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Chapter 123: The Fierce Battle in Pengcheng (2)

Fierce battle! The real fierce battle! Since the young commander's army started its army, it has been the largest and bloodiest cruel battle!

The sound of the war drums collapsed and the arrows of the two sides of the war were like locusts, roaring around the battlefield where corpses were everywhere, covering the winter sun again and again. The Qin soldiers who charged in the rain of arrows were constantly being killed or injured, making screams or groans. Although the young generals hiding behind the sheep and horse wall and at the top of the camp wall were protected by fortifications, they were still constantly shot by the Qin army arrows that were shot directly or ejected, and dark red blood-colored waves were splashed.

Learning from the lessons of the failure of the last attack on the battalion, the Qin army no longer allowed the long shields to line up to cover the crossbowmen to use as targets for the young commander's catapult, but instead arranged the long shields in a fish-scale manner to reduce the possibility of being hit by the young commander's catapult. They also discharged four thousand crossbowmen in one breath and carried the long shield forward, and at the same time suppressed the defenders at the two gates of the young commander's camp. The young commander's catapults in the camp frantically cast stones, but they never had much effect. Even if they hit the enemy, they could only kill one Qin's long shield at most at a time. They could no longer smash the Qin army's long shield like last time, creating an ideal opportunity for the self-armed crossbowmen to take advantage of the chaos to kill the enemy.

On the contrary, because it was aimed at fixed targets, the Qin army's catapult achieved a more ideal effect. The rocks weighing dozens of kilograms of rocks absorbed the water mist in the air, and then smashed the young commander's camp walls one after another, smashing the young commander's camp walls made of rammed earth into many depressions, and also smashing the female wall at the top of the camp walls to many corners. The young commander's defenders on the city walls and the young commander's crossbowmen behind the sheep and horse walls were killed by the Qin army's catapults before they could even snort.

Fortunately, the Qin army's drag-and-drop catapult was not as good as the crossbow, and people had to concentrate their hands to pull ropes and stones within the range of the crossbow of the Young Marshal's Army. The soldiers of the Young Marshal's Army still had the opportunity to counterattack and limit the launch speed and frequency of the Qin army's catapult. It was not that they could not get rid of the attack, but they also took the opportunity to shoot and injure many Qin army's catapults. However, in this way, the young Marshal's soldiers of the Young Marshal's Army had no way to deal with the Qin army's trench convoy. The Qin army's trench convoy took the opportunity to quickly approach the first camp-protecting trench of the Young Marshal's Army and risked their lives to build a trench bridge.

At this moment, the arrow rain of the Young Marshal's army was almost entirely concentrated on the Qin army's trench bridge convoy. Only the Qin army soldiers protected by round shields were constantly caught in arrows, and some people fell into the trench in panic and were poked into meat skewers by pickets in the trench. But even so, the tenacious Qin soldiers continued to join the trench bridges and continuously built temporary trench bridges, successfully breaking through the first camp-protecting trench of the Young Marshal's army.

The battle was even more tragic. In order to prevent the enemy from crossing the trench and approaching the second camp-protecting trench, the young general's crossbowmen fired arrows wildly that many people collapsed, forcing Xiang Kang to send troops out of the camp immediately and rotate the troops outside the camp, whose physical strength had dropped seriously. The same is true for the Qin army. In order to cover the trench bridge convoy to build bridges, many Qin soldiers were so tired that they were sweating all over their faces, but they were still trying hard to open the crossbow strings and cast feather arrows.

The failure to build a sheep and horse wall between the two trenches to provide buffering was undoubtedly a major failure for the Young Marshals when building the camp. As a result, after the Qin army's trench bridge convoy broke through the first trench, they could directly push the trench bridge vehicle to the second trench and quickly build a bridge. Xiang Kang finally discovered this and was too late and could no longer save it. He could only watch the Qin army build a bridge on the second trench and open the road directly to the military camp wall and the sheep and horse wall.

The courage of the Qin soldiers is also worthy of admiration. Just as a few bridges were built on the second trench, some Qin soldiers rushed directly across the trench and attacked the young generals' crossbowmen behind the sheep and horse wall. Although the young generals' crossbowmen immediately drew out their swords and resisted bravely, killing and killing many Qin soldiers who dared to be so desperate, the effect of the crossbow suppression was greatly affected. More trench bridge chariots successively boarded the second camp protection trench, and more Qin soldiers also took the opportunity to rush to the sheep and horse wall to fight, forming a vicious cycle.

Finally, after nearly an hour of hard battle and after paying a considerable price, more than 70 of the first batch of eighty trench bridge vehicles dispatched by the Qin army were built on the two camp-protecting trenches of the Young Marshal's Army, and opened more than 20 roads to the walls of the Young Marshal's Army. Zhang Ping, who personally led the army to attack the west gate of the Young Marshal's Army, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the two thousand elite Longxi under his command to step forward and carry the ladder to attack the west gate of the Young Marshal's Army's camp. At the same time, some ordinary infantry carried the trench bridge vehicles and sandbags to assist in the battle, continued to build more trench bridges, and also strive to directly fill the trench guard trench of the Young Marshal's Army and completely open the road to advance.

The same is true on the South Gate. Although he was reluctant to use the core backbone of the Qin army, the elite troops in Longxi, due to Zhang Ping's strict order, Yao Ang, who led his army to attack the south gate of the Young Marshal's Army camp, still dispatched two thousand elite troops, supplemented with two thousand infantry, and cooperated with the main force to launch a strong attack on the southern section of the Young Marshal's Army camp.

The real attack officially began. The elite Qin army soldiers who were striding out of the battle first ran, then gradually accelerated, and shouted at the same time when they were about to enter the crossbow range of the Young Marshal's Army, and charged together. The Young Marshal's soldiers on and under the battalion wall shot arrows wildly, desperately weakening the Qin army's attacking camp. At the same time, an accident happened. Waves of arrows suddenly flew out of the Young Marshal's camp, roaring up and down in a parabola, nailing them to the heads of the Qin army soldiers. Many Qin army soldiers were caught off guard in the face of the suddenly expanded firepower of the Young Marshal's Army, and the casualties suddenly expanded a lot.

"Shooting arrows from the camp? The thief still has this ability?"

Zhang Ping was stunned. Although Zhang Ping knew very well how the young commander soldiers did this, he knew that the young commander must have set up observation hands on the female wall. Through the observing hand's flag, the archers in the battalion fired arrows and shot the Qin soldiers outside the battalion blindly. However, the young commander soldiers had never used this move before, so Zhang Ping and the Qin soldiers always thought that the young commander soldiers did not have this skill, so they were caught off guard. Then Zhang Ping immediately woke up and couldn't help but curse: "Crazy dog ​​thief! He actually kept this move specifically to deal with the elite troops of the general's attacking camp!"

Unfortunately, the young commander's army was not very skilled in blind shooting in the rear, and most of the arrows emitted were still empty. Although many elite Qin soldiers were killed and injured by luck, they still could not stop the Qin army's charge. The well-trained elite Qin soldiers still rushed through the first camp protection trench of the young commander's army, forcing the young commander's soldiers behind the sheep and horse wall to retreat in a hurry, and ran around to the north gate of the Daying facing Gushui back to the camp. At the same time, there was no angle of projection, and the archers in the city had to give up blind shooting helplessly.

Blood really began to flow. When the Qin army soldiers shouted and rushed through the second trench of the Young Marshal's Army, scrambling to the top of the young Marshal's military wall, which was only ten feet high, all the conspiracies and despicable tricks were no longer available. The only thing that determined the life and death of both sides was the courage, fighting spirit and tenacity of the soldiers on both sides. Compete for whom the sword was faster, who was less afraid of death, and who had the courage to face difficulties in the face of death.

The elites of the Qin army's Longxi were indeed well-known. With the stone dust bottles that the young commander army kept smashing down, no less than twenty people rushed to the top of the young commander's battalion wall for the first time in charge. Fortunately, the young commander's soldiers were prepared for this. As soon as the enemy came up, they immediately stabbed the spear with their spears. The young commander's soldiers guarding behind the female walls used swords or stabs, and the long and short weapons cooperated to kill the Qin soldiers in a hurry. They killed several Qin soldiers who tried to cross the female wall in one breath. The remaining soldiers were also successfully blocked from the female wall by the young commander's soldiers and were forced to fight with the solid young commander's soldiers under their feet through the female wall. Although they also caused some casualties to the young commander's soldiers, because there was only a staircase under their feet to leverage their strength, most of them were quickly stabbed down the ladder and knocked down the ladder and fell to death.

More flight ladders were placed on the wall one after another, allowing more Qin soldiers to rush to the top of the battalion wall one after another, and the pressure on the young commander's army became increasingly greater. At the top of the battalion wall, soldiers on both sides could be seen fighting across the female wall, shouting and swords everywhere. From time to time, Qin soldiers with red eyes risked their lives to jump over the female wall, fighting with the young commander's soldiers behind the female wall. At the cost of their own sacrifice, the formation of the young commander's army was disordered, allowing more Qin soldiers to have the opportunity to rush to the wall. After a moment of fighting, the young commander's army's defense line was already in a hurry everywhere, and there was a shaky danger.

"Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Can't retreat, can't even take a step!"

Unexpectedly, the elite Qin army's combat power would be so strong that it would be so fast that it would be almost impossible to resist. Zheng Bu, the young general who was guarding the western camp wall, had his eyes turned blood red. In addition to letting the supervisor team decisively kill the timid retreating self-soldier soldiers, he also rushed towards the enemy with his own soldiers and killed the enemy with his own hands. He was forced by the supervisor team and saw that the commanders of the army were so brave, the Zheng Bu army soldiers then rekindled some courage, stood firm and each stood up and raised their swords and spears, roaring as they fought with the enemies who kept crossing the female wall. During this period, there were also tragic scenes of many soldiers holding each other and dying together.

The situation at the south gate of the Daying was similar. The brave and elite Qin soldiers soon rushed to the top of the camp wall, killing the young generals led by Xiang Guan to fear. They could only rely on the advantage of fortifications to support the enemy completely. The Qin soldiers continued to climb the wall, which disrupted the formation of the young generals, and forced Xiang Guan to put on the battlefield and put their personal soldiers to put out the fire everywhere.

Seeing this, Zhang Ping, the chief general of the Qin army, was of course proud. He believed that his own army would definitely be able to break through the camp of the Young Marshal's Army today. He wiped out Xiang Kang in one fell swoop and formed the main force of the Young Marshal's Army. However, at this moment, a Qin army scout suddenly came from the north bank of the Gushui River and reported to Zhang Ping that Liu Ji's troops were approaching Pengcheng quickly. Zhang Ping was furious and roared: "Bold traitor! He knew that our general's army was here, but he dared to rescue Xiang Kang's traitor, which was simply seeking death!"

"General, we must not let Liu Ji's thief's army approach Gushui." The subordinate next to us advised: "Our army is fighting hard against Xiang Kang's thief's army. If he lets his army approach Gushui, we will not have to cross the river to reinforce. Our morale and fighting spirit will be affected immediately. The morale of the thief's army will definitely be greatly boosted, so we will not be able to fight this battle. Therefore, the last general believes that we should take the initiative to send troops to fight and defeat Liu Ji's thief's army halfway, so that we will not affect our attack on the thief's camp."

Zhang Ping nodded, first asked Liu Laosan's reinforcements of about 3,000 people, and then immediately sent an order to the troops left behind in the camp, asking the defenders of the camp to draw 3,000 troops to cross Gushui immediately, take the initiative to go north to face Liu Laosan's army, and tell him that Liu Laosan's army must be defeated in the middle of the way, and that Liu Laosan's army must not be organized to approach the shore of Gushui.

After making this arrangement, Zhang Ping, who was slightly distracted, quickly turned back to see the offensive and defensive situation of the camp wall battlefield. As a result, Zhang Ping was angry that he had just become so slightly more serious, and the situation on the camp wall battlefield had already changed a lot. After fighting to the death, he withstood the three axes of the elite Qin army, the young generals who gradually adapted to it were no longer as panicked and chaotic as he was. While slowly stabilizing his position, he relied on his favorable advantage to throw stones, gray bottles and other objects to smash the Qin soldiers under the camp wall. Although the Qin soldiers were brave and good at fighting, they suffered a loss because they all relied on flying ladders to climb the wall. The troops were slowly invested. After the force of one go, they were gradually pulled into a stalemate and tug-of-war.

Angry, being influenced by Liu Laosan's reinforcements, he missed the best opportunity to quickly join the subsequent army. Zhang Ping did not hesitate anymore, and immediately invested two thousand troops in front of the strengthening of the offensive. He sent two thousand troops to carry the wooden to directly attack the two gates west of the Young Marshal's Army camp. Xiang Kang did not dare to neglect when he saw it in the camp. He immediately ordered the fierce general Long Qi to lead 500 carefully selected warriors to the wall to help Zheng Bu resist the Qin army's offensive.

The Qin army dispatched two thousand reinforcements, but Xiang Kang only sent 500 reinforcements. The reason was not because the total strength of the Young Commander's Army was at an absolute disadvantage. It was because the space at the top of the camp wall was narrow, and there were too many reinforcements to stand even if they sent many reinforcements. They could only invest so many troops to reinforce at one time. The space under the camp wall was relatively wide, so Zhang Ping could invest so many reinforcements in one breath.

But a wise man is worried about it and there will be a mistake. Zhang Ping only saw that the space under the camp wall could accommodate so many Qin troops, but he forgot that the trenches that the Young Marshal Army had worked hard to dig before still existed. The Qin reinforcements still had to step on the trenches to rush across the trenches and join the battlefield. Therefore, even if the Qin reinforcements set out first, they were destined to be unable to enter the battlefield immediately. The Young Marshal Army had no obstacles. Long Qi led the 500 Young Marshal Warriors to charge and quickly stepped on the steps he had built before and rushed directly to the camp wall and joined the battle first.

The situation of the battle between the camp wall also changed again, which made the Qin army soldiers secretly frightened. The young generals who had just arrived not only had physical advantages, but also had a higher combat power in their individual soldiers than the previous wall guards. Many soldiers also held narrow swords that they had never seen before, and slashed them. Even if they hit the helmet, they could cause heavy damage to the Qin army soldiers. What made the Qin army even more frightened was that these young generals fought very hard, and they were willing to die while rushing to death, without thinking about any accidental injury to their friendly forces. When they saw an enemy there, they immediately greeted them with big swords and axes, fighting like crazy.

Even the elite Qin army could not withstand the powerful force of the Young Marshal's reinforcements. The number of casualties quickly increased, the wall-headed position that had been occupied before was gradually recaptured by the Young Marshal's soldiers, and even the Qin soldiers gradually retreated from the wall to the bottom of the wall. Even the Qin army that came later gradually entered the battlefield. The young Marshal's soldiers, who had recovered, still firmly resisted the Qin army's attack. The two sides repeatedly tug-of-war on the wall of the camp, and the stalemate was still.

The battle situation at the camp gate was also extremely fierce. The crossbow arrows fired by the Young Marshals in turn were like metal storms, constantly shooting down the Qin infantrymen who were charging against the wooden. However, the Qin soldiers were always persevering, repeatedly attacking the two Western camp gates of the Young Marshals' army again and again. Even if the corpses were full of corpses, they did not retreat at all. They were as tenacious as a group of single-cell creatures, and they successfully touched the camp gate of the Young Marshals' army more than once.

The situation on the battlefield of the South Gate changed slightly, because the young commander Xiang Guan's army had more new recruits, and the situation was more critical than the Ximen battlefield. Before the Qin army could increase its troops and strengthen its offensive, Xiang Zhuang could only hurry out to send out the suicide squad led by Zhonglimei to help. Finally, he withstood the crazy attack of the elite Qin army, forcing the Qin general Yao Ang to increase his troops and fight with the South Gate defenders of the Young Commander's army.

The sound of war drums on the battlefield had already resounded throughout the world, and the small snow particles as small as pink fell quietly without realizing it. However, the soldiers of the two armies on the battlefield were unaware of it. They shouted and shouted and shouted, just to greet the enemy desperately, and each went forward desperately, fighting for the narrow position close to the top of the poor camp wall. Blood stained the young commander's army's camp wall red. The corpses were piled up under the wall, and the corpses at the top of the camp wall were also dense. The soldiers on both sides were already fighting against the seriously injured on the corpses.

The Longxi elites, who were the vanguard, consumed too much. Yao Ang took the lead in withdrawing the Longxi elites and replaced the ordinary Qin army composed of prisoners in Mount Li to fight. Xiang Zhuang did not dare to neglect. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qin army's temporary retreat, he quickly withdrew Xiang Guanjun's team, which had already suffered heavy casualties, and sent another 3,000 troops to the wall to replace defenses, and continued to fight with the Qin army that came again.

Unable to resist the repeated begging of the generals, Zhang Ping was forced to withdraw the Longxi elites who had been in battle before, and replaced the last two thousand Longxi elites in his hands to attack the camp. Xiang Kang also seized the opportunity to withdraw the Zheng Bu army, which was on the verge of collapse, and let Chao Zhi lead his army to fight and replace Zheng Bu to guard the camp wall.

The battle was slightly calmed down only because of the rotation of troops, and then immediately began in full swing. The physically energetic new forces on both sides cut and killed each other through the female wall, fighting to the point where the sky and the earth were dark, the sun and the moon were gone, and at the same time, they were repeatedly tug-of-war, and no one was willing to take a step back.

Time passed by minute by minute, and cold sweat gradually appeared on Xiang Kang's forehead, because Xiang Kang could see that although the self-army could still withstand it, there was never any chance to completely kill the enemy. The Qin army, which had twice the strength of his own, only needed to continue to fight like this, and it was likely that it would suddenly make a breakthrough and successfully enter his camp, bringing disastrous consequences to the main force of the self-army. Xiang Kang was so anxious, but he had no choice.

Zhang Ping also saw this, so no matter how fierce the battle ahead was or how huge the casualties of the Qin soldiers were, Zhang Ping never frowned and kept letting the tug-of-warriors consume it. He was determined to destroy the young general's army and take down the Qin camp that killed countless Qin warriors.

The battle was so fierce that it could not be described in words. The soldiers on both sides, whose voices were hoarse, chopped and chopped, and fought wildly on the remains of the corpse. The soldiers on both sides kept rolling down from the wall of the camp, and the scenes of fighting and dying together were common. The soldiers of the Qin army, who had red eyes, kept sacrificing their lives to jump over the female wall, and fought desperately with the young generals who had blood red eyes. The blood under the wall of the camp was so flowing that even the soil could not be absorbed, and began to gather into blood pools.

The young commander's army's precarious defense line could be broken through by the Qin army at any time. The sword of Damocles hanging high above Xiang Kang's head might also suddenly fall down at any time, killing Xiang Kang into two pieces.

At this time, the west gate of Pengcheng was ready to open the city gate at any time to let the young generals lose their troops enter the city. If it were not for the heavy responsibility of defending the city, Xiang Sheng, who was connected with Xiang Kang, Xiang Zhuang and others, would have personally brought the army out of the city to reinforce.

It was still at this time that a miracle suddenly appeared. Amid the shouts from the north, Liu Laosan's red flag suddenly appeared on the north bank of the valley. What was even more incredible was that in front of Liu Laosan's military flag, there were a large group of defeated Qin soldiers who were disguised as if they were driven away by Liu Laosan's army and fled south in a panic.

Seeing this scene, the young marshal's army was of course cheering like thunder. After a long battle, the morale that had declined severely almost instantly returned to the top. The Qin army was in a big uproar. The morale suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley and was quickly killed by the young marshal's army with a sharp increase in morale. The wall-headed positions that were hard-earned were completely lost in a blink of an eye. The ladder on the wall was also overturned by the young marshal's army one after another, and the offensive was immediately frustrated. Zhang Ping shouted in disbelief: "How is it possible? How is it possible? How can our army be defeated by Liu Ji's mob?"

In contrast to Zhang Ping's desperate yell, Xiang Kang was full of energy. He first praised Liu Laosan for his unambiguous anti-Qin incident, and then immediately shouted: "Beat the drum! Kill the enemy! Take this opportunity to kill the tyrannical Qin army!"

The young commander, who had been exhausted, was also resurrected on the spot at this moment, flatly rejecting the rotation request made by his companions, waving the heavy drum hammer and violently hitting the cowhide drum. The young commander's soldiers were inspired and saw the good news of the arrival of reinforcements with their own eyes. Naturally, everyone worked hard, and everyone fought bravely. During the fierce rush of the young commander's soldiers, the young commander's soldiers finally retreated from the fierce attack of the Qin army on their own, forcing the low-spirited Qin army to escape in a panic.
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