Chapter 956: The First Barrier
Zhao Yun and Zhang He's two armies conquered Hancheng!
Although this result was expected, it did not affect its shock in the slightest.
As the former capital of Lee's Joseon, Seoul's political status is not inferior to that of Pyongyang, and even higher than Pyongyang's status in some aspects.
Fortunately, Park Eun's methods of controlling the army are different, otherwise this news will definitely deal a fatal blow to the morale of the Pyongyang defenders.
Pyongyang City did not fluctuate much because of Park Eun's personal presence and a large number of North Korean active military players, but Huangzhou City not far away was lying down!
In order to meet the Pingzhou army before, Pu Yin transferred all the forces that could be mobilized, and Huangzhou City, a city that is theoretically in the rear, will naturally not leave too many troops behind.
Faced with the encirclement of a large number of rebels, the defenders of Huangzhou City naturally had to find their own way, and forcibly conscripting residents into the army became an inevitable choice.
A large number of aborigines were forced to join the army, which greatly reduced the ratio of the player's army to the number of aboriginal armies, and invisibly weakened the control of the Huangzhou City commander over the city's army.
And the fall of Seoul - maybe North Korean players didn't react much after hearing about the fall of Seoul, and they might even gloat, but in the eyes of the aborigines, Seoul is the capital and has an extremely high status!
When the news of the fall of Seoul reached the city of Huangzhou, the aboriginal defenders in the city fell into great chaos, and then under the instigation of some people with special intentions, there was a large-scale mutiny in the city of Huangzhou, and the aboriginal army rebelled on a large scale.
Of course, the besieging rebels will not let go of this good opportunity, and they will cooperate with the army in the city anyway and successfully conquer Huangzhou City.
However, soon the city of Huangzhou fell into great chaos, the quality of the rebels was uneven, there were many chickens and dogs, coupled with the tension brought by the war, the rebels broke through the city of Huangzhou after a large-scale massacre and looting.
The turmoil in Huangzhou City lasted for a whole day, and it gradually quieted down at night the next day. Huangzhou City was finally jointly controlled by the four forces, but the intrigue between the four forces never stopped, and a huge city was made into a miasma.
Putting aside the matter of Huangzhou City for the time being, his eyes turned back to Pyongyang City.
Although Hanyang City fell and Pyongyang became the last stumbling block, Shang Ji involuntarily intensified the offensive.
Now the biggest problem in front of the Pingzhou army is the energy barrier that comes with the wall of the royal city, without the energy barrier, even if the North Korean side has the blessing of the artifact, the efficiency of repair cannot catch up with the speed of destruction.
After repeated inquiries, including Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Deng Yan and others, everyone had no trick to break the energy barrier, and Shang Ji could only take the most primitive and simple method - smash!
It will be impossible to increase the number of powerful siege equipment such as the city-breaking dragon cannon, the city-destroying dragon cannon, and the super magic guide cannon for a while, but the torch stone cart and the heavy city-breaking crossbow are no problem.
Six days later, there were three times as many siege equipment outside Pyongyang, many of which had been temporarily removed from the walls of Pyongju.
Thanks to the strength of the Pyeongju Naval Division, Pyongyang City was built along the river, otherwise it would have taken a month or two for so many large equipment to be transported all the way.
The newly transported siege equipment is naturally not as strong as the city-breaking dragon artillery, and the attack distance of most siege equipment such as torch stone carts and heavy city-breaking crossbows is not as good as that of the Korean defenders at the head of the city, which means that if you want to attack the city wall, you must enter the effective range of the enemy army and carry out a close-to-face bayonet attack.
Shang Ji is not an indecisive person, and the sacrifice he should make will definitely not be ambiguous, and with a single order, tens of thousands of large-scale siege equipment slowly approached under the impetus of the soldiers, and a real bloody battle broke out!
For half a month in a row, the Pingzhou army relied on the range advantage to hang the Pyongyang defenders every day, which made the Pyongyang defenders also hold back their anger (only the player army, the morale of the aboriginal army is basically cleared, if it were not for the suppression of a large number of player troops, it would have mutinied a long time ago), and now seeing that the Pingzhou army still dares to output close to the face, there is a burst of ecstasy under the shame and anger, and they have begun to command the army to counterattack.
The city walls are boundless, and the flames of war are also boundless!
The Pyongju army relied on the special title of the city destroyer with excellent equipment, while the defenders of Pyongyang City were condescending, and the two sides fought back and forth, or flesh and blood!
Siege warfare has always been the bloodiest, and the Pingzhou army, because of its sharp weapons, often smashed through the enemy's walls at the smallest cost, and then rushed up to end the battle. The ease of fighting has made many people forget the brutality of orthodox siege warfare.
In just one day of full-scale siege battle, the Pingzhou army lost 48,000 people on the spot! This is only the number of casualties, and there are about 70,000 wounded who are still being treated, and the number of casualties on this day directly exceeds half of the previous cumulative casualties.
You must know that these are all the elite descendants of the Pingzhou Army, and the sudden occurrence of such a large casualty made Shang Ji, who had long been psychologically prepared, worried.
In addition to the heavy losses suffered by personnel, about 5,000 siege equipment of various types were destroyed or damaged by accidents, accounting for about one-fifth of the total number of equipment.
As for the results, this is not easy to count.
Naturally, it is impossible for the two sides to just use siege equipment to bombard, and during the period, it is also accompanied by sniping and counterattack bureaus, around the destruction of siege equipment and anti-sabotage, and the elite troops of double anti-dumping repeatedly fight. In this kind of fighting, the Pingzhou army probably killed 130,000 enemy troops.
Although the number of enemies killed is not worth mentioning compared to the total number of 20 million enemy troops, these 130,000 are elite, and the army in Pyongyang that can have this kind of combat power is less than one-tenth of the total strength!
As for how many casualties were inflicted on the defending army in the bombardment between the two sides, it is really impossible to make specific statistics for objective reasons, so we can only take a relatively conservative approximate figure - 160,000!
Of course, these 160,000 are basically cannon fodder troops, not to mention 160,000, even 260,000 or 360,000 Pu Yin is not distressed. It's just that the large amount of damage to the defensive equipment arranged at the head of the city makes Park Eun worried.
Because of the war and Park Eun's extreme rule, Pyongyang's data has long been low to the limit, and the production efficiency has been greatly reduced. Even if Park Eun sent troops to put the knife on the craftsman's neck, subject to the rules of the system, the production efficiency would not be much higher.
In addition, production requires materials, and the grain reserves in Pyongyang are quite sufficient, and the materials that can be used to make equipment to defend the city are basically bottomed out, and it is extremely difficult to replenish once the equipment is damaged!
Of course, Shang Ji didn't know about Pu Yin's irritability, and the full-scale siege continued the next day!
The intensity of the second day was significantly lower than that of the first day, and this downward trend continued until the fifth day.
At noon on the fifth day, with another volley of the city-breaking dragon cannon, the attack finally reached the threshold of the energy barrier.
After 21 days of wanton bombardment, the energy barrier of Pyongyang's walls was finally breached.
The strength of the defense of the royal city can be seen from this!