Han Lei was making noise very late at night in the few tents. Many soldiers who did not have women to serve them also stayed up late just to listen to the fun.

When Xu Huang led his men to surround them, the camp was filled with snores. Xu Huang shook his head and ordered everyone to light the baggage trains, and then dispersed around the perimeter to intercept and kill the bandits who managed to escape.

Han Lei was very unhappy when he was woken up. He was cursing and wanted to find someone to vent his anger to, but he saw the light of fire outside the tent, and then saw his men desperately trying to climb over the baggage train, only to be mercilessly chopped down by the surrounding cavalry.

kill.

Soon the tent he was in was also set on fire. He wanted to find someone to save him, but found that more than a thousand of his men were already in a panic. Many of them were even burned in the camp because they couldn't climb onto the baggage truck or rush out.

Running around in the house. This is how Han Lei's tent was set on fire.

Han Lei didn't want to die. Even the women around him were so frightened that they couldn't stand up and tried to keep his two big guns. He kicked one of them away and rushed out in one direction. Then everything was in vain because he

Although I browsed through the baggage easily, I discovered that there were rows of cavalrymen surrounding it like killing snakes.

Han Lei closed his eyes in pain. He knew that he and his more than a thousand men were all doomed. Unfortunately, he didn't even have a chance to send a message to his brother-in-law. She wanted to send a message to the two teams behind her, so she did the same.

By the time he arrived, he still didn’t know at the hands of whom he died.

In the north of Anyi City, it was just dawn that day, and Mrs. Guo urged his men to start cooking rice. He was worried that the night attack did not appear all night. He breathed a sigh of relief, and after breakfast he gathered nearly four people.

The leader's more than 500 spearmen were deployed around his general's flag, specifically to deal with Wei Xuan's cavalry.

Because they were busy setting up camp and appeasing their bandits last night, Guo Tai, Li Le, Hu Cai and others did not arrange for people to make heavy siege weapons such as battering rams. Instead, they asked the bandits to attack Anyi City as they did yesterday.

Swing out.

According to the estimation of Guo Tai and others, the second wave of troops from Xiangfen City will arrive in half a day. At that time, the troops will be divided to other city gates.

Everything went according to plan. More than two thousand skinny victims received another bowl of porridge in the morning, and then walked at the front of the team towards the north gate of Anyi City.

Each of them got a bag filled with sand and soil in their hands. When they got a few dozen steps outside the moat, they all started to collect soil. Then they numbly carried the sandbags to the moat and dumped the sand and soil in the bags into the moat. See,

Wei Xuan and the county soldiers on the city wall were stunned. They did not expect that these seemingly dying victims could be of such use in the hands of the Taiping Taoists. It was really a case of people making the best use of them.

Wei Xuan felt even more regretful. If the prefect Yin De could have listened to the advice, or if he had been a little crueler and let these people work outside the city, cutting trees, and digging moats, wouldn't he have been able to suppress them, and it would have been all over again, but now they are here

Become a helper of evil.

However, he was regretful. Naturally, Wei Xuan could not watch these people just fill up the moat, so he mobilized 200 archers from the county soldiers and fired several volleys at the victims who were dumping soil outside the moat. Suddenly there was

Dozens of people were shot by bows and arrows and fell to the moat. The remaining victims felt the danger and stopped immediately.

Upon seeing this, the bandit soldiers in the rear immediately saw dozens of people wearing armor and more bandits rushing towards the group of victims with murderous intent. Some of the victims who were close to them resumed collecting soil under the scolding of the bandit soldiers.

, but there were still those who were timid and stood still, and were immediately chopped down to the ground by the bandit soldiers.

Many of the victims who were chopped down did not die immediately. They lay on the ground and wailed, which made some soldiers unhappy. They went up to mend their swords. Dozens of the victims were killed in one fell swoop. They were no more lethal than Wei Xuan's archers.

Poor, so driven by these thieves, more than 2,000 victims continued to carry earth to fill the river! Then the archers on the city wall continued to shoot outside the moat. Every time such a saw-saw would fall dozens or even hundreds of people, Guo

Tai saw that he was not in a hurry, because the attack in the morning was originally tentative, and he planned to wait until the second wave of troops arrived in the afternoon before organizing his men to attack.

The number of corpses beside the moat gradually increased, and the victims began to become numb and their movements became slower. Mrs. Guo had to send more men to drive the victims to continue filling the moat.

The morning passed quickly. A small section in the middle of the moat had advanced five or six steps, but there were also seven or eight hundred fallen bodies.

Of course, this did not affect Mrs. Guo and others, but the next news brought by the scouts was his second wave of troops. Four teams transporting baggage were attacked by officers and soldiers last night. Two teams were completely wiped out, and two teams left the baggage behind.

They fled back to Xiangfen, and the two teams totaled more than 3,000 people. Only five or six hundred people escaped. In other words, the Baibo Army not only lost a lot of food and grass in one night, but also lost at least five or six thousand people. They captured Xiangfen.

Basically all the supplements Fen received were wasted along the way.

Guo Tai knew that Wei Xuan had cavalry in his hands, but Yang Feng's intelligence was fifty or sixty, and what he had personally seen was one hundred, fifty and sixty. But if he could attack four transport teams in one night and annihilate five or six thousand of his own people, then

How many cavalry are needed?

Guo Tai, Li Le, Hu Cai and other four people gathered together to discuss that it would be difficult to capture Anyi with the existing 13,000 to 4,000 people plus the surviving more than 1,000 victims. In order to prevent the follow-up troops from being invaded by Wei,

They sent people to attack again. Guo Tai and others had already sent out scouts to tell the men of the four leaders to act together, while the bandit soldiers outside Anyi City began to build siege equipment, preparing to wait until the third wave of bandits arrived from Xiangfen City.

After that, they attacked the city on a large scale.

However, in order to maintain pressure on the defenders in Anyi City, in addition to driving Zi Aimin to continue filling in the moat, more than a thousand people were sent to carry ladders across the moat to attack the city wall.

However, such an attempt could hardly threaten the defenders on the Anyi city wall. At first, many civil servants, including Wang Meng, saw Wei Xuan ordering the massacre of the victims who were carrying sand to fill the moat and felt that the Wei tiger was a bit cruel.

But when a morning passed and they had become accustomed to it, and when they saw that the lives of more than a thousand people were exchanged for a moat that was nearly thirty steps wide, they could no longer sympathize with the victims, but felt sorry for the people in the city.

The people and their families were worried, because if this rate was maintained, it would take another day or two for the moat to lose its effectiveness in protecting Anyi City. And what changed all this was the victims they had sympathized with before, and these people had been there for a long time.

The Wei family and other big families made a living in the porridge shack.

The next day, the rebels still did not directly attack the city. The more than two thousand victims who first filled up the moat were all dead. Even their bodies were thrown into the moat by the rebel soldiers with their bows and arrows, making the final contribution to the enemy's attack.

contribution.

Those who were driven to fill in the moat the next day were those young men who had been selected from the victims. Yesterday, they witnessed the death and injury of all their former companions, so when the bandits with weapons drove them to carry sand and soil to fill in the moat,

, many people chose to resist, but the resistance was in vain. There were nearly ten thousand thieves, and each of them had an oil atomizer. They were only more than three or four thousand people. Not to mention their weak bodies, long-term hunger left them with little strength at all.

The lack of weapons became their fatal weakness, and the resistance was only limited to some people, so they were quickly suppressed. Seven to eight hundred people were hacked to death by the bandits in this conflict. The blood flowed along the bumpy ground to form a

A small pool, very scary.

The rest could only accept their fate and pick up the tools and start filling in the moat. They also faced the slaughter of the city's archers and the hacking of the bandits. Under the double pressure, the number of troops was reduced very quickly.

The news of Xu Huang's successful night attack naturally reached Wei Xuan immediately. He had thought that the thieves did not act in batches, but he did not expect that the leaders acted separately. This objectively created the foundation for Xu Huang's night attack.

Conditions. If six to seven thousand people gather together, Xu Huang and others can only cause harassment at best.

Four to five thousand people were wiped out, the second wave of team supplies were all lost, and seven to eight thousand people were unable to arrive on the battlefield on time, allowing Anyi to gain another day.

But there is also bad news, that is, Yang Feng led the team to sweep through Xiangfen and Xiangling. The team grew from 5,000 to 10,000 people, and has already arrived at Xiangling City. According to Yang Feng’s familiarity with Xiangling City, and Xiangling

The fragile defense in the city would be good if they didn't just open the city and surrender. At most, it would be able to hold off Yang Feng's army for a day or two.

Two days later, Yang Feng's team may be 15,000 or even 20,000, or Pingyang or Yang County may be captured. The only advantage is that the journey from Xiangling to Anyi takes more than three days without riding, which means Yang

Feng shouldn’t join the battlefield within three or four days!

The news that Yang Feng swept through Xiangfen and Xiangling naturally reached Guo Tai and others. Before departure, Guo Tai's team had more than 7,000 people at most. Now Guo Tai's brother-in-law Han Lei was taken over by Xu Huang, plus

When we arrived at Anyi on the first day, we were attacked by Wei Xuan with his troops. Most of those in the middle were Guo Tai's team. Although he still has the most men among the four leaders, they are less than half of Yang Feng. He is a bit

I was envious of Yang Feng, and regretted my change of plan. If I were to lead a team to plunder the countryside in Pingyang or Wenxi at this moment, not to mention how many people there were in the team, at least the baggage would be enough to last for a long time.

The people's livelihood can also be used in the same way as the victims who have filled in the moat in the past two days.

Regret was regretful, but after discussion, Mrs. Guo and others decided to launch a general attack on Anyi on the third day after arriving in Anyi City. Because the victims were driven to fill up the moat, several conflicts broke out in the afternoon, and the victims were killed and injured between seven and eight hundred people.
Chapter completed!