As expected, there is a "city wall" standing at the mouth of the eastern section of the Weilan River Valley.
However, this city wall is different from the city walls that people have seen in the past. It is not made of square bricks, but hastily piled up with stones and wood. It looks like it is arrogant and disorderly.
To be precise, this is an extremely irregular earth barrier.
Although it looks ugly, this earthen city wall is more than two feet high, with a gate passage in the middle. At this time, the gate of the earthen fortress had been tightly closed, and the city walls were filled with armed soldiers, holding swords and guns high, bows and arrows.
There is a black flag at the top of the city, embroidered with a pattern of blazing flames. This is the second army of Zhenjiang, codenamed "Fire"!
Looking at the blazing flags fluttering in the wind, Tani couldn't help but be secretly shocked: It turned out that the Zhenjiang Army used not only the "Thunder" Third Army to deal with him, but also the "Fire" Second Army.
The smell of conspiracy is already very obvious.
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The opponent looked prepared and confident, obviously not worried about the Western Xinjiang coalition launching an attack, and Tani naturally did not dare to act rashly. He quickly sent people to check behind to see what was going on at the entrance to the valley.
Not long after, the spies reported that a strange city wall also appeared at the mouth of the valley behind them.
That city wall was all lined up with vehicles filled with stones. Although it wasn't as imposing as the arrogant earthen fortress here, it was still solid and solid.
More importantly, there were more Zhenjiang troops stationed there, and there were also archers on the cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance. The rear guard that Tani had left outside the river valley had disappeared.
In other words, the Right Army was trapped in the Weilan Valley by the Zhenjiang Army.
Although the name of this place is a river valley, there is not even a drop of water in it; both sides of the river valley are steep cliffs that are difficult to climb, and the front and rear paths have been blocked by the other side's defenses.
"The Art of War" "Nine Places Chapter" says: The place you enter is narrow, the place you return is roundabout, and the enemy's few can attack our army, it is an encirclement. If you fight quickly, you will survive; if you do not fight quickly, you will die. This is the place of death.
This means: the road to enter is narrow, the road to exit is long, and the area where the enemy can defeat our large forces with a small number of troops is called an encircled area; if we fight quickly, we can survive, and if we don't fight quickly, we will be wiped out. The area is called a dead area.
Therefore, for Tani and her right army, the Welland Valley is definitely a veritable "encirclement" and "death place"!
Tani was also a general who was good at fighting. He knew very well that the situation at this moment was dangerous, so he ordered his men without hesitation to immediately launch a fierce attack on the city wall, trying to find a bloody way out as soon as possible.
The soldiers of the right army also knew that the situation was critical and that if they hesitated for a moment, they might be doomed, so they dismounted one after another and launched a fierce attack on the barrier in front of them.
Upon seeing this, the Zhenjiang troops guarding the earthen base quickly drew their bows and fired arrows, pouring a dense rain of arrows into the enemy group. Even more exaggerated, they even brought in trebuchets and smashed kerosene bombs into the river valley through the earthen ramparts.
Within a short time, corpses were lying everywhere in the entire Welland Valley, and thick smoke was billowing.
Tani and the others attacked more than twenty times, killing and injuring thousands, but they could not even climb up the edge of the earthen fortress.
At this time, a large number of soldiers also appeared on the cliffs on both sides of the earthen fortress. They raised stones and rolled logs and threw them down randomly, causing the soldiers and horses of Shule to suffer miserably. At such a high distance and in such a narrow space, even a stone the size of an egg falling could kill someone. What's more, all the Zhenjiang Second Army threw down were boulders as big as millstones!
In the blink of an eye, no one could stand in front of the earthen barrier. The right army, which was still attacking desperately, retreated in panic.
Seeing that there was no way forward, Tani hurriedly adjusted his direction and turned his troops back, trying to break through the vehicle barrier at the entrance of the valley.
However, I didn’t expect that this side would be even harder to chew!
Although the chariot barrier is much shorter than the earth barrier, the guards here are also the Zhenjiang Second Army, and they are the main force of the Second Army. Their number is two or three times more than that of the earth barrier in front. There are archers everywhere. Before Tani's soldiers and horses could get closer, they heard a harsh buzzing sound, and then arrows like locusts all over the sky came towards them.
The army on the right was almost trapped and still fighting, risking flying arrows and rushing forward with all its strength. Finally, someone approached the vehicle barrier position.
Unfortunately, they were just about to jump up and clear a path for the large number of people behind them. Unexpectedly, countless shirtless warriors suddenly jumped out from behind the car barrier and charged towards them with long knives.
The Zhenjiang Army actually took the lead in launching a counterattack!
Du Jian, the commander-in-chief of the Second Army, went into battle in person, shirtless, wielding an extended version of the Huanshou knife, and took the lead in charging into the Shule crowd, charging left and right, invincible.
The Second Army, built according to the standards of the Zhenjiang Protectorate's "Jianzu Camp", fully demonstrated its terrifying murderous intent like a raging fire, forcibly turning the attackers from Shule into defenders, and the battle line retreated several times in a row. A hundred steps.
Tani mobilized his troops and continued to send reinforcements. The two sides broke out more than 20 charges and counterattacks, and they fought until it was completely dark before calling a truce.
Seeing that it was already late, the carriage position remained unmoved, and the right army, which had been fighting fiercely all day, had not made any progress and was already exhausted. Tani had no choice but to temporarily withdraw his troops and led the entire army back to the middle of the valley to camp and rest.
In order to boost morale, Tani kept cheering up his dejected subordinates: "Brothers, don't worry! Deputy Marshal Deman is still outside the valley. He will definitely lead the brothers in the rear army to meet us. At that time, we will If you attack the enemy from both front and back, you will definitely win a complete victory!"
Is Tani just looking at the plum blossoms to quench his thirst and drawing cakes to satisfy his hunger? Of course not, as he said, Deputy Marshal Deman of the Right Army did lead more than 10,000 people to stay outside the valley.
These 10,000 troops are all infantry, mainly responsible for escorting grain and grass, standing guard and other tasks. During the day, Tani led the main cavalry to pursue Li Jiangyao, leaving Deman behind to clean the battlefield, take care of the baggage, and at the same time monitor the security of the rear.
However, what Deman didn't expect was that while he was directing his men to clean up the battlefield, he suddenly saw a large number of Shengtang Town troops appearing in the direction of the entrance of Weilan Valley from a distance. Those people led ox carts and horse-drawn carriages, dragged stones to the mouth of the valley, and quickly deployed defensive fortifications.
Seeing this scene, De Man suddenly felt bad. He knew very well that this army that appeared out of thin air was blocking His Highness Tani's retreat.
Deman quickly gathered his troops and planned to launch an attack on the Zhenjiang Army in order to coordinate the rear passage of Tani's main force. Unfortunately, before his order was completely passed on, in the blink of an eye, smoke and dust suddenly billowed on the distant horizon, and there was the sound of hoofbeats.
Another group of Zhenjiang troops arrived!
After all, Tani underestimated Li Jiangyao. To deal with his right army were not only the "Thunder" Third Army and the "Fire" Second Army, but even the "Half Wind" First Army came.
The three main forces of the Zhenjiang Army's Metasequoia Corps, with a total of 50,000 elite troops, have now all appeared.
The Third Army is responsible for luring the enemy, the Second Army is responsible for the siege, and the First Army, which is dominated by heavy armored cavalry, is specifically responsible for clearing all obstacles and providing reinforcements.
Deman's soldiers and horses didn't even get into formation, but the armored cavalry of the First Army had already rushed nearby. At this moment, the Shule Army's formation was scattered and had flaws everywhere. What's worse, they were all infantry. If they wanted to resist the impact of heavy cavalry in the wilderness, it would be like throwing an egg against a stone.
Of course, Deman still has cavalry around him - the Turks' 1,000-gold-armored war team.
To be honest, the Turkic Golden Armor Army is still unambiguous. Seeing the Zhenjiang Army attacking fiercely, the golden-armored warriors immediately got on their horses and drew their scimitars without saying a word.
However, after they mounted their horses and drew their swords, they did not go to confront the Xinjiang Army. Instead, they all circled behind the German infantry and began to seriously perform their task of supervising the battle.
Seeing this, Deman was so angry that he almost vomited blood. However, at this time, he could no longer care about scolding the Jinjia Army and hurriedly commanded his men to meet the impact of the First Army.
From an objective point of view, German and his defenders are still very tenacious. Facing the wolf-like and tiger-like First Armored Cavalry Corps, this infantry unit that hurriedly responded to the challenge managed to hold on for half an hour. Such an achievement can be called "rare" even among the entire Western Xinjiang Allied Forces.
Of course, the Jinjiadu team also contributed to this.
A thousand golden-armored cavalry formed a skirmish line and stood behind the infantry with swords drawn. If anyone tried to escape or retreat, they would not say much nonsense and would just rush forward and strike with a knife. The attack was even more ruthless than the armored cavalry of the Zhenjiang Army.
The Shule infantry were sandwiched between two lines of cavalry. If they moved forward, they would be beaten by the Xinjiang Army, and if they moved backward, they would be hacked by the Turks. The miserable feeling was really unreasonable to outsiders.
Fortunately, this painful feeling didn't last long, only half an hour.
Half an hour later, 10,000 light infantry were completely swept away by 10,000 elite cavalry. The only ones who had a chance to escape were the 1,000 golden armored cavalry.
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Early the next morning, Tani, who didn't know that the reinforcements had long since disappeared, still led his men to continue to attack the car base position in the rear, planning to cooperate with Deputy Marshal Deman outside the valley at any time to stage a flanking attack and achieve great success. Wonderful show.
However, what surprised Tani and the right army was that after a night's rest, yesterday's low car barrier actually grew taller and bigger!
It turned out that while Tani and the others were sleeping soundly last night, the soldiers of the Second Army who were also exhausted did not rest. They carried stone and wood materials and built fortifications overnight. Based on the vehicle barrier, it only took four hours to upgrade it to an earth barrier more than two feet high!
Seeing this miraculous front, Tani and his men felt a sense of despair in their hearts.
What kind of people are guarding the opposite side? !
