Chapter 55 The War of Attrition Without Choice
We set off in the morning and arrived in Mengtong Town before noon. After being hit hard, the Jin army returned to Jiayue Town, which was already dusk.
The Jin army was already very tired at this time. Wanyan Eren had to order the camp to set up, have a meal and rest, and wait for another battle tomorrow.
Time wasted another day and night. Wanyan Elun would not have thought about how much change the situation would take until the next morning.
When the first ray of morning light came down, Wanyan Eren was already sitting in the big tent and began to arrange troops, preparing to fight to the death and fight the way out.
Just one hour before this, more than 800 vanguards from Han Shouzhong's troops arrived in a forcibly marching and entered Jiayue Town to assist in the defense.
Just as soon as possible, Meng Jiucheng's troops had already established two camps on the official road and continued to strengthen them, greatly reducing the space for the Jin army's activity.
After receiving the message from Pegasus, Han Shouzhong sent out elite soldiers and set out first, constantly night and night.
It can be said that he could see clearly. The Jin army was surrounded, and there were many dangers.
But Wang Zhongfeng and Zheng Ruxin cannot make any mistakes. In the future, these old seniors will retreat to the second line and help Meng Jiucheng guard the place, while those who fight outside will be their younger generation of generals.
It turned out that the Red Turban Army lacked experienced generals, but the joint army of Yang Miaozhen's troops solved this difficulty to a large extent.
Although these generals were still in the adaptation and learning stage of the Red Turban Army, the time was not long. As Han Shouzhong, who had followed Meng Jiucheng a long time ago and had already stood alone, naturally knew how to do it. Therefore, Han Shouzhong's order was urgent and his movements were fast, and more than 3,000 troops moved south quickly.
When Wanyan Elun led his army to attack, he faced not only the reinforced fortifications, but also the defenders far exceeding their forces.
But at this point, the Jin army was left with only one desperate journey.
With the fierce smash of the stone thrower, the shooting of crossbow arrows, and the bombardment of flying thunder cannons, the Jin army was divided into three formations and took turns to attack, continuously.
Casualties are nothing. If you cannot break through the enemy's blockade, you will have to die here.
Extending outward from the village wall, the defenders' firepower attack range within one or two hundred meters, and the bodies were everywhere. The most dense was the gap in the village wall that was finally opened.
The corpses in front were constantly piled up, and the Jin army was still rushing up, stepping on the piles of corpses, attacking desperately.
The roar came one after another, and the white smoke rising could be seen clearly from afar. Screams and exclamations were endless, mixed with explosions.
The Jin army that attacked the village wall not only had to face the siege of the superior enemy, but also was hit by the close bombardment of the pine tree cannon to death and injury.
The smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, and the battlefield was already in chaos. Shields, swords and guns, corpses, and wounded soldiers lying on the ground screaming and wailing, a bloody scene appeared in front of the two armies.
After a defeat, he retreated, and another charge, he retreated again, and the third formation launched another fierce attack.
Wanyan Eren gritted his teeth and looked at the battle ahead. Although he couldn't see it clearly, he was helpless and angry.
In addition to being alert and probing horses, all the cavalry had been put into battle, dismounted as archers, suppressed the enemy with arrows, and covered their own army's attack.
But under the attack of the Red Turban Army's thunder cannons, the archers were also suffering from constant casualties. Moreover, their strength was exhausted, but the effect was not very good.
The Red Turban Army's fortifications largely offset the Jin soldiers' bows and arrows shooting, and the soldiers also had protection, reducing large casualties.
The Jin army not only had to withstand a hierarchical attack from far to near, but also had to rush into the village walls with fewer enemies and more casualties under the dense bombardment of pine cannons.
"Ah!" Before a Jin army officer climbing up the wall stood up, an arrow shot towards him, hitting his chest. He screamed and fell down on his back.
Behind the village wall, on the high house in the town, Wang Zhongfeng once again drew his bow and shot the officers of the Jin army.
Zheng Ruxin stood beside Wang Zhongfeng, holding a big knife in his hand, and drew cold arrows for him, and cooperated with tacit understanding.
Qiao E and hundreds of men came out of the town. The mace was swung like a wheel. The battle formation behind her was stern and stern, and the spear was like a forest, pointing densely forward.
In traditional concepts, hand-to-hand combat is the most tragic, but the current offensive and defensive battles are purely about consuming, consuming time of confrontation, consuming fighting will, and consuming living lives.
The Jin army rushed up like ants, gunpowder bullets, crossbow arrows, stones and javelins hit them like raindrops, like borrowing arrows from a straw boat, but what was pierced was not tied haystacks, but hundreds of living people with blood rushing.
The pine cannon first made a bombardment, and white smoke filled the air, followed by a scream. One round, two rounds, three rounds, four rounds, and five rounds, the cannon sound stopped, and Baiyan could no longer see the shadow of the enemy clearly afterwards.
"Kill!" The Red Turban Army's spearmen roared, lined up, and rushed up.
The spear stabbed out, and the sound of the spear tip penetrated into the flesh, and the harsh howling suddenly pierced into the eardrum.
"Seventh sister, you are here to command, I will lead the next time!" Wang Zhongfeng tilted his head and looked. The reserve team had already arranged the formation on the avenue in the town.
"Are you the commander-in-chief? Let me do it!" Zheng Ruxin rushed.
Wang Zhongfeng looked at Zheng Ruxin deeply and smiled and said, "Don't worry, the Jin army is at the end of its strength, but our troops are still very surplus. How big a wave can some enemies who rush through the village wall cause?"
"Since you can't make waves, you and I don't have to lead the way." Zheng Ruxin grabbed the handle of the words and said, "Let young people exercise more, they will be the helpers in the future. Let's help Jiusheng guard the house and protect the hospital."
Wang Zhongfeng knew that Zheng Ruxin was protecting him, but his words were reasonable, so he nodded and gave an order.
The Jin army attacked continuously one after another, and the defenders also formed a counterattack force, using 300 people as a team to launch counterattacks to eliminate the Jin army or repel them.
This seems like a tug-of-war, but after the Jin army suffered a multi-level blow, the troops rushed in from the narrow breakthrough were always limited, and they were also shot by crossbows on the walls of the village and bombarded by pine trees on the front side.
Faced with the counterattack of the establishment of the defenders, they always seemed very passive, unable to expand the breakthrough and develop in depth.
The battle of attrition is very unfavorable to the Jin army. After all, their troops are at a disadvantage, and even if the defenders exchange two for one, they can use up all the Jin army.
Chapter completed!