As soon as he received the letter asking for help from Jiama City, Maili realized the insidiousness of the Xijiang people. At this time, he suddenly launched a counterattack against Beijerok. He grasped the time perfectly, making it difficult for him to take care of the beginning and the end. Maili has not had this feeling of being stretched thin for a long time. The strength of the Xijiang Army was fully demonstrated at this time. In addition to launching a strong attack on Jiama, the Xijiang Army also launched continuous offensives in Yulin Prefecture, from Yulin to Fan. Lincheng's Kaman army had to pay a bloody price for every step westward, making the reinforcements extremely slow.
In fact, as soon as Maili received the letter asking for help from Jiama City, he knew that the situation in Jiama was uncontrollable. Since the Xijiang people had arranged so carefully, they must have made up their minds to recapture Jiama, and now they are pretending to devour Jiama. Xia Fanlin's appearance and huge appetite made Maili a little angry.
Although Maili believed that the Western Xinjiang side just wanted to use its military advantage to suppress him from reinforcing the armored horses, he had no choice but to do so. He only had 10,000 troops in hand. If Fanlin City had not had a high wall and thick walls, the Western Xinjiang people would have They swooped forward to finish the job, but the progress of the reinforcements from Yulin was much slower than expected. It would take at least two days to reach Fanlin City, and these two days may be enough to decide the life or death of Jiama.
It was not that Maili had never thought about sending troops from Jiayuguan, but the importance of Jiayuguan's geographical location made Maili think twice before doing so. If the armored horse was lost, there were still Jiayuguan and Fanlin who could form a pincer attack on the armored horse. At best, it is a posture that is uncomfortable for both sides. Although the Western Xinjiang side can threaten their own mainland from Jiama, they still have to consider the possibility of Jiama being surrounded and annihilated. Once Jiayuguan is lost, it will be very different. The dangerous position where one man can guard the pass and cannot be opened by ten thousand people makes Jiayuguan not afraid of attacks from the outside at all. Of course, the prerequisite is to have a considerable amount of troops as a basis. Currently, Jiayuguan only has 30,000 troops. If only 10,000 are sent Troop reinforcements are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for Jiama, and they may be annihilated by the Western Xinjiang army. If they send 20,000 troops, the Jiayuguan garrison will be too weak. If the Western Xinjiang people really decide to mobilize the tigers from the mountains The consequences of the fall of Jiayuguan are indeed unacceptable.
The only solution for now is that Maili can only pray that Jiama City can hold on for two more days. Once the reinforcements from Yulin arrive, they can immediately rush to the west for reinforcements. At this time, Maili also deeply realized that it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
However, Kang Jianguo and Zhan Botao, who led the army to attack Jiama, did not think so. The battle to attack Jia Ma has entered its third day. The second and fifth divisions of the Nanjie Locke Army are on the battle today, attacking from the south and east respectively.
The walls of Jiama City are lower than those of Fanlin City. Due to historical reasons, the walls of Jiama City to the north are the tallest and thickest, and various defense facilities are more complete, while those to the east and south are relatively weak, even if After occupying Jiama, the Kamans deliberately consolidated the situation but did not completely reverse the situation. This also gave the Nanjie Locke Army some opportunities to launch an attack.
The war drums of "dong dong dong" sounded again. Yuchi Bin stood firmly on the front line, with a large shield in front of him. The surge of soldiers rushing forward surged past his body and rolled forward. This was already This is the sixth offensive launched today. The Kaman people are very desperate. They probably know that their fate will be decided as soon as the city is broken, so they resist fiercely. Their three regiments take turns charging, catapults, nest carts, The mobile arrow tower has obviously suppressed the attack power on the opponent's city wall, but every time the city assault vehicle and ladders are set up under the city wall to launch an attack, the enemies suddenly rush out from behind the crenellations like endless ghosts, and they are crazy. The counterattack saw his men fighting desperately on the city wall one by one. As the division commander, Yuchi Bin was already so excited that he couldn't hold it back. If the chief of staff and deputy division commander hadn't held him back tightly, he would have He has already rushed to the front line.
The battle of attacking and defending the city wall was going on extremely fiercely. Almost every crenellation and every city head was a living transaction of flesh and blood. The crazy soldiers had forgotten their respective ultimate goals. They now only had one belief. Kill each other. If the weapons are gone, then fight hand to hand, roll together, jam the opponent's neck, use hands, feet, teeth, and use the whole body at the same time. If the leather armor cannot be torn open, then hit the vital points that cannot be protected. If that doesn't work, hug the opponent and roll down together. It is also a good choice to die together on the city wall. The bodies hugging each other, like yellow leaves blown by the autumn wind, continue to fly down from the city wall.
The corpses piled up under the city wall were already several layers thick. The bright red blood had soaked into every part of the city wall, turning into ocher red as time went by. The thick bloody smell filled the inside and outside of the city wall, but this did not affect it at all. The enthusiasm of both sides for the fierce battle has been completely invested in the fanatical atmosphere of the battlefield. Neither side has stopped. Only this kind of endless life and death battle can truly show the rainbow momentum of an army.
However, as the commander of the Kaman people, Nedwyr knew that his side was at the end of its war effort. The confidence and morale that he had successfully aroused through various means had been quietly lost as the war became increasingly fierce and time passed, and there were still no reinforcements. Figure, the enemy's continuous offensive forced him to use all his reserves yesterday, and today's attack speed has not decreased at all. Yesterday, the reserve force of 5,000 people has now been less than 2,000 people. In the next step, he will I don’t know what to do anymore.
The Jerok people in the city also began to have strange movements. He had to leave a thousand men as a suppressive force to maintain the situation in the city and prevent encounters from internal and external attacks. However, now that the front was already in danger, it seemed that leaving a thousand men was unnecessary, but Zhe Yi How effective can the deployment of thousands of people be? A feeling of despair slowly emerged in Nedwill's heart. Damn reinforcements, why haven't they arrived yet? !
Another burst of noise came from the top of the city wall not far in front. Needless to say, a certain area must have been captured by the Western Xinjiang Army again. Without time to think about it, Nedwyer waved his hand, and the reserve warriors who followed behind him cheered. He galloped forward. This kind of thing has happened countless times. In just one hour, this is the third time this dangerous situation has occurred. Nedwill knew what this meant, but But he could no longer spare any extra troops to deal with this crisis.
Nedwill was thinking about it when suddenly there was a burst of violent shouting from the east. Nedwill pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but the chaotic shouts were unclear and it was not clear which side came from it. The voice sounded, and I took two steps forward, but I still couldn't get the accurate information.
He wanted to bring his personal guards over, but when he saw that the fighting on the south wall was still fierce, Nedwyer hesitated a little, but the burst of shouts from the east was always in his heart and he couldn't get rid of it, and finally he The battle situation in the south city was handed over to a lieutenant, but Nedwyer went straight to the east city.
Before he could approach the east city, he saw the streets full of defeated soldiers pouring in from the east. His heart felt cold. Nedwill could not help but grit his teeth and killed several defeated soldiers who were just trying to escape. Only then did he manage to stabilize the situation. An officer was found for careful questioning, and he found out that a section of the east city wall was dug by tunnels by enemy engineers, causing a section of the wall to collapse. The Western Xinjiang Army took advantage of the situation to cover up and charge in. The Kaman army, which was already at a disadvantage, was unable to withstand it. Had to retreat.
Zeppelin stood on the wall contentedly. The Fifth Division finally got ahead of the Second Division and planted the Golden Roc Flag on the top of the Jiama City. This time, the first move had to be a bit lucky. If it weren't for the few Jiapeng Ma's local guide pointed out that a section of the east city wall was originally built on a dry swamp. The engineers could not dig out this section of the wall so smoothly. It was impossible for the ramming truck to collapse the wall with just a few consecutive hits. .
As the city wall collapsed, the morale and fighting spirit of the Kaman people who had been stubbornly persisting finally collapsed. Groups of Western Xinjiang soldiers roared and poured in along the gap in the city wall, and soon broke through a small number of blocks that attempted to seal the gap. Man's reserve team, and the Xijiang soldiers who rushed into the city opened the city gate at the first opportunity. After the cavalry team, which had been watching eagerly, rushed into the city, the entire battle became a one-sided situation.
On November 8, 698 in the Gregorian calendar, after three days of difficult offensive and defensive battles, the Nanjie Locke Army of the Western Xinjiang Army finally captured Jiama City before Fanlin City, which had already received reinforcements, sent reinforcements, and completely annihilated Kaman. Of the two thousand-strong army, only less than two thousand people managed to escape from Beicheng. The Golden Roc Flag was planted at the top of the city of Beijerok for the first time. At the same time, Nanjie Locke's Third Division also successfully blocked the 20,000-man troops who attempted to reinforce Jiama between Fanlin and Jiama, and after receiving reinforcements, they turned to counterattack. After nearly costing 6,000 men, the two Kaman troops were finally able to break out of the encirclement that was about to close and escape into Fanlin City.
Just when the Nanjerok Army won the victory in the battle between armor and horse, the two cavalry regiments led by Jin Zecheng successfully intercepted the Kaman people's grain trucks and then clashed again with the Kaman cavalry led by Ferdinand. , the two sides had a fierce battle ten miles east of Ganlan Fortress. Although Ferdinand had the advantage in strength, he did not want to fight. The battle only lasted for more than an hour and ended with the Kamans retreating on their own initiative, while the Jin After seizing more than 6,000 pack horses abandoned by the Kaman people, Zecheng withdrew to Ganlan Fortress with satisfaction. The battle for food in Yinchuan has come to an end.