Chapter 705: Iron hoofs coerce step by step
The Xudu Imperial City, which stands under the Fiery Sky Sun, sweaty soldiers exposed their necks to let the occasional winds penetrate in, and closed their eyes comfortably. Then they felt something. Opened their eyes and saw a fast horse rushing over from the market in the distance, inserting the flag behind the fast horse. This is an important message of Baili's speed. The extremely fast reaction made the people below open the city gate, and the fast horse rush into the palace gate.
The Central Plains in July is the hottest time. The cicadas continued in the palace one after another. The sunlight passed through the gaps between the branches, and the mottled swayed slightly on the ground with the wind. The eunuchs standing outside Chengguang Hall, the guards lowered their heads and listened to the noisy sounds of people in the hall. Such scenes often happened. After a while, the rushing sound of horse hooves rushed towards this side. When the guards and eunuchs passed by at the same time, they were a scout in the army.
"Quick......Take it in...Report to the Prime Minister and Your Majesty..."
The eunuchs who received the information did not dare to hesitate, held them in their hands and rushed into the hall quickly. At this time, they were quarreling about the matter between Jingzhou and Jiangdong in the south. It was a fact that Liu Bei and Sun Quan ruled one side, but the wolf king Xingui also gave the emperor the spoils obtained from the west according to the etiquette system, and at the same time returned all the troops recruited by the states. Apart from not entering the triumphant pilgrimage to pay homage to the emperor, there were not many criticisms. After all, they really would not go to the north to argue with each other.
Most of the caravans during the Western Expedition came from the families behind these court officials. Even Cao Hong from the Cao family sent caravans to follow him, but he was not so arrogant. When he gained benefits, he knew the truth that people were short and the shortest to eat people. Therefore, for several months, most of his spearheads were aimed at Jingzhou in the south.
However, Cao Cao, who had the best relationship with the North, was always worried about the movements in the north. After all, the 170,000 troops... It should be 180,000 now. He already knew that although he was jealous of this team, he did not dare to detain it easily. Sooner or later, the matter would spread. If Gongsun Zhi questioned it, it would be difficult to push it clean.
Once the troops were facing down, the first thing they were to be affected was Jizhou and the Central Plains. Ma Teng, Xiliang, also had a good relationship with the other party. If he sent troops from the west to attack Chang'an, it would be a real loss of rice. Moreover, the time for inspecting the army in the north was long gone, and the news had not yet come back, which made him feel a little uneasy.
Not long after, an eunuch came in outside. Cao Cao stood in the middle of the aisle, tied his waist to the sky, and just stretched out his hand, and the other party bowed and presented the plain silk.
"I finally started..."
With just one glance, Cao Cao narrowed his eyes - Gongsun Zhibing went to Liaodong.
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Liaodong, Xiangping.
Huge stones crossed the sky with dense arrows and crossbow arrows, crossing the horses running below, and above the heads of the running soldiers, arrows were thrown in front of them. The sharp arrows were nailed to the hard surface, or collided with the rain of arrows flying outside the city, and fell down weakly. After a distance, a certain part of the city wall gradually magnified, and then smashed hard on the towering city wall.
boom--
The rocks broke and the broken stones splashed everywhere, hitting the faces of nearby people, scraping out long bloody mouths, or directly hitting the iron helmets, killing the person who was still running. More stones fell from the sky like the scene of doomsday, and some accurately hit the wall section. Gongsun Gong, who was holding a knife and shouting for defense, saw with his own eyes that more than a dozen soldiers were still running with reinforcements, and the person smashed by a huge rock was overturned. The man in the middle only left a pool of blood in his remaining limbs, and there was no place to hide.
"Click the arrows and fight back, tell the cavalry below to destroy the opponent's catapult cart-" There was another loud bang in the sound of his shouting. A huge rock roaring down a pile of walls, rolling and pressing the archer behind the piles below, revealing his head and vomiting blood and twitching.
Although the soldiers who have lived in Liaodong for a long time have fought several battles, the broken corpses smashed by huge rocks in such a fierce and cruel siege have largely scared them. When someone wants to retreat, a blade from behind him killed him. Gongsun Gong's face is covered in blood and shouted hideously: "Does my Gongsun family in Liaodong treat you badly? At this moment, I will report to the city to death-"
A hundred feet away from Xiangping City, Pan Feng, the Marquis of Pingchang, who was the chief general of the central army, was sitting on the back of a horse, pursing his lips tightly, and looking at the city wall that was almost shook by the stones. He didn't believe that this city could be stronger than Constantine. After four years of returning, the Emperor of Qin could be considered indirectly dead at his hands.
"I'll sit here and watch you surrender-" he stroked the cow's horn helmet and said righteously.
Over the years, the Fengxiang army under his command slowly changed towards the direction of bows and crossbows and catapults. In addition to the necessary infantry front formation, they were almost all archers, crossbowmen, and Roman auxiliary soldiers. After the Roman scorpion cannon was improved, four wheels were installed, which could be dragged away by a carriage. Even if they were suddenly attacked, they could be disguised at any time, using spare stone bullets or chain crossbows.
Pan Feng looked ahead, and the people rushing and shouting were climbing upwards towards the city walls. The amazing fighting had spread around the generals who had been quiet for several years. When the soldiers following him rushed to the city to form a shield formation, the overlapping sword lights slashed down from the opposite side and hit the shield. Zhang He lifted the soldiers holding the shield in front and kicked out with one kick. The Liaodong soldiers shouting and fighting flew directly backwards like artillery shells, smashing against the crowds of people coming from behind, and suddenly they were overturned.
At this time, the casting had stopped, and the entire city wall entered a fierce and close fight. On the three wall sections of A, B and C, 30,000 soldiers from the north launched several attacks, from morning to dusk. Gongsun Gong, who was trapped in the city wall, then got his brother to help and repel a group of attacks from the north.
After the night fell, the two brothers lit a bonfire under the city wall to rest. If the enemy attacked at night, it would be better to reinforce the city wall. The sky was full of stars and the bonfire was burning. Gongsun Gong threw a piece of dry firewood into the fire. Looking at his brother holding a knife and closing his eyes to sleep on the other side, he couldn't help but speak: "Brother, Gongsun Zhi's troops are not barbarians like Goguryeo... wake up."
"Why are they all different? They are all people with one head... Didn't they defend today? Besides, the ones who came are not elite, what are you afraid of!"
"Just because he is not an elite, he can fight with us in such a situation. If his elite comes, brother... can we still fight?" Gongsun Gong clenched his hands into fists, lowered his voice and almost shouted: "Gongsun Zhi spread the word that we were the first to assassinate. It is already very obvious that he is going to take Liaodong. He killed all the Western countries. Can we just stop it in Liaodong?!"
Wow—
Gongsun Kang suddenly swung his sword to the ground, and a stone flew away, "Surrender? He made a fuss about the assassin's business, and he would not let us go. Back then, he said that people with the surname Gongsun in Liaodong and Youbeiping should be a family, that's a liar to you. Now that he has strong soldiers and horses, there can only be one of the two Gongsuns."
The soldiers were looking over.
The two men fell silent one after another with their necks red until the sky was shining. The sound of trumpets outside the city sounded again and alarmed them. They ran up the city wall and looked out. The troops who attacked the city yesterday came out of the military camp again and lined up on the field left and right. Countless flags roamed in the color of Qingming.
The siege continued the next day, but it was covered by more stone cannons and arrow rains. This time the siege army no longer attacked forcefully. Using crossbows, catapults continued to smash towards the wall. On the third day, huge cracks appeared on the wall in the middle section B, and the soldiers could clearly feel unstable at the feet of the soldiers on the wall section.
In four days, many Liaodong soldiers no longer dared to stand on the city wall. At noon, Gongsun Gong led the cavalry out of the city to destroy the opponent's stone-throwing equipment in one fell swoop, but Wen Chou cut off the team from the flank. The general Gongsun Mo was stabbed in the head by the opponent's turtle camel gun. Gongsun Gong almost died under the opponent's gun and retreated back to the city in panic with less than 300 cavalry.
After being bandaged by the soldiers, he limped up to the city wall, looking at his brother running around the city wall, and climbing up to the tragic battlefield, laughing on his bloody face and slowly walking towards the brother who gave orders there.
It's fine… he sighed in his heart.
Gongsun, Liaodong, cannot exterminate the clan... The two nephews are still young, and there are thousands of tribes of all sizes. They always have to survive... Gongsun Gong limped and pushed the hilt away with his thumb. The cold cold light was exposed from the inside bit by bit. The messenger was sent away. Gongsun Kang turned his head and saw his brother being injured. He hurried over: "For brother, you are worried about you. If you are seriously injured, you can go back to your house first..."
A strong wind blew over with black smoke. On the bumpy city wall, the lame figure suddenly laughed loudly and waved his arms suddenly.
Gongsun Kang, who was still talking, was stunned for a moment, and saw the blade enlargement in his eyes, and then his vision flipped up. He saw his brother Gongsun Gong standing there with a knife and laughing like a madman, tears flowing in his eyes, his vision flipped again, getting higher and higher, looking outside the city, there was a surging crowd.... The final consciousness then disconnected.
On July 25, Gongsun Kang from Liaodong died, and his younger brother Gongsun Gong surrendered to the city.
It was August that the news came to Shanggu County. Gongsun Zhi sat on a big chair, closed his eyes and listened to the news. He stood up with his cloak, walked behind the wall and looked at the south, attracting Li Ke: "I will write a few words to all the princes: Iron hooves are about to go south... Well, it is just to scare them."
At this time, the forces in Liaodong still resisted and it would take some time to clear it up, but a large amount of food and Gongsun Kang's family had begun to be transported to Youzhou one after another. The attack on Liaodong was just a clear signal of Gongsun Zhi. Now that Liaodong is gone, the only thing left is to whip south.
It was already late August that the news of the annihilation of Gongsun Kang in Liaodong arrived in Xuchang, and another piece of information followed. In early September, the 170,000 cannibalism army crossed Yanmen Pass in two directions and Juyong Pass, which was very meaningful to rush the army south.
Countless people felt that the knife on their heads was finally about to be cut off.
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A genius remembers the address of this site in one second:...:m.
Chapter completed!