Chapter 165
The generals of the Liao army are clear, but no one dares to object, because if they object, it is likely that they will not ask indiscriminately, and throwing their hands is a knife, and another famous hobby of the sleeping king is to kill people, and he has not opened a killing ring for nearly a month, which makes the generals of the Liao army silent.
In the years that Toyotomi Shixu has been in Fuso, he has already understood the personality of the Fuso people very well, as long as it is an order, it is to let the soldiers burrow into the ground, and after a few months, as long as the soldiers have rations to sustain their lives, they will live as tenaciously as mice.
The purpose of arranging the 50,000 soldiers in Yuancheng was not really to defend Laiyuan, but to consume the Liao soldiers, so that the Liao army would not be able to attack the Yalu River with all its strength, so as to reduce his pressure. Toyotomi Shixu was afraid that the Liao army would not attack the far city, and now, Liao Emperor Yelujing was obviously going to realize his wish.
The attack began, and the 50,000 Liao cavalry shot ten times, and it can be imagined that the density of the arrows flying in the sky on the four city walls, but the Liao army did not care about the consumption of arrows at all.
Indeed, the Khitan has been a winner in the past few decades, and if you want to talk about the strength of the country, no one can match it in this entire land, including the current Ming Kingdom.
After the cavalry shooting, the usual infantry began to attack, and unlike in the past, this time the Liao soldiers were dispatched by the whole army.
60,000, no, in fact, excluding the consumption of the previous few days, about 53,000 Liao troops poured on the four city walls like a tide, and the two armies added more than 100,000 people to carry out a bloody war of attrition in Laiyuan City.
It is impossible to describe such a scene, and the Fusang defenders only found out after harvesting the lives of thousands of soldiers of the Liao army. No amount of arrows and stones could prevent the Liao soldiers from climbing the city wall.
The ladders on the four walls of the city were knocked down and erected again, and the gates of the city. The Liao army rushed to the car, but there was a collision with the wood, they didn't know that the city gate had been sealed by Toyotomi Shixu's order, and they desperately hit the door without hesitation, and the Liao soldiers kept falling, and some people kept continuing to hit the city gate. only to find out that the inside has been sealed with masonry.
The disappointed Liao army began to climb the ladder in anger.
An hour later, the dominant Fuso defenders slowly lost their advantage. Because the Liao army has already climbed the city wall.
As long as someone succeeds in climbing the city wall, even if there is only one, even if they are killed as soon as they climb the city wall, it is a fierce attack on the Liao army. This is completely different for the morale of both sides.
More and more Liao troops climbed the city walls. At this time, the corpses outside the city had reached a height of nearly a zhang.
That is, the corpses have been piled up to the point that even soldiers who have been pushed off the city wall cannot fall to their deaths.
The soldiers of the Fusang Army were indeed tenacious, and they formed a wall on the city wall, and they were stunned to withstand the attack of the Liao soldiers who climbed the city wall.
In a defensive battle, the result of forming a wall is that the opponent slashes at each other. The soldier could not avoid it, after being hacked to death. The corpse was still squeezed in the middle of the human wall, moving with it.
Of course, in this case, if the soldiers of the Fusang Army cut it with a knife, the soldiers of the Liao Army would only suffer death.
A knife for a knife, a life for a life.
It was with such ruthlessness that the Fuso army held half of the city wall.
And the continuous climb up and the Liao army were fixed on the city wall, hanging on the wall in strings, unable to advance or retreat.
The two sides have entered a stalemate, and perhaps only if one side collapses can the winner be decided.
At this time, Emperor Yelujing of Liao officially showed his exterminating side.
At this time, he ordered 50,000 cavalry to fire another ten volleys.
When the command voice sounded in the ears of the Liao army generals, the generals did not believe their ears, how could there be such a cruel person in the world, at this time the Liao army soldiers were in a stalemate with the Fusang army soldiers, after this indiscriminate cavalry shooting, the people exposed on the city wall, whether the enemy or their own people, will be covered.
When the sound of Yelu Jing's war knife unsheathed sounded, none of the generals dared to be in a daze, and quickly gave the order.
So, the cruel and tragic scene unfolded in front of me.
Tens of thousands of arrows smashed into the city wall like iron plates, and then ...... again, again.
After ten rounds, in fact, after three rounds, there was not a single living person on the city wall.
Although Yelu Jing was cruel, his tactics were indeed effective, the number of Fusang troops on the city wall was far more than that of the Liao army, and even more than twice that of the Liao army, and this indiscriminate salvo was stunned to wipe out the advantage that the Fusang army had taken when defending the city in front.
In this battle, the Fusang army was greatly damaged.
At this time, Yelu Jing once again ordered the Liao soldiers hanging on the city wall to attack the city.
And these soldiers have already been shocked by the tragic situation in front of them, how can they still have the morale to attack upwards, what the soldiers think in their hearts is that even if they attack, if you fire another volley, won't we have to be finished? They were right, if it turned into a stalemate again, Jerejing would still do it again.
Yelujing obviously forgot the words morale and humanity, and his tactics were correct, killing all the people on the city wall indiscriminately, and then ordering the Liao army outside the city wall to continue to attack, so that the city wall would definitely be captured.
It's a pity that he ignores human nature, how can the soldiers of the Liao army still have the heart to attack at this time, and if they don't flee back, they can already be regarded as giving face to Yelujing, the emperor.
Yelu Jing ordered several times to continue the attack, but the Liao army outside the city wall did not react, Yelu Jing was angry and cut off the commander of the infantry, and ordered the cavalry to step forward and cut off the heads of dozens of Liao infantry, and the Liao soldiers slowly began to climb upward.
But unfortunately, the rear of the Fuso army in the city has been substituted for the wall after a short period of shock.
So, another counteroffensive began, and the Liao soldiers, at this moment, no longer had the morale to attack, quickly retreated, Yelujing had no choice but to order a retreat to rest.
At this point, less than 25,000 of the 50,000 soldiers in the city remained, and the number of casualties on the four walls just now exceeded 20,000.
And Yelujing's more than 50,000 infantry, retreated and counted, and found that there were nearly 30,000 people, which means that the indiscriminate cavalry shooting did indeed allow the Liao army to take advantage, exchanging less than 10,000 casualties for more than 20,000 casualties of the defenders.
But the war is not won or lost in terms of casualties.
More than 20,000 soldiers of the Fusang army are still guarding the city, while the nearly 30,000 infantry of the Liao army no longer have the slightest will to fight.
Yelu Jing had nothing to do, the 50,000 cavalry in his hands was still a new force, but the cavalry was not suitable for attacking the city, except for riding and shooting to suppress the arrows on the city wall, in fact, the cavalry had no other way to attack the city.
Yelujing, who had 50,000 cavalry, could only set up camp, and the arrows of the army had run out, and the food was also scarce. (To be continued......)