Chapter 735: No Army
After more than ten days, Arubu still did not be able to break through the camp of the Jiazhou army, he drove the Mobei tribes to take turns to step forward every day, but unfortunately under the strong firepower of the Jiazhou army and the fortifications beyond the times, they hit their heads and bleed, leaving countless corpses to waste and flee back, and even the number of times they attacked the wall of the Jiazhou army was only a handful. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, fortunately, the grain and grass transportation in the rear can barely keep up, Xu Shiyong tried his best to loot the grain stocks in the capital and Gyeonggi Province, and Longcheng also sent a steady stream of grain and grass, which was barely able to support the 300,000 army, but in order to supply them with grain and grass, the people of Gyeonggi Province and Kannai Province were already struggling to make a living, and if this battle could not be won, Arub and Xu Shiyong would no longer be able to suppress the anger of the people.
Therefore, Arubu became more and more impatient, no longer ignoring the casualties of the soldiers, gradually strengthened the strength of the attack, and successively killed a number of tribal nobles who did not attack effectively to warn everyone, and braved the threat of artillery fire to send the trebuchet to the front to attack the Jiazhou army camp, under such a crazy attack, the casualties of the Jiazhou army began to gradually increase, and the wall of the Jiazhou army was also damaged, but this still could not shake the foundation of the Jiazhou army.
The walled wall smashed by stone bullets was quickly repaired, the trebuchet that had just made a meritorious service was quickly destroyed by the cannons or trebuchets of the Jiazhou army, and the northern soldiers who attacked the walled wall were mercilessly chopped into pieces by Zhou Bofu's Modao team; Of course, the attack of the northern captives was not without gains, their corpses almost filled the entire trench, at least in the future, when they attacked again, they did not have to worry about how to climb over the trenches, and the Jiazhou army did not have a good way to do this, they could only sprinkle a large amount of lime at night to avoid the corpses from decomposing and causing a large-scale infection of the plague.
"These days, the northern captives have lost no less than 50,000 troops, and Arub still refuses to retreat." Arubu's stubbornness was also beyond the imagination of the Jiazhou generals, originally they expected to be able to take advantage of Arubu's retreat to pursue soon, but who knew that it had dragged on for so long, fortunately, they could take advantage of the convenience of the canal to transport logistics materials, otherwise it would be really difficult.
But even so, the gunpowder, projectiles, muskets and cannons in the Jiazhou Workshop are almost exhausted, if Arub holds out for another half a month, they are afraid that they will have to use cold weapons to fight them, in order to avoid this situation, it is necessary to put some more pressure on Arub.
At this time, it depends on Sima's mistake, through these days of hard work, the Black Ice Platform has finally made a lot of gains, "The subordinate manpower has contacted the Xue Hao Department, the Pusu Department and the rest of the clan leaders who have discord with Arubu, and have suffered heavy losses in the battle in the past few days, their resentment against Arubu has reached its peak, but because the current situation is still unclear and the strength in their hands is not enough, they have to continue to be aggrieved and obey; But they have made it clear to us that if the army of Arub shows the slightest sign of defeat, they will flee first. ”
"Good!" Li You is very satisfied with this, the battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, if one side has a formation of escape, it is easy to trigger a chain reaction, leading to a large-scale collapse of the army, when the time comes, if Xue Hao and Pusu take the lead in fleeing, the rest of the tribes will definitely follow immediately, thus forcing those tribes who are willing to continue to fight have to follow them to escape, because they must know that the escape of those people has completely shaken the morale of the army, even if they stay, they will be defeated by the Jiazhou army, but it is to buy time for these fleeing tribes.
Doing something that uses the lives of their sons and daughters to seek benefits for others, the leaders of any tribe in Mobei will not do this, because even if they do this, those guys from the Pusu Department and the Xue Hao Department will not think of their own good, but it is very likely that they will take this opportunity to swallow up the women, children, old and weak who left them in the north, and completely erase the banner of their tribe from the Mobei grassland.
"But it's not enough to just run away, tell them that if they want to keep their tribes, they must completely break with Arub, and when our Jiazhou army launches a general attack, they must also join us in attacking those tribes who are close to Arub." Li You said that when Xue Hao and Pusu went south before, they also harmed the people of Great Wei, so there was a reason to let them go so easily, and if they were allowed to go back with a large number of soldiers, they would be another Arub in a dozen decades.
"My subordinates have already asked them to do this." As a Zongheng family, Sima Cuo could not understand these truths, without Li You's instructions, he began to divide and win over these tribes, to maximize their strength in this battle, and on the other hand, after unifying the world in the future, they can control Mobei more easily.
"Also, Arub's subordinates have also found out where their grain and grass are." After this matter was resolved, Arubu got up and walked to the map, took out a tag symbolizing the granary from below and pasted it somewhere in the Arubu camp, "Right here, the day before yesterday, Xu Shiyong Gang sent 100,000 stones of grain and grass, all of which are stored here, and Yale Buhua personally leads the troops to take care of them, and several nearby camps are also the tribes of the cronies of Arubu, if you want Xue Hao and Pusu to help, I am afraid there is no hope." ”
Judging from the map, Arubu's defense of the granary is not impenetrable, it is more than ten miles away from the front line, and there are several camps in between, even if the Jiazhou army breaks through Arub's camp, it is difficult to threaten here in a short time.
Moreover, this granary is in a valley, surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and only the mouth of the valley can be entered, and it is presumably that Arub will also take strict care of this place, and it will not be easy for outsiders to sneak in.
Sure enough, Sima Cuo described the defense here in detail, not only did the valley mouth have elite soldiers and horses led by Yale Buhua himself, but even the top of the mountain on both sides was garrisoned by the cronies of the Yale Department, and Arubu's tokens were needed to enter and exit, and the defense was extremely tight.
"In this way, I'm afraid I'm going to send out the Wudang army this time." Li You thought for a moment and said, hearing the name of Wudangjun, all the generals in the battalion looked sideways, they had already heard about this name, but few people had seen them, and few knew their past achievements, and now Li You had given them such an important task, no wonder Zhou Bofu and the others were surprised.
The Wudang Army is an elite formation specially selected by Li You from the Jiazhou Army, although their number is not large, but they are all elites in a thousand, since the training has been carried out in secret training in various places, and only a few small tasks have been carried out before, this time will be the biggest test for them.