Chapter 1088 Lixin 18
In the outpost battle outside the city against sporadic clashes and the Rangers, I was also watching the lineup of these enemies on the top of the city.
These newly emerging enemies seem to be extremely numerous and boundless, filling the entire wilderness that is not blocked by hills; but in terms of flags and formations, they are roughly divided into several clusters of different origins, and are arranged in the wilderness in the stairs;
Of course, through the overnight investigation of the first-hand information of the prisoners I found before the formation, I also initially learned the other party’s origin.
This is a hodgepodge of forces composed of many parties. It mainly focuses on the remnants of the Northern Dynasties' border troops in Datong and Jinshan areas in the past. It also gathers a large number of small and medium-sized vassals under the jurisdiction of the princes outside the Frontier, as well as local forces in the states in the northeast. Then, after a few people along the way, it has formed its current scale.
In addition, many are distributed according to their own size and size. The so-called people in the forest and the people of black water, and the Tu tribe forces in the coastal areas. According to the observation of the cavalry and ambushing and secretly ward, some figures and existences in fish skin or tree bark can even be seen vaguely.
Therefore, although the number of people overall seems to be large, in addition to the elderly, weak, women and children who transport and guard the baggage in the rear, there are also a large number of cattle, sheep, mules and horses accompanying them, and they are also rushing from the north to meet one after another.
Of course, what is more eye-catching are the remnants of the Northern Dynasties and the troops formed by the Shanwei vassals.
These former Northern Dynasties were basically infantrymen, most of whom were wearing big jackets and iron mesh armor, while others were wearing cloth back armor that looked quite old and patched with patched cloth armor and stud armor, and leather hats. Only a few leaders and officers were wearing all-iron willow-leaf armor or ring armor.
The other party did not look intact, but had gone through a series of new and old battles, which made the body full of mud or bandaged some parts of the body.
The cavalry mainly consisted of the vassal states on the grassland outside the mountain, and their equipment was much more chaotic, from rusty rust scale armor, lock curtains, chain armor, tied armor, leather armor, to sheepskin vests, furrowed robes and large felt hats, head-wrapped, and even a piece of broken felt wrapped around half of the body.
Judging from the number shown in front of the formation, the proportion they occupy is not large; of course, this does not rule out that the other party deliberately hides their shortcomings or reserves. After all, there are so many people mixed together, and it is not too difficult to hide some hand and trump cards.
Moreover, the name against the head coach also made me a little concerned. It was Yelu Dashi. That's right, the same name character who brought the remnants of the Liao Kingdom to the west and moved thousands of miles in the Western Regions River in another time and space, re-establishing a Western Liao regime that had been passed down for several generations;
What makes people mind and feel even more subtle is that in this time and space he also has the nickname of Dashi Linya, but he is the only Bian Zheng general who came from a border vassal under Su Yuanjing. He is also one of the only remaining important officials in the remnants of the Northern Dynasties.
As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. This qualification alone cannot be treated as a casual person.
However, although the current situation is obviously smooth for us, the next development direction is also somewhat subtle.
Although our army has gained the advantage of a strong city and a strong wall and the advantage of the defensive stance, we can fully utilize the advantages of firearms to attack and defend with ease; it does not mean that we can always be in a stalemate with stubborn enemies and trapped beasts inside and fight with most thieves outside, and then we will continue to be in a long-term stalemate with them.
Although the other party seems unlikely to last for too long, on the one hand, after experiencing long-distance migration, it is seriously lacking in large-scale equipment that can overcome difficulties. In addition to directly storing lives, it seems that it is difficult to pose a decent threat to Liaodong City;
On the other hand, so many people who come from afar may not be able to last much time by relying on their own food, grass and livestock herds; but as long as they stay here for one more day, they will have more damage and looting in Liaodong. After all, I don’t want to accept a place in Liaodong with ruins all over the ground.
What's more, although I don't have to worry about the combat effectiveness of most of these mobs, I have to worry about the fact that if such a large group of people cannot surround and annihilate them well, even if they are successfully defeated and defeated, it will be a very troublesome and follow-up matter.
After all, I cannot compare with the wealthy American emperors in the future. Even if there are economic crises everywhere, I can still rely on starting machines to print money to harvest world wealth, and at the same time I can start wars all over the world to fight security wars, and give a large amount of wealth to legitimately and displace them into specific interest groups and individuals' pockets.
If I really want to drag my precious power into Liaodong for two or three years, it will be enough to delay and miss many things. So I need a strategy that can solve most of its viable powers as soon as possible in the short term.
"Where is Zhao Liangsi, the capital of the Left Cavalry..."
Seeing this, I suddenly had some thoughts and shouted to me.
"I'm here..."
Zhao Liangsi responded and bowed.
"You lead the third battalion of the cavalry and the two battalions of infantry and cavalry, and go out of the city with light clothes and simple clothes from Dongjiaomen, crossing the Prince River to the west and waiting for the time..."
"Three to five days are a cycle..."
"Welcome an opportunity to attack and destroy the herds and settlements transported behind..."
"No matter what means or method..."
"Try your best to move the enemy's side and rear...create opportunities and gaps for our formation..."
"promise……"
He took the order with mercy and left.
"Right cavalry is Luo defeating the enemy..."
I continue to give orders...
"Let your hunting cavalry third camp come out of the east gate and go around under the north city wall..."
"Responsible for receiving Zhao Bingyuan's troops, replacing them with the group to retreat into the city to rest and replenish..."
"Order the 7th Army and the horse envoys the third battalion of the Zhong Division, the first battalion of the garrison and the first battalion of the combat engineering corps,"
"Driving from the north gate into the city to guard the left and right outer camps..."
With this series of orders, the battlefield situation inside and outside Liaodong City had already fallen into a brief confrontation and waiting and watching each other, and was once again affected and flowed. Since the other party has remained cautious enough, I will find a way to force it to move.
At this moment, it was like responding to the battle outside the city, and there were gradually shouts of killing in the city, but the enemy troops trapped in the inner city began to try their best to break through again.
However, the positions they launched several counterattacks before this were attacked by the besieged inner city were easily shot back, and even the supporting artillery team was not useful, so they easily made the attack momentum of the opponent's organization shattered between the trench and the wire blocking, and even the edge of the chariot array could not be touched.
Therefore, this time my focus is still outside the city.
After a while, when the rear formation troops camped under the city began to rotate in batches with the new force sent in the city, the other party was moved again.
But the first one to rush up was a large crowd of messy people. From the mirror close to the corner, they looked basically a few people in ragged clothes, full of sorrow and crying and mourning for the people's livelihood, mixed with many old, weak, women and children; everyone had no weapons and the only thing on them was a broken earth bag they carried.
These temporary manpower who were driven over as the front-end of the offensive battle were obviously plundered from the places along the way, and were they actually planning to use the cannon fodder and pile up soil tactics?
However, the other party's appearance and movement made me feel relieved.
At least it proves that the other party does not have to expect to gather the hearts of the local people, but instead wants to save the land and change the seeds. On the other hand, for most of the Huai Army who are used to seeing corpses and blood, there is no reason or taboo to be unable to do it. As long as the ammunition is sufficient, these miscellaneous soldiers and cannon fodders will no longer be able to fill the trenches.
The only ones who reacted more fiercely were the soldiers of Andong, and even the children of the clan members under the rule of the Luo family in the past, even in the civil strife of the Luo family, they rarely used these local elders and drove them to fill the trenches directly. Therefore, they could not help but have all kinds of shocked and gritted teeth, and the fighting spirits asked me to fight and go out.
However, these people driven by whips and swords and guns continued to advance. Although their speed was quite slow and messy, there were enough numbers. Therefore, after snatching the hesitant figures from the way of the supervising formation, they slowly approached the camp under the city.
In the left and right camps under the city, the alternation between different troops continued in an orderly manner, as if they were not moved by external objects at all. It was not until the sound of the whistle sounded after the third round of horns that a whole row of gunmen stood up from the chest wall, trench and wall, and behind the horse.
The crowds were already so close, so crowded and dense that they saw that they were about to step into the large hoof pit used to trap horses, so they didn't have to deliberately aim at it. They radiated out in rows of contiguous lines and flags in general directions, without any possibility of losing.
In an instant, it was like wheat ears or rice fields that were blown by the strong wind. These people with soil were like dominoes that were pushed back and overturned.
Those who were hit were completely free, suddenly their bodies crept on the ground, or continued to fall a few steps under numb inertia. During this period, it seemed that they were seriously lacking in nutrition or not eating. After being shot, they didn't even splash out much blood, and they just fell to the ground one by one.
It seemed that it was because of some numbness and slowness of vision blocking front and back, and their reaction delays. They were like indifferent walking zombies, and were hit one after another and quickly filled in. Until the third round of radiation sweep fell among them, the remaining alive people seemed to be awakened by some tragic status quo.
Then there was a burst of crying and crying, and he turned around and threw the earth bag away, and ran away in the midst of trampling.
There was still no cheering or other noisy movements on the Huai Army's positions, only a piece of fine and shattered checking weapons and loading ammunition, like a spring silkworm chewing leaves; the only ones who were still moving were the auxiliary soldiers and husbands who were running down between the fronts, transporting ammunition and transporting ammunition;
Because for them, this was just a slaughter-like warm-up without any suspense.
As these people who turned around and fled gradually became thinner and thin, and then they were trampled to the ground, they finally revealed other existences that had been hiding in it and were hiding in front of them.
Hu Qi, who was wearing a leather robe and felt hat, held a scimitar and a one-handed axe, and was holding a light and thin wooden spear. He was whistling sharp whistles and strange screams, like a swaying hungry wolf, and rushed out one after another from the gap where the crowd was trampled.
Chapter completed!