Chapter 604: Besiege Wancheng Again
In Zhuyang City, when Zhao Yun received the news of the Battle of Wancheng, Yan Yan's army and Liao Hua's army had rushed to Zhuyang from Jiangling and Hanzhong respectively. They were originally mobilized as the army in the middle of the Wei Dynasty.
After Zhao Yun sent an urgent case to Chang'an through Fei Ge's letter, he ordered Yan Yan's army to guard Rangcheng, located in the southwest of Wancheng and northwest of Xinye, and Liao Hua's army to reinforce Xinye.
Similarly, after receiving Yu Jin's report from the Wei State, Xu Huang, the commander of Fangcheng, received the Tang Dynasty's report, he urgently dispatched more than 10,000 infantry cavalry to reinforce Wancheng. At the same time, he ordered the general Gao Lan to lead 5,000 Changqi to occupy Huyang in the southeast of Wancheng and northeast of Xinye.
The Nanyang Plain, which was originally unwilling to station troops, gathered tens of thousands of troops from Liang and Wei within a few days. If the four cities occupied by both sides were connected by line segments, it would be like an almost symmetrical four-sided diamond.
Wancheng Yu Jin came to the east gate along the corridor of the city wall and saw the soldiers busy carrying soil and rocks, and there was still nearly a hundred steps left in the gap in the east city wall. He couldn't help but frowned, and called the captain in charge of the supervisor, and asked: "Our army has occupied Wancheng for six or seven days. Why has the city wall been repaired only more than half?"
The Wei army captain said aggrievedly: "Please give a clear explanation to the master. I am part of the third squad, and I will repair the city wall day and night under the order of the general. Unfortunately, the Liang army cavalry still raided Wancheng in turn, causing our troops to distract from the Liang army to avoid the Liang army's harassment and drive away the Liang army cavalry from time to time."
After hearing this, Yu Jin remained silent for a long time, he spoke to the generals beside him: "It is not a solution to continue like this. We must teach Liang Jun a lesson."
Seventy miles south of Wancheng, there is a slender and slender grove that is only more than ten miles high but more than ten miles long, shaped like a wading dragon, so it is named Wolonggang.
At this time, a cavalry line rose from the uninhabited wilderness horizon in front of Wolonggang, but behind Wolonggang, close to the foot of the mountain, were densely filled with the Wei army's tiger and leopard cavalry. Yu Jin personally crouched in the grass on the top of Wolongganggang, observing the Liang army's cavalry from afar. This was not the necessary path for Liang army's cavalry, but it was the place they often had to pass when they raided Wancheng.
Yu Jin looked at the Liang Qi who was getting closer and closer and excited. There were thousands of cavalry on the other side. If they could wipe them out this time, it would be a big victory. However, just when the Liang Qi was less than a hundred battles away from Wolonggang, he suddenly turned around and left, obviously because he discovered the ambush of the Wei army.
Yu Jinji jumped out of the grass and beat his feet and stamped his chest. Something went wrong. In the distance, Liao Hua, who led the Liang army to ride a horse and said proudly: "When I was in Nanyang, the enemy generals were afraid that they would still wear open-crotch pants. How could this trick be hidden from someone's eyes?"
Liao Hua was a bandit in Nanyang back then, and knew everything about Nanyang's geography, terrain, mountains, rivers and rivers. He knew exactly where to set up an ambush where he could hide his soldiers. This time he brought the war cavalry to Wancheng to harass him, and sent scouts to secretly investigate the places where the Wei army might be ambushing. In the end, Yu Jin's ambush ended in a desperate situation.
However, when Liao Hua took these cavalry around the road and came to the east gate of Wancheng again, he found a large number of Wei army cavalry at the east gate from afar, some of which were patrolling and some were gathered as cavalry teams ready to attack at any time. Liao Hua, who had to give up his operation, wondered and said to himself: "Why did the Wei army have so many more troops? Could their reinforcements be here?"
Liao Hua guessed right. When Yu Jin returned to Wancheng, the reinforcements from Fangcheng also arrived in Wancheng.
At dawn on the next day, on the construction site on the east wall of Wancheng, soldiers who had been busy all night were sucking porridge, gnawing on the cooking cakes, waiting for shift changes. However, the Wei soldiers patrolling on the city suddenly had a commotion. Some pointed to the distance, and some shouted loudly: "Liang Jun is here, hurry up and warn the drum!"
At the city, the more than a thousand war cavalry who served as the warning and stayed up all night suddenly became nervous and lined up the cavalry team to meet them. However, what caught their eyes was not the expected Liang army cavalry, but the overwhelming and boundless Liang army formation. This time, the Liang army dispatched the troops of the three legions of Liao Hua, Dian Qing and Dian Wei, with a total of tens of thousands of troops.
The Wei cavalry captain who led more than a thousand war cavalry was shocked and shouted quickly: "Retreat! Retreat quickly! Go and notify the commander General Yu Jin."
Yu Jin had already been informed at this time. His only choice was to go out of the city and line up to fight against the Liang army. Because there are still dozens of steps in the wall of Wancheng that have not been repaired intact, it is still a broken city that cannot be relied on. Moreover, even if Wancheng is an intact city, Yu Jin and Li Dian did not need to retreat to the city and let the Liang army surround them. After all, they now have 15,600 troops.
To the west of Wancheng, nearly 30,000 troops set up formations in the wilderness of the Nanyang Plain again. Hot air balloons were raised on both sides to observe the battlefield situation and command command. Liang's hot air balloon airship seemed much more advanced than the other party's objects that could only carry one lookout whistle commander.
Dian Qing looked down at the entire battlefield in the airship's hanging basket, and looked at the overwhelming military formations on the ground, but you can see them in the sky. The formations of infantry, cavalry, chariots on both sides were spreading between the chessboards of the heaven and earth.
Accompanied by the loud drums and trumpets of both sides, stone bullets, crossbow guns, heavy arrows shot from the longbow, and incendiary bombs with smoke trails, the fire bombs shuttled back and forth in the air. The shield lines of soldiers on both sides began to slowly approach. The war cavalry and chariots on both wings had already galloped out and rushed towards the side of the other side.
Then, as arrows and javelins shot and threw each other like rain, the shield walls of the military line of the two sides collided and fought together. Before that, the cavalry and chariots on the two wings had already confronted each other.
The new-style tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei army encountered the longbow chariot of its own fatal nemesis Liang army. These chariots came from the Dianqing Legion.
They never dreamed that there were heavy arrows in this world that could shoot through their exquisite armor. Tiger and Leopard riders screamed and fell from the saddle, and were then trampled by the horses. Some tiger and leopard riders accelerated toward the longbow chariot, but these flexible two-wheeled chariots turned around and ran backward. At the same time, heavy cavalry from the flank of the Liang army attacked, and the heavy armor of the tiger and leopard riders penetrated the heavy armor of the tiger and leopard riders like a sea of rifles. As the people shouted and neighed, the tiger and leopard cavalry team was chiseled into two sections. The heavy arrows on the longbow chariot were still flying continuously.
In addition to the tiger and leopard cavalry, the Wei army's regular cavalry also encountered major setbacks. Under the surround of the light cavalry Feiyu and the repeated impact of hundreds of heavy cavalrymen, the entire cavalry formation was already shaky.
Chapter completed!