Chapter 337: Katyusha Attack
Throughout the autumn of the Qingyun Continent, the strongest forces in the entire continent were moving from south to north. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In the north, all the way was the large group of defeated soldiers of the Song State. The speed at which the deserters, who had lost their courage, ran at an astonishing rate. While fleeing frantically, they continued to spread like a fan, like a big earthy yellow flower blooming on the Hebei Plain.
It was followed by the Northern Expeditionary Army of Chu, but they did not disperse with Song. In addition to the side that stood in the way, the Northern Expeditionary Army had a clear goal, like a black sword, plunging straight into the last hinterland of the Song Kingdom: Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
Unstoppable, powerless. Along the way, a large number of Song soldiers surrendered. It was not without them that the Song generals were determined to defend the city, but their resistance was extremely weak in front of the tactics of the Chu army, which advanced by air and land and the inner city blossomed.
In the south, the Southern Expeditionary Corps of Chu led by Lu Ning was still relying on defensive positions to resist one by one and slowly retreated.
Since the Yinchuan defense line broke through and the news of the defeat of the Song army came, Zhou Ziwei, the governor of the Yue Kingdom, hesitated all night, but the next day he gave a death order, allowing the Vietnamese army to attack the Chu army's defense with all their strength regardless of the cost of casualties. It is necessary to capture Nanxiu before the Song Kingdom is completely finished.
The Song State had 15 billion troops in vain, but in front of less than one-third of its own Chu army, it was like a pig and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. But even if it's a pig teammate, you can't help but rescue.
Zhou Ziwei knew very well that once the Song State was destroyed, the Yue State, which had already suffered a great loss of vitality, would not be able to resist the all-out attack of the Chu State in the future.
Under the all-out onslaught of more than 8 billion Vietnamese troops, the southern expeditionary army of Chu State really showed a declining trend. After all, the Chu army on the Nanxiu defense line was only one-tenth of the Vietnamese army. Even if Lu Ning took advantage of the terrain to the extreme, he could only keep retreating.
"Attack! Attack with all your might! Only by breaking through Nanxiu can we contain the Chu army and save the Song State. Only by saving the Song Kingdom can Da Yue save himself. Zhou Ziwei kept urging the military horses to attack day and night.
In order to supervise the war, he even moved the Chinese army forward, moving less than 20 miles from the front line.
Encouraged by the Metropolitan Governor, the Vietnamese army was high-spirited and pressed forward step by step. It only took ten days to completely fill all the pits that Lu Ning spent half a year digging.
The strikers had even seen the walls of the southern embroidery. They erupted in cheers and attacked even harder, vowing to wipe out the 700 million Chu Southern Expeditionary Army under Nanxiu City in the shortest possible time.
However, in the face of the almost frantic attack of the Vietnamese army, Marshal Lu Ning showed a long-lost smile: "The prey has finally taken the bait." ā
As a wise general, Lu Ning's strength is not to blindly defend. You need to know that no matter how good the defense is, there are times when it is breached.
In the past 10 days or so, Lu Ning has asked the troops not to fight hard, to preserve their strength, and to constantly retreat, showing an attitude of struggling but not being able to support it. This puzzled his generals.
The southern expeditionary army of Chu State had worked hard to arrange a series of steel defense lines in the previous half a year, and if they relied on these defense lines to resist strongly. The Chu army was sure to slow down the advance of the Vietnamese army by three times, while keeping the battle loss ratio on both sides at 1:3, or even 1:5.
But so far, the battle loss ratio of Chu and Yue has reached an astonishing 1:20. That is to say, for every Chu soldier killed in battle, twenty Yue soldiers will be buried with him.
If the thickness of the defense line of Nanxiu is a hundred times that of the current one, this strategy may be able to account for all the elites of the Yue Kingdom here.
In fact, although the Vietnamese army has lost nearly 300 million people, it is less than 50 miles away from the Nanxiu city wall.
Once the strategic depth is lost, let the Vietnamese soldiers come to the city. No one believed that with 700 million soldiers and a city wall, they could compete with the more than 8 billion elite Vietnamese troops who fought and won successive battles.
But Lu Ning didn't seem to care. With a wave of his hand, he asked the left and right sides to hold on as much as possible, and the middle defense retreated back twenty miles after a "fierce battle". The entire line of defense turned into a concave semicircle.
This concave actually began to form gradually very early. After clever design, every time the defensive battle is fought, the central position is always the first to be broken through, and the two wings have to retreat one by one.
There were more attacks, and the Vietnamese army was convinced that the commander of the Chu army in the middle was weaker than the two wings, so they naturally poured their attack power more intensively into the middle of the Chu army.
One was willing to fight, the other was willing to suffer, and finally a semi-encirclement was quietly formed. The center of the encirclement happened to be the command center of Zhou Ziwei, the commander of the Yue Kingdom.
Lu Ning's plan finally came to fruition. He slammed the table and stood up, and shouted, "Katyusha, attack!"
Katyusha rocket artillery, this is one of the killer features invented by Gu Wen and left for Lu Ning. This powerful scientific and technological weapon with a range of more than 20 kilometers has been hidden by Lu Ning since the beginning of the war.
Only Lu Ning knew the terrifying power of this weapon. If the Katyusha had been used from the beginning to bombard the trebuchet positions of the Vietnamese country, it was estimated that the progress of the Vietnamese army would be only half of what it is now.
But as a qualified commander, Lu Ning has always forbeared, and he wants to use good steel on the blade and finish his work in one battle.
Now is the time.
With an order, behind the positions of the center, left, and right armies, the grass-green camouflage net was lifted, revealing the true body of the Katyusha rocket artillery. Bundles of Hessian barrels glow faintly blue in the setting sun.
Three positions, three thousand Katyushas, twenty-four barrels each. At the sound of the order, 68,000 artillery pieces roared in unison.
In an instant, the entire sky was shrouded in tens of thousands of white ballistic smoke trails. In the screech that shattered the eardrums, the dense cannonballs formed a huge fan in the air and flew towards the dots.
Since the Chinese army of the Yue Kingdom moved forward, Zhou Ziwei, the governor of the capital, has always had some feeling of panic.
The zeppelins, cluster grenades and bombshells that attacked Yinchuan Jiancheng in the north made Zhou Ziwei vigilant.
Although there was a gap between the Chu State, Zhou Ziwei knew a lot about Liu Bufang, the generalissimo of the Song State. This commander of the Song Kingdom, whose status is similar to his own, is not an idle person, and he is a famous general second to none in the Song Kingdom.
However, in the blink of an eye, this famous general was defeated, and the defeat was so miserable. Not only did he lose his soldiers, but he was also seriously injured and collapsed. It is said that the Song courtiers' impeachment of Liu Bufang has been piled up in the cabinet.
Zhou Ziwei, who was in sympathy with the same disease, had to be cautious. He dug deep tunnels in the outer circle of the Chinese army, cleared all strange looking foreign objects, and at the same time arranged a large number of strong crossbow troops to guard against the attack of Chu airships from the sky.
Everything was arranged, but Zhou Ziwei's feeling of being inappropriate became stronger and stronger. Over the years, this feeling has made Zhou Ziwei save the day again and again. But nothing has been so drastic as it is now.
Zhou Ziwei stood up slightly, ignoring the stunned expressions of the overseer in the big tent, Yu Shi Xiaobei and the general, strode out of the camp tent, and shouted: "Prepare your horses quickly, the Chinese army retreats." ā
The groom hurriedly led the Duke's mount, the Golden-Eyed Unicorn. Zhou Ziwei turned over and got on the horse. At this time, Xiao Bei and the generals had also run out of the big tent.
Seeing that Zhou Ziwei urged the horse to run, Xiao Bei shouted: "Where is the governor going? ā
Zhou Zi glanced at the imperial history supervisor who specialized in slapping the black shape of the horse, and said disdainfully: "If you want to sue me, please, goodbye." "As he spoke, he rode his horse south, with the reins in hand.
At this moment, a sharp buzzing sound suddenly came from the sky. Everyone looked up in horror, but saw that the sky was full of white smoke marks, converging towards the Chinese army.
"Enemy attack! Alert!" one of the generals finally came to his senses and shouted loudly.
The surrounding crossbowmen held the crossbow machine in their hands and looked around blankly.
The generals were indeed much more vigilant, and suddenly dozens of people shouted: "Protect the governor!"
There were also three or five generals shouting: "Protect the prison army" and protect Yu Shi Xiao in the middle.
Zhou Ziwei's face changed greatly, and he urged the war horse violently. But at this moment, the mount, which had always been like lightning, played a joke on its master.
The Golden-Eyed Unicorn is the best among the monsters, with unparalleled agility and a speed that can break through the speed of sound when running at full strength. Zhou Ziwei is the best of the best, and he is trained to be extremely humane.
Dozens of men surrounded it, and there was not even a gap left for it. If it is crisscrossing the mountains of 100,000, the unicorn is absolutely not ambiguous, and the person who jumps in the way will flee.
Unfortunately, excessive training has worn out the wildness of the golden-eyed unicorn. It only remembers that kicking people does not give them enough food. So although Zhou Ziwei urged the war horse. The golden-eyed unicorn only hissed and stood up, refusing to rush forward.
Finally, the loyal protector generals and the well-trained golden-eyed unicorn blocked the way of the Grand Governor Zhou Ziwei.
The earth-shattering explosion shone brighter than the sun at dusk for thousands of days.
After the flash of fireworks, the first military attache of the Yue Kingdom, the hereditary first-class duke, the extreme spear knight, and the metropolitan governor Zhou Ziwei turned into a cloud of dust.
At the same time, there are also the first mouth of the Yue Kingdom, the Wupin Imperial History, the front-line governor Xiao Bei, and the thirty-two Yue generals.