Chapter 55: A War of Attrition Without Choice
Leaving in the morning and arriving at Mengtong Town before noon, after being hit hard, the Jin army returned to Jiayue Town, and it was already past dusk.
Marching and fighting, the Jin army was quite tired at this time. After Yan Yan's slander, he had to order to set up camp, eat and rest, and wait for tomorrow to fight again.
Time was wasted like this, and I would not have imagined how much the situation would change by the next morning.
When the first rays of morning light fell, Wan Yan was already sitting in the big tent and began to arrange his troops, ready to fight to the death.
Just one hour before this, more than 800 people from Han Shouzhong's department had arrived in a forced march and entered Jia Yue Town to assist in the defense.
At about the same time, Meng Jiucheng's troops had already set up two camps on the official road and continued to strengthen them, greatly compressing the space for the Jin army's activities.
After Han Shouzhong received the message from Pegasus, he almost immediately sent elite soldiers and strong generals to set off first, and the starry night did not stop.
It can be said that he saw it very clearly. The Jin army has fallen into siege, and there is more than one bad luck.
But Wang Zhongfeng and Zheng Ruxin can't afford to lose, in the future, these old-timers will take a back seat and help Meng Jiucheng defend the place, and it is still their younger generation of generals who are fighting outside.
It turned out that there was still a lack of experienced generals in the Red Turban Army, but Yang Miaozhen's combined army solved this difficulty to a large extent.
Although these generals are still in the stage of adapting and learning to the Red Turban Army's style of play, it will not take long. As Han Shouzhong, who had followed Meng Jiucheng for a long time and had already taken charge on his own, he naturally knew what to do. Therefore, Han Shouzhong's order was urgent, his actions were fast, and more than 3,000 people moved south quickly.
By the time he led his army to attack, he was faced not only with reinforced fortifications, but also with defenders who far outnumbered his strength.
But at this point, the Jin army only has one way left.
Under the smashing of the trebuchet, the shooting of crossbow arrows, and the bombardment of flying thunder cannons, the Jin army was divided into three formations, taking turns to attack, continuously.
Casualties are no longer nothing, and if you can't break through the enemy's resistance, you have to die here.
Extending outward from the wall, within one or two hundred meters is the range of the defenders' firepower, and the corpses are scattered, and the most dense is the gap in the wall that has finally been opened.
The corpses in front of them continued to pile up, and the Jin army continued to surge up, stepping on layers of piled up corpses, and attacking forward desperately.
The roar came one after another, and the rising white smoke could be seen from afar. Screams and exclamations were incessant, mingled with an explosion.
The Jin army that attacked the walled wall not only had to face the siege of the superior enemy, but was also killed and wounded by the close bombardment of the pine cannons.
The smoke gradually dissipated, and the battlefield was already full of wolves. Shields, knives and guns, corpses, and wounded soldiers who fell to the ground screaming and wailing, a bloody scene was presented in front of the two armies.
One defeat went down, another charge, another retreat, and the third attack went on.
Wan Yan gritted his teeth and looked at the battle in front of him, although he couldn't see it really, he was helpless and angry.
The cavalry, in addition to guarding and scouting their horses, had all been put into battle, dismounting and acting as archers, suppressing the enemy with arrows and covering the attacks of their own troops.
But under the thunderbolt blows of the Red Turban Army, the archers are also suffering continuous casualties. Moreover, their strength is also running out, but the effect is not very good.
The fortifications of the Red Turban Army largely offset the bow and arrow shooting of the Jin soldiers, and the soldiers also had protection, which reduced a lot of casualties.
The Jin army not only had to withstand the layered blows from far to near, but also had to rush into the walled wall to outnumber the enemy, and suffered heavy casualties under the intensive bombardment of pine artillery.
"Ahh Before a Jin officer who had climbed the wall could straighten up, an arrow shot at him in the chest. He let out a scream and fell on his back.
Behind the wall, on the high house of the town, Wang Zhongfeng once again drew his bow and arrows, shooting at the officers of the Jin Army.
Zheng Ruxin stood beside Wang Zhongfeng, holding a big knife in his hand, pulling out a cold arrow for him, and cooperated tacitly.
Qiao E led hundreds of men and horses out of the town, the mace waved like a wheel, the battle array behind him was strictly cleaned and killed, and the spears were like a forest, densely pointing forward.
In the traditional concept, hand-to-hand combat is the most tragic, but the current offensive and defensive warfare is purely about fighting attrition, consuming confrontation time, consuming the will to fight, and consuming fresh lives.
The golden army rushed up like ants, and gunpowder bullets, crossbow arrows, stones, and javelins rained down like arrows, like arrows borrowed from straw boats, except that instead of bundles of haystacks, hundreds of living people with blood and blood were pierced.
The pine cannon was the first to fire, and white smoke rose from the air, followed by a scream. One, two, three, four, five, the sound of artillery stopped for a while, and the shadow of the enemy was no longer visible after the white smoke.
"Kill!" The pikemen of the Red Turban Army roared angrily, lined up, and rushed forward.
The spear stabbed out, and the tip of the spear slammed into the flesh, and the terrible howl suddenly pierced the eardrum.
"Seventh sister, you command here, I'll lead it next time!" Wang Zhongfeng tilted his head and looked at it, and the reserve team was already lined up on the avenue in the town.
"You're the commander-in-chief, let me come!" Zheng Ruxin scrambled.
Wang Zhongfeng glanced at Zheng Ruxin deeply, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Jin army is already at the end of its strong crossbow, but our troops are still very surplus." How much wind and waves can a few enemies rush through the wall? ”
"Since we can't afford the wind and waves, you and I don't have to take the lead." Zheng Ruxin grabbed the handle and said: "Let young people exercise more, they will be the helpers of ninety percent in the future." Let's help ninety percent of the families and nursing homes. ”
Wang Zhongfeng knew that Zheng Ruxin loved him, but this was also reasonable, so he nodded and passed the order.
The Jin army attacked continuously round after round, and the defenders also formed a counter-assault force, with a group of 300 people, constantly launching counterattacks to wipe out the Jin army, or repulse.
This seems to be a tug-of-war, but after the Jin army suffered a multi-level attack, the forces that rushed in from the narrow breach were always very limited, and they were also bombarded by crossbow arrows on the walled wall and pine cannons on the front and flanks.
In the face of the counterattack of the defenders, they always seemed very passive, unable to expand the breakthrough and develop in depth.
Fighting such a war of attrition is very detrimental to the Jin army. After all, their forces are at a disadvantage, and even if the defenders exchange two for one, they can exhaust all the Jin army.
But there is no choice but to break through or be trapped and destroyed. Moreover, he had already received a report from Tanma that the enemy had set up camp on the official road, only more than ten miles away.