Chapter 234 The city is broken, the mountains and rivers are here
Maybe it was because there were too many dead in the battle for a day and a night, and when dawn came, there was a little blood in the usual warm sunshine.
The sky had just brightened, and due to the obstruction of the Holy Mountain Range, Xiangyang Fort had not yet received the sun, and the offensive of the siege army was launched again.
A scene that made Ling Xiao quite helpless appeared, for the sniping of the archers on the platform, the siege army of Wuyang and Wuyang at the foot of the mountain didn't care at all, but each soldier had something more or less protective on his body, including a regular hand shield, a giant shield used by the strong soldier array, a light shield used by the cavalry, and even some soldiers, thinking that there was really no way, they actually took the pot lid and the steaming drawer, and launched an attack so hard.
This is clearly not hesitating to fight to the death, and it is clear that he is filling with his life.
To be honest, the location of the platform is ideal for a sneak attack on the enemy camp, and its range is enough to cover most of the enemy's camp, but if it is to support the defense of the city, the position of the platform is a bit beyond the reach of the whip. As long as the enemy army can survive the distance of three or four miles, the lethality of the platform will immediately drop to a negligible level.
Therefore, no matter how desperately the archers shoot, they will only wear out less than three or four tenths of the attacking force, and Xiangyang Fort will still face an opponent who is far more than several times its own strength.
This battle can't be fought like this, looking at the strength of all the people in the siege army, and looking at the broken city wall of Xiangyang Fort, Ling Xiao frowned, and he couldn't say that he still had to use it in advance!
The four attacking giant crossbows were replaced by four huge arrows, and the bowstrings were opened with a creak, and they were released one after another with a sudden wave of Ling Xiao's hand.
Unlike other arrows, the effect of these four giant arrows is not to kill the enemy, but to send signals, and the huge howling sound of the four arrows pulling out in turn covers almost the entire battlefield. When the defenders in Xiangyang Fort heard this, they shouted in unison, turned their heads and left the city wall.
This is the response that Ling Xiao has already discussed with all parties in Xiangyang Fort, its code name is "The city is broken and the mountains and rivers are in", the broken city wall of Xiangyang Fort can not support it for a long time, but Xiangyang Fort is a great room for detours, plus on the eve of the battle, the people in the fort have basically gone, which is more suitable for a street battle.
For the defenders of Fort Sun, as long as they can cut off the passage of the Death Swamp of the Dreadnought Empire, it is the greatest victory. Fort Xiangyang doesn't have much to hold onto.
Although the enemy force is powerful, the problem that cannot be solved by frontal combat can be solved by street fighting. On the one hand, the explosion on the day of the competition basically turned over the largest open space in Xiangyang Fort, and on the other hand, everyone in Xiangyang Fort has not been abandoned in the past two months.
So instead of dying on the walls, it is better to let the enemy in and fight.
In fact, there is another benefit that no one expected. The siege army went up to the lockdown and down to the ordinary soldiers. I knew in my heart that Fort Xiangyang was like a dagger stuck in the throat of the Dreadnought Empire's expeditionary force, and what he had been attacking for such a long time was to lay down Fort Xiangyang and restore the logistics supply line.
Seeing the walls of Xiangyang Fort change hands. It's the commander's heart that locks down the city, not to mention those ordinary soldiers, but they don't know that they are on the top of the city. In fact, it is only the simplest part of the battle of Xiangyang Castle, and the real nightmare has just begun.
Wang's big head has bet with others that he has such a thick neck. No one can cut it off with a single sword, and no one understands why such a bastard who is not a fool of four or six has the credit of being the first to climb the head of Xiangyang Fort, you must know that as an ordinary soldier, this is the greatest credit that can be obtained, enough to receive a reward of ten taels of gold.
Wang's head didn't understand why the other party's eyes were blood-red just now, but now he would turn around and run, but this did not prevent him from starting to plan the use of the ten taels of gold reward, but the flickering golden light found in the corner of his eye made him no longer calm.
The reward has not yet arrived, plus the captain and the captain's deduction, no one can say how much will be left after it is in hand, but the small gold bead found in front of him is a real benefit, and it is his own to grab it.
With the opportunity to climb to the top of the city first, the king's head was a vicious dog pounced, and rushed to the front of the gold bead, but unfortunately just when he was about to get the gold bead, his feet were soft, but he was in a cold sweat, and there was a big pit under his feet, but in the pit was a bamboo spear with the tip pointing upward.
Before the shouting and scolding of Wang's head came out, there was a huge pain in four or five places on his body at the same time, but his consciousness was already in darkness.
This kind of situation is not just a bastard king's big head, even if he usually prides himself on how calm he is, facing the city that has been breached, facing the enemies who are scattered and fleeing, and facing the treasure that seems to have accidentally dropped, how can he care about the formation and battle, his own commander Seal the city General said that after the city is broken, the city will not be sealed for three days.
In these years, only the treasure in the hand is a good treasure, so basically the most brave and fastest attacking vanguard army scattered in all directions, one by one into the alleys.
At this time, not to mention the step-by-step killing machine in Xiangyang Fort, it can be regarded as a trap everywhere, plus the defenders scattered everywhere, the forward army of as many as 5,000 dreadnoughts plus the 2,000 people of the crime barracks, it is like a stream flowing into the sea, it didn't even bubble and disappeared.
In fact, when Ling Xiao proposed the plan of breaking the mountains and rivers of the city, the people in Xiangyang Fort did not agree very much, in their opinion, giving up the city is equivalent to admitting defeat, no matter how good the fight in the alley is, and killing a few enemies, it will not be cleaned up by the enemy one by one.
Unexpectedly, when the plan was actually implemented, it had achieved an effect that could not have been imagined in advance, and without losing a single person, it had eliminated the enemy's vanguard army and the most desperate sin barracks, even stronger than yesterday's results.
In fact, even Ling Xiao couldn't have imagined that this defeat strategy would have such a good effect, in fact, the main reason is that there has never been a siege battle on the God of War Continent, and the defender of the city took the initiative to abandon the city, and the second is to boost morale, the city breaking and massacre order issued by the city closure made the dreadnought army disperse too quickly.
In short, the plan of "the city breaks the mountains and rivers" has finally given Xiangyang Fort a glimmer of hope, and everyone is carefully continuing to implement the plan, that is, not letting the siege army detect the anomaly too early, and devouring the enemy as quickly as possible.
It's a pity that as the commander of the Dreadnought, the person with the most pressure on him locked down the city, but he found the abnormality almost after the city was broken, not to mention anything else, there was no one of the most common troops after the city was broken.
On the Ares Continent, as long as the city is broken, there will be a large number of defenders who will surrender when they see hopelessness, and then turn into slaves who are worse than the sin soldiers, but they can also save their lives, and if they are lucky, they can also notify their families and use the ransom to redeem themselves and restore their freedom.
This surrender can be said to be basically a practice of siege, but looking at it, let alone surrendering troops in Xiangyang Fort, even the corpses of those who died in battle are not seen.
I pondered in my heart, the cold of the city was cold, didn't the other party admit defeat, this city break is just a means?
The most striking aspect of Lockdown's designation as the commander of this force is his prudence and flexibility.
Since such a conclusion has been reached, no matter how strange it sounds, the lockdown city still began to issue orders as soon as possible, "The overseer team stepped forward and killed those who ran around without permission! Kill those who forgot to fight when they saw their wealth! Kill those who scattered the formation! Kill those who did not obey orders! Kill those who were afraid of not moving forward!"
As soon as the five killings order was ordered, the fearless soldiers were awe-inspiring, but the generals were quite disapprehensive in their hearts, and the three-day massacre order that had been said to be no longer counted, that is, the most resolute overseers who carried out the order were secretly muttering in their hearts.
At this time, although the vanguard army of the city has been wiped out, the Chinese army has just arrived at the position of the head of the city, under the rectification, the army is a lot more orderly, and the formation is not scattered, and the rear army has also broken through the limit distance that the Lingxiao archery team can attack, and is moving towards the head of the city at a rapid pace.
If the lockdown team is put in order and the camp is marched step by step, then Xiangyang Fort still has no chance, and the siege army must not be allowed to enter the city like this.
As the saying goes, standing tall and looking far away, Ling Xiao can be regarded as the person who knows the shape of the two armies most clearly in the entire battlefield, that is, he knows the strategy of Xiangyang Fort, and he can clearly see the movements of the blockaded army.
But now that the lockdown army has already prepared its team, it is not so easy to make them chaotic again. What to do?
Thinking of a way in his heart, Ling Xiao continued to observe the situation on the battlefield, the sealing army had already begun to enter the city, I am afraid that if nothing happens, it will only be a mile away, and the closure of the city will be able to understand the reality in Xiangyang Fort.
The archery team is far away from the enemy, and there is no deterrent at all for a direct attack, distance, distance, this fatal distance, how to shorten the distance as much as possible?
When they were helpless, the army after the closure of the city calmly began to set up logistics camps, began to set up solid camps, and was ready to provide logistics supplies to the troops fighting in front at any time. The most conspicuous thing is a huge tree erected high in the camp.
This giant tree bears the most important mission in the marching camp, before the establishment of the camp it is the Dinghai Shen Needle that undertakes the fixed tasks of the Quartet, and the ropes of various camps will be tied to its body, and after the camp is established, it will hang up the Diao Dou high, as a platform for reconnaissance, early warning, and time reporting.
And the most important thing is that because of the slow movement of the troops entering the city in front, the place where this giant tree was erected was only a little more than five miles away from the platform where Ling Xiao was located, in the middle of the straight line where the platform and Xiangyang Fort were connected.
There you have it, abseiling. Ling Xiao's eyes lit up, a good opportunity. (To be continued......)