Chapter 689 The war begins
Ma Dacheng stood on top of the city, looking at the overwhelming banners in the distance and the various siege weapons that were slowly approaching, and suddenly felt a ridiculous feeling in his heart.
Yangguan was originally established to prevent forces from outside the Pass from invading the Pass, and he had been stationed in Yangguan for nearly twenty years and had been working hard for this goal.
But who knows that in the end, Yangguan will become the first line of attacks from outside the pass.
In this battle between the two sides, if you include the auxiliary troops such as Qingzhuang and Minfu, the strength assembled by both sides exceeded at least 300,000 people.
There are only 40,000 people in Yangguan, but behind the operation of these 40,000 people, there are at least twice as many people of all kinds.
The army on the opposite side was multiple times that of Yangguan, which meant that the number of civilians they mobilized was definitely several times that of Yangguan.
Such a war would be extremely costly.
In fact, people like Cui Ming and Linghuye have made an extremely accurate judgment, and that is that the current Beiting Protectorate is indeed very difficult financially. It's not that Xiao Changche doesn't want to mobilize more troops, but To recruit more troops, the Beiting Protectorate could not afford this huge expense.
If it lasts for a few more years, the Beiting Protectorate can accumulate enough money and food,
But no one expected that Li Dachui's trip to the south of the Yangtze River would drastically change the entire situation in the world, and the decisive battle would suddenly be advanced.
Mao Daxian did not expect such a change, let alone Xiao Changche.
Therefore, Mao Daxian insisted on using defense as offense, with Yangguan Jiancheng as the core, and fought hard against the opponent.
This is also the overall decision of the Beiting Protectorate.
But how to implement this decision depends on Commander Xiao Changche.
As for Xiao Changche's style, she was destined to use offense as defense. While holding on to Yangguan, she opened two battlefields at the same time in the Volcano Fort and Huxiaoyuan.
She defended Yangguan, but she attacked the Volcano Castle and Tiger Roaring Plains.
Tiger Roar was originally for the future, but Volcano Castle can be directly regarded as the flank battlefield of Yangguan. Once it can win, it will have a huge psychological impact on the enemies on the main battlefield.
Compared with defeating the opponent head-on in Yangguan, the possibility of success in Volcano Castle is much greater.
Although it is three thousand to ten thousand.
These three thousand people were personally led by Xiao Changche.
"An Xuan, is this your first time fighting an offensive and defensive battle of this scale?" Ma Dacheng looked at An Xuan, who was blond, blue-eyed, and bear-like next to him.
An Xuan nodded: "We prefer to start a battle and start a duel on the vast land. Winning or losing can happen in a moment. It's not so troublesome!"
Ma Dacheng laughed: "What if the enemy is much stronger than you? Are you going to fight against the stone?"
"Then run away! Avoid its sharp edges, then discover the enemy's weaknesses, find the right opportunity, and make another surprise attack!" An Xuan said with a smile: "Being strong is not scary, you can always reveal your flaws!"
"This is why you can only be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no way to prevent a thief for a thousand days!" Ma Dacheng said: "But your style of fighting is not suitable for us. You have also seen that within Yangguan, there are also surrounding areas. There are so many people. If we leave, these people will become the enemy's prey. And if we lose this Yangguan, our Beiting will be locked out of the pass by them. So this time, we can only force them face to face. Touch!”
An Xuan breathed out, "Now I understand!"
His tribesmen have been resettled by the Beiting Protectorate in more than a dozen counties outside Guan Guan. They have built new houses, allocated fields, and enclosed pastures. An Xuan went for a tour before coming to Yangguan. The tribesmen are now all They are very happy and at ease because they can farm and graze without any distractions. This is completely different from the days they had in previous years.
In those years, he kept moving, fighting, and staying in one place for a month or two, even if it was a long time. Under such circumstances, there was no production at all, and all was consumption. He could only watch helplessly as the clan The number of people is decreasing day by day, not only those who died on the battlefield, but also those who died of disease and hunger, especially those babies who died in infancy, which is even more regrettable. During this inspection, many ethnic groups had new members of their families, which caused them to give out a lot of rewards, which made them all strapped for cash.
"You command, I will kill the enemy!" An Xuan said simply: "I can't defend the city!"
"I'm afraid that sometimes I have to go out of the city to kill the enemy!" Ma Dacheng said: "It's impossible to defend to the death!"
"The thousand men under my command are all good at rushing into battle!"
"Thank you!" Ma Dacheng said with cupped hands.
An Xuan's Taoist cultivation is higher than him, and his position in the Beiting Protectorate is higher than him. But now the top commander of Yangguan is Ma Dacheng. Ma Dacheng is a little worried that An Xuan will make a fool of himself. After all, the other party is a bastard. people.
As he spoke, a whistling sound was heard in his ears. A huge stone bullet flew up from behind the city wall and hit the ground more than a thousand steps away. A large crater was made in the flat ground.
An Xuan raised his eyebrows. Even if he was hit by such a big stone, he couldn't resist the blow. He looked back at the hundreds of huge trebuchets under the Yangguan city wall, and suddenly Feeling that manpower is exhausted, can the innate person be able to withstand such a blow? I'm afraid it's too much!
Of course, no matter if you are like yourself, at the ninth level of Xuanyuan, or even more innate, you cannot let such a thing hit you. However, when thousands of people started to attack the city, this thing fell from the sky, I'm afraid there's no place to hide.
"This thing is not actually used against people!" Ma Dacheng seemed to have understood An Xuan's thoughts: "These giant trebuchets are used to deal with the opponent's siege weapons. They are like siege engines. Come on, towers and other things are the biggest threat to our city walls, but if you take one shot, you will be finished. Hehe, boiled gold juice is more effective!"
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The smell wafting in the wind made An Xuan look a little strange.
The so-called golden sweat is made by adding water to human and animal excrement and boiling it. If this stuff is poured on the body, a person will basically be disabled. The soldiers lifted up the bundles of arrowheads and dipped them in the boiled dung water. After a while, he was carried away again. The mortality rate of people shot by such arrows was as high as 80%.
An Xuan's tribe used to do this kind of dipping of arrowheads.
Streams of wolf smoke rose into the sky, and the drum sound gradually became more powerful from thin. It was the momentum that could only be demonstrated by hundreds of large drums beating at the same time. Then An Xuan saw that from behind the opponent's military formation, Huge carts were pushed out one after another, and around the carts were densely packed infantry, and countless cavalry jumped out from the rear formation, rushing toward Yangguan like lightning.
"It's started!" Ma Dacheng said with a smile: "I started working as soon as I arrived. I'm really impatient."
"So many siege vehicles!" An Xuan exclaimed.
"A wealthy family has a lot of money and a lot of craftsmen!" Ma Dacheng said with a smile: "It is easy for them to build such a thing."
"It is indeed very rich!" An Xuan said: "Such a commercial vehicle, even if it is a one-time use, will cost a lot of money, right?"
"Not counting labor, you still need hundreds of dollars, right?" Ma Dacheng said. "War is a luxury."
"They also have catapults!" An Xuan pointed at the big guys who were being pushed out one after another from the building opposite. "Good guy, how many are there? It seems to be a lot more than us!"
"The range of this kind of thing built on the ground is not as far as ours! If one-third can be pushed within the range that can hit us, it is considered good!"
Before he finished speaking, the trebuchets in the city had already started roaring. Hundreds of large stone projectiles flew into the sky, and the sight of them falling to the ground looked extremely spectacular.
Along with the rumbling sound, some trucks and catapults were hit by bullets and were smashed into a pile of waste wood, while some stone bullets fell into the air, splashing smoke and dust all over the ground.
In the distance, the drums beat louder, the soldiers began to run faster, and the cavalry had already leapt to draw their bows, and the whistling arrows were flying towards the city.
(End of chapter)