Chapter 162: Greed is not enough for snakes to swallow elephants
"General, I have to remind you that the redemption of nobles is the consensus among the nobles of the mainland, what can't I do, if you don't agree, you are fighting against the nobles of the entire continent!" John said with a look of disdain.
"Yes! But the sun never sets on the empire here, there is a distance between you and the empire, you send people back, and then send people back to redeem yourself, it will take half a month, you know, our marching and fighting conditions are very poor, and there will be infectious diseases from time to time, this person is not a few people who die of illness every day, Naris, do you say yes! Zhang Wei said to Naris with a questioning face.
"General, I was about to report this, but many of the captives had died of illness before they could be redeemed!" Narith said with a look of pity, and deliberately glanced at John after speaking.
"You guys!" John, who had learned chivalry since he was a child, was directly made unable to say a word by the master and servant, but he instantly thought of something, and said happily, "No, no, the marshal will arrive in five days, I can't stay for five days and die!" ”
Zhang Wei smiled, Naris smiled, all the generals behind him laughed, Zhang Wei waved his hand and said, "Take it down, wait for your marshal to redeem you!" ”
Looking at their mocking smiles, even if John's head turned slowly, he knew what he said wrong, his face was pale, his eyes showed a hint of disbelief, and he didn't even resist being dragged out, and his face was lost.
"Okay, everyone, Wincher's army will arrive in five days, this time I don't know how many people and horses there are, but according to the information sent by the rear army just now, the Sun Never Sets Empire has transferred half of the 2 million people and horses guarding the western seas, plus the remaining 1.2 million troops that were originally guarded in the east, which means that the opponent's army should not exceed 2.2 million, and I estimate that the real arrival is about 1.5 million, and our only advantage is only a city and a place to work.
And it will take a week for our army to reach it. How to survive two days is a question! Zhang Wei told everyone about the situation, and for a while everyone's eyes dimmed, the difference in strength was too great, even with the death ratio of 3:1 in general siege warfare, it would consume up to 300,000 horses on the other side!
It's a must-lose battle!
"General, I personally think that we can dig a deep moat in front of the city to directly cut off their way. Even if they want to fill it, it is impossible for more than a million people to do it together, there is no space, so it will not be a problem for us to spend five days digging a river to block more than one million people in 2 days! General Wei Qi thought for a while and said to Zhang Wei, after the siege of the city, almost everyone was convinced by Zhang Wei.
"Personally, I don't think it's appropriate, the other party doesn't have to fill in the moat, there is a forest not far away, and it will definitely take less than three hours to build a large number of wooden bridges!" General Lu Renjia directly vetoed Wei Qi's idea.
"Why don't we put a lot of traps on the road, so we should be able to stop it for a while!" Lu Renjia thought for a moment. Speak your mind.
"There are more than a million people, even if you fill our city walls with corpses, and then walk up directly, how many traps are you going to use to block people!" Wei Qi was obviously very unconvinced by the refutation just now, and retorted directly.
Zhang Wei didn't speak, just looked at them with a calm face, Moqi, Naris. Avalu was also bowing his head and pondering, waiting for the two goods to finally get tired of arguing. When he found that the atmosphere was wrong, he smiled wryly.
"I'll say a few words!" Zhang Wei pulled back everyone's thoughts, "There was once a great man who said that the best defense is to attack, haven't you thought about how to ambush the enemy and annihilate the enemy?" ”
"What!" Everyone was frightened by Zhang Wei's words. Naris's mouth was long enough to swallow eggs, and he said to Zhang Wei in a bit of a hurry, "Little, young master, there are about 1.5 million people." We are only 100,000 people, and the ratio of heads to people is 15 to 1! How to fight this! ”
"So you want to think about it! I've thought about what I want you to do! Zhang Wei swept the audience speechlessly, although he knew that this was impossible, but he still racked his brains to think, what if it really happened? Then they will go down in history!
In fact, Zhang Wei just said that, it can be said that he has no clue about the upcoming battle, after all, this world is different from the earth, there is a thing called the strong in this world, the army of 1.5 million moves, even if there is no king-level, there are definitely not a few diamond-level strong, maybe there are master-level existences.
There is almost no need to fight such a battle, and the gap between the masters and the number of people is too great, unless there is a miracle.
"There's no way, unless our 100,000 people are 100,000 summoners!" Naris muttered helplessly, but Zhang Wei's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "You said summoner?" ”
"Young master, I just said casually, summoners are a special profession that can summon other worlds or demonic beasts to fight for them, however, how can summoners be so easy to find, they are rarer than me, a thunder mage, and in the face of this kind of war, one or two summoners are no different from nothing!" Narith said with a bitter face, "If anyone can turn things around in one fell swoop, in addition to king-level magicians, there are only master-level necromancers, and the necromancer army is definitely much more terrifying than 1.5 million people!" ”
"No, no, no, you're right!" Zhang Wei looked excited.
"Huh?" Naris didn't know why, and even the generals on the side looked confused.
"Aren't we far away from the Heavenly Damnation Mountain Range, do you know if there are any terrifying numbers of horrific demonic beasts in the mountain range!" Zhang Wei suddenly thought of a novel he had read before, one of which told the story of the protagonist using Amethyst Peak to sneak attack and annihilate the opponent's 300,000 army without spending a single soldier.
"How horrible is the number?" Wei Qi asked inexplicably.
"Millions, millions!" Zhang Wei said excitedly.
"If you follow the conditions you said, there are only three things in the world!" Naris is worthy of being an encyclopedic servant who lives up to Zhang Wei's expectations.
"Tell me, which four!"
"First: Man-eating ants, this kind of ant is not a demonic beast, it is an ancient desolate beast, it does not know any magic, but it has a pair of teeth that can eat most of the substance, and the hardness of the body can also resist the attack of magic below the silver level, but what he is most afraid of is that number, it is absolutely overwhelming, the kind of billion, and it is one of the ten horrors of the Heavenly Trench Mountains."
"The second type: bloodthirsty bees, this is a kind of bee that specializes in sucking blood, the number is about one million, it is not born by sucking blood, it is a bronze-level peak magical beast, and it has lived in the Tianyan Mountains for a long time."
"The third type: the bloodthirsty mosquito, and species like the bloodthirsty bee, but smaller and more numerous!"
"Can we find it around here?" Listening to Naris's words, Zhang Wei's eyes lit up and he immediately asked.
"Yes, there is, man-eating ants are originally a species here, but it is difficult for young master to fight them, first of all, it is too dangerous, and secondly, they almost never leave their homes, and they will only go out during the big migration, and according to legend, the man-eating ants are also divided into thousands of tribes, so you still have to see that kind of overwhelming scene during the big migration!" Naris shook his head, still feeling quite unreliable about Zhang Wei's idea.
"Don't worry about this, don't use some of the things you said before, on that day you will open the city gate, don't worry about anything, just drink tea in the city tower by yourself, I will sing them a good empty city plan!" A dangerous glint flashed in Zhang Wei's eyes, "Of course, the empty city plan is just a side dish, and there is a big meal waiting for them later!" ”
Everyone was ordered, only Averu stayed, Zhang Wei asked curiously, "What's the matter, is there anything else?" ”
"General, there is something unknown at the end!"
"Oh? What's the matter? Zhang Wei asked curiously.
"How did you expect John to be out of town that night!" Avelu finally asked the question that he had been holding back in his heart.
Zhang Wei didn't expect him to be asking this, and he couldn't help but praise his studiousness, but he said very indifferently, "When a thing is indestructible from the outside, it can often easily disintegrate inside, and I actually didn't do anything, but when they fled, I arranged for a team of soldiers to pass on their military uniforms and blend in.
It is recognizable when it is said by outsiders, but few people can be calm when it is said by their own people! Averu looked at Zhang Wei with a shocked expression, he didn't expect the collapse of a city to be affected by such a small scheme.
"Therefore, you can't fight a war, and many things outside the battlefield are the key to success or failure!" Zhang Wei looked at Avelu and said.
"Something outside the battlefield!" Avero muttered, and walked back to his tent in despair, and when Averil returned, Zhang Wei also disappeared into the tent.
At the top of the imperial capital, the ministers quarreled again about the expedition, and at this moment, a soldier ran outside the court, and the guards did not stop him, because he did not carry a weapon, but held a red scroll symbolizing good news.
"Report, a great victory ahead!" The soldier knelt on one knee and said in a sonorous voice.
"Read!" George changed the headache he had just now and said happily.
"Sacred Calendar 2016 (Don't take the time seriously, easy to remember!) ), the vanguard commander Zhang Wei led his troops to annihilate the defenders of the city of judgment of the enemy, a total of 80,000 people, took the city of judgment, three days of history, 100 people died in his own department, 329 people in his hands, and His Majesty the Emperor personally read it! The soldier recited neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"What, this can't be!" Ryan? Brand was the first to stand up and yelled! (To be continued......)
PS: Today's second chapter, there will be another chapter later, begging for subscriptions, asking for monthly passes, all kinds of kneeling begging