Chapter 46: Sun Jian's Contributions
When Sun Jian's army was still 50 miles away from the city, Yinqiang City received definite news that a large army had come to attack the city, and hurriedly sent people to report to the defenders of the two camps, as well as other cities. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
But Sun Jian's cavalry assault was too fast, and the distance of 50 miles was only less than half an hour. At the bottom of the city, Sun Jian's cavalry circled the city and led the defenders on the city walls around.
Then, he chose a place where the defense was weak, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, firmly suppressing the archers on the city wall, and then he took the lead, with Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao, like a tiger down the mountain, relying on the impact of the horse, standing on the horse's back, waving the rope with the rope, and directly on the battlement of the city wall.
Then, with the help of the rope, he jumped several feet and climbed the city wall, without the need for siege ladders or anything like that.
It is also because the city walls of Yinqiang City are low, so as soon as Sun Jian and others went to the city, they immediately emptied a section of the city wall. Then the soldiers below the walls began to hang ropes and ladders on the battlements of the walls and began to climb.
Sun Jian brought most of the soldiers from his own headquarters, and all of them were naturally like Sun Jian, who were not afraid of death, and spared no effort when attacking the city, and put life and death out of the way at all.
As more and more soldiers climbed the walls, they began to kill at the nearest gate. The cavalry below the city began to march around the city to shoot at the defenders above the city walls. Most of the defenders on the city wall were archers, so naturally they couldn't resist the scale armor soldiers who climbed the city wall.
And in the city, there were constantly sword and shield soldiers pouring up to the head of the city to confront Sun Jian and them. It was these people who were shot by the cavalry under the walls, who had occupied the positions of the archers, who were completely incapable of counterattacking the cavalry archers under the city, and became complete targets.
In this way, the cavalry followed Sun Jian's progress and advanced towards the city gate, and the Yellow Turban Army had no way to resist it. The archers were able to shoot at the cavalry, but they were completely restrained by the scaly swordsmen. The sword and shield soldiers were able to deal with the scaly sword soldiers, but they were used as targets by the archers under the castle and could not fight back.
Sun Jian arrived at the city gate, concentrated his forces to capture the city, captured the city gate hole, and opened the city gate. At this time, a large number of cavalry began to pour into the city, drawing their sabers and desperately slashing the defenders in the city.
Most of the defenders in the city are on the city walls, and there are not many mobile troops in the city. At this moment, it was no longer possible to stop Sun Jian's army from entering the city.
After all, the defenders in the city are the elite of the Yellow Turban Army, and they are more devout to the Taiping Road, although they are in a weak position, they also rely on houses, city walls, etc. to carry out street battles.
It's a pity that at this time, the general trend has gone, and the infantry against the cavalry, it is good to form a battle formation, but if it does not form a battle formation, it is the target of slaughter!
Sun Jian gave an order, and many heavy cavalry began to climb the city wall along the ramp inside the city, attacking the heavy infantry and archers on the city wall. And where are the heavy infantry and archers the opponents of the heavy cavalry? For a time, the city wall and like a hell, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
And this kind of cavalry is like a sharp iron plow, ploughing the entire city wall from beginning to end, either being hacked to death, chopping, or being knocked to death, trampled to death, and many soldiers really can't stand the impact of this kind of humanoid tank, jumping off the city wall alone, after all, there is still a chance of life, otherwise it can only be crushed.
There is no good way to deal with heavy cavalry. The conventional method is the city wall, but the advantage of the city wall has been lost; The second is heavy cavalry, the best weapon to deal with heavy cavalry in the field is heavy cavalry, but unfortunately the Yellow Turban Army did not arrange such troops at all; The third is the heavy armored spearmen, but their effect against the heavy cavalry is mediocre, and the Yellow Turban Army does not have a similar class.
The city inevitably fell, but there was no peace in the city, for there were resisters everywhere. These Yellow Turbans knew that as long as they persisted, reinforcements would come to support them, and at that time they made a great contribution.
Moreover, the generals of the Yellow Turban Army are also very disgusted with the military horses of the imperial court, after all, if it weren't for the people oppressed by the government who couldn't survive, they wouldn't follow Zhang Jiao as a thief without hesitation.
The news that the reinforcements are coming, Sun Jian naturally knows, he has no way to stop it, once the reinforcements arrive, if the city has not been cleared, this city is likely to be lost.
Therefore, as soon as the city gate was opened, Sun Jian sent Pegasus to deliver the news to the Emperor Fu Song to report and ask for support, at least to be able to hold back the reinforcements. In addition, for the injured Yellow Turban Army that lost their combat effectiveness, the captured Yellow Turban Army, and the Yellow Turban Army who surrendered voluntarily, Sun Jian thought that he had no energy to take care of them, and he kept a long night and dreamed a lot, and they were all slaughtered at the first time.
Even, for those Yellow Turban soldiers who hid in the courtyard of the deep house and resisted stubbornly, Sun Jian ordered to directly set fire to the house.
It has to be said that although Sun Jian's strategy was cruel, it was very effective, and he successfully controlled the main dangerous places. The remaining Yellow Turban soldiers were burned and smoked, and they had no choice but to surrender or fight to the death.
Of course, whether these people came to surrender or fought to the death, they were all slaughtered by Sun Jian without exception.
Before the reinforcements of the Yellow Turban Army arrived, Sun Jian completely controlled the Yinqiang county and laid a nail for the imperial army in Runan.
Then, Sun Jian captured the three armies of the Great Reward, and he did not leave any of them. Therefore, the vanguard troops led by Sun Jian, stimulated by the money and beauties, not only did not have the fatigue after the war, but they were all so excited that they screamed, eager to capture another city and seize the spoils of war.
In this battle, Sun Jian also lost 200,000 people, and more than 300,000 people were wounded, but they killed 80-900,000 Yellow Turban troops, and many Yellow Turban troops saw that the situation was not good, and they had already slipped away.
Sun Jian did not mention killing pigs and sheep to reward the three armies, he ordered all soldiers to wear their clothes day and night, wear armor and sleep in dangerous places all over the city wall. Fortunately, Sun Jian's elite was used to eating and sleeping in the open, and he didn't have too many complaints.
The Yellow Turban reinforcements each sent 900,000, leaving only 100,000 to defend the camp. The 1.8 million Yellow Turban Army marched in a hurry after only one day and one night, and rushed to the city of Yinqiang, only to find that the city had been lost, and the imperial army had firmly planted the banner on the city.
For today's plan, it is not advisable to rashly attack the city, the soldiers are too tired today, and the melee is still possible, but the siege must be carried out in one go, otherwise it will be an empty waste of troops!
The 1.8 million soldiers were divided into two battalions, respectively in the southwest and south directions of Yinqiang City, blocking the road of Sun Jian's attack on Xihua City.
The next day, just after dawn, the drums outside the city were noisy, and the Yellow Turban soldiers had already lined up and prepared to attack the city.
At the head of the city, Sun Jian and a number of generals were also neatly clothed, patrolling back and forth on the city wall, cheering up the soldiers, and inspecting the defense facilities everywhere.
Sun Jian's troops, who can climb to the top of the city to defend the city, still have more than 70 thousand. However, Sun Jian's title of Jiangdong Tiger is not in vain, even in the face of such a Yellow Turban Army, he still ordered half of the soldiers to stay in the center of the city to rest and recuperate, ready to replace other soldiers at any time to deal with various emergencies.
After drumming through the three links, the Yellow Turban Army first carried out a tentative attack from the west and the south respectively, feeling that although Sun Jian's soldiers resisted strongly, the number of soldiers was not large, and he put all his troops into the siege, which should be able to capture the city. Therefore, in the afternoon, after a full meal, the Yellow Turban soldiers decided to attack the city with all their might.
There are more than 10,000 people without borders, not to mention that millions of soldiers are all charging and attacking the city in the south of the city, this spectacular shock of the army, not to mention people, is the black pressure of ants climbing towards the city wall, it is also very mad.
At this time, the imperial court had only more than 400,000 troops on the city wall, and they had to defend the four city walls respectively, and there were less than 200,000 people on the south city wall, all of whom were rangers who dismounted and fought on foot, using bows and arrows and sabers.
In the face of these dense soldiers, it doesn't take a second to shoot people with a bow and slash at the enemy. In the battle at this time, there is not much difference between high-level soldiers and low-level soldiers.
The strengths of high-level soldiers are high force, high hit rate, high dodge, etc., but at this time, these advantages have been greatly weakened!
No matter how high the force is, it can only kill one person with one knife, but it can be hacked to death by a person with low force; No matter how high the hit rate is, at this time, everyone is crowded, and everyone is afraid of people with a high hit rate; No matter how hard you dodge, it's all people, can you dodge? Maybe someone will squeeze you on top of someone else's knife......
For a time, the most cruel scene of human beings was displayed in front of the world. There is no justice and evil here, only life and death; There is no right or wrong, only you live or die......
The vanguard troops of the imperial court are not weak, but the attacking yellow turbans are also the elite of the elite. At this moment, all the strategies are useless, and all that remains is iron, blood, and strength......
The defense line of the city wall was precarious, but Sun Jian did not have the slightest fear, and led a group of generals to stand on the highest tower and observe the surrounding situation.
Half an hour later, Sun Jian ordered: "Zu Mao obeys the order, you go to the reserve camp, mobilize 100,000 soldiers, and reinforce the southern city wall." ā
"Zu Mao commands!"
"Han Dang listened to the order, and you went to the reserve to mobilize 100,000 soldiers to closely monitor the movement in the city, communicate information between the various city walls, and prevent the enemy from sneaking up on other city walls."
"Han deserves the order!"
"Cheng Pu listens to orders! Thou hast taken over the defense of the city, focusing on supervising the southern walls to ensure that they are not lost. In addition, the matter is urgent, and you can transfer other defenders of the city wall to strengthen the defense of the southern wall. ā
"Don't worry, the lord is here, and he won't let the Yellow Turban thieves climb the city wall."
"Good! Huang Gai listened to the order, and you led the remaining 100,000 heavy cavalry to follow me out of the east gate to cover the rear wing of the Yellow Turban thief. ā
"Huang Gai Deling!"
Everyone got Sun Jian's military order, and they went to arrange it without mentioning it.