Chapter 772: Fierce Battle (2)
The Jin army walked out of the formation of some sword-wielding soldiers and began to clean up the battlefield, and soon the screams everywhere in front of the formation disappeared, and the first wave of the Tang army's offensive was completely over.
The two sides greeted each other with an extremely fierce greeting, and neither side was much moved, because everyone understood that this was only the beginning, a test that took countless lives.
Even the formation of the Jin army was not shaken in the slightest, which showed the cannon fodder attribute of the attack on the Tang army, so the Tang army would not think how powerful the Jin army was, and the Jin army would not think that the Tang army's skills would stop there.
The Tang army has a lot of sources and cannon fodder, which is a general of the Qin Wangfu series led by Li Shimin's old pawns when he defeated Xue Rengao, plus some riverside standing army brigades, supplemented by defenders in various places.
The combat effectiveness is uneven, and it is indeed more than a step behind the Jin army that is full of morale, has been trained for a long time, and is accustomed to fighting, but there is no way, Kansai Erlang has not fought a few decent wars over the years, and the elite have been fought in these years, without a big war, how can there be a strong general?
But after all, the Tang army has strong troops, and they don't care about this casualty, there are more people who have died over the years, everyone is a little numb, and no matter how red the blood is, it can't sting people's hearts.
After a short while, the retreating Tang Jun dropped a few big heads and hung on the flagpole, which was an act that Li Po hated very much, after all, when he walked on the Liaodong Road, he was not lightly frightened by these ghost things.
But this is indeed the best way to motivate the military today, savage and intuitive.
The next wave of offensives followed, and the generals of the Tang Army behind the formation were also pondering how to seize the geographical advantage.
It's a pity that the place chosen by Wei Chi is really good, don't look at the mountain is not high, but it is very steep, and there is absolutely no worry about making people grab the mountain.
With the offensive of the Tang army, the shouts of killing came one after another, and the soldiers quickly entered the state, entangled with the enemy with red eyes.
Blood gradually moistened the earth, people's feet became muddy, corpses spread down the gentle slope, human lives continued to disappear, and the casualties of both armies continued to increase.
But as time goes by, don't look at the more and more people dying, but the formation of the Jin army is becoming more and more stable, and the strong Jin soldiers, in the cruel fighting, whether it is morale or physique, whether it is discipline or cooperation, have shown an overwhelming advantage.
Taking advantage of the gap between the Tang army's offensive, the Jin soldiers took turns to rest, which was particularly powerful, even if the Tang army moved the archers forward, causing great casualties to the Jin army, it still failed to frustrate the Jin army's formation, and occasionally the Jin army could not help retreating, and the offensive was terminated in embarrassment.
And the war has actually entered its most brutal stage, the war of attrition.
An ordinary hillside more than ten miles outside Feng Yi's city suddenly became a place like a flesh mill on this ordinary spring day.
The soldiers brandished their swords and guns, unleashing their violent and savage emotions to the fullest, and also decorating the courage and fearlessness of the men with their own blood and the blood of the enemy.
The sun gradually rose into the sky, and slowly fell from the west, and the supervising team in front of the Tang army did not know how many heads were cut off, but whether it was the local defenders or those elites who had followed Li Shimin for a long time, no one could break through the enemy's formation, and even a chance to go deep into the enemy formation did not appear.
The defense line on the hillside seemed to be made of iron, and nothing happened except for the bloody head of the Tang army, which by the way, also shattered the pride and courage of the Kansai boys.
On the hillside, Wei Chi Kai and Zhao Shixun sat on the two bases, gnawing on the dried meat while taking a big bite.
"Hey, Kansai people have a great reputation, but it's not really Erer." Zhao Shixun still has some bloody air on his body, and as a native of Jindi, he has heard a lot about the heroes of Kansai before, but today he personally stepped forward to meet Tang Jun twice, which really disappointed him.
Wei Chikai's hometown is in Jindi, but they are considered Luoyang families, so they are naturally not interested in Kansai people, but he should speak fairly.
"That is, I met us, otherwise most of the people who can show off their power in the end must be Kansai people." Then he smiled again, "Brother Zhao, you better say less about how the people of Kansai are, you must know that the king is also from Kansai." ”
Zhao Shixun snorted twice and closed his mouth, but he was muttering in his heart that this guy was unkind...... Don't go to the king to tell me later, right?
As he spoke, the sound of killing below started again, and Wei Chikai looked up at the sky, "It seems that Li Er's eyes are red, and he wants to fight us at night?" ”
"I'm not afraid of anything from him in the night battle, look at this offensive, if it doesn't work during the day, can it be reborn at night?" Zhao Shixun replied casually.
A captain covered in blood walked closer, hammered his chest and shouted: "Report to the general, this time one hundred and twenty-four people were wounded and forty-eight were killed. ”
The casualties are getting smaller and smaller, maybe the Tang army is getting tired, or maybe the morale is gradually declining after a long time of attacking, or the Tang army is not in a hurry and wants to consume the strength of the Jin army again, who knows, anyway, the main force of the Tang army is here, according to the military order, the two of them are meritorious.
Wei Chikai's offensive spirit is very strong, and he is very greedy when he looks at the big banner with General Tiance written not far away, and he always asks Zhao Shixun to stop him when he is about to move...... Otherwise, the situation of the war is likely to be unknown.
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And Li Shimin, the king of Qin on the opposite side, is not as interested in chatting as them, and a day's time can always exhaust people's patience.
From the firmness at the beginning, thinking about a quick victory, he turned around and fought against the enemy army at the river beach, and he didn't know how many casualties he could kill, and how many captures he had, could he make Li Ding'an feel painful......
But as time passed, Li Shimin began to become agitated, and then angry, and those improvised local defenders were just that, and they were not expected to make contributions.
But those guys who claimed to be elite and dared to fight went up, but they also returned in vain, which made Li Shimin extremely dissatisfied.
As the west sank, Li Shimin's heart seemed to sink slowly, and more than 100,000 troops were trapped here, fighting for a day in a row, but they couldn't help more than 10,000 enemy troops, which was something Li Shimin had never thought of before.
In a trance, Li Shimin seemed to have returned to that dark winter night, and the firelight of the Dragon Gate not only stung his eyes, but also burned most of the Xuanjia Rider.
And the terrible howl like a wolf howl at the Longmen ferry seemed to echo in his ears again.
Then, bad news came back one after another.
The Jin army went north to take Jaw Yang lightly, and then attacked Chengcheng......
The Jin army that went south attacked Huayin, Huazhou stabbed Shi Gao Jiucheng and surrendered, and the Jin army based on Huayin.
Hearing these two news, especially the latter one, Li Shimin's heart jumped, the importance of Huayin is self-evident, it is the only way for Jingzhao and Tongguan, and it is the hometown of the former Sui Yang family, and there is a saying that the Yang family in the world returns to Huayin.
Of course, when there was a war in Qindi, the geographical location of Huayin could make its importance reflected, and the Jin army occupied here, even if it was a choke on Li Tang's throat, if he couldn't come back more, the Tongguan army would become an isolated and helpless army.
Huazhou Thorn Shi Gao Jiucheng actually descended so quickly, Li Shimin almost couldn't believe his ears, you are really worthy of your surname.
But such a result is actually inseparable from him Li Shimin, since he went out of Beijing to quietly grasp the military power, began to transfer defenders from all over the country to Wannian County to standby, and the already small number of defenders everywhere have been transferred by him.
Whether it is Jawyang, Chengcheng, or Huayin, they are all affected by this, especially Huayin, because of its proximity to Wannian County, it is not only the defenders who are deployed, but also a large number of people.
In fact, no matter whether this battle is won or lost, the Jingzhao area will be hit hard, you must know that it is the spring plowing season.
The news from the river is also not optimistic, the Jin army is still scrambling to cross the river, look at the flag, at least one more Weifu should have crossed the river.
The only thing that is gratifying is that Chang'an finally reacted and transferred 20,000 Chang'an defenders to aid Feng Yi, which will probably arrive tonight.
Most of these are from the royal guard Xiaoguo, led by Zuo Xiaowei's general Dou Liang, supplemented by Tang Jian, the servant of the internal history, and most importantly, there are 3,000 cavalry among them, which has almost hollowed out the Li family's foundation.
What's even more exciting is that Li Yuan has obviously realized the danger, and has issued edicts one after another to comfort the ministers, Chen said that it is powerful, and persuaded them to gather their soldiers for requisition.
With the efforts of the two fathers and sons, the entire Jingzhao was mobilized, and if they could be given a certain amount of time, they could use more resources.
The foundation of the Li family is Kansai, and at this time, he was rushed into his house and had to smash the pot and sell iron to resist desperately.
Of course, at this time, Li Yuan didn't realize that his son had already gone out of Beijing to Sahuan, if he knew, it would be a little difficult to say whether he would first think about rectifying his own little beasts or fighting the enemy together.
In the evening, Li Shimin hastily pulled a few mouthfuls of corn and rice with pickles, drank two bowls of goat's milk, and tried his best to cheer up.
He is an indomitable character, and nothing can discourage him until he finally sees the truth, otherwise Li Yuan feels that he is very similar to Yang Guang, just because they both have an extremely paranoid side.
But Li Shimin is not Yang Guang after all, he has joined the army at a very young age, has gone through a lot of training, plus he has great ambitions and a stoic temperament, except for the fact that he is from a family of gate lords, he and Yang Guang actually have little in common.
Just like now, Li Shimin can eat coarse food such as corn and rice very casually in the army, and Yang Guang may not have eaten a bite of such food until he died, so you can see the difference between the founding monarch and the last emperor.
It's just that now that the situation is not good, the two of them are likely to find some common language......
"Pass the order, whoever can break the formation, add three ranks, capture the flag, establish a hussar general, supervise the battle queue in the rear, and those who retreat first will be killed in front of the formation.
Besides, the captain Chi Kai, Zhao Shixun's head, no matter who it is, this king allows him to build a tooth and open a mansion......"
One day of the war, I finally knew who the person leading the troops on the other side was.