Chapter 854: The Night Plan (1)
The city of Lhasa is located on a high ground next to the valley plain in the middle reaches of the Lhasa River, and the whole city looks down on the surrounding river valley plain, and the terrain is extremely steep.
Not to mention that the Snow Mountain Legion did not carry any engineering equipment, even if they brought all the most advanced siege equipment of the Condor Empire, it would be difficult to break through the walls of Lhasa City from the ground.
Because the outside of the Lhasa city wall is not a cliff dozens of meters high, or a huge slope, it is difficult for the advanced siege equipment of the Condor Army to reach the city wall.
After conquering the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Hu Zhuri chose Lhasa, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, as its capital and carried out key operations.
Like his father, Tiger Picking Day also took the families of the generals of the Tiger Legion to Lhasa City as a proton, and arranged for his henchman Huertai to be stationed in Lhasa City.
The city of Lhasa was already easy to defend and difficult to attack, and now there are 5,000 elite Tiger soldiers stationed in the city, and it is even more difficult to break through it.
When Bai Ze was formulating the entire battle plan, he had already taken into account the steep terrain of Lhasa.
Originally, with the strength of the Condor Army, Bai Ze could have sent the Silver Pegasus Army to bypass Qamdo City and launch a surprise attack on Lhasa City directly.
As long as he is willing to sacrifice the Silver Pegasus Legion, then even if there are 5,000 Tiger soldiers in the city, it will be difficult to resist the unreasonable attack of the Silver Pegasus Legion.
It's just that with this kind of hard way, not only will the Silver Pegasus Legion lose its troops, but once the enemy launches a large-scale counterattack, Lhasa City is likely to change hands again.
So after carefully weighing the gains and losses, Bai Ze formulated a plan for the night.
As the name suggests, the Night Project is not a Silver Pegasus Legion, nor any Ground Legion, but a vampire legion that has not been in battle for a long time.
After entering the Great Earth Age, the vampire legions of the Condor Empire were rarely dispatched.
The reason why Ning Yuan didn't let the vampire legion participate in the war was not because they didn't give up, but because their limitations were too great.
Vampires are afraid of sunlight and can only be active at night, a racial trait that prevents them from marching long distances in the wild.
Although Ning Yuan could let other legions set up some tents for them to rest during the day along the way, and use this relay method to help them on the road, this method had great drawbacks.
First of all, the Vampire Legion is unable to carry any logistical supplies, and their daily needs need to be prepared by others, which will greatly increase the logistical pressure on the Condor Army.
Secondly, during the day, vampires are very vulnerable, and if an enemy attacks their resting camp, they may be in danger of being wiped out.
In this regard, Ning Yuan has a deep understanding, because he did such a thing when he was on the Lost Continent, and he still can't forget the brilliant daytime fireworks at the beginning.
It was precisely because of these two fatal shortcomings that even if the vampire army was the king of the night, Ning Yuan rarely sent them out to fight.
Especially after the Silver Pegasus Knights, the vampire legion is completely on the cold bench.
And Bai Ze's night plan with the vampire army as the protagonist this time is mainly to take a fancy to the characteristics of vampires who are not afraid of cold and heat.
The temperature difference between day and night on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is very huge, and the sun may be scorching during the day, and the wind will be biting cold at night.
For other races, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at night is very hot, but for vampires who are not invaded by cold and heat, there is no difference between minus 20 degrees and minus 50 degrees, so letting them control the night of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is simply twice the result with half the effort.
Considering the difficulty of the Vampire Legion's march, the first step in the Night's Plan was to quickly occupy all the cities and villages on the Ancient Tea Horse Trail to provide some shelter for the soldiers of the Vampire Legion to hide from the daylight.
While the Silver Pegasus Knights and the Snow Mountain Legion were attacking the city along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, every night, Blood Guangyi would lead his vampire legion into the cities that had been captured by the Condor Army.
In this way, the vampire legion has been closely following the Snow Mountain Legion, and by the time the Snow Mountain Legion arrived in Lhasa, they had also entered Gonggar City, which was closer to Lhasa.
After the failure of the deception, why did Hu Dashan dare to sleep in the nearby mountain col, it was because he knew that there was nothing to do with his Snow Mountain Legion at night, and his mission was during the day.
Huertai had always thought that the elusive Silver Pegasus Legion of the Snow Mountain Legion and the Condor Army were his great enemies, but they didn't know that the real Night King had quietly come to their side.
As soon as night fell, Blood Guangyi led the vampire army from Gonggar City.
When they flew to the vicinity of Lhasa City, it was just in time for the most lax defenders at the head of the city, so Xue Guangyi did not hesitate to lead the army to rush to Lhasa City.
Although it has been a long time since they participated in battle, the vampire warriors' combat methods are not unfamiliar in any way.
They first habitually extinguished all the open fires in the city, plunging the city into complete darkness, and then immediately began a very oppressive night invasion.
Although the Tiger Warriors also have good night vision, their night vision is not very good compared to the vampires.
Coupled with the fact that vampires possess the perverted racial talent of the Night Slayer, they are more agile than the Tiger Warriors at night.
So even if the personal strength of the tiger warriors was stronger than theirs, under the pervasive raid of the vampire warriors, those tiger warriors who took the initiative to rush out finally fell in a pool of blood.
After hearing the warning from the city wall, Huertai rushed out of the room as soon as possible, and within a few minutes, he fled back with a wound all over his body.
In the face of those vampire warriors who were ubiquitous in the dark, even those as strong as Huertai were no opponent, and if it weren't for the guards around him desperately covering his retreat, I am afraid he would have been completely left outside.
After escaping back to the room, Huertai did not bother to bandage the dense wounds on his body, he crept to the window, and then suddenly shouted loudly with all his strength:
"The tigers in the city obeyed the order, no one was allowed to leave the house, everyone relied on the house for defense, and after dawn, those vampires would automatically retreat.
The one who heard the order immediately passed it on to me. ”
Although Huertai had not fought against the Vampire Legion before, he was well aware of the weaknesses of the Vampires.
In addition to being afraid of the sun, vampires have the greatest advantage of being able to travel silently in the dark, launching sneak attacks on enemies from different directions.
The best way to prevent vampires from sneaking up at night is to go into a house or other place where space is limited.
Vampire warriors will easily not enter any confined spaces, as confined spaces will limit their ability to fly.
So after finding a way to deal with the vampire army, Huertai could only choose to hide in the house until dawn, waiting for the other party to take the initiative to retreat.
As soon as Huertai's shouting stopped, the same shout sounded not far away, and in a short time, the entire city of Lhasa began to echo with the same shout.