The wealthy nobles in Jizhou did a lot of work to resist the cavalry of the Tengjia Army. They built a large number of fortresses near Zhuojun to resist the cavalry attack of the Tengjia Army. At the same time, they used the rivers in Jizhou to create a large number of beacon towers and camps.
, to prevent the Tengjia Army from crossing the river! And most of the rivers in Jizhou run east-west, which can be used to block the cavalry from the north!
Therefore, the entire northern defense system of Jizhou is based on the rivers here, using rivers as chains, cities and fortresses as locks, and beacon towers as monitoring points. Use rivers as defense lines to weaken the power of the Tengjia Army cavalry!
It can be said that the rivers in Jizhou are too narrow for the powerful gentry in Jizhou, and they would like the Yellow River to appear on the border between Youzhou and Jizhou.
Not long after the Tengjia Army sent troops, the two armies surrounded Tang County and Gaoyang County! Because these two counties were at the forefront of Jizhou's defense, not only were a large number of soldiers stationed, but the city was transformed into a
A solid defense system like a star-shaped fortress was built. The defense is extremely powerful!
The battle to attack Tang County began first.
The leader of the Tengjia Army's attack on Tang County was Wang Yong. The first thing he introduced was the Tengjia Army's most powerful offensive weapon, artillery!
After half a year of hard work, the entire Tengjia Army now has more than 500 bronze artillery pieces, including 300 10-pound cannons, and the remaining 200 are powerful 20-pound cannons! And 150 of these artillery pieces are in the hands of Wang Yong
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"Boom, boom, boom!" Although these 10-pound cannons and 20-pound cannons are not enough to destroy the city wall, they are enough to destroy all the defenses on the city wall. As the artillery of the Tengjia Army not only attacked, but also the female walls and arrow towers of Tang County,
Everything was smashed by cannonballs, and the soldiers on the city wall were even torn apart by cannonballs. It was terrible to see.
Under the city wall, Wang Yong felt his blood boiling. This is the God of War. He is indeed invincible. The Tengjia Army with artillery will be invincible!
Pan Feng, the commander of Tang County, was shocked by the power of artillery. He had seen the power of artillery when he was in Youzhou, but he did not expect that in less than half a year, the power of Tengjia Army's artillery would actually increase again.
, the number also increased. When the artillery attacked, it roared like thunder and was simply unstoppable. The soldiers on the city were frightened. Everyone squatted down and shivered behind the parapet.
Under such a violent attack from artillery, Tangxian's city defense system was rapidly collapsing. The infantrymen of the Tengjia Army carried ladders to the city head.
The Tengjia Army's infantry and artillery coordination was good. After the artillery temporarily stopped firing, the Tengjia Army's soldiers began to climb up the ladder quickly to the top of the city.
At this time, Pan Feng shouted: "Counterattack, the archers shot, others dropped sleepers and boulders, and broke the ladder of the Tengjia Army!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" Following Pan Feng's order, bows, arrows, boulders and sleepers continued to hit the soldiers of the Tengjia Army under the city wall of Tang County!
Whistling stones and long arrows kept hitting the ladders and hitting the soldiers of the Tengjia Army! These attacks caused the Tengjia soldiers to immediately fall into the abyss of death. The soldiers either fell under the dense array of arrows or fell to the ground.
Under the roaring stones and sleepers, no matter how strong the armor was, it could not withstand the dozens of kilograms of stones and sleepers, and every living life was swallowed up like this!
After half a day of siege, Tang County was full of corpses of Tengjia Army soldiers. Seeing that the casualties were too heavy, Wang Yong ordered the troops to retreat! At the same time, he ordered artillery to continue bombarding the city walls of Tang County. He wanted to completely destroy the Han army.
morale!
After Tang County was attacked by the Tengjia Army, Shenpei immediately ordered Zhu Ling to lead 5,000 infantry to support Tang County. At the same time, this was also to test the combat effectiveness of the Tengjia Army!
Zhu Ling's 5,000 infantrymen were equipped with a large number of martial arts vehicles, chariots, giant shields and spears in order to cope with the raid by the Tengjia cavalry, and even the antlers of the horse and deer were carried on the chariots. When they encountered Tengjia on the battlefield
With the army's cavalry, Zhu Ling's army can immediately transform into a defensive formation!
And Zhu Ling followed the order of Shen Pei, marching 30 miles a day. As long as he reached this distance, he would set up camp, and the camp was made very strong by him. He first used chariots as city walls, and then dug deep trenches around the perimeter.
A large number of horses and antlers were placed inside to defend against the cavalry of the Tengjia Army. It can be said that Zhu Ling's army spent more than half of their time building camps every day! It is less than 200 miles from Lunu to Tang County.
Zhu Ling walked for 5 days and still didn’t see the city wall of Tang County!
Tang County had not yet been conquered by Wang Yong. The arrival of Zhu Ling's reinforcements made Wang Yong overjoyed. He sent Wan Lang to lead 10,000 cavalry and heavy artillery to outflank Zhu Ling's army!
After Zhu Ling noticed that the cavalry of the Tengjia Army was approaching, he immediately shouted: "Form the Xuanwu Formation!"
Following Zhu Ling's order, 5,000 soldiers quickly deployed antlers and horses on the outermost perimeter. Chariots and Wugang vehicles were deployed in the second defense system of the military formation. Then all the soldiers set up giant shields and raised their spears outwards.
From then on, in a short period of time, Zhu Ling's army turned into a hedgehog wearing a turtle shell!
But Wan Lang looked at the turtle shell and sneered: "Put up the artillery and blast open this turtle shell for me!"
Following Wan Lang's order, the soldiers of the Tengjia Army pushed 50 artillery pieces to the front line!
Then Wan Lang looked at the military formation not far away and sneered: "Shoot!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" The heavy artillery shells, with the sound of sonic boom, quickly hit Zhu Ling's army's horses, antlers and Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles. Any defense fortifications hit by the shells were smashed to pieces!
Wan Lang looked at the results of the artillery and nodded with satisfaction: "Continue the attack!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" Under the bombardment of the artillery, Zhu Ling's turtle shell was smashed with a huge hole, and the soldiers on the periphery were also blown to pieces by the artillery. Even the soldiers who are still alive now have died.
I was so frightened by the power of the artillery that I shivered!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhu Ling saw that the morale of the army was getting lower and lower, so he decided to lead the army to charge, intending to destroy the artillery of the Tengjia Army!
But as soon as Zhu Ling's army broke out of the turtle shell of Xuanwu Formation, Wan Lang's cavalry charged over!
"Boom, boom, boom!" Thousands of horses galloped, and tens of thousands of cavalry stepped on Zhu Ling's army. Five thousand people were hacked to death and 10% of them were injured, and the rest were all captured by Wan Lang!
Even Zhu Ling was captured alive by the Tengjia Army's intelligence.
But he was still very unconvinced and said to Wan Lang: "Relying on equipment is nothing. Without these artillery, you will definitely not be able to defeat my army!"
In order to resist the cavalry of the Tengjia Army, Zhu Ling spent more than half a year training the Xuanwu Formation for defense, but the formation was destroyed by the Tengjia Army's artillery before it even worked. Naturally, he was unconvinced!
Wan Lang heard this and ridiculed: "Back then, when our Yellow Turban Army had no weapons and equipment, why didn't we see your big Han army taking off their armor and weapons to fight with us using farm tools? How can you have the nerve to say such a thing now! How could you still do it?
If you have the nerve to be unconvinced, you will be the winner and the loser on the battlefield, and you will still be a loser no matter how unconvinced you are!"
After saying that, Wan Lang stopped caring about Zhu Ling, the loser's whining!
Instead, he took these prisoners to join Wang Yong!
On the other side, Zhu Ling's entire army was wiped out, and some soldiers fled back to Lunu County the next day. Then Shenpei knew that the 5,000 reinforcements he sent had not even been able to hold on for a day before they were swallowed up by tens of thousands of cavalry from the Tengjia Army.
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He couldn't believe it! Even if they were defeated, they shouldn't have been defeated so miserably. All 5,000 people were wiped out in one battle, and only a dozen people escaped! How could the Tengjia Army be so powerful in fighting and still be able to fight this battle?
Go down?
So he asked the soldiers carefully: "Is Zhu Ling careless? You were attacked by the cavalry of the Tengjia Army!"
The soldier replied honestly: "No, we discovered the cavalry of the Tengjia Army very early and arranged the Xuanwu Formation for defense, but the Tengjia Army brought out 50 artillery pieces, and these artillery pieces continued to bombard our formation.
Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles and chariots are ineffective against artillery. Our military formation was breached. The commander wanted to lead us to destroy the Tengjia Army’s artillery, but we were defeated by the Tengjia Army’s cavalry!”
"Artillery! How many artillery pieces did you encounter?" the judge immediately asked.
He knew that the reason why Huangfu Song's 300,000-strong army could not withdraw to Jizhou last time was because Lei Gong had such sharp weapons as artillery, so that Huangfu Song could not fight or retreat! In the end, the army in his hands was basically wiped out by the Tengjia Army!
The soldier thought for a while and said: "There are about 40-50 artillery pieces. They are extremely powerful. We can't resist them at all!"
"A partial division has 50 artillery pieces. I'm afraid that the Tengjia Army has hundreds of artillery pieces forever, but we don't have any. Facing the Tengjia Army's artillery, we can only be passively beaten!"
Jizhou County has just now managed to produce gunpowder that can kill people. It is still unable to make artillery. It can only make some grenades for defense. These are all used by the judges to use them as killers, but in terms of power, grenades are far away.
Far inferior to artillery.
Jizhou's civil and military officials all looked extremely ugly when they heard this. Originally, the Tengjia Army had cavalry, and it was difficult for them to win in field battles. Now that they have sharp artillery that breaks the formation, they can't even defend now! No way!
They didn't even dare to support Tang County in the field. At the same time, their more than 200,000 troops were divided among the major cities in Jizhou by the Tengjia Army. If they couldn't support each other, they would be defeated by the Tengjia Army sooner or later!
Especially this time, the gap in combat effectiveness between the Tengjia Army and Jizhou County was most difficult for them to accept. Although Zhu Ling's army could not be regarded as the most elite army in Jizhou County, it could be regarded as an above-average elite.
The Tengjia Army cannot withstand the attack in one round. The strength gap between the Jizhou Army and the Tengjia Army is so big, which is very bad for them! Their probability of defending Jizhou becomes even lower!
Shen Pei thought for a while and said: "We have to continue sending reinforcements. Without reinforcements, Tang County will not be able to resist for much time. Without field battles, we can only be defeated one by one by the Tengjia Army. Even if we have 200,000 troops in our hands, it will be useless!"
"But we can't defeat the Tengjia Army, so how can we support Tang County? If we send reinforcements again, it will be a sheep entering the tiger's mouth, and we will lose more troops. If Lei Gong encircles the point to send reinforcements, the army in our hands may be destroyed by Tengjia
The army is devouring it bit by bit!" Zhang He said worriedly.
Shen Pei thought for a while and said: "Since frontal combat is not possible, then we will not engage in frontal combat. We will divide the army into small groups of several hundred people, bypass the rear of Tengjia Army, attack the food road of Tengjia Army, and let Tengjia Army
It is difficult for Army A to attack Tang County with peace of mind!"
Then Shenpei appointed Gao Lan as the Pingthief Colonel and asked him to lead 5,000 people to Zhuo County to attack the grain road of the Tengjia Army. He did not want to kill the Tengjia Army, but only wanted to prevent the Tengjia Army from easily launching an attack on the Tang Dynasty.
County attack!
After Gao Lan received the order from the judge, he dispersed the 5,000 troops in his hands into 50 squads of 100 men. Then these small troops continued to harass the logistics of the Tengjia Army in Zhuojun and northern Jizhou. They may have burned down the Tengjia Army.
Wang Yong's gunpowder and artillery shells were even seized by Gao Lan. These equipment became Gao Lan's weapons against the Tengjia Army.
These Gao Lan are familiar with the terrain of Jizhou. Wang Yong sent a large army to encircle and suppress them, but they are as annoying as flies. They will run away when encountering encirclement and suppression. Wang Yong has captured more than a dozen such guerrillas, but such losses will forever affect them.
For the 200,000-strong Jizhou Army, it was still bearable.
Moreover, the local nobles and nobles also helped Gao Lan deal with the Tengjia Army, making it difficult for Wang Yong to find Gao Lan's team. The instability of food routes seriously affected Wang Yong's progress in attacking Tang County!
Xu Wei, who was in charge of Zhuo County, learned that the Jizhou Army used guerrilla warfare to deal with the Tengjia Army. He laughed and said: "You actually dare to use guerrilla warfare to deal with our Tengjia Army. You, the judge, are playing tricks on your own!"
Xu Wei found Wang Guojun!
Wang Guojun is the first generation of talents independently cultivated by the Tengjia Army. They all grew up listening to Xu Wei's stories in Jizhou. They can be said to be the core successors of the Tengjia Army. Wang Guojun was originally from Luoyang City.
He promoted the policies of the Tengjia Army. After Dong Zhuo turned against him, Wang Guojun returned to Taiyuan County and became one of Xu Wei's secretaries, helping Xu Wei handle various documents of the Tengjia Army!
"Shuai Qu, what do you want from me?" Wang Guojun came to the government office and asked.
Xu Wei laughed and said: "The Jizhou Army cannot defeat us head-on, but they actually started guerrilla warfare with us, trying to defeat us by cutting off our food routes! I plan to fight back against them and let them know that guerrilla warfare cannot be fought so easily!"
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"And I will leave this task to you! I will give you a battalion and 1,000 cadres. You can lead these soldiers and cadres throughout the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Hejian Kingdom to fight against local tyrants, divide the fields, and win the hearts and minds of the local people. I don't believe that the people
We have won over them all, and the guerrilla war of trial and distribution can still continue!"
Xu Wei did not believe that they could compete with him in winning the hearts and minds of the people. He could allocate the entire land of Jizhou to the people of Jizhou. How could these wealthy nobles give up their own land? You must know that there are almost no civilians in Jizhou now.
, only a few hundred noble families are left with land, and the others can only be regarded as serfs of these noble families!