During the short rest after repelling the first attack on the city by the Chuang camp, Qian Qi iron-bloodedly ordered the beheading of several of the young defenders who had retreated in public, and also ordered their family members to be pulled out and beheaded.
This bloody act immediately woke up the minds of those young men. When faced with the second attack on the camp, the performance of those young men was completely different.
At this time, Chuangying's crude siege equipment also showed its weaknesses. Those long ladders could be pushed down with a push rod, and broken with wood. Therefore, after losing more than a dozen long ladders, Chuangying
The battalion's second siege ended in vain.
Seeing that the two sieges failed, Gao Yingxiang was furious. He ordered seven to eighty long ladders to be gathered, and the number of siege soldiers was increased to 6,000. He asked the archers to cover behind him, and sent the siege troops to
The troops were divided into three teams and took turns attacking the city. They would not retreat until they captured Ningling County.
Gao Yingxiang still remembered his promise to sleep in the Ningling County government office tonight. He didn't want his good mood to be ruined by the hundreds of officers and soldiers in the small county town. And God seemed to feel something at this time, floating and dancing
Snowflakes started to fall on the ground, and soon it started to snow heavily.
However, Gao Yingxiang's good mood was actually ruined by the Qianhusuo Fortress, which he had ignored. Finally, after Luo Rucai's large army passed by, the Qianhusuo Fortress opened its gate, and 500 soldiers of the Guide Army rushed out from the fortress.
The night and the snowy weather effectively covered the movements of the five hundred soldiers. In addition, they were charging towards the bottom of the slope, so when these soldiers rushed into the town, the new soldiers who were rummaging around in the town had no chance of breaking out.
No reaction came.
Moreover, the soldiers of the Guided Army are organized into tactical groups. In the front row are two sword and shield bearers, behind are four spearmen, and on both sides are two axe-gunners to cover, and finally there are two fire cannons for long-range attacks.
Hands on.
The tactical teams pushed forward one by one along the streets of the town. Soon, all the new recruits who broke into the camp were eliminated in the town. Then they immediately formed a square formation, and at this time, the Senhusho Fortress also came out again.
More than fifty cavalry lined up behind the phalanx for protection. As soon as the infantry and cavalry formation was formed, they immediately charged towards the attacking camp.
The first thing that greeted us was a small group of peasant rebels who were out to plunder. This peasant rebel army had more than 3,000 people. When they saw the phalanx of the Guided Army, they immediately turned to block the advance of the phalanx.
The two armies quickly approached to engage in battle. As expected, the infantry and cavalry formation of the Guided Army, which had advanced formations and excellent weapons, used firecrackers to smash the formation of the peasant rebels from a long distance. Then.
Following the charge of more than fifty cavalrymen, the peasant rebel army was immediately defeated.
At this time, there were not many cavalry in the siege force of Chuangying, so there was no time to mobilize troops to stop the Runing army. The defeated army in the small town and the peasant rebel army also tried their best to escape towards Chuangying. Because there was no way
After understanding the actual situation, those defeated troops exaggerated the situation, so the entire army that broke into the camp suddenly fell into an inexplicable panic.
Gao Yingxiang didn't care about attacking the city at this time. He immediately withdrew all the attacking troops. He concentrated his army and turned to attack the reinforcements, which only had more than 500 people.
However, as soon as they saw the main force of the camp coming, the soldiers of the Guide Army turned around and ran away. Before the camp could react, they had already returned to Qianhusuo Fortress and ended their attack.
This attack was completely beyond the expectations of Chuangying, so only one person of the Guided Army was seriously injured and seven were slightly injured. However, Chuangying suffered more than 700 casualties. This casualty ratio was staggering.
But more importantly, this attack completely interrupted an siege by the peasant rebels, giving the defensive soldiers in Ningling County a chance to breathe.
So Gao Yingxiang was furious afterwards. After ousting the camp leader who led the new soldiers, he sent out nearly 10,000 troops to semi-surround Qianhusuo Fortress. This also made Runing inside Qianhusuo Fortress
The army could no longer leave the fortress and rescue Ningling County.
Gao Yingxiang also spent a lot of money this time. Although there are now nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses who broke into the camp, after excluding the 30,000 to 40,000 old, weak, women and children, and excluding the partial divisions and vigilance troops sent out, we can now attack
Ningling County only has a population of over 50,000. Now nearly 10,000 soldiers have been deployed to guard the Qianhusuo fortress, which means that this attack has really hurt the camp.
From here we can see how great the impact of Yu Zilian's taking away Yao Liang's militia group was. If that militia group was there to defend Ningling County, Qian Qi could come up with a complete infantry regiment, along with some cavalry and artillery.
, formed a basic infantry, cavalry and artillery formation to support each other with movement between Ningling County and Qianhusuo Fortress.
You must know that the distance between Ningling County and Qianhusuo Fortress is only seven or eight miles, so this infantry and cavalry artillery formation is easy to fight based on the city. With the cover of the artillery and muskets on the city tower, the enemy troops
And since they can only attack from the front of this infantry, cavalry and artillery formation, the peasant rebel army's strength advantage will be completely unable to be used. Not to mention that they can concentrate on attacking the city.
But now that this militia group is missing, they are too cautious to drive the slow-moving artillery team out of the city. Therefore, the infantry and cavalry formation with only more than 500 people cannot open up the traffic between the two cities.
A surprise attack out of the city is possible, but as long as the peasant rebels are prepared and completely guard the Qianhusuo fortress, Ningling County will immediately be left alone without help.
Gao Yingxiang, who had encountered an unexpected incident, was also furious. Since he could no longer enter the city tonight, he simply ordered the refugees to fill in the moats on the south and north sides of Ningling County while it was dark. They were preparing to form a siege of three and one without one tomorrow.
The siege situation relied on the absolute advantage in the number of people who broke into the camp to capture Ningling County in one fell swoop.
The heavy snow also hindered the pace of the Runing army's reinforcements. It took Li Lu's dozens of light cavalry more than two days to reach Ningling County from the junction of Runing Mansion and Ye County. Except for him, a small group of people marched
Besides being extremely fast, the main reason is because Li Lu walked in a straight line.
The current emergency march route of the Runing Army is to detour through the hinterland of Runing Prefecture and take an arc to rescue Guide Prefecture. This is because it is necessary to ensure the safety of the emergency march and because it cannot be killed by the troops of the peasant rebel army during the march.
Get entangled.
But the current heavy snow caused the carts of the infantry regiment led by Xue Yong to get stuck in snow pits from time to time. And Li Sanhe's cavalry regiment was also afraid of hurting their horses' hooves, so they could only walk in the heavy snow. Wu Shigong's Runing
Because the main force of the army had heavy artillery, it took them four days to reach the Runing Army camp.
So if you want to save Ningling County now, how can Qian Qi hold on for two days? (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!