Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1235 Battle at Jiangling

Chapter 1233: Battle with Jiangling

After Yue Fei, Yang Zaixing and other generals reunited, they turned back to kill Liu Xiu and others. However, when they arrived at the city gate, the gate of Jiangling City was already closed, and they still failed to catch up.

 “Withdraw.”

Yue Fei decisively ordered a retreat. As soon as he finished speaking, arrows rained down from the tower.

 “Everyone, be careful.”

Yue Fei and others dodged, blocked, and ran away. They quickly escaped from the range of the archers, and no one was hit by an arrow and fell from their horse.

Yue Fei, who returned to the front of the military formation, raised the Liquan Zhanlong Spear high and shouted: "Qin Army..."

 “Must win.”

 “The Qin army will surely win…”

The tens of thousands of troops were almost like one person, emitting extremely uniform shouts and roars, and their momentum was deafening throughout the night.

Yue Fei has just beheaded Wei Yan and defeated Wei Wentong and Gai Yan. This performance impressed the whole army, so all the officers and soldiers of the Qin army were very excited about it.

“Prefect, the morale of our army is strong now. On the other hand, Liu Xiujun’s morale has plummeted. This is the best time to attack the city.” Wenpin added.

Yue Fei nodded upon hearing this, then raised the Liquan Zhanlong Spear again and shouted: "Get ready to attack the city."

After Yue Fei issued the order, there were only fifty catapults and twenty well lanterns slowly pushed out from the rear of the Qin army's formation, and Yue Fei's original siege formation was quickly arranged.

Liu Xiu, who returned to the city tower, saw that the Qin army's morale was high and they were ready to attack the city so quickly. His face turned extremely ugly.

“I didn’t expect that I fell into Yue Fei’s plan in the end, so I shouldn’t have fought with Yue Fei, and ended up sacrificing General Wei Yan.”

At this point, Liu Xiu regretted it but it was of no use. He could only try his best to make up for it and resist Yue Fei's first wave of offensive.

Yue Fei adopted a siege strategy of surrounding three and missing one, which would not arouse the desperate resistance of the defenders in the city. However, although Yue Fei surrounded three city walls, he chose to concentrate his forces to attack the north gate, which would also Casualties are kept to a minimum.

 “The whole army attacks.”

After Yue Fei gave the final order to attack, thirty catapults launched flying stones together and smashed them hard at Jiangling City. The archers on the cross well fence also started shooting with the archers on the city tower. Cover the siege team below.

The siege team under the city carried sandbags and held shields to charge against the rain of arrows. When they reached the corner of the city, they immediately threw the sandbags into the moat and then quickly fled back to their base.

Listening to the screams that kept coming from everywhere, Liu Xiu didn't even frown. He fought many tough battles on his way to conquer Jingnan, but none of them were as big as the current scene. .

"Jingnan is still too isolated, and the overall strength is too far behind that of the Central Plains." Liu Xiu sighed inwardly.

The largest siege battle in Liu Xiu's memory was when the coalition forces attacked Hulao Pass. At that time, there were more than a hundred catapults that surpassed the siege. Thousands of stones were thrown in one wave. The scene was like Shura Hell.

 Compared with the heroes' campaign against Dong, Liu Xiu's campaign against Jingnan and even Yue Fei's campaign against Jiangling are nothing more than small scenes. "Gather all our catapults to the north gate. We can't just let Yue Fei hit us with his catapults."

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Soon, Liu Xiujun's catapults from the remaining three gates were concentrated at Baimen. There were a total of twenty catapults, and they smashed against the Qin army's catapults.

 Liu Xiujun's catapult was still far behind the Qin army's in terms of the total load it could carry and the distance it could be thrown. However, it could still make up for the shortcomings in performance if it was mounted high on a tower.

The one-day siege ended quickly. The Qin army, under the personal command of Yue Fei, took advantage of its strong morale, but still suffered 500 casualties. This fully shows the brutality of the siege.

As for Liu Xiujun, because he was on the defensive side, the casualties were naturally small. He only suffered nearly 200 casualties, but a quarter of the moat was filled by the Qin army.

In other words, if the Qin army continues to defend the city with today's intensity, Jiangling's moat will be completely filled in three days, and the city defense battle will be even more fierce.

Liu Xiu was worried about this, and Yue Fei was equally worried.

After only one day of siege battle, Yue Fei discovered that the Jingzhou Army's resilience was several times stronger after Liu Xiu's return. If the attack continued at this trend, even if Jiangling City was finally captured, the Qin Army would probably lose a lot of money. With tens of thousands of troops, the gains outweigh the losses in the end!

Yue Fei is a general who cares about his soldiers. The first rule of marching and fighting is to achieve maximum results with minimum casualties.

In the previous battle with the Jingzhou Army, Yue Fei would rather spend more time to minimize casualties. In the previous battle to conquer Nanjun, Yue Fei's 50,000 troops suffered nearly 8,000 casualties, but he achieved victory. The result of the battle against 30,000 enemies reduced the Jiangling Jingzhou Army to two-thirds.

However, it was precisely because Yue Fei cared about his soldiers that he delayed Jiangling until he was about to capture it, but was transferred back by Jia Xu with a transfer order, so that all the casualties he paid were in vain.

Of course, the soldiers who were damaged in the battle were quickly replenished from the reserves and prisoners of war, and the injured soldiers were also sent to the wounded camp for treatment. That's why Yue Fei once again dispatched 50,000 troops to attack Jiangling this time.

Although he suffered the loss of caring for his soldiers, Yue Fei still did not prepare for an siege without casualties, but necessary casualties were inevitable.

Yue Fei first used the most violent offensive to attack Jiangling City for four days. After filling up the moat, Yue Fei changed the force attack to a skillful attack. He no longer focused on destroying the city, but instead focused on killing the enemy's effective forces.

Skillful attack is a skillful siege. This siege method not only kills the enemy but also reduces casualties. It is just more time-consuming and labor-intensive. In just a few months or even half a year, Yue Fei may not be able to capture Jiangling. .

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 Hetao, Yinchuan County.

[Ding dong, Yue Fei led the army to attack Nanjun twice. The first time he killed 23,000 enemies and captured 10,000, and the second time he killed 3,000 enemies and captured 2,000, with a total of 8,000 casualties. After deducting the battle losses, a total of 270 summoning points were awarded. The host currently has a total of 5080 summoning points. 】

Generals like Yue Fei and Bai Qi are the most worry-free for Qin Hao. Every time he leads an army in a battle, he can more or less earn summoning points. The sum of a little and a lot is not a small sum.

“Unconsciously, I accumulated five thousand summoning points, which is enough to redeem a wave of new technologies.”

With this thought, Qin Hao couldn't help but fell into deep thought. After a while, he said to himself: "Forget it, let's wait until the Battle of Hetao is over."

There are two memorials placed on the slips in front of Qin Hao. One is from Yue Fei impeaching Jia Xu for his reckless command, and the other is from Jia Xu asking for Zhao Kuangyin's canonization.

 (End of this chapter)