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On the second day, Edward came to the battle in person. The 200,000 soldiers and horses of the pen and the www.biquge.info of the 'music' and 'novels' entered the city from the four gates according to the legion. The four regiments, again at Edward's orders, were formed into small companies, equipped with special whistles and drums. These whistles and drums were all original items in the army, because it was a critical moment, and all of them were distributed to the 200,000 soldiers and horses who entered the city.

After receiving Edward's tactical guidance, the combat effectiveness of the Lanna army in street fighting increased significantly. In particular, those with whistles and leather drums became a thorn in the side of the defenders of the city. The 200,000 troops advanced slowly, although the speed was very slow, but the results were very large. In this case, the counterattack of the Beichen Army was very small.

There is really no good way to stop the enemy, if it was yesterday, the Beichen army could have succeeded in either a sneak attack or an ambush of the Lanna soldiers in the city with a medium force. But now, the presence of sentry soldiers and drummers has made this tactic extremely miserable. As soon as the whereabouts of the Beichen Army were discovered, a shrill whistle or a sky-shattering drum would be heard among the soldiers of Lanna. Regardless of whether the Beichen Army launched an attack or not, as long as there was a sound, the surrounding Lanna soldiers would surround and surround them.

At the beginning, the soldiers of the Beichen Army did not know this, so many troops fell for the tricks of the soldiers of the Lanna Kingdom and were surrounded and killed by the troops of the Lanna Kingdom. It is precisely because of this that the Beichen Army has now all shrunk its battle front, and street fighting has gradually turned into positional warfare. A large number of soldiers of the Beichen Army were concentrated near the city lord's mansion and built various fortifications. A small number of troops occupied dangerous places in the city to buy time for the preparation of the large army behind.

In just one morning, the Beichen army lost all the urban areas except for the government office in Zhenguocang. A large number of Lanna soldiers poured into the city and surrounded the Beichen army near the county office. Such a great result made the soldiers of Lanna Kingdom extremely happy, and the generals were also extremely happy, and they sighed one by one that their king was like a god in using soldiers. Thinking about it, I fought for a day yesterday, and although I entered the city, I was finally driven out by the Beichen army, and I also lost 100,000 troops. Looking at the present, the army only lost more than 10,000 people, wiped out more than 5,000 Beichen troops, and surrounded the remaining tens of thousands of Beichen troops near the mansion.

Edward, who was standing in the rear, was still a little happy in his heart after learning about the battle situation. Playing street fighting, no matter how good an ancient general is, it is impossible to play himself as a modern person. In street fighting, communication is undoubtedly the most critical. The defenders need communications to cooperate with each other to eliminate the enemy forces scattered into the city. The attacking side often has poor communication and is easy to be eaten one by one by the defenders with superior forces. However, when the attacking side's communication speed exceeds that of the defenders in the city, street fighting has become less terrifying.

The establishment of the Beichen Army, Edward is now very clear. For the establishment of the Beichen Army at all levels, Edward also felt that it was very feasible. There were a large number of combat troops, scouts for reconnaissance, cavalry for communications, and soldiers for transportation and logistics. This has completely miniaturized a group army, and the greatest benefit is naturally that its combat effectiveness has increased exponentially, and its sustained combat capability has been expanded indefinitely. For an army with super strong combat effectiveness like the Beichen Army, such an establishment is the best.

The combat effectiveness of the army is strong, so even if there is a large part of the combat soldiers, it will not hinder. On the contrary, the deployment of various logistical arms has greatly increased the long-lasting combat capability of the soldiers and the information understanding of the commanders, which is more conducive to the arrangement of the battle situation. Just like yesterday's street battles, the Beichen Army, which has a large number of signal troops, far exceeded its own troops that were not equipped with signal troops in the street battles. As a result, a day of street fighting caused heavy losses to his army, and everyone was unlucky in not having a strong communication facility.

But now, after thinking about it all night, I finally found the communication equipment that suppressed the communication ability of the Beichen Army. Whistles, leather drums, which are very numerous in their own troops. And they are all small leather drums and whistles, which can be carried by one person. In this way, so many gadgets naturally became an artifact for Edward to equip the troops into the city. After all, no matter how fast a person runs, no matter how desperately a war horse runs, it can't be as fast as the propagation of sound.

The battle soon developed to the most critical time, and hundreds of thousands of Lanna soldiers had firmly surrounded the Beichen army, which only had about 40,000 people left, in the palace. However, because the Beichen army had enough time to form a defensive point near the palace. Now the soldiers of Lanna Country, who do not have siege weapons, do not dare to go up at will, and those low fortifications do not need to be talked about, but at that time, the wall of the government that is six or seven meters high cannot be climbed at will. Therefore, in this free moment, the Lanna soldiers rested while waiting for the transport of the ladder behind.

The soldiers of Lanna Country did not attack immediately, which made the soldiers of the Beichen Army, who had been on guard, also breathe a sigh of relief. All of them are taking time to rest or eat something to replenish their strength. For the enemy troops outside, Luo Zhi did not have any worries. Although he is surrounded now, don't forget that the government is not the last line of defense. There is also a castle more than 20 meters wide and long behind the palace, which is the last line of defense.

There is a passage to the underground warehouse inside the castle, and you only need to cooperate with the defense facilities of the underground warehouse to defend the underground warehouse. Even if the entire Zhenguo Cangcheng is completely destroyed, it is still merit and innocence. Compared to a city, the underground warehouse is the most important.

The military rations of the more than 2 million troops on the front line are all transported by the Zhenguo warehouse, plus the millions of weapons and armor inside, the underground warehouse must not be lost. Once the underground warehouses were lost, the large armies of the front could only be forced to retreat into the country. Moreover, after receiving a large amount of grain, grass and weapons and equipment from Lanna, the combat effectiveness of its army will be raised to the level of the Beichen Army. With food, money, and equipment, it was easy for Lanna to arm a million-strong army.

Therefore, Luo Zhi will never allow the underground warehouse to be lost in his own hands!

After everyone had rested for more than two hours, the battle broke out again.

More than 100,000 Lanna soldiers carried ladders and crowded towards the walls of the palace. As for the few fortifications outside the walls, they had long been submerged under such a sea of people, and not even a flower had emerged.

Needless to say, the fierceness of the battle, the walls of the palace were small, and they could only accommodate a thousand people to defend at the same time. However, it can accommodate more than 2,000 people to attack, which is not a good thing for the Beichen Army. However, the wall, which is only six meters high, gives the Changge soldiers the best place to play, and similarly, the enemy's spearmen can easily attack the Beichen soldiers on the wall.

More than 1,000 Changge soldiers, accompanied by crossbowmen standing on top of the tall houses within the walls. One of the enemy soldiers rushed up, and about half of them were wiped out by the crossbow arrows. Then just ran under the wall, more than a thousand Changge stabbed down, and more Lanna soldiers fell. However, after rushing under the wall, the Lanna soldiers also had the ability to fight back. The spears whose length was not weaker than that of the Beichen Army's Changge kept stabbing towards the top from below.

Guarded by the female wall, the attack of the spearmen of the Lanna Kingdom did not cause too many casualties to the soldiers of the Beichen Army. After all, the women's wall was there, and the Lanna soldiers could only stab upwards with a spear in one hand, so the attack force was very small. On the contrary, the Beichen Army is different. The soldier's body only needs to poke out of the female wall, and then stab it hard, which can definitely hit an enemy soldier.

The archers gave the Beichen army a lot of casualties, even though they were protected by solid armor, but the rain of arrows still made the Beichen army soldiers unable to defend themselves. The crossbowmen of the Beichen Army were very safe, the enemy infantry rushed over, and the archers could not shoot themselves. Standing on the roof, he could see the enemy troops more than ten paces away in front of the wall. This distance is very good, it can not only prevent accidental damage, but also cut off the enemy's support ability, which is simply perfect to the extreme.

In just half a day of fighting, corpses more than three meters high had already piled up outside the wall. The spearmen of Lanna were able to attack the Beichen soldiers by stepping on the corpses, and the stability of the ladder became stronger because of the accumulation of corpses. More and more corpses piled up until a dead road had been paved on the fence and ground. Countless Lanna soldiers stepped on the corpse directly and rushed towards the wall, and the Beichen Army had lost the advantage of the wall.

The soldiers on both sides fought a bloody battle of life and death on the corpses and the wall, and countless soldiers were either corpses on the ground and carried back after rushing forward. The generals on both sides didn't have the heart to care about the wounded soldiers, and they all kept pulling the team up. One way is for the important things in the city, and the other is for their own glory.

Luo Zhi stood on the last line of defense, the castle that led to the underground warehouse. The wall of the county government in front has been lost, but there are still 20,000 Beichen soldiers fighting bloodily, and none of them have returned, not even wounded soldiers!

"Xiao has a big head, good job!" Luo Zhi said something secretly in his heart, and then commanded 20,000 soldiers and horses to begin to arrange this last line of defense. This is the place where the soldiers died in battle, or the place where they reached the pinnacle of glory.

Dozens of miles away, groups of infantry galloped quickly on the gallop. Wang Ping rode a war horse and kept shouting at the soldiers running beside him. It's been three days, and only now has the army arranged the defense of the eastern city, and pulled out a troop of soldiers and horses to support the town of Guocang. I set out yesterday, and today I have come to a place less than a hundred miles outside the city of Zhenguocang.

Less than a hundred miles may not sound far, but for an army of hundreds of thousands, it will take at least two to three days to complete. However, now the Beichen Army is taking the domestic gallop road, which is much more convenient at that time, and it only takes a little more than a day to complete. However, one day is probably the most difficult time for Zhen Guocang.

As a veteran marshal of Beichen Kingdom, Wang Ping's qualifications are stronger than Yue Fei. If it weren't for the fact that Yue Fei's strategy and force surpassed Wang Ping a lot, and Wang Ping took the initiative to find Xiao Chen to give way, I'm afraid that Yue Fei might not be able to become the generalissimo of Beichen State by now. But even so, Wang Ping is still an important part of Beichen Kingdom. As long as Xiao Chen goes on an expedition, it will definitely be Wang Ping who stays in the capital and guards the country.

This is a trust in Wang Ping, and it is also because most of the low-level officers in the army have worked under Wang Ping. For those many low-level officers, their allegiance is Xiao Chen, and Wang Ping, whom they admire. With Wang Ping in the country, no matter what happened on the front line, the defenders everywhere would not come out to make trouble.

Wang Ping knew very well the number of troops stationed in Zhenguocang, only 100,000 horses. Although it is the most elite army of Beichen Kingdom, there are only 100,000 people, and it is impossible to stop the million elite army of Lanna Country. The soldiers of the two sides are already very close in terms of combat effectiveness, and the city walls are nothing, especially the walls in the game. In front of the sea of people, the city walls only serve to stop the enemy. Besides, Zhenguocang is just a warehouse city, not an ordinary city. There are very few people in the city, and when defending the city, it is natural that they cannot rely on the people to help.

At this point, it will be a great drag on the strength of the Beichen Army. Moreover, Lanna Country is not talking about that, they also have a lot of siege weapons, and the walls of about 20 meters high are like tissue paper. In today's cities, all the cities with a height of less than 15 meters are small cities, and the cities that are 15 to 20 meters high are generally moved. Only those who exceed 20 meters can qualify as the capital of a place. As for the capital, there is no twenty-five meters high, who is embarrassed to take it out!

Presumably, even if the troops of Zhenguocang can hold the city now, the strength should be almost lost. In this critical moment, the only thing Wang Ping could do was to make the soldiers speed up. All the logistics units were left behind, and the scouts in front were ready to report the results of the reconnaissance. The signal corps in the central government walked back and forth, informing them of the status of each unit. The soldiers ran quickly on the gallop according to the formation.

This is a race against time, and if you catch up, the Beichen Army will be able to keep the Zhenguo Warehouse and keep the large amount of supplies inside. Unable to keep it, the Beichen army could only retreat to the capital, watching Lan Naguo pull away a large amount of supplies in the Zhenguo warehouse.

The importance of the Zhenguo Warehouse is incomparable, if it is lost, the troops that the Beichen Kingdom is now concentrated in the capital will need to re-collect grain and grass from all over the country. At that time, it will definitely be a disaster for Beichen Kingdom. Wang Ping will never allow such a thing to happen!

"Quick, speed up the march, before dark, arrive at the town of Guocang!"

Wang Ping looked at the sky, it was already close to noon, and there were still * hours before it got dark, I hope you can block it.

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