Li Huaian's three lieutenants led the cavalry almost like tigers down the mountain. With the support of military discipline, life and death, fighting instinct and the blood flow, they followed their generals and fiercely rushed to the river.
Then, with a mentality that everything would be broken if the pottery collided with it, he collided hard with the infantry formation of the Habayashi Army in front of him.
After all, the Yulin Army had gone through the baptism of several wars between Longyoudao and Luzhou. Although the pressure was great, no one fled. The crossbowmen fought desperately with the archers of the Li thieves on the opposite side. Arrows from both sides were like rain. Next, the wails were simply covered up by the shouts of killing and the sounds of arrows flying into the air.
The first meeting between the two sides was like a collision, and they quickly reached a stalemate.
This is how war is, and this is how charge should be.
You can't line up in an extremely neat formation, and then bump into each other and fight one after another.
Those are all film and television effects.
This is how a real war is. There is no formation at the beginning of the charge. It is purely for the bold. There are also some veterans who will rush to the front. They have no worries and just want to kill people.
It can be said that he is just killing people like crazy, or he has become an executioner long ago, and he is still uncomfortable without killing people.
Only those who have their own family members, wives and children behind them will rush behind if they have concerns in their hearts, and will try their best to avoid the enemy's arrows, and then look for the best opportunity to fight. If you can't beat them, then run away. , try to survive in this battle.
More than 6,000 Li Ze's former troops and nearly 10,000 Yue Hongling's Yu Lin's former troops started fighting on the moat. Naturally, stampedes inevitably began to occur. Many soldiers wearing armors accidentally fell into pieces. He was pushed off the pontoon and fell directly into the moat.
Soon, the battle on the moat came to an end. Li Thief's front army of more than 6,000 cavalry, infantry, crossbowmen, etc. failed to stop the Yu Lin Army's front army.
In comparison, whether it is morale or concerns, the Yu Lin Army's side is different from Li Thief's side.
One is morale. The Yulin Army has great righteousness and is here to put down the rebellion.
They are officers and soldiers, and Li Thief's side is a bandit soldier.
There is also the general trend. In the battle of Phoenix Ridge, Li Thief had lost the general trend, while the imperial court occupied the general trend.
As a result, the morale brought to the soldiers will naturally be different.
Thieves are naturally afraid of officials.
Then there are worries. They all have parents, wives and children, but the soldiers on the Yulin Army know that even if they die in battle, their parents, wives and children will receive a lot of pensions and receive preferential treatment from the court.
So even if you die in battle, it's still worth it.
But Li Thief's side is different. If he dies in battle, Jinyang will not be able to protect him, regardless of whether he will receive a pension, and his wife and children will probably be bullied because of his absence.
Li Huaian, who was standing on the watchtower, turned blue, and the knuckles of his fingers turned slightly white as he tightened his grip on the riding crop.
If possible, he would like to use more soldiers and horses to stop the Yulin army and prevent them from crossing the moat.
But he didn't dare and couldn't.
The real battlefield is still on this city wall.
But defending the city does not require so many soldiers, and the city cannot accommodate cavalry.
What to do?
Naturally, we had to fight outside the city first.
Finally stick to it.
Waiting for Meng Yuan to see the chaos in Jinyang and take the opportunity to go south.
Seeing that the front army finally repelled Li Thief's army and began to cross the river in large areas from the upper reaches, Yue Hongling immediately ordered people to raise the blue flag, and smoke and dust appeared in the northeast.
It can be said that the successful crossing of the river by Yue Hongling's former army made Li Huaian's emotions somewhat out of control.
Because Yue Hongling's flag was still flying on the top of the mountain, and then, a cavalry appeared in the northeast of Jinyang City. The front troops he placed outside the city certainly could not stop the heavy armored cavalry.
As a result, Li Huaian had to face a dilemma. How many troops should be allocated to stop the cavalry in the northeast, and how many troops should be left to defend against the heavy armored cavalry behind him?
Li Huaian quickly thought of something, something he had to face.
Yue Hongling's attack is so fierce that Jinyang may fall into a deadly battle in the future. The chance of waiting for the Meng Yuan army to come is slim.
However, what surprised Li Huaian was that the cavalry in the east appeared and began to cross the river through the pontoon bridge. The heavy armored cavalry behind him remained silent.
As a result, around the moat of Jinyang City, the soldiers of the Yulin Army began to use the ready-made pontoons on the river to open a large area of the battle line and expand the scope of the battlefield to demonstrate their numerical advantage.
The former army deployed by Li Thief outside the city was already struggling to hold on.
However, as the light cavalry of the Yulin Army joined the battlefield, and the artillery carriages behind them could also advance, there were many soldiers crossing the river on pontoon boats to fight. On the entire battlefield, there were as many as 30,000 Yulin Army, It began to gradually enter a state of excitement.
Countless soldiers of the Yulin Army, almost regardless of their formation, swarmed across the river from various pontoons and pontoon boats. However, the constant coming and going of Li's cavalry could no longer control the situation.
After the main battle outside Jinyang City lasted for a little more than an hour, the outcome of this battle was completely determined.
So far, all of Yue Hongling's front troops have successfully crossed the river, and the pontoon bridge behind them is also being quickly built, because the artillery car must continue to advance forward before it can hit its target.
Li Huaian's main force remaining outside the city also collapsed. Some people shouted to open the city gate and let them return to the city. However, the city gate was closed tightly. There were even archers shooting arrows on the city wall, forcing them to go back and continue fighting.
Li Huaian found it difficult to accept this fact. He stood where he was, falling into panic and hesitation.
Originally, he thought that the former army outside the city could stop Yue Hongling, or at least stop them so that the enemy army could not cross the river in a short time.
Who would have thought that Yue Hongling forced herself to cross the river and finally succeeded.
The delaying tactics of the former army outside the city failed to work. Instead, they are now in a rout. If this continues, it will inevitably have a certain impact on the guards on the city wall and will greatly reduce the morale of their side.
Morale cannot be touched, but it can be seen. Just like now, he ordered the crossbowmen to shoot arrows to force the front army to continue fighting.
If it were in the past, his order would definitely be effective immediately, and no one would doubt or hesitate.
Now, they hesitated.
This is morale.
The hesitation of the soldiers was out of worry. Once they hesitated, they would not dare to fight to the death. How could a soldier who did not dare to fight to the death win a war?
In fact, Li Huaian ignored one issue, and that was the human heart.
In the past, he was the eldest son of the Duke of Tang, and he was the one who would inherit the position of Duke in the future. If he performed meritorious service in guarding Jinyang, he might even be granted a title.
The key is that Li Yuan was really good at governing Jinyang, and the entire Hedong Road was a scene of peace and contentment.
At this time, the soldiers were naturally willing to follow Li Huaian to resist the Meng Yuan and suppress some horse bandits together.
Because at this time, Li Huaian actually occupied the great righteousness. He was the eldest son of Duke Daqian, and they were all officers and soldiers.
But now, as Li Huaian launched a rebellion and led them south, they were defeated by the prince of the prison country.
They become thieves.
However, are these soldiers really willing to accept the identity of thieves?
When Li Huaian failed to defeat the Crown Prince in Phoenix Ridge, he had already begun to lose a lot of things.
When Li Thief's former army fled outside Jinyang City and wanted to enter the city, but was forced to continue fighting by his order, it already chilled the hearts of many people.
Seeing that something was wrong, Yu Wenbao shouted to surrender.
This action directly led to the final collapse of Li Thief's former army.
The auxiliary soldiers around the former military camp also began to surrender. Some of the infantry who were still fighting simply threw away their weapons and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands.
The cavalrymen who were still continuing to fight were suddenly confused.
Should he continue to attack and break through, or should he dismount and surrender?
Yue Hongling immediately asked someone to raise the red flag, and then ordered two deputy generals to go up and take over Li Thief's defeated army.
At the same time, the Chinese army, which was almost rested, was also asked to step forward and begin to take over the battlefield from the front army and launch a charge against Jinyang City.
The surrendered troops of Li Thief in front were escorted back by Yue Hongling's former troops. On the pontoon bridge built, the soldiers were going back and forth quickly.
One goes back, the other goes forward.
At dusk, such a scene looks shocking.
On the city wall, Jinyang's Li thieves defenders began to panic.
This is simply a lack of confidence.
Now I have seen such a scene.
How not to panic.
They all thought that the soldiers outside the city could hold off the enemy for several days.
When these people were arranged by the prince to stay outside the city, they were still talking passionately on the general stage, and they all promised with patting their chests.
I never thought I would surrender so quickly.
Before the front army had completely withdrawn, the Chinese army had already begun to charge forward with shields, and the militiamen carried the shields and sent the ladders to the bottom of the city wall.
Once a wall ladder is erected, infantry will rush up immediately.
There are also crossbowmen shooting arrows at the city wall.
The gun carriage behind has also been set up.
"call!"
A voice breaks through the sky.
"Bang!"
The first shot hit the city wall directly, hitting the target with one shot.
The garrison on the city wall was suddenly smashed to the point of death, and a small gap appeared.
After receiving the signal, the militiamen rushed over immediately, set up the wall ladder, and the infantry would rush up.
Li Huaian had also been paying attention to the landing point of the artillery cart. Seeing this, he quickly asked people to fill the gap.
"Pour the golden soup!"
"Quick, pour the golden soup!"
"Throw stones!"
"Quickly, smash him to death!"
Li Huaian also ordered his own artillery vehicles to start counterattack.
Siege battles are the most difficult to fight.
Yue Hongling didn't expect to capture Jinyang City in one battle, but when the troops came to the city, they had to attack.
Fight first and then talk.
On the other side, Xin Qiji was also chasing Cheng Yaojin, because Cheng Yaojin got the news about Li Huaian and Yue Hongling led troops to attack Jinzhong.
Cheng Yaojin knew very well what Jinzhong City looked like now, so Jinyang City was probably surrounded by Yue Hongling.
He urgently needs to confront the enemy in Fenyang, which is naturally unwise. After all, there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses. On the way back, he can gather the soldiers and horses at various passes, which is almost 40,000.
With these 40,000 soldiers and horses, it can definitely be regarded as a good reinforcement force.
Cheng Yaojin made a quick decision to abandon Fenyang and return for help!
