Lord of the House

When the police whistle sounded, the prisoners were in chaos for a while. Their first reaction was to gather at the north and south village gates to help guard or run to the stables to lead horses to attack the enemy.

Before the war, Ning Zechen had carefully speculated on the reaction of the captive soldiers, so as to formulate targeted tactical arrangements.

The Beizhai Gate was closed in time, but the captive soldiers gathered at the Nanzhai Gate were dashed to pieces by a group of armored cavalry that entered directly from the Zhaimen. Riding in a hasty encounter, he was killed by a rush.

In addition to the scattered soldiers living in the houses and guarding the north and south gates of the village, the prisoners who stayed behind had three places in the village where they concentrated their troops.

One is the more than 60 captive soldiers guarding the stables, the other is the dozens of elite guards around the Sun family's mansion, and the other is guarding the mourning hall of the corpses of the clan whose heads were cut off in the Cangnan First Battle in the clan ancestral hall in the village. Hundreds of spirit guardian captives.

In the battle of Cangnan, the heads of the more than a thousand people who had been wiped out by Yan were cut off by the Jiangdong Zuo Army, but the headless corpses were abandoned in the wilderness to be eaten by birds and crows. Naturally, Hexiongqi could not let the corpses of the tribesmen be thrown into the wilderness, nor could they tie the corpses of the tribesmen on horsebacks to pursue the Jiangdong Zuo Army south together, and was forced to leave the troops to guard Xiaobotou Village. Except for a part of the baggage, the main purpose is to guard the corpse; the mortuary ancestral hall also sends troops to guard the spirit according to the old rules.

The guards in the ancestral hall are all qualified old soldiers, fully armed. When the stockade was attacked, nearly 100 guard guards were the first to react. Except for some of them to support the Beizhaimen, most of them went along the road to help. Nanzhaimen, in the threshing field, met with the cavalry of the left army who rushed into Jiangdong, and fought hard.

Seeing that the threshing ground could not be entered, the narrow alleys restricted the movement of cavalry, and the captives rode on the walls to shoot with bows and arrows.

In the village, there was a team of prisoners who had organized their army and armour and rushed to Nanzhaimen to join the battle, and the chaotic situation of the prisoners was quickly stabilized. After staying, the leader and the team rushed there, climbed to the ridge of the house to command the battle, and saw that the Jiangdong Left Army had replaced the well-armored soldiers at Nanzhaimen, and rushed in along the roadway with flying contradictory vehicles and high shields. No matter how fierce and brave their old soldiers were, they couldn’t stand their ground. They stayed behind and were afraid of ordering the left and right to dismantle the heavy gates of the mansion as a shield to carry them. …

The South Village Gate was seized, the way out of the North Village Gate was blocked, and the northwest corner of the Village Wall was shattered by the attacking soldiers outside with the ramming wood, and a new opening was about to be formed. This was the grim situation faced by the soldiers in the Village.

After staying, the leaders were not panicked, and thought to themselves: Let it all be expected, Jiangdong Zuojun really hid on the island and attacked at night. No one could stand on the wall, so he made people climb the highest ridge to observe the enemy, sent troops to strengthen the defense of the area where the wall was hit, and looked at the open Nanzhai Gate.

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Ning Zechen sat on the hitching post outside Nanzhai Gate with a knife, staring at every move inside and outside the Zhaimen; Lin Tie was further away from the two arrows, paying attention to and controlling the direction of the entire battle.

The sentry general ran over and told Ning Zechen that it was difficult to rush into the alley. Many soldiers shot the captive soldiers who climbed up the room with cold arrows. When the conflict broke out, they couldn't protect them with their shields.

Ning Zechen frowned slightly and said, "Knowing that the alleys are too narrow and difficult to fight, I can't take it back? I demolished the gate, and they want to take it. Give it to them!" Attract a large number of captives to fight on a more spacious field inside the village gate.

When the Sun family established the Cangnan family and built the Xiaobotou Village, they seriously considered how to prevent bandits or rogues from attacking the village. The largest open space in the stockade is the threshing field in the center, which is also the drying field.

In the narrow lanes, even if the captive soldiers have no armor or shields, they remove the door panels and cover most of the lanes, and then let people shoot arrows in the room. ; Unless a very individual like Zhou Pu personally goes into battle, can the house door made of thick wood be split open with a knife.

Ning Zechen saw that the captives were going to retake the Nanzhai Gate, so the armored soldiers moved back and went to a more open field near the Zhaimen. Under the cover of the sword and shield hands, the armor-wearing Mo swordsmen of Jiangdong Zuojun even dared to penetrate directly between the door panels to kill the enemy, and there was enough space for the spears to stab, while the crossbowmen in the back row shot the upper room holder. The captive soldiers who were riding bows also sent people to mount crossbows on the walls of the fortress, and they fully utilized the advantages of sharp swords, strong shields and armor, and long-range shooting of bows and crossbows.

At this time, Zhou Pu led the third battalion to collapse the wall in the northwest corner, breaking the opening and attacking inward.

Holding the battle until the sky was bright, the prisoners who stayed behind saw that the Nanzhai Gate could not be taken back, let alone rush out through the Nanzhai Gate or the collapsed opening. In the open field, the disadvantage of the armor was too great, and the casualties were too great, so they went back inside. I want to take advantage of the complex terrain in the village to fight street battles with Jiangdong Zuojun's one house and one courtyard.

The entire line of the captured soldiers retreated into the stockade. The third and fifth battalions fought inward from the Nanzhai Gate and the broken opening in the northwest corner. The terrain became complicated, and the fight was especially difficult.

If you want to take down the entire stockade in one house and one courtyard, even if you are willing to bear such a large proportion of casualties, there is not enough time.

Even if the channel to the south was successfully blocked, the main force of the Hexiong Qi tribe rushing to Bohai County, two hundred miles away, would likely find a loophole and rush back.

It only takes two days and one night for the captives to travel back and forth for four hundred miles. Considering that one night has passed since the departure of the Hexiong Qi tribe, the captive soldiers in the village will be completely annihilated by tomorrow at the latest.

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Seeing Zhou Pu riding around from the west, he probably felt that it was too difficult to fight from the northwest corner, and he had to readjust his tactics. Ning Zechen asked his deputy to stare at the Nanzhaimen battlefield for him, and walked to Lin Fu together.

"It's too hard to fight hard. If you use fire, I'm afraid those good horses in the stockade won't be able to keep it!" Ning Zechen said loudly. The casualties were too great, and he might not be able to make it in time. He hesitated and asked Lin Fu to make a decision.

"For you front-line commanders, cherishing troops is the big principle," Lin Fu said with a serious expression, "use fire."

The Nanzhai Gate and the hole in the northwest corner collapsed. Lin Fu has not suggested that they set fire to the attack and defense. He is not afraid of the damage to the horses in the stockade. The main reason is that he used fire rashly from the beginning and lacked combat experience. The generals may not be able to block the captive soldiers who are on the verge of rushing out.

Of course, using fire before dawn will only allow He Xiongqi to discover the abnormality in Xiaobotou Village in advance.

Now that the sky is bright, the Hexiong Qi tribe has run far enough. The two sides repeatedly attacked and defended the Nanzhai Gate and the northwest corner for a long time. On the one hand, they weakened the confidence of the captive soldiers from these two openings. On the other hand, the armored soldiers of the third and fifth battalions were repeatedly rushing, recovering and rushing to kill. It stabilized its position and became rock-solid.

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The northwest wind was strong, and it was suitable to set fire from the collapsed opening in the northwest corner.

Since the decision to set fire to the village was made, Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen returned to adjust their deployment. Zhou Pu personally led the soldiers to charge in from the collapsed opening in the northwest corner, and compressed the captive soldiers in so that they could set fire to the new building. The large number of houses made the fire deeper from the beginning, making it impossible for the captive soldiers to put out the fire at all.

Most of the houses in the north have earthen walls and thatched roofs. Only a few wealthy families and squires and wealthy families use bricks and tiles, but the beams and columns are also made of wood. In addition, ordinary villagers rarely use coal (coal) for cooking, and almost every household has haystacks in their yards. In the past few days, the weather has been cold and sunny, and although some snow is difficult to melt, it is all dry snow dried by the cold wind.

These are extremely favorable conditions for setting fire to the village.

The captives rode through, and the three houses in Yannan were almost dead, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and tens of thousands of people were taken away. Nearly two million people were displaced and became refugees from the south. Frozen and hungry.

Naturally, there is no human nature to talk about the captive soldiers who have no human nature, and arsoning the village has nothing to bear for the generals of the Jiangdong Zuo Army who have practiced a hard-hearted heart in the war. Lin Mengde was just heartbroken by those horses that could have been captured. He heard that Lin Fu decided to use fire, so he hurried over to ask if he could take another way to capture the stockade.

The captive soldiers in the village are firm in resistance. They also know that these evils committed in Yannan cannot be forgiven for surrendering. Besides, their arrogant mentality also makes them unable to bear themselves or their clansmen to surrender to the weak soldiers of the Southern Dynasty~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After having an effective entry point, there is no more labor-saving and effective way to attack the stockade than using fire. Lin Fucai ignored Lin Mengde's heartache. He made Ao Canghai ready to attack. The third and fifth battalions If the opening cannot be blocked, the first battalion will besiege the escaped captives in the field.

Zhou Pu was wearing scale armor, and under the **** of the left and right armored soldiers, he looked coldly at the prisoners who were standing in the lane. In front of him, he used flying contradictory cars, door panels, high shields, and iron nail boards to build a narrow lane. obstacle.

The prisoners on the inside wondered why the Jiangdong left army had been fighting for a long time, and then suddenly gave up the attack, until the clay pot filled with lamp oil was handed over from the back, and threw it to the soldiers with strong arms, splashing. Covered with lamp oil and smelling the smell of lamp oil wafting out of the icy air, he suddenly realized that the Jiangdong Left Army in front of him was despicable enough to set fire to it.

Before the captive soldiers broke through the barrier and rushed forward, Zhou Pu ordered the front row soldiers to set fire, and threw torches into the captive soldiers. First, the captive soldiers who had been splashed with lamp oil were set on fire. The thatched houses on both sides were all set on fire. When Zhou Pu led the soldiers to withdraw completely from the broken wall, the fire in the northwest corner had already burned into pieces, and the roaring northwest wind was blowing to the southeast. There were only three wells in the village, which ignited the fire. There are so many flammable things, no matter how you can save them.

Zhou Pu saw that the gap in the walled wall in the northwest corner had been completely covered by flames. He thought that Donglu was really not good at defending the walled city. He only left the Jia soldiers of the first capital to be firm, and he led the Jia soldiers of the two capitals to the Beizhaimen. , the other capital teams spread out along the wall, preparing to besiege the escaped captives.

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