Section 45 The Battle of the Armored Horses
As soon as he received a letter of help from Jiama City, Miley noticed the evil spirit of the people of Xijiang. At this time, he suddenly launched a counterattack against Beidroc, which was just right to grasp the time, making it difficult for him to take care of the beginning and end. Miley had not had such a feeling of being stretched for a long time. The strength of the Xijiang Army was fully demonstrated at this time. In addition to launching a strong attack on Jiama, the Xijiang Army also launched continuous offensives in Yulin Prefecture. The Kaman army heading from Yulin to Fanlin City had to pay the price of bleeding every step westward, which made the reinforcements extremely slow.
In fact, when Miley received a letter of help from Jiama City, he knew that the situation in Jiama was no longer possible. Since the people of Western Xinjiang had made such careful arrangements, they must have made up their minds to take back Jiama. Now they still act like they want to swallow the mortal forest. Their appetite made Miley a little angry.
Although Miley believed that the Western Xinjiang side wanted to use the advantage of military strength to suppress himself and dare not reinforce the Armas, he had no choice but to have only 10,000 troops in his hand. If it weren't for the high and thick walls of Fanlin City, I was afraid that the people of Xijiang would have pounced on him long ago and would have been accumulating the success of the reinforcements from Yulin City, and at least two days would have been enough to determine the life and death of the Armas.
Miley has not been unwilling to fight and send troops from Jiayuguan, but the importance of Jiayuguan's geographical location forced Miley to think twice before acting. If the Jiayuguan is lost, Jiayuguan and Fanlin can form a pincer attack on the Jiayuguan. At most, it is a situation that both sides are uncomfortable. Although one side in the Western Xinjiang can threaten its own mainland from the Jiayuguan, they also have to consider the possibility of the Jiayuguan being encircled and annihilated. Once Jiayuguan is lost, it is very different. One man is the pass.
The dangerous position of the husband is not afraid of attacks from the outside world. Of course, the premise is that it also has a considerable military force as a foundation. Now Jiayuguan only has 30,000 troops. If only 10,000 troops are sent to reinforce, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for the horse. If it is not done well, it will be annihilated by the Western Army. If it is sent to 20,000, the Jiayuguan defenders will appear too weak. If the people of Western Xinjiang really set a plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain, the consequences of the fall of Jiayuguan will be unacceptable.
Only now, Miley can only pray that Jiama City can last for two more days. Once the reinforcements arrive in Yulin, they can immediately rush west to help. At this time, Miley also deeply felt the taste of a cook without rice.
However, Kang Jianguo and Zhan Botao, who led a large army to attack Arctic Horses, did not think so. The battle to attack Arctic Horses had entered the third day. Today, the Second Division and the Fifth Division of the Nanteluoke Legion launched attacks from the south and the east respectively.
Jiama City is lower than Fanlin City's walls. Due to historical reasons, Jiama City's walls are the tallest and thickest to the north, and various defensive facilities are more complete, while east and south are relatively weak. Even the Kamans deliberately consolidated them after occupying Jiama, they did not completely reverse this trend, which also gave the Nanteslok Army a little opportunity to launch an attack.
The sound of the "dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong" war drum sounded again. Yuchi Bin stood firmly on the front line, a large shield was covering his body, and the tide of soldiers rushed forward through his body and rolled forward. This was the sixth offensive launched today. The Kamans were very desperate. Perhaps they knew that the city would decide once they broke their fate, so it was a fierce battle to resist. The three of their own regiments charged in turn, the catapult, the nest car, and the moving arrow tower had obviously suppressed it.
The attack power of the opponent's city wall, but whenever the city car and ladder were set up under the city wall to launch an attack, the enemy suddenly surged out from behind the samurai like a ghost that could not be killed, and counterattacked wildly. Seeing that his men were fighting to the death on the wall one by one, Yuchi Bin, as the commander of the division, had already been excited and could not hold back. If the chief of staff and deputy division commander had not dragged him firmly, he would have pounced on the front line long ago.
The city wall attack and defense were extremely fierce. Almost every battlement and every city head was in a lively flesh-and-blood transaction. The crazy soldiers had forgotten their ultimate goal. They now had only one belief to kill each other. If the weapons were gone, then fight with each other, and use them together, and use them with their necks, hands, feet, teeth, and whole bodies. If the leather armor cannot be torn apart, they will hit the unprotected vital points. It is really not possible. It is also a good choice to hug the other party and roll down the city wall to exchange for death together. The bodies that were hugged together were like yellow leaves blown down by the autumn wind, constantly falling from the city wall.
The corpses piled up under the city wall have been thicker, and the red blood has soaked every part of the city wall. As time goes by, it turns into ochre red. The strong smell of blood fills the inside and outside the city wall. However, this does not affect the enthusiasm of both sides to fight at all. It has been completely devoted to the fanatical atmosphere of the battlefield. Both sides have not stopped. Only this endless life-and-death battle can truly show the rainbow momentum of a unit.
However, as the commander of the Kamans, Nedville knew that his side was at the end of his strength. His confidence and morale had been successfully aroused by his various means had quietly lost as the war gradually became fierce and time went by. The reinforcements were still missing. The continuous attack of the enemy forced him to use all the reserve team yesterday, and today's attack rate was not reduced at all. Yesterday, the reserve team of 5,000 people has less than 2,000 people, and he himself doesn't know what to do next.
The Derroks in the city also began to have abnormal movements. They had to leave a thousand people as a suppression amount of pressure to maintain the situation in the city to prevent attacks from inside and outside. However, now the front is in danger, and it seems that leaving a thousand troops is unnecessary. But how much effect can the one thousand people be drawn up? A desperate feeling slowly arose in Nedville's heart. Why are the damn reinforcements not there yet?!
Another noise came from the city wall not far ahead. Needless to say, a certain area must have been captured by the Western Frontier Army again. Without any time to think about it, Nedville waved his hand and the reserve warrior, who was following behind, ran forward in a row. This has happened countless times. In just one hour, this is the third time that such a dangerous situation has occurred. Nedville knew what this indicates, but he could no longer draw out his extra troops to deal with this crisis.
Nedville was thinking, and suddenly a fierce shout sounded from the east. Nedville's heart pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but the chaotic shout seemed vague, and it was impossible to tell which side was making the sound. He took two steps forward and still could not obtain accurate information.
I wanted to take my bodyguard over, but when I saw that the war on the south wall was still fierce, Nedville hesitated again, but the shouts from the east were always concerned in his heart that he couldn't get rid of it. Finally, the battle situation in the south city was entrusted to a deputy general, and Nedville still headed straight for the East City.
Before he could get close to the East City, he saw defeated soldiers coming from the east. He felt cold in his heart. Nedville couldn't help but grit his teeth and cut off several defeated soldiers who were only concerned about fleeing. Only then did he barely stabilize the situation and found an officer to investigate carefully. Only then did he know that a section of the East City Wall was excavated by an enemy engineer using a tunnel, causing a section of the city wall to collapse. The Western Frontier Army took advantage of the momentum to cover it and rushed in. The Kaman army, which had already had a disadvantage, could not resist it and had to retreat.
Zeppelin stood proudly on the wall. The Fifth Division finally stepped on the Jinpeng flag to the head of the Jiama City before the Second Division. This time, I have to say that I have some luck. If it weren't for the local guides of Jiama, a section of the city wall in the East City was not pointed out that a section of the city wall was built on a dry swamp, the engineers would not be able to dug this section of the city wall so smoothly. It would be impossible for the city car to hit the city wall so easily and knock the city wall down with just a few consecutive collisions.
With the collapse of the city wall, the Kaman people's spirit and fighting spirit that had been persisting tenaciously finally collapsed. Teams of Western Xinjiang soldiers roared and roared and poured in along the gap in the city wall, and soon broke through a small number of Kaman reserve teams who were trying to seal the gap. The Xijiang soldiers rushing into the city opened the city gate at the first time. After the cavalry team that had been eyeing the city covetously rushed into the city, the entire battle situation became a one-sided situation.
On November 8, 698, the mainland Gregorian calendar, after three days of difficult offensive and defensive battles, the Nanjieluoke Legion of the Western Frontier Army finally conquered Jiama City before Fanlin City, which had already received reinforcements, and wiped out the two 10,000-man army of Kaman. Only less than 2,000 people escaped from the North City, and the Jinpeng Banner was inserted into the city of Beigeluoke for the first time. At the same time, the 3rd Division of Nanjieluoke also successfully blocked the two 10,000 teams who attempted to reinforce Jiama between Fanlin and Jiama, and after receiving reinforcements, it turned into a counterattack. After paying the price of nearly 6,000 people, the two 10,000 teams were finally able to break out of the encirclement that was about to join the dragon and escape into Fanlin City.
Chapter completed!