Chapter 812

Apart from dividing Anton Dong into two and the players into three, Huangfu Chaobo also divided the 30000 troops of the Yuzhou army into two. Huang Zhong and himself led 15000 troops each, while the remaining 20000 troops were 10000 on both sides.

Besides the 1000 soldiers who supported the players' alliance, the other 4000 soldiers were equally divided between the two armies, that is, Huang Zhong and his own army had 2000 Tujia soldiers and Yuanrong crossbow soldiers.

After the troops and horses were allocated, the coalition camp began to get busy. At the beginning of the camp, each department was its own battalion. Since it was decided to divide the troops to attack, the troops and horses of each department must be assembled separately, and then the food and materials for the expedition should be prepared, and then the troops should be divided to attack.

Because all the troops carry their own grain and grass, they must prepare all the grain and grass they need. Each family has brought some food and grass, but it is not enough, so many players go to Pingyu city to purchase.

Fortunately, Pingyu was the place where Kongyu determined the governance of Runan County, and Runan prefect Xu Jing led 20000 troops to guard here, so there were plenty of soldiers, horses, food and grass.

Under the negotiation of Huangfu Chaobo and the order of Kong Xu, all the troops purchased a batch of grain and grass in Pingyu. As for the grain and grass they needed in the future, it was decided by the progress of the war. If possible, they could still harvest a lot of grain and grass by conquering all the cities of Yuan Shujun.

The next morning, the three armies that were ready set out one after another.

Zonghengtianxia and other players leave Pingyu and head for Gushi County in the southeast. That will be the first battle of the players' Alliance.

Huang Zhong's West army headed for the southwest of Yang'an county. He planned to take Yang'an and Langling first, and then cross the qintou River to attack the three cities of northern Yichun.

Huangfu Chaobo then led the army to the direction of Xiayang. All the way, Huangfu Chaobo gave full power to Zhang Ying, and all the next battles would be under his command.

In history, Zhang Ying was one of the five excellent generals in Cao Cao's camp, and he was a general who once defeated Zhuge Liang. It can be said that his ability was not suitable, so Huangfu Chaobo was ready to give him this opportunity.

After carrying the food and fodder needed by 50000 people for half a month, the Middle Route Army set out to march to the red sea bream a hundred miles away.

Two days later, the middle army of Huangfu Chaobo arrived at the bottom of Xiayang city. Xiayang city got its name because it faced the Yangshui river. It is now located in Xiayang village, Yicheng Town, Linquan County, Anhui Province. It is said that its city can trace back to the Warring States period of Chu.

It is five li long in the East and West, four Li wide in the north and south, and has four gates. Two Li outside the south gate is the sea bream wharf. The wall is about two feet high and about five feet wide. Under the rule of Kongyang, because of its location in the hinterland of Runan, the city defense was not repeated. However, after Yuan Shujun occupied it, he organized civil servants to repair the city wall several times.

If you need to cross the river, you need to cross the river from the bridge more than 10 Li to the east or 20 Li to the west of Xianyang, except from the boat crossing from Xianyang wharf.

After Yuan Shu became emperor, Shouchun ordered all the cities under his rule to reinforce the city walls and strengthen their defense. Therefore, after receiving the order, the county magistrate and general of Xiayang reinforced the city walls again. At this time, the defense materials in the city were complete, and the troops were about 5000 soldiers.

The width of the sea bream water is about ten feet, so the moat around the sea bream city is artificially excavated, and then the sea bream water is led into the moat to become the living water moat. More than 50 miles to the east along the sea bream water, you can reach Gushi City, the first city that the players' coalition forces need to attack this time.

On the 16th, after a day's rest, Huangfu's Chaobo army began to prepare to attack the city. After a day of careful preparation, Zhang Ying has been fully prepared for how to attack the sea bream.

Zhang Ying divided the two thousand Turkistan cavalry into five parts, and divided them into one team every two songs. Except for the four hundred cavalry who stayed in the position of the Chinese army, the other four cavalry teams were sent out from afar to monitor the enemy situation within 20 miles around the city.

In this attack, the army was divided into three parts. Zhang Ying led the first school of Shenwu camp to attack the north gate, Dong Xiang led the troops of baotao camp to attack the east gate, and he man led the first school of Yuzhou army to attack the west gate, leaving the south wall to stay.

As for the remaining ten thousand Yuzhou troops and ten thousand players, the elite of them will be drawn out as the auxiliary of the three-sided attack, and the rest of the ordinary soldiers will be used as the initial troops to fill the river and attack the city with ants, that is to say, they have become the glorious cannon fodder.

However, Huangfu Chaobo also made a promise to the Lord players of these cannon fodder soldiers. After the city broke down, he would first make up for their losses, so as to calm down the grievances of the Lords. The reason for this is that from the beginning, Huangfu Chaobo had never thought of using his own Anton army as cannon fodder, so all the troops were elite.

At that time, the war drum of the Chinese Army sounded, and the battle of Xianyang city officially began, which also means that the war against Yuan Shu officially started in the second year of Zhongping.

With the sound of the war drum, the soldiers who had been ready to fill the river, under the cover of their bows and arrows, rushed to the moat under the city of Sparus.

The county of Xianyang is originally a small city. Among the 5000 guards, only 1000 archers need to be assigned to three walls, so there are only a few hundred archers on each wall. In the face of an army of 50000 people attacking the city, although they tried their best to defend it, they were still struggling.However, the generals in the city had to fight to the death, because after Huang Yi led Yuan Shu's Imperial Army to Xincai City, he sent different numbers of imperial soldiers to each city. Their purpose was to monitor the officials and generals in each city, let them lead the troops to resist the invading enemy, and kill the enemy to the greatest extent.

Although the defenders in the city tried their best to stop it, they still couldn't resist the soldiers outside the city. Under the cover of the bowmen, thousands of soldiers spent only half a day cutting off the water flow of the moat, and then filled out more than ten siege channels on the moat.

Zhang Ying saw that the number of siege channels had been filled in enough near noon, so he ordered the army to withdraw their troops and attack the city after lunch.

At the head of Xianyang City, when the ant colony like crowd under the city retreated like a tide, the captain and magistrate of Xianyang county at the head of the city were relieved. Although there was no formal siege, the river reclamation in the morning put a lot of pressure on the people guarding the city.

You know, there are only 5000 soldiers in the city, but there are thousands of archers and crossbow soldiers under the city. The rain of arrows like locusts makes people at the head of the city almost helpless.

However, even so, they had to command the garrison to defend, because there were two hundred imperial guards sent by the emperor in the city. If they had different intentions, these elite soldiers would kill them mercilessly.