Ma Cheng, in the conference room of the General's Mansion, all the army generals were gathered here, more than a dozen people sat around two rows of chairs, Xiang Zuoding sat in the center, Guo Lizhi stood in front of the map, and Kong Ming, as an intelligence officer, was also fortunate to participate in this meeting, but he was standing behind the last person, near the gate.

After Xiang Zuoding saw that all the people had come, he said: "Let's have a meeting, and Guo Lizhi will first introduce the enemy situation." After hearing this, Guo Lizhi picked up a wooden stick next to him, pointed the other side to the map, and began to explain the shape to the people present.

"We have confirmed from all sides that our frontal enemy is the Fifth Legion of the Harvey Empire, the commander of which is Pang Longye, and its strength includes: 10,000 mage troops, the most important of which are more than 600 people above the Magister, three Holy Magisters, 100,000 swordsmen, including 10 Sword Saints, 100,000 cavalry troops, 100 Golden Knights of the eighth rank, 30,000 archers, 40,000 pikemen, and 20,000 other logistics troops, totaling more than 300,000 people. There are 3,000 magic troops in our army, including two holy demon masters, 50,000 swordsmen adapted from the swordsman battalion, 30,000 cavalry troops, and 17,000 other troops, including three sword masters. ”

After hearing this, all the people took a breath of cold air, this is a full three times the strength of the force, and the eighth-level figure is twenty-three to five. Although Guo Lizhi knew the coaxing nature of this news, he did not comment on it, and then talked about the internal composition of the Harvey Army, the distribution of the station, and so on. It took a full two hours to finally finish deploying Harvey's forces. After Guo Zhizhi finished speaking, the whole conference room was quiet, the needle fell off, and for more than ten minutes, no one said a word, and suddenly Xiang Zuoding spoke, with a little helplessness in his tone: "Say, let's talk about it, what can be done to retreat from the enemy?"

Calm, still calm, no one spoke, and everyone was still immersed in the shocking news. Everyone knows what this means, the ratio of three to one, under absolute strength, how many schemes are a luxury. The calm scene passed for more than ten minutes, the scene was a terrible calm, if the ratio of two to one, they can fight, the ratio of one to one, they dare to fight, but the ratio of three to one, the difference between the two sides is too big, plus so many masters joined the battle, it can almost be said that this is a one-sided battle, the defeat of the Chu army is almost no suspense, now on this occasion, whoever is the first to speak, is the first unlucky person. In desperation, Xiang Zuoding gestured, and a more trusted general under his hand, Shui Gang, the commander of the swordsman army, Shui Gang squeezed out a smile embarrassedly: "Everyone, I think there are many enemies, but they are not terrible, as long as our tactics are right, we can defeat them." ”

For a moment, the generals at the entire conference table were full of expressions, including disdain, sarcasm, disbelief, emotion, and calmness. But everyone is listening to what he is going to say to see if there is anything to be desired. Kong Ming also looked at Shuigang strangely, seeing what amazing things he did. Shuigang felt everyone's eyes, paused, walked to the front of the map, and continued: " The enemy's camp is 2,500 meters away from us, and if the enemy wants to attack us, then they will definitely set up their formation before casting magic, and I think that in order to achieve a decent result of magic, they should use the main force of the magic corps for the first stage of the assault, and at the same time, in order to make the magician safe, I think they should place the magician a thousand meters away from my west gate, which should be in this position. As he spoke, he pointed to a small high ground outside the West Gate, which was only half the height of the city wall, and the area was relatively large. "In this position, their magic can be used to destroy a large section of the city wall of our west gate and create conditions for their cavalry assault under the condition of ensuring relative safety. At the same time, their swordsmen and cavalry corps should be right in front of the mages, which means that we can completely wipe out a part of their army, especially the mages, with magic before they attack us. That's why I put the swordsman army a little further back from the west gate, so that after the enemy's magic is over, we can have enough troops to defend. Complete. When everyone heard it, it seemed to make some sense, but after thinking about it, it seemed to be some old things to talk about, and there was nothing substantial, this is a very ordinary Jianyì, Xiang Zuoding thought about it and shook his head, this Jianyì is really space, but after all, it has a head. Xiang Zuoding then saw the body of the next Hugh, and the man hurriedly said: "I think General Shui's words are reasonable, and I agree." Looking at other people, they also made similar remarks, and those who have been in the officialdom for a long time know this. Xiang Zuoding thought for a while, sank for a while, and then asked, "Are there any other buildings?"

At this time, one of the generals looked at the others and said, "I think we should have another way to fight this battle." ”

Xiang Zuoding asked lightly, "What method?"

The others immediately focused their attention on that person.

"Lure the enemy deep. ”

"How do you lure the enemy deep?"

"Place a small number of troops on the city wall for observation, and the large army enters the horse city, using the gap between the buildings in the city to divide the enemy's large army, and with a part of the force, assassinate the enemy's magicians, and the rest of the troops are matched to various points, exchanging space for the enemy's life. In this way, even if the enemy can capture the city, it will pay a very heavy price. The enemy will certainly not be able to move forward with the next move, so we can buy time to gather more troops to destroy the enemy. ”

After hearing this, Kong Ming felt very strange, you must know that in the eyes of those nobles, the city is their lifeblood, and what else can they have without the city? And what is different here from Zhecheng is that although the ratio of troops this time is three to one, but from the perspective of common sense, the strength of the offensive and defensive forces is also three to one as the lowest limit, and if it is lower, the success rate is very low, so this general five proposed this kind of construction, Kong Ming knew that the argument would come immediately, but Kong Ming was still happy that this general had such insight, this general seemed to be the commander of the third division of the swordsman army, called Deng Qifeng.

"I object, such a building yì is undoubtedly the best place to abandon such a defense as the city wall. And to plunge our city into the wrath of the enemy, such a tactic is impossible. A general said directly without waiting for Deng Qifeng to finish speaking.

"That's right, such tactics would put our army in a passive position. And the nobles will not agree. Didn't they give us money and food to protect the city? How could we possibly let the enemy do anything wrong here? ”

"As soon as the enemy came in, the city was ruined. It doesn't work, it doesn't work. ”

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All of a sudden, the entire conference room seemed to explode, and the sound of talking was endless, discussing the gains and losses of this plan. Kong Ming is also carefully calculating the gains and losses of these two plans, if according to the first plan, with absolute weakness on the battlefield, then in the case of the loss of 50,000 people, it should be possible to destroy 2 to 30,000 enemies, that is to say, in the case of their own disadvantage, five people, in exchange for the damage of two to three enemies, this is too much loss; Of course, the destruction of the city will be more severe, and it will even make the horse city disappear forever, but the results are also the greatest. Now it depends on whether Xiang Zuoding can overcome public opinion, whether to keep the city or destroy the enemy. Time passed little by little, and the sound of the conference room gradually decreased, and in the end, it turned out to be quiet again, and after the silence, many people finally thought about this. You know, in this kind of war, if the city is broken, many commoners will be taken captive by the enemy as slaves, but the nobles can be safely released, after all, this is all based on the rule of the nobility, and it is impossible for any nobleman to say that he will not be captured by others, so once the nobles are captured, then they can redeem them with a sum of money and continue to be their nobles, instead of being slaves like commoners. But the city is their fiefdom, and if they are lost, their property will shrink to a great extent, and they may become poor people with noble titles overnight, which they cannot tolerate in any way, so they would rather let the commoners die than give up their territory. This contradiction is the reason why the current better tactics have been abandoned by most people.

Seeing that it was so noisy inside, Xiang Zuoding was also very annoyed in his heart, after all, he also knew the difference between the two, the city was broken, he would be removed, and he might be killed for dereliction of duty, and his family would be dragged down because of this, otherwise, what would the state of Chu do to explain to so many nobles? If the army is defeated, he will also be removed, but those nobles can be saved from death in front of the king of Chu, and the family can live the same, only he is the only one who suffers. It's a pity that Kong Ming didn't know what Xiang Zuoding was thinking in his heart, otherwise he would definitely not join this war that would be lost, who would want to fight with a person who was constantly worrying about the left and right when he was fighting? Wouldn't that be looking for his own death! Obviously, Kong Ming's understanding of people's hearts at this time was still in a low-level place.

Finally Xiang Zuoding spoke: "The battle order is issued below, the first and fifth divisions of the swordsman army will defend the west gate, the east gate of the second division, the south gate of the third division, the north gate of the fourth division, and the third division of the cavalry army will join the battle of each division at any time. The second division is an assault team, standing by near the west gate, obeying orders during the battle, or assaulting the enemy camp, or covering other troops, 2,000 magicians, with the first division of swordsmen and five divisions to fight, 1,000 people under my command, join other troops at any time, and the rest of the detachments join the divisions to fight. During the battle, the magician presets the fire landing area in front of the west gate, and kills and injures the enemy magician with firepower during the battle. ”