Chapter 1832 Drag Across
When General Du was about to send out troops, the spies reported that the enemy was attacking.
He breathed a sigh of relief. In this case, he only had to hold on to the pass.
Defending a city is always relatively easy, as only a few non-elites can withstand the battlefield environment of elites.
It’s just that he thought wrong.
Ten days later, Saigu Pass was surrounded.
It is said that this pass is surrounded by mountains on one side and the sea on the other. The enemy cannot get around it and can only attack from one side.
In this way, the logistics are safe. As long as morale does not collapse, it will be extremely difficult for the enemy to conquer.
Historically, it was not until the collapse of the Ming Dynasty that the Manchus and Qing Dynasties entered the customs, so they could directly take the shortcut of Shanhaiguan. At other times, they took a thousand-mile detour.
This shows how powerful this pass is.
Player B had no choice but to travel thousands of miles into the ice and snow. The seaside side of Saigu Pass was completely frozen, and now he was doomed.
The rebel sleds, carrying provisions and baggage, swaggered across the ice.
They wanted to send cavalry for a sneak attack.
Unfortunately, the opponent had already expected it. Player B was frozen, and his men and horses fell down at the same time. Then the extremely expensive cavalry was hit by a group of infantry who had only been trained for half a year. They were hit with long hammers and stabbed with spears... …died in vain.
It would be a loss to exchange one cavalry for five infantry, not to mention that you can't even exchange for one now.
The distressed General Du vomited blood directly on top of the city wall.
Then he couldn't get out of seclusion, and desperately sent people to the back to ask for reinforcements.
After all, the rebels are not elite enough. They are surrounded by everyone, but there are still gaps.
The elite detective horse still passed the news back to the court.
This time things got serious.
The imperial court finally reacted and transferred back the northwest governor Lian Shigeng Xingye who had been quelling the chaos. He was given the title of Minister of War and led 90,000 troops, 80,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, all regular soldiers.
One hundred thousand more auxiliary troops were sent out, military pay was moved and moved, borrowed and borrowed, food and grass were plundered everywhere, and all the rotten grains from four or five years ago were unearthed, and the army was finally able to go on the road.
It was just that the soldiers and horses had just arrived fifty miles outside Saigu Pass, and the scouting horses reported that the pass had fallen.
General Du surrendered to the enemy and wrote more than a dozen letters to other people, asking them to surrender to the Lord of Destiny.
Lian Shigeng was very calm and did not rush to break the pass. He went to the village forty miles in front of the pass and set up twenty camps in a row.
Obviously the soldiers and horses are more elite and numerous, but they still put themselves on the defensive.
This defense lasted for half a month. Only elite cavalry were sent out of the city for guerrilla reconnaissance. There were dozens of small battles involving about a hundred people.
Most of the time they won, and a few times they lost, all because they met Shangguan Tiezhu personally leading the team.
Reporting from the horse exploration, grain and grass were continuously transported from the rear, and the entire area near the pass turned into a busy market.
The stockade is reinforced every day, with trenches and fences, and the camp looks more like a small town every day.
The documents urging war sent by the imperial court were shelved.
In the big account.
Lian Shigengzheng was discussing privately with three staff.
"Sir Governor, if you are delaying sending troops, you have to worry about someone in the court being slandered." Staff A said worriedly for the proprietor.
"Yes, I heard that someone in the court is impeaching you and Tianming. No, the demon secretly colluded in an attempt to lure him into the country." Staff B followed.
Lian Shigeng shook his head and looked at Staff C.
"The measures taken by the Governor are absolutely correct. If the enemy uses sorcery when we go out to camp, our army will have no way to resist. It is still the scorching heat of August. Soldiers cannot wear cotton-padded clothes and can only carry them with them. If the enemy uses witchcraft, our troops must immediately put on cotton-padded clothes, but if the enemy removes the witchcraft, our troops must immediately take off their clothes... The soldiers would have collapsed long ago if they were put on and taken off." Staff C shook his head and said.
"What Mr. Wu said is absolutely true. If we want to win the current plan, we can only delay it until winter. No matter how fierce the enemy's frost is, our army only needs to wear more cotton-padded clothes, and the opponent's soldiers must also wear cotton-padded clothes to fight. . In this way, both sides are evenly matched, and they have no advantage." Lian Shigeng is confident.
"That's it, the Governor is pleased."
"Easy to say, easy to say. Think about it, how should you deal with the demon's methods: ice arrows, freezing, and ice knives?"
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"Our cavalry has a lot of elite cavalry. We use a small number of hundreds of elite cavalry to attack his grain road one after another, making him exhausted... His troops will be defeated within a month." Several staff members are still very energetic, and they are very tired. A solution was soon found.
"That's right." Lian Shigeng nodded.
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Player B finally felt the pressure.
His methods are magical, but his opponent is even more cunning.
He needed two thousand infantry to block the hundred elite cavalry. Otherwise, his food route will be cut off.
Without food, his army will collapse.
The enemy has the trump card of cavalry.
And he didn't.
The mysterious voice gave him the awesome freezing technique, but not the awesome mobility.
He wanted to deal with those cavalry, but he didn't have the skills to deal with them.
Often the detective horse reports the location of the assault. By the time he arrives, the opponent has already escaped.
And his food was burned and robbed.
As soon as this tactic came out, it hit his weak spot.
After all, he has played the script so many times, so he is not a novice.
Immediately ordered the end of the confrontation, and the entire army retreated to Saigu Pass, and then thawed the frozen sea to restore the natural danger of the pass.
In this way, it becomes a situation where he is defending and the opponent is attacking.
The enemy's cavalry can no longer bypass the pass to cut off his food route.
As long as he guards Saigu Pass, he is not afraid that the other party will be able to attack.
However, he thought too simply.
How could Governor Lian not have thought of this?
When the opponent cut off the food road, he ordered the western frontier army to make a detour of thousands of miles and attack the area behind player B.
Burning, killing and looting.
Build a fortress.
Attack from front and back.
In short, it is to use the camp to fight against player B's magic.
Witches are powerful, but they are not cannons and bombs after all.
Ice knives and ice arrows are extremely limited in their role in a defensive camp.
The only irresistible thing is direct freezing, but they also discovered that the other party can only freeze a few people at a time, and cannot freeze too many people.
If someone is frozen, he can be saved by moving him down to warm himself over the fire in time.
When fighting in the field, there is no such condition, but when defending a city, there are conditions.
The opponent is at best equivalent to a powerful artillery piece.
You can also use bows and arrows to force the opponent not to get close.
In this way, they finally found a way to deal with the enemy.
Player B can't wait any longer.
But he didn’t want to admit that he was already capable of this sorcery, how could he still be defeated?
That’s not possible.
So many innocent people in history have been able to separate themselves from each other, why can't he?
He reacted quickly.
You need to establish a solid territory, not a place where enemies can come and go at will.
Soon he thought of where to build a stable site.
On a nearby island.
He can build an ice bridge, but when the enemy comes, he will break it.
If the enemy wants to use ships to transport troops, he only needs to create many icebergs.
In this way, he has a solid rear.
You can patiently fight a war of attrition with the court and repeat the old practice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that brought down the Ming Dynasty.
(End of this chapter)