"Report..."
"Your Highness, our army encountered an enemy ambush. The attacking troops in front suffered heavy losses and were in a state of chaos..."
The messenger hurried over to report to Lou Yi.
Lou Yi and Yu Tai were still some distance away from the front battlefield. They could only see that the attacks on both wings were unfavorable, but they did not know what specifically happened to the attacking forces on both wings.
After the messenger's detailed explanation, the two men finally understood the specific situation at the front line.
"The enemy has seen through our plan!"
Lou Yi's face was covered with frost. He turned his head and looked at Yu Tai, who also had a frost on his face. "General Yu, do you think we should withdraw our troops first, or continue the attack?"
Horse pit, gong!
This is entirely to deal with the fire horse charge!
The enemy's cavalry attacked from both wings yesterday.
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This proves that when the enemy launched the feint attack yesterday, there was no horse trap!
These horse-traps were clearly dug later!
It's obviously prepared for them!
Damn it!
The strategy that he had carefully prepared was unexpectedly predicted by the enemy!
Faced with Lou Yi's questions, Yu Tai couldn't help but feel conflicted.
Logically speaking, they should withdraw and readjust at this time.
However, once they retreated, all their sacrifices would be in vain.
"We cannot retreat, we must continue to attack!"
Yu Tai gritted his teeth and said, "Now, we have at least rushed through the first gap. Once we retreat, the enemy will be able to reoccupy the gap immediately! Even if the enemy prepares horse traps and chevaux de frise, we will pile up corpses to make a way out!"
So what if there are horse traps and chevaux de frise?
The horse pit can be filled with corpses!
The chevaux de frise can be crushed!
Now we must overcome it in one go!
At all costs!
"That's exactly what I meant!"
Lou Yi nodded, "However, I think we should withdraw the cavalry and attack with infantry!"
If the fighting continues like this, the corpses will pile up several layers high!
The war horses didn't even have a place to step!
The cavalry was simply unable to take advantage of the cavalry charge.
Since we are going to risk human lives, we can't send our precious cavalry to die!
"Yes!" Yu Tai agreed.
The two quickly reached an agreement.
As Lou Yi and Yu Tai's orders were issued, the attacking forces on both wings quickly changed their strategies.
After all the cavalrymen who rushed into the gap were killed, their cavalrymen all retreated to the back, while the infantrymen behind them all pressed forward.
Amid the rapid sound of war drums, the soldiers of Qiuchi and Dayue rushed towards the opened gap fearlessly.
The 10,000 vassal troops were divided into three parts by Yun Zheng.
Five thousand vassal troops were deployed on each wing and front.
The 3,000 Northern Moduo people led by Zulu serve as the second echelon, ready to provide support at any time.
Soldiers in each gap were armed with heavy shields and long spears, ready for battle. On the simple city wall, they covered the archers with shields and continuously shot at the approaching enemy.
These vassal troops are indeed very good at archery.
Under the cover of rain of arrows, the enemy soldiers fell down in large numbers as soon as they approached the gap.
However, the soldiers of both countries launched a fearless counterattack.
These soldiers kept rushing forward, stepping on the corpses piled on the ground. When the people in front fell, the people behind took over.
"Charge! Charge!"
"Kill them!"
"Those who retreat will die!"
The general of Qiuchi shouted loudly and urged his soldiers to rush into the opened gap.
Even though there were piles of corpses in the gap, he was still urging the soldiers in the rear.
Some Qiuchi soldiers carried simple wooden ladders and came to the bottom of the city wall under the cover of shield-bearing infantry. They placed the ladders on the wall and immediately climbed up along the ladders.
The temporary city wall built by Yun Zheng and his team was basically about ten and a half meters high. Anyone who was quick could climb up quickly.
However, as soon as these people climbed up the ladder, rocks weighing dozens of kilograms fell down.
Some people even pushed the wooden ladder away.
But this could not stop the Qiuchi soldiers from attacking desperately.
The person in front fell down, and the people behind continued to rush up.
As long as they seize a city wall, they will gain a certain advantage.
Under the enemy's fearless attack, the vassal army was also under great pressure.
"Hold on!"
"Push the enemy back!"
Covered in blood, Huo Gu led his troops in a counterattack against the enemy.
They had voluntarily given up the first gap before, and now they must retake it.
Otherwise, the enemy will continue to press forward.
With the pile of enemy corpses, the horse traps and chevaux de frise had become useless.
If the enemy is not pushed back, the entire gap will be piled with corpses.
At that time, the enemy can easily climb up the city wall by stepping on these corpses.
Under the leadership of Huo Gu, the vassal army continued to advance forward, stepping on the corpses on the ground.
Although these people are called vassal troops and their armor and weapons are slightly inferior to those of other troops, most of them have been tempered in the blood and fire of the battlefield. As long as their morale is not broken, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
Naturally, the enemy general was unwilling to give up the gap easily.
For every gap, the two sides fought back and forth.
When the person in front falls, the person behind will immediately take his place.
The bodies on the ground continued to pile up, and many gaps were filled with corpses from both sides.
In the brutal offensive and defensive battle, no one cared about the corpses on the ground.
Not to mention the corpses, many people who were still alive became stepping stones for others.
Many soldiers stepped on the corpses and launched a fierce attack on the opposite side.
"Haha, it feels so good. It feels so damn good..."
Qin Qihu in the crowd led the personal guards assigned to him by Yun Zheng and continued to charge.
Qin Qihu abandoned his broadsword and used a mace instead.
The mace smashed hard on the head of a young enemy general.
Even though the young enemy general was protected by a helmet, the force of the stick knocked him to the ground, and blood spurted out of his mouth.
Under the strong counterattack of the vassal army, the number of enemy corpses on the ground increased.
They recaptured one gap after another, but their casualties were also increasing.
The battle was extremely fierce.
Before we knew it, the battle had lasted from dawn to bright day.
Yun Zheng was looking down from a high place, constantly scanning the situation on the battlefield.
With heavy casualties, the offensive of Qiuchi and Dayue Kingdom gradually weakened.
According to rough estimates, the two countries have now suffered five to six thousand casualties.
"The enemy should be calling off the battle, right?"
Yun Zheng thought secretly in his heart.
He now really hopes that the enemy will stop attacking.
They need time to clean up the gaps.
With so many corpses piled up in the gap, it was actually very disadvantageous to their defense.
However, at this moment, Yun Zheng saw the commanders of the two armies waving their flags almost at the same time.
Then, both sides sent out 5,000 men each to press forward again...
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