Volume 10 Chapter 583
Chapter 583
Xue Rong was not affected by the coalition's division of troops tactics. Instead, he took advantage of the opportunity of the coalition's division of troops and chose to storm the camp where only the Feng Army was stationed. Read the full text. (《》)
Tang Yin was surprised by the reaction of the Sichuan-Huan coalition forces. After receiving the news of the enemy's massive attack, he immediately called Liang Qi and Ziying to discuss countermeasures with them.
Liang Qi and Ziying seemed to have been prepared, and said to Tang Yin calmly: "Our army's camp is strong. Even if the enemy army comes in full force to attack, they may not be able to break through our defense. Your Majesty should immediately send a message to Yujun." He'an Army, after the two armies capture Anyang and Fengyang, they need to immediately attack Huaiyang. As long as Huaiyang is captured again, the enemy's logistics supplies will be cut off, and the enemy will be in chaos without fighting. "
Listening to their boastful talk, Tang Yin gradually raised his eyebrows and asked: "How many days will we have to wait for the Yu and An armies to capture Anyang, Fengyang and Huaiyang one after another? Even if the enemies in the city are defeated without a fight. To escape, the journey alone will take ten days, but can our army withstand the enemy's force for ten days now?"
Liang Qi and Ziying looked at each other and said in unison: "As long as your Majesty is here, our soldiers will fight with blood and fight the enemy to the death!"
Tang Yin smiled bitterly when he heard this, saying that he didn't say anything. If the difference in combat power between the two sides is too great, it may not be possible to make up for it with willpower and fighting spirit.
But now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in complaining about them. Tang Yin can only follow their suggestions and find Ai Jia, ask the underground network spies to release the falcons, and send messages to Yujun and Anjun separately.
Let's talk about the Sichuan and Huan armies. They began to line up about a mile away from Feng Camp. A large number of soldiers pushed heavy trebuchets to the front of the camp until they were only 200 steps away from Feng Camp. It stopped when it was far away.
The distance of two hundred steps was already within the range of the heavy trebuchet. I saw a large number of Sichuan soldiers and Huan soldiers driving carriages and stacking hundreds of thousands of stone bullets on the trebuchet. about. (《》)
The reason why their actions were not completed behind their own camp, but in front of the formation, was mainly to allow the Feng Army in the opposite camp to see clearly their determination for this battle, and also to cause psychological damage to the Feng Army. pressure.
After all the arrangements for the heavy trebuchet were completed, Xue Rong waved the command flag in his hand with a smile on his face.
As his command flag waved, the drums in the Sichuan Army suddenly started beating. At first, they could still distinguish their numbers. Soon, the drums sounded like popping beans.
The drums sounded and the whole army advanced. First of all, the Sichuan troops stood in front of the archery towers. Each archery tower was three feet high, with wheels underneath and archers on top. When advancing, there were Sichuan troops pushing behind the archery towers and others pulling with ropes in front of the archery towers.
Looking around, there are four to five arrow towers in front of each small phalanx of the Sichuan Army. They can not only cause damage and threaten the defenders on the enemy's wall, but also serve as giant shields for our own camp, blocking the defenders' arrows. formation to effectively protect our own soldiers.
Looking at the Sichuan army's camp, there are burly and powerful chargers carrying ladders, heavily armored city-breakers pushing assault carts and thunderbolt carts, and melee soldiers holding shields, steel knives, and steel swords. There are archers carrying arrow pots and twisting bows and arrows, spies on horseback, and messengers running back and forth between the various camps. All the soldiers in the army are performing their duties. It can be said to be a large army of mixed arms worthy of the name.
When the Sichuan Army advanced, it was not very fast. First, the army carried too many large-scale armaments. Second, the armor of the Sichuan Army soldiers was too heavy, and they could not move fast even if they wanted to.
However, the Sichuan army's advance was extremely steady, step by step, both offensive and defensive, and they had their own unique offensive rhythm.
Tang Yin, who was on the wall of the camp, saw it clearly, and his expression became more serious. Facing the Sichuan Army again, he seemed to have returned to the Battle of Baguan that year. At that time, he was also facing the Sichuan Army. The city defense that could dominate the pass was still broken by the Sichuan Army. Now his own camp defense is far inferior to the Baguan with high city defense. , one can imagine how difficult it is to resist the Sichuan army. 《》
Seeing helplessly that the Sichuan Army camp outside the camp has passed the trebuchet and is pressing towards us step by step. The soldiers of the Feng Army who were also on the wall of the village all turned their attention to Tang Yin, just waiting for his order to be ready to shoot. Arrow array.
When the Sichuan army was one hundred and fifty steps away from its own camp, Tang Yin did not issue an order. When it was nearly a hundred steps away, Tang Yin still did not issue an order to counterattack. At this time, people began to become anxious and sweatdropped. Roll down.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, so close that one could clearly see the faces of the enemy's archers on the archery tower. At this moment, Tang Yin finally issued an order, an order that no one expected: All officers and men in the army should retreat. Wall.
People simply couldn't believe their ears. The Sichuan Army's front troops were already approaching a hundred steps away. Instead of fighting back, our own side even retreated down the wall. Wasn't this deliberately giving up our own defense line to the enemy?
There was no extra time to explain, Tang Yin's face was gloomy, and he shouted to the left and right: "Quick, follow my orders, everyone get off the wall!"
If Tang Yin was not the Feng King, the soldiers of the Feng Army would probably have to wonder if he was an enemy spy who had infiltrated their own side. Military orders fell like mountains. He issued such an order, even if everyone thought it was ridiculous and wrong, they still had to bite the bullet and execute it.
According to his order, many soldiers of the Feng Army retreated from the village wall. Not long after they retreated from the wall, people finally understood why the king issued such an unreasonable order.
Suddenly, the heavy catapults in the Sichuan Army camp started up without warning. Huge stone bombs were thrown into the sky from the Sichuan Army camp, and then fell down like hail with a sharp whistling sound.
For a moment, the roars on the Fengying Village Wall became one. The village wall, which was built with a mixture of mud and wood piles, was hit by the stone bombs. Dust flew and wood chips flew. The narrow village wall was smashed into pieces in an instant. Many stone bombs were deeply embedded in the village wall.
With the start of the catapult, the attack began. Immediately afterwards, the Sichuan Army archers on the arrow tower shot out the arrows in their hands. The black arrow formation shot straight to the village wall, and the crackling sound was endless.
The mixed attack of stone bullets and arrow arrays made it impossible to find a single intact place on the wall of the Feng Army camp. There were damages everywhere and arrows stuck on it everywhere. If the Feng Army had not retreated from the wall in time before the Sichuan Army attacked, the heavy casualties could be imagined.
This is the importance of experience in battle. Tang Yin understood the offensive characteristics of the Sichuan Army and avoided it at the first time, minimizing his own casualties. As the Sichuan Army camp got closer and closer, the heavy catapults of the Sichuan Army stopped firing at the same time. The Sichuan Army would never let its own people accidentally hurt their own people in battle. It can be said that this is the civilization of the Sichuan Army, or it can be said that this is one of the few weaknesses of the Sichuan Army.
When the heavy catapults stopped attacking, a faint light flashed in Tang Yin's eyes. He took a deep breath, stood up under the wall, and shouted loudly to the surroundings: "All soldiers listen to the order, go up the wall and meet the enemy!"
Wow-Tang Yin's order was quickly passed down by the messengers, and a large number of Feng Army soldiers cheered up and rushed to the wall again.
Some fast soldiers ran in the front. They just climbed up the wall of the stockade and were nailed into hedgehogs by arrows shot from the front before they could even see the situation outside clearly.
Their bodies rolled down the steps, which also reminded the soldiers behind them. People dared not to rush up and raised their shields to form a shield formation.
Ding Ding Dang Dang! The arrows hit the shields, making a series of crisp sounds. People looked out through the gaps in the shields. Well, the Sichuan Army's arrow tower was only a few feet away from the stockade wall, and the archers on it could already shoot at the stockade wall.
The Feng Army, which stabilized its position with the shield formation, immediately launched a return shot. The cooperation between the soldiers was extremely tacit. At the moment when the shield formation dispersed, the soldiers behind all shot the arrows in their hands. Then, the shieldmen in front raised their shields again and formed a shield formation.
The sudden counterattack also made the Sichuan Army archers on the arrow tower unable to react in time. In an instant, many people were hit by arrows, and from time to time, Sichuan Army soldiers with eagle feathers on their bodies fell down from the arrow tower screaming.
The Feng Army suppressed the archers on the other side's arrow tower and launched a counterattack against the Sichuan Army who had begun to set up ladders and climb the wall of the stockade. At this time, the battle between the two sides began to enter a white-hot level.
The two sides fought a veritable bloody battle. The Sichuan Army's attack was fierce and continuous, and the Feng Army's counterattack was also fierce one wave after another. The two sides went back and forth, and casualties rose sharply.
Because his own troops were at a disadvantage, Tang Yin personally joined the battle. He fought side by side with many Feng Army soldiers on the stockade wall, slashing and killing the Sichuan Army who climbed up along the ladder.
Not long after the fierce battle between the two sides, the Sichuan Army's battering rams and thunder chariots were pushed to the front of the stockade wall.
The battering ram is specially used to hit the city wall, while the thunder chariot is used to hit the city gate. These two weapons are extremely powerful. They are both sharp weapons for breaking the city and the most troublesome things for the defenders.
As the battering ram approached, the roar from the bottom of the village wall continued. The village wall also shook back and forth under the continuous impact of the battering ram. Many Feng soldiers were unstable and sat on the ground involuntarily.
Seeing this, Tang Yin grabbed a long spear without even thinking about it and jumped directly from the top of the village wall.
Plop! When his body landed, it hit a Sichuan soldier, breaking his bones and tendons, and even the armor on his body had changed shape.
Tang Yin was protected by the spiritual armor and was unharmed. He stood up from the ground with a roll and went straight to the Sichuan Army's battering ram with a spear.
Seeing that a Feng man fell from the village wall, the surrounding Sichuan soldiers rushed up, and stabbed Tang Yin from all directions with short knives, short swords, long spears and long halberds.