Although the walls of the royal capital are strong, they cannot be destroyed by brute force, and the surrounding gates can be sealed at any time. In this case, if Qin Feng's army wants to attack the city, they must climb over the city wall and kill hundreds of people on top of the city wall.
The commander-in-chief firmly believed that as long as he was determined to defend the royal capital, no matter how elite and powerful Qin Feng's army was, they would have to pay a heavy price.
But the problem is that once you retreat into the city, you will no longer be able to communicate with the outside world, let alone send a large-scale force to carry out guerrilla attacks.
Simply defending the city can only delay the defeat, but cannot reverse the situation of the war.
Since ancient times, there are only three ways to defend a city to win. Either hoard a large amount of supplies and persist for half a year or even several years, forcing the enemy to retreat. However, the reality is cruel. Qin Feng cannot retreat at all. Because in the entire Dadi, only the royal capital is left, Qin Feng can completely surround the royal capital, and then take all the territory of Dadi into his pocket.
Qin Feng would never get bored if the capital was besieged for a year, or even for five or six years.
Another method is to lure the enemy into the city and rely on the advantage of the city wall to annihilate the opponent's effective forces. As long as the enemy loses the ability to attack the city and besiege it, it will naturally retreat.
But that guy Qin Feng is smarter than a monkey, how could he possibly enter the city?
Then there is only the last method left, which is also the most commonly used method in city defense warfare, which is to rely on basic troops to defend the city, and then send large-scale troops to conduct field battles and raids outside the city.
Once the enemy counterattacks, immediately retreat to the city.
As the saying goes, when the enemy is tired, we attack, when the enemy advances, we retreat. Repeatedly, the enemy's strength is slowly consumed.
And this method is extremely unrealistic. After all, Qin Feng's army does not have even a single field soldier. They are all the best of the best. How many soldiers and horses must be sent to disrupt Qin Feng's strategic deployment?
Thousands of people were sent out, but before they could react, Qin Feng's army would turn around and eat them up.
Therefore, the situation before the commander-in-chief is very clear. Defending the city is a chronic suicide. If you do not defend the city, you will not be able to defeat it. If you choose to surrender to Qin Feng, you will become a traitor and be despised. If you continue to be loyal to the King of Beidi, it will be a dead end. One piece.
The commander was somewhat hesitant for a while.
At this moment, the messenger came in a hurry and reported loudly: "Commander, the main force led by Li Zhang is less than thirty miles away from the royal capital."
Hearing this, the commander's eyelids jumped. It was obvious that there was not much time left for him to choose.
Either surrender or fight to the death, there is no third way.
The commander took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice: "Has the enemy prepared an offensive posture?"
Faced with the question from the commander-in-chief, the ordering soldier shook his head repeatedly: "Reporting to the commander-in-chief, instead of attacking, the enemy troops began to stay where they were."
Hearing this, the commander's heart sank again.
Although the expedition brigade and Qin Feng had reunited and all the news networks had been opened, in such a short period of time, Qin Feng definitely had not had time to issue orders to Li Zhang.
So it can be basically judged that Li Zhang is solely responsible for the movement of the main force for the time being.
The large army is already close at hand, but they are not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, they are stationed in place. Isn't this taking the initiative to give the enemy some breathing time? This is a taboo for military strategists.
However, this Li Zhang is by no means a mediocre person, and it is impossible for him to make such a low-level mistake.
The commander-in-chief couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Not only was Qin Feng unpredictable, but even the people under Qin Feng were also unpredictable...
The army under his command is strong, the soldiers and horses are strong, and the tents are full of good ministers and generals. In addition, there is a heavy snowfall that only happens once in a century.
It can be said that the right time, right place and right people gathered together!
Even God hopes Qin Feng wins.
After a moment of confusion, the commander-in-chief sighed and said helplessly: "I understand, Li Zhang deliberately gave us time to breathe and let us think clearly whether we should fight or surrender."
The reason why the commander-in-chief said this was because Li Zhang's attack was too fast, and the garrison in the royal capital had no time to react. In addition, they were too close to the royal capital, so they would subconsciously shrink into the royal capital.
By then, no matter whether the commander-in-chief has the idea of surrender or not, he will be forced to defend the city.
Therefore, Li Zhang gave the commander-in-chief sufficient time to consider and let him weigh the pros and cons before making a decision. Anyway, the king's capital was already close at hand, and the King of Beidi did not flee north, so even if he wanted to escape now, it was already too late, so Li Zhang There is no rush at all.
"Why!"
"Even without Qin Feng's orders, his generals are still able to make such correct judgments. It seems that enmity with Qin Feng is the stupidest decision I have made in the past hundreds of years."
"My generals, what do you mean?"
The commander-in-chief knew whether Li Zhang would attack soon, so he was not in a hurry and asked in a deep voice.
In fact, the commander-in-chief already had the answer in his mind before he spoke. After all, the news of Chen Lang's rebellion was not a secret. The generals in the army had already known it.
But so far, no general has come to ask for orders from the commander-in-chief to suppress Chen Lang.
Therefore, it can be seen that Chen Lang's rebellion was tacitly approved by all the generals.
Nowadays, the commander-in-chief hands over the decision-making power to the generals under his command. In fact, he is betraying a little cleverness. If he is investigated afterwards, he can use this as an excuse. It is not that the general has to surrender, but that the generals have jointly put pressure on the general. There is nothing you can do.
When the commander-in-chief summoned the generals and asked them one by one, as expected, everyone was inclined to surrender.
One of the lieutenants, who was at the same level as Chen Lang, took the initiative to make suggestions in order for the commander to make up his mind as soon as possible.
"General, since Qin Feng's army crossed northern Hubei and entered the capital, our army's scouts have conducted reconnaissance countless times. The enemy's elite army and complete logistics have exceeded our knowledge."
"If we continue to fight, there will be absolutely no other result than the annihilation of the entire army."
"So, it's better to make a decision early, and maybe you can get Qin Feng's appreciation."
All the generals present agreed.
"That's right, Commander-in-Chief, you don't know that Qin Feng's behavior is always retributive. If we defend the city and cause losses to them, Qin Feng will definitely retaliate crazily afterwards. I'm afraid all the generals will be punished. There is no escape from death.”
"It's not that we are afraid of death, it's that death is meaningless."
"Yes! The number of our troops is much larger than that of Qin Feng. What's the result? It's not that we were chased and beaten. All of this was caused by the random command from above."
"If we had firmly attacked Changshui County from the beginning, maybe we would have captured Qin Feng long ago. How could we be in this situation?"
