Lu Yang said: "I think Wang Xujun's policy towards recruits and prisoners is very good, and we should learn from them." ”

Everyone was puzzled.

Lu Yang continued: "Our 150,000 recruits are too poor in combat effectiveness and are prone to mutiny, so I decided to insert our 20,000 elite soldiers into these 150,000 people, and serve as captains, ten commanders, centurions, captains and other official positions. ”

Everyone suddenly realized and expressed their strong approval.

At the end of the meeting, Lu Yang made a distribution of the 170,000 troops in the royal city.

Beijun Wangcheng is different from the small Languan City, there are four walls here, each of which is thousands of meters long, which is particularly difficult to defend, and Yu Yuan is very likely to besiege the city from all sides, so each wall must be guarded by troops.

On the four city walls, Lu Yang sent 20,000 people respectively, that is, 80,000 people; It sounds like a lot, but it's actually not a lot at all, because the enemy has so many siege troops that it can easily be breached in the event of a full-scale attack.

When Wang Xu attacked the Western Capital, he only sent troops to attack a city wall, and only attacked the middle section, if the troops were enough to attack in an all-round way, Zhou Yi would have to send at least 20,000 people to defend that city wall.

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Next.

Yu Yuan really came, and his siege strategy was to bully the less with more!

It seems like a stupid solution, but it's really wise!

He had an army of 300,000, plus the original army of 100,000 in the northern county, a total of 400,000; Each wall is garrisoned by 100,000 people, all of whom are the main force, attacking the city at all costs!

Yu Yuan's generals were advised last night that they would only surround three of their walls, so that the enemy would be lucky. After the enemy left the city, he would fight with him in the field, and this strategy was vetoed by Yu Yuan!

Later, it was also said. Encircle it on all sides, but choose one city wall as the main direction of attack, and the other three sides as assists, intending to contain the enemy's forces so that they can take the royal city faster, Yu Yuan listened. Still veto!

Yu Yuan said his own thoughts, now the emperor has been furious, and his will is to completely annihilate the anti-thieves, now all the troops of Luyang's army are in the city, it is the best time to eliminate the anti-thieves, if you deliberately release it, once you run away, the consequences will be endless.

Besides, now that there are enough troops for officers and soldiers, why set the other three walls as assists?

What you want is the momentum of a fierce siege. To make all the thieves lose their fighting spirit, so Yu Yuan divided his troops into four ways early this morning and surrounded the royal city where Lu Yang was located.

When the sun rises, the siege begins!

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On this day, the troops of Qiancang and Minling returned.

They first came to the valley outside the south gate, where the five thousand people sent by Jia Hui were stationed, and today these five thousand people also received the withdrawal order from Wang Xu.

Immediately, Qiancang, Minling, and the 5,000 people all entered through the south gate and returned to the western capital.

There was also a small episode during this period. That is, Ma Lan found Qiancang and others, and sent elite cavalry to go around the south gate, but Ma Lan's cavalry was one step late. When they arrived, Qiancang and the others had already entered the city, and tens of thousands of elite horsemen could only stare at the city.

Now the strength of the Western Capital has risen to a new level, Qin Shuang brought back 15,000 people, Minling and Qiancang brought back 20,000 people, and now the Western Capital has regained its original strength, reaching a terrifying force of 100,000 and 4,000.

Time flies. It didn't take long for all of Malan's siege equipment to be repaired, with four trebuchets, five siege towers, five flying bridges (to cross the moat), and many ladders.

Early this morning, the three battalions suddenly withdrew, and the 150,000 troops came to the north gate, Ma Lan was going to only go to 50,000 people, but I heard that the western capital now has 100,000 horses, for the sake of safety, Ma Lan finally decided that the whole army would be dispatched, even if it could not capture the western capital, it would not be counterattacked by the enemy.

Ma Lan gathered all his forces to the north gate and attacked only one side! He didn't have the capital of Yu Yuan, so he didn't dare to besiege the city, there were not many troops in the first place, and if he divided the troops, it would be troublesome if he was eaten by others.

The current strength of Malan's troops is as follows:

There were originally 50,000 cavalry, but Ma Xun had lost 5,000 before, so now there are only 45,000.

Twenty thousand tanks.

There were 85,000 infantry, and it originally had 130,000, but in the battle of the valley, Ma Xun was ambushed and was killed by Huang Quan for 45,000.

Outside the north gate, the formation was set, and the next step was to officially attack the city.

Wang Xu didn't come today, because he knew that it was impossible for Li Zhi to lose the city gate on the first day, besides, even if he lost the outer city, there was still the inner city, so it was okay.

Watching the two siege phalanxes under the city move forward, Li Zhi called many of his captains.

"Listen to me, guard your own section of the city wall, don't let an enemy soldier go to the city, lose the city wall, and all of them will be punished with death!"

"No!" Several lieutenants replied loudly. They have been serving under Li Zhi for a long time, and they have practiced siege warfare many times on the school field, and I believe that the real siege battle will be able to do a good job now.

After explaining some details of defending the city, Li Zhi immediately asked everyone to perform their duties.

Roar, roar, roar... The soldiers under the city let out a neat roar, and the 10,000 siege troops were divided into two phalanxes, pushing various instruments towards the north gate.

The five-zhang high city wall, on which the soldiers stood with great confidence, because they looked at the enemy below the city like ants, how difficult must it be to climb up from such a high city?

It's getting closer...

"Archer, release the arrow!" The many captains in the city shouted.

Whoosh...

Arrows rained down, shooting directly at the officers and soldiers who were running under the city, and the officers and soldiers reacted super fast, and instantly raised their shields, and the arrows on the city did not cause much casualties.

"Bang Bang Bang..."

Not long after, rows of ladders were set up on the side of the city wall, in addition to these ladders of advanced ladders, there are many ordinary ladders, ordinary ladders have been improved by Ma Lan, because the city wall of the Western Capital is too high, Ma Lan is worried that the ladders will break, so the top of each ladder has two iron claws, so that not only will not break, but will become more stable.

As soon as the ladder was on the city wall, the soldiers defending the city wanted to push it out, but there were iron claws hooking it, and the ladder did not move at all, and it was getting tighter and tighter, and even the inside of the city wall was buckled into a small pit by the iron claws. It was pushed for a long time, and it was of no use in the slightest. (To be continued.) )