Lord of the Gaming World Chapter 322: Battle for Hefei
"Dismount and prepare to attack the city!"
Yang Ye was unwilling to be robbed of Hefei by the soldiers and horses of other princes, and ordered the cavalry of the Invincible Legion to dismount and attack Hefei, where the city wall was broken.
The current city wall of Hefei is severely damaged, and it is not difficult to capture Hefei. Otherwise, once Hefei is turned into an iron wall by Huan Wen, Jiangnan's forces can attack Shouchun through Hefei in the future, posing a huge threat to Huainan and even the Central Plains.
"No matter which military general of Xuzhou Mu is on the opposite side, in front of me, Huan Wen, his head will be broken."
Huan Wen ambushed the crossbowmen. When Yang Ye led the dismounted cavalry to attack the city, the bowmen behind the parapet fired thousands of arrows and killed hundreds of the dismounted cavalry. Yang Ye's offensive was frustrated!
Considering the heavy losses, Yang Ye retreated temporarily.
"The dismounted cavalry is really not good at attacking cities. The defenders in Hefei seem to be good at using infantry and archers."
After losing hundreds of cavalry, Yang Ye immediately gave up attacking Hefei.
Seeing Yang Ye's invincible army stop attacking the city, Huan Wen showed a sure-footed expression.
The role of cavalry in Huainan is limited, not to mention siege warfare.
However, Yang Ye did not withdraw completely, but was waiting for the arrival of the servant army. Joan of Arc's Servant Legion has a group of soldiers who are not afraid of death, which can surprise the proud Huan Wen.
"Why hasn't he left yet. Is he waiting for reinforcements?" Huan Wen guessed Yang Ye's intentions, "Although there is no time to repair the city walls of Hefei, even if there are 30,000 more people, it is impossible to capture Hefei, which is guarded by Huan Wen."
When the Xuzhou Corps attacked Huainan, the sky gradually became gloomy, black clouds overwhelmed the city, and it soon rained heavily.
Yang Ye planned to wait for the arrival of the servant army and use the servant army to break the city, but the continuous heavy rain had a huge impact on the attack on Huainan, and the marching speed of the grain transport team was greatly slowed down.
Joan of Arc's servants arrived in Hefei in the rain, and the water levels of the surrounding rivers and lakes rose sharply.
"In this kind of bad weather, if you can attack Hefei by force, the defenders of Hefei can be caught off guard and can easily capture Hefei. Is the morale of your servant army available?"
Yang Ye knows that bad weather is also a fighter plane.
Joan of Arc replied: "My inspiration to the Legion is not affected by adverse circumstances."
"Then it can be done."
Yang Ye has already made up his mind.
The heavy rain made the road muddy, and Chutian's rear army finally came to Shouchun City.
Zang Ba and Sun Guan's Langya Defense Corps and Mi Fang's East China Sea Defense Corps arrived and took orders under the Chutian tent.
"Besiege the city, and once the rain stops, attack immediately."
Chutian wants to capture the strong Shouchun City, and it is estimated that he will have to pay a small price.
"I don't know if the infantry that attacked Hefei can succeed."
Chutian saw the rainy weather, and the army formed by Yang Ye and Joan of Arc to attack Hefei would most likely be affected by the rainy weather.
The weather is equally important to marching operations.
Chutian is considering taking advantage of the rising water level of the Huai River to see if it can flood Shouchun City.
However, the use of water attack is a big project, and it takes a lot of time to dig the river. Moreover, after the Shouchun City is submerged, the damage to the city and the impact on the people's hearts are the price of breaking the city.
Chu Tian hesitated whether to use the double-edged sword of water attack. Unless he has a better way.
In Hefei City, the defender Huan Wen inspected the city defenses. Seeing that there was no movement in the enemy's camp, he thought that the enemy had given up attacking Hefei, so he returned to the county government at ease.
In the rain, Joan of Arc held a battle flag soaked by the heavy rain, and led the army of servants to attack in the heavy rain!
Tens of thousands of servants, carrying ladders, frantically cling to the city wall, breaking through from the northeast corner!
The Hefei defenders never imagined that there were still legions that could launch an attack in such bad weather. Unprepared, they fought against the city wall with the legions of servants who had climbed the city.
Armored knights armed with a poleaxe can break through the defenses of most armies. They are like ghosts in a heavy rain, knocking down a defender with a poleaxe, and then swinging the axe to cut it down!
In the heavy rain, the bow and crossbow were almost useless. The soldiers on both sides fought hand-to-hand, using swords and spears to kill hundreds of people!
Joan of Arc, armed with a knight's sword, engages several defenders who besiege her.
A large shield hit Joan of Arc, and her feet slipped, nearly falling from the city wall of Hefei.
The city wall of Hefei is at least eight meters high, and it is almost impossible to survive a fall from the city wall.
Several of the defenders charged at Joan of Arc with spears, who hurriedly used her shield to block three spears, but one stabbed her in the shoulder!
Joan of Arc chopped off a spear with a knight's sword and blocked it with a shield, blood dripping down her shoulder. She stabbed to death three defenders alone.
The soldiers defending the city probably realized that this was the enemy's main general, so more defenders came to besiege Joan of Arc.
"Protect the General!"
The knights of the Servant Legion stood in front of Joan of Arc. The knights' swords, long axes, and broadswords and spears collided, struggling to repel the defenders.
The Servant Legion had an unexpected advantage, and with high morale, the defenders were losing ground.
"I didn't expect her ability to be really terrifying. This kind of bad weather can also boost morale."
Yang Ye was ready to enter the city. His division of labor with Joan of Arc is simple. Joan of Arc was responsible for using her ability to attack Hefei in the heavy rain. After capturing the city gate, Yang Ye led the cavalry into the city and occupied Hefei!
The Servant Corps quickly occupied a section of the city wall, killed the defenders of the city gate, seized a city gate, opened the city gate and let Yang Ye's cavalry enter the city!
"Kill!"
Yang Ye took the lead and led 10,000 cavalry into the city. The huge horse hooves trampled the water, and the water splashed!
"General, the enemy has occupied the city gate, and the cavalry is marching straight in!"
Huan Wen was planning to rest when there were shouts of killing in the city. Joan of Arc's servant army had seized the city gate and let Yang Ye's cavalry enter the city!
"The morale of their legion cannot be enough to attack the city in the heavy rain! All personal soldiers, follow me to defend the enemy!"
Although Huan Wen doesn't know why the enemy's morale is still high when the rain is continuous, but the enemy has already entered the city at this time, and only by expelling them as soon as possible can it be possible to defend Hefei!
When Hefei falls, the pressure on Lujiang will be unprecedented in the future!
Yang Ye's cavalry galloped on the streets of Hefei. Yang Ye rushed to the front and stabbed with a red tassel, killing several Chai Sang soldiers along the way!
"Place the spears!"
Huan Wen led his personal soldiers to form a spear formation in an attempt to prevent Yang Ye from taking Hefei.
Both parties know the importance of Hefei.
Yang Ye took advantage of the fact that Huan Wen's spear formation had not yet formed, and rushed into the enemy formation!
Even light cavalry have the ability to charge the enemy frontally!
Yang Ye's cavalry followed the main general and rushed forward. The warhorse knocked down the enemy on the opposite side, and the horse's hooves trampled over them!
With a spear in hand, Yang Ye slaughtered and swept away!
The cavalry behind him moved forward with the gap opened by Yang Ye, tearing apart the infantry phalanx that the opponent blocked on the street!
In the situation where the bow and crossbow were difficult to use, the cavalry did not have to worry about being attacked from a long distance. They followed Yang Ye closely and charged the enemy in batches!
Huan Wen tried his best to maintain the formation and slowed the advance of Yang Ye's cavalry.
"All officers and men, only a deadly battle can survive!"
Inspired by Huan Wen, the infantry, which had collapsed, regained their strength and slowed the impact of Yang Ye's cavalry.
The two sides saw each other in the streets, and the narrow streets had great restrictions on the role of the cavalry. When the speed of the cavalry dropped, it turned into a battle of the flesh, in close hand-to-hand combat with the infantry with halberds and spears, each with casualties.
The cost of cavalry is much higher than that of infantry. Huan Wen took advantage of the narrow terrain to bring a large number of casualties to Yang Ye's invincible army.
There were dozens of infantrymen who died under Yang Ye's hands, but there were still a steady stream of infantrymen from the rear, stabbing at Yang Ye with spears.
In less than half an hour, hundreds of cavalry and infantry were killed!
While the two sides were at a stalemate, the Eastern Ying warriors and the soldiers of the Arab Empire from the servant army detoured to the rear of Huan Wen, and attacked Huan Wen with Yang Ye. This group of fanatical warriors and believers rushed into the enemy line at any cost, slashing with samurai swords and Damascus knives, resulting in the death of dozens of Chaishan soldiers in the rear!
The front and back attack caused the morale of the Huan Wen army to collapse, and Huan Wen was defeated!
Seeing that the situation was over, Huan Wen didn't know how many enemies there were, so he led his soldiers to a city gate and ran away.
The Huanwen Legion had a large number of soldiers, and Huanwen wanted to retreat. The Invincible Legion and the Servant Legion who were chasing were killed and wounded by the Huanwen Legion.
"What a formidable opponent."
Yang Ye saw that Huan Wen could still cause a lot of casualties to his cavalry when he was pinched, and his expression was dignified, letting the rain fall into the pool of blood along the armor.
In the battle of Hefei, the casualties on both sides combined, at least 2,000 people, Joan of Arc was injured.
Huan Wen was defeated and retreated, and a considerable part of the reason was that he did not know the strength of Yang Ye and Joan of Arc.
"I'm not willing to fail!"
Huan Wen withdrew from Hefei and suddenly felt that something was wrong. He may overestimate the strength of the other side. The Eastern Ying warriors and Arab Empire soldiers who attacked his army just now may have only a few hundred people together.
"General, our reinforcements have arrived!"
When Huan Wen was frustrated, Zu Ti of Lujiang led 20,000 Lujiang troops to support Huan Wen and joined with Huan Wen's Chai Sang soldiers.
“Why is Hefei lost?”
"I overestimated the strength of the enemy. Together, we can regain the fat!"
"Good!"
Zu Ti and Huan Wen joined forces, with 30,000 to 40,000 people, and turned back to attack Hefei!
Hefei is too important to them!
It may take 10,000 or 20,000 casualties to capture Hefei now, but if you don't take it now, Hefei may become a meat grinder in the future, and it may not be possible to capture 100,000 casualties.
"The enemy is returning!"
Yang Ye had just expelled Huan Wen who occupied Hefei, and Huan Wen made a comeback. Yang Ye and Joan of Arc became the defenders, and they fought hard to defend Hefei.
The minions and the dismounted cavalry came to the city wall to hold their ground, and the two sides fought in the heavy rain!
Joan of Arc continued to fight with her sword after wrapping gauze around her shoulders.
Zu Ti and Huan Wen ordered the soldiers to set up a cloud ladder, climb up, and attack Hefei before Yang Ye had a foothold!
Although the big princes behind the two sides have no tendency to fight each other at this time, they have already fought for the key Hefei. Whoever can obtain Hefei will take the initiative in the future!
A large number of Lujiang soldiers and Chai Sang soldiers climbed up the city from all directions. A soldier with a heavy hammer knocked out a knight in full armor, and then he hammered it down again, and the knight as a high-level soldier would also be killed. The eastern warriors were stabbed to death by spears, and the soldiers of the Arab Empire were singled out.
In order to kill the fanatical servant soldiers, a large number of soldiers and horses of Lujiang and Chaisang were killed, and corpses were scattered everywhere in the city.
"What is the origin of this army of strange soldiers?"
Zu Ti and Huan Wen commanded a tragic siege in the heavy rain. They were amazed at the fighting strength and morale of the servant army.
What they didn't know was that all the servants were high-level troops, and only Chu Tian was willing to use them as cannon fodder.
Most of Zu Ti and Huan Wen's soldiers were low-ranking soldiers.
Yang Ye used a gun to sweep away the enemies on the city wall, and all the enemies who climbed the city fell under his red spear.
In order to compete for Hefei, the two sides fought fiercely until nightfall. The soldiers struggled to even swing their swords, and the battle ended.
"Huh...huh..."
Joan of Arc supported her body with a long sword, and her physical strength reached its peak.
When both sides realized the importance of Hefei, they attacked at any cost.
Hou Jing was unable to protect himself, so he gave Zu Ti and Huan Wen of Lujiang a chance to occupy Hefei, while Yang Ye and Joan of Arc went south to capture Hefei under the order of Chutian, and a tragic battle broke out in the end.
The next day, the two sides rested a little and fought again in the heavy rain. The battle was endless!
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Under Shouchun City, Chu Tian looked at the continuous rain. He had already received news that Yang Ye and Joan of Arc were stationed in Hefei, and they were fighting the army suspected of coming from Lujiang. Among them, Joan of Arc was injured in the rain~IndoMTL.com~, so the fever persisted. Chutian asked Li Lan, a physician accompanying the army, to go to Hefei.
At the same time, Chutian dispatched Zang Ba and Sun Guan's Langya Defense Corps, 15,000 people, to the south to support Yang Ye and Joan of Arc.
Chu Tian didn't trust Mi Fang's abilities very much, while Zang Ba and Sun Guan were very reliable.
Zang Ba became a one-eyed dragon, and Sun Guan limped, but they were all military generals who dared to go all out.
The legion that has the ability to compete with Yang Ye for Hefei is obviously the legion of Tongque, the prefect of Lujiang, who stays behind in Lujiang.
"Bronze Sparrow must know the importance of Hefei, so he did not hesitate to send the army to attack Hefei. Maybe when Shouchun is captured, I can also attack Lujiang."
Although Chutian did not declare war with Tongque, but during the period of separatism, various alliances and conspiracies were not uncommon.
Chu Tian was besieged but did not attack. Hou Jing was worried that the Xuzhou Army would sneak attack in the heavy rain, so he sent people to patrol day and night, and even came to guard the city wall in person.
During this period, Hou Jing tried to lead his troops out of the city to attack Chutian's main army tent, but was repelled by Xue Rengui and Hua Mulan.
Guo Jia followed Hou Jing on the city wall to look at the camp of the Xuzhou Corps in the heavy rain, but his expression was relatively calm.
As long as the rain stops, Hou Jing will soon die.
The reason why the siege party under the city was silent was that they were unwilling to attack in the rain, and there were too many casualties.