Chapter 323: The First Battle of Lingshou
Early in the morning of the second day, facing the rising sun, Yan Liang led 3,000 Beiwei troops, 10,000 Qi family troops, and 100,000 ordinary third-order elites to arrive outside the north gate of Lingshou County.
Immediately ordered 10,000 ordinary third-order elites to start transporting earth to fill the ravines outside the city.
It's just tragic that the three defensive ravines are all within the bow and arrow range of the defenders at the head of the city, so the filling operation must risk being shot.
Of course, in the world, there is always a spear and a shield.
After hundreds of the Yuan family's earth-filling soldiers fell, the Yuan army changed the earth-filling mode three times before finally making good progress:
At the beginning, it was to carry soil in one hand and a shield in the other, but unfortunately there was too little soil in this way, and the efficiency was low;
Immediately afterwards, it was changed to a group of two, one holding a shield to cover, and one carrying soil, but this still felt awkward, and the efficiency was still not high;
In the end, Yan Liang adopted the suggestion of the trial, and in a group of ten people, two people held shields to cover in front, and eight people carried soil to fill the trench, so that although the enemy archers occasionally found an opportunity to attack, the efficiency of filling the ditch was greatly improved.
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"All sharpshooters shoot freely, remember, try to kill as many enemies as possible with one arrow, and don't waste arrows. The rest of the classes are on standby! "Xu Huang had a requirement before that each unit above the level of Qu must group soldiers with intermediate archery skills or above, called archers, and be responsible for accurate shooting!
"No!"
Due to the accurate shooting of the archers on the city wall, it not only caused certain casualties to the Yuan family's earth-filling troops, but also greatly reduced their work efficiency. After all, while transporting soil, you have to observe whether your teammates' shields are still in front of you, which is also very distracting, and it will inevitably affect efficiency!
What's even more sad is that the enemy troops on the city wall occasionally attack with siege crossbows, and the thick crossbow arrows not only break through the shield, but also pass through the bodies of several soldiers in a row, which makes people tremble!
Whenever a huge crossbow arrow flew out from the top of the city, many shield-bearers in the same direction trembled, trembled their hands and feet, and moved out of shape. At the same time, the archers at the head of the city always took the opportunity to shoot at the gap, and the Yuan army shot in this way was several times more than the siege crossbow arrows shot directly!
Yan Liang looked at the soldiers who fell all the time, his fists were clenched, the skin on the edge of his palms was blue, and the blood vessels on the back of his hands were protruding, and he was extremely resentful!
Seeing this scene, the judge was worried that he would give an irrational order because of his anger, so he patiently persuaded him: "The general doesn't have to be like this, attacking the fortified city, he would have been prepared to pay the price of one or two times the enemy's casualties, but once the city is broken, the enemy will collapse in an instant and be slaughtered!" ”
"I understand, but seeing the soldiers being shot and helpless is always infuriating!" Yan Liang said in a loud voice.
"Well, these trenches always have to be filled in anyway, and this method should be the most efficient. It's just that now it seems that our 100,000 troops are still too thin, and we should ask the lord to step up the reinforcements! "As a military advisor, many times I still think about the work on the whole.
"Then trouble the military advisor to send a letter to the lord!" Yan Liang nodded in agreement.
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It was not until noon the next day that Yuan Jun filled in several passages for the three trenches outside the city, and began to roll out pieces of wooden rafts to fill the moat in the form of baffle carts.
Because they were closer to the range of the defenders, the arrows at the head of the city were more accurate, and the casualties of Yuan's army skyrocketed. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, after Yuan Jun paid nearly 8,000 lives before and after, he built a passage for the cloud ladder to attack the city.
Because he held back for nearly two days and lived a life of only being beaten and not fighting back, Yan Liang directly ordered the siege of the city, regardless of the fact that there was not much time left before dark.
Braving the arrows at the head of the city, the soldiers of the Yuan army had a cloud ladder for every 100 people, and tens of thousands of soldiers and 100 cloud ladders were dispatched at once, and they rushed to the city with majestic momentum and dense intensity.
Almost every soldier of the Yuan family held a wooden shield in his left hand, carried a ladder in his right hand, or held a weapon, and rushed to the city quickly.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
There is a gloomy and tragic atmosphere in the city!
Although more than a dozen ladders fell halfway down the road and could not be carried to the bottom of the city, the remaining more than 80 ladders still leaned against the city wall, and Yuan Jun began to climb desperately up.
At the same time, Yan Liang sent a thousand more people to re-lift more than a dozen cloud ladders that were resting in the middle of the road, and continued to rush towards the city wall.
If you observe the entire battlefield from God's perspective, between the north city wall of Lingshou County and Yuan Shaojun at this time, it seems to be boiling all at once!
Hundreds of soldiers of the Yuan army climbed up the city, and the soldiers of Tianma City in the city continued to pour wood, stones, and gold juice down the ladder!
The shouts and screams on the battlefield rang out!
The cloud ladder has become the point of no return for Yuan Jun, as long as he climbs the cloud ladder, there is nothing that can be retreated. Some fell down the ladder and died, some were shot with bows and arrows, some were stoned to death by wood and stones, and some were burned to death by gold juice......
The siege troops, of course, exposed themselves naked to the noses of the soldiers of Tianma City, and suffered heavy casualties; And if the defenders exposed their bodies, they would immediately be attacked by the bows and arrows of the Yuan Intermediate Intermediate Special Troops who were in charge of the Yuan Army, who was in charge of bow and arrow cover!
Yan Liang himself was a fierce-tempered heaven-level general, looking at the tens of thousands of people he had sent out, he had lost more than half of them in the blink of an eye. Without hesitation, he shouted an order for the second 10,000-strong squad to attack and take over the first wave of attacking troops!
Of course, the first wave of troops was only allowed to withdraw the wounded, and the rest should attack and attack.
After a fierce attack for more than an hour, the Yuan army finally achieved good results after paying the price of tens of thousands of people: hundreds of soldiers attacked the city wall! Although all of them were annihilated by the defending troops in the end, it finally gave Yan Liangjun hope.
Seeing that it was getting late, and there was no possibility of breaking the city today, Yan Liang decisively issued the order of "Mingjin to withdraw the troops" after seeing that the hundreds of soldiers who climbed the city wall were all annihilated!
Anyway, it is impossible for Lingshou County to be broken in one day, and it is even impossible to be broken by these more than 100,000 troops, so everything can only wait to see how many troops Quyang can transfer over.
After collecting the troops, the trial wrote a report letter to Yuan Shao about today's siege situation, and suggested that Yuan Shao continue to increase the number of troops by 200,000 from Shangquyang.
Of course, before sending the letter, Yan Liang also looked at it and got his approval, so he asked the scout to report to Shangquyang.
After the letter was issued, the review began to treat the wounded, count the damage, and visit the soldiers.
Although he had been on the battlefield for a long time and didn't take the lives of ordinary soldiers seriously, looking at the mountains of corpses and blood all over the ground under Lingshou County, almost none of them were enemy soldiers, Yan Liang's mood still felt very depressed.
"General, in the first battle in the afternoon, more than 13,000 soldiers were killed and more than 3,000 were wounded!" The judge walked over and whispered.
"Well, when Lingshou County is captured, I will definitely return a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood!" Yan Liang gritted his teeth and said, as a heaven-level general, after Yan Liang recognized Yuan Shao as the master, he had made many military exploits, and he had never fought such a bad battle as today!