Chapter 1459: Yue Fei attacked Jiangling City three times

The twenty-eighth general of Yuntai, Deng Yu, who ranks first, is naturally not such a simple character, his strategy for dealing with Yue Fei is not complicated, it is basically a conspiracy, but it is precisely because of this that it is more difficult to crack.

In the face of the endless and unguardable traps set by Deng Yu, Yue Fei had no choice but to reduce the speed of the march in order to minimize the casualties.

In the face of Yue Fei, who was steadily seeking stability all the way, the trap set by Deng Yu naturally had no effect, and he could only watch Yue Fei destroy all the traps, and finally enter Jiangling City.

It was only a 300-mile journey from Xiangyang to Jiangling, and Yue Fei walked for 20 days and paid 500 soldiers for casualties before finally arriving at the city of Jiangling.

After arriving in Jiangling, Yue Fei was not in a hurry to attack the city, but first cut off all the traps outside the city step by step, and then divided his troops to seize the surrounding counties.

Ten days later, the entire county town around Jiangling was all captured, and Jiangling City became a completely isolated city, at this time Yue Fei began to attack Jiangling City.

Yue Fei first sent his generals to call the battle, Deng Yu knew that Yue Fei and his subordinates were powerful, and he did not have a general who could win steadily, so he naturally did not dare to send a general out of the city to fight.

Yue Fei saw that no matter how he scolded, Deng Yu was also determined to fight, and he was not disappointed in his heart, so he recalled the generals and directly prepared to attack.

Jiangling City has been completely built into a key point by Liu Xiu, and now not only has the city wall been raised a lot, but the defense facilities have also been doubled, and the difficulty of breaking through is simply more than double that of before.

In the face of Jiangling City, which has almost no flaws in the defensive arrangement, Yue Fei is still full of confidence.

This time, in order to capture Jiangling City, Yue Fei made extremely adequate preparations, bringing 100 catapults alone, 40 wells, 500,000 rockets, and 30,000 cans of oil tanks.

In addition, the Qin army in Jingzhou is even more elite, and in addition to Yue Fei, the general lineup also includes Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Han Shizhong, Yang Zaixing, Wen Ping, Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Su Can, Yue Yun and so on.

The reason why Yue Fei dispatched such a big battle was to completely capture Jiangling City, after all, he had attacked twice before, and each time he was almost able to break the city, but he always failed because of some non-fighting reasons, and this time Yue Fei vowed to be ashamed.

Jiangling City is undoubtedly a fortified city, with nearly 40,000 defenders in the city, and if Yue Fei wants to break it with minimal casualties, he must make a clear plan in advance, and the first step is to fill in the moat.

Yue Fei adopted the method of encircling three and missing one, surrounding the east, west and north gates, leaving only the south gate, giving the defenders in the city a way to retreat, giving them hope for life, so as to prevent the defenders in the city from defending stubbornly.

After that, Yue Fei quickly built three earthen slopes outside the three gates of the east, west and north, and placed the catapult on them to increase the range of the catapult, and then used the catapult to throw sandbags to fill the moat.

Deng Yu saw that Yue Fei had come up with this method, and the range of the Qin army's catapult was so much farther than that of the Chu army, although Deng Yu had the idea of leading the army out of the city to destroy the catapult, but he also knew that Yue Fei would definitely set up heavy troops to protect the catapult, and going out of the city was equivalent to taking the initiative to send it to the door.

In the case that the troops are not superior, and the equipment and training are not as good, once they leave the city, they will definitely be defeated, and only by defending the city can they delay time as much as possible.

At this thought, Deng Yu could only give up this unrealistic idea and watch the moat of Jiangling being filled in little by little.

The Qin army had a total of 100 catapults, which could project 3,000 times a day, and each time they threw a bag of sandbags, a total of 30,000 bags could be released in a day.

Once a catapult breaks down, the Qin army will replace the damaged parts and continue to project.

Under the bombardment of three sandbags every day, the entire city wall of Gangneung City was fine, but the whole city was covered with a heavy dust, which also caused many people to contract respiratory diseases.

After ten consecutive days, 300,000 bags of sandbags, and continuous bombardment, the moat outside Gangneung City was finally completely filled.

Cities with moats are all big cities, and if the general big city moat fills it up, it is more than enough to use 100,000 sandbags, but Yue Fei used a full 300,000 bags of sandbags in Jiangling City, which shows how hard Deng Yu worked for the defense of Jiangling.

The moat was filled, and the next and most bloody siege was the heavy casualties.

Yue Fei only attacked the other two gates, but instead concentrated his forces and took the most fierce offensive against the north gate.

Under the cover of sixty stone throwers and twenty wells, Yue Fei personally commanded 30,000 elites, as well as Yang Zaixing, Yue Yun and others to storm the north gate of Jiangling.

[Ding Dong, Yue Fei's skill 'Wu Mu' is activated, +3 when the commander is against a foreign clan, +1 when the commander is against the same clan, Yue Fei's basic commander is 100, and the current commander has risen to 101;]

Yue Fei, who commanded 101, personally beat the drum and commanded the army to attack the north gate of Jiangling, which naturally boosted the morale of the Qin army, and Yang Zaixing, Yue Yun and other generals also participated, which made the defenders unable to raise their heads for a while.

Deng Yu saw that the offensive of the Qin army on the first day was so fierce that even Yue Fei personally dispatched, and in desperation, he could only lead the generals to personally sit at the north gate and command the defense of the city.

[Ding Dong, Deng Yu's skill 'Copper Wall' is activated.

Bronze Wall: Exclusive skill for defending the city, when personally commanding the battle to defend the city, the commander +2, and the morale of the whole army increases; 】

[Deng Yu: Commander 96, Armed Forces 80, Intelligence 95, Politics 98, Charisma 93

Deng Yu's basic commander is 96, the skill 'Bronze Wall' launches the commander +2, the current commander has risen to 98, and the morale of the whole army of the Chu army has risen; 】

In the face of Yue Fei, whose commander rose to 101, Deng Yu had to personally sit at the north gate to defend the city, the only way to protect Jiangling from being breached;

And under Deng Yu's personal command, as well as the desperate resistance of Liu Long, Wang Liang and other Yuntai generals, Yue Fei's onslaught was finally blocked.

In this regard, Yue Fei was not surprised at all, if he could break the city in one day, he would not have failed the previous two times.

After that, Yue Fei still personally commanded the assault on the north gate, and in the five consecutive days of super-intense onslaught, both the attacker and the defender were all tense and extremely tired.

In just five days of siege, the Qin army lost 5,000 soldiers, while the Chu army, which was defending the city, suffered no fewer casualties than the Qin army, killing more than 4,000 people.

According to common sense, the casualties of the besieging side should be at least twice as much as the defending side, which is a more reasonable situation.

However, the siege battle under Yue Fei's personal command achieved a casualty ratio of nearly 1 to 1, which is a bit unreasonable.

The reason why he was able to achieve close to one to one casualties was that in addition to his Yue Fei's extremely sufficient preparations before the battle and the participation of many generals of the Qin army, the most important point was that Yue Fei had already thoroughly figured out the deployment of Jiangling.