Chapter 395: Winter is gone and spring is coming, and the beacon is rising again
Spring has returned to the earth, and the ice and snow have melted. The time has turned to February of the coming year!
The harsh winter has passed, and Beiling City is shedding the heavy armor of ice and snow that has been covered in it for several months, revealing the dark blue masonry walls underneath.
In the general's mansion, Zhu Biao sat at the head, and the generals on the left and right were lined up. A letter that had just been sent into the city by a falcon was passing through the hands of the generals in turn. It was not easy. They had been besieged for several months.
The water was impenetrable, and the sky was not leaking except for mosquitoes. As of this letter, it was only the third time the defenders had received a message. And from the inside to the outside, not a single success was achieved.
The golden eagle of the Hu people is the overlord of the sky. Few falcons can escape the mouth of the golden eagle, and it can also monitor the movements of Beiling City day and night. Without the control of the air, Zhu Biao will be in trouble every time he makes a move. In this battle,
Very frustrated.
"Hu and Di have joined forces!" Wuji's hundreds of thousands of troops who disappeared under Beiling City joined forces with Moyuan Khan of the Di tribe. The coalition's millions of troops braved the heavy snow and cold wind after the new year, and went south in one fell swoop to defeat Chen Guo's deployment in Nirvana.
Yang's Chen Wei led an alliance of more than 400,000 troops.
After the 200,000-strong guard army retreated to the capital of Chen State, not even a tenth of it was left. Chen Jun's leader was killed in the battle, that is, the brave and strong crown prince of Chen State. The blow was so heavy that it almost destroyed the country.
No wonder Wu Ji dared to lead the last main force of the Hu royal court southward. It turned out that he had reached a consensus with the Di tribe, and Hu Di had joined forces!
After understanding this, all the generals in the hall had a clear layer of cold sweat break out on their foreheads.
"The king sent a message that our Han Dynasty's 200,000 troops and horses are ready to go. On February 18th, that is, half a month later, we will leave Yuming from the north and launch a full-scale counterattack against the Huqi Uwetuo troops entrenched in the central and northern part of Luozhou.
.Order our troops to prepare for battle today, contain the enemies outside the city, and eventually attack from both inside and outside with the army heading north to lift the siege of Beiling——"
This is the content of the letter I received today. It did not mention anything about the movements in the direction of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Han Dynasty has 200,000 troops and horses. This is a single action of the Northern Han Dynasty.
"You're kidding, what can you do with these newly trained recruits? Isn't this a waste of money? Wuji has retreated, and so has Wu Shi, but Uwetuo still has more than ten or two hundred thousand people."
Infantry and rangers who are not strictly trained are simply destined to die. A large number of equipment is stranded in Beiling and other front lines. The Northern Han court is simply unable to arm 200,000 elite troops like the original Han army. Although the specific situation is not known.
. But everyone here knows that the treasury is in a difficult situation. If the Zhongshan Kingdom does not bleed blood, and the national strength of the Northern Han Dynasty is limited, it would be good if half of the 200,000 troops trained this winter are armored. I don’t know how many of them are iron armor.
How much is it leather armor? As for the crossbows used by the Han army's infantry armor to fight against the Hulu, it is even more worrying to think about it.
Few of the generals in the hall were optimistic about the imperial court's plan. Take Xie Shuyan as an example. He, a full-time infantry general, has been sighing because he knows deeply what is the reason for the strong combat power of the Han army's infantry. Excellent
Armor, strict proficiency. Looking at cavalry and infantry, people always think that the technical content of the latter is far lower than the former. Who can't do infantry? Pull out a group of people and put on armor, and that's infantry!
But in fact, the training of elite infantry is not at all easier than that of cavalry. Whether they are crossbowmen, shield soldiers, crossbows, thunder chariots, etc., it is easy to train but difficult to master, and it is much more difficult than riding a horse to kill.
Already.
And the element of cavalry's combat power is not just to kill on horseback. If this is the case, how can Han cavalry compare to Hu cavalry? Discipline and formation are the greatest guarantee of Han cavalry's combat power. At the same time, discipline and military formation are also elite infantry.
Where A’s combat power lies.
The infantry's coordination of long and short soldiers, array changes, and ease of adjustment are far more complex than cavalry. This is all based on strict training.
With 200,000 soldiers mobilized in one winter, Xie Shuyan couldn't imagine how far they could go.
"Okay, the king's order has been issued, and the matter is settled. After you go back, immediately organize your troops." Zhu Biao pinched the letter and turned it around and returned to his case, and said: "Hu Di
The defeat of Chen Wei and Chen Wei is certainly not a good thing. But on the other hand, it at least shows that Wuji’s hundreds of thousands of troops will not be able to come back for a while. We need to face the opponent now, and Wuji is the only one.
Why should Wei Tuo's headquarters be afraid of him?"
Outside Beiling City, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses carried by Uwe Tuo. Zhu Biao cannot defeat them with the strength he has. But if the army heading north can involve the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses carried by Uwe Wei,
Ten thousand, then there were only 100,000 soldiers left outside the city, so Zhu Biao was full of confidence.
There are still more than 30,000 cavalry troops in Beiling City, plus 30,000 infantry troops of varying strength. With 100,000 cavalry troops, Zhu Biao is confident enough to fight with the cavalry troops alone, and with the help of infantry troops, he has a sure chance of victory.
.
Now let’s see how capable the 200,000 new troops heading north are!
The actions of the Han army could not be concealed from the Iron Brand Organization, so they could not be concealed from Uweituo. It is better to strike first! Hu Qi made a decisive decision immediately.
I don’t know if Uwetuo’s decision was correct, but in a severe cold winter, all siege equipment, large and small, such as ladders, well rails, thunder carts, buckets, and watch carts, were all ready. In the ice and snow.
The wood that was continuously transported to Hu Camp under Beiling City turned into this after a winter of creation.
If we retreat without a fight, wouldn't a whole winter's preparation be in vain? Uwetuo will never be willing to do so.
Several replenished troops of Wanqi on the grassland returned to the command of Uweituo, and the Huqi deployed in Xinchang, Kaihua and other places also continued to reintegrate outside Beiling City.
The day after Zhu Biao received the letter, the Beiling battlefield, which had been silent for three months, began to boil.
"Huhuhu——"
The incendiary bombs, burning with blazing flames and carrying billowing black smoke, rumbled like stars falling to the ground and fell into Beiling City.
The wealthy Hu Qi not only made a large number of Pili chariots in winter, but also made flammable fire oil from mutton oil and horse oil. He soaked the polished round stone bullets in the kerosene and put them into the Pili chariots.
The throwing spoon was ignited, and the throwing spoon was raised, and the flaming stone bullets hit Beiling City head-on.
Although all the warehouses in the area adjacent to the city wall have been emptied and the people and people have been evacuated, the raging fire still burned everything within a hundred feet of the North City.
In the winter, Zhu Biao was reluctant to demolish the house he used to collect materials, and it was reduced to ashes during Hu Qi's attack. In this way, the attack on the city was even greater.
The urn city outside the north gate is naturally the key target. The crenellations and battlements at the head of the city have been completely swept away. The cracked walls of the urn city that were hit by heavy stone bullets have become completely cracked. If time permits, if Hu Qi's
There are enough stone bullets, which can destroy half of the solid city defense at the head of Beiling City compared to using a single Thunderbolt Chariot.
In the past three days, there were at least two or three battles and as many as five or six battles every day under Beiling City. The two sides were like two monsters with claws and teeth fighting hand-to-hand, with flesh and blood flying everywhere between the claws and claws.
In just three days of fighting, Zhu Biao lost tens of thousands of infantry, of which more than 1,100 were severely injured and disabled. The lightly injured were not counted at all, and the defending infantry lost three points.
one.
Of course, the Hu Qi outside the city also felt uncomfortable. The Han army's bloody fight to the death also caused them to suffer a bloody blow. The casualties were more than twice that of the defenders, and Uweituo's strength was reduced a lot.
.
Sun Tzu's Art of War says: The method of using troops is to surround it by ten, attack it by five, and divide it by doubling it.
Uweituo only had twice as many soldiers and horses as Zhu Biao, so he fought hard. Although he had siege equipment, heavy casualties were inevitable.
The spirit of bloody courage has faded away, and Uwetuo feels a little regretful now. He feels that it is not worthwhile to waste the lives of his people in order to prevent the equipment he prepared in the winter from being wasted.
So on the third day after the war, more than 100,000 Huqi were like giant beasts with injured heads. They all returned to the camp dozens of miles away and licked their wounds.
Zhu Biao stood at the top of the city and watched Uwetuo withdraw his troops. The blood stains recorded the brutal three days of fighting, and at the same time he was thinking carefully in his heart.
In two more days, the army will march north.
——What choice will Uwetuo make? Withdraw his troops? Or fight a decisive battle?
There are still ten days left. If there is a war, it will be enough for Hu Qi to recover his morale and strength. Therefore, he cannot let Uwetuo have an easy time in these two days! If he cannot bite him, he will also make trouble for him.
"Come, please thank General for coming." Zhu Biao called to the bodyguard beside him.
Yes, the true feeling in his heart was that he was unwilling to fight a decisive battle. The risk was too great! The combat effectiveness of the new army going north was seriously unbelievable. If there was a slight mistake, the little capital that the Northern Han had saved would be lost again.
And even if they win, they will suffer huge losses and will not be able to completely annihilate Uwetuo. Because all the Hu cavalry are cavalry, and our army, excluding the Huben battalion, only has 25,000 cavalry. Among the 200,000 troops coming from the north, there are
How many cavalry are there? When Hu Qi slaps his butt and runs away, can he catch him?
It would be too tragic if we could only rely on the cavalry in our hands to pursue him.
With his big hands on the incomplete battlements, Zhu Biao's eyes flashed with deep contemplation.
-------
At night, Hu Camp in the north of the city.
"Report..."
A shout outside the tent alerted Uwetuo who was about to take a rest inside. He was already a little depressed and immediately frowned and said in a vicious voice: "Come in and report!"
Ya Bing also knew that he came at the wrong time, but the matter was so important that he could not help but report, "Report to the king, shoot the eagle outside the tent to report, and found that there are many soldiers and horses gathering hidden at the south wall of Beiling."
With his head raised, the fang soldiers didn't dare to express their anger.
"Oh?" Uweituo was a little surprised. Could it be that the Han army in the city wanted to make some movement? "Have you notified Anaqiongqi at the south gate?"
"Captain Anavan has been notified."
"Yes", he waved his hand and dismissed the tooth soldiers. Uwetuo was no longer sleepy.
