Chapter 89: The Flesh Mill I
Huangfu Song turned his head to look at the other generals and continued:
"If my Han army wants to attack the camp of the Xianbei people, it can be done at any time. I don't despise them, any third-rate general of the Han Dynasty has a camp that is stronger than the best Xianbei general. Because the Xianbei people have neither the consciousness of camping nor the common sense of camping.
"At this time, after all, it is the first day, and the Xianbei people are more vigilant and sharp. Once the attacking army is entangled by the enemy, there is a risk that the whole army will be annihilated! At that time, will the army in the city save or not? If you don't save it, you will see your comrades being wiped out by the enemy, and you won't even dare to go out of the city to support, which will not only be unbearable, but will also greatly hurt the morale of the friendly troops in the city. If it is saved, it may evolve into a field wave battle, which is equivalent to our side automatically giving up the advantage of the city wall, which is very unwise.
"You have to remember that the biggest advantage of my Han army over the Xianbei people is not the city wall, but the discipline! As long as we resist the attack of the Xianbei people in the first few days, the Xianbei people will definitely be demoralized and unstable when they see that the city is hopeless and suffer heavy casualties.
"Pass my general order, from now on, without my general order, not a single soldier is allowed to leave the city, and those who violate the order will be beheaded! We must put on the posture of cowardice in field warfare, arrogant and desirous of our will, so that once we go out of the city to attack, we can decide the situation in one fell swoop. Huangfu Song said as he punched the city wall.
"The general is wise!" "Your Excellency is wise!" …… The sound of sycophants came and went, and Huangfu Song held his long beard in his hand, his face was quite colorful, and he looked like he was in his chest. It seems that Huangfu Song, a famous general through the ages, also eats and slaps horses, and Shangguan Xue'er also lowered her head in response to the situation, but secretly thought in her heart.
The next day, the Xianbei people set out almost the whole army as usual, and after a group of galloping and cavalry shooting in front of the city wall, they returned to the camp as usual to be busy with siege equipment, but there was still no sign of siege, and it seemed that the siege equipment was not ready.
At this time, the Han army in the city also reached 2.5 million, and there were 200,000 people. Among them, the army brought by Huangfu Song totaled 600,000, including 20,000 junior special troops-the two schools of the Northern Army, and the rest were all third-order elites; Pingcheng has an inherent garrison of 500,000, which are basically second- and third-order troops; Xue Weiyang's 350,000 army, including 10,000 primary special troops, and the others are all third-order elites; The Yan family has an army of 150,000, including 1,000 middle-level special troops, 10,000 Han army iron cavalry, and the others are third-order elites; The rest of the players' armies total 900,000 troops, including 23,000 junior special troops, and the rest are third-order elites.
Since the teleportation fee costs 1 gold per person, the army sent by each force is at least a third-order elite, otherwise the cost performance is too low.
Taken by Xue Weiyang's name and strength, coupled with the strong support of the powerful player forces led by the Yan family, the player army in the city publicly pushed Xue Weiyang as the leader, which is also the reason why Shangguan Xue'er is valued by Huangfu Song as a daughter, after all, she nominally holds an army of 1.4 million!
Despite this, the assignment of defensive tasks before the battle still reflects Huangfu Song's doubts about the strength of the player's army. The north gate, which is expected to be heavily attacked, is guarded by Huangfu Song himself. The west gate is temporarily defended by the inherent defenders in the city led by the county captain of Pingcheng, and in case of danger, Huangfu Song is responsible for support.
The east gate is defended by Xue Weiyang and other player armies, totaling 750,000 troops. The south gate was defended by 650,000 troops led by Yan Qingju and Yan Ruoyu, including the Yan family's army.
Behind the four gates were fortified barracks, which served as resting places for the reserve troops of the defense area. After all, a city wall can only accommodate 50,000 or 60,000 troops at the same time.
For the 200,000 people, the county commander and the county cheng will lead the city Chinese officials, catch fast, and miscellaneous doctors, and make unified arrangements to do a good job in logistics work.
The next night, a meeting on the defense strategy of the South Gate was held in the South Gate barracks, and although there had already been a meeting the day before yesterday, the attack of the Xianbei people yesterday surprised many players. I thought I could easily hide behind the female wall and farm monsters safely, but I went bankrupt in the murderous cavalry shooting of the Xianbei people. The meeting had a heated discussion on who would go up to the city wall to defend and who would go later, and how to enforce battlefield discipline.
In the end, it was led by five first-class or quasi-first-class forces, including the Yan family, the Chen family, the Blue Dragon Gang, Triumph City, and the Donghai Student Union, and the other forces joined in on their own according to factors such as friendship. The 20-kilometer-long wall is divided into 5 sections, each defending 4 kilometers long.
The Yan family has the largest number of people and the strongest strength, with a total of 200,000 people, and the other four parties are about 100,000 people. Therefore, the Yan family offered to serve as the general reserve and supervision team of the entire defense, and carried out battlefield rescue and supervision.
As the general reserve, everyone has no opinion, the Yan family set up a supervision team, and the other four parties are not very willing.
"I know why people are reluctant to do so, after all, whether you're fighting or working, having an overseer next to you can make people uncomfortable. But everyone must understand that if someone is greedy for life and afraid of death, and escapes from the battle, leading to the collapse of a battle line and causing the city wall to be breached, then everyone's efforts will become meaningless, and millions of soldiers and civilians in the city will not escape death, and we will be responsible for all deaths! ”
Seeing that everyone still didn't let go, Yan Qingju turned to the other four leaders and continued:
"As for the principles of supervising the war, we can discuss, for example, only those who flee from the battle and retreat without orders, regardless of anything else. To put it mildly, the major forces here are responsible for the outcome of defending the city, and my Yan family is willing to pretend to be white and be this bad guy, I don't know why you don't agree? ”
In the end, everyone agreed on two principles for the implementation of the war: kill those who escape from the battle! Kill those who retreat without an order! Executed by Yan Ruoyu leading the team!
On the third day, the Xianbei people finally prepared for the siege and began to besiege on all sides.
Even at the South Gate, where it was estimated in advance that the intensity of the attack would be the weakest, the Xianbei people were densely packed and could not see the edge at a glance.
Since today's siege was within everyone's expectations, at this time, on the city wall, Yan Qingju, Yan Ruoyu and the leaders of other player forces were basically present at the scene.
Since at the beginning of the war, you first had to withstand the rush of the Xianbei cavalry, and the players were basically equipped with shields, so at this time, on the city wall, there were 12,000 people per section, a total of 60,000 people, all players.
After all, forming a battle formation for attack and defense may be worse than the NPC, but leaning on the city wall to brush merit points, whether it is dodging arrows or returning fire, its flexibility is stronger than that of NPCs. And the individual strength of the players basically exceeds that of the NPC soldiers, and most of them have reached the level of junior generals and intermediate generals.
The Xianbei people came with a round of cavalry shooting as usual, and at the same time, a large number of infantry carrying siege ladders appeared in the distance, and as far as Yan Ruoyu's eyes could see, there was actually a rushing car! It seems that the Xianbei people have learned a lot of equipment and technology from the captured Han people in recent years, and today's offensive and defensive battles may be more difficult than expected!