"No, the enemy can sneak attack the port city while we are away." Ding Kui objected to General Shi's proposal, otherwise both sides would suffer.
"The competition in this area lies in solid strongholds, but obviously the enemy has more strongholds. In addition, our army is not as powerful as the enemy. It is easy to be attacked by the enemy when we attack a certain place with all our strength. Therefore, Chief of Staff Jiang sent two divisions.
Attacking Sancha Town, one division pretended to attack Baiting City and Xixuan City, while the main force remained in Qinglan City." Kong Wei tried to interpret Jiang Zhi's tactics.
"It may take three days as quickly as possible, or five days as slowly as possible. The Kong family army will arrive in the northern part of Nanqiu County. The 20th Army Corps that is holding on to the border city can switch from defense to offense. The enemy's troop deployment will be greatly restricted."
The vanguard of the Kong family army has entered Jinping County, and the magic guild of the county notified Hengfu City. Hengfu City, where the eldest princess is located, can obtain military information with a higher level of confidentiality, even higher than Boundary City and Kada City where a large number of border troops gather. This is different from
The identity of the royal family is inseparable.
"There is a lack of fodder for war horses in the city, but there is no problem with food for people." Kong Wei performed his duties conscientiously and completed all the tasks that the counselor should do.
"I entered the enemy-occupied area ahead of time. I had limited fodder with me, and there was no fodder stored in the port city. The more than 10,000 war horses were about to run out of food." Speaking of this, Dong Ba frowned.
After entering Nanqiu County, the 71st Division hid in Tibet without replenishing supplies. The problem of food for the soldiers was solved only after they captured Port City. However, the troops here did not have many war horses, so no fodder could be captured.
"My subordinate saw that Bai Yun went to the stable. Maybe she has some ideas." Zhong Wei reminded Ding Kui.
"That's right, she comes from the place where war horses are produced. Hurry up and find her to find a solution." Ding Kui remembered that there was such a guest.
Ding Cai really found Bai Yun in the stable, "Your Excellency, you came to me because of the fodder problem for the war horses?" Bai Yun guessed the reason why Ding Kui came to her.
"Yes, you also know the situation. Even if Yanmei is exhausted, she can't move so much fodder." Ding Kui could ask Ao Yan to make more trips, but doing so would easily reveal Xiao Longnu's identity, and the space needed for the fodder would be too much.
It was too big. In his eyes, Ao Yan was worth more than 10,000 war horses.
"I have a method that can extend the sleeping time of war horses and save a lot of fodder, but..." Bai Yun hesitated.
Ding Kui saw that she had something to hide and said, "If you have any difficulties, just tell me and I will do my best to help you solve them."
"That method is not a secret skill in our country, but the empire has regulations and cannot be spread abroad. There are only subordinates and the Lang Family Brotherhood here, and they cannot take care of so many war horses in a short period of time." Bai Yun was inconvenient to teach Shaodian people.
Even Dong Ba was silent at the scene. It is true that Bai Yun cannot be forced to reveal the secret skills of the Gu Yuan Empire. This is the most basic respect for a friend.
Ding Kui was also in trouble. It was obvious that the Shaodian Kingdom’s military did not know how to use this method. The Ancient Yuan Empire had been in contact with the Shaodian Kingdom for thousands of years, and the military had not yet mastered this secret technique. This showed that the Ancient Yuan Empire attached great importance to Ji Chan’s presence.
This probably won't teach him either.
"How many horses can you three take care of?"
"About six hundred horses with all our strength." Bai Yun did not avoid Ding Kui's question.
"It is indeed a bit far away. Thirty people can make more than 6,000 horses. At least fifty people are needed."
Everyone looked at Ding Kui. Only he could solve this problem, but Ao Yu didn't care. "Kill them all and eat them. At worst, I will go to Zhushan City to buy another batch."
"Don't mention eating war horses in front of the knights!" Ding Kui wanted to kick Ao Yu, "Let's do this, I will choose fifty subjects to give to Zhushan City, or exchange them with the Lord of Bai City, and they will become members of the Guyuan Empire from now on.
I can make them swear not to tell anyone about your secret skills. Once they find out that they are secretly telling others about it, I and my descendants will take the responsibility and pick one of the Ding family's secret skills to give to Zhushan City. Do you think it's okay?" He asked Bai Yun.
Come up with a plan.
In doing so, he nominally avoided the suspicion of Bai Yun being a traitor to the country, and also used the Ding family's secret skills as collateral to endorse the fifty people he selected.
It is quite rare for a lord to send his subjects to foreign nobles, but it is not the first one by Ding Kui. Royal families of various countries have done this in history, but there are really not many mutual gifts at the earl level.
Bai Yun gritted her teeth and thought about it seriously. She had to make the decision for her father. If she didn't go back carefully, she might get scolded.
"Where will these people who changed their nationality go in the future? Which nationality are their descendants considered to be?" She thought about the future of fifty families.
Ding Kui turned to look at Ding Kun. The old butler said slowly: "Well, the selected person can nominally change his nationality, but it would be inappropriate to send him to the Gu Yuan Empire. The young master pledged the Ding family's secret skills. I believe they will not
Those who break their oath, let them stay, and their descendants can still be your subjects."
"In this way, I owe Miss Bai a big favor!" Ding Kui felt that he had made a big deal, "I have to compensate Miss Bai. Well, I plan to develop a cavalry-specific crossbow for the 71st Division, or open it to Zhushan City as well.
You can all buy it at the lowest price.”
When Bai Yun heard this, she was overjoyed and immediately responded: "Okay! I will accept it on my father's behalf. I must not regret the crossbow."
"Hahaha, silly girl, my young master never regrets what he says. The crossbow is unique to Juyang City. If you buy it back from Zhushan City, you cannot resell it to others." Ding Kun came out to help Ding Kui make up for the loopholes.
Bai Yun said very seriously: "That's natural. How dare the Bai family sell such sharp weapons to others! The little girl swears in the name of the ancestors of the Bai family."
"Okay, please, Grandpa Kun, please sign a contract with Miss Bai." Ding Kui did not regard Bai Yun as his subordinate at this time, "and then go to the auxiliary barracks to select volunteers to change their nationality and learn secret skills from Miss Bai."
"Old Dong seems to have gotten a big deal. The war horse matter is the 71st Division's matter, the Eighth Army's matter, and the military's matter. How can you let the prince bear all the responsibility?" Dong Ba blushed with embarrassment.
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"The affairs of the Eighth Army are my business. I will only say this once and don't mention it again in the future!" Ding Kui waved his hand to interrupt Dong Ba.
He said it very skillfully, "It's my business" and deliberately avoided emphasizing the Ding family. Even if it was later reported to the court, it could not be said that the Ding family regarded the Eighth Army as a private army.
The matter of the war horses was handled according to Ding Kui's wishes. Bai Yun quickly signed a contract with Ding Kun, and then rushed to the stable to wait for Ding Kun to send his apprentice.
Her secret technique is not very complicated, it is just a way to massage the horse, which can make the horse fall into sleep immediately and sleep peacefully for the whole day. After waking up, it can eat some food and then massage again.
The entire massage process takes one or two minutes, and more than twenty horses can be put to sleep in one hour. Even if there are fifty more people to help, they will still be busy for eight or nine hours.
"The enemy has begun to attack!" Ding Cai came to report that his own army was attacking from three sides.
"I will go to the east, the money will be offered to the north, and Master Tan will ask you to go to the south. If the enemy's sixth-level combatants don't move, we won't move. If they move, we will follow. Where there are many people, we will call everyone over." After finishing speaking.
Ding Kui set off for the east city gate.
The east wall was defended by the special operations battalion, and two infantry battalions served as reserves under the city. It was the wall with the smallest number of troops. When Ding Kui arrived, Dou Xiao was riding on the tower to direct the battle.
"Sir, the enemy used tunnels to approach and fought very patiently." Dou Xiaoqi didn't even break a sweat, which shows that the defensive pressure is not great.
"Yeah." Ding Kui looked down the city and saw his own army pushing out several sections of wooden wall. Behind the wall, someone was digging a tunnel. The dug soil was put into sacks. The filled sacks were thrown into the mezzanine of the wooden wall.
Used to strengthen defense.
In addition to the wooden walls, there are seven or eight high platforms similar to wells. The front of the high platform is also filled with sacks.
"No wonder we waited until now to attack the city. It turned out that we were preparing these things." He also admired his army's combat experience. After seeing the power of crossbows, he soon found a way to deal with it.
It cannot be said that these devices can restrain the crossbow, but at least they can greatly weaken the lethality of the crossbow arrows, making it less easy to kill the soldiers hiding behind.
"Those wooden walls will be very heavy when filled with sacks, and I guess they won't be able to push them in the end." Lei Feixiang was originally commanding the reserve team at the bottom of the city. When he saw Ding Kui coming, he also climbed up the tower.
"Don't be careless. Can a trebuchet knock it down?" Ding Kui did not underestimate these instruments. People in this world are not lacking in war experience.
"The distance is still too far, and the trebuchet can't reach it for the time being. I'm afraid it will have to hit the same place continuously to knock it down."
Lei Feixiang has made rapid progress in the past few years, but his actual combat experience is still lacking. He is still far behind the veteran generals in the army. Even Ding Kui is better than him.
"Prepare more oil cans. The main bodies of those instruments are made of wood. Although earth bags are added, fire attacks are still effective. In addition, let everyone practice the accuracy of the crossbows so that they can attack people who show their faces within the range." Ding Kui saw through it at a glance.
Disadvantages of siege engines.
Wherever there is a spear, there is a shield. There is no absolutely invincible weapon on the battlefield.
The conditions of the north and south city walls were not much different. Our army patiently advanced little by little, not easily exposing the troops to the range of the crossbows.
However, a battle broke out between masters in the north, namely Shaodianye and the Sunset Archer of his country.
The two people who had fought against each other in the morning faced off again. Shao Dianye showed off his archery skills and attracted the sunset archers. However, the sixth-level warriors guarding the north on both sides happened to be great archers, Shi Jiang vs. Lang Chun.
Now Shaodianye stared at the general in the sky with his mouth open. The various archery skills and endless swear words subversively overturned the image of the great archer in his mind.
Shi Jiang talked more nonsense than Ding Kui during the fight, and most of them were slang words only used by street gangsters, which made Lang Chun, who was opposite him, fume with rage.
There was nothing he could do about it, he had grown up on the streets when he was a child, and after he left school he had been living in the underground world. His personal accomplishments were far from those of a noble family.
"Bah! You bastard, you have disgraced all the great archers!" Lang Chun scolded General Shi over and over again.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you old pervert, whose wife kept your face so white?" Shi Jiang changed the subject and began to slander Lang Chun.
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