Chapter 871: Offensive and Defensive Battles

It turned out that the Pingzhou Army was really no match for the enemy army in the field.

As the strongest black armor Xuancai, or the most elite 50,000 people in the 300,000 army, they can't achieve a decisive advantage in the face of the enemy army, let alone other armies.

However, these battles were not without gain, at least Shang Ji knew the name of the army that surprised him so much!

For the name of Wei Wushu, Shang Ji is naturally no stranger.

Wei Wushu was the first professional army in Chinese history, and its historical evaluation was extremely high, with a super high evaluation of "courtesy, might, unstoppable, and unstoppable".

Now that Wei Wushu has appeared, if Shang Ji no longer knows who the enemy commander is, then he can find a rope and hang himself!

Although there is a small black spot that cannot be erased by killing his wife in his character, no one can deny Wu Qi's military talent.

Shi Lu defeated Qi, in Wei Weiba, from Chu Chusheng, such a fierce record, throughout the entire Chinese history, Wu Qi is just one person!

For Shang Ji, Wu Qi is a special person. The battle of his fame was the battle of Yin and Jin. The specific process is not detailed, but here is only the result: Wu Qi defeated the 500,000 army of the Qin State with 50,000 soldiers who had no military merits, with 3,000 cavalry and 500 chariots, and forcibly interrupted the rhythm of the rise of the Qin State.

It also triggered the "princes to humble Qin", so that the entire Qin State was looked down upon by the princes. It was not until more than 20 years later that Qin Xiangong recaptured the land west of the river and washed away the humiliation.

Moreover, in addition to Wu Qi's outstanding military ability, his political talent is also quite outstanding. Although the reform of the state of Chu presided over by Wu Qi ended in failure, it can only be said to be a crime of non-war.

If the king of Chu can live a few more years, so that Wu Qi has more time to precipitate and improve, Chu can even complete the reform before the Qin state.

Someone once commented that his martial arts ability was comparable to Sun Wu, and his literary ability was comparable to Shang Ying!

And after knowing that the commander on the opposite side was Wu Qi, Shang Ji decisively coaxed. I don't dare to lead the army out to wave anymore, resolutely practice the policy of shrinking the head of the turtle, and resolutely defend the city!

You can't blame Shang Ji for being timid, throughout the history of the Qin State, he is only one person who can be comparable to Wu Qi, and even Wang Jian is almost meaningful.

Although Wang Jian is also famous for his military exploits, it can even be said that he is still above the killing god Bai Qi in terms of meritorious deeds. However, at that time, the national strength of the Qin State had obviously surpassed that of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, and Wang Qian's military exploits were inevitably a little suspicious of relying on the national strength to bully others.

Of course, in terms of political wisdom, Wang Jian is much stronger than Bai Qi and Wu Qi.

Although Shang Ji has been brave in a hundred battles, and has been trained in the beacon fire for a long time, and his military combat ability has been significantly improved, he is not arrogant enough to think that he can be compared with the ruthless people such as Bai Qi and Wu Qi.

Under the circumstance that the comprehensive combat strength of one's own army does not have an advantage, leading the troops to fight a decisive battle with Wu Qi is a brain-dead act no matter how you look at it!

However, if Shang Ji doesn't come out, he won't take the initiative to attack if he doesn't represent Wu Qi. The Heavenly Soldiers Group not only has a strong average combat strength of the army, but also has quite outstanding advantages in siege equipment and other aspects.

The Pingzhou army occupied the advantage of the city, condescendingly and long-range bombardment with the enemy, and even faintly fell into the disadvantage!

Thanks to the fact that the Pingzhou Army has a deep heritage, reserves of materials, and a sufficient number of large equipment such as torch stone carts and burst torch stone carts, it barely remained undefeated in this confrontation.

It's just that if you think that you can stop Wu Qi's attack in this way, then you can't help but underestimate this soldier saint!

The confrontation on the frontal battlefield was only part of this great battle, and Wu Qi's attack on Luofeng Pass was all-round. While the main force attacked Luofeng Pass, it also sent a small group of elite troops to infiltrate behind him and harass the logistics route of the Pingzhou Army. In addition, relying on the celestial soldiers' own demagogic ability, they launched psychological tactics to encourage the Pingzhou soldiers to rebel.

Although no army has rebelled in formation so far, the morale of the army has inevitably declined. In addition, because the Pingzhou army was very rich in materials stored in the three major city passes, although the grain robbery team sent by Wu Qi occasionally succeeded, it could not threaten the logistics security of the Pingzhou army for the time being.

Of course, these situations are temporary, and if you don't find a way to restrain them, the disadvantage of the Pingzhou army will only grow bigger and bigger as time goes by.

In addition, the famous Wu Qi, of course, the siege methods will not be limited to long-range siege equipment. The major arms of the armed forces jointly and cooperatively fought with each other, and the three-dimensional system siege was used alternately, such as fire attack, water attack, and city excavation, which made the Pingzhou army anxious.

In particular, the Wei Wushu, who was extremely feared by the Shang Dynasty, as hoplites, they also had effective means in siege warfare.

Seriously speaking, Wei Wushu's siege methods were very low-level, that is, he used flying claws and other equipment to climb along the city wall.

This seemingly simple and inefficient siege method is quite powerful in the hands of Wei Wushu, the ten-zhang high city wall, Wei Wushu is simply like flying, and he can climb from the root of the city wall to the head of the city in the blink of an eye!

You must know that even when climbing the city wall, Wei Wushu was wearing heavy armor, but he lacked Changge, shields, and bows and arrows!

The first time Wei Wushu appeared in the siege battle, he directly gave the Pingzhou army a blow.

Six hundred Wei soldiers took advantage of the night to raid the city wall. The unsuspecting Pingzhou army was directly attacked by the enemy and rushed to the city wall.

At that time, the situation was very dangerous, and the soldiers left behind on the city wall were completely vulnerable in front of Wei Wushu, and they were killed by hundreds of enemy soldiers and lost their armor and collapsed.

At the critical moment, Dian Wei led the three hundred evil god guards to arrive, which curbed the enemy's crazy offensive, and then drove these hundreds of Wei warriors off the city wall with the assistance of more and more high-ranking troops.

In that battle, less than 200 of the 600 Wei soldiers who were ordered to raid survived, 400 were killed, and none of them were captured. As for the casualties of the Pingzhou army, it is exaggerated, with more than 3,000 dead and wounded, and even Dian Wei's evil god guards were killed more than 20 in battle.

In addition to the loss of personnel, a large number of equipment arranged at the head of the city was destroyed in the city, and many armed soldiers with low combat effectiveness but vital in the siege (defense) of the city were slaughtered.

Recalling the original scene, Shang Ji couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If the enemy forces put in more troops, and then send top generals to personally lead the team into battle, the outer city wall of the eastern section of Luofeng Pass may really fall.

Although he didn't understand why Wu Qi made such a low-level mistake, Shang Ji immediately changed the arrangement. Not only did each section of the city wall have high-ranking generals in person, but also top-level troops were arranged to take turns to defend it.

At the same time, Wei Wushu's performance also alerted Shang Ji, as the so-called long-term defense will be lost, and the battle with Wu Qi must not be blindly defended, otherwise he will find a chance to break through sooner or later.

For this reason, Shang Ji changed his original plan, constantly sending elite troops out of the city to fight against Wu Qi's army, and even learned from Wu Qi and sent a small number of elite troops to his rear to make trouble.

Although there were many defeats and few victories in the field battles outside the city, and the raiding army also had few results, in seven or eight days, the Pingzhou army had killed a total of 80,000 troops (including the part killed in the siege battle), and the Wu Qi army also killed about 20,000 people. The battle loss ratio hovers between 1 to 4.

Although the record has been negative, it is better than shrinking in the city all the time. And according to the current proportion, playing the tactics of redeeming, Wu Qi really can't play the Pingzhou Army!