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"Kill! Charge..."
The loud shouts shattered the tranquility of the last moment before dawn, ushering in a new day and the beginning of another battle.
In May of the first year of Chuping, the war kicked off amidst a sea of gold and iron horses. Outside Hulao Pass, almost 200,000 coalition troops marched out and lined up on the plain in front of Hulao Pass. Just the huge crowds of people.
It's scary to look at, but looking down from the top of Hulao Pass, it seems that you can more intuitively feel the strong visual impact from the closely connected drums and shouts below, and the sound from the sky rising straight into the sky.
Since the first battle on that day, the two armies have launched a protracted confrontation and various tug-of-wars in the past few days. In this, Dong Zhuo's army and the coalition forces used every possible means to deal with each other. The coalition forces dealt with Dong Zhuo's defenders in Hulao.
The methods are conventional and unconventional. Almost all kinds of methods have been tried, such as digging tunnels and cutting off water sources.
, setting fire, using rooms, disturbing people's hearts, blocking news, etc., are naturally aimed at destroying the city. Some are effective and some are not effective in the end due to various reasons, but even if
It was effective, but it failed to achieve final success because Dong Zhuojun saw through it.
For example, a certain time the coalition forces tried to dig a tunnel into Hulao Pass, planning to take the opportunity to sneak a group of troops in and then make a surprise attack to cooperate with the external coalition forces inside and outside, and capture Hulao Pass in one fell swoop. After various measurements, all plans were completed.
And they have all started to be implemented, and the initial stage of implementation has been very smooth.
But when everyone happily waited until they finally dug the tunnel in Hulao Pass and successfully sent a team of troops to sneak into the tunnel, they discovered that this tunnel had been discovered by the enemy a long time ago, and a large amount of water had been poured into the tunnel.
There was no way to make a passage, and the troops who sneaked in never came back. One can imagine what their fate would be.
That troop came from Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang. In the previous siege, because most of his men were cavalry and could not perform effectively, Gein took the initiative to hire a large contractor to take over the task. However, he did not expect that not only did he not complete it, he would also pay compensation.
It can be said that it is too late to regret having entered one's own power.
Dong Zhuo's army mainly used a harassment strategy to deal with the coalition forces. If they wanted to attack on a large scale, they would lose the advantage of Hulao Pass. Even the brave Xiliang Army would not dare to go head-to-head with the huge base of the coalition forces that were not yet seriously injured.
We can only use some harassment and exhaustion tactics in the hope of disintegrating the coalition's will to fight. Although they are large in number,
This little fuss is about the same as being bitten by a mosquito. It seems that you won't take it seriously, but you have to know the disadvantages of having too many people. Not to mention that their military orders often fail to coordinate orders and commands.
Differences in understanding between each other can easily lead to rumors and groundless rumors. This is how rumors are made.
As long as you continue to harass them, as long as you create panic in the hearts of some of the sergeants, and then use some means to secretly promote it, you will slowly expand the impact and even affect the entire army, causing an invisible panic to spread and reduce their morale.
It is not impossible to completely fall to the bottom and never get up again.
But in the end, these ideas of Dong Zhuojun, or to be precise, Li Ru, did not come true. Although it was quite regrettable, it was expected, but not surprising.
After all, Dong Zhuo's army has Li Ru in charge, and the coalition forces naturally have advisers who can match them. Although they don't know who they are, judging from the various actions of the coalition forces, it is not simple.
Dong Zhuojun knew how to use the strategy of weakening the enemy because he caught the coalition's mentality that it was in desperate need of a victory to stabilize but was too impatient and inevitably suspicious. But Dong Zhuojun didn't have this mentality? And Dong Zhuojun had some kind of mentality.
To a certain extent, it is obvious that the coalition forces need an urgent battlefield victory, rather than being able to passively defend and even counterattack now.
In this battle, although the coalition forces never got much advantage, Dong Zhuo's army was always at a disadvantage. The impact on morale was self-evident. Encouragement like Lu Bu's cannot be repeated. Cao GUI
These veterans of the debate understand the principles of debate even if they cannot explain them well.
What surprised the Hulao defenders the most was the coalition's learning ability and creativity. In Lu Bu's opinion, it was as good as two other countries in later generations. In the first battle, under the control of the Hulao army,
After suffering the losses of the trebuchet, the coalition forces obviously took it to heart, and then urgently mobilized resources to manufacture it independently.
After all, the trebuchet is not a secret weapon, and more experienced military craftsmen are basically involved in it. Since the coalition forces are ready to siege, how could they not bring enough materials and craftsmen to make siege weapons? The talents under their hands
But it was no less than Dong Zhuo's army, and if Dong Zhuo did not rely on him to occupy Luoyang and control the craftsmen of royal official background, they would not be able to compare with them at all.
Then one day, when the Hulao defenders once again wanted to rely on the power of trebuchets to deal a major blow to the coalition siege forces within a range of 300 meters, they were shocked to find that their methods were equally effective, but had been defeated by the enemy.
The army took control, and at the first moment the boulder was captured by the coalition forces.
When the trebuchet flew to Hulao Gate and hit a few soldiers, everyone could not even react immediately. It was not until Lu Bu suddenly shouted "Be careful that the enemy also has trebuchets" that they woke up one after another.
, and then there was a moment of panic.
When you have something that others don't have, it's called an advantage. But when others also have something like this, it's no longer unique. You can imagine the emotional gap. Although the coalition's trebuchet is also limited in power due to its quasi-first-class relationship,
Moreover, due to the unique terrain of Hulao Pass, which had some natural cover, and the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's army above were relatively scattered, the impact was much smaller than that of the coalition forces, but the psychological impact was enough to shake the morale of some troops.
Except for the trebuchets, the other siege weapons of the coalition seemed to be very complete. Some were independently owned and some were completely obtained from Xingyang City. This inevitably made many people complain about the dead Yang Feng.
But no matter what, people are dead, and there is no point in blaming them. On the contrary, it will only make the mood worse. But it has to be said that the longer the time drags on, it will also be very detrimental to Dong Zhuojun. The coalition forces have had a huge advantage from beginning to end.
Dong Zhuojun was the one who took the initiative; but Dong Zhuojun could only defend passively or even be beaten. I believe this kind of frustration is a
Any bloody man would not be able to stand it, not to mention that the Hulao garrison was mainly composed of the Xiliang Army, supplemented by the Bingzhou Army, and there were also some foreign soldiers, such as the Qiang soldiers. They were warlike and flamboyant, and most of the battles in the past were on the plains.
They can gallop freely and boldly, and that kind of battle is what they like, instead of just defending but not attacking like a coward today.
However, the number of defenders at Hulao Pass is currently limited, and it is really not a good time to compete with the coalition forces for numbers. Li Ru can only wait, suppress the restlessness of his soldiers, and rely on the danger of Hulao Pass to delay enough attacks.
Time allows your plans to take shape one by one, and finally get the results you want.
However, the Hulao Pass defenders and Li Ru soon sadly discovered that the so-called danger in Hulao was actually only relative. They didn't know when their advantageous terrain seemed to become a source of danger.
At first, an unknown trebuchet belonging to the coalition forces accidentally hit the rock next to Hulao Pass, causing some stone chips and a large amount of pebbles to fly. However, this accident was immediately discovered by the coalition forces, and in order to verify their
I deliberately aimed at a new target without much confidence - not the Hulao Pass defenders but the rock walls on both sides.