The Hunted Hunter
Chapters 138. Lu VS Qi (II)
The battle in front of Yiqiu city walls on the second day had not been able to give a satisfactory result to general Xu Chen.
Because when the troops were already near the city wall, they were doused with oil by the Yiqiu city troops and immediately burned.
That was what made them unable to enter Yiqiu city.
General Xu Chen himself was now beginning to frustrately attack the defense of Yiqiu city forces.
The man did not expect that in two attacks he had inflicted heavy losses on the troops he led.
Unmitigated, there were seven thousand troops led by him were killed and four thousand other troops were seriously injured and three thousand other troops were now lightly wounded.
Now the troops he led were nine thousand who had been killed while there were ten thousand troops who were lightly injured to heavy.
There are only eleven thousand troops left, if forced only about fifteen thousand troops can do battle the next day.
As for the troops led by the king also suffered the same fate as what was experienced by the troops led by general Xu Chen.
As many as five thousand soldiers were killed and also two thousand soldiers were heavily injured and three thousand soldiers were now lightly wounded.
That number is a number that is not small, so that makes the king very furious.
At night, the king planned an intrusion into the city of Liangfu.
There were dozens of soldiers he trusted to do just that.
But before they carried out the plan, it was already known by the troops who were in the city of Liangfu.
The city lord had already anticipated if their opponent made an intrusion.
With a large number of troops, however, the king began to plan to destroy the city gate and also the city wall to the present and right of the city gate by launching an attack using only the throwing tools they had.
As for the infantry troops and other cavalry troops will be tasked to protect the soldiers who operate the thrower and prepare for battle.
They had already measured the farthest shooting distance of the arrows belonging to the troops who were in the fortress of Liangfu city.
It was that place that would be the last frontier of the army from the Lu kingdom when the other soldiers operated their throwing tools.
The next day when the sun was just beginning to shine on the field, the troops from the Qi kingdom were now ready to openly fight with the troops from the Lu kingdom.
This was beyond the calculation of the king, he thought that the troops inside Liangfu city would still survive behind the city walls.
But when the morning was approaching, when his troops moved to re-attack the city, their presence was expected by the troops from the Qi kingdom.
There were about twenty-five thousand Qi kingdom troops that had lined up in front of the Liangfu city wall and for the rest of the troops that existed still remained above the wall and within that city to awaiting command.
While the king's army numbered thirty thousand men to attack Liangfu city the rest of the others were taking care of their comrades who were heavily injured.
The distance of the two troops is now a little more already within the firing range of their respective arrows.
The strategy of the Qi army was to provoke the enemy forces into changing their plans and fighting openly with them, so that, their position would be within the firing range of the troops that were above the city walls.
And that is what the king did not know, because the presence of the army on the wall of the city is now no longer visible movement, it is because, all the troops are hiding so as not to be known by the enemy forces.
Thousands of troops on the wall were preparing to release their arrows.
The Qi kingdom army began to perform the formation they planned, the distance standing one soldier with another soldier ranged from three meters, it will make it easier for them to avoid every stone attack and also fireballs and spears that will be released by throwing tools belonging to the Lu royal forces while moving forward to carry out attacks.
Their attack formation was shaped like a spear that shot towards the defense formation of the Lu royal army.
Each formation consisted of a thousand cavalrymen.
But the formation can change - change according to the existing situation. What else if facing the cavalry troops of the Lu kingdom who use a horse carriage with a side that has sharp weapons like a turnip but continues to spin following the round of the horse carriage ball and there are also some soldier archers on it.
However after that formation it could break through the opponent's defensive formation, the soldiers who were inside the formation would scatter towards the left and right while re-forming a smaller spear-like formation consisting of a hundred warriors within it and led by a company commander. So also so on until the formation only consists of a squad of ten people and led by a squad commander.
The battle ensued, the archers from the Qi kingdom stepped forward while releasing their arrows towards the invading Lu royal army.
Fireballs and stones rolled towards the Qi kingdom army.
While the spear was fired also towards the Qi kingdom army that attacked them.
Some of the spear formations attacked towards the throwing tools, because the tool will make many of the Qi kingdom soldiers will be killed.
While they were attacking, they were protected by an army of archers who attacked the enemy archer troops so that they could not easily attack the formation.
In the city of Yiqiu itself, the same thing was happening, the troops from the Qi kingdom were now serving the Lu royal army with open warfare and from a close range or physically.
But it has been seen that the superiority is on the side of the Qi kingdom, because the number and spirit of the Lu royal army has greatly decreased.
As for the troops led by general Luan Zhi they were very careful to go forward to attack the city of Mengyin.
The sent-eye warriors are now back to report that the troops from the Qi kingdom are waiting for them in a bee to go to the city of Mengyin.
Finally, general Luan Zhi immediately implemented a strategy to paralyze the troops who would welcome them in the valley.
After they split the army to ambush the Qi kingdom army and the diversion troops continued moving on the road they were about to go through, visible puffs of dust flying in the air so as to make the eyes of the Qi kingdom troops could not know for sure the number of troops that came.
Not long after came a soldier reporting that the Lu royal army was going to ambush them from the side.
The general who led the army immediately withdrew his troops and moved towards the forest where every trap and trap they had prepared.
Seeing this, the troops from Lu kingdom wanted to move to chase after the retreating Qi kingdom army.
But their wishes were immediately prevented by general Luan Zhi.
"Don't chase them! It was their attempt to get us into their trap".
The soldiers who originally wanted to chase after the Qi kingdom army instantly stopped and returned to their respective positions.
"Right now, the troops from the Qi kingdom are waiting for our arrival, and they must have prepared a strategy to ambush us when we have entered the forest territory". General Luan Zhi again.
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Sorry if the author continues to present the battle between the two kingdoms....
It also emerged as a result of the decision of the king who followed the wishes of his son. 🙏🙏🙏