Chapter 285 Yue Ze looked at the indignant Li Xin, and said: "No matter what, Chuan Mo has broken the main force of the Zhen army, and we must rush to attack Xitang before the two armies of Chuan and Mo, so this battle must be resolved quickly."
No matter how poor Zhenguo is, Xitang is the capital after all, and there is a lot of wealth in Zhenguo, whoever can enter Xitang first will undoubtedly take Zhenguo's wealth as his own, and Yue Ze doesn't want the fat that has been bitten to his mouth to be taken away by others.
Tang Yin, Lingshuang, and Li Xin also had this idea, but fortunately, they were now much closer to Xitang than the two armies of Sichuan and Mo, and there were only two obstacles left in front of them, Huaning and Tongcheng, and it was not impossible to defeat Xitang before the Sichuan and Mo coalition forces arrived.
After everyone discussed the next tactics, they immediately took action, and the five-nation alliance, with millions of troops, began to march towards Huaning.
Huaning is one of the acropolis of Xitang, but it is also a large city, with more than 150,000 defenders inside, and the main general will be Zhao Lian, the lieutenant general of Zhenguo.
Zhao Jian can be regarded as a meritorious and famous general in Zhenguo.
He was born in an ordinary family, but he was able to sit in the position of lieutenant general in the court where the hereditary magnates were in power, which shows his extraordinary ability.
Most of the battles he commanded before were to win more with less, and defeat the strong with the weak, and Li Hong arranged him in Huaning, with obvious intentions, hoping that he could create another miracle and help him withstand the westward advance of the coalition army.
Although Huaning's city defense is not weak, and the main general is a famous general of Zhenguo, but the Five Nations Alliance has millions of people, how can he take a mere city in his eyes.
After the coalition army arrived in Huaning, the company camp had not yet been set up, and Yue Ze and Li Xin couldn't wait to propose that the whole army launch a fierce attack on Huaning.
Tang Yin also intended to try the depth of the other party, Yue Ze and Li Xin rarely took the initiative to ask for battle, he pushed the boat down the river to let An and Huan take the lead, and the three armies of Feng, Yu and Zhen pressed for it.
Yue Ze and Li Xin didn't take Huaning in their eyes at all, since Tang Yin arranged for them to be pioneers, the two of them took it upon themselves and accepted it gladly.
Soon, under the mobilization of Yue and Lai, the two armies of An and Huan launched an all-out onslaught on Huaning City.
Before the soldiers of the two armies moved forward, they first used the stone throwers in their respective armies, and in order to maximize the blow to the defenders and city defense, the second army of An Huan also specially borrowed more than 100 city-breaking crossbows from the wind army.
Under the continuous blow of the stone thrower and the city-breaking crossbow, the walls of Huaning can be said to be blooming everywhere, and the smashed and pierced arrow battlements can be seen everywhere.
After a long period of fierce attacks, An and Huan's soldiers lined up in a neat phalanx and began to advance in the direction of Huaning City.
When the phalanx of the An army and the Huan army was less than twenty meters away from the city wall of Huaning, the stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows in the rear stopped firing.
As soon as their side stopped, the soldiers and soldiers of Zhen, who had already taken refuge under the city, immediately rushed to the city wall and launched a fierce counterattack on the camps of the An and Huan armies, which were already close at hand outside the city.
The arrows of the Zhen army were extremely ferocious, round after round of arrows, and the rain of arrows fell overwhelmingly, and at the same time, the stone throwers arranged in the city had begun to start, smashing huge stone projectiles into the coalition camp.
The two armies of An and Huan also launched a counterattack, and the archers fired arrows on the city wall, and the besieging soldiers covering their side set up ladders and climbed to the city wall.
The two sides were fierce and cruel, the defenders were condescending, and there were arrow stacks to cover, so they naturally had a huge advantage, and the two armies of An Huan outside the city were different, the soldiers were all exposed to the arrows of the Zhen army, and there were countless casualties in the arrows.
However, the two armies of An Huan who attacked the city this time showed great tenacity, mainly because Yue Ze and Li Xin had issued a death order, and the officers and men of the whole army could only advance, not retreat, and if they violated the order, they would all be dealt with by military law.
They also don't want their country's army to be seen as a wine bag and rice bag for nothing, and if they can't seize the opportunity to show a certain combat effectiveness now, then they may really not have a chance to perform again in the future.
It was driven by this psychology that the two armies of An Huan exerted all their strength in the siege battle.
If the two armies had such a strong desire to win and the will to fight from the beginning, then they would have won a lot of victories in the battle of Zhanzhen, but now they are ashamed and brave, but they just ran into the famous general Zhao Lian.
Zhao Jian has made a perfect deployment for Huaning's city defense, fully prepared, under his command, the Zhen army resistance is also very tenacious, on the city wall, the Zhen army first prepared a large number of planks and bamboo poles, when the coalition army outside the city released arrows, the Zhen army defended with wooden planks, not only to minimize the damage, but also to take the nearest materials, the arrows nailed to the planks were pulled out and reflected back to the enemy, and when the coalition army set up the ladder, the Zhen army picked up the ladder with bamboo poles, not giving them the opportunity to climb up, at the same time, the rolling wood on the head of the city, The stones continued to roll down like snowflakes, and the stone throwers erected in the city were also constantly hitting the rear camp of the Anhuan coalition army, which brought huge casualties to the soldiers of the two armies.
The siege battle began in the morning and lasted until noon, and An Huan's army of more than 400,000 people was forced outside the city by more than 100,000 defenders.
So far, Yue Ze and Li Xin, who were watching the battle, were a little anxious, and cold sweat oozed from their foreheads.
With only a few Huaning cities and more than 100,000 defenders, how could it be so difficult to defeat his own army of more than 400,000 people The two were puzzled.
Tang Yin squinted at the two of them, and saw that the two had no intention of retreating, and wanted to attack like this, he nodded secretly, and then shook his head.
Nodding his head is because the two of them finally have a bit of the courage to lead the troops to fight, and shaking their heads is because they feel that they are too desperate to save face, and they know that they can't fight, so they still insist on fighting.
He pondered for a moment and said indifferently: "Brother Yue Wang, Brother Li Wang" Yue Ze and Li Xin didn't seem to hear it, and they still stared intently at the battlefield ahead.
Tang Yin had no choice but to raise his voice and call the two of them again.
"Ah" At this time, the two finally came back to their senses, with a full face, they both looked at Tang Yin, and asked, "What advice does Brother Wang have?"
Tang Yin Zhengse said: "Don't fight anymore, our army is coming from afar, tired up and down, and the enemy army is waiting for work at ease, and is fully prepared, and if the attack continues, I am afraid that not only will there be no gain, but it will also increase the casualties of the soldiers."
Yue Ze and Li Xin had already had the intention of retiring from the army, but they didn't want to quit, first, they couldn't get off the stage, and second, they also felt unwilling.
Li Xin frowned and said: "Brother Wang, now that the attack has been on for so long, the defenders have suffered heavy losses, retreating at this time, won't it give the enemy a chance to breathe According to my opinion, our side should all go out and take Huaning in one go."
I didn't see the heavy losses of the enemy troops.
Tang Yin smiled secretly in his heart, he only saw that An Huan's two armies suffered heavy casualties during the siege, and the corpses under the city wall were piled up almost a meter high.
"It's better to collect the troops first, and after our side is ready to rest, it's not too late to attack again" Before Yue Ze and Li Xin answered, Lingshuang opened his mouth and said: "Brother Wang, since our army has been attacking for so long, it is really a pity to collect troops now, it is better to follow the meaning of the two Wang brothers Yue and Li, the whole army will go into battle and besiege Huaning on all sides, even if it is an iron wall, it will not be able to resist our million-strong army."
Tang Yin frowned, his own troops are a lot, but Huaning's city defense is not weak, not to mention that his own side has traveled a long distance and the whole army is tired, while the Zhen army is in its heyday, and it is not a wise move to attack the whole army now.
Thinking of this, Tang Yin glanced at the rear again, and secretly smiled bitterly, he didn't even set up a camp, and now he chose to attack with the whole army, which was more like a desperate fight.
Seeing that he was silent, Lingshuang said faintly: "Three of the four kings have decided to go to war with the whole army, is it possible that Brother Wang is planning to go his own way and choose to temporarily withdraw his troops?"
Hearing this, Tang Yin immediately understood, it turned out that Lingshuang was still angry with himself.
Yue Ze and Li Xin also heard the smell of gunpowder in her mouth, and hurriedly said: "Brother Wang's concerns are not unreasonable, wait for the whole army to rest and recuperate before attacking, and the victory will be nine out of ten."
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However, our top priority is to capture Xitang before the Sichuan and Mo armies, and we should not delay too long here in Huaning, so if we want to rest, we will wait until we have conquered Xitang before resting, and there will be time at that time. ” Speaking of which, they still want to attack all the troops now.
Tang Yin smiled bitterly, three of the four kings agreed on the same thing, if he blocked it again, it would be too domineering and too undesirable.
He no longer objected, smiled indifferently, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Since you all think that the whole army should fight now, then continue to fight, but there is one thing I must also remind everyone that even if we can defeat Huaning this time, our own casualties will not be small." ” Yue Ze and Li Xin glanced at each other, but didn't dare to answer, Lingshuang snorted and said, "Brother Wang should also understand that there will inevitably be casualties when a war starts." ” Tang Yin looked at her deeply, nodded, and stopped talking.
At the insistence of the three kings of Lingshuang, Yue Ze, and Li Xin, the coalition army changed from the initial attack of the two armies of An Huan to the onslaught of the whole army.
The An army and the Huan army continued to attack the west, the Feng army attacked the south, the Zhen army attacked the east, and the Jade army attacked the north.
As Lingshuang said, no matter how strong Huaning's city defense is, no matter how tenacious the defenders are, after all, the strength is limited, and there is a qualitative gap between its overall strength and the coalition army.
As soon as the coalition forces began to besiege on all sides, the defenders of Huaning immediately showed the disadvantage of insufficient troops and overstretched.
In particular, the two sides of the main attack of the Feng army and the Zhen army were broken through to the city wall by the soldiers of the two armies from time to time, although the defenders resisted desperately, and repeatedly pushed the wind army and the Zhen army back to the city, but they also paid the price of huge casualties.
Seeing that the all-out onslaught of the coalition army was as fierce as a beast, and Huaning's city defense became precarious, at the critical moment, Zhao Jian showed a decisive and calm side, and he urgently recruited all the people in Huaning City to participate in the city defense and resist the coalition army
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