Chapter 19: The Seven Cities Alliance, Why Fear

"Big brother, how many people are there in this dense crowd"? Qin Feng looked at the endless tents in the distance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Meng Jing looked at those tents and carefully considered them again and again: "About 100,000"!

Qin Feng was taken aback: "So many! Assam has such a strong strength"?

Meng Xin said on the side: "Judging from the banner, it should be the people of the Harappan Kingdom Koroli and the seven affiliated city-states!" Zuo Shu, please see, the largest camp, the flag of the lion is the king flag of Harappa, the lioness flag is Daro, the rhinoceros flag is Vola, the black bear flag is Bolun, the antelope flag is Mengsa, the leopard flag is Biqiu, the peacock flag is the Tobula, and the eagle flag is the Ache, according to the tree banner and the camp tent, it should be about 100,000 military horses"!

"Order, all five hundred officers and above, the council chamber to discuss the soldiers"!

In the conference hall, Qin Feng sat on the main seat and looked at the more than twenty officers in the room: "Assam has entangled 100,000 military horses, and the siege of the city should be tomorrow, everyone talk about it!"

Hearing that there were as many as 100,000 enemy troops outside the city, some of the officers of the Qin army were extremely excited, thinking that there was another fierce battle to fight, such as Sima Zhi and Li Tie. There are also those who think that there are so many enemy troops, and this battle is not optimistic, such as veterans such as Li Quai, Sima Li.

Seeing that no one spoke, Qin Feng had no choice but to order: "Sima Zhi, you say"!

Sima Zhi grinned: "Zuo Shuchang, you have a plan, and I am the one who attacks and kills!" Otherwise, let's take advantage of their unstable camp and attack the camp tonight!"

Meng Jing said, "No! The enemy's strength is large, although our cavalry is all equipped with stirrups and its combat effectiveness has increased greatly, but it is difficult to succeed in robbing the camp when it is full, and it is really difficult to succeed in robbing the camp.

Meng Xin said: "Zuo Shu is long, the enemy army is strong, it is better to stick to the change side is the best policy"!

Li Quzhi frowned and said: "But Lord Duwei, if the enemy army besieges and does not attack, I am afraid that our army's food, grass and ordnance will be unsustainable!"

The generals are talking about their thoughts, but they are nothing more than sticking to the changes or simply fighting, killing one is enough, killing two and earning one.

Meng Ling listened to the words of these people in the room, his brows furrowed more and more, he looked up at Qin Feng and said, "Zuo Shuchang, we believe in you!" You just give the order"!

When the generals heard Meng Ling's crisp voice, they all shut up one after another, looked at Qin Feng and said in unison: "Zuo Shuchang, you can give the order!"

Qin Feng looked around and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Haha! What is the fear of 100,000 military horses? Our army's 2,000 iron cavalry still took the fortified city of Bolun! They came better together! I can't ask for it! As long as they are defeated in one fell swoop, our army will be invincible in the east of Tianzhu! Save yourself from going to them one by one"!

When the generals heard this, they all laughed, and said, how can Qin Jun take these rats in his eyes!

In fact, Qin Feng at this time was also worried about this battle, and he didn't have any good strategy to break the enemy in his heart, the reason why he said this was purely to boost morale!

"The people will listen to the command! Tomorrow, according to their respective assignments, hold the city! Without my military order, you can't go to war without permission! Disobedient behead! Let's see how powerful he is"!

All the generals went down to prepare one after another, and Qin Feng called Li Qubing and Meng Ling to stay.

"Brother Qin! Do you want to send work to Ling'er?" Meng Ling didn't seem to be worried about the 100,000 enemy troops outside the city at all, and asked Qin Feng vividly.

Qin Feng looked at Meng Ling and smiled: "What's the hurry"! Turning his head, he asked Li Quai: "Master Li!" How has the defense of Bolun City been strengthened in the past few days? How long can our army be fed with food and grass? How many times can our armament cope with the enemy's all-out siege of the city"?

Li Quzhi saw Qin Feng's question after question, all of which were the lifeblood of the Qin army in this city defense, and frowned and said: "Yu Zuo Shuchang, in the past few days, Bolun City has been increased by five feet, and the key places have also thickened a lot, and the Tianzhu people do not have my Central Plains large-scale siege equipment, such as the nest car, the cloud building, these Tianzhu people have nothing, and the city defense fortifications should be fine!" Grain and grass should be supported for a maximum of one month! If the enemy's 100,000-strong army attacks the city with all its might, our ordnance can deal with it up to five times"!

Qin Feng frowned when he heard this, at present, Bolun is a lonely city, there are no reinforcements outside, if the supply of grain, grass and ordnance is not enough, how can this city be defended?

"If the soldiers eat two dry meals a day, and the people are dry and thin, how long can the food last"?

Li Quzhi took out the calculations, pulled for a long time and said: "I can support more than 15 days"!

Qin Feng lowered his head and thought for a while: "That's it!" If there is no war, the soldiers will have two dry meals, and if there is no war, the soldiers will be the same as the people, and the daily quota will be provided for each person, and the food must be supported for two months"!

Li Quzhi's brows furrowed even tighter: "The last general will do his best"!

Qin Feng continued: "In addition to the inherent ordnance, it is necessary to burn more clay wood and recycled wood, after tomorrow's war, the use of bows and crossbows will also be restricted, except for the more than 2,000 crossbowmen, other defenders of the city will no longer be issued bows and crossbows, and the oil will not be used in other places except for the city gate and a few important places!" In addition, you have to build an urn city in the two gates in the southeast, and prepare for the enemy to break the city! And these things, don't let the sergeants know, so as not to shake the hearts of the soldiers"!

After speaking, he talked about how to burn the mud and how to make the gear recycling wood, and then drew the shape drawings and handed them to Li Quai.

Li Qu was sick and saw that Qin Feng was ready to defend the city for a long time, and he didn't say anything anymore.

Meng Ling had been watching Qin Feng draw from the side, and said with a grin: "Brother Qin! You know so much"!

Qin Feng was also quite proud when he heard Meng Ling praise him, and smiled at Meng Ling: "Ling'er, you assist Master Li and do these things well!"

In the early morning of the second day, the Harappan army outside the city heard the sound of drums and trumpets, and the 100,000-strong army left the city for a mile, ready to attack the city.

At this time, a rather peculiar army appeared in front of the army, and I saw that although the men and horses were cavalry, they were not horses, but elephants, and there were more than a hundred of them. The elephants are all covered with heavy armor, and the cavalry on the elephant's back is also covered with armor. The leading officer rode alone on an elephant until he stopped a hundred meters from the city wall, chirping and talking about birds.

You must know that there are no elephants in the Harappan region, and these elephants have to be purchased from the Ganges River valley in the west of Tianzhu, more than 100 of them, and this Harappan country is really rich.

"What did he say"? Qin Feng asked Meng Jing.

Before Meng Jing could reply, Sima Zhi preemptively said: "Zuo Shuchang, that person said that they are the noble Vidian tribe, and they challenge our army according to their traditions, let us also send cavalry to fight with them in the field!" Zuo Shuchang, let me go"!

"Don't"! Qin Feng didn't think about it and flatly refused.

Sima said hurriedly: "Zuo Shuchang, the last general will not lose"!

"No! This is a military order"! Qin Feng was a little annoyed!

Qin Feng turned his head to look at Meng Xin: "Captain Mengdu, our army's hundred-man giant crossbow and bed crossbow may shoot these elephants"?

Meng Xin thought for a while and said, "I've never seen an elephant team fight before, so it's hard to say!" It's okay to think about the hundred-person giant crossbow, but the bed crossbow is only afraid that the power is not enough"!

Qin Feng called Li Tie, and after some arrangement, Li Tie took the order and left.

Sima Zhi was very angry when he saw Qin Feng arranging this: "Zuo Shuchang, the enemy army is challenged, how can you make this trick?"

Meng Jing's face turned cold when he heard this: "Shut up, this is a war!" You are not allowed to be rash!"

The Harappan officer on the back of the elephant under the city wall scolded angrily when he saw that the untouchables did not respond to his challenge!

At this moment, only to hear a "whoosh", a seven-foot-long giant arrow suddenly shot into the head of the elephant he was riding, the elephant screamed and fell to the ground, and the officer was also thrown to the ground.

Looking at the elephant herd behind him, seven or eight elephants fell for a while, and there were a few other elephants, who were hit by arrows and howled in grief.

It seems that the hundred-man giant crossbow is still effective against the herd of heavily armored elephants, but if you want to shoot it, you must shoot the vital point.

The officer was so angry that he hurried back to the elephant herd and scolded the city of Bolun. At this moment, more than a dozen huge arrows were shot from the city, and more than a dozen elephants were knocked over.

The officer was still scolding, and a horse had flown out of the army behind him, passing the order of the king of Harappa, Koroli, and the officer was full of anger and retreated back into the army with a herd of elephants, and in this short period of several hundred meters, more than 20 elephants were shot over.

Ke Luoli looked at the elephants that fell to the ground, and felt distressed, this was bought with a lot of money, but he didn't expect that he didn't kill an enemy, and he lost dozens of them in vain. That's all the money I worked so hard to find! In addition to being angry, he repeatedly ordered all the armies to attack the city. For a time, an army of 100,000 people flocked to Bolun City!