readx;? Chapter 1220 Offense and Defense

When the Feng Army and the Ningnan Rebels clashed fiercely, the Eighth Army of the Ningnan Army entered the battlefield. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

With the arrival of the Eighth Army Corps, the pressure on the Feng Army's defense line doubled, and the earthen walls and trenches in the Feng Army's defense line were almost blown to the ground in the continuous and almost saturated artillery bombardment in the south of Ningnan.

In the first day of fighting alone, the casualties of the Feng army were as high as 20,000, while the casualties of Ning Nannan were much higher than those of the Feng army, and the Eighth Army Corps that went into battle after had no casualties, but the casualties of the Righteous Army Corps were more than 40,000 people, and they were basically half disabled.

On the second day of the battle, the rebels began to rest, and the 8th and 10th Army Corps of the Ningnan Army both went into battle and launched a fierce attack on the defense line of the Feng Army.

The combat strength of the Ningnan Army is much higher than that of the Righteous Army, and it is 200,000 to 80,000, and on the battlefield, the strength of the Ningnan Army occupies an absolute advantage.

On the side of the wind army, the earthen wall trench was blown up, and the soldiers used the crater as cover on the spot to counterattack the Ningnan people who had rushed up.

When the battle between the two sides was inextricably fought, the rebel army in southern Ning quietly bypassed the frontal battlefield and attacked the northern defense line of Masala City.

On the north side of the city, the Feng Army had only two battalions of troops stationed, and it was unable to withstand the onslaught of tens of thousands of rebels and was forced to retreat.

Massala's northern defense line was the first to be penetrated by Ningnan. The rebels pursued the victory, and the army approached the city of Massala.

After hearing the news, Nie Zhen, who was sitting in the city, personally led the directly subordinate corps of the legion, under the cover of the artillery on the city, to fight back from the city to meet the rebels.

The rebel army, which had already opened its posture and was ready to attack the city, was caught off guard by the wind army that suddenly killed out of the city, and retreated in a hurry.

Nie Zhen led the army and chased the righteous army out of more than ten miles in one go, and recaptured the fallen defense line in the north of the city.

After the battle the next day, the Wind Army barely held the defensive line outside the city. On the third day, the offensive of the Ningnan army became more violent, round after round, without giving the wind army a chance to breathe.

The 10th Army of the Wind Army, which had been struggling to support, finally couldn't resist it, and the soldiers of the defense line outside the city retreated to the city one after another.

On the fourth day of the battle, all the outer defenses of Masalla had fallen, and all the wind troops stationed outside the city had retreated to the inside of Masala.

At this time, the strength of the Feng army has been sharply reduced to more than 50,000 people. The total casualties of the Eighth and Tenth Army Corps were more than 50,000, and the casualties of the Righteous Army were also more than 50,000, but the total strength of Ningnan was still 200,000, and the gap in strength had widened to four times against the 50,000 Feng Army.

Theoretically, the loss of the defensive line outside the city could basically declare the defeat of the defenders, and the fall of the city was only a matter of time.

In front of the two armies, Lu Yuan, commander of the Eighth Army of the Ningnan Army, and Dou Kou, commander of the Tenth Army Corps, presented medals to the meritorious soldiers.

Under the city of Massala, under the nose of the Feng Army, the Ningnan Army openly began to reward meritorious deeds, which was undoubtedly a great shame for the Feng Army.

The soldiers of the Feng Army asked Nie Zhen one after another, instead of sitting and waiting to be killed in the city, it was better to kill all of them out of the city and fight to the death with the people of Ningnan outside the city.

Nie Zhen did not lose his reason, and the people of Ningnan awarded medals to meritorious soldiers in front of him, which was the method of provoking the generals, that is, deliberately provoking his own soldiers and leading his own soldiers out of the city to fight with them.

He ordered all armies and all officers and men to stick to the city and not to leave the city, and those who did not obey the orders of the generals and went out of the city without permission to fight, regardless of victory or defeat, would be dealt with by military law.

The arrogant performance of the Ningnan people failed to lure out the Feng army in the city of Massala, and on the fifth day of the battle, the Ningnan army began to launch a large-scale attack on the city of Massala.

The current wind army has been forced to a dead end, and there is no way to retreat, so it can only fight to the death.

The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, and the soldiers on the front line, on top of one battalion, killed one battalion, and the bodies of the fallen soldiers did not have time to be carried down, and the two armies were piled up in front of the battle.

The corpses of the Feng Army on the head of the city are stacked on top of each other, and the corpses of the Ningnan Army under the city are even more layered, and the battlefield of Masala has become a veritable meat grinder.

On the eighth day of the battle, the walls of Masala City, which were more than three meters thick, were blown up in many places, and the Ningnan army followed the gap in the city wall and entered the city from outside the city, and the next battle was a more bloody street battle in the city.

At this critical moment, the advantages of the Duki people in supporting the Wind People were finally reflected, and the Duki people in the city spontaneously carried supplies for the Wind Army and built a defense line in the city, and many Doki youths volunteered to join the Wind Army and hold on to Masala City with the Wind Army.

At this point in the battle, both sides have reached the point where they will not give up an inch of land. In order to fight for the intersection of a fork in the road in a small alley, the casualties paid by both sides are in the thousands.

After the Feng and Duki people who held on were repulsed by the Ningnan people, they immediately gathered their forces and launched a counterattack to recapture the lost position. The same was true of the Ningnan Army, which had been repulsed, reorganizing its forces and continuing to launch an onslaught.

The street battle in the city is really an inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, 100,000 soldiers and 100,000 souls.

On the tenth day of the Battle of Massala, the 10th Army of the Wind Army had less than 30,000 soldiers, and most of the urban areas in the city had fallen.

At this time, the Ningnan Army, while beginning to formulate the operational deployment of the all-annihilating wind army, launched a crazy revenge on the Duji people in the city, and the crowds of Duji people were quickly closed by the Ningnan Army in the house, and then poured fire oil and set fire to kill.

According to post-war statistics, there were no less than 50,000 people in Duji who were burned alive by the Ningnan Army at that time, and you must know that the number of people in the entire city of Masala was only 200,000, which is equivalent to more than a quarter of them being burned to death.

At the critical moment when the people of Ningnan launched a frenzied massacre and wanted to annihilate all the Wind Army, the reinforcements of the Wind Country finally arrived in the city of Masala, and it was the first army of the Zhenjun Army led by Luo Ren.

The arrival of the First Legion is like a slap in the face for the Ningnan people, and it is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the remaining Feng Army and the Duki people.

With the participation of a legion in the battle, the battle of Massala had a turning point, the Ningnan army that entered the city, was forced out of the city by the counterattack of the wind army, and the terrible thing is that the righteous army that originally stood on the side of the Ningnan army, when the defeat withdrew from the city of Massala, a large number of deserters appeared, and people took advantage of the characteristics of the city's buildings to cover more, and they all threw off the pursuit of the warlord, and finally followed the Ningnan army to withdraw from the city of Masala The righteous army, only about 10,000 people remained.

After more than ten days of fierce fighting, only 20,000 soldiers were left in the 10th Army of the Feng Army, and the loss of troops was as high as 80%, and the 80th and 10th Army Corps of the Ningnan Army suffered as many as 80,000 casualties.

The 130,000 Ningnan Army, now facing the first army of the Zhenjun Army, which is brave and good at fighting, has basically lost the capital to storm Massala.

After the Feng army rested in the city for two days, on the fifteenth day of the Battle of Massala, Luo Ren and Nie Zhenqin led the Feng army to launch a large-scale counteroffensive against the Ningnan army, repulsing the Ningnan army that occupied the defense line outside the city in one fell swoop, and the wind army took advantage of the situation to recapture the lost defense line outside the city.

The battle between the two sides returned to square one, but the menacing Ningnan army was now weak and could no longer make a decent offensive.

The battle of Massala has subsided for the time being. But not long after, Xin Jiyao suddenly transferred the Sixth and Eleventh Army Corps of Ningnan to reinforce the battlefield of Massala.

With the increase of the Ningnan Army, Nie Zhen also transferred one corps from each of the Ninth and Twelfth Corps to strengthen the defense of the Masala Line.

Both sides sent their own troops, and both threw heavy troops into Masala.

After the mobilization of the Ningnan Army, the number of regiments invested in Massala has reached four, with a total of more than 300,000 people. The strength of the Wind Army also reached 200,000, but tens of thousands of them were Dukies.

At this point, the famous tug-of-war in Masalala officially began, and both sides continued to increase troops to Masala, with a clear intention, that is, to start a life-and-death battle here in Masala.

The soldiers on both sides dug a large number of trenches on the battlefield, and the trenches on both sides had reached the point of interlacing the teeth of dogs, and the nearest ones were only less than 20 meters apart.

In the following period, the wear and tear of the soldiers' helmets on both sides rose in a straight line.

Whether it is a Fengren or a Ningnan person, at this time men still have long hair, the most common hairstyle is a square bun, because of the relationship between the bun, people have a bulge on the top of their heads, and the helmets they wear are also cone-shaped.

Such a helmet is nothing in cold weapon combat, but in the age of firearms, especially in close-range positional warfare, the disadvantages of a high helmet are fully revealed.

The soldiers crouched in the trenches, and as soon as they looked up, the enemy on the opposite side could see the tip of the helmet, followed by a volley.

The people hiding in the trenches were not good, but their helmets had been knocked out of many holes. The soldiers at the forefront of the army, few of them have helmets that remain intact.

At present, the Ningnan Army, which has the superior strength, is unable to tear through the defense line of the Feng Army, and the Feng Army, which is at an absolute disadvantage in strength, is even more unable to defeat the Ningnan Army, and the battle between the two sides has entered a stalemate stage.

During the confrontation between the two armies, the fighting between the two sides never stopped, but most of the battles were positional battles, and the soldiers on both sides opened fire on the opposite side in their respective trenches, and the artillery on both sides basically shelled the opponent's positions continuously for 12 hours a day.

In this persistent war of attrition, the Battle of Massala lasted for a month, during which the officers and men of both armies paid a heavy price of casualties.

A month after the outbreak of the Battle of Massala, the Fourth and Fifth Army Corps led by Shangguan Xiu finally arrived at the Duki battlefield and joined the main force of the Feng Army.

The arrival of the Fourth and Fifth Army Corps did not completely change the disadvantage of the enemy being outnumbered, but it also greatly made up for the gap in strength between the two sides, and the Wind Army finally survived the most difficult period after the defeat of Qi Ao without danger.

Inside the city of Masala.

Shangguan Xiu, greeted by Luo Ren, Nie Zhen and other generals, entered the city of Massala.

As far as the eye can see, there are only a handful of intact buildings in the city, and even the symbol of the city of Masala, the statue of Massala, has collapsed, leaving only a huge foundation remaining in the square in the center of the city.

Most of the buildings around the square are dilapidated, and even the cathedral revered by the Duki people is now only half left.

Looking at the ground, the blood stains have been dark black, and the Duki people in the city have washed the ground in the city three times before and after, but even so, they can't wash away the remaining blood stains on the ground, which shows the bloodshed of the battle that took place in the city of Masala at the beginning.

Now, countless tents had been erected in the square, and in the tents were all wounded soldiers, one by one, not hundreds and thousands, among them both wind men and doukies, and the moans of the wounded were heard one after another.

It is worth mentioning that the church in Massala sent a large number of monks and nuns to assist the medical officers of the Wind Army and treat the wounded, and it was precisely because of the assistance of the church that many of the lives of the soldiers of the Wind Country were saved.

In return, Nie Zhen also sent a lot of soldiers to assist the church in repairing the damaged cathedral.

Looking at the scene in the city, the Feng army and the people of Duji got along happily, and truly achieved the point where the army and the people were united and worked together to resist a strong enemy.

To be more precise, the Duki people have a deep hatred for the Ningnan people, and they have the same hatred for the enemy, as long as they fight with the Ningnan people, no matter which army is fighting, they will give full support.