Chapter 677 Street Fighting
The Nanchuan soldiers guarding the city wall to the west of Qinghe City had only a thousand battles, but relying on effective tactics to block the Rong people from the city wall and it was difficult to advance in an instant.
The bodies of Rong soldiers were thrown down from the city wall and piled up in chaos under the city wall. Tens of thousands of Rong cavalrymen in the distance were as silent as a mountain. Although their faces were filled with indignation, no one dared to ask for battle to launch a new attack.
The elite Rong clans always had to be the first in every battle and rushed to the front, but this time they kicked on the iron plate, hundreds of Rong clan warriors jumped into the city wall, and then turned into corpses and threw them down from the city wall. No one knew what was happening behind the city wall, killing the elite warriors.
The Rong tribe implemented a system of combining soldiers and civilians. On weekdays, shepherds horses and sheeps are the people, but they are the soldiers when they fight together. Because they grew up on horseback since childhood, the people are strong in fighting ability, and the personal guards who belong to various nobles are the main force and leader in combat.
Now, most of these hundreds of elite soldiers who were under Wushu Wanqiu lost in a short period of time, which made the other Rong soldiers who were temporarily pieced together a little timid. They were like wolves on the grassland. With the death of the head wolf, the morale of the entire wolf pack suddenly plummeted.
Wanqi Changwushu sat upright on his divine dark horse, staring at the city wall not far away with a pair of narrow and gloomy eyes, as if they wanted to see the city wall through, but after looking for a long time, he couldn't find anything strange about the city wall. He really couldn't figure out what was on the city wall that could kill hundreds of his elite warriors in a short time.
You should know that these hundreds of people were not temporarily recruited herdsmen, but professional soldiers. They were all brave and brave warriors selected from the tribe, and their strength was also one to one. In previous battles, he only needed to send these people to launch a charge with herders and militias, and there was no city that could not be captured.
But this time he felt that it was not that simple. There seemed to be not many defenders on the city wall, but he could kill so many warriors. He raised the other party that had to ambush the ambush in the west city wall, otherwise he would not be able to explain his doubts.
"snort!"
Wu Shu snorted heavily. He had already learned through investigation that the Nanchuan soldiers in the city were just the vanguard of the Nanchuan Army. Although he was lucky enough to capture Qinghe City, his strength was not strong. Now he mysteriously killed so many of his warriors, which was nothing more than that they were guilty and wanted to intimidate themselves to retreat with this.
I was so scared. After Wu Shu figured it out, he suddenly felt much more comfortable in his heart. He waved his hand and ordered: "Attacking from all sides at the same time, I want to see how long they can last!"
Wu Shu led 30,000 cavalry to capture Qinghe City this time just to seize food from the Nanchuan Army. As for their millions of Rong clans, the Nanchuan Army did not take it seriously.
"Sir Sergeant, it seems that they are going to attack at the same time from all sides." The thousand-man chief looked at the Rong people who began to divide the troops, worried.
Li Qing gritted his teeth: "Tell me the orders of various thousand-person teams. This battle is not only about our life and death, but also about the face of our Nanchuan Army. People are in the city, so we must prepare for success and death."
"At the same time, tell every soldier that our Nanchuan Army cannot be underestimated. We will fight hard. If we die in the battle, the young and young men in our family will help us take care of them. Don't worry."
Compared with the other officers, Li Qing thought for a long time. Qinghe City now belongs to their Nanchuan Army. If the Rong tribe takes it away, it will be a slap in the face of their Nanchuan Army and will bring shame to the Nanchuan Army. This is something that Li Qing cannot afford. More importantly, the Nanchuan Army is now at an important moment of its rise. If this battle is lost, the rise of the Nanchuan Army will inevitably be greatly affected.
The Rong soldiers' siege were very special. They were usually covered by crossbowmen. The soldiers of Pancheng used iron hook ropes to grab the city and opened the city gate. After the initial adaptation, the Nanchuan soldiers flexibly changed their tactics and caused great casualties to the Rong soldiers who were sieging the city.
"The first person who broke the city rewarded ten thousand golds and was granted the title of Thousand Cavalry Captain!"
Wu Shu was furious when he saw the siege on all sides and still couldn't take Qinghe City. In order to inspire the morale of the army, he gave a heavy reward.
The message of the commander Wu Shu passed the words of the troops to various troops, which immediately caused a burst of cheers of thunder and thunder. This is a real reward. If you rely on the accumulation of military achievements, you have to kill at least dozens of heads to become a thousand people long. Ten thousand gold is more like an astronomical figure, which makes the Rong soldiers dizzy.
Every Rong soldier spent only two or three gold coins a year on the grassland. A poor family even spent dozens of silver coins a year, so tens of gold were enough for them to live a good life for the rest of their lives.
There must be brave men under the heavy reward. The Rong soldiers rushed towards Qinghe City with a scream, in order to be the first to break the city. Tens of thousands of Rong soldiers pressed towards Qinghe City in a black and increased the pressure on the defenders.
There were too few Nanchuan soldiers guarding. Although they had three layers of defensive tactics as support, their fronts began to loosen when faced with these fierce Rong soldiers who were stimulated by heavy rewards.
The Nanchuan soldiers' spears were not yet pulled out of the Rong soldiers' chests, and another Rong soldiers had already been bullied. More and more Rong soldiers climbed onto the city wall. The result was that the comparison of troops on the city wall had reversed. The number of Nanchuan soldiers was getting smaller and smaller, and Rong soldiers were getting more and more.
Although the Nanchuan soldiers of each thousand-person team were fighting against the Rong soldiers who were attacking the city wall with the intention of survival, the huge gap in strength caused their casualties to increase, and almost all the front-line city walls had fallen.
"General Li, you can't fight like this anymore. You will fight so hard." I don't know when the former Red Turban Soldier General Liu Bin had already rushed to the city wall and fought side by side with Li Qing.
"Even if we fight all, the young marshal will avenge us!" Li Qing's eyes were red at this moment.
As the chief of the sergeant of the corps, Li Qing always had to do something to lead the troops to fight. He was a military officer fighting on the front line. In his simple thought, even if he died in battle, it would be a glorious thing. He would never retreat in the face of a strong enemy and should not lose the people of the Nanchuan Army.
It is precisely because countless soldiers like Li Qing who always charge on the front line of combat and infected countless ordinary soldiers, which made the Nanchuan Army fight without retreating in a series of fierce battles. Even if the casualties are severe, the entire army will stick to its position. They are the backbone of the Nanchuan Army and support the powerful combat power of the Nanchuan Army.
But the sergeants also have limitations, because they are only responsible for charging and only need to follow orders. When they leave commanders and chiefs of staff at all levels who are in charge of the overall situation, their shortcomings are exposed after they still rush.
Now Li Qing is like this. The order he received was to raid Qinghe Province and then occupy it and wait for the subsequent main force to arrive. Therefore, in his mind, even if he died, he had to defend Qinghe City. Even if the entire army was wiped out, he would be reluctant to say that he was just a stubborn person than to faithfully execute the order.
"General Li, why do we have to fight for the best? Even if we don't fight for the best, we can defend Qinghe City." Liu Bin was grateful to Li Qing for not killing, so he wanted to do something to repay the Nanchuan Army.
Seeing Li Qing's puzzled face, Liu Bin continued: "As long as we retreat into the city and rely on the complex streets and alleys to fight against the Rong people, this will not only reduce losses, but also protect Qinghe City."
"We are not familiar with the city and cannot engage in street fighting." Li Qing said after thinking about it.
"There are three thousand new soldiers in the city. They were my subordinates and were very familiar with the city. If the two armies merged and they led the way, you were responsible for fighting and cooperated with each other, it should not be a problem."
Li Qing is very confused now. He never believed the three thousand newly-edited Red Turban soldiers. After all, he had not received ideological education yet. What if they stabbed the knife in the back?
"General Li, please believe me, I promise they all obey orders." Liu Bin shouted anxiously.
"Okay, then I'll trust you once."
Chapter completed!