Chapter 726: Living and Dying with This City
Suyu County.
The number of defenders in this county town known for its developed commerce is not much, when the army of the Rilang Kingdom had just landed, there were only less than 500 county soldiers in Xu County and Pei County, which was equivalent to the box soldiers of Daning according to the level, but in fact, the regular army of the Miao State could not beat the box soldiers of Daning, not to mention the county soldiers of the Miao country, which was basically the combat effectiveness of the militia group.
After Li Wenshan led the army to arrive, he sent a battalion of soldiers to Xu Yu County and Pei County, with a number of about 1,200 people, and now they are the main force defending the city in the two counties.
According to the composition of Daning's military system, it is divided into a five-person team, a ten-person team, ten ten-person teams as a regiment, a regimental rate, three regiments as a standard, a captain, three standards as a battalion, a five-grade general Yongyi, two generals from the five-grade general, two generals from the five-grade general, two from the third standard as a battalion, a four-grade Weiyang general, two people from the five-grade Weiyang, ten battalions as an army, a four-grade Yingyang general, four from the four-grade Yingyang, ordinarily speaking, a guard has three armies, a total of nearly 40,000 soldiers, but the composition of the soldiers is huge, It also has about the same number of auxiliaries and logistical supply personnel, which means that the total strength of a guard soldier is about 80,000.
Of course, there are also relatively special army compositions, such as the four Xinjiang tiger wolves, the strength of the heavy armor in the west is the second least among the four tiger wolves, the least is the northern iron cavalry, this is because the requirements for soldiers are too high, the selection of heavy armored infantry and heavy armored cavalry can be called strict to the extreme, there are 24,000 heavy armored infantry in the western Xinjiang under the conventional state, and there are 15,000 heavy armored iron cavalry in northern Xinjiang, which is not considered light cavalry.
There are 60,000 sword soldiers in the east and 40,000 wolf apes in the south.
Daning now has been determined 20 guards soldiers, in the Western Regions of the Three Kingdoms, the new army of the Southern Xinjiang Three Kingdoms has not yet been incorporated into the official battle sequence, and when all the people in these places are stable, the Daofu will be set up, according to His Majesty's plan, the land of the Three Kingdoms will be divided into two Daofu, that is to say, there will be a new addition of two guards, and the Three Kingdoms of the Western Regions will set up a Daofu, and an additional guard will be added, and the scale of the soldiers will reach 23 guards.
With such a huge composition of soldiers, coupled with the border armies in various places, as well as the tigers and wolves of the four frontiers, only a rich and powerful country like Daning can support it, and the country of Qiao and Rilang seem to be indeed rich, but it is just a place of Daning, Daning is a behemoth in front of these two countries, and in fact, the territory of the country is larger than that of Qiuli, and the territory of Qiuli is larger than that of the Bohai country, as for the Nanli country on the side of Qiuli, it may be the thing that the giant beast of Daning stuffs between his teeth.
Now the general of the soldiers in Xuyu County is Cheng Fangchun, the brave and resolute general of the fifth grade, who has been in the army for more than 20 years, dozens of battles, and accumulated military merits before being promoted from the captain to the general of the fifth grade, and I don't know how many people are stopped at the threshold from the captain to the general, but in fact, there are only more than 1,200 people under the general of the fifth grade.
What really makes people look up to is to lead an army alone in the third grade, and the generals of the guards are all the three products.
More than 20 years after His Majesty's ascension to the pole, Daning's armed forces reached a new peak, in addition to these soldiers, there were also naval divisions with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops, including Zhuang Yong's South China Sea Division, Haisha's East China Sea Division, and Shen Leng's Patrol Marine Division.
If it weren't for the capture of the three kingdoms of the Western Regions, which were so rich that they flowed into oil, plus Qiu Li and Nanli of the Qiao Kingdom and the South Vietnam that were destroyed before, I am afraid that even Daning would not be able to support such a huge military force.
Cheng Chunfang looked at the dense army of the Rilang Kingdom outside the city, and then looked back at the smoke that had been lit, and his face was solemn.
"Circumference three is missing one."
He knew very well what the army of Rilang was going to do, leaving the north gate unsealed, which was deliberately a gap for the Ning army to evacuate, but once he left Xuyu County, the tens of thousands of troops surrounded outside would surround his more than 1,200 brothers like a tide, and no one was afraid of the Daning soldiers in a head-to-head confrontation, but the disparity in strength was so great that the enemy could exhaust more than 1,200 people by relying on arrow arrays and catapults alone, and the advantage of individual combat effectiveness would be in vain.
"How's the reserve?"
Cheng Fangchun asked, and his subordinates shook their heads from Deng Li, the general of Wupin Guoyi: "If the people of the Rilang country attack at any cost, our feather arrows will only be enough to hold on for three days, and after three days, the feather arrows will be exhausted, and the equipment of the heavy crossbow will not be able to hold up for even three days. ”
Deng Li looked at Cheng Fangchun: "General, there are three piles of beacon smoke burning over there in the Feilaifeng camp, that is the agreed evacuation signal, we should retreat." ”
"Let's go?"
Cheng Fangchun smiled bitterly: "If nothing is expected, there will be a large group of men and horses in ambush on the way we withdraw to Feilai Peak, and the enemy is still surrounded but not fighting, just waiting for our reinforcements, they want to fight reinforcements." ”
Deng Li's face changed slightly: "Then what should I do?" ”
Cheng Fangchun took a deep breath: "Light the beacon smoke again, close the four doors, and block them with stones." ”
Deng Li's face gradually turned pale, but he quickly recovered: "Humble obedience!" ”
Soon, three more piles of beacon smoke were lit on the city wall.
Flying to the peak.
Shen Leng was looking at the terrain in front of the sand table, and Li Wenshan ran in quickly: "General Shen...... Something went wrong. ”
Shen Leng's heart tightened: "What's wrong?" ”
"There are four piles of smoke burning on the wall of Xuyu County, and I have looked carefully, and there are indeed four pillars of smoke rising."
Shen Leng's heart hurt suddenly.
It was the signal agreed by the Daning soldiers, if the soldiers defending the city lit four beacon smokes, it meant that they did not want to support, and we had the determination to die.
At this moment, someone ran in from outside: "General, Pei County has lit four beacon smokes!" ”
The defending generals in both places saw the intentions of the Rilang people, they wanted to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and they chose to sacrifice themselves.
At the same time, in the camp of the Rilang army outside the county seat of Suyu County, Galoculi watched the beacon smoke on the city wall ignite, and turned back to ask the Rilang people: "Do you know what they mean by lighting the four beacon smokes?" ”
A general of the Rilang Kingdom replied with a pale face: "I have heard that the Ning army defended the city and lit four beacon smokes, which was the heart of the death and asked for reinforcements to evacuate." ”
Galocle's eyes lit up and he took a deep breath: "It's the opponent!" It's a good opponent! ”
He strode out of the tent: "Then I will fulfill them." ”
As he strode out, all the generals of the Japanese country in the military tent followed, and these people may have thought in their hearts whether they should resist? But when they witnessed the killing of their comrades, and the moment they chose to retreat, the courage in their hearts had vanished, and the Sabbatarians brought them more than a threat to their personal lives, and Galacculus told them that the Sabbatarians were visiting each of their homes, and that when they left the country of Hiro, each of them would have a warrior of the Sabbath watching.
"Let the stone thrower go up."
Galocle looked at the Ning army on the wall of the city of Xuyu, and he knew that this would be the most formidable enemy he had ever encountered.
His personal guard Harder leaned over and lowered his voice and said: "Your Majesty, you should still prepare for evacuation in advance, the Rilang people are unreliable, and there are only a few hundred people around Your Majesty now......"
"I know."
The corners of Galoklu's mouth raised slightly: "Leaving is inevitable, but I want to use 200,000 Rilang people to test the combat power of the Ning army, Ning is the richest country in the East, I have conquered so many places, and the emperors I have killed with my own hands will be more than ten, but the sum is not as big as Ning Guo, and the sum is not as rich as Ning Guo, Rilang and Ning are compared to the fireflies compared to Haoyue, if I can defeat Ning Guo in my lifetime, I will be satisfied, I will not fight again for the rest of my life, I want to take a good look at this mountain and river." ”
He waved his hand: "Go to the front line and keep an eye on those Rilang people, select two thousand people to be the overseers, some people retreat and kill, and push all the stone-throwing carts up, and the city wall of Xuyu County can't hold up for two hours." ”
"Yes!"
Hader answered, beckoned out with dozens of personal soldiers, and soon pulled a team of about 2,000 archers to the back of the siege team, a row of more than a dozen bed crossbows aimed at the county town of Suyu in the distance, but the people of Rilang.
"Attack!"
Gallok gave an order.
The whining horn sounded, dozens of stone-throwing vehicles were all pressed down, the Rilang people hit the big stone with difficulty, and poured fire oil on the big stone to ignite, with an order, dozens of stone-throwing vehicles threw the boulder out one after another, the burning stone seemed to be a meteor falling from the sky, the rest of the people conquered a lot of places, they used the stone-throwing car to attack everything, this is because their stone-throwing car is more reasonable and powerful, than the Ning army's habitual stone-throwing vehicle range is at least one-third, and at this time the Japanese army carried the stone-throwing vehicle, all of which Galocleus pretended to dedicate to the Emperor of the Japanese Continent.
Each piece has hundreds of pounds of heavy boulders flying from the sky with thick smoke, the soldiers defending the city looked up, and there was inevitable fear in everyone's eyes, even the soldiers of Daning, they were not afraid, but they could put life and death aside.
Bang!
The first big stone smashed on the city wall, smashed out a big pit on the wall, the masonry was broken, the outer layer of masonry was broken, and the rammed earth in the inner layer was also shaken loosely, and soon after the first stone fell, the big stone fell down one after another, and the meteor shower fell in this originally quiet small county.
With a bang, a boulder fell on the gate tower, and the stone smashed through the roof, and half of the gate tower collapsed.
There was another loud bang, a burning boulder hit the battlements, and the battlements were directly flattened under the huge force, and the soldiers who were hunched and hiding behind the battlements were directly smashed below, only the lower half of the body was exposed, and soon the blood stains under the big stone spread out.
The companions around him rushed over desperately, their eyes were blood-red, they just wanted to save their comrades, grabbed his two legs and pulled them out, and with a pop, the body of the soldier who was pressed down cracked, and the lower abdomen was dragged out, and the upper half of the body was left under the boulder, maybe there was no upper body left.
The soldier who rescued the man sat on the ground, looking at the half-cut body in front of him, his face pale.
In fact, the least Daning soldiers fought was to defend the city.
Bang! A boulder fell on the city wall, and a soldier was slapped directly under the stone, and the stone rolled out on the wall, and most of the people below turned into flesh, and the blood stain was as long as the stone rolled out.
"I've ordered the four gates to be blocked."
Cheng Fangchun shouted loudly: "You should all know that this is no longer the land of the country of Yao, but the land of Daning!" The soldiers charged to expand the territory, and the soldiers defended the city, not giving an inch, and lived and died with this city! ”
"Live and die with this city!"