Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 748 Fierce Offensive and Defensive Battle
The first confrontation between Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shaojun ended with Yuan Shaojun's active retreat.

However, this day's confrontation can be regarded as the prelude to the follow-up battle. Soon on the second day, Yuan Shaojun came again with great fanfare. The army began to storm the camps established by Zhu Weijun on the north bank of the Yellow River, at the two crossings of Mengjin and Xiaopingjin.

Yuan Shao's army also launched offensive equipment such as cave house carts, sword wall tiger carts, and Diaolou arrow tower carts. and barriers.

Naturally, the temporary wall built by this camp cannot be compared with the city wall, so if Yuan Shaojun were to rush to the front, there is still a high chance of being destroyed.

Although Zhu Weijun also dug ditches in this camp and attracted water from the Yellow River for protection, the walls of the camp are at most three people high, and the thickness and firmness cannot withstand Yuan Shaojun's forcible destruction. As the army approached the camp, it was afraid that they could not ensure that the camp wall could withstand the damage of Yuan Shao's army.

Therefore, on the one hand, Zhu Weijun used bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, and oil tanks and flints thrown by stone carts to fight back before Yuan Shaojun approached. On the other hand, he was also ready to send troops to destroy Yuan Shaojun's offensive equipment at any time.

"Go! Kill!"

"Whoosh whoosh..."

"Thunderbolt... bang..., clatter!"

All kinds of noises erupted on the battlefield, Yuan Shaojun's tens of thousands of attacking troops burst out like waves of charging and killing, rushing to Mengjin and Xiaopingjin two Zhu Weijun strongholds.

Of course, relatively speaking, Mengjin's side was Yuan Shaojun's main attack direction, and Xiaopingjin should have carried out an auxiliary attack in order to attract Zhu Weijun's attention.

Therefore, most of Yuan Shao's army in Xiaopingjin still had heavy thunder but little rain, and their attack power was relatively much weaker. Most of them were shot by archers on mobile arrow towers, and there was no actual forcible attack on the military stronghold.

But outside Zhu Weijun's stronghold on Mengjin's side, the battle was a real rain of swords and arrows, and oil and fire splashed everywhere.

Yuan Shaojun almost pushed the attacking army to [-] paces away from Zhu Weijun's stronghold. In front were cave carts that filled the trenches, behind them were saber wall and tiger carts as barriers, and then there were towering mobile arrow tower carts, like The three-dimensional offensive posture allows Yuan Shaojun to launch an attack directly outside the military camp.

In addition to Yuan Shao's soldiers who approached the front of the army camp to fill up the trench through the cave car, Yuan Shao's bow and arrow array was also under the mobile arrow tower car, and the rain of arrows covered the direction of Zhu Weijun's camp from time to time. The next projectile passed.

There are many sword and shield men carrying siege ladders in the rear, waiting to charge up at any time and start a battle to seize the camp.

If it were an ordinary army, they would have been unable to resist Yuan Shaojun's offensive, but Zhu Weijun's defense was still orderly.

In addition to the ordinary archers and crossbowmen using feather arrows and rockets to counterattack, Zhu Weijun also set up a defensive and terrifying weapon in the village, that is, the thunderbolt stone chariot. It's the catapult that is throwing rocks, oil tanks, and fireballs outward.

Although the attack distance of the Fashi Chariot is limited, at least within [-] steps outside Zhu Weijun's stronghold, it can definitely form a terrifying place of death.

In addition to throwing pieces of gravel the size of a fist with an ordinary stone cart, it can form a rain of gravel outside the military stronghold, so that all Yuan Shaojun soldiers who try to approach the military stronghold have to be baptized by gravel.

Some oil tanks full of grease were also thrown out by the thunderbolt stone cart with stronger projectile power, turning into terrifying killers.

Oil cans are lighter than rocks, so they can be thrown a longer distance, and as the oil cans shatter, the oil inside spills out, although no direct damage is caused.

But once the grease is ignited by a rocket or a flaming rock fireball, it can ignite a sea of ​​​​fire.

Whether it's the gravel that can smash people's heads, or the one that can be burned into a sea of ​​flames, it can be regarded as a range attack, which is enough to clear a large open space in Yuan Shaojun's wave-like offensive. .

Even Yuan Shaojun's arrow towers and arrow formations were not prepared for the counterattack of the stone chariot at the beginning, because they were too close to Zhu Weijun's stronghold, they were smashed by the thrown rocks at once, and several arrows were ignited by the kerosene. As for the archers below, no less than two to three thousand people were killed.

It wasn't until Yuan Shaojun realized something was wrong and retreated beyond the attack range of the stone-shooting chariot that he stabilized the position. Otherwise, the rhythm would be that as many people were killed as they went up.

Later, Yuan Shaojun dared to charge forward only with the protection of the cave car, but even with the protection of the cave car, facing the kerosene and rocks thrown by the stone car, there was also a kind of life and death like luck. gamble.

Just because of the existence of Yuan Shaojun's arrow towers and arrow formations, Zhu Weijun did not dare to break out of the military stronghold easily. It would be easy to fall into the rain of arrows from Yuan Shaojun. Therefore, before the trench outside the military stronghold was completely filled, Zhu Weijun just retreated. Yuan Shaojun was attacking outside the military stronghold.

But on this day, Yuan Shaojun's strong attack still failed to get close to the outer wall of Zhu Weijun's stronghold, causing a truly threatening attack on Zhuwei's stronghold, but some of the trenches dug outside the general's stronghold were filled.

But just for this, Yuan Shaojun also suffered at least 5000 to [-] casualties.

On the battlefield outside Zhu Weijun's stronghold, you can see many complete and incomplete corpses of Yuan Shaojun's soldiers, destroyed cave carts, arrow towers, as well as rubble everywhere and traces of being burned by flames.

The scenes on the battlefield looked extremely tragic, and it was difficult to fully describe them in terms of rivers of blood.

With the end of the day's battle, Yuan Shaojun's brows were inevitably frowned upon by the statistical results on the battlefield.

If it is necessary to pay such a large loss just to attack an ordinary crossing military stronghold on Zhu Wei's side, then there will be a river crossing battle and defensive battles against Zhu Wei's army again and again after crossing the river. How many troops does Yuan Shaojun have? It can be wasted.

In this kind of offensive and defensive battle, it is obvious that Zhu Weijun has the upper hand. Yuan Shaojun has such a large loss, but it is not certain whether Zhu Weijun lost hundreds of people this day.

Therefore, although the battle during the day was over, within Yuan Shao's army's tent, Yuan Shao and his advisers had been discussing how to continue the war below.

Of course, while Yuan Shaojun was counting the results of the battle, Zhu Weijun was also counting the results. In terms of military losses, the combined losses of the two military camps in Mengjin and Xiaopingjin were less than 500, and most of them were just killed. The injury caused by Yuan Shaojun's feather arrow was not a real death.

It’s just that in today’s battle, Zhu Weijun’s side suffered a lot of material losses, mainly feather arrows and kerosene, which are non-recyclable consumables...

(End of this chapter)