"Hold on!"

"Hold it for me!"

At this moment, on the north city wall of Haoxian County, the guard general Sun Shuke was directing the battle in front of him with a hissing roar. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I have to say that the ferocious offensive of the Wei army was completely unexpected by him, even if he had a high opinion of the Wei army that came to attack because of the fall of Xiangcheng, he still felt that he still underestimated the infantry of the Wei State.

Wei infantry ...... How tough is it? But Yan Lingjun, isn't it just the defeated army of my Great Chu who defected to the Wei State? How......

Sun Shuke felt incredible.

In all fairness, with regard to the three Wei armies that assisted the Qi king Lü Xi in his crusade against Chu, in fact, Chu had already known the details of the latter: one of them was the garrison army stationed in Fencheng Sai in the past, and the other two were peasant soldiers originally recruited under Xiong Tuo, the former commander of Xuancheng.

Peasant soldiers are commonplace in the state of Chu.

Someone once joked that as long as a few carts of grain were pulled to any city or village in Chu State before winter, an army of thousands of people could be easily gathered.

This is not a joke.

You must know that in the populous Chu State, it is very simple to gather a peasant army, so once upon a time, when the Chu State launched a war with foreign countries, it was used to bring a sea of peasant soldiers and use them to consume the physical strength of the enemy army, as well as consumable strategic materials such as arrows and crossbows.

This habit continued until the first time Lu Xi, the king of Qi, led an army to attack the state of Chu.

At that time, because the Qilu and Song Three Kingdoms Alliance Army was equipped with the latest war weapon crossbow box built by Lu State, so that on the frontal battlefield, hundreds of thousands of peasant soldiers of Chu State who were used to consume the enemy army were actually killed by nearly seventy percent of the Qi, Lu and Song Three Kingdoms Alliance, not including the Chu State Army that died one after another.

It is said that in the last battle before the winter, the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Song can be described as killing the earth and the sky is dark, and a war killed hundreds of thousands of Chu people, shocked the whole world, and also established the hegemony of Qi in the Central Plains.

But not long after the beginning of spring, when everyone in the world thought that Lu Xi, the king of Qi, would capture Shouying, the royal capital of Chu State, in one go, the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Song inexplicably chose to retreat and strictly defend the border.

At that time, the world felt incredible, but they did not expect that a few days later, in that battlefield where hundreds of thousands of Chu people were killed in a war, a plague broke out, and this epidemic almost swept most of Chu Dong, causing millions of people in Chu to die violently because of infection.

Even Song and Lu have been affected.

It turned out that in the last battle that broke out before the winter, the corpses of as many as hundreds of thousands of people, whether it was the Qi, Lu and Song Three Kingdoms Alliance Army or the Chu State Army, had no spare strength to bury them in the wind and snow.

As a result, in the spring of the following year, the corpse water seeped out from the decomposing corpses and polluted the nearby lakes and rivers, and eventually a large-scale plague broke out.

That is, after that, the state of Chu no longer dared to recruit peasant soldiers on a large scale to fight on its own territory.

Why? Because the combat effectiveness of the peasant soldiers was too weak, and they were purely cannon fodder on the battlefield, the Chu State did not want to break out of the plague in its own territory again.

Only in times of foreign wars would the state of Chu conscript peasant soldiers, such as Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng two years ago.

In order to resist the crusade of the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Wei, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, recruited nearly one million peasant soldiers, but in the final analysis, he only let the latter be responsible for logistics and transportation.

Let these peasant soldiers go to war? Fighting on home soil?

The state of Chu, which had already suffered a blood loss, did not have the courage.

This past incident should reflect how low the combat effectiveness of the peasant soldiers on the battlefield was.

However, the Yan Ling army of Wei State, which came to attack the city today, showed a strong combat effectiveness, which surprised Sun Shuke.

Maybe Sun Shuke was shocked in his heart: Wasn't the predecessor of the Yanling Army of Wei State the peasant soldiers who were temporarily recruited by Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, to attack Wei State? Why is it able to overwhelm the main army of Chu today?

It can only be said that Sun Shuke did not understand the essence of the Wei infantry.

The strength of the infantry of the Wei State does not lie in the physical fitness of the Wei people, but in the fact that the Wei State can be said to be the best in the Central Plains in terms of training infantry - the Wei State was originally a country that relied on infantry to fight the world.

After the Yanling army surrendered to the Wei state, the military department of the Wei court, under the instruction of Zhao Hongrun, gave the Yanling army help in training infantry, and gave the Yanling army the essentials of training infantry and detailed drill items.

Of course, the same is true for the merchant army.

Therefore, after two years of Wei-style infantry training, although the Yanling army was composed of Chu people, they could actually be called Wei infantry!

After coming to the Central Plains from the distant Longxi, he destroyed the Liang State and the Zheng State in one go, and then took half of the Cai State, and made the Wei State surrender, which made the Central Plains countries feel creepy, the Wei infantry!

"Sun Shuke, the defender of Hao County, seems to have underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Yanling army."

On the dirt slope in the distance, Xu Yin, the general of the Fencheng Army, looked at the battlefield and said to Zhao Hongrun with a chuckle.

Zhao Hongrun smiled slightly.

In fact, it was not only the Chu general Sun Shuke who underestimated the Yanling army, but even Zhao Hongrun did not expect that the Yanling army, which had been trained hard for two years, would be so strong in combat effectiveness that it would press the battle line to the city wall of Haoxian County in one breath.

You must know that in Zhao Hongrun's impression, not only siege warfare, but also the besieging side often has to go through several rounds of charges before it can break through the blockade of the defending side's flying arrow weapons and rush to the bottom of the city wall.

And this process is the fundamental reason why the besieging side is killed several times more than the defending side in a siege battle.

It is no exaggeration to say that in an ordinary siege battle, according to the proportion, a hundred soldiers of the besieging side, braving the blockade of the defender's arrows, may only be able to reach the bottom of the city wall in the end, and these thirty people, ten people will die from the boulders, sassal wood, and boiling oil thrown from the city wall, ten people will die in the process of climbing the ladder, and only a few people may have the opportunity to climb the city wall in the end.

And these ten people have to face the resistance of the enemy troops on the city wall, and it is very likely that all of them will die on the enemy city wall in the end.

This ratio is the reason why siege warfare is so tragic.

However, at present, the vanguard army of the 5,000 Yanling Army, obviously the number of dead has not exceeded 1,000, and they have actually pressed the battle line to the area of the city wall of Xuanxian County, and have begun to launch a fierce offensive against the city wall.

However, Zhao Hongrun also saw the weakness of Yan Lingjun.

It's not so much a lack of training, it's a weakness in the configuration of weapons or troops.

For example, the 5,000 Yanling army at this moment lacked the suppressive power to suppress the city wall of Haoxian, if there was a well-trained crossbowman at this time to cooperate with the battle, shoot the Chu soldiers on the city wall who were throwing stones and trees to the city, and those infantry who were climbing up the ladder, they would obviously be much easier.

For another example, the well car built by Yan Mo was obviously able to stand on the platform on the roof of the car, but Yan Mo did not deploy a crossbow soldier here, otherwise how could the crossbowmen on the wall of the city of Gongxian dare to shoot the Yanling soldiers under the city so blatantly?

In general, the suppression of long-range weapons is not enough.

Of course, this cannot blame Yan Mo or Yan Lingjun, but it is Zhao Hongrun's dereliction of duty that did not let the Smelting Bureau build the corresponding long-range weapons for Yan Lingjun.

However, Zhao Hongrun has no choice, after all, so far, the Smelting Bureau and the Military Casting Bureau still hold a large number of orders in their hands: the Southern Yan Army and the Chenggao Army have not updated their weapons and equipment, and the new Great Wei Wu Army of the newly promoted general Shaohu has not yet delivered half of the weapons and equipment, in addition to the new orders that Zhao Hongrun and his fourth brother Yan Wang Hongjiang have asked for for the Shanyang Army under their command.

All in all, under the condition that the nearly 100,000 troops in northern Xinjiang are generally underarmed and equipped, even if Zhao Hongrun is in charge of the smelting bureau, it is not easy to cut the Yanling army into the queue.

After all, the Yan Ling army still has weapons and equipment, albeit old.

Suddenly, Zhao Hongrun's heart moved, and he secretly scolded himself for being stupid.

Thinking about it, with Lu Guo in the rear, he actually wanted to transport weapons and equipment from Wei State, and it was obvious that the weapons and equipment built by Lu State were of better quality.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun turned his head and said to Zongwei Mu Qing, who was recording the performance of the Yanling army on the battlefield: "Mu Qing, write it down, in the name of this king, ask the king of Qi for 10,000 crossbows, 100,000 crossbows, 100,000 shields, 100,000 sets ......of armor, 50,000 Changge, and 100,000 swords."

The general Xu Yin listened to this, and he gasped in shock, and he said in his heart: Your Royal Highness King Su, are you ruthlessly slaughtering the King of Qi?

Probably noticing Xu Yin's shocked expression, Zhao Hongrun smiled and said: "The sky is asking for money to be repaid on the spot, I also know that it is impossible for King Qi to agree to this kind of request, but if you talk more, bargaining can be regarded as leaving more leeway." ”

I have to say that in fact, Zhao Hongrun also knows in his heart that the weapons and equipment built by the Lu State in the recent stage, including the weapons of war, may have long been equipped with the main army led by Lu Xi, the king of Qi, and the rest may also be sent to the Eastern Route Army of the Qi general Tian Tan, and I am afraid that the arsenal of the Lu State has already been emptied.

But as he said, the sky is asking for the price to pay back on the spot, even if in the end the king of Qi Lu Xi only gives him 5,000 pairs of crossbows, tens of thousands to crossbow arrows, in fact, it is enough to strengthen the long-range strike capability of the Yan Ling army.

After all, in siege warfare, crossbowmen only play an auxiliary role, and the real main force has to be infantry.

At this time, the Yan Ling army's attack on the city walls on the east and west sides of the county had already begun.

Compared with the decent combat method of the Yanling army that attacked the east city wall of Haoxian County, Zuo Xunxi and Hua Yu, who were responsible for attacking the west city wall, took advantage of the west wind blowing today to throw fire arrows into the city.

It can be faintly seen that there are already fires burning in several places in the city of Haoxian, and bursts of black smoke have begun to fill the city, and slowly drift to the east under the blowing of the west wind.

Listen carefully, in fact, you can vaguely hear the chaos in the city of Haoxian, and it is not difficult to estimate that the Chu soldiers in the city are struggling to extinguish the fire.

At this moment, Gongxian is like a pot of boiling water, and the voices are boiling.

Zhao Hongrun glanced up at the position of the sun in the sky to judge the hour.

Although the advantage of the Yanling army is very obvious at the moment, he still has a hunch that it may be difficult for the Yanling army to conquer Gongxian today. (To be continued.) )