Text: The Great Power Conflict_Chapter 203 Tachi Crisis
After nearly ten more rounds of attacks, the Beichen army finally passed the mere 300 steps at a heavy price. Two thousand catapults and ten rounds of catapults, although the defenders aimed at siege weapons, the Beichen soldiers still suffered nearly 15,000 casualties.
Before touching the walls of other people's cities, more than 10,000 people were lost, and more than 500 siege weapons were damaged. The loss is not small, even Yue Fei grinned in distress.
At a distance of a hundred paces below the city walls, the catapults of the defending troops were of little use, and the same was true of the Beichen army.
It was enough for 500,000 soldiers outside the city walls to attack the city, at most it was a little crowded. Even so, it's better than being hit by boulders on the way.
The sword and shield soldiers quickly raised the large shield in their hands and put it on top of their heads. The archers around him also quickly hid below, and the rain of arrows of the defenders was coming.
The remaining more than 80 nest cars and more than 2,000 siege ladders are still advancing. The huge body gave the Beichen army great confidence.
Buzz, after a buzzing sound, the Beichen saber and shield soldier felt the big shield on his arm sink suddenly. The archers behind him, after the rain of arrows nailed to their shields, quickly turned around and released an arrow towards the city wall.
There was a rain of arrows, and the losses of the Beichen army were not large. Not to mention the shield of the sword and shield soldier's big shield, just the iron armor on the body reduced the strength of the bow and arrow to the weakest. However, this is not to say that the Beichen army has not suffered casualties for a long time. On this kind of battlefield, there are always the first unlucky people, and the dense rain of arrows will be shot to death as long as they don't care.
The defenders also suffered casualties, and the Beichen army counterattacked in a wave after the defenders released their arrows. Although they did not aim accurately, the large number of arrows killed many of the defenders.
The distance of 100 paces was completed after several rounds of shooting against each other. As soon as the Beichen army leaned against the city wall, the cloud ladder quickly stretched out its long ladder frame. The soldiers rushed up to count the people, but they quickly fell and turned into corpses. Afterwards, more soldiers continued to climb the ladder and rush towards it.
Eighty nest carts, as they approached the city walls, lowered their broad planks. Under the cover of the three rows of sword and shield soldiers, Changge soldiers quickly rushed out. The defending troops, who had already been prepared, released their arrows the moment they saw the Beichen Army coming out. After that, the soldiers rushed up with their weapons on their shoulders, trying to stop the advance of the Beichen army.
The crossbowmen lined up on the nest cart immediately attacked, and this was the only 10,000 crossbowmen in the Beichen Army. The great power of the crossbowmen had been demonstrated before, but the Combine was still careless and suffered heavy losses.
The Beichen army has 10,000 crossbowmen, and the distribution to each nest car is only a little more than a hundred. But these 100 people killed more than 200 defenders in an instant. The hundreds of defenders who had just rushed to the vicinity of the nest car were half lost at once, but the defenders were not lightly frightened.
After a rain of arrows from the crossbowmen, hundreds of Beichen infantry quickly followed, stepped directly on the city wall, and began a new round of slaughter. In other sections of the city wall, there are many such scenes, and many Beichen troops on top of the nest car have rushed to the city wall. The few nest cars were still fighting to climb the city walls, and the siege was only over in the afternoon. The Beichen army did not lay down the city wall in one go, and although many Beichen troops climbed the city wall, they still could not stop the numerical advantage of the defenders. After all, this is the home of the people, occupying the geographical advantage, and it is impossible for the Beichen Army to take the city of 800,000 defenders in one bite.
Therefore, Yue Fei is very distressed now.
As soon as he finished lunch, Yue Fei hid in the big tent of the Chinese army and sulked to himself. Now the only one who can provoke Generalissimo Yue is the 800,000 combined army in the city in front.
The 800,000-strong army is defending the city and will not go out of the city to fight at all, what do you say? If he had millions of elite Beichen troops in his hands, he would have ordered a strong attack a long time ago. But now he has a million people, and he lost 20,000 men and horses in the siege just now, most of whom were killed in battle.
Although the casualties of the defenders were not small, they were even greater than those of the Beichen army. But people can replenish their troops, where to find soldiers by themselves. This group of bastards of the Coalition Army, why don't they come out, they have to think of a haircut.
When Yue Fei was worried about the 800,000 combined army in front of him, Zhang Han, who led the 300,000 Beichen army in the north, was also depressed, worried about himself and his army.
I was surrounded, surrounded by a coalition army and an unknown force, and this matter still started ten days ago.
Ten days earlier, the Beichen Army had conquered the city of Birk and had also annihilated the 400,000 reinforcements of the Combine Army in one fell swoop. The 800,000 Combined Forces from the north who had come to the rescue of Birk City began to prepare to evacuate when they got the news. At that time, he also quickly reported to the king to see whether to chase and kill or continue to defend.
The messenger returned the next day to take the test, bringing with him the will of the king. An army of 300,000 people, everything has its own arrangements. This result was very much in line with Zhang Han's own thoughts, so Zhang Han led 300,000 troops and began to hunt down the combined army.
In the past few days, Zhang Han's luck has been very good. Along the way, they have annihilated 200,000 Combine troops and captured several cities. Originally, Zhang Han, who was still a little worried about the large number of troops in the United Army, is no longer worried about it. The combined army, having lost 200,000 troops, left only 600,000 horses. Even with the troops guarding their nest, it would be more than a million points in the sky.
A million combined army, Zhang Han is not afraid at all. Annihilated 200,000 troops of the Combined Army in a row, Zhang Han also discovered one point, that is, these troops are not elite troops. As soon as this point came out, Zhang Han was not afraid of anyone. The Combine is able to pull out a million garbage troops, and they don't eat dry food on their own side.
With 300,000 elite troops in hand, Zhang Han was confident that he would defeat the 1 million combined forces. But the current situation is a bit embarrassing.
Three days ago, after he had just captured a city, he got the news that it was besieged. The number of enemy forces at the time was unknown, and the only thing known was that two cities had already been recaptured by the Combine. The defenders were almost completely wiped out, and the rest of the cities were breached.
This news made Zhang Han startled, what's going on? How come all of a sudden the Combine is so ferocious. And where did those enemies appear behind their own rear?
When Zhang Han saw the combined army of the drug, he was already blocked in this small city, Salu.
Looking at the crowded army outside, Zhang Han was very happy in his heart. Fortunately, he felt that something was wrong, and gathered all the troops that had been scattered before. However, compared to the enemy army outside the city, the only 250,000 horses in Saru City still seemed too small.
After only a rough estimate, Zhang Han found that the combined army outside the city was at least more than three million. It is equivalent to three times the strength of his own troops, and the most important thing is that he is running out of food and grass materials. Now that we are surrounded by death, it is no longer possible to bring in grain and grass from the outside. The supplies in the city are only enough for the army for half a month, and once the half month passes, if you can't get out, it's really over.
Zhang Han didn't think about the reinforcements, where are the idle troops in the Beichen Army now. The country has basically been exhausted, and some of the remaining second-line troops are useless at all. Besides, far water can't quench your thirst.
Of the 1.4 million army, he took 300,000 here and Yue Fei took 1 million. The remaining 100,000 soldiers were in the city of Birk, under the command of Yun Qi himself. But what kind of soldiers are the troops there, 80 percent of them are wounded soldiers, and what they can do, they are just sent to death when they come over.
Now I can only rely on myself, or I can dig tunnels to break through. The Combine surrounded the entire city, and there was no gap in the middle to get out, and only the underground could escape. In two days, I have to pick a good place to go out, and today I will defend a wave to blow the morale of the enemy.
With 300,000 troops in his hands, Zhang Han was confident that he would defeat the enemy by 1 million in a field battle. But now that three million have come, it's impossible. However, if the three million army wants to annihilate itself quickly, it is also unlikely.
"General, the enemy is preparing to attack!" Hua Rong frowned and said to Zhang Han.
Zhang Han nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go down first, there are a lot of enemy catapults!" ”
"There are about 3,000 planes, and we only have 500 planes, so I don't know if we can take advantage of them." Lian Ming, who was standing on the side, turned around and followed Zhang Han's footsteps and said.
"Haha, our catapults take advantage of that, that's for sure. After all, the range is there! Hua Rong continued.
Zhang Han listened to the conversation between the two and didn't say anything, just laughed twice. Hua Rong is right, the catapult on his side will definitely take advantage. However, this is a general battle, and it is the people who decide the victory of the war, and it is never the weapons.
A group of generals quickly walked down the city wall and came to the city lord's mansion. The City Lord's Mansion is located in the central area of Saru City, where Zhang Han can quickly get the news of the four city walls, and can also quickly dispatch and command soldiers and horses.
On the city wall, there are many co-presidents in command, and there will not be too many problems at all. Those co-commanders can't command the army, but they can still meet their own standards by commanding 10,000 people to guard the city wall.
"Report, the United has begun to attack. The first wave of attacks reached 500,000 troops, and there were countless siege weapons. ”
Zhang Han had just rested for a few minutes when a soldier ran over to report the situation.
Zhang Han was immediately happy when he heard it, there were countless siege weapons, but how many cloud ladders there were. The Combine Army is like this, out of the ladder, I have not seen any other siege weapons, but no matter how many ladders there are, how useful they are. If the Combine had hundreds of nest cars, Tachi City would have been directly destroyed before.
In fact, everything was just as Zhang Han thought, 500,000 siege troops were all ladders. There were only a few battering cones, but in the face of the gates that had been blocked by boulders, they were simply abandoned.
The Combine catapults were the first to attack, and countless boulders flew up in the sky four hundred paces away from the city wall, smashing towards the city wall. Thousands of boulders, many of which fell on the city walls, kicked up piles of rubble. Many also fell into the city and killed a few unlucky guys.
The infantry on the city walls had long since been completely withdrawn, and they knew that the Combine Army should play like this. If you don't retreat, you'll be able to kill thousands of people in almost one wave of attacks.
Before the Combine launched a second round of attacks, the 500 catapults placed in the city by the Beichen Army began to counterattack. The catapults of the Beichen Army were not aimed at the siege forces of the Combine, but at the catapults of the opposing side.
The hundreds of boulders are not as shocking as the thousands just now. However, for the wooden body of the catapult, it was enough. Hundreds of boulders destroyed thirty catapults of the Combine, with an average of 1 in 20 hits. Although 2 is very low, the Beichen Army doesn't mind. Low is not a problem, we have time to do it.
The thousand bed crossbows did not rest, and when the city wall was strengthened before, the bed crossbows were nailed directly to the city wall. The thousands of defenders of the remaining city wall quickly ran to the bed crossbow and fired towards the infantry army array advancing below.
The hit rate of 1,000 crossbow arrows is about 70 percent, and each crossbow arrow can collect a few lives on average. When the Coalition threw stone bullets again, the soldiers on the city wall who controlled the bed crossbow rescued them and ran into the arrow tower, which was only a dozen meters away. There, at least it will not be affected by the impact of the rubble range, and the survival rate is higher.
As for the bed crossbow, you don't care. Now in the city, there are few soldiers who can play catapults and bed crossbows, but there are a lot of these things. There were still 300 catapults and 500 bed crossbows thrown in the warehouse, and no one could play at all.
About twenty minutes later, a fierce battle took place with various heavy weapons on both sides. The Beichen army exchanged 83 lives and 69 bed crossbows for more than 7,000 people and more than 200 catapults of the combined army. In general, 2, the Beichen Army still took a lot of advantage.
As soon as the Combine catapult stopped attacking, the Beichen sergeants, who were hiding in the corner of the city, began to run up the city wall under the shouts of the commander. The Combine stopped the catapult attack, indicating that the enemy's foot soldiers had already entered a distance of 100 paces outside the city.
100,000 soldiers quickly climbed the city walls, and the archers began to prepare their arrows, and their bows and arrows were wound. However, this is not the time to release the arrows. The formation of the combined forces has not yet dispersed, there is a shield formation to block, and it is a complete waste of arrows to release arrows.
Taking advantage of the transfer of the catapults by the Coalition Army, the Catapults threw two rounds of stones again, causing the Combine to lose about 250 catapults in this battle. The bed crossbow was still attacking the Combine array below, and the huge bolts were still so ferocious that the Combine death toll continued to rise.
Soon, when the combined army formation reached fifty paces outside the city, it suddenly dispersed its formation and charged quickly towards the city wall. The archers of the Beichen Army hurriedly began to shoot after the combined army dispersed. Tens of thousands of archers rained arrows down the city, and the Combine fell one by one.
Not to be outdone, the archers from the Combine Army fired accurately at the walls. Arrows shuttled back and forth through the city walls, and the entire battlefield became a decisive battle for archers.
A rain of arrows made the soldiers on both sides miserable, and the arrows that went back and forth became the most terrifying existence. These archers don't care if they miss or not, as long as it's an enemy, they throw an arrow at will. Many soldiers were sent to their hometowns with arrows that flew from nowhere.
When the combined sergeants set up countless ladders on the city wall, the Changge soldiers and sword and shield soldiers of the Beichen Army quickly rushed to the female wall. Pick up the rocks and throw them down, and now you don't have to deliberately aim at all. There is a dense crowd below, and a few can be stoned to death if you throw a few of them.
Rolling stones, gold juice, slap rods, and endless siege weapons have allowed these foreign soldiers to see the power of China's cold weapons. All kinds of guarding weapons will bring the Combine to life.
The path of climbing the city wall along the ladder is a road of death, and all kinds of fatal blows are constantly appearing. Finally, a group of friends climbed the city wall and were planning to kill all sides. As a result, several small cars of about 1.5 meters came out, the front was covered with sharp blades protruding 50 centimeters, and there were many Changge soldiers behind them.
Seeing this thing, few people dared to be hard. After taking two steps back, he found that there were several identical cars behind him. It's over, that's the idea of the combined sergeants who climbed the walls.
The marching carts didn't stop their tracks, their sharp blades piercing through the bodies of the combined sergeants who rushed up one by one. The Changge soldiers who followed up were not idle, and the Changge, which was several meters long, was a weapon for harvesting life.
A group of more than 100 combined sergeants who climbed up were killed in a very short time. When the car appeared, until the more than 100 enemies were killed, no one died in the Beichen Army.
The combined army pushing the siege cone outside the city, it took a lot of effort from the boss to get this heavy thing to the city gate. Then dozens of people worked hard in unison, pushing the battering cone towards the door.
There was a loud bang, and the gates were still standing. The siege cone was directly rebounded and retreated more than ten meters, and a large number of combined sergeants around him were flashed out. Subsequently, the Beichen army on the city wall immediately poured a pot of gold juice, and then threw a fire, and the city gate instantly turned into a sea of fire.
------------------------- when Zhang Han was desperately resisting the combined army, Xiao Chen and Yue Yun were still sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army, sipping wine. As for Zhang Han, who was besieged in the north, Xiao Chen really didn't know.
After having a drink with Yue Yunhu, Xiao Chen had just woken up and was frightened by the battle report in front of him.
This is the result of the reconnaissance of the cavalry, and the several cities occupied by General Zhang Han were all beaten back by the combined forces. It is estimated that General Zhang Han has now fallen into the encirclement of the enemy.
This news surprised Xiao Chen, and he hurriedly sent a large number of horsemen to investigate the situation. At the same time, they also called Yun Qi and Yue Yun to the Chinese army's big tent.
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