Chapter 251: Take a bite of milk
After leaving behind 4,000 slave troops and 2,000 Qin soldiers, Meng Tian and Meng Yi safely left the battlefield with a large army of the Qin army, and moved towards the nearest city, avoiding the Zhao army that had been copied from the back bread and avoiding major losses.
Soon, tens of thousands of Zhao troops appeared outside Yecheng, and after seeing that Yecheng had been relieved, the generals of the Zhao army who led the army exchanged a few words with Qin Wu, and then submitted an application to attack the alliance together.
Originally, Qin Wu's plan was not to form an alliance with either of the two countries of Qin and Zhao, and to be a permanently neutral force. However, Qin Mugong's determination turned Qin Wu's attempt into a delusion, in this case, one was bent on making himself a mortal enemy, and the other was helping him to break the siege, Qin Wu didn't need to think about it and knew what to do now.
After choosing to form an alliance with Zhao, Qin Wu did not immediately launch an attack on the Qin army, but retreated back to Yecheng and continued to train his army.
After two days of fierce siege battles, although the Wu army suffered more than 8,000 casualties, it also gained little. After two days of training, the new armed forces have been tested by the war, and their morale and combat effectiveness have been greatly enhanced.
With the surrender of 4,000 slave troops, plus 4,000 able-bodied men selected from the 8,000 civilian legions, Qin Wu's army continued to maintain a formation of 55,000 men.
After Meng Tian retreated to Changzhi City, he never forgot to attack Qin Wu. The right side of Shangdang has completely become a battle between Changzhi City and Yecheng, Lian Po and Zhao Hao are also happy that Qin Wu helped them contain a lot of Qin troops, seeing that Yecheng should not be in danger in a short time, they did not send tens of thousands of reinforcements like the first time.
Meng Tian kept challenging Qin Wu, but Qin Wu chose to ignore it completely, and trained the army in the city to improve the morale and combat effectiveness of the Wu army.
A few days later, Meng Tian simply rushed over with 60,000 Qin troops and 10,000 slave troops, camped outside the wild city, and after separating a thousand cavalry to post around the wild city, Meng Tian once again set off a crazy siege battle.
This time, with the experience of the last battle, coupled with every training and waiting for work, the strength of the armed forces has made great progress. The Qin army under the command of Meng Tian was losing ground by little because of the long journey to support Shangdang, the long-term invincibility, the heavy casualties in the desperate siege, and the lack of adaptation to the water and soil.
In short, the military army sitting in Yecheng is a cutting-edge division that waits for work, is well-trained, and has won several battles in a row, while Meng Tian's Qin army is a tired division, and the strength of the soldiers on both sides has been infinitely close, and this time the advantage of defending the city is finally reflected.
In one day of onslaught, the 60,000 Qin army suffered 5,000 casualties among the slave army and 4,000 Qin soldiers, while the Wu army of Qin Wu lost only 2,000 men.
With the exception of the slave army, which had extremely low combat effectiveness, the Qin army suffered twice as many casualties as the Wu army.
"The martial army in the wild city suddenly became more powerful, Meng Yi, what do you think?"
On the first day of the siege, there were heavy casualties, and Meng Tian couldn't help frowning and asked Meng Yi.
"Yecheng is completely in the hands of Qin Wu, and no one is allowed to enter or leave now, so we don't know anything about the situation in the city. However, according to the estimated strength of the enemy's army, the current military army is already returning to the past. Qin Wu was completely fighting with his main force, and the remaining tens of thousands of people in Yecheng were all recruits with low combat effectiveness. ”
Meng Yi guessed.
Shangdang had been fighting, so everyone thought that the only thing Qin Wu could fight in his hands was the 25,000 Qin soldiers he had "borrowed". The soldiers recruited by Qin Wu in Shangdang lacked enough time to exercise, and they also lacked enough weapons and armor to equip, could they have Qin soldiers recruited in the Qin State, where the people were strong, and then underwent strict training?
Meng Tian and Meng Yi had always thought that it was the 25,000 Qin soldiers in Qin Wu's hands who were fighting with them at the head of the city, and now that the 25,000 people had lost more than 10,000 people, and after a period of onslaught, Meng Tian and Meng Yi believed that Yecheng would soon be taken by them.
If they knew that most of the martial troops under Qin Wu were the strength of these soldiers in the city, and the recruits in the martial army had become veterans with Meng Tian's attacks again and again, and they became stronger and stronger, they didn't know what he would think.
Everyone thought that Qin Wu's troops were limited, and the soldiers under him who could fight were getting fewer and fewer, but they didn't expect that Qin Wu would use this kind of tragic siege battle as a battle for military training, constantly urging his next batch of immature recruits, and at the same time making the old soldiers stronger.
If Meng Tian and Meng Yi knew this, they wouldn't have killed him and would not have only used 60,000 Qin soldiers to attack Yecheng. For such a threatening enemy, Meng Tian would definitely give up the battle with the Zhao army first, gather an army of more than 100,000, and kill Qin Wu at one time.
But there is no what if, the Montessori brothers don't know much about the situation in Yecheng, and they see clearly the strength of Qin Wu and the Wu army, which has led to the current situation.
Meng Tian and Meng Yi thought that Qin Wu had returned to the light, and there were not many soldiers under him, and Zhao Jun, who had been paying attention to the Yecheng battlefield in the dark, also thought so.
The wild city with Qin Wu in charge is completely like a mt that uses the group taunting skill, completely attracting the offensive firepower of the Qin army, it is a good person, Zhao Jun's Lian Po and Zhao Hao don't want such a good ally to hang up so quickly.
So the day after Meng Tian stormed Yecheng again, Zhao Ru came with 50,000 Zhao reinforcements, and Meng Tian, who was worried about being attacked from both sides, had to withdraw from camping thirty miles away.
Seeing that he had scared the Qin army away, Zhao Ru hurriedly took a sip of milk, supported five thousand Zhao soldiers and a large number of weapons, equipment, medicines and food to Qin Wu, and then retreated.
Unexpectedly received the assistance of 5,000 Zhao soldiers and a large amount of materials, Qin Wu's first reaction was whether this was a ploy of the Zhao army, and there was a Zhao general who could take charge of the matter hidden among the 5,000 Zhao soldiers, and then he was ready to take the opportunity to take Yecheng.
However, after Zhao Ru completely left the territory of Yecheng, Qin Wu carefully inspected the five thousand Zhao soldiers, and finally determined that this was the support of the Zhao army for himself. After thinking about it carefully, Qin Wu understood Zhao Jun's thoughts. I think that I Qin Wu only have those 25,000 Qin soldiers in my hands who can fight?
It's better that way!
A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and Qin Wu said secretly in his heart.
Everyone saw the strength of the Wu army, and when the Wu army left Yecheng and showed its fangs, everyone would definitely be surprised!
Meng Tian was driven away by Zhao Ru's army, so much so that later Zhao Ru supported Qin Wu's 5,000 Zhao soldiers and a large amount of supplies, but the Monte brothers did not know.
After confirming that Zhao Ru had retreated, Meng Tian and Meng Yi made a comeback and continued to attack Yecheng.
Moreover, the Qin army has occupied the city of Shangdang for a period of time, and a large number of siege weapons have finally been manufactured, this time Meng Tian specially brought the catapult, Jinglan and Chong chariot with siege weapons, and launched the most ferocious attack on Yecheng.
The range of the catapult is only a distance less than that of the city crossbow, after a large number of sword and shield soldiers escorted the catapult troops to move outside the wild city, after a period of preparation, with the order of the commander of the catapult troops, one after another boulders flew towards the wild city, smashing several soldiers into bloody corpses on the top of the city, or whistling over the heads of everyone, the boulders smashed into the wild city, destroying the buildings and facilities in the city.
"The enemy's siege weapons have been developed, and the gates are blocked with stones."
Seeing that the catapult of the Qin army was wreaking havoc on the city wall, the city crossbow on the city wall was also counterattacking, shooting the Qin soldiers next to the catapult, Qin Wudao.
Now that the catapult has been made, there is no reason for the simpler rush to be made yet, Qin Wu prepared in advance in case the city gate was broken.
This time, Meng Tian brought a full twenty catapults, and the boulders on the side piled up into a small mountain. The crossbow arrows eventually destroyed the twelve catapults, but the catapults also destroyed all the crossbows on all four walls of the castle.
The remaining eight catapults want to smash the walls of Wild City, but I don't know how long it will take, and maybe their service life will not last until the walls are smashed.
Seeing that the city crossbow was completely destroyed, Meng Tian waved his hand, and Jing Lan, Chongche, and Qin swords, shield soldiers, Changge soldiers, and archers pushing the ladder advanced together.
The Wu army archers at the head of the city poured down arrows to attack the Qin soldiers under the city and the archers on Jinglan, and the Qin army archers under the city and on Jinglan were also not to be outdone and returned to the Wu army archers on the city with feather arrows.
With Jing Lan's containment, the pressure on the archers of the Qin army under the city was reduced a lot, the casualties were fewer, the offensive intensity was greater, and the role played was naturally greater.
Sou!
Qin Wu held a dark gold longbow, shot an archer on the well with an arrow through the throat, and then kicked the cloud ladder on the head of the city with one kick, killing many Qin soldiers in one fell swoop.
As the west gate of the Qin army's main attack, Qin Wu sat here, shot the Qin army archers on Jinglan with quasi-ruthless armor-piercing arrows, pushed the cloud ladder on the head of the city down the city with great force and powerful combat power, and killed the Qin soldiers who climbed to the head of the city to fight, or threw them down the city, and the battle rhythm of the West Gate has always been in the hands of the Wu army.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, Qin Wu only felt a shock under his feet, and he didn't need to look to know that this was not a catapult throwing boulders attacking the city wall, but a rushing car under the city attacking the city gate.
Qin Wu at the city gate was not worried, because he guessed that the Qin army might have a rushing car, and Qin Wu had already blocked it with a stone inside the city gate, and it was impossible for the Qin army to enter the city in a short time.
The person Qin Wu was really worried about was Meng Tian!
Known as the "No. 1 Chinese General" during the Warring States Period, Meng Tian has excellent martial arts, flexible minds, changeable tactics, and is good at sports warfare, which is also the reason why Meng Tian's Hu people dare not stop the herding horses.
Qin Wu can be said to have a deep understanding of Meng Tian's characteristics, so no matter how Meng Tian behaved like a brave and unscrupulous idiot who only knew how to forcibly storm the city, how to humiliate himself and ask for a dignified battle outside the city, Qin Wu chose to ignore it.
(To be continued)