It is impossible for three thousand cavalry to completely hide their presence, but the fact that three thousand cavalry can scale the city wall is already a victory.
When the screams of the sentry pierced through Wuyuan, hundreds of thousands of troops began to let out earth-shattering shouts of killing. At the same time, three thousand cavalry soldiers divided into two groups and began to rush back and forth on the city wall unscrupulously.
, before the Crusaders infantry who climbed up the city wall could react, their heads were chopped off with sharp swords, and their blood spilled into the sky.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Han infantry, followed by hundreds of red bulls, rushed into Tongzhou City like a torrent of steel.
This time, the red bulls acted separately. They smashed open the already damaged city gate, and then, in groups of three or five, they rushed forward along the street. Behind them, there was a tidal wave of Han troops.
The densely packed Han infantry crowded the streets, and even if the Crusader cavalry occasionally rushed out, they were first knocked off their feet by the red bull, and then, in the blink of an eye, they were hacked to death by the rushing Han infantry, without the ability to fight back.
More and more Crusaders woke up from their sleep. They were disheveled and scurrying around Tongzhou City like headless flies. But soon, they were drowned in the rolling crowd.
Although this Han army has many recruits, its total number exceeds 130,000, not including more than 3,000 cavalry. It already has an absolute advantage in numbers. Coupled with sudden sneak attacks and hundreds of invincible red bulls,
In addition, the Crusaders did not have horses, and against 70,000 Crusaders, there was no doubt about the victory of the Han Empire.
No one left alive!
Take no prisoners!
This was an order issued by Zhang Laosan. Faced with this order, Zhou Sen pretended not to hear it.
Although Zhou Sen is on the list of tough bandits, he is actually not a cruel person, but at the same time, Zhou Sen is not a kind person. He is very aware of the current environment. The Crusade is an expedition with almost no soldiers and supplies. Killing one
There is only one missing. If he is released, the other party can turn around and massacre the Han soldiers on horseback. As for the captives, they will be a burden. Not only do they have to eat, but they also have to arrange people and places to take them in. The gain outweighs the loss.
When the Han soldiers poured into Tongzhou City, it was no longer a battle, but a one-sided massacre. Of the more than 70,000 crusaders, only a hundred escaped, and of these nearly a hundred, Zhou Sen deliberately let go.
The massacre continued until noon the next day. When the head of the last crusader in Tongzhou City was cut off, the entire Tongzhou City suddenly fell into a deathly silence.
More than 70,000 people.
More than 70,000 living lives.
Now, it has become 70,000 mutilated corpses.
"Mountains of corpses" and "rivers of blood" are no longer enough to describe the tragic scene in Tongzhou City.
The corpses of the Crusaders stretched from the street to the end of the street. Their blood was mixed with the ice and snow, forming patches of dark red ice. The occasional piece of white snow looked unusually eye-catching and shocking.
The massacre in Tongzhou City was the largest casualty suffered by the Crusaders since the war broke out in the Han Empire. Even when they captured the capital of the Han Empire, the losses suffered by the Crusaders were not as high as this time...
When the bloody and cruel massacre ended, the trembling people dared to take to the streets. Immediately, they were stunned by the scene in front of them...
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Zhou Sen's army quietly retreated, but then quietly came back.
This time, there were no cheers or shouts, because everyone was shocked by the endless stretches of corpses.
In front of the war machine, life appears extremely fragile...
That night, the number of casualties of the Han army came out.
Twenty-seven thousand people died and more than 2,000 were injured.
This casualty ratio greatly shocked Zhou Sen. You must know that this return attack could be said to be well thought out. The Crusaders had almost no resistance at all, but they still caused nearly 30,000 casualties.
However, Zhang Laosan and others are very satisfied with this casualty ratio. The reason they gave is very simple, because at least half of the Thirteen Han soldiers were recruits, and many of them took up arms to fight for the first time.
It is inevitable.
Zhou Sen's move back to the carbine had a far-reaching impact. Not only did he kill the active forces of the Crusaders, he also strangled all the Crusaders near Tongzhou City. This greatly eased the pressure on the local resistance forces and gained living space.
began to flourish and grow.
In addition to the direct attack on the Crusaders, a large number of war horses were captured in these two battles in Tongzhou City. Especially in this victory, more than 50,000 war horses were captured. Such a large number of war horses established the foundation for the Han Empire.
The cavalry provided the conditions.
The next day and night, Zhou Sen arranged for manpower to send most of the war horses to Zhenshuiguan.
Compared with Tongzhou City, Zhenshuiguan requires more war horses. Moreover, Zhenshuiguan has strategic depth and is safer.
The great victory in Tongzhou City soon spread throughout the entire Han Empire. This news made the cold Han Empire seem to have arrived in spring in advance. The people of the Han Dynasty rushed to tell each other, especially the resistance forces in some places, and they were even more excited.
For the resistance forces in the areas occupied by the Crusaders, any victory of the Han Empire was exciting.
Zhou Sen's reputation became more and more resounding in the Han Empire, and he became a benchmark figure in the resistance to the Crusaders. At this time, in the Han Empire, the once famous General Wu Yuan had been gradually forgotten, and the undefeated God of War had become all
The hope of the Han people is like the rising sun.
When Zhou Sen won successive victories in Tongzhou City, Wuchao City also took a series of military actions to cooperate.
As early as when Zhou Sen was still marching in the snowy field, General Wu Yuan received a letter from Yunhai Jindong.
Originally, General Wu Yuan wanted to cooperate with Zhou Sen in the battle, but for the sake of safety, General Wu Yuan still delayed it for a few days. It was not until Zhou Sen captured Tongzhou City that Wuchao City launched a large-scale military operation.
The three barracks, Tanbao Barracks, Maple Grove Barracks, and Jiudaoguai Barracks, echoed each other from a distance. With the Huns cavalry as the middle force, they began to launch successive military operations against the surrounding Crusader Rangers.
In order to prevent Wuchao City from expanding its power, General Gore refused to give in and immediately retaliated.
In the ice and snow, the Han Empire and the Crusaders launched a brutal and bloody fight. There was no final winner in the fight. Although the Huns cavalry were brave and good at fighting, it was impossible to defeat General Gore's army in just a few battles.
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Wuchao City has become a huge meat grinder with a radius of hundreds of miles. The number of soldiers invested by both sides is getting larger and larger, and the number of soldiers dying on the battlefield every day has skyrocketed...
Just when the Han army and the Crusaders in Wuchao City were locked in a tug-of-war, the news that Zhou Sen had abandoned Tongzhou City reached Wuchao City, which dealt a huge blow to the morale of Wuchao City.
Before they could figure out what Zhou Sen was facing, Wuchao City ended this brief but terrifyingly intense battle and began to adopt a wait-and-see approach.
The Han army retreated to Wuchao City to watch, which made the nervous Crusaders heave a long sigh of relief. After all, no one wanted to fight outside in this bad weather...
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When the news that Zhou Sen killed a beautiful carbine and severely damaged the Crusaders reached Wuchao City again, the entire Wuchao City was boiling, and the soldiers were full of fighting spirit.
General Wu Yuan lost no time in sending troops again and launched a head-on war of attrition against the Crusaders' camp.
The war of attrition in the cold weapon age was terrifying. On the snowy wasteland outside Wuchao City, the Crusaders and the armies of the Han Empire once again fell into a bloody tug of war.
This is a cruel winter.
Every day, thousands of people are killed or injured.
Within a hundred kilometers outside Wuchao City, sneak attacks, ambushes, and frontal charges have become commonplace...
General Gore is facing unprecedented pressure.
The morale of the Han army was getting stronger and stronger, but the Crusaders, without the advantage of the black-winged Kunpeng, were becoming more and more war-weary.
Now, General Gore still has nearly ten thousand black-winged Kunpeng under his command, but he no longer dares to release these heavenly troops that he was once proud of, because the Han Empire has already found a way to deal with the black-winged Kunpeng.
Methods.
The archers led by Vannier wandered around the vast snowfield like ghosts, and they became the nemesis of the black-winged Kunpeng.
In the early days of the confrontation between the two armies, the Crusaders lost only dozens of black-winged Kunpeng every day. However, the number began to increase dramatically as time went by. At its peak, the number of broken Black-winged Kunpeng reached hundreds. This number has already
It was more than General Gore could bear.
Just when the battle situation in Wuchao City became increasingly fierce, that is, on the seventh day after Zhou Sen captured Tongzhou City again, Wuchao City suddenly received news that more than 100,000 Han troops in Tongzhou City suddenly evacuated again.
Like last time, this time, Zhou Sen's evacuation was still silent. When the people of Tongzhou City opened the door in the morning, the originally crowded city became empty again.
More than 100,000 Han troops disappeared without any warning.
At first, many people thought that Zhou Sen was only temporarily evacuating like last time. However, careful people soon discovered that Zhou Sen's evacuation this time was very thorough. Not only did he take away some heavy equipment, but also the food in the granary.
All the food was moved, and the military supplies that could not be taken away were also burned. Thick smoke billowed over Tongzhou City, covering the sky and the sun.
Tongzhou City became an empty city, an undefended empty city.
Hundreds of thousands of troops trudged through the gray and icy snowfields.
No one knows why Zhou Sen suddenly ordered the evacuation of Tongzhou City. This order came so suddenly that not even Zhang Laosan and a group of senior generals knew about it.
Wuchao City learned that it was already the seventh day when Zhou Sen evacuated Tongzhou City. In fact, Zhou Sen only stayed in Tongzhou City for five days.
In the past five days, Zhou Sen only cleaned up military discipline and trained new soldiers, but never did anything else. In the early morning of the fifth day, hundreds of thousands of troops were ordered to evacuate Tongzhou City.
Fifty miles after leaving Tongzhou City, the army, which had won two battles in succession and had high morale, immediately divided into three groups and began to advance in three directions.
Like last time, Zhou Sen sent out all the experts around him, including a group of monsters, to start hunting down the Crusaders' scouts.
The three armies disappeared into the vast white world out of thin air...
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The fall of Tongzhou City shocked the Juzizhou Giant Spirit God beyond measure.
As one of the commanders of the four armies, the Giant Spirit God has absolute control. In just three days, he mobilized a hundred thousand troops.
The giant spirit god's hatred for Zhou Sen can no longer be described in words.
Only after Zhou Sen occupied Zhenshuiguan, the Giant Spirit God had not had a good night's sleep. Because of the negative effects of Zhenshuiguan, there were more and more underground resistance forces in the Han Empire. This made the Giant Spirit God anxious and everywhere.
repression.
The two falls of Tongzhou City caused the Crusaders to lose hundreds of thousands of elites, which made the Giant Spirit God even more intolerable.
Finally, the giant spirit overcame all opinions and decided to conquer Tongzhou City personally, vowing to hang Zhou Sen's head on Tongzhou City.
A hundred thousand troops, clad in stars and moons, rushed toward Tongzhou City with murderous intent.
On the seventh day, the Giant Spirit God arrived at Tongzhou City. However, what surprised the Giant Spirit God was that Tongzhou City had become an empty city.
At first, the Giant Spirit God thought there was an ambush. After several tests, he was sure that Zhou Sen had already evacuated Tongzhou City and disappeared.
In order to find out Zhou Sen's whereabouts, the giant spirit tortured countless Tongzhou people to extract confessions, but in the end, nothing was found.
In order to determine the direction of Zhou Sen's army, the Giant Spirit God sent a large number of black-winged Kunpeng and scouts, but they either found nothing or never returned.
The vast snowfield has become a huge trap, constantly devouring lives.
Wearing iron armor and sitting on a chair, the giant spirit god was like a majestic mountain. He fell into hard thinking. His intuition told him that Zhou Sen must have a plan, but he couldn't figure out how to evacuate Zhou Sen.
The reason for Tongzhou City.
In fact, not only the Giant Spirit God cannot figure it out, but also his team of think tanks can't understand each other. You know, in this cold weather, it is impossible for an army of hundreds of thousands to hide in the wasteland for a long time, even if it is not possible.
If you starve to death, you will also freeze to death.
"General, will the ruthless bandit Zhou Sen go to Orange Island?" An officer expressed his opinion.
"Going to Orange Island?" The Giant Spirit God sneered, "You are an idiot to be the undefeated God of War of the Han Empire! Now, although Zhou Sen has hundreds of thousands of infantry, he only has a small number of cavalry. Let's go to Orange Island and count them all the way.
Baili, aren't you going to die? Besides, even if he goes to Orange Island, the journey is far away and the news will definitely be leaked. When the time comes, I will send my troops straight down to form an outflank, will Zhou Sen still have a way to survive?"
"What the general said is absolutely true." An aide nodded and said: "Zhou Sen seems to be deliberately hiding his tracks. However, in this blizzard weather and freezing weather, unless they stay in one place, as long as they take military action, they will definitely
They would expose their flaws, so it was impossible for them to sneak attack on Orange Island. Besides, Orange Island had strong soldiers and horses. As long as Zhou Sen led his army to enter, he would be throwing himself into a trap and would be attacked from all directions. Beiji believed that Zhou Sen would be attacked from all directions.
Sen may..."
"Speak directly if you have anything to say!" The giant spirit god said a little impatiently when he saw that the staff member was hesitant to speak.
"Zhou Sen may want to repeat his old trick and attack Tongzhou City secretly."
"How do you say this?" The Giant Spirit God's body trembled.
"This Tongzhou City is seriously damaged. It is a cold winter now, and the city walls are frozen by ice. In addition, there is a lack of stone materials and cannot be repaired in a short time. In other words, this Tongzhou City is actually an undefended city. Although we have one hundred thousand
Army, but the other side has a group of red bulls brought out from the dark forest, charging into the battle, invincible, just like they took advantage of our unpreparedness and rushed into Tongzhou, the consequences will be disastrous!"
"That's wrong!" A staff member shook his head and objected, "The last time Zhou Sen evacuated Tongzhou City, he was already ready to come back, and some strategic materials were not taken away. But this time, he not only took away
All the supplies, even some that were not taken away, were burned, which shows that he never thought about coming back."
"What if burning military supplies is just a tactic to deceive soldiers?" the first aide retorted.
"this……"
"I believe that no matter what the ruthless bandit Zhou Sen's conspiracy is, it must be centered around Tongzhou City. It is not suitable to stay in Tongzhou City for a long time. It is better to give up altogether."
"no!"
The giant spirit god flatly refused.
For the Giant Spirit God, Tongzhou City is no longer just a ruined city, but also a spiritual symbol. If Zhou Sen really has the possibility of coming back, then he should stay here.
If Zhou Sen doesn't come back and abandons Tongzhou City, wouldn't it make the world laugh? The Han people will think that he was scared away by Zhou Sen's reputation.
"What's the news from the scout?" asked the giant spirit god.
"After careful inspection, Zhou Sen may have retreated in three directions. Because the wind and snow were too heavy, some traces were covered up, and it is impossible to determine which way." A soldier with a solemn face said.
"Three ways...why three ways?" The giant spirit god showed a trace of doubt.
"General, I think this is Zhou Sen's trick. Let the general lead the army to chase in one direction, and then set up an ambush..."
"..."
A group of staff discussed in a hurry, but in the end they did not discuss a specific response plan. However, everyone believed that in order to strengthen the defense of Tongzhou City, at least all troops and horses cannot be concentrated in Tongzhou City.
, to avoid the entire army being annihilated due to a sneak attack.
The Giant Spirit God accepted the advice of a group of staff, set up camp outside Tongzhou City, and dispersed 100,000 troops. With this layout, even if Zhou Sen suddenly attacked, the losses would not be too great, and it could form a trend of echoing each other. If
Zhou Sen's sneak attack can form an outflank immediately.
Ten days!
It has been ten days.
An infantry unit led by Zhou Sen hid in a valley blocked by heavy snow and remained stationary.
The other two groups of soldiers and horses, one stationed in the original small town and the other a cavalry force, more than 20,000 people, took a small road and ran towards Orange Island.
Finally, Zhou Sen, who had been hiding in the valley for ten days, took action.
However, it was not the Han infantry that took action first, but more than 500 red bulls.
More than five hundred red bulls, led by the Tongtian Divine Rat, ran towards Tongzhou City.
This time, he was not running quietly, but running wildly in broad daylight, hitting mountains and rivers, flying sand and rocks, and rushing with momentum, as if the sky was falling apart.
It would take at least more than a day to reach the distance between 500 red bulls and Tongzhou City. No one understood why Zhou Sen wanted the red bulls to run with such great fanfare, because they could have approached Tongzhou City before launching a surprise attack.
After the five hundred red bulls left, Zhou Sen led 80,000 infantrymen and marched in another direction.
After more than two hours of rapid march, Zhou Sen reached his destination, a wide glacier, and in front of the glacier was a vast plain.
Eighty thousand infantrymen began to dig traps on a large scale.
It is undoubtedly quite difficult to dig traps in the snowy fields with heavy snowfall. However, the biggest advantage of digging traps in the snowy fields is that they are very hidden, because the flying snow in the sky can quickly hide all traces.
Various traps, snagging ropes, and horse traps stretch for miles on the snowfield, all the way to the glacier bank.
The glacier bank is the most important trap.
The glacier was completely frozen, but Zhou Sen dug a trench five meters wide and five meters deep in the middle of the glacier. The trench was covered with bamboo strips and supported by wooden pillars. Then he placed white snow on it, poured cold water on it, and condensed it.
It is solid ice. Immediately, the originally deep ice trench became integrated with the ice surface, making it difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
At this time, Zhou Sen's purpose was self-evident.
The soldiers were extremely excited, as if they were seeing thousands of crusaders falling into those traps one by one...
This is the only way for the Crusaders!
Through careful reconnaissance, Zhou Sen discovered that the Crusaders passed through this glacier when they rushed to aid Tongzhou City twice. Especially the Crusaders coming from the direction of Orange Island, without exception, all passed through this glacier.
According to the map, this road is the closest and best road from Juzizhou to Tongzhou City.
As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. Although 80,000 people are not enough to move mountains and seas, it is easy to dig enough traps.
In just two days, a huge semicircular chain of traps, five miles wide and two miles long, was completed.
This semicircular shape is an ingenious workmanship, forming a C-shaped encirclement. As long as the Crusader cavalry penetrates deep into the circle, unless they turn back, no matter which direction they go, there will be a trap.
Now, all we have to do is wait for the Crusaders to come to our door.
No one understands why Zhou Sen is so sure that the Crusaders will pass through this road immediately. If the Crusaders hold on to Tongzhou City, there will be no reward for their efforts.
Just as Zhou Sen led 80,000 people to dig traps desperately, more than 20,000 cavalrymen had arrived at the small towns near Orange Island, dispersed into several small teams, and began to attack the Crusaders stationed in the small towns.
Only after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Crusaders stationed some rangers in some small towns to monitor the local people. Most of these rangers were between thirty and fifty people, and in slightly larger towns, there were more than a thousand.
This large Han cavalry, numbering more than 20,000, was divided into dozens of small teams, and the number was maintained at around 500 people. Although the number was not large, it constituted an absolute advantage over the rangers stationed in those small towns.
The game of cat and mouse is played out hundreds of miles outside Orange Island.
Raid, assassination, and burning happened non-stop. Orange Island sent troops to chase and intercept them everywhere...
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