Chapter 174 is still defeated!
With the thunderous sound of "boom", one by one the Qi soldiers disappeared in the grenades flying in the sky, turning into pieces of flesh and blood on the ground, and the crossbow battalion also took advantage of the situation to shoot more crossbow arrows at the Qi army crowd farther away, and the Qi army further away was the strike range of Zheng's rockets.
Under such a powerful multiple blow, the Qi army was undoubtedly defeated, no one cared if Wang Yong was not far in front of them, all they cared about now was whether they could survive.
A large number of Qi soldiers scrambled to turn around and flee outward, even if there was a team behind them that had terrified them before, but now they couldn't control so much under the strong blows of Wang Yong's army.
At first, the Overseers were still intercepting the retreating soldiers, and even hundreds of them were killed, but when all the troops that rushed forward collapsed, even the Overseers did not dare to stop them, and they were carried back by the retreating crowd.
The failure of this attack again was particularly strong in the morale of the soldiers, unlike the previous times when the Qi army was repulsed outside Wang Yong's camp, this time they had all rushed into Wang Yong's camp, and more than 6,000 Qi soldiers rushed into the camp, but this time the Qi army still failed.
The soldiers of the Qi army who rushed in before fought bravely, even if they were faced with heavy casualties, they did not retreat, but Dugu Yongye should not have sent soldiers adapted from the original Northern Xuzhou Army as the follow-up main attack.
Before Dugu Yongye in North Xuzhou when he incorporated Ba's 30,000 troops, leaving Dugu Sheng 10,000 to garrison North Xuzhou, he took away 20,000, 20,000 troops in the subsequent Qi army attacked Guan Shuai Guancheng and Jiaozhou City respectively, because it was used as the main force of the attack led to very serious losses, and the losses added up to more than 10,000 people.
Dugu Yongye used these surrendered troops as cannon fodder to consume, and those surrendered troops couldn't see it, although he was full of resentment in his heart, but the combat ability of these Northern Xuzhou surrendered troops was originally inferior to the Qi army, and the number was far lower than the number of the Qi army, so he had to endure it secretly.
When Dugu Yongye attacked today, in order to ensure that Wang Yong's camp was taken in one fell swoop, he did not put the Northern Xuzhou army into the battlefield at the beginning, but sent the most elite town army under his command.
So Dugu Yongye saw this and immediately sent the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers from Northern Xuzhou to the battlefield, but this is a bad thing, originally these troops were demoralized under the deliberate consumption of Dugu Yongye, and now they are forced to go to the battlefield, and they were suddenly frightened by the scene in the camp.
These soldiers who had just rushed in the former northern Xuzhou saw the tragic scene of broken meat everywhere in front of them, and immediately turned around and ran desperately, although in the face of the constantly exploding grenade clusters, even the bravest soldiers had to flee for their lives, but their escape immediately pitted the Qi army inside.
If it was still the elite soldiers of the Qi army who rushed in this time, then it was possible to break through the battle lines of Han Biao, Zhou Guang, Luo Huan and others, and even capture Wang Yong, but these soldiers of Northern Xuzhou turned around and fled, so that the Qi army, which was still struggling to hold on, immediately lost morale.
As a result, Dugu Yongye sent nearly 10,000 elite Qi troops from the beginning, and after rushing into Wang Yong's camp at the cost of thousands of casualties, less than half of the soldiers who escaped from it rushed in.
Seeing the blood stains on the bodies of the escaped soldiers, Dugu Yongye didn't say anything, but his heart was like a knife, this time plus the soldiers lost in the previous attacks were not a small number. In just one day, the Qi army almost lost nearly 10,000 people, and of course, hundreds of them were killed by Dugu Yongye's warlords.
Counting carefully, Dugu Yongye's army has now been reduced from more than 60,000 to less than 50,000, but Wang Yong, on the other hand, has increased his strength from 20,000 to 40,000 during the time he is waiting for Dugu Sheng.
Originally, when Dugu Sheng arrived, the absolute advantage of the Qi army over Wang Yong's department has gradually become an even situation under this elimination of the other's strengths, and Dugu Yongye is not anxious when he thinks of this.
The Qi army did not continue to attack, and it was unable to continue the attack, the battlefield was full of corpses in various strange postures, a small number of them were Wang Yongxia's army, and most of them were Qi army's.
Soon after the war, Wang Yong saw that the Qi army did not continue to attack, so he personally brought his soldiers to collect the corpses of his own soldiers, and these soldiers who died in the battle were invited to the temples of their respective hometowns as gods in the future.
Dugu Yongye walked around in the camp, the soldiers of the Qi army attacked all day, the lack of physical strength and the low morale, and now they are listless and hiding in the tents where the respective battalions are located to rest, and even the corpses of their comrades on the battlefield have no strength to converge.
In today's battle, they were discouraged by several successive failures, and the huge casualties caused by Wang Yongxia's endless new weapons made them frightened and frustrated, and they did not know if they could still win.
Dugu Yongye stood alone in front of the gate of the camp and looked at the battlefield in the distance, he didn't understand how Wang Yong had so many new weapons, before setting off in Jeju, he scoffed at the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven that some Taoist priests said, Dugu Yongye was born as a military general, but he liked Confucianism very much, so he believed in the Confucian theory of self-cultivation and the creed of respecting the strong and strong.
But now Dugu Yongye began to doubt whether Wang Yong really had the destiny of heaven, first of all, Wang Yong gradually leveled the strength of the two sides in the case of absolute disadvantage, not to mention, the soldiers on Wang Yong's side were like divine help when fighting many times, first the commander of the Guancheng garrison blocked his army for nearly ten days with only a few hundred people.
Immediately after that, the empty Jiaozhou City had thousands of defenders in the hours after his arrival, and finally when he was about to capture Jiaozhou City, Wang Yong unexpectedly led the army to break through the heavy snow and came to Jiaozhou City a few days in advance.
Although he knew that there was no if in this world, Dugu Yongye still couldn't help but think in his heart, how good it would be if he quickly won Guan Shuai Pass or took Jiaozhou City regardless of casualties, even if one of these two things was missing, he might have defeated Wang Yong, and even waited for the army of the Hu Lawyers Association in Qingzhou City.
Although the sun had already set over the mountain, there was still some afterglow shining on the distant peaks, and in the afterglow of the sun, he could still see the remnants of a series of burned-out wooden structures not far from Wang Yong's camp, which were all arrow towers that posed a serious threat to Wang Yong's camp during the day.
Even if it took a lot of effort to make these instruments at the beginning, and how many ways to prevent Wang Yong from sending people to burn them, in the end, he couldn't resist Wang Yong's direct attack here, so he asked the soldiers to carry firewood and pile it directly into it to burn it, and now these arrow towers have also become a pile of broken charcoal.
Because Wang Yong's combat area was mainly in a small area around his camp, and their casualties were far lower than those of the Qi army, they quickly collected the soldiers who died in battle.
The Taoist priest who came from Jiaozhou City began to preside over the ritual of Haotian Daomen, and the voices were mixed together to form a powerful voice, at first the soldiers who participated in the ritual were chanting along with the Taoist priests, and then the soldiers in the entire barracks were chanting.
The huge sound of tens of millions of people gathering together made the Qi army camp in the distance clear to hear, Dugu Yongye couldn't help but feel cold when he heard this voice, this sound and this movement showed that the morale of the soldiers on Wang Yong's side was getting higher and higher after a fierce battle.
As night fell, the breath on the battlefield became more and more eerie, and the strange cries of the night owls in the mountains and forests in the distance were as creepy as the evil ghosts in hell, and they frightened many Qi soldiers.
The corpses of the soldiers of the Qi army are still all over the battlefield and no one has collected them, fortunately it is now a cold winter, otherwise if you delay it, it will not be possible for a plague to break out in a few days.
The ancients all believed in ghosts and gods, so many people died in one day, and the bloody breath formed could not be dispersed in a short time, and the fierce beasts in the mountains and forests followed the smell of blood to the battlefield to gnaw on the corpses of the dead Qi soldiers, and the green eyes made the Qi army even more frightened.
The two sides did not launch any night attack overnight, not only the Qi army was tired, but the soldiers on Wang Yong's side were even more tired, but the next morning after the Qi soldiers got up early, they looked at Wang Yong's original camp on the opposite side and were stunned one by one, and a huge city made of ice and snow masonry was erected on the opposite side overnight.
The scouts of the Qi army immediately leaned forward and looked carefully at the distance of two hundred meters from the city, the city in front of them was nearly a hundred zhang long and wide, and more than one zhang high, although the thickness could not be seen, but according to the large city defense equipment placed on it, it was inferred that the thickness was at least about one zhang.
The city wall is crystal clear, obviously made of ice and snow mixed together, and there are battlements more than half a person high on it, although the city wall is made of ice and snow, but after all, it is such a large scale of the city, and the shock of standing in front of him overnight to face the Qi army is very great. Love
Compared with the shock in the camp of the Qi army, the defenders on the wall of Jiaozhou City nearby also saw from a distance the ice and snow city that stood up in the same place of Wang Yong's camp overnight, and the banner of Wang Yong still floating on the city wall, which was like a miracle The defenders on the city of Jiaozhou suddenly cheered one by one, and the morale of the soldiers of the Qi army was even lower in comparison.
It turned out that when Wang Yong inspected the camp after the war last night, he found that the fences of the camp were damaged in many places during the daytime battle, and if they could not be repaired in time, it would definitely have an adverse impact on the subsequent battles. After some thought, he took advantage of the night's unpreparedness to transfer nearly 10,000 militia from the city.
Originally, Wang Yong wanted to strengthen the fence of the camp, but at this time, Cheng Hu, who had been staying in Wang Yong's camp, remembered that when he was in Changguang County in the past few years, he, Zhu Bofu and Wang Ze led a group of little broken children to make various ice and snow castles with ice and snow, and immediately proposed to Wang Yong to use the thick snow nearby and the river water in the Weihe River not far away to build the city in front of him overnight.
Although the city wall was built with snow, because there was a reinforced wooden fence as a skeleton, and it was watered and frozen with water from the Wei River, and after a night of cold, this ice and snow city was not much stronger than an ordinary rammed earth city.
Dugu Yongye soon knew what was happening on the other side, and when he saw an ice and snow city rising overnight, he was suddenly in a low mood, and his face was even more gloomy.
However, he soon discovered the weakness of this ice and snow city, Wang Yong used the snow and river water to build this city, after all, the time was too short, the city wall was not high, and in order to facilitate the entry and exit of his soldiers and horses, Wang Yong left a gap in the front and rear of the ice and snow city.
In particular, the gap in front is seven or eight zhang wide, and now the soldiers under Wang Yong's command are still trying to reduce this gap.
Unable to let them continue to build, Dugu Yongye quickly made a decision to send the last nearly 4,000 cavalry under his command to harass the soldiers who built the city, and even destroyed some of the city walls.
Obviously, Wang Yong had already prepared to prevent the attack of the Qi army, and the crossbow battalion ambushed on the city wall made the thousands of Qi cavalry return in vain, but also lost hundreds of people, but although the Qi army failed to destroy the city wall, it also made the Wang warrior soldiers who continued to build the city wall temporarily stopped.
As time passed, the Qi army's fierce offensive resumed, this time with a fleet of trebuchets, each with dozens of soldiers in charge of hundreds of trebuchets, which threw large stones from hundreds of paces away onto the ice-made walls.
I have to say that this time the soldiers on Wang Yong's side suffered a lot of losses at the beginning, although the city walls made of ice and snow are not inferior to today's rammed earth city walls, but these ice and snow city walls are also more brittle, under the throwing of large stones, the ice and snow texture of the city wall burst out a large number of ice cubes, ice cubes, so that many unsuspecting Xia soldiers suffered some injuries.
With the cover of trebuchets, the counterattack of Wang Yongxia's army on the city wall was much smaller, and the Qi soldiers who had rested all night began their own charge again, this time each Qi soldier was carrying a large bag, which was full of ice and snow, Dugu Yongye decided to fill a passage with ice and snow while striking the city in front of him.
Dugu Yongye pressed all his troops this time, except for leaving a few cavalry to block several gates of Jiaozhou City to prevent the city from sending troops to aid Wang Yong; All the other teams threw themselves into the offensive against Wang Yong.
Now it's not just Dugu Yongye who is in a hurry, even Wang Yong is a little uneasy about the situation in front of him, before Dugu Yongye directly sent thousands of cavalry to bypass Jiaozhou City and enter the hinterland of Sanqi, in case these people unite with the local Haoqiang remnants, the harm caused will be great.
Just when Wang Yong was worried in his heart, suddenly the Qi army's shouting and killing became louder, and it turned out that Dugu Yongye personally led his own personal guards to rush up, and under the leadership of Dugu Yongye, the Qi soldiers no longer had the idea of saving themselves before, which made Han Biao, Zhou Guang and others who were on the front line feel pressure.
It didn't take long for the Qi army to seize almost all the city walls on the front, and more Qi soldiers poured into the ice and snow city from the gap, because of the previous lesson, the Qi army was sure that Wang Yong did not prepare the 'rain flying' and 'grenades' This kind of immoral thing rushed in with confidence.
Dugu Yongye stood at the entrance and watched Wang Yong, who was retreating, and Qi Jun, who stepped forward bravely, couldn't help but burst into tears, even if the Hu Lawyers Association was jealous of his merits and did not give himself reinforcements, but now after paying so much price, he finally wanted to capture Wang Yong.
Seeing that Wang Yong seemed to be about to escape, Dugu Yongye ordered: "All the cavalry will go around to the back of Wang Yong's camp to block their back road, but whoever captures Wang Yong will be rewarded with a reward of 1,000 taels and 500 acres of land!" ”
So not only did Dugu Yongye's only remaining more than 3,000 cavalry go, but the ringing horses that Dugu Sheng had incorporated also rushed over with a roar, whether it was a bounty of 1,000 taels or 500 acres of land, it was not a small attraction to them.
It's just that Dugu Yongye suddenly felt that this time it seemed that Wang Yong had retreated too quickly! Almost while resisting and retreating, he handed over the entire city to his own hands.
No, there must be a problem, Dugu Yongye, who was about to have a nervous breakdown who had been tortured by Wang Yong in front, suddenly had a bad premonition, and he hurriedly ordered: "Retreat, retreat!" Get out of the city! ”
It's just that the shouting and killing sound of the army was shocking, except for a few personal soldiers around him who found out that something was wrong with the general, and hurriedly ran out of the city with Dugu Yongye, where could the other soldiers who were trying to squeeze into the city hear what he was shouting.
Dugu Yongye couldn't help but turn around and shout to retreat when he was held up by his own soldiers, but he seemed to see Wang Yong's weird smile who had retreated to the back gate of Snow City, and then heard "boom", "boom", "boom" and "boom" continuous explosions in the ice and snow city.
The ice and snow in the sky soared dozens of meters high, as beautiful as a fountain gushing in the summer of later generations, and the fine ice crystals flying in the sky even formed a rainbow in the sky.
But Dugu Yongye didn't appreciate the rainbow, but at this time his heart only felt as cold as those flying ice and snow, if it wasn't for a personal soldier who protected him with his body in time, I'm afraid that Dugu Yongye would have been killed by a large piece of ice and snow just now.
It turned out that Wang Yong's use of ice and snow to build the city was just a disguise, and the city walls and the ground in the city were filled with a large amount of gunpowder by Wang Yong, especially in the surrounding city walls, which were filled with a large amount of nitroglycerin explosives, although this thing was very dangerous, but the power was also incomparable to black powder.
After attracting a large number of Qi troops to attack the city, Wang Yong organized the army to retreat step by step, and after all his side withdrew from the city wall, all the gunpowder was immediately ignited by the dead soldiers hidden in the city.
When Wang Yong withdrew from the city, the cavalry sent by Dugu Yongye had just bypassed, and the thousands of cavalry who had rushed towards Wang Yong with great momentum suddenly encountered such a loud noise, and the mounts under him were frightened and fled.
And the cavalry under the command of Shi Haiguang and Fa Yan because they were transferred out early, and all the ears of the war horses were blocked, and when the Qi cavalry fled, these cavalry finally came in handy and began to chase and kill the defeated Qi army.
This time the Qi army was completely finished, and almost all of the more than 30,000 Qi troops who rushed into the ice and snow city were buried, and only nearly 10,000 people who did not rush into the city survived, and most of these nearly 10,000 people were cavalry, especially the Huaisi Xiangma who had just surrendered.
The depressed Dugu Yongye was set up by his own soldiers and fled in the direction of Guan Shuai Pass, and the Huaisi horses who saw the bad situation fled to the surrounding mountains and forests.
And Meng Lingtong, who was originally stationed in the camp of the Qi army, and nearly a thousand Qi army infantry soldiers were ignored, and these infantry fled when they saw the cavalry riding their horses, and they also fled towards Guan Shuai Pass one by one, but none of them paid attention to Meng Lingtong.
Before, the Qi soldiers' respect for Meng Lingtong was only based on Dugu Yongye's trust in him, but now Dugu Yongye is like having no soul, who is willing to flee with a burden.
There was even a Xianbei cavalry general who had long been jealous of the fox fur that Dugu Yongye gave to Meng Lingtong, and when everyone was fleeing for their lives, he didn't notice it, so he went up and pushed Meng Lingtong to it, and snatched the fox fur from him and put it in his horse bag.
Meng Lingtong, who was thrown to the ground, didn't have time to get up, he only felt a pain in his back, and the whole person was trampled on his back by a war horse that couldn't be avoided, and his spine was suddenly broken, and his eyes were unconscious.