Chapter three hundred and forty seventh full-scale war
Seeing the large number of wounded soldiers, Liu Xiu couldn't care less. He personally participated in the rescue and saved as many people as possible.
He was busy from noon to evening, and finally came to an end. At this time, Liu Xiu's hands were stained red with blood. When he washed his hands, a plate of clear water turned into a plate of blood in the blink of an eye.
It was only then that Liu Xiucai had some free time and summoned his generals to learn about his own casualties.
The original three thousand soldiers were defeated in the first battle, and only a little over a thousand were left, of which more than 700 were cavalry and another 300 or so were infantry. Among the remaining more than a thousand soldiers, those who had lost their ability to fight were injured.
There were more than 300 soldiers.
In other words, there are currently only about 700 combatable soldiers under Liu Xiu. Even if Yin Zun's men are added, they can barely make up 1,000 men.
With only such a small amount of troops, it is impossible to imagine how to relieve the danger of Kunyang and defeat the reckless army of more than 100,000 people.
Liu Xiu was helpless. While he was busy recruiting troops in Dingling, he also sent people to Yancheng to continue recruiting troops.
Kunyang.
Wang Yi killed the envoy sent by Wang Feng and refused the surrender of Wang Feng's troops. Next, he ordered the three armies to attack the city. Wang Yi refused to surrender, and the most direct consequence was that Wang Feng's troops were blocked.
The Ministry’s retreat.
Facing the massive attack by the reckless army, no matter whether Wang Feng's men were timid or not, and whether they were willing to fight or not, they had no other choice but to make a determined effort to fight to the death.
Surrendering means death, dying in battle means death, no matter what happens, it is death, it is better to have a few more people to support you before you die.
Under such a mentality, Wang Feng's troops, who were obviously weak and incompetent, were scared out of their wits before the war started, and were eager to surrender to Wang Yi, showed extraordinary combat effectiveness in the battle to defend the city.
From the general Wang Feng who led the army to the ordinary soldiers, they all fought desperately and risked their lives to confront the reckless army.
It has to be said that Kunyang's city defense is indeed strong, and the city defense preparations are also very sufficient.
There were trebuchets on the city wall, and there were also trebuchets inside the city wall. When the Mang army attacked with all their strength, the trebuchet at the top of Kunyang City caused great damage to the Mang army.
When the large-scale siege weapons of the reckless army finally advanced to the city wall, the trebuchets in the city began to attack again. These trebuchets threw not stones, but barrels of kerosene.
The kerosene barrel hit the siege weapon and broke immediately. The kerosene flowed out and poured all over the siege weapon. At this time, the defenders fired rockets again, and a huge siege weapon instantly turned into a pile of fire.
As the large siege weapons were destroyed one after another, it was too difficult for the Mang army to attack Kunyang by relying only on manpower. Even with an army of more than 100,000, they were helpless looking at the ten-meter-high city wall.
This offensive and defensive battle started in the morning and continued until nightfall. When it got dark, the reckless army who attacked the city had no choice but to retreat. As the reckless army retreated to the camp, looking outside Kunyang City, there were piles of corpses on the ground.
Yes, it has been laid out on several levels.
Wang Yi thought that his own army with such a large strength could flatten Kunyang in one pass. Unexpectedly, the small city of Kunyang turned out to be so difficult to defeat. He fought hard for a whole day and was unable to tear Kunyang apart.
In the city defense, thousands of soldiers were lost.
Wang Yi was extremely dissatisfied with today's battle. He went into a rage in the Chinese army tent and cursed all the generals under his command bloody. Even the Big Mac, who was fearless in heaven and earth, became mute at this time.
He kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
Let Big Mac fight the enemy face to face, he is really not afraid of anyone, but the siege battle is different, he has to climb up the ladder to the top of the city.
With his weight, let alone a ladder, even two ladders combined together would still not be able to support him. The only way he could scale the city wall was with the help of a large siege weapon like a cart.
But in today's battle, the carts could not get close to the Kunyang city wall. If the distance was too far, there would be trebuchets on the top of the city. If the distance was too close, there would be fire attacks from trebuchets in the city.
After only one day of fighting, the reckless army lost no less than twenty carriages and suffered heavy losses. Ju Guuba stood outside the city and was unable to display any of his abilities. Of course, he was unable to dispatch the beasts he could control.
It comes in handy.
Wang Yi looked around at the generals who had their heads drooped and did not dare to raise their heads, and said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow is the deadline. No matter what, Kunyang must be captured tomorrow!"
Early the next morning, the Mang army's attack began again. Today's offensive was more fierce than yesterday, but the number of Kunyang defenders today also became larger.
The people in Kunyang City spontaneously climbed up the city wall, or followed the defenders to defend the city against the attacking troops, or helped the defenders to transport logs, stones, kerosene, arrows, etc. to the top of the city.
Materials.
With the strong assistance from the people of Kunyang, the defenders' counterattack became stronger. As a result, after a day of fierce fighting, the Mang army still failed to capture Kunyang, and finally returned without success and retreated to the main camp.
If on the first day of the battle, the soldiers of the Mang Army were relatively casual and did not exert their full strength, then in the second day of the battle, the Mang Army really used all their strength, but still failed to tear them apart.
Kunyang's city defense shocked Wang Yi, who felt that he had underestimated the combat power of Wang Feng's troops.
Again, the performance of the Green Forest Army on the battlefield is completely in two extremes. Either it is a ragtag group of soft-footed shrimps, which can be defeated in one blow, or it is fierce and fierce, even in a life-and-death battle, it is eager to bite the opponent.
a piece of meat.
On the third and fourth days of the Battle of Kunyang, the Mang Army's offensive began to weaken significantly. Although the Mang Army had more than 100,000 troops, it also showed its fatigue under the continuous high-intensity attacks.
On the fifth day, news came that made everyone in the Mang Army rejoice. The main force of the Mang Army, nearly 300,000 troops, arrived in Kunyang.
This news made Wang Yi overjoyed, but for the Han army in Kunyang, it was undoubtedly a head-on blow.
The two reckless armies joined forces, with a total of more than 400,000 troops, and set up a company camp outside Kunyang City.
The Mang army's camp was built around the city. The camp alone completely surrounded Kunyang City. This large group of companies and camps could not be seen no matter which angle they stood in Kunyang and looked out of the city.
The end.
If there were only more than 100,000 Mang troops outside the city, the Han army in the city would still have the confidence to continue this kind of exhaustion. But now that the main force of the Mang troops has arrived, the number of enemy troops outside the city has reached more than 400,000. For the Kun army with only 10,000 people,
Yang, this is simply a nightmare.
Without waiting for the 400,000 Mang troops to attack in large force, Li Yi once again suggested to Wang Feng that his side had no chance of winning in this battle and should surrender to the Mang troops as soon as possible.
The first time Wang Feng advocated surrender, he listened to Li Yi's suggestion. As a result, the envoy he sent was killed. Wang Yi did not accept his surrender at all, which made him lose face. Now that Li Yi proposed surrender again, Wang Feng felt sad in his heart.
Playing the drums.
He deliberately said with a gloomy face: "Ji Wen, Wang Yi's attitude has been very clear and he refuses to surrender. Are you not humiliating yourself by surrendering to him now?"
Li Yizheng said solemnly: "Mr. Cheng Guo, the first time we surrendered was before the war started. Wang Yi thought we were weak and easy to bully, so he refused to surrender. Now after four days of fierce fighting, our army's combat strength is enough to defeat the enemy."
Wang Yi is impressed, and if you surrender now, Wang Yi will definitely not refuse again."
After a pause, he said meaningfully: "Mr. Cheng, the reason why our army was able to withstand the Mang army's strong attack for several days was because the Mang army had too few troops. Now the Mang army has more than 400,000 troops.
How many more rounds of strong attacks can our army withstand? We are at the end of our rope and the only way to save our lives is to surrender!"
Wang Feng thought about it repeatedly, and finally nodded, accepted Li Yi's opinion, and wrote a letter of surrender to Wang Yi again.
This time Wang Feng wrote the letter of surrender, but Wang Chang didn't even stop him. He was too lazy to say anything more and just let Wang Feng do what he wanted!
Moreover, he did not think that Wang Yi would surrender this time.
Wang Yi is a man with a proud heart and a high vision but a low hand. Since Wang Feng's first surrender has been rejected by him, he will not accept this surrender. Otherwise, it will be a slap in his own face.
Sure enough, when Wang Yi saw the second envoy sent by Wang Feng, after reading the letter of surrender written by Wang Feng, he tore up the letter of surrender on the spot, pointed at the envoy, and said sternly: "Rebel this rebel, chaos.
Cut the body apart with a knife and chop it into pieces!"
The guards entered the tent, dragged the envoy and walked out.
"Wait a minute!" Yan You stepped out of the queue, bowed his hands to Wang Yi and said, "General Wang, Wang Feng has repeatedly asked to surrender, and our army will accept it!" In his opinion, there is really no need for his side to be angry with Wang Feng.
The attacks on the city in the past few days have all failed, which is enough to prove that Kunyang is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the defenders are tenacious. Since Wang Feng wants to surrender, all we have to do is accept it. Even if we accept it, it will not be too late to kill him.
Wang Yi gritted his teeth and said: "Accept surrender? It's too easy for them! If I don't kill all the rebels and anti-people in the city, I will be ashamed of your majesty's trust and the souls of the fallen soldiers in heaven!"
As he spoke, he glared at the guards and yelled: "Kill!"
Although the first unlucky guy sent by Wang Feng was also killed, he only had his head chopped off. The second unlucky guy was chopped into pieces by the Mang army. When the news came back to Kunyang, people reacted
It was much calmer than the first time.
Before the war started, there was no serious hatred between the two sides, so Wang Yi killed his own envoy. After so many days of fierce fighting, the Mang army lost so many soldiers in Kunyang. With Wang Yi's personality, it was true that he refused to surrender again.
normal.
However, the failure of the second surrender can be regarded as a complete end to Wang Feng and others' desire to surrender. Even if Wang Feng still wants to surrender and wants to hand over the surrender letter again, it is estimated that there will be no third messenger among the entire army.
Already.
On the fifth and sixth days of the Battle of Kunyang, the Mang army was busy setting up camp. On the seventh day, the Mang army's massive attack came again, but this time the attack was a wheel battle involving 400,000 people.
Four hundred thousand people were so many that they could submerge the small city of Kunyang. Of course, it was impossible for so many people to attack all at once, nor could they attack in batches.
Perhaps in response to the words of risking death and living later, the Han army, which was refused to surrender again, broke out with tenacious combat power in the battle to defend the city, repelling the Mang army's attacks one after another.
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Four hundred thousand people took turns to fight, but they just couldn't take down Kunyang City. It has to be said that once a person is forced to a corner, he can really explode with unimaginable power.
I thought I could win Kunyang without a single blow, but I didn't expect that the fight would reach this point.
On the eighth day of the siege, the Mang army deployed a large number of archers and many large crossbow beds outside Kunyang City, constantly firing arrows at the city head and inside the city.
