Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 166 Surrender
The Beichen soldiers in red armor are each holding a long ge or a sword and shield. Ignoring the sharp arrows flying around him, he lined up in a neat line and headed towards the wooden camp wall six or seven meters high.
On such a battlefield among hundreds of thousands of people, no one dares to guarantee that they will survive to the end of the battle. From the smashed and pitted camp wall of the Gallic army, against the feathers shot from above. Only by lining up in a neat military formation and relying on numerous robes will you have a greater chance of survival.
The military formation is arranged according to the level of the Beichen Military Association, and one military formation is 10,000 people. This is not only convenient for the generals to command, but also a complete configuration of troops can greatly reduce casualties.
Among the 10,000 people, there are 4,000 sword and shield soldiers and 4,000 infantry shields, which are enough to protect the companions around them. Of course, the shield is not omnipotent, and even a dense shield wall cannot block all the dense arrow feathers.
The pervasive arrow feathers still caused some casualties to the Beichen Army's military formation. Under the blanket blow of the black arrows floating in the sky, there are always some unlucky guys who are shot.
The only lucky thing is that not many people died on the spot, after all, the sword and shield soldiers of the Beichen Army are not dry meals. With years of combat experience, they know which part of the shield to protect. So, as long as you are not unlucky, you are shot in the head by a Gallic archer, or ten thousand arrows pierce the heart, then you can't even want to die.
The sword and shield soldiers stick to their posts and protect the robes and brothers around them. Chang Gebing looked at the rain of arrows in the sky with a stern face, and they only wanted to reach the front line of the battle as soon as possible. Let the garbage in Gaul taste the power of the six-meter-long Ge in their own hands.
As a key object of protection in the Beichen Army, the archers have not been in any danger. Sometimes, after the Gallic army fired a wave of arrows, they quickly fired back a wave. Although there are not many of them, they can't let the Gallic army underestimate our Beichen army!
In the cracks of more than a dozen Beichen Army formations, hundreds of prehistoric beasts slowly exercised. A hundred nest cars, supporting its eight-meter-tall man, under the impetus of nearly 10,000 soldiers, stimulated the small hearts of the Gallic army step by step.
In the eyes of the Beichen army, the seven-meter camp wall of Gaul was of little use at all. Think about the Changge soldiers in the Beichen Army, Changge alone is six meters. That is to say, the Changge soldiers can completely stand on the ground and poke at the Gallic army with the Changge.
Yue Fei believed that even without siege weapons such as nest cars, the Beichen army could still break the camp wall of the Gallic army. But Yue Fei still discharged the nest car, just to suppress the Gallic archers above Hachi City.
With one hundred nest cars, more than 20 siege vertebrae, and 400 siege ladders, it can be said that tonight, Yue Fei pulled out more than half of the siege equipment in his hand.
It's just a pity that Joan of Arc can't see such a scene.
Soon the Beichen army rushed to within 100 paces, and at the same time ushered in the attack of more Gallic archers on the city of Hachi.
The archers on the walls of the Gallic barracks were only a few tens of thousands, but the number of archers on the city of Hachi was even higher, reaching a full 100,000. The strategy of the Gallic army was like this, blocking the Beichen army with a large number of infantry troops on the front camp wall. Then the 100,000 archers on Hachi City rained arrows to their heart's content, killing and wounding the Beichen army while supporting their own troops on the front camp wall.
As for the fact that the front camp wall was breached by the Beichen army, none of the Gallic generals considered it. An army of 400,000 condescended to defend a camp wall. If this is still broken by the 200,000 Beichen army, the big guy will not have to fight this battle anymore, and he will go home and pick up the child.
The hand that Joan of Arc arranged was indeed very powerful, indeed very insidious. The 400,000-strong army was all placed on the front camp wall, and 100,000 archers were shooting non-stop. In this case, even Yue Fei didn't want to attack with all his might.
It's not that the Beichen Army can't be broken, a small camp wall wants to block the footsteps of the Beichen Army, it's no different from telling jokes. It's just that if the Beichen army wants to break through this camp wall, the price they pay is definitely something that the Beichen Kingdom can't afford.
The 100,000 archers released their arrows for a few hours without any scruples, and the Beichen army lost at least 100,000 troops no matter how much they wanted. This is still too little, who knows how many arrows the Gallic Kingdom piled up in the city of Hachi.
If it is more, it is estimated that when the Gallic army is destroyed, the Beichen army will also have to lose more than 250,000. This is not a casualty of cannon fodder, because it is useless to go up to cannon fodder. The combat effectiveness is not strong, and it does not play a big role in attacking the camp wall, so it can only consume some arrows of the Gallic State.
So Yue Fei didn't dare to bet, the stakes were too big. Beichen Guo can't afford to gamble now, so he can only wait for Ma Chao and Wang Ping. As long as their two armies arrived, the Beichen army would not have to do anything, and the Gallic army would be defeated without a fight.
As soon as the 100,000 archers of Hachicheng joined the battle, the entire Beichen army began to shake in the wind and rain. There are tens of thousands of arrows at every turn, and even the 10,000-strong army formation is a little unable to resist. Compared with the previous arrows that only had a few thousand, tens of thousands of arrows were like the bright moon, completely abusing thousands of arrows like stars, and at the same time abusing 200,000 Beichen troops.
There was a thud of thunderclaps, and countless arrows were nailed to the broad shields of the infantry, or to the flesh of the unfortunate bastard. The Beichen saber and shield soldier carrying the shield felt the shield sink violently when the arrow rain fell. The tremendous force shook the arm on which the shield was hung sore, but the soldiers did not say a word, and slashed the shield with the ring knife in their hands. At least a dozen arrow feathers were swept off in an instant and fell to the ground.
After that, the sword and shield soldiers raised their shields again to protect themselves and their companions. A few seconds later, another screech was heard in the sky.
Immediately after that, countless arrows smashed on the shield again, and the arms of the sword and shield soldiers became more and more numb.
After five consecutive rounds of arrow rain, the Beichen sergeants were always out of the sea of suffering. When the 200,000 men rushed to a distance of fifty paces from the Gallic barracks wall, they dispersed their formation, and a honeycomb of them struck at the top of the barracks wall.
One by one, the Beichen sergeants who took the lead in contacting the enemy's camp moved their feet quickly. As soon as they arrived at the foot of the camp wall, countless rolling stones were thrown down from the seven-meter-high camp. One by one, the city-receiving weapons fell on the heads of the Beichen army in an instant, and the sword and shield soldiers were better, and if they were blocked with shields, the most serious thing was the broken arm. Of course, if you are not lucky and take another beat, you still can't escape the cycle of death.
In contrast, Chang Gebing was even more unlucky. Without a shield to cover it, if you take a blow to the rocks, you will be seriously injured if you don't die. In such a tragic siege battle, serious injuries are no different from death. After all, no one would waste precious troops at this time to pull the injured back.
As a result, the fate of Changge soldiers was doomed to bad luck at the beginning of the battle. A better one can also poke an enemy to death before he dies, and one life for another is not too much of a loss. Unfortunately, as soon as he ran under the camp wall, he was directly smashed into the head without poking the enemy.
The archers of the Beichen Army were not idle, and under the cover of more than a thousand sword and shield soldiers, they kept shooting towards the Gallic army on the camp wall. It doesn't matter how many enemies you want to kill, as long as you can slow down the speed at which they can throw fortification materials.
The battle was raging, and there were already a lot of corpses piled up under the camp walls. There was the Beichen army, and many of them were Gallic troops. The soldiers on both sides were already red-eyed at the foot of the camp wall, and there were no inspiring slogans, only the sound of killing from the bottom of their hearts.
And, the screams before dying!
At the foot of the camp wall, the casualty ratio of the soldiers on both sides was very close, but in the entire battle situation, the casualties of the Beichen army had far exceeded that of the Gallic army.
Mainly because of the 100,000 archers on Hachi City, their threat is too great. Especially when the Beichen Army reached a formation dozens of steps away from the camp wall and began to scatter and charge, this moment was the time when the Beichen Army suffered the greatest casualties.
As soon as the army was dispersed, the army began to rush towards the camp wall at a rapid pace, but no matter how fast the speed of the people was, it could not be as fast as the arrows that came quickly.
Without the cover of the big array, tens of thousands of arrows rained down on the head of the Beichen Army on the charging road in an instant. Suddenly, the entire cluster of charging soldiers went blank the moment the arrow rain fell.
Thousands of people fell in a rain of arrows in less than a matter of seconds. There was not a single living person in the place where the rain of arrows fell, and even the sword and shield soldiers could not resist the tens of thousands of oncoming arrows.
The battle had only been going on for an hour before Yue Fei ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops. Unable to fight any longer, in just one hour, the Beichen Army had killed more than 13,000 people, and there were thousands of casualties.
It's only been an hour, and the army has been reduced by a tenth in an instant. In other words, these 200,000 elite troops, even if they attack with all their might, can only fight for ten hours. If the camp wall cannot be broken within five hours, the Beichen army will either retreat or wait for death.
Encourage the army to advance, and the Jin Xiang army retreats!
The hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers of the Beichen Army, who had been fighting for an hour, heard bursts of piercing golden sounds from the rear. began to cover each other and slowly retreated to the rear.
It didn't take long for the battlefield, which was still fighting to shake the earth, calmed down in an instant. The pale yellow earth has been stained red by the blood of warriors. Countless corpses were piled up, revealing infinite desolation and misery.
After the army returned to the camp, both sides soon had a tacit understanding that a group of soldiers holding white flags came out. They went to the battlefield to collect the wounded of their own soldiers, and were responsible for carrying the corpses of their soldiers back to the camp.
It's autumn, and although the weather isn't hot, the body still stinks if it's not buried. If it is not dealt with in time, it is not impossible for a plague to occur.
In the following days, Yue Fei never used his army to attack the camp wall. Every day only let the tens of thousands of archers under his command, as well as the tens of thousands of sword and shield soldiers who were covering, run over and shoot a few formations against the Gallic army.
Joan of Arc woke up after the end of the battle that day. Listening to a group of generals happily talking about repelling a ferocious attack of the Beichen army, Joan of Arc could only sigh helplessly.
The army can't be withdrawn, the Beichen army has already moved the camp forward for more than ten miles, and he has no chance to withdraw safely!
Alas~~ I only hope that some cities in the west can block the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops under Ma Chao!
However, with only tens of thousands of defenders, can it be stopped? Hehe... Joan of Arc smiled helplessly twice, looking at the Beichen Army not far away, and his heart was completely relieved....