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Jiang Han did not expect that Yusuf might adopt the tactics of attacking the east and the west to carry out a surprise attack on Longquan Mansion City, but the huge difference in military strength and the fact that the Rangers were entangled by the light cavalry of the city guards made his own arrangement outside Longquan Mansion obviously a little disjointed. It is impossible for him to divide the forces in his hands evenly www.biquge.info if the four walls are evenly divided, each side can only get two wings, and the south gate towards the relatively low city wall is likely to become the focus of the enemy's attack, if the enemy really tries his best to launch an offensive, I am afraid that the defense line composed of two wings will soon collapse. Therefore, he can only choose to arrange the deployment and at the same time increase the strength of the reserves.

It should be said that Jiang Han's arrangement at the West Gate is still somewhat prescient, at least one garrison wing is not strong in combat effectiveness, but they are still capable of doing those conventional defensive weapons such as catapults and ballistas, of course, face-to-face fighting can only rely on this wing of the Fourth Division.

After the enemy surrounded the city of Longquanfu, he adopted a fairly strict method of strangulation and hunting for the scouts' spying, which made the scouts' control of the enemy's military forces also limited to a certain extent, so that it was difficult to accurately grasp the enemy's movements, and it was later proved that Yusuf's purpose was to use this method to achieve the intention of launching a surprise attack.

The attack at the west gate was the two main divisions of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the City Guard Corps, and they came quite quickly, and when the 2nd Wing of the 4th Division and the 2nd Wing of the 4th Division on the city wall were still busy arranging the defense system, the two divisions of the City Guard Corps had already swooped down. Of course, if you want to achieve the purpose of the raid, you can only carry some relatively light siege equipment, and the ladder seems to be the only option.

It should be said that although the garrison wing of Longquan Prefecture has some experience in letting them participate in face-to-face fighting, they are still quite proficient in letting them use defensive weapons such as catapults and ballistas, after all, in addition to the function of suppressing the normal social security in their own jurisdiction, the garrison force is also responsible for the defense of the city, and it is also their most basic skill to make these catapults and ballistas erected on the head of the city.

If the basic defensive weapons such as catapults and ballistae should be said to be very limited for the siege troops who come prepared, but for the city guards who want to achieve the purpose of sneak attack, it is undoubtedly painful, the overwhelming crossbow arrows and stone rain poured down, the rudimentary ladders seriously limited their climbing speed, and the fourth division of the fourth division devoted to defensive operations fought desperately, the first and second divisions of the city guard corps did not achieve the desired effect this raid.

Although the competition for the head of the city is quite fierce, but the ladder this light but has gradually fallen behind the times of the simple siege weapon is obviously not suitable for the increasingly fierce battle for the city wall, the climbing speed of each ladder is too far behind the large siege equipment such as the city car, and this more primitive ladder is not the same as the improved movable ladder that has been commonly used now, the improved ladder has a pulley and a movable hook, which can easily fix the ladder on the battlement of the city wall, and the city guards obviously did not enjoy this kind of equipment that has been gradually popularized, and the original ladder is easily pushed down by the defending soldiersThe casualties caused by this greatly exceeded the losses caused by the actual fight on the top of the city wall.

However, even if the second wing of the fourth division and the garrison wing fought back desperately, it was still difficult to resist the attack launched by the city guards several times their own, but they were very lucky, and Zhao Shangwu, the commander of the fourth division, personally led a wing reserve and a brigade directly under the division to arrive in time, and the addition of more than 5,000 new troops changed the battle situation and saved the entire Longquan Mansion.

When Zhao Shangwu arrived, at least more than 1,000 soldiers of the second division of the city guard corps had climbed the city wall, although the corpses of no less than 7,000 soldiers fell under the city wall, but they still stubbornly climbed the city wall, but their good luck also ended here, Zhao Shangwu led the reserve team to arrive in time to end this imminent victory, more than 5,000 fresh troops suddenly destroyed the victory of the second division of the city guard army, more than 1,000 soldiers fell on the wall of the west gate of Longquan Mansion, so far, the sneak attack of the city guard army came to an end, as if the last passion was exhausted, they could no longer organize a decent offensive。

The ensuing battle seemed too dull, the feint attack of the city guards at the south gate turned into a real attack, but in the face of the resistance of nearly a division, it was difficult for them to make a breakthrough, the annihilation of the third division had an unprecedented impact on Yusuff's plan, everything was in accordance with Yusuff's arrangement, but unfortunately he did not expect the killing of the opposing rangers to destroy the whole situation, if the third division can be fully engaged in the Ximen offensive, Yusuf believes that this battle can completely take Longquan, but this is just an assumption, and no one can predict what the situation will become at that time。

At this time, the City Guard and the Third Legion were in a real dilemma, and Yusuf found that he had really made a great mistake, that is, he believed in the Third Legion too much, so that if he made a mistake, he would lose everything. He now had to face a difficult choice, should he continue to spend time under this Longquan Mansion or should he make a new decision? The performance of the Third Legion was too inferior, the attack on the east gate and the north side, in fact, it could really be called an attack in less than three hours, and it was completely defeated, even if the Overseer team killed more than a dozen deserters in one go, it still could not force these guys to muster up the courage to attack, if it were not for the western defenders in the city, perhaps considering the lack of strength, did not take the opportunity to kill out of the city, but I am afraid that the entire Third Army will be canceled is not a new thing.

It is obvious that there will be no valuable results to be achieved by staying under Longquan City, the defense system of Longquan Mansion is very sound, although the number of troops in the city is not large, but think about it, although nominally he has two legions in his hands, the defeat of the third division, plus this third legion that can be called rubbish, it has obviously become a luxury to take Longquan.

Maybe it's time to consider the possibility of cooperating with Ma Yuanxiang, if you can cooperate with the other party to win Jinzhong, maybe you can still have an explanation for Yanjing, at this time, you can only put aside the mustard in your heart, otherwise you can only wave the army north and join the Twelfth Army of the Empire to launch an attack on Qinghe, but this is not a good idea, in addition to the rangers of the people of Western Xinjiang in Qinghe, the only heavy cavalry division in Western Xinjiang is also active there, if you want to take Qinghe, which is more solid than Longquan city defense facilities, even if there is the Twelfth Army of the Empire as the main force, Yusuf still has no hopeThe Battle of Longquan made Yusuf full of distrust of the other armies of the empire, especially those newly built and reconstituted armies, although the Twelfth Army was led by Liu Ping, known as one of the four heavenly kings of the north, but still encountered an ambush in Qinghe, which added to Yusuf's sense of loss.

For the defeat of the city guard army in Longquan Mansion, Ma Yuan didn't know whether he should be happy or sad, fortunately the defeat of the city guard army in Longquan actually announced that all the hopes of the empire can only be pinned on the northern front of the northern war, the city guard army seems to have no need to risk attacking Jinzhong, if the northern army can successfully capture Yunzhong Mansion, and take Qinghe in the south along the clouds, then the battle situation may have a turnaround, once the battle in the clouds enters a tug of war and a war of attrition, then the situation in the empire is almost no suspense, and the north, which has consumed too much financial and material resources in this indefinite war, can no longer support this huge consumption, Ma Yuanxiang didn't know why Western Xinjiang was able to support such a huge war, they even fought with Situ Biao in Wuhu, and there were three legions on the peninsula fighting endlessly with the Maqi Khans, such a big consumption, I don't know how Western Xinjiang was maintained, Ma Yuanxiang never figured it out.

But the damned Yusuf may be in order to save the impact of the defeat in Longquan, and actually proposed to work together with the Praetorian Guard to attack Jinzhong from the northeast and seize Jinzhong, which is really a stinky idea for Ma Yuan, the poor performance of the Third Army in Longquan proves how poor the quality of these legions established in the late empire is, the Eighth and Ninth Army Corps is still nominally defending the Western Frontier Army in the Wuhu region in the south of Zhongzhou, but Ma Yuanxiang doubts that they can withstand the attack of a division of the Western Xinjiang Army, and it turns out that these fools in the center of the empire hope that the Praetorian Guard and the Eighth Army will jointly attack Jinzhong's plan has been stranded, Situ Yushuang and others probably also saw the unreliability of these new legions, but Yusuf, a pig, actually put forward such an ignorant suggestion, which is exactly what these guys in the center of the empire want, the city guard seems to be able to gather four divisions after reorganization, plus the four divisions of the Praetorian Guard, and even Situ Tai also expressed his willingness to put his last trump card, the first division of the First Legion, into battle, so it seems that it is not impossible to take Jinzhong, but Yanjing City seems to have become too empty all of a sudden, except for a reading division regiment of His Royal Highness the King of Xiang, there seems to be no other regular armed forces, and His Royal Highness the King of Xiang The situation in the Wuhu region is already quite dangerous, Will the changes in the situation in the Five Lakes affect the changes in this division?

Yusuf was lost in thought, the situation seemed to have become little of a choice, and perhaps he had no choice.

(To be continued)