Chapter 871 Offensive and Defensive Battle
Facts have proved that the Pingzhou Army is really no match for the enemy in field battles.
As the most powerful Black Armored Xuanqi, or the most elite 50,000 men in an army of 300,000, they could not gain a decisive advantage against the enemy, let alone other armies.
But these few battles were not fruitless, at least Shang Ji knew the name of the army that surprised him——Wei Wuzu!
Shang Ji is naturally no stranger to Wei Wuzu's name.
Wei Wuzu is the first professional army in Chinese history, and has a very high historical evaluation. It has a super high evaluation of "polite in residence, powerful in action, unstoppable in advance, and irreversible in retreat".
Now that Wei Wuzu has appeared, if Shang Ji doesn't know who the enemy commander is, he can find a rope and hang himself!
Although there is a small black spot in his character that cannot be erased, no one can deny Wu Qi's military talent.
Serving Lu and defeating Qi, in Wei Wei Ba, from Chu Chu Sheng, such a strong record, throughout the entire history of China, only Wu Qi is alone!
For Shang Ji, Wu Qi is a special person. His battle for fame is the battle of Yin and Jin. The specific process is not listed in detail, here is just the result: Wu Qi defeated Qin's 500,000 troops with 50,000 soldiers who had no military exploits, combined with 3,000 cavalry and 500 chariots, abruptly interrupting the rhythm of Qin's rise .
It even triggered "princes belittle Qin", making the whole Qin country looked down upon by princes. It was not until more than 20 years later that Qin Xiangong regained the land of Hexi and washed away the humiliation.
Moreover, in addition to Wu Qi's outstanding military ability, his political talent is also quite outstanding. Although the Chu State Reform presided over by Wu Qi ended in failure, it can only be said to be a crime other than war.
The effect of Wu Qi's reform can be said to be immediate. Chu State quickly became strong. If King Chu Mourning can live a few more years, Wu Qi's reform will have more time to settle and perfect. Chu State can even complete the reform plan ahead of Qin State. powerful.
Some people once commented that his martial arts is comparable to Sun Wu, and Wen Neng is comparable to Shang Yang!
After knowing that the commander-in-chief opposite was Wu Qi, Shang Ji gave up decisively. I no longer dare to lead the army to go out, resolutely practice the policy of shrinking my head, and stick to the city and never come out!
Shang Ji can't be blamed for being cowardly. Looking at the history of Qin State, Bai Qi is the only one who can compare with Wu Qi. Even Wang Jian is almost mean.
Although Wang Jian is also famous for his military exploits, in terms of merit alone, it can even be said to be even better than Baiqi. But at that time, Qin's national power had clearly surpassed the six kingdoms of Shandong, and Wang Jian's military exploits were inevitably somewhat suspected of bullying others by relying on national power.
Of course, in terms of political wisdom, Wang Jian is much better than people like Bai Qi and Wu Qi.
Although Shang Ji has experienced bravery in hundreds of battles and experienced a long time in the war, his military combat ability has been significantly improved, but he is not arrogant enough to think that he can be compared with such ruthless people as Bai Qi and Wu Qi.
When one's own army's comprehensive combat power is not dominant, leading the army to a decisive battle with Wu Qi is a brain-dead behavior no matter how you look at it!
However, if Shang Ji can't come out, it doesn't mean that Wu Qi won't take the initiative to attack. The Tianbing Group not only has a strong average combat power, but also has a considerable advantage in siege equipment and other aspects.
The Pingzhou army occupies the advantage of the city, condescending and confronting the enemy from a long distance, but it is still faintly at a disadvantage!
Thanks to the deep foundation of the Pingzhou Army, the reserves of materials, and a sufficient number of large equipment such as torch stone carts and burst torch stone carts, they barely remained undefeated in this confrontation.
However, if you think that you can stop Wu Qi's attack, you will be underestimating this soldier saint!
The confrontation on the frontal battlefield is only a part of this battle, and Wu Qi's attack on Luofengguan is all-round. While the main force was attacking Luofeng Pass, a small group of elite troops were also dispatched to infiltrate behind them and harass the logistics route of the Pingzhou Army. In addition, relying on the bewitching ability of Tianbing itself, it launched psychological tactics to encourage Pingzhou soldiers to rebel.
Although so far, no army has formed an organized rebellion, but the morale of the army has inevitably declined. In addition, because the Pingzhou Army has a lot of material reserves in the three major city passes,
Although the food robbery team dispatched by Wu Qi had occasional successes, it could not threaten the logistics security of the Pingzhou Army for the time being.
Of course, these situations are temporary, and if there is no way to restrain them, as time goes by, the disadvantages of the Pingzhou Army will only increase.
In addition, for the famous Wu Qi, of course, the siege methods are not limited to long-range siege equipment. The various arms united and coordinated operations, cooperated with each other, and attacked the city in a three-dimensional and systematic manner. Various methods such as fire attack, water attack, and city digging were used alternately, which made the Pingzhou army utterly devastated.
Especially the Wei soldiers who made Shang Ji extremely afraid. As heavy infantry, they even had effective means in siege battles.
Seriously speaking, Wei Wuzu's siege method is very low-level, that is, to use flying claws and other equipment to climb rocks along the city wall.
This seemingly simple and inefficient siege method is quite powerful in the hands of Wei Wuzu. The ten-foot-high city wall, Wei Wuzu is like flying, and he can climb from the base of the city wall to the top of the city in the blink of an eye!
You know, even when climbing the city wall, Wei Wuzu was wearing heavy armor, but the spear, shield, bow and arrow were missing!
The first time Wei Wuzu appeared in the siege battle, he directly gave the Pingzhou army a blow.
Six hundred Wei soldiers took advantage of the darkness and raided the city wall. The unprepared Pingzhou army was directly attacked by the enemy to the city wall.
The situation at that time was very dangerous. The soldiers who stayed on the city wall were completely vulnerable to Wei Wuzu.
At the critical moment, Dian Wei led three hundred guards of evil gods to arrive, and only then did the crazy offensive of the enemy be curbed, and then with the assistance of more and more high-ranking troops, these hundreds of Wei soldiers were driven off the city wall.
In that battle, less than 200 of the 600 Wei military soldiers who were ordered to make a surprise attack escaped successfully, and 400 people died in the battle, and none of them were captured. As for the casualties of the Pingzhou Army, it was exaggerated. More than 3,000 people were killed or injured, and even Dianwei's evil god guards lost more than 20 people.
In addition to the loss of personnel, a large number of equipment arranged at the top of the city was damaged, and many mechanical soldiers who had low combat effectiveness but were crucial in attacking (defending) the city were slaughtered.
Recalling the original scene, Shang Ji couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat. If the enemy had invested more troops, and then dispatched top generals to lead the team to fight in person, the outer city wall of the eastern section of Luofeng Pass might really fall.
Although he didn't understand why Wu Qi made such a low-level mistake, Shang Ji immediately changed the arrangement. Not only are high-ranking military generals sitting in person on each section of the city wall, but top-level troops are also arranged to guard it in turn.
At the same time, Wei Wuzu's performance also alerted Shang Ji. As the saying goes, if you defend for a long time, you will lose. In the battle with Wu Qi, you must not blindly defend, or he will find a chance to break through sooner or later.
For this reason, Shang Ji changed his original plan and continued to send elite troops out of the city to fight against Wu Qi's army, and even learned from Wu Qi by sending a small number of elite troops to his rear to make trouble.
Although there were more defeats and fewer victories in the field battles outside the city, and the harassing troops had little success, after seven or eight days, the Pingzhou army had killed a total of 80,000 troops (including those killed in the siege battle), and Wu Qi's army was also killed. About 20,000 or so. The battle loss ratio hovered between one to four.
Although the record has always been negative, it is better than staying in the city. And according to the current ratio, Wu Qi really can't beat the Pingzhou Army when playing the exchange tactics!