Chapter 1622: Ten Thousand Wagang Camp was destroyed
After the cavalry and infantry came on stage one after another and nearly 20,000 people were lost, Duan Zhixuan stopped sending his own army and looked at Zhu Can on the other side.
After witnessing the heavy losses suffered by the Li family army just now and realizing the powerful combat power of the Far East Army, neither Zhu Can nor the soldiers under his command actually wanted to go on the field at this time.
But Zhu Can knew that precisely because of Wagang Camp's combat power, the opportunity to surround Wagang Camp was extremely rare.
Therefore, Zhu Can knew that he must lead the army to fight with all his strength today.
Zhu Can's method was very ruthless. He directly ordered more than 60,000 people to immediately surround the Wagang camp's less than 20,000 infantry phalanx, and then launched attacks from all directions at the same time.
Zhu Can's style of fighting was very cruel, not only cruel to Wagangying, but also to himself.
Because this style of play can greatly improve the casualty efficiency of Wagang Camp, but it will also cause Zhu Jiajun heavy casualties in a short period of time.
I have to say that Zhu Can is very decisive, courageous and willing.
Li Shimin, who witnessed Zhu Can's fighting method on the hilltop in the distance, nodded slightly to express his approval of this style of fighting. But when he looked in the direction of Zhu Can, a cold light flashed in his eyes. Li Shimin knew very well that Zhu Can was a very powerful person.
An ambitious and rebellious person by nature, coupled with such a notorious man-eating devil will stain his reputation as Li Shimin.
Therefore, Li Shimin had already thought that Zhu Can would not be allowed to live after he took refuge with their Li family.
But Li Shimin couldn't think about this matter at this time. Even half of his mind at this time was not on the battle in front of him, but on his other foreshadowing and preparations.
"Calculating the time, Qushi City should be successful soon. The Wagang Camp attacking the city there only has 10,000 people, and Xie Yingdeng's ability is mainly in exploring and sorting out military information. Compared with Xu Shiji and Cheng Yaojin,
There is a lot of trouble in leading the troops to fight, but unlike the 20,000 strong men in front of us, it should go smoothly."
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At first light in the morning, the 10,000 infantrymen led by Xie Yingdeng started a new round of siege after making enough food.
The enemy's fatigue in Qushi City has become more and more obvious. Although the morale is somewhat strange, the morale has always been maintained well, but the trend of defeat has already appeared.
Although Xie Yingdeng was not as good as Cheng Yaojin and Xu Shiji in commanding troops, his vision was very accurate. He could tell from various signs that if nothing unexpected happened, Qushi City could be broken before noon today.
Moreover, the soldiers below can also feel that Qushi City can be breached in half a day at most, because the city walls have been reduced a lot by their bombing.
Just after a quarter of a hour, Xie Yingdeng gave an order. In addition to the two thousand reserve personnel, the infantry of Wagang Camp began to attack the city.
Because victory was in sight, the morale of the soldiers of Wagang Battalion was high, and the offensive was much more intense than the previous ones. Grenades and trebuchets were also continuously thrown or still mounted on the city wall, and soon the soldiers of Wagang Battalion successfully boarded the city wall.
city wall.
Less than an hour of fighting on the city wall, the defenders of the Zhu family could no longer resist. There were several dangers on the south wall. There were more than 300 soldiers in the Wagang Camp on several walls. Another wave of Wagang was about to appear.
The soldiers of the battalion climbed up the city wall to support them, and they were able to defeat Zhu's army.
Xie Yingden watched the attack and defense on the city from a distance, and the premonition in his heart became stronger. Finally, he simply drove away the soldiers beating the drums and picked up the drumsticks to beat the drums to cheer up.
soldiers under his command
Seeing the general beating the drum in person, his morale became even higher. Not only did he climb desperately towards the top of the city, but the siege vehicles also risked their lives, braving the arrows and boiling oil above their heads, and violently hit the south gate again and again, and the city was destroyed.
The door gradually began to shake, and all the soldiers' eyes lit up.
Victory seems to be within easy reach.
The chain reaction of a defeat on the battlefield is terrible. One defeat can affect the entire battle situation. Even if you are about to win victory, you will eventually lose it.
With a "boom", before the Zhu Jiajun defenders could be completely driven off the city wall, the southern city gate was blown open by Wagang camp with several packets of explosives.
All the soldiers from the Wagang Camp suddenly burst into cheers. Without Xie Yingdeng's orders, all the soldiers who had not yet climbed onto the city wall rushed towards the south gate.
However, at the moment when the city gate was blown open, a sudden change occurred.
First, the sound of thousands of horses galloping came out along the south city gate.
Then, the infantrymen of Wagang Camp who were rushing at the front saw as far as they could see in the city, there were one main road and three side roads, all filled with black cavalry. They could not see the end at a glance, and they were like four torrents rushing towards the south gate.
Came over.
These cavalry appeared too suddenly and unexpectedly, without any warning in advance. Although the infantry of the Far Eastern Army is powerful, there is even a saying in the world that the infantry of the Far Eastern Army is the nemesis of the cavalry, but the premise is that the infantry of the Far Eastern Army can set up battle formations, otherwise
It's just a little stronger than other infantry.
Now all the infantry of Wagang Camp are rushing towards the south city gate. Because the distance is different, and because they are trying to grab the gate to prevent the gate from being blocked again by the enemy, the speed is also different. This causes Wagang Camp to rush towards
The line of thousands of infantrymen at the city gate stretched so long that there was no time to set up a battle formation.
A group of Wagang Camp infantrymen who had just rushed into the city were directly knocked away by the torrent of four cavalry. The Wagang Camp infantrymen behind were shocked. Some of them shouted and wanted to form a formation with each other, some tried their best to dodge to the side, and some were the most sensible ones.
, knowing that it was too late to form a formation or dodge, he rushed towards the oncoming cavalry with his sword and gun with a determined look on his face, hoping to be able to support him before he died.
But no matter how they choose between life and death, they will inevitably die in the end.
The next moment, more than a thousand Wagangying infantrymen were directly punched through the distance of more than 100 meters from the inside of the south city gate to the outside. The cavalry rushed out from the city gate hole like a train at high speed.
All the infantrymen of Wagang Camp were crushed and knocked away.
The infantrymen of the Wagang Camp who were rushing towards the south city gate saw them suddenly charging towards them from inside the city. They were murderous, high-spirited and full of physical strength. At a glance, at least 20,000 enemy cavalrymen were stunned.
And being caught off guard, the cavalry of about 20,000 people rushed out of the city, divided into four groups and rushed towards the Wagang camp infantry at the fastest speed. The few groups that had just been gathered together in a hurry were not large in number and had not yet been fully deployed.
The soldiers of the Wagang Camp were in chaos in the infantry battle formation. Then their four groups of cavalry sprinted back and forth several times, directly splitting the thousands of infantrymen of the Wagang Camp into more than a dozen parts. For a while, it was impossible to gather together to set up the infantry battle formation.
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No matter how loudly Xie Yingdeng screamed and how hard the generals below gathered the people, it was already too late. No matter how elite the infantry was, no matter how powerful the battle formation was, if the battle formation was not set up from the beginning and was separated by the cavalry,
The only thing left is to be slaughtered, not to mention that the 20,000 cavalry who suddenly appeared are clearly elite.
Therefore, soon, the infantry formation of Wagang Camp was completely overwhelmed.
More than 2,000 Wagang soldiers have already reached the top of the city.
The infantry were frightened and angry, so they naturally stopped attacking the city and then retreated quickly. However, they came down from the city in a different order and in different positions, and the enemy cavalry below the city would not give them a chance to gather together.
Kill as many as you come down.
With great difficulty, hundreds of them gathered into a defensive formation in an attempt to resist the cavalry's charge. However, because the number was too small, they only killed a few more enemy cavalry and were eventually defeated.
In addition, in order to attack the city these days, Xie Yingden and his team have almost exhausted their grenades and explosive packs. Occasionally, soldiers will detonate their explosive packs or grenades before dying, causing some casualties to the enemy cavalry, but because of the huge disparity in strength,
It's so big that it can't change the situation of the war at all.
At the top of Qushi City, the defenders of the Zhu family let out cheers that shook the sky. They knew that there were 20,000 elite cavalry hidden in the city, so their morale was actually very good these days. However, the Far Eastern Army's combat power was too strong.
If it hadn't been for the 20,000 cavalry just now, they would have already captured the city.
But unlike the Zhu Jiajun who defended the city, this sudden appearance of 20,000 cavalry carried a flag with the word "李", which was obviously another force hidden by Li Shimin.
Even though Xie Yingden had been in battle for a long time, he was shaken by this sudden change. He looked absently at the cavalry in front of him who kept charging at his own soldiers, and his face became extremely pale.
One moment, he looked like he was about to break the city, and he had made a great contribution. He didn't want his troops to suffer heavy losses the next moment. Not only was the city lost, but his troops were also constantly being chased by the sudden appearance of the cavalry.
Most of the ten thousand people have died.
The infantry that had already rushed out were doomed, but Xie Yingden, who had regained his senses, immediately ordered the two thousand reserve troops around him that had not yet had time to dispatch to shrink their defenses and set up battle formations.
A series of military orders were issued, and the soldiers of Wagang Camp who were initially panicked by the attack quickly followed the orders. As the neat formation gradually took shape, the turbulent military morale gradually stabilized. Before the nearly 20,000 Li family army cavalry rushed up, they laid out
A tight infantry battle formation.
The Far East Army's infantry battle formation is after all the strongest in the world and the nemesis of the infantry. Even if the number of soldiers is one-tenth of the enemy's, once the battle formation is set up, it is like a huge boulder in the torrent, ultimately blocking the Li family's army.
Charged, stood stubbornly outside Qushi City, and then withstood the Li family's army's charges again and again.
After more than an hour, all the two thousand Wagang camp infantrymen were killed in the battle, and no one surrendered. However, the Li family army paid more than 6,000 casualties for this.
However, the 10,000 infantrymen of the Wagang camp were not completely wiped out, because all the soldiers died in the battle, but Xie Yingden was captured alive. He did not commit suicide, nor did he think of committing suicide.
There were spies from the Military Intelligence Agency nearby who witnessed this scene and immediately reported the situation here to Shen Guang like a flying eagle.
Shen Guang was horrified and told this information to Xu Shiji. The latter's face changed and he gritted his teeth and said: "Li Shimin is really good at it. He unknowingly hid 20,000 elite cavalry in Qushi City. And your Military Intelligence Office and us The spies sent by Wagang Camp didn’t know about it in advance.”
"His Majesty has repeatedly emphasized that we must be highly vigilant about Li Shimin. Now it seems that His Majesty is indeed wise. Although we paid great attention to Li Shimin before, it seems that the previous attention was not enough."
After Xu Shiji finished these two sentences, his whole expression became calm and indifferent. During the whole process, he led 10,000 cavalry without slowing down and continued to rush towards Cheng Yaojin's headquarters in the north.