Chapter 326 General Attack
According to statistics, there were more than 30,000 casualties and half of the dead and wounded, and Li Jiancheng couldn't help frowning. This is only the first day, if this continues, doesn't it mean that in three or four days you will only have wounded soldiers available, and you can't let the people who carry the grain behind you take weapons to kill.
"Don't worry, the prince can rest assured, in today's battle, although the other party died much less, there are definitely not a few who are injured! They are far fewer than us, and they will continue to storm tomorrow! At most, the day after tomorrow, we will definitely be able to break the enemy! Li Shentong said to Li Jiancheng.
"Is Uncle Wang sure?" Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment and asked.
To be honest, he was really worried that a few people would be blinded by hatred, and according to his original intention, he would wait for the siege equipment to come before fighting. After all, the defending side occupies a favorable position, at least the rotation of personnel is much easier.
This means that the defending side, more often than not, is to play more and play less, after all, the offensive area is only so large, it is impossible to invest too many people at one time.
"Your Highness, rest assured! What the old minister said is true! Li Shentong said solemnly.
This is indeed his opinion, although he has not seen it with his own eyes, but there have always been guards observing from the front, so he still has a great understanding of the casualties of Zou Yu's men.
"If we had given them a sigh of relief, not only would the camp be stronger, but our efforts today would have been in vain; Besides, Zou Changfeng appeared here, then he must have organized reinforcements in the rear, or he wanted to retreat to Dou Jiande first! Because the people of Liaodong withdrew, it was closer to Hebei. Li Shentong analyzed.
"Hmmm! Brother Wang is reasonable, we can't give up all our efforts, repel Zou Changfeng as soon as possible, and rescue the princess. Li Shenfu nodded in agreement.
"Oh well! If you continue to attack tomorrow, you must beat Zou Changfeng! Force him to release Xiuning back! Pretending not to see Chai Shao's black face, Li Jiancheng said firmly.
For Chai Shao, in fact, Li Jiancheng has no good impression, firstly, Chai Shao actually left Daxing alone the year before last, leaving Li Xiuning, and secondly, Chai Shao and Li Shimin got closer. Although the two brothers have not yet broken out into conflicts, they have begun to be wary of each other. Especially for the talents under him, he wants to win over, but he also has to guard against it, and sometimes he has to suppress it.
Some rumors about Li Xiuning co-opting the bandits in Guanzhong and organizing an army of more than 100,000 have long been passed on to Chai Shao's ears, and this time he voluntarily followed Zou Yu to leave, which will inevitably make him have some thoughts in his heart, after all, he is a wife who is like a flower. I followed other men to the house and stayed, a man would think a lot, this is a married woman again, who knows what indescribable things happened.
Not to mention that Li Jiancheng and others discussed the issue of attack, and they didn't know Chai Shao's depressed thoughts, Zou Yu and others were also discussing the layout of defense.
31,000 soldiers, more than half of the casualties on the first day, but most of them were injured, only 3,000 died, 10,000 were lightly injured, and 5,000 were seriously injured, which already gave Zou Yu and others a little headache, but I really didn't expect Li Jiancheng and others to have no intention of temptation at all, so they attacked for most of the day, and they didn't even breathe, even a group of fierce generals with superior force were tired enough.
"Tomorrow is holding on for one day, the front battalion will send 10,000 soldiers, the left battalion 5,000, and another 2,000!" Zou Yu rubbed his forehead and said.
"The elite casualties are so large, I'm afraid these newly recruited subordinates won't be able to hold out tomorrow." Xue Wanche frowned.
"I'll give you support along the way! Hold out until tomorrow, and their forces will be almost all invested, and then it will be time to counterattack. Zou Yu explained to everyone.
The total strength is more than 70,000 people, and the elite is only more than 20,000 people, but after the first day of fighting, thousands of newly recruited soldiers have grown up, and they have introduced experience to the rest of the people and defended together, so although the second day was equally difficult, they still persevered, but Zou Yu almost all the people in his hands went out to support, and the central battalion was almost empty.
Li Jiancheng and the others did not capture it the next day, and they were not surprised, after all, this was all expected, 130,000 horses, more than 50,000 casualties, it can be seen how strong the attack was in the two days: As for Zou Yu's side, there were more deaths on the second day than on the first day, after all, there were many recruits.
Nearly 10,000 were killed in two days, 8,000 were seriously injured, and more than 10,000 were slightly injured, which is not more than one to two, which is fortunately within the acceptable range. The most important thing is to slightly injure more than 10,000 people, and they can go to the battlefield again on the third day.
The difference between the two sides, plus the lightly injured people, is almost 70,000 to 50,000, and the gap is narrowing further. The most important thing is that the morale of Zou Yu's side has not been affected, but Li Jiancheng's side has suffered forty percent casualties, and the morale has been greatly affected.
On the third day, Li Shentong and others had to raise the reward to motivate morale, and Li Jiancheng personally came forward to guarantee that after the battle, the reward would be doubled, and then the troops were dispatched.
Looking at the rejection of horses that were once again covered overnight, Li Shentong frowned and gave the order to attack again.
After fighting from early morning to mid-afternoon, the corpses that had been emptied on the ground lay on the ground again.
Seeing that the resistance was weakened, and for the first time, the whole line retreated to the second line of defense, Li Shentong always smiled.
"Go and report to the prince, the opponent has no reserves! Request a general offensive! After waiting for a while, seeing that the defense had indeed weakened, Li Shentong said loudly to the guard.
"Whoa!" The guards hugged their fists and agreed, and then quickly rushed to find Li Jiancheng.
At about the same time, the news of Li Shenfu also reached Li Jiancheng.
The two parties made progress at the same time and came up with the same requirements, Li Jiancheng naturally did not suspect that Li Shentong was wrong, and couldn't help laughing loudly: "Hahaha! Herald! The whole army is on the offensive! Take down Zou Changfeng! Rewards! ”
"Woo! Woo! Woo!! With Li Jiancheng's order, the ten heralds who were waiting on the side picked up the horns that were long as their arms, puffed out their cheeks, and blew hard. The desolate and long voice resounded through the sky.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Countless people rushed forward with weapons and excited looks, the battlefield is like this, as long as you make a move, you won't think about anything else, and you don't have time to think about it, the only thought is to rush over, wave your weapon, and kill the enemy in front of you. And in this kind of collective charge, it is the most enthusiastic.
Bows and arrows kept falling on the heads of both sides, taking away lives, human lives were worthless at this time, and the front line of the battle was constantly roaring. Whether it is a soldier or a general, there are no tricks, only stabbing and chopping! Two moves, shouting a knife past, and then quickly slashing out again, either you die, or I live.
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