Chapter 445: Capturing the enemy general’s head from an army of ten thousand horses
Although the accuracy of the trebuchet was not that high, it did not kill many people during this period of bombardment, but it caused chaos.
Because of this, the command of Liu Guang, the chief general of the Han army, was also affected to a certain extent.
Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and others who were commanding the army in the front immediately seized this opportunity and ordered the Jinglan troops to move up slowly and launch arrows to attack.
Jinglan is already tall, and what he is best at is flying in the air. At this time, most of the trebuchets on the Wuyan City Wall have been destroyed. Without the obstruction of the trebuchets, Jinglan's troops are directly invincible.
In less than a while, the pressure on the Han army rose sharply, and even the casualties of the entire army gradually increased with the movement of Jinglan troops.
"Your Majesty, if this continues, our army's losses will become greater and greater. Please, Your Majesty, give me a cavalry of two thousand people. I will rush out now and destroy this well." At this moment, Zhu Yongqing on the side said.
When Liu Guangwen heard this, he was immediately moved, but after seeing Li Zicheng's arrangement under the city wall, he immediately stopped thinking about the cavalry assault.
The Jinglan unit of the Yellow Turban Army was guarded by many troops. With only two thousand cavalry, it was impossible to destroy it. Instead, it would easily fall into crisis, leading to the annihilation of the entire army.
Once the Dongping Kingdom's cavalry is completely lost, they will have no choice but to wait for reinforcements and become completely passive. Therefore, Liu Guang will never send out cavalry unless necessary.
However, even if the Jinglan troops of the Yellow Turban Army cannot be destroyed, Liu Guang has other ways to deal with it. After being blessed with skills, his commander attribute has reached 99.
At this moment, Liu Guang felt that his mind had never been so clear. It turned out that Liu Guang faced Li Zicheng's attack. Due to his lack of ability to unite the army, he always wanted to forcefully keep up with the opponent's rhythm, trying to use this opportunity.
Defend the city under your jurisdiction.
But in the end, he would only be led by Li Zicheng. The city was not only defended, but became increasingly helpless. However, Liu Guang, whose commander attribute reached 99, immediately gave up this strategy.
Instead, he responded to the ever-changing situation by remaining unchanged and guarding the city as steadily as an old dog. Wherever there were loopholes in Li Zicheng's attack, he would send his men to remedy the situation.
The thunder generals born today have not only greatly improved their military strength after growing up in the past few years, but also their own commanders have also grown.
It's easy to command 800 people and act as a fire captain.
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At this time, Chen Xizhen also played the role of his own military adviser. In addition, his ability to lead the army was not weak, and he also checked for leaks and filled the gaps.
Under the joint attack of the two, the loopholes in Wuyan City's defense system were slowly discovered by the two, which greatly strengthened Wuyan City's defense strength.
After several hours of fighting, Li Zicheng also found that it was difficult to achieve results, so he issued a retreat order: "Send the order and withdraw the troops with gold!"
"Ding ding ding..."
As a gong sounded, the siege troops in front slowly retreated, and Liu Guang breathed a rare sigh of relief.
At this moment, Zhu Yongqing, Jin Chengying and other generals asked for a fight one after another, hoping to take this opportunity to launch a surprise attack. Looking at his subordinates who were eager to ask for a fight, Liu Guang couldn't bear to discourage them.
However, he knew very well that Li Zicheng might want them to leave the city. Once they lead the army out of the city, it would not be that easy to return to the city safely.
After all, there were only a few soldiers under Liu Guang's command, so he couldn't help but waste his money.
After the war, both sides counted casualties.
In this battle, the Han army suffered a total of 1,800 casualties, while the Yellow Turban Army suffered more than 5,500 casualties, a ratio of one to three.
You must know that this is a city defense battle, and as the commander-in-chief of the Han army, Liu Guang has reached the peak silver level with the continuous support of various external forces.
But despite this, this ratio is still achieved.
However, this is no wonder Liu Guang. After all, the reason why the Han army fought so miserably was mainly due to the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army's Jinglan troops and the catapult troops.
Li Zicheng was also very cautious and placed three thousand cavalry as mobile protection next to the Jinglan troops and the catapult troops. Under such circumstances, if the Han army attempted a sudden attack, it would only lead to their own destruction.
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However, the situation got better the next day. With Liu Guang's calm response and Chen Xizhen's assistance, the Han army's losses began to decrease.
Li Zicheng's attack was gradually blocked.
On this day, the Han army suffered more than 1,100 casualties, and the Yellow Turban army suffered more than 3,000 casualties.
It can be seen that Li Zicheng also discovered that something was wrong with Liu Guang, and promptly changed his strategy to control the casualty ratio to one to three.
If this continues, the Han army may be killed by Li Zicheng before reinforcements arrive.
Liu Guang knew very well the importance of Wuyan City now. As long as he could hold it and prevent Li Zicheng from passing by, Gao Yingxiang, who was besieged by Lu Zhi in Fan County, would be in danger of being annihilated.
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Right here in Wuyan City, while fighting the Yellow Turbans to the death, other battlefields of the Han army also changed one after another.
On the Qingzhou battlefield, after Qin Xu led the Yanmen Army here, Huang Chao's offensive posture was greatly affected, and it was no longer as strong as before.
Facing Huang Chao, a resourceful commander in the Yellow Turban Army, Qin Xu did not choose to stand firm and resist. Instead, he set up a camp in Donglai County and took advantage of the terrain to fight the Yellow Turban Army.
In this case, the Yellow Turban Army's trebuchets were unable to exert force at all, because the entire Donglai County was a battlefield, and the most indispensable thing for the Yanmen Army was the cavalry.
Relying on the mobility of the cavalry, Qin Xu had Huang Chao at his mercy. Even if Huang Chao made many plans to trick Qin Xu, they had no effect.
After all, marching and fighting requires more than just resourcefulness, combat experience, and battlefield intuition, which cannot be ignored.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! You must know that Qin Xu has been fighting in the south and north for so many years, and his rich experience is simply not comparable to the current Huang Chao. What's more, Qin Xu's own abilities are not weak either.
, the commander attribute reached 96 points.
Even if Huang Chao deliberately attacked the city and wanted to take the opportunity to lure Qin Xu to mobilize his troops, and then came to wait for work, he would not succeed, because Qin Xu directly responded to the changes by staying the same. As long as the main city was not lost, the remaining cities would be lost.
Yes, so what.
Facing the treacherous and cunning Qin Xu, Huang Chao gave up those plots and directly used his troops to confront Qin Xu's ancestors and grandson near Qucheng County in Donglai County.
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At the same time, Qingzhou, Donglai County, and Qucheng County.
Thirty thousand Yanmen troops, 10,000 county troops, plus 10,000 Liaodong troops, a total of 50,000 troops, were stationed eighty miles outside the city under the leadership of Han army commander Qin Xu.
At this time, the Han army's camp was brightly lit, because the whole army was cheering and celebrating the recent victory.
Since Qin Xu came to Donglai County, he took over the command of Donglai County from his grandson Qin Qiong. After all, the latter has the largest official position among the officials of Donglai County today.
As for the governor of Donglai, unfortunately, shortly after the Yellow Turban Uprising, he chose to abandon his official position and flee because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, even though Donglai County had a commander like Qin Qiong.
This is because the current Donglai Governor is a member of a wealthy family who just took office a year ago. He has always looked down upon Qin Qiong, who was a military general, even though Qin Qiong has a close relationship with the Wang family.
As for the previous governor of Donglai, he was specially promoted to the imperial court and became one of the officials in the capital because he managed the people well and brought peace and prosperity to the people.
Although the current Donglai governor was not a drunkard, he was not much better than this. Otherwise, when the Yellow Turban army came to attack, he would not have chosen to abandon his official position and flee.
However, as the governor of Donglai, it was impossible for him to escape, and he was eventually killed by the Yellow Turban Army.
Since the prefect died, Qin Qiong, as the captain of Donglai County, was naturally the biggest.
Although Qin Qiong was not a prefect, he had a very good relationship with his former prefect Wei Xun in these years. The entire Donglai County was separated from military and political affairs, with the prefect governing the people and the county lieutenants in charge of the troops.
It is precisely because of this that Qin Qiong was able to train an elite army in these years. The entire population of Donglai County was 520,000, and Qin Qiong recruited 40,000 people.
Relying on these 40,000 troops, Donglai County has been able to survive the wave of hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops until now.
In just over a month, Qin Qiong commanded a battle to defend Changyang, using 5,000 troops to defeat 30,000 Yellow Turbans, annihilating 8,000 enemies and capturing 6,000 prisoners.
To be able to achieve such results with five thousand against thirty thousand, one can imagine how far Qin Qiong's ability to lead the army has reached.
Of course, in the battle to defend Changyang, Qin Qiong's ability to achieve such a record was inseparable from his own courage and resourcefulness. It was precisely because of his design that the Yellow Turban Army general Li Chongba divided his troops into left and right wings, causing the Chinese army to have some problems.
emptiness.
At that time, Qin Qiong ordered Tai Shici to command 2,000 men to attack the left flank of the Yellow Turban Army, and Yue Xi to command 2,000 men to attack the right flank. Both of them were brave and courageous men, and they also had certain ability to lead the army.
The left and right wings of the Yellow Turban Army were in crisis before an hour had passed. Li Chongba immediately ordered his generals to send 3,000 troops each to support the two wings.
And this gave Qin Qiong a chance.
He led a thousand Chinese troops and charged directly at Li Chongba's troops. The Yellow Turban Army was unable to resist, and was soon killed by Qin Qiong, who staged a scene of killing an enemy general in the midst of a ten thousand-horse army.
Although Li Chongba was also powerful, after all, he had just entered the late stage of Super First Class. How could he resist Qin Qiong? After only three or five rounds of fighting, Qin Qiong activated the goalkeeper skills to seal Li Chongba's skills, and then killed him with a blow.
Cut off the horse.
As the main general died in battle, the 30,000 Yellow Turban troops immediately became chaotic. Qin Qiong immediately chose to pursue the victory and defeated the 30,000 Yellow Turbans. During the pursuit, he killed the Yellow Turban generals Guan Cheng, Sima Ju and others one after another.
At this critical moment, enemy general Xu He led an army of 10,000 to cut off the rear and cover Huang Chao's brother Huang Cun's departure.
Xu He, one of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Qushuai, led the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Rebellion after the main force of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed.
In the third year of Chuping (192), after most of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was absorbed by Cao Cao, Xu He still led his troops to continue to resist, which lasted for more than ten years.
Until 207 AD, Xu He commanded Jinan, and the Yellow Turbans of Le'an attacked the city and killed the officials, which angered the general Xia Houyuan. Xia Houyuan gathered troops from Taishan, Qi, and Pingyuan counties, and then defeated it.
Xu He was killed in this battle, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was completely pacified.
Being able to persist in Qingzhou for such a long time with the remnants of the Yellow Turban, Xu He's ability is definitely not bad. It's a pity that he has not reached his peak yet, and his opponent is still the famous Qin Qiong.
Within thirty minutes, Xu He's hastily arranged formation was defeated by Qin Qiong, and Xu He himself was captured by Donglai general Sun Ying. The remaining Yellow Turbans either died in battle, fled, or laid down their weapons and surrendered.
And Qin Qiong also achieved a historical achievement because of this battle.
[Ding dong, Qin Qiong killed the Yellow Turban general Li Chongba in an army of ten thousand horses, and successfully defeated 30,000 enemy troops with five thousand soldiers and horses, completing the achievement of "capturing the head of an enemy general in an army of ten thousand horses";
As the first person to complete this achievement, Qin Qiong will be specially rewarded with a permanent peak martial strength of 1 and a one-time strengthening of his skill;
Qin Qiong was born because he was brought out by his father Qin Yi in the novel, so this resulted in his five-dimensional attributes being the attributes in the novel.
The Qin Qiong in the novel is exactly the opposite of the official history. He is a commander-in-chief rather than a force-type talent. It was not until later that Wu Yunzhao and other powerful generals died in battle that Qin Qiong was able to live without tigers in the mountains and become the king of monkeys.
In the later stage, except for one Yuchi Gong who was able to fight, no one else was his opponent, and this was also because Qin Qiong had been fighting for many years and had tuberculosis in his body.
However, Qin Qiong in history was not a commander-in-chief, but a genuine fierce general.
Old Tang books record that every time Qin Qiong accompanied Li Shimin on an expedition, there would often be generals showing off their strong soldiers and horses in the enemy formation. Li Shimin would ask Qin Qiong to charge and kill the enemy generals single-handedly.
However, there are no detailed records in the history books about which enemy generals he killed.
Qin Qiong's boss came to protect her son and once commented on Qin Qiong: "This person is brave and determined. He must make himself rich and powerful. How can he be treated in such a lowly manner?"
It can be seen that Qin Qiong's force value is very high.
Otherwise, there will be no talk about Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong in later generations.
Speaking of which, Qin Qiong's peak martial arts can reach the historical level, rather than the half-full level in the novel. Wang Yu accounts for 90% of the credit.