Chapter 340: At Stake (1)
The night breeze is slow, and a half-moon hangs obliquely in the sky. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The midnight of midsummer is still sweaty; However, for the soldiers and civilians of Dingtao City, sweating profusely because of the fierce exercise, it did not reduce the coldness in their hearts.
Although it repelled another wave of siege by bandits, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the city is broken, perhaps at some point in the next round of siege.
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With the increasing number of human generals, with the increasing strength of the generals, after the bandits come, don't say that they want to attack the city, as long as the clues are revealed, they will wait for the continuous encirclement and suppression of the human generals.
Therefore, the legend of bandits attacking and breaking the city has been forgotten by people for more than ten years.
However, it was not until this moment that the soldiers and civilians of Dingtao City suddenly discovered that the threat from bandits was always there!
With this continuous wave of meteor showers, the arrival of the bandit cottage seems to have reached a small climax.
Who would have thought that on the outskirts of Dingtao City, which had only been cleaned up by Zhang Xiu in the morning, there would be a bandit cottage that descended on Taoqiu Mountain, which was only one step away from the city, before nightfall?
If only one bandit cottage had descended, in Taoqiu Mountain, those improvised military generals in the field would have been exterminated. Even if it can't be eradicated for a while, it will most likely fall into a stalemate, so as not to cause it to poison the party.
However, the bandit cottages that landed outside Dingtao City were not one or two, but several!
The bandits in these cottages combined, to say the least, there were three or five thousand, so there were three thousand bandits besieging Dingtao City.
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Three thousand bandits besieged the city, but the garrison of Dingtao City was seriously insufficient.
Dingtao City, almost regarded as the henchman position of Qingyan Xu Yu Four Prefectures, there is no big enemy around Dingtao, and there is only one patrol battalion in the city on weekdays to maintain law and order.
After the meteor shower broke out, Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew were ordered to suppress the demons and monsters in Yanzhou, and the temporary station was mostly in Dingtao City.
Therefore, the military generals battalion under their command will often be stationed in Dingtao City with them. There are also the military generals in Dingtao City, and after being temporarily organized, most of them will also be around Dingtao City.
Ordinarily.
The military general battalion under Zhang Ji's temporary command has five hundred military generals; There are about five hundred generals in Dingtao City; This adds up to more than 1,000 generals.
In addition, a patrol battalion, and 3,000 people who were temporarily requisitioned, using nearly 20 bed crossbows on the city wall, as well as the strong bows and crossbows stored by the patrol battalion, should not have much problem withstanding the siege of 3,000 bandits.
It's just that during the day, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu led the military generals battalion and just wiped out a bandit cottage, and most of the mana consumed by the generals has not yet recovered.
Later, a few tiger demons were found in Taoqiu Mountain outside the city, and most of the generals in the field rushed over to kill the demons.
When several bandit cottages descended on Taoqiu Mountain and quickly besieged Dingtao City, the generals in the mountains were either dead or fled, and there were only a few guys hiding in the city
In this way, the guard strength of Dingtao City will be seriously insufficient!
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Fortunately, perhaps because of the union of multiple bandit cottages, the order had not yet had time to be unified, and after the siege, the bandits did not immediately attack the city.
This gave Dingtao City a chance to ask for help!
It's just that there are many bandits outside the city, and if you want to break through and ask for help, you have to be the top generals to have some possibilities.
This heavy task of asking for help is not Zhang Jimoke!
Moreover, Zhang Ji happened to have one, a speed-type mount rewarded by the lord Hao Meng, which is legendary, capable of traveling thousands of miles in a day and eight hundred at night, which allowed him to go to Jinan City overnight for help.
In fact, there are also reinforcements to be drawn near Dingtao City.
In the county town near Dingtao City, there are many military generals in the field; The most are three or five hundred, and the few are one hundred and eighty. If it is properly organized, only a few cities within a radius of 100 miles of Dingtao City can organize nearly a thousand military generals.
It's just that even if the generals in the field are organized, they are scattered, and their strength is not very good, in the face of more than 3,000 bandits, can they not be expected to deliver food?
Therefore, instead of pinning his hopes on these wild generals, Zhang Ji should directly ask for help from Pegasus Jinan City. At the very least, if the speed is fast enough, maybe the lord's reinforcements will arrive in Dingtao City before dawn.
Of course, this also depends on Taocheng being able to hold out until the arrival of the lord's reinforcements!
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After Zhang Ji broke out of Dingtao City, it didn't take long for several bandits to finally decide on a unified order, and soon launched an attack on Dingtao City.
The bandits are attacking the city, which is clearly different from the human soldiers.
Most of the time, the conquest between human princes will mostly take the form of ants to attack the city. If you want to break the city by relying on military generals, if you don't have absolute strength, do you really think that those bed crossbows on the defending side can't be furnished?
The first thing the bandits did when they attacked the city was to surround the entire city, and then the bandits went straight to the city wall. And, in the process of running towards the city walls, the bandits will also unleash various spells.
Among the earth-based spells, the [Turfland] series and the [Rolling Stone] series have limited damage to the city wall, but they can also ravage the city wall through the gap. Moreover, thousands of bandits used various spells one after another, and casualties soon appeared on the city walls.
The spells used by the bandits are mostly low-level spells, with a few intermediate-level spells interspersed. High-level spells and super spells are not just for bandits in their twenties to master.
It's just that the damage to the generals of the military generals battalion is very limited, and for ordinary human soldiers, two or three hits are a lore.
In particular, those who had just been requisitioned had no experience in this area, and when they were on the city walls, they would be taken care of by the bandits' magic.
Therefore, most of the casualties occurred among those people.
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"Ah, my legs!" This is the miserable howl of the people who can't dodge, and half of their lower legs are burned into ashes by fire spells.
"My eyes!" This is the howl of the people whose faces have passed through the flames once and after they have lost their sight.
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These miserable howls have dealt a great blow to morale, however, the general who presided over the defense of the city is Hu Che'er, but there is no way. Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ji went to Jinan City successively, and the battalion of the military general's battalion was Hu Che'er, and they took over the garrison of Dingtao City.
Blind, without half of the limb, such an injury is not cured even if it is placed on the general's body.
There are more than a dozen generals in the military general camp, and they all have [life healing techniques]. It's just that the [Life Healing Technique] looks very awesome, but it can't be created out of nothing to make people grow limbs that turn into ashes, right?
Looking at the miserable howling people, Hu Che'er dispatched: "Carry these injured people to the county government for temporary resettlement." ”
Then a group of people and men began to carry the wounded soldiers on the city wall to the county government for resettlement.
Seeing that the morale was still a little low, Hu Che'er said again: "Soldiers, this time we are defending the city, and we are between you and the demons and monsters. If the city is broken, the bandits will surely wash the city, and the Dingtao City will not be left with chickens and dogs! ”
"Therefore, please also ask all the soldiers to forget their lives and deaths, and protect me in Dingtao City!"
"As long as we can hold out until tomorrow morning, the hussar general will surely send reinforcements. Then there will be a reward for the living, and a bereavement for the dead and wounded in battle. ”
Although Hu Che'er is a general, this move to motivate morale is quite effective.
I saw that the morale that was still low just now quickly turned into a will to die, and the soldiers of the patrol battalion on the city wall, or the three thousand young men who had just been requisitioned, were determined to live and die with Dingtao City.