Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 130 The Noon Offensive (20)
If we want to compare the solidity of the city walls of Jiangtou City and the Central Plains towns, we should actually consider two aspects, the first aspect is the solidity of the city wall itself, and the second aspect is the final defensive effect of the city wall and other fortifications that match it.
Let's talk about the first aspect first, then the city wall of the Central Plains town is far better than the city wall of Jiangtou City, a large town in the Luchuan area, the city wall of the Central Plains town is tall, and there are many people who are higher than ten meters, and these tall city walls are quite solid, it is almost difficult to cause substantial damage, even if it is artillery, it is difficult to break, and the only way may be to forcibly climb the city wall to attack the city, but this is also difficult to do in the case of the normal state of the defenders in the city.
For the city wall of the Central Plains towns, it is often necessary to have internal problems, and there are two common problems, one is to cut off the food in the city for a long time, because the cities and towns in the Central Plains usually have a small range of protection by the city wall, and there are too many residents who live in them, and there is a hidden danger of food cut-off. In addition to food, there are other necessary resources such as drinking water, which will cause great difficulties for the continuation of the defense of the city.
The second problem is that the work of defending the city cannot continue, in fact, the first problem also has this problem, that is, holding on for a long time will cut off the food in the city, and the consequence of this is that the people's hearts in the city are fluctuating, and if the situation in the city cannot be controlled, it will not be able to hold on; In addition, many times the city is breached, and there is no need to wait to the point of food cut-off, under ordinary circumstances, if the people are not aligned, especially the town itself is not a military town, there is no military officer in the command, it is easy to have a chaotic management of the city, and then the city will not be self-defeating.
In addition, there are also cases where the city is not defended at all, especially for some opponents who do not slaughter the city, or only for the enemy army who slaughters the city for the resisters, the city is also prone to self-defeating.
The second aspect is the final defensive effect of the city wall and other fortifications that accompany it, and the relatively fortified towns in the Mengyang area, such as Jiangtou City, may have some advantages. Because compared with the towns in the Central Plains, the city walls here tend to enclose all their spheres of influence, and the scale of the towns formed is relatively large.
That is, all the residents around the town, their living space, if placed in the towns in the Central Plains, then may not be surrounded by the city wall for protection, but because of the characteristics of the city wall construction in the Luchuan area, or the characteristics of the city wall construction in many areas outside the Central Plains, the scale of the city wall protection is relatively large.
The walls of these regions were able to do this, often because the quality of their walls was much worse than usual, neither the height nor the solidity of the walls, but there was always an exception, and that was that not all of them were of such low quality.
While most small and medium-sized towns, and many towns that are not important in many places, are relatively easy to build, their walls may have been built only for a basic defensive purpose, without sufficient military considerations, which are related to the basic level of military affairs in these areas. It has not been tempered enough by the fire of war, and there is no high enough military level to guide the construction of city defense. The defense construction of these towns can be described as primitive, and naturally cannot be compared with the towns of the Central Plains.
But there are always exceptions to everything, such as Mengyang City, Jiangtou City and other big cities in the Luchuan region, not only in the Luchuan area can be regarded as baptized by war, has experienced countless wars, even if it is compared with the Central Plains, or even any region in the world, it is incomparable in the experience of war.
Although these places have largely lost their prosperity due to the effects of the war, they are not ordinary war-torn towns because they are geographically irreplaceable, they are rebuilt again and again, or they are strong enough not to be destroyed by war.
Therefore, these places may be declining in terms of people's livelihood, but in another aspect, in the face of war, they are powerful, playing an important role in the war again and again, and the battles revolve around them again and again.
The walls of these towns are not as poor in quality and perfunctory as the walls of other places, but they are of sufficient strength, with a height and thickness close to the passing line, and in addition, because the walls are more extensive, the resources in the city are more abundant than the soldiers defending the city, and there is less likely to be a lack of resources in the Central Plains.
On the other hand, the walls of these towns can be defended by more soldiers, so that they can have greater initiative, be more adequately defended against enemy attacks, be more resilient when they are disadvantaged, and be more effective in launching counter-attacks when they find opportunities.
In addition, there will be many affiliated camps near the walled city of Luchuan to protect each other, such as Bilu Village and Nanma Village near Mengyang City, and the newly established Mang Ancient Fort on Manggu Mountain is also one of the affiliated camps, these camps can cooperate with Mengyang City for defense, in fact, it is precisely because the scope of Mengyang City is relatively large, it can have sufficient defensive initiative.
Therefore, observing the objective conditions of Mengyangcheng, Mengyangcheng is not a dangerous city that cannot be defended at all, on the contrary, it still has certain capabilities, and it is not absolutely passive in war.
The disadvantages are of course great, but how to take advantage of them is a necessary condition for victory.
Jiang Yu thought about this, and slowly climbed the stairs of the North City Tower, this staircase he had climbed many times since he came to Mengyang City, for this staircase, he also had some more complicated feelings in his heart, because if possible, the next time he walked down this staircase, it was to lead the troops out of the city for a decisive battle, although it was also possible, it would be the time of victory, but Jiang Yugang was not so optimistic.
Almost with a wry smile, Jiang Yugang finally climbed the city tower, and saw the soldiers resting against the walls on both sides of the city tower, lined up in a long line, and there were many sleeping soldiers in the middle of the aisle, their faces were slightly tired, because these days, the activities of the Luchuan army are becoming more and more frequent, and the army of Mang Castle in order to guard Mengyang City, it can be regarded as a tiring journey, from Mang Castle all the way to Mengyang City, and under the arrangement stationed in various defensive positions undertaken by Mang Castle, in addition, there are many preparations for tomorrow's war, Tactical command arrangements for individual arrays and battalions.
The mental and physical exhaustion made these soldiers fall into a rather deep sleepiness, Jiang Yuyan looked at the past, it was a soldier who was sleeping crookedly, and under the gradually dissipating twilight, he could vaguely see the faces of each soldier.
The vast majority of the people were still asleep, and a few of them woke up for something, walking carefully in the aisles, hiding from the soldiers resting in the middle of the road, taking care not to wake up the others, and the whole was carried out in a kind of silence.
As soon as he and Li Chong's figures appeared, the soldiers on duty immediately discovered him and hurriedly saluted, and with these sounds, the surrounding soldiers also began to become uneasy, some people woke up because of the sound, opened their eyes in confusion, raised their bodies, and saw Jiang Yugang's figure, and naturally revealed some nervous and uneasy expressions.
Jiang Yuyan knew that this was because with his arrival, it was announced that the battle was about to begin, and this uneasy demeanor was a natural expression when people just woke up and couldn't completely control their expressions, which was a real uneasiness, from the bottom of people's hearts.
In fact, this is not a good performance, but Jiang Yugang also respects objective laws and objective facts, they are objectively weaker than the Luchuan army, and this kind of uneasy mood may not appear in the Luchuan army.
What kind of mood should the current Luchuan Army have? Is it excitement, excitement, or ecstasy? Is it the hope that the goal is about to be achieved, or is it the ambition to defeat the enemy?
Jiang Yuxuan imagined the situation in the Luchuan army, and thought of the legend, the leader of this generation of Luchuan, relying on the prestige in the Mengyang area, launched the war of Mengyang City, controlled Mengyang City from the Ming army, and prevented the early Ming army from conquering Luchuan.
And that man, now his opponent, was in some small and unknown camp near the Great Lake Indocia, manipulating the tens of thousands of troops he had gathered to prepare for a final counterattack.
In the past world line, that is, the so-called past history, Sijifa relied on these tens of thousands of troops to recapture Mengyang City, prevented the conquest of the Ming army, and even launched an attack on the Ava Dynasty, and was defeated under the joy of sorrow, and was finally escorted to Beijing by the king of the Ava Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty's Burmese Xuanwei Division, and ended up with an execution, which cannot be said to be a legend.
Such an enemy is Jiang Yugang's enemy at this time. Sijifa's enemies are all famous generals who will go down in history, and he Jiang Yugang, compared with those people, still does not stand on the same stage, now he, in terms of actual identity, is at most the owner of a big cottage, and in terms of nominal identity, he is just a hundred households, put it in other military camps, to put it simply, it is a centurion, a person with this status, is almost unworthy of being the opponent of Meng Yang's generation of director Sijifa.
Si Jifa would have thought that in Mengyang City, which he wanted the most, it was a small hundred households who presided over the war, that is, a low-status centurion in the military camp? He wouldn't have thought of it, but he wouldn't have thought that this person knew the trajectory of his life, knew his strategy and planning, and made all preparations to stop his plan to recapture Meng Yang.
However, Jiang Yugang also believed that not all of these soldiers gathered by Sijifa were full of ambition to conquer Mengyang City, and some of them were also uneasy and fearful of battle, and the uneasiness and fear of these people, and the degree of unfirmness of their will to fight must be deeper than that of the soldiers of their own Mang Castle, and the proportion of these people was also more than that of the soldiers of Mang Castle, because of their origins.
Of course, there are some officially qualified soldiers, and there may be no shortage of veterans, but at this stage of the war, so many soldiers can still be assembled, and there must be many full existences among them. This is not Jiang Yugang's subjective judgment, but a conclusion based on facts.
According to the information he received, Sijifa's soldiers came from three parts, the remaining of the original subordinates, the support of Mengyang Tusi from the Ava Dynasty, and the last part was the newly recruited soldiers.
In the proportion of the three parts, the remaining of the original subordinates did not exceed 10,000, the Mengyang Tusi of the Ava Dynasty supported no more than 10,000, and the newly recruited soldiers exceeded half of the 40,000 soldiers.