Chapter 779: The War of the Bad Taste
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Lejin felt that a small Xinyang defended by less than 5,000 centaurs, in front of these tens of thousands of troops, was just an overnight battle, and there was no difficulty at all, so after he arrived in Xinyang, he made a little rectification and began to attack Xinyang.
As a result, he encountered the most stubborn resistance, because Xinyang's guard equipment, abundant is unimaginable, endless longbows and giant arrows, dense catapults on the city, and overwhelming fire oil bombs, so that every attack of Lejin almost died in the middle of the road, and every attack, almost impossible to get close to the enemy's city wall.
This is the most frustrating thing, no matter what, you have to let me climb the city and attack, but I can't even see your walls, how can you let me fight?
At this time, Le Jin really felt the huge gap in equipment, sophisticated, and sufficient advanced equipment, enough to offset the lack of numbers, 50,000 troops, slaughtered like this every day, and almost could not touch the enemy's city walls.
And every time, when you finally pay a heavy price and touch the enemy's city wall, not far from the port of Xinyang, a group of soldiers dressed in black will rush out to kill their rear team, they are just harassing, and then retreat, but because of this way, make every attack in vain, because you have to think about the enemy's charge and harassment behind, and as a result, let your siege be abandoned halfway.
It is obviously attacking a lonely city with an absolute advantage, but it is precisely because of this unlimited containment by the other party that this simple siege battle has become endlessly consumed.
After a few days of fierce battles, Le Jin also understood the other party's tactics, so Le Jin decided to divide the troops to attack on both sides, anyway, he has some personnel here, after the war losses, and was supplemented by the insatiable family clan behind, his army seems to be endless, so let's consume it, see who has consumed whom.
As a result, the war began to be entangled and prolonged according to Lejin's assumption.
This result made Le Jin extremely excited, as long as the war continued like this, the victory would be his own.
However, when the wind was high in the dark and windy month, a group of Lu Jiajun suddenly rushed out of the dock fortress in Xinyang, and when Lejin did not react, this army did not retreat after harassing as usual, but rushed directly into Xinyang, this army was full of 10,000 people.
Wait, where did the Lu Jiajun get the 10,000 people? This data made Le Jin feel incredible, but after many confirmations, especially when he launched his own attack the next day, the increased number of defenders on Xinyang City made Le Jin accept this fact.
Where did the enemy team come from? Could it be that Lu Peng suddenly increased his troops here? In order to find out this situation, Lejin sent the strongest team and began to capture the tongue of the other party in order to find out the origin of this team.
As a result, the tongue that was caught was not hidden, because there was no need to hide it, they told Le Jin a piece of news that made him crazy, that is, this team was not Lu Peng's team, but a coalition of guards from the northern caravan.
This news greatly surprised Le Jin, he really didn't expect that the merchants in the north would form reinforcements to support Lu Peng without being attracted by interests.
But in fact, when you think about it, it's not surprising, who says there are no benefits? Xinyang became the hub of north-south transportation, once Xinyang was lost, the merchants of the north and south lost a very critical transit base, after the Taishou Peng Min explained the interests to those merchants, those merchants immediately took out their escort weapons and joined the guards.
It was at this moment that the war in Xinyang completely changed its taste, it was originally a death battle between Lu Peng and Cao Cao, and slowly, it turned into a war between the north and the south that needed this port, and the Qingzhou family wanted to share this batch of profits, and now the regular armies on both sides can hardly go to the battlefield, and what really fights to the death is the armed forces of the northern and southern merchants and the Qingzhou families.
If the two sides fight out a batch, they will be made up by the interest groups in the rear to organize another batch, and as a result, the entire defense line, the truly tragic war is going on here.
Day and night of offensive and defensive battles, thousands of people died every day, but every day thousands of people were replenished, and the two sides formed a tragic tug-of-war, and no one relaxed. They are all trying their best to invest, not only in their lives, but also in the material reserves and tenacity of the two sides.
In the midst of the daily war, watching the family outfits of the family families who were driven up one after another, being consumed under the team composed of merchants on the opposite side, the two sides also fought out a real fire, because at this time, no one could give up anymore.
The big families in Qingzhou are like businessmen, they just started to invest their capital into a predictable income, and then they have been slowly trapped, and they can't withdraw if they want to, in order to repay the principal and interest, they have to invest continuously.
In order to ensure that its own interests are not lost, the other side must also continuously reinvest and ensure a balance with the other side, so in the end of this war, the two political groups can withdraw from this desperate struggle and watch from the sidelines, and let the two interest groups fight here to the death.
Lejin could only watch from the sidelines, because he had nothing else to do but this battlefield.
And when General Sun Miao was also excluded from this war, he did not stand by the sidelines, but launched his own mobility and began to carry out uninterrupted attacks on the coastal states and counties of Qingzhou.
The fleet has this kind of benefit, especially in this era when there is no awareness of coastal defense at all, Cao Cao did not pay attention to the defense of the sea at all, and his humble sailor was taken to Yangzhou by Guo Jia to deal with Sun Quan's possible surprise attack on his rear, so now the coastal area of Qingzhou is equivalent to an undefended place, Sun Miao seized this rare opportunity and began to attack Cao Cao's coastal area.
Of course, Sun Miao also knew that his sailors could not penetrate deep into the enemy's inland, but by attacking all parts of the coast, the magistrates of Qingzhou were already anxious.
And in order to shirk his responsibility, the magistrates everywhere involuntarily unanimously pushed this responsibility to Le Jin's head, and this is indeed the case, if he hadn't suddenly and inexplicably recruited the armed forces of the clans from all over the world to participate in this war, which completely angered the Lu Peng group, and Lu Peng would not have sent sailors to harass and attack along the coast.
And Sun Miao was born as a water thief, in the hearts of him and his gang of water thief brothers, burning, killing and looting is their duty, and caring for the people is simply nonsense, so although they did not attack deeply, the disaster caused was huge, so that Cao Cao's coastal areas, which were already poor and weak, suffered a devastating blow. So the accusations of the local government flew to Cao Cao like snowflakes and flew to Lejin, so that Lejin, who was the most hopeful of making a breakthrough, couldn't even cry now, because he not only had to face the pressure of Lu Peng, but also faced internal attacks.
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