Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 111: Sunburst

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In the early morning, the sun has not yet risen, and the sky and the earth are shrouded in dim light and faint white fog. As usual, Guo Shao walked out of a tiled house with hammered willow branches in the wooden barrel at the door. He took the willow branches and started brushing his teeth.

Only at this time, the outside of Shouzhou City is so peaceful, the surroundings gradually become lively, just like the early morning of the market, and like the sunrise, the craftsmen working day by day, just camping here, the battle has not yet begun. People have just eaten breakfast and have not yet fully entered the state, and slowly began to prepare for the day's things, at this time the sun has not yet appeared. The generals did not urge much.

Behind the first earthen wall and wooden fence, some soldiers were putting butter on the boulder, some were wiping them with cloths, and some craftsmen were hammering and rivets.

Finally, the first ray of sunlight like a sharp arrow pierced the mist, and the sky and the earth seemed to shine suddenly. A soldier straightened up, lazily trying to take a breath in the sun. But at this moment, suddenly the city gate was slowly opened. The soldier couldn't believe his eyes, so he quickly rubbed his eyes and looked again. The suspension bridge was also lowering.

"Bang!" The suspension bridge was placed on the bank of the dry moat. Suddenly saw a group of people and cavalry all wearing iron armor file out.

Sergeant Zhou in the fence was shocked. There, no one could believe that the Southern Tang Army could come out after being besieged for two months! Finally someone shouted: "Shouzhou soldiers are coming!"

Groups of elite knights jogging forward on horseback with their heads high, their vigorous figures and the brilliance of steel form a powerful landscape in the rising sun.

Some people in the Tang army raised their swords and shouted: "The Tang army will win all battles!" The knights shouted "Ah", the horseshoes suddenly screamed, the friction between the swordsmen and the armor sounded a metal-specific accent, and the heavy horses galloped up. It's near in a blink of an eye. There was no deflection in the direction, as if it had been planned a long time ago, it was close to the Muzhai Gate in the Zhou Army fortification. Upstairs on both sides, a Zhou Jun archer opened the bowstring with his hand, and with a "slap", he pulled the first arrow of the battle.

A knight hit an arrow under the collarbone, and fell off the horse as soon as he skewed, and fell heavily on the solid soil with a "clam".

At the gate of the village, some soldiers of the Zhou army were hurriedly putting their horses outside, hurriedly closing the gate of the village, and lifting the log up. "Swish..." A swarm of arrows flew, some nailed to the wooden door, some passed through the gap, and a few people fell suddenly in shouts. These soldiers had no armor, only helmets and goggles. , The arrow means death and injury.

The cavalry rushed to the front of the village, turned around and rounded the door, a knight pulled the bowstring on his side with a very skillful movement. "Pop!" The arrow flew out from the side and penetrated into the eye of a soldier. The knights in front dismounted one after another, moved away from the horse, and smashed open the gate.

Sergeant Zhou inside turned around and ran away. But at this time, the Tang Jun cavalry had rushed up. The knight in front was holding a cherry blossom spear, his body was on the side of the horse, and he cleanly slammed the cherry spear into the soldier's back and heard a scream of "Ah". The knight then drew out the cherry spear again, and saw that the soldier fell on the ground, bleeding like a pillar. More cavalry rushed into the fortifications, people ran away and were slashed and shot and screamed.

A horse rushed to the side of a huge catapult. The man on the horse smashed an earthen jar in his hand. With a "clam", the earthen jar smashed on the wood and shattered. Pour it down on the shelf. Almost at the same time, a torch turned upside down and flew over, with a "boom", and the flames and thick smoke burst together. The entire catapult was burnt in an instant, and its movements were clean and tidy.

...Guo Shao rode out to the west and looked very ugly as he watched the smoke billowing everywhere in the wilderness. At this time, a knight rushed over and was meeting Guo Shao, and he hurriedly dismissed his report to report: "Tang soldiers gushing from the west gate to attack my camp!"

Guo Shao didn't say anything. He just looked at the flames and black smoke everywhere in the distance, and felt that the report was nonsense.

Not long after, Li Chuyun and several generals followed up on horseback along the road, and said: "The First Army is gathering into an army, and the two commanders are ready, come here!" When Guo Shao looked back, he could hear it. With the sound of "Kakaka..." footsteps, the infantry in a line was trotting forward, and the generals riding horses shouted beside the team.

Guo Shao didn't answer anyone's words. He looked at the scene ahead and knew that Tang Jun had at least breached the first line of defense; because the catapult had a limited range and was very heavy, most of the equipment was in the first line of defense, and this was a heavy loss. But he didn't say anything irrelevant. What's the point of saying those useless?

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said in a deep voice: "In the second line of defense, the First Army of the First Army in the front of the left wing (west) is located in the southeast of the city gate, and the dental soldiers of Suzhou Municipal Government are stationed in the south... Order the flag, send a quick horse to send the order, order the troops stationed in the same place not to be chaotic, wait for the opportunity to move."

"Take Ling!"

Guo Shao said again: "The commanders of the First Army of the Tiger and Jiefang Army immediately reinforce to the west gate."

At this time, a general said: "Seeing an accident here, will the Second Army in the southeast rush over to reinforce it?"

Li Chuyun replied: "It should be. Wang Zhang will not die and wait for orders at this time."

The general warned again: "Will Tang Jun use the tactics of turning the tiger away from the mountain to attack the west?"

Li Chuyun pondered for a moment, and said: "Tang Bing is just a sudden attack, and he can break through my line by surprise. Now that the war is on, it will be difficult to send troops to the east. Moreover, the defense forces are limited, unless they want to abandon the city for a decisive battle. Otherwise, I don’t think it is a clever way to make a noise at this time."

After hearing this, Guo Shao decisively said: "Send someone to order Wang Zhang to send reinforcements from the south of the city."

At this time, the forward infantry of the First Army has marched up, and Guo Shao asked Li Chuyun to lead the First Army to follow up and make a decisive attack on the Southern Tang Army. Then he led Yang, Luo, Luo Yanhuan and their soldiers to the west of the city with a total of forty or fifty horses.

After running for two miles, I saw Tang Jun cavalry sweeping towards the south of the city with heavy horses. At first glance, there are huge horses galloping, but the Tang Jun forward has only two to three hundred horses.

The cavalry came from the west and prevailed. The large number of defenders in the front position of the Zhou army were in a mess. There were too many people to fight against the cavalry. They were extremely vulnerable. They were covered and killed by the cavalry, and they jumped everywhere. Run around.

When Luo Yanhuan saw this, he turned around and asked for his orders. Seeing Guo Shao nodded, he immediately rushed forward. A few men behind him followed up with dozens of riders. Guo Shao also rushed up and pulled the saber from his back.

"Pop!" Luo Yan leaned forward and rode. With one arrow, he killed several enemies in a row, rushed to the enemy, then abandoned the bow and arrow and drew out the iron sword. All the generals carried long weapons to kill the generals, and all of them were determined to be military generals since they were young. Although there were few people, the Zhou Jun Ma squadron was very fierce. As soon as it received the enemy, it cut off the protruding part of the Tang Jun Ma squadron; following the Tang Jun cavalry, seeing the horror, feared to step forward, they turned their horses' heads and ran west.

Guo Shao and others followed, and soon saw the Tang Army's infantry fighting in the heavy smoke. It seemed that the Tang army's large infantry also wanted to attack westward, but from the second fence of the flank, some Zhou army's mixed troops rushed out, and they were killing them in a mess.

The miscellaneous troops attacked by the Zhou army seemed to be part of the Suzhou provincial governor's tooth soldiers and a large group of village soldiers. There were very few people with incomplete armor, and limited combat power could not break the flank of the Southern Tang Army. Seeing a group of Tang Army infantrymen advancing here in the middle road, Guo Shao hurriedly shouted: "Go!"

The generals followed him and turned their horses back and ran backwards. The Nantang infantry team couldn't keep up with their legs and was quickly left behind.

After about a stick of incense, a commander of the First Army of the Tiger and Jie Army rushed to the battlefield first. All the troops rushed up to the battlefield, and they encountered the infantry brigade of Tang Army rushing south. Without a word, the commander of the Tiger Jie army shouted: "Kill!" All the troops swarmed up and ran up desperately regardless of the queue. Two groups of men and horses fought in the middle, and the groups of swordsmen waved like a big pot of water boiling.

Soon the remaining six commanders of the Tiger and Jiefang Army arrived one after another, the front spread to the two wings, and several troops outflanked and attacked. Not long after, the fighting Tang soldiers' infantry was defeated and fled to the west. They were crushed and killed by the Tigers, and abandoned their bodies.

Guo Shao followed the Tiger and Jie troops to chase down Erlidi, and saw the west gate of Shouzhou opened. The cavalry of the Southern Tang Army took the lead in the city, and the army that had not dispersed behind followed into the city. Then came the messy rout.

The Tiger and Jie sergeant turned straight out of the dirt wall of the fence and pursued the city gate. Not long afterwards, the suspension bridge was pulled up, the soldiers behind were yelling, and many people rolled down into the dry riverbed.

Guo Shao's generals and horses rushed to the gate first. At this time, arrows fell from the tower, and the soldiers who rushed too fast hit a few arrows. Everyone had to slap their horses and retreat. When the Tiger and Jiefang infantry followed, the Nantang rebels who had not entered the city simply descended one after another and walked over with their backs to the city wall.

There was a wave of shouts from all sides, but the fighting was gradually over.

Guo Shao thinks this battle is a win, because the circle of the siege is bigger than the city wall, two hundred steps away from the city, and the circumference is at least 20 miles. If the line of defense of 20 miles is a tiger and a good soldier Strict defense and insufficient troops; it cannot prevent the Tang army from breaking through the line of defense. But because of the preparations, we encircled and intercepted from several sides, and defeated the Tang army...The enemy soldiers retreated into the city after they were defeated!

But in fact, the results cannot be calculated like that. I saw most of the catapults and ladders in the west of the city were still burning and smoking, a mess, and the ordnance parts that were being transported from Palgong Mountain on the edge of Fei Shui were burned All the way. Losing so much equipment at once was rushed out of the city by the defenders. Guo Shao felt that things were very bad.

He had also been wary of Tang Jun who might rush out to counterattack before, but he really couldn't tell. Liu Renzhan really did that! It is really surprised that Guo Shao is called.

In the thick smoke, Guo Shao sat immediately looking back at the surroundings for a long time without words, and fell into Chen Si. He suddenly said to Li Chuyun: "Maybe we are still careless. We didn't pay enough attention to the defenders' counterattack before we were attacked?" z