There is a saying in the art of war: attacking the city is the next step, attacking the heart is the top step; fighting with soldiers is the bottom step, and fighting the heart is the top step.
Although the person who said this was Ma Su, who was beheaded by Kong Ming because he lost the street pavilion, the truth is this after all.
When Guang Jiqi said that he was waiting for the other party to be afraid, Fang Bu understood it instantly.
Death is not terrible, but waiting for an unknown death is the most terrible thing.
It is true that now that the artillery of the Zhou army's siege has finally arrived, it has the ability to cover and cover the siege with firepower. It can even be said that concentrated artillery bombardment may not be able to blow a hole in Pingcheng.
But Guangjiqi still chose to wait.
He arranged such a concentrated bombardment as soon as the artillery arrived, allowing the Ping garrison who had finally adapted to the drizzle-like bombardment of the previous week to receive a baptism of hail, and then immediately stopped. No one knows when the next wave of attacks will come, but there is one thing that cannot be covered by fire, that is, it is very difficult and costly to defend against such fierce cannon fodder with a flat city defense.
If we take advantage of this wave of bombardment and launch an siege immediately, the Japanese army that has not yet recovered will definitely push back the Zhou army at all costs, because except for the cannons, the Zhou army is not as well-armed as The Japanese army is stronger, and even the number of troops is similar at this time. If the other side's reinforcements are included, Guangjiqi's side is still at a disadvantage.
But the question is - does every Japanese soldier really want to fight such a meat grinder-like war in this country?
There are far more than one or two soldiers like Xiong who get involved in the war inexplicably.
"How long do we have to wait?" Fang Bie asked softly: "If they are never afraid, then we will never attack?"
"Every human being will be afraid, because fear can keep many people alive who would otherwise die, and they will pass on their fear to future generations." Guang Jiqi said calmly: "It's like you have always been there. It’s the same as fear of death, and because of this fear, you are alive until now.”
"Why does it involve me again?" Fang Bie suddenly became unhappy.
"People as powerful as you will be afraid, let alone those weak who are not wood or stone." Guangji Qiyouyou said: "One go, then it will fade, and three times it will be exhausted. No matter who it is, there will be a battle in a foreign land." Some rabbits die and the foxes are sad."
"So I have to wait for them to slowly learn to fear. There will be countless corpses lying in this long wilderness. Only the fastest ones can survive and get on the boat that leaves."
"Then I can only watch your show." Fang Bie said calmly: "I'm not good at this anyway, but if you need me to go into the city to collect information, I can help."
Even though it was now a state of war, Fang Bie could still successfully enter the city under the cover of night. After all, the city wall could not stop him.
But even so, it is still difficult to open the tightly defended city gate during wartime.
"There is no need for this at the moment." Guang Jiqi shook his head and said.
"Okay, okay." Fang Bie nodded: "This is your stage."
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Indeed, on the battlefield is Guang Jiqi's own stage.
Although most of the battles Guang Jiqi led in the southeast were small-scale outdoor mobile warfare, after all, the Japanese pirates themselves were gathered together in one place.
But the current national war, which involves siege of cities and territories on such a large scale, seems to have reached a completely unfamiliar territory for Guang Jiqi.
But on the other hand, opportunities always come to those who are prepared.
Seeing Guang Jiqi handling various military affairs with almost superhuman energy, Fang Bie couldn't help but think of the speech he saw in his previous life: "I like war."
Every general must learn a variety of military knowledge as he grows up, including annihilation warfare, blitz warfare, defensive warfare, strike warfare, encirclement warfare, breakthrough warfare, retreat warfare, mopping up warfare, and retreat warfare.
Plains, streets, trenches, grasslands, tundra, deserts, skies, oceans, swamps, wetlands.
You always have endless energy to face the war that has almost infinite solutions, but when you really get to the battlefield, you will find that most of the knowledge you have learned is useless on the battlefield.
It's like randomly selecting one question from a thousand questions to test you, but the gap between success and failure is so huge.
This is the truth that famous generals from ancient times never end well.
Just like the problem Guang Jiqi is facing now, it is an issue that has not been reconsidered in the past hundreds of years.
Begin the siege again.
Even in the past, the Great Zhou Dynasty often played the role of defending the city. The enemies it faced were mostly the Tatars on the grasslands or the Southern Barbarians in the southern rainforest. They had the natural environment as their best line of defense. On the contrary, The walls became a less necessary defense.
Guang Jiqi calmly issued orders one after another, and slowly surrounded the entire Rangping City with trenches and fortifications. The deafening artillery fire never stopped. It was not dense, but the artillery fire never stopped in the vast sky. There was an explosion, and at sunset you could even see the dazzling track marks like fireworks.
But there is always a road open to Pingcheng.
That was the road to evacuation.
Dazhou came from the north.
In the south, Guangjiqi never blocked it from beginning to end.
It's like telling the people in the city loudly that you still have a way to escape.
We waited for ten days in total for the cannon to arrive.
Then waiting for the other party to be frightened, Guangjiqi waited for fifteen days.
In fact, Fang Bie was still a little worried. If he kept waiting like this, reinforcements from Japan would arrive. At that time, the other side would instead let Ping Chengxia and Guang Jiqi have a decisive battle, which would be too picturesque.
But Guangjiqi told Fang Bie not to worry about this.
Because he believed that after a snake swallowed an elephant, it would take a long time to digest it.
Even if the Japanese army occupied almost the entire territory of Goryeo with overwhelming force, it would take a long time to prepare and prepare for the next attack.
This was not intelligence that Fang Bie told him, but simply came from Guang Jiqi's military judgment.
In fact, Guang Jiqi's judgment was very accurate.
After receiving the request for help from Governor Konishi, the Japanese did not send further reinforcements to Rang Pingcheng. Instead, they ordered Governor Konishi to stay on the spot and look for opportunities to reversely annihilate Dazhou's expeditionary force.
After all, in the era of cold weapons, the advantages of defending a city were so great that it was almost unimaginable.
As for Zhou's army, the size of the opponent can be clearly seen from the city wall.
In fact, Guangjiqi's army was almost the same in number as Konishi's garrison.
In the eyes of the Japanese, they have the advantageous location of the city and sufficient food and grass. When sieging a city, they always pay attention to the siege of ten, but now the ratio is almost one to one. Is it too simple to think about attacking the city?
In terms of the quality of the generals, we are all famous generals from the Warring States Period who have experienced hundreds of battles. They fought all the way from Goryeo and beat the opponent to the point where they abandoned their armor and fled in panic.
It's like a big boss who has already reached the full level in Shura Field returns to Novice Village and behaves tyrannically, without fear at all.
With this mentality, in the end, Japan had no reinforcements.
They were eager to digest the land they had captured. Now that the King of Goryeo had fled to Dazhou, and the entire order collapsed, only scattered rebels were still resisting the iron hoof of Japan. They might have made some achievements in history. The navy army was also defeated because of the time difference.
After all, thirty years in advance, Dazhou had Guang Jiqi in his prime, but Goryeo only had Yi Sunshin who was still a child.
Even Yi Sun-shin couldn't stage a top-notch Long Aotian script like "I defeated the Japanese Navy when I was eight years old".
And at night fifteen days later, Guang Jiqi suddenly ordered to summon all senior military officers.
"Excuse me, why has the Lord called us here?" Lei Guang looked at Guang Jiqi and was the first to ask.
After being educated by Fang Bie, Lei Guang is now a bit of a man with his tail between his legs. Lei Guang sees Guang Jiqi dispatching troops and issuing orders these days, even if there are no big results. However, Commander Konishi was calmly defeated several times when he robbed the camp. In the end, he returned home defeated. Guangjiqi's prestige in the army was already several times higher than when he first airborne.
But even so, they still didn't know what Guang Jiqi was going to do when he suddenly summoned them here.
"We choose to attack the city today." Guang Jiqi looked at the general standing below him and said calmly.
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar everywhere.
Because before that, although Guangjiqi talked about attacking the city, he only asked people to surround Pingcheng. He fired artillery every day to disturb the people. Although he said he was ready to attack the city at any time, no one could say when. clear.
Just like whether a plan that has been postponed indefinitely will be picked up again is a matter of metaphysics.
"Commander, are you sure it's today?" Lei Guang looked at Guang Jiqi and said. Although he was indeed a little excited about the attack on the city, the problem is that in such a big city, there is no way to attack at any time: "The big guys haven't attacked yet. Be ready."
"What's not ready? Haven't I been rehearsing for so many days?" Guang Jiqi looked at Lei Guang and asked, "Have all the cannons been transported and set up in the right places? All the soldiers Have you already made preparations and drills to attack the city in advance?”
When Guang Jiqi asked this question, Lei Guang was stunned.
Indeed, Guangjiqi had been rehearsing the siege for a long time. In fact, when the last batch of heavy artillery arrived, the official siege was ready, but Guangjiqi delayed the time by another fifteen days.
It is said that soldiers are valuable and quick, but Guang Jiqi did not take this sentence seriously at all.
"It seems that we are really ready." Lei Guang murmured: "But why didn't the coach tell us in advance so that we can prepare well?"
"We are prepared, and the other side is also prepared. I am not sure if so many people will leak the news. I only know that if we attack the city, it is best to conquer it at once, otherwise when the casualties increase, not only will it look bad, but it will also It will make the city bigger and more difficult to defeat." Guang Jiqi said with a smile: "Our goal is not just this Rangping City, we want to defeat the entire 200,000 troops of Goryeo and Japan. How can we stop here? Not going forward?"
Saying this, Guang Jiqi looked at Lei Guang: "Lei Guang, take three thousand soldiers and horses to attack Beicheng."
The North City is, of course, the outer city to the north of Pingcheng. It is the most steep and solid, and it is definitely not a soft persimmon.
"Follow the order." Lei Guang was unambiguous. He was a tough attacker. After all, he dared to bring three hundred people with wooden shields to demolish the Japanese fortress, let alone the big city in front of him.
"Wu Weizhong."
"The last general is here." Another general came out.
"You take four thousand people and attack Xicheng."
Xicheng is the outer city where the first wave of concentrated shelling was conducted. The defense is relatively weak, but because it is the place where the first wave of test fire attacks were conducted, heavy troops are now deployed.
"Listen to the order!" Wu Weizhong led the army away.
"And Zu Chengxun."
"The end will be here."
"Take three thousand soldiers and horses and set up an ambush outside Nancheng, waiting to snipe the Japanese defeated army as they flee."
"The general will obey orders."
Only Nancheng will not be attacked, and the door is wide open, because this is originally a way for the enemy to survive.
This is the so-called "surrounding three and missing one".
But just missing one side is not enough. Although the net cannot be placed on the bright side, it can be placed on the dark side.
"As for me, I will also lead three thousand troops to attack Dongcheng." Guang Jiqi finally said slowly.
The East City is the strongest of all the outer cities.
It is the largest and has the most defenders.
It is also the hardest bone.
To be honest, Xicheng or Nancheng are most suitable as a breakthrough point.
"May I ask? Which direction is the main attack?" At this time, a general below couldn't help but ask.
When attacking a city, shouldn't all the troops be concentrated on one point?
Wherever there is a way to spread the troops to attack on three sides, there is still room for another ambush force to be sent out. Is this because the enemy is already prepared for defeat?
The so-called war on paper is probably nothing more than this.
"Three sides are the main attack." Guang Jiqi turned around, looked at the opponent quietly and said, "Whoever climbs the city wall first will be credited with being the first to climb the city in this battle and will be rewarded with five thousand taels of silver."
The other person touched and closed his mouth.
"Do you have any comments now?" Guang Jiqi looked around and said calmly.
Although he was not very old, the general's majesty at this time seemed a bit domineering.
"If this battle fails..." someone whispered below.
"This battle must be defeated." Guang Jiqi waved his hand and walked out of the tent, turned around and said quietly: "If we cannot be defeated, this will be the last battle of my life, Guang Jiqi."
On that day, the Zhou army fired artillery to attack the city, firing from three sides, and bullets rained down.
PS: The pace of finishing the novel recently has not been very good. I have been working on it for three days at the beginning of the month. After all, this has already deviated greatly from the originally imagined plot, but I still have to do my best to write this story well.
But I will still try my best.
Do your best.
