In terms of infantry, the original Fogstein Guard, the Wanghai City Guard, plus the more than 1,000 infantry newly trained in the past two months, reached more than 2,300 people.

Andre drew more than 300 proficient horsemen from the 2,000 infantry and sent them to Liu Beishan, replenishing the elite cavalry under his command to the scale of 1,000 people.

The remaining 2,000 infantry, Andrei simply broke it up completely, drew out the elite of the veterans, and drew the more elite from the recruits, and mixed them with the elite of the old soldiers to form a new Fogoster Guard with a size of 1,000 people.

With the third-class and higher fighters among the veterans as the heavy infantry, the second-class soldiers among the veterans as the pikemen, and the elite among the recruits as the heavy crossbowmen and sword and shield bearers, the size of the new Vogostein Guard has increased by almost one-third, but the combat power has not decreased.

The remaining veterans and recruits together formed four infantry brigades.

One of the brigades went to Beihengshan to protect the miners, and one brigade went to Hanshan County to garrison and cooperate with a thousand militia to guard Hanshan County. The remaining two brigades were reorganized into the Wanghai City Guard.

In order to deal with Yan Yuanshen and his more than 10,000 rear army, Andre led the Fergostan Knights, the Vogostan Guard, and the Wanghai City Guard, a total of 2,000 people, to Wenshui County and Liu Beishan to join forces.

In order to defend Wanghai City, Andre drew a brigade from the sailors of Liujiawan and cooperated with the 1,000 militia in Wanghai City to defend the city.

The day after Andre led his army to Wenshui County, the Beihai Queen's Army, a total of six guards and 15,000 people, drove to a low hill more than 20 miles away from Wenshui County and set up camp.

When the other party was encamped, Andrei sent Liu Beishan and the knights of Epus to lead a thousand elite horses and four hundred rangers of the Fergostein Knights to attack and harass the army of the queen of Beihai who were camping.

Yan Yuanshen is worthy of his steady name. The response was not leaky, and he divided the four guard forces. In response to the harassment of the cavalry, the remaining two troops built a camp in an orderly manner to protect it.

Andrei saw that he couldn't get anything cheap. I had to withdraw my troops.

The next day, Yan Yuanshen, who had already set up camp, was not in a hurry to collect his troops, and sprinkled a large number of scouts and infiltrated the rear of Wenshui County to investigate.

The news fed back by the scouts is not very good, and the finished glyphs of the three counties of Wanghai, Hanshan, and Wenshui are distributed, and the distance between them is between sixty or seventy miles. It is not difficult to bypass Wenshui County and pounce on the other two counties, but there is no point in doing so.

According to the feedback from the scouts, the three county towns are divided into two layers of inner and outer walls, and the outer city walls are easy to say. However, the ordinary county-level city wall, the adobe wall is not more than two zhang high, but the inner wall is a headache, as high as five zhang away, it is even higher than the city wall of Beihai in the capital city, such a high city wall, surrounding a place of no more than a few miles, only more than a thousand people can guard all aspects.

What's more, there are more than a dozen to two dozen earthen forts distributed outside each county town. These earthen forts were smaller and had few garrisons, but the walls were thick and high, making them easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although there were tens of thousands of troops under Yan Yuanshen's command, they couldn't put it down in front of such a small earthen fort, just uprooting these earthen forts. It can't be done in a short period of time.

According to the news sent back by the previous detailed work, these three small county towns are in the earthen fort outside. There are tens of thousands of displaced people living in them, and if the defenders can mobilize the displaced people to help defend the city. To conquer such a fortified city, I am afraid that it will take a great price and a long time.

What's more, this group of people still has a small number of but quite elite troops in their hands, if they can't defeat these elites in the opponent's hands, he won't dare to let go of the siege at all.

Standing on the hillside, looking at the small county town in the distance, Yan Yuanshen actually had a sense of powerlessness that he couldn't speak.

After another day's rest, Yan Yuanshen still decided to wave his army to test it, if he couldn't find any good way, he could only pull out one earthen fort and one earthen fort, but in this way, not only would the war drag on for a long time, but the casualties would also be difficult to control, which was not conducive to dealing with the invasion of the Wuhe tribe after the autumn.

Yan Yuan was cautious and guarded, so he knew better how difficult it was to uproot such a fortified city.

Just when Yan Yuanshen was a little helpless, waved his army, slowly expelled the camp, and drove towards the two large earthen forts in the west of Wenshui County, a scene that surprised him happened.

I saw that the west gate of the county seat of Nawenshui suddenly opened, and two teams of cavalry galloped out of the city, holding down their positions outside the city gate, and then, the two teams of infantry slowly drove out of the city gate.

1,500 cavalry, 1,500 infantry, a total of 3,000 people, greeted Yan Yuanshen's army, and slowly drove towards the two large earthen forts in the west.

Although he had known that this group of aliens liked both the quirk of building fortified cities and winning field battles with others, he never expected that in the face of his five-fold army, the other party would dare to go out of the city to fight.

Yan Yuanshen, who was overjoyed, hurriedly ordered his subordinates to suppress the speed, allowing the other party to drive between the two earthen forts to set up a formation first, which drove the army to accelerate forward, so as not to scare the other party back.

Yan Yuanshen had been advancing the army to a distance of about four hundred meters from the two earthen forts before stopping.

The two earthen forts were about two hundred meters away from each other, and each could even support each other with arrows, forming a crossfire between the castles.

The two opposing infantry formed two phalanxes, one large and one small, in the middle of the two castles, with a distance of about 100 meters between the phalanxes.

The two cavalry were about two hundred meters behind the two infantry phalanxes, which was exactly the optimal distance for the cavalry to charge faster.

This arrangement is obviously to use two earthen forts to make up for the numerical disadvantage of both sides.

Not to mention the two earthen forts, only 500 crossbowmen need to be arranged, which can provide great support to the infantry under the city, so that their own side can not concentrate on attacking, and because they can only be beaten and cannot fight back, it will greatly damage their morale.

Yan Yuan carefully observed for a moment, and passed down an order, only to see that among the six guards of the rear army, the one guard in the back suddenly split into two, moving horizontally on the battlefield, and they circled in a large circle, heading around the two earthen forts distributed in a horn shape.

Yan Yuanshen stared at the enemy troops, watching their reactions.

Yan Yuanshen divided a guard soldier and detoured to both sides of the earthen fort, not expecting this guard to capture the two earthen forts, but planning to rely on this guard to drag the defenders in the earthen fort so that they had no time to support the infantry under the fort, which was equivalent to weakening or even canceling the role of the two earthen forts.

If the other party reacts to the guards sent by Yan Yuanshen, such as sending cavalry to attack, then Yan Yuanshen can take the opportunity to launch an attack and defeat the opponent's infantry phalanx in one go. (To be continued......)