Volume 12 A Thousand Autumns Exploits Need a Hundred Battles Chapter 1222 Brutality
On this day, Fengzhou, an important town in Yulin, inside and outside the city, there were many killings.
From time to time, fires rose from the city, and thick smoke billowed up into the sky, either the steppe warriors were burning down the houses and breaking the resistance of the defenders, or the defenders themselves set fires to hinder the enemy's advance.
The defenders of Fengzhou City, worthy of the elite of the Left Wing Military Division of the Western Xia, their resistance, unexpectedly resolute and stubborn, the south gate was lost, and then the east city gate was also captured, but tightly held the north gate, the west gate, the stubborn resistance, from morning to night, and the grassland warriors between the streets and alleys, desperate fighting, using a slight advantage in the strength of the army, the grassland tribe army was firmly dragged in the city of Fengzhou.
Brutal street fighting, which in any era, is the last thing the offensive and defensive sides want to see, for the offensive and defensive sides, to this point, there is often no winner in the end.
The troops were scattered in the street fighting, and in the most brutal and fierce places of the fighting, under repeated battles, every step of the way seemed to have to pay an unimaginable price.
The blood flowed wantonly in the city of Toyoshu, the fire shone in the city of Toyoshu, the screams, the shouts of killing, the neighing of war horses, the impact of blades, and the whistling of arrows, mixed together, forming a wild and cruel movement, which belongs to the music of war alone.
Casualties were mounting, the steppe warriors were red-eyed, and the Western Xia defenders were mad and couldn't help themselves.
At this time, the war was in a deadlock, and whether it was advancing or retreating, countless lives had to be paid......
It wasn't until the evening that the city of Fengzhou gradually quieted down, and the tired soldiers finally fell after nightfall, whether it was morale or murderous spirit, they couldn't help but fall down, and in the shouts and cheers of the officers, they gradually gathered together, and the tacit understanding began to retreat, and they buried their own pots to cook and trim.
In this battle, under the fierce fighting of both sides, the casualties were not small, and their respective advantages and disadvantages were also exposed.
The steppe warriors' fearlessness to death, as well as their precise archery skills, often give them a certain advantage in the battle for the streets.
But to be honest, this is not the best way of fighting for the steppe warriors, in the narrow streets and alleys, their proudest riding skills, are limited to death, which is also the main reason why they can't take the city quickly.
In another time and space, falling into such a situation is one of the best ways to drag down the steppe iron cavalry and inflict effective damage on them, of course, this requires great courage on the part of the defenders, you know, once the city is broken, letting the enemy kill in the city often means the loss of a city.
In such a situation, most of the defenders would collapse in an instant, and the enemy would be demoralized and scattered, unable to put up an effective resistance, let alone street fighting.
But like the Battle of Toyosu today, they went in the other direction, and the entire city of Toyosu became a battlefield, and the defenders resisted stubbornly, but they caused casualties to the enemy army that they expected.
Compared with the cavalry of the steppe tribes, the advantages and disadvantages of the Tangut people are actually more obvious.
In the street fighting, they can often discharge a neat array, tacit cooperation, so that they can often occupy a clear advantage at the beginning, so that the scattered rush over the grassland warriors, divided and killed, the ridiculous thing is that in the eyes of the Han people, the Western Xia Hu army, but the use of serious Han tactics, in the army, there are also as many Han soldiers.
But their shortcomings are equally prominent, once they are shot by the steppe warriors with accurate archery in their generals, they are bound to cause confusion, and when their arrays are scattered, the defenders become headless flies, and are cut to the ground one by one by the fierce steppe warriors like rabbits.
In fact, in essence, it is a contest between Han and Hu, but what makes people feel strange is that these so-called Hu people came here to fight under the conscription of the Qin people.
And the side that is very similar to the Han people is under the command of the serious Western Xia Party Xiang Qiang people, which is the sadness of the Han people, but the Hu people have nothing to be proud of.
But there is not so much truth in war, and people on the battlefield cannot think about those profound questions, whether it is for survival or victory, they need to show courage and blood in exchange.
It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, whether it's justice or not, war is always so cruel and cold, only the victor will have the right to speak, and only the winner will represent the so-called justice.
This is the essence of war, the law of the jungle is the strong, the king is defeated, it has always been like this.
However, no matter how much is said, the resistance of the Tangut people is tenacious, and at this time, the fall of Fengzhou is actually inevitable, and the stubborn resistance of the defenders is more like a dying struggle.
The law of war, no amount of courage can change it.
The fortified city was broken, and the attacking side naturally had an advantage that the defenders could not match......
After a night that was not very peaceful, the commander of the steppe tribes, Raoul Khan Muhuali, under the increasing casualties, finally ordered to search the people in the city, drive forward, and seize Fengzhou as much as possible, and promised the generals of all tribes that after capturing Fengzhou, they could plunder for a day, and they could not help killing, and all the plundered belonged to each department.
In fact, this is the order to slaughter the city, and with this order, Fengzhou is already in a catastrophe.
And this order also completely unleashed the beastly nature of the steppe warriors he had been suppressing, plundering and killing have always been the theme of grassland conquest.
After going south, Mu Huali still retracted the reins of the various departments of the grassland, but here in Fengzhou, he finally let go, and he had to do it, because at the end of the day, the casualties were nearly 3,000, plus the deaths in the previous battle, there were nearly 6,000 people.
Only then did he arrive in Fengzhou, and he was still far away from the decisive battle with the main force of the Left Wing Military Division of Western Xia, and if he continued like this, he would not be able to fulfill his promise to the commander...... Thinking about the anger of the big handsome, he was ashamed, but he also felt that his back was cold, and he couldn't care so much.
As soon as this order was made, the morale of the various ministries was greatly boosted.
As soon as the sky showed some bright colors, the city of Fengzhou boiled like boiling water, and the fierce and vicious grassland warriors broke into the houses one after another, driving the people of the southern and eastern cities, regardless of the old and the young, women and children, like cattle and sheep, out of their homes, and with them as the vanguard, they rushed to the streets and alleys occupied by the Western Xia people.
All of a sudden, the crying father and mother in the city of Fengzhou were loud, and the defenders were at a loss for a while, and they were at a loss, as long as their hearts were soft, they were quickly rushed back again and again by the people who overflowed, and finally mixed with the people, and could no longer form effective resistance, and were broken one by one by the grassland warriors who swarmed behind.
There are also people who are cold-hearted and slash the people who poured over, but the morale of the soldiers, in such a killing, gradually collapsed, and they can no longer stop the grassland barbarians who killed with red eyes.
The gate of the west city was lost, the gate of the north city was lost, the city gates of Fengzhou were wide open, the grassland cavalry outside the city rumbled in, the resistance of the Xixia people was quickly extinguished, and the defenders everywhere were divided and surrounded, or were killed, or abandoned their weapons and surrendered, but at this time, the red-eyed grassland people could no longer tolerate any prisoners.
The entire city of Toyosu was soaked in blood and fire......
The Toyoshu garrison commander Rindo Lie Ming led the remnants of 2,000 men and retreated to the inner city, but to no avail, and after only a little struggle, he was broken by the grassland army that came from all sides, and firmly surrounded his mansion.
When the bloodied steppe warriors swarmed into his mansion, Renduo Lieming led his personal guards, and had already killed his young son and two favorite concubines in the mansion, and had already lost an arm, and the bloodied Renduo Lieming led his personal guards to fight with the enemy, and the besieged grassland warriors were cut into pulp.
Deputy general Huanliang, led the army to break through, was surrounded at the east gate of Fengzhou, led the army to fight to the death, exhausted and captured, Ma Luo Huaien supported his body, came to Mu Huali, pleaded for him, but Huan Liang saw Ma Luo Huaien, but he scolded loudly, swore not to surrender, and finally was in a different place, remembering his bravery, no matter how much Ren was fierce, or Huan Liang, and the soldiers of the Western Xia generals who died in battle, they were all buried outside the city of Fengzhou......
The battle of Fengzhou, only the defender of the general Ma Sheng, seeing that it was impossible to do, took advantage of the late night, quietly took a few guards, slid down from the corner of the Xicheng city wall, and detoured to the east gate, got out of it, and survived, the rest of the Western Xia Fengzhou defenders, almost the whole army was wiped out, this battle, it can be said that it was one of the most fierce battles of the Western Xia defenders since the grassland tribe went south.
The courage and fierceness of the generals of the party departments are not inferior to the warriors of other ethnic groups, and after this battle, the elite of the left wing military division of the Western Xia, who took care of the horse farm for the Western Xia and repeatedly conquered the Fengzhou garrison in the east of the river, also disappeared and no longer existed in the world.
At this time, it was already in the middle of summer, and Mu Huali then ordered to take Fengzhou's grain, grass, and ordnance for the army, and then it was a day of plunder.
In the meantime, there is no need to describe in detail, and when the army continues to march south, in order to prevent the plague, after the army set off, the city of Fengzhou was on fire, and it burned for three days, and the city of Fengzhou was completely turned into a ruin.
In this battle, nearly 100,000 people in Fengzhou City, in just a few days, almost all turned into unjust ghosts, and the survivors were not one in a hundred, and then scattered all over Yulin, telling the brutality of the grassland tribes......
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