Chapter 745 On the side of the Feng Army, according to Tang Yin's instructions, the Plains Army attacked Zhuyang County; The Sky Eagle Army mainly attacked Hengshui County, and the Hundred Battles Army stationed in Baima and Yishu Counties fought together; The Ninth Army and the New Army were the main attack on Kawaguchi-gun. 78 no pop-up window update fast Let's talk about the Ninth Army and the New Army, I thought that it would be easy to conquer Kawaguchi-gun, like the counties that were fought before, but in fact it was the opposite.
The two armies had barely entered Kawaguchi-gun when they were attacked by the Kawaguchi Regional Army.
The Kawaguchi Army did not ambush the main forces of the Ninth Army and the New Army, and they did not have that strength, but quietly detoured behind the two armies and sneaked up on the logistics and supplies of the Ninth Army and the New Army.
The scale of this battle was not large, and the Kawaguchi army did not have many troops, but they were all elite, and the logistics supply teams of the two armies were taken by surprise, and a large number of grain, grass and military materials were looted and burned.
Hearing the news, the Qi Heng cavalry led a cavalry to quickly turn back to reinforce, but when they returned, the Kawaguchi army had already run away without a trace.
Qi Heng was indignant and hated to suffer such a big loss before he even saw the enemy, and he immediately ordered the Ninth Army and the New Army to take Tingkou Castle in Kawaguchi County.
Tingkou Castle is located in the north of Kawaguchi-gun, and if the wind army wants to go deep into the hinterland of Kawaguchi-gun, they must first take Tingkou as a foothold.
According to the report, there were only more than 5,000 local troops in Tingkou, while the Ninth Army and the New Army had 200,000 people.
In the siege battle, the Ninth Army could only play the role of covering and coercing the battle, and it was impossible to expect the heavy cavalry to rush to the city wall to attack the city, and the task of frontal attack naturally fell to the new army.
Since its establishment, the new army has been in the midst of conquest, and it has been extremely experienced in combat, and it is certainly not a problem to take a small town defended by 5,000 men.
Liu Zhang only sent two corps to fight, and in his opinion, this was enough, and it was impossible for the defenders to resist the onslaught of his 20,000 soldiers.
But he was wrong, and after the war began, it was far less smooth than he imagined.
The resistance of the 5,000 defenders was extremely tenacious and fierce, and the two corps of the Wind Army, fighting a wave, were repulsed in a wave, and several rounds of charges in a row were all in vain, and there were many casualties themselves.
Faced with such a situation, Liu Zhang was quite surprised, but it was too late to fight, so he could only order the troops to be withdrawn and wait until tomorrow to fight again.
Back in the barracks, he had just entered the Zhongjun tent, and his ass was not hot, so Qi Heng came to the door angrily.
Qi Heng was very dissatisfied with the siege of the new army today, and the majestic Central Army Corps could not defeat a small city garrisoned by only 5,000 local troops.
In the Chinese army tent, Qi Heng pointed at Liu Zhang's nose in front of the generals of the new army and asked angrily: "What kind of bullshit battle are you fighting today, you can't even beat a small city of 5,000 people, how do you become the commander of this army?"
Don't look at Qi Heng as a Mo person, and now there is no official reinstatement, but his qualifications in the army are much older than Liu Zhang, and he can only listen and endure when he blames him in person.
He bowed his body and said with a smile: "General Qi, in today's battle, I did make a mistake, General Qi also extinguished the fire, please sit down."
"How can I sit still now" Qi Heng is hot temper, coming and going quickly, he pinched his waist with both hands, paced back and forth in the big tent, shook his head and said indignantly: "Since entering Kawaguchi County, our army has not been smooth, now the logistics team is attacked, and now the attack is blocked, isn't this a joke for the Plains Army and the Sky Eagle Army to see us" "Yes, yes, yes, General Qi is right," Liu Zhang nodded again and again.
In fact, he didn't take down the pavilion, he was also very depressed, and he felt even more puzzled, incredible, 20,000 against 10,000, the wind army against the An army, the Chinese army against the local army, regardless of the strength and combat power, their own side has an absolute advantage, how could it not be defeated He turned his eyes to the two commanders of the Seventh and Eighth Corps, which were attacking today, and asked, "General Mao and General Gong, when you two were commanding the siege of the city, did you think that the defenders in the city were really 5,000 people?"
Hearing his question, Qi Heng stopped, and looked at Mao Yi, the commander of the Seventh Corps of the New Army, and Gong Dan, the commander of the Eighth Corps, without blinking.
Mao Yi's face was full of shame, he lowered his head, and whispered: "The defenders are indeed only a few thousand, but but" "But what is it, I can finish it in one go," Liu Zhang said in a deep voice.
"However, there are many spiritual cultivators in the garrison."
Mao Yi said in a low voice.
As soon as his words fell, Gong Shan immediately continued: "Yes, among the defenders, there are many spiritual cultivators wearing the armor of the An army, the specific number is not clear, but there are definitely not a few, these spiritual cultivators are extremely powerful, even if the soldiers of our army finally rushed to the city, they were quickly beaten down."
"This doesn't make it an excuse for you to wait for the battle to be disadvantaged," Qi Heng snorted coldly beside him.
Mao Yi and Gong were red-eared on one face, their heads hung lower, and they said in a trembling voice: "The last general is not in a good position, and I ask the general to punish him." ” Liu Zhang waved his hand, the battle has already been fought like this, what is the use of punishing them again.
He pondered for a moment, turned his head to look at Qi Heng, and asked, "General Qi still remembers, when he was in the imperial town, the king seems to have mentioned that the rangers from all over the country have gathered in Kawaguchi County. ” Qi Heng blinked, frowned and tried to remember, and after a while, he said ambiguously: "It seems that there is such a thing, Liu Zhang, you think that there are rangers among the defenders in the city" "There can only be this explanation, otherwise, where will those more cultivators come from" Liu Zhangyu said: "It seems that the news that the king got is true, and Kawaguchi County is not as easy to fight as we imagined."
He was worried, but Qi Heng grinned and said, "If that's the case, that's a good thing." ” "How to Say" "The king has always hated rangers, and if Kawaguchi-gun really gathers many rangers from all over the world, then it is a great opportunity for you and me to make meritorious contributions."
Qi Heng's eyes rolled, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.
Liu Zhang, as well as the generals Bai An and Yan Yan on the left and right, couldn't help but roll their eyes, and in Qi Heng's head, they had no other thoughts except meritorious service.
"Tomorrow, I will go to battle in person, but I want to see how many rangers there are in the defenders of the city."
Qi Heng suddenly became scrappy and said with great interest.
Bai An and Yan Yan both nodded and said to Liu Zhang: "General, tomorrow the two of us will also go to battle with General Qi."
Liu Zhang did not refuse, a small city at Tingkou, it is enough to be ashamed that it was not fought on the first day, if it cannot be fought again on the second day, the morale of the soldiers of the whole army will be greatly affected, so tomorrow's siege battle can only succeed, and it will never be allowed to fail again.
Thinking of this, he cheered up and said: "Except for the seventh and eighth corps, the rest of the corps will all fight tomorrow in the first and second corps, mainly attacking the north city of Tingkou, the third and fourth corps, the main attack on the south city of Tingkou, the fifth and sixth corps mainly attacking the west city, and the ninth and tenth corps mainly attacking the east city.
Tomorrow, all the generals must work together to take the pavilion in one go."
"Obey" all the generals stood up in unison and intervened to receive the order.
However, before the new army could fight tomorrow, that night, in the middle of the night, the An army in Tingkou sent a small group of elites to attack the east camp of the Feng army.
The New Army and the Ninth Army were infantry regiments and the Ninth Army were infantry regiments and cavalry regiments, and the camps were not combined, but camped separately, with the new army camps in front and the Ninth Army camps in the back.
The An'an army that stole the camp was only 200 people, and it was the camp of the New Army that they attacked.
Relying on their familiarity with the terrain and the lack of precautions of the Feng army, the Anjun army successfully blended into the camp and burned the grain depot located in the east camp of the new army.
In this fire, the flames rose more than 10 meters high, and most of the eastern camp of the new army was red.
After receiving the report from the soldiers below, Liu Zhang didn't even wear armor, and hurriedly ran out of the sleeping tent, and went outside to take a look.
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Liu Zhang inhaled and asked the soldier who reported the news urgently: "Where is the fire?"
"It is the granary of our army" "Ah" Liu Zhang's head buzzed after hearing this, the logistics team had been attacked before, and his own grain and grass had not been replenished in time, if the grain depot of the army was burned down again, his own side would have to run out of food, so what would the 100,000 soldiers of the whole army eat next At this time, Liu Zhang's eyes were also red, pushed away the soldiers who reported the news, untied a war horse outside the dormitory, rode up, urged the war horse, and rushed towards Dongying.
The surrounding guards were startled and shouted, "General, be careful, General, slow down," shouting, they shook off their legs, and then chased after them.
Liu Zhang didn't care if the guards behind him followed, and urged the war horse to gallop wildly.
After a short time, he ran to the place where the fire broke out in Dongying, sat on his horse and looked up, the huge grain depot has now become a sea of fire, there are countless wind troops around to water and extinguish the fire, and there are many soldiers desperately trying to rescue food from the fire, shouting everywhere, people are shuttling constantly, and the scene is chaotic.
How could he see this like this, Liu Zhang was also dumbfounded, how could the enemy army of only 5,000 dare to come and attack his own 100,000 people's military camp, how could the security army of Kawaguchi County be so powerful He urged his horse to rush into the crowd and shouted to the surrounding Feng soldiers: "Fight the fire, hurry up and put out the fire, who knows where the enemy troops are now stealing the camp?"
"Back to the general, the enemy has already run away" "Where to run" Before he finished speaking, suddenly, swish, swish, swish, more than a dozen crossbow arrows suddenly flew from him in front of him, left and right.
This change came so suddenly, no one could have imagined that someone in the crowd of Feng soldiers would shoot cold arrows at Liu Zhang.
If Liu Zhang was wary at this time, no matter how many crossbow arrows he shot, he might not be able to hurt him, but now his mind was on the burning grain and grass, how could he have imagined that there would be enemies lurking among his soldiers.
With the muffled sound of pounce, pounce, and pounce several arrows entering the flesh, Liu Zhang screamed in pain and fell off his horse
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