Chapter 680: Clever Hands
This was not an encounter, but the Qin army was well prepared. When the 100,000 vanguard troops of the Blackwater Empire rushed over like a tide, the Qin army's buried hand artillery battalion and rainstorm pear flower bullet firing formation carried out a fierce fire attack on the enemy.
Although the super firepower caused some damage to the vanguard of the Blackwater Empire, the army of 100,000 rushed up, and the casualties in front could not be taken into account at all.
Seeing that the enemy was still struggling to attack despite continuous losses, the 50,000-strong generals of the Qin army ordered the hand artillery battalion and the rainstorm pear flower bomb formation to withdraw from the forward position, so that all the ground attack troops could form up and carry out a counter-charge against the enemy.
The troops of both sides came into contact with each other, and the shouts of killing were deafening.
Although the vanguard of the Blackwater Empire was superior in numbers, the Qin army was tightly entangled with the other party by taking advantage of the excellence of its own equipment.
After a while, the superiority of the vanguard of the Blackwater Empire in numbers was clearly revealed, and gradually, the defense line of the Qin army was somewhat shaken.
Qin Ning took a long breath and ordered the 50,000 Qin army reserves in the northwest of Longxi City to go up.
The 50,000 Qin troops and the 100,000 forward troops of the Blackwater Empire who collided head-on were fighting hard there, although the 100,000 forward troops of the Blackwater Empire occupied a certain advantage, but for a while, they didn't want to take down the 50,000 Qin troops who were resisting head-on.
As the 50,000 Qin troops in the northwest corner of Longxi City as a reserve entered the battle, the shape of the field underwent a subtle transformation.
The 100,000 forward battalion troops of the Blackwater Empire had completely spread out their formation, strangled with the Qin army in front. The 50,000 reserves of the Qin army attacked fiercely from the flanks. The forward battalion of the Blackwater Empire was simply unable to draw effective forces against the Qin reserves on the flanks.
This formed a strange scene, the forward battalion of the Blackwater Empire firmly suppressed the Qin troops in front. Even the siege has been implemented, and it looks like it will be able to eat these 50,000 Qin troops.
However, the reserves of the Qin army attacked the flank of the Blackwater Empire's forward battalion like a bamboo. Very lightly, he defeated the flanks and went to make peace with the besieged Qin army.
The generals of the forward battalion of the Blackwater Empire are about to go crazy, on the surface, it seems that the armies of the two sides are not divided between the winners and losers, but this general knows that it is a matter of time before the Qin army converges, and once the two parts of the Qin army achieve convergence, they will immediately carry out a counter-assault.
At that time, the fate that awaited these 100,000 Blackwater Empire vanguard troops was a rout.
But now this general is suffering, but his superiors are strictly ordered to wait for orders, and they will command the retreat without receiving orders. That's a head-off thing.
The only thing that made this general feel confident was that he still had 150,000 reserves behind him, and as long as his superiors put these people into battle, the shape would be reversed immediately.
But as time passed, seeing that the distance between the two parts of the Qin army was getting closer and closer, and his troops were decreasing, this general had the urge to scold his mother in his heart.
At this time, Shangfeng either hurriedly threw the follow-up troops on the battlefield, or quickly ordered his own troops to retreat. The loss would be smaller. No one dares to imagine the consequences of fighting like this.
What the general didn't know was that his superiors were there scolding his mother. According to the agreement with the prince of the north, when his forward troops began to attack. Longxi City should immediately carry out a large-scale counterattack by ground forces.
But now, except for the fierce long-range heavy artillery attack in Longxi City, there is no intention of dispatching ground troops at all. The 100,000 vanguard. But it was on the verge of rout little by little, and the generals of the vanguard were distressed. This commander also feels like a drop of flesh.
In fact, the most depressed of this is the defender of Longxi City.
Truly. There is no problem with the battle plan drawn up above. But when you really put it into practice, you will find that this battle can't be fought at all.
This is not to say that the generals of Longxi City are greedy for life and afraid of death, and do not have the blood of soldiers. On the key issue, compared with the Qin army, the biggest gap between the Northern Prince's troops and the Qin army is the high-grade alchemy ordnance.
The range of other people's heavy artillery is more than double the range of their own heavy artillery, which has long been well known. The other party seems to have long been aware of Longxi City's combat intentions, and took the initiative to retreat to defend the position, and the heavy artillery cover of Longxi City could not hit others at all.
And the Qin army that was besieging the city, its intention was not to destroy the city defense buildings, but to calmly hide in the distance and wait. This is a headache for the generals of the defenders of Longxi City.
Without the cover of the heavy artillery battalion, as soon as the ground troops sent out, they will attract a fierce blow from the opponent's heavy artillery battalion, that is, they will push their own soldiers into the fire pit.
Because of the restrictions of the city walls, it is impossible for the ground troops sent to deploy all at once, and the opponent's heavy artillery battalion will concentrate its firepower to carry out saturated and destructive strikes.
Even if you send 100,000 troops at one time, you will always go out of the city little by little, and if you go out a little, people will bombard them, which is simply to send your troops to death.
Ordering a heavy artillery battalion to hit the opponent's heavy artillery battalion is simply a joke, the farthest shell that was shot out fell to the ground a mile away from the enemy, what kind of bird cover to talk about?
The defenders of Longxi City tried to use a small force to go out to test, but they didn't hang you at all, and if they had the ability to attack me, they would kill you directly.
As soon as a large force of ground troops was dispatched, the enemy's heavy artillery rained down like hailstones, and thousands of their own troops died.
300,000 troops, this number is absolutely shocking, but you can't stand the deaths and injuries of such a 10,000-strong system.
The defender of Longxi City hurriedly reported the situation to the Northern Prince. The Northern Prince did not expect such a situation, and after thinking about it for a while, the Northern Prince contacted the commander of the Blackwater Empire who was in charge of the sneak attack this time.
The Northern Prince explained the difficulties encountered by Longxi City, and the commander of the Heishui Empire broke through from the periphery, as long as the troops of the army in the west of Longxi City were routed and the heavy artillery battalion in the west was destroyed, the defenders of Longxi City would attack in an all-round way and win in one fell swoop.
The commander of the Blackwater Empire listened, hesitated for a long time, and observed the situation of the two sides. I feel that what the Northern Prince said also makes some sense, if it can really defeat the Qin army in the west of Longxi City. Let the defenders of Longxi City come out, and the forces of the two sides will be entangled with the Qin army. In terms of quantity, it has an absolute advantage.
The commander gritted his teeth and ordered the whole army to attack, throwing all the remaining 150,000 reserves on the battlefield.
The two Qin armies that fought against the army of the Blackwater Empire have finally converged!
According to the conventional battle plan, a counteroffensive should be organized immediately, because by this time the enemy's formation has been disrupted.
However, before the converging Qin army troops could carry out a counterattack, the Qin army found countless armies of the Blackwater Empire surging over from afar.
The converging Qin army immediately reacted, and it was the most unwise thing to counter-charge at this time. Hurry up and set up in-place defenses.
The scattered forward troops of the Blackwater Empire, which were already on the verge of collapse, saw their reserves coming up, and because the Qin army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and gained respite, they adjusted in an instant, and immediately charged the Qin army again and again.
In the blink of an eye, the form on the battlefield was extremely unfavorable to this part of the Qin army that was caught in a bitter battle.
The generals around Qin Ning were a little uneasy, and they asked him to lead a part of his troops up to reinforce the Qin army that was in a bitter battle.
At the same time, 100,000 Qin generals who were ambushed in the southwest. I also found out the shape on the battlefield, and contacted Qin Ning through the guò communicator to see if he would attack immediately.
Qin Ning responded to the generals very harshly, and it was not yet time to attack. No one is allowed to fight lightly at this time.
The generals were intimidated by Qin Ning's majesty and did not dare to go into battle again.
The 100,000 Qin troops who can fall into the war group are extremely passive on the battlefield. The 150,000 reserves of the Blackwater Empire pressed up, and the Qin army faced an enemy of 250,000.
Especially the later reserves. Organized and orderly spread troops along the two flanks, trying to encircle the Qin army, which was caught in the battle group. Once this part of the Qin army was surrounded. It would have been a slaughtering battle.
Qin Ning took out the communication equipment, contacted the school official who was accused by himself, and explained some things to him for him to do.
After listening to Qin Ning's order, the school officer immediately withdrew from the battlefield and went to find the commander of the Blackwater Empire.
Seeing the commander-in-chief, the school officer reported that when he executed a Qin military officer on the battlefield, that person was afraid of death and told him an important piece of information.
The joint battle between the Northern Prince and the Blackwater Empire this time is actually a huge trap, and the purpose is to eliminate the living forces of the Blackwater Empire.
The Northern Prince has reached an agreement with the Qin Army, as long as it can assist the Qin Army in dealing with the Blackwater Empire, the Northern Prince's own rights and interests can be protected, and the Qin Army can also return some of the original Northern Prince's territory to the Northern Prince.
The opponent's battle plan is like this, use a part of the Qin army to attract all the 250,000 troops of the Blackwater Empire, and then when the Blackwater Empire army enters the battlefield, there will be a 100,000-strong Qin army from the southwest to cover the flank of the Blackwater Empire's army, and the Qin army will gather heavy troops to counterattack, and the 250,000 troops of the Blackwater Empire can be annihilated in one fell swoop.
When the commander of the Blackwater Empire's army heard this, he was almost shocked.
Now, the entire army has been thrown into battle, and once it is really like what this officer said, the army of the Blackwater Empire will not be able to effectively withdraw from the battlefield. When the time comes, even if you want to run, you won't have time to take most of the army away.
When the school officer saw that the commander was suspicious, he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said, "General, just look at the shape of the shì." Under such a good shape, as long as the defenders of Longxi City come out, the Qin army will be in a state of collapse, and this situation can be seen by even a small soldier. And the defenders of Longxi City have not moved for a long time, isn't this suspicious?"
The commander observed in the direction of Longxi City, where there was no intention of ground troops coming out except for artillery battles.
For a while, the commander of the Blackwater Empire's army was also a little hesitant.
Now the initiative on the battlefield is still on his side after all, the troops have been deployed to the two wings, and it is a matter of an instant to surround the 100,000 Qin troops in front of them, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy the opponent's 100,000 troops.
Once withdrawn, it will be a real failure!
But if they don't withdraw, the army will become entangled with the enemy, and if the situation mentioned by this officer really occurs, it will be difficult to withdraw at that time.
Qin Ning finally issued an order, ordering the 100,000 Qin troops who rushed over from the rear to attack the army of the Black Water Empire.
After receiving the order, the hidden 100,000 Qin troops attacked the army of the Blackwater Empire like a sea of mountains.
At the same time, the commander of the army of the Blackwater Empire also received a military intelligence report from the flanks, saying that in the southwest direction, there were about 100,000 Qin troops with a large number of people, and they were frantically moving here.
It is expected that in less than a cup of tea, there will be contact with our army! (To be continued......