On the first day of the siege in Xizhou, the outer city that was almost captured proved a truth: during the war, the wishes of the lower-class people were often more useful than the wealthy class who occupied a minority of the population.

Especially in an era when productivity is backward and wars are mainly based on manpower!

If we switch to the earth civilization in the 21st century, the number of troops will naturally not count. When fighting, we look at who has advanced aircraft, whose missiles are more accurate, whose aircraft carriers are more ruthless, and whose nuclear weapons can be placed on the enemy's land without barriers...

As for the number of troops, it has become an auxiliary option in the face of various large-scale weapons of destruction...

Of course, this is the situation in the nuclear peace era after the emergence of nuclear weapons. Before the nuclear peace era, human resources still dominated the war.

After Zhao Li's failure, Long Letian dared not place his hope on the people in Xizhou. When these men saw that their people were hacked to death, they basically collapsed without a trace...

Xizhou Minyong successfully transferred from the front line troops to a logistics courier...

A large number of Long Family Army and the original government soldiers and yamen runners stepped onto the city.

As a result, in the first day of the siege, the auxiliary army no longer gained the advantage. Three consecutive rounds of attacks were hit on the city wall and their heads were bleeding. The progress was not as great as the first round of attacks!

However, although Richard's auxiliary army suffered huge losses on the first day of the siege and did not achieve any results, Long Letian in Xizhou City could no longer be "happy"...

The performance of Min Yong in Xizhou made Long Letian realize that the troops guarding the city can basically exclude tens of thousands of Min Yongs, and they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder!

Long Letian has seen through it. Not only is the ability to fight in Xizhou Minyong not only has poor fighting skills, but they don’t want to fight at all. This is also an important reason why the enemy has avalanche as soon as they come up!

The people of Xizhou were able to step onto the city, but they were completely forced by the Long Family Army with a knife.

But after the enemy attacked, the Long family army still had to fight with the enemy and had no energy to kill the defeated Minyong of Xizhou.

Without these tens of thousands of people in Xizhou, can the Long Family Army, which has more than 10,000 people, defend Xizhou City?

Even if all the government soldiers and official yamen runners in Xizhou City are added, the total number of soldiers is less than 20,000!

What's more, Long Letian discovered that the local government soldiers and officials in Xizhou were also very depressed in combat enthusiasm, and blockbusters of anti-war sentiment often appeared in the team.

If it weren't for the fact that a group of landlords and squire were responsible for pacifying and suppressing the enemy, I'm afraid these soldiers and officials and yamen runners would have been dispersed long ago...

Richard used equal fields to win the hearts of the people and used the army to forge a winning momentum. Long Letian only owns one city, and his troops were less than one-tenth of the enemy's!

Most importantly, Long Letian knew very well that the weakest auxiliary army sent to attack the city, including a field army composed of Han soldiers and the fearless Richard soldiers.

Those newly emerging Western Regions legions were also regarded as Richard's soldiers by Long Lotte.

After all, the information from all aspects of the Western Regions Legion he collected showed that except for the weapons and equipment that were not as good as those of Richard's soldiers, the rest were almost the same.

For example, the officers and soldiers of the Western Regions Army did not receive any military pay and maintained high-intensity military training without regrets. The military discipline was strict but no deserter appeared. The officers and soldiers treated equally in all aspects had an incredibly fanatical personality worship towards Richard...

Isn’t this the characteristic of Richard’s Daoist soldiers?

An army is so enthusiastic and loyal to a person, and there is no benefit. Except for Richard's army, Long Lotte cannot think of any other army...

"Oh, I don't know if Xizhou City can be kept for a month..."

One month is the lowest period for Long Lotte to defend the city, because the Long Batian and the Long family sent out will take at least one month before they can lead troops to support.

This is the fastest speed. Even if soldiers are not required to be trained, it will take time to gather people together, not to mention that they have to raise food and fodder and other military supplies.

Fortunately, the Long Family Army is very loyal to Long Letian. It is full of old troops he brought out with him, and there are also a large number of people. Most of the resources Long Letian plundered were invested in this army. The whole army is grateful to the Long Family and Long Letian.

This is the essential difference between the Long Family Army and the local government soldiers in Xizhou.

The Long family army knew who they were fighting for and was willing to serve them, so fighting was naturally extremely brave.

Long Letian built the Long family army into his own private army, and invested a lot of money, which was also rewarding.

Just as Long Letian was hugging his concubine and was about to fall asleep, a sudden thrust sound came from outside, and his personal servant's terrified and anxious voice came into the room: "Master, something is wrong, and a large number of monsters who are not human suddenly appeared in the outer city to attack the city while the black attack, and the outer city walls have fallen!"

"What?!"

When Long Letian heard a carp erected and stood up from the bed, he threw the concubine who was still intimate beside him and coldly threw the concubine aside. He didn't care about the concubine's tender and painful crying sound, and hurriedly began to wear clothes.

Long Letian didn't understand. He clearly asked the Long family army to arrange police whistles to prevent sneak attacks at night, so why did the exterior wall fall so quickly?

Night battle was a very taboo way for the ancient army to avoid, because night battles had extremely high requirements for military morale and soldiers' quality.

If the morale is not high enough, a large number of deserters will appear. Under the darkness, it is difficult to find that a group of soldiers will be abandoned...

Therefore, after the night battle, the under-mortal army can basically run half of the time without the enemy's attack...

Wait until the fight begins, let alone!

Secondly, even if the military morale is sufficient and the training is in place, fighting at night will be limited due to the limitation of vision, which will make it difficult for each team to cooperate in combat like during the day, and it is easy to fall into a situation where they fight on their own, and even accidental injuries will occur in many cases.

This is not a problem of night blindness. If night blindness is common in the army, no matter how high morale and soldiers are, we must avoid night sneak attacks!

In fact, even if the soldiers from Richard's system headquarters launch a night battle, they cannot exert all their strength. Ensuring that they do not accidentally hurt their friendly forces can be called the elite of this era!

The night attacks in the wild have such high requirements for the attacking parties, let alone sneak attacks at night. Unless the defenders are relaxed in defense, it will be difficult to successfully attack the city at night.

Because the soldiers guarding the city are familiar with the terrain, as long as they have warnings and precautions in advance, there will be no chaos even in the dark, and they can occupy the favorable terrain on the spot to snipe the enemy.

Therefore, the city stealing at night must be seized while the defenders have not discovered it before they can succeed, otherwise it will basically be a death sentence...

It was almost impossible to have Long Lotte’s advance arrangement, so he felt unbelievable about the loss of the exterior wall.
Chapter completed!