Chapter 1235 Battle with Jiangling
Chapter 1233: Fighting Jiangling
After Yue Fei and Yang Zaixing and others met, they turned back to Liu Xiu and others to kill him. But when they arrived at the gate of the city, the gate of Jiangling City had been closed, and they still couldn''t catch up.
“Retreat.”
Yue Fei decisively ordered his retreat. As soon as he finished speaking, arrows suddenly fell like rain on the city tower.
"Everyone, be careful."
Yue Fei and others dodged, blocked, and ran away while running, and soon escaped from the archer''s range, and none of them fell off the horse.
Yue Fei returned to the army formation, held up Liquan Zhanlong spear and shouted: "Qin Army..."
“It will win.”
"The Qin army will win..."
Tens of thousands of troops were like one person, making extremely neat shouts and roars, and their momentum was deafening.
Yue Fei had just killed Wei Yan and defeated Wei Wentong and Gai Yan. This behavior impressed the entire army, so the entire Qin army was extremely excited by this.
"Prince, our army''s morale is now strong. On the other hand, Liu Xiu''s morale has plummeted, which is the best time to attack the city." Wen Pin said in a statement.
Yue Fei nodded when he heard this, then raised the Liquan Zhanlong spear again and shouted: "Prepare to attack the city."
After Yue Fei issued the order, he saw fifty catapults and twenty boreholes slowly being pushed out from behind the Qin army formation, and Yue Fei''s original siege battle formation was quickly arranged.
Liu Xiu, who returned to the city tower, saw that the Qin army was so motivated and was ready to attack the city so soon, his face changed and looked extremely ugly.
"I didn''t expect that I was finally be betrayed by Yue Fei, so I shouldn''t have fought with Yue Fei. In the end, General Wei Yan was sacrificed."
Now that things have come to this point, Liu Xiu’s regret is useless, and he can only use all his strength to make up for it and resist Yue Fei’s first wave of offensive.
Yue Fei adopted the strategy of siege of three and one missing one, which would not arouse the city''s defenders'' swearing to resist to the death. However, although Yue Fei surrounded three walls, he chose to concentrate his troops to attack the North Gate, which would minimize casualties.
"The whole army attacked."
After Yue Fei issued the last strong offensive order, thirty catapults launched the flying stones together and smashed them hard towards Jiangling City. The archers on the railings of the tenth wells also shot against the archers on the city tower to cover the siege team below.
The siege team under the city carried sandbags and charged with the rain of arrows with shields. When they arrived at the corner of the city, they immediately threw the sandbags into the moat, and then quickly fled back to their own formation.
Listening to the screams coming from all over the place, Liu Xiu didn''t even frown. He had fought many tough battles on his way to the battle against Jingnan, but none of them could match the current situation.
"Jingnan is still too far apart. The gap in overall strength, such as the Central Plains, is too big." Liu Xiu sighed in his heart.
The largest battle in Liu Xiu''s memory was when the coalition forces attacked Hulao Pass. At that time, there were more than a hundred catapults than the siege. One wave of catapults was launched at the same time, and tens of thousands of stones were fired at the same time. The scene was like Shura hell.
Compared with the heroes who fought against Dong at the beginning, Liu Xiu''s conquest of Jingnan and even Yue Fei''s attack on Jiangling are just small scenes. "Concentrate our catapult carts at the north gate, and don''t just let Yue Fei use the catapult cart to hit us."
"No."
Soon, the catapults from Liu Xiujun''s other three doors were gathered at Baimen, with a total of twenty catapults and the Qin army''s catapults hit each other.
Liu Xiujun''s catapult car, both in terms of the total carrying amount and the distance of the projectile, is a certain difference from that of the Qin army, but being placed on the city tower can still make up for the performance shortcomings.
The day''s siege battle ended soon. Under Yue Fei''s personal command, the Qin army relied on its strong morale and this advantage, but still suffered 500 casualties. This shows the tragic siege battle.
As for Liu Xiujun, since he was on the side of the city, the casualties were naturally small, and he only paid nearly 200 casualties, but the moat was filled by one quarter of the Qin army.
In other words, if the Qin army continues to defend the city at this strength today, Jiangling''s moat will be completely filled in three days, and the battle to defend the city will be even more tragic.
Liu Xiu was worried about this, and Yue Fei was also worried.
Yue Fei discovered in just one day of siege that the resilience of the Jingzhou army was several times stronger after Liu Xiu came back. If the attack continued according to this trend, even if Jiangling City was finally captured, the Qin army would probably lose tens of thousands of troops, and it would be more than worth the loss in the end!
Yue Fei is a general who is sympathetic to the soldiers. The first principle of marching and fighting is to achieve the greatest results with the smallest casualties.
In the previous battle with the Jingzhou Army, Yue Fei would rather spend more time than minimize casualties. In the previous battle to attack Nanjun, Yue Fei''s 50,000 troops suffered nearly 8,000 casualties, but achieved the result of annihilation of 30,000 enemies, reducing the number of Jingzhou Army in Jiangling by two-thirds.
However, it was precisely because Yue Fei was kind to the soldiers that he was about to capture Jiangling, but he was transferred back by Jia Xu with a transfer order, so that all the casualties he paid were in vain.
Of course, the soldiers who were injured in the war were quickly supplemented from the reserves and prisoners of war, and the injured soldiers were also sent to the wounded barracks for treatment, so Yue Fei''s attack on Jiangling this time would send another 50,000 troops.
Although he suffered a loss of compassion for the soldiers, Yue Fei was still not prepared to attack the city without any casualties, but necessary casualties were inevitable.
Yue Fei first attacked Jiangling City for four days with the most fierce offensive. After filling the moat, Yue Fei changed his strong attack to clever attack, and it was no longer about breaking the city, but instead of killing and injuring the enemy''s live force.
Clever attack is a skillful attack. This way of attacking the city not only kills and damages the enemy, but also reduces casualties. It is just a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. In just a few months or even half a year, Yue Fei may not be able to take Jiangling.
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Hetao, Yinchuan County.
[Dingdong, Yue Fei led his troops to attack Nanjun twice, killing 23,000 enemies and 10,000 prisoners for the first time, and killing 3,000 enemies and 2,000 prisoners for the second time, with a total of 8,000 casualties. After deducting the damage from the war, a total of 270 summoning points were rewarded. The host currently has a total of 5,080 summoning points. 】
Generals like Yue Fei and Bai Qi are the most worry-free. Qin Hao can earn more or less summon points every time he leads his troops to fight, and it is a big number to accumulate a small amount.
"Unconsciously, we have accumulated five thousand summoning points, which is enough to exchange for a wave of new technologies."
As soon as he thought of this, Qin Hao couldn''t help but fall into deep thought. After a while, he said to himself: "Forget it, let''s wait until the end of the Hetao Battle."
There were two memorials on the desk in front of Qin Hao. One was written by Yue Fei who impeached Jia Xu for command indiscriminately, while the other was written by Jia Xu who asked for a title for Zhao Kuangyin.
(This chapter ends)