Chapter 278: Pro-Guard
The original city wall of the public security city was only about two zhang, but after Wang Wei garrisoned the public security, the city wall has been increased to more than three zhang, and there will be an arrow tower at a distance of every three or four zhang above the city wall, although these arrow towers seem to be a little simple in structure, but the archers of the Jingzhou army stationed in them can receive good protection, and they can also bring heavy casualties to Yuan Yao's army; In addition to the arrow tower, there are also a variety of defensive equipment such as bed crossbows and shooting rods on the city wall, which is daunting!
The public security city stands near the river, and there is a wide moat around the outside, the widest part of the moat is about ten zhang, there is no way to set up a cloud ladder to pass, if you want to attack the wall of the public security city, you must first fill in the moat outside him, but the moat of the public security city is quoted from the living water of the Yangtze River, the water flow of the moat is very turbulent, and it is not an easy thing to fill this moat.
The entire public security city has been built into a strong fortress by Wang Wei, and if it is to be attacked from the outside, the besieging troops do not know how many casualties they will have to pay!
After Yuan Yao observed the city defense of the public security city, there was also a trace of worry on his brows, Wang Wei is an old man and a serious person, which can be seen from the fact that after he divided his troops just now, the public security defenders did not send troops to test themselves, although it is difficult for such a person to achieve a big victory, but he often does not suddenly lose, and for himself, such a person is often the most troublesome!
In this era, it is too difficult to capture a fortified city, and the time consumed by siege warfare is often the most, when Yuan Yao fought in the south and the north, he was trying to mobilize the enemy army and gather the enemy army outside the city, he did not really fight a few siege battles at all, so he was able to fight quickly!
But now that Yuan Yao's prestige has been propagated, the enemy will no longer despise him, and he will often be cautious and cautious when facing him, and he will not give him the opportunity to easily gather the enemy army outside the city at all!
Now that he has met an old and serious general like Wang Wei, he has made it clear from the beginning that he wants to defend the city, and facing such an enemy is Yuan Yao's biggest headache.
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Just when Yuan Yao was frowning at the Public Security City, Wang Wei and other Jingzhou military generals and colonels in the Public Security City were also observing the military formation of Yuan Yao's army.
The 20,000 sailors under Gan Ning's department are still stationed on the Yangtze River in warships, and Yuan Yao has only 15,000 soldiers and soldiers of the personal guards, and Yuan Yao's personal guards have been expanded to 20,000 soldiers and horses, of which 10,000 soldiers and horses are cavalry, and 10,000 soldiers and horses are foot soldiers: among the 10,000 cavalry, there are 3,000 heavy armored iron cavalry and 7,000 light cavalry, of which the cavalry equipped with the head sword of the fine iron ring has 1,000 heavy armored iron cavalry and 2,000 light cavalry; The 10,000 infantry soldiers are also divided into two parts, namely 5,000 heavy armored infantry soldiers and 5,000 light armored infantry soldiers, and the infantry equipped with the fine iron Mo knife is a thousand heavy armored infantry soldiers, and this thousand heavy armored infantry soldiers have been trained as Mo sword soldiers.
The 5,000 soldiers and horses that Ling Tong brought to attack Huarong County were the weakest 5,000 lightly armed foot soldiers in the pro-guard army, and the 10,000 iron cavalry, 1,000 Mo sword soldiers and 4,000 heavy armored foot soldiers in the pro-guard army were all taken by Yuan Yao's side, if he wanted to storm the city, Yuan Yao could only let Gan Ning lead 20,000 sailors to attack the city.
Yuan Yao's army lined up in a square formation of 1,000 soldiers and horses on the plain in front of Gong'an City, a single phalanx formed by a thousand Mo sword soldiers was located at the front of Yuan Yao's army array, 4,000 heavy armored foot soldiers were lined up into four phalanxes located behind the Mo sword soldiers, 3,000 heavy armored iron cavalry were arranged into three phalanxes and the finished glyphs were clustered around Yuan Yao, and the remaining 7,000 light cavalry were divided into two parts to protect the left and right wings of the military formation.
Although Yuan Yao's military array is simply a few phalanxes, these phalanx arrays are strict and uniform, and the soldiers of Yuan Yao's army just stand there, they look imposing and murderous, which makes people look frightened, and they dare not compete with them at all!
After Wang Wei saw the formation of Yuan Yao's army, a trace of horror flashed in his heart, Yuan Yao's army has not experienced any more battles in the past two years, he thought that Yuan Yao's army would be a little slack, but he didn't expect that the power of Yuan Yao's army was even better than before, it seems that Yuan Yao has not slackened in the past two years, and he is eyeing his Jingzhou land at any time!!
After Wang Wei looked at the lineup of Yuan Yao's army, and then looked at the soldiers around him, he couldn't help but flash a trace of the thought that people want to die more than others, although he has not slackened in the past two years, he has been training soldiers and horses to train the army, but although Jingzhou is rich, but the soldiers and horses maintained in Jingzhou are as many as more than 200,000, so many soldiers and horses are not a small number, and the power of the Jingzhou army is in the hands of Cai Mao, Cai Mao is not willing to spend too much money and food on these soldiers and horses.
In addition to the time when there is a war, Cai Mao's money and grain are relatively rich, and in normal times, Cai Mao will not allocate much money at all, Wang Wei uses the land of Gong'an County to support 20,000 soldiers and horses, which basically depends on the money and grain allocated by Cai Mao, and these money and grain can only maintain the basic life of 20,000 soldiers and horses, which is not enough to maintain the long-term hard training of the soldiers and soldiers of the Jingzhou army, so the soldiers and horses under Wang Wei are only trained once in ten days and eight days, and in the past two years, the Jingzhou army has not improved much combat power at all.
It wasn't until Yuan Yao's army entered Jiangxia County that Cai Mao allocated a large amount of grain and grass to the Public Security City, so as not to cause the Public Security City to be besieged by Yuan Yao's army and cause the Public Security City to be destroyed!
Under the assault during this period of time, the Jingzhou army was not able to increase its combat power at all, but it only made the 20,000 soldiers and horses look more present.
After seeing the majesty of Yuan Yao's army, Wang Wei couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart, with the combat power of his soldiers and horses, if it was used to defend the city, it was okay, but if it was a field battle with Yuan Yao's army, it would definitely collapse, fortunately he did not rush to send troops, otherwise this battle would be more auspicious!
Thinking of this, Wang Wei glanced at Lu Jie with praise, nodded at him with a smile, and then glanced at Chen Sheng angrily, as if to say, fortunately I didn't listen to your bad idea, otherwise this battle would be dangerous!
Chen Sheng has been fighting for many years, he still has the vision he should have, after seeing the majesty of Yuan Yao's army, his head is also numb, and a trace of happiness flashed in his heart, after seeing Wang Wei's gaze, Chen Sheng hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to attract Wang Wei's attention again.