Chapter 335: The Prologue to the Great War

The 100,000-strong army attacked the city, it was a kind of momentum that shook the earth and the mountains, and the whole earth was trembling, as if the wind in the air and the sunlight in the sky were indicating that a cruel and bloody siege was about to begin.

A hundred oversized trebuchets genius Meng Mengliang began to assemble, more than 40,000 archers were responsible for covering next to prevent being attacked by the powerful Han army, after all, the Han cavalry is very powerful, the important thing is that as soon as the city gate is opened, the Han iron cavalry will be killed, a distance of one hundred zhang, for the Han army defending the city began to be powerless, but for the Han iron cavalry, it is only a matter of minutes that can be killed.

The generals of the Han army at the head of the city can clearly see through the clairvoyant mirror that the dense western army is busy, one by one giant trebuchets are being assembled, and it makes people angry when they see these trebuchets, so they can only wait for the western army to assemble the giant trebuchets and attack the city with one stone after another, while the Han army on the head of the city can only be beaten passively.

The beating has become a stereotype, and the generals defending the city can only let the soldiers take precautions, and they may not be stoned to death, after all, there are only 2,000 soldiers at the head of each city wall, which is precious like a giant panda, although these generals do not know that the so-called giant panda is Bai Zhen.

The western army at the head of the city was busy and making the final preparations for the battle.

The pre-war preparation of the Western army was to busily assemble the siege equipment, while the Han army was to eat, eat meat, and eat eggs, which was a tradition before the Han army's war, because all the preparations had to be prepared in place the night before, and then a full meal to meet the most brutal bloody battle.

In one hour, hundreds of trebuchets were assembled, with thirty trebuchets in the south, twenty in the north, and twenty-five in the east and west. After the formation was completed, the western armies on all sides kicked off the offensive at the same time.

100,000 Western troops kicked off the battle from all directions, 20,000 Western troops were divided into two parts, 10,000 were integrated into the people, and the other 10,000 were used as reserve troops, which were also regarded as the warlords.

Of the 10,000 western troops attacking, 2,000 were in the east, west, and north, and only 4,000 in the south, until the 80,000 people put on the clothes of the western army and mixed in as cannon fodder.

Liu Yanqing, who was in charge of the attack in the south, knew that his side was the main attack, because of the terrain, the south side was obviously high at the city gate, and the attacking side was attacking from the back. As for the reason why the attack of the Western Army takes the south side as the main attack, because there is no urn city in the south, as long as it is killed, you can directly face the inner city, which will reduce the offensive pressure more than the other three city gates, but outside the city gate is another matter, and the difficulty of the attack will be much greater than the other three gates, which is why there are 4,000 Western troops placed at the south gate, not only that, but the 10,000 Western troops are also at the south gate.

Liu Yanqing had an ominous premonition, he always felt that Wang Yuan, the bastard, thought that the Han army was too simple, and if he didn't attack the city today, he would fall into the trap laid by the Han army, but the question was what was the trap of the Han army?

At the beginning of the hour, with the order of Wang Yuan, the commander of the Song Kingdom, a hundred catapults began to wield, piece by piece

Twenty or thirty pounds of stones were ejected by the trebuchet, rolling in the air, smashing heavily into the city in a beautiful arc, although the first round of bombardment did not play any lethality, but also made the western army defending the city scared out of a cold sweat, at least seven or eight trebuchets were hit and lost their combat effectiveness, and two bed crossbows were broken, which made the Han generals defending the city very annoyed. But the annoyance is still to come, the second round, the third round of stones smashed down overwhelmingly, from a distance it looks like a piece of hideous dark clouds falling from the sky, smashing on the city and splashing stones of different sizes scattered and disintegrating, in a blink of an eye dozens of soldiers were hit by stones and injured, two of them hit the head and fainted on the spot, the best is that they did not die, it is equivalent to the attack of three rounds of trebuchets, three hundred big stones fell on the head of the city, not a single soldier died, it is also a miracle that is not too big or small.

After three rounds of trebuchet attacks, 100,000 western troops pushed countless siege equipment slowly through the moat, looking down from the city, it was like a group of ants pushing countless monsters towards the city wall.

There are 10,000 people, and there is no boundary.

There are 100,000 people, and they are grounded to the sky.

Attack, attack, there is only one task for the 100,000 Western Army, and that is to attack.

One thing happened that surprised all the western troops, the four gates of Yunzhou City were opened, and more than 3,000 soldiers were killed at each gate, and the front was a thousand cavalry like a group of fierce gods, and the two thousand infantry in the back followed.

Yang Zaixing, Wang Jun, Yao Zhen, and Chen Ben, the four cavalry generals, led 3,000 soldiers to kill from the south gate, east gate, west gate, and north gate respectively.

A spear swept the world, and millions of floating corpses were empty.

Yang Zaixing, one of the two walls of the Han Empire, led a thousand cavalry to rush to the front, like a tiger descending from the mountain. These thousand soldiers are the children of the Yang family, who followed Yang Zaixing to fight in the south and the north, and this battle is destined to become famous in a war.

A thousand cavalry showed a wild goose formation and soon rushed into the large array of the Western Army, killing, killing, killing. The only task of this thousand cavalry was to kill, kill the Western army that protected the siege equipment, and the Han infantry who came up behind them began to destroy the siege equipment with knives and axes.

Crazy, crazy Liu Yanqing in the south, Quduan in the north, Yao Pingzhong in the east and west, Liu Zhongwu were all dumbfounded, they never dreamed that the Han army would have the courage to attack, and it was such a sharp attack. However, these four people have experienced a hundred battles, and they know what this battle means, and they also know what the purpose of the opponent's attack is, not to repel the attack of the Western army at all, but to destroy the siege equipment. In this way, the defensive pressure of the defenders in the city will be reduced to ensure that Yunzhou is not lost.

Siege, if there is no siege equipment, it is difficult to conquer a big city like Yunzhou no matter how many soldiers there are, Liu Yanqing and others began to organize soldiers to intercept the Han army, the attacking army soldiers are divided into two ways, the elite Western army cooperates with the people to urge the siege equipment to advance, after all, there are a large number of people, although the Han army took the initiative to attack, there are still some ladders close to the city, and the western army is like a rat began to climb the head of the city along the ladder.

The nest car finally approached the city, and the archers above began to shoot arrows from top to bottom, and the dense flying arrows flew towards the city, although there were shields to cover it, but because the flying arrows were too dense, there were still casualties when the Han soldiers appeared.

The power of the nest car lasted for a short time, because countless Han troops cut down the nest car from below with knives, axes, and long knives, and those unlucky Western troops above fell from the air to the ground as if they were bungee jumping.

Attack, the Han army was born to attack, and the western army is also a group of wolf warriors in the northwest, the two sides collided together, it was really the thunder and thunder that stirred the earth, and the breath of killing spread to the entire earth.

The murder license is destined to belong to professional soldiers, and those people are suddenly blindfolded on the battlefield, chaotic, unorganized, unable to attack and kill, protect siege equipment, and cannot prevent the inhumane killing of the Han army.

Yang Zaixing, this guy is like a god of war, the overlord gun in his hand has become a nightmare for the Western Army, there is almost no round of enemies everywhere he goes, the tip of the gun is shaking, there will be soldiers of the Western Army killed, as for the Western Army that was killed, it is not clear to return the people.

Murderous and invincible Yang Zaixing, this guy is like a flock of tigers and sheep, rampaging in the large array of the Western Army, and countless Western troops have fallen wherever the war horse goes. The soldiers of the Yang family in the back were deeply encouraged, one by one like howling wolves, they were not overwhelmed by the Western Army in their eyes, but lambs to be slaughtered, and they were born butchers, and the only thing they could do was kill, kill, and kill.

These thousand Yang family soldiers are becoming more and more fierce, fearless, it doesn't matter if they are injured or bleeding, they are just constantly harvesting the forehead and head of the Western Army.

The infantry in the back is concise in their actions is to cut and destroy those siege equipment, and while they destroy the siege equipment, they also have to face the attack of the Western Army, and the two sides fall into a melee.

In the melee, it was impossible to see how powerful the advantages of the Han army were in fighting bravely, and it was impossible to see the advantage of the large number of the Western army, and the whole battlefield was in chaos.

In the face of the infantry, as long as the cavalry is not a large defensive formation laid out by the advanced soldiers, it is definitely a nightmare for the infantry, and the advantage of the crushing of the troops is not something that can be compensated by a large number of people.

A thousand cavalry rampaged through the Western Army, like a male division that broke into a flock of sheep, a tiger, and wherever it rushed, the Western Army would be hunted and killed, with almost no power to resist.

The battlefield has been chaotic, and the cavalry is constantly using speed and impact to hunt and kill the Western Army, so that the archers of the Western Army cannot shoot arrows at all, and they can change to short weapons to meet the battle.

In order to suppress the archers of the Han army at the head of the city, when the Western Army attacked the city this time, forty percent of them were archers, but unfortunately these archers did not have long weapons, only short weapons to protect when they encountered cavalry, just like Mianyang, not to mention attacking, even defending themselves was difficult.

The Western Army, the brave and warlike Western Army is like a pack of hungry wolves, and the Han cavalry is like a tiger, although there are many bacteria and they are also very heroic, but they are still crushed by the Han cavalry, with huge casualties, and they can't organize a strong counterattack at all.

Minfu, those 80,000 Minfu were on the battlefield for the first time, and they had long been frightened by the current chaotic situation, so they didn't obey the command at all and fled in all directions. The whole battlefield was full of running people, and wherever these frightened people ran, there was killing, and everywhere they ran was death. It really confirms the sentence that 80,000 pigs are running around, and it is also a headache to kill all 80,000 pigs.

Sometimes, a frightened soldier can be far more destructive on the battlefield than a pig. The 80,000 frightened men brought far more damage to the Western army than 80,000 pigs.

These 80,000 pigs, oh, no, slip of the tongue, it should be 80,000 frightened people who scattered and fled to the ground, so that the large number of Western troops had no formation, and they were in a mess, and the battle was greatly discounted, and they seemed powerless in the face of the rampaging Han iron cavalry.

There are attacks on all sides, chaos on all sides, there is no place where the people can save their lives, they seem to be killing everywhere they go, there is a city wall ahead, there are constantly bows and arrows shooting down from above, there are rolling logs and thunder stones smashed down, it is definitely a forbidden area of death, close to the water and die.

Retreat, hey, retreat is the Warlord, retreat is death. If you stay where you are, you will be killed by the Han army, but no matter where you hide, you will face the ruthless killing of the Han army.

The bloody battle outside the South Gate was only a microcosm of the whole battle, the Han army was very small, only 3,000, but it was like 3,000 lions, killing the Western army in a bloody and savage manner. And the large number of Western troops could not be organized at all, and those people who were temporarily pushed onto the battlefield had no combat power at all, and they were purely pigs running around, which not only did not help the Western Army, but also hindered the Western Army from deploying against the Han Army.

On the battlefield, the valiant soldiers will infect the timid soldiers, but the stragglers who flee in all directions will also shake the morale of the army, turning the whole army into a plate of scattered sand.

The bloody battle continued, and the Han army at the head of the city was constantly pushing away the ladders that were trying to be built on the city with their branches, and once the ladders were pushed away, the soldiers on the ladders would die because of falling to the ground.

The outnumbered Western army constantly suppressed the archers at the head of the city with bows and arrows, and covered the Western soldiers who climbed the ladder so that they could climb to the top of the city.

In close combat, the strong combat effectiveness of the Western Army can be well played in close combat, because as long as it is killed in the city, it is the beginning of victory.

The Han army, the powerful Han army, when defending, used the ability to press the bottom of the box, that is, not to let the western army climb to the top of the city.

Firearms, firearms for the first time on the top of the city to participate in defensive battles, two soldiers in a group, one with a musket, the other responsible for ignition, so that the speed of fire is very fast. In the face of the dense Western army, the Han army did not need to aim at all, and the shooting rate was very high. The most important thing is that the design speed is much faster than that of bows and arrows, and the lethality is extremely high. And it does not consume the physical strength of the soldiers, such a musket climbed the city wall, giving the Han army great confidence, and directly became a nightmare for the Western army.

Not only are the muskets powerful, but the thunderbolts are so powerful that they can inflict great casualties on the Western Army, whether they are shot out with small trebuchets or by soldiers with greater strength. After the soldiers clicked the lead, they would usually count three times before throwing it, so that the thunderbolt would basically explode when it hit the target, which was the result of the Han army's long-term training.

The effect of small trebuchets throwing stones is very poor, only stones below ten catties can be thrown, and the distance is basically no more than two hundred steps, basically about one hundred and fifty steps, the lethality is limited, and it is not used when attacking the city, but the defense of the city has become a killing weapon, especially the lethality of throwing thunderbolts is still very strong.