When General Du was about to send out troops, the spies reported that the enemy was attacking.
He breathed a sigh of relief. In this case, he only had to hold on to the pass.
Defending a city is always relatively easy, and only a few non-elites can withstand the battlefield environment of elites.
It's just that he thought wrong.
Ten days later, Saigu Pass was surrounded by people.
It is said that this pass is surrounded by mountains on one side and the sea on the other. The enemy cannot bypass it and can only attack from one side.
In this way, the logistics are safe, and as long as morale does not collapse, it will be extremely difficult for the enemy to conquer.
Historically, it was not until the collapse of the Ming Dynasty that the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty could directly take the shortcut of Shanhaiguan to enter the customs. At other times, they had to take a thousand-mile detour.
This shows how powerful this pass is.
Player B had no choice but to travel thousands of miles into the ice and snow. The seaside side of Saigu Pass was completely frozen, and now he was doomed.
The rebel sleds, carrying provisions and baggage, swaggered across the ice.
They wanted to send cavalry for a sneak attack.
Unfortunately, the opponent had already predicted it. Player B was frozen, and his men and horses fell down at the same time. Then the extremely expensive cavalry was beaten with long hammers, stabbed with spears... and died in vain by a group of infantry who had only trained for half a year.
It would be a loss to exchange one cavalry for five infantry, not to mention that you can't even exchange for one now.
The distressed General Du vomited blood directly on top of the city wall.
Then he couldn't get out of seclusion, so he desperately sent people to the back to ask for reinforcements.
After all, the rebel army is not elite enough. They are surrounded by everyone, but there are still gaps.
The elite scouts still passed the news back to the court.
This time things got serious.
The imperial court finally reacted and transferred back the northwest governor Lian Shigeng Xingye who had been quelling the chaos. He was given the rank of Minister of War and led 90,000 troops, 80,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, all regular soldiers.
An additional 100,000 auxiliary troops were sent, military pay was transferred and transferred, borrowed and borrowed, food and grass were plundered everywhere, and all the rotten grains from four or five years ago were unearthed, so that the army could finally be on the road.
However, the soldiers and horses had just arrived fifty miles away from Saigu Pass, and the scouting horses reported back that the pass had fallen.
Du Zongbing surrendered to the enemy and wrote more than a dozen letters to other people, asking them to surrender to the Lord of Destiny.
Lian Shigeng was very calm and did not rush to break the pass. He set up a stronghold forty miles in front of the pass and set up twenty camps in a row.
Obviously the soldiers and horses are more elite and numerous, but they put themselves on the defensive.
This defense lasted for half a month. Only elite cavalry were sent out of the city for guerrilla reconnaissance, during which dozens of small battles involving about a hundred people took place.
Most of the time, we won, and a few times we lost, all because we met Shangguan Tiezhu personally leading the team.
The horses came and went to report back, and grain and grass were continuously transported from the rear. The entire area near the pass turned into a busy market.
The stockade is reinforced every day, trenches and fences are built, and the camp looks like a small town every day.
The documents urging war sent by the imperial court were shelved.
In the big tent.
Lian Shigengzheng and three staff members discussed in private.
"Your Majesty the Governor, if you delay sending troops, you have to worry about someone in the court being slandered." Staff A said worriedly for the proprietor.
"Yes, I heard that someone in the court is impeaching you for being related to Tianming. No, the demon is secretly colluding in an attempt to lure him into the country." Staff B followed.
Lian Shigeng shook his head and looked at Staff C.
"The measures taken by the Governor are absolutely right. If the enemy uses sorcery while out in the camp, our army will be unable to resist it. It is still the scorching heat of August. Soldiers cannot wear cotton-padded clothes and can only carry them with them. If the enemy uses sorcery, we will not be able to resist."
The army must put on cotton-padded clothes immediately, but if the enemy removes the witchcraft, our army must take it off immediately... Putting on and taking off the clothes like this, the soldiers will collapse long ago." Staff C shook his head and said.
"What Mr. Wu said is absolutely true. If we want to win the current plan, we can only delay it until winter. No matter how fierce the enemy's frost is, our army only needs to wear more cotton-padded clothes, and the other side's soldiers must also wear cotton-padded clothes to fight. In this way, both sides will
Evenly matched, they have no advantage." Lian Shigeng was confident.
"That's it, the Governor agrees."
"Easy to say, easy to say. Think about it, how should you deal with the demon's methods: ice arrows, freezing, and ice blades?"
"Our cavalry has many elite cavalry. We use a small number of hundreds of elite cavalry to attack his grain road one after another, making him exhausted... His troops will inevitably collapse within a month." Several staff members are still very energetic, and they are very energetic.
I soon found a way.
"That's right." Lian Shigeng nodded.
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Player B finally feels the pressure.
His methods are magical, but his opponents are even more cunning.
He needs 2,000 infantry to block the hundred elite cavalry.
Otherwise, his food channel will be cut off.
Without food, his army will collapse.
The enemy has the trump card of cavalry.
And he didn't.
The mysterious voice gave him the awesome freezing technique, but it didn't give him the awesome mobility.
He wanted to deal with the cavalry, but he was unable to do so.
It is often the scout who reports the location of the assault. By the time he arrives, the opponent has already escaped.
And his food was burned and robbed.
As soon as this tactic came out, it hit his weak spot.
After all, he has played the script so many times, so he is not a novice.
Immediately ordered the end of the confrontation, the entire army retreated to Saigu Pass, and then thawed the frozen sea to restore the natural danger of the pass.
In this way, it becomes a situation where he is defending and the opponent is attacking.
The enemy's cavalry could no longer bypass the pass and cut off his food route.
As long as he guards Saigu Pass, he is not afraid that the other party will be able to break in.
However, he thought too simply.
How could even the Governor not think of this?
When the opponent cut off the food road, he ordered the western frontier troops to make a detour of thousands of miles and attack the area behind player B.
Burning, killing and looting.
Build a stronghold.
Attack from front and back.
In short, it is a black magic that uses a camp to fight against player B.
Although magic is powerful, it is not a cannon or a bomb after all.
Ice knives and ice arrows are extremely limited in their use when facing defensive camps.
The only irresistible thing is direct freezing, but they also discovered that the opponent can only freeze a few people at a time, and cannot freeze too many people.
If someone is frozen, move them down to warm themselves over the fire in time to save them.
When fighting in the field, there is no such condition, but when defending a city, there are conditions.
The opponent is at best equivalent to a powerful artillery piece.
And you can also use bows and arrows to force the opponent not to get close.
In this way, they finally found a way to deal with the enemy.
Player B can't wait any longer.
But he didn't want to admit that he was already capable of this sorcery, how could he still be defeated by others?
It can't be done.
In history, so many innocent people were able to separate themselves into one party, so why couldn't he?
He quickly reacted.
You need to establish a solid territory, not a place where enemies can come and go at will.
Soon he figured out where to build the stable site.
On a nearby island.
He can build an ice bridge, but when the enemy comes, he will break it.
If the enemy wants to use ships to transport troops, he only needs to create many icebergs.
In this way, he has a solid rear.
You can patiently fight a war of attrition with the imperial court and repeat the old practice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that brought down the Ming Dynasty.
