Chapter 336: The Bloody Battle at the South Gate of the Great War
The small trebuchet can be operated by two people, one is responsible for operation, throwing, and one is responsible for loading, the two Han troops are skillfully coordinated, the throwing speed is very fast, and there are more Western troops, so there is no need to aim at all, and the lethality in this case is simply amazing.
Throwing a thunderbolt that is no more than five catties in a circle, the distance is still quite far, basically within a radius of a hundred steps below the city wall, it is definitely a nirvana. Those huge and bulky nest cars, Linchong Lu buses, and ladders have basically become the targets of attack, and it is quite difficult to dodge. It's just that because of its large size, the lethality of the thunderbolt is still very limited, but for many Western troops, the thunderbolt is a nightmare, and almost every explosion of the thunderbolt will cause dozens or even the death of the Western army in Shangbai.
Seeing that the thunderbolts did not pose much threat to the siege equipment, the Han general quickly brought up the fire oil, and these ceramic jars filled with fire oil were thrown out after being lit, no matter where they were thrown, they would cause small fires and put great pressure on the Western Army.
The canister was filled with fierce fire oil. The dot would then be thrown, the crockpot would burst, and the oil would set the hit object on fire, adding great trouble to the fortifications.
The huge ladder was lit up, and it looked like a fiery dragon, and the Western army on it was either struggling or falling to the ground, and the sight was terrible. When the ignited forehead ladder fell, it was like a fire dragon killing the Western Army's array, this fire dragon with teeth and claws was devouring the lives of the Western Army, becoming a nightmare for the soldiers of the Western Army, these soldiers began to scatter and flee, whether it was a strong Western Army soldier, or those who were captured as strong people, they were all shocked by the fire dragon that could devour the world and the earth, and dodging became the only choice. But the mountains are full of Western troops, where can they flee to?
It was not only the ladder that was ignited, but after the ten-zhang high nest car was ignited, the soldiers above had no choice but to wait for death to strike. Soon the great array of the Western Army became a sea of fire on one side, and everywhere there were Western soldiers scattered and fleeing. Wherever they ran, the Great Han Iron Cavalry pursued and killed. Countless Western armies were pressed and beaten by the Han Iron Cavalry.
The Western Army was in disarray, and the Han Iron Cavalry became more and more courageous, and in this case, the defensive pressure of the Han infantry was reduced a lot, and they accelerated the pace of destroying the siege equipment, and they no longer worried about being attacked by the Western Army and harassed by the Western Army.
The battlefield was chaotic, but in the south, after all, there were 4,000 well-trained, battle-hardened soldiers of the Western Army, their tactical cultivation was very high, and they respected the battlefield discipline.
Liu Yanqing's nephew Liu Cheji is also a battle-hardened general, he knows that this battle cannot rely on those people who have no combat experience, so as soon as he saw the Han Iron Cavalry rushing out, he immediately completed the separation of the Western Army and the people. The 20,000 people are divided into three parts, Liu Zhenqi leads 10,000 people to be responsible for the siege, Liu Zhenliang leads 5,000 people to be responsible for protecting the siege equipment, and the other 5,000 people are responsible for attacking the city gate.
After stripping the people away, the 4,000 Western Army began to meet the 1,000 Han Iron Cavalry, four to one, although it may not be able to win, but as long as it is entangled with the other party, then the 20,000 people still have a chance to conquer the South Gate, at least Liu Cheji thinks so, and does so.
In the bloody battle at the South Gate, the 4,000 elite Western Army encountered the powerful Han Iron Cavalry without setting up a large array, and the two sides started a desperate struggle as soon as they came up.
Since it is an encounter battle, it is difficult for bows and arrows to be useful, in that case, the accidental injury rate will be very high, and the fighting style of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 is obviously not suitable for the Western army. In this battle, the archers were basically civilian men, and the Western army was mainly spears, spears, and axes, which was to prepare for the siege, and did not expect to directly launch a brutal hand-to-hand combat.
The Western Army has been fighting in close combat for more than a hundred years, and the Western Army has never been afraid of encountering the Western Xia Army, the Liao Army, or the Jin Army. But when they encountered the big Han iron horse, they hesitated, they were born from the same root, and they were too anxious to fry each other.
The hesitation of the Western army and the resoluteness of the Han army collided together, and the killing began, and the heads of the soldiers of the Western Army were cut off one by one, rolling to the ground and trampled by the war horses. The Western Army with its arms cut off, the Western Army with its chest pierced and blood spraying wildly, and the Western Army with broken legs still struggling. This tragic situation turned the battlefield into a hell on earth, the Western Army no longer hesitated, revenge, life-saving, bloody battles were mixed together, it was no longer clear what emotions were, bloody battles are life and death, there is no love at all.
The desperate Western army broke out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, they were soon divided into small groups under the command of the main general Liu Chehe, relying on the large number of people, divided into different groups to divide the cavalry, some to cut the horse's legs, some to stab the horse's belly, some to assassinate the cavalry, and some even to stab the horse's buttocks.
"The Han army is invincible and sweeps the world." At the critical moment, the slogan of the Han army sounded on the battlefield, it was obviously shouted by Song Zhong, who was standing at the head of the city to supervise the battle, and shouted the true qi in the body, this slogan resounded throughout the battlefield, inspiring morale, and the Han army seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, while shouting that the Han army was invincible and swept the world, while using flesh and blood to prove that the most powerful army in the world belonged to the invincible Han army, and only the Han army could sweep the world.
The number of people is only relative, the Western army is only four times that of the Han army, in fact, there is no encounter with the formation, more than ten times can crush the cavalry, otherwise it will not be cheap. Now it can only be a local range of more than a dozen soldiers to strangle a cavalry, and most of the cavalry is still under the leadership of Yang Zaixing to break out of the encirclement, began to carry out the recoil killing of these Western soldiers, at this time, the mobility of the cavalry to the maximum wartime out, they opened a certain distance and began to hunt with cavalry, after years of tempering, the cavalry level of the Han cavalry has not been inferior to the Jin army, especially the Yang family soldiers, trained since childhood, pure professional soldiers, their military cultivation is extremely high.
The cavalry inside was fighting bravely and bloodily, and the cavalry outside the circle began to shoot the Western Army continuously, and the Bureau carried out a bloody counterattack of the 4,000 Western Army.
Liu Chehe saw that he was about to be killed by the Han army, and he hurriedly adjusted his tactics to complete the strangulation of the Han army, after all, the number of people was superior, and it could be adjusted.
Adjustment, there is no chance, Yang Zaixing saw the existence of this guy, he urged him to step forward, and the overlord gun swung like a tiger going down the mountain and rushed towards Liu Cheji.
Kill gods when you meet gods, kill demons when you meet demons.
Once Yang Zaixing turns on the god-killing mode, it is definitely like an overlord possessed, and the overlord gun is like a dragon crossing the river, with rivers of blood flowing everywhere he goes, floating corpses everywhere, killing the enemy with a creepy and shuddering.
"Block him." When Liu Cheji saw a Han army general coming towards him like a god, he immediately had a bad premonition, and hurriedly asked his own soldiers to stop Yang Zaixing.
The Liu family's own soldiers were all soldiers of the Liu family, and they quickly blocked Yang Zaixing's way forward, but in the face of this god of war descended from the heavens, how could the infantry stop it? The overlord gun is like a poisonous snake out of a hole, the tip of the gun is invincible, no matter how brave the Liu family is, in the face of this killing god, it is like a lamb to the slaughter, powerless to stop it.
The soldiers of the Yang family in the back began to shoot the Liu family's own soldiers from a long distance to ensure that Yang Zaixing would not be stopped in the process of rushing and killing.
Killing, in the face of the brutal killing of the Han Iron Cavalry, the formation of the Western Army began to be chaotic, and at this time Liu Che and this commander were needed to command everyone to reorganize the formation, but this guy faced Yang Zaixing who was like a tiger descending from the mountain, where was he still in the mood to command the battle, he knew that his own soldiers could not stop this killing god, so he could only face it by himself.
The overlord gun in the hand of the tall Yang Zaixing began to make a move 'Mount Tai Press', and the heavy overlord gun smashed viciously towards the top of Liu Cheji's head, so frightened that this guy hurriedly used the three-pointed two-edged knife in his hand to block.
When the two weapons collided together, Liu Cheji felt that his arms were numb from the shock, the tiger's mouth cracked, blood flowed out, and the three-pointed two-edged knife in his hand almost came out.
The strength of the generals is the first is the strength, the second is the strength, and the skill can only be ranked third, which is why most of the generals are tall and burly.
The gap, the gap in strength is huge, which made Liu Cheji know that trouble was coming, and waved the three-pointed two-edged knife in his hand and stabbed Yang Zaixing's chest.
The overlord gun is more than two feet longer than the three-pointed two-edged one, one inch long, one inch stronger, Yang Zaixing relied on the length of the overlord gun, and when he saw the three-pointed two-edged knife stabbing towards him, Yang Zaixing directly waved the overlord gun in his hand and began to make a move to 'sweep thousands of armies like a sweep'. It's just that this time, the overlord gun didn't sweep towards Liu Cheji's waist, but swept at this guy's neck.
Seeing that the Overlord Spear swept towards his neck like a poisonous snake, Liu Chehe hurriedly dodged, but it was a little too late to dodge at this time, because Yang Zaixing's tricks had obviously changed, and it was the tip of the Overlord Spear that shook and stabbed directly in the eyes of the war horse.
After the war horse was stabbed, the pain was unbearable, and it shook violently, directly throwing Liu Cheji on the war horse to the ground. At this time, the front hooves of Yang Zaixing's war horse jumped up and stepped heavily on Liu Cheji's thigh.
Liu Chehe, whose thigh bone was crushed, was pierced in the chest before he could cry out in pain.
After a shot pierced Liu Che and He, Yang Zaixing led the cavalry to launch a final strangulation of the Western Army.
Losing the leader of the Western Army, under the strangulation of the Han cavalry, they were defeated and retreated, and they began to run back, and the Han cavalry began to chase and kill under the leadership of Yang Zaixing.
When pursuing, Yang Zaixing deliberately lowered his speed and kept a certain distance from the Western Army, so that the Western Army would not collapse on the whole line, but the distance was unwilling, as long as the war horse accelerated its speed, it could catch up.
Seeing that the 4,000 Western Army at the South Gate was being pressed and beaten, Liu Yanqing, who was pressing the formation behind him, knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly mobilized the 3,000 Western Army to rescue.
The aid of the 3,000 Western Army was a little slow, when they sent out the troops, the 4,000 Western Army had less than 2,000 left, and they were chased and beaten by the Han cavalry, at this time, the 3,000 reinforcements were mixed with the retreating 2,000 remnants of the defeated generals, which seemed even more chaotic, and there was not even a formation.
And at this time, Yang Zaixing suddenly picked up his speed, and he shouted loudly: "Brothers, you go and kill these Western troops, and I will kill that Liu Yanqing." ”
Yang Zaixing knew that the former thief captured the king first, as long as Liu Yanqing was killed, then the attack on the southern front of the Western Army would completely collapse, he urged the war horse, and soon threw off the cavalry, like a tiger going down the mountain to attack frantically, the faster the speed of the charge, the stronger the impact, and the Western Army could not stop it at all.
The Western Army began to form a formation, but Yang Zaixing was like a raging tiger, the speed of rushing and killing was very fast, that was not something that the Western Army could stop, and now Yang Zaixing was turned on the killing mode, and the overlord gun in his hand continued to harvest the lives of the Western Army, and every time the shot went down, a Western Army would fall.
The strength of the Han army is not only reflected in the cavalry, the infantry is still brave and good at fighting, they are like a group of destruction kings, frantically destroying those siege engines of the Western army.
On the battlefield, the number of the Western Army was large, and it still occupied an absolute advantage, and the five thousand people still rushed to the south gate smoothly, and when they saw that they were about to rush in, the musket team of the Han army began to exert their might, and the guns rang out, and this group of Han troops was waiting for this moment.
The group of people were shot before they could figure out what was going on, and the people behind the large number of people couldn't see what was going on, so they still rushed forward to kill.
The captain of the musket team, Aaron, said to everyone: "We are the last line of defense, brothers can't fight the city to kill the enemy, once the western army rushes into the city from the outside, then we will all die and die." The western army entered the city and all of them were killed, this order has been issued, what should we do? ”
"Use me in the first battle, use me to win, the Han army is invincible, sweeping the world."
The musketeers held their positions and began to hunt down the people who rushed over, and the unlucky men were shot before they could figure out what was going on. The first time I went to the battlefield, I encountered an epoch-making musket team, so this group of people was destined to be cannon fodder.
When one group died, another group died, and more than two thousand people were killed or wounded, the group of people no longer had the courage to rush and kill, and began to scatter and flee. Escape, at least there is a glimmer of life, but rushing forward, death is 100%, in this case, the people choose to scatter and flee.
The task of the musket team is to hold the position, and will never take the initiative to attack, as long as the gunpowder is sufficient and the narrow south gate is held, not to mention the people, even the fierce western army will not be able to rush in, and it will be cannon fodder.