Chapter 669, Zhan Xiling
Siege warfare is always boring.
Liu Feng has been accustomed to too many sieges, which are nothing more than long-range suppression, the siege equipment is approaching, and then the soldiers climb to capture the city. To make it more complicated, you have to fill in the moat beforehand, and you have to destroy the enemy's moat first.
The array flag is definitely a rare item, and usually, only major cities have this kind of thing, or the location is critical, or the business is developed, or it has an important status...... It is possible to set up a protective array, and only the highest governor of the city can inspire it.
The Great Protective Array is a large formation, and if you don't know how to break the formation, it will take a long time to break it by brute force. At the beginning of Zhang Rang's mansion, a small shifting array cost Liu Feng a lot of effort.
In the process of taking Jiangdong, Liu Feng did not meet the city protection array, because it was located in a remote wilderness, it was not valued at all, and those who were qualified to set up a city protection array were only those counties. But Shanyin was appointed by Liu Feng as the Taishou directly settled, Wanling was let out by Zhou Xin in the face of a two-sided attack, Wuxian Taishou Shengxian was overhead, already dissatisfied, when Liu Feng was approaching and the various families were unable to return to the sky, they also took the initiative to open the city to welcome, Nanchang was obtained by Huaxin directly surrendered, and none of them inspired the city protection array, otherwise there would be more twists and turns in sweeping Jiangdong.
Lujiangshu County in Jiangbei had a large moat array, but Liu Feng was already powerful at that time; Jiujiang's Liyang has long been decayed, and there is no big array to protect the city, but the Hefei city that Yuan Shu used to block Liu Feng was laid down, but it was finally broken by Liu Feng.
Now what Liu Feng is facing is the protective array of Xiling City.
Anyway, how did the formation flag of this great array come about, Liu Feng still doesn't know. So far, he doesn't have a few sets of array flags in his hands, and they are all captured in the war, and they have all been used in key positions. Once he suspected that this thing had something to do with the Taoist, after all, the array flag was to be refined, but after all, he didn't get the result, and the old Taoist and even Yu Ji avoided talking about this issue.
Now Liu Feng can only brute force to break the big array of the city guard, the big array of Xiling City is very strong, millions of people take turns to attack, day and night, it took three days to exhaust the energy of the formation flag. But what made Liu Feng speechless was that there was actually more than one large array of moats in Xiling City, and after the previous large array was broken, before the soldiers were ready to go to fill the moat, the second set of large arrays was launched again.
As a last resort, we had to act again. But in this way, the indomitable momentum when he first arrived was greatly weakened.
When the moat was finally filled, half a month had passed, and the siege battle was gradually reaching its climax.
has experienced too much, and Liu Feng no longer has the passion he had at the beginning.
He has always been just an ordinary person, and becoming a lord is a coincidence. Except for the first time when he was weak, he took the lead, and after that, he basically didn't kill the enemy in person. Up to now, his various attributes are not low, and he has become a military general at the peak of the 6th order. But the vast majority of these attributes, force is trained, command is battlefield experience, politics is a natural advantage as a lord, as for intelligence, well, maybe a little bit of their own effort, but it is also the lowest of all attributes.
Therefore, although the attribute value is quite high, Liu Feng's level is not high, and there is still room for further progress. Stuck at the peak of the 6th order, which is the natural bottleneck of the player, he is not in a hurry, and he does not think about breaking through - he is a lone player, and he has an advantageous territory, which is not in his interests.
The soldiers are full of food, and the benefits of the city, Xiling City is as stable as Mount Tai. Even if Huang Zu is not there, there will be no problems for a while.
Liu Feng obviously found that the loss of attacking Xiling City was greater than any previous one. Perhaps Yuan Shu chose to go out of the city to fight without arrogance, and he would have encountered such a problem in Hefei.
Wu Yin's Lujiang County soldiers, Liu Feng did not leave too much, and most of them returned to Anhui City to prevent Yuan Shu from having a whim. Excluding the garrisons in various places, in less than a month, nearly a million soldiers had been lost.
Fortunately, the follow-up reinforcements, under the dispatch of Zhang Zhao and others, kept coming, so that the soldiers besieging the city were no less than those in the city.
Some people keep falling, and some people keep growing. In this kind of war, the most important thing is to train people, after a few siege battles, the ordinary soldiers who survived can easily advance to the elite, of course, relatively speaking, there are more dead soldiers.
Liu Feng had a steady stream of soldiers and siege equipment to support, but Xiling City was equivalent to a lonely city. The war in Nanyang was fierce, and most of the soldiers in Jiangxia counties were concentrated in Xiling before, and it was very difficult to have reinforcements, even if they recruited some young men and made up the number, and wanted to go to Xiling to support, it was difficult to do. The cavalry under Liu Feng's command, which already numbered as many as two or three hundred thousand, would never let a large number of men and horses enter Xiling.
Three months later, the city walls of Xiling South City had been swept countless times, and if it hadn't been repaired in time, it might have collapsed long ago. Jiangdong, whose losses have reached more than 2 million people, still did not take Xiling, but only had a slight advantage.
However, the original sharpness of Xiling City has been worn away by months of continuous attacks, and Huang Zu's long-term absence has also made the hearts of the people of Xiling City begin to weaken. Although there are still as many as three million defenders in the city, and all of them are elite, and they can even forcibly recruit millions of young men in an emergency, Liu Feng knows that he has begun to gain the upper hand.
"Go on, there's still a fight to go!" Liu Feng said secretly in his heart.
In addition to the naval army, the defenders of Xiling City had as many as five million people in the early stage, more than half of whom were elites, occupying the advantages of the city, Liu Feng had already known that he would lose a lot if he wanted to take down this hard bone, but the result was still trembling in his heart.
In just three months, more than 2 million people were lost, and if it were not for the continuous opening of the follow-up army, the loss was already nearly half. According to this situation, the destruction of the city is still far away, like a bottomless pit, so that Liu Feng has to continuously transfer troops from Jiangdong.
In such a large-scale war, players will no longer be as swarming as they did in the early days, and they will not easily participate in it now, because someone posted on the forum, according to statistics, the probability of death in the battlefield being forcibly deleted is much higher than other fatal behaviors.
Therefore, although Jiang ASEAN followed, he was only picking up corners around the periphery, and no longer charged forward like before - they were waiting for the opportunity to break the city.
There is no hope of winning in the short term, and Liu Feng does not force it, but acts step by step. All the counties that have been conquered have appointed county commanders and governors to act as governors, and he has also visited various places to buy people's hearts and minds and consolidate the rule of the newly occupied areas.
At this time, Liu Feng desperately hoped that Zhou Yu would be more powerful and open up the situation from the navy.