Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 170 Yang Zhai Attack and Defense
Yuan Shu was not ready to fight at all, so he sent troops out of anger, which relieved Huang Cong, who was defending the city.If Yuan Shu could hold back his breath at this time and let the army set up camp first, and then attack the city in the future, then the loss of Yangdi City would be even greater, and Yuan Shu might even take it all by itself.

But now, seeing Yuan Shu's army scattered under Yangzhai City, Huang Cong felt happy.Raising troops in anger is a big taboo for military strategists. "Look, everyone, the enemy army is nothing special. If you shoot an arrow, you will still die. We occupy the advantage of the city wall and defeat the enemy army. It's no problem."

Previously, although everyone knew about Yuan Shu's order to massacre the city, no one would take chances.But seeing Yuan Shu's army overwhelmingly rushing towards Yangdi City, everyone still couldn't help feeling nervous.But Huang Cong's words made everyone relax.

When Yuan Shu's army was only [-] steps away from Yangdi City, the hearts of the soldiers defending the city began to beat faster.

When Yuan Shu's army was only three hundred steps away from Yangdi City, the soldiers defending the city began to breathe less smoothly.

After 250 steps, some soldiers' hands began to tremble.

After two hundred cloths, Huang Cong became serious, staring at Yuan Shu's army without the slightest relaxation.

At 180 steps, Huang Cong began to order: "Archer, 160 steps away, throw." At this time, after the archer took out the arrow, adjusted the distance, and threw the arrow, waited until the arrow fell on top of Yuan Shu's army. At that time, the vanguard of Yuan Shu's army happened to be 160 steps away from the city wall of Yangdi City.

It's not that the Yangzhou soldiers didn't have shields prepared. Seeing the rain of arrows above their heads, they naturally raised their shields above their heads.However, shields have limitations after all, and there will always be places that cannot be blocked, so those people can only be blamed for their bad luck.

It is quite normal for some people to fall down on the way to charge. Those Yangzhou soldiers have not seen the world, at least they have fought in battle and seen blood. They still know the normal procedure of siege warfare.When entering Yuzhou, the previous battle losses of more than 3000 were due to the fact that they had just entered Yuzhou. There were still many cities that would resist, but it would not cause much impact. Thousands of people would die in a short time.

Huang Cong didn't think it was a big deal after shooting some Yangzhou soldiers. The real challenge was yet to come.

When the Yangzhou soldiers rushed to the city, they quickly set up a ladder. "Throw rocks, rolling logs, throw them to me!" Seeing this situation, Huang Cong ordered loudly. At the same time, Huang Cong himself picked up a boulder weighing [-] jins, and threw it at a ladder close to him. down.The Yangzhou soldiers on the ladder saw a huge boulder falling, and quickly raised the giant shield in their hands.However, that boulder weighed more than a hundred catties, coupled with the influence of the acceleration of gravity, how could the soldier raise the giant shield in a hurry to stop it, and was immediately smashed to the foot of the city wall, and even the soldiers behind him Two soldiers were knocked down.

Huang Cong prepared a large number of stones and giant trees, and it was effective at this time. How could those Yangzhou soldiers rush up.Seeing this situation from behind, Yuan Shu shouted loudly: "Archer, archer, let the archer do it for me."

At this time, Yan Xiang, who had not provided any advice to Yuan Shu before, stood up and said: "My lord, our army lacks preparation and the enemy's army is strong. It is better to stay in the stronghold and camp for the time being, and wait for our army to build the equipment to attack the city." , It won’t be too late to attack the city again.”

It can be said that Yan Xiang's remonstrance is still very reasonable, Yuan Shu is powerful, as long as he builds more siege equipment, won't it be easy to take down Yangdi City?It's just that Yuan Shu was at the moment when he was furious, so how could he follow Yan Xiang's plan to stop fighting temporarily?

"Lord Yan, what you said is not right. My lord is a man of destiny, and I have come to attack this small city of Yangdi with an army of all victories. Then the lord will not open the door to beg for surrender. How could the lord withdraw his troops first? "Yang Hong stood up again at this time, and opened his mouth to refute Yan Xiang's opinion.

Yang Hong can be regarded as a second-rate adviser, otherwise he would not have achieved the status of Yuan Shu's number one adviser.Of course, Yuan Huan and Yan Xiang are no worse than Yang Hong. The only difference is that Yang Hong is better at flattering.

At this time, Yang Hong could see that Yuan Shu was wrong, but Yang Hong secretly thought about it in his heart. Although Yuan Shu's actions would increase the losses of Yangzhou soldiers, in his opinion, Yangdi City would still be taken by Yuan Shu. of.At this time, the loss is bigger, and the subsequent actions can be more cautious.

After Yuan Shu heard Yang Hong's words, a smile appeared on his face.Yuan Shu is like this, he likes others to follow his will, even if he wants to change his opinion, he needs to speak well.Among his advisers, only Yang Hong was the most favored by Yuan Shu, because Yang Hong was the best at talking.

Yan Xiang looked at this scene, shook his head immediately, sighed, and didn't say anything further.As for Yuan Huan, he didn't say a word. He knew Yuan Shu's temperament, so he was too lazy to waste words.

After the archers of the Yangzhou Army lined up, they quickly achieved results.Previously, the defenders of Yangzhai City could wholeheartedly deal with the defenders who were about to rush towards the city wall, but now, they have to face the arrows that may be added at any time, which immediately made the defenders miserable, and the airtight defense suddenly became tense. A gap appeared.

In fact, not only the soldiers defending the city were suffering, but the Yangzhou soldiers who attacked the city also wanted to jump down and kick the archers.Those archers are also trembling when shooting arrows, after all, their comrades are still there.Otherwise, the rain of arrows that the soldiers defending the city would face would not be such a drizzle, at least it would be a thunderstorm.

After those Yangzhou soldiers rushed to the city wall, the forbidden troops who had been waiting for a long time moved at this time.In the previous defense, Huang Cong led the strong men to fight, and it could also save some energy for the forbidden army.At this time, it is going to be a direct battle, and naturally it is going to join the regular army.

Those Yangzhou soldiers thought that spring would usher in after climbing the city wall. Then, what they saw was a soldier wearing fine armor. So, before they could gain a foothold, they were killed by the forbidden troops. go back.

However, with the passage of time, more and more Yangzhou soldiers rushed to the wall, and those strong men began to fight with Yangzhou soldiers.

"Remove all except the guards." At this time, Huang Cong shouted after killing a Yangzhou soldier who rushed up.Those strong men had never seen blood before, and they fought against the Yangzhou army at this time, all with a passion for blood.But when they suffered too many casualties, they would feel fear, and they would not dare to go up to the city wall as auxiliary soldiers, let alone fight against Yangzhou soldiers.

After listening to Huang Cong's order, the strong men and the private soldiers of the big families began to retreat slowly towards the city wall.At this time, Huang Cong was extremely thankful that he had practiced how to retreat from the city wall for these mobs before, and it really came into use at this time.

Those condemned prisoners did not retreat at this time, they were still fighting with the Yangzhou soldiers.Huang Cong saw that Zhu Yu and the others had no intention of losing the wind in their confrontation with the Yangzhou soldiers, and immediately felt that it was an extremely correct choice to let these condemned prisoners come out.People who have seen blood are sometimes even braver than some soldiers.

"Kill me!" Huang Cong yelled seeing how heroic these death-row prisoners were, and charged forward with a long gun in his hand to fight again.Those imperial guards are the elite of the big men, but they are very proud.An assassin escaped from the palace earlier, so at this time, nothing can be worse than these death row prisoners.

Therefore, there are only more than 1000 soldiers guarding the city, but they are all brave and fearless. In addition, the training of the Forbidden Army is far superior to that of other soldiers. Moreover, the Forbidden Army is generally selected from various places. Those who have seen blood, or have high martial arts skills.

Although the Yangzhou Army has a large number of people, there is a limit to the number of people that can be accommodated on the city wall. No matter how many Yangzhou Army have, they can only fit three to 2000 people on the city wall.

However, Huang Cong had to be thankful that Yuan Shao did not attack from all sides at the same time, allowing Huang Cong to gather troops to fight Yuan Shu.

Fighting until it was dark, the Yangzhou Army finally failed to capture Yangdi City, Yuan Shu had no choice but to retreat first and fight again in the future.But on this day, the loss of the imperial army reached more than 200, and the casualties of those auxiliary soldiers also reached more than 500. The situation is not optimistic.

(End of this chapter)