In desperation, Wanyan Zongfu ordered a retreat in an attempt to get rid of the current predicament. After regaining morale, he captured Puzhou City in one fell swoop.
The army was defeated like a mountain!After the order to retreat was given, the Jin cavalry were fine and maintained their overall retreat formation, but the infantry and cavalry led by Liu Lin were far behind! No matter what food and grass, what siege equipment, what weapons, everything that can be discarded was abandoned. Even if they retreated, they would scatter all over the mountains and plains.
After more than [-] troops led by Yue Fei defeated the opponent's forward camp, he led his troops directly towards the enemy's camp. According to his arrangement, he planned to use the cavalry to use their speed advantage to outflank the enemy. Cover up from behind.
However, when Commander Yue Fei's army arrived at the enemy's camp, they found that the camp was completely deserted and only captured a few hundred old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who escaped relatively slowly.
Yue Fei was shocked when he saw the discard...
What made them so frightened that they retreated in embarrassment after losing so much military supplies?Was it those explosions?What happened to those explosions?Could it be that the county chief did it?
"General, should we continue to pursue the enemy while we are victorious?"
Yue Fei waved his hand, "Go back to the city!"
Bi Jin asked with some confusion, "Now that the enemy army is defeated, our army should take advantage of the victory and pursue it! Defeat them in one sentence."
"Don't chase the poor bandits, focus on defending the city as your main task!"
Yue Fei's guess was almost correct. The night harassment against Wanyan Zongfu's army in the past two days was all done by someone she appointed.
She knew the situation of the battle on the east road very well. It would be very difficult to defend Puzhou City with Yue Fei's 2-strong army alone. Even if he won, it would be a miserable victory!If the city is breached, Yue Fei will die in battle!
She didn't want anything to happen to Yue Fei, so she assigned Wen Boyuan, the very clever leader of the scout team of her private army, to follow Yue Fei's army to Puzhou with two men, and found a hidden place outside Puzhou City to wait. The arrival of enemy troops.
Wen Boyuan followed Zhao Yingluo's instructions and brought twenty clay bombs. Each clay ball was slightly larger than a palm and weighed about ten kilograms. The clay pots were tied with ropes.
According to Zhao Yingluo's instructions, they waited for the enemy troops to rest, then lit the fuse of the ceramic bomb and used a portable trebuchet to smash into the enemy camp.
As for avoiding the enemy's search, Wen Boyuan had another clever trick. As soon as the clay bomb was thrown, the three of them quickly climbed up a nearby tree to escape. Therefore, even if the scouts sent by Wanyan Zongfu passed under the big tree where they were living, they would not be able to escape. No trace of them was found.
Two consecutive nights of ceramic bomb attacks greatly affected the combat effectiveness of Wanyan Zongfu's army!After completing the mission, Wen Boyuan took his men back to Kaifeng to resume their duties on the next morning.
Wanyan Zongfu and Liu Lin fled fifty miles away with the remaining soldiers. Two consecutive nights of attacks made Wanyan Zongfu and Liu Lin exhausted, distracted, and without any fighting spirit.
Liu Lin said with a sad face, "General, what should we do?"
After gathering the army, more than [-] of the [-]-strong army had been lost without fighting, and the vast majority were Liu Lin's men. This made him extremely anxious and frightened!
He was a little afraid of Zhao Yingluo, afraid that she might have some unexpected tricks.
Wanyan Zongfu had a dark face, "What are you afraid of! Didn't we just lose 3 horses? Those people who are greedy for life and afraid of death may as well have escaped. Even if they don't escape now, they will not have any combat power when the war officially starts, which will affect the morale of the army! Today! Let’s rest for one night and attack the city early tomorrow morning!”
"General, Zhao Yingluo is full of tricks, so we must guard against her." "She can only carry out night attacks. Now that we have ordered the scouts to be more vigilant at night, we don't expect her to have any chance to attack again!"
Seeing Wanyan Zongfu being so confident, Liu Lin felt a little at ease...
"Give me the order to have the infantry as the rear guard to block the enemy's attack, and the cavalry to defend the two wings! Get down to the stronghold in a defensive formation!"
After the Chinese military tent was set up, Wanyan Zongfu was finally able to sleep peacefully before dawn. This sleep came at noon on the second day.
After resting for a day and a night, Wanyan Zongfu's army regained its strength. More than [-] men and horses were deployed in formation. All siege objects such as trebuchets, door-breaking logs, and bamboo ladders were fully equipped. The siege battle was about to officially begin. But what surprised them was that what was originally a siege battle turned into a confrontation battle!
Yue Fei actually brought only a few hundred cavalry out of the city to fight.
Seeing this situation, Wanyan Zongfu couldn't help laughing, "Using hundreds of cavalry against my tens of thousands of cavalry is simply asking for death! Today, I will go all out to capture Puzhou City and kill Yue Fei!"
Wanyan Zongfu waved the command flag to signal the entire army to the city gate, hundreds of cavalry led by Yue Fei also rushed out of the city to face the enemy.
Yue Fei knew in his heart that using a few hundred cavalry against thousands of golden soldiers was like hitting an egg against a his purpose was to attract the enemy's attention, cover the sneak attack army from the east and west gates, and buy time for the defense of Puzhou only did he want Wanyan Zongfu to know how powerful he was, but he also wanted him to understand that it would not be easy to capture Puzhou City.
When the Jin soldiers saw the cavalry led by Yue Fei charging towards them, they all waved their swords and rushed forward with planned to disperse the cavalry in one fell swoop, then cover them up and take Puzhou City directly.
However, Yue Fei's cavalry is not an easy the leadership of Yue Fei, not only were they not scattered, but they became more and more courageous as they fought, blocking tens of thousands of enemy troops under the city gate.
After being unable to capture the Puzhou city for a long time, Wanyan Zongfu walked around nervously in the central military tent. If he continued like this, the city would be destroyed, and the outcome was still uncertain.
Liu Lin, who was sitting in command, saw that the corpses of his own army were piled into a hill outside Puzhou City, and his body ached to the extreme!The siege battle relies on infantry. Only when the infantry storms the city wall and breaks through the city gate can the army enter the city and destroy the enemy.
Now that the siege has not achieved any obvious results, and our own side has suffered such heavy casualties, how can we not cause him physical pain? Wanyan Zongfu was furious when he saw that Puzhou City had not yet been broken after half a day of fierce fighting, and that his own army had suffered more than [-] casualties.
"Order all the cavalry to attack! We must prevent Yue Fei and others from returning to the city!"
Wanyan Zongfu gave an order, and the cavalry on the left and right wings were dispatched for defense. Nearly 3 cavalrymen surrounded Yue Fei's hundreds of men!Be sure to trap Yue Fei in the center and capture him in one fell swoop.
However, Yue Fei's hundreds of cavalrymen used the narrow trestle bridge of the moat to block the attack path of [-] cavalrymen, unable to exert any numerical advantage.
Yue Fei was overjoyed when he saw that Wanyan Zongfu actually sent out two wings of cavalry in order to besiege him!What he wants is this result. Once the opponent's wings are exposed, the next step will be fun.
"Dudu..." After Yue Fei blew the whistle on his chest, someone on the city wall began to wave an attack signal flag.
The cavalry and musketeers lurking outside the city seemed to appear out of thin air, appearing next to the enemy army!This situation was completely unexpected by Wanyan Zongfu.