Chapter 219: Lasting Attrition
Ten days of non-stop fighting made the explorers gradually change from the initial excitement to a lasting restlessness, and then many people's emotions became crazy, and by the end of the day, they had become numb. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Anyway, day and night, once the rebels began to attack the city, some of them had to go up to the city wall with weapons; The other part has to force themselves to sleep amid the earth-shattering shouts of killing, and after ten days, even if the physical supplies can still keep up, the spirit of many explorers is on the verge of collapse.
Space does not prohibit explorers from forcibly returning in the second phase of the mission, but this choice will make all the benefits of the entire story world go to zero, and an additional part of the points and honor points will be deducted.
Not to mention anything else, in order to get a little more merit in the early stage, many explorers did not use a variety of props and recovery products, once the income is zero, it is equivalent to all the investment in the early stage is wasted, and the high return in the space is always accompanied by high risk, if you give up just because you are afraid of danger, you will die in other plot worlds if you don't die in this mission.
In order to be able to persevere, the explorers who were in a weak state had to use more props, and the cost of investment was getting bigger and bigger, and after two or three cycles, many explorers were already passively tied to this task, and they didn't even dare to give up.
The more you dare not give up, the more you invest, the more you can't give up, which is like a dead knot, so that explorers have to choose to hold on.
It's not that there are no smart people who want to hide under the city walls to save consumption and avoid danger. These people quickly met Zhang Xun's personal guard law enforcement team one by one, remembering that these people had made outstanding achievements, and because there were indeed not many people in the city, Zhang Xun did not treat these explorers as deserters, but just threw them on the city wall one by one to fight the rebels on the front line.
Zhao Gao's skill power was finally exhausted on the seventh day, and before that, almost all of them had become high-level hand-to-hand infantry because of the exhaustion of their technical abilities, and Zhao Gao threw out the most skills, but he was still the last. His intelligence attribute is extremely high, and he has specially chosen the option to increase the maximum value of skill power and recovery speed, which has played a huge role in this kind of long-term and not too intense battle, and the explorers have been able to hold on until now without attrition, and the biggest credit is also on him.
Now his skill power to recover by eating food is mainly used to save people, Meng San, who can bandage, and the winged army guards who put defensive skills hung up in a raid a day or two ago, and in the end, Zhao Gao was reluctant to give them the food for recovery skills, and he consciously prepared a lot of food, and by this time it had already consumed seventy-seven-eighty-eight - this is one of the disadvantages of not predicting the plot in advance.
The best state is the eighth. His personality is like a grinding stone under a grinding plate, not sharp enough at a rough glance, but his tenacity can be found over time, perhaps for a Chinese soldier, long-term perseverance is just one of the most basic lessons.
From the tenth day, the rebels began to build ladders with wheels. It is to artificially build a wooden tower of the same height as the city wall, and place a wooden cage at the top of the wooden tower, and there can be doors on all sides of the wooden cage to open from the inside, and a wooden cage can hold a hundred to two hundred people. The sergeants in the back row can jump over the wall and attack the city by pushing the wooden tower to the edge of the city.
The first wave of attacks brought huge casualties to the soldiers defending the city, and more than a hundred soldiers were killed in direct battle, and even one of the explorers on Zhao Gao's side was pulled out of the city wall because of greed for merit, and fell into the tide of rebels, and disappeared in an instant.
At night, Zhang Xun asked people to secretly chisel through three holes in the city wall, and when the enemy's ladder advanced, he used a big wooden block with an iron hook to hook the ladder, and the wooden tower could no longer move, and then used a big log to hold the cage against it from a distance, and the people in the cage were hung in the air.
When the enemy was stuck there, he carried an iron cage with a large piece of wood, filled it with sulfur charcoal and other things, and quickly burned all the soldiers and rebels on the wooden tower.
In a hidden corner of Suiyang City, there is a "secret outpost" where Zhang Xun's personal guards observe the enemy's situation, no matter what siege methods the rebel general Yin Ziqi uses, Zhang Xun can always quickly think of a way to deal with it after suffering a slight loss. All of a sudden, Suiyang City, which had only a few thousand people, became a thorn in the flesh on the way of the rebels' attack, making it impossible for the rebels to advance or retreat.
Although Zhang Xun is only an A-level historical figure, he is by no means inferior to the average S-level in terms of defending the city.
However, at this time, the biggest difficulty in Suiyang City is not to defend the city, but to provide food and grass!
The hundreds of cattle brought back by Nan Jiyun had already been eaten within ten days, and even the beef bones that were distributed to the common people to cook soup were also re-collected, finely ground into bone meal, and made into paste with bark and grass roots, and distributed to the soldiers guarding the city.
Even this kind of mush, which can't be eaten at all, is not much in number. The soldiers guarding the city are all adult strong men, and they can only get one bowl a day, and if they really fart, they will be gone, and the time will be a little longer, who can stand it?
When a soldier burned the rebels on the wooden tower to death just now, the smell of burnt meat emitted made many soldiers defending the city swallow a mouthful of saliva in unison!
If nothing else, in less than two days, it will be time for Zhang Xun to kill the concubine army.
Whether to eat or not to eat people, this is Zhang Xun's business, with Zhao Gao's character, if there is no benefit, he must be too lazy to care. For Lao Ba, maybe there will be a little bit of a diaphragm in his heart, but it is normal for soldiers to take victory as their goal, Zhang Xun's behavior is not in line with human ethics, but after the city is broken, these people are also going to die, and it seems that being eaten does not have any effect.
The only thing that I can't accept is probably Mai Linglong, since I heard about Zhang Xun's incident, her face has not been very good, but she is just psychologically unacceptable, if the task can be completed, she will not have a second word when she obeys the order, at most when Zhang Xun's department will eat people, she just turned her head and didn't look at it.
After all, none of the three members of the old guy's team are virgins, and don't expect them to be able to sacrifice themselves to help others without a bottom line.
However, in history, Zhang Xun ate people and was not able to defend Suiyang City, which is very important to them.
No matter what the mission of the third stage is, if you want to complete this mission with a high degree of completion, turning the tide of battle is the best choice.
From the overall point of view, the rebels after An Lushan's death can only be regarded as the last madness, and they only need to hold on for a while, and a few fierce generals under Tang Suzong, such as Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, only need to come to one or two, what kind of scum of the level of Yin Ziqi and Li Huaixian is not a problem at all.
Support for a few more days, what is needed is that the soldiers defending the city have enough combat power, if you want the soldiers defending the city to have combat power, you have to let them be able to eat, Suiyang City was finally broken because the soldiers were so hungry that they couldn't even hold up their weapons.
Speaking of which, the most critical point is still in the grain and grass, Zhang Xun's ability is strong, but it is difficult for him to perform without grain and grass; The strength of the defenders in Suiyang City is strong, and it is in vain if there is no grain and grass.
In the past few days, Zhao Gao has obtained a passive skill of Zhang Xun through his natural skill "Eat the enemy", this skill can allow him to get a lot of food supplies every time he wins, and Suiyang City has been able to hold on for more than half a year, and a lot of time is also because of his special ability.
But the main general on the opposite side, Ling Huchao, is not stupid, after being raided by Zhang Xun many times, he quickly found that every time Zhang Xun took away a large amount of grain and grass, and the number of soldiers killed was not much, where did he not understand Zhang Xun's intentions. Now surrounded by Suiyang City, the camp on the front line does not have any grain and grass at all, and every day let the rear battalion send a day's rations to the front line, and it is distributed according to the battalion and never concentrated.
When the sergeants had already begun to slaughter the few war horses, Zhao Gao still decided to go to Zhang Xun.