Chapter 6 The Attack of the Yan Kingdom
On the second day, just after dawn, the allied troops of the two countries, stationed five miles away, started a fire and cooked and were ready to go.
Since it was said that it was mainly based on the Yan Kingdom, the sub-period did not shirk anymore, personally draped, stood on the leather cart, and looked at the Yan ** team that was still a little tired after many days of running, although it was a little unbearable, but still waved the command flag, and the whole army was ready to set up a formation under the Turbid Deer City to meet the enemy.
And Sima Cheng also organized the Zhongshan troops, followed the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom, and went to the city of Turbidity to set up a formation. However, he made up his mind to watch the play on the sidelines, so he didn't plan to steal the limelight from the sub-period. When he arrived at the city of Turbidity, he asked the heralds to sound the golden drums and began to form a formation to meet the enemy.
Yan is located in the northeast of the Central Plains, although it is called the country of the Central Plains, but in fact it does not have much intersection with many Central Plains countries. The reason why the national strength is okay is because it was born with the same sect as Zhou Tianzi, so many countries maintain relative respect for it, and secondly, because it is far away from the Central Plains, it rarely participates in the struggle between the vassal states, so that the country is relatively peaceful and stable.
However, the relatively peaceful environment did not bring rapid development to Yan Kingdom, but adhered to the concept of "etiquette system in the world" upheld by the ancestor Zhaogong, and together with Lu Guo, became a victim of this era of etiquette collapse and happiness. Therefore, the strength of Yan is similar to that of Zhongshan, but Zhongshan is still excessive.
Sima Xun watched the Yan army calmly arrange the military formation, like other countries, the chariots were in front, the infantry soldiers were in front, the cavalry wings, and the crossbowmen were interspersed in the middle of the chariot formation, waiting to withdraw at any time.
However, the lineup of the sub-period is still a little different, that is, the cavalry lineup on both sides, the space is relatively large, and it gradually unfolds in the shape of two wings, and the chariot phalanx in the middle is not a traditional quadripartite formation, but similar to an ellipse, with all the chariots on the front, and the crossbowmen in ambush among the chariots. This made him a little confused, he is also an expert in using soldiers, but what does Yan Jun want to do with this arrangement?
The answer was soon revealed. Seemingly ignoring the shield array of the Zhao army on the city wall, the Zi Period Order flag was waved down, and the bow and crossbow troops inserted between the Yan State chariot arrays gradually fired bow and arrows. The target is the phalanx of shields on the castle tower. Listening to the sound of "whoosh", the rain of arrows shot out, throwing out an elegant parabola, which was directly nailed to the shield of Zhao Guo's foot soldiers, making a "aggressive" sound.
Before the soldiers of Zhao State could react, the second wave of arrow rain came as scheduled, although it did not cause much damage, but the psychological offensive of this attack was particularly obvious, after several waves of arrow rain, soldiers with low psychological quality would naturally give up resistance, and the more this was the case, the atmosphere of fear would sweep over all the soldiers like dominoes, forcing them to abandon the place. At this time, the role of the chief general is particularly important.
Li Yan hid in a dead corner, watching the soldiers of Zhao State stubbornly resist the arrow rain of Yan State, and his heart was anxious and dry. In a hurry, in order to better lure the two countries to attack, Turbid Deer City itself made a large reduction in soldiers, leaving only about 20,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry troops, and half of the chariot soldiers were not supported. Therefore, if Yan and Zhongshan join forces to attack, he can only defend with his hands, and it is unlikely that he will counterattack. And the thing that annoyed him was that he thought that the soldiers would be able to resist a few more arrows, but now they were a little loose, and if this continued, they would collapse sooner or later.
"It seems that this kind of thing guarding the city really doesn't belong to me. I have a specialization in the art industry, and if Brother Lian Wu is here, he will definitely have more experience than me. Under this kind of arrow rain offensive, it is really too difficult to fight back. Li Yan laughed self-deprecatingly.
There was no way, Li Yan could only ask everyone to hide behind the city wall, wait for the soldiers of the two countries to get close to the city wall, and then suppress the rain of arrows. Otherwise, these soldiers would never be able to defend Turbid Deer City. Soon, the soldiers of the Zhao army hid in the city walls and observed the movements of the combined forces of the two countries from the observation port.
And Li Yan wouldn't know that the more this kind of attack, the side that was the first to be discouraged would be suppressed until you disarmed and surrendered, and Zhao Jun's abandonment of the counterattack just made Ziqi see the emptiness of Turbid Deer City, which was not fake, but a real situation. This gave him a lot of confidence.
"Pass my order, all the crossbowmen shoot separately according to the level, and keep the attack on the city gate unstoppable. In addition, the chariot soldiers are required to gradually follow the crossbowmen's advance, and the crossbowmen's safety must be guaranteed! ”
Although there are many words, it is only a few actions when it turns into a flag language. At this time, the formation advantage of Yan Guo was brought into play, compared with the square formation of the crossbowmen arranged more sparsely, the circular dense defense, not only expanded the angle of defense, indirectly enhanced the area of defense, but also made the crossbowmen's shooting more intensive, its strength has also been enhanced, just like a martial arts master, all his skills have been turned into a little power at his fingertips, of course, it can give the enemy a fatal blow.
Soon, the powerful bow and arrow advantage was revealed, and the Zhao army was completely crushed under the city wall this time and did not dare to show its head, and the dense and powerful fire attack made the Zhao army's shield array have no defensive power. Many soldiers died under the bows and arrows of the Yan army.
The more rapid the drums of the Yan army, the faster the frequency of the attack. Li Yan soon saw that Yan Guo's attack formation had given way to a small path, and many soldiers were carrying cloud ladders, thinking that the city wall of the turbid deer would rush over.
This is the Yan army's ascending force, which is conducting a raid on the ascending city. Soon, a group of soldiers who climbed the city rushed over with ladders. Soon, however, as they approached the city, the archers of the Zhao army, who had been holding back for a long time, began to attack. This long wait finally gave vent to their anger.
As a result, the siege troops of the Yan army began to be frequently taken care of by the Zhao army, every ten teams of soldiers, that is, three to four teams were able to resist the city, but even so, they were soon poured by the hot water that fell from the sky by the Zhao army, and the ghosts cried wolf, and the mourning was all over the field, many soldiers were just about to climb the tower, and they saw the hot water poured down, and all the soldiers under the city were subjected to the seedlings, because this kind of indiscriminate attack was really the most resource-saving and the most effective means of defense. The only downside is that there need to be a lot of people to supply hot water.
Ziqi calmed down, watching that the Yan army's offensive was somewhat blocked, knowing that this was a normal phenomenon, if Zhao Jun directly opened the city gate, he felt that there was a ghost. However, it is normal for the Zhao army to organize an effective means of defense through the advantage of the city wall.
"Order, all archers change rockets to attack."
Since the birth of human beings, bows and arrows have accompanied the progress and growth of human beings, and human beings have survived the danger at the beginning of birth through the tool of bows and arrows, and successfully established their own civilization.
At the beginning of the birth of the bow and arrow, it could not escape the fate of becoming a tool for killing. For thousands of years, human beings have made too many improvements around tools, not only on the traditional arrows, developed a variety of arrows, but also in the use of bows and arrows more diversified, the most obvious example, is the birth of rockets.
With an order from Zi Qi, Yan Guo's rocket rushed towards the city of Zhao with a sinister flame. Because the rocket had both the long-range and burn properties of the bow and arrow, it soon plunged the city of Zhao into chaos. Many soldiers were preparing for a new round of firing when they were hit by rockets, mixed with flames that made him let out a sharp shout.
The surrounding Zhao soldiers saw that their compatriots were engulfed in flames, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him extinguish the flames, however, this side was not over yet, and more and more soldiers over there were hit by rockets and swallowed by the flames. For a while, the screams came one after another, and the flames rushed up on the head of Zhao Jun's wall. Many soldiers could not bear the burning of the flames, and unconsciously fell from the top of the city, killing them on the spot.
Finally, no one bothered themselves. Zi Qi was faintly happy, to be honest, he didn't expect that the attack would be so smooth, and in just one day, he almost climbed the city tower. It seems that even Sima Cheng is too conservative.
However, the sub-period was not overly excited, and still carried out the order to attack in an orderly manner. The chariot soldiers cooperated with the archers to carry out indiscriminate fire attacks, and the siege troops that had been blocked just now began to become active, because Zhao Guodu was busy fighting fires and completely abandoned defense.
"General, what's next?" Xu Yan looked at Li Yan, who was surrounded by soldiers, and asked cautiously.
"Wait, wait, it's not enough?" Li Yan looked at the sea of fire-like city towers, shook his head and said: "Since it is a surprise soldier, it should be based on surprise, not to mention that now, the attack of the Yan army is slowing down, we have to take advantage of the other party's short gap to catch them off guard!" As he spoke, he smiled a little hideously.
"However, I'm afraid that if this continues, Turbid Deer City will be finished in one day." Xu Yuan said worriedly. He was downstairs when he attacked just now, and it was not clear how intense it was. But as the rocket crossed the city wall and flew towards the houses of the city, many thatched huts were immediately set on fire, and the houses that were too close soon burned down, and many of the houses were burned.
For a while, the entire Turbid Deer City fell into a sea of fire.
"Look!" Li Yan suddenly seemed to have discovered a new continent, pointed in one direction and said, "Look, there! ”
Xu Yuan looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that it seemed to be the rise of the Yan army, and the soldiers seemed to have forgotten the importance of the formation, and only felt that the blind attack seemed a little out of order. However, the generals of the Yan army did not seem to feel anything wrong, and continued to sit on the leather cart, watching the two countries engage in the battle for the city wall.
"Do you see that?" Li Yan asked.
"I see." He turned back to Li Yan and said, "The attack is too fast, and there is a problem with the formation. ”
"Well, you know what to do."
"It's definitely a mission."
"Go ahead." Li Yan said, "It's time for us to fight back." ”
"Yes."