Xiaoqi

While fighting in blood, while saving lives and healing the wounded, such tangled and contradictory things actually exist.Thinking back to the "War of Red and White" in later generations, the red bandits and the white army fought inexorably, as if they were incompatible, you die or I die; The army finally united to fight against foreign enemies.However, after the thieves were driven away, the two armies were still at odds with each other, and then an unprecedented war broke out until one side established political power and drove the other side out of the country.

Although what Li Li, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei did was slightly different from the wars of later generations, the essence was the same.

At the beginning of the decisive battle in Loudiyuan, the combined number of soldiers and horses of the two armies was as many as 60 to 20. After a night of fierce fighting, the combined casualties of the two armies were only more than [-] soldiers.However, a pit collapse caused huge casualties of nearly [-] people, and there was no distinction between the enemy and the enemy, and it was impossible to distinguish between good and bad, causing hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the two armies to be smashed to pieces and dead without a whole body.

This is not a war at all, let alone killing for survival, but a pure disregard for life, just killing for the sake of killing, a deliberately planned massacre.

Although Yuan Shao's original intention of planning this matter was to deal with the Xiliang iron cavalry, his ultimate goal was to kill all the Allied and Xiliang troops except his own soldiers and horses.Such an inhuman act of madness has already exceeded the scope of human beings.

In many things, the original intention is not important, what matters is the result.The size of the harm is not determined by the starting point, but depends on how big the harm is and how wide the scope is.But for any disaster, no matter what the starting point is or the original intention, the world only looks at the result, and if everyone talks about it, it is a disaster.

The allied army camp is two hundred steps away from the gate.

Li Ligao sat on the back of the King of Beasts. Although he was still wearing heavy armor, he had no weapons in his hands.Now, he has returned to the position that the coach should be, sitting in the middle army, commanding the army to continue the battle.

But at this moment, Li Li personally led the Chinese Army's Feixiong Battalion, Jin Yanwei, and the Suppression Camp to besiege the Allied Army camp.In his view, this Allied Dazhai is the nest of the alliance of princes and a symbol of the alliance of princes in the Central Plains.Just waiting to capture the big village in front of us is equivalent to going straight to the allied army's lair and winning the final victory of the Loudiyuan decisive battle.

At the same time, this huge camp is not an empty camp. Right now, there are still at least tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the camp, as well as all the food and supplies left by the fleeing princes.

And this is precisely the spoil that Li Li values ​​most.After all, this battle lasted too long, and the Xiliang army consumed a huge amount of food and supplies, so they had to be replenished, otherwise the decisive battle would be for nothing.Although he won the final victory of the war, he emptied the Xiliang treasury.In this way, this battle can be said to be a victory but a defeat, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Therefore, Li Li had high hopes for the Allied army camp in front of him, hoping that he could get enough benefits here, so as to make up for the huge consumption of the continuous battle for more than half a year.

Right now, the people who reined in their horses and stood on both sides of Li Li were Jia Xu, the left soldier, and Guo Jia, the right soldier.

The generals of the Chinese army were standing next to the two military advisers. The generals looked excited, and their faces were filled with unconcealable joy.At this time, looking at the tall and towering allied camp, the generals couldn't help but gear up, eager to try, as if they could capture the camp in an instant with Li Li's order, full of confidence and high fighting spirit.

Indeed, the war has continued until now, and the victory of the Xiliang army is already determined, while the allied forces of the princes are scattered like birds and beasts, scattered and fled in all directions.

After the battalion was captured, the cavalry of each battalion would dispatch troops again to chase down the fleeing Allied forces.The reason why it is inappropriate to send troops to chase the defeated army now is because this camp is too large, and the siege army cannot be too small.Otherwise, if there are tens of thousands of allied troops ambushing in the camp, and when the Xiliang army is chasing and killing the allied troops, they will suddenly come out, and then surprise Hangu Pass, the consequences will be unimaginable, and it is very likely that the Xiliang army, which is sure of victory, will fall short .

Chapter 784

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Allied camp, in front of the gate.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

"Bang bang bang!"

From the moment the Xiliang army surrounded the camp, the defenders on the tower began to shoot arrows.

During this period, as soon as the Xiliang soldiers approached the gate, the defenders would immediately push down the rolled rocks that had been prepared, and the steaming hot oil and boiling water would also pour down.

However, when the defenders were busy guarding the camp, the Xiliang army that had completed the encirclement of the camp did not immediately attack the city, but instead surrounded it without attacking.Because so far, they have not received the siege order from coach Li Li.

It is not difficult to see from this that the Allied soldiers guarding the camp at this moment have become terrified and fearful of the Xiliang army. It is self-evident what their combat effectiveness is.

Since they were cowardly before the battle and had no fighting spirit, they did not know why the defenders of the Allied Army did not open the city to ask for surrender, and were still making the last resistance, which was also a meaningless resistance.

Since the war, hundreds of thousands of allied troops on the original main battlefield of Loudi have fled.So far, the allied forces of the princes are really in a state of defeat, and they are in a state of defeat.

Looking around, the entire battlefield of Loudiyuan was full of allied soldiers fleeing in a hurry, as well as Xiliang cavalry riding horses to chase and capture prisoners of war.Among them, the battle flags of the allied princes and generals were almost invisible, and the flags flying in the sky were all the flags of the Xiliang Army.

In such a situation, the defenders on the tower will not fail to see it.On the contrary, they were condescending and could see far more clearly than the Xiliang army below the city.On the huge battlefield, there is not a single flag of the Allied generals.There is no handsome flag of any princes along the way. As long as you are not a fool, you will not know what this means.

All this told the battalion guards a cruel and unavoidable fact: Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, ran away, and so did the princes from all walks of life, and even hundreds of generals in the allied army ran away without a trace. Completely defeated!

On the occasion of this great defeat.The army of hundreds of thousands of princes has dispersed like birds and beasts, running for their lives in a hurry, and the general situation is over.The trend of defeat is complete.Even if the army of the princes lost to the Xiliang army, let alone their battalion guards?

Therefore, what these camp guards are doing now is meaningless, and any resistance is futile.In addition to needlessly increasing casualties.Can't change anything at all.It is even more impossible to stop the iron hoof torrent of the Xiliang army sweeping everything.

"All the soldiers obey the order, ride and shoot to suppress the defenders' bows and crossbows!"

"Take orders from the camp and attack the city!"

At the sound of the order, Li Li leaped out, pulled out the Son of Heaven sword, pointed directly at the gate of the camp, and brazenly ordered the army to attack the city.

"Da da da swish swish!"

Following Li Li's order, more than 2 Xiliang cavalry in front of the Yuanmen formation leaped out.They strung their bows one after another, and then spread out to the two wings.The horse galloped close to the Allied Dazhai, then dodged left and right, and shot with a bow.

In an instant, tens of thousands of sharp arrows rushed straight to the defenders on the tower, roaring away, like a dark cloud, harvesting the terrified lives.

Amidst the sound of "bang bang", two thousand heavily armored infantry marched to the front of the formation holding giant shields and spears. The giant shields raised above their heads formed an impenetrable barrier, blocking the incoming rain of arrows and arrows. Advance towards the gate of Daying.

Following the heavy armored infantry came more than [-] well rails and three ramming vehicles with huge ramming logs.

At the same time, more than fifty catapults slowly pushed to the front of the Chinese army formation, and then one by one the flaming fire oil tanks roared into the air, smashing fiercely towards the gate tower.

These catapults are the siege weapons that survived the confrontation at the beginning of the decisive battle; it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as the only remaining fruit.

"Come forward, the giant shield superimposes the formation!"

With a shout, Gao Shun, the leader of the trapped camp, took the lead and led more than a hundred of his own soldiers to push a well rail to the front of the gate tower.Immediately, under the cover of [-] cavalrymen stretching their bows and galloping, the heavy armored infantry who had approached the Yuanmen camp heard the sound and moved.However, the first [-] heavy armored giant shield soldiers knelt on the ground around the well rail and carried the giant shield on their backs, and the next [-] armored soldiers walked up quickly on the giant shield, and then surrounded the well. He squatted down, and also knelt on one knee with the giant shield on his back, forming a second layer of giant shield array.Immediately afterwards, the third team of two hundred soldiers stepped on the second layer of giant shields to form the third layer, and after that, a hundred soldiers formed the fourth layer, the fifth layer, and the sixth layer, which were superimposed in turn.

These six layers of superimposed shield formations are all formed around the well rails on the wall of the city tower. Each layer is only four feet high, high at the front and low at the back, like a steep slope, and the well rail is the main peak of this steep slope.After the formation is completed, the giant shield formation is only five feet away from the tower, and any soldier can step on the giant shield formation and rush up, and then jump up the tower.

"Quick, quick, quick, rush up to the tower and seize the gate!"

The moment the formation was completed, Gao Shun waved his hand, and the five hundred light-armed soldiers hidden under the shields of the heavy armored infantry moved in response. Leaping onto the tower with a huge shield, he fought desperately with the defenders.

At the same time, the stones and logs on the city tower fell like rain, and the boiling water from the oil pan was poured down more than ten times one after another. A soldier sent to the tower.Although dozens of lightly armed soldiers were stabbed to death by the defenders raising their guns the moment they jumped up the stairs, most of the soldiers climbed up the tower and fought with the defenders immediately.

After the lightly armed soldiers ascended the tower, the soldiers on the sixth floor in formation jumped up the stairs, and then when the four floors below suddenly rose several feet, the soldiers on the fifth floor turned and jumped onto the tower.At this point, the mission of the giant shield stacking array is declared complete.

When the formation of the heavy armored infantry was withdrawn, only 300 of the original 100 soldiers were safe, more than [-] soldiers were injured, and more than [-] soldiers died of exhaustion.

At the same time, Gao Shun commanded the rest of the infantry to storm the gate. Under the cover of giant shield soldiers, three city-charging chariots rammed into the gate one after another, causing the heavy gate to rattle.

"Ding Ding Ding"

Just as the siege battle was in full swing, Yuan Shaoshuai's flag on the gate tower of Yuanmen was suddenly cut off, and then a rapid and crisp golden sound was heard.

"Uh! What does this mean? Could it be that the defenders want to open the city and surrender?"

Li Lidun, who was in charge of the Chinese army, was surprised when he saw the drastic changes on the tower, and said in disbelief.

"Exactly!" Guo Jia affirmed with joy after hearing the sound.

Immediately, he pointed to two scribes in robes standing in the middle of the tower surrounded by many soldiers, and said to Li Li: "Look, my lord, among the two scribes, on the left is Xun Chen, a famous scholar from Yingchuan, and Xun Youruo. The person on the right is Guo Tu and Guo Gongze. If my minister's predictions are correct, these two people should be the chief officers of the defenders. Therefore, when they saw our soldiers had already climbed the tower, they panicked and hurriedly chopped Cut off Yuan Shaoshuai's flag, trying to switch and please surrender. I don't know what the lord will do?"

"Switch, please surrender?" Li Li's expression changed slightly, and after a moment of contemplation, he sneered and said, "Being arrogant and respectful, you don't cry when you don't see the coffin! Why didn't you surrender before, but now that our army has climbed the tower, they stand up and ask drop?

However, it is okay to surrender at this time. I am happy to see it succeed, but our army will not stop attacking the city.Since they want to open the city and surrender, then prove their sincerity with practical actions and open the gate immediately!Other than that, there is no other way.Our army's siege situation is very good. If this continues, our army will be able to capture the Yuanmen in less than half an hour. At that time, it will be up to them whether they surrender or not. If they do not surrender, they will die! "

"Uh Nuo, I have just sent someone to shout out. I think they will obey the lord's order." Guo Jia originally wanted to intercede for Xun Chen and Guo Tu, but after seeing the unquestionable expression on Li Li's face , Immediately give up this thought, and then respectfully lead the order to leave.