Chapter 275: Tiger and Leopard Riding and Slaughter
Fifty paces of advance cost nearly 500 men, the enemy's defense is so strong that Qiong Ping's life has never seen it, but the closer to the city wall, the stronger the lethality of the enemy's bow and arrow, and the wail of those soldiers who have not been able to die on the spot makes all the attacking soldiers tingle.
"General Chunyu, let the soldiers withdraw, at this rate of casualties, it will take at least fifteen or six hundred people to rush under the city wall. The enemy's longbow has a strange way to find another way. ”
This time, it was Frustrated that accompanied the army, and Yuan Shao was also worried that Chun Yuqiong would miss again, but Frustrated Professor said such frustrating words after watching it for a while.
Chun Yuqiong was unhappy in his heart, but soon the Jizhou soldiers gave him an answer, the front died and died, and the back stopped in less than two hundred, they didn't dare to retreat, but they didn't dare to move forward.
Fifteen thousand people attacked a small county town and the offensive line was actually broken, and the Jizhou soldiers hesitated, and the companions outside the city wall were quickly emptied.
Chun Yuqiong angrily brandished the spear in his hand and prepared to step forward to kill those Jizhou soldiers who had stopped moving, and the personal soldiers behind him also pulled out their weapons to deter these people.
??????????????? Finally, under strong pressure, the Jizhou soldiers rushed to Neihuangcheng like a tide again.
Whoosh ...... Poof, poof, poof...... Although the bows and arrows on the inner yellow city wall were still sharp, the Jizhou soldiers quickly approached the city wall with their numerical advantage.
Crunch, crunch, restructured...... Let's click, let's click, let's ...... Just when Chun Yuqiong breathed a sigh of relief, the bows and arrows on the city wall did not stop, and the kind of catapult that only appeared during the siege of the city finally began to start, and huge stones flew down from the city wall and smashed into the dense Jizhou soldiers.
More than 100 catties of stones condescendingly fell down and fell on the Jizhou soldiers, basically the body was divided into several pieces, those who fell on the open ground will also jump up, and the Jizhou soldiers behind the old Gao General will be bound and fall down several, and the front ones are often broken and bleeding.
Chun Yuqiong, who supervised the battle in the rear, was not spared, and several of his pro-soldiers who did not rely on the competition were also hit by stones in the next few rounds and died on the spot.
Chun Yuqiong only retreated three or four hundred steps under the stiff pull of his own soldiers. The range of the catapult was concentrated in three hundred to four hundred paces outside the city wall, and several rounds of stones were thrown down, and from the four hundred steps outside the city wall to the foot of the city wall were completely covered by the defenders.
Fu Zhu hurriedly came to Chun Yuqiong's side again: "General Chun Yu, if you don't let them retreat, our army's casualties may be too great, causing the army to be disheartened and have no strength to fight." ”
Chun Yuqiong glanced at the inner yellow city wall and said angrily: "Isn't this withdrawal without even seeing the enemy's face to tell the whole army that we can't help the defenders, and we can't help Wei Xuan?" My lord is still waiting for our good news and the opportunity for peace talks. The inner yellow wall is so narrow that catapults are placed, and the stones that can be piled up must be limited, and the infantry that can stand is also limited. The archers should be about the same by now. Hold on for a while, and when their ranged soldiers are useless, our army will definitely be able to occupy the numerical advantage and fight down the ladder ladder. ”
So Chun Yuqiong launched a series of onslaught outside the Inner Yellow City regardless of casualties.
As Chun Yuqiong guessed, although the catapults on the city wall were fierce, they finally stopped after throwing more than twenty rounds of three or four hundred boulders, and the arrows of those longbowmen became scarce.
Even now, Chun Yuqiong turned back to the herald and said: "Beat the drum, the whole army will attack, and you will not stop until you take Neihuang!" ”
Knock knock knock...... The war drums were more general than before, and the Jizhou soldiers who were originally cowering also accelerated their charge, and soon dozens of ladders were erected on the inner yellow city wall, and some dexterous Jizhou soldiers climbed quickly, one by two, three ......
The corners of Chun Yuqiong's mouth finally showed a smile, and he turned back to Fu Zhu and said: "Prison army, you see, although the casualties of our army in front are a little larger, but now the enemy's long-range weapons can't play a role, and they will definitely not have time to rearm their defenses, and they can't say that they can capture them in one battle." ”
Fu Zhu frowned but did not refute Chun Yuqiong, because so far it seemed that the Jizhou soldiers on the cloud ladder had climbed very smoothly, and the defenders did not seem to be prepared to roll wood and boiling water. Could it really be that the defenders relied only on range-range weapons, and did not have a multi-layered defense?
Almost dozens of ladders at the top of the Jizhou soldiers climbed to the battlement of the city wall at about the same time, and they only needed to hold on a little longer to appear on the city wall, and Chun Yuqiong and Fu Zhu both watched with bated breath.
The next moment, there was a cold light on the city wall, no, it was a cold light, almost in those Jizhou??????????????? When the soldiers left the ladder and jumped on the city wall, rows of big knives suddenly appeared on the city wall in the eyes of Chun Yuqiong and Fu Zhi, only to see those big knife soldiers rise and fall, and then they saw a tragic scene: those Jizhou soldiers who finally climbed the city wall were cut into two without exception!
There was no scream, no blood, only two halves of the corpse fell from the city wall, some smashed on the ladder and smashed the Jizhou soldiers behind them along the ladder, and some fell directly to the ground next to the city wall and raised a puff of dust.
Puff, puff, puff...... The knife fell in hand, without exception, the knife was like this, and soon there was no one on the ladder, and no one looked at it to continue to rush up. The walls fell into a deathly silence.
Whoosh ...... Just when the Jizhou soldiers were stunned, the familiar sound of bows and arrows sounded again, and then there was a heart-rending scream! At such a close distance, the Divine Arm Bow and ordinary bows and arrows can successfully shoot through the bodies of Jizhou soldiers. Nature who was greeted by the bow of the divine arm died on the spot, and nature who was shot by an ordinary bow and arrow wailed there.
Crunch, crunch, crunch...... The familiar sound of the catapult sounded again, this time it was no longer a boulder but some ignited debris, flying out of the distance, after landing on the ground, it released a choking smoke, and many nearby Jizhou soldiers who had not yet participated in the war were immediately smoked into snot and tears.
Even Chun Yuqiong and Fu Zhu were not spared, and had to retreat hundreds of steps again.
Their retreat caused a large number of Jizhou soldiers who did not enter the range of bows and arrows to retreat, and the two or three hundred steps outside the city wall were miserable, and the Jizhou soldiers were constantly shot by the enemy when they retreated, and the smoke of stimulation slowed down their speed.
Chun Yuqiong easily got rid of the stimulation of the smoke, and when she looked back, the Jizhou soldiers who had attacked like a tide retreated like a tide, and they didn't use it before, and these people all had horror on their faces.
Chun Yuqiong knew that it was impossible to count on these soldiers to attack Neihuang. In just half an hour, he lost at least 2,000 soldiers here. Chun Yuqiong unwillingly glanced at the direction of Nei Huangcheng, and a few words popped out from between his teeth: "Mingjin withdraws his troops!" ”
Hearing the familiar bell, almost all the Jizhou soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. When the Jizhou soldiers slowly returned to the camp, they couldn't help but look back in the direction of Neihuang.
Chun Yuqiong glanced at the frustrated professor and said expressionlessly: "General Yan Liang can understand General Yan Liang now, surrounded by more than 10,000 such foot cavalry, 5,000 people can't hold out for long at all, maybe it's a matter of half an hour to an hour." At this time, if Wei Xuan wants to fight, send another 10,000 cavalry to raid......"
Chun Yuqiong stopped halfway through speaking, turned his head to look at the soldiers who were retreating to the camp in horror, and then looked at the camp not far away and suddenly shouted: "Speed back to the camp, speed, speed up!" ”
All the Jizhou soldiers looked confused, the enemy is not still on the city wall, the city gate has not been opened, the attack urged them to understand, now is to retreat back to the camp, everyone was nervous in the battle just now, where is the strength now.
But it soon became clear to them that their commander was right, for there was the sound of horses' hooves rumbling in the west, and the smoke and dust raised were already several feet high, and it was evident that there were many cavalry coming. Your own cavalry is basically the personal guard of the general, and now this kind of cavalry of this size must be the enemy.
The exhausted Jizhou soldiers were immediately enveloped in terror,??????????????? Chun Yuqiong's camp is four miles away from the Neihuang City Wall, which is still based on his own strength and strength and is not worried about the night attack of the Neihuang defenders to camp at such a close distance. Chun Yuqiong's troops launched an attack two miles away, and most of Mingjin's troops were only one mile away from the city wall when they collected their troops, and now they still had three miles to return to the camp, but now these three or four miles of land had become their speed of life and death.
Chun Yuqiong sat on horseback and walked slowly towards the camp while turning his head to look west, a black dot on the western horizon slowly turned into a black line, and then a black oppressive piece. Chun Yuqiong closed his eyes in pain, and let the war horse move forward, he knew that even if the current Jizhou soldiers formed a formation in place, it would be too late.
At this time, several personal soldiers rushed up, regardless of a whip on the buttocks of Chun Yuqiong's war horse, and then several people rushed to the camp with Chun Yuqiong in tow. Soon the infantry was left behind, hoping to reach the camp before the enemy cavalry arrived.
But the more than 13,000 Jizhou soldiers were not so lucky, they were already frightened by the defenders of Neihuangcheng, and they originally thought that Mingjin could return to the camp to rest for a while. Now there were so many horsemen suddenly on the west side, and all of them ran desperately towards the camp, because they knew that there were horse rejections, fences, and horse traps around the camp, but there was an open space between the camp and the city wall, and to stay was to die.
So more than 10,000 people scrambled to be the first, some simply discarded their fallen soldiers, and some directly waved their weapons at their comrades who were blocking the road in front.
Zhang Liao led 5,000 heavy cavalry like 5,000 tigers rushing towards more than 10,000 ducks, and then the middle section of the Jizhou soldiers who were busy running for their lives was directly smoothed.
Then the tiger and leopard rode in the east of the Jizhou soldiers and divided into two, and at the same time once again rushed into the formation of the Jizhou soldiers, without any hindrance, and soon they converged in the west, and then turned their horses' heads and headed towards the direction of Chun Yuqiong's camp, chasing and killing the Jizhou soldiers who were congested at the gate of the camp.
In the end, all the tigers and leopards stopped at a stone's throw away from Chun Yuqiong's camp, released a few rounds of bows and arrows, and then rode away.
Chun Yuqiong and Fu Zhu, who had already entered the camp, were dumbfounded, and they fought for a moment without slaughtering, and the guards would at least kill more than 6,000 Jizhou soldiers!