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- Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's suggestion and immediately ordered Zhao Yun and Hao Zhao to lead their troops south, cross the Yellow River south and enter the predetermined garrison location before the Chu army's navy sealed the river.
Liu Bei himself led 60,000 cavalry and Cao Ren, Le Jin, and Zhang Xiu to the important town of Liyang on the north coast, and moved with all his might.
Regarding Bingzhou, Liu Bei transferred Guan Yu to Jinyang to take charge of the army, and ordered him to command Xu Huang, a fellow villager, to defend Bingzhou.
As for Youzhou, Liu Bei ordered Taishi Ci and Gao Lan to take charge of the army to resist Lu Meng's Liaodong Army.
While Liu Bei was hurriedly deploying resistance strategies, Yan Liang had already led his army out of the pass, and with Zhang Liao as the pioneer, they drove eastwards.
Because Liu Bei adopted a defensive tactic of shrinking, Zhang Liao's vanguard infantry and cavalry were defeated all the way. The cities of Yuanwu, Suanzao, Yanxian, and Yanjin were conquered almost effortlessly.
In late autumn, Zhang Liao's vanguard army arrived at Baima City. The 40,000-strong army quickly completed the siege of Baima City where Zhao Yun was stationed.
At the same time, Gan Ning's Xuzhou Army was almost unstoppable. In just a few days, it entered the Yellow River from Juyeze, advanced by land and water, and surrounded Zhencheng.
When advancing troops on land, Ling Tong's navy marched all the way east, blocking Liu Bei's route from Liyang to the south to cross the Yellow River.
After less than ten days of using troops, Yan Liang basically completed the strategic deployment planned in advance.
What Yan Liang has to do now is to defeat Baima and Zhencheng, join the east and west armies, and finally defeat Puyang.
A few days later, Yan Liangqin led the main army into Baima City. A total of more than 80,000 infantry and cavalry regiments surrounded Baima City.
In terms of military strength, Yan Liang has an absolute advantage. In terms of weapons, Yan Liang has powerful siege weapons such as city-breaking cannons.
Therefore, although Yan Liang knew that the people like Zhao Yun were defending the city, he still did not take the small Baima City seriously. On the day of the siege, he ordered the mobilization of more than a hundred cannons to bombard the Baima City.
Based on past experience, the city wall of a mere White Horse City will collapse after half a day of bombardment by city-breaking artillery. Then the army can rush in through the gap and easily capture the White Horse City by virtue of their numerical advantage.
In Yan Liang¡¯s opinion, this would be a battle without any suspense, so he simply did not supervise the battle personally and only asked Zhang Liao to preside over the siege.
Furthermore, Yan Liang has also ordered that after the city is broken, Zhao Yun must be captured alive. For Zhao Yun, a perfect general, Yan Liang naturally wants to take him under his command.
Boom boom boom~~
There was a rumbling bombardment of the city outside the tent, but in the king's tent, Yan Liang was sipping fine wine and eating side dishes, extremely leisurely, just waiting for the news of victory.
The sound of banging the city lasted for half an hour, but suddenly, it gradually disappeared.
Yan Liang frowned secretly, feeling vaguely bad.
According to the previous deployment, the bombardment of the city will take at least half a day to ensure sufficient damage to Baima City and ensure a smooth siege.
But now that the bombardment of the city has stopped after only half an hour, how could Yan Liang not feel strange.
When he was suspicious, Pang Tong walked into the king's tent. As soon as he entered the tent, he said with emotion: "The king's ability to recognize people is really extraordinary. That little-known Zhao Yun is indeed a good general."
Zhao Yun has followed Liu Bei for a long time, but he does not have the illustrious military exploits of generals like Zhang Fei, so everyone in the Chu army despises Zhao Yun.
Yan Liang warned the generals that Zhao Yun was by no means an ordinary person. Liu Bei just didn't give him a chance to display his talents. Now that he is guarding the White Horse, he must not be underestimated.
Pang Tong now lamented that Yan Liang's evaluation of Zhao Yun was obviously detrimental to the attack on the city.
"What's going on?" Yan Liang asked calmly.
Pang Tong cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty must have never imagined that our city-breaking cannon has no effect on Baima City."
As expected, it was as expected by Yan Liang.
Despite this, what Yan Liang said to Pang Tong was still quite surprising.
That is a city-breaking cannon. It can destroy even Luoyang, the strongest city in the world. Why is it ineffective against Baima City? Is it possible that a small Baima City is stronger than Luoyang?
Absolutely impossible.
"Commander Shiyuan, Zhao Yun is a good general, but you are joking with me when you say that the cannon city cannot be destroyed by the Baima City."
Pang Tong hurriedly said: "How dare you, a humble minister? Your Majesty, you might as well go and have a look, and you will know what's going on."
Needless to say, Pang Tong, Yan Liang was also deeply curious at this moment, eager to see with his own eyes what Zhao Yun was capable of, so that his city-breaking cannon was ineffective against Baima City.
? ?Liang immediately came out of the tent, sat on his hip with a red rabbit horse, and flew away like the wind. In a blink of an eye, he rushed to the front of the formation.
Among the garrison troops, looking at the line of Baima South City in the distance, Yan Liang finally understood the truth after a moment.
"This Zhao Zilong really has two brushes." Yan Liang raised the corners of his mouth and praised with a smile.
It turns out that Zhao Yun had known that the Chu army would bombard the city with cannons, so he laid bedding, hay, fur and other thick soft things on the city wall as a buffer.
With these buffers, the impact of the stone bullets that hit the city's head was greatly offset, and its destructive power was naturally reduced sharply.
Zhang Liao was previously ordered to attack the city. After bombarding the city with broken artillery for half an hour, Fang Shi discovered something fishy. He realized that further bombardment would have no effect, so he ordered the bombardment to stop and sent Pegasus to report to Yan Liang. .
"Zhao Yun does have a hand. It's useless to attack again today. Let's withdraw our troops." Yan Liang turned around and gave the order to withdraw his troops.
The army retreated slowly, and each army returned to their camps.
After returning to the big tent, Yan Liang summoned all the civil and military officials to discuss a solution.
"Then Zhao Yun laid a lot of buffers on the city. Our city-breaking cannons are useless except for destroying the city, but the most important city wall cannot be destroyed. It seems that if we want to take Baima City, we can only attack it by force. ." Zhang Liao sighed.
Unless it is a last resort, a strong attack that damages the soldiers is never Yan Liang's first choice.
Yan Liang did not agree and only turned his attention to Pang Tong.
Pang Tong coughed dryly, smiled slightly and said: "Actually, there is no need to attack by force. I have a plan here. Maybe I can easily neutralize Zhao Yun's methods."
Yan Liang knew that a trivial matter could not defeat Pang Tong, so he cheered up and asked Pang Tong if he had any clever ideas.
Pang Tong then revealed his strategy, and everyone present suddenly realized it.
"It turns out that Zhao Yun's defense method can be cracked so easily. Why didn't I think of it?" Zhang Liao laughed at himself.
Pang Tong smiled slightly, a little proud of himself.
Yan Liang also nodded and said: "Very good, let's do it like this. Hurry and prepare the relevant supplies and continue to attack the city tomorrow."
After the order was passed, the generals immediately went to prepare according to Pang Tong's plan.
After being busy for most of the day, at noon on the same day, Yan Liang's army once again approached the south gate of Baima.
This time, Yan Liang did not sip wine in the tent and wait for news of victory, but went to the battle in person to take command.
With the drums rumbling and the battle flags waving, Zhang Liao led 30,000 front troops in solemn formation and slowly advanced.
Amidst the loud sound of war drums, hundreds of city-breaking cannons were pushed to the front of the formation again just like yesterday.
On the surface, it seemed that the Chu army would continue to bombard the city with cannons as they did yesterday. However, just as the gunners were pretending to load stone bullets, the Chu army's formation suddenly underwent new changes.
The military formation split open, and thousands of crossbowmen rushed straight to the front of the formation, forming a volley formation in a moment.
Immediately afterwards, the fire suddenly burst out, and dozens of soldiers holding torches passed by the bow formation, quickly lighting the arrows set up by the crossbowmen.
Rocket, that¡¯s a rocket!
Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Chu army suddenly became excited when they saw such a posture.
Pang Tongtong stroked his beard slightly, with a hint of confidence and pride in his mouth.
This is Pang Tong¡¯s strategy.
"Didn't you, Zhao Yun, use quilts, firewood and other things to make buffers and cover the city walls?"
Yes, these things can indeed neutralize the super bombardment of city-breaking cannons, but their fatal weakness is that they are easy to burn.
Pang Tong's strategy was to attack the city unexpectedly with rockets and easily burn the buffers.
"When the fire breaks out, the entire Baima City will catch fire. Then our army may be used to attack the city, and Zhao Yun himself will destroy his city." Pang Tong said with a sneer.
"Military advisor, don't rush to a conclusion. Let's see the effect first. After all, Zhao Yun is not an ordinary person." Yan Liang was not as optimistic as Pang Tong, and still remained calm.
In front of the formation, more than three thousand rockets have been lit, and the blazing fire is dazzling.
¡°Crossbowmen, release arrows¡ª¡ª¡± Zhang Liao raised his sword and shouted loudly.
The sound of war drums suddenly became urgent, which was the signal for attack.
Three thousand crossbowmen loosened their bow strings almost at the same time, a sound broke through the air, and countless streams of fire shot into the sky and headed straight for the city.
Fire rain pours down from the sky.
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In an instant, the blazing rockets hit the flammable buffers laid on the top of the city.
The Chu troops arrayed in front of the city were so excited that they were waiting for the enemy city to burst into flames so that they could cheer in unison.
¡° Strange things happened in front of everyone¡¯s attention.
On the top of the city, there was no fire as expected, and the rockets that hit it were quickly extinguished.
The cheers of the Chu army in front of the city turned into an uproar.
Even Pang Tong was surprised. Wan did not expect that his plan failed inexplicably.
Only Yan Liang looked calm, with a sneer on his lips, as if he had figured out the mystery.
Suddenly, Pang Tong's expression also perked up, and he asked in surprise: "Could it be that Zhao Yun was already prepared and expected that our army would use rockets, so he soaked those buffers with water first?"
"Apart from this, what else can there be?" Yan Liang said lightly: "Military advisor, I have said before that Zhao Yun is an unparalleled general in both wisdom and bravery, but you all underestimate him."
Pang Tong sighed, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Yan Liang looked at the extinguished rockets at the top of the city, but unlike the soldiers who had somewhat recovered, relief appeared on his face.
Zhao Yun was indeed a rare general. Yan Liang was pleased that he was right.
The stronger Zhao Yun becomes, the more interested Yan Liang becomes in conquering him.
Now that this strategy failed, Yan Liang has greater expectations for Zhao Yun.
"Zhao Zilong, you are more and more admired by me." Yan Liang raised a smile at the corner of his mouth. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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