Maggie Cheung paused, and then said:

"There is only one fundamental reason for me to withdraw from the starting point city, and that is that our troops have begun to run low. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Actually, this problem is very easy to solve! Along the way, we sent quite a few squads to plunder everywhere. At this point, I have already informed them to come back and assemble. Presumably, when these squads come back, our forces will inevitably be greatly replenished.

Second, we strengthen the city walls and hold the checkpoints, which can also save troops. Third, we can ask my eldest brother God Envoy Zhang Daqushuai for help, and ask for a few more talismans, and we will definitely be able to defend the starting point city at a critical time.

In this way, we are vigorously training our troops here, and it will inevitably become a solid fulcrum for the capture of Jingzhou City. ”

Everyone had their own thoughts, and naturally praised in unison:

"Handsome and wise!"

Only Yin Lihua was silent by default, and I don't know if it can be done.

……

In the following month, Marshal Maggie Cheung ordered to continue to increase the height and strengthen the city wall, and at the same time firmly guard the passes and trap the soldiers in the old city at the starting point.

However, in the old city of the starting point, although the chaspers were sent out of the city every day to sneak attack the guards at various passes, the Yellow Turban Army was on guard, so the results of the seekers' sneak attacks were average.

However, from all over the country, there are teams with one team, and these teams are large and small. However, they were all full of grain, grass, baggage, etc., and gradually gathered in the starting point of the new city.

This situation lasted for several months, and the team that joined Maggie Cheung's army gradually disappeared.

At this time, the number of Maggie Cheung's army was nearly one million. Originally, Maggie Cheung's army had 300,000, and within a period of time staying in the starting point of the new city, more than 200,000 people were looted from all over the world, plus players from all over the world, and the number of the army has exceeded 600,000.

In addition, branch teams were gathered from all over the country, so the number of people reached the scale of millions.

However, in this army of millions, there is still a lot of water.

Of course, there are 150,000 players among them, and they can be regarded as absolute elites, because after months of training and war, the level of players who came to Maggie Cheung's army has risen, so they have also reached four-star or quasi-four-star, and they can already be regarded as elite soldiers.

The elite of the aborigines has also reached 250,000, 200,000 aboriginal miscellaneous soldiers, and more than 400,000 other old, weak, sick and disabled women.

In this way, 400,000 elites and 200,000 miscellaneous soldiers are much stronger than before.

However, Marshal Maggie Cheung did not rush to take the starting point of the old city this time, but patiently waited for the starting point of the old city to run out of food.

Of course, it is not that Maggie Cheung has changed her sex, but because the external situation at this time is no longer so good.

On the side of Jingzhou City, Xu Xuan's troops had been reorganized, and he even sent troops out of the city several times, successfully intercepting and killing several small detachments that came to take refuge.

Therefore, Maggie Cheung has always dared not think about attacking the old city of the starting point, just because he was worried that the praying mantis would catch the cicada and the yellow finch behind.

Of course, Li Tang has not been idle these days, he has been busy with business!

Li Tang first sold war horses everywhere, and now that wars are raging, it is impossible for the war horses from the northern horse-producing land to be transported to the south, so Li Tang's war horse is the only one of the scorpions!

What's more, when the war comes, the war horse is the most important strategic material, whoever has the war horse, who can make his army have a stronger mobility ability, and the more trump cards in his hands, the bigger!

Therefore, at this time, the people who have war horses do not use them to expand the army, but sell them everywhere, what is not a fool?

Li Tang also has troops of his own, so it is definitely not a good strategy for him to sell war horses.

However, Li Tang now has a lot of war horses, and there are not so many cavalry, so he doesn't need so many war horses, it is better to take advantage of the sky-high price of war horses, sell them, and earn back a lot of silver.

Speaking of which, when the war horse was transported to the south, the price was originally as high as more than 10 gold coins, which was a normal situation. However, now that the war horse is priceless, even if Li Tang sells for 30 gold coins, it is still snapped up.

Not only did Xu Xuan's side take out the money from the treasury to buy horses, but Zhang Mancheng's side of the Yellow Turban Army also used the looted people's fat and people's ointment to buy war horses.

Of course, every time Li Tang only provides 50,000 war horses, and one checkout is only 1.5 million gold coins, which is not too much, so whether it is Xu Xuan, the Yellow Turban Army or the player forces, they can get these gold coins, and they will not use forcible robbery in order to repay the debt.

However, even if they robbed, Li Tang was not afraid, because Li Tang hid 300,000 cavalry around the horse farm, and they could crush any enemy who came to attack.

In the end, the three largest forces in Jingzhou, the Yellow Turban Army, were rich and wealthy, and bought a total of 18 batches of war horses, a total of 900,000 horses.

Xu Xuan and the government from all over the country bought 15 batches and 750,000 war horses.

On the player's side, although there is no shortage of huge wealth, and there are also people who specialize in selling horses, in the end, they only bought 400,000 war horses.

This is because most of the players are not good at riding battles, so the interest in war horses is not too strong, and moreover, influenced by modern strategic thinking, it is believed that the role of war horses is not as great as imagined.

In fact, in ancient wars, having a group of elite cavalry was tantamount to having a tank cluster in later generations, often a few thousand cavalry, which could defeat an infantry force of more than 100,000 people.

Moreover, the cavalry's mobility is extremely high, and often hundreds of cavalry can stir up a few chickens and dogs.

Of course, the farming people, who were not good at riding and shooting, also summed up many ways to deal with cavalry. Unfortunately, these methods were all defensive cavalry, and there were almost no offensive cavalry tactics.

Therefore, against cavalry, the best weapon is still cavalry, there is no second way.

Players think they can use traps, crossposts, horse rejections, gun formations, hook and sickle guns, crossbow arrows, etc., but how easy is it to use these methods to use them in a demanding environment?

Moreover, infantry that can resist cavalry generally needs to be tempered and have an amazing will to fight before they can carry out their combat orders.

If it were so simple, then there would not be so many humiliating histories of Hu invasion in Chinese history.

Now, Li Tang's war horses are almost sold, but no matter which side has mastered the war horses, they are not as skilled as Li Tang's soldiers. Therefore, the time is ripe to take down Maggie Cheung's army entrenched in the starting point city. It's time to show off your muscles.

That night, Li Tang's 300,000 cavalry went out, of which 100,000 cavalry were led by Shi Tianze, guarding the Han River, the only passage of several kilometers out of Jingzhou. Stuck in this passage, the Yellow Turban Army, unless they climbed over Da Xian Mountain with their bare hands, could only venture over Jingzhou City and pass through the narrower passage on the other side of Jingzhou City.

However, Xu Xuan of Jingzhou City is not a fool, how can he let the Yellow Turban Army leave safely? What's more, now Xu Xuan is already eager to try, ready to take the Yellow Turban Army! Jingzhou City is surrounded by mountains and water on both sides, and the only passage that can leave is the sandwich between the two mountains and rivers.

The other 100,000 troops, led by Zhang Hongfan, roamed the plains, preparing to pursue the rout.

There were also 100,000 cavalry, led by Guo Kan, who rushed directly to the outside of the city wall of the starting point and shouted against the city wall.

Today's starting point of the new city, the city wall is tall, Li Tang naturally will not stupidly send cavalry to attack the city. However, Li Tang sent cavalry to curse outside the city day and night, and also threw arrows to the city wall from time to time, including at night. The defenders in the city couldn't bear it anymore, and directly sent a large army, ready to fight to the death with the cavalry called for formation from outside.

Maggie Cheung is not unaware of the dangers of infantry to cavalry, but there are only tens of thousands of cavalry outside the city, and her own army of 600,000 is nested in the city, if you don't go out to fight, the morale of the entire army will be exhausted!

Moreover, the cavalry was guarding outside the city day and night, and it was impossible for them to even go out and bring in food. If, by the time the food in the city runs out and the morale is exhausted, this side will be self-defeating.

Therefore, it is necessary to go out of the city to fight. Moreover, players generally have not suffered the loss of cavalry, and think that through some means and training, they can easily deal with cavalry, so they basically look down on cavalry, so they are not so opposed to going out of the city.

It's a pity that Li Tang's cavalry didn't impact the battle formation set up by the player. Although, in Guo Kan's opinion, these battle formations were extremely immature and vulnerable, Li Tang confessed that he tried to kill and injure the enemy as little as possible, so he did not attack the enemy formation.

Of course, Li Tang's refusal to kill and injure the enemy was not Li Tang's kindness, but Li Tang's arrogant strategy.

Guo Kan commanded the cavalry to rush to the front of the infantry formation, and after firing indiscriminately, he cut diagonally from the front of the formation. Most of the cavalry commanded by Guo Kan were archers, not heavy cavalry, so as soon as he fired like this, he retreated straight away and did not shake the enemy's formation.

In the enemy formation, there is a group of Tubaozi Yellow Turban Army who have never seen large-scale cavalry, even if it is a player unit, they have not seen a large-scale cavalry impact.

Now, seeing thousands of horses galloping, the momentum is like the Yellow River bursting the embankment, shaking the mountains, and the sound of horses' hooves is like knocking on the heart. Everyone, there is only one thought in their hearts, how can flesh and blood withstand the trampling of this iron hoof!

Therefore, only a small number of soldiers were able to hold the spear in their hands tightly, and most of the soldiers were already frightened, trembling in two forces, and they couldn't even stand steadily, let alone resist and counterattack.

Therefore, Guo Kan's cavalry, even if they shot a rain of arrows like an errand, still achieved a lot of results, because many soldiers were so frightened that they even forgot to raise their shields.