Chapter 48: The Art of Defending the City

"The lord thinks that whether it is a real attack or a feint attack, Yang Xiu will launch a fierce attack on my Wancheng in the early stage, how much strength will we use to resist?"

Zhao Yun and Liu Feng were looking at the almost endless enemy army under the city at this time, Zhao Yun looked around, and saw that the defenders under his command could not hide their nervousness, when they faced 40,000 enemy troops attacking the city before, they were not nervous because their troops were not at a disadvantage, so the army was not nervous, but at this time, there were more than 200,000 troops under the city, and it was enough to launch an offensive from the three city gates at the same time, so that it would cause the city guards to be difficult, not to mention that even if Liu Feng had sent someone to retrieve a lot of equipment from Xiangyang, but these weapons can still only resist the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops on the city, that is to say, from this time on, if Yang Xiu is determined to attack the city from all directions, then when his loss reaches more than 100,000, the defenders in the city will not have any equipment to defend the city.

The reason for such a hidden danger is not that Liu Feng did not think about it in advance, but that the battle to resist the 250,000 army in such a city as Wancheng is too rare, and the unique geographical situation of Jingzhou and the psychology of Liu Feng and Cao Zhi have caused such an unavoidable war but everyone is unwilling to give in.

At this time, all the places near the city walls and gates in Wancheng are full of equipment to defend the city, but for the 250,000 army, this is obviously not enough, Zhao Yun has this question at this time, the purpose is naturally to ask Liu Feng, for these materials and equipment to defend the city, at what speed to consume, if it is only to ensure that the Wei army does not climb the city, the speed of consumption will naturally be slower, and it can also support a longer time.

"Naturally, it is to fight with all his might, don't care about the consumption of the city's defense equipment, if Yang Xiu can really lead the army to hold on to the exhaustion of the city's defense equipment, I also admire him as an iron-blooded general, but in my opinion, this guy is far from holding out until that time, but just in case, Zilong first ordered the guards under your command that once the city's defense equipment is exhausted, I will abandon this Wancheng as soon as possible, retreat to Xiangyang, and save the lives of our army to the greatest extent, the only way to win."

Zhao Yun listened to Liu Feng's words, nodded resolutely, and then instructed his subordinates to go to the east and west gates, at this time Wancheng, Zhao Yun was guarding the first north gate city wall, and Ma Chao and Wei Yan led the army to the east and west sides respectively, this move was naturally to prevent Yang Xiu from attacking the city on three sides at the same time, which caused Liu Feng's guards to be in a hurry.

Although Liu Feng didn't believe that Yang Xiu would be able to persist until his damage exceeded 100,000 and still keep attacking, but in case he didn't do a good job in any aspect and was unexpectedly achieved by the Wei soldiers, it would naturally be another matter, what he had to do at this time was to make his Wancheng where he was located a monolith, not to provide Yang Xiu with any opportunity that he was looking forward to, and to force Yang Xiu to take another step towards the strategy he might have thought about before, because only then could he avoid a head-on battle. Only then can Yang Xiu make the mistakes he would make because he had experienced too few war scenes.

Finally, after observing the defense arranged by Liu Feng in Wancheng, Yang Xiu Yinya clenched his teeth and gave an order, and the army that had already surrounded Wancheng in three directions began to attack Wancheng.

On the city wall, the handsome banners of the defenders of each city gate are prominently inserted, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Wei Yan. At this time, Zhang Liao was commanding the army to attack the north gate where Zhao Yun was located, Xu Huang was still at the west gate where he had fallen before, and Xu Chu was also outside the east gate where he should have appeared a few days ago.

After giving this order, Yang Xiu sighed, originally he thought that Liu Feng would most likely not be ready to defend in all three directions, although this time it was a nominal feint, but how difficult it was to make Liu Feng believe that he was attacking with all his strength, and the conditions that could make Liu Feng fall into the trap he set were only the casualties of the real Wei soldiers, and these casualties were enough to make Yang Xiu's flesh hurt.

Therefore, Yang Xiu expected Liu Feng to make a mistake in the deployment, because in the case of the disadvantage of the troops, any mistake will be infinitely magnified when it is white-hot, once Liu Feng's mistake is caught, then he will naturally be able to use this opportunity that may have been just a feint to directly take Wancheng, but at least from the second before he gave the order, Yang Xiu has not seen any such possibility.

Regarding attacking from three sides, Yang Xiu also followed Zhang Liao's advice to do so, one is still to attack from three sides to magnify the problem of Liu Feng's guards as much as possible, and it can also make Liu Feng believe that this attack really wants to take Wancheng, on the other hand, it is Zhang Liao who thought of whether Liu Feng will have enough to support him in the city to defend the city defense equipment of more than 200,000 troops.

Before setting off for the north gate, Zhang Liao had once again told Yang Xiu that he must always pay attention to the defenders at the three city gates in the distance for the use of city defense equipment, including arrows, rolling stones, rolling wood and other fire-igniting objects, once it is found that the defenders are very cautious about the use of these items, and even if they intend to save, they must not stop attacking the city, Zhang Liao thought that once such a situation appeared, then they would definitely attack the city with a small number of casualties, and when they arrived in the city, even if Liu Feng wanted to hold on, The huge disparity in strength can only increase casualties.

However, these two expectations in Yang Xiu's heart cast a thick shadow on his heart when the army under his command and Liu Feng's sergeant defending the city first fought.

The shouts, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, the rumbling sound of boulders falling to the ground, and the screams of the sergeants of the middle arrows, filled the outside of this very prosperous city in Jingzhou for a while...... This is the case at any gate.

And the consequence of such a situation is naturally the rapid and large number of casualties of the Wei soldiers. Sergeants fell down the ladder and the sergeants behind them quickly filled up, though they knew that death awaited them......