Yun Zheng still doesn't know what surprise attacks were like during ancient marches and battles. All he knows are some classic battle examples, and the main reason why those battle examples have become classics is that they are rare.
If you want to become a classic, you must meet many innate conditions, and luck is an indispensable main factor.
You will use surprise attacks only when you are small and broad, you will use surprise attacks when your own troops are not superior, and you will use surprise attacks only when your own troops are at a disadvantage. Otherwise, no real general will entrust his hope of victory to God.
Xiao Lin, Liang Ji, Zhou Tong, and Wu Jie became the vanguard. They not only had to prepare for the surprise attack on Shenglong City, but also helped the army open the way. They did this perfectly.
Yun Zheng looked at the fallen corpses on the roadside and stretched to the end of the road. He thought of the bundles of cut wheat in the wheat field, arranged in the same way. Now this time is when the peach blossoms are in full bloom in Shu. I don’t know that Shu
Under the dark sky, are those peach blossoms as red as the blood on the ground?
Every time the elephant takes a step, the ground trembles, and the clang of the soldiers' armor carries the smell of blood. This is conquest, or killing.
The people of Cochin all lived in scattered wooden houses with pointed roofs. Some children and women who were not affected secretly looked out from the gaps in the wooden houses in fear. Such a huge army made them feel scared from the bottom of their hearts.
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The further you go to the front, the denser the population becomes. It is impossible for the vanguard to kill all these people. As long as they don't encounter obstacles, they won't kill as much when they get to the back. Killing at this time will not have any role in keeping secrets. There is time to kill.
It is better to advance towards Thang Long City quickly.
No one could be seen on the road, only a large army marching under the clouds, with no beginning or end in sight.
The gate of Thang Long City has been tightly closed. The sound of gongs, drums and horns resounded through the sky. The two thousand Cochin warriors who hurried out of the city to meet the enemy were about to be defeated. Li Dezheng, who was standing at the top of the city, had a heavy piece of lead on his heart.
A huge banner with the word "cloud" in the shape of a cloud was being used by the warriors who were rushing towards them. Behind this flag, corpses were thrown down on the ground. A man as majestic as an iron tower was wielding a sledgehammer and roaring to kill the Jiaozhi army.
Formation, he immediately stood in front of the Suzaku Gate and looked at the city head fiercely. The war horse under his crotch kept circling, anxiously trying to pounce on the city wall.
Li Dezheng was used to seeing military formations. He was not the Taiping Emperor. His throne was won after a bloody storm, so he was not afraid of the army in front of him. There were tens of thousands of soldiers in the city, which was enough for him to defend.
He was very confident in himself. He was just worried about the prince who was far away in Guangyuan Prefecture. Since this army appeared here, could it be said that Li Rizun had been completely defeated?
He tried hard to put aside this impossible thought and focus on the battle situation in front of him again. All his subordinates had died in the battle below the city. The crossbows of these cavalry were very terrifying. As soon as they engaged in the battle, the dense rain of arrows killed two thousand people.
Most of the army's formation suffered losses. Even the soldiers wearing heavy armor could not escape their fate and were nailed to the ground alive by sharp short spears.
Eight hundred cavalry!
Li Dezheng did not notice much damage to the cavalry. Except for some cavalry who fell off their horses and died, their number did not decrease much.
"Your Majesty, enemy cavalry has also been spotted at the other three city gates, and our messenger cannot get out." A general in golden armor knelt down to report.
Li Dezheng said expressionlessly: "Actually, there is no need to send a message. They can't kill everyone outside the city. Li Xiuze of Tianwang Temple should have sent someone to send a message to the prince. All we can do now is to stay behind closed doors and wait. When the prince's army arrives, or after the various armies of the King of Qin arrive, none of these thieves will be able to escape.
He ordered General Long Qie of the left guard to integrate the troops of Shenglong City to control the entire city, ordered Prime Minister Li Decheng to recruit civilian warriors, and ordered the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture to draw one of two men. These people must be armed as soon as possible.
At the same time, it is announced to the soldiers and civilians of Shenglong City that anyone who beheads the Song Army at the first level will be rewarded ten mins, those who behead the Song Army at the third level will be rewarded as superiors, and those who beheaded at the tenth level will be captains. If anyone retreats from the battle, those who survive will be killed without mercy!"
The war entered a state of intensification from the beginning. The area around Shenglong City was full of shadows of the Song Dynasty cavalry. They burned, killed and looted here, trying to carve out a relatively safe area around Shenglong City.
The Jiaozhi people were also stimulated by the rewards offered by Li Dezheng, and their eyes turned red. They rushed forward with hoes and machetes to attack the Song Dynasty cavalry, killing one layer after another. Some Jiaozhi people who were lucky enough to succeed brutally chopped them down. He lowered the head of the Song army who died in the battle, and before he could receive the reward while holding his head high, it was crushed into pulp by the newly attacking Song army.
The killings became unrestrained. Ever since the Song army couldn't bear to kill women and children, but was killed by the women and children they spared, the Song army's killings had no restrictions. Three thousand cavalry surrounded Shenglong. After three days of non-stop killing in the city, Yun Zheng's army slowly arrived at the foot of Shenglong City.
At this time, the surrounding area of Thang Long City had turned into a white field. Except for the wild beasts that appeared from time to time, no one could be seen anymore. Those glorious temples had turned into ruins. The search team composed of merchants carefully took away any of them. Even the gold coating on Li Gongyun's pagoda was carefully scraped off by those merchants who thought it was worth taking away. As for the interior of the pagoda, which was already in ruins, they took away all the funerary objects in the mausoleum, and then The fire destroyed all traces of corpses...
The search was still going on. Those Jiaozhi people who were lucky enough not to be killed were tied with iron chains and continuously transported the looted items to the forest station. Yun Zheng did not ask where those people were, but only knew from Cui Da's pale face. The fate of those people was definitely not good. Now that the killing and war had begun, Yun Zheng was unable to make any changes.
More than a hundred elephants walked through the forest, which turned into more than two hundred. When so many war elephants stood under Thang Long City, the gloomy look on Li Dezheng's face became a little more gloomy.
Yunzheng did not give Shenglong City a chance to complete the mobilization of the entire people. If the entire city was mobilized, it would be absolutely impossible for his more than 10,000 subordinates to capture Shenglong City. He knew very well how powerful the power of all the people was. .
On the second day after arriving at the city, Yun Zheng couldn't wait to start attacking the city. The eight-oxen crossbows and small trebuchets frantically threw all their weapons at the Zhuque Gate. Smoke and flames shot up from the Zhuque Gate, and the collapsed towers and weapons were flying everywhere. The stumps showed the cruelty of war. Although the Jiaozhi people did not understand why the Song army's weapons exploded and why they were so terrifying, they understood another thing, that is, once the Song army entered the city, their end would be even more cruel. .
No matter how many people were killed by the Song army's gunpowder bombs, as long as the Song army started to charge, the city would still be filled with Jiaozhi people, and the rain of arrows they created would never stop.
The enemy's capital has never been easily conquered, except of course Tokyo, the capital of the Song Dynasty during the Xuanhe period.
The corpses of the Jiaozhi people have been piled up as high as a sheet under the city. Although the city wall of Zhuque Gate is broken, it is still firmly in the hands of the Jiaozhi people. But no matter who looks at it, it is only a matter of time before Shenglong City is breached, because
The Song Army has not launched a real attack until now.
"Your Majesty, Shenglong City cannot be defended. The Song Army's attack is very terrifying. The weapons that have never been seen before can be stopped by non-flesh and blood. Your Majesty, I am willing to fight for your Majesty's advance, fight a bloody road, and escort your Majesty.
leave."
A general with scars all over his body knelt in front of Li Dezheng and begged.
Li Dezheng squinted his eyes, looked at the cruel battlefield, stabbed the general to death with a sword, and whispered: "The battle has only been going on for half a day, and the Song army wants to escape without a fight before it launches a real charge?"
After killing the general, Li Dezheng looked at the panicked ministers and said: "Don't think about leaving. If Jiaozhi still wants to establish a country, we cannot abandon Shenglong City. What we have to do is guard Shenglong City and wait for the return of the prince.
If the outer city is destroyed, we will defend the inner city. If the inner city is destroyed, we will defend the palace. In short, prepare to fight to death here. Anyone who dares to abandon the city will be killed!"
After Li Dezheng issued the order, he climbed back to the Wangyuan Tower to continue watching the battle...
A huge siege vehicle slowly approached the city gate. This was a siege vehicle pulled by ten war elephants. These siege vehicles were made of thick wood, and the wood was covered with a layer of fireproofing.
Mud and sand, four carts filled with gunpowder are driving simultaneously under this huge siege vehicle. As long as this siege vehicle can get close to the city wall, the gunpowder will ignite in the city gate hole, completely blowing up the city.
A majestic gate.
Seeing the siege vehicle approaching slowly, the Jiaozhi people frantically covered it with flaming arrows. These arrows attached to the vehicle and ignited a raging flame. No matter what, they could not stop the siege vehicle from slowing down.
Slowly approaching the city wall,
"Block the city gate!" Jiaozhi's general issued the order in a hoarse voice.
With a heavy "boom", the siege vehicle finally hit the city wall. A huge boulder weighing hundreds of kilograms immediately hit the siege vehicle, and then the cauldron of hot oil fell down.
The four carriages took advantage of the little time they had to drive the carriages into the city gate hole and blocked the city gate tightly. After the soldiers of Wu Shengjun lit the long fuse, they untied their horses and got back into the gate without looking back.
Under the city car, the elephant was driven back crazily...
It was too late, Peng Jiu shouted, cut off the leather rope connecting the elephant with one knife, stabbed the elephant's butt hard, and then jumped out from under the siege vehicle, ignoring the rain of arrows behind him.
The other soldiers also imitated his example and cut off the elephant's leather rope, followed closely behind the mad elephant and ran towards their own military formation.
Seeing Peng Jiu and the others running back, the Song Dynasty army's trebuchets immediately dropped a new round of gunpowder bombs on the city wall, and the Eight Ox Crossbows were also launched at the same time to cover Peng Jiu and the others' return.
"Lie down! The gunpowder is about to explode!" Peng Jiu shouted towards the formation with four or five flaming arrows stuck in his back. (To be continued)