After Yue Fei and Yang Zaixing and the others converged, they turned back to kill Liu Xiu and the others, but when they arrived under the city gate, the gate of Jiangling City had been closed, and they still couldn't catch up after all

"Withdraw."

Chapter 1233: Compassion for the Soldiers

Yue Fei decisively ordered a retreat, and as soon as his words fell, arrows rained down on the city tower.

"Everybody be careful."

Yue Fei and the others dodged, blocked, and ran away on horseback, and soon escaped from the range of the archers, and none of them were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.

Yue Fei, who returned to the front of the military formation, held high the Liquan Zhan Dragon Spear and shouted: "Qin Jun ......"

"Victory."

"The Qin army will win......"

The tens of thousands of troops were almost like one person, and they let out extremely neat shouts and roars, and their momentum was deafening.

Yue Fei had just beheaded Wei Yan and defeated Wei Wentong and Gai Yan, and this performance impressed the whole army, so the entire army of the Qin army was excited about it.

"Taishou, now the morale of our army is booming, on the other hand, Liu Xiujun's morale has plummeted, it is the best time to attack the city." Wen Ping said.

Yue Fei nodded when he heard this, and then immediately raised the Liquan Zhan Dragon Spear again, and shouted: "Prepare to attack the city." ”

After Yue Fei's general order was issued, he immediately saw a full fifty catapults and twenty wells slowly pushed out from the rear of the Qin army's military array, and Yue Fei's original siege battle array was quickly arranged.

Liu Xiu, who returned to the city tower, saw that the morale of the Qin army was like a rainbow, and that it was ready to attack the city so soon, and his face couldn't help but change color and was extremely ugly.

"I didn't expect that in the end, I fell for Yue Fei's calculations, so I shouldn't have fought with Yue Fei, and I sacrificed General Wei Yan."

At this point, Liu Xiu regretted it to no avail, so he could only use all his resources to make up for it and resist Yue Fei's first wave of offensive.

Yue Fei adopted the siege strategy of encircling three without one, so that it would not arouse the defenders in the city to resist to the death, but although Yue Fei surrounded the three city walls, he chose to concentrate his forces to attack the north gate, which would also minimize the casualties.

"The whole army is attacking."

After Yue Fei gave the final order to attack, thirty catapults launched flying stones together and smashed them towards Jiangling City, and the archers on the ten wells also shot at the archers on the city tower to cover the siege team below.

The siege team under the city carried sandbags and shields against the rain of arrows, and when they reached the corner, they threw sandbags into the moat, and then hurriedly fled back to their main position.

Listening to the constant screams coming from everywhere, Liu Xiu didn't even frown, he had fought many battles on the way to conquer Jingnan, but none of them could compare to the current scene.

"Jingnan is still too far away, and the overall strength is too big for example, the gap between the Central Plains." Liu Xiu sighed secretly in his heart.

The largest battle in Liu Xiu's memory was when the coalition army attacked Tiger Pass, when there were more than 100 catapults that exceeded the siege, and a wave of stone-throwing was a wave of stones, and the scene was like Shura hell.

Compared with the original group of heroes fighting Dong, Liu Xiu's conquest of Jingnan, and even now Yue Fei's attack on Jiangling, is just a small scene.

"Gather all our catapults at the north gate, and you can't just let Yue Fei smash us with catapults."

"No."

Soon, Liu Xiujun's other three catapults were concentrated in Baimen, a total of twenty catapults, and they smashed against each other with Qin Jun's catapults.

Liu Xiujun's catapult, both in terms of the total amount of carrying and the distance of the projectile, is a certain gap with the Qin army, but it can still make up for the lack of performance when it is erected on the city tower.

The day's siege battle ended quickly, and the Qin army, under the personal command of Yue Fei, relied on the advantage of strong morale, but still paid 500 casualties, which shows the tragedy of the siege battle

As for Liu Xiujun, because he was on the side defending the city, the casualties were naturally small, and he only paid nearly two hundred casualties, but the moat was filled by the Qin army by a quarter.

In other words, if the Qin army continues to defend the city at this intensity today, the moat of Jiangling will be completely filled in three days, and the defense battle will be even more tragic at that time.

In this regard, Liu Xiu was worried, and Yue Fei was equally worried.

After only one day of siege battles, Yue Fei found that after Liu Xiu returned, the resilience of the Jingzhou army was several times stronger than before, and if the attack continued according to this trend, even if Jiangling City was finally taken, the Qin army would probably lose tens of thousands of troops, and in the end, the gains would outweigh the losses!

Yue Fei is a general who is sympathetic to his soldiers, and the first criterion for marching and fighting is to achieve the greatest results with the least casualties.

In the previous battle with the Jingzhou army, Yue Fei would rather spend more time and minimize casualties, but in the previous battle of attacking Nanjun, Yue Fei's 50,000 troops suffered nearly 8,000 casualties, but he achieved the result of destroying 30,000 enemies, reducing the Jiangling Jingzhou army by two-thirds.

However, it was precisely because Yue Fei was sympathetic to the soldiers that he delayed until he was about to capture Jiangling, but he was transferred back by Jia Xu with an order, so that the casualties paid were in vain.

Of course, the battle-damaged soldiers were quickly replenished from the reserves and prisoners of war, and the wounded soldiers were also sent to the wounded barracks for treatment, so Yue Fei would send another 50,000 troops to attack Jiangling this time.

Although he suffered a loss of compassion for the soldiers, Yue Fei was still not prepared for the siege of the city with casualties, but the necessary casualties were still inevitable.

Yue Fei first attacked Jiangling City for four days with the most fierce offensive, and when the moat was filled, Yue Fei changed the strong attack to a skillful attack, and instead of focusing on breaking the city, he changed to a living force that killed and injured the enemy.

Skillful attack is a skillful siege, this siege method, not only killed and injured the enemy, but also reduced casualties, but it is more time-consuming and labor-intensive, without a few months or even half a year's effort, Yue Fei may not be able to take Jiangling.

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Hetao, Yinchuan County.

[Ding Dong, Yue Fei led the army to attack Nanjun twice, the first time he killed 23,000 enemies and 10,000 prisoners, and the second time he killed 3,000 enemies and captured 2,000, with a total of 8,000 casualties, deducting battle damage, a total of 270 summon points were rewarded, and the host currently has a total of 5080 summon points. 】

Generals like Yue Fei and Bai Qi are the most worry-free for Qin Hao, and every time they lead a battle, they can always earn summon points more or less, and the accumulation is not a small number.

"Before you know it, you've accumulated five thousand summon points, which is enough to exchange for a new wave of technology."

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Hao couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and after a while, he said to himself: "Forget it, let's wait until the battle of Hetao is over." ”

There were two pieces of music on the case in front of Qin Hao, one was Yue Fei's impeachment of Jia Xu's indiscriminate command, and the other was Jia Xu's request for canonization for Zhao Kuangyin.