Chapter 1248

On the 25th, Tian Yu's army finally arrived in the south of Hukou town on the West Bank of caisangjin. Unfortunately, caisangjin wharf was too close to the town wall of Hukou town. It was less than 100 steps away. If the city of Hukou was not attacked first, the Tang army on both sides of the river would not be able to build a floating bridge.

Standing hundreds of steps south of Hukou Town, Tian Yu just thought for a moment, then made up his mind and said, "come on, order to camp, prepare to attack!"

It was not that he was eager for success, but that the defense ability of town level territory such as hukou town was limited, especially because the terrain limited the size of the territory. So he decided to capture the territory directly and then take over the army on the other side.

At his command, the 30000 troops were divided into several divisions, including 15000 ordinary infantry, crossbow troops and cavalry troops in one school. The army set up a defensive formation 300 paces south of Hukou town to prevent the enemy from attacking the town. However, the ordinary infantry soldiers of one school retreated two Li, where they set up a defensive formation to the south to prevent the Qin army from following.

Of the remaining 10000 people and horses, 3000 people were arranged to cut down trees on the nearby mountains, while the other 2000 people and 5000 garrison soldiers took the time to build the camp.

On the East Wharf of caisangjin on the other side, Huaxiong's tens of thousands of troops have already arrived here and are preparing to cross the river. At the same time, 10000 people have returned to Pishi under the escort of 5000 cavalry, ready to transport the next batch of grain as soon as possible.

On the wall of Hukou Town, Xu Huang and a group of generals are also observing the army of Tang Dynasty rolling from the south. This is the third time that Xu Huang has faced the army of Tang Dynasty. The first time was in Yiyang County of Hongnong County, and the second time was in Hedong county.

Looking at the Tang army retreating slowly outside the town, Xu Huang can't help but feel a trace of regret. If the general comes to hukou, he will be directly pressed by the army. If he wants to break Hukou with thunder, Xu Huang has 70% or 80% confidence that the Tang army will lose his troops here, with heavy casualties. But now the leader of the Tang army is very rational to lead the retreat, which seems to be ready to support him Be prepared to attack again. In this way, you need to be careful.

Back at his residence in the town, Xu Huang wrote down what he saw about the Tang army in detail on a piece of paper, then put it in a red letterbox, carefully sealed it with mud, and then said to the guard outside: "come on!"

"General! What can I do for you? " Two guards immediately pushed the door in.

"Send someone immediately to send this letter to the Lord. There must be no mistake!"

"No!" A soldier took the letter box in Xu Huang's hand and took orders to turn and leave.

Xu Huang then said to another soldier: "pass on the order, and order the soldiers on duty to be vigilant. They should not be slack. If there is no duty on duty, the soldiers should seize the time to have a rest. Tomorrow's war will not be so simple! "

Hukou town is too small. Five thousand soldiers can have up to one thousand people on the town wall at a time. This is the result of the arrangement on all sides. If there are more, the town wall can't move. It's like giving a head to the Tang army. Moreover, the town wall is less than one foot high and about one foot wide. It would have been more difficult to defend if Xu Huang hadn't been so hard to reinforce these days and only five feet wide.

Just as Xu Huang expected, the next morning, the Tang army's barracks sounded the bugle of sending troops, and soon five soldiers came to protect nearly 20 Jinglan, which were made overnight, towards Hukou town. On the Jinglan, there were 1000 crossbow soldiers. Next to the 6000 troops, there were 2000 cavalry troops, which were divided into two groups. The guards were not Tian Yu's unwillingness to send more troops, but hukou It's too small in the south of the town. No matter how many soldiers there are, they don't want to attack.

"Herald! Attack At the command of Tian Yu, the drum of the Chinese Army's attack sounded, and the soldiers of Tang Dynasty rushed towards the town wall.

"Whoosh..."

With the well appendix reaching the range, thousands of crossbows and arrows, like a continuous rain of arrows, rushed towards the garrison above the town wall.

"Attention, shield! Enemy crossbow On the wall of the town, the general in charge of the defense gave a loud command;

as his command came out, the shield hand on the wall of the town quickly raised his big shield high, and immediately felt the continuous arrows hitting his shield, only to hear "Dudu..." One after another, the huge impact of the crossbow almost numbed the hands of the shield hand.

The fast shield player quickly protected himself and his comrades in arms under the shield. However, many shield players did not have time to hide themselves, or they had already protected themselves. However, in the process of the attack of the crossbow and arrow, the continuous crossbow and arrow made him unable to hold the shield. After a short time of the attack of the Tang army's crossbow and arrow, the town wall sounded everywhere There was a scream.

"Ah! I've been shot... "

"Er..."

"Help Who will help me... "

"Pounce..."

On the wall of the town, the soldiers of the upper County United forces curled up tightly, praying that the arrow rain from the sky would not fall on them. Meanwhile, they secretly watched the continuous arrow rain coming to an end.Unfortunately, their prayers didn't have much effect. There were a thousand crossbows on the 20 Tangjun railings. They had one railings for every 50 people. Then the 50 people divided into two waves and poured out their crossbows on the town wall one after another.

In Hukou Town, Xu Huang has made people build a high nest car. Standing on the nest car, Xu Huang also looks at the taxi soldiers on the wall of the town in the south. The crossbows and arrows falling from the sky are just like a shower, which makes people have nowhere to hide.

"Come on, order the catapults in the town to start firing stone bullets and try to suppress the threat of the Tang army's crossbows and arrows!" Although he knew that his catapult could play a limited role, he had to order the catapult to attack Tang junjinglan outside the town, hoping to destroy some Jinglan as much as possible, so as to minimize the threat of soldiers on the town.

"Hoo..."

"Bang..."

Soon, nearly 20 stone catapults in the town began to fire stone bombs at the Tang army outside the city. Although there were arrangements in advance, the instability of the catapults made the first round of 20 stone bombs destroy only the Santai well appendix of the Tang army. The rest of the stone bombs were either far away and directly hit the back of the well appendix, while some fell in front of the well appendix and directly hit it It's among the marching soldiers.

As soon as the joint army's catapult started to launch stone bombs, Tian Yu had found their location.

"The order goes on, and the enemy's catapults are 20 steps behind the town wall. They order our army's catapults to attack and wipe out all the catapults in the town."