Chapter Seventy-Four: Dengzhou General Attack
For Yu Guo, today's old marshal is not only the front line of resistance to Jin Guo, but also a banner of Dayu.
Therefore, when the Jin Kingdom mobilized troops and horses, countless enthusiastic people from the Yu Kingdom spontaneously flocked to Dengzhou City, wanting to assist Nian Yingjiu in defending the city.
For these people, Wan Yanfeng, the head coach of the Jin Kingdom, did not mean to stop them at all, and even specially opened an opening for them, so that these hot-blooded people of the Yu Kingdom could enter Dengzhou City smoothly.
And the reason why Wan Yanfeng did this, on the one hand, is that these are the main forces of Yu State's resistance, and after putting them in, as long as they win this battle, the strength of the entire Yu State's resistance will be greatly reduced.
On the other hand, it is because no matter what world you are in, the army is not more powerful than the more people there are.
Some of these hot-blooded people who entered Dengzhou were rebels who occupied the mountains as kings, some were martial arts people in the vicinity, and some were purely ordinary people, and there were even a few spies from the Jin Kingdom, which could be described as a mixture.
If you want to integrate this miscellaneous army with such complex composition, even with Wei Yuan's ability, it will take a long time, and now that the new year is coming, let alone it.
Therefore, under the condition that Wan Yan Feng does not give Nian Yingjiu to integrate the army, this ragtag army will not only not be able to exert much combat power, but may drag down the combat power of Dengzhou City.
And now, after waiting for a few days, Wan Yanfeng saw that no one had come to Dengzhou, and his troops and horses were almost mobilized, so he no longer hesitated and directly launched a general attack.
The Jin Kingdom was originally a steppe tribe with more cavalry, and was good at frontal assault, but was not particularly good at siege.
However, over the years, because of Shile's orders, these Jin people paid special attention to the craftsmen they captured, so although they were not very good at siege, they had the most siege weapons.
In addition, when these Jin people were attacking the city, what they were best at was filling it with human lives, so the war directly entered the white heat at the beginning.
Wan Yanfeng let those generals of the Yu State and the civilians recruited in the Yu State be the vanguard, and let them take sandbags to fill the moat outside Dengzhou City little by little.
These generals and civilians naturally do not have sophisticated weapons in their hands, and there are even many people who do not even have a decent shield, under the persecution of the Jin army, those people can only hold the pot lid as a simple shield, braving the rain of arrows to run towards the moat.
And the defenders on the city wall, naturally because of the pity of these people and their subordinates, with the double blessing of the Confucian and military formations in the city, the rain of arrows shot on the city wall played an effect comparable to that of a siege crossbow.
Obviously it is just an ordinary bow and arrow, but it shoots a range of nearly a thousand meters, and it is only a rain of arrows as thick as a finger, and when it hits the soldiers below, it often shoots a wound the size of a bowl, and then these arrows will continue to maintain their speed and continue to shoot through the body of the next person after they are shot through the bodies of those soldiers.
This kind of super-powerful arrow misses often loses strength and stops after it has been shot through the bodies of five or six people.
And these soldiers under the city, who are basically defenseless, in the face of this kind of powerful arrow rain, directly emptied a large area of the city in just two waves.
The soldiers under the city were not diehards of the Jin Kingdom, and immediately began to flee after facing the terrifying scene.
It's just that they just turned around, and they immediately ushered in the rain of arrows from the Jin Guodu team.
"Those who flee from the battle, behead them, and punish their clan!"
With the stern reprimand and ruthless methods of the overseer team, those soldiers in the rear who originally wanted to follow the trend and escape were suddenly shocked on the spot, and could only hold back the fear of death, picked up sandbags and continued to rush towards the moat of Dengzhou City.
And Wan Yanfeng, as the generalissimo, couldn't help frowning when he saw the appearance of those people.
Even if it is cannon fodder, it should have the value of cannon fodder, and now they will die without even touching the moat, and they can't play a role at all, so it's too wasteful.
After Yan Feng thought for a moment, he then spoke: "Let Zhou Chaoxi take his people up and give these cannon fodder a little cover." ”
Zhou Chaoxi was originally a general of the Yu State, and after seeing the strength of the Jin State, he chose to lead the army to join the Jin State.
Although he has done his best for the Jin country over the years, and even when he treats the people of Yu country, he is even more ruthless than the people of the Jin country, but in the eyes of the people of the Jin country like Wan Yanfeng, he has never treated his own people.
Now that he has encountered a problem, Wan Yanfeng chose to let Zhou Chaoxi go first without hesitation.
"Damn, it's us again!"
After receiving the military order, one of Zhou Chaoxi's lieutenants immediately scolded with some indignation.
In the past few years, as long as there is any dirty work, these Jin people must be the first to think of them, and in the eyes of this deputy general, these Jin people do not treat them as human beings at all.
"Shut up!"
Zhou Chaoxi scolded the deputy general fiercely, and then said: "Do whatever you want, what so much nonsense!" ”
In Zhou Chaoxi's opinion, it would be good if the general of the defeated army could spare a life, and although he had no status in the Jin people over the years, his status was even higher than before except for the Jin people, even if his army had any losses, the Jin State allowed him to freely replenish among the Yu people.
If anyone dares to disobey, they can be killed directly without even looking for an excuse, so Zhou Chaoxi, who is living a more nourishing life than before, is extremely satisfied with his current life.
So let alone let him assist in the siege, even if Yan Feng asked him to kill all the people, he would not hesitate in the slightest.
After he received the military order, he directly asked the deputy general who had just spoken to take the army and mix in the siege army to bless those people with the strength of the military formation.
With the blessing of the power of the military array, the bow and arrow that could shoot through four or five people instantly weakened to the point that it could only shoot through one person, and even some bows and arrows, after shooting into the shield blessed by the power of the military array, even had no ability to break the shield.
Although the power of the military array on the city wall can still be strengthened, because it consumes the power of the military array too much, it is a little too cost-effective to use it on these ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, the archers on the walls temporarily gave up long-range shooting, and waited until the soldiers approached before they began to shoot with their bows and arrows.
And at this moment, because the distance is closer, the bow and arrow do not need to be blessed with range, and after the power comes up, the number of casualties among the soldiers below begins to rise sharply, and even the elite soldiers sent by Zhou Chaoxi have been shot to death.
But because the soldiers below had rushed to a very close distance, along with the huge casualties, their corpses and the sandbags they carried were slowly filling in the entire moat.
After the moat was filled, Wan Yanfeng directly pushed the large siege equipment up, and without the slightest hesitation and temptation, he directly launched a general attack that would decide life and death.