190 Retreat
Lin Jianyue learned for the first time the power of the Hu people's siege trebuchet.
The grinding stone-sized stone flew from a distance, smashing on the city wall, the heavens and the earth seemed to tremble, and the next moment Lin Jianyue felt that the city wall was about to collapse.
Lin Jianyue failed to climb the city wall in person, but was surrounded by thousands of guards with heavy shields in a solid stone house in the center of the city, looking at the serious and resolute posture of the soldiers around him, as long as a boulder flew in, it was estimated that the guards would physically come forward to block it.
Lin Jianyue finally understood why Liu Bingyun always objected to him defending the city personally, and he had prepared so many boulders, giant trees and glutinous rice syrup before, and they were all looted within dozens of miles around, it turned out that they were all for this moment.
Lin Jianyue was taught another lesson, Liu Bingyun obviously saw it, and the reason why he didn't say it was because Lin Jianyue couldn't be persuaded at all if he hadn't seen it.
Fortunately, Yuncheng is a real plain area, and there are no mountains and no forests for more than a hundred years around, and even if there is, it has been cleared by Liu Bingyun.
The stones were quickly knocked out, and then there were such things as poisonous water and poisonous smoke, which caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers defending the city, which made Lin Jianyue feel distressed, these were his most elite guards.
Yancheng is worthy of being a strong city, and Liu Bingyun later strengthened it day and night, even if it was hit like this, it was still immovable, and some big gaps were immediately filled, and the next thing was a face-to-face duel.
Seeing that his killer trebuchet failed to make a contribution, Li Chongshan also had to sigh, and then collect and transport these things from around Kaifeng, it would take at least a few months, and now he could only forcibly attack the city regardless of casualties.
Hu Renwei has been sent over, and the next thing is Hao Tianfeng's might, the bow and crossbow battalion of the Guards is not invincible in the world, but above the fortified city, their bed god arm bow battalion is a mountain that Li Chongshan's foot soldiers cannot cross, and the Hu people's best cavalry and archery do not dare to get too close to help the foot soldiers, and can only shoot arrows at a greater distance, and the danger of damage to the defenders is greatly reduced.
Many heavy trebuchets that had no time to evacuate were destroyed by the bed with strong penetrating power, and the siege foot soldiers did not dare to use a dense formation to rush to the city, the casualties were too great, and they finally dispersed and rushed to the city, and there were rolling wood and thunder stones These things came on, but there were also brave warriors who went up to the city, and what they saw was the guards foot soldiers with tight formations and heavy armor, just in such a big place, in the face of dense formations, no matter how strong the individual force was, it was only a share of death.
However, in four or five days, Li Chongshan's troops besieging the city suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and their morale dropped significantly. Li Chongshan had to reduce the intensity of the siege, but it was difficult to attract the other two armies of Lin Jianyue from Xuzhou and Chenzhou to go out of the city.
Batusu sighed in his heart, if these are used in the direction of Chenzhou, maybe the city will be broken, and the situation will be opened, which is far stronger than the situation of such a stalemate under the city of Yuncheng.
"Marshal Ba, Lin Jianyue has a false name, and he is not worthy of his name. A few decades ago, I heard that the cavalry of the Jurchens was also very powerful, and it was here that Zhao Wumu, who was respected by the Han people, defeated nearly 150,000 cavalry and recovered the Central Plains with only 80,000 cavalry and 30,000 foot soldiers. Now Lin Jianyue's strength is much stronger than Zhao Wumu at that time, but he has shrunk up, it is really not a heroic act, I look up to him. ”
Batusu didn't know how to answer, and he was not in the mood to continue complimenting, what is not a hero, Lin Jianyue This is the most correct way to deal with it, he knows that His Majesty is just complaining.
"Your Majesty, Lin Jianyue is so blindly defensive, the minister is quite worried, with Lin Jianyue's ability, there must be other means we don't know about to counterattack, Lin Jianyue's three-way main force we have watched, but the Jinning army in Hedong can't stand it, the defense is more than enough to attack, but it can't do nothing, now it is not suitable for his army to stay in Liaozhou, it is recommended that Your Majesty order him to divide tens of thousands of dollars to go south to Longde Mansion, take an offensive posture against the Jinning army, be sure to drag the Jinning army, and prevent him from crossing the river to the south."
Li Chongshan thought about it and nodded.
"Hahe of Jingdong Road should solve Pu Jinzhong as soon as possible, not seek complete annihilation, just defeat and dispel Pu Jinzhong's attempt to attack, and don't care if Jingdong Road is empty, and Zhou Qing near Xuzhou should not care about him, immediately take the main force including the infantry to the south, and immediately attack the Wuwei army in Chenzhou, so that we can have a chance of winning."
"Marshal Ba is very thoughtful, but that will be a month or two later, and now the weir city in front of him is the focus, does Marshal Ba have any strange tricks?"
"No matter how strong Lin Jianyue's guards are, it is impossible to eat all the food, the bows, arrows, thunder stones, these cannot be used up, and they cannot be replenished, since we have been surrounded, then continue to besiege, the siege cannot be stopped, but there is no need to be too forceful, you can order all the troops to fight in turns, and after gradually recovering morale, there is still a big chance, I don't believe that Xuzhou Chenzhou has been able to endure it, and we also sent tens of thousands of rangers to sweep Lin Jianyue's rear, which also has a great effect."
But the news that came a day later made Batusu frightened, the rangers who went out not only did not grab anything, but also lost seven or eight thousand rangers, could it be that Lin Jianyue's control over his rule had reached such a point? Or is there another large hidden force that he doesn't know, until this time, Batusu has already retreated, but at this time he didn't dare to say to Li Chongshan, and Li Chongshan would not agree, unless there was any major change.
Xihua County, Chenzhou, this is the city closest to Kaifeng Mansion in Chenzhou, Sun Zhengyi used to restore the city defense here well, the main force of the Wuwei Army is basically here, and Li Jiyong's Guards Cavalry is also there.
Liu Jiahao looked at the direction of Yancheng and was very worried, hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded His Highness in the vast area around Yuncheng, he knew that Hu Ren was waiting for him to reinforce Yancheng, and now he must not go out of the city.
"General Liu, we've been doing nothing here for so long, do we still have to keep watching? Even if you don't go to Yuncheng and you may be ambushed, you can always go to Kaifeng! That's what His Royal Highness did in the past, knocking out Li Chongshan's baggage line and stabbing him directly in the ass, he Li Chongshan has to retreat if he doesn't retreat, maybe it's a bit possible to be defeated. ”
This is Li Jiyong's whining voice, which has been whispering in Liu Jiahao's ears for several days, and has also been recognized by many commanders of other armies.
Liu Jiahao knew Li Jiyong's urgent mood, he had been by His Royal Highness's side for a long time, his feelings were deep, and his irrational emotions were understandable.
Will Liu Jiahao not know how to crack down on Li Chongshan's weak link? But Li Chongshan attacked Yuncheng on the surface, but he was staring at the Wuwei Army and the Long Jie Army, which His Royal Highness repeatedly emphasized to them, the winner and loser were not here, but in Hedong and Jingdong Road.
"His Royal Highness has issued three military orders in a row, without His Highness's warrant, except for scouts, he went out of the city to fight the military law without permission, and now he can't get the warrant, but His Highness has thought of it and agreed on three beacon information. One said that it was more urgent, but it was still not allowed to go out of the city, but it was necessary to strengthen vigilance; The second is very urgent, and support can be dispatched according to the situation; The three roads are the decisive battle of the whole army. Now there is no one, how can it come out? ”
Tie Qinglin since the siege of the Yan City, every day before dawn on the armor and neatly sat on the city gate tower looking at the direction of Yuncheng, he wanted to know the information of the beacon smoke and the report of the scout for the first time, and refused to delay even a trace of time, as long as there were two beacon smoke, it was the time of desperateness, or the time of the same end.