A fire burned nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Eastern Qin State, and also burned their courage to attack again. m.

They can't attack again until they think of an effective way.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yun Yu printed an additional issue of "Yugu Daily", which was a special issue, mainly to share the joy of this great victory with the people of the country and other armies.

Victorious again? Moreover, with the absolute advantage of zero casualties, nearly 20,000 soldiers of the enemy were annihilated, and Yun Yu was thrilled by the whole country!

At the same time, the anonymous tabloids of the Eastern Qin State also began to report on the war, and this news strengthened the gloom and misery of the Eastern Qin State.

In the first battle, the Yunyu Kingdom gained nearly 10,000 troops, and in the second battle, it burned to death nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Eastern Qin State with zero casualties.

How did this battle come to this?

The people were disappointed in the Eastern Qin State, Zhang Xiaoting, and Qin Siyong.

In addition to the use of such unseemly methods as assassination and sneak attacks, head-on combat is so vulnerable.

This is the evaluation of the Eastern Qin State by the nameless tabloids.

When the news reached Qin Siyong, he immediately ordered that the next day, he would launch an attack at any cost, and he would win a victory no matter what.

At the same time, he also ordered the other two armies to quickly support Zhang Xiaoting's Chinese army and launch a fierce attack together.

The next day, a total of 1.5 million troops from the middle of the Eastern Qin State gathered on the border line, and this time, the Eastern Qin ** team vowed to break through the defense line with great vigour, because the emperor had given a death order.

This time, instead of advancing step by step in a conservative way, Zhang Xiaoting decided to use archers to take the lead.

The archers were agile in advance and retreat, and had a strong ability to counterattack.

And this time, he strengthened the attack, and the last time he sent 20,000 shield soldiers, he wanted to concentrate at the entrance, attack a gap, and then launch a large-scale strong attack.

Unfortunately, it failed miserably.

Today, he sent 50,000 cavalry archers at the same time, and they were deliberately dispersed to stretch the battle line very long, not only to prevent the other side from continuing to set fires, but also to facilitate the rotation of the war horses.

50,000 war horses, under Zhang Xiaoting's order, rushed forward quickly, when there were about 100 meters away from the small city wall, the two sides began to shoot each other with bows and arrows, the soldiers of Yunyu Country on the city wall, after all, occupied a relatively large offensive, they were in a stationary state, they could aim and then bend the bow and shoot arrows, so there were a lot of targets, some shot the cavalry, and some shot the war horse.

Immediately, there was a chaotic scene of people neighing on their backs on the battlefield.

Of course, the archers' counterattack was also very fierce, they had practiced horseback archery for a long time, they had strong riding and archery skills, they shot arrows inside through the wall, and they also injured many people, and Yun Yu Kingdom finally began to have casualties.

Zhang Xiaoting, who was watching from afar, frowned slightly.

He suddenly made a bold decision, under the cover of the archers, sent another 30,000 cavalry, also scattered to quickly approach the temporary small city wall, and brought ladders and giant trees, rushed under the wall, and began to formally attack the city wall.

Because of the cover of the archers, the attack of Yun Yu Kingdom was much weaker, and the battle line was relatively long, yesterday's battle

It doesn't work anymore.

Of course, Zhuang Shujun also immediately made corresponding adjustments, he added a lot of archers, in addition to shooting with the opponent's archers, he still divided a part to continue to use straw for fire attacks, even if the damage caused to the enemy was not great, but it also had the effect of hindering the opponent's attack.

The straw fell to the ground, igniting a raging fire, although the damage caused was not large, but it effectively blocked the offensive pace of the Eastern Qin army, and the cavalry besieging the city could only temporarily retreat, so the archers continued to fight.

When the fire became smaller, the cavalry rushed again, and this time, 50,000 cavalry, after reaching the city wall, jumped off their horses and began to attack the city with no casualties.

Some climbed up the ladders, and some began to hit the city gate with huge trees, and there was a kind of determination not to stop without breaking the city gate.

The casualties were rapidly increasing, and the corpses of the soldiers of the Eastern Qin State were all over the field, and the sound of wailing and mourning had a sense of tragedy that made people palpitate.

Due to the containment of the archers, some people in the Eastern Qin army had already begun to climb the city wall, and a large group of soldiers holding the giant tree also hit the big iron gate again and again, and it seemed that the entire city wall was shaking.

The person in front was killed by an arrow, and the person behind continued to make up for it, stepping on the corpse of his companion and continuing to hit the big iron gate......

Inside the city walls, Zhuang Shujun suddenly ordered

"Put!"

Rows of trebuchets immediately threw stones out of the city, and another burst of wailing sounded.

Trebuchets and bows and arrows went hand in hand, and the casualties of the Eastern Qin army accelerated again, and the first batch of soldiers who rushed to the city were basically all killed and wounded, and the people behind continued to make up for it.

At this point in the battle, the soldiers have basically been killed, and in the face of death, they have become numb, and there is only one thought in their hearts, that is, they must break through this line of defense.

Zhang Xiaoting, the general in the back, looked at the battlefield in front of him coldly, and saw that there were fewer and fewer people in front of him, so he raised his hand and sent 50,000 archers again, and the 50,000 cavalry continued to rush forward.

When Yun Yu's arrows and trebuchets threw fewer and fewer stones, someone from the Eastern Qin army finally climbed the city wall from the cloud ladder.

Someone is knocked down the wall, and the people behind them climb up, and when they fall, they pick up the next one, and once there is the first person to rush the wall, there are more and more people behind.

Thus, the two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

The city wall was very narrow, but only two or three meters wide, and there were people who were assassinated and fell down during the fight, including soldiers from the Eastern Qin State and soldiers from Yun Yu.

Yun Yu's soldiers waited for work at ease and had an advantage in physical strength, while the soldiers of the Eastern Qin State were red-eyed, and they were in a desperate posture and had an advantage in momentum.

Each has its own strengths, so each has its own casualties.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the gate of the city wall was finally knocked open and fell.

The people outside poured in, but this temporary city gate was not big after all, and there were not many people who entered it at one time.

Therefore, the people who ran in front were greeted by a rain of arrows, and the casualties were still increasing at a rapid rate.

However, one after another, there are always people rushing to the front, falling in batches, and coming in batches.

Suddenly, this time they rushed in on their horses and rushed forward, and the speed was even faster.

However, Yun Yu also had cavalry, and the two sides fought fiercely inside the city walls, Yun Yu's men retreated while fighting, the gate was opened, and the people on the city wall remained

There was no point in coming down, and naturally retreated quickly.

When the Eastern Qin army rushed in, the city wall was full of straw, and it was covered with straw within a radius of three hundred meters, and it looked like Yun Yu didn't have time to throw it out, so what was left.

So they didn't pay much attention to it, and just kept rushing forward.

And the people in front of Yun Yu were fighting and retreating, and they were deliberately retreating at first glance.

After withdrawing more than 500 meters, Zhuang Shujun immediately ordered:

"Shoot the arrows!"

The Yunyu soldiers immediately shot arrows with flames, and the target was the straw all over the ground.

The straw instantly ignited a raging fire, and the Eastern Qin army, which happened to rush to this area, soon fell into a sea of fire.

The Eastern Qin army fled one after another, some rushed forward, some retreated, because the crowd was crowded, and those who were too late could only be buried in the fire!

Soon, the Eastern Qin army was divided into two sections by the sea of fire, and those who retreated retreated to the outside of the city gate, and those who rushed forward could only fight desperately with the Yunyu ** team.

The Eastern Qin army that rushed to the front, due to the disadvantage in numbers, they were quickly annihilated by the Yun Yu ** team.

Zhuang Shujun immediately ordered a retreat without hesitation, and when the Eastern Qin army was stopped by the fire, they brought their own equipment, packed up the spoils on the battlefield, and brought the wounded soldiers on their side and the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers who could be seen, and quickly left this battlefield and calmly retreated to Zhongzhou City.

At this point in the battle, the first line of defense set up by the Yunyu Kingdom on the border line was officially breached.

However, when Zhang Xiaoting waited until the fire was extinguished and came to clean the battlefield, he did not have a trace of joy in his heart to break through the defense line, but held his breath in his heart, feeling very depressed.

There were corpses everywhere, some killed in battle, some fell to their deaths, but many more were burned and killed by bows and arrows.

What does this mean? is that the death of many soldiers is not a war death, for soldiers, the battlefield is also a kind of helpless death, at least there is some glory, even if you fail to kill the enemy, hurting the enemy is also a contribution, I feel a little comforted, this kind of death before getting close to the enemy, how aggrieved!

Zhang Xiaoting did not continue to track, because there was Zhongzhou City in front of him, and the troops of Yunyu Kingdom had already entered the city, and now they were going to attack the city, and the preparation was not sufficient, so it should be said that there was no hope of breaking the city.

Don't fight unprepared battles, this is also the most basic common sense of a general.

After cleaning the battlefield, the sun has set, due to the hot weather, the battlefield exudes a strong smell of blood, and also attracts a lot of mosquitoes, looking very sad and miserable.

Breaking through the first line of defense, Zhongzhou City is thirty miles ahead, looking at the improvised simple city wall in front of him, it is actually quite time-consuming and laborious, and the Yunyu ** team should have spent a lot of manpower, material resources and time to build, but its role is only to block the pace of the Eastern Qin army's advance and stop them outside the border line.

In previous wars, it was rare to spend so much manpower and material resources to do such a thing.

But now it seems that this is still very important and meaningful, and the Eastern Qin army paid a heavy price in order to break through this line of defense.

In the evening, Zhang Xiaoting was in his tent in the barracks, holding a statistical list of the people who died in this war.

The cold number above made him fall into deep thought.