Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1391 King vs. King One
One day before, under the city of Wancheng.

dong dong dong! ! ! !

The deafening sound of war drums, one after another, gathered together, like waves of waves, moving towards the city wall, covering and going away, impacting again and again.

"attack!"

"kill!"

"Boys, go!"

The Wei army marched at every step, and had already pressed under the city wall. The ladders and wells kept pressing up, and launched a fierce attack towards the city wall.

"Boys, hold on!"

"Throw the log!"

"Use tung oil!"

"We will never allow any Wei dog to climb the city wall."

On the city wall, Zhang Ren's voice was a little hysterical.

The disparity in strength made it even more difficult for him. Facing the vicious attacks launched by the Wei army, he had already gone into battle himself, and the spear in his hand was stained with blood.

Although invigorating the military spirit.

But there is still no way to recover the disadvantage.

If this continues, it won't take long for the northern city of Wancheng to be unable to defend. As long as this boundary is crossed, the entire city of Wancheng will be covered.

It is inevitable that Wancheng will be lost at that time.

"General Zhonglang, a gap has been opened in the city wall on the left wing. Hundreds of Wei troops have entered the city from Jinglan and are about to tear apart the defense on our left wing!" a scout reported.

Zhang Ren looked at the city wall on the left, and there was already a massacre. It was obvious that the Wei army wanted to pass through the tall well and open the defense of the left wing.

The Jinglan car has three floors, which is enough to stand side by side with the city wall. If you climb the city from Jinglan and cross the city wall, you can tear this line of defense.

"Come here, order my guards..."

"General Zhang Ren Zhonglang, you are the spiritual pillar on the battlefield. If all the guards around you are in battle, it will definitely make many soldiers uneasy. Let me go!"

As the governor of Nanzhou, Yan Yan can avoid going to the battlefield, but he has not been in Nanzhou for a long time, but he has a deep affection for him, and he already regards Wancheng as his home. He would rather fight today than let The thief broke into the city: "I led the first six gates to catch up and block them, but my boss suffered a lot of casualties, so I may not be able to stop them for long!"

"There is Governor Lao Yan!"

Zhang Ren bowed his hands and saluted, expressing respect for Yan Yan with the salute of a general.

Now Yan Yan's identity is a civil servant, Nanzhou parental official, even if Wancheng is breached, he can calmly withdraw to Xinye, and the responsibility will not be on him.

He is willing to go to the battlefield to fight, not only for Nanzhou, but also for Wancheng. He is also helping himself to a certain extent. If Wancheng cannot be defended, he must be the first person to be held accountable. appoint.

Yan Yan participated in the defense, which immediately inspired the morale of many Ming soldiers. Although the six-door arrester is not capable of the army, his individual ability is good. It's cruel, but when defending the city, it can play a good role.

In an hour, the gap on the left wing was blocked.

Seeing that Wei Jun was about to break through the city wall, he was finally counterattacked. Even the well fence cart was hit by two legs by a rolling log, and it overturned. At least it needs major repairs before it can continue to be used.

Jinglan carts are great weapons for siege, and without the power of a Jinglan cart, they can bring great mitigation capabilities.

The morale of the Wei army outside the city began to decline.

As long as the morale is low, the combat effectiveness will be weakened. It was already noon, Cao Ren Yujin and other generals saw that there was little hope of breaking the city in the morning, so they had already begun to withdraw their troops. They would have to rest for at least an hour or two before continuing to attack The walls of the city were attacked.

This also gave the Ming army on the city wall a chance to breathe.

At this time, Ming Jun Erlang was lying crookedly on the city wall, someone was biting a few pieces of meatloaf, someone closed his eyes and rested, someone was treating the wound, and someone was cleaning up the clothes of the comrades who died beside him. robe.

Zhang Ren walked over step by step, his eyes swept away, most of these were barbarian soldiers, who came out of the [-] mountains in the southwest. A sense of belonging, but now that this battle has been fought to this point, it doesn't mean to be broken in the slightest. It already shows that they have a certain sense of belonging to the Ming country.

"How about the casualties?"

Zhang Ren gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice.

"Current casualties have exceeded a thousand!" The general next to him was a marching master. Although he was wearing armor and had a sword on his waist, his aura was slightly incompatible with those sons of bloody battles, but he did his best. Do your best: "Up to now, we have killed 820 Qierlangs, carried them down to recuperate, and are unable to continue fighting. There are 320 Baerlangs, and there are less than [-] generals who can fight. This is not counting the [-] fans that assisted us in defense. Catch the door!"

"Our casualties are not small!"

At this time, Yan Yan came over and said in a low voice: "I assisted in the defense yesterday, and today I was on top of the front. The six-door arrester is good at catching thieves, but fighting in the frontal battlefield, I have too little experience and I am not used to it. Just to assist in the defense, the casualties now exceed four hundred children!"

He was also injured, with white gauze tied on his arm, and blood seeped out of the gauze.

"Your hand?" Zhang Ren looked at his arm.

"I was bruised by the loss, and the military doctor has already disinfected and wrapped it. It's not a big problem, and I can still fight again!" Yan Yan smiled, and didn't care too much. He was also a member of the fierce army in the past. In the past, it was enough to just find a piece of cloth and wrap it up, but now the Ming Dynasty has developed a lot of medical skills, and there are many doctors, and they are very good at these traumatic wounds, so the military doctors specially bandaged them. However, he exerted more force later on, probably cracking the wound again, and he has not gone to the military doctor to change the dressing and bandage yet.

"be careful!"

Zhang Ren took a deep breath, turned his head, looked at the city, his eyes sank slightly, and said: "Wei Jun has already started to worry, they know very well that if they are attacking their subordinate Wancheng, there may be changes, after all, the main force of our army , is sending reinforcements here, if it wasn’t for Chunyu’s interception, the army was suppressed in Shangyong, I’m afraid they would have arrived in Wancheng, and now they can only make a time difference, starting from the afternoon, they must be desperate!”

"I know!"

Yan Yan thought for a while, and said: "Nowadays, the city has a lot of people, and there are also a lot of young people. If necessary, I can recruit a group..."

"no!"

Zhang Ren shook his head: "At the meeting of the Privy Council, it was repeatedly emphasized that many things can be considered at the discretion of the war, but this is not the case. The gains and losses of a city and a place can be ignored, and we can fight back if we lose. But the rules cannot be broken, the Ming army will never recruit young men to the battlefield without reason!"

Why is there such a rule.

This is to improve the image of the Ming army.

The Ming army is not the kind of ordinary soldiers who fight when they fight, and work when they don’t fight. They are professional soldiers. They are well paid, well paid, and have great responsibilities. It is their duty to go to the battlefield. Help, this will cause dissatisfaction among many people. To put it bluntly, we support you with taxes, and in the end we still have to send us to die, so why should I support you.

"Sometimes, I really admire the king!" Yan Yan said with a wry smile.

Mu Jing did many things independently, but the rules he set showed many different performances. At least in terms of people's hearts, Ming did better than any vassal state.

It was all Mujing fought for these people under countless pressures, and the people are also people who know how to be grateful.

He took a deep breath, returned to the topic, looked at Zhang Ren, and said: "But your battle damage is too high now, there are countless wounded soldiers, and your morale is low. Once you encounter Wei Jun desperately, let alone two or three days, can you do it in the afternoon?" If you can keep it, it's a problem!"

"If you can keep it, you have to keep it, if you can't keep it, you have to keep it!"

Zhang Ren made a decision and said to Yan Yan, "We can die here, but Governor Yan, you are the Governor of Nanzhou. Nanzhou has not completely fallen, and the governor's office of Nanzhou cannot be captured by the enemy. Yes, once you can't hold it anymore, you can ask the six gates to arrest you and escort you south!"

"It's not that far!"

Yan Yan was silent for a while, and then said softly: "Maybe I can make the Second Army withdraw!"

"Can you make it?"

"Wenpin is a very sensitive general. As long as he feels that Wancheng is unable to defend, I believe he will find a way to bring back some of the main force!"

Yan Yan has never met Wenpin, but she knows a lot about this person. After all, in Jingxiang, sooner or later she will have to deal with several generals stationed in Jingxiang, so how could she not know about him.

"Then let's see if the Second Army can break away from the Wuyin battlefield and withdraw some of its troops, so we'll repel them first!" Zhang Ren gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

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Outside the city, the Wei army barracks.

The army withdrew back and had already started to bury the pot for cooking. They were preparing to have a lunch. After replenishing their strength, they would fight again in the afternoon. At this moment, the wounded soldiers in the battalion were wailing everywhere.

As the main attacker.

Their casualties are at least twice that of the city.

Standing at the gate of the wounded barracks, Cao Ren clenched his hands as he watched the desolate cries of each and every one of them, and his face turned pale.

No one in command would want to see casualties among his subordinates. Although this is inevitable, people are emotional animals. Even if iron and blood are ruthless, it is just an illusion. Just keep the sadness in my heart.

"Our casualties have exceeded [-]!"

Yu Jin stood beside him with a bad expression on his face. He gritted his teeth and said, "This Wancheng is really a hard bone. Even our tens of thousands of troops can't handle it!"

Although there are seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses in the city, their elite main force is only five thousand.

The [-] main force under his command.

Repeated attacks.

It took more than two full days, but I still couldn't win it.

This made the generals of the Wei army feel a little disheartened, especially with such a huge number of casualties. If they continue to fight, if they can't break through the city, they may be the ones who collapse in the end.

The Wei army can also be regarded as an elite, especially hope that it has been defeated by the Ming army for a long time, and after seeing the elite of the Ming army, Cao Cao's training for the soldiers of each unit has become more stringent.

"My generation marches without fear of life and death!"

Cao Ren gritted his teeth, put down the door curtain in his hand, stopped looking at Erlang in the wounded barracks, turned around and left, while walking, he also gave orders: "Send the order, gather in an hour, I want to launch a general attack on Wancheng, If you don’t succeed in this battle, you will be benevolent!”

Can't continue to consume.

The more it goes on, the weaker the morale is him, not the Ming army.

The Ming army is not only strong in combat effectiveness, but also very resilient.

He was afraid that if the fight continued like this, not only would he not be able to break through Wancheng, but he might be overthrown by them in the end.

"promise!"

A group of soldiers quickly went to each battalion to deliver the military order.

"Now attack?"

Yu Jin caught up and looked at Cao Ren with a serious face.

"We don't have so much time to spend, because none of us know whether the reinforcements of the Ming army will appear on the battlefield at any time, and we will fall short by then!"

Cao Ren continued to walk and walked into his camp. As he walked, he explained: "The battle is just starting now, and the decisive battle has not yet come. In fact, the main forces of both sides have not entered the field, but Wancheng is very concerned about the battle in the future. The importance, we all know that this is the only chance, once we miss this opportunity, it will be very difficult for us to take Wancheng in the future, if the Ming army relies on Wancheng, we will suffer!"

"I know what you said. I am just afraid. This will be a battle that will hurt both sides. You have seen the tenacity and resilience shown by the Ming army today. If they decide to fight to the end, this battle will be defeated." , no matter win or lose, my army son, I am afraid there will be heavy casualties!"

Yu Jin is also a general, so how can he fail to see the importance of Wancheng? They just got through Bowang in Lu Bu, and they can't wait to go south, the purpose is to compete for Wancheng.

But for the sake of Wancheng, they are unwilling to destroy their generals.

"At this point, we have no choice. For the sake of this war, if the king can win in the end, even if we all shed blood on the battlefield, it will be worth it!" Cao Ren said ruthlessly.

Strategic layout is very important in a war where hundreds of thousands of soldiers are confronting each other. The difference between victory and defeat may depend on a small place.

"Since you have decided to fight, we will naturally obey!"

Yu Jin looked at Cao Ren's murderous look, and said with a wry smile.

The battle has reached this point, and there is actually no backing down.

"Where is Le Jin?"

"He wondered, the main force of the Ming army is not much, once the North City suppresses all their forces, can they attack other city gates by detour, so as to break through the city wall defense more smoothly!"

"East?"

"Xi Mian!" Yu Jin shook his head and responded.

"How many soldiers and horses did you bring?"

"About three thousand, he wants to attack by surprise!"

"West of Wancheng?" Cao Ren thought for a while, and said, "He has a good idea, but I don't think there is much hope, but it's good to try, a few thousand troops will not affect our attack!"

"He has already set off, carrying some ladders, the speed may not be very fast, but within a day or two, he can also make a detour and enter under the West City Gate!"

"Then we will press the whole army up. From now on, we will attack fiercely and attack to the death. We must firmly press down on the Beicheng side!"

Cao Ren gritted his teeth and said, "I can't break through this Wancheng, I have no face to see my brother!"

Cao Cao, that is his clan brother.

Cao Cao held him in high regard and gave them both brothers important responsibilities. He had to let the people above the court see the abilities of their Cao family, not Cao Cao's selfishness in employing others.

(End of this chapter)