Chapter 242 Yishanzhai attack and defense

"Is An Huaman sent troops?" Zhao Qin opened his eyes and looked at the direction of An Huaman camp, turned his head to look at Ma Yu's side face and asked.

Ma Yu smiled and said, "It's so easy there! Did the prince see there? Is there anything there that smoke in the cooking ripples?"

Zhao Qian looked in the direction Ma Yu pointed, stared at it, nodded thoughtfully and said, "The smoke from the cooking stove there seems to be a little bigger, and it is a little bit higher than other cooking stoves! It seems... it doesn't seem to be the smoke from the cooking stove!"

Ma Yu nodded and said, "That's right! There are talented people among the Anhua Man. In some places, there should be fired with sprinkled firewood. In this way, a small amount of firewood can be used to create the illusion of smoke. However, wet firewood and dry firewood are different from the fireworks burned by dry firewood. I can see it carefully. I think this strategy was created by Shimudian, the town of Anhua Man! However, Anhua Man is a barbarian. No matter how good the method is, the stupid people will be responsible for it below. If there is too much water sprinkling, it is easy to see the flaws in some places."

After a pause, Ma Yu said: "From the current smoke, this Anhua team has 60,000 people, but since the other party has made smoke, it is only 50,000 people at most. If you look at it a few more times, you can still see the number of troops!"

Zhao Jin nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Ma Yu quickly saluted and said, "Your Majesty, please be polite!"

Zhao Qian smiled without answering, walked to the side of the city wall, holding the chassis with both hands. The cold touch and the cold morning made people feel comfortable.

Suddenly, a horn sounded in the Anhua Man Camp, and more than ten rough flags that were temporarily made danced, and there was a riot in the Anhua Man Camp. The troops of troops were like a nest of chaotic ants.

Just after a closer look, Zhao Chen found that although An Huaman was a little confused, he was not aware of the array, and he could still see some rules from it.

"It's going to attack the city!" Ma Yu's face was wiped out with exhaustion, and a solemn look enveloped her face.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" The sound of trumpets like strange beasts sounded on the horn tower. Teams of Song soldiers lined up under the city wall nervously and orderly, and some went up to the city tower under the generals. The civilians were mobilized, and two or one person carried arrows, stones, fire bricks and other equipment to guard the city.

However, overall, the mobilized troops and civilians are not very large. If you observe carefully, you will feel that Longshui City is not just preparing for war. It is better to be on guard just in case.

This can be seen from the expressions of Zhao Qian and Ma Yu. Zhao Qian and Ma Yu's eyes were both on Yishan Village, two miles away from Longshui City.

Yishan is not big or tall, it is short in the south and steep in the north, and it is backed by Longjiang. Yishan Village is built on the mountainside. At the same time, in order to prevent the enemy from cutting off the water source, Zhao Qin specially summoned a skilled craftsman to build a water pumping tower on a small protruding cliff on the mountainside. The water pumping tower has a noose hanging a huge wooden barrel. When it needs water, it rolls the noose to make the wooden barrel slowly fall on the surface of the Longjiang River, and when the bucket is full, it is pulled up.

The noose is rolled by two large green cows, which is not very labor-intensive.

In the defense, there are eight arrow towers in Yishan Village. The city wall is built with two rows of wooden fences first. On the two rows of wooden fences, there are only gravels and yellow mud. After they are dried, the yellow mud is applied to the wooden fences facing outwards. The characteristic is that they are fast construction and can effectively prevent fire attacks. However, because the foundation has not been built well, such a copycat cannot last long.

As for the current situation, there is no problem with Yishanzhai! The Song army did not have the power to counterattack, but it was just a short time! After the 2,500 new soldiers in the rear were recruited and the training was completed, some soldiers and horses would be transferred from other prison states. There was no problem with 4,000 troops! With 4,000 soldiers and horses joining the battlefield, Zhao Jin was not afraid of tens of thousands of Anhua barbarians at all.

At the same time, behind the first city wall, a small stone bunker is still being built on the top of Yuyishan Mountain as the last line of defense.

Therefore, it is good to have a good matchmaker, although there are not many troops stationed in the camp, only 500 people, and the defense is not bad at all.

This principle is not only understood by Zhao Qian, but also by An Huaman's generals. It is just that Yishanzhai is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but if An Huaman wants to quickly take down Longshui City, he must take down Yishanzhai.

The strategic significance of Yishanzhai is so important! You can look down at the entire battlefield from a high place, and the commander can calmly mobilize troops to fight the enemy on the mountain. Moreover, Yishanzhai is on the side, just like the famous saying, lying beside the bed, how can you allow others to snore? Yishanzhai is in the hands of the Song army for one day, and An Huaman dares not attack Longshui City arbitrarily for one day. This is because when the battle is at its most intense, there is no need for too many people, and one hundred people is enough to change a war.

Therefore, after many military discussions, Zhao Jin and others reached a clear expectation that the first attack of the Anhua barbarians must be Yishanzhai! The Yishanzhai cannot be taken down quickly. Even if the Anhuaman rebellion was not a big defeat, it would definitely be 50% of the chance of success.

Perhaps it was because he saw that Longshui City was prepared. An Huaman did not use any unexpected tricks, pretending to attack Yishanzhai, but actually attacking Longshui City.

In fact, unexpected things are based on the fact that one hits the target. There is no way to take down the walls of Longshui City in one fell swoop. An Huaman’s so-called unexpected things are just learning to walk in Handan and imitating others!

The Anhuaman first started to set up a formation two miles away from Yishan. After careful observation, Zhao Qin estimated that the Anhuaman attacked Yishanzhai this time. There were about 4,000 people in total, and five square formations were arranged.

The soldiers who siege the city were not elite. An Huaman defeated the Song army in Rongxi and seized a large number of armor and weapons and supplies, so they had an iron armor army of a considerable size, which was where Feng Chang's life was settled. And these barbarians who siege the city had few iron armor, the better one was leather armor. It was definitely impossible for Feng Chang's direct descendants, and most of them were miscellaneous cannon fodder.

Two big flags were raised in the Anhua barbarian rebel formation, which was too far away. Zhao Feng didn't look carefully and found a soldier with a few hundred words with good eyesight. He returned to the report: "Prince, among the two big flags, the one in front of the general Luo, the one in front of the brave general Long."

Zhao Qian smiled and said, "I don't know anything else about An Hua. This name is so majestic and straightforward."

"The barbarians are indeed barbarians! It is so vulgar to give a name. They are like people from the market!" Ma Yu looked down on this and did not agree with the "magnificent" evaluation mentioned by Zhao Qian.

While the troops lined up and talked with Zhao Feng and Ma Yu, time quietly passed, and the sun had risen to the top of the East Mountain, shining on the earth. The sun was not strong in the morning, which reflected the twinkling weapons and added a killing atmosphere.

Behind the Anhuaman rebel formation, dozens of ****'s upper bodies, showing their muscles like rocks, pushing eight skinned trucks for siege. The trucks are not high. They are only about one meter. There are four wheels and stairs on the truck, which can be used for archers to shoot on the truck.

In order to speed up and reduce the burden on the strong man who pushed the cart, the archers had not yet waited for the car. Behind each car, more than a dozen archers followed slowly.

In addition, the barbarians carried more than twenty rough siege ladders. The siege ladders were made of ready-made bamboo, with iron hooks at the top, making it difficult to overturn the siege ladders. In addition, there were two siege hammers, which were made of mixed wood as thick as adults' arms. More than ten siege ladders were tied together with old mountain vines, and there was a cross bar in front and back. The top was sharp. Perhaps for the sake of making, the bark of the siege ladders had not been peeled off. But anyone who ignored the rough siege would suffer a great loss.

The Anhuaman did not attack immediately. A barbarian general wearing Song army armor rode out and went to the foot of the mountain to shout arrogantly. It was nothing more than a soft and hard way to persuade him to surrender.

However, Li Guangzhong and Chen Erxin, who were stationed in Yishan Village, sent the barbarian general with an arrow. The barbarian general was so scared that he did not dare to yell anymore. He turned his horse's head and ran away in a mess.

The two countries fought with each other and did not kill the envoys, so although Li Guangzhong and Chen Erxin shot an arrow, they did not want to kill the barbarian general. This allowed the arrogant barbarian general to return to the front of the army.

However, the actions of Yishanzhai also greatly stimulated the Anhua barbarian rebels. The two generals of the Breaking Fight and the brave general in front of the formation were so angry that they roared a few words and ordered the entire army to attack!

The loud horns and the powerful drumbeat sounds are endless.

The four thousand Anhua barbarian rebels dispatched more than 3,000 troops to set out and divided into three waves. The huge attack was like a huge wave that was slapped at Yishanzhai.

The remaining barbarians guarded the central army. Although they were barbarians, they could see from this move that they still knew some of the military principles.

When they arrived at the foot of Yishan, the barbarians stopped. They were like crazy, making strange screams, holding simple weapons to slap the shield and slap the ground. The sound with a wilderness and the ancient tradition made the Song army that they encountered for the first time changed color.

The eight skinned carts did not stop and slowly pushed up the mountain road. Although the road was bumpy, the skinned carts were like a giant, with firm steps on the ground and steadily attacking Yishan Village. The barbarians followed behind, and these eight skinned carts were like several large shields, protecting most of the barbarians.

"General! It's almost time to reach the range. Should I shoot an arrow?" A escort team was a little nervous and couldn't help but say to Li Guangzhong.

Li Guangzhong was very old and did not look panicked. Facing his subordinates' proposal, he said coldly: "What's the hurry? Let them get closer, so that the stone arrows will be more powerful! Kill them one of them enough!"

Li Guangzhong's words were very rough, but he asked the team to calm down. He immediately arranged people and notified the departments, and did not act rashly and obeyed the banner.

After a while, this time it was not a team leader, but Chen Erxin came. "Brother Li, the enemy's skinned cart has reached a range of 150 steps! It has already entered the range of shooting. If you don't order, you will probably delay the number of attacks!"

Li Guangzhong looked at the barbarians calmly and saw that the barbarians' skinned cart had indeed penetrated within 150 steps.

The archer who was hiking behind the skinned cart also got on the skinned cart, and it was not the barbarian archer who could see the head protruding from the roof.

Li Guangzhong smiled and said, "You can wait!"

Chen Erxin also wanted to persuade him, but Li Guangzhong had already walked to a crossbow with a deep thought.

Chen Erxin couldn't interrupt the other party's thoughts, and had no choice but to stop the persuasion that had reached his throat.

"The time is here!" Li Guangzhong's eyes flashed with a bright light, and he suddenly stood behind the crossbow, snatched the wooden hammer in the hands of the soldier responsible for operating the crossbow, and shouted: "Let it go!"

The wooden hammer hit the trigger hard, and with a "bang!", three bowstrings moved in response to the sound. A seven-foot-long wide-blade gun shot out.

"boom!"

The seven-foot-long wide-blade gun was just in the vertical plate on the top of the skinned cart. The vertical plate was made of rotten wood. It broke instantly in front of the seven-foot-long wide-blade gun, and wood chips splattered. An archer hiding behind the vertical plate was caught off guard and screamed. The seven-foot-long wide-blade gun pierced through his body. The broken flesh and blood mixed with wood chips splattered in the air.

That's not all, the skinned cart fell to the side, which unexpectedly fell to the ground. It made a loud "bang" sound, stirring up a circle of dust. Several strong cart men and archers caught off guard screamed, either overwhelmed by the skinned cart, or were thrown out. It should be noted that this is a hillside. Rolling a few rounds on the hillside is already bloody and bloody, making people not know about life and death.

Even these barbarians were careless, they couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in their hearts when they saw this scene.

The soldiers guarding the city on the Yishan Fort immediately became energetic and immediately let out a shocking cheer.

"Tail the stone and shoot the arrow!"

"Tail the stone and shoot the arrow!"

A series of commands came one after another on the top of Yishan Fort City.

The catapult threw out a huge rock, and the crossbow shot out a seven-foot-long wide-blade gun. There were also soldiers on the arrow tower who were condescending and the long range of the yellow crossbow, and they were not polite, and they shot down one after another.

Chen Erxin looked at all this in a daze, and a feeling of convincing arose in his heart.

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"It's like a mountain, it's like a rabbit to move! There are capable people in the Song army!" Mu Huan, who was watching the battle behind, couldn't help but change his face slightly and murmured.

Feng Chang'er was furious and let out meaningless roars.

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The huge rock fell on the skinned cart. Although the skinned cart was not broken in one blow, it was also shaking, which scared the archers on the cart so much that they screamed. Before they could reach the city wall, the skinned cart was completely damaged.

The barbarians had no choice but to hold the shield, hold the siege ladder, and hit the city hammer to launch an attack.

"put!"

With a command, countless arrows bounced from the Yishan Fort City Wall, including bows, arrows, crossbows, and arrows, all kinds of like locusts.

When landing among the Anhua barbarian rebels, even if there is a shield to protect it, it is not necessarily useful. The heavy arrow fell on the shield, and the shield swayed. As the shaking was shaking, an arrow crossed the shield. The barbarian soldier had to scream and the shield could not be held firmly. Then several arrows fell on his body, and the screams came to an abrupt end.

A city-hit hammer came to the city gate, and just picked up the city-hit hammer and hit it a few times. The Song army on the top of the city had already tilted the big iron pot with a ferocious look on his face. A large pot of boiling water spilled down his head and face. The barbarian soldiers lacked iron tools, so they mostly prepared animal leather jackets. These barbarians responsible for attacking the city gate were better, but leather armor.

Where can I block the boiling water?

The barbarians were scalded and screamed repeatedly, their skin was red, and some even became severely red and swollen.

The city gate was filled with white mist. If it weren't for the shocking shouts of killing on the battlefield, I was afraid that people would misunderstand that this was a fairyland. Who would have thought that it would be such a bloody scene under the beautiful scenery?

This hasn't been counted. The Song army on the top of the city brought stones down, causing the barbarians to be bleeding from their heads and brains to burst.

Although Feng Chang'er was so angry that he screamed, he was not a brave but unscrupulous person. He knew that the situation was now, and it would be useless to continue attacking. So he asked someone to order the General Pofeng to withdraw his troops in the first wave and attack the second wave!

In order to show his determination, Feng Chang'e also said to Mu Huan: "No matter how many people die, the Lone King will take down this copycat!"

Mu Tian thought for a while and said, "King, it is not a solution to conquer like this. After all, many people die, and other chiefs also have their opinions! I think although this Yishan Village is strong, the city gate is made of hardwood. Any wood must be afraid of fire! Let's set him on fire!"

Feng Chang was overjoyed and said, "Okay!"

At that time, someone collected tinea oil, sulfur, saltpeter, and firewood. A suicide squad of 100 people was mobilized, and Feng Chang'e personally poured wine for them.

Li Guangzhong soon noticed this 100-man suicide squad, but there was no way to pay attention, because other places were also tight.

On the surface, Yishan Village is 500 to 1,000, but in fact it is not the case. First of all, Yishan Village needs to leave a reserve team, one is the surprise soldiers in ancient military tactics. In addition, a soldier must be prepared to watch tonight. After all, there are only 300 soldiers guarding the city now! However, there are 10,000 barbarians who are siegeing the city. Even if they have a city wall as a shelter, it is impossible to easily go there.

The suicide squad arrived near the city gate and immediately stopped hiding his purpose. In fact, when it reached this distance, it was impossible to hide it even if it wanted to.

Li Guangzhong was shocked and no longer cared about the occupation in front of him. He shouted to his personal soldiers: "Hurry up! Come with me!"
To be continued...