Chapter 1461: Yue Fei attacked Jiangling City three times
Chapter 1461 Yue Fei attacks Jiangling City three times
Chapter 1459: Yue Fei attacks Jiangling City three times
Deng Yu, who ranks first among the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, is naturally not that simple. His strategy for dealing with Yue Fei is not complicated. It is basically a conspiracy, but it is precisely because of this that it is more difficult to crack.
Facing the endless and difficult-to-prevent traps set by Deng Yu, Yue Fei had no choice but to slow down his marching speed and fight steadily in order to minimize casualties.
Facing Yue Fei, who was fighting steadily and striving for stability, the traps set by Deng Yu naturally had no effect. He could only watch helplessly as Yue Fei destroyed all the traps and finally entered Jiangling City.
The journey from Xiangyang to Jiangling was only three hundred miles, but Yue Fei actually walked for twenty days and suffered 500 casualties of soldiers before he finally arrived at Jiangling City.
After arriving in Jiangling, Yue Fei was not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, he cut off all the traps outside the city step by step, and then divided his troops to seize surrounding counties.
Ten days later, all the county towns around Jiangling were captured, and Jiangling City was completely turned into an isolated city. Only then did Yue Fei officially begin to attack Jiangling City.
Yue Fei first sent his generals to call for battle. Deng Yu knew very well how powerful Yue Fei and his men were. He did not have any generals who could win with certainty, so he naturally did not dare to send his generals out of the city to fight against the generals.
Yue Fei saw that Deng Yu was determined not to fight no matter what, and he was not disappointed, so he recalled his generals and prepared to launch a strong attack.
Jiangling City has been completely built into a fortress by Liu Xiu. Not only has the city wall been raised much higher, but the defensive facilities have also been doubled, making it more than twice as difficult to break through as before.
Facing Jiangling City, which had almost no flaws in its defensive layout, Yue Fei was still full of confidence.
In order to capture Jiangling City this time, Yue Fei made extremely sufficient preparations. He brought a hundred catapults, forty wells, 500,000 rockets, and 30,000 cans of kerosene.
In addition, the Qin army in Jingzhou was even more elite. In addition to Yue Fei, the generals also included Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Han Shizhong, Yang Zaixing, Wenpin, Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Su Can, Yue Yun, etc.
The reason why Yue Fei launched such a large battle was to completely capture Jiangling City. After all, he had attacked it twice before, and each time he was almost able to break the city, but he always failed due to some non-combat reasons. This time Yue Fei vowed to avenge his past humiliation.
Jiangling City is undoubtedly a strong city. There are nearly 40,000 defenders in the city. If Yue Fei wants to break it with minimal casualties, he must make a clear plan in advance, and the first step is to fill in the moat.
Yue Fei adopted the method of surrounding three and missing one, surrounding the three gates in the east, west, north, and leaving only the south gate to give the defenders in the city a way to retreat and give them hope of survival, so as to prevent the defenders in the city from insisting on defending.
After that, Yue Fei quickly built three earth slopes outside the east, west, and north gates, and placed catapults on them to increase the range of the catapults. He then used the catapults to throw sandbags to fill the moat.
Deng Yu saw that Yue Fei had come up with such a method, and the range of the Qin army's catapults was much farther than that of the Chu army. Although Deng Yu had the idea of leading his army out of the city to destroy the catapults, he also knew that Yue Fei would definitely set up heavy troops. Protecting the catapult, leaving the city is equivalent to taking the initiative to send it to the door.
In the case where the troops are not superior in strength and the equipment and training are inferior, once they leave the city, they will definitely lose. Only by defending the city can we delay as much time as possible.
With this thought, Deng Yu could only give up this unrealistic idea and watched Jiangling's moat being filled in bit by bit.
The Qin army has a total of 100 catapults, which can throw 300 catapults a day. Each time they throw a bag of sandbags, they can throw a total of 30,000 bags a day.
Once a catapult breaks down, the Qin army will replace the damaged parts and continue to project.
Under the bombardment of 30,000 sandbags every day, the city walls of Jiangling City were fine. The whole city was covered with a heavy dust, and many people contracted respiratory diseases. After ten days of continuous bombardment with 300,000 bags of sandbags, the moat outside Jiangling City was finally completely filled.
Cities with moats are all big cities, and if a general big city is filled with a moat, one hundred thousand bags of sandbags would be more than enough. However, Yue Fei used a full three hundred thousand bags of sandbags in Jiangling City.
This shows how much hard work Deng Yu put into the defense of Jiangling and how wide and deep he dug the moat in Jiangling City.
The moat was filled in, and what followed was the bloodiest and most casualty siege.
Yue Fei only pretended to attack the other two gates. Instead, he concentrated his troops and launched the most violent attack on the north gate.
With the cover of sixty stone-throwing machines and twenty well gates, Yue Fei personally commanded 30,000 elite troops, as well as Yang Zaixing, Yue Yun and other generals to storm the north gate of Jiangling.
[Ding dong, Yue Fei’s skill ‘Wu Mu’ is activated, the commander +3 when fighting against foreigners, the commander +1 when fighting against the same tribe, Yue Fei’s basic commander is 100, and the current commander is increased to 101; ]
Yue Fei, the commander-in-chief of 101, beat the drum himself and commanded the army to attack the north gate of Jiangling. This naturally greatly boosted the morale of the Qin army. In addition, generals such as Yang Zaixing and Yue Yun also participated, which temporarily overwhelmed the defenders.
Deng Yu saw that the Qin army's offensive was so fierce on the first day, and even Yue Fei personally mobilized. In desperation, he could only lead his generals to sit at the north gate and command the defense of the city.
【Ding dong, Deng Yu’s skill ‘Bronze Wall’ is activated.
Bronze Wall: A unique skill for city defense. When personally commanding a city defense battle, the commander will gain +2, and the morale of the whole army will increase; ]
【Deng Yu: Commander 96, Force 80, Intelligence 95, Politics 98, Charisma 93
Deng Yu’s basic command is 96, and the skill ‘Bronze Wall’ activates command +2. The current command has increased to 98, and the morale of the Chu army has increased; ]
Facing Yue Fei, whose commander had risen to 101, Deng Yu had to personally sit at the north gate to defend the city. Only in this way could Jiangling be protected from being breached;
With Deng Yu's personal command and the desperate resistance of Liu Long, Wang Liang and other Yuntai generals, Yue Fei's fierce attack was finally blocked.
Yue Fei was not surprised at all by this. If he could break the city in one day, he would not have failed the previous two times.
After that, Yue Fei still personally directed the storming of the North Gate. During the five consecutive days of super-intensity onslaught, both the offensive and defensive sides were tense and extremely exhausted.
In just five days of siege, the Qin army lost 5,000 soldiers. However, the Chu army on the defensive side suffered no fewer casualties than the Qin army, with more than 4,000 soldiers killed.
According to common sense, the casualties of the attacking side should be at least double those of the defending side. This is a more reasonable situation.
However, the siege battle under the personal command of Yue Fei achieved a casualty ratio of close to one to one, which is somewhat unreasonable.
The reason why he was able to achieve close to one-to-one casualties was that, in addition to Yue Fei's extremely thorough preparations before the battle and the participation of many generals of the Qin army, the most important point was that Yue Fei had already thoroughly understood Jiangling's defenses.
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