Chapter 106: The decisive battle on the party (21)
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Zhao Zaili and Zhou Kan finally reunited, and the Yan army's infantry and cavalry began to break out together to the south.
Zhou Kan commanded the infantry to use the spearmen as arrows to tear apart the newly formed interceptions on the road ahead. When encountering more fierce resistance, he would use the large arrows of the bow and arrow battalion to attack. For the enemy troops following behind, use knives.
The shield soldiers defended repeatedly to ensure that the entire advancing attack formation remained unchanged.
Zhao Zaili commanded the cavalry to closely accompany both sides of Zhoukan, not only to widen the formation space of the army, but also to step forward to help at any time. Sometimes he drove away the enemy cavalry who were pushing too close, and sometimes he simply jumped on his horse and rushed towards those who exposed their weaknesses.
Interception array.
Zhou Dewei had already come down from the high ground, and personally led the Ya army and the military leaders outside the encirclement. He ordered the troops and flags to fly, and mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized within Zhou Dewei's visual range and outside the visual range.
Lines of interceptions were laid on the front of the Yan army, and attacks were organized on the left and right wings of the Yan army and at the rear of the formation.
What surprised Zhou Dewei was that in such a bad situation, the enemy army never collapsed. Although it was obvious that the opponent was struggling to hold on, every time it seemed to be crumbling, it always managed to hold on with great reluctance.
If he went down, he would inflict many casualties on his subordinates.
The strength of the Yan army made Zhou Dewei more careful. He decided to continue to prolong the siege and make the Yan army's return to Xiangyuan a road of death, draining every drop of blood of the Yan army on this road. At the same time, Zhou Dewei also did
Well, the Yan army created a miracle of breaking through the encirclement for more than ten miles. For this reason, he once again sent envoys to Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan, asking them to lead their troops to follow him immediately.
Zhou Dewei's plan is that if the Yan army can really hold on to Xiangyuan, it will not be a bad thing for him. If the Xiangyuan defenders dare to open the city to accept it, they will take advantage of the situation to attack the city; if the Xiangyuan defenders dare not open the city, then
Sitting back and watching the friendly troops be gathered and annihilated under the city, this incident will also greatly damage the morale of the defenders.
Seeing the Yan army in the encirclement desperately trying to break through to the south, Zhou Dewei had already begun to consider the next battle strategy. Undoubtedly, according to what Li Siyuan said, An Zhongjiu's troops attacked Licheng by surprise, and Luzhou's plan should have achieved greater results.
.Even if they failed to capture Li City or Luzhou, they at least completely disrupted the Yan army's deployment on the Luzhou battlefield, otherwise the Yan army would never have been surrounded here.
What Zhou Dewei considered was that after taking the entire Luzhou, it would be equivalent to trapping the King of Yan Li Chengzhong in the Changping Passage. So what should be done next? Continue from the north to the south and penetrate the Changping Passage until Gaoping.
? Or sit back and watch the confrontation between the Yan army and the allied forces of the princes in Gaoping? Or simply lead the army through Fukouxing and attack Hebei?
Zhou Dewei was thinking about the next battle strategy with a relaxed expression, while Zhou Kan and Zhao Zaili commanded the Yan army to break through step by step to the south. The Yan soldiers fought bloody battles. Every time they advanced, they fought hard and endured heavy casualties. Zhou Kan
He and Zhao Zaili did not even dare to order the army to stop and rest. Up to this point in the battle, the soldiers were relying on their bloody courage and inertia to fight. Once they stopped, the entire army would probably collapse.
In addition to encouraging and maintaining morale, what Zhou Kan and Zhao Zaili were most worried about finally happened. As soon as they fought out of Nangou River, they found that the military supplies were seriously insufficient. More than half of the arrows were consumed, and every arrow in the bow and arrow camp
There were no more than five feather arrows in hand; shields, wooden spears, and swords were also seriously damaged. Many soldiers were left empty-handed; in addition, the wounded soldiers had no way to carry them, and all injured soldiers were abandoned where they were.
It is unbearable to think about the results waiting for them...
After leaving the Nangou River, they entered the open Xiangyuan Basin. The army was still ten miles away from Xiangyuan. These ten miles seemed extremely long to the Yan army.
Zhou Kan was already a little violent and anxious. He kept rushing to Zhao Zaili and asked loudly, "How long will it take?" Zhao Zaili licked his dry lips and looked around every time.
After killing another three miles, Zhou Kan changed his question. He no longer asked "how long will we go?", but asked, "Can we not die together?" Zhou Kan asked Zhao Zaili to lead the cavalry to rush out immediately.
He led his infantry to cover behind him. Regardless of whether there were reinforcements or not, it was now a life-or-death situation and he could not delay any longer. The consequence of any further delay would be that both the infantry and the cavalry would die together!
The forward attack momentum is getting weaker and weaker, and more and more soldiers are falling behind in the rear. Formed troops have been captured by the three kings' coalition. At least three groups have abandoned their swords and guns in just a while. Zhou
I don’t blame them for the failure. They fought hard for most of the day, with no water or rice coming in. Many people couldn’t even hold the guy, so how could they continue to fight?
Zhou Dewei squinted his eyes and watched everything on the battlefield. He knew that the surrounded Yan army was almost finished. When the enemy troops dropped their weapons and appeared in groups, it would not be long before the scale of surrender would expand to the entire army.
In both cities, when hundreds of prisoners appear, the enemy army will inevitably collapse.
Zhou Dewei felt relieved again. He knew that victory was inevitable, but there was still a pity in his heart. Unfortunately, this place is still six or seven miles away from Xiangyuan, and he could not let the defenders on the city see this scene...
Gao Ping, command office of the General Administration of Military Staff.
This is the former Gaoping County Government and the headquarters of the Chinese army of Gaoping Guards Hou Yan. It is now the temporary residence of King Yan Li Chengzhong. There are soldiers from the guard battalion in full armor inside and outside the courtyard. They are uniformly deployed and mobilized by beggars.
The entire station is tightly protected.
The two side courtyards were constantly filled with the Yan Army's Yuhou staff at all levels, summarizing the battle situation and military situation, and then submitted it to the central hall. The rooms on both sides of the central hall were full of officers and soldiers, and on the left were those at all levels waiting for military orders and summons.
The commanding officer, on the right is the messenger who is ready to go.
The three large rooms in the main hall have all been opened. More than ten senior generals of the Yan army, including Li Chengzhong, the King of Yan, Zhang Xingzhong, the general manager of the Yuhou Division, and Jiang Miao, the general manager of the Education Department, are discussing in a low voice around a huge sand table. The two corners on the left and right
Above are two smaller proportions of the sand table. The marked range and area are much smaller, but more detailed. Each has several mid-level and low-level staff officers who are carefully moving and marking the positions of various departments according to the summarized military reports.
In addition, there is a huge map of mountains and rivers hanging on the north wall, which includes the entire southeast of Hedong, west of Hebei, northern Duji and northwest Henan. The map is filled with various arrows in a mess, making people dizzy at a glance.
My brain is bloated. If you are not an officer who has gone through the training at the Yan Army Senior Military Academy, you will not understand what it means at all.
Starting from July, the allied forces of the princes with Liang Jun as the main force began to attack the Yan army. The main battle site between the two armies was Jiepailing. Jiepailing was located between Gaoping and Zezhou. With Jiepailing as the leader, the Yan army built
The densely packed large defensive camps, together with the three highlands behind Jiepailing, namely Xuanhu, Niushan and Shizuitou, formed a solid defense line shielding Gaoping.
After ten consecutive days of attacking Jiepailing with no results, the allied forces of the princes began to tentatively flank Xuanhu from the west, trying to bypass Jiepailing and remove the defensive support behind it first, so the two armies started a fierce battle in Xuanhu.
After paying nearly 2,000 casualties, the coalition forces of the princes took over the two front support points of Dongjushan and Xijushan in front of Xuanhu, and began to officially enter the battle to attack the main defense line of Xuanhu. Unfortunately, Dongjushan and Xijushan were exposed.
The Yan army was attacked from two sides. While attacking Xuanhu to the north, they had to endure the attack from Jiepailing on the east side. This situation made it very difficult for the allied forces of the princes to attack Xuanhu.
From the end of August, the coalition forces of the princes realized that it was impossible to break the Yan army's defense line without taking Jiepailing first, so under the personal order of King Liang, they changed the target of attack and put the focus back on Jiepailing. Because
By occupying the eastern and western excavation mountains, the coalition forces of the princes could attack Jiepailing from the west. This situation made the defense of Jiepailing difficult and the Yan army's casualties increased greatly.
After entering September, the defenders of Jiepailing had changed three batches. On this small mountain ridge, thousands of Yan troops were killed and countless others were injured.
Under the strong attack of the princes' coalition forces regardless of casualties, the Yan army lost Shuangnanzhuang, Laoaogou, Tanlingtou and other positions on the periphery of Jiepailing. Starting three days ago, the princes' coalition used Laoaogou as support and attacked Shuangnanzhuang from the west.
, the two roads at Tanlingtou on the east side attacked together and attacked the main camp at Jiepailing along the mountain ridge.
The war has become increasingly fierce, and hundreds of corpses fall on this small mountain every day. Of course, the Yan army has large-scale war equipment and a logistics battalion to help, so the battle loss ratio is far lower than
The coalition forces of the princes. However, the reinforcements of the Yan Army to the defenders of Jiepailing were greatly restrained by the coalition forces of the princes. In order to reduce the intensity of the reinforcements of the Yan Army to Jiepailing, the coalition forces of the princes did not hesitate to waste manpower and material resources and spent many days in Jiepailing.
Huge military formations composed of tens of thousands of infantry were assembled in the northwest and northeast, which greatly weakened the battlefield activity space of the Yan army's cavalry, making it very difficult to reinforce Jiepailing.
Once Jiepailing is lost, it means that the coalition of princes will have a support point between Zezhou and Gaoping where they can store supplies and troops, which will greatly improve the situation of the coalition of princes attacking Gaoping. Now we will see what the defenders of Jiepailing can do
How long can we hold on, or let's see how long the coalition of princes can endure the huge logistical consumption - maintaining a huge military formation in the wild is not an easy task.
Various tactics to support Jiepailing, such as flanking harassment, sending troops from the rear, and cavalry patrols, were issued from the main hall, either quickly passed to the front by messengers, or directly ordered out by waiting reinforcement officers. The entire Military Staff Office
Always busy, Zhang Xingzhong, Jiang Miao and other senior generals kept issuing various military orders.
These are not the focus of Li Chengzhong's attention. The fall of Jiepailing is inevitable whether he likes it or not. Li Chengzhong looked at the sand table in silence, looking back at the huge map on the wall behind him from time to time. He was waiting for the news from Luzhou in the north.