Chapter 395: Winter Goes to Spring, and the Beacon Smoke Rises Again

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The earth is rejuvenated, and the ice and snow melt. It's February of the following year!

The harsh winter had passed, and Beiling Castle was shedding the heavy armor of ice and snow that had been draped for months, revealing the dark cyan brick and stone walls below.

In the general's mansion, Zhu Biaogao sat at the top, and the generals in the left and right armies were ranked. A letter that had just been brought into the city by the Harrier Eagle was being passed through the hands of the generals in turn. It's not easy, it's been surrounded for a few months, the water on the ground is impassable, and there are no mosquitoes in the sky. And from the inside out, there is no success.

The golden eagle of the Hu people is the overlord of the sky, and the harrier eagle can rarely escape the mouth of the golden eagle, and it can also monitor the movements of Beiling City day and night. Air supremacy can't be obtained, Zhu Biao has trouble with every move, and this battle is very aggrieved.

"Hu Di is merging!" The hundreds of thousands of troops of Wuji, who disappeared under Beiling City, united with the Moyuan Khan of the Di tribe, and the coalition army of one million braved the heavy snow and cold wind after the year, and went south in one fell swoop to wipe out the more than 400,000 allied troops of Chen Wei deployed by Chen State in Nieyang.

After the 200,000 Wei troops retreated to the capital of Chen Guoguo, there was not one out of ten, and the Chen army was the commander who died in battle, that is, the heroic and strong crown prince of Chen State, and the blow was so heavy that the country would not be a country.

It's no wonder that Wuji dared to lead the last main force of the Hu royal court to the south, it turned out that he had reached a consensus with the Di people, and Hu Di merged!

After understanding this, a clear layer of cold sweat broke out on everyone's foreheads.

"The king sent a message that the 200,000 troops and horses of our Han Dynasty were ready to go, and on February 18, that is, half a month later, they would go north out of Yuming and launch a full-line counteroffensive against the Huqi Uwei Brigade entrenched in the north-central part of Luozhou. Order our troops to prepare for battle today, contain the enemy outside the city, and finally flank the army from the north to lift the siege of Beilingβ€”β€”"

This is the content of the letter I received today, and I didn't talk about the movement in the direction of Da Zhou. 200,000 military horses of the Han Dynasty. That is the individual action of the power of the Northern Han Dynasty.

"Just kidding, what's the use of taking some newly trained recruits? Isn't this a waste of sending people to death? Wuji retreated, and Wushi also retreated, but there were still more than 100,000 or 200,000 people in Wuwei. ”

Infantry and rangers who are not rigorously trained are completely sent to death. A large number of instruments were stranded in the Northern Han court on the front line such as Beiling. It is simply not able to arm 200,000 elites like the original Han army. Although the specifics are not known. But everyone here knows that the treasury is in dire straits. If Zhongshan does not bleed, the national strength of the Northern Han Dynasty alone, the 200,000 troops trained this winter. It would be nice to have half of the armor. I don't know how much of it is iron armor and how much is leather armor! As for the bow and crossbow of the Han army's infantry fighting against Hu Lu, it is even more worrying to think about.

Few of the generals in the hall are optimistic about the imperial court's plan this time, taking Xie Shuyan as an example, he, a full-time infantry general, has been sighing. Because he knew very well what the reason for the strong combat power of the Han army's infantry armor was. Excellent armor, strict proficiency. Looking at the cavalry and infantry troops, people always think that the technical content of the latter is far lower than that of the former. Who can't do infantry? Pull out a group of people and put on armor, that is, infantry!

But in fact, the elite of the infantry army is not easier to train than the cavalry, whether it is a crossbowman, or a shield soldier, or a bed crossbow, a thunderbolt, etc., it is easy to pass and difficult to master, but it is much more difficult to slash and kill on horseback.

And the combat power of cavalry is not just riding and slashing. If so, how can Han Qi compare to Hu Qi! Discipline and array are the greatest guarantee of the combat power of the Han cavalry, and at the same time, discipline and military formation are also the combat power of the elite infantry armor.

The length of the infantry is far more complex than that of the cavalry, which is easy to adjust and easy to adjust. It's all based on rigorous training.

With 200,000 soldiers pulled out in one winter, Xie Shuyan didn't dare to imagine what step they could do.

"Well, the king's order has been issued, and the matter is settled. When you go back. Immediately regroup. Zhu Biao pinched the letter and newspaper that turned around and returned to his case, and said, "Hu Di merges." The defeat of Chen Weijun is certainly not a good thing. From the other side, at least it also shows that Wuji's hundreds of thousands of troops will not be able to come back for a while. We have to face the opponent now, only the headquarters of Uwei Tuo, why fear him? ”

There are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Uwei Tuo outside Beiling City, and Zhu Biao can't beat them with the existing strength in his hands alone. But if the army going north can pull the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that Uwei has to carry tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, then there are only 100,000 soldiers left outside the city, Zhu Biao will be full of confidence.

There are more than 30,000 cavalry troops in Beiling City, plus 30,000 infantry troops with different combat strengths. 100,000 Hu cavalry, Zhu Biao has the confidence to fight alone with the cavalry alone, plus the help of the infantry army, and the odds of victory.

Now let's see how many skills the 200,000 new troops who went north have!

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The actions of the Han army can't hide the iron card organization, and they can't hide it from Uweida. Strike first! Hu Qi made a decision immediately.

I don't know if Uweida's decision is correct, but in a bitterly cold winter, ladders, wells, thunderbolts, buckets, lookout cars, etc., large and small siege equipment have been prepared. The timber that was continuously transported to the camp under Beiling City in the ice and snow became these after a winter of cultivation.

Retreat without a fight, isn't the preparation for a winter in vain? Uwei was never reconciled.

Several replenished 10,000 cavalry on the grassland returned to the command of Uwei Tuo, and the Hu cavalry deployed in Xinchang, Kaihua and other places also reintegrated into Beiling City in a steady stream.

On the second day of Zhu Biao's letter, the Beiling battlefield, which had been silent for three months, boiled.

"Whew-"

The incendiary bombs that burned with raging flames and billowing black smoke rumbled like stars falling to the ground, like being laid down in Beiling City.

Hu Qi, who had a lot of money, not only made a large number of thunderbolts in winter, but also made sheep fat and horse oil into flammable fierce fire oil, which was soaked in fire oil by polished round stone bullets. Put it in the throwing spoon of the thunderbolt car and ignite it, and the throwing spoon was raised, and the burning stone bullets hit Beiling City with their heads and faces.

Although all the warehouses in the vicinity of the city wall had been evacuated and the people had been evacuated, the raging fire still burned everything within the 100-zhang radius of the northern city.

In the winter, Zhu Biao was reluctant to demolish the house from which he was collected, and it was turned into ashes in this attack by Hu Qi. In this way, the attack on the city will be even greater.

Outside the north gate, the urn city is the key target, the battlements and walls of the city head are completely swept away, and the cracked city walls of the urn city have become completely cracked by heavy stone bullets. If time permits, if Hu Qi's stone bullets are sufficient, he can destroy half of the strong city defenses at the head of Beiling City compared to using thunderbolts.

Between the three days, there are as few as two or three battles every day under Beiling City, and as many as five or six battles, the two sides are like two monsters with teeth and claws in close hand-to-hand combat, and between the flying minions and teeth, it is flesh and blood.

In just three days of fighting, Zhu Biao lost tens of thousands of foot soldiers, of which more than 1,100 were seriously injured and disabled. And the minor injuries were not counted at all, and the defending infantry lost a third.

Of course, the Hu cavalry outside the city was not comfortable, and the bloody nature of the Han army's fight to the death also made them kowtow and break their blood. More than twice as many casualties as the defenders, and the strength of Uvida's hands was reduced by a fraction.

Sun Tzu has a saying in the Art of War: The method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five to attack it, and multiple is to divide it.

The soldiers and horses in the hands of Uwei Tuo were only twice as many as Zhu Biao, and they were forced to eat and fight, although there were siege equipment, heavy casualties were inevitable.

The spirit of blood and courage has subsided, and Uwei Tuo now regrets it a little in his heart. I feel that it is not cost-effective to waste the lives of my own people in order not to waste the equipment prepared in the winter.

So after the third day of the battle, more than 100,000 Hu Qiqi were like giant beasts with wounded heads, and they all returned to the camp dozens of miles away and licked their wounds.

Zhu Biao stood at the head of the city and watched Uwei Tuo withdraw his troops, and the bloodstains described the tragedy of the three-day fight, and at the same time he was thinking carefully in his heart.

Two more days, two more days will be the day when the army will go north.

INTERVIEWER What choice will Uvida make? Is it a withdrawal? Or a decisive battle?

There are still ten days to go, and if there is a war, it will be enough for Hu Qi to restore his morale and body. So these two days can't make Uwei Tuo have a good time! I can't bite him, and I want to make him uncomfortable.

"Someone, please come to General Xie." Zhu Biao called the guards around him.

Yes, the true feeling in his heart, he is not willing to fight Armageddon. Too risky! The combat effectiveness of the new army in the north is strictly credible, but if it misses slightly, the little capital that the Northern Han has accumulated again will be lost again.

And even if you win, you will lose a lot of money, and you will not be able to completely annihilate Uweida. Because the Hu cavalry is all cavalry, and this army, after deducting the tiger battalion, only has 25,000 cavalry. How many cavalry were there in the 200,000 army that came north? When Hu Qi slaps his ass and runs, can he catch up!

It would be a tragedy if you could only rely on this cavalry in your own hands to chase.

With his big hand on the broken battlements, Zhu Biao's eyes flashed with deep contemplation.

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At night, Huying in the north of the city.

"Report ......"

A shout from outside the tent alarmed the Uwei Packard who was about to rest inside. He was already a little depressed in his heart, and immediately frowned, and said viciously: "Come in and pass through!" ”

The tooth soldier also knew that he was not coming at the right time, but the matter was very important, so he couldn't help but report it, "King Qiyu, shoot the eagle outside the tent to report, and find that there are many soldiers and horses gathered in the south of Beiling. Hooking his head tightly, the tooth soldiers didn't dare to come out.

"Oh?" Uwei Dao was a little shocked in his heart, could it be that the Han army in the city wanted to move? "Did you inform Anaqiongqi at the South Gate?"

"Captain Anavan has been informed."

"Hmm", waved his hand back from the tooth soldier, and Uwei was already sleepy.