Chapter 102: The Loser
At this moment, in the northeast of the new city, Xiong chased all the way with 700 troops, and that posture obviously did not intend to let Guo Wei escape back to Yuanhe City alive.
However, in the case that the other party is bent on escaping, it is not so easy for the bear who is chasing the killer to catch up in a short period of time.
However, just as Xiong was pondering what to do, the ground that shook slightly and the rumbling sound that gradually burrowed into their ears made Xiong and Guo Wei change their faces at the same time!
"Cavalry?"
Both of them were obviously no strangers to this unit with the strongest mobility in the Cold Weapon Era, and almost at the same time as this thought arose, a cavalry unit that had already rushed to the limit of speed had already rushed towards the retreating army with a cloud of sand and dust.
Looking at the green sheep who rushed to the front of the cavalry troops, Xiong hurriedly sped up and rushed towards Guo Wei, he didn't want to give the credit to the other party in vain, and she was his own woman.
However, aside from the riding skills, how could the bear, a big man with a tiger's back and a bear waist and a bronze armor, be faster than the green sheep riding a war horse?
Considering the mobility of the light cavalry, Qingyang's armor is specially customized, a complete set of armor, more than 70% of which is made of leather, and only a few small pieces of bronze are used to protect the heart, back of the heart and other physical vital points, in order to reduce the weight and maintain her mobility when charging!
Now this area is the only piece of terrain on the whole road leading to the original river city, which is relatively suitable for cavalry charges, and further on, once entering the steep mountain area, the cavalry can't rush even if they want to, so this wave of raids, whether it is timing or location, is very accurate.
It was too late, but it was too fast, and I saw that the three hundred light cavalry led by Qingyang quickly approached the fleeing enemy, and as soon as they struck, it was a set of signature two-stage charges, which directly dealt a devastating blow to the infantry unit in front of them.
And the green sheep who rushed to the front directly locked on the enemy general Guo Wei, the bronze spear in her hand shook, only to see her pick up the gun into the battle, while riding a white horse to fly by with the momentum of a unity of men and horses, she did not give the other party any chance to react or resist at all, the tip of the spear flashed, and the bronze spear with momentum was so fast that it brought up a blurred shadow, and it directly penetrated Guo Wei's throat with lightning speed! The result was a clean result for the life of this enemy general!
Qingyang's performance is undoubtedly satisfactory, but Xia Qi is more satisfied with the comprehensive performance of the cavalry troops, this is no longer a rookie army that only knows how to charge, after a lot of actual combat baptism, their every move has revealed a sense of sophistication, after the second stage of the charge, the whole army was instantly divided into two, in a roundabout way quickly formed a formation of encirclement, directly cut off the retreat of the deserters, while shrinking the formation, while constantly mending the knife, quickly harvesting the remaining enemy soldiers.
After the war, looking at the green sheep who came slowly on horseback, compared to Xia Qi, who was satisfied, but some people were not in a good mood.
Xiong looked at Qingyang a little depressed, this guy actually grabbed people's heads as soon as he came up, and when he grabbed them, he directly snatched a piece of head work, which was called a bad heart in his heart......
Riding lightning, Xia Qi took Li Chuan and his personal escort all the way back to the new city.
When they entered the city, the time was already close to sunset, but the new city was still under their control, and what was the result of the battle to defend the city, it was self-evident, Li Chuan only felt that the pressure on his body had become greater in an instant.
"In the face of two siege towers and a siege army, it really defended!"
Just as he was thinking this, the white wolf was already walking towards this side, and the bronze armor stained with a lot of blood showed that he was not fighting this battle easily.
"White wolf, see the patriarch!"
"Well, this siege battle has worked hard for you, how was the result?"
"In this siege battle, the enemy dispatched a total of 4,000 soldiers, and our side lost more than 500 soldiers."
When he learned from the white wolf that the number of casualties on his side had reached more than five hundred, Xia Qi's brows couldn't help but raise slightly, this number was a bit unexpected by him, but when the white wolf said that the actual number of the siege army reached more than four thousand, Xia Qi was relieved.
That Wang Ting's wave is also ruthless enough, counting Guo Wei after the bypass, a siege battle, the total number of troops mobilized directly reached more than 5,000, plus two siege towers like armored vehicles, it is completely a posture to kill him in one go, but unfortunately, in the end, he is still more skilled,
The white wolf's report continued, Xia Qi listened as he walked, and finally when he heard that the two siege towers on the other side were actually captured by them, before Xia Qi could react, Li Chuan, who was following him, had already taken the lead in exclaiming.
"Actually captured the siege tower?"
"Yes."
The two siege towers were captured, which can only show one problem, that is, the royal court was defeated and retreated, and the retreat was extremely hasty, and as a last resort, it would choose to preserve the troops and give up the siege towers.
Just when Li Chuan was thinking like this, the white wolf had already spoken again, "It's just a pity that one of the siege towers was forcibly blown out by the bed crossbow during the siege battle, and the remaining siege tower, the enemy took the initiative to destroy the wheels when retreating, and in a short time, I am afraid it will not be able to be used." ”
Hearing this, Li Chuan stopped again, and since just now, he has been talking about some things beyond his common sense understanding, for example, the almost impregnable siege tower that the Great Yan army was proud of was actually blown up!
Just being seized was already shocking to him, exploded? What kind of joke is this? He's never seen it before!
And Xia Qi was obviously very interested in this siege tower, and directly motioned to the white wolf to take him to see it, and then it turned out that one of them was really blown up, and even exploded quite completely, basically it can be said that the whole one fell apart directly, and the other one was quite complete because it was not attacked, except for the wheel part.
"It's a scumbag."
Stretched out his hand and knocked on the bronze armor plate on it, Xia Qi's face was full of emotion, I have to say, this loser thing is indeed resistant to beating, pushed to the battlefield, as an armored vehicle in the era of cold weapons, he does not deny that this is a siege weapon, but the same siege tower, not equipped with so many bronze armor plates, he can build ten siege towers in one go, and it can also play the same effect.
These two siege towers are basically piled up with bronze, there is a little bit of great joy, to put it more bluntly, it is full of pretending and showing off feeling, as for the cost performance, it is really not much, after all, so much bronze, how many weapons and armor can be created, how many soldiers can be armed?
But if it could be repaired, he wouldn't mind making good use of it at all, and with this in mind, Xia Qi asked the white wolf, "Have you tried to move the wheels of another siege tower to this side?" ”
"I've tried."
As the general of the defending side, the white wolf is probably the person who can feel the threat of this siege tower the most, so after capturing this siege tower, he naturally thought about repairing it, but the result was a big disappointment, after installing the wheels of another siege tower, this siege tower basically couldn't move and couldn't be used normally.
Xia Qi, who learned the situation from the mouth of the white wolf, took two steps forward, took a good look at it, and then quickly found the problem, the joint of the wheel is probably missing two parts, one is the bearing, and the other is the thing that fixes the wheel, only when it is fixed, after your wheel rotates, you can drag the entire siege tower forward together, and the fixed part is destroyed together when the other party destroys the wheel.
Look at this situation, if you want to make this siege tower move, not only the wheels, but also the axles of several rows at the bottom, and even a whole chassis have to be remade.
"All in all, drag these two piles of things back to Great Xia City and send them to the Ordnance Research Department, if they are too big to drag, they will directly dismantle the layers of bronze armor plates on them, anyway, there is no technical content."
This loser thing fell into his hands, and there was absolutely no possibility of being snatched back by the royal court, so he threw it to Ye Xuan first and studied it slowly, and if he couldn't repair it, he directly melted these two piles of bronze, which were also resources.
In this way, the matter on the side of Songhe City can be said to have come to an end temporarily, and at the same time, on the other side, Guo Jia and their side are also going quite smoothly.
During this time, the life of Liu Chen, the former general of Hecheng City, was a comfortable life, and after Guo Wei left, he obviously felt that he had sat back and relaxed, and the whole person was completely relaxed, giving Qingyang a full opportunity.
At dawn, a wave of surprise attacks that saw the opportunity made them easily grab the wall of the original river city, and then as soon as the city gate opened, the city that did not have many garrison troops at all was instantly reduced to a lamb to the slaughter, and Liu Chen was finally looked at the head.
Until he died, he couldn't make the bear get his wish.
After that, the whole all-out war seemed to enter a short intermission, and it took a lot of time to adjust and deal with the movement of troops, the casualties of soldiers, and the depletion and damage of ordnance and equipment.
However, with the white wolf helping him share the work, Xia Qi was not particularly busy during this time, according to the current situation, unless he wasted himself to death, otherwise, the royal court would have no chance to threaten his city, and the tactical policy formulated at the beginning could be said to be going extremely smoothly.
In this way, in order to avoid accidentally getting up waves, at the critical moment, this breath must definitely be calm, one after another carts of grain, grass and ordnance are constantly transported from the rear, Xia Qi, who has taken a deep breath, is not in a hurry at all at this time, after all, the mechanism of all-out war and invasion war is completely different, for some high-level players, it is not uncommon for a full-scale war to be fought directly for several years, or even longer.
Therefore, considering the problem of this time span, the two sides that have started a complete war can only get the permission to pull foreign aid in the third month, and now the time has only passed for less than half a month.
With the failure of the siege of the 4,000 siege army, Wang Ting's face became ugly again.
Originally, his body had become weak after a long journey, but now that the blood was in his brain, he suddenly couldn't help it, and a mouthful of blood suddenly gushed out.
Especially when the news of the fall of the original river city came, he was fainted on the spot.
"Conscription! Pass the order down and recruit troops from all over the country! ”
This was the first thing Wang Ting said after waking up.
Li Ke was a little embarrassed: "King, we only recruited 6,000 troops before, I'm afraid it ......."
When Wang Ting heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "If it wasn't for the defeat before, how could I not be in such a situation!" ”
The defeat he spoke of was not at the hands of Xia Qi, but a few months ago, he fought with the grassland barbarians, and was finally defeated.
Two thousand cavalry, tens of thousands of infantry were wiped out.
Although he was eventually expelled, the royal court also suffered heavy losses.
This is also the reason why Xia Qi's thousands of troops are overstretched now.