Chapter 894: Engagement
Regarding the decisive battle, Ji Ling is not in a hurry. The coalition's retreat has been cut off. It is the coalition that is anxious, not himself.
Sure enough, at noon, Li Gui, the garrison of Yulou County, sent someone to send information. He said that after the coalition forces attacking Yulou failed to attack the county yesterday, they began to retreat last night. For safety reasons, Li Gui had already started in the morning. The leading troops are following, and they are expected to arrive tomorrow.
After receiving the news from Yu Lou, Ji Ling began to prepare for the attack. What he was waiting for was for Zhang He's army to withdraw, so that he could decide in one battle. First, 20,000 city guards were assigned to Ji Bao and Li Gui's armies. Starting tomorrow, Ji Bao and Li Gui will lead more than 20,000 troops respectively to attack the coalition camp from the east and south. Attack, while Ji Ling himself led an army of 80,000 to attack from the north, leaving the west as a retreat for the coalition forces to prevent them from being trapped and fighting.
Of course, if the coalition forces really leave the camp and break out to the west, it will turn a ten-death situation into a narrow escape, because the retreat to the west has long been cut off. If the coalition forces want to leave, they can only wade through the irrigation water and reach the How many armies can leave at that time depends on whether God opens his eyes.
At noon on the 20th, Huang Wudie finally led the army back to the camp. An hour later, Yuan Shu's army appeared south of the camp. By this time, the armies of both sides had been assembled, and the war was about to begin.
Early the next morning, Yuan Shu's army of 120,000 troops began to attack the camp of the combined forces of the Andong Army and the Yuzhou Army. A few miles north of the coalition camp, Yuan Shu's army, Ji Ling, looked at the coalition camp a few miles away and murmured: "Huang Zhong, a certain family has been thinking about revenge for those years. Shame, I finally got my chance today.”
At the same time, Shu Zhao, who was next to Ji Ling, seemed to feel something. He turned to look at Ji Ling. When their eyes met, they both nodded in understanding.
After a long time, Ji Ling saw that all the troops were in place, and then he slowly pulled out the long sword from his waist, pointed it diagonally in the air, and shouted sternly: "Send the order, the army attacks!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
“Bang bang…
For a moment, with the loud shouts of the messengers, the desolate sound of horns and rumbling war drums sounded across the entire battlefield. Yuan Shu's army, which had been well prepared, began to slowly approach the coalition camp.
At the front were trench-filling civilians escorted by thousands of heavy infantry, and behind them were dozens of wellrails and trebuchets. Almost at the same time, Yuan Shu's armies from the north, south, south, and south all launched attacks on the coalition camp.
In the Andong Army camp, a group of people were standing on the watchtower at the north camp gate. It was Huangfu Chaobo and others. Looking at the overwhelming Yuan Shujun in the north, Huangfu Chaobo said to Guo Jia next to him: "Feng Xiao, is there any news from Junyi’s army?”
Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Don't worry, my lord, General Zhang is a veteran on the battlefield. Although the training of the euphorbia soldiers has just been completed, and the weapons and equipment are not the euphorbias required by General Zhang, but the ordinary soldiers of our Anton Army are also absolutely He is not the opponent of Euphorbia, and according to the news from the city, there are only about 3,000 remaining soldiers in Yulou County. "
Huangfu Chaobo thought about it, and it was indeed true. Zhang He's Euphorbia warriors were elites selected from an army of hundreds of thousands. Although the weapons and equipment were not fully equipped, they were not something ordinary troops could resist. Just when he was about to speak, Huang Zhong on the side had already spoken: "The war is about to begin. Please, my lord and several military advisors, return to the Chinese army camp. Leave the matters before the battle to General Huang."
After hearing this, the other generals also bowed and saluted, saying: "My lord, please return to the Central Army and wait for the good news!"
Huangfu Chaobo also knew that the camp was not as good as the city wall, and that his presence here would make the generals constrained. So he looked at Pang Tong and Guo Jia with a smile and said, "Okay, since we are in the way here, let's go back to the tent and wait for news." After saying that, he turned to look at Dian Wei and other guards generals and said: "Except for General Gao Shun who led the camp and returned to the central army with me, the rest of the troops stayed here and obeyed General Huang Zhong's command. "
"The general has not received the order!" When everyone heard this,
Immediately accept the order.
Not long after Huangfu Chaobo and others left, the long-range attack troops of Ji Ling's army had already arrived within the attack range. Following the order from the leading general, dozens of large trebuchets began to fire stones at the coalition camp. The well fence needs to continue to advance to a distance of more than a hundred steps in order to cause effective damage to the camp and the defenders.
The Lian'an catapults in the camp also began to counterattack, but the damage to Ji Ling's army was very limited.
As Ji Lingjun joined the attack, the counterattack of the Andong Army in the camp was basically suppressed. Seeing this, Huang Zhong quickly ordered the soldiers to hide, leaving only a few people to observe the distance of Ji Lingjun. When the trench-filling team arrives near the trench, Ji Lingjun's catapults will stop attacking. The attack distance and attack power between the arrow tower on the wall and Ji Lingjun's manhole fence are about the same. At this time, it is the time for both sides to fight for consumption. .
After two days of reinforcement, the coalition camp has been built into a camp surrounded by a trench about two feet wide and deep. The trench is about ten steps away from the village wall. Ji Ling's army must fill in the trench before they can move forward. The camp launched an attack.
Sure enough, when the trench-filling team was about twenty steps closer to the trench, Ji Ling's army's trebuchets stopped attacking because the accuracy of the trebuchets was really frustrating. However, for Anton Army, there is no such concern. Without the threat of Ji Lingjun's trebuchets, the arrow towers on the walls of the camp began to attack Ji Lingjun and the trench-filling civilians outside the camp.
The two warring parties began to shoot at each other across the village wall. From time to time, soldiers screamed and fell from the well railings or arrow towers. On the surface, it seemed that Ji Ling's army suffered greater losses, because civilians were constantly shot to death and wounded, but Ji Ling But he didn't care, because these civilians were recruited from the army and were not sergeants of Ji Ling's army. If he could exchange the lives of thousands of civilians for the filling of trenches and thousands of his soldiers, Ji Ling wouldn't care. These civilians are all They were collected from nearby territories.
Just when Ji Ling's three-pronged army began to attack Huangfu Chaobo's camp, Zhang He was lurking here with 6,000 soldiers and horses in the mountains more than 20 miles southwest of Yulou County. They were already staying here. After two or three days, the city gates of Yulou County outside the mountains were still closed, and the patrol posts at the top of the city were still the same as when the army had just left.
Zhang He didn't care about this. While ordering the army to continue to lurk in the mountains, he constantly sent people to inquire about the surrounding news and tried to find ways to get in touch with the Shadow Guards in the city.