Chapter 64 Liu Wuzhou's Confidence
When a man gets angry, blood splatters five steps, the emperor gets angry and he is buried in a million corpses.
Chen Ying was furious and all the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army and the Lingwu Army went up to fight to the death. In fact, not only the Lingwu Army and the Dingyuan Army, but also the Shuozhou Army composed of the young and strong people of Shuozhou, they also had to fight to the death at this time.
Xu Yiming walked quietly beside Xu Caifu, frowned and said, "General Chen is so funny!"
"Children's joke!" Xu Caifu glared at Xu Yiming fiercely and said, "If you don't have a secret, you will lose your body. In the future, you have to control your mouth. If you don't have a secret, you will lose your body. Do you have to forget the disaster?"
Xu Yiming said aiyi: "I understand!"
Xu Caifu's face looked a little ugly. He also couldn't guess why Chen Ying launched an attack at this time. Nearly 20,000 Shuozhou athletes were killed, and I don't know how many people could survive.
Yanmen Pass is a famous and dangerous city in the world. Not only Xu Caifu thinks so, but even Liu Wuzhou thinks so. Standing in the Yanmen Pass city gate tower, condescending, it is easy to see that the Tang army is preparing for an attack.
Twelve tall counterweight catapults slowly approached Yanmen Pass City under the difficulty of dozens of strong cows, with thousands of crossbowmen covering nearby, and thousands of light cavalry were eyeing each other.
To defend the city, attack must be used instead of defense. If you are passively beaten, the city wall will always be captured. When the Lingwu Army cavalry dressed in Tang army's armor, you can see that almost all Turkic faces were Turkic. Liu Wuzhou indeed gave up the idea of attacking the city. The cavalry under his command was not enough in front of the Turks. If you go out to attack the Tang army's catapult troops, there is no chance of success at all.
"Master, our army is timid when we see many enemies, and the morale of the army is faintly unstable." A young general with a purple jade face bowed to Liu Wuzhou and said, "We must go out of the city and rush for a while to reverse the disadvantage!"
The young general was named Wang Chongwei. He was originally the son of Wang Xingben, the general who was the guard of Yao Junsu in Hedong, Sui. Yao Junsu was defending Hedong County to fight against the Tang Dynasty, but was finally killed by Wang Xingben, and Hedong County fell into the hands of the Tang army. Liu Wuzhou went south, and Wang Xingben relied on Liu Wuzhou. Wang Chongwei was actually the hostage sent by Wang Xingben to Liu Wuzhou.
As a proton, Wang Chongwei did not have the slightest awareness of being a proton. Instead, he thought this was an opportunity. Following Liu Wuzhou, he naturally had the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune. When the Tang army did not launch an attack, Wang Chongwei took the lead in proposing a first attack, and it would be best to destroy the Tang army's catapult in one fell swoop.
Liu Wuzhou refused to let go and said lightly: "No, there must be a trap outside the pass!"
Wang Chongwei was also a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and he smiled disapprovingly, "So what if there is a trap? We can't stop fighting just because we are afraid of them! We must attack the city. Most of the soldiers of Tianxing Army are new recruits, and they are unstable. I am afraid that if we don't give them some motivation, they will be defeated without fighting."
"Defending the city requires attack." Liu Wuzhou looked at Wang Chongwei and smiled: "But attack depends on the timing. Inspiration is necessary, but now is not the time."
Liu Wuzhou looked at Chen Ying launching an attack desperately and secretly guessed. At this time, Fan Junzhang guessed that Chen Ying's surprise attack on the Shenchi should not have many troops. In order to avoid being divided into pieces and annihilated this surprise, he couldn't wait to attack Yanmen Pass, with the purpose of putting pressure on him and forcing him to be unable to divide his troops to attack the Shenchi.
Thinking of this, Liu Wuzhou smiled and said, "Chen Yinger, how can you not accept such a big gift? It's unrestrained."
Chen Ying was not actually losing his mind. He just wanted to see if he could chew Yanmen Pass with a counterweight catapult. Of course, the battlefield in Hedong is now in chaos, and the main direction is divided into six places. At Loufan Pass, Ashinasmo's troops and Yu Guni attacked Zhang Lun from the south. Zhang Huaiwei and Xu Jingzong of Shenchi County resisted Fan Junzhang's fierce attack. At the same time, Yuchi Gong and Xunxiang were under Weize Pass surrounded Li Xiuning's troops. Ma Sanbao led a group of mobs to try to break the siege of Yuchi Gong and Xunxiang and rescue Li Xiuning.
However, Ma Sanbao's attack was powerless. He had neither armor nor decent weapons, nor had food and supplies to consume for a long time. Therefore, Yuchi Gong and Xunxiang had a clear advantage and were at ease. In the direction of the Qingzhou, Song Jingang resisted the Hedong Tang army led by Xu Shiji, but the strength gap between the two sides was not big. Although the Tang Hedong Army adapted from the Wagang Army was slightly stronger, it was at a disadvantage in siege, and it was seriously lacking in heavy siege equipment. It is currently in a stalemate. Of course, in the Haozhou direction, Liu Wuzhou's army attacked Taichang Shaoqing and the remnants of the Bingzhou Army led by Li Zhongwen, the Bingzhou general manager, but Li Zhongwen barely protected himself and the situation was in danger.
Now the only chance to break through is in Chen Ying's hands.
As the counterweight catapult pulled by Jianniu slowly approached Yanmen Guanguan City, Liu Wuzhou breathed a sigh of relief as he saw that only twelve of them appeared under the city.
Twelve throwing stones are naturally a great threat to other cities. However, it is insignificant to Yanmen Pass. Generally, cities are mostly made of solid soil, but Yanmen Pass is made of bluestone strips as bricks and glutinous rice soup. The most important thing is that Yanmen Pass is not a city wall. The Yanmen Pass defense system is more than 60 miles deep. There are eighteen passes in these more than 60 miles, six military camps, six guard platforms, six fortresses (equivalent to small cities) and eighteen passes. If you want to break through Yanmen Pass, you must use a pass and a pass to fill it.
According to the calculation that it would take more than 2,000 consecutive bombardment by a catapult in this era to collapse a wall, it would take a full year for Chen Ying to completely occupy Yanmen Pass.
Liu Wuzhou was very confident that even for every wall and every military camp symbolically resisted for two or three days, enough for Fan Junzhang to break Shenchi County three or four times.
The Tang army's Shuozhou army came up. This army with young and strong hidden in Shuozhou was not as good as the army at this time. They rushed over in panic, with a good momentum.
Of course, it's just good.
In Liu Wuzhou's eyes, if it were not for the concerns about the Turkic cavalry in the Tang army outside the city, Liu Wuzhou would be very confident that he could use a thousand cavalry to kill the 20,000 troops of the Tang army.
After only less than a quarter of an hour of observation, Liu Wuzhou was no longer interested in observing the heavy shield standing in front of the village of Chenggou, Beiguan, Yanmen Pass, but began to use sacks filled with soil to build a simple chest wall in front of the shield.
According to this method, Chen Ying would not have the desire to break through Changsheng Fort (the second fort of the Six Forts). Liu Wuzhou looked at Liu Zhi, the captain who guarded the village of Gouzhu Village, and said, "How long can you defend Gouzhu Village?"
Liu Zhi was originally a palace guard of Jinyang Palace in the Sui Dynasty. When Li Yuan raised his army, Liu Zhi, who was the chief of Jinyang Palace guards, was loyal to the Sui Dynasty. However, the situation in the Sui Dynasty was too late and he could not control his small team. He took off his armor and returned to the village to serve his parents. Originally, Liu Zhi was in a state of peace and wanted to live a peaceful life. However, when Li Yuanji escaped, the defeated soldiers around him looted the village where Liu Zhi was.
Liu Zhi's parents and his wife and children both died tragically under the attack of the defeated soldiers. However, Liu Zhi's life was great and was later rescued by Fan Junzhang. After Fan Junzhang learned about Liu Zhi's experience, in order to establish the justice of Li Tang's tyranny and Liu Wuzhou, he appointed Liu Zhi as the captain of the Tianxing Army, who had a blood hatred with Li Tang.
However, Liu Wuzhou's Tianxing Kingdom was different from the Tang army system. Li Tang followed the Sui Dynasty's military system, but Liu Wuzhou created a military system, with five hundred people as a song, and set up military commanders. Two songs, thousands of people as a battalion, and set up a school lieutenant. Liu Zhi, the captain, was actually equivalent to the number of people in the Zhechong Mansion in the Tang army.
After all, Liu Zhi was born in a regular army. He was not from a wild path, and he spoke and did things very rigorously. When Liu Wuzhou asked him, he thought for a while and said, "If there is no support, my troops in my headquarters can resist the Tang army for ten days!"
"It doesn't take ten days. After three days and three nights, you can get rid of the gate and return to the village." Liu Wuzhou said: "In three days, I will retreat!"
When Liu Wuzhou heard that he only asked him to stay for three days and three nights, Liu Zhi's confidence increased greatly: "I promise to complete the task!"
Liu Wuzhou nodded with satisfaction, and with his entourage, he returned to the central army tent set up in Baishi Fort with a mighty ceremonial guard.
Liu Wuzhou didn't know that his self-confidence was too much.
Chapter completed!