Chapter 123 Hu Xian's call for help was transmitted to Yangchuan and Bailin as soon as possible, and the commanders of the two cities were Li Rong and Lu Hongming.
Li Rong's identity is not simple, he is the cousin of Li Jin, the general of Mozambique, but he is still very talented and learned, proficient in military books and war strategies, good at leading the army to fight, and has made a lot of military exploits on the battlefield of Ningguo, which is very appreciated by Shao Fang.
Lu Hongming was born as a civilian official, but his study of military books and tactics is more thorough than Li Rong's, coupled with his quick thinking, he talks about the art of war like a river, even a veteran who has been handsome for many years can't compare to him.
In Shao Fang's eyes, Li Rong and Lu Hongming are both outstanding generals in Mozambique, and he feels very relieved that he is guarding the border.
After receiving Hu Xian's urgent summons, Li Rong and Lu Hongming were both surprised, and the two were somewhat surprised by the large-scale invasion of the Feng Army.
However, the choice of the two was surprisingly consistent, neither immediately sent troops to rescue Xiashui Town, but sat back and watched the changes.
In Lu Hongming's view, the invasion of the Feng Army was still a bluff, and its purpose was to lure back the army that had invaded the Jade Country.
He didn't believe that the Wind Army really dared to take the water town.
And Li Rong, who also did not send troops, thought differently from Lu Hongming, he was worried, Li Rong thought that the Feng army dared to take Xiashui Town with great fanfare, it must have been prepared, and if he rescued him hastily, he was likely to fall into the treacherous plan of the army.
He deliberately sent a large number of spies to observe the movements of the Wind Army, and also deliberately asked people to investigate between Yangchuan and Xiashui Town to see if there were any ambushes from the Wind Country.
Li Rong deserves to be an excellent commander, and his mind is like silk.
Although it was only 300 miles from Yangchuan to Xiashui Town, the road was not easy to walk, there were many hills and cols, and it was easy to set up an ambush.
If he ran into an ordinary opponent, maybe he would really find out the flaws, but this time he met the Plains Army, and the main general of the ambush was still the experienced Wu Guang.
Wu Guang set up an ambush in the middle between Yangchuan and Xiashui, the ambush was far away from the official road, and it was scattered, and it was divided into pieces, and Wu Guang also sent a small force of the wind army to do a secret sentry, once the spies of the Mo country were found, they would be killed.
The eyeliner sent by Li Rong went to the area where Wu Guang set up an ambush to investigate, but the result was either a futile return without finding anything, or an inexplicable evaporation from the world, and in the end, no shadow of the ambush was found.
But the disappearance of a large number of spies still aroused Li Rong's vigilance, and also made him more determined not to send troops hastily.
Let's say that the Ninth and Tenth Corps of the Plains Army led by Xiao Muqing have only 20,000 people in the two corps, and the non-combatants such as the logistics team of the regiment are at best 30,000, but when advancing to Xiashui Town, the team is extremely long, and everyone is not idle.
If you observe it from a distance, the entire team of the Plains Army is fluttering with embroidered ribbons, and the military flags are like a forest, stretching out for more than ten miles, and the lineup is amazingly large.
Such a team will not be believed by saying 100,000, even if it is said 150,000 or 200,000, it will be convincing.
Xiao Muqing led such a vain army to Xiashui Town.
It is still five miles away from Xiashui Town, Xiao Muqing ordered to set up camp, he doesn't care if the camp is strong or not, but it must be large, if it looks like it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, it would be the best.
As soon as he gave the order, the whole army moved, felling the wood, digging the soil, building the wall, and about 30,000 wind troops built the camp in an orderly manner.
The Plains Army was well-trained and fast-moving, and in just two hours, the camp had begun to see its scale.
In accordance with Xiao Muqing's requirements, the soldiers did not seek quality, but only area, and set up the camp for more than ten miles.
In the open spaces around the barracks, the Wind Army also erected many straw men and put on the armor of the Wind Army, and if you look at it from a distance, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity.
At the same time as camping, Xiao Muqing led the two corps commanders under his command, more than a dozen partial generals and thousands of wind troops to carry out the stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows of the Plains Army, and lined up two miles outside the city of Xiashui Town.
Xiao Muqing sat on his horse and raised his eyes to look at Xiashui Town, which was about the same as a small city, and the city walls were also high, and there was a dense Mo army standing on the wall, and the banners of the Mo country were planted all over the city.
After watching for a moment, Xiao Muqing sneered, turned his head sideways, and asked left and right lightly: "Who wants to take the lead and go to the enemy to scold the formation" As soon as he finished speaking, a partial general named Gao Chang urged him to take two steps forward, and shouted with a loud voice: "General, the last general is willing to go" Xiao Muqing glanced at him, nodded, and said indifferently: "Quasi" With his approval, Gao Chang knocked the stirrups with both feet, roared, and urged the horse to rush out of the formation, only to blink an eye, he had reached a hundred steps outside the town of Xiashui, at this time, the city head screamed, and a sharp arrow flew down, nailed to the ground in front of the war horse.
The horse neighed, raised its front hooves high, and spun around twice before stopping.
Gao Chang stabilized his horse, raised his head to look at the city, pointed with the spirit knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "I am the general of the Fengguo Plain Army, Gao Chang Moguo's child, which one will come out to die?"
At this time, Hu Xian, the dragon commander of the Mo country, was at the head of the city, he saw the camp of the wind army in his eyes, and he could see clearly the thousands of siege equipment placed by the wind army outside the city.
Seeing that the wind was coming to challenge, he gasped and hurriedly said to the left and right: "No one is allowed to fight without the order of the general."
Needless to say, no one in the Mo army planned to go out of the city to face the battle.
Now after listening to his order, the generals of the Mo army are all relieved and secretly relieved.
A soldier bears a nest of bears.
Hu Xian is a greedy person who is afraid of death and is as timid as a mouse, and the generals under him can get any better Gao Chang outside the city shouted three times, no one answered in Xiashui Town, and no one responded to the battle, seeing this, Gao Chang was more vigorous, he carried a knife in one hand, and rode a horse to show off his might in front of the city to hover back and forth, and laughed at the same time: "Mo Guo'er, but he is self-aware, and he knows that he will be sent to death in a battle, I advise you to wait a sentence, now there is a way to survive in the surrender of Kaecheng, if you wait until our army attacks on a large scale, there will be no chickens and dogs in Xiashui Town, and no grass will grow."
Oh, Hu Xian grinned and wiped cold sweat on the city, and he asked tremblingly: "Have the people we sent to Yangchuan and Bailin have sent a letter asking for help?"
"General Hui, it has already been delivered."
"But what about our reinforcements, now that the wind army has come to the city, why have the reinforcements from Yangchuan and Bailin not arrived yet?"
"This" Hu Xian's generals couldn't answer.
"Hurry up and send someone to ask for help, no matter what, we must also invite reinforcements" Hu Xian scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, and said in a trembling voice: "The Wind Army has a large number of troops, I am afraid that there is more than one legion of the Plains Army, once the other party launches an attack, it must be a siege and attack, and at that time, we will not be able to send people out of the city to ask for help."
After speaking, seeing that his subordinates were still standing in place, Hu Xian was anxious and angry, stomped his feet again and again, and shouted: "You guys are going, what are you still doing in a daze?"
"Ah, yes, yes, general, the last general will send someone to ask for help."
Mo Jun in Xiashui Town sent people to ride fast horses to Yangchuan and Bailin for the second time, and then asked Li Rong and Lu Hongming for help.
The men they sent had just left Xiashui Town from the east and west, and the Plains Army had also sounded the horn of attack.
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Of course, the Plains Army will not directly invest its forces in the siege war, after all, their combatable soldiers are only 20,000 people, as long as the siege is launched, they will immediately be exposed, Xiao Muqing ordered his own stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows to be all activated, there is no need to have reservations, and they must suppress and test the opponent with continuous long-range strikes.
Now although the Plains Army has divided 80,000 troops and most of the generals, the ambush soldiers do not use large weapons such as stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows, and the stone-throwing machines and city-breaking crossbows of the whole army are basically in the hands of their 20,000 people.
For a while, the sound of mechanical rotation and catapult in the camp of the wind army was endless, and thousands of stone projectiles flew into the air, drawing arcs and smashing the walls of Xiashui Town, and the same thousands of crossbow arrows pierced the sky, hanging with a piercing whistling, mercilessly piercing the arrow battlements of the city wall.
In just an instant, the walls of Xiashui Town bloomed everywhere, and the rumbling sounds, the sound of the city walls shattering, and the screams of the people were mixed together, and the flesh and blood on the city were flying, stones were splashed everywhere, and thick smoke was bursting, turning into a living human area.
Where had the local army of Mozambique seen such a ferocious attack, and they didn't even see the shadow of the attackers of the Wind Army, and they were already dizzy and miserable.
"General, the attack of the wind army is too fierce, let's hurry down the city wall" The generals of the local army protected Hu Xian and ran towards the city.
Hu Xian held his head, and shouted while running down the city: "Continue to send people to ask for reinforcements" Before his words fell, a huge stone bullet fell from the sky and smashed not far in front of him, and the two Mo soldiers who were running down the city were smashed squarely, and the two of them didn't even have time to scream, and they were smashed into flesh on the spot, and the splattered flesh and blood had sprayed on Hu Xian's face and body.
He saw it clearly, and there was a chill in his bones, his legs were weak, and he almost didn't collapse to the ground, and he cried out: "Send people to ask for reinforcements again, as long as we don't see reinforcements, we will keep sending people."
Hu Xian and the generals withdrew from the city one after another, and the other Mo soldiers couldn't stay in the city anymore, crowding down the city in groups, people shouted and neighed, and the north wall of the front of Xiashui Town had become a pot of porridge
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