746. A tragic offensive and defensive battle
The first confrontation between Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shaojun ended with Yuan Shaojun's active retreat.
However, this day's fighting, it can be regarded as the prelude to the follow-up war, and soon on the second day Yuan Shaojun arrived with great fanfare, this time there is no nonsense, Yuan Shaojun launched a variety of offensive equipment, launched a large army to start attacking Zhu Weijun set up on the north bank of the Yellow River, Mengjin, Xiaopingjin two ferry gates of the camp.
Yuan Shao's army also launched offensive equipment such as cave house cars, sword wall tiger cars, and hanging tower arrow tower cars, etc., and the others were ordinary sword and shield soldiers carrying ladder frames, preparing to forcibly break through the gate and wall of Zhu Wei's army camp.
The temporary structure of this camp is naturally not comparable to the city wall, so if Yuan Shaojun is allowed to rush to the front, there is still a high chance of being destroyed.
Although Zhu Weijun also dug a ditch in this camp and attracted the water of the Yellow River for protection, the wall of the camp was at most three people high, and the thickness and solidity could not withstand Yuan Shaojun's forcible destruction.
Therefore, on the one hand, Zhu Weijun's side counterattacked through bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, oil cans and flints thrown by stone carts before Yuan Shaojun approached, and on the other hand, he was also ready to send troops and horses to destroy Yuan Shaojun's offensive equipment at any time.
"Rush! Kill! ”
"Whoosh ......"
"Thunderbolt... Bang..., bang, la! ”
All kinds of sounds broke out on the battlefield, and tens of thousands of attacking troops of Yuan Shao's army burst out in their mouths like a wave of rushing and killing, rushing to Mengjin and Xiaopingjin to kill the two Zhu Wei army villages.
Of course, relatively speaking, Meng Jin's side is Yuan Shaojun's main direction of attack, and Xiao Pingjin should be an auxiliary attack in order to attract Zhu Weijun's attention.
Therefore, most of the Yuan Shaojun on the side of Xiaopingjin are still thundering and raining, and the offensive strength is relatively weak, and it is more about the shooting of archers on some mobile arrow towers, and there is no real action of forcibly attacking the military village.
But outside the Zhu Weijun village on Mengjin's side, the battle was a real rain of swords and arrows, and oil and fire were splashed everywhere.
Yuan Shaojun almost advanced the attacking army formation to 300 steps away from Zhu Wei's military village, with the cave house car filling the trench in front, the knife wall tiger car as the barrier in the rear, and then a towering mobile arrow tower car, like a three-dimensional offensive posture, so that Yuan Shaojun could directly attack outside the military village.
In addition to Yuan Shao's soldiers who approached the trench in front of the military village through the cave house car, Yuan Shaojun's bow and arrow array was also under the mobile arrow tower car, and pieces of black and oppressive arrow rain were projectiled from time to time under the cover of the direction of Zhu Wei's army village.
In the rear, there were many sword and shield men carrying siege ladders, waiting to charge up at any time and start a big battle to seize the camp.
If it was an ordinary army, in the face of Yuan Shaojun's offset, I was afraid that it would have been unable to resist it for a long time, but Zhu Weijun's side was still in good order.
In addition to the ordinary archers and crossbow archers who counterattacked with feathered arrows and rockets, Zhu Wei's army also set up a defensive terror equipment in the village, that is, the thunderbolt stone cart, the previous burst of "thunderbolt" sound like lightning and thunder, it was the stone cart that threw rocks, oil cans and fireballs outward.
Although the attack distance of the stone cart is limited, at least within 300 steps outside Zhu Wei's army's wall, it can definitely form a terrifying place of death.
In addition to throwing fist-sized pieces of gravel with ordinary stone trucks, a rain of gravel can be formed outside the military village, so that all Yuan Shao's soldiers who tried to get close to the military village had to be baptized by the rubble.
Some canisters filled with grease were also thrown out by the more powerful thunderbolt carts, turning them into terrifying killing weapons.
The oil tank is lighter than the rock, so it can be thrown over a greater distance, and as the tank shatters, the grease inside spills out, although it does not cause direct damage.
But once the grease is ignited by a rocket, or a fireball of a burning rock, it can ignite a sea of fire all at once.
Whether it was the gravel that was enough to smash someone's head and bleed, or the one that could burn into a sea of fire, it could be regarded as a range of attacks, enough to clear a large open space in Yuan Shaojun's tidal wave of offensive.
Even Yuan Shaojun's arrow tower and arrow array, when he was not prepared for the counterattack of the stone cart at the beginning, because it was too close to Zhu Wei's army village, it was smashed by the thrown rocks at once, and several arrow towers were ignited by the fire oil, and the archers below were killed no less than two or three thousand people.
It wasn't until Yuan Shaojun realized that something was wrong and retreated outside the attack range of the stone chariot that he stabilized the position, otherwise it was the rhythm of how many people went up, how many people died.
Later, Yuan Shaojun only dared to continue to charge forward with the protection of the cave house car, but even if he was protected by the cave house car, in the face of the fire oil and rocks thrown by the stone car, there was also a kind of luck like a life and death gamble.
It's just because of the existence of Yuan Shaojun's arrow tower and arrow array, Zhu Weijun didn't dare to easily kill out of the military village, it was easy to fall into Yuan Shaojun's arrow rain cover, so before the trench outside the military village was completely filled, Zhu Weijun just shrank inside the military village and attacked Yuan Shaojun outside.
But on this day, Yuan Shaojun's strong attack still failed to get close to the outer wall of Zhu Wei's army's village, and caused a real threat to Zhuwei's army's village, but the trench dug outside the general's village was filled in some.
But just like that, Yuan Shaojun also paid at least four or five thousand casualties.
On the battlefield outside Zhu Weijun's village, you can see many complete and incomplete corpses of Yuan Shaojun's soldiers, destroyed cave houses, cars, arrow towers, as well as rubble everywhere and traces of being burned by flames.
The scenes on the battlefield looked extremely tragic, and it was difficult to fully describe them in terms of rivers of blood.
With the end of the battle on this day, the results of the statistics on the battlefield inevitably made Yuan Shaojun frown.
If it is just an ordinary ferry military village on Zhu Wei's side that needs to pay such a big loss, then there will be a river crossing battle next, and how many troops can Yuan Shaojun have to lose in the defensive battles facing Zhu Wei's army again and again after crossing the river.
In such an offensive and defensive battle, it is obvious that Zhu Weijun has the advantage, and Yuan Shaojun has such a big loss, but it is not certain whether Zhu Weijun lost hundreds of people on this day.
Therefore, although the battle during the day is over, within Yuan Shaojun's big tent, Yuan Shao and his subordinates have been discussing how to continue the war below.
Of course, while Yuan Shaojun was counting the results of the battle, Zhu Weijun was also counting the results, and in terms of the loss of troops, the two military villages of Mengjin and Xiaopingjin combined lost less than 500 people, most of whom were only injured by Yuan Shaojun's feather arrows, and were not really dead.
It's just that in today's battle, Zhu Weijun's side has a lot of material losses, mainly feather arrows and fire oil that are non-recyclable consumables......