Chapter 152: Besiege but Not Attack

In the sound of iron armor breaking, a whole row of the defeated red soldiers were assassinated by their own comrades, the advancing corps phalanx continued to advance, and the weapons in people's hands continued to be ruthlessly used on their own deserters, as more and more deserters were killed, the red soldiers could only turn back again in despair and face the Jin army that had been killed.

Under this almost flanking attack, the fourth corps of the Red Army was declared dead, and then, the Jin Army led by Ling Wuya came into contact with the Fifth Corps of the Red Army, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle.

At this time, the Jin army's arrow array also went out in unison, avoiding the center of the battle between the two sides, and shot at the enemy army about 100 paces, and at the same time, under the orders of some centurions, all the stone throwers on the Jin army's side were fired and smashed into the enemy camp.

Their intention is also very clear, that is, to break the fault line in the enemy's camp, so as to support their own brothers who are engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

The battle continued endlessly, from dawn to 10 noon, and the confrontation between the two armies became a fierce battle between the two armies.

At noon, the Jin army on the mountain collected and cut down a lot of stones and rolling logs, with Chu Lianyu's order, the stones and stumps collected by the Jin army were thrown down, just in an instant, the red army camp in the canyon was smashed out of a large gap nearly ten meters wide, the red soldiers within ten meters fell to the ground, the flesh and blood on the field were blurred, a lot of blood and water were bubbling out from the bottom of the boulder, and the corpses of the red soldiers were pressed by the stones and could not be seen.

The Red Army in front couldn't stand up, rushed to a corps, killed a corps, and the Red Army behind was still suffering from the enemy's blows, how could this battle be fought?

By now, the casualties of the Red Army had reached tens of thousands, and in the end, Xuanyuan was afraid to charge again. His own army had to be annihilated, and he hastily ordered to withdraw his troops and stop fighting.

This order made the soldiers on both sides breathe a sigh of relief.

For the Red Army, stopping the breakout was to save a life, and for the Jin Army. If you continue to kill, many people will probably have to vomit.

This fierce battle finally ended with the retreat of the Red Army.

In this battle, the casualties of the Jin army were not large, most of the soldiers did not have direct contact with the enemy, and the casualties were only a few thousand, more than half of which were caused by the enemy's arrows, and the casualties of the Red Army were too heavy, and there was not one soldier left in the five corps. The entire organization was wiped out, and the remaining ten corps also suffered casualties, originally 150,000 people, after the First World War, only more than 80,000 remained, including many soldiers who were seriously wounded and unable to fight again.

The retreat of the Red Army at this time basically means that they have given up their plan to break through, and the arrangement of the Jin Army has not yet been completely perfected. When the Red Army was at its peak, they could not break through. Waiting for the next battle, the Jin army's preparations will be more sufficient, and how can the red soldiers, who only have more than 80,000 people left, rush out?

In the canyon, there is nothing else to be seen now, except for corpses and corpses as far as the eye can see. Even the mountain walls on both sides of the canyon were washed black and purple by blood, and most of the canyon was basically the same as hell.

At the time of the armistice, both sides sent soldiers with white belts on their arms without weapons or armor into the canyon to collect the bodies of their own dead.

Jin Jun is okay to say. Thousands of corpses were collected in a while, but there were too many corpses of the Red Army, and many of them were smashed and flattened, and they could not be pieced together, so the Red Army could only collect the corpses of the corps commander and the commander of the thousand, and the corpses of the other soldiers were all left in the canyon.

They don't take it away, but the Jin army can't ignore it, I don't know how many days this battle will take, so many corpses are exposed to the wilderness, let them rot, there will definitely be a plague, the trapped Red Army broke the jar and fell, and was not afraid of anything, but the Jin army didn't want to have a wide range of injuries and illnesses on this side.

The corpses of the Red soldiers were all pulled out of the canyon by the Jin Army and buried on the spot, so many Red soldiers who died on the battlefield did not even leave their names after their deaths, but they were hastily gathered together for burial, which made people sigh.

Although the enemy withdrew, the preparations of the Jin army did not stop, and the stones and stumps were still actively preparing to deal with the next round of breakthrough of the Red Army.

Chu Lianyu knew very well that the Red Army came after him, the army did not carry baggage, there was not enough food and grass, there was no food and no water source in the valley, and if the Red Army did not break through, it could only starve to death and die of thirst.

However, this time the preparations of the Jin army were useless, and after this battle, there was no large-scale fighting between the two sides.

A few days after Fang Tianyang's 100,000 army was destroyed, the 250,000 army led by Xuanyuan Fang was defeated again, and the Red Army, including the commander Xuanyuan Fang, was besieged by the Jin Army in the Death Valley.

According to Shi Huai's original idea, as long as his army can advance into the Jin country and merge with the Mu army that is attacking Wuling County, he can drive straight into the Jin country and destroy the Jin country in one fell swoop, but what makes him feel frightened is that now his own army has more than 200,000 people lost in the territory of the Jin country, in addition, the two generals Fang Tianyang and Xuanyuan Fang, one dead and one sleepy, and continue to fight like this, let alone capture the Jin country, I am afraid that his old capital will have to be lost! At this point, the Red King Shi Huai has the intention of retreating.

The news of the Red Army being trapped also quickly spread to Lin Haotian, who was so excited that he almost jumped more than three feet high after hearing it, he forcibly suppressed the joy in his heart, and ordered Chu Lianyu not to show mercy and directly trapped the 80,000 Red Army in the Death Valley to death.

But before Lin Haotian's order came out of the Chinese military tent, Bi Wen's words reminded him in time.

Bi Wen analyzed that the biggest threat facing the Jin country today is not the red country, but the wood country. Although the Red Army is hateful, at least it has not invaded the Jin country itself, and the degree of damage to the Jin country is far less than that of the Mu army, not to mention that the Mu army has connected the territory of the two counties of the Jin country in just a few months, and the current army is directly approaching Wuling County, with the intention of annexing the Jin country in one fell swoop, which is really the first major danger of the country.

Bi Wen also proposed that if he could let go of Xuanyuan Fang and the others, he could take the opportunity to win over the Red Kingdom and persuade the Red Kingdom to withdraw from the coalition army this time.

After listening to the words, Lin Haotian nodded secretly, feeling that what he said was not unreasonable, but after thinking about it, since the Red Army attacked his country, he had committed many crimes, and he had already been full of evil, and if he let them go like this, even he himself would not be reconciled.

Zuihou, Lin Haotian instructed Chu Lianyu to adopt a strategy of besieging the Red Army below the valley without attacking, besieging them for a few days, and then starting to persuade them to surrender when the Red Army completely lost its combat effectiveness.

They lost time again, but the Red Army did not, and after only three days, the Red Army began to struggle to support it.

Not only is there an emergency of food and water, but the key is that the wounded are not able to receive sufficient medical treatment, the Red Army's medicine was used up on the first day, and in the next two days, the wounded did not have medicine to apply to the wound, the wound began to become inflamed and suppurated, and the person also began to have a high fever, so that the water in the army was used faster.

Under these conditions, minor injuries become serious injuries, and the seriously wounded often close their eyes and never open them again, and the vast canyon, day and night, is filled with the intermittent moaning of wounded soldiers.

The Jin army on the mountain was tormented by the endless sound of pain and could not sleep, and the Red Army in the canyon can be imagined, and the people were about to go crazy, and even had the urge to take up arms and kill all the wounded.

Three days later, the Red Army had not had a drop of water left, not a grain of food, and the eyes of the hungry and faint Red Army soldiers glowed blue, and by the evening, the situation of stealing and killing military horses began to break out on a large scale.

The infantry had no affection for their horses, but the cavalry regarded their horses as their lives, and when they spotted hordes of soldiers rushing at their horses, the cavalry rushed to stop them, only to be knocked to the ground or stabbed to death in front of the hungry soldiers.

By this time, the situation of the Red Army had begun to get out of control. (To be continued......)