Chapter 778: Crisis
The reason why Liu Xing and Ding Kun were asked to persuade the rebels' hometown Bolin City to surrender was because Liu Xing and Ding Kun's speech skills were relatively high, and Liu Xing and Ding Kun had a melee and a long-range, so they could better cooperate if they encountered some emergencies.
Of course, Chen Zixuan also sent Rodriguez with a hundred soldiers to protect Liu Xing and Ding Kun, and specially reminded Liu Xing and Ding Kun when they were separated, if they encountered danger in Bolin City, they would retreat directly with these soldiers, and if anyone dared to question this matter, Chen Zixuan would also stand up and take responsibility.
In addition, I don't know if Louie did it on purpose, he actually asked the two brothers Covance and Cowen to come with 500 recruits to "protect" Liu Xing and Ding Kun, which was unexpected by Liu Xing.
As a result, Liu Xing and Ding Kun inexplicably had six hundred more soldiers under their command, although these soldiers would not necessarily follow Liu Xing and Ding Kun's orders.
However, what really made Liu Xing and Ding Kun happy was that Louis arranged for Wellington to be in charge of attacking Bolin City, and also temporarily appointed Liu Xing and Ding Kun as Willington's partial generals, which means that Liu Xing and Ding Kun can participate in military decisions, can have more contact with Wellington, and brush up on Wellington's favorability by the way.
Because Romante City is not far from Bolin City, and the terrain between the two cities is basically plain, Liu Xing and Ding Kun still have three days to "chat" with Wellington and strive to join Wellington's forces.
If Wellington still doesn't eat oil and salt after chatting for the past three days, then Liu Xing and the others decided to go to Bonaparte's subordinates first, so Yin En and the others will also go to Bonaparte to exchange feelings.
Liu Xing and Ding Kun sat in a carriage and fought with Rodriguez against the landlord, while the two brothers, Covance and Cowen, rode horses to guard the carriage.
And Covance also brought bad news to Liu Xing and Ding Kun, that is, when Louie arranged for them to "protect" Liu Xing and Ding Kun, he specifically mentioned that if something happened to Liu Xing and Ding Kun, then they didn't want to live.
So Liu Xing and Ding Kun both thought of a possibility, that is, Louie's damn guy would be unfavorable to the two of them in the subsequent battle, so that they could justifiably kill the two brothers Covance and Cowen!
This is a poisonous trick, after all, on the battlefield the sword has no eyes, anything can happen, so it is not impossible for Liu Xing and Ding Kun to die on the battlefield, if Liu Xing and Ding Kun can be "broken into ten thousand pieces", it would be even better.
As for the possible condemnation from the imperial side, Louis should still feel that he can be cheeky and next, and finally come to a death without proof, and if he punishes himself with three cups, he can cope with it, after all, although Liu Xing and Ding Kun are said to be "brave", they are not comparable to Zhang Jingxu, a real brave, in fact.
But more importantly, the empire is also very willing to see such a scene happen, because in this way, the empire can justifiably let Chen Zixuan lead the imperial mercenaries to help Wellington seize the throne of the Skaven Kingdom in the name of helping Liu Xing and Ding Kun take revenge!
As for the two "braves" Liu Xing and Ding Kun, they only need to posthumously seal an official position and hold a grand funeral.
Therefore, if Louis really intends to be unfavorable to Liu Xing and Ding Kun, then the empire that knows the truth will also choose to side with Louie.
Even from the perspective of conspiracy theories, it is even possible that the empire will solve Liu Xing and Ding Kun by Ding Dai.
Liu Xing and Ding Kun, who wanted to understand this, knew very well that they were now in a very dangerous situation, because in addition to each other, there were all people nearby who might want to be unfavorable to them, and there were tens of thousands of them...
Liu Xing and Ding Kun both wanted to find a chance to have a good chat, but they didn't know if Rodriguez had received Chen Zixuan's order to "protect himself", almost Liu Xing and Ding Kun were there, so Rodriguez must be nearby.
So Liu Xing and Ding Kun began to be a little anxious.
In the process of playing cards, Liu Xing and Ding Kun tacitly tacitly knocked on Rodriguez's side, and finally determined that Rodriguez should not be unfavorable to the two of them.
This is also expected by Liu Xing, because Rodriguez has some friendship with his group no matter what he says, so for the sake of insurance, Chen Zixuan will definitely not let Rodriguez attack Liu Xing and Ding Kun, not to mention that Rodriguez is not Chen Zixuan's henchman.
Therefore, Liu Xing pretended not to care and said: "Rodriguez, are you protecting us or are you spying on us in the past two days, I can see you as long as I turn my head in the past two days." ”
Rodriguez smiled and replied seriously: "Isn't this General Chen arranging for me to protect you closely, after all, we have now entered the territory of the rebels, and those rebels should already know the purpose of Liu Xing's trip, so General Chen feels that the rebels will definitely find a way to find trouble for you, and the most straightforward way is definitely to assassinate, and Liu Xing, as a priest, you lack melee ability, so I have to protect you closely." ”
And so it was.
After getting the expected answer, Liu Xing said with a disgusted face: "Rodriguez, you look down on me too much, you must know that those of us who are priests have long expected that someone will be unfavorable to us, thinking that as long as we can get close, we will be fish on the chopping board for them to deal with, so we priests have specially trained a set of chaotic cloak staff method before learning to use the holy light, this chaotic cloak staff method was imported from the berserker, so with the iron rod in my hand, I'm still confident that I'll knock out the heads of those assassins, so Rodriguez, don't follow me, I feel that the eyes of the people around me are not right with you. ”
At this time, Ding Kun on the side also stood up to help and said: "Liu Xing is right, not to mention that there are six hundred soldiers around us to protect us, and we usually keep a certain distance from other armies when we camp, so those assassins want to sneak in and it is not good for us, it is tantamount to looking for death." ”
There was a sound of dice falling to the ground.
"Liu Xing, what you said seems to have some truth... Rodriguez looked a little hesitant.
Seeing this situation, Liu Xing of course took advantage of the situation to pursue and said: "Rodriguez, I think you should be more active, don't General Chen let you do whatever you want, after all, you are already a thousand-commander, you have to learn to judge the situation and make decisions by yourself." ”
Liu Xing's words made Rodriguez frown, and he was silent for a moment before he spoke: "Liu Xing, what you said is very right, I am indeed a little too careful. ”
Liu Xing was overjoyed in his heart, knowing that he could finally get rid of Rodriguez's "protection".
At this moment, Covins's voice came from outside the carriage, "Wellington has just sent someone to bring news, he wants to hold a pre-war meeting after setting up camp tonight, I hope Liu Xing, you can attend together." ”
"Of course." Ding Kun said with a smile.
When the army camped by a river, Liu Xing and the others came to Wellington's tent.
Soon, a group of lords and mid- and high-ranking generals in the army came to the tent.
Although Liu Xing and Ding Kun's level is not high, in order to show his respect for the empire, Liu Xing, Ding Kun, and Rodriguez were all arranged close to Wellington.
The meeting begins.
According to the information brought back by the scouts, the rebels did recover most of their forces outside Bolin City, and built a number of fortifications outside Bolin City, making a gesture of intending to resist to the end.
As for the number of rebels, it is close to 50,000, but according to the information obtained during this time, more than half of the 50,000 soldiers of the rebels are newly recruited, but among them, 10,000 soldiers are Bahamut believers who came from all over the country, so the combat effectiveness of this army should not be underestimated.
"Although the rebels have 20,000 more troops than we have, they are just a rabble, so I think we should be able to defeat them easily, but if these guys are to hold back on the defense, then we will have to stay outside Boleyn for a long time, so do you have any ideas to solve this problem?" Wellington asked seriously.
Those lords and generals looked at each other and discussed in a low voice for a long time, but no one dared to stand up and offer advice.
Liu Xing understood this very much, because Liu Xing couldn't think of the clever plan that Wellington wanted.
Whether it is ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign, siege warfare has always been a big and difficult problem, because most cities are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the defender can rely on the height advantage of the city wall to fight with a variety of defense props, while the attacker is to attack the city without protection, so the gap between the two sides is clear at a glance.
Therefore, in many siege battles recorded in historical records, even if the besieging side has several times the strength of the defending side, or even dozens of times that of the defending side, it has to grind with the defender for a year and a half under the city before it can defeat the defender with the advantage of grain and grass.
For example, in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the city of Xiangyang guarded by Guo Jing was held for six years under the attack of the Mongol army in history.
So Liu Xing felt that if nothing else, this time Wellington led his troops to attack Bolin City, at least from summer to winter to have a result... Of course, the winter here could be the winter of the year ...
This made Liu Xingdu feel a trace of despair, after all, sitting in a city for such a long time, it was very boring to think about it.
Now Liu Xing has begun to miss his mobile phone and computer.
Just when Liu Xing was thinking nonsense, Wellington sighed and said: "Sure enough, you are the same as me, and there is no way to come up with a feasible siege plan, it seems that this time we have to prepare for a long siege." ”
"General Wellington, you're right, although the enemy army is a bunch of chickens and dogs, but after all, they have 20,000 more recruits than us, and they can recruit more recruits from Boleyn City at any time, so if the enemy army can't hold out, it's difficult for us to end this battle early... And as far as I know, His Majesty Louis transported a lot of military rations to Boleyn before Merlot's rebellion... Covance said with some embarrassment.
Everyone nodded yes.
Hearing Covance say this, Liu Xing's heart was half cold again, I didn't expect that Louie guy was really given for nothing, there is no preparation for sending troops here, why did you transport the military rations in advance?
At this moment, Liu Xing postponed next year's winter to the winter of the next year.
Liu Xing suspects that when he returns to the real world after finishing this module, he will even forget how to use his mobile phone and computer...
But at this moment, a dragon lord suddenly said: "It depends on the performance of the two brave lords, if the two brave lords can spit lotus flowers and successfully rebel against a group of enemy troops, then it is still possible for us to cooperate with the outside and take Bolin City in advance." ”
Liu Xing looked confused, he didn't expect that someone would dump the pot on him at this time.
Just when Liu Xing was still a little surprised, Ding Kun retorted: "With all due respect, now these 50,000 rebels are no longer something we can successfully rebel against in a few words, because now they have no way back, and they can only fight with us to the end, not to mention those Bahamut believers as prison troops, so we can't guarantee that we can convince those enemy troops to turn back." ”
The dragon lord wanted to say something, but he was directly forced back by Rodriguez next to Liu Xing with his eyes.
At this time, Wellington stood up and said: "Lord Ding Kun is right, those soldiers who still dare to serve the rebels are already determined to fight against us to the end, so I don't expect those soldiers to be able to stop the precipice, but Lord Liu Xing and Lord Ding Kun still have to say a few words casually, because this can at least shake the morale of the rebels." ”
Wellington then began to change the subject, assigning the offensive tasks to the various lords and generals.
After the meeting, Liu Xing and the others were left behind by Wellington.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect Hart to embarrass Liu Xing at this time." Wellington said with some embarrassment: "Hart's family is located on the border between the Skaven Kingdom and the Empire, so many of Hart's ancestors died in the battle between the Skaven Kingdom and the Empire, so Hart's family is one of the most hostile to the Empire in the Skaven Kingdom, and Hart grew up with His Majesty Louis since he was a child, so Hart is becoming more and more pampered and proud." ”
Liu Xing frowned, knowing that if Louie's guy was really unfavorable to him, he was afraid that he would let this Hart attack him and Ding Kun.
So, is Wellington reminding himself in disguise?
Liu Xing looked at Wellington, who had a normal face, and was a little undecided for a while, because Liu Xing was still not sure whether Wellington was friend or foe now.
PS: Yesterday I forgot to say a word - Poland stupid donkey is the first in the world!