Chapter 359 surprise attack on Pingzhou City
Lu Zhihai prepared for two days to attack the city under Liaoyang City, and another six days to attack the city. The eight days have passed.
On the Bohai Sea, the Zhenghai fleet that transported the third batch of Andong Iron Cavalry from Dengzhou to cross the sea was storming the wind and waves, sailing towards the coast south of Pingzhou, and would be with the Andong Iron Cavalry who arrived there.
November is just a few days away, and the sea breeze at night is already very bone-bone.
As the ship swayed, war horses neighed from time to time.
Some Andong Iron Cavalry soldiers also leaned against each other to keep warm. Fortunately, Li Fei had the foresight. When the Zhenghai fleet transported the refugees and prisoners across the sea to Liaodong, they not only brought food, weapons and armor, but also specially brought clothes for winter. At this moment, the soldiers of Andong Iron Cavalry had already changed.
Suzong Li Heng hated Li Fei and wanted to execute Li Fei whenever he had the chance. It was because Anton produced and was self-sufficient that Li Fei could afford the consumption of Anton's Iron Cavalry.
Another day and night passed, and the third batch of Anton Iron Cavalry soldiers finally landed and met with the first two batches of Anton Iron Cavalry.
"After rest for an hour, set off and target Pingzhou City!" Li Fei ordered.
The reason why they didn't immediately kill Pingzhou City was because they had just landed with the third batch of Andong Iron Cavalry. Many soldiers had not recovered from seasickness. Their bodies were weak and their feet were floating. They couldn't even ride a horse. They had to rest for at least an hour before they could ride a horse.
There is no way, Anton's Iron Cavalry has 24,000 soldiers. After all, there are no special training, so many seasick people are inevitable. Fortunately, the first and second batches have been resting for at least three or four days and have recovered completely. The worst thing is undoubtedly the third batch. Li Fei was unwilling to wait for more, so he only gave them an hour to ease.
One hour later, facing the last ray of sunset in the evening, Li Fei led 24,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to attack Pingzhou City more than 70 miles north.
The iron cavalry left, and some coastal people who were restricted because they were afraid that the news would be revealed in advance were finally regained their freedom. Li Fei was not a devil who killed people without blinking his eyes, and could not kill a family to prevent the news from being revealed. It only restricted the freedom of these people for several days, and every day was filled with white rice. Before leaving, he gave each of them money for compensation.
Pingzhou City is not only the capital of Pinglu Road, but also the largest and most solid city on Pinglu Road. After Lu Zhihai took 100,000 anti-army troops into Andong, Pingzhou City only left 4,000 garrison soldiers.
When Li Fei brought 24,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to Pingzhou City, the sky was getting darker and the Pingzhou City Gate had just been closed.
"Boom!" The sound of the war horse galloping gradually became clear.
"Where did the large-scale cavalry come from?" As one of the front lines of fighting against the Xi and Khitans, the soldiers in Pingzhou City knew too well the sound of the iron cavalry galloping. The anti-army general who left behind in Pingzhou City was named Liu Kuan.
Is it an enemy or a friend?
The defenders on the walls of Pingzhou seemed a little panicked, and Commander Liu Kuan even opened his eyes wide and stared at the direction where the sound came.
Soon, an iron cavalry rushed out from the turn of the official road.
"It's not the Xi clan, nor the Khitan clan, nor the iron cavalry of our 'Dayan's' own, it's the enemy, the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty's court. No, it should be the Iron Cavalry of Andong of the Tang Dynasty!" Liu Kuan stared in shock, unable to believe it.
Since An Lushan rebelled, the flags and armor of the rebel army have been different from those of the Tang Dynasty soldiers. The Andong Iron Cavalry is also somewhat different from the authentic Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, but the color of the armor remains the same as that of the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the flag of the Tang Dynasty.
Although it was recognized from the colors and flags that they belonged to the Tang Dynasty's cavalry, and they were the Andong Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Kuan couldn't understand. Logically speaking, most of the Andong Iron Cavalry had followed Li Fei to the Central Plains, and should be south of the Yellow River. Why did they suddenly appear under the city of Pingzhou? Even if Li Fei brought the Andong Iron Cavalry back to the rescue, shouldn't he go back to Liaoyang City to fight the decisive battle with the Jiedu?
Could it be that he was still paying attention to surrounding Wei and saving Zhao?
As Li Fei and Andong cavalry were about to rush to the city of Pingzhou, the soldiers of the anti-army defenders in Pingzhou seemed extremely panicked.
Liu Kuan was also sweating because there were only 4,000 defenders in Pingzhou City, and these Andong Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty had at least 20,000. Once they entered the city——
Thinking of this, Liu Kuan was stunned. He thought that if so many Andong Iron Cavalry entered the city, it would not be able to withstand only 4,000 defenders under his command. However, because he was too panicked just now, he ignored one thing, that is, although Andong Iron Cavalry had a large number and suddenly appeared under Pingzhou City, which caused panic, but Andong Iron Cavalry could really kill him into the city.
"They are just cavalry and do not carry any siege equipment. They cannot defeat Pingzhou City!" Liu Kuan's heart immediately relaxed, and his original panic and worry were gone.
The cavalry is powerful, but you have to attack the city. What can you use to kill the city without any siege equipment? Not to mention more than 20,000 cavalry, even 200,000 cavalry can't fly over the city wall directly by relying on war horses.
Liu Kuan was no longer worried, but instead had a smile on his lips.
The Andong Iron Cavalry quickly rushed to within 100 meters of Pingzhou City Wall.
"Arrow!" Liu Kuan calmly ordered the archers on the city wall to shoot arrows. He was not worried that the Andong Iron Cavalry could rush into the city directly, and he could shoot and kill some Andong Iron Cavalry for the purpose of repaying his merits.
The anti-army soldiers on the city wall bend their bows and arrows and shoot arrows.
However, the Andong Iron Cavalry had just rushed into a distance of 100 meters and shot out the arrow first.
"Swish swish swish swish---" The dense rain of arrows covered with it.
Liu Kuan and the anti-army soldiers who were bent their bows and arrows were all shocked and hurriedly avoided.
Arrows were falling like rain, and some rebel archers who had no time to hide were shot and fell to the ground, staining the city with blood.
The Andong Iron Cavalry not only rushed within a hundred meters and did not stop, but instead continued to rush towards the city wall. While rushing, he kept shooting arrows on the city wall, which made Liu Kuan and other anti-army defenders on the city wall unable to raise their heads.
It was not until the distance was about fifty meters that the Anton cavalry stopped the war horses, but there were still ten Anton cavalry who continued to rush towards the city gate.
Liu Kuan avoided the arrows shot by Andong's Iron Cavalry, snatched a gap, looked at the city, and saw the actions of Andong's Iron Cavalry, and was surprised to see what Andong's Iron Cavalry wanted to do. Could it be that he could just rely on the war horse to break open the city gate? Isn't it too whimsical?
Liu Kuan didn't wonder how long it took to know the answer.
After ten Andong cavalry rushed to the front of the city gate, they took out shocking thunder from the package on the side of the horse, ignited it, and threw it in front of the city gate. Then they immediately turned around and turned back.
"Boom!" Ten shocking thunders almost exploded together.
The wooden city gate could not withstand such a violent explosion, and it was blown away to pieces.
After the explosion, the gate of Pingzhou City had been blown up.
"Kill!" Li Feiheng pointed forward and ordered a charge.
"Kill!" Andong's Iron Cavalry took the opportunity to rush into Pingzhou City from the exploded city gate.
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Chapter completed!