Chapter 2006 Jiangling Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 2)


    Chapter 2004: Jiangling Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 2)


    Under the joint attack of Liu Ji and Liu Xiu, the defenders in Jiangling City were less than 10,000, and one-third were still injured. If there were no reinforcements to supplement it, it would obviously not be able to stop the hundreds of thousands of Shu and Chu coalition forces for too long.


    As a last resort, Meng Gong could only recruit strong men from the people in the city to replenish their troops.


    Meng Gong had already predicted in advance that with the first wave of reinforcements being wiped out and the second wave of reinforcements successfully entering the city, no reinforcements will be able to enter Jiangling in the future, so he made preparations in advance.


    Meng Gong recruited 30,000 strong men in advance for training and used them to carry equipment and supplies.


    Meng Gong did not expect that Er Liu, who was attacking Xiangyang, would return so quickly, and was about to concentrate his efforts to pull Jiangling out, and consume less than 10,000 yuan in a very short time.


    These 30,000 strong men have been trained for less than half a month, but they have a little combat power and cannot be called an army at all. They are just a group of mobs. It is okay to let them carry Lei Shi and throw rolling wood. They will definitely not be able to withstand the head-on confrontation with the Shuchu coalition.


    Although Meng Gong knew this, he had no other way. Jiangling City had reached the last moment and could not hold on without some cruel methods. He could only use human life to fill it.


    In order to defend Jiangling City, Meng Gong ordered these mobs who had only been training for half a month to go up the city tower to participate in the guard city high school. Needless to say, the result was naturally extremely tragic.


    Faced with the coalition forces that climbed the city tower, these new troops may not be opponents in three fights and one fight, and may be counterattacked by one of the opponents.


    Gradually, the casualties of the new recruits became increasingly serious. Some of the new recruits were braver. After their courage was released, they threw down their weapons and turned around and ran away.


    After all, there are a few new recruits who escape, but if this trend is left unchecked, it will only lead to a major defeat.


    Meng Gong had long anticipated this. He personally visited more than a thousand wounded soldiers as the supervision team and shot all the escaped new recruits in a row, which shocked all the new recruits in an instant.


    Although the new recruits who wanted to run were afraid of the coalition forces like wolves and tigers, they were even more afraid of being shot to death by their own people. They did not dare to run away, so they could only bite the bullet and fight against the coalition forces.


    Later, with the personal participation of generals such as Meng Gong, Han Shizhong, and Huo Jun, the morale of the new army was stimulated, which played a role in defending the city rather than helping the worse.


    In the first day of defending the city, nearly 5,000 casualties were killed or killed, while the coalition forces only had nearly 1,000.


    The Qin army, who was defending the city, suffered five times the casualties of the coalition forces facing the siege of the city, which shows how huge the combat power gap between these new recruits who had been training for half a month and the coalition forces.


    This is still the commander of Meng Gong, a famous general who defended the city. If other generals are replaced, the casualties will probably be even greater.


    The situation on the second day was slightly better, with only 4,000 casualties.


    3,000 on the third day.


    The fourth day is 2,800.


    30,000 mobs participated in the city defense for only four days, and nearly 15,000 were lost. There were still 7,000 severely injured and unable to continue participating in the battle, leaving only 8,000 available troops.


    After experiencing the tempering of blood and fire, all those who survived have been transformed and are no longer a group of mobs. Their combat power has been greatly improved. They are naturally incomparable to the elites who have been trained for many years, but they are still no less than the county soldiers.


    With the help of these eight thousand county soldiers, Meng Gong faced a relatively less pressure, but as long as the Shu-Chu coalition forces did not withdraw their troops for one day and the Hebei reinforcements did not arrive for one day, the crisis in Jiangling City would still exist and would never be dissolved so easily.


    Liu Ji knew that Jiangling City was not easy to fight, and he didn''t want to lose too much military force here, but the cannon fodder in his hand had been consumed, and he did not dare to summon the people on the spot to consume the people''s hearts. After a long time of thinking, he thought of another cannon fodder, the slaves of the Southern Barbarians.


    These slaves were all captured in the last battle with Chiyou, with a large number of 40,000 or 50,000. However, because they were too wild and rebellious, and Chiyou was still there, Liu Ji neither could nor dared to incorporate him into an army, so he defeated all 40,000 to 50,000 prisoners as slaves.


    Jiangling City could not be captured for a long time, and a large amount of cannon fodder was urgently needed, so Liu Ji thought of the slaves of the Southern Barbarians. In addition, if the Southern Barbarian Army is now on the border, once it is really attacked, these slaves may also launch a riot, cholera Yizhou, so it is wise to transfer them from Yizhou.


    While Liu Ji asked Peng Yue to return to Yizhou to help, he transferred 40,000 Southern Barbarian slaves from Yizhou.


    After more than half a month of marching, the 40,000 Southern Barbarian slave troops finally stepped into Jingbei, and the offensive and defensive battle in Jiangling will also enter the final moment.


    Liu Ji promised to the 40,000 slaves of the Southern Barbarians that as long as they could capture Jiangling City, they would be exempted from their slavery and give them the identity of Han people. Those who are unwilling to return to Nanzhong.


    After learning that he could get rid of slavery by conquering Jiangling, he would become a Han Chinese, or return to his hometown, all the slaves of the Southern Barbarians were in full swing and were willing to help Liu Jizheng Zhan to gain freedom.


    Liu Ji did not treat these Southern Barbarian slaves as humans at all. He hoped that all of these slaves would die in Jingbei, so he naturally attacked the city regardless of casualties.


    Although the living conditions of the Southern Barbarians were extremely difficult, they also created the strong body of the Southern Barbarians.


    The physical fitness of the Southern Barbarians is much higher than that of the Han people, and it can be said to be a very advantageous source of troops. In addition, Chiyou is good at training and training, so the combat power of the Southern Barbarians is not weaker than that of the Han and Han troops. However, the equipment is really too poor, and he will fall into a disadvantage when facing the Shu army.


    Now these Southern Barbarian slaves have been slaves for several years, and their combat power has naturally declined a lot, but their basic foundation is still there, only weapons in hand, and they are still a strong force.


    Liu Ji did not dare to give these Southern Barbarian slaves armor, for fear that the slave army would find it difficult to control the slave army if the combat power of the slave army increases. Therefore, he only gave the slave soldiers a big knife, and even the shield was only given five thousand faces.


    The slaves of the Southern Barbarians did not know what Liu Ji thought. After all, the Southern Barbarians lacked iron, and the five thousand-faced shield was not a small number.


    Seeing Liu Ji taking out five thousand shields at one time, the slaves of the Southern Barbarians believed in Liu Ji''s sincerity and worked harder in the siege behind them.


    With Liu Ji''s order, under the cover of the Shuchu Alliance''s rock catapult carriage, city rushing cars, siege crossbows and other equipment, 40,000 southern barbarian slaves waved their big swords and carried their shields, and launched the fiercest attack on Jiangling City.


    When Meng Gong saw that the attacking soldiers were neither Shu nor Chu, but barbarians, he thought that Liu Xiu had transferred the Wuling barbarians from Jingnan. Later, he could tell that they were Southern Barbarians through the language they shouted.


    Meng Gong knew that there were a large number of Southern Barbarian slaves in Yizhou, but he didn''t expect that Liu Ji could already drive him.


    The Southern Barbarian Slave Army''s fighting style is very crazy. Even if it loses a thousand, it will hurt three hundred enemies. It is completely attacking the city without any casualties.


    This crazy fighting style of the Southern Barbarian Slave Army is extremely fatal to the current Jiangling defenders, but Meng Gong has no good idea, so he can only bite the bullet and fight with the slave army to consume.


    After a half-month attack and defense battle, three-quarters of the 40,000 Southern Barbarian slaves died in battle, and a total of 30,000 Southern Barbarian slaves died in battle under Jiangling City. The Jiangling defenders also suffered nearly 8,000 casualties, leaving only 7,000 defenders.


    Since then, after two months of persistence, the Qin army in Jiangling is finally about to run out of energy.


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