Li Xiang clapped his hands and said, "You're here just in time. General Gao Shun will bring him here right away!"
The leader of the trapped camp has his own name, Gao Shun. According to Li Yi, this unit of the trapped camp has such a deep relationship with Gao Shun that even now, this unit still retains the spirit of Gao Shun.
After this unit was recruited, Gao Shun's spirit gathered into a soldier, and this soldier became the leader of the trapped camp, and his name was also Gao Shun.
Gao Shun was nothing in the Three Kingdoms fighting alone, but when he and his men were trapped in the same camp, this unit was the most powerful infantry in the Three Kingdoms.
Even the cavalry could not win against this infantry.
Gao Shun's name is the same as that of a soldier in the trapped camp. His arms are larger than those of ordinary soldiers. He saluted Prime Minister Li: "Greetings, my lord!"
"It's finally here. I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Li Xiang said straight to the point: Zhangye County's city is high and deep, and it is unrealistic to rely on war machines to break up this city.
I have a plan. I will lead some soldiers to attack from the front, and then send two partial divisions to attack the east and west city gates first, making the other side think that our main attack is at the north gate.
Wait for a while, and Chongyi will lead a heavy infantry to attack the North City Gate. You and your army will station at the East City Gate or the West City Gate, waiting for my order. Once my order is conveyed, you will lead your army to kill them.
Go to the city of Zhangye County."
Li Xiang had a rough plan in mind, which was so fictitious and so real that the defenders in the city couldn't figure out where he was going to attack the city wall.
The South City Gate will launch two fierce attacks to make the opponent think that the main attack will finally fall at the South City Gate. After the enemy army is driven over, they will fall into the camp and attack the city. As long as one gate is opened, the Xiliang army can attack them.
Zhangye County City is in hand.
As for whether to launch an attack if he is trapped in the camp, he has to see the other party's reaction.
Gao Shun said in a low voice: "No!"
Gao Shun spoke very few words. If he remained silent, he would be easily forgotten by others, as if the saint had no sense of her existence.
If Li Xiang didn't know Gao Shun's position and put Gao Shun and an ordinary soldier together, he really wouldn't be able to pick out who was the leader of the trapped camp.
"That's it, you have just arrived to arrange the soldiers, and we will discuss it carefully in the big tent later!"
The battle plan needs to be very detailed. It does not mean stipulating where each unit should go, but it means dispatching the army everywhere. You don't have to advance, but the position of the army at that time must not be lost.
This is the idea that Li Xiang instilled in the Xiliang officers. If it is a single army, it is no problem for you to dispatch and retreat at will, because if you run away, it means that you have got rid of the enemy.
However, when you are fighting a large army, and suddenly a frontline unit escapes, this is a serious matter, because the entire battle is lost from a small place and is defeated.
If a large army enters the city and misses a place, allowing the enemy to attack from the side and behind the troops entering the city, how can the troops entering the city escape when they are attacked from both sides?
That night, the lights in the Xiliang tent were brightly lit. The next day, the Xiliang army began to make big moves. All kinds of war flags were waving, so that the defenders on the city wall phone did not know what the Xiliang troops in front of them were doing. Those people wanted to
What to do.
Ma Teng has lost its intelligence system to the outside world, and the Ma family's scouts are unable to pass some information to Zhangye County under the siege of the Xiliang army.
Boom, boom, boom!
On the Xiliang side, the sound of war drums filled the sky. The Xiliang army changed from its usual calmness and shouted slogans one after another. Their strong appearance made the garrison soldiers in the city fall one after another.
In a cold weapon battle, morale is very important. Even if the soldiers of the Xiliang Army are in desperate situations, they can maintain high fighting spirit and high morale, allowing the soldiers to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the war.
Since the Xiliang Army sent troops, the Xiliang Army has not been afraid of those enemies. When they were outside the pass, they were not afraid of those alliances. They were not afraid of fighting countless monsters in the dark world.
The army moved from the East to the West, and now there is a city from the East in the Western world. A large number of Xiliang items passed through that city and were sold well in the Western world.
Naturally, the West would be jealous of such a huge benefit. They sent a large army to attack the Xiliang army from the east, but they were all beaten back with a cup of gold.
While fighting back, the Xiliang army also took the territory of those people into their hands. Now the Western World has become the source of economic support for Xiliang's main army, and at the same time, it also provides support to Zhang Qingyun's Northwest Yamen from time to time.
After arriving in the pass, Li Xiang led the Xiliang army to conquer the north and south, drove away the original governor, and took Jiuyuan County into his hands. He attacked the beast army from the north, marched south to Danliangzhou, and conquered the Qingxi grassland in the east.
This is how the Xiliang Army gradually gained its reputation.
Zhangye Commandery City, Prime Minister Li is determined. Even if Emperor Daqian gives the order to retreat now, he will still capture this city, and God cannot stop the Xiliang army.
Faced with the frequent mobilization of the Xiliang army, Ma Teng could only respond to the ever-changing changes with a constant force. He deployed 30,000 troops in each city district with 5,000 people. At the same time, he summoned 50,000 militiamen from the civilians in the city and handed these militiamen to the leadership of the generals in each city.
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Zhangye County is not just Zhangye County. The civilians in the city also have the responsibility to defend the land. With sufficient food, he boldly asked the cooks to prepare a lot of meals at any time. As long as the soldiers were hungry, they could eat immediately.
Civilians who join the army can also enjoy such treatment.
They retreated from the wealthy families and some families that already existed in Zhangye County. They gave all the supplies they could not take away to the defenders.
Since they can't be taken away anyway, they might as well stay in Zhangye County City. If Governor Ma Teng can defend Zhangye County City, the value of the supplies they give to the defenders can be increased countless times.
Even if they fail, these supplies will not fall into the hands of Prime Minister Li. As long as they do not fall into the hands of Prime Minister Li, they feel that they can accept it.
As a big family and aristocratic family, they have many sources of intelligence. Look at the Northwest now. Except for the few families who have followed Prime Minister Li for a long time, other families have been severely suppressed. And once someone in the family commits a crime, those in the Northwest will not care.
No matter your status, you will act in accordance with the regulations set by Prime Minister Li.
They can't guarantee that there are no scum in their family. Some young people in the family who have no talent for cultivation and cannot inherit the family will usually choose to let themselves go. Even in the land of Liangzhou where the folk customs are fierce, it is inevitable to rob the women of the people and then destroy the whole family.
thing.
If this were in the northwest, the entire family would be implicated. There is also the issue of land. The northwest distributes a large amount of land to farmers, but those lands are not given to farmers, but are allowed to be cultivated by farmers. However, Prime Minister Li does not collect agricultural taxes.
That's all.
How could these people be willing to think about all their land being taken away by Li Xiang?
Therefore, Li Xiang's model in Liangzhou, or in other words, his model in the northwest, has no market in the entire Daqian Central Plains. As long as he is not desperate, no aristocratic family will join him!
But Li Xiang doesn't care. Does it have any impact on him whether those people join or not?
Now the officials of the Xiliang Headquarters in the northwestern land are studying, and it won't be long before the officials of the Xiliang Headquarters will enter the officialdom of the northwest.
There is no need for too many Xiliang headquarters officials in the imperial court, they only need to occupy important positions.
For the army, Xiliang headquarters soldiers must occupy an absolute position. The seventh and eighth legions can be composed of Daqian civilians. For the ninth legion, it needs to be composed of three parts: soldiers from the headquarters, grassland people, and Daqian civilians.
The mission of the Ninth Legion is very important. To guard the Qingxi Grassland, they face an extremely large number of Qing tribes!
The Seventh Legion is an elite division that can be composed of sect disciples, foreign races, such as Lou Fan, and a few but very brave races.
The same goes for the Eighth Army, but its main composition is still soldiers who were not selected from the selection of soldiers, but are stronger than ordinary people. These soldiers can also be called front-line army reserves. Once the front-line troops suffer heavy losses and need to go to the battlefield again, soldiers They have to be selected from the Eighth Legion.
Li Xiang firmly believed that as long as the military power was firmly in his hands, his territory would not be in chaos. If someone dared to confuse the people, he had no choice but to get rid of them as his enemies.
Even if people call him a tyrant, he won't hesitate. Anyway, others have their mouths and he can't control what they want to say. What he wants is to ensure the stability of Xiliang.
On the afternoon of the next day, a large number of tall ladders appeared outside each city wall, with wheels to assist in pushing them forward, and iron shields, which could effectively prevent enemy long-range attacks.
Now the moat of Zhangye County City has frozen, making it easy to cross the river.
In the south, Xiliang soldiers were approaching the city wall little by little under the protection of shields. Twenty tall ladders were pushed by Xiliang soldiers, getting closer and closer to the city wall. Some soldiers began to pull the ropes and pulled the hidden part of the ladder to the city wall. front.
The jumping soldiers holding swords and shields were the vanguard of this army. They held up their shields and followed the ladder in an orderly manner.
Whoosh whoosh!
Long arrows flew past them, some hit their shields, and some soldiers who were not so lucky and were hit in the legs by long arrows and fell down could only be escorted by the team to the bottom of the ladder. , he can only retreat to the rear when the soldiers behind him are in close contact with the enemy.
If they can still continue to participate in the battle, they will stay in the army. The serious injuries must not be forced, because they have to climb the stairs to a high wall of more than 20 meters, and the injury to the legs means that the speed will not be too fast.
This is the shortcoming, the weakness. If you are slow on the ladder, you will not only kill yourself, but also a lot of brothers behind you.
There was also a huge industrial city mixed in with the car, and the huge impact was aimed at the steel city wall.
"Pour the black water!"
Seeing the ladder leaning against the city wall, Ma Teng, the supreme commander of Nancheng District, did not hesitate to use the most defensive war tools in Zhangye County.
Heishui County is rich in black water. As long as the Xiliang army is defeated and the Ma family's army gathers together, they can take back Heishui County.
The soldiers on the city wall took out cans of black water and threw them at the soldiers from Xiliang headquarters. Before going into battle, the soldiers from Xiliang headquarters were informed that the other side had a large amount of black water.
They were well prepared. When they saw the black water jars being thrown at them, the Xiliang soldiers swung their long swords and split the small jars open. At the same time, they used their true energy to guide the black water to fall to the bottom of the ladder to prevent the black water from falling on the ladder.
There is a chance, but even if it falls, it will be okay.
There are still many cloud ladders in Xiliang. It won't be a problem if a few of them are burned. The craftsman camp can build five or six of them every day. As long as there are sufficient raw materials, Xiliang craftsmen can build hundreds of them.
Seeing this, the soldiers from the headquarters behind did not follow them in a hurry. Instead, they looked at the soldiers in front to see if they wanted to continue to rush forward. If they continued to rush forward, they would follow them. If not, they would rush forward.
Wait behind, maybe retreat below.
Snap!
A black water jar was smashed onto the ladder by soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters. The Xiliang soldiers in that group immediately retreated. Facing the black water, they had no better way other than prevention. If they were contaminated with the black water, the other party would be at a loss.
fire.
Even if they are far stronger than some soldiers, they cannot block Blackwater's attack.
The other ten ladders were not spared. After a stalemate for a while, the ladders were covered in black water, followed by raging fire.
The four city walls all chose to use black water against this tall war weapon.
More than 80 ladders were burned, and the black water reserves in the city were reduced by more than half. If you want to burn the ladders in Xiliang, you can't touch them without more than a dozen tanks.
In addition, the amount of black water stored in Zhangye County City is not very large, that is, because Zhangye County City is the capital of Liangzhou, so many materials are stored in the city. If it is an ordinary county city, there may not even be black water.
The areas where black water is most used are at the junction of Liangzhou and Xianbei, Qiang and other ethnic autonomous regions.
For example, in the two cities behind Zhangye County, those two cities are to the west and north of the river. There are some places where Qiang and Xianbei cavalry often appear.
What frightened the cavalry the most was the black water jar. As long as the jar was thrown into it, even an expert would be injured.
"General, this kind of siege weapon is so weird!" Deputy General Ma Teng walked to the edge of the city wall and saw the ladder that just hooked the city wall: "They are huge in size and have super strong defense underneath. Once they are hooked by this machine,
If you want to push the city wall up to this ladder, it is equivalent to pushing down the Xiliang soldiers below."
"This siege weapon is much better than the ladder we use!" Most of the ladders used by Daqian are made of bamboo. They can be easily lifted when climbing the city wall.
The people on top fell down together with the bamboo.
This was the first time they had seen a siege tool like Xiliang.
"Enter the second team, this time with ordinary ladders!" Li Xiang gave the order, and the Xiliang soldiers behind him, in teams of ten, rushed forward quickly with a large number of ladders.
The attack on the other three city walls was not continued. Facing the tall city walls, without siege equipment, it was very difficult to defeat them.
