Chapter 1138: Everything is ready, just waiting for you
Three cities, of which the current city where Li Daozong is located is located in the former protrusion in the middle, and it is also the most populous and largest city.
With a population of about 120,000 people, the city is the most populous city in Silla after Geumseong, as there are plenty of plains around it where farmland can be cultivated.
But at least half of these people were distributed outside the city, and in times of war, these people could be temporarily conscripted into the city.
Farmland outside the city can only be strategically abandoned.
It has to be said that the timing chosen by the person Yuangai Suwen is extremely appropriate, and this period is exactly the time when the entire peninsula will have a bumper grain harvest, and this time will start a war.
There is a lot of food in both the people and the cities.
This means that if they start a war, the logistics will not be too difficult.
The peninsula is different from other places in that food is limited and life is tight, and both Silla and Baekje have very little food in stock.
Therefore, they absolutely did not dare to carry out the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and even Goguryeo itself did not dare to do so.
Because if you really burn grain and grass or something, it's fine if the quantity is not much, but if the amount is too large, the consequences are very serious.
Of course, this is just a normal situation, and if it is pressed, no one will think about it so much.
Located on the left side of the city of Li Daozong, is the city of Baekje, where Cheng Yanjin is located, and on the right is another county town controlled by Li Daozong.
Of the three cities, the county where Cheng Yanjin is located has the largest number of troops, and there are 5,000 soldiers from the Tang Dynasty.
This is because the terrain in the area where Cheng Yanjin is located is flatter, which is more conducive to attacking, and it is better to have more soldiers stationed here.
But there is also an advantage there, because the county seat where Cheng Yanjin is located is closer to the coastline, so it is easier to get supplies.
Although Datang's large transport ships cannot dock, Datang also has many small transport ships, and as long as there are enough of these ships, they can also provide very good supplies.
Not to mention that there are only five thousand soldiers here.
And Li Daozong's supplies here will all be transported from Jincheng, anyway, they all came with the attitude of spending money, so the distance is just right, and they can hire and influence more Silla people.
On the third day of Li Daozong's arrival, the first logistics convoy organized by Xue Rengui arrived here, consisting of 200 Tang soldiers, 1,000 Silla troops, and about 10,000 Silla civilians, carrying a large amount of supplies to the city.
After these supplies arrived, Li Daozong also breathed a sigh of relief, this batch of food sent over was enough for their current Tang army to eat for a month.
And Li Daozong, the soldier who passed through the transportation, knew that Xue Rengui was still sending a steady stream of small transport teams to come.
The number of subsequent logistics supply teams will not be so large, about a few hundred to a thousand people.
According to the news delivered by Xue Rengui, a supply convoy of 1,000 people would be sent from the port every day, and the convoy would advance by horse-drawn carriages and wheelbarrows.
In other words, if Goguryeo did not attack the logistics line, they would have been able to receive a large amount of logistics supplies every day.
And there is no need to worry about the materials being hollowed out at the port, and a large number of materials are being delivered here in a steady stream from Datang.
Li Daozong, who inspected the entire city wall, probably knew in his heart that the height of the city's city walls ranged from about three meters to four meters, mainly because the terrain was undulating.
The height of the walls is good, and the thickness of the walls is also good, and in all directions, there are not too many soldiers who need to be stationed.
Li Daozong had a total of 5,000 soldiers, and there were currently 4,000 troops stationed in this city, while the other city only had 1,000 Tang soldiers.
"Have you sent supplies of equipment and supplies?" Li Daozong called Niu Jinda in and asked.
"General, the equipment and materials have not fully arrived, and the logistics supplies currently delivered are, 1,000 spare bows and arrows, a total of 300,000 arrows, 30 medium two-bow and three-arrow bed crossbows, and 10,000 bed crossbow arrows, including 2,000 main crossbow arrows and 8,000 secondary crossbow arrows."
"In addition, there are ten large bed crossbows, five hundred main crossbow arrows, and one thousand secondary crossbow arrows. Ten large stone throwing machines, a set of spare parts. ”
"In addition, the stone of the large stone throwing machine has already been mined."
"According to the latest news sent by the transport team, in ten days, the total number of arrows and other arrows we have here will probably reach 500,000, and the number of bed crossbows may also increase at that time, and a batch of small bed crossbows will appear, which can be operated by a single person."
"Yes, with these supplies, we will be confident in defending the city." Li Daozong immediately smiled with satisfaction.
These materials are not all the materials, but the materials sent to him, and other cities naturally have supplies from other cities, and the proportion should not be too bad with him.
Although he is here because of the protrusion, he is rationed more, but he will not go anywhere more.
I have to say that Datang's transport fleet is too powerful now, and so many materials are still being transported continuously, of course, the premise is that the construction speed of Datang is fast enough, or there is no shortage at all.
"Any new weapons?" Li Daozong thought about it and asked.
"No, the news given by the logistics department is that our mission this time is only to defend, so the current supplies should be enough.
"That's enough." Li Daozong thought about it and nodded, there is almost no need to worry about food, and there is almost no need to worry about other arrows being consumed.
In such a situation, pure defense, of course, is enough.
"However, we have to take precautions, so that the scouts can send a letter to Xue Rengui as quickly as possible, so that if he can, increase the amount of food delivered, and we are here to start hiring people to work." Li Daozong thought for a while.
"Yes!"
Don't worry about attacking, just defending, this is too much to play, especially when there is no shortage of logistics supplies.
It's a bit difficult to raise the city walls, but it's not a big problem to add some more moats to the broken moat outside the city, oh no, on top of the moat.
In addition, a large number of people were hired to dig some traps, which were not too big, and the arms were thick, and two feet deep was enough.
Anyway, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or Silla, there are almost no war horses, only scouts and a limited number of war horses, but Goguryeo is different.
As a large number of cavalry units in Goguryeo, which has a large number of horse breeding areas in the rear, there are also heavy cavalry, so the role of these horse traps is too great.
I just don't know when the Goguryeo army, which has been slow to move in the face of Silla, will arrive.