Chapter Seven: The Strength of the Feather is Better Than Poison (6)
Sure enough, it is similar to the tactics of the cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty...... Long-distance shè, a tactic that belongs only to archers!
In order to do long-distance throwing shè, the requirements for the shaft of the arrow are very high, its length needs to be longer than the general bow and arrow, and the arrow also needs to be heavier than the general bow and arrow, because only in this way can it maintain stability in mid-air and maintain the direction when the shè is out, which can not be done with crossbow arrows, and it is easy to deflect the direction in mid-air, and it is precisely because of this that this method of warfare is called a method of warfare that only belongs to the archer.
Relying on a large-angle hanging shè to cross the battlements of the female wall and attack the top of the enemy army, the power is not as strong as the flat shè, and the accuracy of jīng is far from enough, but if it is based on the absolute number, the long-distance throwing shè can unfold a carpet sweep on the enemy on the city wall, so that the battlements originally used to resist arrows lose their original effect.
This crazy woman enters, do you even know this?
With the help of the monoculars of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, Xie An clearly saw the situation of the southern city wall of Luoyang, and he had to admit it.
Pretty...... It's so beautiful!
From the guise of the first wave of the offensive to the feint of the second wave of the offensive, this woman entered the silence and grasped the initiative of the entire battle situation.
Although Xie An told the eldest grandson Xiangyu the truth that [insufficient combustion will release a large amount of choking black smoke], but this female entry applied this to the siege of the city, Xie An really didn't expect it.
Prior to this, except for the eldest grandson Xiangyu's extraordinary memory ability, Xie An actually didn't think that this female was much smarter than himself, and it was no wonder that Bi Jing's eldest grandson Xiangyu was like a playful child who hadn't grown up.
But looking at the smoke of war on the southern wall of Luoyang, Xie An was silent.
He finally understood why the eldest grandson Xiangyu would be disappointed in this world, because she was too outrageous and too smart.
At least, he Xie An couldn't come up with such a clever way, using the cautious psychology of Zhang Dong, the defender of the city, to create black smoke, and then asked Qi Hao to start the second wave of the offensive feint, with the help of black smoke, to create a situation where the Western Expeditionary Army occupied the top, so that Zhang Dong had to send more troops to defend the southern city, and as a result, a cavalry archer who was taken by surprise by the eldest grandson Xiangyu was killed.
When is it most likely to despair?
It is nothing more than seeing hope at the same time, but hope is shattered!
Just like the current Luoyang south city wall, due to the influence of black smoke, the defenders of the city wall once fell into passivity, and retreated under Qi Hao's offensive, for this reason, Zhang Dong hurriedly transferred as many as six or seven thousand archers to stabilize the defensive force on the city.
The addition of reinforcements made the rebel soldiers on the city wall rise again, but at this moment, the eldest grandson Xiangyu and a strange soldier came to the city unknowingly, and completely cut off the high morale of the rebels with a clever long-distance throwing shè.
As she said, completely extinguish the hope of the rebels again!
What a blow this is for the rebels in the city who have just seen hope!
It is not difficult to imagine that at present, on the south wall of Luoyang, due to the death of nearly 10,000 people, it must be a big drop in morale, on the other hand, the western expeditionary army, Liu Yi's main force has not moved at all, on the contrary, because of the embarrassment of the defenders on Luoyang City, this is nearly 30,000 soldiers, and it can be said that the morale is like a rainbow at the moment.
Under the advantages of one another, how can it not be possible to attack the southern city wall of Luoyang?
It's unbelievable that this woman is so insightful!
Her entire layout is interlocking, using the cautious psychology of the guard Zhang Dong to compete to create such a good situation in one fell swoop, which is really incredible.
Of course, Xie An didn't think that just like this, the Luoyang rebels would completely lose the confidence to resist, Bijing Luoyang still had tens of thousands of defenders in the city, but they were only placed in the other three city walls, as long as Zhang Dong transferred a group of defenders from the other three city walls, it was still difficult to forcibly capture the south city wall.
Moreover, there is not no reserve army in the city, Bi Jing According to Xie An, there are as many as 60,000 defenders in Luoyang City, although nearly 10,000 have been consumed at the moment, but there are still 50,000 people.
In the final analysis, the reason why the south city wall has the upper hand here is that in addition to the conspiracy of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, it also relies on the relationship of the south wind, with the strengthening of the wind, the strength of the arrows under the city shè is weakened, and the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army who are facing away from the wind direction have the arrows in their hands are much stronger.
o Ah, it is by accumulating this little advantage that the Western Expeditionary Army has created such a good situation now.
It's just that this art of war, which treats the living entry as a chess piece, is really a bit ...... Thinking of this, Xie An couldn't help but glance at the eldest grandson Xiangyu.
Prior to this, because of seeing her childish side, Xie An gradually forgot his initial fear of her, but just now, seeing the eldest grandson Xiangyu ignore the life and death of Qi Hao's army under the city, and ask the cavalry to sweep the entire section of the city wall with arrows, Xie An was really a little chilled.
Although from the monoculars, Xie An also saw Qi Haojun's strange behavior of squatting on the ground with a shield, and guessed that this must have been asked by Changsun Xiangyu to do this, but even so, there were still many people who died by mistake, although this loss was almost negligible compared to the forcible siege...... "What's wrong?" ――Do you think it's scary to start a home? As if noticing Xie An's strange gaze, the eldest grandson Xiangyu giggled, and his laughter was full of a bit of ridicule and disappointment.
"Nope! This is on the battlefield, not a family, sacrifice is inevitable, you can reduce the loss to such a point, it is already commendable, how can it be harsh on you? -- Just to regret those soldiers who died at the hands of friendly forces......"
The eldest grandson Xiangyu frowned slightly, looked deeply at Xie An's eyes, and saw that his gaze was clear and open, and a little smile appeared on his face, and he said softly, "It's a little more than the little woman thought......"
"Huh?"
"Don't understand? -- Entering the house means that you did not shout and blame the family, and accuse the family of treating those people as outcasts, which is really a bit unexpected for the family...... It's good that you're not the pedantic mortal! ――Even if it is an abandoned son, my eldest grandson Xiangyu will not abandon it easily......"
"Huh?" Xie An looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu with some surprise, and when he heard her words, he couldn't help but have a little change in his opinion of her.
It's a pity that this change only lasted for a short breath.
"Even if it is an abandoned child, it has a value that can be used, and if the enemy army does not pay several times or even dozens of times the price, it will not be easy to give up the ...... when entering the family."
“…… Your xìng grid is really bad! Xie An shook his head speechlessly, took a slight breath, and asked the eldest grandson Xiangyudao, "What are you going to do next?" Tell General Liu Yi to launch an all-out offensive? ”
"It's not time yet!" Eldest Sun Xiangyu shook the folding fan in his hand and said lightly, "The current Luoyang South City Wall is like a [robbery] point, I can't take it for the time being, but the enemy army can't completely repel our army, so I can only drag it until one side can't bear the huge consumption of troops...... In view of the fact that the morale of the defenders in the city has plummeted now, Zhang Dong will no longer be able to boost morale if he does not invest a large number of defenders! - Unless he draws the defenders of the remaining three city walls to supplement the garrison of the southern city wall, it will be difficult to suppress the offensive of our army's morale! ”
Xie An glanced at the eldest grandson Xiangyu suspiciously, and said strangely, "Judging by your expression, you don't seem to think he would do that?" ”
"Giggles," the eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled and said lightly, "Shijindu said that in a siege battle, the defending side has the best advantage, but in my opinion, defending the city is often the most disadvantaged!" - I hate defending the city! ”
"Huh?" Li Shou and Xie An glanced at each other when they heard this, and couldn't help but say, "The defending side has the city wall to help, how can you say that it suffers?" ”
The eldest grandson Xiangyu shook his head, suddenly changed the topic, and asked Xie An, "Xie An, if you are that Zhang Dong and give you about 60,000 troops to defend Luoyang, how will you distribute this force?" ”
Seeing that the eldest grandson Xiangyu suddenly mentioned this matter, Xie An was a little puzzled, thought about it, and said, "Well, it's probably 10,000 defenders on each city wall, and make a little adjustment during the period, for example, the east and south city walls are relatively close to the Yan Division, so urgently send 12,000 to 14,000 troops to garrison, and on the other two sides, place 6,000 to 8,000 troops, in general, it's almost 20,000 troops left as a reserve army, and the rest of the troops are ...... evenly across each section of the city wall."
"Giggles, sure enough, you're also a very cautious enter!" The eldest grandson, Xiangyu, chuckled.
Xie An didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this distribution wrong?" ”
The eldest grandson Xiangyu shook his head, and said, "No, this distribution of troops is quite correct, throughout this world, ninety percent of generals will make judgments like you, but have you noticed, such a distribution of troops, how passive!" ”
"What?" Li Shou asked with a puzzled face.
Looking at the eldest grandson Xiangyu, Xie An exhaled slightly and said, "It should refer to the investment of troops......
"Not bad!" Eldest Sun Xiangyu chuckled and analyzed softly, "In other words, what our army has to face in attacking the southern city wall is not the 60,000 defenders in Luoyang City, but the defenders of more than 10,000 southern city walls, plus about 20,000 reserve troops, how much?" 30,000 only! -- Zhang Dongkong has the remaining 30,000 rebels, but he doesn't dare to call it, this is what I said, the passivity of defending the city! And our army can throw troops into the southern city wall to their heart's content! ”
“……”
"Moreover, the 30,000 people we have to face are not all in front of our army at the beginning, the more cautious they are, the more hesitant they are in terms of investing troops, just like that Zhang Dong, who only thinks about defending Luoyang, dies 5,000, adds 5,000, dies 10,000, and then increases 10,000, in other words, what our army faces in the south city wall, the number is always just the initial number, how much? More than 10,000 in! ――Right now, do you still think I'm going to attack Luoyang with just 40,000 soldiers and horses? ”
Even Xie An was shocked when he heard this, and he had to admit that the view of the eldest grandson Xiangyu was simply shocking.
But thinking about it carefully, there is no mistake in her concept, no general of Bi Jing will expose the hole cards in his hand to the enemy without seeing the situation clearly, take that Zhang Dong as an example, will he put 20,000 reserves into the southern city wall at the beginning?
Of course not, only when the defenders of the southern city wall are in a rout, he will use the reserve army, and increase the number of sacrifices he will send as much as he wants, which is what almost all the defending generals will do.
However, this happened to fall into the calculation of the eldest grandson Xiangyu...... This woman is right, according to this model, no matter how many Zhang Dongzeng sends, Qi Hao, Wu Peng and others will enter the opposite side, but there are only more than 10,000 defenders, in the current situation that the morale of the Luoyang rebels has plummeted, and the morale of the Western Expeditionary Army is like a rainbow...... Wait a minute!
In this way, she did not use General Liu Yi's more than 20,000 troops just to prolong the war of attrition on the southern city wall? That Zhang Dong mistakenly believed that as long as he added a small number of troops, he could still hold the southern city wall, so as to replenish the troops again and again and strengthen the garrison of the southern city wall...... This woman is deliberately depleting the reserve army in the city!
There is only this possibility, if Liu Yi's more than 20,000 troops are mobilized now, plus more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Wupeng and Qi Hao, and nearly 40,000 troops are gathered to attack the city, then Zhang Dong will inevitably transfer the defenders of the remaining three city walls in a panic and put all the troops in the city into the south city wall.
Therefore, this woman deliberately created the illusion that the southern city wall could still be defended, forcing Zhang Dong to slowly transfer troops, but in fact, this method of throwing in small amounts of troops many times can only delay the time when the city wall is captured, but cannot completely reverse the unfavorable situation of the defenders.
Thinking of this, Xie An couldn't help but have a picture in his mind:
It was a narrow valley, and the 60,000 rebels led by the rebel general Zhang Dong continued to kill from the narrow valley exit, but Changsun Xiangyu led thousands of soldiers and horses, guarding the periphery of the valley exit in a semi-circle, although it was more than 10,000 soldiers and horses against Zhang Dong's 60,000 troops, but Zhang Dong was never able to break through the defense line of Changsun Xiangyu...... Xie An didn't know why he suddenly thought of this kind of picture, he just felt that it was similar to the current battle in Luoyang South City.
This woman is really scary...... Thinking of this, Xie An took a deep breath and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "You guarantee that Zhang Dong won't wake up suddenly?" ”
"Of course!"
"Why?"
"Isn't that easy?" The eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled and said lightly, "My name is Fei Guo, Li Jing, and Zheng Hao, and every time I enter with 10,000 troops to wander around the remaining three sections of the city wall, I don't believe that the cautious Zhang Dong dares to transfer the troops of the other three city walls...... If he dares to do that, then I'll take advantage of the other walls...... The east wall is also good! ”
"Fighting on both sides?" Xie An frowned slightly.
"Didn't I say it, this is the initiative of the siege, I can change the target of the siege, but Zhang Dong in the city can't, he has to defend the other three sections of the city wall nervously like defending the southern city, even if I just ask Fei Guo and others to walk around there, but Zhang Dong doesn't dare to think so! - On the contrary, I prefer Zhang Dong to do this, Bi Jing, only one of the south walls is used to consume the defenders in the city, this speed is still too slow, if it goes on like this, before the mountain falls, you can't capture Luoyang oA! ”
Hearing this, Li Shou and Xie An looked at each other, and couldn't help but say, "But if you open another front on the rest of the wall, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have such a good situation as the south wall, right?" Archers alone are not enough, ......"
"Huh! - So you, Li Shou, are just mortals! Hearing this, Eldest Sun Xiangyu pursed his lips contemptuously and said lightly, "Your Highness Shou, what is the advantage of the archers?" ”
Li Shou looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu in confusion, and suddenly his face was shocked, and he blurted out, "Mobility!" ”
"Not bad!" Glancing approvingly at Li Shou, the eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled and said, "Actually, I originally planned to attack on three sides, called Xiang Qing and Luo Chao, two lieutenants, to lead that archer cavalry back and forth on the three sections of the city wall, and at the same time launched an offensive against the defenders on the three sections of the city wall, forcing the archers in the city to chase this cavalry all over the city, to see if they have more physical strength in the white spoon, or if the physical strength of my archers' war horses is strong......"
“……”
"But after thinking about it later, I still gave up, Bi Jing, I'm not satisfied just by taking Luoyang, come to Rì Fang Chang, there is no need to waste valuable chess pieces for a Luoyang that can be won......"
"You are really ......" Xie An looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu with a wry smile and sighed, holding the monocular, paying attention to the situation on the south wall of Luoyang.
As the eldest grandson Xiangyu expected, the rebels on the southern city wall at this moment have roughly the same number of entries as at the beginning, if this woman is not bad as expected, then Zhang Dong must have drawn some of them from the few remaining reserve troops.
It's a pity that due to the first three offensives of the Western Expeditionary Army, the morale of the defenders on the city wall plummeted, and there was obviously a number of 10,000 in, but the Western Expeditionary Army was defeated and retreated by the number of less than 10,000 in, and attacked the city wall several times.
Looking at it, Xie An was suddenly stunned.
Not right...... The two generals, Wu Peng and Qi Hao, according to the intention of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, took turns to attack the southern city wall, taking advantage of the current good situation to slowly consume the strength of the rebels.
At the same time that Xie An was puzzled, Wu Peng, who was besieging the city, led more than 3,000 remnants to retreat, and at the same time, Qi Hao led about four or five more to continue to suppress the defenders of the city.
And when Wu Peng returned to Liu Yi's team, Xie An suddenly noticed that the song under Wu Peng's command had changed...... When Qi Hao retreated, the soldiers led by Wu Peng were not the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army in the previous wave at all, and he was secretly swapped with Liu Yi's team!
I see...... The thousands of horses that these two generals led to besiege the city have actually been soldiers who have been raising jīng for a long time!
Not five thousand against ten thousand, but forty thousand against ten thousand!
Although there were always more than 20,000 soldiers beside General Liu Yi, in fact, the battle on the southern city wall of Luoyang was 40,000 Western Expeditionary Army taking turns to attack more than 10,000 defenders on the city...... On one side is the 5,000-strong Western Expeditionary Army, which is full of strength and morale, and on the other side is the more than 10,000 Luoyang rebels who have suffered greatly damage in both physical strength and morale...... Don't you notice? The defenders on the upper floor of Luoyang City...... No, it should be said that even if they perceive it, I'm afraid there is no good way, the eldest grandson Xiangyu, that woman is right, that Zhang Dong, because he is too cautious, does not have the courage to break the cauldron and throw all his troops into the southern city wall...... If he can have the courage to fight against the odds, and beat back the morale of the southern city wall before Changsun Xiangyu waits for an opportunity to attack the rest of the city walls, then even Changsun Xiangyu may not be able to recreate the previous advantage...... And if it goes on like this, the defenders of the south wall will only be eaten little by little by the female entry of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and when the loss of troops in the city reaches a certain level, it will be the time for the three fronts to attack and seize Luoyang!
Sure enough, it's too far away, the guard named Zhang Dong...... It's not the opponent of the terrible female entry of the eldest grandson Xiangyu at all!
Frowning slightly, Xie An glanced up at the sun that was still overhead.
If it goes on like this, before the sun goes down, this woman will be able to swallow the entire Luoyang!
Unbelievable, this way of attacking the city......