Chapter 192: The Defenders Who Also Suffered Heavy Losses
On the afternoon of May 22, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, when the leaders of the grassland coalition forces outside Chengyin City agreed to evacuate Chengyin City and give up continuing to attack the city, the atmosphere was very solemn in a study room of the county government in Chengyin City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Liu Ji said to the generals in a hoarse voice: "Depending on the situation, this afternoon, the Hu people outside the city will not attack again, and we have survived another day." ”
The cavalry of all ethnic groups of the grassland coalition army outside Chengyin City, in the ten days of siege, the number of dead reached more than 175,000 people, and the troops under Liu Ji in Chengyin City actually suffered very large losses, if it were not for the fact that in the next few days, the Hu people who besieged the city obviously weakened the intensity of the attack, Liu Ji doubted whether Chengyin City could hold on to today.
During the 10 days of the Hu people's siege of the city, the four infantry battalions and the guards battalion under Liu Ji had suffered 19,000 casualties, of which nearly 17,000 were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded.
Although they are on the side of defending the city and there are strong city walls to rely on, the four infantry battalions and the guards battalion under Liu Ji, after all, have only been formed for more than a month, and most of the soldiers in them are new recruits.
Even if the Hu soldiers gave up the advantage of war horses, most of the ordinary soldiers under Liu Ji were still not the opponents of the Hu soldiers, if it weren't for the advantage of the city wall, coupled with the many generals under Liu Ji's command, and the hundreds of elite soldiers who were trapped in the camp as firefighting troops, Chengyin City would have been broken by the Hu people's coalition forces outside the city.
Now Chengyin City is still in the hands of Liu Ji's troops, but the losses of ordinary soldiers are very large, and even hundreds of recruits have a nervous breakdown in the tragic battle to defend the city, and they want to escape from the city wall when they lose their weapons, and then they are killed by the officers who supervise the battle.
At present, there are only more than 15,000 people left in Chengyin City who can continue to fight, and even the 750 elite soldiers who are trapped in the camp rewarded by the system have nearly 100 killed in the ten-day siege of the city, and now there are only 643 people left.
The loss of nearly 100 soldiers trapped in the camp made Liu Ji very distressed, after all, there were only 750 soldiers in the camp, and one less one died, and what made Liu Ji even more heartbroken was that during the ten-day siege of the city, there were four generals under Liu Ji's command who were also killed, namely Jiang Qin, Mu Shun, Zhang Shuo and Ma Zhan.
Ma Zhan is the twelfth Taibao under the command of Yang Lin, the backer king of the Sui Dynasty, and Liu Ji has already summoned 12 of the thirteen Taibao under the command of Yang Lin, the backer king, and is just one Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao, who can make up enough for the thirteen Taibao and get the additional reward of the system combination generals, but unfortunately now that Ma Zhan is dead, even if Liu Ji summons Qin Qiong out, he will not get the additional reward of the combination of the thirteen Taibao.
The system clearly told Liu Ji that as long as the military general was summoned, then he would really die, and the system would not be able to regenerate him, and Ma Zhan died, and there would be a permanent shortage in the Thirteen Taibao, so that Liu Ji, the additional reward of the Thirteen Taibao, would not need to worry about it!
Jiang Qin, a second-rate general with a force value of 77 points, died at the hands of a fierce general of the Rouran clan, and this fierce general of the Rouran clan has reached the level of a first-class general.
After Jiang Qin was killed, He Ruobi avenged Jiang Qin and cut off the head of the first-class military general of the Rouran clan who killed Jiang Qin, but this could not be exchanged for Jiang Qin's resurrection, Jiang Qin, a military general whose three-dimensional value was not low, became the first second-rate military general to die under Liu Ji.
Zhang Shuo, a third-rate military general loyal to Liu Ji in the real world, is the same as Yang Hongtao, who has died in battle, Liu Ji has always been very optimistic, after all, the two are still young, and there is still a lot of room for development, but unfortunately the two died in battle, and God did not give the two time to develop.
Mu Shun was the saddest of the four killed, Mu Shun was in the battle on the city wall, the soles of his feet slipped and fell to the ground, and then he was stabbed through the neck by an ordinary soldier of the Dangxiang clan.
In addition to the four generals who died in battle, there were five generals who were seriously injured and could no longer participate in the defense of the city, including Zhang Guiben, Cheng Pu, Lei Heng, Tong Wei and Tong Meng, but according to the injuries of these five people, they can be healed after a period of cultivation, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
To tell the truth, now Chengyin City is not the end of the strong crossbow, but the situation is also very bad, the surviving defenders of the city, both physically and mentally very tired, if the cavalry of the grassland coalition army outside the city, can attack for two more days regardless of casualties, maybe Chengyin City will be breached, but unfortunately the grassland coalition army outside the city has been one step ahead of the can't hold on, ready to withdraw and return to the grassland.
Gao Shun said to Liu Ji in a deep voice: "Lord, now that we are the defenders of Yin City, there are only more than 15,000 people left to continue fighting, just in case, my subordinates suggest that we send a signal to the thirteen battalion cavalry troops tonight, so that they can launch a surprise attack on the Hu people coalition forces outside the city as soon as possible, so as to relieve the siege of Yin City!" ”
At the beginning, Wei Xiaokuan, Le Yi, and Su Lie formulated a plan to use the infantry units in Chengyin City to consume the strength of the grassland coalition army, and finally the thirteenth battalion cavalry unit took advantage of the situation to defeat this grassland coalition army.
When the cavalry troops of the thirteenth battalion left Chengyin City, Liu Ji had already formulated a communication signal for the cavalry troops to attack, that is, to light three bonfires on the southern wall of Chengyin City at night.
The cavalry would send scouts every night to wait for the signal to attack on the southern peaks outside Chengyin.
Liu Ji hesitated for a moment and said: "The cavalry troops of the thirteenth battalion add up to only 130,000 cavalry, and the strength of the Hu people coalition army outside the city is about 350,000, is it a bit risky for our 130,000 cavalry to attack at this time?" There are still more than 15,000 people left in Chengyin City, can't they hold on for a while? ”
Liu Ji knew in his heart that the thirteenth battalion cavalry was the key to whether he could win this time, once the thirteenth battalion cavalry attacked, and did not defeat the remaining grassland coalition forces outside the city, then the little foundation he had saved in Chengyin City would be ruined.
Liu Ji and the generals under his command still don't know that the grassland coalition army is no longer able to hold on and is ready to withdraw, and none of the ethnic groups in the coalition army is willing to fight to the end with the defenders of Chengyin City.
As soon as Liu Ji's words fell, Le Yi sighed and said: "Lord, the number of people killed in our Chengyin City is almost half, such a battle loss ratio, our army in Chengyin City has not collapsed, it is already a big miracle, but if this battle loss ratio continues to increase, my subordinates are worried that the surviving soldiers will not be able to bear it." ”