Volume 10 Chapter 394
Chapter 394
"From what you two said, the defeat of the Ninth Army was all due to my mistake in deploying troops in Changdu?" Tang Yin asked with a soft smile.
"You can say that!" Ye Tang and Gao Yu answered straightforwardly. Qi Heng was sweating profusely while listening, but he didn't dare to stop them from speaking. He could only pray silently in his heart: Two 'masters', please don't say anything more!
Tang Yin slowly clenched his fists, but he couldn't help but pound the table heavily, shouting: "You two are so bold! You dare to complain about me in public, aren't you afraid that I will take your heads?"
"My king, the fault for this defeat is all mine. If you want to punish me, punish me!" Qi Heng suddenly raised his head and looked at Tang Yin in the carriage.
Originally, he had a very ordinary impression of Ye Tang and Gao Yu. He felt that they were rigid and stubborn, often opposed to him and made things difficult for him. However, at the critical moment, they stood up for him and argued with reason. Thinking back to the time when they had saved his life, Qi Heng felt bitter, bitter and warm in his heart. He also risked his life to save Ye Tang and Gao Yu, even if he lost his own life.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Tang shook his head slightly at him, indicating that he did not need to take all the blame on himself. He said to Tang Yin seriously: "Your Majesty is a wise ruler, and he will naturally not kill innocent people who speak out."
"What a wise ruler! Just one word of wise ruler makes me helpless against your rude words?!" Tang Yin's words sounded like an angry question, but his tone was much softer, and his clenched fists slowly loosened, flicking his nails from time to time.
Ye Tang and Gao Yu lowered their heads, and no one dared to say anything more. They also knew what to say in front of the king, what not to say, and what to stop talking about.
At this time, a Fengjun spy suddenly came to Tang Yin's carriage, dismounted, knelt down and saluted, and said in a hurry: "King, we found an unknown number of Mo troops five miles ahead!"
"Oh?" Tang Yin raised his eyebrows. Qi Heng hurriedly said: "King, it must be the Mo troops chasing our army!"
The Mo troops turned around and chased the Ninth Army, which shows how badly the Ninth Army lost this battle! Tang Yin was secretly angry and asked, "Where is General Nie?"
"I am here!" Hearing Tang Yin's call, Nie Ze hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.
"The Hundred Battles Army will fight! We must kill all the pursuing soldiers of the Mo Kingdom!" Tang Yin said coldly.
"I obey your orders!" Nie Ze took the order and turned to leave, but Ye Tang reminded him urgently: "General Nie, the Mo army has hundreds of broken army crossbows, so be careful!"
Nie Ze was stunned for a moment and said: "Thank you for your reminder, General Ye." In the past, the Zhen army might be afraid of weapons like broken army crossbows, but now, they are also Feng army, and they also have a large number of broken army crossbows. There is nothing to be afraid of when they are used against the Mo army.
Following Tang Yin's instructions, Nie Ze led the Hundred Battles Army to meet the enemy first.
However, they did not meet the Mo army. When the Mo army heard that the Ninth Army had joined the main force of the Feng army, they immediately gave up the pursuit and returned to the camp, and put on a posture of shrinking and defending.
They chose to retreat, but this time the Feng army was still unwilling to give in. Tang Yin commanded the army to go south and soon arrived at the Mo army camp. Looking around, the scale of this Mo camp is quite large. Even if you stand on a high point, you can't see the end of the camp. There are tents connected to tents, barracks connected to barracks, rows and rows, and you can't tell the number. If such a large camp is built according to the organization of the whole army, then the strength of this Mo army will not be less than 500,000.
After observing the Mo army camp, Nie Ze asserted to Tang Yin that this is the main camp of the Mo army, and the strength of the Mo army inside will never be less than that of his own. In a tough battle, you can win a sure victory only if you have three times more troops than the enemy. In the case of equal forces, the attacking party cannot defeat the defending party in theory.
What Tang Yin despises most is the theory. Soldiers have no fixed form. Theoretical things can only be used as a reference, and are by no means the fundamental basis for tactics. Due to Tang Yin's repeated insistence, the Feng army still launched a strong attack on the Mo army camp.
In this attack of Feng Army, the Ninth Legion was completely useless. First of all, the Ninth Legion was too easy to be restrained by the Broken Army Crossbow. In addition, the heavy cavalry could not attack together with the infantry. The heavy cavalry had poor mobility and was not easy to control. It was easy to accidentally hurt their own people in the battle.
Without the Ninth Legion, the combat troops of Feng Army were actually only the direct army, the Hundred Battles Army, and half of the Flying Dragon Army with about 50,000 people. Adding together, there were less than 500,000 people. However, it was hard to imagine how difficult it would be to break through the 600,000 Mo Army who were shrinking and defending.
As a legion that Tang Yin had high hopes for, the Hundred Battles Army naturally had to take the lead and launch an attack from the front of the Mo Army camp. The advancement of the 300,000-strong army was quite imposing, and the atmosphere in the opposite Mo Army camp was extremely tense.
The walls of the camp were already full of soldiers of the Mo army, who were ready for battle. In addition, the crossbows of the broken army had been set up from a high position. Inside the camp, the catapults were all ready, waiting for the Feng army to enter the range so as to launch a fatal attack.
The two sides were on the verge of a fierce battle. As the roar of the Baizhan army's advance became louder and louder, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer. The first to launch the attack was the catapult of the Feng army.
With the shouts one after another, the catapults set up by the Feng army started together, and the stone bullets flew into the air one by one, and then with the whistling sound of breaking the wind, they quickly smashed towards the Mo army camp.
For a time, there were loud rumblings and landslides in the Mojun camp, and there were explosions inside and outside. Especially the wall of the camp was hit by stone bullets, causing sawdust to fly everywhere. It was shaking back and forth, and most of the soldiers in front of Mo Jun were directly knocked down. He lay on the ground for fear of being thrown off the wall.
Withstanding the blows of the Feng Army's stone bullets one after another, the Baizhan Army outside had already entered the range of the Mo Army.
General Mo, who was commanding the battle at the wall, frequently gave orders to reunite the scattered soldiers, and then launched a volley at the Bai Zhan Army outside. At the same time, the broken army crossbow also exerted its unique power. Huge destructive power.
The Mo army on the wall can shoot at the Bai Zhan Army. Similarly, the Bai Zhan Army outside can also shoot at the Mo army. On both sides, you come and go, arrows are fired continuously, screams are everywhere, and those who are hit by the arrows fall to the ground are not included. number.
During the battle, Mo Jun's Pojun Crossbow could often pierce two or three Feng Jun to death with one arrow, but Feng Jun's Pojun Crossbow and City-Breaking Crossbow could easily penetrate the guardrail of the village wall and directly kill the Mo Jun behind.
This is an evenly matched battle full of blood and death. The attacking Feng army fell down row after row during the advance. The soldiers in the rear stepped on the corpses of their comrades and approached the Mo army camp little by little; the defending Mo army also died in waves, one after another. Thousands of troops stood against a section of the village wall that was less than 50 meters long. In just a blink of an eye, people were killed or injured. When the soldiers from behind continued to push forward, they didn't even have time to deal with the corpses and wounded, and the horses had to be thrown into the battle. among.
There were hundreds of wounded soldiers on both sides who were trampled to death by their own people alone.
The brutal fighting at the front also frightened the soldiers watching from behind. Tang Yin, who was sitting in the carriage, frowned secretly. Changing commanders was really like changing knives! The Mo army in front of them, both in terms of combat power and fighting spirit, seemed to have been completely transformed. Compared with the previous Mo army, they were completely different. Xu Lengzhi, the commander of the navy of Mo Kingdom, is really extraordinary. I had underestimated this person before.
It seems that it is difficult to break through the Mo army camp with only a hundred battle troops... Tang Yin rubbed his chin and thought for a moment. He stood up, got off the carriage neatly, and said to the generals around him: "The Feilong army is holding down the formation here. , the officers and men of the direct army followed me around to the rear of the enemy camp and made a sneak attack behind the camp!"
Tang Yin's intention is very clear. The Bai Zhan Army has attracted the main energy of Mo Jun, so the back of the camp must be a defensive weakness. If our side can sneak around the back of the enemy camp without anyone noticing and launch a surprise attack, we will surely win with one blow. .
Wuying, the commander of the direct army, had been waiting impatiently for a long time. When she heard that the king was going to lead his own army to sneak attack on the enemy camp, she was overjoyed and stepped in and said: "General, go and prepare now!"
Seeing Wuying's excited look, Tang Yin had to pour cold water on him and said: "General Wu, you can stay here to hold down the Hundred War Army, and I will lead my brothers there!" Wuying is Wumei's sister and his sister-in-law. , he will try his best to avoid involving Wuying in any dangerous actions.
Wuying's mood immediately fell to the bottom. The direct army was going to sneak attack on the enemy camp, but the commander-in-chief had to be left aside and could not participate. What kind of rules was this? She took a deep breath, shook her head and said, "No! Your Majesty, the general must go!"
Tang Yin insisted: "The battle between the Bai Zhan Army and the enemy is fierce, and someone is needed here to take charge of the overall situation. You should stop arguing."
At every critical moment, the king always abandons himself, which makes Wuying really unbearable. Not knowing where the courage came from, she suddenly stretched out her hand, grabbed Tang Yin's cloak, and said firmly: "There are many generals in the army. They can all stay and preside over the overall situation. The general must go this time." !”
"You——" Wuying really wanted to be stubborn, but Tang Yin couldn't do anything to her. The latter stared at her for a moment, shook his cloak, shook Wuying's hand away, and then said in a deep voice: "If you want to go, go!"
After hearing that the king finally agreed, Wuying's face immediately showed joy. She cupped her hands and said, "Thank you, the king!"
"You must listen to me when we get to the battlefield. If you don't obey my orders again, I will have someone tie you back!" Tang Yin tapped Wuying's helmet with his fingers, and then turned over. Although his words contained an element of threat, his actions unconsciously revealed doting.
Tang Yin and Wuying led their direct troops to withdraw first and then circle. In order to avoid Mo Ying's observation, they deliberately made a large circle and quietly approached the back of Mo Ying's camp.