The first eighty-ninth chapter of the army after the surprise attack
The two armies sent by An Jiguo rushed to Qingtieng City respectively. One of them was of course the 10,000 troops attacked by Xu Sancai's fire. [】 Although the general's reaction was quite fast, it was not as fast as the spread of wildfires. The war horses were frightened in the fire, and all the cavalry could only escape on foot.
The general was able to escape his life by relying on his own cultivation, but he was already in a mess. His hair and beard were all burned, his face was blackened by thick smoke, and he was burned several places. But he was lucky. Most of the soldiers lost their way in the fire and smoke, and eventually they were either fainted by the thick smoke or burned directly. Only the thousand cavalry dragged behind were lucky, with nearly five hundred people saving their lives.
When the general finally assembled the team, there were less than a thousand soldiers alive, and most of them were burned, all the supplies were destroyed, and even food became a problem. The general originally planned to loot nearby villages, but found that they were empty. The general was worried that the troops would suffer such great losses and could not go back and explain, so he simply brought the remaining soldiers to join another unit.
The other army had much better fate. Although they had to walk rugged paths along the way because the main road was destroyed, they all walked the paths between villages and naturally did not encounter any attacks. However, they also delayed three days from the scheduled plan because of the detour and the difficulty of traveling on the road.
The generals of the two troops worked together for many years. When they saw the heavy losses suffered by the other troops, the general naturally shared the same hatred for the enemy. The two immediately split their troops back to attack Qingtiengcheng from the two city gates. Qingtiengcheng had already been prepared and had planned a plan to delay negotiations, but when they knew that an enemy army was almost wiped out by fire, Wang's father and Wang Hu immediately adjusted the plan.
Although there were only 6,000 troops in the city, with the help of the fortifications of the city, a large number of rolling wood and stones were prepared in advance. Now, when we learned that the enemy was severely damaged, the morale of the troops increased greatly, and the enemy was depressed, Wang Hu still had the confidence to defend Qingtioxin City. Of course, another reason was that the enemy's generals were now embarrassed and were not interested in negotiations at all.
The two enemy generals angrily organized troops to attack the city forcibly, but the troops were repelled again and again by the bows and arrows and wooden rocks on the top of the city. However, the enemy's archers also caused some losses to the guards. The enemy attacked with all their might on the second day of the siege and destroyed the city gate, but found that the broken city gate was piled with sandbags and still could not pass.
The enemy climbed the city wall with a ladder. Although the soldiers were wearing shields to resist bows and arrows, they were unable to resist the heavy wooden rocks. The enemy suffered heavy losses, but the two generals refused to stop the attack. However, when the attack reached the fifth day, the wooden rocks prepared in the city were exhausted, and the enemy finally climbed the city wall from the ladder several times.
The battle was even more tragic. The archer and Wang Hu both took action to eliminate the enemy soldiers who climbed the city. However, with the lack of wooden rocks, it became more difficult to deal with the enemies climbing the city wall. Moreover, the enemy began to organize the shields to destroy the sandbags that blocked the city gate, cut the sandbags and let the sandstones pour out.
The Wangfu organized light and strong rescuers in the city and transported the bricks and stones from the walls of the city lord's mansion to the city wall to assist in defense. Fortunately, more than half of the combat members of the enemy troops had lost, one-third of them died in battle, and two-thirds of the other two-thirds became wounded. Of course, more than a thousand soldiers in the city also lost their troops, but most of them were only shot by bows and arrows.
Due to the protection of the city wall fortifications, the defenders had an absolute advantage, but in the end, there were few soldiers in the city and were seriously scarce for combat preparations. The enemy had more than 1,000 archers and carried more than 100,000 archers, while there were 800 archers in the city, and the total number of archers was only more than 10,000. This was made by Ma Yi and his weapon refining camp day and night.
This is the foundation. The Great Qin Kingdom now has only one county town, and it has just been established. Although it has been working in two shifts after the weapon refining battalion, it has been rushing to make weapons and a large number of wasteland equipment needed by the agricultural reclamation troops. However, the number of combatable soldiers in the enemy is almost the same as in the city, and Wang Hu can block the enemy's attack.
Although the two generals became more and more anxious, they also saw the weakness of the defenders in the city. So they ordered the shield soldiers to cover the archers and archers to shoot arrows and attack continuously, temporarily giving up climbing the city through the ladders, and instead concentrated their forces to dig out sandbags that destroyed the city gates. Although the siege infantry of the enemy troops suffered heavy casualties, the cavalry was still basically complete. As long as the sandbags of the city gates were dug, the cavalry would have a place to use it.
Xu Sancai led his troops back from Xiaoyue City at this time. More than 100 of these cavalry were temporarily pieced together, while the remaining more than 800 were regular cavalrymen, including 200 cavalrymen who were proficient in cavalry and shooting. He led Zhang Dali and ten centurions. In less than a day, he arrived more than twenty miles from Qingtieng City.
Xu Sancai asked Zhang Dali to lead the cavalry to rest on site, while he walked alone to Qingtiengcheng. Sun Tzu's Art of War said: Knowing yourself and your enemy will win every battle. Only by understanding the first-hand information of the enemy can he make correct decisions. The scout was originally a specialized in the army to reconnaissance, and of course there were scouts in the cavalry, but he still hoped to do it himself when he had the conditions.
Xu Sancai soon discovered the enemy. The enemy's garrison was nearly five miles away from Qingtiang City and the garrison was nearly one mile away. The wounded and supplies were at the rear of the barracks. The main general and the cavalry were located in the central army, and in front was the infantry barracks. At this time, because of the heavy casualties of the soldiers, the two enemy generals had already joined forces and concentrated their forces to open the city gate.
The enemy knew that Qingtiengcheng was ready, and of course they believed that they would put all their troops into defense. Therefore, from the deployment of troops and the establishment of camps, Qingtiengcheng was completely unilaterally targeted, and they were not wary of the enemy coming from behind. This idea was not wrong. Qingtiengcheng was originally a territory of Yueshan Kingdom, but was occupied by An Jiguo and captured by Daqin Kingdom. It took only half a year to establish the country, which was not enough to cultivate a large number of troops.
Xu Sancai observed the distribution of the enemy's military camp in detail, and then returned to the rest of the cavalry. He asked the troops to wait on the spot until dark before he let the soldiers approach the enemy camp quietly with their war horses. When they were less than a mile near the enemy camp, the army rode on the war horses and rushed to the enemy's rear army as fast as possible. However, unlike in the past when they were shouting loudly during charges, the army remained quiet and rushed to the established target quickly.