Chapter 788: Attack and Defense of the Four Kingdoms
The Shang Ji Four-Way Army marched forward, and the high-level leaders of the Four-Nation Alliance were a little panicked. They themselves know the internal situation of their alliance, although it seems to be a huge momentum and has tens of millions of troops, but it is just facing the Pingzhou army, which has a record against the sky, and the four-nation alliance army is really a little lacking in confidence.
Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries' first reaction is to defend the city by clearing the wall, occupying a three-fold advantage in troops, coupled with a solid city defense system, the two districts of Rui and Dutch are facing each other offensively and defensively, and there is no reason why they can't even defend the city!
But in this way, the Peruvian district is not dry!
You're cool when the gates are closed, but what should I do? The enemy's army of nearly 3 million is violently killing the only giant city in the Peruvian area, and the number of defenders in the Peruvian city is not as large as the strength of Zhao Yun's corps, and the quality of the army is not as high as that of Zhao Yun's corps.
In this case, the secret area has no chance of winning against the Australian Army Corps.
As for learning from the two districts of Rui and Dutch to defend the city, the experience of the Australian district is in front of the golden city, and the Peruvian district does not feel that its giant city is more resistant than the giant city of Australia.
As the troops of Zhao Yun's corps got closer and closer, the Peruvian region began to be anxious, and at first they still begged each other, begging the two armies to come to the rescue as soon as possible. As the two districts continued to prevaricate, the Peruvian district was heartbroken, and directly shouted that if you don't come to support, I will withdraw from the alliance and make peace to the Huaxia region alone!
Before Shang Ji set out on the expedition, Yan Huang had already made surrender conditions for Shang Ji, and those who took the initiative to donate the city would retain one-third of the resources of the city to which they belonged!
The Peruvian district has calculated that a big city and a huge one-third of the resources, plus the basic security resources, are basically enough for the Peruvian region. Peru has a population of 30 million, backward industrial development, and little demand for resources.
Peru's cruel words are released, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the two regions are a little waxy, their economy is highly developed, and the corresponding demand for natural resources is more urgent.
Once the Peruvian region defects, not only can Zhao Yun's corps be liberated, but the Pingzhou army will also be able to add more than 3 million troops from the secret region out of thin air. Under the assembly of the army, the troops turned to the two districts of Ruihe, and they were really not confident that they could withstand it.
After urgent consultations, the two countries gathered 4.5 million elite troops to support the Peruvian region. Of course, three countries in the Quadruple Alliance have sent troops, and you Poland don't even think about watching the excitement from the sidelines. Under the joint coercion of the three countries, Poland reluctantly raised 1.8 million troops to rush to the aid of Peru.
It's just that anyone can see that the Polish army of 1.8 million is purely a group, not only marching at an unusually slow pace, but also fighting very conservatively, and immediately retreating at the slightest disturbance. Huang Zhong, who was ordered to contain the Polish region, was extremely speechless, who was holding back whom!
Tossed and turned, the key point of this battle was the contest between the Shang Ji Department and the reinforcements from the two districts of Ruihe.
The number of armies led by Shang Ji is not large, only the seventeenth to the twenty-ninth, a total of thirteen field legions, two guard legions (black armor Xuancai), the Sun legion, the blood legion, the giant shield legion, and the heavy spear legion The six main battle legions, plus the Berserker Legion, the Dragonborn Legion, the Phoenix Dance Legion, the Flying Phoenix Legion, and the Spellcaster Legion.
The total strength was about 2.2 million, less than half of the Rui-Dutch coalition army, but Shang Ji was full of confidence in this battle.
The soldiers are not expensive, and the minimum of these more than 2 million allied troops is fifth-order soldiers, most of them are high-level special troops, and there are a full 200,000 super strong soldiers like the Black Armor Xuancai.
Compared with Shang Ji's full of confidence, the coalition forces were a little apprehensive. After all, under the brilliant achievements of Shang Ji, even though the two countries are elite, they still have no confidence in victory.
After all, the Australian region, a mainstream powerhouse whose comprehensive combat strength is not weaker than them, has been defeated one after another in front of the Pingzhou army, and even had to accept humiliating surrender conditions in the end, and it is impossible for them not to worry.
In addition to the morale of the army, the Pingzhou army also has an advantage - the merchants can wait for the Ruidu coalition army to come to the door.
The elite of more than 2 million Pingzhou troops led by Shang Ji directly set up camp on the only way to rescue Peru, anyway, the Rui-Dutch coalition army is here to rescue, and the giant city of Peru is here, if you love to come, you can't come and pull it down!
The Rui-Dutch coalition army was more itchy than the merchants, but the situation forced them to continue to grit their teeth and march. In this way, although the decisive battle was held at the junction of Sweden and Peru, which was considered the core area of the four-nation alliance, the Shang army had a home advantage.
Five days later, the coalition forces were finally overdue!
The total strength of the coalition army was 4.5 million, and the strength of the merchant army was 2.2 million, adding up to nearly 700 troops. The army of seven million was scattered on the battlefields of all sizes within a radius of 200 miles, standing on a high place and looking up, the endless array was full of camped troops.
After a day of repairs, the coalition forces began to attack the Pingzhou army the next day.
If you don't attack, you can't do it, Zhao Yun's side has already begun to attack Peru, Peru is urging him eight times a day, and he talks about surrender every day, and the Rui-Dutch coalition army is so annoyed that he is dying, but he still has to accept Peru's disguised threat.
Because it was the first encounter, the coalition forces did not dare to send too many troops, and a whole corps launched a tentative attack on the Pingzhou army.
Shang Ji didn't care, and casually sent a field army to meet the enemy, and then ordered Liang Qing to lead 50,000 black armor Xuan cavalry to respond in the rear, so as not to deceive the enemy.
Both sides had the intention of testing the reality of the enemy's army, so neither easily interfered with the battle between the two legions. The two sides fought for almost an hour, and the coalition side was the first to take the lead and began to retreat because of the casualties.
The Pingzhou army symbolically pursued and killed, and then also Mingjin withdrew the troops, and the tentative confrontation between the two armies ended.
According to post-war statistics, the Pingzhou army suffered more than 20,000 casualties, while the coalition army suffered heavier casualties, about 30,000, and the casualty ratio of both sides was about 3 to 2.
If this casualty ratio is followed, the Pingzhou Army will definitely be wiped out first, after all, the ratio of troops between the two sides is more than one to two.
However, Shang Ji, as the commander of the army, was not worried at all, the field army was already a fighting presence in the army led by Shang Ji, and he was already very satisfied with the casualty ratio of Shang Ji to the coalition army.
Because the battle situation on Zhao Yun's side is going well, Shang Ji is not in a hurry to fight at all, as long as the coalition forces do not take the initiative to provoke, Shang Ji will never take the initiative to attack, anyway, the strategic initiative is in the hands of Shang Ji, and he can play how he likes.
But the coalition forces did not have this patience, and the distress letters from the Peruvian side were one after another, and the tone was harsher than the other, and the high-level officials of the two districts of Rui and Dutch were afraid that one of the secret areas would not be able to withstand it and really surrender. Therefore, the coalition forces began to find ways to get rid of the obstacle of the merchant department.
The first way that the coalition army thought of was a night attack, and after careful preparations, the coalition army launched a night attack on the Pingzhou army camp at night, and then lost its troops, and the 50,000 elite troops who came to the night attack were almost wiped out!
Although Liu Yi failed to participate in the national war, this did not mean that the Pingzhou army was at a loss for the field war. The tens of thousands of Star Glory Strongbows that followed Shang Ji to the Continent have all been disrupted and scattered among the various legions, and they do not undertake specific combat missions, but are responsible for night vigilance and reconnaissance.
And in addition to the Xingyao Strongbow, the Pingzhou Army also has a new strong class of night battles - the Blood Clan!
The blood clan is also a special race with stronger combat ability at night than during the day, and under the joint efforts of the two night combat elite armies, the night attack of the coalition army is tantamount to giving away people's heads.
In the following three days, the coalition forces successively tried various conventional and unconventional tactics such as water attack, fire attack, spreading rumors, and bribing discord, all of which were cracked by Shang Ji one by one.
In the past three days, Zhao Yun's troops and Huang Zhong's troops fought each other one after another. Huang Zhong has nothing to say there, the wave area is obviously playing soy sauce, and Huang Zhong's main task is also to contain it, the two sides are very tacit, the small battle does not stop, the big war is not, and the overall battle intensity is not high.
On the side of the Zhao Yun Corps, although the main military strength is the newly formed legion, the core Silver Dragon Legion and the Crazy Knife Legion are all top legions with one of the best combat effectiveness. With these few elite legions as the core, Zhao Yun simply collapsed the main force of the secret area that was forced to go out of the city for a decisive battle.
In ancient times, there was a common military knowledge - that is, to defend a large city, you must fight in the field, and if you lose your field mobile strength, even the strongest city will fall.
The most obvious case is the Liaodong War at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The strength of the Ming army was several times that of the Jin army, but for various reasons, the **** combat effectiveness was seriously degraded, and it did not dare to fight with the Jin army at all.
In this case, the fortified cities of Liaodong fell one after another, and the situation in Liaodong also completely collapsed with the passage of time.
At this time, the Peruvian area was equivalent to Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty, and Zhao Yun could only defend the city, putting all his hope on the reinforcements of Ruihe.
However, compared with the Jin army in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhao Yun's troops were very different, and Zhao Yun's corps not only had strong field combat capabilities, but also had a large number of effective siege methods.
Since the development of the beacon fire, all countries basically have corresponding siege methods, and the city wall of the giant city level can no longer be said to be a natural danger. Among the dazzling array of high-level siege equipment in various countries, Pingzhou's city-breaking dragon cannon is also a standout existence.
The defenders in the city were pressed by Zhao Yun with a blasting hammer, and the morale of the hammer was low, and the army was scattered, and they only dared to shrink at present. Without the threat of external forces, the large siege equipment such as the city-breaking dragon cannon and the bursting torch stone cart outside the city unscrupulously vented their artillery fire on the Peruvian giant city.
As a small third-rate country with low combat effectiveness, what can he do in the secret area? I can only ask for help from the Rui-Dutch coalition army one after another!
Looking at the large stack of documents asking for help in front of him, the high-level of the Rui-Dutch coalition army is also a headache, and it must be saved if it is saved, but if you want to save it, you must solve the obstacle of Shang Ji.
The high-level leaders of the two countries summed it up, analyzed the combat strength of the Pingzhou Army according to previous intelligence, and then exchanged the bottom of each other, counted their elite regiments one by one, and repeatedly measured the total, and finally felt that there seemed to be a two-point chance of winning this battle.
After seven days of stalemate between the two sides, the Ruihe coalition army finally made up its mind to launch a full-scale attack on the Pingzhou army! Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Online Game Zhige Three Kingdoms Claw Book House" for free for the first time.