Chapter 441: Restoring Wuwei
Since ancient times, those who have good literary affairs must use martial arts to help them.
Although Li Su used the trick of attacking the heart and deception, he severely hit the morale and will to resist the troops of Guo Si's defending the city; but Wang Ping and Ma Dai had to lead the team to attack the city and demonstrate the muscles and determination of the Han army in order to truly capture Guzang City.
Therefore, as the slander ended, the Han army infantry troops rushed up in black and rushed towards the gap in the city wall of Guzang County, and then started a bloody, ground meat battle with no room for maneuver.
It was a bit fantastic that the tens of thousands of stubborn rebels surrendered with Eli Li.
The bloody battle lasted for only a quarter of an hour. Both sides paid hundreds of people to death at the entrance of the city wall, and more wounded people. The sound of killing sounds shook the sky and wailed everywhere.
After Ma Dai and Wang Ping rushed into the gap in the city wall, he soon realized that Guo Si had deployed the second or even more trenches and low wall fortifications inside the city wall, but he could not rush through them directly.
Moreover, once you enter the gap in this city wall, you want to fight a street battle but fail. The troops are blocked in a narrow battlefield that is only more than a hundred steps away from the back of the city wall. It is easy to be shot back by enemy archers who still control the city wall, cross-fired shooting. The unfavorable state is like falling into a jail.
Fortunately, the gap in the city wall that was smashed by a catapult was not a real urn city after all. The location of the city wall collapsed was only lowered by about half the height than the normal wall next to it. So after climbing the collapsed earth slope, the soldiers did not have the option of "rushing down from the back of the earth slope and rushing into the city to fight street battles."
After the first option is frustrated, you can immediately turn your weapons and continue to rush from the gap slope to the left and right sides, and directly seize the wall sections of the city wall on both sides.
After Wang Ping and Ma Dai realized this, they did this very quickly. Especially the troops brought by Wang Ping were better at climbing, so he and Ma Dai had a clear division of labor - Ma Dai held on to the front and prevented the troops in the city from launching counterattacks, while Wang Ping led his men to climb the walls on both sides.
After this tactical change, Wang Ping quickly made a breakthrough. The collapse of the city wall was only more than one meter shorter than the intact wall next to it, and the cross-section was not a cliff-like straight up and down, which was a slope of 40 or 50 degrees.
The cannon fodder soldiers adapted from Han Sui's prisoners attracted firepower. Wang Ping's direct Qing Qiang soldiers seized the opportunity to arrive first, and soon gained a foothold and took down a section of the city wall.
But Guo Si had some problems with his previous deployment - because he subconsciously regarded the gap in the city wall as a trap for urns to lure the enemy in the city, so when deploying troops, he mainly used archers on the walls on both sides. He felt that the enemy was unlikely to climb the walls and expand the occupation surface of the city walls even if the wall was broken, and he mainly used the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers to be on the low wall defense line of the second line.
Wang Ping rushed to the wall with Qingqiang Mountain soldiers, and fought with the defenders with swords, shields and hammers, and soon the killing was bloody. Hu Meng, the general in charge of guarding the city wall, hurriedly adjusted the deployment, pulled a group of swords, shields, spearmen from the south gate and the east wall to block the mouth, but instead suffered several times of casualties to withstand Wang Ping.
Because the front of the city wall was very narrow, as Hu Meng's spearmen formed a gun array in the middle on both sides of the wall, densely packed guns like hedgehogs, Wang Ping really couldn't rush over. After Wang Ping's army seized several horse-faced fortifications on the city wall, he turned to a stalemate with Hu Meng.
However, because Wang Ping had already taken down about one-fifth of the city wall section in the south of Guzang City, at least the landslide gap below the city wall was completely under Wang Ping's protection.
There were no crossbowmen from the Xiliang rebels within at least two hundred steps from the gap to the left and right. When Ma Dai's rear army poured in from the gap, at least they would not be subjected to cross-fire from left and right or left or left, and shot from behind. Everyone walked into the city with big shields and slowly advanced, or looked for other roads to break through the low walls of the trenches in the defenders' city.
Guo Sijun gradually lost his support and could only gradually shrink his defense, and soon fell into an embarrassing situation where he had to consider retreating to the inner city.
Fortunately, Wang Ping and Ma Dai invested the total number of troops to attack the city today, which was only half of that of Guo Si's army, so even if the Han army was more well-equipped, it would not have directly caused Guo Si's army to collapse. Guo Si's army was in a state of low morale, at least it was enough to last until nightfall.
Wang Ping and Ma Dai's offensive also stopped temporarily. The two armies just stood alertly and rested on their positions, and greeted them whenever there was a storm.
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After it got dark, Guo Si became a little more awake, completely recognized the situation, and was more frightened by Wang Ping and Ma Dai's attack today. He completely believed what Li Su said, "All Guan Yu's reinforcements arrived, and after repairing, they could kill all the rebels in the city."
It is difficult for him to run during the day, without the cover of night, he is not running suddenly enough, and he cannot play the time difference before Ma Chao reacts, so he can set a safe distance far enough.
It's dark now, and Guo Si's heart to escape becomes more and more intense.
He didn't think about it. If Li Su was really tens of thousands of rear troops from Guan Yu, why did he shout out? He made a fortune in a quiet voice and killed all of Guo Si's more than 30,000 people?
It can be seen that Guo Si is also concerned and has been confused. He has even forgotten the simple truth that "a dog that can bark wildly does not bite people."
He patrolled the battlefield vigilantly, rested for a while and recovered his physical strength. After thinking about it, he found his confidant general Wu Xi and asked him to secretly gather the cavalry troops in the city and all the extra horses.
If the horses can carry some food and clothing with them, and if the high-value gold, silver, and soft satin are the ones, they will definitely not be able to carry the surplus grain in the city. Fortunately, there are not many, and they cannot be burned immediately. Guo Si still hopes that the infantry troops he abandoned will continue to fight for a few days. If the food is burned, they will not be able to collapse immediately and surrender immediately?
Therefore, food cannot be burned. At most, it is given to the soldiers with big hands and feet. Each person leaves dozens or hundreds of kilograms. If you can, you can keep it privately. Then don’t be plundered by Ma Chao’s soldiers.
If there are still some extra horses, select some troops from the infantry unit with relative direct confidants, and at the same time, those who can ride and all follow the siege.
Considering that Ma Chao's troops were more alert in the first half of the night, scouts were more active, and Guo Si's troops were awake all day and their physical strength was a little reduced, so they could not run away immediately. He asked the troops to assemble first and announced that there would be a combat mission to leave the city and rob the camp in the second day of the second day, so that the troops could have a good rest.
After sleeping until the second day of the day, I got up on time and didn't make food. I just ate some dry food and water prepared in advance, and then opened the north gate and led the main force of the cavalry out of the city to break out.
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While Guo Si broke through, the scouts of Ma Chao outside the four gates of Guzang City were actually very active. Li Su told Ma Chao that he should ensure that there was strict scout monitoring outside each gate, and that he would immediately repay the situation whenever there was any disturbance.
Of course, Li Su didn't know that Guo Si was going to run tonight, but he felt that under his attacking situation, it was just a matter of time. If he couldn't squat tonight, he would squat again tomorrow night, be prepared for any trouble and there would be no additional losses.
Anyway, Li Su can sleep in a spacious, warm and comfortable tent at night. Li Su is not the one who rides horses outside and gets frozen all night on a cold night in the late autumn in the north. What can he not make up his mind?
Li Su also made some psychological construction in his heart for his arrangements, and he felt very at ease: "No wonder the technology companies in later generations must be separated from R&D and testing, just to prevent the R&D from getting lazy and want to change the bugs and fool the small problems.
The safety regulations of airlines also require the maintenance team to strictly divide the inspection and repair into two groups. Those who report faults and those who do repair them must not be confused, because they are afraid of minor faults and minor defects and are confused.
This fine tradition must be adhered to in the late Han Dynasty. People who set combat strategies must not perform combat tasks themselves, so that they will not be lazy. Anyway, they are not tired themselves."
To share the joys and sorrows with soldiers, let Zhao Yun and Ma Chao play the role.
With such complete preparations, Ma Chao received the report immediately and immediately reported to Li Su's tent.
"Right General, Guo Si really brought some troops to abandon the city and broke through! He walked to the north gate!"
Li Su is quite self-disciplined. He knew that something might happen to the night in the past few days, so even if he was sleeping in a big tent, he asked his wife to sleep in the back with a separate bed, and there was a curtain in the middle, so he was not embarrassed by Ma Chao.
This is also Li Su's principle. If he brings a woman to the army, he must first wear men's clothes, so that he can't make the skirt look silly, and secondly, he must sleep separately from the curtains.
Li Su rubbed his eyes calmly, overcame the low blood pressure of the weak man and got up, and then said viciously:
"Since you have found out, what else can you hesitate? You won't chase you with your cavalry immediately! However, in the dark, I don't know how big the enemy is. Try to cut off your waist slightly, rush the tail wildly, and never stop the head. The military strategy is clouded, don't stop the army.
It is unlikely that Guo Si will be wiped out overnight with such a desperate attitude. Moreover, since Jia Xu has run away, even if Guo Si is killed, the Xiliang Rebellion will not be able to completely determine the world. There will definitely be a pursuit battle in the future. Try to weaken the enemy and preserve the vitality of our army."
Li Su knew that Guo Si's last cavalry unit was already the last essence of the Western Liang army, and his destructive power was still amazing. Ma Chao now has a consumable super-long cavalry rifle, javelin, and a super-long pole four-pyramid for infantry.
The characteristic of these weapons is that the first wave of war between the two armies breaks out very strongly, but the weapons are damaged very quickly. Therefore, the most beneficial way to the Han army is to output one wave every time the outbreak is to defeat the enemy and block a group of them.
If the enemy fails to completely collapse after heavy losses, you will be anxious to exchange your life. At this time, you should pull it away and then come back to replenish a wave of equipment. The ultimate CD will cool down, and then go on. This way, you can use the minimum loss to annihilate the last tens of thousands of dead, fierce and stubborn people in the enemy.
Chapter completed!