Chapter 743, Variables
After capturing Huanglong City, the Condor Army also took advantage of the situation to take several granaries in the city.
Some of the Northern Expedition Alliance players guarding Huanglong City wanted to burn the grain stored in the city after seeing that the general situation was gone, but unfortunately the Condor Army did not give them that chance at all.
As soon as the clouds cleared, a group of silver Pegasus knights flew directly to the granaries in the city, and then directly killed all the enemy troops guarding the granaries, firmly controlling the granaries in their own hands.
The players of the Northern Expedition wanted to burn the food in the city, mainly because they were all well aware that the Condor was having a big logistical problem right now.
If it is not possible to achieve the goal of feeding the war with war, the military operations of the Condor Army on the Loess Plateau will not be able to last, so they do not want to fund the enemy.
However, the players dare to do this because they are not afraid of death, but their lack of fear of death does not mean that the aboriginal soldiers in the city are not afraid of death.
Thinking of the serious consequences of burning all the food in the city, many aboriginal soldiers decisively rejected the demands of the Northern Expedition players.
As a result, the players in the city were unable to recapture the granary occupied by the Silver Pegasus Knights.
When the Northern Expedition Alliance players who wanted to resist to the end were killed, there was no longer any resistance in Huanglong City.
From several large granaries in Huanglong City, the Condor Army obtained a large amount of grain, and those precious grains directly solved the urgent needs of the front line.
In addition to food, the Condor captured a large number of Aboriginal soldiers.
After the wounded were removed, all the prisoners of war were sent to the occupied areas on the Loess Plateau by the Condor Army, where they were put in charge of building roads and tuning fields.
The series of actions of the Condor Army is already obvious, that is, since they have gone to the Loess Plateau, they are not ready to go down.
After a few days of repairs in Huanglong, the main army of the Condor Army, which was responsible for attacking the city, marched towards Huangling, Yijun and other places.
Although the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance have learned about the latest siege tactics of the Condor Army through offline communication, it is one thing to know it, and it is another thing to be able to deal with it.
When the clouds and mist released by the dragon eagle beast began to envelop Huangling City, the defenders of Huangling City immediately used the tactics that had been rehearsed in advance, some soldiers held their shields high to take charge of defense, and some soldiers bent their bows and arrows and pointed straight to the sky.
When they estimated that the army of swan people who were responsible for raining stones should have flown over the city, they immediately began to fire arrows into the sky.
However, the salvo of 10,000 arrows of the Huangling defenders did not have the desired effect.
There was no movement in the rain of stones that were supposed to fall from the sky, and there was no fall of the swan soldiers who were hit by arrows, and although there were some screams, they seemed to be made by their own people on the ground.
Oops, this attack of the enemy is a feint.
After realizing that the situation was wrong, the defenders of Huangling immediately stopped this senseless shooting, which would only injure their own people by mistake, and they prepared to wait for the clouds to dissipate before dealing with the situation.
However, this time the cloud mist technique seemed to last a little long, and just when the defenders of Huangling were a little puzzled why the clouds and mist had not dissipated, a sudden rain of stones fell in the sky.
Although the defenders of Huangling City had already taken targeted defensive measures, in the face of the dense rain of stones, people were still being smashed.
After discovering that the sky began to rain stones, the soldiers in charge of firing the arrows instinctively wanted to open their bows and arrows to launch a counterattack.
As a result, they had just shown their heads, and they were struck one after another, and finally had to retract under their shields.
The defenders of Huangling City proved that they could not crack this stone rain tactic of the enemy when they did not have air power to compete with the enemy.
Because from beginning to end, the initiative of the offensive is in the hands of the attacker, and they can only passively defend.
As the initiator of the attack, the Condor Army can choose a straightforward style of play, or they can choose a combination of virtual and real offensive methods.
Obviously, they had already guessed that the enemy would respond before attacking Huangling, so they also prepared in advance.
The Condor's response was to send double the number of Dragon Eagle Knights and double the time the clouds covered the city.
When the first Dragonhawk Knights perform the Cloud Technique, the Swan Legion will not enter the skies above the city.
When the second group of Dragon Eagle Knights perform the cloud and mist technique, the Swan Legion will fly to the sky above the city and take the initiative to attack.
The Condor Army's new siege strategy directly deceived the defenders of Huangling City, causing them not only to waste a large number of arrows, but also to cause a lot of accidental injuries.
And by the time the swan people launched the stone rain offensive, it was too late for the defenders of Huangling City to launch a counterattack, because the dense stone rain smashed so that they couldn't raise their heads at all.
Although after the defenders of Huangling City were prepared, it was no longer possible for the Swan Man's stone rain attack to achieve the same effect as when it was first used in Huanglong City.
But if you hold it for a long time, you will lose it, there is not much else on the Loess Plateau, that is, there are many stones, as long as there are mountains nearby, the Swan Man Legion will not lack stones for throwing.
If it doesn't work once, it will be twice, if it doesn't work twice, it will be three times, and if it doesn't work three times, it will be four times,......。
Anyway, some of the stones collected by the swan warriors were a big deal to stop the battle for a while, and then attack again after the re-collection was sufficient.
In the face of the Divine Eagle Army's almost Laipi-style attack, the defenders of Huangling City were suffering.
In the absence of reinforcements, sooner or later they will be tortured to death by the Condor Army outside.
After feeling that the loss of the city was only a matter of time, the players of the Northern Expedition Coalition in Huangling City quietly transferred the aboriginal soldiers defending the granary in order to prevent the Condor Army from plundering the grain in the city, and then directly set fire to all the granaries in the city.
When the sky-high fire burned, the aboriginal defenders of Huangling City immediately collapsed.
Many soldiers stared blankly at the fire in the city, their eyes full of helplessness and despair.
The food in the city is their life, and after being besieged by the Condor Army, it is the food in the city that has enough food for them to eat for a long time.
Now that the grain has been burned by someone, what is the use of this Huangling City if it can be defended?
After losing that food, there is no need for the Condor Army to take the initiative to attack the city, and in a few days, they will all starve to death.
"Soldiers of Huangling City, our Condor Army is very short of food now, and we need food in the city, so we will not set fire to it.
The guys who burned down the granary are your internal people, and they have one of the biggest characteristics, that is, they have no father, no mother, no household registration, as if they appeared out of thin air.
Most of these people have no real skills, and they are in high positions, and they are not only our enemies, but also your enemies, because they want to starve you all to death.
Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and now the only way out is for you to open the gates and surrender to us, and then we will find out those arsonists together, and cut them with a thousand knives. ”
After discovering that the flames suddenly burst into the sky, the Condor players outside the city immediately realized that it was the Northern Expedition Alliance players in the city who were setting fire to the food, preparing to break the net.
By the time you find out that a fire is on fire, it's too late to put out the fire.
Although the Condor Army attacked the city mainly for the food in the city, now that the food has been burned by the enemy, even if they capture Huangling City, it cannot be called a victory.
But the cities that should be attacked still have to be attacked, after all, they can't allow their own army to advance while there are still cities in the rear that have not been captured.
Moreover, the aboriginal soldiers in the city also had a very good labor force after surrendering, and the restoration of the production on the Loess Plateau depended on those surrendered soldiers.
As a result, some Condor players who were quick to turn their brains immediately flew to the vicinity of the city and began to shout at the enemies in the city.
The aborigines couldn't tell who was the player and who was the aborigine, but the players knew the difference between themselves and the aborigines, so they directly sold the Northern Expedition Alliance players in Huangling City.
The shouts of the Condor Army outside the city soon spread throughout Huangling City.
When the Aboriginal soldiers who were suddenly transferred from the granary by the Northern Expedition players learned of this information, they immediately believed it.
Because guarding the granary is a hard job, the special army that usually only knows how to enjoy never bothers to approach the granary.
It was already unusual for them to suddenly announce the takeover of the granary today, and after they took over the granary, all the granaries in the city were on fire at the same time, and I am afraid that no one would believe that there were no ghosts in it.
When the soldiers who had been transferred from the granary told the news to the others, combined with the shouts of the Condor Army outside the city, it became clear who was responsible for burning down the granary inside the city.
In normal times, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance enjoy all kinds of special treatment, and they are all kinds of powerful and good in the territory, which is already very disgusting to those aboriginal soldiers.
It's just that because the player forces control all the armies and resources in the territory, many aboriginal soldiers dare not speak out, so they can only choose to endure helplessly.
Now these guys have burned all the food in the city, which is almost going to cut off everyone's livelihood.
If they can endure this, then they don't deserve to be called men.
The moment he learned the truth, all the anger that had accumulated in the past exploded in an instant.
Angry soldiers brandished their weapons and rushed straight at the Northern Expedition players who had always enjoyed special treatment.
Facing the aboriginal soldiers who were instigated by the Condor Army, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance in the city also greeted them without showing weakness.
The moment they set fire to the food, they were ready to die in battle, so those angry soldiers could not intimidate them at all.
When the Condor players outside the city noticed that the defenders inside the city had mutinied, they immediately flew in.
"Brothers in the defenders of the city, we are here to help you kill the culprits who burned the grain, we know their physical characteristics, so we will attack whoever we attack, and we will be sure that it is right."
The player flying legion of the Condor Army directly became a nightmare for the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance in the city at this moment.
Originally, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance also wanted to take advantage of the chaos to provoke infighting between the aboriginal defenders in the city, and they wanted everyone in the city to bury them, after all, only if everyone in the city died, it would not be cheap for the Condor Army.
However, when the Condor Army's Flying Legion of players appeared, their wishful thinking was immediately frustrated.
The aboriginal defenders in Huangling City were ready to surrender to the Condor Army as soon as they punished the arsonists.
So when the players of the Condor Army said that they would help them find all the culprits, they believed each other unconditionally without even thinking about it.
"A dozen people there were all in the same league as the arsonists, kill them."
"There are a dozen of you who are accomplices of the arsonists, just a few guys dressed up in fancy clothes."
"Those short haired and beardless ones are also accomplices of the arsonists, kill them."
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Under the guidance of the flying players of the Condor Army, the players of the Northern Expedition Coalition in Huangling City could not hide at all.
Wherever the flying players of the Condor Army pointed, those angry aboriginal soldiers would kill, and soon, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance in Huangling City were completely emptied.
Although the Condor Army took Huangling City without much effort, and also obtained a large number of aboriginal troops, the food they wanted most had already been turned to ashes, which was a very big blow to the Condor Army.
If every time the Condor Army attacks a city in the future, the Northern Expedition Alliance players in the city will follow suit and burn all the food in the city before breaking the city.
Then the Condor Army will not only fail to achieve the strategic goal of nourishing the war with war, but will also receive a large number of surrendered troops, which will make the already overstretched logistics supply even worse.
At that time, even if they conquered the entire Loess Plateau, there would be no meaning, because without food, they would not be able to feed those people on the Loess Plateau.
After realizing the seriousness of the situation, the Condor Army, which had captured Huangling, immediately sent a messenger to report to Ning Yuan that the situation that might affect the entire strategic layout of the Condor Army.
After learning about what happened in Huangling City, Ning Yuan suddenly felt a deep pressure.
The players of the Northern Expedition Alliance are scattered in every city on the Loess Plateau, and if they want to burn the food in the city, the Condor Army will not have time to stop it, so this seems to be an unsolvable problem.
If the grain stored in each city was burned by the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance, then capturing the entire Loess Plateau now would be a heavy burden for the Condor Empire.
Because before the autumn harvest, the Condor Empire simply couldn't come up with enough food to feed those populations on the Loess Plateau.
After all, after conquering the entire Loess Plateau, Ning Yuan couldn't watch the millions of people on the plateau starve to death, an uninhabited Huangtu Plateau was not what he wanted to see.
And if the strategic plan to capture the Loess Plateau is to be stopped, then the Condor Army must launch an attack from Heyang, which is heavily defended by the enemy.
The Demon Alliance has gathered a large number of elites in Heyang and built a strong defensive line.
Launching a frontal attack, the Condor Army will definitely suffer heavy losses, which is also not what Ning Yuan wants to see.
Moreover, with a frontal assault, the pressure on the Condor Army in terms of logistics will not be improved in any way.
So now the best thing to do is to carry out the original plan and find a breakthrough on the Loess Plateau, otherwise the Condor Army will be led away by the enemy.