Chapter 559: No Victory
Tiechengling is located in the south side of Wusheng Pass fifty miles away, as the remaining potential of Yanshan, it is not too high, but the terrain is extremely dangerous, and from Tiechengling to the west to the abduction mountain, there is a gap of twenty or thirty miles wide, it is the necessary place to enter Wushengguan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Tiechengling itself is also in the Wushengguan defense system, originally also built a strong city, but after the Xiyuan Army retreated north, the west foot of the Tiechengling city was destroyed, not to mention the withdrawal of the defensive array, the city wall base engraved with countless solid city seals was also destroyed, leaving the intermittent remnants of the city standing in the cold wind, and tens of thousands of hungry people were abandoned in the city to be fed.
If the Su Guards did not want their flanks to be exposed to the front of the Long Xiang Army, they had to annihilate the Long Xiang Army or expel the Long Xiang Army from the western foot of the Tiecheng Ridge in order to successfully reach the final destination of their trip, Wusheng Pass.
It is expected that the third town division of the Longxiang Army led by Chen Hai is newly formed by the Yao clan and the soldiers, and has not undergone the tempering of iron and blood, and its combat power is limited, and it is also unstable in Tiechengling, Zhao Zhong and Yu Haode on the 19th day of the first month of the first year of Guining, brazenly led 150,000 elites to attack Tiechengling.
Right now, it's a cold day, and the black earth is as hard as gold and stone.
Chen Hai stood on top of the ruined city, crossed his arms and looked at the 150,000 troops of the Su Guards, preparing to attack the remnants of Tiechengling from the southeast and due south, his thin face was like a reef, and he didn't care at all that the enemy army swooped over like a huge wave.
In addition to the Four Demons and Cangyi, Yao Wenjin, as the commander of the Third Town Division, also stood by Chen Hai's side at this time and explained his next battle plan:
"Wen Boyuan, Zhao Zhong and others have been running the Phoenix Chick Camp for several years, but in terms of military strength, if you look at the 100,000 Phoenix Chick elites attacking from the front, the momentum is much weaker than the 50,000 Tiger Roar elites attacking from the flank. I plan to divide a group of troops and horses to block Yu Haode's troops from the flanks, concentrate my forces, and crush Zhao Zhong's troops from the front as quickly as possible......"
"In this battle, you will command, and you will not be able to win if you lose. Chen Hai said with his hands in his hands.
"Ahh
"See for yourself. Chen Hai directly shot a Xuanguang into Yao Wenjin's sea of knowledge, Yao Wenjin looked into the sea of knowledge, and saw that what was presented was a boundless rocky beach, and there was a bottomless crack that was dozens of miles long and bottomless appeared in the depths of the rocky beach, and bursts of blood-colored mist gushed out from the crack, and it seemed that he could faintly listen to the scream of the ghost crying wolf......
Yao Wenjin was stunned and asked Chen Hai in disbelief: "Has the opening of the Blood Cloud Wasteland entering Yanzhou already opened on the side of Montenegro?"
"It hasn't been completely opened yet, at least the blood demon can't break into Yanzhou directly, but the time left for us is running out," Chen Hai took a deep breath and said, "So the goal of this battle is to quietly let the Su Guard Army take over Wusheng Pass smoothly after victory?"
"Are you trying to force the Su Guards to the west of Jiyang County?" asked Yao Wenjin.
Chen Hai nodded, Yucheng Ridge is a gap, but the west wing of Jiyang County and the northern foot of Qintong Mountain extend to Liangyong, like the Yellow Elk Plain and Chifeng Mountain further north, the terrain is not very steep, and elite soldiers and horses are needed to plug the gap there.
Therefore, the main purpose of Chen Hai in this battle was to attract a large number of Su Guards to the Jingbei area and let them occupy Wusheng Pass, in order to facilitate them to flee from Wusheng Pass in the future.
After the Long Xiang Army became dominant, the Xiyuan Army would not fight with the Su Guards, but they would not let the Su Guards go, especially Yu Zonghu had the opportunity to go to Lichuan, and the biggest possibility was to let the Su Guards go to Huang Elk.
Yao Wenjin understood Chen Hai's intentions and said with a wry smile: "It's not difficult to win, but if you want to lose quietly, you can't hurt yourself, it's difficult." ”
Chen Hai said with a gloomy face: "The third town division is also hastily made, without tempering iron and blood, you can take it as a military training......
Yao Wenjin nodded in response, and then focused on directing the battle.
The sound of military drums and horns sounded again and again, and I saw the ten thousand people of the Phoenix Battalion in the south and the three thousand troops of the Tiger Roaring Battalion in the east coming out of the ranks and approaching the remnants of Tiechengling.
Over the years, even though not all the armies in Yanzhou have experienced the refinement of heavy crossbows and heavenly chariots, the attack method of combining heavy crossbows and celestial chariots has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, forcing soldiers to change their traditional tactics.
Even if the Fengxiao Battalion has not experienced any bloody battles since its establishment, seeing its ten thousand troops, the battle formation is more closely combined with the shield chariot and the heavenly machine chariot, and it is advancing forward in a relatively loose array.
Although such a formation is not conducive to the traditional armor hedging, it can more effectively prevent the dense strafing of the heavy crossbow, and can also more effectively make the heavy crossbow of your own side exert greater power - take 10,000 steps back and say, under the dense strafing of the heavy crossbow, even if there is a defensive talisman, how long can the dense formation last without collapsing?
Looking at the soldiers and horses of the Fengxiao battalion, although the morale is weak, it can also be seen that when Wen Boyuan was alive, he also practiced them with new tactics.
Comparatively speaking, the Third Town Division was composed of a mixture of Yao clan soldiers and soldiers, and was less adaptable to the new tactics, but fortunately they were on the defensive.
Chen Hai, Cang Yi and the Four Demons will not make a move easily, at this time, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi has long been completely chaotic, and their role is limited, after all, even if Cang Yi recovers his true body, it is difficult to resist the two hundred sword servants around Zhao Zhong to make a move, they just stand quietly on the city wall to watch the battle, and today's battlefield commander is also Yao Wenjin.
Yao Wenjin used two days to urgently repair the city wall of Tiechengling, but the Su Guards were also equipped with catapults, heavenly chariots, heavy crossbows and other weapons in batches, and it was far from enough to defend the city wall, the city wall was only a position for placing heavy crossbows and catapults, Yao Wenjin dug trenches and rammed earth to build low retaining walls on the outside of the east and south cities, forming a new multi-level defensive position to deal with the impact of the enemy.
Due to the relatively narrow position, Yao Wenjin only deployed a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses in the positions outside the city, and more soldiers and horses were left in the remnants of the city as reserves, ready to take turns to fight.
Considering that the Tiger Roar Battalion was the elite of a hundred battles who had fought with Yu Zonghu in the south and the north over the years, and the ordinary generals had extremely rich combat experience, Yao Wenjin transferred two more heavy crossbows from the southern city to strengthen the East City where the Tiger Roar Battalion attacked.
I saw that the three thousand-strong troops of the Tiger Roar Battalion, in addition to the six light heavenly machine chariots, also arranged more than 40 shield chariots densely in front of the formation, forming a shield wall that could block the rain of quenched arrows, and firmly protect the comrades behind them.
The Su Guard's gold-quenched heavy arrows were limited, and the heavy crossbows mounted on the tops of the six light celestial chariots did not roar, but they saw several counterweight-type catapults slowly advancing with the thousand-man team, and even in the process of marching, they continued to throw mud projectiles to calibrate their bearings.
At this time, Yao Wenjin focused on strengthening the protection of the heavy crossbow position, and put the wooden raft made of multiple layers of logs in front of the canopy of the heavy crossbow position, and continued to cover the grass and soil to reduce the impact of the stone bullets.
At this moment, the fierce battle atmosphere was like a churning morning mist, unfolding on the periphery of the remnant city within a radius of several miles, and the generals of the Third Town Division of the Longxiang Army were mostly the soldiers of the Fengxiao battalion, they faced their former comrades, their hearts were complicated, and they tightly held the cold war spear and war halberd, and let the biting coldness stabilize the anxiety and anxiety in their hearts.
The heavy crossbow at the head of the city finally rang out, as if a heavy rain was pouring down, and it poured fiercely towards the enemy formations on both sides at the same time, and the first wave of gold-quenched heavy arrows shot at the shield carts in front of the enemy formation.
The giant shield erected by the shield cart is also made of quenched iron, because the structure is relatively simple, and the giant shield can be pushed into battle with a frame, so it can be cast thicker than the armor of the chariot.
The one-inch-thick quenched gold shield splashed bursts of sparks under the accumulation of quenched heavy arrows, but there was no sign of being torn in a short time.
The ink armor division controlled by the inner court even carved the shield armor seal on it when casting these quenched gold shields, making the quenched gold shields doubly stronger, and the defense of this quenched gold shield is not easy to break and penetrate compared to the one-and-a-half-foot-thick precision forged cast iron plate.
Yu Haode also confirmed that the 3rd Town Division of the Longxiang Army did not carry the super rifled crossbow that had appeared in the Liquan battlefield to fight, and knew that with only 3,000 people, it was impossible to tear apart the defense line of the Longxiang Army in Dongcheng, so he decisively ordered 2,000 armored cavalry to enter the battlefield from the left flank.
The two thousand green cunning armored cavalry first accelerated behind their own forward array, and when they advanced to less than five hundred steps away from the Dongcheng position, they quickly divided into two teams and swooped towards the Dongcheng position with an unstoppable momentum from the flanks.
The vigorous green cunning war cavalry looked up to the sky and hissed, and as soon as the hind hooves climbed, the low retaining walls and ditches built of temporary rammed earth could not stop these excellent war horses at all, so that the two thousand armored cavalry rushed directly into the formation, and the two sides fought each other in a bloody battle.
At this time, it can be seen that the strength of the Tiger Roar camp is coming, and Yao Wenjin sent two teams of elites mainly composed of Yao clan guards, so that the two thousand armored cavalry can retreat and stabilize the Dongcheng array from being trampled by the enemy.
The enemy's six light battle formations scattered to the two flanks, and from the gap in the parapet wall trampled out by the armored cavalry, they fired wildly, causing great casualties to the generals on the Dongcheng position.
In comparison, the performance of the Fengxiao battalion of Zhao Zhong's troops on the southern battlefield was decent, far less flexible and strong than Yu Haode's troops, and they were suppressed by the generals of the Long Xiang army on the Nancheng position behind a gentle slope, and there was no outstanding performance.
Of course, this situation is also related to Yao Wenjin's original plan to concentrate on defeating Zhao Zhong's troops and horses, so that Yao Wenjin deployed the only twelve light and heavy Tianji chariots of the Third Town Division on the Nancheng position, and the war really started, and he transferred two heavy Tianji chariots and six light chariots to the Dongcheng position, so as to barely suppress the offensive of Yu Haode's troops.
However, what made Yao Wenjin most aggrieved was that Chen Hai allowed him to defeat and did not allow him to win, even if he saw a good time, he could not fight a counterattack, so he could only continue to transfer the reserve pawns into the position in rotation to temper blood and fire, passively defend, and wait until the moment when the quenching heavy arrows were exhausted, and then choose to retreat west along the southern foot of the Tiecheng Mountains......