After every large-scale battle, regardless of the winner, there will be a period of silence. The problem of captives after the war, seized spoils, screening and repairing damaged weapons and equipment, the treatment of slandered people in the war and the comfort of the dead, etc., all take a lot of time.

Not to mention the post-war personnel and materials replenishment. Fang Songtsen Gampo's main force was almost completely wiped out, so he naturally had to reorganize his team and shrink his troops. Even though Richard had efficient system troops, he also needed the assistance of the indigenous human army.

Richard cannot take a small number of system troops to attack the city, so if you do it, Richard's luck coins are not enough to fill in!

Thousands of elite soldiers are the key to determining the outcome in field battles, but in siege battles, it is likely that more than half of the tragic offensive and defensive battles will be lost!

Therefore, Richard did not take the troops from the system headquarters to attack the city defense line under Songtsen Gampo's control.

In the era of cold weapons, siege warfare was very unfair to the attacking party. In order to reduce casualties, the attacking party would even adopt siege rather than attacking most of the time.

Because a large number of combat reductions will greatly reduce the morale of the attacking army. In the end, it is likely to be hit on the solid city wall and bloody, and it will even be harvested by the defending party!

This is not new in historical battles!

This is also the reason why the ancients summarized the famous saying "attack the heart is the best, and attack the city is the best."

In fact, in the history of cold weapons, real siege battles are all about using gaps and other means to trick the city gates, or simply cooperate with the rebels in the city to win the city. After all, the most in this world is people who are afraid of death and traitors and traitors...

If the city control is too strict, the attacking party will generally choose to siege until the city is ineffective, and the morale and physical strength of the soldiers will drop to a certain level and then take down the city in one go.

This is the safest way, but also the most resource-consuming way!

Siege of a city not only requires a large amount of troops, but also consumes a lot of food and money out of thin air. Without enough national strength, you can't play the siege tactics...

Therefore, many times, the siege would have to take human lives to fill in.

This leads to the siege wars that are often extremely fierce!

Of course, the attacking party generally does not directly send out core elites when siegeing the city, but first uses cannon fodder and vassals to consume. At this point, the Mongolian Yuan and Qing dynasties in history were quite skillful...

The Mongol Yuan was able to sweep the Eurasian continent, and the huge number of servants under their command made great contributions. Most of the Qing Dynasty was conquered by the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Green Camp!

These two ethnic groups are typical examples of small population and large population control. If they want to unify the world, they can only be cruel and ruthless foreigners as cannon fodder. Otherwise, with the tens of thousands of elite Eight Banners who entered the Qing Dynasty, they would basically die without having to fight to Jinling City!

Because of this, in real history, after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, including field battles, the Eight Banners of Manchus and Mongolia, as the core, have basically always served as the supervisor team and rarely go to the front line to fight.

Richard's situation is very similar to the situation where a few people rule the majority. Whether it is the Western Regions that occupy a minority of Han people or the small but very elite elite soldiers under Richard's command, they are typical examples of a few people controlling the majority.

Under such circumstances, if Richard still uses elite troops from the system headquarters or even the Han indigenous troops to attack the city full of heavy troops regardless of casualties, then he would be very funny...

When Songtsen Gampo was busy shrinking his strength and offering generous conditions to bribe the defeated general Yuchi Yingzhe, and Long Letian, who was still full of ambition, Richard was also busy identifying prisoners and gathering a large number of cannon fodders!

Whether it is the strategic situation in the Western Regions or the intelligence brought back by the front-line scouts, it shows the enemy's fear of the Ming army's field combat capabilities!

If Richard defeated Yuchi Yingzhe, the battle could be rude for Yuchi Yingzhe to advance lightly, and his strength was not enough to swallow an elephant, and he kicked the iron plate and led to a great defeat.

Songtsen Gampo's failure really made the name of Richard and his Ming army spread throughout the Western Regions!

You should know that before the Battle of Songtsen Gampo and Richard, the Tufan Expeditionary Force was recognized as the most powerful army in the Western Regions!

Although Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian ignored Songtsen Gampo's control, they had a vague tendency to be independent.

But these two warlords who gained the greatest benefit after the fall of the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion were just secretly fighting with Songtsen Gampo, and they are still "allies" of the Tufan Kingdom on the surface!

Even after Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian's strength expanded, their greatest ambition was just to have a title under the name of Tufan Kingdom and realize their ambition to split the earth and be crowned kings with autonomy. They never thought of completely rebelling against Tufan Kingdom!

Obviously, Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian were not born to like dogs for Tubo people, but because they were afraid of the strength of Tubo people and did not dare to really push the Tufan Kingdom to their opposite.

However, even such a giant in the Western Regions that everyone saw fell under Richard's army, and Richard wiped out the main elites in the Tufan Expeditionary Army with an absolutely weak army!

Songtsen Gampo is proud of his pride and intimidates more than 30,000 iron-armored soldiers in the entire Western Regions. Less than 10% of those who flee back...

In this environment, no matter how arrogant a person is, he dares not fight against Richard in a field, even if he has twice or three times the strength of his troops...

If we include the half-people and half-soldier army like Tufan tribe soldiers, it would take at least ten times the number of people Songtsen Gampo to make a combat plan to block Richard in the field...

The momentum is all produced, not compared. Why did the 21st century overlord of the New World in Richard's previous life dare to clamor to be a world policeman?

Because they are going to war all over the world, they are fighting local wars in foreign countries every year!

In more than ten years, one dictatorial regime after another seems to be strong in the outside world. The iron-like facts are placed in front of other countries. Naturally, other countries should consider whether they can still hold their own position...

Once the reputation is revealed, those small and medium-sized countries will naturally take the initiative to move closer to the strong. Even if this strong man is greedy, he often treats his younger brother as a monkey, and embezzles his younger brother's worthy benefits. Many younger brothers can only protest and condemn him in words, and then continue to endure...

This is the reputation created by war. It seems cruel, but it is the most real reality.

This world never believes in kindness and tears, people will only fear the strong and the iron fist!

Now Richard is the iron fist of the Western Regions, forcing the remaining three families in the Western Regions to abandon their past grudges, unite again to fight Richard, and spend huge sums of money to consolidate the city's defense line.

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