In fact, Le Jin's judgment was correct. After Salman took the lead in the charge, some minor problems arose on Oswin's side. They lacked the crew to operate the boat, and the remaining soldiers were more or less afraid of taking the boat. .
So much so that after Salman took the lead in the charge, the remaining soldiers were unable to enter the water. To be honest, Oswin was confused at this moment. He found that he was really not suitable for making plans. In the end, Oswin had to take the boat himself. Down the river.
It was precisely because of this waste of time in selecting soldiers who could fight on the water that the original wave of strong attacks was interrupted. When Oswin rushed to the city wall, the water level had dropped by half a foot.
Cao Ren was able to defend Le Jin at this time, because Le Jin's attack was a semi-idealistic effect caused by the distortion of reality by his will. To put it simply, it was the attack of Le Jin's army. It was more powerful and could ignore the city wall from the inside. Cut it out.
However, Kushan's attacks will all be blocked by the city wall. The result of this is that the more Le Jin fights, the more confident he becomes. Le Jin's legion talent is that his own will affects the soldiers' will. The more confident Le Jin is, the more effective his soldiers will be. Okay, both sides are positively correlated.
In this way, Salman felt that Le Jin was getting stronger and stronger as he fought, and in the end, all their men who rushed to the top of the city were suppressed by Le Jin's main formation.
"Salman, we are here!" Oswin stood on the bow of the ship and greeted loudly. Seeing that Salman was still fighting, he felt a lot more relieved. Although he was quite panicked in this situation, it didn't matter. , as long as they charge to the top of the city, Oswin firmly believes that he will win.
"Hold on, our reinforcements are coming, and the opponent can't hold it anymore!" Cao Ren and Le Jin jointly hammered him down. If it weren't for the fact that there were a small number of backbone guards of the same attribute among the bodyguards, they would have been unable to hold on. Salman, who was about to be driven off the city wall, was overjoyed when he saw Oswin.
Cao Ren and Le Jin looked at each other. They had actually realized the problem at this time. Guishang was not good at water attacks. To be precise, it should be that they were not good at playing with water at all. The result was that Cao Ren and Le Jin After the water attack that was most worried at the time, Kushan's large-scale boat boarding of the city wall did not occur.
You must know that Cao Ren and Le Jin had prepared Beigui soldiers to scale the city wall in large numbers before. A fierce battle resulted in heavy losses. After Oswin appeared, they asked Li Dian, the reserve team, to appear and defend the city wall, and defeated them with only five labors and seven injuries. Kushan suppressed the idea.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be such a situation in the end. Not only did the flood not help Beigui, it even gave Cao Ren and Le Jin more than ten days of rest and recovery time.
Oswin roared and rushed up to the city wall with great momentum, but it was useless. He could not lead the Sun Knights to attack the city. Not to mention that the Sun Knights were basically from the Northern Nobles. Even if they were from the Southern Nobles and could swim, as orthodox cavalry , the combat effectiveness of dismounting is also halved.
In this case, how could Oswin choose to use the Sun Knights for consumption? After all, this is also the most important elite of Kushan at present.
However, it was meaningless. Oswin rushed to the city wall. Le Jin and Cao Ren surrounded Oswin and Salman with a grin. They might not be able to defeat these two things in other places, but at the city wall, Cao Ren's army The talent combined with Le Jin's legion talent is simply disgusting. Can't beat him? Just drag you to death!
Oswin and Salman roared angrily. The Han army's fortress, which they originally thought was easy to capture, turned out to be a big hole. Moreover, this big hole could only be felt after they actually climbed to the top of the city. There was no way to form a formation. , was surrounded and attacked from both sides.
Even if Beigui's elite were cheated like this, they really couldn't stand it anymore.
From the first rise of the morning sun to the third day of the sun, both the Han army and the Kushan army were obviously exhausted. However, relatively speaking, Oswin and Salman gained the upper hand with their stronger combat power. However, just when Oswin and Salman thought that they would continue to When they came down and captured the fortress in one go, a large number of soldiers led by Li Dian boarded the city.
This is the effect Cao Ren needs. When everyone is exhausted, I still have a fresh force that can be put into the battlefield.
The morale of the Kushan Army was declining rapidly. Even though Oswin knew that he also had fresh troops, and the number was larger than that of Li Dian, there was still a question as to when he could come by boat.
"Withdraw." Salman looked at Oswin calmly and said. We can't fight. They have already suffered more than a thousand casualties. The opponent's losses will not be less than his own. But if we continue to fight now, the losses will only continue to pile up. , whether the fortress can be taken down is still a question.
Oswin's face was livid. He couldn't get through here, so he had to take a detour. But at the current speed, it would take seven or eight days to get around the mountain trail to the back of the fortress. This was a very fatal situation. time difference.
Coupled with the unfavorable situation in the battle of the fortress, Oswin was inevitably worried about things that he had not considered before. For example, before, he only thought about defeating his fortress, rushing over to join Urdu and others, and then fighting with Urdu and others. Cao Cao fought a bloody battle and waited for Ardashir to stab him in the back.
What if Ardashir didn't come? What if Ardashir came and the two of them joined forces and still didn't kill each other. What if he and Kapil were blocked under the fortress in reverse.
After all, it is very difficult for the army to pass through that mountain trail, which requires a large amount of reserves. When they come back, the reserves on the mountain trail have been exhausted, and the back road is cut off by the fortress. Once the Han army still has enough With the strength behind them, they can only fight the Han army under the fortress. At that time...
Oswin was already breaking out in a cold sweat. This was a sign of poor thinking.
Oswin didn't realize these problems before. Oswin felt that he had thought it through very carefully. As long as Ardashir came from behind Cao Cao and the main forces of both sides attacked Cao Cao, victory was almost within sight. However, after being blocked by the fortress, , Oswin finally realized the problem. He seemed to have tricked himself to death?
Thinking of this, Oswin hesitated a lot. Taking the fortress was a very important part of the plan, but now even this part has gone wrong. So his plan seems to have collapsed?
"Oswin!" Salman yelled when he saw Oswin was distracted and the arrow was already shooting at Oswin. He immediately stretched out his hand and dragged Oswin away.
After Oswin dodged the arrow, he barely recovered. He looked at Salman, who was a little nervous, nodded, took a deep breath, and ordered a retreat.
At this time, Oswin had actually realized that it was impossible for him to knock down the fortress. Li Dian's new troops entered the battlefield, and Kuishang's morale was already low. If he continued to fight, he would only increase losses. The only option was to retreat. .
After thinking about this clearly, Oswin did not dare to delay. At this time, the water level had dropped by nearly a foot. According to this speed, the flood would completely recede in almost three days, and in these three days, Oswin was quite nervous during the retreat. for silence.
Le Jin and Cao Ren had no intention of stopping Oswin's retreat. Apart from using some arrows to kill some of the slower soldiers, the rest basically let it go. After all, they were not good at water battles, and their mission was to defend. fortress.
"Win!" Cao Ren cheered loudly as he watched Oswin leave against the current, and then ordered his soldiers to quickly search, rescue and catch the corpses. In the current climate, floods and corpses can easily evolve into plagues, so it is better to dispose of the corpses as soon as possible.
"There shouldn't be any problems for us next. I didn't expect it to go so smoothly in the end." Le Jin's face was obviously filled with surprise. It was so smooth. After the flood that they were most worried about, Guishang went to the city for a decisive battle. , it ended so anticlimactically.
"Inform the lord quickly and inform the lord of this news so that the lord can strangle the imperial scepter with peace of mind." Cao Ren laughed. He was prepared for heavy losses here, but in the end the overall losses were far smaller. Go beyond Cao Ren's mental preparation.
In the middle reaches of the Helmand River, when Cao Ren defeated Oswin, Cao Cao was almost catching up with the Imperial Scepter and the main Kushan army led by Urdu.
"It's strange that the Helmand River has actually swollen, and the runoff has reached the level of the rainy season, or even increased." The intelligence reported by the scouts was collected and passed to Xun You's boss. This time Xun You acted as the mastermind. .
"Probably Oswin upstream couldn't bear it and chose to break the dike. It seems that the other party was really prepared." Xun You sighed and said.
At this point in time, there are only about three or two days left before Cao Cao and the others catch up with the Imperial Scepter, and Oswin comes down from the upper reaches, which is also less than ten days, but the problem is that the two sides are heading towards each other. Oswin runs down, while the Imperial Scepter runs up.
"If Cao Zixiao defends the upstream fortress and allows Oswin and Urdu to fail to join forces, our chances of defeating the imperial scepter will be much greater." Chen Gong looked at Xun You seriously and said, in this situation, the initiative is still there On their hands.
"He can hold on." Xun You said calmly.
"That's good. This will buy us at least ten more days." Chen Gong nodded, knowing that Kapil and Ur both came from the Hindu Kush Mountains on the north side of the Helmand River Valley. We have detoured through the mountain trails. Calculating the time, this detour will take at least twenty days.
In addition, after the flood, the city cannot be attacked for at least ten days. No matter which one Oswin chooses, if Cao Ren fails to capture the fortress stationed by Cao Ren on the day of the flood, Cao Cao will have at least ten more days to strangle the imperial scepter.
This time is very important. Whether you can kill the Imperial Scepter really depends on these ten days. Try your best!
