Chapter 436: Division of Troops
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The fierce battle of Hanxing City had lasted until the second half of the night, and the death toll on both sides was close to one million, and the death ratio of the defending army to the besieging army remained almost 1:9. There are factors of difference between offense and defense, and there is also a reason for the difference in the individual soldiers engaged in the battle of both sides. But even so, the imperial court still paid more than 100,000 casualties.
Fortunately, Zhang Wen and others had stationed more than 700,000 imperial troops in Hanxing City before, and the lowest strength was also the fifth order, which can be said to be the jīng sharp warriors in the imperial army, so Zhang Wen and others can continue to hold on, but it is really difficult to say how long they can hold out, after all, the offensive of these Xiliang rebels is too fierce.
Seeing that dawn was approaching, and that the rebels outside the city were able to use catapults to attack the city during the day, this was bad news for the imperial army. However, after the dawn, the court side can also see the direction of the other party's lord more clearly, and as the commander, he can better make the overall layout. Again, that's on its upside.
At this time, Yang Tian had already led the army of players to Hanxing City.
Not long after Yang Tian joined this army, he received a message from Zhang Wen that Hanxing City was under a frantic attack by the rebels, so Yang Tian quickly raised troops to support. After Yang Tian received this news, he immediately communicated with Zhou Shen, the NPC commander of this army, and then ordered the army to pull out the camp and rush towards Hanxing City. After all, it is a large battalion of nearly 10 million troops, and it is not said that it will set off as soon as it starts. It took almost two or three hours for the whole army to set off after the order was issued. That's pretty fast.
On the way, Yang Tian summoned the leader of a large player guild in the army, including Xuanyuan Sword of Yanhuang City and Wind Wanderer of the Flowing Wind Alliance, etc., it can be said that in this battle, the armies of the ten major guild forces in the country have all gathered together.
At the same time, several aboriginal generals and strategists were summoned.
Yang Tian's purpose is very simple, that is, to inform these players and the leaders of the aboriginal army of this operation deployment, and let them follow the order.
In fact, it is better to say that it is a deployment, but rather a division of labor. Because in this kind of war of tens of millions of people, the role of strategy is very small, especially when both sides have clearly laid out the carriages and horses, there is no possibility of hiding, and the only way is for both sides to fight with real swords.
For the upcoming big battle, these player leaders are looking forward to it. In last year's Yellow Turban Rebellion, although the scene was much larger than this one's regional xìng story mission, there were actually very few wars that players were able to participate in or even influence. It can even be said that the war was only to give the player a chance to get acquainted with large-scale warfare.
Now it's different, the player's strength has been improved, and with the establishment of regular legions, the player's military discipline has been enhanced to a certain extent. Now these armies formed by players are not as vulnerable as before, and they already have the strength to influence a war. How does this make them not look forward to the next war?
Since it was night, the army's march speed was not very fast, and by the early hours of the morning, they were still about thirty kilometers away from Hanxing City......
How could such a large force of the imperial court be able to hide from the eyes of the rebels? Not long after they set off, Bian Zhang and Beigong Boyu had already received the news of their departure.
According to their estimates, if there is no obstruction, this army of nearly 10 million people will reach the outside of Hanxing City within three hours, and there is no doubt that the arrival of this army will have an extremely huge impact on their attack on Hanxing City.
After a short discussion by Beigong Boyu, Bian Zhang decided to send troops to intercept him, even if he could not annihilate him, he would delay the other party's arrival in Hanxing City. As for the generals who led the troops, they were led by Beigong Boyu, and Bian Zhang sent one of his subordinate generals to go with him. As for the army, Beigong Boyu will dispatch one million, Bian Zhang will dispatch one million, and another four million players will be transferred at the same time. In fact, for players, they prefer to participate in this kind of field war rather than fight siege warfare here. After all, as a besieging party, the losses will be much greater than the defending side. Even though they're now double their points, it's still a bit more than worth the cost. Therefore, they are very enthusiastic about going to intercept the imperial army now.
After the decision was made, Beigong Boyu immediately led the army to set off, and they had to meet the imperial army as best they could and drag it to death.
At this moment, there are still more than four million troops left to continue to attack Hanxing City, which is completely enough for them to take Hanxing City. In fact, if Beigong Boyu had attacked Hanxing City in a hurry regardless of losses, with the number of his troops, he would have been able to defeat Hanxing City. But later, because he was attacked by Yang Tian and destroyed the catapult, and at the same time, he was also frightened by the opponent's powerful army, which made him timid.
After Beigong Boyu left, Bian Zhang stood quietly under the handsome flag, looking at the not-so-majestic city wall in front of him by the firelight, and he didn't know what to think in his heart.
So far in the war, he has a rough idea of the strength of the defenders of several city walls, the strongest is the defenders of the eastern city wall, mainly about an hour after the start of the war, a new force joins the city defense team, so that it is difficult for the soldiers sent out to attack the city to climb the city wall. Basically, as soon as he appeared, he was killed by the other party. He could see a military flag on the wall, embroidered with a huge white tiger. He had also heard of this legion, which was the White Tiger Legion under the command of General Zhendong of the imperial court. The reinforcements who participated in the ambush of Han Sui had this legion in it, and its strength was very strong.
However, the archers who rushed under the city played a role, and the sharp arrows caused a lot of damage to the other party. It's just that the casualty ratio is very scary. However, Bian Zhang was also very helpless, he didn't want his most sharp troops to be consumed in this siege battle, so he only sent a large number of fourth- and fifth-order soldiers to siege the city, and occasionally in order to stabilize the situation, he would send a sixth-order army up. That's all, how is there an opponent for the defending army?
Slowly, the sky turned white, and the two sides could already vaguely see the scene on the battlefield, only to see that the ground within two hundred meters in front of the city wall was full of corpses in various postures, and the rebels stepped on these corpses to attack the city wall.
Bian Zhang was unmoved by this tragic scene, he was just thinking about when he would be able to capture the city in front of him. Only by capturing this city can they continue to gain a foothold in this area, otherwise, they can only retreat thousands of miles and retreat to the line of Qinchuan and Tianshui, which is a great loss for the Xiliang rebels. (To be continued)