When Yang Ting finished dressing up and climbed to the top of the city, Zhao Jun was already ready to attack below the city.
Yang Ting was secretly shocked as soon as she swept the city.
Zhao Jun's troops were neatly dressed in bright helmets. Although there were thousands of troops, they entered and exited in an orderly manner. The flags at the front and rear fluttered fiercely in the wind, giving them the look of a mighty army that has fought hundreds of battles.
Although Yang Ting was extremely courageous and this was not her first encounter with the enemy, she was still overwhelmed by the power of Zhao's army and could not suppress the uneasiness and agitation in her heart.
"It seems that we have underestimated Zhao Jun!" Yang Ting whispered to Liu Xu next to her: "Zhao Jun is coming this time with elite troops!"
LiuXu immediately turned pale with fright and asked:
"Miss, our troops haven't been mobilized yet, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to withstand the Zhao army's attack."
"But what should we do?"
Yang Ting thought for a while and replied:
"Don't panic."
"Although we don't have enough troops, we have a steady stream of reinforcements coming from all over."
"As long as we resist for a while, reinforcements will arrive one after another."
After thinking for a while, Yang Ting ordered again:
"Order Zhang Xuan and his men to form a formation at the gap!"
"We must not let the Qin army rush into the gap and capture the city gate!"
Liuxu said "Promise" and turned around to deliver the order.
But before walking a few steps, Yang Ting called her back.
"Inform Shen Bing of the situation!"
LiuXu thought she heard wrongly.
The captain actually had to inform Shen Bing of the situation during the battle?
A chaplain?
But after Yang Ting cast an urging look, Liu Xu suddenly woke up and left in response.
In fact, Yang Ting didn't know why she wanted to notify Shen Bing.
There is no reason why a school captain should let a gunnery officer know when he is commanding a battle.
As a countermeasure?
Shen Bing has already mentioned the countermeasures, and this is how he is deploying them now.
For emergencies?
What kind of emergency can Shen Bing and his cavalry handle? Besides, the trebuchet is of little use in close combat between the enemy and ourselves.
That's...
Yang Ting thought about it carefully and realized that it would be unsafe not to tell Shen Bing.
In other words, this is purely for the purpose of seeking a sense of security.
This answer shocked Yang Ting.
"Pooh!"
"Do I, Yang Ting, still need a sense of security?"
"It's more like grabbing him by the ears and beating him violently!"
However……
Why "pulling the ears?"
You actually want to pull his ears?
Yang Ting became more and more confused as she thought about it, and her face turned red unconsciously.
She peeked at both sides, but luckily everyone else's attention was on Zhao Jun and they didn't notice any difference in her demeanor.
When he was thinking wildly, he heard the sound of drums in the city, and Zhao Jun moved trebuchets to the front of the formation.
Yang Ting took a closer look and couldn't help being dumbfounded.
What Zhao Jun used turned out to be a new trebuchet.
Shen Bing's improved new trebuchet...
"How unreasonable!" Yang Ting cursed: "You actually learned how to use our trebuchet to attack our army!"
When rubble was flying at the top of the city and screams were heard, Liu Catkin had already informed Zhang Xuan.
In fact, Zhang Xuan had already led his men to set up a formation at the gap without Yang Ting's order.
This was the previous plan.
It's just Shen Bing's plan.
Zhang Xuan was a little depressed because of this, and he was still troubled when facing the enemy:
"How could you leave the city wall undefended and leave a gap open for the enemy to attack?"
"The captain must have been in battle before, but was convinced by Shen Bing's monstrous words and believed them to be true."
"Ci County is already weak, so why does it need to show weakness to the enemy?"
"It would be better now to lead the main force of the Zhao army to attack in a large scale."
"How can we defend it if our army only has more than 5,000 men?"
“These ignorant kids are going to kill us on this trip!”
…
It has to be said that in marching operations, strategy and tactics sometimes conflict.
Such as this time.
From a strategic perspective, it requires showing weakness to the enemy.
But from a tactical perspective, leaving the gap unfilled is indeed not conducive to the Qin army's defense.
Of course, tactics must unconditionally obey strategic needs.
But it was difficult for the ancients of the Qin Dynasty to see this clearly, at least Zhang Xuan couldn't understand it.
Of course Liu Xu didn't know what Zhang Xuan was thinking. After informing him, she immediately found Shen Bing.
"Dragonist!"
"The situation has changed. The Zhao army has come with elite troops."
"Does our army need to adjust... adjust its deployment?"
This was actually what Shen Bing expected.
First of all, Zhao Jun itself is not weak.
If we do not look at the overall strength of the country but only the combat effectiveness of its troops, Zhao should be the strongest among the six countries.
Because it has been fighting for many years on the border with the Xiongnu in the north, it has many famous generals with rich fighting experience.
This can be seen from the fact that Qin sent troops to Zhao many times and was defeated by Zhao's army.
The reason why the State of Zhao was finally destroyed by the State of Qin.
On the one hand, the ignorant king killed Li Mu and destroyed the Great Wall.
On the other hand, there were natural disasters: earthquakes and droughts, which made the already weak Zhao State even worse.
What's more important is...
This time Zhao Jun took a boat down the river to sneak attack on the Great Wall.
Taking a boat means limited troops.
If your troops are limited and you want to capture the Great Wall, you must choose elite troops.
So of course the Qin army had to face the best of the best.
Shen Bing didn't say anything before because he was worried about being accused of "emboldening the enemy's ambition and destroying his own prestige".
What's more, what can I do if I say it?
Scheduling and deployment are still the same, and how to do it is still the same.
"There is no need to adjust the deployment!" Shen Bing replied while busy with the work at hand.
"But... if our army is defeated..." Liu Xu was worried that Shen Bing didn't know the seriousness of this matter.
At least Shen Bing gave people the impression of being calm.
No one can be so calm in this situation unless he doesn't know the consequences.
But in fact, Shen Bing knows the consequences better than anyone else.
If Zhao Jun cannot be stopped, all arrangements and strategies will be in vain.
It can even be said that his strategy of "showing weakness to the enemy" is still wrong.
Because if it weren't for the purpose of showing weakness to the enemy, at least half of the gap in the city wall could be blocked.
The Qin army could at least rely on the city walls to resist for a while.
Maybe we can use the new trebuchet and the geographical advantage to make up for the gap while attacking.
But now...
Shen Bing did not stop. After measuring, he used a bamboo branch to draw a line on the ground and answered:
"The captain is wise!"
"The Zhao army will definitely use the gap in the Great Wall as a breakthrough and then turn to attack the city gate."
"Once the Zhao army captures the city gate...our army will be defeated."
LiuXu sounded angry and anxious:
"Since you know that the war situation is urgent, you are still here to have fun?"
"Don't you want to think about a strategy to retreat from the enemy?"
Shen Bing spread his hands and replied:
"grown ups."
"The villain is just a chaplain!"
"Isn't it only you who need to consider the strategy to retreat from the enemy?"
"What's more, the outcome is still unknown. Are you too impatient?"
Liuxu was so angry that she stamped her feet and turned around to leave.
Shen Bing quickly shouted:
"Your Majesty, please forgive me."
"It's about your family and my life, how can a villain not be anxious?"
"What the villain is doing now is a strategy to defeat the enemy!"
When Liu Xu heard this, she turned around in confusion, looked at Shen Bing up and down, and asked:
"You are just making plans here, how can you come up with a strategy to defeat the enemy?"