Chapter 416, Yang Mou (Third Update)
For this battle of Shuangliao City, Ning Yuan has prepared a two-year plan, that is, to besiege the orcs in the city for at least two years or more until they run out of ammunition and food and surrender on their own initiative.
Although the number of the Condor Army surrounding the city is much higher than the number of defenders in the city, and they will consume more food, Ning Yuan has the confidence to drag down the enemy alive, because the national strength of the Condor Empire is far stronger than that of the Eagle's Hoof Empire.
After entering the era of the Great Earth, war is no longer a simple competition of whose strength is stronger, whose army is more elite, and now every war is a competition for their respective national strength, after all, soldiers are not iron men, they also need to dress and eat.
Although the defense of Shuangliao City is as solid as a copper wall, if you want to break through a city, you don't have to choose a frontal attack, a frontal attack is only the most inferior means, and attacking the heart is the real murderous heart.
Although the stalemate between the enemy and us continues, the consumption of the Condor Empire will be greater, but Ning Yuan has a mine at home, and he can afford to consume it, but the orcs can't afford it.
Therefore, Ning Yuan can completely exchange the smallest loss for the greatest victory, after all, money is something outside his body, and the army is the foundation of his life.
Now that the entire Shuangliao City is shrouded in the forbidden space, if the orcs in the city want to break through, they must break through the trench and horse rejection defense line prepared for them by Ning Yuan from the front.
The five-meter-wide trench and the three-meter-high earthen embankment were impassable even by the most athletic orcs, so if the orcs wanted to break through the blockade of the trench and resist horses, they had to fill the trench with human lives.
And the Condor Army guarding the trench will definitely not watch the orcs rush over like this, and in the absence of long-range attack means, the orcs will definitely become a live target for the elven rangers in the process of launching a charge.
I'm afraid that before they can rush to the vicinity of the trench, they will have already been shot by the elven rangers.
The totemic warriors of the Eaglehoof Empire are indeed invincible in close combat, but so what?
The Condor Army doesn't give them a chance to fight in close combat at all, even if they are invincible in close combat, they don't have a chance to show it.
And in order to deal with these powerful guys, Ning Yuan also specially prepared a big gift for them - a bed crossbow.
These bed crossbows were developed by dwarven and halfling craftsmen based on ordinary crossbow arrows, and while each bed crossbow was very bulky and slow to operate, its power was terrifying.
Not to mention the Minotaur, even if it is an elephant, as long as it is hit head-on by the crossbow bolts fired from the bed crossbow, then it is basically dead and lifeless.
In ancient times, bed crossbows were generally used to defend cities because they were too bulky.
Because the Condor Army was besieging the city this time, they would not take the initiative to attack, theoretically speaking, they were on the defensive side, so Ning Yuan had the bed crossbow over.
Although the lethality of the bed crossbow is terrifying, because its efficiency is too low, the number of enemies that the bed crossbow can kill on the battlefield is very limited.
Therefore, people use the bed crossbow never to kill or injure many enemies, but to deter the enemy with its terrifying lethality.
Ning Yuan transported these bed crossbows over, also wanting to use its terrifying lethality to deter the orcs, and to really kill the enemy, he had to rely on the elven rangers and the Terran hoplites.
After arranging the defensive line facing Shuangliao City, the Condor Army began to dig a trench at the back of the camp.
It is also a trench five meters wide and three meters deep, and it is also an earthen embankment and a horse rejection, but this time it is not to prevent the orcs in the city from breaking through, but to deal with the orc reinforcements.
Shuangliao City is the last line of defense of the Eaglehoof Empire, and the orcs will definitely not watch it fall, so they will definitely send reinforcements to support.
When the orc reinforcements come to support, they will definitely bring a lot of food and grass, if they succeed in reconciling with the orcs in the city, then Ning Yuan's plan to trap the beasts will be a complete failure, so he must keep the orc reinforcements outside.
On this line of defense, Ning Yuan not only deployed a large number of troops, but also placed all the catapults and the rest of the ballistae here, because this line of defense was the most critical place in this battle.
On this line of defense, the Condor army and the orc army will engage in a battle of life and death, and neither side can afford to lose.
If the Condor Army loses, then they will not only lose this battle completely, but they will also lose their vitality, and I am afraid that they will not be able to take the initiative to launch a large-scale attack for several years.
And if the Eaglehoof Empire loses, then they will be completely ruined from now on.
After losing the barrier of Shuangliao City, the entire Songnen Plain will be the horse ranch of the cavalry of the Condor Army, and they can only hide in the deep mountains and old forests to survive.
Without the Songnen Plain, which is rich in water and grass and fertile land, it is basically impossible for the Eagle Hoof Empire to recover through recuperation, so they must not only fight this big war, but also win it.
The Eaglehoof Empire wanted to slowly consume the strength of the Condor Army with the help of the fortified city, so as to win precious time for itself to recuperate.
Their wishful thinking played very well, but it was a pity that Ning Yuan was a Saint Seiya, and he would not fail twice in a row under the same trick.
Lin Xiao, don't they need time? Okay, Ning Yuan will give them this time.
Is half a year enough? Inadequate? That's one year, one year is not enough, two years, and the price is that the Eagle Hoof Empire will completely lose Shuangliao City.
Your orc infantry legion is invincible in defending the city?
Okay, then the Condor army will not attack the city, they will stay outside the city walls and spend it with you, to see who consumes whom.
Are you totem warrior invincible in the field?
Okay, the Condor is hiding behind the trench and see how you get across it.
Wars can sometimes be won by surprises, but more often than not, it is a contest of national strength.
The national strength of the Condor Empire is obviously stronger than that of the Eagle's Hoof Empire, so Ning Yuan didn't plan to play any conspiracy with the other party, he directly chose the most common method used by local tyrant players, and smashed it with money.
The current Condor Empire and the Eagle Hoof Empire are like two players, and their respective national strength is the money in their hands.
The tactics that Ning Yuan was using now belonged to the kind of tricks that harmed others and were not beneficial to themselves, whether the enemy wanted to or not, they could only follow the track that Ning Yuan had designed for them.
Unless they are willing to take the initiative to give up Shuangliao City, they can only "throw money" into it with Ning Yuan.
Ning Yuan has a lot of money, he can smash it into it without any scruples, even if he loses in the end, at most it will be a big loss of vitality, but because his family is thick, he still has a chance to make a comeback.
And there is so much "money" in the hands of the Condor Empire, if they choose to throw money with Ning Yuan, then as long as they lose, they will lose everything.
Ning Yuan is using Yang Mou now, he completely handed over the choice to the other party, no matter how the other party will choose, he can accept it, because he has a lot of "money" and can afford to waste it.
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