Chapter 620: The Front Camp Is Broken (Ask for Subscription)
"Knock knock~"
The dull sound of war drums continued to spread around outside Yongfeng City.
Without waiting for the sun to rise, Zou Xun set up two large formations of 5,000 people and continued to attack the east and south city gates.
In the formation of soldiers, Chop Lidu and the others were silently taking a deep breath, waiting for the coming moment.
Inside the city gate tower, Li Heng was also silently watching the Song army in front of him.
As he thought, after the Song army suddenly reinforced many elite troops the day before, there were no other changes. But he was still not in a hurry, and the order for the cavalry to attack in the West Gate was delayed.
"Why don't you let you attack for half a day?"
For Li Heng, the guards of the city are not the elite that he really relies on, and his status is a little higher than that of cannon fodder, and he doesn't care at all if he fights for half a day to increase casualties.
What he was more concerned about was how much strength the Song army could consume in this half-day attack.
Turning a deaf ear to the fighting on the battlefield, Li Heng's eyes were only locked on those elite infantry soldiers of the Song people, and seeing that they also joined the battlefield and began to storm the city gate, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a trace of sarcasm.
is still inflexible, and the Song Dynasty is about to die!
In the morning siege battle, the Song army, as the besieging party, had already undergone two rotations of troops, paying hundreds of casualties, but only in exchange for just over 100 losses from the Yuan army.
Dragged his tired body slowly retreated from the perimeter of the city wall, and the commander of the front line in the formation of the army couldn't help but look to the west.
The real opponent, it's time to come, right?
After a while, a clear shock sensation spread from beneath his feet.
His eyes froze, and he couldn't help but clench the long knife in his hand: "Wang Ben, I will lead the troops with me later." ”
"The lord can go first, and Ben will be alone after the break."
Killing the generals under his command, Wang Ben, the son of Wang Qian, a famous general of the Great Qin in the past, spoke in a dull voice, he knew that this battle was not for 'victory' from the beginning, and of course he would not let his lord stay to face Yuan Meng's iron cavalry blade.
"No, I'll fight alongside you."
He waved his hand, there is really nothing to be afraid of death on the dungeon battlefield, anyway, he can be resurrected if he dies, not to mention that this is not a death battle, there is no need for him to take the lead.
It's just that the two of them have already put on an expression that a big battle is coming, but the tremor on the surface only lasted less than a minute before gradually disappearing.
In just one minute, he didn't even touch the shadow of the Yuanmeng cavalry.
"Didn't attack directly?"
There was some surprise in the decision, but then I also understood that these cavalry must be heading for Zou Xun. The camp hastily erected in the front camp was only surrounded by some horses and fences, which could not stop the cavalry at all.
"The Yuanmeng people also have a small abacus." Although this cavalry did not rush directly towards him, which surprised the slashing decision, he did not panic because of this.
My side is ready, and so is Zou Xun.
Anyway, it's all running, and there is not much difference between running one step earlier and one step later.
Just when he was a little relieved, the Yuanmeng cavalry who rushed out of the west gate of Yongfeng appeared on the periphery of the front camp of the Song army in less than half a cup of tea.
Rapidly approaching, a group of 2,000 cavalry cavalry in charge of the charge also crashed straight into the wooden fence of the camp, and in the rear of this cavalry array, thousands of Mongol cavalry had already begun to draw their bows and arrows.
The archers and arrows came first, and before the party cavalry, they gave a covering shooting blow to the Song soldiers guarding behind the wooden fence.
As the Song soldiers raised their shields to resist, the party cavalry that followed them had already rammed through the wooden fence, and the charging horses' hooves and the swords of the chopping directly tore a hole in this Song soldier, which was not high in defensive intensity.
Arrow strike, assault.
It has always been the most common means of the Yuanmeng cavalry.
Although the means are single, and the method of defense is not impossible, in order to resist this attack, the requirements for the defensive soldiers are very high.
It's not someone who can shake it hard with one or two big shields and spears.
At least, these Jiangxi and Fujian townsmen are not good.
As the party cavalry broke through the first line of defense, they soon broke directly into the front camp tent and saw a full 5,000 Song soldiers waiting in formation.
Seeing that the 5,000 Song soldiers were leaning very closely on each other, the party cavalry did not continue to advance, but divided the troops to the left and right sides to bypass the formation.
Melee cavalry and infantry are never silly head-on collisions, and the best way to do this is to cut off the target from the surrounding corps and let other soldiers who are less expensive to attack on.
Li Heng's party soldiers and the Mongolian iron cavalry did not fight together on the first day, and there were also some foot soldiers who came out behind them. When the archers in the rear shot their arrows as they galloped past, the Mongol archers also ignored the formation of foot soldiers and began to wreak havoc on the entire camp.
According to the custom, in order to protect the camp, these foot soldiers will stupidly take the initiative to attack them, as long as these Song soldiers move, the Yuanmeng cavalry will be turned around, and that is the best moment for their tearing attack.
Only this time, the three thousand soldiers didn't care about these cavalry at all, but marched forward in formation to the gate of the village, just blocking the Yuanmeng infantry who followed at the entrance of the village.
"The general has an order, we must block Yuanmeng's foot soldiers here for half an hour!"
Responsible for commanding this formation of Song soldiers is Dumou Zhang Bian, although his personal ability is relatively loose, but those who can respond to Wen Tianxiang at this time have a unique temperament.
Don't be afraid of death!
With a single wooden spear against the armored Yuanmeng infantry, although the Yuanmeng infantry, like the Guishan heavy infantry, the combat power is undoubtedly doubled.
But the forces of the two sides are equal, and if you want to resist for half an hour, you can only fight to the death!
"Kill!"
Zhang Bian led more than 20 personal guards to charge forward, and the surrounding villagers were also side by side, and soon they were entangled with Yuanmeng's foot soldiers.
The battle at the entrance of the current camp broke out in an instant, and many Yuanmeng cavalry coalition forces in the rear also met Zou Xun's main force. Zou Xun did not avoid the battle, but commanded the remaining troops in his hand to take the initiative to charge.
The Song soldiers contributed, and the Yuan cavalry would naturally wander and scatter.
When these 8,000 Song soldiers chased the Yuan cavalry out of the camp, the entire army was pulled back and forth, and the Yuan and Mongolian cavalry in front immediately turned around and began to encircle and kill in reverse.
"Withdraw!"
After only fighting for about half an hour, Zou Xun decisively ordered a retreat.
However, the entire army did not directly gather and retreat, but directly dispersed into two groups of soldiers and horses, led by himself and Zhao Shixian, respectively, and left in two different directions.
"Catch up!"
"That's the general of the Song Army, you can get at least 1,000 merits if you kill it!"
"Chase him, kill him!"
The Yuanmeng cavalry was mixed with many players who led the troops to follow the battle, and seeing that Zou Xun was about to slip, he immediately shouted to his subordinates around him to chase and kill. It's like it's not the enemy general who is fleeing in front, but the merit value of walking.
Almost at the moment when the front camp was broken, the four gates on the east and south sides of Yongfeng City suddenly opened.
Li Heng's main force has finally moved!