Chapter 420: Broken Bridge

"Your Highness, the Weicheng Granary is right on Jinque Street in the West City; my subordinates and many of the generals know the way."

Having decided on the strategy of attacking the granary to force the Xiliang soldiers into battle, Ma Han pointed toward the east.

Zhao Xu nodded, "Since that is the case, your Ma Family troops will be responsible for the granary this time, and the Prince's Personal Army soldiers will be responsible for surrounding the residential wards."

The city wall had already been breached; the hardest part had been done by the Prince's Personal Army soldiers.

The ensuing battle required no technique; it was simply a fight to the death.

"Yes, Your Highness!" Ma Han's expression was excited.

Watching from the side as the Yan Wang's soldiers beat the Xiliang soldiers to a pulp, the Ma Family generals felt both admiration and envy, and their hands were itching to join in.

Although they knew it was not that the Xiliang soldiers were weak, but that the Prince's Personal Army soldiers were too strong.

They themselves might not necessarily be able to fight so easily if they were in their place.

But Weicheng was the Ma Family's city, and for some generals, it was their hometown.

How could they just sit by and watch the show?

Otherwise, once Weicheng was taken, the people of Weicheng would point at their spines and curse them.

Ma Han received the order and immediately instructed the generals to lead the Ma Family soldiers to attack straight toward the east of the city along the main street.

Chang Wei ordered Lv Chang to lead the heavy infantry, and Qin Shan led the flintlock infantry to pour into the streets between the residential wards like flowing water, surrounding the residential wards.

"Tap, tap, tap..." The sound of dense footsteps arose.

At this moment, the Xiliang soldiers inside the residential wards gripped their weapons tight, waiting only for the Da Song soldiers to charge in so they could pounce and slaughter them.

Some Xiliang soldiers even hid in secret corners, ready to launch a sneak attack at any moment.

However, they waited for a long while, and not a single Da Song soldier broke through the gates of the residential wards to attack inside.

"Main General, what exactly is going on?"

Inside a residential ward, a thousand-man commander cast a searching gaze toward his superior.

The Main General shook his head, his face also showing confusion.

He then ordered a soldier to poke his head out from the ward wall to check the situation outside.

The soldier soon returned, "Sir, some of them are heading east, and there are soldiers holding weapons that look like fire sticks surrounding the residential wards, but they don't seem to have any intention of attacking."

Upon hearing this, the Main General frowned, at his wit's end.

Now that the Anxi leader had not blown the horn to issue instructions, they could only remain guarding in the residential wards.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

The soldiers' footsteps moved from east to west.

At this moment, Zhao Xu climbed onto the city wall and used a telescope to observe the soldiers' advance.

The Ma Family Army's advance had not yet encountered any obstruction.

The Prince's Personal Army also successfully divided and surrounded the residential wards one by one.

Compared to the Xiliang army inside the city, their numbers were twice that of the enemy, and their troop supply was sufficient.

Attacking on one side and besieging on the other was not a problem.

"Kill!"

Just as the Ma Family troops had passed two-thirds of the city and seemed to have reached the location of the granary, a burst of battle cries suddenly erupted.

The Xiliang soldiers killed their way out from the residential wards in the west of the city,

rushing toward the Ma Family troops.

At the same time, the low sound of a bullhorn spread throughout Weicheng.

Seemingly having received a unified command, they broke out from the residential wards and raided the flintlock infantry.

But how would the flintlock infantry, lined up and waiting, give them a chance to charge out?

Through the telescope, a burst of fire and smoke rose, and he saw the Xiliang soldiers who had rushed out of the ward gates and dropped from the ward walls fall to the ground.

Some Xiliang soldiers luckily were not hit and charged toward the flintlock infantry with curved blades.

Two flintlock infantrymen immediately coordinated; one raised the flintlock to stab high, and one raised the flintlock to stab low.

The Xiliang soldier dodged the low path but did not dodge the high thrust, and was pierced through the chest by the bayonet.

The flintlock infantryman pulled out the bayonet, and the Xiliang soldier slowly collapsed.

Then the flintlock infantryman stepped back to let the second row of soldiers continue firing, while he calmly reloaded.

The first wave of the breakout failed, and the Xiliang soldiers in the residential wards immediately launched a second wave.

But they were quickly beaten back by the flintlock infantry again.

After three consecutive waves, the Xiliang soldiers shrank back into the residential wards and did not come out again.

"It seems the Xiliang people have discovered Your Highness's intention, but it is already too late; at least half of their forces are trapped," said Chang Wei.

Compared to the battle situation in the east of the city where things were being handled with ease, the battle situation in the west of the city was somewhat intense at this time.

The Xiliang troops and the Ma Family soldiers were entangled together, becoming a mess.

"Your Highness, should we pull out some troops to help them?" Chang Wei hesitated.

"No need. The hundred thousand Ma Family troops are almost unscathed. If they can't even beat a few tens of thousands of Xiliang soldiers like this, they might as well go back to Qin Pass to guard the city gate," Zhao Xu said indifferently.

This battle was only the beginning; they were still only facing Xiliang, and the more formidable Northern Di were still to come.

He was not using the Ma Family troops as mascots.

Chang Wei scratched his head and said no more, just staring at the battle situation.

"Charge out for me! His Highness the Yan Wang is watching us; no one is allowed to embarrass our Ma Family!"

West of the city.

The armor on Dian Zhang's body was stained red with blood.

He led the Ma Family heavy infantry to charge on the front line.

When they arrived here, Xiliang soldiers suddenly rushed out from the residential wards.

They immediately began to slaughter each other with the Xiliang soldiers on the streets surrounding the residential wards.

At first, the Ma Family soldiers were somewhat panicked when facing the rushing Xiliang soldiers, and they were beaten back repeatedly.

Seeing this, Ma Han immediately ordered Dian Zhang to lead the Heavy Infantry to charge up, which finally stabilized the soldiers.

"Ma Wei, you lead twenty thousand troops to outflank from the south; Ma An, you order twenty thousand troops to outflank and attack from the north." Ma Han was covered in sweat, but he continued to issue orders.

The numerous Ma Family troops were now blocked on the narrow streets, as if one man could hold the pass against ten thousand.

This made it impossible to even utilize the advantage of the Ma Family troops' superior numbers.

Thus, Ma Han intended to surround the Xiliang troops and attack from all four sides simultaneously.

Responding with an affirmative, the two generals led their subordinates to charge toward the city walls on both sides, circling past the base of the walls in an attempt to gradually surround the Xiliang troops.

On the street in front of the Granary, An Xi, surrounded by three Main Generals, was continuously issuing various orders.

Soldiers kept bringing reports of the battle situation, and upon learning that there were twenty thousand troops outflanking from both the north and south in an attempt to surround them, his heart sank instantly.

Originally, he had thought the Yan Wang troops would compete with him for the city.

He had not expected Yan Wang to be so insidious, sending troops directly to seize the Granary.

When he learned that the Granary had been raided, he woke up as if from a dream and immediately blew a horn, ordering the soldiers in each ward to gather and fight.

But it was all too late.

A soldier climbed up a two-story building in the residential ward and saw that the residential wards to the east were all surrounded.

At present, the number of soldiers he could mobilize was less than thirty thousand.

Defeat was only a matter of time.

"Light the signal fires and charge out from the west gate!" An Xi said at this moment.

Upon hearing this, the Main Generals had dark expressions in their eyes.

They had originally thought they could hold the Yan Wang troops in Weicheng for at least a month to exhaust the Yan Wang troops.

Now, they had failed completely.

However, they still had one final path to take, which was to destroy the bridge.

Weicheng was named after the Wei River to the west of Weicheng.

The Wei River passed through Weicheng and extended northeast to flow into the Jin River.

There was a bridge on the Wei River; as long as this bridge was destroyed, it would cause trouble for Yan Wang and delay their advance.

An Xi ordered the signal fires to be lit to tell those guarding the bridge to be prepared.

If they broke through the encirclement, they would wait for them to cross the bridge before destroying it.

If they were unable to break out, they would destroy the bridge immediately.

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