During the sporadic encounters and ranger outposts outside the city, I was watching the lineup of these enemies from the top of the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

These new enemies appear to be outnumbered and boundless, filling the entire wilderness unobscured by hills; However, in terms of flags, formations, and orders, they are roughly divided into several clusters of different origins, and they are arranged in echelons in the field;

Of course, through the first-hand information of the prisoners captured before the overnight raid, I also had a preliminary understanding of the origin of the other party.

This is a hodgepodge of forces, mainly centered on the remnants of the border armies of the Northern Dynasties in the former Datong and Jinshan areas, and also gathered a large number of small and medium-sized feudal divisions under the leadership of the Saiwai princes, as well as local forces in the states of northeastern Anbei; Then it took a lot of people along the way to form the current size.

In addition, there are many settlements distributed according to their respective sizes, the so-called people in the forest and the people of the black water, what are the local forces in the coastal area, according to the observation of the outpost scouts and ambush sentry posts, and even some figures and existences can be vaguely seen wearing fish skin or tree bark.

Therefore, on the whole, although there are many people, in addition to the old and weak women and children who transport and guard the baggage in the rear, there are still a large number of herds of cattle, sheep, mules and horses, and they are still rushing from the north to join them.

Of course, the more eye-catching ones are the remnants of the border armies of the Northern Dynasties and the troops composed of those vassals outside the mountains.

Most of these former Northern border troops were foot soldiers, most of them wore large jackets and iron mesh armor, while others wore patched cloth back armor or bubble nail armor and fur hats, while only a few leaders and officers wore all-iron willow leaf armor or ring armor.

The opponent did not appear to be intact, but had gone through a series of battles, old and new, and was covering his body with mud or bandaging certain parts of his body.

The cavalry was mainly composed of the vassals of the grasslands outside the mountains, and their equipment was much more chaotic, ranging from rusty luandou scale armor, lock drapery, chain mail, slab armor, and inlaid leather armor, to sheepskin vests, fur-edged robes and large felt hats, head wrapping and so on, and even a piece of broken felt wrapped around half of the body.

Judging from the number of performances before the battle, the proportion they occupy is not large; Of course, this does not rule out the other party's deliberate clumsiness or reservation, after all, so many people are mixed together, it is not too difficult to hide some hand tails and hole cards.

Moreover, the name of the opposing coach also made me a little concerned, it was actually Yelu Dashi, yes, it was the eponymous character of Yelu Dashi, who moved west with the remnants of the Liao Kingdom and moved thousands of miles west in the river of the Western Regions in another time and space, and re-established a Western Liao regime that had been passed down for several generations;

And what makes people even more mindful and subtle is that in this time and space, he also has the nickname of Dashi Linya, but he is the only border marshal general from the border domain under Su Yuanjing, and he is also one of the only remaining important ministers in the remnants of the Northern Dynasty.

As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and this qualification alone cannot be treated as an idle person if it is placed on anyone.

However, although the current situation is obviously smooth for us, the next development direction is also very delicate.

Although our army occupies the advantage of the strong walls of the city and the upper hand of the defense, it can give full play to the advantages of firearms and attack and defend freely; But it doesn't mean that you can always fight with stubborn enemies and trapped beasts inside, and most of the thieves outside.

Although it seems that the other party can't hold out for too long, on the one hand, after experiencing a long-distance migration, there is a serious lack of large-scale equipment that can attack the fortifications, and in addition to directly piling up human lives, it seems that it is difficult to form a decent threat to Liaodong City;

On the other hand, so many people who come from afar to eat and chew their horses may not be able to sustain much longer on their own food and grass herds. But as long as they stay here for one more day, they will have more destruction and plundering of Liaodong, after all, I don't want to take over a land full of ruins and people in Liaodong.

What's more, although I don't have to worry about the combat power of most of these rabble, I have to worry that if such a large group of people can't be outflanked and annihilated properly, even if they are successfully defeated and defeated, it will be quite a troublesome hand tail and follow-up matter.

After all, I can't compare with the wealthy US imperialism in later generations, even if there is an economic crisis everywhere, I can still reap the world's wealth by using the machine to print money, and on the other hand, I can constantly provoke wars and fight law and order wars all over the world, and the huge wealth will be justified and floated into the pockets of specific interest groups and individuals.

If I really want to drag my precious strength in this Liaodong for two or three years, it is enough to delay and miss many things. So I need a strategy that can solve most of its living forces as soon as possible in the short term.

"Where is Zhao Liangsi, the left horseman?"

Seeing this, I suddenly had an idea and shouted to my side.

"The subordinates are here."

Zhao Liangsi responded and bowed his hand.

"With you leading three battalions of cavalry and two battalions of foot cavalry, you will go out of the city lightly from the east corner gate, and cross the Taizi River to the west to wait."

"Take a three-to-five-day cycle."

"Waiting for an opportunity to attack and knock out herds and settlements transported from the rear."

"No matter what means and methods are used..."

"Do everything you can to pull the rear of the enemy flank. Create opportunities and gaps for this camp. ”

"No."

He took the order and left.

"The right rider is the enemy."

I continued to call the shots.

"Take the third battalion of your hunting cavalry out of the east main gate and go around to the north city wall."

"Responsible for receiving Zhao Bingyuan's department, and retreating into the city in rotation as a regiment to rest and replenish."

"Order the three battalions of the Seventh Soldier and Horse Division, and one battalion of garrison troops, and one regiment of combat engineers,"

"Drive into the city from the north gate to guard the left and right camps."

With this series of orders, the battlefield situation inside and outside Liaodong City, which had already fallen into a brief confrontation and mutual wait-and-see, was once again involved and circulated. Since the other party is cautious enough, then I will find a way to force it to move.

At this moment, as if responding to the battle outside the city, shouts of killing gradually came from the city, but the enemy troops trapped in the inner city began to try to break through again.

However, before that, the several counterattacks they launched were all easily beaten back by the positions besieging the inner city, and even the supporting artillery team did not come in handy, so it was easy to let the attack momentum of the opponent's organization be smashed between the trench and the wire barricade, and even the edge of the car formation could not be touched.

So this time, my focus is still outside the city.

After half a ring, just as the rear troops camped under the city began to rotate in batches with the new forces sent out in the city, the other party also moved again.

But the first to rush up was a large crowd of disorganized people, who looked closely from the nearby mirror basically some ragged people, whose faces were full of sorrow and weeping and mourning for the people's livelihood, mixed with many old and weak women and children; Everyone was unarmed, and the only thing they had on them was a broken dirt bag they were carrying.

These were rushed over as a precursor to the attack, apparently from the places along the way, and they were actually planning to play cannon fodder and pile up dirt.

However, the other party's appearance and movement made me secretly relieved.

At least it proves that the other party does not need to hope to gather the hearts of local people, but has the intention of saving land for another species; On the other hand, for most of the Huai army, which I am accustomed to seeing a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, there is no reason or taboo to be uneasy, as long as the ammunition is sufficient, these miscellaneous cannon fodder will no longer be the life of filling the trenches.

The only ones who reacted more violently were those soldiers from Anton, and even the children of the clansmen under the rule of the Great Luo clan or Luo Fan in the past, even in the civil strife of the Luo clan, they rarely directly took these local fathers and elders to directly drive forward to fill in the trenches; Therefore, it is inevitable that all kinds of jaw-dropping and gnashing of teeth are surging, and the fighting spirit is fierce and asks me to fight.

However, the crowd of whips and knives and guns continued to advance, and although their speed was rather slow and disorganized, there were enough of them to slowly approach the camp under the city after a few hesitant figures fell under the Dao of the Overseer.

And in the left and right camps under the city, the alternation of entry and exit between different troops continued in an orderly manner, as if they were not moved by external objects at all. It was not until the whistle blew after the third trumpet that a whole column of gunners rose up from behind the breastwork, the trenches and fences, and the horses.

And the crowd was so close, so crowded and dense, that they saw that they were about to step into the large hoof pits used to trap the horses, that they didn't need to deliberately aim at all, and with the waved halberds and small flags, they radiated out in rows and pieces in the general direction, and there was no possibility of falling short.

Suddenly, it was like ears of wheat or rice fields that had been blown down by a strong wind, and these people who were burdened with soil were like dominoes pushing backwards.

Those who were hit seemed to be completely freed, and suddenly their bodies stiffened and fell to the ground, or they continued to stumble a few steps under the numb inertia before collapsing; During this period, it seemed that due to a severe lack of nutrition or lack of food, after being shot, there was not even much blood spilled, and it fell to the ground one by one.

As if because of some kind of numbness and delay in reflexes that obscured the front and rear vision, they were like indifferent walking corpses, and they were hit one after another and quickly filled, until the third round of radiation sweep fell on them, and the remaining living people seemed to be awakened by some kind of tragic situation.

Then there was an overwhelming burst of shouts and cries, and they all turned around and threw down the dirt bags, and ran towards the rear in the midst of the trampling.

There was still no sound of cheering or other noisy movements on the Huai army's position, only a thin piece of spring silkworm chewing leaves to inspect weapons and reload ammunition movements and voices; The only ones who were still active were the auxiliaries and men who ran between the lines with their bodies low, transporting ammunition and ammunition;

Because for them, it's just a massacre warm-up without suspense.

As the crowd of people who turned back and ran gradually became thin and thin, and then they were trampled to the ground one after another, they finally revealed the other beings who had been hiding in it until the closer.

The bearded horseman, in a leather robe and felt hat, armed with a scimitar and a one-handed axe, and a light and thin wooden spear, whistled with a sharp whistle and a strange cry from his mouth, like a wandering hungry wolf, and galloped out of the gap in the trampled crowd one after another.

At this moment, the real offensive followed, (to be continued.) )