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The Fielding, who walked on the city wall to inspect the defense arrangement, seemed to have lost a circle, and his eyes were a little blue, but what bothered him in front of him was not the menacing Kaman army, the intelligence had already reflected that there were about 70,000 enemies who attacked, and the commander was actually the Duke of Mailey, who was known as the Carman Double Pillar, who was stolen and replaced, but all this was still not enough to make him full of sorrow. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

What worries him is that Jiayu Pass, which still seems to be as impregnable as an iron tower, must be hiding a great conspiracy behind the enemy's mad attack, which Fielding is sure of, but what kind of conspiracy it is, he has no idea. Regardless of his speculation from all angles, there was still no result that was truly satisfactory to him.

The Fourth Division of the Northwest Army, which was rapidly advancing towards his territory, also made him feel quite difficult to deal with, and the Northwest Military and Political Temperance made Li Wufeng's appetite very clear, although it seemed that the two sides had still maintained a peaceful coexistence in recent years, but he knew that the nominal boss in the west was always thinking about how to truly incorporate Taixuanfu into the palm of his hand, and his subordinates were all loyal promoters of his policies from time to time, although Li Wufeng had not yet answered the northwest, but even so. Will they sincerely help themselves, or will they want to take the opportunity to take over the ruling power of the Taixuan Mansion in one fell swoop?

Let them stand by outside the city, I am afraid that they will not be able to make such a decision, at least nominally, the Northwest Military and Political Envoy is still their direct boss, not to mention that they were ordered to come to reinforce themselves to ensure the stability of Taixuan Mansion. But if they were allowed into the city, what would happen to the Carmen when they retreated? This was something that Fielding did not want to think about, and this was a question that could hardly be avoided, what should he do? Looking at the endless fertile fields under the walls, Fielding was full of sorrow.

Receiving the letter from the speeding signal soldier, Miley's face changed slightly, "It's coming so fast." ”

"My lord, has anything changed?" the lieutenant who followed closely behind hurriedly asked.

"Hmph, Li Wufeng has finally sent his troops, and his Fourth Division of the Northwest Army has officially crossed the border and entered the Taixuan Mansion. A trace of worry flashed on Miley's ruddy face, "Ling Tianfang has also brought the three main divisions from Qingyang to the east, it seems that they don't want our plan to be implemented smoothly." ”

"But the intelligence says that Li Wufeng has just left Zhongzhou City. The lieutenant was a little surprised.

"Don't underestimate Li Wufeng's gang of guys, they are not weak, and that Ling Tianfang is not a good person, it seems that our plan may not be able to fully achieve the goal." A sneer crossed the corner of Miley's mouth, "You can't be a friend, and it tastes good to be an enemy." ”

The adjutant general looked at the Duke staring ahead with a puzzled look on his face, not knowing what he meant by his two sentences.

Ignoring the adjutant general's face, Duke Miley decisively issued an order: "Order the first, second and thirty thousand troops to immediately speed up the progress, be sure to seize the high ground north of Taixuanfu City before the enemy reinforcements, pay attention to keep a distance from the enemy, and do not make casual contact." ”

The herald next to him recounted an accurate command before speeding away.

"Lord Duke, why did we take advantage of our cavalry superiority to attack the enemy's reinforcements first? The army of Taixuanfu does not dare to leave the city at all, so we can take this opportunity to dampen the enemy's spirit first. The adjutant general looked at the coach in front of him puzzled, although he respected Miley very much, he couldn't help but ask.

"The situation has changed, I estimate that the enemy's garrison division in Guide will also go to Taixuan soon, although that force is nominally a garrison division, but all of them are composed of Gao Yue barbarians, which are specifically aimed at cavalry, and have been trained for a long time, those two generals are not weak, if our cavalry encounters them, they may not be able to have an advantage. ”

Obviously, he has already studied the various departments under Li Wufeng, even the garrison is well understood, and not fighting an uncertain battle is the military principle that Miley believes in, not to mention that he has a more important reason not to explain, according to the main goal of this campaign is Jiayu Pass, as long as Jiayu Pass is taken, even if most of the task is completed, as for Taixuanfu City, it is good to be able to take it easily, but if the price is too great, Mai Li Ning is willing to give up, after all, if he masters Jiayu Pass, he can easily go south at will, this Taixuanfu is controlled by Li Wufeng or other people in the Tang River Empire, but it is a burden, which needs to be garrisoned to defend against the Kaman army that pounces down at any time.

In the long run, Miley hopes to let Li Wufeng control, so that he can contain at least Li Wufeng's troops of at least three elite divisions, which will be a great burden for Li Wufeng, who is not very strong, and can also greatly reduce Li Wufeng's ability to interfere in the upcoming outbreak of the Kansai Taiping Rebellion, which is also a good result for his own side.

Claudia stood on a small piece of high ground in front of the pass, calm as a mountain, her cold eyes staring at the front without any expression, the war had entered a white-hot state, and the twelve thousand troops of the two regiments had already taken turns except for the two thousand troops of the Royal Guards Regiment that had not yet been put into battle.

Now the offensive is launched by the 30,000 men of the Royal Guard, also a trump card in Claudia's hands. First of all, the long-range strike weapons were still used for early cover, accompanied by waves of arrows and boulders, followed by waves of golden soldiers rushing towards the city walls, and the soldiers scattered into stragglers finally approached the city walls under the cover of huge shields (Note 1), and the bulky siege vehicles were finally pushed in front of the city walls after several were destroyed by the giant stone throwers on the city walls.

In the face of these large and heavy guys, the soldiers on the defending side were also prepared, although they were hit by dense boulders and arrows, but the soldiers also had to drill out of the defensive fortifications, risking their lives, and poured barrels of tung oil that had been prepared one after another on these behemoths, followed by rockets pouring out, from time to time soldiers fell, but one fell, the other immediately picked up, otherwise once these huge siege engines were all successfully erected, the danger of breaking the city was quite great.

Although it was specially prepared for fire prevention, with the help of the extremely flammable tung oil, some siege vehicles soon ignited a raging fire, but this time was enough. Stepping on the stairs of the siege vehicle towering to the city wall, hundreds of soldiers chanted slogans and swarmed up, and in an instant, countless golden figures flashed on the city wall, Rao is Claudia knew that it was not so simple, and her body couldn't help but raise slightly.

Immediately after that, waves of enemy soldiers appeared at the head of the city, and suddenly the head of the city wall turned into a bloody Shura field. The soldiers who fell into madness knew that this was a life-and-death battle, and there was nothing else to think of, only the figure of the opposing soldiers, machetes, spears, axes, halberds, all kinds of weapons clashing with each other, stumps and broken bodies, blood and flesh had become the most worthless things in the world, shouts, shouts, screams, muffled roars, all played a vivid and cruel march of struggle.

Seeing that the golden figure on the head of the city gradually decreased until it disappeared, Claudia sighed softly, waved her hand to signal the herald to withdraw her troops, and soon, the horn of "Boom" sounded in front of the battle, and the royal guards who had received the order also obeyed the order and stopped fighting, and quickly merged with the advancing shield, and retreated in an orderly manner. Seeing this scene in front of him, even Viscount Dominic, who had always been proud of his Seventh Corps' combat effectiveness, had to nod and sigh to himself, even though his Seventh Corps was not inferior to this Royal Guards in terms of combat effectiveness and fighting will, but he had to admit that his subordinates were half inferior in terms of discipline.

"Lord Marquis, if we continue to fight hard like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win. The location of this Jiayuguan is really unfavorable to us, although almost all the siege equipment has been used in the past few days, and our soldiers have done their best, but the effect does not seem to be good, the enemy still retains at least more than seventy percent of the combat effectiveness, and they can also temporarily recruit young adults in the fortress, I am worried about ''''''" Viscount Dominici was full of sorrow, this was the third time he had spoken to his commander, the Marquis de Claudia, although he was against such a strong attack without sacrifice and without hope, but as a soldier, he still resolutely obeyed the orders of the commander, and in a few days, the loss of his seventh corps had exceeded forty percent.

Claudia can understand Dominic's intentions, the viscount has always been known for loving soldiers like sons, so his prestige in the Seventh Corps is also quite high, and the soldiers are willing to serve, he did not reveal the key points of this plan to the viscount on the first two occasions, but now he can tell the other party, because the arrow book presented by the soldiers has already decided that the outcome of this battle will be revealed tonight.

The confused but enlightened Viscount Dominici flipped through the letter handed to him by the boss several times, and there was only a short sentence on it, "Three watches tonight", still couldn't fully understand, he looked at Claudia with some excited eyes: "Lord Marquis, you mean that tonight, we have an internal response?!"

Claudia's grim face also showed a red tide of excitement, and he nodded, "Yes, the city will be broken tonight!" Your Excellency Viscount, you immediately go and arrange, let the 120,000 troops of the Seventh Corps be the reserves, you are responsible for leading the team, I will personally lead my 120,000 troops to attack tonight, and the victory or defeat will be in one fell swoop!"

"My lord, ''''''"

"Needless to say, I've made up my mind. Waving his hand to interrupt the Viscount's words, Claudia took a deep breath and calmed her mind, "The glory of the empire is tonight, I hope the blood of our soldiers is not shed in vain." ”

There was silence in the big tent for a while, only the flaming red candlelight was jumping tirelessly, reflecting the two figures in front of the case that had gone through vicissitudes.

Note 1: Cover shield, siege equipment, generally made of giant wood, five meters high, six meters wide, with pulleys on the bottom, cowhide on the outside, brackets inside, and a secret door, which can be made by six people to cover infantry attacks.