Chapter 346: The Battle of Yidu (Part II) (Second Update!) )
After Dai Yan started with Taoqiu and seized the entire Song Kingdom. Because he was able to mobilize more resources, he invested more in the military. Therefore, over the years, the military industry of the entire Song Kingdom has been advancing in an extremely rapid state!
The weapons used by the Song saber and shield soldiers who are now directly fighting with the Yan army are all steel weapons! And on the bodies of these soldiers, everyone is wearing cowhide armor!
And their opponents, wearing tattered clothes, are mostly inferior bronze weapons in their hands, when the weapons of the two sides collide, most of the time, the swords in the hands of the Yan soldiers will be directly cut off by the Song soldiers!
Even if the soldiers of the Yan Army had commendable courage and extremely superb personal martial arts, but when they encountered such a huge disparity, they had nothing to do! The Yan army couldn't even break through the large array of the first layer of the Song army, so they left a large number of corpses to retreat!
Seeing the combat effectiveness of the Song army, Sima Xi, the prime minister of Zhongshan who was fighting hard with the Yan army, was envious! He didn't think that the Song army's combat effectiveness came from the Song army's tight array, but he thought that the Song army could have such combat power, but it was because the Song army's weapons were superior to the Yan army! In his mind, if the army of Zhongshan could have such sharp steel weapons as the Song army, where did Zhongshan need to use the lives of soldiers to fight against the Yan army?
On the other side, Kuang Zhang, who let the army of Zhongshan and the Song State block the guns for the Qi army, also saw the combat power of the Song army! Although he had no expression on his face, his heart was full of turbulence!
As a famous general who studied under Mencius and was familiar with the art of war, his knowledge was certainly not as shallow as Sima Xi! He knew very well that the Song army's strong combat effectiveness not only came from their superior weapons, but also from their tight military formation!
In his opinion, it would be extremely difficult to get such a well-trained military formation, and let the soldiers command it like their own arms! At least, it is absolutely impossible for the current military formation of the Qi State composed of skilled fighters to be so well-trained in a short period of time!
It seems that in the future, the king will be reminded to be wary of the Song Kingdom! Kuang Zhang thought silently in his heart.
However, for the containment of the Song State, he only has the right to make suggestions, but not the right to decide. At the moment, the most important thing is to deal with the Yan army and win such a war!
Just when the Yan army's attack on the Song army was frustrated and a little discouraged, Kuang Zhang immediately seized this opportunity and directly ordered the Qi army soldiers to launch a counteroffensive!
The Qi army is mainly composed of skilled fighters, and has typical mercenary characteristics. For them, they are unwilling to do it if they put them in danger by fighting a tough battle. And if they have a chance to destroy their opponents and earn a lot of benefits, then they are extremely willing!
And this characteristic of theirs also leads to their super fast action! Whether it is a defeated army fleeing or a victorious pursuit, there are very few armies in the entire world that can surpass them in terms of reaction speed and attack speed!
As soon as their attackers launched, they were like thunderbolts, and they pressed straight towards the Yan Army's large array! Being in the big array, Zizhi, who was heavily protected by the soldiers, didn't react much before he suddenly found that he had been surrounded by the army of Qi on three sides!
And as soon as the Qi army surrounded them, they had no intention of letting go of the Yan army, and immediately launched a fierce attack on them! The fighting courage of the soldiers of the Qi army may not be as good as that of the Yan army, but they are the same as the Yan army, they are all troops with strong individual combat effectiveness! As soon as they engaged the Yan military, they immediately had the absolute upper hand!
Zizhi had no choice but to let the Yan soldiers form a large array to protect themselves. However, the horror of the Qi army lies in the fact that once they launch an attack, the speed of adjustment is not something that the Yan army can react to at all!
The brave Yan people couldn't help but feel deep fear at such a time! Although they are fierce, they are not indestructible, and once they encounter a contrarian trend, they will just ignore and run away!
If there is the first one who escapes, there will definitely be a second. When the Yan army first started to escape, Zizhi also ordered the overseer team to kill the fleeing soldiers! However, when the soldiers are more afraid of the Qi army than the warlords, the warlords are completely useless! And some fierce soldiers even dared to directly swing their swords to fight back against the Warlords!
In this way, the escape of the Yan army soon formed a trend! However, in a short period of time, the entire army of Yan Kingdom completely collapsed outside Yi City!
Fortunately, there is a city behind them, with strong walls, which can protect them from the attack of the Yan Alliance! After the collapse of the army, everyone rushed to Yicheng, and even crowded directly outside the city gate! Later, everyone wanted to enter the city, but no one could enter the city!
This situation did not change until the arrival of the son! When Zizhi saw that the city gate was blocked, he directly ordered the soldiers to kill the soldiers who were in a hurry to enter the city one by one, and then the crowded crowd began to gradually stop, and let go of the complete city gate, allowing Zizhi to enter!
And when Zizhi entered, there were soldiers at the city gate to maintain order, and the scene where everyone flocked into the city finally changed.
Although the Yan army was defeated under Yicheng, with such a strong city at its back, most of the soldiers who fled still retained their lives. However, the defeat of the Yan soldiers outside Yicheng brought a great psychological shadow to the Yan people!
The coalition forces outside the city gate saw the Yan army entering the city, and they did not rush to chase after it. Everyone waited for more than twenty days again, and let the Yan people hoard enough food, for what? Aren't you just waiting for the siege weapons of the Song army!
Subsequently, under the order of Xiao Xiang, the Song army was outside Yicheng, and divided a column of ballistae and bed crossbows under the city! When the Qi army and the army of Zhongshan were ready to attack at any time, the Song army launched an attack on Yicheng!
The ballista was aimed at the Yidu city wall, and the stone projectiles were accurately thrown onto the Yidu city wall. Immediately, the female wall on Yicheng was shattered, and the Yan soldiers hiding behind it soon had no place to hide!
Then, it's time for the Attack Bed Crossbow to come into play! For any outcropping Yan soldiers, the crossbowmen in the Song army will use the bed crossbow to aim at the Yan soldiers and snipe them in a single snip!
Such a sniper has caused a great deterrent to the entire Yan army! The psychological impact of being defeated by the coalition forces outside the city suddenly began to amplify again!
After the number of Yan soldiers who dared to show their heads on the city wall decreased, the Song army's bed crossbows began to fire a weapon specially used for siege - the Taon Arrow!
Extremely thick heavy arrows were fired from the bed crossbow, and then they were shot into the walls of Yidu! In this way, outside the city of Yidu, a "staircase" made of arrows was established for soldiers to climb!
Because the Song army provided the siege, they personally climbed the wall to attack the city, and the Song army did not personally participate! This kind of thing is carried out by the Qi army, the Zhongshan army, and the allied forces of the Sishang countries!
Some of them only carried a weapon on their backs, so they rushed straight to the city wall, and climbed the Yidu city wall through the stepping arrows fired by the Song army! And more people, but through several people, each holding a long ladder, rushed to the city wall to climb the city wall!
In addition to this, there are naturally Qi troops and Zhongshan troops who use special ladders to climb the city wall!
With the long-range fire support provided by the Song army, plus the superior strength of the coalition army, some of the coalition forces quickly climbed the city wall! The Yan army on the city wall naturally wanted to stop it, but they only lasted for a short period of time, and they reluctantly gave up!
It's really from outside the city wall, there are too many coalition soldiers who have climbed the city wall of Yidu! With the help of the treadmill arrows, with enough soldiers, you can climb the city wall from anywhere, which is simply overwhelming!
Zizhi used the method of Zen concession to win the throne of the king of Yan, and there were many people in Yan who were not convinced. Especially after Zizhi drove the city to Yidu and expelled the crown prince Ji Ping, the elites who held the dominant power in Yidu City were actually very dissatisfied with Zizhi!
When they had absolute strength in the hands of their predecessors, they didn't dare to have any ideas. Now as soon as Zizhi shows the signs of defeat, these people immediately jump out!
They directly sent representatives to the coalition camp, found the commander of the coalition army, Kuang Zhang, and expressed their willingness to surrender to the Qi army! In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Kuang Zhang quickly agreed to their request!
Subsequently, the elites in the entire Yidu City immediately began to "anyway", they began to drive Zizhi out, and opened the four gates, and in this way, the coalition army entered the city!
After Zizhi fled from Yidu, he went to Jicheng overnight. And the elites who stayed in Yidu thought that they were on the side of the victor this time, not to mention how the Qi Kingdom rewarded them, at least their interests could still be guaranteed, right?
However, they soon find out that they are thinking wrong, and their disaster is coming!