Chapter 661: Battle

As a first-class wolf general, Lin Xuanzhong's status in the infantry camp is second only to Li Jianran, and now he does have the qualifications to command part of the army. Of course, there is another reason why Lin Xuanzhong will become the commander of the second team, and that is that Li Jianran intends to hone Lin Xuanzhong.

At present, the night army is facing a defensive battle, tens of thousands of cavalry are useless, and the archers have no suitable opportunity to attack, it is difficult to deal a powerful blow to the enemy outside the city to shoot over the high city walls, so the infantry naturally becomes the main force to block the enemy's attack.

There were a total of six teams under the city, three on the left and right, as the leader of one of the teams, Lin Xuanzhong only felt a lot of pressure on his shoulders at this moment. Since he couldn't see the situation in the city clearly, Lin Xuanzhong had no way of knowing what the battle was like, so he could only wait for instructions from above.

A lot of arrows from outside the city flew to the bottom of the city, and they landed on the stone slabs, causing a noise. Those arrows that flew into the city made Lin Xuanzhong realize why Zhao Xu wanted most of the people to line up a hundred meters away from the city wall, leaving only a few people to hide under the city wall to support the city at any time.

Although it is better to support your side by being closer, due to the large number of people, if you line up close to the wall, some of them will be within range of the enemy. If the enemy continues to attack the city, some night troops will be at a disadvantage. In addition, if the enemy army attacked the city in large numbers and attacked the night army hiding under the city with stones and logs on the city at the first time, then they would also be affected, so it was better to simply line up far from the city wall.

Unlike in the past, the siege method of the Yang army today made Lin Xuanzhong feel special, and the constant screams from the city also made Lin Xuanzhong guess that the battle between the two sides was fierce. Maybe it was because it was too difficult to wait, not long after talking to Zhang Jiutian, Lin Xuanzhong felt a little nervous.

"General Lin, the enemy army suppressed the defenders of the city with archers, so that our side suffered great damage, General Yan ordered you to be ready and lead the troops up for reinforcements at any time," while Lin Xuanzhong was uneasily observing the situation in the city, a herald hurried over with scattered arrows flying down from above.

"En," nodded at the herald, Lin Xuanzhong was extremely surprised in his heart, there were still many people in the first team next to him who had not gone up, they should have participated in the battle when the battle was at its most intense as the second team, but Yan Nantian had ordered him to prepare early, and when he was very surprised by this, Lin Xuanzhong became even more nervous.

After the herald left, Lin Xuanzhong looked at the first team next to him, and there were nearly 10,000 people. According to the ratio of the defending side to the besieging side of the city from one to five, not to mention the enemy forces that are besieging the city, the enemy needs to send an additional 50,000 or 60,000 men to match the remaining personnel of the first team.

The life and death of fifty or sixty thousand people will naturally not be only in a short period of time, unless the opponent's offensive is far more fierce than expected, and the results of the battle are so prominent that they break the usual death ratio, but it will still take a long time, and in a blink of an eye, Lin Xuanzhong thought of many questions, but he became more and more confused when no one answered them.

"General Lin, does General Yan want our second team to fight in advance?" As Lin Xuanzhong continued to think about what the situation was at hand, a general not far away turned around and asked.

"Maybe General Yan felt that the enemy's offensive was fierce and would last for a long time, so he asked us to prepare in advance," After thinking about it briefly, Lin Xuanzhong told the general a speculation that had just come to mind.

"Could it be that the enemy army really has the ability to break through the city?" After Lin Xuanzhong gave an uncertain answer, another general asked out loud.

"Probably not, according to the marshal, we need only one-fifth of the troops to defend the city. The enemy did not have five times our strength, and there were no large siege equipment, so they should not have the possibility of breaking through Fancheng. ”

"General Lin's analysis has some truth, it is true that our defending side has a greater advantage, after all, the battlefield on both sides of the city is only so long, it is impossible for them to let all the soldiers attack the city together, and the enemy does not have so many ladders. In this case, the enemy army has no certainty of breaking the city at all," considering Lin Xuanzhong's current statement, the more a general thought about it, the more he felt that Lin Xuanzhong's analysis was reasonable.

"Well, I also think General Lin's analysis is very reasonable," followed by another general agreeing with Lin Xuanzhong's statement. In a blink of an eye, several generals around Lin Xuanzhong agreed with Lin Xuanzhong's point of view.

While the people were talking, the first party members who had been waiting by the two long ladders went up again. Not long ago, a thousand soldiers went up, and now they need another thousand soldiers to reinforce it, and the situation in the city makes Lin Xuanzhong more and more nervous. It's a pity that it's the same as before, Lin Xuanzhong still has no way of knowing the specific situation in the city, so he can only continue to wait for instructions as before.

At the same time, on the castle tower, Yang's archers had attacked several times, each time to demoralize the defenders of the castle, and now it was becoming more and more difficult to maintain the situation. In the past period, there have been defensive vacancies in many positions, so much so that many Yang troops have climbed to the city to face off against the Night Army.

Fortunately, the night army has a geographical advantage, because the rear personnel are replenished in time, and those Yang troops who came up have been killed, and the originally vacant positions have also been replenished in time. With the resurgence of reinforcements, the number of defenders in the city has returned to an adequate state. Although they still have to face enemy archers, the defenders of the city are more than capable of blocking the next round of enemy charges.

"Marshal Shi, your soldiers of the Yang Kingdom are really full of energy, and they are extremely brave, presumably it will not be long before the defense line of the night army will be fully broken through by you," in the center of the coalition array, Tie Xin couldn't help but sigh when he saw the Yang army charging again and again.

"Marshal Tie, I'm afraid it's not as simple as you think, although we have archers to suppress the enemy, but the morale of the soldiers under the city has been affected after many failed charges, even if there are archers who continue to cover, the longer it drags on, the smaller the possibility of attacking the city. If the night army's defense line remains as impregnable as it is now, I am afraid that our army will suffer heavy losses in the long run," Shi Jiangchuan is not as optimistic as Tiexin, and has already seen his own problems thoroughly.

"Marshal Shi's words are too long, others are ambitious, we have so many archers to suppress, and the soldiers under the city are rushing more and more fiercely every time. Although the night army can replenish its personnel in time, the longer it takes, the lower their morale will be. ”

"Could it be that Marshal Tie thinks that the night army that has experienced a hundred battles doesn't even have the ability to defend the city?" Shaking his head, Shi Jiangchuan still didn't agree with Tie Xin's statement, but continued: "At the beginning, Ruan Qiling led an army of 300,000 to attack Windless City, but with so many large siege equipment, he finally failed to capture Windless City. Today, you and I have the goal of testing the combat power of the night army, and without large siege equipment, how can we capture this Fancheng, which is stronger than the windless city. ”

I don't know why Tie Xin's thoughts are so rigid to the surface of things, in short, Shi Jiangchuan is not optimistic about the current situation.

"Marshal Shi thought more thoroughly than Tie, but Tie had no intention of saying a humble opinion," Looking at the top of the city tower, Zhao Xu has not shown up since he left, leaving only one general to command the battle. Obviously, if it weren't for Zhao Xu's arrogance that he didn't take them seriously, then Zhao Xu had already seen that they wouldn't attack the city with all their might today.

Based on the past performance of the Night Army, Tiexin is naturally more inclined to the second possibility, which means that the situation will not be as simple as it seems. Speaking of which, the real purpose of the coalition army's advance siege is exactly the issue that Zhao Xu, Zhang Daring and others are discussing.

After a period of discussion, Zhao Xu and the others came up with several possibilities. First, the coalition forces were forced to attack the city under the pressure of the Qingyuan powers, but the opposite of this possibility is that even if the orders of the Qingyuan powers are urgent, they will still give the coalition forces some time to prepare.

Second, the coalition forces have strategies to use, but Fancheng is impregnable, and unless the coalition forces are secretly colluding with Ruan Sihai, they can flank the night army in front and back during the battle. But in terms of preventing the safety behind him, Zhao Xu has made arrangements. In addition, judging from the current news coming back from the city, Ruan Sihai has no possibility of secretly colluding with the coalition army, otherwise he would not take the initiative to help the night army appease people.

Third, based on the above two points, it seems that there is only one possibility left for the coalition to attack the city in advance, and that is to deliberately test the combat power of the night army. It's just that the night army occupies a heavy pass in Fancheng, and if the enemy doesn't plan to attack the city with all his might, then the current behavior will undoubtedly let the soldiers below die in vain. Out of consideration for the ability of the two coalition commanders, Zhao Xu and Zhang Daring still couldn't determine this possibility.

In the absence of an accurate answer, Zhao Xu can only pay attention to the battle situation while discussing with others the true intention of the coalition army to attack the city in advance, as for when the correct conclusion can be reached, it is still unknown. Of course, in order to grasp the situation of the battle between the two armies, Zhao Xu must figure out this issue as soon as possible.

At this moment, the commanders of both sides are paying attention to the game in front of them, and at the same time, the internal situation in Fancheng is even more tense. The rapid sound of war drums made many people in the city restless, some were ready to leave the city at any time, some had completely become grasshoppers on the same line as Ruan Sihai, and some regarded the night army as a mortal enemy, quietly armed one by one, waiting for the opportunity to take revenge on the night army.

The current situation in the city is divided into three aspects, and no matter what the citizens of the city think, the sound of drums from the city pass has always made their hearts tremble. As the weakest and most numerous group in the city, those real civilians could not form a strong alliance spontaneously, so they could only obey Ruan Sihai's arrangement.