Chapter 1007: Fierce Battle at the Head of the City
The way of the battle formation is ingeniously different, generally around the three missing one, Hanzhong Leping two Cao Cao Gao Shun's thoughts are different, the former is intended to weaken the other party's determination to stick to and increase the consumption of Yan army equipment camp materials, the latter is to annihilate the enemy's main force to a greater extent, as for the west gate will naturally be prepared, Gao Shun not only to take Leping City within seven days, but also can not let the Cao army general Le Wenqian escape, if this is difficult to support when the city is abandoned, and here waiting for him will be the Liaodong Army cavalry battalion, And the head of this camp is Hao Zhao, a disciple of King Yan.
When Liu Yi went out to patrol in Yixian County, he also spent a lot of effort on this beloved apprentice, and taught him the family heirloom blood dragon halberd method, called master and apprentice, Lang Sheng treated Hao Zhao like a son, and Bo Dao was also a father to the king of Yan. Since entering the barracks at the age of eleven, he has never lagged behind in killing the enemy, and now this position as a lieutenant is the result of his real combat exploits. When the prince Liu Huan was in the army, he was guarding him every step of the way, and in Hao Zhao's heart, even if he died, he couldn't let the eldest prince suffer the slightest injury! At this time, Liu Huan was already sitting in Beiping to control the Yandi, his younger brother Liu Xin was talented, and his reputation in the past two years has eclipsed Debodao, but he knows Hao Zhao's ability to be Zhao Yun Gaoshun, so he is entrusted with an important task.
Hao Zhao was favored by Liu Yi and was loyal to him, and because of his similar age, he was closer to his son Liu Huan, as for Liu Xin, he had always regarded him as a younger brother in his eyes, and he did his best to take care of him, and the second son in the army also had great respect for this brother. This time Liu Xin went to Xu Yang's place, the front battle report came that his fierce general Guan Yu was alert with troops, and the achievements of the Liuhe Water Village of the Yan Army were flaunted, Hao Zhaowen's heart was overjoyed, he and Liu Huan and Liu Yi have been together since childhood, and they know the two brothers very well, in terms of military affairs alone, the second son is undoubtedly more suitable for the battle than the prince, and his extraordinary martial arts and extraordinary talent are praised, and the younger brother is already like this, how can he lose?
The stop of the attack in the half moon is powerful and difficult for the soldiers of the Yan army in Liaodong, but the Chen Liuying in the city of Keleping is even more difficult, they don't know why Gao Shun will stop the siege, but the tense nerves can not be relaxed for a moment, the continuous daily blows of the Suzaku battalion and the propaganda war of the Yan army have made the rumors in the city uneasy, and this half moon is more like a torture for them! In the hearts of many Chen Liuying soldiers, they also hope that the Liaodong Army will come to attack the city as soon as possible, otherwise they will be enveloped by that heavy pressure all day long, and they will not know when they will be unbearable and collapse!
Today's afternoon the Vermilion Bird Battalion's attack on the city is much stronger than usual, but for the defenders, this kind of chaotic scene of flying stones has almost become a habit, if according to Li Tieniu's words, if the stone bullets he has entered Leping City for most of the month are used to build houses, it is enough for Lejin to raise a mansion covering a vast area! Under the battlements is a dead end, Chen Liuying's soldiers have a consensus on this, they can even gather under the battlements to eat when the rocks attack, and anyone's nerves will become numb after a long time in the battle formation. Flying stones are not terrible, the focus of the other party's attack is still on the various battlements at the head of the city, often after the Suzaku camp has been repaired by the Chenliu camp, and there is no siege between the two sides seem to be shouting here, and sometimes they will be more happy.
The soldiers of Chen Liuying are not afraid of flying stones now, but they are afraid of the thunderbolt jar of the Vermilion Bird Battalion, they will never forget the miserable scene of their comrades screaming and screaming in the fire after being hit by this thing, and finally being burned into a pile of black charcoal, and they don't know what Yan Jun put in this kind of canister, it actually ignites when it touches the object, and even the water is inextinguishable. If you are unlucky and hit by it, a hit will go to ninety percent, and even if you can get away with it, I am afraid that it is most likely a situation of life rather than death!
The attack of the Vermilion Bird Battalion was strong and weak, and the launch of the Thunderbolt Tank did not have a fixed time period, so although today's attack was more violent and did not attract too much attention from Chen Liuying, when the Yan army sent a neat and majestic attack formation on the east, south, and north sides at the same time on the second day, everyone from Le Jin to the ordinary soldiers saw the difference between the other side and the previous siege. The queue is still the same queue, the soldiers are still the same soldiers, the only difference is the momentum, today's Yan army siege formation is filled with an indomitable determination, hundreds of steps apart are rushing to the face.
The veterans of the battlefield are extremely sensitive to the sense of momentum, and they can judge whether the opponent's determination is resolute and whether their fighting spirit is high by virtue of this on the battlefield, and the feeling that today's Yan army gives them is the boiling under the surface calm. The half-moon stalemate has ended, and there will be a sea of corpses and blood between today's battles! The war drums in the opponent's camp resounded through the world, stone bullets and thunderbolt canisters scrambled to attack the city, and at the same time, the three-way Yan army launched an attack on Leping City from three directions at the same time, and the infantry and artillery coordinated, the name Le Jin and Chen Liuying's soldiers may not know the details, but they are no strangers to this scene, and they can't think of an effective way to deal with this new tactic of the Yan army with their racking brains, and it is the same after half a month. Of course, there is still a difference between today and before, the steady footsteps of the Yan army are connected, and it seems that the entire earth is shaken, and these more than 10,000 soldiers rush to kill at the same time, and the power is as straight as ten thousand horses!
When the enemy army lined up the formation, Le Jin already felt that in addition to the determination of the enemy general Zhao Yun Gaoshun, from the moment they launched the attack, I am afraid that the siege will not stop until Leping City is broken or unable to continue! Obviously, Le Wenqian hopes that the situation is the latter, and he was also full of confidence at the beginning of the retreat from Leping, but at this time, can he still hold on to the city? It was firm, as after he watched the Yan army's offset, there was a moment when this question arose in his heart.
However, Le Wenqian is still Le Wenqian after all, how could Liu Yi easily call an enemy general a "cunning fox and tiger"? Even if there is no effective means to crack the siege tactics of the Yan army, he will never admit defeat easily, perhaps there is no such thing as admitting defeat in Lejin's dictionary, and he can not be compared to him in terms of tactics, and he can still fight hard, when it comes to this, if he recognizes the second in the Cao army, no one dares to admit the first, Xu Huang and Liyi are both deeply touched by this, and the main force of the Cao army in the first battle of Qingzhou can be successfully withdrawn and Le Wenqian is not unrelated to the desperate break several times, and its bravery is indeed commendable.
Desperate can be understood as exchanging one's own life for the life of the enemy, but it is not so simple, otherwise what is the difference between it and those reckless people in the market? They dare to splatter blood in five steps in a fit of rage! How can Le Wenqian be among the five good generals? In his opinion, the so-called desperate is a kind of momentum, the momentum of putting life and death out of the way, as the saying goes, "one person is desperate, ten people are difficult", what else can people who are not afraid of death stop? However, this kind of momentum is subject to the constraints of the environment, Yan soldiers will not be afraid of death in the battle array, and the strong troops under the command of the rest of the princes are also average, and the strength of Le Jin lies in the momentum that he can maintain with his subordinates at any time, no matter whether the battle situation is good or bad, as long as he gives an order, it can burst out.
I am invincible above the momentum, and I will not hesitate to die with the enemy for this, but Lejin will never let this psychology affect his calmness in the battle, Chen Liuying's madness is to describe their performance in the battle formation, not to say that they are really a group of crazy people! In the face of the impact of the Yan army, almost all the soldiers quickly hid under the battlements, and they would no longer want to stop the impact of the Liaodong army by long-range means as before, no matter how sharp and accurate their bows and crossbows were, they would undoubtedly be far inferior compared with the opponent's equipment, and that kind of attrition would only bring greater damage to the defenders. At this time, although the launch of the Suzaku Battalion will not stop, it will eventually weaken in power due to the delay, and it is impossible to use a sharp weapon like the Thunderbolt Canister, which is the weakest link in the coordination tactics with the infantry artillery at this time. After several battles with the enemy, Lejin was indeed unable to crack the siege tactics of the Yan army, but it could not be said that he was at a loss.
In the conventional understanding, this distance of attacking and defending the city will be the moment when they receive the most severe blow from the defenders, and the new tactics of the Yan army are designed for this place, which can be described as remarkable as far as the actual battle of Leping is concerned! It is precisely because of this that Le Jin made up his mind not to be here with the Yan army for a long time, he wants to retain his strongest combat power to use in the battle at the head of the city, no matter how powerful the Xiangyang cannon is, it is impossible to completely bombard and collapse the solid city wall, after all, it is still necessary to occupy the city through the landing of the infantry army, and Le Jin's move is to leave the decisive moment at this time.
When the siege soldiers of the Liaodong Army put the ladder on the head of the city and began to climb the moment, the defenders will cling to the city wall with a spoonful of boiling oil poured down, and the stone bullets from the bombardment cannon will also become the defenders' local materials, at this time, even with the accuracy of the Vermilion Bird Battalion, it is impossible to carry out accurate strikes on the enemy army that is almost on par with the siege comrades at the head of the city, and the siege war seems to have returned to the normal state in such a situation. Some of them were poured in the face of boiling oil, and suddenly a piece of flesh and blood was blurred, and their appearance was even worse! The previous patience was for the outbreak of this moment, and Lejin's response can be called the only best strategy.
Gao Shun, who watched the battle in the clairvoyant mirror, naturally had a full view of this scene, but the expression on his face did not change due to the casualties of his soldiers, no matter how advanced the tactics of the Yan army were, the losses in the siege were inevitable, and such battle losses were expected, but it was also appropriate for Lejin to give up the blow on the way to the Liaodong Army. Between the attack and defense, Gao Shun ordered the drums of war to be beaten, and more than a dozen well railings of the Yan army slowly advanced to the city of Leping.
These well railings are as high as several zhang, there is a roller drive under the platform, its height is about the same level as the Leping City Tower, the archers on it can rely on the strong attack hard crossbow in their hands to defend the city of the enemy to carry out a precise strike, the power of the Xiangyang cannon in the siege is far better than the general bow and crossbow This is an indisputable fact, but the ruler is short and long, the power of the bow and arrow is not completely replaced by these instruments, at this time it is the time for the archers of the Liaodong Army to raise their prestige! Maybe they will lose some time in the confrontation with the defenders of the city, but because the other side lacks an effective means of striking the well fence, the follow-up force can be continuously reinforced, even if they form a stalemate situation, the soldiers of the Chen Liuying can no longer concentrate on killing the Yan army who climbed the ladder!
And after the defenders of the city head were suppressed by the friendly well, the movements of the siege soldiers of the Liaodong Army became extremely fast again, and half an hour after the siege began, someone had successfully climbed the city tower to start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, one person was followed by ten people, and after ten people was a hundred, for a time the bloody battle on the head of the city in three directions of Leping City was inevitable, but Gao Shun knew in his heart that according to Le Wenqian's previous performance, climbing the city tower was only the first step of the Yan army, and the next thing was the real strength of the two sides. This is where the success or failure of a siege battle can be determined.