Chapter 554: It’s hard to fly with wings

Under the city of Liyang, blood flowed and pestles floated, and corpses were everywhere.

Siege is not something that cavalry is good at. The advantage of cavalry lies in their convenience of movement, coming and going like the wind, and using cavalry to gain an advantage over the infringement on the plains, especially when cavalry launches group charges. When cavalry faces an insurmountable city wall, they can only dismount and use infantry methods to attack the city, and the effect will inevitably be greatly reduced.

However, the current situation forced Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng, the chief generals of the Bingzhou cavalry, to have no other choice. Nearly 200,000 Hebei troops were on the way back. If Li Yang failed, the army would be forced to turn to its route, which was unpredictable! Therefore, even if the cavalry turned into infantry and had serious lack of experience in attacking the city, they had to bite the bullet at this moment!

In this way, 30,000 Bingzhou cavalry abandoned their horses and turned into infantrymen, and rushed towards Liyang's city gate like moths throwing into fire. Their courage is amazing. Even after paying a terrible price, they are still unwilling to give up, and they attacked Liyang's not-so-thick city gate one after another...

In Liyang City, 10,000 soldiers and scout camps of Bingzhou Camp and 4,000 cavalrymen of Hurricane Camp, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Xue Lan and Li Feng gathered in the city to follow Zhou Yu's military orders. In this battle, Zhang Liao unified the command of various troops, and Zhao Yun was deputy.

In addition, more than a thousand former Hebei soldiers who were surrendered when they broke the city, more than 15,000 soldiers in Liyang City had already made sufficient preparations and firmly defended the four gates of Liyang City!

If there is insufficient guarding, use it for private houses; if there is not enough feather arrows, use it from the baggage warehouse; there is no need to worry about the food, the food and grass accumulated like gods in the granary in the city will be enough for three years! Zhou Yu's military order is very simple, that is, to defend Liyang to the death! Hebei army will not let go unless they take the path to return to Jizhou.

At the beginning of the battle, the weaknesses of the soldiers of Bingzhou who were not accustomed to infantry war were fully exposed. In a hurry, they could only use the giant trees they had cut down as city hammers. The marching cooperation and the control of the fighter were not enough. Under the counterattack of the defenders, tens of thousands of them were plagued.

However, after several offensives, the soldiers of Bingzhou gradually mastered the key points of infantry siege and became proficient in their cooperation with each other. The casualties were immediately reduced significantly, and the threat to the city gate became greater and greater. The giant trees that could not touch the city gate at all also hit the city gate a few times! Each of them hit the hearts of the Jiangdong Army soldiers guarding the city, doubled their bloodshed!

The four gates of Li Yang suddenly opened. Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Xue Lan, and Li Feng were dressed neatly, and each led 500 light cavalry to kill them straight out. The cavalry was against the stance, and it was naturally fierce and unstoppable. The horse was quick and the sword was fast, and the slashing sword was soon covered with the blood of the soldiers of Bingzhou. The soldiers of Bingzhou who were struggling to attack the city could not resist and had to escape. The offensive that had finally exerted its power was immediately frustrated!

Afterwards, the Jiangdong Light Cavalry only chased and killed the defeated soldiers in Bingzhou and returned to the city with victory. Xia Zhao's face was astonished as he had just as angry. He had just assembled thousands of elite cavalry to board the horse and prepared to fight back, but at this moment he could only watch the enemy's figures hidden inside the city gate, and only the wind and sand flying on the battlefield were flying, as if mocking their incompetence.

For two consecutive days, the Bingzhou soldiers failed to capture Liyang's city, but were repeatedly defeated by the Jiangdong cavalry, losing five or six thousand troops. These were all cavalry soldiers who could control their horses freely! In addition to being sad, Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng were still gritting their teeth and fighting hard, because they knew that if they could not capture Liyang, they would not be able to return to Bingzhou smoothly! If Yuan Shao blamed him and was charged with poor combat, even his lords and high-ranking officials would not be able to protect them!

Under their desperate efforts, although the city gates in Liyang have not been captured, the south gate has been hit beyond recognition and is about to break open!

The defenders naturally discovered this and strengthened the guarding power of the South Gate. Most of the few cities guarding tools were concentrated at the South Gate, and they were not allowed to touch the South Gate again!

The soon-to-break South Gate was like a piece of iron-sucking stone, seducing Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng's eyes. They sent people to attack the South Gate, hoping to enter Liyang City from the South Gate. As a result, they were disappointed again and again, forcing them to continue gritting their teeth and persevering.

On the fifth day of the attack, Li Yang was still in the hands of the Jiangdong Army! At this moment, the Bingzhou soldiers' offensive had declined. After a series of fierce battles, the defenders were exhausted physically and mentally, and were unable to leave the city to counterattack. The two armies rested for half a day.

Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng knew in their hearts that if there was no progress in the siege, they would probably have to find another way to return to Bingzhou. Even if the road was much more dangerous, it would be better than losing their lives under the city of Liyang in vain! Unless the Hebei army arrived, they could only conquer Liyang with strong forces.

Soon, a bolt from the blue came, and immediately smashed the only glimmer of hope in Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng’s heart!

Just one day ago, in Wuchao between the Yellow River and the Ji River, the Jiangdong Army came to hunt down. The various units of the Hebei Army responded hastily and were defeated by the Jiangdong Army!

In this battle, the Taishi Ci team of the Jiangdong Army was the first to kill. Although the soldiers were brave, but the troops were insufficient, the Hebei Army gradually stabilized its position. Xianbei and Wuhuan cavalry shot from both sides with cavalry shots. When they saw that they were not supported, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan team of the Jiangdong Army came together. The morale of Taishi Ci team was greatly boosted. Taishi Ci was killed and the single cavalry was as straight as the Wuhuan cavalry formation, rushing left and right, as if entering a nobody! After killing four Wuhuan cavalry generals in a row, Taishi Ci killed the cavalry formation and returned to the headquarters.

At that time, the Lusu division, Lu Meng division and Chen Wu division of the Jiangdong Army came one after another, and the Hebei army was in chaos. Seeing that the Jiangdong army gathered more and more, everyone was brave enough to compete for the first place, which made the Hebei army soldiers frightened. Although Yuan Shao tried his best to stabilize the situation, it was in vain.

When the Xianbei and Wuhuan troops saw that the situation was not good, they immediately fled far away. Under the rotation of the Jiangdong Army, the Hebei Army finally collapsed! The Jiangdong Army then launched a pursuit, and the yellow land was immediately stained with blood!

Wuchao is located in a hilly place and a village is built. The terrain is relatively dangerous. Yuan Shao quickly led the elite troops of the central army to retreat into the village and temporarily avoid the edge of the Jiangdong Army. However, he did not know that this was a dead end!

The general of the Jiangdong Army, Gao Shun, led the camp to surround Wuchao, and did not attack for the time being. He just waited for the rest of the soldiers of the Hebei Army to separate the large groups of troops and annihilate them one by one, and then concentrated their forces to attack Wuchao.

Yuan Shao ruled Hebei for many years and trained many dead soldiers, all of whom were in his personal guards. At this moment, seeing that the situation was wrong, Guo Tu, a counselor under Yuan Shao, advised him to take advantage of the dispersed forces of the Jiangdong army, and it was not too late to break through at one point after returning to Yecheng. If he stayed in Wuchao for a long time, he would be surrounded by the Jiangdong army as if he could not fly!
Chapter completed!