Chapter 294: Counterattack on All Fronts (8)
After the formation of the Qingzhou battalion was completed, it was directly left in the battlefield of Hejian State, Zhang He and Gao Shunyuan had a lot of soldiers and horses, and now as soon as the Qingzhou battalion arrived, the strength of the troops had become twice that of Yan Liang and Chun Yuqiong, and all kinds of siege weapons were also assembled, so Zhang He launched the final battle against Lecheng. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The soldiers of the Qingzhou battalion deeply felt Jiang Sheng's kindness, and it was the first battle after entering Jizhou, and they were all full of energy, and the battle of Lecheng was their name!
Jiang Sheng's knowledge of the generals under his command was the tactics of later armies, and the first to enter the siege was catapults and four-bow bed crossbows. Stone bullets that covered the sky and the sun flew like a heavy rain on the city, and the fortifications and battlements built at the head of the city were torn apart by these stone bullets, and the houses in the city were not spared.
The rain of stone bullets can also be regarded as artillery support, the fortifications that Yan Liangjun worked hard to build were destroyed in a flash, and when the defenders were urgently repairing, Zhang Hejun's war drums sounded, and the infantry all over the mountains pushed ladder trucks and rushing cars to attack Lecheng County.
Yan Liang hurriedly ordered the defenders to go to the city to defend, but he heard the dense sound of breaking the sky, Yan Liang secretly screamed badly, shouting to dodge, but it was too late and that it was fast, the crossbow arrows that covered the sky and the sun flew from the city to the city, and hundreds of bed crossbow wheels were shot one after another, and the soldiers of Yan Liang's army who had just landed in the city encountered a rain of arrows that they had never seen in their lives.
The two rounds of "artillery fire" support from Zhang Hejun's army did not cause many casualties, but the psychological shadow on the defenders was extremely heavy.
When the defenders of the city were frightened and inexplicable, the siege army with the Qingzhou battalion as the main force appeared on the scene!
Yan Liang and Chun Yuqiong couldn't help but shudder when they saw such a spectacular scene in the city. When did Jiang Sheng have such a strong infantry army?
It has only been an hour since the start of the Lecheng Battle, and this combat capability is already staggering, looking at the scale, it is not a problem to sweep the entire Bohai Sea.
Yan Liang personally led the team to defend the city, from the morning until dusk, the defenders of the whole city can be described as a bloody battle, Zhang He saw that the loss was large, and finally Mingjin withdrew the troops. The blood of the head of the city of Lecheng remained along the city wall, converging into a small river, and piles of corpses were piled up inside and outside the city wall.
Nearly 4,000 soldiers of the Qingzhou battalion who participated in the battle for the first time were killed, and not a single wounded person was either withdrawn or killed in battle.
Zhang He was also shocked by these Yellow Turban troops, so he ordered Gao Shun to be responsible for the guard patrol at night, and let the soldiers of the Qingzhou battalion have a good rest.
After nightfall, Zhang He sent wine and delicacies, and then personally went to the Qingzhou camp to toast, get together with the soldiers, and talk about family life.
The next day, Zhang He let the Qingzhou battalion rest, and ordered Gao Shun to lead the Jizhou soldiers to continue the siege, but this siege was only a long-range attack, and Gao Shun's soldiers and horses were only doing feints, luring the defenders to the city, and then shooting them with bed crossbows, fighting for a long time, the defenders were no longer fooled, and only sent a few people to keep an eye on them.
Yan Liang saw that Gao Shun's army was just bluffing, so he ordered the whole army to take turns to rest and recuperate in preparation for the battle in the coming day, and sent people back to Nanpi to ask for reinforcements.
Yuan Shao learned that Zhang He's army was attacking Lecheng, and urgently recruited the strategists to study countermeasures, and finally agreed that Jiang Shengjun's stubborn defense of Dongguang was originally to contain the main force of Yuan Shao's army, and the real intention was to reduce Lecheng's troops in order to attack.
In conclusion, Yuan Shao immediately sent a team of soldiers and horses from the Dongguang battlefield to support Lecheng.
Zhou Jin quickly fed back the news to Zhang He, Zhang He calculated the time, and launched a general attack again two days later, this time different from the previous days, multi-pronged, all four gates were attacked by the Jizhou army, and the city head was suppressed by Zhang Hejun's long-range weapons.
The soldiers who operate long-range weapons in Zhang He's army have figured out the distance angle of Yuecheng County, this time it is not "artillery support", but the main attack, the accuracy is very high, it can hurt the defenders of the city and will not affect the Qingzhou battalion attacking the city, there are also occasional mistakes and accidental injuries to their own people, but Zhang He can't care about this, if Yan Liang's reinforcements arrive, the difficulty of attacking the city will be greatly increased, so he must rush before the reinforcements arrive, take Lecheng.
Zhang He did not leave reserves at all this time, and the whole army pressed on, and Zhang He and Gao Shun also went into battle to kill the enemy in person.
When Chun Yuqiong was commanding the defense at the south gate, he was pierced through the chest by a large crossbow arrow shot by Zhang He's army, nailed to the flagpole at the head of the city, and his internal organs slid down the flagpole and hung outside Chun Yuqiong's body.
When the defenders saw Chun Yuqiong die like this, they were all frightened and stupid, and they ran down the city one after another, never daring to go to the city again.
Yan Liang learned that Chun Yuqiong was killed in battle, and sat on the ground in shock, his eyes were blank, and when his soldiers saw Yan Liang like this, they knew that this battle was bound to be defeated, so they dragged Yan Liang down to the city.
At this time, the Qingzhou battalion soldiers have attacked the city, and the defenders fought desperately on the narrow road at the head of the city, at noon, the south gate was opened by the Qingzhou battalion soldiers who attacked the city, and countless Jizhou soldiers and Qingzhou battalion soldiers rushed into the city.
Zhang He also knew the truth that the siege was missing one, so he ordered the troops at the east gate to withdraw to the south gate and enter the city through the south gate.
Yan Liang knew that it was a plan, but he had no choice, he could only withdraw from the east gate, staying in the city was a dead end, out of the city, the terrain was open, and there was a bloody way, and there was the possibility of breaking through.
After all, Le Cheng was under the rule of Jizhou, and the people were all the people of Jizhou, and fighting in the city would inevitably affect the people, so Zhang He forced Yan Liangjun to leave the city.
After Yan Liang led the remnants of the defeated army to escape from Lecheng, he hurried all the way to the east, and after entering the territory of Bohai County, he was suddenly attacked by the forbidden department.
After the ban pacified the northern part of the Hejian Kingdom, Song Xian stayed behind, and led the main force south to help, Chu Yan's army continued to attack Liyi, although Liyi was both wise and brave, but could not withstand the repeated attacks of the grassland iron cavalry, and was defeated and retreated.
After the ban went south, it did not join Chu Yan's army, but suddenly attacked Chengping County in the northwest of Nanpi, and some of the soldiers and horses of Chengping County were transferred to Fuyang County in the east to assist Liyi, and they had not returned for the time being.
After a short rest in Chengping, Yu Ban's army continued to go south with a victorious division, and happened to encounter the defeated Yan Liang army, Yu Ban saw Yan Liangjun lose his armor and retreat in a hurry, knowing that Zhang He's army had won a complete victory, what time would Yan Liang wait for not to die at this time?
A dense war drum sounded, and the whole army of the forbidden department pressed on, although the strength was less than that of Yan Liang's army, but the victory was high morale, and Yan Liang's army was difficult to prevent an effective counterattack, after half an hour of fierce fighting, Yan Liang's army died, fled and fled, and there was not much left.
Yu Banqin led more than 2,000 cavalry to surround the remnants of Yan Liang in the center, and then put down the formation and said to Yan Liang: "Yan Liang, you are cornered, why don't you surrender early?" ”