Dong Zhuo's visit eventually turned into a chat meeting between Li Shushi and the man who was once the most powerful prince in the Han Empire and the man closest to reaching that lonely position.

Because the chat was so enjoyable, Li Shushi, who got the opportunity to sleep in the early morning, naturally couldn't participate in the next day's military operation, but fortunately, except for the golden fire cannon, the rest of the things would not be a problem even if he didn't have him.

I don't know what Dong Zhuo will say to the high-level leaders of those clay puppet legions after he goes back, but it can be clearly felt that those clay puppet legions are becoming more and more able to calmly deal with all kinds of unexpected situations, such as today's attack, the stability of the enemy force forced Lu Bu, as the commander, to push down the trebuchet and those earthen cannons to the front of the position to strike at the enemy, but this practice obviously made the Bingzhou army not only not have the possibility of an ambush, but even had to start a brutal positional battle with the enemy.

However, it is gratifying that Xiao Qiang did not really make such a choice, or compared to Li Shushi's heartfelt superstition about firearms, Xiao Qiang, like most people in this era, may be surprised by the surprise of firearms, but the power of firearms obviously does not allow them to see them as something that can determine the direction of war.

As Li Shushi had thought before, those crude firearms often played a role in increasing the mystery of one's own side, so that the enemy generals could add some worries when commanding, so that their own troops would have more opportunities to take advantage of.

For example, this time Xiao Qiang used the shock brought to the enemy by the previous firearms, when the enemy's attention was focused on striving to completely remove this threat in the Bingzhou army, Xiaoqiang led the elite cavalry troops of the Bingzhou army, and Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao such excellent cavalry commanders, quickly interspersed with the enemy's flank and rear in multiple ways, and before the enemy commander found and commanded the pikemen to return to protect his own crossbowmen. The enemy crossbow troops were successfully crushed, and the remaining enemy infantry units, even though they succeeded in burning more than a dozen trebuchets and destroying dozens of earthen cannons made of pine wood, could not change the outcome of the war.

The destruction of those weapons is even the front line of the war in terms of the manufacturing capacity of the state army today. It still can't be too much of a problem, and for the Merge Army who carry a lot of accessories, all they need is to find the parts that can still be used, and combine them with new ones to form a new trebuchet.

Why not mention those pine earth cannons?

Not to mention how cheap that thing is, in fact, even if there is no enemy destruction, the artillery that can fire up to ten rounds and has not been completely destroyed has been brought back by Su Xiaololi's craftsmen to focus on research, but the situation of using it two or three times and then exploding is the correct way to use that thing.

It can be said that compared with the gun body, the use of gunpowder ratio and quantity is the key to artillery.

Of course, the casting process of bronze artillery is also being studied. It's just that judging from the reaction from Su Xiaololi, even though there are already a lot of finished products, it is difficult to satisfy the Lori who is unprecedentedly serious in this regard.

Well, after all, whether it is unscientific magic or scientific gunpowder, Su Xiaololi is definitely a scientist with a qualified attitude.

It's just that such a victory on the local battlefield can't cover up the problem of a qiē.

"Whew...... It's really what to say. Dong Zhongying, your mouth is about to catch up with Cao Mengde's legs. ”

Put down the battle report in your hand, and put it together with another battle report on the low table. This is what is going to be the focus of today's meeting, and it is disturbing in one part and the other ...... It's even more disturbing.

"So this is the summary of today's battle, if you have read it all, let's talk about how you feel. Well, Xiaoqiang. Praise yourself without saying anything, we all know that today you have to be super good, and then move on to the next topic. ”

So poor Xiaoqiang could only summon the foot of the wall, but it seemed that there was another announcement today, so it didn't appear. Instead, a cute eagle sauce appeared, flying three times above Xiaoqiang's head, and then he didn't know where to run, leaving only a bird feather.

Okay, let's leave him alone if he is given a special effect or something, it's better to talk about business.

"Chang'an City's first put aside, anyway, for us now, it is too difficult to break through the defense line, so we can only hope that they can hold on for a while, as long as they hold on for a longer time, our chances of winning will be higher, but in this way, for the military and civilians of Chang'an City, whether they can still muster enough morale over time has become very important."

"Since there are old generals Huangfu and Zhu here, I believe that at least this should be no problem. The two generals are the kind of excellent people who can make their subordinates fight to the death, not to mention that there is also Mr. Yan on the side to help one or two. ”

"Just looking at the enemy's posture, I really feel apprehensive in my heart."

"Chang'an City has thick walls, and there is plenty of food and grass in the city, although it has encountered the dilemma of siege for a while, and the main force of our army cannot immediately relieve it for the time being, but after all, the reinforcements are working hard, so Chang'an City has not encountered the worst situation."

"Well, since that's the case, let's discuss the battle report sent by Zi'an today. This should be the first time that the enemy army has taken such a response, such an active action, if Zi'an is not careful enough, and Cao Daoling has a backhand, I am afraid that today's battle will allow the enemy to make a heavy breakthrough. ”

Seeing this battle report, everyone's faces became ugly for the first time.

The content of the battle report is very simple, it tells about a special case that happened in today's battle - the enemy army, which had always been the first strategy of holding firmly, actually had a corps quietly appear behind Gao Shun when Gao Shun led the Shuozhou Corps to attack - no one knows when those guys slipped behind Gao Shun, whether it was during the battle, or last night, or earlier, because the enemy has no logistical pressure at all, so it is possible at any time, but no matter what time it is, Even before Gao Shun arrived here, they were already hiding there, and this news was enough to make everyone feel deeply shocked and uneasy.

If it had been sneaking up and lurking there in the recent past, then Li Shushi's previous night's remark that the enemy did have some kind of means to make their originally heavy bodies lighter, thus invalidating many of the original detection methods against the enemy. This will mean that the enemy army can completely take the way of rushing and fighting with the four-legged merger state army - even if those clay puppets are still only two legs, they can't compare with those undead on the grassland in terms of speed, but even if the four legs of the merge state army are fast, they are still trapped by the disadvantage of the body, and they can't keep up with the enemy army for a long time.

As for the fact that the enemy army has been lurking there for a long time, it is equally unreassuring to launch such a possibility only now. Because you have no idea how many such enemies there are, when and where they will appear in front of or behind you, after all, those clay puppets have the ability to execute orders and the special abilities of their bodies, making them even more terrifying than those assassins who can stay underground in the toilet for a week just to kill their enemies.

There is even a wise man in the enemy army who is almost as wise as a demon, who can predict today's situation dozens of days ago, ambush an army there in advance, and wait until the critical moment when the cannon sounds, the ambush soldiers come out together, and the sky and the earth collapse. The earth shakes the mountains......

Well, Li Shushi felt that even the demonic Zhuge Kongming in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms couldn't reach this kind of Cheng dù, but because there were so many kinds of demons that Li Shushi had encountered so far, he was really a little nervous.

But it's good to think about this possibility in your mind.,Say something that will definitely be despised by everyone.,Even if it's not despised by it, it's not good to be shaken to the heart of the military because of this.,After all, no one wants to face the hidden intellectual demons behind the enemy while facing a group of enemies who are already strong enough to make people struggling.。

Well, take this conjecture as a possibility. Privately, let Jia Xu and them join in the possibility of thinking.

"If I could, I'd rather believe the answer would be the former. At least for us, it's good news. ”

He said a slightly cold joke, but it wasn't really a joke in a certain sense.

After all, when an army has established a solid defensive line, and there are relatively sufficient troops to invest in the defense, then it becomes a very difficult thing to attack head-on, just like Zhuge Liang who came out of Qishan in the face of the Wei army's increasingly perfect defense. In fact, the closest he came to success was the first surprise, and the rest of the story was a policy of active strategic defense, and if it was not good, it was just "doing everything to obey the destiny of heaven." That kind of gap in national strength really can't be bridged casually.

It's as if the Chinese rabbits can take advantage of the fact that the bald eagle is unfamiliar to play a beautiful big detour and big depth intersperse, but when the two sides are familiar, the rabbits need to pay a huge price if they want to defeat the bald eagle. Even in the final stage of the war, the two sides that were already exhausted from fighting wanted to do something, and they all bypassed each other to bully the south and the north.

So to date, even in the relatively open terrain of the Guanzhong Plain, the enemy is just an ordinary prince's army, and it is not easy for the state army to gnaw down when they are stuck in the fence, not to mention a group of inhuman barriers.

But what about when the enemy takes the initiative to fight back?

This will certainly give the enemy more offensive options, and at the same time put the army in a difficult situation of how to choose, but from another angle, from the perspective of how to break through the enemy's originally strong barriers, it is not an opportunity.

It can be said that this is a very dialectical question, but how to take advantage of the gap that the enemy actively exposes has a lot of knowledge.

At least you can't mess up your position and be beaten by the enemy by seizing the opportunity.

I have to say that it is worthy of being a puppet army, if they just stay there and do not move, even if they want to gnaw it down with the strength of the current state army, they will still have to break a mouthful of teeth, and in fact, in several battles in which the state army has achieved great victories, although the means are not similar, but in fact, there is only one point - actively mobilize the enemy army, and take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold in the movement to saturate firepower, so that it is difficult for the enemy army to exert their terrifying strength and willpower like thick earth wall bricks.

I'm afraid that even those booster RMB players are not as good as those puppet soldiers, because the other party not only has a god costume, but also has more operations.

And just when Li Shushi and the military generals in the Bingzhou army were racking their brains and thinking about how to solve the dilemma in front of them, in Chang'an City, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and others were also staring at the sand table in front of them. The expression on his face was even more solemn.

Compared with the previous few days, whether it is Huangfu Song or Zhu Jun, their bodies have lost a lot of weight, and their faces, which were originally just a little old, have now become sunken cheeks, and their hair is not shiny, so they look like an ordinary bad old man.

Even Yan Zhong, who is slightly rich because his body is well maintained. At this time, he also lost weight successfully, but because his legs and feet were not as dexterous as the two old generals, he had been helping to deal with various government affairs in the city these days, deploying materials and soldiers needed for the war, although he was also busy and under great pressure, but compared to Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, who had to rush to the front line to command, it was a little better, but from the red and swollen eyes with big dark circles, his mental state was also very bad.

The situation in Chang'an City was much worse than Li Shushi thought.

It's not because of a lack of supplies or a big impact on morale. In fact, these two aspects are just as Li Shushi thought, Chang'an City, as the core of Guanzhong, has always been an important storage center for materials, money and grain, even if there is a water source problem, with the help of the engineering team, relying on the moat as a cover to build an underground river that can barely be used for emergency response in wartime.

It can be said that if Chang'an City encounters a long-term siege, it may expose many problems because of this, but if it only lasts for a short time, at least it can still be guaranteed in terms of materials.

As for morale, it can barely be supported. Especially when the two veteran generals took the lead in every battle, Yan Zhong continued to work hard in the rear regardless of the inconvenience of his legs and feet. Such a leading role combined with their prestige has brought great results, not to mention that these two are inextricably linked with various forces in the Guanzhong region, and in this necessary situation, with their faces, they can also connect with more helping forces.

It's just that Li Shushi obviously missed a point, and this point has increasingly become an important factor in defeating the defense force of Chang'an City.

The fatal problem lies in the consumption of the body of the living. and a sudden increase in mental stress due to the huge consumption of the body.

From the beginning of the attack only at night, the direction of the attack was only the east gate, and gradually developed to the present, from morning to night, a new offensive may be launched at any time and place, and even several points are launched at the same time, not once or twice.

From now on. The initial attack was like an appetizer, but the only thing that is unclear, or unwilling to know, is whether the current attack is the main course, or when will the main course be served?

That's a tough question.

The population in Chang'an City is not small, but there are not many troops that can be sent to the field, after all, this is also a safe rear, and the only place that needs to be guarded against is Wuguan, which borders Nanyang, and in the case of Xu Rong transferring the garrison of Yongzhou to the west, Huangfu Song has too few cards in his hand.

Because of the courage and persuasion of the two old generals, many young people went to the battlefield to besiege Chang'an City, these young people who only had a lot of blood, or because they were afraid of the genocidal actions that non-humans might take after the city was broken (this is naturally the official version, but because of the endorsement of those grassland undead, it is quite widespread), and the young people who were forced to go to the battlefield were almost forced to fight on their own instincts, except for a few words of advice from their instructor before they went to the battlefield.

And these militias, which can be called cannon fodder, can be said to be the last way that Huang Fusong can think of to share the pressure of the defenders, it can be said that without these voluntary and involuntary cannon fodder, the defenders would not have been able to support the enemy day and night under the attack.

However, the strategists of the Bingzhou army collectively ignored the actual situation of Chang'an City in front of Li Shushi, and Huangfu Song never mentioned this in the limited communication opportunities.

Cause?

Chang'an City-Enemy Army-Merge State Army, these three parties have now built a delicate balance, Chang'an City has restrained a lot of the enemy's energy, so that it can only respond to the pressure from the peripheral Merge State Army in a stable way. It is precisely because of the existence of Chang'an City that the Bingzhou army can be calmly arranged on the periphery, tentatively, and looking for a way to deal with this sudden enemy.

It was not clear to everyone why the enemy would have such a grudge against this Chang'an City, that even if it was surrounded, it must be captured, which might have some special meaning for them, but these are not things that most people need to consider.

After all, the situation in front of them has left them with no spare energy to think about those things that are not in order.

"General, the enemy is coming up again, this time at the North Gate and the East Gate!"

The sudden cry interrupted Huangfu Song, who was taking a rare time to relax his body and take the opportunity to think.

Looking at Geng Quan, who was full of anxious expression, Huangfu Song did not show any unhappiness because of the other party's disturbance, but showed a kind smile at the other party, as if he had some kind of magic, which made the other party's originally tense face stretch a lot.

"What's in a hurry, if you can't fight, you just hit back."

"Whoa!"

Looking at such a calm and calm coach, as a subordinate, it is not easy to be afraid even if you want to be nervous.

Geng Quan believed so. (To be continued......)