Chapter 284: Bloody Battle King Mandu (7)
In order to overcome the amount of military funds prepared by the Hedong Army for conquering, worth tens of millions of yuan, hundreds of thousands of people were relayed and transferred, and they were burned here.
In the smoke, Lin Yan stood on a high place and tried his best to look north. The military horses of the Hedong Army galloped not far from the side of him, and these soldiers and horses of the Hedong Army also looked like crazy, only caring about creating more chaos and burning more military funds, but no one cared about killing this puppet Qi army leader who was only surrounded by a few personal guards and had a clear armor banner.
These light cavalry of the Hedong Army also risked death to assault, and did not plan to survive. Such a frenzied crowd rushed in all directions, and the cavalry of the Hedong Army was mixed in, and the same danger, chaotic crowd, could overturn and trample them down at any time, even men and horses, until they became a mess of flesh.
However, these cavalrymen of the Hedong Army did not care, as long as they could still move, they would rush to the place where the military supplies were piled up and set fire, and they would rush to the pontoon bridge and set fire. After the first battle, the 20,000 cavalry Hedong army used to intercept the back road of the puppet Qi army is not bad.
Lin Yan stayed on it all the time, watching this frenzied cháo flow destroy all the surrounding back ferries, watching several pontoon bridges burning, falling down, and watching the rì head slowly walk towards the center. And the puppet Qi army camp that is only twenty miles away from the ferry port still has no reinforcements coming!
Lin Yan sighed: "The back road is lost, and a certain crime is also." Your Majesty's command is not at a loss, and there will be a great defeat. In this war, all of them were the main forces, they were all defeated, and the big things were gone. "The offensive on both sides continues, and it is in full swing. Dozens of stone cannons of the Hedong Army are forcing the camp to stand. The large and small stones came towards the puppet Qi army camp shè.
Since the thunderbolt appeared on the battlefield in China at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this kind of siege weapon has been extinct for a considerable period of time with the chaos of the late Jin Dynasty. Not to mention the coarse and bulky, and the cannon power is not strong, it can't throw huge stones, and it's not very far. At every turn, you have to force the stone cannon close to the opponent's city or camp.
Defending a city is never a defense, such a bulky attack is too close to a city or a camp, and the opponent counterattacks as soon as the soldiers and horses attack. It's easy to break, and it's useless to spend a lot of effort to build it, and it's very chicken.
It wasn't until more than 100 years later, when the technology of returning cannons was advanced, that these stone cannons really became a siege weapon. However, this time the Hedong Army used stone cannons, but they used them unscrupulously. The puppet Qi army forced Bianliang City this time, and there were very few cavalry. If they want to pull out the position and then fight, and destroy these stone cannons, the Hedong Army can use cavalry to cover these attack tools at any time.
The puppet Qi army was congenitally weak. In fact, it is not a big deal to have few cavalry, if the morale of the puppet Qi army is enough, endure the bombardment of these stone cannons and arrows, and the first army alternately covers the camp and slowly advances in formation, which is nothing more than another field battle. If there are more casualties, they can always retreat, and even destroy all these attacking tools that cannot be dragged away.
Even if the cavalry rushed forward, would the puppet Qi army still fight less infantry against cavalry field battles? But now, the puppet Qi army has lost its heart, and no military horse can drive out of the camp, form a formation to cover their defense system, and do a field battle with the Hedong army relying on the camp! The fiasco of Lin Yan's department at the ferry, as well as the loss of military equipment and tens of thousands of people, are absolutely disastrous.
Losses are one thing, and Huang Chao did not allow Zhao Defang to come to the aid of Cao Lei, giving up their robes of the rebel army guarding the ferry, as well as most of his own baggage, which was frustrated by the morale of the army. It's a disaster!
An army doesn't even go to the rescue of its own robes, so as a soldier in this army, who is willing to continue to fight to the death? If it weren't for Huang Chao still sitting in this continuous camp to supervise the battle, if he hadn't counted on the various battalions of troops on the flanks to come to support, maybe the puppet Qi army, which had completely lost its military spirit, would have abandoned the camp and the whole army would collapse and flee east!
The stone artillery of the Hedong army was extremely close, and it was not very far from the trenches hastily dug by the puppet Qi army. Next to each stone cannon, there are hundreds of auxiliary gunners who are busy working on the cāo.
The auxiliaries threw large and small stones at the grate like raindrops. Every stone bullet thrown out of the shè aroused a burst of cheers in the Hedong army formation. Everyone's popularity is at an extreme. The Hedong Army of the brigade dismounted and stood by behind the stone cannons, watching that the trench in front of the barracks had been filled in seven or eight passages, and the barracks in front of them had also been pulled down in four or five places.
Near the gap in the grate, the corpses of the Hedong Army and the Puppet Qi Army were covered with gaps layer upon layer, and it seemed that they had experienced a tragic battle. In these open gaps, there are door jam carts and all kinds of deer utensils. The sergeants of the puppet Qi army held huge shields, forming a second line of defense behind the gap. Endure the rain of stone bullets and arrows thrown into the camp.
In the Hedong Army, the dead soldiers in charge of the breakthrough village all retreated at this time to breathe. Each of the dead soldiers was clad in double heavy armor and held a long blade. For those who eat and drink, there are naturally auxiliaries to serve them, and strive to let them recover as soon as possible and kill again. This puppet Qi military camp that has suffered a key attack, on the only remaining watchtower, is desperately dancing the banner and asking for help from the surrounding camps.
However, the camps that were close to each other were also restrained by the Hedong Army. The pseudo-Qi soldiers and horses in the camp did not have the courage to risk death to fight in the field, but desperately responded to the attacked camp with feather arrows and crossbows. As each moment passed, the banner of this attacked puppet Qi army camp swayed more and more frantically and desperately, and everyone in it understood that this puppet Qi army camp was captured by the Hedong army, just between fingers!
Almost approaching the foot of Bianliang City, the middle camp where Li Keyong, the king of Jin, was hastily set up, and there was no continuous and stable camp at all, except for the big camp where Li Keyong was, almost all of them fought in the wild. And at this moment, what camp does the Hedong Army need for its last force?
Countless generals of the Hedong Army, all wearing helmets and armor, waited under the watchtower where Li Keyong, the king of Jin, was located. Everyone looked up at the flag on the watchtower. As long as the banner points to their military horses, these generals of the Hedong Army, who are already boiling with black blood, will immediately take the order out and rush straight to the camp of Huangchao!
Countless people were requisitioned to transport the mound of earth and stones to the front, and the stone cannon was a pile of waste without stone bullets. These have to be used by the people, regardless of their identity, regardless of whether they were captured from the puppet Qi army or recruited by themselves, and they all stepped forward.
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