Chapter 147: Defending the City
After the Yuanyan coalition army attacked Lengzhen, after quickly making adjustments and preparations, they began to transfer troops to Xiaoli Village.
The two strongholds of Lengzhen and Xiaoleng Village were both garrisoned by the Broken Wolf Army, and they both greatly blocked Yuan Yanlian.
However, for Xiaoli Village, Liao Huan did not plan to capture it, because there was no longer much need.
As long as Leng Zhen is defeated, the Broken Wolf Army will lose the momentum between the two strongholds, and relying on the stronghold of Xiaoli Village alone will not be able to pose a threat to the Yuanyan Coalition Army.
However, in order to prevent the wolf army stationed in Xiaoli Village from running out to make trouble, Liao Huan still led 3,000 soldiers to surround the perimeter of Xiaoli Village, not to attack, but to keep an eye on the situation in Xiaoli Village, and the other 2,000 rushed to Beicheng to station.
In fact, the number of soldiers stationed in Xiaoli Village is quite large, and there are 1,500 people in a regiment.
Now that the fire wolf was beaten out of Cold Town, it could only retreat to Xiaoli Village, so the army stationed in Xiaoli Village at this moment was almost more than 2,000 people.
As the current commander-in-chief of the Wolf Breaking Army, the Earth Wolf also rushed to Xiaoli Village to station here, intending to block the Yuanyan Coalition Army to the death.
In addition, the 3,000 soldiers of the Broken Wolf Country who were on the front line were still stationed in Blue Wolf City. The Earth Wolf knew what the purpose of the Yuanyan Coalition was now, but he would definitely not let the Blue Wolf City be left undefended, because no one dared to guarantee that the Yuanyan Coalition would suddenly turn its guns and attack the Blue Wolf City.
Because as the most important town in the west of the Broken Wolf Country, its status is no less than that of Bay City. The adjustment of the ground wolf's strength should be correct in general, but Liao Huan felt that it was the ground wolf that was weakening their own strength.
In the face of an opponent with more troops than himself, it is still a foolish arrangement, but for the wolf, it has to do this.
At present, the number of troops that Liao Huan can mobilize is nearly 5,000, except for the need to leave the following people to garrison Lengzhen, the rest of Liao Huan can lead them to attack Xiaoli Village and take it together, but Liao Huan will not do that.
First of all, although Xiaoli Village looks like a village and town in its name, its actual city wall defense capacity is not lower than that of Lengzhen.
And like Leng Town, Xiaoli Village is also located in the northwest of the Broken Wolf Country, close to the Shirt Wood Forest, so there should be a lot of timber in it.
If the Yuanyan coalition army attacked it, it would still have to pay a lot of time and losses. Secondly, the Yuanyan coalition army did not need to attack Xiaoli Village, but only needed to bypass it directly and enter Beicheng.
Previously, because the distance between Yousha Town and Bei City was too far, if the Yuanyan coalition army directly bypassed Leng Town and Xiaoli Village and entered Bei City, once it was besieged, Yousha Town would not have time to support at all, and it would be directly intercepted by the wolf breaking army stationed in Leng Town and Xiaoli Village.
And now that the attack has taken down Leng Town, the distance from Beicheng is actually very close, and it is not difficult to support Beicheng.
In the end, the Yuanyan coalition army did not need to attack Xiaoli Village so quickly, this could be carried out after the trebuchets and other siege weapons were transported, and at that time, Tian Mu would basically take some small towns further north, and more troops would emerge at that time.
In the end, Liao Huan and Lin Xing discussed and made a decision, Liao Huan led 3,000 soldiers to enter Beicheng, and Lin Xing led 2,000 soldiers to guard Lengzhen, and began to prepare for a long-term confrontation with the Broken Wolf Country in the future.
Soon after Liao Huan led 3,000 soldiers into Beicheng, the army of the Broken Wolf Country also arrived, with a total of 5,000 soldiers coming to the city.
Liao Huan also knew that he had to hold on to Bei Cheng, otherwise all his previous efforts would be in vain.
Bay City is a relatively large town, with nearly 4,000 soldiers guarding a city, unless it is more than 10,000 soldiers, it is not so easy to attack.
Therefore, the broken wolf led 5,000 soldiers to attack, and it was more difficult to storm Beicheng. However, when the Broken Wolf Army began to officially attack, Liao Huan found that it was not very easy to hold Beicheng.
Because the Broken Wolf Country itself also has siege tools such as catapults, the reason why their army arrived so late is also because they need to transport these baggage.
During the first attack on the city, they began to mobilize their catapults and prepare for a hard attack.
Fortunately, Liao Huan and the gunpowder cartridges they carried were enough, once the Breaking Wave army began to use catapults, some people were sent out of the city in Beicheng, and then some projectile tools were used to shoot out the gunpowder cartridges to destroy their catapults, but the hit rate was very low, and there was no way to really destroy those catapults, but it played a harassing role.
As soon as the soldiers outside the city approached to harm the harassing soldiers, they immediately hid inside the city, and the soldiers on the walls immediately attacked them with bows and arrows and powder canisters.
The harassment of the catapults of the Broken Wolf Army in the city powder carts could not really destroy the walls of Beicheng, but several sudden attacks also made a lot of gaps in the city walls.
If this continues, the walls of Bay City will be destroyed sooner or later. And under the attack of the catapult, the soldiers on the city wall are also in danger at all times, although the stones smashed by the catapult do not hurt many people, but when it hits the city wall, the broken stones will also attack the crowd.
"Commander Liao, if this continues, at most two days, Bei Cheng may not be able to withstand their attack. And their catapults can attack all the time, and if we want to react, we have to work hard every time, so it's dangerous! Wang Huaipeng found Liao Huan and said: "Although we have indeed destroyed dozens of their catapults through our previous harassment, this does not guarantee that they have no other backhand. So I think we should take the initiative and go out of the city to fight! Liao Huan frowned tightly and said: "If you go out of the city to fight, first of all, our number of soldiers is lower than theirs, and secondly, you also know that there are many masters in the wolf breaking army, and once we go head-to-head, it will be difficult for us to be their opponents!" Wang Huaipeng nodded and said, "This is also a problem!" ”
"The only way now is to hold on to Beicheng and wait for Lao Tian and them. Lao Tian swept the part of the town in the north, and it didn't take all of them in a day, at that time he led his troops to surround him, and we attacked inside and outside, and there was only one small village on the side of the Broken Wolf Army for supplies, so it would be difficult to meet us again! Wang Huaipeng said: "This is a bit risky, Lao Tian They only set off yesterday, after knocking down those towns to the north, after some repairs, they will come here again, it is estimated that it will take tomorrow to arrive!" ”
"That's right, most of our catapults and other baggage will almost arrive in Quicksand Town tomorrow, and only then can we launch a counterattack against the Wolf Breaker Army! At the moment, the only way to do this is to keep the city of Bay! "The Wolf Breakers continued to attack Bay City for nearly five hours using catapults, about 100 catapults, and the successive attacks caused great damage to the walls of Bay City.
However, when some of the harassing soldiers were sent out to harass the city, nearly half of their catapults were successfully destroyed.
After the first round of attacks lasted more than five hours, it was also completely dark. They stopped the offensive and withdrew their troops and temporarily settled in Xiaoli Village.
After surviving the first round of bombardment by the Broken Wolf Army, Liao Huan immediately mobilized soldiers to make some temporary repairs to the city wall.
At the same time, count the losses caused by the attack of the Broken Wolf Army. After some detailed statistics on the loss of personnel this time, Liao Huan was presented with such a set of data, thirteen people died, one hundred and eighty-two were slightly injured, and thirty-eight were seriously injured, and many soldiers still needed to face emergency medical treatment.
Most of these casualties were caused by the bombardment of boulders. There is a larger hospital in Bay City, and there are not many doctors, but fortunately, there are a lot of medical equipment, and the Yuanyan coalition army also has accompanying military doctors, so they can seek medical treatment for these personnel.
"Next, what we are more likely to face is the night attack of the Broken Wolf Army!" After a simple repair, all the commanders stationed in Bei City immediately gathered for a meeting to discuss, and Wang Huaipeng made it clear that "there are many mutation masters in the Wolf Breaking Country, plus some of our city walls are damaged, it is completely possible for them to sneak into Bei City." ”...