Chapter 221: Circumference Three Missing One

In mid-March of the first year of Zhongping, after a long journey of nearly half a month, the expeditionary force finally arrived at its destination and camped in a vacant land 100 miles away from Gaoyou County.

Arriving later, there was also part of the logistics unit, and a hundred medium-sized catapults were quietly lined up in the large camp, surrounded by heavy guards, to ensure that there were no accidents. This batch of medium-sized catapults is dedicated to siege, and unlike small catapults, medium-sized catapults still have a great improvement in performance, if the Mountain God Guild does not have the same central catapult or other better coping methods, the city wall will collapse sooner or later.

In the camp of the Chinese army, several generals of Flying Sky City gathered together to discuss the final siege plan for the next step. Due to the modification of a lot of real-world terrain in the real world, the direction and shape of some cities are also very different from those in reality, and the Gaoyou City in the game is generally a quadrilateral shape, corresponding to the four directions of southeast, northwest.

After a day of observation, Zang Ba found that the city walls on the southeast side of Gaoyou County were relatively dilapidated, while the city walls in the northwest were relatively intact. This may be due to the fact that the southeast faces the sea, and every year when the rainy season comes, typhoons and heavy rains come from the sea, and the durability of the walls decreases more quickly. I don't know if Gaoyou's county order or county lieutenant is corrupt, these two walls have not been repaired, maybe for people from other forces to attack, this situation has little impact on the battle situation, but this is the main attack of Feitian City, this loophole will be infinitely magnified, thousands of miles of embankment, destroyed in the anthill.

Considering the problem of limited troops, Zang Ba and the others believed that they could not spread their forces too far and surround the city on all sides, which would reduce their overall strength and give the other party a chance to break through. Moreover, the defender of the city can occupy the advantages of the city wall, and similarly, it will also face the inherent disadvantage of the city wall, that is, the city wall cannot accommodate many people. If Zang Ba sends troops to climb the city wall and gain a foothold, it will not be so easy for the defenders to recapture the city wall, and even if the city wall is occupied, it will be used by the attackers to deal with the defenders in the city.

Chen Lang suggested that the troops could be divided into two directions, the east and south directions of the city wall, under the consumption of medium-sized catapults, even if there were more defenders, there was no city wall or the city wall collapsed, it would be useless. The Flying City army can take advantage of the damage to the city wall, quickly send a rushing car to crash open the city gate, and enter the city to fight the defenders.

Chen Lang's plan can indeed make the city wall that the defenders rely on useless, but after breaking the city gate, they have to face the almost endless attack of the Yellow Turban Army, the city gate can allow not many soldiers to enter at a time, if the other party sends the elite to defend the open space outside the city gate, or use fire attack and other methods, it will make the expeditionary force suffer heavy casualties, in addition to the two counties of Ping'an and Sheyang need them to go to suppress the thieves, Lang Lang.

On the basis of Chen Lang's strategy, he sent an army to the west city wall to feign an attack to attract a part of the Yellow Turban Army to defend the west gate city wall, so as to reduce the offensive pressure on the east and south city walls. And this feigned offensive force does not need much combat power, it can be bluffed, and it can be composed of players, leaving the most elite soldiers of Flying City to fight on the frontal battlefield.

It is undeniable that Chen Lang and Yu Wenchao's playing style is more steady, steady and steady, but Zang Ba thinks that since they are the one who has the initiative, why not take the initiative?

This simple encirclement is missing one, in fact, there are many places that can be operated, and only by surprise and unpreparedness can the Yellow Turban Army be dealt the most fatal blow.

In the end, several generals finalized the final siege strategy, still using the method of encircling three and missing one, attacking the east, west and south walls, leaving the north city wall out. If the Yellow Turbans abandon the city and flee, there will be the Blue Wings to deal with, and the light cavalry, although not as charged as the heavy cavalry, will be better at kiteing.

The eastern city wall will be the main direction of attack, and Zang Ba will personally command an army of 300,000 to launch a strong attack, and at the same time allocate 70 medium-sized catapults to participate in the battle, as if the city wall is bound to be taken. Among the 300,000 troops, 250,000 of them are player soldiers, and the remaining 50,000 are the main army of Flying Sky City, 40,000 of the Steel Thorn Legion, and 10,000 seventh-order archers transferred from the Heavenly Absolute Legion.

In charge of the southern wall is Yu Wenchao, who will lead 100,000 soldiers and 30 medium-sized catapults, which seems to be less than the number of Zang Ba in the east, but in fact there are 30,000 people from the Blood Wolf Legion, and the other 70,000 are player soldiers. The Blood Wolf Legion is a legion with multiple classes, with a similar proportion of swords, shields, pikemen, archers, etc., making it a relatively comprehensive legion, so there is no need to send reinforcements from other legions. However, originally the Blood Wolf Legion had 60,000 soldiers, and in this battle, Chen Lang took 30,000 sword and shield soldiers to attack the Ximen city wall, so that Yu Wenchao could not use many soldiers.

The Ximen City Wall is biased towards the role of containment, with only a very small number of 50,000 people, but the lineup is not the kind of soy sauce at all, all of them are soldiers from Feitian City, specifically the 30,000 sword and shield soldiers led by Chen Lang, and the remaining 10,000 seventh-order soldiers and 10,000 eighth-order soldiers of the Heavenly Absolute Legion.

On March 16 of the first year of Zhongping, on the third day of the expeditionary force stationed in Gaoyou County, a hundred miles away, Zang Ba ordered an attack on Gaoyou County.

At this time, the players who accompanied the battle finally saw the siege weapons of Feitian City, the tall and mighty medium-sized catapults, which were dragged to a position five hundred meters away from Gaoyou County, and then there were special personnel to detect and debug the accuracy, and there were trucks of stones transported behind them.

There are many spies sent by the Hailing County Guild to inquire about the intelligence of Flying Sky City, and there are also other guilds who secretly send people or buy people in order to see the strength of Flying Sky City. Although they can't get close to medium-sized catapults, these players have already received good information, both in terms of the number and level of catapults, which proves that Flying City has the ability to produce catapults on its own, and it is also a medium-sized catapult, which is much more powerful than small catapults. Even the super guild does not have the ability to produce a catapult, at most a few small catapults can be obtained through other means, if they can get ten medium-sized catapults from Lu Shuang, it will be of great help to them to attack the city.

The people of the Mountain God Guild had also seen medium-sized catapults for the first time, and looking at some small catapults placed like needles on the city wall, they felt that their side was a little insufficient, and they could only pray that with the blessing of the city wall, the range would be equal to that of the other party, or the accuracy of the other party would not be high. To tell the truth, it was the first time to be targeted by so many catapults, even the guild leaders who had seen a lot of the world, they were all fighting in two arms, after all, this was not a dozen small catapults shooting at each other, but a full seventy medium-sized catapults, and their momentum was already three points weaker, and I heard that there were also thirty catapults in the south, if all a hundred catapults were facing here, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The head of the Mountain God Guild personally supervised the battle, because the eastern city wall had to face the attack of 300,000 soldiers and 70 catapults, and the defensive pressure was the greatest, and it was very likely to be breached, so he transferred most of the Yellow Turban Army to gather in the eastern district. Compared with the attack in the east of the city, the defensive pressure in the south of the city was slightly less, while the attack in the west of the city was more like acting, there was not a single catapult, only 50,000 people were beating drums and demonstrating, only 200,000 people were left on the west and north walls, the remaining 700,000 were transferred to the eastern district, 500,000 to the southern district, and the rest were left in the barracks to wait for orders.

With Zang Ba, Yu Wenchao, and Chen Lang setting up the formation, even if the Mountain God Guild wants to send troops out to destroy the medium-sized catapult, it is already difficult to do it, and after the offensive formation is arranged, after the catapult is consumed, the soldiers can be orderly to go over to attack the city.

As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, Lu Shuang stayed up all night on the eve of the game update and finalized the talent training plan for the territory. It is worth mentioning that the talent training of the territory is the responsibility of the Education Department of the Ministry of Rites, and the annual and monthly financial budget is not small, after all, it is very expensive to cultivate talents. And the amount of these talents is determined according to the development strategy of the territory, and the investment in inconsequential professions is relatively small, and indispensable professions such as controllers and sappers will be strongly supported.

As a stone streaked across the sky, it did not leave a beautiful trace like a meteor, but splashed a pool of bright red blood, and the stone thrown by the catapult fell accurately on the city wall, and one of the unlucky ghosts was smashed into meat sauce on the spot, and the stones rolled backwards, knocking another unlucky ghost off the city wall, and two bright lights flashed, indicating the death of the two players, but the bodies were still there, which was very shocking. Where the stone fell, there were also several unlucky people nearby who were hit by the fragments of the stone landing, although the injury was not serious, but it had a deep psychological impact, because as long as the stone was a little off, the blood stains were what they were now.

This is just the consequence of an attack by the catapult, but the specially trained controllers of the Flying City are not in vain, under their careful design and control, several stones fall every time, either on the city wall, or into the crowd, or just hit the catapult of the Mountain God Guild, and are scrapped on the spot. And as soon as one projection was over, the next one followed, endlessly, without a single gap, and the defenders above the city walls were overwhelmed.

The Mountain God Guild tried to counterattack, but their catapults couldn't touch each other at maximum range, so there was no point in counterattacking. And something even more terrifying and unfavorable to them happened, as the medium-sized catapults bombarded in turn, some cracks appeared in the eastern wall,