleep was not Feng Gao or the battle situation, but Unwilling anger, angry roar.

"Zhu Zi, you are too deceptive!"

In the night, Gao Lan's eyes were wide open, and the eyeballs were covered with streaks of blood. He spat out thick phlegm, and let out a low growl with his hoarse throat.

Yuan Tan's reason for transferring him here is very simple. The Gaolan Department was severely injured, and it would be difficult to use it if it was forced to stay on the front line. Quickly capture Feng Gao.

From the point of view of reason, this seems to be reasonable and beyond reproach.

But Gao Lan knew very well that it was all bullshit!

Yuan Tan of Dog Day!
Let me lead the soldiers to charge when the battle is tough, let me lead the soldiers to go up first, and always call me when gnawing hard bones!

As a result, seeing that the city was about to be broken, he kicked me away?
Isn't it because I am Han Fu's old department?
Thinking of this, Gao Lan's slightly cool throat began to burn hotly again, and he couldn't help but yelled: "Han Fu, I am your ancestor!"

You are so easy to die, you have made us subordinates miserable!
It is extremely unjust to insult the old lord like this in a dynasty like the Great Han who ruled the world with loyalty and filial piety, but the few Gao Lan's soldiers on the side were the same, and their eyes glistened with approval.

Without him, in their opinion, Han Fu is indeed to blame for the fact that grandpa does not love grandma and does not love grandma in Yuan Shaojun, and that he does not have a share in the beauty job.
After all, without Han Fu taking the initiative to surrender Jizhou, how could Yuan Shao be as powerful as he is today?
They don't have to be so angry!
You must know that the Jizhou Crossbow Army that Yuan Shao is most proud of today was originally built by Han Fu.

Han Fu, the former Jizhou herdsman, was also the most powerful prince in the Kanto at that time. The people of Jizhou were prosperous, with abundant money and food, and strong soldiers and horses, which were the foundation of absolute hegemony. .

It's a pity that this person is fatuous and incompetent. He has neither the heart to dominate nor the ability to control his subordinates. He obviously had the strength to fight at that time. The army returned to aid, but couldn't bear Han Fu's timidity and courage, and finally surrendered without a fight, allowing Yuan Shaolue to use a small plan to win Jizhou empty-handed.

Han Fu was forced to join Zhang Miao, and when Zhang Miao met Yuan Shao's envoy, Han Fu was frightened to death again, thinking that Yuan Shao was going to kill him, and he was in constant fear.

If this is the case, it's fine, after all, Cao Cao has also done such suspicious things.

However, Emperor Wu of Wei thought that Lu Boshe wanted to murder him, so he directly killed the other party's family first, and left a famous saying "I would rather teach me to blame the world, and don't teach the world to blame me".

Han Fu came up with a mysterious operation, if you want to kill me, I will kill myself first!

The choice of suicide location is even more speechless, toilet!
It has to be said that the two of them have the same idea in terms of thinking. They are both preemptive, so they don't give the enemy a chance to attack.

It's just that the latter's behavior can at least be boasted as decisive and ruthless, without losing the heroic posture, what about the former?
It can only be said that he lived a miserable life and died a useless one.

It's no wonder that Gao Lan has no respect for such an old master, and he didn't hesitate when he changed his family.

But what Gao Lan never expected was that Yuan Shao didn't get any better. In the past few years since he joined the Yuan family, he worked hard and made a lot of meritorious deeds. not enough.

This time when Yuan Tan led the army alone, Gao Lan took the initiative to ask for orders to follow him. He originally wanted to go to his son's side to give it a try, but it turned out...
This fellow Yuan Tan has a narrower mind, not to mention shallower eyelids, and even uglier food!

"Yuan's father and son are not enlightened masters. If I continue to follow, I will never have any hope of getting in!"

Gao Lan stood in the camp, looking around, seeing that the number of direct descendants from his family had decreased a lot after this battle, and those who survived were also gloomy, their morale was low, and they were suddenly miserable.
"But Jizhou has already been surnamed Yuan, and Youzhou has seen the same. If I want to defect, who else can I go to?"

Feeling sorry for himself, Gao Lan, who fell into a trance, lost his fine vigilance in the past, and he didn't notice it at all.
The danger has crept in.

　There is no record of its characters in Gaolan's official history.

　　One of the cowboys I found said that Gao Lan was named Jingzhi, but I feel that it has nothing to do with "Lan".

　　(The characters and names in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period are generally related)

　　Including Wang Zheng's word Yu Kou, which is actually related. A book friend guessed it before, so I thought of the word "Yi Yuan", let's call it that for now.

　　If a book friend provides a reliable basis for "Gao Lan, Zi Jingzhi", then make revisions.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)