Qiu Ba saw that the cavalry was surging like a river and receding like a receding sea, so he breathed a long sigh of relief. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info said to Maggie Cheung, who was also pale next to him:

"Handsome! It seems that the enemy also knew that our army's gun formation was not easy to deal with, so they retreated. In this way, the enemy army that has come here is nothing more than that! As long as we can hold the city walls, even if there are millions of cavalry outside the city, it will not be easy to capture my starting city. ”

Speaking of which, in reality, this Qiu Ba is actually a retired officer, who can be regarded as a soldier and has some military command ability.

Therefore, this time, against the cavalry, all the battle formation arrangements were handled by him.

Although he had no experience in dealing with cavalry, the military arrangements were mostly the same, and the use of spears and shields against cavalry was undoubtedly the simplest and most practical tactic.

Although this formation is only suitable for defense, not for offense, compared to the battle formations of those who broke the cavalry in later generations, it is greatly inferior, but the advantage of this formation is that it is simple, easy to get started, and has low requirements for the courage of the soldiers, even if a small number of soldiers collapse, it will not affect others.

Maggie Cheung, whose face is discolored, is still apprehensive at this time, although he has experienced a lot of bloody battles and vicious battles, but in the face of the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry, it is still the first time, so his performance is no better than those ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers. However, when he saw the cavalry retreating, he was the same as Qiu Ba, thinking that it was the opponent's cavalry, and he didn't dare to attack his own camp!

"Good! Good! Good! General Qiu is really a great talent! There is a gun array of the enemy general, why be afraid of those cavalry! However, I also think it's good to defend the city. Although the enemy retreated, our soldiers were all southerners, and they were not used to dueling with cavalry, and many of them panicked when the enemy cavalry attacked just now.

If it weren't for their devout belief in the Taiping Sect, it would have collapsed! In this way, the defense of the city wall will be handed over to General Qiu. I believe that the city wall must be impregnable under General Qiu's arrangement. ”

During the conversation, Qiu Ba won the favor of Maggie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung handed over the defense of the entire city to Qiu Ba.

It can be said that Qiu Ba's power in this Yellow Turban team is second only to the No. 1 plug, Ma Zhichun. This is exactly what the haters are pursuing.

Of course, their ultimate goal is not to replace Maggie Cheung, but to gradually get close to Zhang Mancheng, the commander of Daqu, to be reused by Zhang Mancheng, and then to stand out in the entire Yellow Turban Army and gain their own power.

After Guo Kan's cavalry retreated, Maggie Cheung's Yellow Turban army naturally did not pursue, but slowly retreated into the city under the command of a group of generals.

This head-to-head duel ended like a joke. Guo Kan's army also gained nothing, and Maggie Cheung's army only lost thousands of soldiers.

This is just a drop in the bucket for the hundreds of thousands of places in Maggie Cheung's army.

Speaking of which, the biggest benefit is still Qiu Ba. Because he has gained real defense rights for the city.

If he wants to exchange for reward points, open the city gate, let other players who join the imperial court camp, and enter the starting point city, it will be a massacre for Maggie Cheung's Yellow Turban Army!

However, of course, Qiu Ba will not be so short-sighted, so solid and fishing!

After Qiu Ba returned to the city, he arranged three things:

First, continue to strengthen the defense of the city walls in various places, including the widening of the ditches in front of the city walls, the heightening, widening, and reinforcement of the city walls, the addition of gatehouses in various places, and the setting of checkpoints in various major roads.

Second, continue to train gun and shield formations. Because there is no barracks in the starting point of the new city, it is naturally impossible to carry out targeted training in the barracks, so you can only honestly send troops to arrange and train the courage and instructions of the soldiers;

Third, train the cavalry, because the best soldier to deal with the cavalry is the cavalry, and the other soldiers can only defend the cavalry, but cannot completely destroy the cavalry.

In Maggie Cheung's army, there are naturally war horses. However, they were all purchased in the hands of Li Tang, but due to the lack of skilled cavalry soldiers, and the lack of attention to cavalry in the past, this cavalry did not develop this time.

Therefore, after this duel, Maggie Cheung and a group of generals agreed that it was very necessary to develop cavalry, anyway, the war horses were ready-made, and the soldiers could be trained.

If there is a cavalry, it must not be so passive against other people's cavalry.

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Outside the city, Guo Kan's cavalry may appear outside the walls of the starting point city day and night. And, from time to time, he shot a few arrows at the city wall, and then, beating the gongs and drums a few times, anyway, it made the city guards tired.

The Yellow Turban soldiers on the city wall actually grew up in the attack, where do they have the experience of defending the city? Therefore, although Guo Kan's harassment day and night could not break the city, it made the defenders itch with hatred, and moreover, he was in a state of mental tension for a long time, and he was absolutely sub-healthy.

Of course, Guo Kan is not idle and has nothing to do, doing these thankless things. On the contrary, his purpose has actually been achieved.

Because, Li Tang arranged for him to harass the city day and night, just to see the city's reaction speed and reaction habits. When the response time of the defenders became significantly longer, it was the time when the defense in the city was the most lax, and it was also the moment when Li Tang hoped the most.

It's night, and the moon at the beginning of the month is as small as bean sprouts, which can only illuminate the road under your feet, but people can't see people and things too far away, it seems that it is a godsend opportunity to sneak attack the starting point city!

Li Tang's planned sneak attack was naturally not a direct attack on the city. Because, there are nearly a million Yellow Turban soldiers and ordinary people in the city, and there are more than 100,000 soldiers on and around the city wall, and if they want to attack the city under their noses, it will inevitably alarm the other defenders in the city.

Li Tang is not afraid that he will not be able to beat them, but he is afraid that he will have too many casualties in a face-to-face confrontation with them, and if the Yellow Turban Army has too few prisoners or are all wounded, he will not get the greatest benefit!

In fact, when Li Tang was about to give up the starting point city, he naturally thought of the strategy of counterattacking the starting point city.

It turned out that when the city wall in the city had not yet been built, Li Tang took advantage of all the natural ravines in the mountains in the city to rectify a wide tunnel.

The tunnel is 10 meters wide and 3 meters high, and is surrounded by giant trees and stone slabs.

After the tunnel is completed, it is filled with soil and compacted to form a flat square.

Later, the city wall was also built on top of the tunnel and was perpendicular to the tunnel.

The tunnel follows the mountain, and the starting point is in the government office in the new city of the starting point, that is, the building where the meeting hall of Marshal Maggie Cheung is located. The beginning of the tunnel, which is actually not difficult to find, is in a fish pond. There is a special structure at the bottom of the fish pond to ensure that the water in the fish pond does not run away, but it does not dry up and expose the hole.

The main body of the tunnel slopes downwards a bit, but the final exit is in a small pond.

The pond is 300 meters away from the castle walls, so you can see it clearly during the day, but at night, even when the moon is full, it is difficult for the eye to see so far.

Moreover, since it is a pond, there must be a lot of water in it, and this water hides the hole in the pond tightly.

And the Yellow Turban Army considered that this pond could cause trouble to the besiegers to a certain extent, so naturally they would not want to fill this pond.

When Li Tang built this tunnel, he thought that he could use this secret passage to achieve some tactical goals, not necessarily, it was specially set up for the Yellow Turban Army.

However, since this Yellow Turban Army has come to the door, if you don't use this tunnel pit Yellow Turban Army, it will not be Li Tang.

In fact, there are many well-known large cities in the world, all of which have such passages, and they are usually used for emergency escape or to transmit information, and even Luoyang, the capital city in the game today, has such a passage.

However, the location of such a passage is the biggest secret in the city.

Otherwise, if the location of such a passage is exposed, it will only bring huge trouble to yourself.

Later, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army invaded the city of Beijing, in fact, it entered through the sewers. Otherwise, no matter how many people there are, they will not be able to shake a strong city like Beijing.

However, Li Tang didn't have to worry about others using this secret tunnel at all. Because there is a pond at the exit of this tunnel outside the city, if you want to enter the tunnel, others can only dive into the tunnel.

It's so hard work, but the effect is not necessarily good. So, how many people will be able to enter? What can it do?

For Li Tang, the problem of water in the pond is not a problem at all. Because, Li Tang has a Qiankun bracelet, and it only takes half an hour to collect the water in this small pond.

Li Tang may be slower to collect living things, but it is extremely fast to collect dead things.

Therefore, as soon as it was dark, Guo Kan's cavalry came to harass again.

The defenders of the city had to brace themselves to cope with the errand. Although, every time it is not really to attack the castle, but what if it is real this time?

As for the soldiers going out of the city to counterattack, it is even more unlikely. If it is during the day, it is more reliable, and at night, especially the life of weak moonlight, then you will not dare to go out of the city.

Guo Kan's team was still noisy, making an all-out siege posture, covering the entry of the large army into the mouth of the tunnel.

The large army entered the tunnel without any suspense, and then entered the courtyard of the Chinese army conference hall where Maggie Cheung was stationed. Then, he quickly rushed to various dangerous places in the courtyard, and disarmed them while the guards everywhere had not yet figured out the situation.

Of course, although some of the secret sentinels were surprised that these people came out of nowhere, they still sounded the alarm of the enemy attack at the first time.