Three Kingdoms Eschatology

"This is even more impossible. They can do this by relying on large shields, so why bother to sacrifice what is easy and ask for difficulty. What's more, if this is the case, why did they dig toward the river? And the ditches they dug are so Shallow! This is not what it looks like for traffic!"

Zhu Luo's soldiers and generals at the head of the city discussed a lot, but in the end, no one could guess the other party's intention.Naturally, they had no way to deal with it, they just kept shooting arrows down the city.

Unknowingly, time passed by little by little.The sun was already halfway below the horizon.The ditches dug by soldiers of Liang State have been completed.They found a big saw and sawed off the bamboo tubes buried in the soil, exposing the black hole.Except for the sawn-off top bamboo joints of these bamboo tubes, the rest of the bamboo joints inside are hollow.

With an order, several soldiers dug up the last few shovels of soil on the river bank.The river water rushed down the city wall along the ditches, and soon poured into these bamboo tubes.

The water rushes forward along the bamboo tubes, each pipe is connected by six or seven thick bamboo tubes, and finally the water flows into a hollowed-out burrow under the city wall.

The water in the crypt flowed to a dry well in the city along more than a dozen dark channels.Under the huge water pressure, the water of the Minjiang River gushed out from the culvert.Under the scouring of the water, the soil around the cave peeled off layer by layer, and finally several beams supporting the top of the cave were also washed down by the torrent...

Zhu Luojun at the top of the city heard a slight and strange sound, and then felt the soles of his feet start to sway, and before they came and panicked, his body suddenly sank and fell.

A section of the city wall that lasted more than ten battles suddenly collapsed. There were nearly a hundred Zhu Luo soldiers on the top of this section of the city wall, and they were buried by the collapsed city wall in an instant.

Outside the city, Liang Jun soldiers who had been prepared for a long time immediately launched a charge.Before the other Zhu Luo soldiers who were in shock could react, they poured into Wuyang City.

Although the defensive facilities at the head of Wuyang City are all available, there are no fortifications in the city, not even the most basic roadblocks.Zhu Luojun here obviously did not expect that Liang Jun would attack the city so quickly.

When more than [-] soldiers of the Liang Army poured into the city, Zhu Luobing finally reacted.The Zhu Luo soldiers on the four sides of the city wall ran down the city along the corridor, and the Zhu Luo soldiers in the city also rushed towards the gap under the leadership of their respective generals.

An infantry battalion of Zhao Yun's army rushed to the front. Seeing the black and crowded heads in front of them, under the order of the general, they threw spears and guns at the crowd in unison.After two consecutive rounds of casting, hundreds of Zhu Luo soldiers were pierced through their bodies by spears along with screams and shouts.Immediately after the shield wall, and the gun forest pressed towards them.

The two sides are separated by a shield wall, you cut and stab.When Zhu Luo soldiers attached their shields, those spear and shield soldiers gave up their spears one after another, and used two-foot long knives to stab them.

Suddenly Zhu Luobing's flanks were in chaos, and dozens of tall figures appeared in the twilight.The giant ape soldiers rushed out from a side street and entered the crowd of Zhu Luo soldiers.They slashed horizontally and vertically with long swords and axes, and countless Zhu Luo soldiers fell in the shadow of their swords and axes.

More and more Liang Army soldiers poured into the city, and with the opening of several city gates, the speed of the influx became faster and faster...

Chapter 218

Yan Yan pulled out the saber from the corpse of a general Zhu Luo.After seeing the long knives used by the giant ape warriors of the Liang Kingdom, he changed his main battle weapon into this kind of knives.It's just that the overall size is much smaller than that of the giant ape heavy armor.

At this time, the night had fallen, and the sound of fighting in Wuyang City gradually died down.Liang Jun poured into the city from the two northeastern gates of Wuyang. The west gate of Wuyang is a water gate on the verge of the Minjiang River, so only the south gate was left for the enemy.

Under Liang Jun's hard work, Zhu Luo's army was completely defeated.They fled in all directions in a panic, and finally found that there was still a way out to the south, so they flocked to the south gate of Wuyang.

Liang Jun soldiers held guns and shields, and trampled on the corpses of Zhu Luo soldiers all over the street, with limbs and arms broken.Continue to advance towards the city.

In the air of Wuyang City, spears and arrows flew from time to time.Piles of bonfires for lighting were burned on the street, and Liang soldiers who entered the city also held up their torches.

In the middle of the night, Wuyang was completely controlled by the Liang army, and the remnants of Zhu Luo in the city were also wiped out.Most Liang Jun soldiers began to rest.

But Zhao Yun ordered the two supply battalions to "fight at night with the lights on" and rush to work overnight to repair the gap in the wall that collapsed.At the gap, they used the ruins of the city wall as a base and built simple fortifications with broken stones and large logs. Although they were lower than the walls on both sides, the fortifications in the ruins were also two battles high.

The government offices in the city were also brightly lit. Zhao Yun only slept for two hours, and he couldn't fall asleep again after waking up.He simply got up, sat quietly in the lobby, and continued to think about the strategy against Zhu Luojun.

Because Feng Yu had reminded him in advance.So he knew in his heart that at dawn, the vanguard of Zhu Luo's army might have arrived at the foot of Wuyang city.

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At dawn, there was a glimmer of dawn on the wild skyline to the east of Wuyang, and the sky gradually brightened.

When a round of red sun erupted, the sentry at the top of the city noticed a black shadow rising on the horizon.It was the silhouette of banners and war elephants in the morning sun.They are a war elephant regiment and an infantry regiment of the Zhu Luo Army from Zizhong County.

At the place of more than [-] battles in the east of Wuyang City, they stopped their advance and formed a defensive formation, waiting for the rest of the Zhu Luo army to gather.

In the city, Liang Jun's various ministries also began to get busy, setting up roadblocks in various streets and alleys.The defensive facilities at the head of Wuyang City are all ready-made, and the Zhu Luo army who fled will also destroy them in the future, and they can all be used now.

Group after group of Zhu Luo's army gathered under the city of Wuyang.Gradually, more than [-] people have gathered under the city of Wuyang, and the number of army formations they formed are connected end to end, with boundless momentum.

Suddenly the sound of drums and trumpets came from the south, and a huge Zhula army was approaching. It was Rahal himself leading several main regiments.

Dozens of huge bamboo rafts in the Minjiang River are connected together with ropes and stretched across the river, sealing the waterway of the Minjiang River firmly.The bamboo rafts were covered with crossbowmen and infantry of Zhu Luo's army.They were dragged back to the water by war elephants on both sides of the strait.

Rahal knew that the opponent had a large number of Viking ships that could cross the inland river.So he came up with this method to block the opponent's waterway.In fact, after Zhao Yun conquered Wuyang, except for dozens of Viking ships that stopped at the water gate, the rest of the ships had withdrawn upstream.

When Rahal learned that Liang Jun had conquered Wuyang last night, he was shocked.He said to himself: "How is this possible! How did they manage to capture a heavily defended city in such a short amount of time? In this way, my overall plan is in danger of failing!"

He immediately asked for the fleeing Wuyang Zhuluo defenders to be found.After a while, several guards escorted several generals with panicked faces, bloodstained faces and ragged clothes.

Rahal asked coldly, "How did your Wuyang City fall to the enemy?"

One of the generals hurriedly responded: "General Qi, we were guarding the east side of the city at that time. When we heard a loud noise, we found that a section of the city wall at the north gate had collapsed. A large number of enemy troops poured in through the gap."

Rahal then asked: "Did the other party use some heavy siege equipment to destroy the city wall?"

"This... I don't know about this subordinate. At that time, my subordinate was in charge of defending a section of the city wall on the east side, and I don't know much about the details of the north side. The general needs to find someone who was guarding the north side of the city wall at that time before he can ask clearly."

Rahal had no choice but to order people to find the broken soldiers who were guarding the northern city wall and survived.

His military order is easy.But at that time, Liang Jun's main attack was Beicheng.When the city wall collapsed, many defenders were buried alive. The remaining Zhuluo defenders on the north wall were the first to confront the Liang army, and suffered countless casualties.Naturally, it is not easy to find.

Rahal sighed heavily: "Even if Liang Jun can destroy the city wall quickly, you will not let the city fall so quickly. The general of Wuyang is clearly responsible for negligence of duty! After sending my military order and finding this person to find out the situation, Immediately beheaded, with the law of the army."

A legion commander asked Rahal: "General, now that the Liang army has occupied Wuyang, do we still have to proceed as planned?"

Rahal frowned, and replied: "After waiting for so long and tossing for so long, of course we can't do it in vain. We still have to follow the plan. It's just that our previous plan to fight the Liang army in the wild has not been realized.

We can only besiege the city now.If we withdraw, the opponent can rely on Wuyang and rely on cavalry to cut off our land grain road leading to Chengdu.Then our troops besieging Chengdu will be in danger! "

At the end, Rahal said word by word: "Pass down my military order, dispatch all the cavalry regiments to patrol around, beware of the opponent's cavalry attack. The rest of the regiments attack Wuyang immediately. We must capture Wuyang within three days, and the whole Annihilate the enemy army! Otherwise, the night will be long and the dream will be endless."

Soon, Zhu Luojun formed large formations on three sides of Wuyang City. These large formations all had the characteristics of anti-cavalry, and there were spearmen on all sides.

Zhu Luo's army did not carry any siege equipment, except for some improvised and simple ladders, nothing.But Rahal decided to focus on the gap, so it didn't matter if he didn't have siege equipment.

With the sound of rumbling war drums, thousands of Zhu Luo soldiers held shields and guns, rushing towards the gap like a torrent.When they got close, some of Zhu Luo's soldiers got on the ladder and began to climb up.Some piled sand and firewood in the corner, trying to pile up a slope.

Yan Yan's crossbowmen fired their arrows at the gap densely.The Zhu Luo soldiers who climbed were shot by arrows and fell down one after another.

Some Zhu Luo soldiers got over the fortifications at the gap by chance, and when they jumped onto the ruins of the city wall behind the fortifications, they found that there was a forest of guns, and their whole bodies were stabbed into honeycombs in an instant.

Relying on their overwhelming strength, the Zhu Luo army used the Carabolas as cannon fodder to keep coming in despite casualties.Gradually, sand and firewood piled up a slope at the gap.The infantry of the Zhu Luo army's regular regiment formed a tight formation, put together a large shield to form a shield wall, and advanced towards the city along the slope...

Chapter 219

Behind the gap in the north city wall of Wuyang, Zhao Yun was standing on a high platform to personally oversee the battle.

"Prepare for flying spears!" Following his shout, the thousand spear-throwing shield soldiers behind the ruins of the city wall all held their guns in their hands, raised them over their shoulders, and got ready to throw them.

Zhu Luo's army's shield wall pressed against the gap along the soil slope, and the arrows in the city were still shooting, crackling and hitting the shield wall.

Behind the ruins, the gun-shield soldiers were still like sculptures, holding their spears motionless.They didn't have Zhao Yun's military order, even if the opponent rushed to the front, they would not project the spear in their hands.

When Zhu Luo's soldiers jumped over the fortifications one after another and jumped onto the ruins of the city wall behind them, the formation appeared chaotic.The shield wall also reveals many gaps and gaps.At this time, Zhao Yun shouted violently: "Let the flying spear!"

Thousands of flying spears and javelins were thrown towards Zhu Luo soldiers quickly, and the spears flying densely in the air blocked out the sunlight.Amid the rain of blood splattering and screaming and howling, Zhu Luobing fell down in pieces.

Almost at the same time, more than [-] "fireballs" drew parabolic trajectories, accurately landed on the slope piled up with sand, stones and firewood, and blazing flames burst into flames instantly.It was an incendiary bomb fired by the Ballista Battalion, and its trajectory had been calculated and adjusted long ago.

The raging fire quickly spread into a wall of fire, blocking Zhu Luojun's retreat.Dozens of Zhu Luo soldiers had been burned into firemen, screaming and rushing around indiscriminately.

"Let go!" Following an order, another thousand flying spears flew towards Zhu Luo's soldiers.At this time, these Zhu Luo soldiers were ready, and they raised their big shields to protect them.With the muffled sound of bang bang, flying spears and javelins were nailed to many large shields.With leverage, it is extremely difficult to hold these large shields with one hand.

"Kill!" There was another command, and Liang Jun's soldiers pressed up with shields, walls and spears.Like a poisonous snake spitting out letters, the blade of the gun kept stabbing out from behind the shield wall, and the chaotic Zhu Luo soldiers kept getting shot and fell to the ground.From time to time, fireballs fired from crossbows came from the city.

In the end, the fire covered the entire ramp, and the Zhu Luo soldiers who rushed to the ruins in front were also killed.

Rahal, who was supervising the battle outside the city, had sweaty palms. Seeing this scene, he understood that if he continued to attack, he would only be giving away his head in vain, so he had no choice but to stop the attack.

Rahal was thinking hard about how to break the city, and his eyes suddenly stopped on an inconspicuous ditch.It looks like a ditch used for ordinary farmland irrigation, leading from the river to the gap in the city wall.But there is no abandoned farmland nearby, what is it used for?

At this time, Rahal's personal guard came to report that he had found a soldier who was in charge of guarding the north city wall at that time.Rahal hurriedly asked someone to bring him to him.

When the visitor told Rahal everything he had seen and heard.Rahal slapped his thigh and said, "It must be that Liang Jun tampered with the city, and then used this facility to wash down the city wall with river water!"

As soon as his words fell, another soldier flew in front of him and reported: "Report to the general, the enemy's fleet suddenly went down the water, trying to break through our army's blockade on the water!"

On the waterway of the Minjiang River, fifty Viking ships were sailing with full sail, rushing downriver with the wind and the current.However, there is still a row of bamboo rafts in front of them, and many items are piled on the bamboo rafts.

Not far downstream, Zhu Luo's army used bamboo rafts to build a "pontoon bridge".The soldiers of the Zhu Luo army on the pontoon bridge opened their bows and crossbows, raised their guns and raised their knives, and were ready for the battle.

When the two sides were about to approach, Liang Jun soldiers on the Viking ship began to fire rockets.It's just that the rocket was not fired at Zhu Luo's army on the "pontoon bridge", but at the bamboo raft in front of the fleet.

These bamboo rafts were on fire in no time. It turned out that the items loaded on them were all inflammable materials.At this time, these bamboo rafts turned into huge fire boats, heading straight for Zhu Luojun's "pontoon bridge".

The Zhu Luo soldiers on the "pontoon bridge" stood there for a second or two, and finally recovered from the shock, and ran to the banks on both sides screaming.But it was too late.With the bang bang, the fire boats hit the "pontoon bridge" one after another.

In the next autumn, when the northwest wind blows, the tongues of flames on the fire boat licked at the Zhu Luo soldiers. Some of these Zhu Luo soldiers were instantly engulfed by the flames, and some of their clothes were ignited by the flames.The Zhu Luo soldiers who turned into Burning Man jumped into the river one after another, regardless of whether they could swim or not.

It's just that there is no "fire boat" collision in the middle of the "pontoon bridge".The Zhuluo soldiers on both sides who hadn't been burned by the fire all crowded towards the center, and many people were squeezed into the water.

The arrows, spears, and throwing axes behind the fireboat were thrown densely towards the center of the "pontoon bridge" like a shower.On this section of the bamboo raft, densely packed with human heads, and being attacked by such dense arrows and flying spears, the result can be imagined.One after another, people were shot by arrows and spears and axes fell into the water, and streams of bright red blood gushed out of the clear river water.

Not long after, there was no living person on the "pontoon bridge".Only the crossbowmen of the Zhuluo soldiers on both sides of the river gathered and fired their bows and arrows at the fleet in the river.But the sailors on the Viking ships hid behind the gunwales and bucklers, and these arrows could not hurt them in the slightest.

With a few dull bangs, several Viking ships crashed into the bamboo rafts on the floating bridge in the middle of the river.A few strong men jumped off the boat, swung their big axes, and cut the ropes connecting the bamboo rafts with a few blows.The bamboo rafts immediately floated away, and the entire pontoon bridge was disconnected, opening a big hole.

Dozens of Viking warships rushed through this opening and continued to sail downstream quickly.

Rahal hurried to the shore to watch the battle.After witnessing all this, he immediately thought about it.Suddenly, his heart trembled, and he said to himself: "That's terrible!".

Rahal hurriedly asked to gather all the army chiefs.As soon as the people arrived, Rahal hurriedly ordered: "The whole army should return to the station immediately! Because the main force of the legion will return to defend Nan'an. If Nan'an is lost, not only the army's food road here will be attacked by the opponent's cavalry." Threats, the grain roads of several cities along the Tuoshui River will also be threatened. Our base camp Bodao City is also under the enemy's front."

A legion commander asked puzzledly: "But general..., the Liang army only rushed out with dozens of small boats, and at most it could only carry more than 1000 horses. No matter how empty Nan'an is now, it will not be broken by these thousand people. Bar?"

Rahal snorted coldly and said, "How they attacked Wuyang City, they will attack Nan'an in the same way. And the other party must have cavalry to assist in attacking the city! By the way, after you return to your respective cities, you should immediately check the city defenses and look under the city walls. Is there any hands and feet made by the other party!"

Everyone was surprised when they heard this.Everyone knew the serious relationship between the gains and losses of Nan'an and the whole battle situation, so they didn't dare to be negligent, and after making the promise, they went to prepare to withdraw their troops.Rahal himself didn't waste time, and immediately asked the soldiers to send orders to the various ministries he personally led--set off to return to Nan'an.

Chapter 220 Mobility Advantage

At the head of Wuyang city, Zhao Yun looked at the Zhu Luo soldiers who were leaving one after another under the city, and calmly ordered the left and right: "Assemble the scout team in the city, follow me out of the city."

Yan Yan beside him was shocked and said: "General Zilong! You want to take a hundred cavalry scouts to chase Zhu Luofan's army?"

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Of course not. I'm going out of the city to join our cavalry. Wuyang City will be handed over to Old General Yan for garrison. Please make sure that the city is not lost."

Only then did Yan Yan feel relieved, and said, "Zilong, please rest assured that he is here. As long as I, Yan Yan, are still alive, there is absolutely no way that Wuyang will lose anything."

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Rahal took his five main regiments and hurriedly withdrew towards Nan'an.He kept comforting himself in his heart and said: "At this time, there are still two legions stationed in Nan'an City led by Dikal himself. It should be fine...it should be fine..."

A long strip of sand dunes only two battles high appeared in front of him. Although Rahal was anxious, he was still wary of the possible enemy cavalry on the periphery.

"Go for a few scouts and see if there is any enemy behind the dunes." Following Rahal's instruction.In Zhu Luo's army, several scouts rode out on their horses and galloped towards the sand dunes in the distance.

The Zhu Luo Army War Elephant Group, which was at the forefront, did not delay because of this and continued to move forward.

When those Zhu Luo detectives rode their horses up the sand dunes, they immediately turned their horses' heads and were about to flee.Because the other side of the dune is full of Liang Jun's cavalry.

With the sound of "咻咻" breaking through the air, dozens of arrows rushed over in an instant, knocking down the Zhu Luo scouts on the top of the sand dune to the ground.After a hundred battles, Rahal watched his scout cavalry fall to the ground, knowing that it was not good.He shouted loudly: "The whole army stops advancing, and the elephant regiment is ready to meet the enemy!"

As soon as his words fell, a large number of Liang Jun's war cavalry appeared on the top of the sand dunes, and swooped down like a tidal wave.These Liang Jun riders are composed of two light cavalry flying feather battalions and a team of cavalry scouts.

Zhu Luo's war elephant regiment was also well-trained, and within a relatively short period of time, five hundred war elephants lined up.The archers on the elephants have already fired their bows and arrows.Rahal himself also boarded a war elephant to conduct on-site command.The army that was winding for several miles in the rear also gradually stopped.

Phew, an arrow shot at the forehead of the war elephant that Rahal was riding on.It's just that the war elephant was wearing bamboo armor, and the arrows were only nailed to the bamboo, but didn't shoot through.

At this time, Rahal saw that the opponents were all Qingqi, and said with a sneer, "Speed ​​up and wipe them out."

The war elephant speeded up, and the arrows of the crossbowmen on the war elephant became more dense.

Unexpectedly, the thousand or so light cavalry suddenly changed direction, rushed to the flanks, and quickly bypassed the interception of the five hundred war elephants.Kill towards the middle army of Rahal's army.

Rahal's center consisted of three infantry regiments and an auxiliary regiment.Under the marching army, there is almost no countermeasure against the cavalry impact.So Xin's opponent came with light cavalry, if Liang Jun's heavy cavalry came, they would all have to disperse and flee.

Under the command of the general, these infantry frantically raised their weapons and looked at the rolling enemy cavalry in horror.

But the opponent did not approach them, but started to shoot arrows and bows at a distance of more than 30 battles from them.Under the shooting of thousands of arrows, many Zhu Luo soldiers without shields were shot and injured by arrows.

Zhu Luo's crossbowmen also opened their bows and fired arrows, but the opponent had already rode his horse and continued to gallop backward, and the arrows fired back did not cause any damage to the opponent.

More than a thousand Liang Jun Qingqi galloped along the winding Zhuluo marching column, shooting arrows non-stop, and always kept a distance of at least [-] battles from the opponent.The war elephant regiment in front of Zhu Luo's formation had already turned around and was chasing after these light cavalry.

But the speed of a war horse is much higher than that of an elephant, more than three times that of the latter.Therefore, instead of catching up with the opponent, the war elephants of Zhu Luo's army rushed many Chinese infantry to the ground, causing casualties.

Seeing this situation, Rahal hurriedly said: "Let the soldiers quickly send an order to let the cavalry regiment of the rear army go forward to meet the enemy."

In fact, there is no need for him to send orders.Now Liang Jun's Qingqi has galloped near the rear of Zhu Luo's army.The cavalry regiment had already charged out to meet Liang Guoqing cavalry.In the end, the other war elephant group that was in charge of the formation also formed a line formation, and they came to surround Liang Jun Qingqi together.

A Zhu Luo army cavalry was rushing forward, and with a bang, a sharp arrow shot through the cavalry's chest armor, and the shaft of the arrow sank half a foot into his chest.

With the speed bonus of two horses galloping towards each other, the arrows are extremely powerful.Under the shooting of these strong arrows, the riders of Zhu Luo who rushed to the front fell off their horses one after another.

There were also many horses hit by arrows, neighing and galloping uncontrollably, knocking the riders off the horses.A huge gap suddenly appeared in the entire Zhu Luo army's cavalry formation.

The light cavalry had already held the horse-cutting sword or the head sword in their hands.But they still did not engage in close combat with each other, and when they were less than twenty battles apart, they rode their horses and turned to one side.

The dozen or so cavalry of Zhu Luo rushed to the front and accelerated to catch up. They were about to intercept the last few cavalry of the opponent, but dozens of arrows shot at them again.A dozen people were instantly shot like hedgehogs.These Liang Jun riders can turn around and reflect while running.