Chapter 989: All-out Attack
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When the Yangzhou army outside the city began to attack the city, the Xu Gong army that was surrounded in the inner city was not willing to be lonely, they opened the north city gate, and a large group of elite troops rushed out of the city. However, it is conceivable that this number must be indispensable, otherwise let alone breaking through the blockade of the Vermilion Bird Legion, I am afraid that it will only be a part of stuffing the other party's teeth.
At the forefront was a group of heavy cavalry, and judging from the equipment, they were still an eighth-order heavy cavalry, because the tin cans they wore were too familiar, and they were the signature equipment of the eighth-order soldiers. Moreover, these full-body armor are specially made for heavy cavalry, and it is obvious that Xu Gong has put a lot of thought into this heavy cavalry.
Now Xu Gong hopes to use the power of these heavy cavalry to open the defense line of the Suzaku Legion.
But Zhou Cang was not stupid, naturally he would not let his infantry face the charge from the side, and seeing that these heavy cavalry were about to rush into his own line, he directly let the army under his command get out of the way. At the same time, a group of giant axemen were placed on both sides, and the moment the enemy rushed past them, the giant axes in their hands slashed at the legs of the constantly flipping horses.
"Click...... Click......" A crisp sound of cracking bones announced the tragic fate of these war horses, even if these war horses were excellent, the slender legs of the horses could not stop the chopping of the giant axe, and suddenly many war horses collapsed to the ground, and the horse's mouth made a long neighing sound, as if telling their comrades their pain.
The soldier on horseback rolled at the moment when the horse fell. Flipping on the ground, they stood up, although the loss of their horses caught them a little off guard, but after all, they were all elites of a hundred battles, and their adaptability was not weak at all, as soon as they got up from the ground, they held their weapons and attacked the enemies around them. However, how could these cavalrymen who had left their war horses be the opponents of the Baiyun City soldiers who were also of the eighth order strength? What's more, a large group of eighth-order soldiers swarmed up, and in less than a moment, these heavy cavalry were suppressed. Although the whole body armor on their bodies was very strong, it could not stop the sophisticated weapons in the hands of the soldiers of Baiyun City.
Of course, these cavalry did not fail to achieve any success. Some of the heavy cavalry that were not attacked still ran into some of the slower non-guards. Although the soldiers of Baiyun City were strong, they were hit head-on by these heavy cavalry, and they were seriously injured if they did not die.
The encounter of these heavy cavalry did not frighten the troops who rushed out from behind, and they rushed out behind the walls. It was glued to the Baiyun City army two or three hundred meters outside the city wall. As more and more troops poured out from inside the city gates. The front is getting longer and longer. Zhou Cang didn't want to directly send a small number of troops to block the city gate. But the archers on the city were not ornaments, as soon as they entered the range of the archers, they were immediately attacked by the other side. After trying it a few times, Zhou Cang didn't plan to find himself bored.
Xu Gong is standing on the inner city wall at the moment, he has a full view of the battle under the city wall, he is actually very depressed now, nominally speaking, he is now defending the city, but the other party does not have the slightest intention of attacking the city, and he will not be able to give full play to the value of the city wall. And in order to cope with the siege of the Yangzhou army outside the city, he also had to give up the advantage of the city wall and send his army to fight head-on with the Baiyun City army. The huge casualty figure made Xu Gong very distressed. But this is also a helpless thing, if he can't annihilate or expel the Baiyun City army that occupies the outer city of Wu County in one go, he may not escape death in the end. Therefore, despite the huge cost, Xu Gong still let the army continue to attack the army of Baiyun City.
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This is a tug-of-war at the cost of human lives, and people on both sides are constantly falling, and there are constantly people making up for it from behind, and no one will show weakness lightly.
The night came quickly, but this did not affect the determination of the Yangzhou army to attack the city, and one torch after another was lit outside Wu County, which suddenly lit up half of the sky, and the battlefield became red. It seems that the Yangzhou army is really planning to fight at night.
It's just that this scene made Yang Tian vomit very badly, is this just a torch? Can this effect be achieved?
But no matter what, it is indeed not dark on the battlefield now, which makes Yang Tian, who originally thought that the Yangzhou army would stop attacking the city after dark, had to give up the idea in his heart. Isn't it just a night fight? The besiegers are not afraid, but what are you worried about as the defenders of the city?
Next, the two sides fell into a fierce battle, and when it was almost midnight, Xu Gong was the first to be unable to survive, because in this half night, he had sent more than 100,000 soldiers from the four city gates to charge, but all of them turned out to be meat buns for dogs. If the sacrifice of these 100,000 soldiers can have a little effect, then Xu Gong can still figure it out, but the key is that these troops were sent out, and the battle was very fierce, but the results could not be taken. He could see clearly on the city wall that his more than 100,000 soldiers had reduced the opponent's army by nearly 20,000 at most, and he couldn't even force the defense line to retreat, which was indeed too big.
In fact, Xu Gong also knew very well that it was normal for such a huge gap to occur, and the reason was that the more than 100,000 soldiers he sent out, except for a few thousand eighth-order heavy cavalry, were all seventh-order soldiers, and these soldiers were already the most elite under his command. But what kind of existence is this Baiyun City army under the city? He may have had some doubts before, but now he is 100% sure that these troops below are definitely eighth-order soldiers, and the other party's equipment is all silver-level suits. If the defensive line laid by such an army was broken away by his more than 100,000 men, he would feel unreasonable.
It was precisely because he saw the gap between the two that Xu Gong would order the army to stop the attack. Because in his opinion, it is completely an act of sending to death.
In the previous battle with Baiyun City, Xu Gong was not unaware of the strength of Baiyun City, but at the very beginning, the Baiyun City army did not attack the city with all its might, so it gave Xu Gong some illusions. On the last day, when Baiyun City attacked strongly, he understood one thing, that is, Baiyun City was by no means in vain. Later, the reason why he dared to promise Chen Wen to respond to the other party when the Yangzhou army attacked the city was that he felt that Yang Tian would put his main force on the outer city wall, rather than to defend against them. It's just that now it seems that Yang Tian really attaches great importance to him, and actually sent a main army of nearly 500,000 people to guard the inner city, which made him desperate and proud at the same time.
Now, Xu Gong no longer had any hope of breaking through the blockade of Baiyun City, and his only hope now was that the Yangzhou army would be able to break through Wu County and annihilate the Baiyun City army in the city. In his opinion, this possibility is still relatively large, after all, Chen Wen has gathered tens of millions of troops this time, if this can fail, it can only be said that Baiyun City is too powerful.
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Although it was already the middle of the night, Chen Wen was not sleepy at all, and his sad expression showed that he was not in a very good mood at the moment.
In the evening of yesterday, he heard that the sun and nearly three million Baiyun City troops had been surrounded by his millions of troops in Wu County, his mood could be described as very comfortable, he seemed to have seen that all the soldiers under his command were wearing the high-quality standard equipment of the Baiyun City army, crisscrossing the battlefield, invincible.
However, in less than an hour, he received another piece of news that took him from heaven to hell in an instant. Perhaps this metaphor is a bit exaggerated, but it can truly reflect the changes in Chen Wen's feelings. For him, this second news was indeed too sudden, so sudden that he didn't have time to make any mental preparations.
The army of Baiyun City attacked Yangzhou in six ways! One of them has already stormed a city with thunder, and due to the short time, it is now in the midst of a fierce battle. However, it is obvious that this small city with broken gates will definitely not be able to stop the attack of the tiger and wolf forces of Baiyun City, and it is already a matter of time before it changes hands.
If it was just this city, it wouldn't make Chen Wen so worried, but the key was that under the troops of Baiyun City, Yuzhang and Danyang counties were under its threat, with the current strength of the counties in these two counties, it would be really difficult to block the pace of attack by the Baiyun City army.
Chen Wen really regretted it now, he really underestimated the strength of Baiyun City too much. According to his previous estimates, it would be good for Baiyun City to be able to have a main army of two million to three million, but now, the six-way army alone has reached three million. Together with the armies of Yanzhou and Wu County, it definitely exceeded five million. This miscalculation made Yangzhou fall into absolute passivity.
Now Chen Wen is entangled in a question in his heart, which Yang Tian and others have also considered, that is, whether the army of Wu County should be transferred back to Yuzhang and Danyang counties. After all, almost half of the land in Wu County has now fallen into the hands of Baiyun City, even if Wu County has been occupied by Yang Tian. Although he was confident that he would recapture Wu County, the losses were bound to be very large. If these nearly 10 million troops are transferred back to defend Yuzhang and Danyang, with the help of the city wall, they can cause greater damage to Baiyun City.
But after all, this is an army of tens of millions, not that it will be transferred back. Moreover, if you want to come from Wu County to the battlefield of Yuzhang and Danyang counties, you can't do it in three or four days. No one can say what kind of changes will take place in these three or four days. Maybe most of the land in Yuzhang and Danyang counties has changed hands.
Fortunately, there is one thing that makes Chen Wen more reassured, that is, with the current number of troops in Baiyun City, he can occupy a county at most, because he does not occupy a place, he needs to leave the army to defend, and the three million people in Baiyun City as the main attacker, after defeating twenty or thirty cities, even if there is not a single battle damage, after deducting the troops stationed in each city, there will be only a few people left. When the time comes, if you want to continue the offensive, you can't do it. (To be continued)