Chapter 421: Set fire to the grain
The Baiteng clan quickly made a decision that they were going to attack, and they had to attack, and only by destroying and killing the enemy could their lives continue.
And after fighting for so many years, the losses of their own side are so big, they don't believe that the other party still has no losses, the other party's losses must be very huge, the other party is now the end of the strong crossbow, as long as they insist on attacking, they can win.
There is not much time left for the Hundred Teng Clan, so the attack of the Hundred Teng Clan is also unusually ferocious, in the daytime battle, the city wall was once lost, and the warriors of the Hundred Teng Clan were excited, and they successfully entered the castle along the city wall that they breached.
It's just that the Baiteng clan was happy too early, and when they entered the castle, they found that the castle was also densely populated with roads and many defensive facilities, and when they entered the castle, they attacked from all directions, and the attacking Baiteng warriors were dizzy.
After entering the castle, the warriors of the Baiteng tribe suffered heavy casualties, and almost all the warriors who entered the castle were killed, and in the end, the follow-up was weak, and the city wall was recaptured.
At this moment, the warriors of the Baiteng clan were really about to collapse, they originally thought that knocking down the city wall and entering the castle would be equivalent to victory, but who would have thought that even if the castle was knocked down, they had already entered the castle, and in the end they did not occupy the castle, but the warriors who entered the castle were killed.
They have never heard of such a war, let alone experienced it.
Wang Xiaoming's preparation is too sufficient, and the defense he established is not flat, but a three-dimensional defense circle, the city wall is only the front part of this three-dimensional defense circle, after crossing the city wall, inside the castle, there are many defense systems, and the whole castle is a large battlefield. If you don't have tens of thousands of lives to fill it, don't try to knock this castle down.
After a day of fierce fighting, the Baiteng clan had no other gain except for another two thousand casualties, and according to the current situation, it was impossible to take down the castle without continuing for more than half a month.
Faced with such a predicament, the great leader of the Baiteng clan did not dare to continue to persevere, and planned to rest for the night. Withdraw tomorrow.
This period of battle, for Wang Xiaoming's subordinates, is also a very important experience, after this period of blood and fire tempering, Wang Xiaoming's more than 1,000 people, has changed from the original recruits to elite soldiers, I believe that after the battle, only need to retrain them, a powerful iron army will appear.
And in Wang Xiaoming's opportunity. It is on the basis of these 1,000 people that he will expand his troops.
With 1,000 people as the backbone, it is easy to expand the team to 10,000 people, and wait until you have a team of 10,000 people. When the time comes, it will not be so passive when it comes to war.
The effect of the exercise is naturally excellent, but for the troops, they fight for a long time in succession without rest. It also put the troops in extreme exhaustion, but the troops are in good shape, and it shouldn't be a big problem to continue fighting.
But Wang Xiaoming also knows. It can't go on like this, and it's not a good thing for the troops to continue like this.
The purpose of the exercise has been achieved, and the battle should be over.
The Baiteng clan was preparing to retreat, but Wang Xiaoming was preparing to attack.
Wang Xiaoming naturally knew about the situation of the Baiteng tribe running out of food, as long as he held on for a few days, the Baiteng tribe would not fight and defeat himself because of the lack of rations, so as long as the Baiteng tribe was not a fool, he would definitely retreat before the rations were eaten.
But Wang Xiaoming won't let them retreat smoothly.
During this period of battle, Wang Xiaoming did not use the trick of night attack in the subsequent battles except after the night attack on the first day, so the vigilance of the Baiteng clan was getting lower and lower, and he gradually forgot the danger of night attack.
And tonight, Wang Xiaoming is ready to make another night attack.
And this night attack is different from the previous night attack, tonight's night attack, the main purpose is not to kill, but to destroy food.
The rations of tens of thousands of people, although they are only used for a few days, but the number is also very amazing, piled up as if it is a mountain of grain, you only need to look carefully to find the place where the grain is stacked, as long as these grains are burned, the last bit of rations of the Baiteng army will disappear, and they will collapse themselves without Wang Xiaoming to fight them.
The Baiteng clan naturally made a strict defense for their last ration, but no matter how tightly the defense was, under Wang Xiaoming's attack, it still had no effect.
In the early hours of that night, two hours before dawn, a gate of the castle quietly opened, and Wang Xiaoming quietly walked out of the gate with a hundred of the most elite soldiers.
Each soldier was armed with all kinds of weapons, especially when they carried a large package of gunpowder and oil on their backs, and the contents of this backpack, if spilled into the food, would cause a fire, enough to burn the grain piled up like a small mountain.
The Baiteng clan is naturally very strict with these last grains, but unfortunately, their opponent is Wang Xiaoming.
In the face of Wang Xiaoming's assassination, those patrolling Baiteng warriors did not play a role at all, and were silently assassinated by Wang Xiaoming.
Along the way, all the soldiers of the Baiteng tribe were cleared by Wang Xiaoming, and Wang Xiaoming led more than 100 people into the camp and arrived at the place where the grain was guarded.
In fact, it was for the purpose of training the team that Wang Xiaoming would have let the war go on until now, otherwise, with his ability, as long as he was willing to make a move, he would have repelled the army of the Baiteng clan a long time ago.
Don't look at the many people of the Baiteng Clan, but they are all ordinary people, and they don't even have heavy weapons, Wang Xiaoming can kill their big leader first, and then take advantage of the chaos to defeat the remaining Baiteng Clan.
That is, in order to exercise the combat ability of his subordinates and train a strong army, Wang Xiaoming did not do that.
And now, the purpose of training a strong army has been achieved, so Wang Xiaoming will personally take the manpower.
Under the leadership of Wang Xiaoming, the road was unimpeded, and soon arrived at the place where the other party's food was, and Wang Xiaoming disposed of the guards first. Then spread out more than a hundred people, pour fire oil on top of the grain, and then light the fire together.
When the flames burned, a great fire was immediately formed, and the entire mountain of grain was set on fire.
Wang Xiaoming waved his hand and retreated immediately with his subordinates.
The advantage of the Baiteng clan in terms of strength is too huge, although Wang Xiaoming himself is not afraid of those soldiers of the Baiteng clan, but his subordinates are not the opponents of those Baiteng people, so he must take advantage of the other party's panic and quickly escape with his subordinates. Otherwise, when the army of the Baiteng clan surrounds him, Wang Xiaoming himself can escape, but his subordinates are going to suffer.
And the more than 100 people brought out by Wang Xiaoming are all elite soldiers in the army, and Wang Xiaoming is reluctant to let them die in such a place in vain.
These soldiers are all seed soldiers of the future army, and every time they die, for Wang Xiaoming. It's all a loss.
The reaction of the Baiteng clan was also very fast, and the army quickly gathered from all over the place, fortunately, Wang Xiaoming led everyone to find the flaws of the other party to break through, and walked all the way. set fire all the way, which exacerbated the chaos in the camp of the Baiteng clan, and finally rushed out with his subordinates safely.
But at this time, it is impossible to go back to the city. The road back to the city has been blocked, and Wang Xiaoming can only walk outside with his people.
The army of the Baiteng clan was already in a hurry to save at this time. I want to save those grains, but it's a pity, the fire oil they dumped is too powerful, and the fire burns quickly, but it is too difficult and difficult to save it.
Seeing the fire burning, the leaders of the Baiteng clan turned blue one by one.
These grains are the last rations of their army, and they can only provide them with food for three days, and now, the last rations have also been burned by a fire, which makes them tens of thousands of horses, how can they continue to live?
People are iron, rice is steel, people only need to eat a meal, they will start to consume a lot of physical strength, and with the current situation, their tens of thousands of troops of the Baiteng clan only need to starve for a day, so wait to be slaughtered.
It only takes one day of starvation for the army to lose the strength to fight, and naturally it will only have the fate of being slaughtered by the other party.
The leaders of the Baiteng clan were already aware of this, so their faces were extremely ugly.
In the current situation, they couldn't think of more help, so they could only order someone to put out the fire quickly.
By the time the fire was extinguished, it was already dark, but unfortunately, the fire was so big that it almost burned up the grain, and the little food that could be left in the end was not enough for a thousand soldiers to eat.
In desperation, he sent people to collect grain, collected all the food that could be eaten, and then cooked a pot of smorgasbord gruel for all the soldiers to drink porridge and temporarily fill their stomachs.
It's just that these leaders also know that drinking porridge is useless, it's okay to drink porridge without exercising, as long as you exercise, it will be digested immediately, and you can't last too long.
But they have no choice but to drink porridge to resist.
After drinking the gruel, the army marched and immediately followed the path from which it had come, intending to return to its own territory.
Wang Xiaoming didn't stop it, in fact, he didn't need to stop it, he just needed to cut off their food.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming had already gathered together the team that had attacked the grain transport team before, and then took a step ahead of the army of the Baiteng tribe, so as to prevent the next batch of grain from being transported to the hands of the Baiteng tribe.
As long as the next batch of grain can be transported to the hands of these troops of the Baiteng clan a few days later, this army of the Baiteng clan will be finished.
In fact, it was also the case, two days later, the army of the Baiteng clan was hungry for two days, and after two days of starvation, the whole team was not good, and basically lost the ability to fight, at this time Wang Xiaoming led the troops to send the most fatal blow.
And this time the battle is still a front and back attack.
Wang Xiaoming personally led his men to block the road ahead, while the large army in the rear used various light and heavy weapons to launch a surprise attack on the warriors of the Baiteng tribe.
As soon as the two sides fought, the warriors of the Baiteng clan were defeated, and almost no one was still thinking about fighting.
In fact, at this time, the Baiteng clan had also lost the ability to fight, and their soldiers had been hungry for two days, and they were all so hungry that they couldn't even hold their weapons.
If it is said that the troops attacking at this time are still the same cold weapon troops as them, although the soldiers of the Baiteng clan have been hungry for two days, they also have the courage to think about fighting hard.
Tens of thousands of warriors of the Baiteng clan who are ready to fight desperately are still a very terrifying force.
It's just a pity that the enemy faced by the warriors of the Baiteng clan was a group of enemies who used muskets, and the musketeers killed the approaching Baiteng warriors from afar.
Originally, when they were full of physical strength, they were no longer the opponents of these musketeers, but now they have been hungry for two days, so they are not Wang Xiaoming's opponents.
Moreover, Wang Xiaoming's subordinates have also experienced the test of war, are experienced and courageous, and have changed from a recruit to a qualified veteran, and their combat effectiveness is completely different from before.
In the face of such a group of killing gods, the warriors of the Baiteng clan could not stop the attack of these troops at all, and it soon turned into a great rout.
Once the army in battle evolves into a major rout, it will have a chain reaction, and it will become impossible to recover it.
Seeing that his troops were defeated like this, the big leader of the Baiteng clan was really unwilling, but what about being unwilling, their tens of thousands of troops besieged thousands of people, but in the end they still failed, and it was not okay not to admit defeat.
The leader of the Baiteng clan gritted his teeth and watched the rout on the battlefield, and then quickly broke away from the team with his henchmen and fled towards the deep mountains and old forests.
The troops have already shown a major rout, and the order can no longer be conveyed, so the leader of the Baiteng clan can only manage himself, but for these armies that have been defeated, he is powerless, and he is no longer capable of managing this matter.
To be able to bring back his little life safely and securely is already a blessing in misfortune.
When these defeated soldiers were stopped by Wang Xiaoming, the defeated soldiers were desperate.
There was a killing god in the rear chasing them, and in front of the road, there were also troops to intercept them, and they had no way out.
With no way out, these Baiteng warriors also broke out with ferocity and launched an attack on the position presided over by Wang Xiaoming.
It's just a pity, their attack is too weak, and it was easily cracked by Wang Xiaoming.
At this moment, Wang Xiaoming asked people to shout and ask the soldiers of the Baiteng clan to surrender immediately. (To be continued......)