Chapter 339: The North Gate of the Great War is Dangerous
Niu Gao, the fierce general of the brave champion of the three armies, turned into a master of hand-to-hand combat, the double axe in his hand flew up and down, directly becoming a head harvester, and when the axe was cut down, the head would roll to the ground, and the headless corpse would spew blood and fall to the ground.
Headless corpses were lying on the ground everywhere, affecting both sides of the war. In this killing, there are no complicated tactics, only endless killing, you come and go, and the killing is inseparable. The Han army will not retreat, because they have no way back. Since the Western Army has come up, there is absolutely no reason to retreat, they want to expand the results of the battle, they want to take the city, only by taking the city, can the city be broken.
There were more and more western troops on the city, and the two sides fell into a melee, without bows and arrows to suppress them remotely, it was purely a bloody battle in close quarters. Moreover, the western army is increasing, but the Han army can only decrease.
The gap, at this time, the gap is revealed, a lion leads a flock of sheep, then the sheep will also become a lion, then a lion leads a flock of lions? There is no doubt that Niu Gao, who is brave and good at the three armies, is a lion, and the Han army, who is brave and good at fighting, is a group of lions, and now it is a lion who leads a group of lions, so what will be the combat effectiveness of overwhelming the mountains and the sea and devouring the world.
There are more and more Western troops, but the combat effectiveness of the Han army is constantly exploding, and they are rushing towards the Western Army, at this time, there is no one to protect the city, but into the melee, the weapons of the Han army continue to hit the body of the Western Army, when there are no weapons, they use fists, elbows, feet, legs, knees, and even the top of the head, and bite with teeth. They are no longer Han troops, but a group of fierce beasts inspired by Niu Gao, constantly devouring the enemy.
There were not many soldiers of the Western Army who came up, after all, the casualties during the siege of the city were too large, and it can be said that most of the people who climbed to the city wall were those people, and the people who climbed to the city wall for the first time on the battlefield. This flock of sheep under the leadership of lions may become a flock of lions. But if a sheep leads a flock of sheep, what would it look like?
Yao Pingji's ability to command combat is very strong, and horse combat is not bad, but this kind of hand-to-hand combat is lacking in strength, and as soon as he came up, he encountered Niu Gao who entered the god-killing mode, and this guy instantly turned into a sheep.
Yao Pingji was frightened by Niu Gao's violent mode, and he didn't dare to carry it hard, so he tried to dodge, but he was a commander, and once he was timid, his combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, driving the morale of the soldiers to drop rapidly.
Sheep with sheep, encountering lion with lion with lion, the advantage of being large in numbers cannot be shown. Instead, they were pressed and beaten. There were a lot of people who came up, but they were always controlled within a certain range, unable to expand the results of the battle, and the situation seemed to be pressed and beaten.
"The Han army is invincible and sweeps the world." With Niu Gao's roar, the Han soldiers defending the city entered a berserk mode, fearless of life and death, rushing towards the Western Army, even if there were countless wounds on the body and blood flowing, as long as they could still move, they could entangle with the Western Army. The worst thing is to fall from the city with the Western Army in his arms.
The shadow of death hung over the hearts of every soldier of the Western Army, they began to fear war, began to fear death, they were already insufficient in combat, but now they are even more pressed and beaten, and their resistance is getting weaker and weaker.
The western army below didn't know what was happening at the head of the city, but they just blindly surged upward, so that there were more and more western troops at the head of the city, and so many western troops turned out to be live targets, one by one they were thrown and cut off, broken arms and stumps were everywhere, and blood stained the city head, and it looked like hell on earth from a distance, which was unbearable.
Niu Gao in the berserk mode was covered with blood, and the double axes were not only bloodstained, but also soft and bloody things on them, which looked very scary, not to mention that the Western Army did not dare to approach, even Yao Pingji, the commander of the Western Army, was constantly dodging, but this idiot forgot one thing, that is, the activities on the city were originally very small, and if he kept dodging, he would be pressed and beaten, and there was less and less room for dodging and maneuvering.
Yao Pingji, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, began to find that the space was getting smaller in the process of dodging, and he began to push the Western Army forward as a meat shield.
Niu Gao can't care so much, this guy has only one word in his mind, and that is kill, wherever the axe goes, the Western soldiers are like being chopped watermelons, their heads fall to the ground, and from time to time there are soldiers who are seen in half, that kind of bloody scene scares a lot of Western Army soldiers, and one by one they began to keep retreating, constantly pushing other robes forward, to act as their own human flesh shield.
At this moment, the Western Army does not look like a well-trained army at all, but like a group of rabble, how can such combat effectiveness withstand the impact of the Han army?
Corpses, corpses, the entire city wall is full of corpses, more and more corpses have become the umbrella of the Western Army, which has slowed down the speed of the Han Army's offensive significantly, which is not a good signal for the Han Army, if the Western Army can come up more than 5,000, even if the city head is not lost, the casualties will be more than half, then Niu Gao will be beheaded, which is not a good thing.
The anxious Niu Gao roared, and frantically rushed towards the Western Army, capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and what he wanted to do now was to kill Yao Pingji, the main general of the Western Army.
Niu Gao, who was in a state of rage, finally rushed to Yao Pingji when the Western Army was more than 4,000 on the city wall, this guy swung his double axes and slashed up, and the two giant axes flew up and down.
At this time, Yao Pingji, who had nothing to hide and nothing to hide, could only face the battle head-on, but unfortunately the machete in his hand was cut down by the giant axe in Niu Gao's hand.
Yao Pingji, who had taken off his weapon, was frightened, and he couldn't care about it so much, so he ran desperately to the back, but at this time, the reinforcements from the southern city wall arrived.
Yao Pingji, who was attacked on his abdomen and back, did not dodge after all, and his head was cut off by Niu Gao. After the already chaotic Western Army lost its main general, it became even more chaotic and became the target of the Han army's massacre, and it was no longer able to fight back.
The western army that rushed to the head of the city exceeded 7,000 before and after, but unfortunately all of them were killed, and the ladder carrying the head of the city was also cut down, and there was no more western army on the head of the city, and at this time, the bow and arrow on the nest car began to exert power again, and the battle on the east head of the city returned to the original point.
The casualties of the Han army at the head of the city were more than seven hundred, which was obviously rare for the powerful Han army, two thousand soldiers lost seven hundred, which made Niu Gao annoyed, he was full of hatred for the Western Army in his heart, this guy knew that there would be no more danger in the city, so he was ready to hand over the city defense to the deputy general, and then go out of the city to kill the Western army.
"General Niu must not leave his post without permission, once you go down the city wall, you will fall to the ground."
At this time, an ordinary-looking little soldier stopped Niu Gao's way, and he said coldly: "You'd better not provoke the Dragon Soul Society, and don't challenge military law. ”
Dragon Soul Society, if you shoot, you must die, this is the biggest iron law in the Han army.
Niu Gao finally calmed down at this time, he knew what the existence of the Dragon Soul Society was in the army, at this time, if he wanted to live, he wanted to defend the city, not rashly attack to go down to the city.
The most difficult place in the south gate can be said to be a complete victory, Yang Zaixing killed Liu Yanqing, the main general of the Western Army, and the West Gate has always been tepid, the two sides are inseparable, it can be said that it is the most typical combat power of the offensive and defensive warfare, the attacking side has brought the advantage of the attack to the fullest, and the attack of the 22,000 Western Army is like a mercury fall, and the situation of flowing water makes people feel admired.
The defensive Han army took the defense to the extreme, and it can be said that the Han army's fierce combat effectiveness was maximized, no matter how sharp the attacker attacked, it was difficult to bargain, and the two sides were evenly matched, which was simply a textbook for offensive and defensive warfare.
The most dangerous is the North Gate, because the attack on the North Gate, on the surface, is only the least worthy of attention, but in fact it is the biggest hole card of the Western Army, which almost deceives everyone.
Even Qu Duan, the main general in charge of the attack at the north gate, was blinded, and before the war began, he didn't know that there were 10,000 fierce western troops mixed in the 20,000 people, but in fact, 12,000 western troops plus 20,000 people attacked, and 20,000 people were pure cannon fodder, which can be seen Wang Yuan's ruthlessness.
Wang Yuan was able to get into this position, it was not just by patting on the back, he had a certain military cultivation, on the surface, the Western Army besieged the city for more than a month and did not attack, in fact, during this time, this guy studied the Han army defending the city very thoroughly, and also guessed what kind of combat style Yue Fei, the commander of the Han Army, would make and what kind of defensive posture he would make.
The biggest strength of the Han army is attacking, defending the city is not a strength, in this case, it will not choose to defend the city passively in the first battle, you must know that the siege of the Western army is a strength, this Yue Fei cannot not consider, this is also where Wang Yuan must consider.
In the end, Wang Yuan chose to use 80,000 people as cannon fodder, the east gate, the west gate, and the south gate as cover, but in fact, the main attack was the north gate. With 12,000 Western troops, the Han army was forced to defend as a weak north gate.
The reason why the north gate is weak in defense is because the north gate is much higher than the outside of the city, so that the same high city wall in the north gate is low, not only that, but also the terrain of the city gate is high outside and low inside, which is not conducive to the cavalry sprint, but it is conducive to the attack of the battering ram and siege vehicle, and the Linchong Lu bus will also show its might.
Attack, the Han army was born for the attack, but Wang Jun's luck was a little bad, a thousand cavalry with three thousand infantry was like a lightning bolt out of the city, he set up a musket team at the city gate, and all of them attacked, but before the trip gave a death order, not to open the city gate again, absolutely not to allow the Western army to take the opportunity to enter the city.
Wang Jun's approach was to break the cauldron and sink the boat, and if he couldn't kill the enemy, then the 4,000 soldiers would stain the battlefield with blood, and the north gate would never be allowed to be lost. He believed that this battle was not as simple as he thought before, and the battle of the North Gate would not be a chicken rib, so he came up with a thunderous momentum, wanting to kill the enemy and dismount.
The bloody battle kicked off in the first second, which was beyond Wang Jun's imagination, as soon as the four thousand soldiers came up, they were trapped in it by the 12,000 Western Army, and it was the kind of predicament of the formation, this kind of bloody battle of the trapped tiger dragon was very unfavorable for the Han army.
No matter how strong the 12,000 Western Army is, it is difficult to eat the 4,000 Han Army in a short time, but there is no problem in trapping them to death, and they will gradually eat them away, this is the strategy of Liu Zhongwu, the real person in charge of the North Gate War, who led the army to besiege the Western Army out of the city, and then asked Qu Duan to lead 20,000 people to break the city.
Quduan's power is not strong in the Western Army, and it is even weak, but Quduan's strategy is second to none, and it is not even under Liu Fa, the Seed Master, and it is stronger than the Seed Master, Liu Yanqing and others.
Qu Duan divided the 20,000 migrant workers into two routes, personally led 10,000 to carry the battering ram, the siege vehicle attacked the north gate, and the deputy general Zhang Jun led 10,000 people to attack the city.
Qu Duan said to Zhang Jun: "In this battle, the East Gate, the South Gate, and the West Gate are all false moves, and the North Gate attack is a real siege battle, if we can't take the North City Gate, it will be a great sin." This time, Liu Zhongwu's idea was that 20,000 people would be cannon fodder, and it didn't matter whether the siege could be taken or not, the important thing was to tear the defense of the north gate apart, and then go all out to attack the city after they solved the Han army out of the city. Folk people can be cannon fodder, but we must not be a stepping stone for this person. Last night, I have already replaced the 3,000 people with 3,000 Qu Jiajun, and I have handed them all over to you. Seven thousand people are cannon fodder, you personally lead three thousand Qujia troops to kill the city, and I will cover for you. The 10,000 men under this city are ready to support you, and you must take the city. ”
"We will not fail in our mission." Zhang Jun can also be regarded as a decisive person to kill, since Qu Duan let the people be cannon fodder, it has become the first priority for him to attack the city.
The guard of the north gate was the general Dong Xian, who was handed over to the council hall by Yue Fei's personal soldiers at midnight.
Yue Fei said to Dong Xian: "Ben Shuai thinks that this siege battle is not as simple as we thought before, Wang Yuan is by no means an idle person, he will not be stupid enough to take 80,000 migrant workers as cannon fodder on the first day of siege, there must be a backhand." When you defend the city, you only need to remember one principle to prevent the western army from attacking the city as much as possible, but once they gain a foothold in the city, you will quickly go down the city and lead them down. ”。
"The last will obey." Dong Xian's reaction was still very fast, and he immediately understood what was going on, on the surface of this battle, there were 2,000 defenders at each of the four city heads, and 4,000 at each of the four city gates, and the total strength was only 24,000. The other 25,000 cavalry and cavalry will be personally commanded by Yue Fei to kill, to attack instead of defend, using the most powerful offensive of the Han army to cover up the lack of troops, to lead the war outside the city, a powerful attack, let the Western Army Supervisor see what is called the invincible Han army, sweeping the world.
The war was indeed much more cruel than imagined, not long after the suppression of the trebuchet, the western army urged the siege equipment to gradually move towards the north gate, Dong Xian at the head of the city saw through the clairvoyant mirror that Wang Jun led four thousand Han troops to rush out of the city, and immediately knew that the trouble was big, it was obvious that this guy was so pressed by the whole army to attack, as soon as he came up, he fell into the enemy's trap.