Chapter 558: Tongguan, Broken in Half a Day?
Tongguan has a reputation for being easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times.
This is also a very important pass to enter the land of Guanzhong, as long as this pass is broken, then the land of Guanzhong will be lost, because this is a large plain.
It is because of its unique danger and unique geographical features that Tongguan has become such an important venue.
It also makes the land of Guanzhong able to give birth to a lot of life.
When Zhao Hengyi and their army came to Tongguan, looking at such a huge pass, everyone present was stunned for a moment, and there were patrolling soldiers on this pass.
Those men were stunned for a moment, then blew the horn, and then launched a fierce attack, and the troops above Tongguan were endless, although it was impossible to deduce how many of them there were.
But if the guess is right, at least there are more than 10,000 people, they are on the city wall of Tongguan, they have a very strong combat effectiveness, don't look at the small number.
There is no way to do this, for Zhao Hengyi, he thinks that it is still necessary to take a fire attack.
At this moment, they also brought up their cannons.
But the people on the walls were not vegetarians either, and they began to shoot arrows.
The rain of arrows from the sky could only force them to retreat, even if there was a shield defense, it was a drop in the bucket.
In this case, it is the most correct thing to do to get out of their attack range, but fortunately their range is not particularly far, so they can easily dodge, which is better.
In addition, the range of the cannon is slightly greater than the range of their bows and arrows.
Then a blind spot is formed.
In addition, the most important thing is that the soldiers under Zhao Hengyi and his command have all received formal training, unlike that group of people, they are just a group of grass robbers, who have not undergone any training.
Whether in terms of combat ability or combat intensity, it is not so powerful.
The reason why they succeeded in the past was because they were more numerous than the local defenders, and the other was because of their recklessness.
But now it's different, now they are all tiger and wolf divisions, but they have all experienced many battles, and in this situation where the gap in strength is relatively large, they can only stare dryly.
"The general has an order, fire the cannon!"
"Yes!"
As soon as the words fell, the sound of cannons rang out, and I saw huge fireballs rushing towards the Tongguan city wall.
The bombardment of the cannon was very strong, and the marbles wrapped in it smashed the bodies of their soldiers.
This was the first time they had encountered the regular army, and they were naturally a little flustered in their hearts, never thinking that one day they would be beaten so badly.
Zhao Hengyi asked people to attack again at this time.
The fire attack here refers to lighting a fire on their arrows, and then shooting them with crossbow arrows, and their crossbow arrows have been carefully improved by Zhao Hengyi.
Whether it is in terms of range or strength, it is very strong, so in this situation, they have no way back.
One of the biggest benefits of fire attack is that it can ignite a fire, which can set many people on fire on the city walls.
Although the city wall is difficult to burn, the soldiers on the wall can easily be burned by fire.
Zhao Hengyi's move can be described as very wonderful.
This also caused some people on the city wall to be completely panicked, and under the continuous bombardment, they were very afraid.
At the same time, Zhang Can also led the forward and launched a general attack on the city gate.
The city gate of Tongguan is like an iron wall.
The main reason is that although the gate is also made of wood, it is wrapped in iron and copper skin, and it is very thick and strong.
Under normal circumstances, it is still necessary to break through the city gate of Tongguan, which is very difficult.
However, Zhao Hengyi has a large number of people on their side, so naturally they will not be affected, and all the people can break through the first city gate together, and the second city gate will also be broken through at the same time.
The loss of these grass cowards is that they don't have any combat experience, so they were directly hooked by others to break open the city gate.
The city gate was breached so easily, and the natural impact on them was very great.
All the soldiers rushed in at this moment, and the soldiers in Tongguan were naturally brutally slaughtered.
As for the people on the city wall, they basically have no combat effectiveness, and as long as they break the city gate, they can climb the city wall.
As soon as Zhao Hengyi saw that the matter was done, he didn't bother to command, and looked at Hua Die'er next to him: "Lady, how is it?" Your husband and I are amazing, right? ”
Hua Die'er glanced at her: "Come on, it's not like I haven't seen you." ”
“……”
"You just say it's not awesome."
"It's not great at all, compared to your previous command of battles, this time it seems to be playing a child, it's generally too simple, probably because these people have too little combat experience, and they lack some more powerful generals."
"That's right."
"I really don't understand, why can't the defenders of our court and the generals in various places even defeat a bunch of grass robbers?"
Zhao Hengyi smiled lightly and explained.
"There is a good saying, it is called being prepared for danger in times of peace."
"Most of the generals and generals in those places do not have any sense of crisis, and they are slow and lazy to conduct a training every day."
"When you really meet someone who is desperate with them, then there will be a great danger at this time."
"Huh?"
Hua Die'er was stunned for a moment, but with her smart brain, she must be able to figure it out.
She looked like she suddenly realized, "Oh, I see, I see." ”
"However, they are really too weak and too weak to be compared at all, when we united against that Siamese country before, people were also able to resist, and they would rather die than give in."
"This is the difference between us and others, and Dayan has to change."
"Look at you."
At this time, the obstacles on the top of the city have been completely cleared, and all of them are the cheers of their Annan army.
Because this battle came so quickly, and there was no head-on confrontation, everyone thought that the battle of Tongguan was very difficult to fight, and it might take a long time.
But no one thought that it would be won so easily, in less than half a day.
The enemy is too weak, and it is simply impossible to defeat the army.
Then they must be more confident to break through Chang'an City.