Chapter 118: Fighting the Demon General
With the waving of the big star, the first thing that the Tang army fired was the feather arrows in the sky. These feather arrows were different from the feather arrows of the Liang Dynasty. The body was longer and the tail feathers were denser. They were not commonly used white feathers but gray-green feathers. This allowed the feather arrows to fly farther in the air.
After the feather arrow was shot out, the special army immediately pushed the stone thrower with a base of one person wide and a swing arm height of more than three meters to the front end to the front end. The soldiers placed the huge and hard cannon stone above the swing head. As the soldiers at the front pressed the handle, the swing arm that had been tilted back, immediately bounced up in place. When the swing arm reached the highest point, the cannon stone inside the swing head was shot out. The weight of the cannon stone plus the swing arm swing, the cannon stone was basically burned after hitting the city wall, the cannon stone was broken all over the ground, and the city wall was also smashed into a pit.
The soldiers of Anzhou were hiding under the female wall to avoid the attack of feather arrows, and every time the cannon stone hit the city wall, it could cause a vibration of the city wall. Under Quan Guanji's command, the soldiers of Anzhou also tried to fight back, but due to the insufficient number of weapons and the tight defense of the Tang army, the Tang army failed to achieve obvious results after several counterattacks.
With a bang, a cannon stone hit the female wall on one side. The female wall broke and collapsed in an instant. Several soldiers guarding nearby were immediately buried under the gravel. Although Shen Yongnian had mentioned the strategy before, the soldiers only needed to defend the south gate, the opponent's fierce offensive now made Quan Guanji feel anxious.
Just when Quan Guanji was about to bear it, the east and west gates suddenly opened, and the left-handed guard and the left-handed guard suddenly rushed out from both sides of Anzhou City. For a moment, the killing sounds shook the sky. The Liang army rushed towards the Tang army not far away. Wu Yihu seemed to have expected it, and retreated into the army without any hurry. The corner flag changed, and the lower Tang army immediately divided two cavalry on the left and right sides of the left and right sides of the Tang army and headed head headed, but the attacks between the army did not stop at all. The cannon stones and feather arrows still suppressed the guards on the top of the city.
The left Wu Guard is Lu Wenxuan and the left guard is He Yunke. Both of them are powerful generals who have been on the battlefield for a long time. After they contacted each other, they immediately launched a bloody and fierce battle. The cavalry of the two sides had the same advantage and was in a difficult time to fight for a while. Quan Guanji, who was on the top of the city, heard the shouts of killing, secretly looked up and saw the fierce battle outside the city, and took a breath. As soon as he relaxed a little, a feather arrow brushed his forehead and shot into the wooden pillar behind, leaving a big and small wound on his forehead.
Although the Tang army in the Lower Tang army was attacked on both sides, the offensive against Anzhou City was even more fierce. While the feather arrows gradually decreased, the cannon stones became frequent and dense. In just one hour, the walls of Anzhou City had been smashed into a pothole. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the feather arrows being slightly reduced, Quan Guanji stood up first, roaring and letting the soldiers of the palace start to fight back, shooting Liang's feather arrows into the military formation of Xia Tang. As soon as the corner flag moved, the Tang army immediately set up a shield formation, removing most of the power of the feather arrows, but the soldiers responsible for throwing stones were still injured and killed.
Quan Guanji wiped away the blood left by his wound with his hands. He clearly saw the smoke and dust in the southeast direction. From the deafening sound of horse hooves, he could determine that the number of visitors must be quite large, but because of the distance, it was still difficult to tell whether it was an enemy or a friend. Quan Guanji's eyes were staring at the army, and his hands were squeezing on the city wall and making a slight scratching sound.
"It's the Xuanjia Army of King Yu. God bless Anzhou!" Perhaps it was Cangtian who really heard Quan Guanji's prayer. When the army got closer and closer, the flag waving in the wind finally saw clearly. It was the Yellow Dragon Flag of the Liang Dynasty! The visitor was the Xuanjia Army of King Yu who Quan Guanji was thinking about!
Wu Weihuo also discovered the enemy. Through the sound of horse hooves, he also judged that the number of enemies was quite large. The only pair of eyes he showed blinked. No one could see his expression. He waved to the corner flag bearers on both sides, and immediately stopped the attack of the Tang army. The two cavalry sent out no longer fought with the Chiwei Army. They turned their horses and began to retreat. At this moment, the gold was also sounded at the head of Anzhou City, and the soldiers of the two guards witnessed the Tang army leaving behind a mass of smoke and dust.
The devastated South Gate opened the city gate, and Quan Guanji personally went out of the city to welcome King Yu. The original 60,000 Red-tail Army and 60,000 Xuanjia Army immediately became crowded in Anzhou City, which was not big. Quan Guanji retreated all the people to the north gate and placed them in unification. All the soldiers who had guarded the south gate were replaced to maintain order in the city, and the guards of the south gate were handed over to Geng Yan's troops to the Jinjia Guard.
The residence of the governor of Anzhou, King Yu accompanied Geng Yan, Ou Luyang, and Peng Anze; Shen Yongnian, He Yunke and Lu Wenxuan; plus Quan Guanji, all the senior personnel of the Anzhou defense battle were present.
King Yu exempted all the vain gifts and began to analyze in the face of the sand table that had just been piled up in a hurry and said, "The three sides of Anzhou City are plains and are very vulnerable to attack. Only Tao River is in the north, so the defense pressure is less. I have ambushed the Rust Claw Guard and the Han Dao Guard in Panlong Ridge, and I have planned to catch Tang off guard. Although I did not participate in the battle all over the whole way, from the withdrawal of the troops in Tang, they are also tempted this time, and the real siege with all their strength will be in the future. General Shen, do you know the situation of the opponent's chief general?"
"Reporting to the general, the opponent's main general is Wu Wei Huo, who is known as the "demon general". He has not seen him on the battlefield for many years. It was rumored that he is old. After all, the ones who fought with him before were General Yang Jie and Yang. He has not been less than ten years old. I didn't expect to see him again today. This man's military deceitfulness is often unexpected. He has never suffered any defeat since his war!"
"I haven't lost one?" Quan Guanji widened his eyes and opened his mouth wide. "Will his first defeat in Anzhou?"
"There has never been a general who has always won the victory. He likes to use tricks, so we don't play with common sense!" said King Yu: "Now he does not have an advantage. Anzhou City is still firmly in our hands. The ambush at Panlong Ridge has been placed properly. In addition, the god-killing cavalry in Jinchang City, our troops have exceeded 200,000. The front from Jinchang City to Anzhou City is our attack range."
"But Jinchang City has been besieged by the Xia Tang army for many days. The God Killing Tuqi also distributed some of its troops to guard Li Yangcang. According to the news sent by the scouts, Li Yangcang has been captured by Xia Tang. All the God Killing Tuqi guarding Li Yangcang fought until the last moment until all died!" Shen Yongnian said this, "In order to prevent us from communicating with Jinchang City, Xia Tang sent General Turong Fan Yi to besiege. Our strategy cannot be transmitted to Dan Tai Guizong!"
"So we will adopt the strategy of waiting for the rabbit!" King Yu explained to several people in detail: "The army of the Tang Dynasty went deeper. Now that the food and grass have been supplied, our dynasty will definitely send a large army to retake Jiangzhou and Hanzhou. So Wu Wei got a very clear understanding that he must quickly take down Anzhou City and make it a strategic logistics supply for the war with Daliang. In this way, he will definitely need to organize a large army to attack the army of the Tang Dynasty again. At that time, we are responsible for dragging the army of the Tang Dynasty, and the ambushers who were originally ambushing on Panlong Ridge immediately crossed the hill to launch a raid on the Tang Dynasty army besieging Jinchang City. Even if Dan Tai Guizong could not receive the news before, would he still not understand what to do? After cutting off the retreat of the Tang army, we joined forces to encircle it in turn."
"It's easy to plan!" Quan Guanji was the first to be excited. "The official sincerely admires His Highness, King Yu. If he doesn't come like this, not only will Anzhou be protected, but he can also take advantage of the opportunity to regain Jiangzhou and Hanzhou!"
The other generals smiled and nodded, no one could deny that this was the most feasible and most likely to defeat the Tang army.
"From now on, everyone will be responsible for their responsibilities! The full authority of the dispatch in Anzhou City is handed over to Lord Quan, and the dispatch of the army is obeying the general!" Shen Yongnian took the lead in expressing that the imperial edict of Emperor Liang made it clear that King Yu would be the general to conquer this battle.
"In this way, all soldiers will fill their stomachs first, I am afraid that the enemy will attack again tonight or tomorrow morning!"
The next day, the horn at the top of the city was sounded again as expected. Wu Weihou led the Tang Qi soldiers to the city again. Without any extra moves, the feather arrows and artillery stones began to greet the city wall again. With the garrison of the Red Tail Army and the Xuanjia Army, the soldiers guarding the city counterattacked the enemy with the same fierce offensive, and the Xuanjia Army distributed all over the city began to shoot arrows in an orderly manner.
The corner flag of the Tang army changed, and two cuts were cracked on both sides of the shield formation, and two suicide troops rushed out of it. They didn't care about the feather arrows on the top of the city. They carried the wooden block on their shoulders and rushed towards the Anzhou city gate. Someone who was shot to death in the middle of the journey would immediately replace them. At the same time, the left and right armies divided the two cavalry regiments to attack and came to the west gate and east gate of Anzhou.
"Good guy, come here by yourself!" Shen Yongnian looked at the city head and saw the dragon flag dancing, immediately instigated the war horses and roared: "Breaking out of the city and destroying the enemy!" The left-ranking guard and the left-mart guard went out of the city to meet the enemy through the open city gates on both sides, just like yesterday. The battle began from Yin hour to Mao hour, and lasted for two hours. The two armies restrained each other and fought hard to separate.
Chapter completed!