Chapter 235: Confrontation (6)
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The heavy ram kept crashing against the city gate, and without the suppression of the crossbowmen of the Eastern Army, the heavy wooden gate was finally knocked open after a quarter of an hour under the letting go of the Qin soldiers.
"Kill!"
As soon as the city gate was broken, the cavalry of the Qin army crowded under the city tower was overjoyed, and they rushed in one after another and went to kill in the Beiguan City.
"Shoot the arrows!"
A large number of light cavalry had just entered the city, and they were greeted by a rain of arrows.
Woo Woo Woo ~ Ahhh
The thin leather armor couldn't stop the sharp crossbow arrows that roared in, and one by one the Qin cavalry were shot under the war horses.
"Riding Camp! Rush with me! ”
On the street in front of the city gate, Huang Jingtian, the cavalry general, led thousands of heavily armored cavalry to be ready for action, and when he gave an order, he roared and killed in the direction of the city gate.
Boom! Boom!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
In front of the narrow city gate, the cavalry of the Qin army, which had been killed by the rain of arrows, could not resist the attack of the heavy cavalry at all, and slammed into each other violently, killing a group of people on their backs.
"Drink!"
Under the light of the fire, Huang Jingtian led thousands of heavily armored cavalry like a black steel dragon, slaughtered from the city gate, brandished the war knife in his hand and killed the Qin infantry who were ascending the city on both sides.
"Quick! Remove! ”
"The cavalry is coming!"
Leaning closer, the unsuspecting Qin soldiers were directly killed, and the Qin army's military formation, which was originally storming Beiguan City, was extremely fragile, and the roaring iron cavalry passed through and was killed to a large area.
"General! The enemy has cavalry to kill, and our army has suffered heavy losses! ”
A member of the five hundred lords of the Qin army, who was covered in blood, came to Wang Ben's side and reported loudly to him.
"Gather the heavy riders! Annihilate the opposing cavalry for me! Order Xue Cong to quickly lead the troops into the city! ”
Under the shroud of darkness, the situation of the entire battlefield was not clear, looking at the chaotic siege front under the attack of the Xiao cavalry battalion, Wang Ben quickly ordered.
Pedal Pedal Pedal ~
3,000 heavy cavalry of the Qin army dressed in stone armor started violently and slaughtered towards the cavalry camp that was ravaging.
"Rush!"
In front of the city gate, Xue Cong, the captain of the Qin Military Academy, once again led his 5,000 cavalry and began to charge towards the city gate.
Thundered!
In the sound of heavy horses' hooves, when Xue Cong saw the city gate illuminated by fire from a distance, a group of heavily armored cavalry with horses and armor slowly revealed their grandeur in front of the city gate.
Armored Ride!
"Kill!"
When He Batsheng led 3,000 armored cavalry to appear outside the city gate, the defeat of the Qin army's surprise attack tonight was already doomed.
When the rows of black armored horses roared in the night, the cavalry under Xue Cong's command was torn apart without the slightest resistance, and the men and horses were bright red and bleak.
The Qin army's iron cavalry, all dressed in leather armor, had no strength to fight head-on with the armored cavalry, which was a frontal crushing in terms of equipment and troops, and collided headlong in the darkness without preparation, and the Qin army suffered heavy losses.
"Withdraw!"
When Xue Cong and the heavily armored cavalry were successively defeated by He Batsheng and Huang Jingtian, Wang Ben knew that there was no chance of winning this battle, and gave the order to retreat with a pale face.
The soldiers of the Qin army, who were scared of being killed by the southern royal army defending the city, hurriedly retreated when they heard the sound of gold, and were chased by the Xiaocai battalion all the way to cover up and kill.
However, because it was late at night and the situation outside the city was unclear, Huang Jingtian and the others did not dare to pursue too deeply, and they had to turn around and return when they chased out of the city for more than a mile and approached the Qin army's front camp.
On the second day, when the first rays of dawn descended on the earth, there was a mess outside Beiguan City.
At the head of the city, countless soldiers of the Eastern Army were busy cleaning up the corpses and cleaning up the battlefield.
In last night's battle, Wang Ben used the Iron Eagle Warrior as a breakthrough point and mobilized 40,000 Qin troops to take Beiguan City in one fell swoop, but was stubbornly blocked by the defenders in the city.
In a fierce battle overnight, more than 20,000 soldiers of the Qin army were killed and wounded, and the 500 Iron Eagle Warriors who were commandos were almost wiped out by Zhao Yun.
Under the sudden attack, the Eastern Army defending the city under the fierce attack of the Qin army also suffered heavy losses, with more than 10,000 casualties, if it were not for the outstanding performance of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to repel the Qin army, the casualties may have been even worse.
In the defensive battle, the 1-2 battle loss was also the heaviest in the history of the Southern King Army.
Whining~
"Attack!"
In the morning, when the soldiers of the Eastern Army on the city tower had not finished cleaning the city wall, the whimpering horn sounded again under the city tower, and a group of Qin soldiers launched an attack on Beiguan City again.
However, it was no longer the main force of the Qin army that launched the siege this time, but the 30,000 Yizhou city and rural warriors under Liu Yun, and the main general of the army was Yang Duan, the general of the Qin army.
The 30,000 Xiangyong who were temporarily recruited to resist the Nanyi army in Yizhou City obviously had a huge gap with the main force of the Qin army, and the various arrays were crooked and slightly scattered.
"Shoot the arrows!"
On the tower of the city, the crossbowmen of the Eastern Army, who had been slightly reorganized, exerted their strength again, and a dense rain of crossbow arrows fell towards the Xiangyong Army.
Ahhh
These temporarily recruited volunteers simply did not have the ability to resist such a tough battle, and in the constant screams, the attacking Yizhou urban and rural warriors obviously showed a mood of timidity and retreat, and many soldiers were frightened under the attack of the rain of crossbow arrows.
"Don't retreat, those who retreat will be killed!"
If it weren't for the supervision of the main force of the Qin army in the back, the 30,000 volunteers would have collapsed before they could get close to the city wall.
Outside the Beiguan Tower, in the rear of the Qin army's military array, looking at the Yizhou Chengxiang Yong who had fallen in pieces under the attack of the Eastern Army's crossbow arrows, Cui Daoheng's heart was shaken by Daqin for the first time.
At this moment, Cui Daoheng clearly felt the gap between Yizhou Chengxiang Yong, Southern Wang Jun, and Qin Jun.
The Southern Wang Army was able to resist the ferocious attacks launched by the Qin army twice, not because the Qin army was not strong, but because they were equally strong, and the strength of their combat power was enough to explain everything when facing the crushing momentum of the urban and rural Yong of Yizhou.
However, in the face of this massacre, Wang Ben, the commander of the Qin army, did not show the slightest sign of issuing an order to stop the attack, and still ruthlessly ordered Yang Duan to send Xiang Yong to attack Beiguancheng, the purpose of which was probably only to weaken the strength of the crossbowmen of the southern Wang army.
Such an approach of not taking Xiang Yong's life seriously also reminded Cui Daoheng's heart of Su Ze's opinion of the Qin army, whose strength may be strong, but it is definitely not a good lord for the people of Shidao County.
It's a pity that everything was late!
Ding Ding Ding ~
Just as the tragic siege of Beiguan City was continuing, on the official road to the south outside Beiguan City, Su Ze, the former lieutenant of Shidao County, was leading thousands of elites to guard a carriage slowly.
This is a prisoner car, and the prisoner cart is being held by Li Xin, the general of the vanguard army of the Qin army.
At this time, Li Xin's face could no longer see the confidence and arrogance he had at the beginning, his long hair was messily draped over his shoulders, and his arms and knees were curled up in the corner of the prisoner car.
In the battle outside Beiguan City, Li Xin paid a heavy price for his arrogance, not only the elite of the 10,000 Qin army was wiped out, but the two masters Huang Jingtian and Zhao Yun who appeared in the southern Wang army one after another taught him a hard lesson.
In the entire Great Qin Army, Li Xin is definitely among the best in terms of force, except for Meng Tian, the general of the internal history who is known as the first warrior in China, who can win steadily, there are few who can match it.
But such a fierce general appeared in the southern king army at once, especially Zhao Yun, the flying feather cavalry general who appeared later, and his superb marksmanship made him see the power of martial arts to the peak for the first time.
However, although Li Xin was decadent, he never gave up hope of escape in his heart, and he instinctively became curious about this country that had dealt him a heavy blow.