Volume 3: A Generation of Heavenly Pride - Chapter 22: The Fire of the Ten Thousand Cities (6)
Holding a flat knife in his hand, Shen Chen, who was wearing light armor, stood at the gap in the urn city, sweating profusely, and commanded the follow-up troops who flew in the fast foot army column to climb the head of Tongwan City from the curved slopes on both sides of the gap. In order to increase the speed and gain time, the troops who came in the corps could not go to the city according to the original system, and in a hurry, Shen Chen could only command these follow-up troops to go to the city in a division with the army as the basic unit. Groups of soldiers were laboriously climbing the city, and on the city walls, there were also groups of soldiers running, and any captain who stopped to straighten out his command system would be scolded by the Eighth Route Army envoy himself who patrolled the city wall.
Shen Chen was at the gap, Li Wenge was on the city wall to ensure the smooth flow of traffic, Xifeng Minda was at the enemy tower in the northwest corner of the city wall, and Lu Tan was at the corner tower at the northeast corner of the city tower, and the four supreme commanders all temporarily assumed the role of traffic police. The commanders of the left and right battalions, Di Huaiwei and Zhi Dehuang, were responsible for collecting troops and straightening out the structure on the east and west city walls.
At this time, the rank identification system of the Eighth Route Army showed a strong efficiency effect.
Basically, the veterans of the Eighth Route Army and the Zhejia Army ascended to the city, but the two armies landed in the city at the same time, and the troops were basically scattered, whether it was Zhe Dehuang or Di Huaiwei, they had to command the soldiers of the two families at the same time, if it was not easy in other armies in this era, but in the Yanchuan Independent Regiment that realized the overall reorganization, the rank mark on the cuffs of the officers was the only order, the wartime state, the subordinates obeyed the superiors, whether it was the Zhejia soldiers or the veterans of the Eighth Route Army, they could easily figure out who they should listen to.
When the city gate was blasted, the north gate of the urn city was blown up according to the geometry of the cave filled with explosives under the city gate, and two obtuse slopes that rolled upside down towards the city head, and after the smoke and dust cleared, Di Huaiwei's assault infantry immediately began to attack the city head in two ways.
Under the power of the explosives, the city was already in shambles, and the entire enemy tower was completely blown away. The north gate of the urn city turned into a large inverted trapezoidal opening, and between the earth chips and broken stone and wood strips were mixed with mutilated corpses, which were gathered above the north gate of the urn city, the Tuoba family officers, generals and soldiers. The power of this explosion directly destroyed the north gatehouse, and 38 party officers and soldiers near the gatehouse were directly involved and died on the spot, and the supreme commander of the city defense, King Luo, was only left with the upper half of his body thrown out of the city wall by the explosion for more than 30 steps.
Dozens of soldiers in the vicinity of the city entrance were affected by the explosion and were injured to varying degrees.
On the slopes on both sides lay more than a dozen Tuoba injuries who had tumbled down, just as they wailed and groaned as they tried to climb the walls again. The sonorous sound sounded again, and Di Huaiwei's assault infantry began to enter the city.
Iron-clad warriors slowly climbed the slope in groups of five, stabbing with two or three wooden spears if they found something moving.
Although a slope was blown up, the slope itself was irregular, and it was still very difficult for the warriors in iron armor to climb up, and if they were not careful, they could fall if they slipped under their feet. At this moment, if the party soldiers in the city threw logs and stones down the slope, it would cause a lot of casualties to the assault, and more importantly, it would delay the speed of this sharp knife army to enter the city.
However, the power of heaven and earth, which had never been seen before, completely frightened the remaining party soldiers in the city, when Di Huaiwei and others climbed to the top of the city. Most of the soldiers defending the city had begun to flee down the city one after another, and the dozen or so officers who remained in the city did nothing, their eyes staring directly at the gap in the urn city.
After a short assault, the urn city at the north gate was occupied by Di Huaiwei, and the surrounding defenders were killed or expelled, facing the iron armor of the assault capital. Neither the swords nor other weapons of the Party soldiers could inflict lethal damage, and the temporarily conscripted clan soldiers who had lost their command structure could not compete with the strongest infantry units in the Eighth Route Army under any circumstances.
Immediately following Di Huaiwei's troops began to ascend the city, a temporary engineer composed of Gyeongju soldiers, who rushed up the slopes on both sides with sapper shovels in their hands, and cleared the obstacles on the slopes in a very short time, and either flattened or dug out a relatively gentle passage where the steep places were too steep, and when the troops lurking and waiting for several miles drove up, the slopes on both sides were no longer as messy as when the Di Huaiwei troops landed in the city. Although it is rough and simple, it is at least two "roads".
Once any of the three units on the front line were broken through by the enemy, the infantry units behind would immediately go up according to the direction of the gap to ensure the integrity of the battle formation on the front line.
Behind the second echelon is the third echelon, which is also deployed.
The follow-up troops in the rear are in the process of straightening out their structure, and two teams of soldiers have successfully established their command. It's driving up.
The situation is getting more and more favorable for your side.
A party soldier with a torch in his hand quickly climbed from the south to the beacon tower built on the inner side of the wall.
"Crossbowmen—" Jiang Qide shouted.
One of the soldiers in the pro-soldier team immediately threw away the spear in his hand. Laboriously removing the crossbow from his back, one of the soldiers on his other side threw away his gun. Four standard crossbow arrows were taken out of the dunchs behind his back.
After the crossbow bolts were loaded, the two of them squeaked together to pull the crossbow rank apart.
By this time the soldier had climbed to the top of the beacon tower and was reaching for the rope.
"Whoosh-" Three crossbow arrows were fired side-by-side, diagonally towards the beacon.
There was not enough time to aim, and only one of the three crossbow bolts wiped off the hat of the party soldier.
The soldier was taken aback, and his hand trembled and the torch fell on the platform, and he himself looked at the battle formation of the Eighth Route Army in shock and fear.
Jiang Qide waved his hand angrily and scolded in his mouth: "Waste-"
The two soldiers were very aggrieved, they were originally out-and-out infantry, which was after all in the hinterland of the party's family, Tuoba Yiyin had all the advantages of fighting on the inside line, and Li Wenge had almost nothing around him except for a tired and extremely thousand-strong division.
chose to have a strategic decisive battle with himself here, Li Wenge's head was really funny.
From the very beginning of this war, Li Wenge and Tuoba Yi Yin both understood that what would ultimately determine the outcome of the war was a strategic decisive battle, and this strategic decisive battle must revolve around the unification of Wancheng, and there was no other way. Prior to this, the reason why Tuoba Yiyin was able to endure and sit back and watch the two states of Yinsui being divided and occupied by the three coalition forces was because he understood this truth - the four states of Yinxia and Xia, Tongwancheng is an axis, whoever masters this axis will occupy the initiative in the war, no matter how much land Li Wenge's army has laid, as long as the Tongwancheng cannot be broken in the end, these results will be nothing.
The Tuoba family will soon get the land back.
Tuoba Yiyin firmly believes this.
Although Li Wenge used a trick to isolate himself on the other side of the Wuding River and temporarily avoid the doom of being attacked from both sides, what did he use to conquer Tongwan City?
Just rely on his more than a thousand tired teachers?
In three days, conquer a fortified city in the world?
Tuoba Yiyin didn't believe in miracles very much.
King Luo is a veteran of a hundred battles, whether it is the prestige in the clan or the means of using soldiers, he is the first person in the family, he is in charge of the city, not to mention breaking the city within three days, Li Wenge wants to get rid of the city and go south, but it is not easy......
His uncle, when he was young, was known as the most courageous hyena on the grassland, and the person he was targeting, if he wanted to get out smoothly, where was it so easy?
Tuoba Yi Yin didn't understand what Li Wenge thought.
Even if Li Wenge thinks that Tongwan City is already an empty city and wants to pick up this cheap, but he has too few soldiers on the ground, right?
With this little soldier, even if he takes it down, will he be able to hold it?
Of course, his more than 3,000 cavalry are not used to attack the city, but after all, there are tens of millions of people and children in the city, just to stabilize these people and not make trouble, Li Wenge will have a headache to death, how many troops can be divided to guard the wide city wall?
No matter how you think about it, this General Li seems to be a dead end this time......