vstars Chapter 670: Do it big
Chapter 670: Do it big
Lingnan City.
There were only 80,000 soldiers in the city, and the walls were not particularly high. But there were plenty of food, fodder, and arrows in the city, so it was not easy to capture it.
With Zheng Feiying at the front, the Heavenly Wolf Emperor can rest assured. Therefore, it can be said that there is no powerful general in the entire Heavenly Wolf East.
There is no garrison commander in the city. The city lord has the ability to govern but not the ability to fight.
That was why he panicked the first time he saw the 20,000-man army and was anxious to deploy defenses.
Xu Wen launched an offensive while the city's defenses were not yet ready.
The battle was fierce and we almost conquered the city.
But there were only a few flying ladders as siege weapons, so it was unsuccessful.
Since then, Xu Wen also realized that the city could not be taken down by force.
So he began to make siege equipment on a large scale, with the main goal of intimidating the defenders in the city.
The city lord panicked and began to look for help everywhere.
There were not many soldiers in the nearby cities, but considering the importance of Lingnan City, if no soldiers were sent there, there would be a reckoning in the future when the city was broken, so they still gathered some people over.
Xu Wen surrounded the area and attacked the reinforcements, killing the soldiers who came to support him along the way. In one month, he killed more than 10,000 people.
Over the past month, the city lord spent most of his first few days on the city wall and in the military camp at night, for fear that Lingnan City would fall.
But later he gradually realized that the enemy had no siege equipment, seemed unable to break in, and had never thought of fighting at all.
So he relaxed his guard a little, only coming for two or three hours a day, and letting his trusted confidants watch him the rest of the time.
After a while, he came to the tower less often, only once a day. If the soldiers were not alert enough, he would scold them and deduct some of their wages. If they were alert enough, he would give them some rewards.
Under his rewards and punishments, the city's defense has been pretty good.
At nightfall, the soldiers almost let down their guard.
Dozens of elite soldiers from the Vanguard Army, dressed in black, quietly crept to the bottom of the city wall under the cover of moonlight. Their leader was Qiu Chu.
He held a large hook in his hand, swung it hard, and finally threw it onto the top of the city wall.
I pulled it twice and there was no problem.
In order to avoid being exposed, he gestured to everyone, and then climbed up alone using the rope.
The sentinels almost dropped their guard and fell into a drowsy state, because they could not imagine that someone could climb over the seven or eight meter high wall.
Immediately afterwards, one after another, the vanguard troops climbed up.
A five-man patrol of Sirius soldiers came over. Qiu Chu got to the back of them and pinched the neck of the last one.
The rest followed suit and eliminated a team.
A sentry looked over and was about to sound the alarm when a flying knife flew through the air and killed him.
An operation to capture the city begins.
These elite troops acted quickly, and within half a quarter of an hour, they had eliminated all the soldiers on the city wall.
A quarter of an hour later, 20,000 vanguard troops attacked this side. The scouts hiding outside hurried back and asked the people on the city to sound the alarm.
But all he had to face were bows and arrows.
By the time the Lord of Lingnan City reacted, the entire City Lord's Mansion had been surrounded.
The soldiers put up a resistance, but they were no match for the Vanguard Army.
At this point, Lingnan City was broken.
The battle to close the gate has been going on for a whole month.
Of the 140,000 soldiers under Zhang Cheng's command, only 80,000 are left.
This group of soldiers is not strong, and can even be considered relatively weak.
Zhang Cheng is not considered a famous general. In terms of strength, he is probably ranked only 70 or 80 on the list of great generals.
The 50,000 defenders inside the gate could not hold out relying on the city wall. His only option was to attack head-on.
Fortunately, the soldiers were very brave and fought bravely, and finally they captured the city on the 38th day.
Zhang Cheng stood under the city wall, with countless corpses below.
"Took it."
He breathed out.
Too many people died in this battle, but it must be won.
Because they have three teams, they must win the next game. The teacher is facing Zheng Feiying and 100,000 soldiers. Although the Xianzhen Army has the advantage in numbers, it cannot bring any siege equipment into the city.
Only his route is the easiest to attack.
Looking down, countless soldiers dropped their weapons, not wanting to do anything, just lying quietly, and some even fell asleep.
They attacked for three days and three nights in a row, and even though they took turns, most of the people were already exhausted by now.
"How much food is left?"
Zhang Chengqiang propped himself up and asked.
"It's enough to last for half a month."
The deputy general replied.
"It's not enough. Send some soldiers to grab food from the surrounding cities and villages."
A hint of ruthlessness flashed across Zhang Cheng's face.
If you ask him to massacre the city, he can't do it because he is not that cruel.
But he has to get back some of what the Tianlang Kingdom did to his house, right?
By taking away the food, we can also let the residents of Tianlang Country feel the despair of having no food.
"promise."
His deputy general agreed without any hesitation.
……
Lin Xiaofan was chased and blocked by several groups of tens of thousands of soldiers and fled in all directions.
But for more than a month, the two sides did not fight each other once.
During this period, Lin Xiaofan found many ambush locations. As long as he wanted to fight, he could deal a heavy blow to the army behind him.
But he didn't move, because there was no point in fighting with the soldiers behind him.
He wanted to intercept the army of Tianlang Country, which had more than 100,000 people. He only brought less than a thousand people with him this time, so every bit of manpower and every bit of energy had to be used to the best effect.
The several armies of the Tianlang Nation had not been able to catch up with him. Because these generals knew of Lin Xiaofan's reputation, they were very cautious in their actions.
With the mentality of preferring to do nothing rather than make mistakes, whenever they passed a place where there might be an ambush, they would have scouts search it carefully dozens of times before moving on.
At this turtle-like speed, it would be strange if he could catch up with Lin Xiaofan.
During this period of time, Lin Xiaofan did a lot of robbing food and grass. The main purpose of this was to confuse the Heavenly Wolf King and make them think that he just wanted to cut off the food supply.
"Brother Lin, the scouts reported that the several armies of 10,000 people behind us are almost all heading towards the Tianlang capital."
Duanmu Liangjiang came to report.
"It looks like that side won."
Lin Xiaofan looked towards the east.
Da Qi would never suddenly take action against Tianlang Kingdom at this critical juncture.
Even if the Tang Dynasty defeats Tianlang, it will have to go around the Longhu Mountains if it wants to attack Tianlang. It will not pose a big threat to Tianlang and will definitely not force the Tianlang Emperor to send troops back to defend the capital.
Then there is only one possibility, Sun Wufeng, Xu Wen and Zhang Cheng won.
The eastern border of Tianlang Kingdom has fallen, with nearly 200,000 people there, who may attack the capital of Tianlang at any time.
In order to protect the country's foundation, the Sirius Emperor recalled the soldiers.
"There will be no more food and grass to cut off."
Lin Xiaofan talked to himself.
"Brother Dafan, how about we do something bigger?"
Xu Wu's eyes were full of fighting spirit.
During this period, they won every battle, and each time was a big victory. This made Xu Wu full of confidence and he wanted to do something big.
"Very dangerous."
Lin Xiaofan said.
"What are you afraid of! It's just the Tianlang Country."
Xu Wu curled his lips.
"Do you dare to intercept the 150,000 troops of Tianlang?"
Lin Xiaofan asked.