69. The contest of ghost cards
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"Great Chief, now that the battle has reached this point, we should be able to wrap it up......"
Looking at the slightly stalemate battle situation in front of him, Keto asked Shi Kele in front of him with some uncertainty. After all biquge.info, this is the first time that the Liang people have faced off with a Han city with tens of thousands of defenders. Perhaps only a veteran like Shi Kele who participated in the war between the Xianbei people and the Han people can be so calm.
But what Keto didn't know was that the calm and calm Great Chief Shi Kele in his eyes was by no means as confident as he appeared to be. Because he is the Great Chief, and he is surrounded by tens of thousands of Karma backbones, in other words, the present and future of the Karma are in his hands, and they are all determined by his thoughts. Cheng, sonic shock grassland; defeated, and then a slave within a hundred years.
Yes, now that they have lost nearly 8,000 men, if it were not for the fact that there were many ordinary herdsmen and women among the warriors, I am afraid that the siege force of the Qiang tribe would not be able to bear it. Thinking of this, he felt that he had to thank some of the main generals in the opposite city, if it wasn't for the fact that he completely crippled the world department yesterday, he Shi Kele wouldn't be able to find enough cannon fodder today.
But now, the women brought by the Shibu and the warriors of the small tribes who had followed the Shibu around him had all become stepping stones to his Shikele ambitions. And the 7,000 royal court troops that their tribe is proud of can completely wait for the appearance of fighters in the rear, so that they have the opportunity to become the last iron weighing stone that overwhelms the camel.
This force is also the source of Shi Kele's self-confidence, and this force can indeed bring him this kind of self-confidence - they have the best equipment in the Qiang tribe, they ride the best war horses of the entire Qiang tribe, and they have the largest number of people who have survived all the battles, so there are enough good war veterans to become the backbone of the entire army and save more people from premature death.
This force was a valuable asset left to his father by Shi Kele's grandfather, and his father handed it over to him, and the accumulation of several generations has turned this army into a very good fighter group, even compared to the strong army of the Xianbei tribe that is now in full swing, Shi Kele feels that his side is at most incomparable to the other party.
What's more, now, he also has a shaman with great potential by his side, who can bless the warriors of his tribe with various buffs. Although the Han army on the opposite side resisted fiercely with the help of the city wall, at this time of the war, the geographical advantage of the other party had been eaten away by the heroic warriors of the Qian tribe. Then, now you only need to wait for the opponent's body to be exhausted and launch a thunder blow, and you can crush the opponent in one fell swoop and achieve another great cause of your own.
Of course, the people have their own strong hole cards in their hands, and Li Shushi's side is also not without a backhand.
Not to mention anything else, just the powerful golden fire cannon, which has increased Li Shushi's confidence a lot, but it is a pity that this era has not been able to develop ballistics that can make cannonballs more accurate, and can make trebuchets a sharp weapon for pointing and shooting. However, after using scattered bullets as a means of attack, the accuracy requirements for covering attacks have decreased a lot, and because the shells emitted by the Golden Canister can poison the enemy as long as they get on the skin. Even if you knock down the enemy's armor or leather clothing, the high-temperature toxic liquid metal attached to the projectile can directly burn through the non-metallic armor and damage the enemy.
At the same time, Li Shushi also has a trump card, that is, the Xiliang cavalry, which has always maintained a scale of more than 800 people.
I don't know if it's really mixed with the blood of the Northwest people from the blood of the Roman Eagle Banner Legion, the Western Liang cavalry is much stronger than the infantry even if it is foot combat, and there is no other cavalry after losing their horses after the martial arts are wasted. After the training of Lu Bu and Dian Wei, their discipline and lethality have been greatly improved.
Especially after several escorts of the steppe caravans, these soldiers who had outstanding growth but suffered from inexperience began to grow explosively. In this battle, considering the particularity of the Xiliang cavalry's dual-purpose infantry and cavalry, Li Shushi finally left it in Lishi City as a death squad to fill the hole when there was a large gap in the city wall.
Part of this team remained as Li Shushi's personal guard, while the other part was handed over to Gao Shun, the commander-in-chief of the battlefield.
In fact, Li Shushi very much hopes to concentrate all the Xiliang cavalry under Gao Shun, after all, the title of "800 trapped soldiers" is too popular, although I don't know what the roles of Li Shushi's Gao Shun's trapped camp are, but Li Shushi believes that under Gao Shun's command, these more than 800 Xiliang cavalry will definitely play a brilliant role.
It's a pity that Gao Shun or Cheng Yu are all against weakening the defense force around Li Shushi, not to mention that whether it is Dian Wei or Xu Chu's ability to lead the soldiers to counterattack, it is not much inferior to Gao Shun. Moreover, the strength of these two is much higher than that of Gao Shun, and it is very likely that they will play a stronger role in the competition for local small battlefields than Gao Shun.
The third hole card that cannot be counted as a trump card is Lu Bu. Yes, it was Lü Bu and not the cavalry led by Lü Bu.
Because the number of battles experienced by the light cavalry is probably not as much as that of the Xiliang cavalry, and compared with the grassland peoples who have grown up on horseback since childhood, the farming people are inherently inferior in the construction of cavalry, and the gap in experience has infinitely widened the gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides. When fighting in a small group, it can still rely on the generals' martial arts to smooth out some gaps, but the scale is ......
Therefore, Li Shushi really relied on Lu Bu, a guy with extraordinary martial arts, and Cao Xing, Zhang Xiu, Cao Ren and Cheng Lian, who were also extraordinary around him. Yes, Li Shushi's purpose was to use the cavalry raid to create chaos, and then use the martial arts of several generals to take advantage of the chaos, and then decapitate the enemy's main leaders to turn the tide of the war.
This kind of behavior is actually very similar to the combat style of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. That is, let the large army entangle with the enemy, and then when the enemy and us are physically and mentally exhausted, let their Xuanjia elite cavalry burst into the battlefield and point directly at the enemy commander, so as to decide the victory.
And its most classic example is the stunned decisive battle against Dou Jiande under the Tiger Prison, which captured the peerless hero Dou Jiande in Hebei in one battle, which can be said to be a textbook-like battle in the history of Chinese warfare.
By the way, Li Shimin's way of fighting is obviously quite related to his bloodline from the Hu people. If you look at the method used by Shi Kele, isn't it actually such a method? To ensure their own descendant troops to the greatest extent is the only way for the grassland people to continue the tribe summed up in countless battles.
Of course, it is not excluded that there are times when there are fools who throw their descendants into the trap of bait because they are blinded by the low-hanging fruit in front of them, after all, there are very few people who have a long-term vision because of the constraints of the living environment of the grassland people. And once such a talent emerges, he can usually have a place in the songs of the grassland people.
The day's fighting lasted from midnight to midnight, and most of the soldiers on both sides had only eaten breakfast, and their bodies had dropped significantly. However, because Li Shushi's side is the defender of the city, not only is it easier to replenish, but also in some areas where the battle is not fierce, soldiers can also be rotated, so that soldiers who have been fighting for a long time can retreat to the rear to rest and replenish some food and HP to ensure that their combat effectiveness can be effectively restored.
It can be said that this is the largest battle in time and intensity since Li Shushi participated in the battle. A morning passed, and the two sides of the battle were still deadlocked, even though Li Shushi had several generals pressing the formation and masters like Li Shushi and Jia Xu who were in charge of reducing the enemy's various capabilities, they still paid more than 3,000 battle losses.
The ratio of battle losses between the enemy and us is nearly two to one, but you must know that Li Shushi is engaged in a battle to defend the city, and the enemy was also plowed by Li Shushi's rain of arrows and trebuchets between the close to the city wall, and at the same time, he spent a lot of body under the city to climb this "ice wall", which is more troublesome than the ordinary city wall, and at the same time was stopped by the troops at the head of the city for a long time.
The most important thing is that the steppe people are better at fighting on horseback, so they have to suffer a small loss in terms of attributes like the light cavalry. Not to mention that not all of the besieging troops were elite soldiers of the Qiang tribe, and many of them generally appeared on the battlefield as their logistical troops.
But even with so many unfavorable factors superimposed, the army of the Qiang people could still make Li Shushi's defensive troops suffer such losses, which shows that the enemy's combat effectiveness is indeed far superior to Li Shushi's side.
However, after all, the enemy has paid a lot of physical consumption, and when the time has reached noon, the battle loss rate of Li Shushi's troops, who can have a large number of troops to take a small part of the rotation, has begun to decline, although it is not very obvious for a while, but Dian Wei told Li Shushi that he has clearly felt that the weapon in the opponent's hand is not as powerful as before.
Yes, although the longer this world is obtained, the more experience it accumulates, and the stronger the attributes of the body, there is another natural element that restricts the exertion of one's strength, and that is the body.
A person's body will take on different curves as he exercises and grows. But at the end of the day, everyone has their own limits. When the body is higher than this limit, you can fully exert the strength brought by your attributes, but below this limit, your performance will gradually be affected and eventually you will not be able to make any movements due to the exhaustion of your body, becoming a "bystander" who prays for the destiny to favor you.
It is precisely because of this that the shamanic spell "bloodthirsty", which can be infinitely active for the duration of the spell, will become the most important state spell in the shaman's hand, and it has also become one of the reasons why the grassland peoples revere the profession of shaman.
Although there is no specific value for this decisive factor, it cannot be seen or touched, but it does affect the course of the war. For example, now, even if the people who were originally well-equipped had no problem with four or five Yellow Turban Army, but now they are no longer as comfortable as they were at the beginning, and it is precisely because of this that the battle loss rate of the Xihe County soldiers under Li Shushi has decreased slightly, which makes Li Shushi, who was originally quite painful, breathe a sigh of relief.
It's just that Shi Kele, who is old in war, will make Li Shushi's Xihe soldiers adapt to the rhythm of war and eventually drive his own Qian army off the city wall?
The answer is clearly no.
So when Li Shushi and other major generals of Xihe were still focusing on the fierce battle on the city wall, Shi Kele had already confidently issued the decision of his royal court troops to go to the battlefield.
P.S. I'm in a bad health today, so I don't feel like writing, so I put the manuscript out in advance, and let's rest......
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