Chapter 975
At this time, the rest of Zhuozhou City was completely ignited by noise, fire and occupation. Only the Nanmen area, which had never been affected by the war, was still trapped in darkness and silence.
This was due to the Liao army's previous siege strategy. Although they had enough troops based on the principle of three sieges and one siege, they did not put the troops outside the South Gate, so that everything here could remain the same. Because of this, the Changsheng Army arranged the garrison troops in the South Gate area also had the least amount of troops, which was obviously the most suitable for Sun Tu and others to escape while the night and the chaos.
It was because of the understanding of the middle joints, whether it was Xiao Gan, Yu Wanyao and other surrendered generals, they all seemed quite anxious. They didn't care about the arrangements and mobilization of the people elsewhere in the city, so they only led two or three thousand people to kill directly towards the south gate. Of course, this was a total of overwhelming advantage over Sun Tu, who had only a few hundred people, compared with the total number of nearly 100,000 troops in the city.
"Kill..." Chongxiao's roar and firelight instantly cut through the quietness of the south of the city. The mixed steps and the sound of horse hooves shattered the dark night. Under the light of the fire, someone had already seen twenty or thirty people falling from afar in front of the city gate behind the large area of low houses. The city gate that should have been closed was now opened.
This made Yu Wanyao even more anxious. The actions of these Song people were really decisive and quick. Did they escape from the city so quickly? If this was true, their guilt would be great. Thinking of this, he glanced at Xiao Gan beside him with guilt. After seeing the other party's color and his eyebrows were twisted together, he felt even more guilty and no longer cared about anything else. He immediately rushed forward and shouted: "Brothers, chase me, be sure to take down all the Song people tonight!" At this time, he had to pretend to be doing his best and give his all.
At this time, those who could chase the Liao army were determined to surrender to the Liao people. After hearing Yu Wanyao's orders, everyone shouted, ran with all their strength, rushed straight to the south gate, and left the thousands of Liao troops behind. Seeing this, Xiao Gan just curled his lips disdainfully, but did not stop him. He really needed these people to act like this so that he could control the entire ever-winning army as soon as possible and take down Zhuozhou City.
As soon as the long street was about two miles away, Yu Wanyao had already rushed to the fallen guards. But he didn't even sweep the bodies of these subordinates' bodies, and just controlled his horse to pass by them and rushed into the city gate. He could not feel any regret for these useless subordinates. Even if they were still alive, he would order them to behead them in order to give the Liao people an explanation.
The soldiers of other ever-winning soldiers also made similar choices, followed closely and rushed to the city gate. Then, whether it was Yu Wanyao who had already rushed into the city gate, or the others who had just arrived in front of the gate, they all let out a light cry full of doubt, and their steps stopped, looking ahead with surprise.
The situation in front of me is indeed a bit unreasonable. Although the city gate was pushed open by someone, enough for a team of hundreds of people to pass quickly, the suspension bridge outside was still high and there was no sign of passiveness. The south gate is no longer as good as the three gates elsewhere. The moat water outside is still there, and it is several feet away from the outside of the city. If the suspension bridge is not lowered, many people will not be able to pass smoothly.
"What's going on..." In an instant, the soldiers of the Changsheng Army who came down from Yu Wanyao were a little confused and could not understand what the situation was facing.
And at this moment, the mutation broke out!
As a former important city in the north, even in the hands of the Liao people, Zhuozhou City was quite prosperous before, not only with many shops, but also with a large population. In the area near the South Gate, many shops along the street and some two-story houses were built. It was only because of the uprising and occupation of the Eternal Conquest Army that these houses and shops were completely withered and turned into empty houses and ruins, and gradually ignored by everyone, just as if they had never existed.
Especially in this late night, when everyone decided that Sun Tu had already led his subordinates to the Song army to escape from the southern gate, it was even more impossible for anyone to pay attention to the common hollow gate buildings around him. But in these buildings that seemed very ordinary in the past, countless black shadows appeared at this moment, accompanied by a low call: "Shoot the arrow!" A bunch of arrows rushed towards the people in front of the city gate like raindrops.
In an instant, a large number of soldiers standing in front of the city gate fell down like wheat cut by sickles during the autumn harvest. A heart-wrenching scream immediately sounded inside and outside the city gate, and everyone was confused and had no idea what to do. They either ran in or rushed out, and they were completely in a mess.
This made them completely the targets that archers could aim calmly. The dense rain of arrows was pouring out, harvesting and killing more victorious troops. In just a short while, except for a few people who escaped into the depths of the city gate, everyone had fallen into this sudden rain of arrows.
This incident happened too suddenly, and even the Liao army could not react at the first time. When they calmed down, it was already a mess. They then roared out: "It's the Song army, they set up an ambush on both sides!"
Xiao Ganze suddenly felt nervous when he was angry: "The number was wrong. If the secret report I received before, there should be only two or three hundred left in the city. But now there are no less than a thousand archers on both sides..." He was also a quick decision. Without any hesitation, he shouted loudly: "Go back! Hit the arrow and call other soldiers to wipe out the Song army together!"
But as soon as he said this, countless black shadows suddenly appeared above and inside the buildings on both sides of the long street where they were stationed. Then, a little red light appeared, and clusters of black shadows, and arrows with fire points flew over before the Liao army's reaction.
"Retreat!" While Xiao Gan roared, he hurriedly turned his horse's head and rushed back and rushed back. The other Liao army soldiers also came back to their senses and quickly dodged and wanted to run back. But it was too late. More than a dozen black shadows fell into the Liao army formation that was densely arranged, and then exploded with a bang as the flames flashed.
The huge explosion was filled with fire, as well as a large number of ceramic fragments, iron nails, iron sand and other fragments scattered in a round shape, and instantly caused the Liao army to scream and roll, and many people fell to the ground and screamed and rolled in. It was so miserable.
The tragic encounter of the Liao army had just begun. When those whistling arrows shot in front of them, someone subconsciously raised their shield to block them. As a result, the arrow was blocked, but then an explosion occurred in front of them at the same time. The same impact force and fragments flew past them. It was not something that a small round shield could block. They immediately screamed and fell down.
Even though the Liao army had experienced the power of landmines outside before, they were also frustrated by these balls and exploding bows and arrows, and suffered heavy casualties. Especially those soldiers riding horses were frightened and ran around and jumped randomly, and then they were trampled on by horse hooves and feet, and died one after another.
It can be said that just this sneak attack completely killed the thousands of Liao troops, and the morale of the army was disintegrated, without any defense or resistance. The only thing they could do was to retreat north like a broken dog, hoping that the movement here would attract the comrades elsewhere in the city, and then rely on their military advantages to turn the situation around.
This time, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties, almost all of them were scattered. Even Xiao Gan, who ran the fastest, had his arm cut by iron sheets, and blood was still ripped with blood. But he no longer cared about this. In addition to continuing to rush forward in order to get rid of the attack of the Song army, a series of questions arose in his mind - why did the Song army ambush here? Why was their military strength completely different from what he had? Just looking at the experience of the Changsheng Army just now, it was obvious that even the owners of Zhuozhou City did not know that there was such a change, so they were not conspiring with the Song people to plot against him early. But in this way, the question became even bigger. How did so many Song troops enter Zhuozhou City silently?
Ren Xiaogan was unable to have a definite answer to this series of questions at this time. However, Fan Qi, who was just as confused, had already known the cause and effect, and was amazed: "General Sun, I didn't expect you to have a series of arrangements long ago. It's ridiculous that those guys actually wanted to plot against us..."
Sun Tu stood at the highest point of one of the three-story buildings that was originally a restaurant, his eyes swept around, his face full of ease: "I have been planning for this victory for a long time, so I naturally caught them off guard. I am afraid that the Ren Liao people would never have thought that I had ordered Shandong soldiers to enter the city in batches from the South Gate a few days ago!" As he said that, his eyes fell on the familiar subordinates next to him - Ling Zhen, Shi Xiu, Shi Qian... For those who once belonged to Liangshan thieves and later surrendered to him, this kind of sneaking in the city was indeed too familiar.
Whether it was the Liao people or the Shengsheng Army, he had been kept in the dark these days. In fact, as early as the night when the Liao army arrived in Zhuozhou, the first batch of Shandong reinforcements had already contacted Sun Tu. However, he did not let these subordinates reveal their whereabouts, but ordered them to replace them according to the weakness of the inner defense of the city south.
Chapter completed!