Su Chen was also puzzled, what did Osman want to do?
Escape wasn't enough. Although he lost a lot of artillery, he didn't lose much of his troops.
Counting the more than 10,000 people on the east bank of the river, Osman still has more than 60,000 troops in his hands!
If he relies on Xila City for defense, Su Chen won't be able to do anything to him for a while.
"You shouldn't run away. I'm probably going to help the soldiers and horses on the other side of the river cross the river and build a pontoon bridge."
Su Chen looked at the map in front of him and said.
"Commander, the Persians spent a lot of money to blow up the pontoon bridge. If the Ottomans build a new one, it will not be in vain."
Liu Jingren glared.
Rapupasu continued: "Last time it was a sneak attack and it was a lucky success. If Osman re-erected the pontoon bridge, it would be difficult to break the story."
Cheng Wu pointed at the map with his finger: "The problem is that we can't stop Osman!"
"Othman led his troops north again. It's time to go to the shore and watch,"
"It's more than twenty miles away from us, and there's the city of Shila in the middle."
"In this case, we have no way to stop it."
Master Sun Ren also sighed and said: "Yes, once we go north, we will definitely be attacked from the front and rear by the Ottomans and the defenders of Shira City."
"We are outnumbered to begin with. If we are attacked from both sides, we probably won't be able to handle it with our small manpower!"
Su Chen frowned and said, "This is probably what Osman had in mind!"
"If we go to stop him from building the bridge, we will be attacked from both sides,"
"If you don't do anything, he will put up the pontoon bridge."
Everyone smiled bitterly and said: "In this case, there is nothing we can do with Osman's move."
"It seems that our previous work was in vain!"
Su Chen was unhappy: "Osman has a good idea. If he leads his elite troops to the north, isn't he afraid that I will take the city of Shira?"
Everyone looked at Su Chen, and Cheng Wuting said: "Commander, even if Osman leaves the city of Shira with 20,000 troops, there are still 20,000 to 30,000 defenders in the city!"
"There are artillery, trebuchets, etc. on the city wall. It's not that easy for us to take down Hilla City!"
"Besides, Osman didn't go far. He traveled ten or twenty miles and came back in an hour."
Su Chen: "Then we can't just watch him put up the pontoon bridge again!"
"Rather than going to destroy his bridge and being attacked from both sides, I think it is more certain to attack the city of Shila."
Everyone frowned, feeling that neither of them had much confidence.
"Commander, didn't you say before that you didn't plan to attack Xila City?"
"Besides, once we start to attack the city, Osman will definitely come back to rescue us. Then we will still be attacked from both sides."
"The general didn't think it was better to go north to stop the Ottomans from building the bridge. That way at least we wouldn't have to face the cannibals."
Hearing what Master Sun Ren said, everyone nodded silently in agreement.
Su Chen shook his head: "On the surface, this is indeed the case!"
"But what if we can delay Osman, or quickly capture the city of Hilla before Osman comes back?"
Everyone looked at Su Chen: "Commander, there are still 20,000 to 30,000 defenders in the city!"
"Osman can come back in an hour. Counting the time it takes to deliver the message, it won't take more than two hours?"
"Can we capture the city of Shila in such a short time?"
Su Chen smiled and said: "The food army is currently distracted, let's give it a try!"
"Those on the east bank of the river and those brought north by Osman should be the elite of Osman's men. Those who remain in the city are probably local troops gathered from various places."
"I guess the resistance of the giant cannibals is far less than it used to be."
After everyone heard this, they felt that although it made some sense, they still felt that they were not very sure.
"Besides, we have been shouting for three days. If we don't surrender, we will burn the city of Hilla."
"Now that the time has come, we cannot leave without any indication,"
"That will boost the enemy's morale."
When everyone heard what Su Chen said, they didn't know how to respond:
At that time, he boasted that he had 100,000 pounds of Greek fire, but Osman didn’t believe it at all. Marshal, you can’t be angry about this!
"Commander, we don't have that much Greek fire."
Xue Rengui reminded carefully.
Su Chen sneered and said: "Greek fire doesn't have that much, so just one hundred thousand catties of gunpowder!"
Everyone gasped: "We don't have that much gunpowder!"
Su Chen glared and said, "What we originally carried, and what the Persians sent us a few days ago, is this possible?"
Everyone hurriedly said: "That gunpowder still needs to be used for cannons!"
"Commander! Calm down! Don't get angry with the big eater!"
Su Chen shook his head: "Aren't I just trying to get angry with the cannibals? If not, why would we take the city of Shila so quickly?"
Cheng Wuting said: "The commander-in-chief wants to use this to break the will of the big cannibals to resist and make them give up resistance?"
Su Chen smiled: "I have this idea, what do you think?"
Sun Renshi: "Commander, the city of Xila is not small, and the hit rate of hot air balloon bombs is very low."
"Even if we use a large amount of gunpowder for bombing, it's hard to say what effect we can achieve."
"And if you do this, Commander, our gunpowder will soon run out!"
Su Chen: "It definitely has a deterrent effect,"
"I don't really expect that large-scale bombing alone can scare away the predators,"
"I'm going to try sending soldiers directly into the city using a hot air balloon."
When everyone heard this, they hesitated: "Commander, haven't we tried it before?
The effect of the hot air balloon airlift into the city was very poor."
Of course, hot air balloons can fly over the city wall and drop troops into the enemy city.
Everyone has thought about this method before, but after testing it was found that the effect was very unsatisfactory.
The main reason is that the load capacity of the hot air balloon is too small, the number of hot air balloons themselves is not large, and the number of troops delivered at one time is too small.
Moreover, the speed and direction of a flying hot air balloon are difficult to control accurately, let alone hovering in the air. There is no way to deliver troops to a fixed point.
In this case, a very small amount of troops would be dispersed into the enemy's city and would not be able to function as a surprise attack. Instead, they would be easily wiped out by the enemy.
Su Chen smiled: "We used to conduct experiments based on the enemy's normal defensive state."
"Now the master garrison in the city is in panic. Let's give him another large-scale bombing to completely frighten the enemy, and then airdrop troops into the city for a surprise attack. The effect should be much better than we thought before."
After thinking about it carefully, everyone thought it might be worth giving it a try.
The main reason is that everyone has no other good ideas. They can't just watch Osman re-erect the pontoon bridge while standing still.
Nothing was done.
"Commander! It's still the same problem. As soon as there is any movement on our side, Osman will come back for reinforcements at any time. Once the plan does not go smoothly, we will immediately be in danger of being attacked from both sides."