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Chapter 249: Run away

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    Attacking now would indeed have the effect of a half-crossing attack and cause considerable damage to the Chu army, but Dang Shousu was not interested in this.  His target is Emperor Longwu. He has no grievances or enmities with the Chu army, and they are quite close. He has no choice but to break up and start a war. Why kill so many people?  Is there any benefit to angering Wang Kefan?  According to the battle plan he formulated with Liu Fangliang and He Zhen, the ideal situation is to trap the Chu army under Ningyuan City, wait for the main force of Liu Fangliang and He Zhen to arrive, then surround them on all sides, forcing Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong to surrender, or at least hand over their troops.  Emperor Longwu, Empress Zeng and others then let the Chu army leave safely. In this way, the purpose of rescuing the army was achieved, and there was also a step on Wang Kefan's side. There was no need to create a strong enemy for himself out of thin air, and it was a  He can slap himself to death at any time, a powerful enemy that he cannot afford to offend at all.  The key to rescuing Emperor Longwu at the minimum cost is whether they can hold back the Chu army and then encircle them with an iron wall, leaving Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong with no way to escape. They don't have to fight with each other at that time, they only need to wait until their army runs out of food.  , can force them to bow their heads and submit.  If we attack with all our strength now and push the Chu army back to the other side, Zhou Guodong and Tan Xiao will see that there is no opportunity to take advantage of them and choose other places to break out, or even break into pieces and break out separately, which will complicate the situation.  The party defenders always showed that the enemy was weak and hid the main force in the camp and Ningyuan City. They only sent the second-rate brothers Sun Zuye and Sun Chengye to fight. When Sun Chengye fell into a bitter battle, no reinforcements were sent.  Come on, my strength is limited, you can defeat me if you work hard, hurry up and cross the river to beat me!  Zhou Guodong did not disappoint him.  As if he heard Dang Shousu's call, Zhou Guodong sent more troops to cross the Lianshui River, and turned against the guests, launching a counterattack against Sun Chengye. Sun Chengye had just seen Sun Zuye's fall, and he only wanted to avenge Brother Nai, so he led his department commander.  He would rather die than retreat, and for a while he was evenly matched with the Chu army.  Several of Zhou Guodong's officers and staff also saw the strangeness of this situation and went to Zhou Guodong to remind him that this was Dang Shousu's trick to lure the enemy. However, Zhou Guodong insisted on his own opinion and ordered the troops to continue crossing the river and attack King Qin's army with all their strength.  Launch an onslaught.  "No need to say more, I know it well." Is it a plan to lure the enemy?  OK, I'm about to pull the trigger!  As the strength of the Chu army increased, Sun Chengye gradually became unable to hold on. At this moment, two Chu armies crossing the Lianshui River from both sides rushed to the battlefield and formed a three-sided attack on Sun Chengye. Sun Chengye's troops were fighting hard.  , seeing the Chu army marching straight in from the empty wings, Dang Shousu never sent reinforcements, knowing that if he didn't run away, he would be dumped. The soldiers who were fighting hard just now suddenly lost their fighting spirit, turned around and ran away together, and the whole line was defeated.  .  "Okay! Well done!" Seeing his own soldiers and horses fleeing without their helmets and armor, the Chu army after the victory was so powerful that they pursued them towards the camp and killed them. The Party Shou Su was overjoyed¡ª¡ª  The enemy finally bit the hook, and three groups of troops bit the hook together, totaling more than 10,000 people. Judging from the banner, Tan Xiao himself was among them. Now, don't think about getting away easily.  The Chu army easily defeated Sun Chengye and launched a fierce attack on Dang Shousu's camp.  Dang Shousu used flag language to order all the battalions and Ningyuan City to hold on to the stronghold and not to take a step back.  When they were facing each other across the river, the Chu army could run away at any time. Now the main forces of both sides are fighting in close quarters. It's like two people pulling each other and struggling. It's not that easy to run away. If Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong turn around and want to  If you run away and are chased from behind by Dang Shousu, you will have to pay an unbearable price or even be wiped out.  If you want to break through, you must break through my camp!  But I have already prepared and am waiting for you to attack!  Dang Shousu's camp was built very solidly. The height of the camp wall was more than one foot, and it was made of solid clay. Soldiers could stand on the camp wall and kill the attacking enemies from a high position. There were two inner and outer walls outside the camp wall.  There are trenches with bamboo sticks and spikes inside. There are mobile fortifications such as horse guns and wooden walls inside the camp walls, which can seal the gaps at any time. There are wells dug in each camp and separated into separate camps by solid wooden fences.  By zoning, even if the enemy breaks through the camp, you can still resist like a street fight.  During normal marches and battles, Dang Shousu would not be able to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a military camp like this, but he knew that there would be a fierce battle today, and no matter how cautious he was in the face of the Chu army, he would not be redundant, so he made great efforts to build every camp.  Each camp is built like a small city. Coupled with a large number of defensive equipment and sufficient defensive forces, each camp becomes a fortress that is difficult to conquer.  According to Dang Shousu's estimation, even if the Chu army can fight again, it will take at least half a day to capture a camp. It will take at least four or five days to capture all the platoons and companies. But as long as they hold on until tomorrow morning,  Liu ?Liang, He Zhen and others will complete the encirclement, leaving Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong with no way to escape.  Of course, there will definitely be a fierce battle after this. After Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong find themselves trapped in a tight siege, they will definitely not surrender.  Take it on, Dang Shousu has already thought about it. If you still can't hold on, you can abandon a few camps if necessary. Anyway, Liu Fangliang and He Zhen outside have already surrounded you. No matter how much Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong jump around, they can't escape from Tathagata Buddha.  Palm Everything was well thought out, but as soon as the war started, Dang Shousu discovered that something was wrong.  "You're a thief! The Chu army is a coward, why are they so fierce?!" The Chu army's offensive was sharper than expected.  They started to attack from the outermost camp. Except for the direction with their backs to the friendly forces, the other three directions were attacked at the same time. Heavy troops were invested in continuous attacks. The three walls of the camp were in danger at the same time, and the reserves were flowing like water.  Sent up, all the troops were quickly put into battle, and they were stretched to the limit.  This is a very dangerous state. There is no reserve team. As long as the defense is lost, the whole line will collapse. Dang Shousu immediately sent reinforcements, but the Chu army blocked the gate of the village and could not enter. He had to watch the Chu army kill him.  Go up to the camp wall and start a hand-to-hand battle with the defenders.  "Hold on!" Dang Shousu rubbed his fingers together subconsciously, feeling very entangled in his heart.  The Chu army's attack was too sharp. If it continues at this rate, the camp can only hold out for two hours, which is half the time expected. However, if we send troops to rescue, we have to face the Chu army's interception. Zhou Guodong's  The main force has crossed the river. Together with Tan Xiao's two troops, the Chu army on the river bank has reached 15,000 people. If you want to rescue the camp, you must put all your mobile forces into the battlefield and fight the Chu army in advance.  , Doing so will not only bring no benefit to the party's defense, but will also bring huge risks.  "Forget it, life and death are determined by fate, wealth is in the sky, it's up to you." Dang Shousu finally decided that the overall situation was the most important thing. Even if the camps were defeated one by one, he could not risk a decisive battle with the Chu army.  When he was distracted for a moment, he suddenly heard a loud bang, like dull thunder. Dang Shousu raised his head and looked at the sky in confusion, then realized something was wrong, and turned to look at the Chu army's position in the distance.  , Sure enough, the Chu army pushed up a row of artillery, facing the camp wall in front. The loud noise just now was the first test firing.  "How is it possible?" Dang Shousu's heart sank suddenly. The Chu army had walked hundreds of miles of mountain roads, how could they still carry heavy artillery?  This, this is completely unreasonable!  He had been away from Huguang for two years, which was neither short nor long. He still looked at the Chu Army with old eyes, but he did not know that the Chu Army was undergoing rapid development in the past two years.  Updated.  Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong's troops are equipped with the latest generation of light infantry artillery. After repeated optimization and improvement, the weight of the three-pounder cannon has been reduced to about 1,000 kilograms, and the weight of the four-pounder cannon is more than 1,200 kilograms. With special  The gun mounts and transport vehicles can be easily towed away by draft horses, and can be maneuvered with the army even in hilly and mountainous areas like Nanling.  Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong's troops had a total of twenty-four three-pound cannons and eight four-pound cannons. At this moment, half of the artillery pieces were pushed up. After several rounds of test firings, they began to focus their fire on the city. These light artillery had great siege power.  It was not enough, but it was enough to pull out the camp. The cannonballs carried huge kinetic energy and flew to the opposite camp with a unique trajectory that seemed slow but fast. Although Dang Shousu's camp wall was built carefully, it took too much time.  In a hurry, the clay was not dried layer by layer, and it was far inferior to the real city wall. Every time it was hit by a cannonball, it would tremble violently, leaving small circular pits on the wall.  Amid the roaring sound of shelling, more and more small craters appeared on the wall, and cracks visible to the naked eye began to appear. The cracks gradually became larger and longer, spreading all over the wall like a spider web, until they were struck by the last bullet.  The shell hit and collapsed.  "Charge!" The soldiers of the Chu army who had been waiting for a long time swarmed forward and entered the camp through the gap.  The defenders tried to block the gap, but the flesh and blood and Juma wooden walls were even more vulnerable to the artillery shells. After the Chu soldiers opened the gap, they immediately pushed up the light artillery, continued to expand the breach, and advanced in depth.  When the second and third gaps appeared in the camp wall, more Chu troops rushed into the camp from all directions. The defenders were no longer able to resist and had nowhere to escape, so they had to lay down their weapons and surrender.  It only took an hour for the camp to fall, which was half the time expected by Dang Shousu. The Chu army did not waste any time and immediately launched a fierce attack on the second camp.  It was also the same hour when the Chu army¡¯s battle flag was planted.The camp wall was closed.  Immediately afterwards, there was the third camp Seeing the camps being lost one after another, Dang Shousu was anxious, but he had nothing to do. Seeing that the Chu army had so many artillery, he did not dare to leave the camp for a decisive battle, so he could only hide in  Being beaten passively in the camp, every moment counts.
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