One of the most important items in Liu Xianzhi's original plan for Liu Yan was how to build this city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info?

It is completely impossible to build a city with such materials in the desert far away from the sphere of influence of the Silk Country, without stones, trees, and even the soil is extremely high in sand and difficult to pile up, but Liu Xianzhi's idea is to fill the sand with millions of sacks and stack them to form a city wall.

It is impossible to pile up very high with such sandbags, so Liu Xianzhi came up with the idea of stacking the outer walls on both sides with sandbags, and then filling them with gravel in the middle, so that the foundation of the city wall is very wide, and then build the city wall on top of it after reaching a certain level. In this way, there were three layers of walls, between which were hindered by broken knives and guns, with the first layer preventing horses from jumping over, and the upper two layers preventing people from climbing. In this way, although the wall is not as difficult to climb as the castles in the Silk Country, it can also prevent enemy personnel from ascending the city, and buy enough time for the bow and crossbow to attack. Since Liu Xianzhi temporarily changed the location of the city to build the city by the lake, the trench formed by digging sand could directly introduce the lake water as a moat to defend the cavalry, which was an unexpected gain.

Since the second day when the silk ** team began to build the city, the Tuqi army has shown its clues, especially a few days later, when they are now the city wall is getting higher and higher, they began to panic, and even attacked in a big way, but unfortunately they were repelled by Liu Xianzhi's troops. After that, eight full days passed, and the banner of Abicheril appeared.

Of course, Abichellir did not expect that the Silk Country would come to build the city this time. When he found out that the enemy army in the direction of Youzhou was a decoy, and the main force was also suspicious for a while after advancing to the northwest, because he really didn't know what the purpose of the Silk Country was doing, and finally he decided not to want to, and directly led his troops to copy the back road of the Silk Country. Abicheril's approach was not hasty, in fact the measures he took were exactly what the Silk Country feared the most. Because the weakness of Liu Xianzhi's 200,000-strong army is not the army itself, but the long supply lines and empty rear.

Liu Xianzhi mobilized 270,000 troops this time, which means that there are only tens of thousands of horses stationed on the front line from Fengzhou, Linzhou, Taiyuan to Youzhou.

However, the reason why Liu Xianzhi dared to take such a risk was because he understood that even if Tuqi had this mind, he would not have the strength, and he would not have the preparation if he had this strength.

After last year's large-scale operation, Tuqi's losses were not insignificant, and some of them were sent to the Western Regions to deal with Wang Hanxin, so Tuqi's regular forces that could fight at present were quite limited, and if he had already prepared to launch a military operation against the Silk Country, it would be another matter, the problem was that in fact, Tuqi was not prepared for large-scale military operations at all, so it was impossible to launch a threatening attack on the Silk Country overnight. Even if Abicheril did this, it was just a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao. Moreover, when the army of 200,000 Silk Nation was marching towards his lair, Abiciel would not dare to launch an all-out attack with no chance of victory. His most likely choice was to attack the supply lines of the army of the Silk Country to reverse the situation and win, but this was not a real threat to Liu Xianzhi, because once the Tuqi people showed the true intentions of the Silk Country, they would understand that it was more important not to let the Silk Country build this city than to attack the grain route.

Everything was under Liu Xianzhi's control, and after getting the news, Abiciel gave up the attack on the supply line and gathered his forces to fight Liu Xianzhi in a decisive battle.

After the Tuqi army was assembled, there were 120,000 people, although it was not as large as Liu Xianzhi's army, but it was no longer possible for Liu Xianzhi to fight while building a city. Therefore, Liu Xianzhi stopped the work of building the city and began to arrange troops.

The silk ** team relied on the lake as the right flank, and set up a formation with the unfinished city as a fortification. In this way, only one left wing of the Silk Country was exposed, and this left wing Liu Xianzhi put on a turtle formation that gave the Turks a headache.

Faced with the formation of the Silk Country, the Turchi side obviously felt very tricky, and they did not attack after the formation, but stayed there and watched, because such a formation would face huge casualties no matter where they attacked from it.

Seeing the hesitation of the Tuqi army, Liu Xianzhi sent a small number of troops to continue to build the city. That posture is that if you don't come to fight, I'll continue to work, slow down, slow down, do a little bit. This move apparently upset the Turks, and after a commotion, a cavalry of about 10,000 men began the first wave of attacks.

The 10,000 cavalry obviously did not have the will to crash headlong into the city wall, and they charged towards the turtle formation on the left flank of the Silk Country, but unfortunately, the turtle formation's mobility was insufficient, but the strength was beyond the cavalry's control. The turtle formation, composed of chariot battles, was enough to block the onslaught of the cavalry, even if it was not comparable to the city wall, and the archers who used it as a cover taught this group of cavalry a fierce lesson with a rain of arrows. In a short time, the Turks produced thousands of dead, but they did not tear even a single scale of the turtle formation.

It was at this time that the entire army of the Turks was mobilized. Abicheril himself led an army of 50,000 to the left flank, while the remaining 60,000 rushed to the wall.

"Want to go all out?" Liu Xianzhi sat on the chariot and sneered slightly, he had already seen that Abicheril's purpose must not be this kind of decisive battle of pure attrition, but to try to start from the trench dug by the country of silk, and cut off the connection between the left wing and the center from there.

Liu Xianzhi immediately found Hao Mancai and ordered: "You bring 5,000 strong crossbows to hold both sides of the trench, if the Turbid army rushes there, just shoot with arrows, if you put in one person and one horse, you know what to do!" ”

"The last general obeys!" Hao Man immediately took the order and left.

After he left, Liu Xianzhi said to Han Jianlong, who was standing behind him: "Although Hao Mancai's bow and arrows are fierce, they can't resist the Tukchi cavalry who are covering from both sides of the trench, you immediately transfer 3,000 pikemen from your pikemen team to stand by, if the Tukchi army arrives, be sure to block its charge, and don't let go of one person and one horse!" ”

"Yes!" Han Jianlong said.

Liu Xianzhi sat back on the chariot again and said leisurely: "Then let's see what tricks Abicheril can play." (To be continued.) )