Compared with daytime battles, night battles will be more uncertain and difficult. This is not only true for the attacker, but also for the defender.
When huge fires are lit at the top of the city and at the foot of the city wall, the light will be blinded by the obstructions that appear, and it is difficult to see clearly in these blind spots. Not to mention that the battlefield is full of running targets, and if there is a problem with the light, it is easy for defense flaws to appear.
The same goes for the siege party. Under backlight conditions, it becomes ten times more difficult to rely on experience and use the small shield in your hand to block arrows shot from high places.
For three hours, from the time it darkened to midnight, Liu Jianyu on the city tower had twice taken out men from his reserve troops to fill up the west and south walls. The number of men he filled was more than 1,500! He directly played out half of the cards in his hand!
But now Liu Jianyu's determination to "hold on for three days" is still less than one-third of the time.
"General!"
"speak!"
"Vice General Bai from Dongcheng sent another 237 barbarian heads. My subordinates have verified that the number is correct and they are all freshly chopped. According to Vice General Bai, 367 people were killed this time." Chen Shen Ji hurried over and delivered a piece of unexpected and exciting news to Liu Jianyu among the tense and unfavorable news.
"Huh?!" Liu Jianyu turned around suddenly. This time he didn't just listen, but asked Chen Shen to take him to see the heads of those barbarians.
When Liu Jianyu saw the big heads in rattan baskets, the expression on his face softened a bit. Now several hours of night fighting had really severely damaged his previous morale. He was prepared to resist for three days, but now it seems that if Barbarian maintains the intensity of his day and night attacks like this, he is not sure whether he can survive until the evening today. After all, more than half of the cards in his hand were played out in just one day and night, and he could no longer be optimistic no matter how optimistic he was.
The only surprise after the war started was Bailang in Dongcheng. Liu Jianyu had previously thought that Yunyan's attention was on the two southwest walls and would not be attracted to the east. After all, the terrain there was not suitable for large-scale killing. But the barbarian's first surprise attack during the day shocked him. Fortunately, Bailang blocked it, otherwise once the east city was breached, the entire city defense would be in chaos.
Now the barbarians attacked Dongcheng again at night but failed, and more than two hundred people were beheaded. Counting the more than fifty before, after two battles, Bai Langguang killed nearly three hundred barbarians with more than 500 people in his hands! Looking at the entire Hong Dynasty, this record can scare many people.
"Let Bai Lang come to see me quickly!"
Chen Shen responded and was about to turn around to do it, but was stopped by Liu Jianyu again.
"Forget it, it's really not appropriate to call him over at this time. You go to Dongcheng again and make up for the people Bailang lost. Without further ado, tell him to help Yongchuan City secure a retreat! "
"General, this."
Liu Jianyu waved his hand and refused to say more, indicating that Chen Shen would just pass the message to Bai Lang.
Not long after, when Chen Shen saw Bai Lang again, he couldn't help but his words were a little more cordial, and he no longer placed himself above the other party as before, but was equal and even obviously elevated. Bailang means.
"Vice General Bai, the general was relieved to have more than two hundred heads sent over. Now the west and south city walls have become sticky to the feet if you step on them. There are layers and layers of blood on them. The soldiers didn't even cry out in pain. When the barbarians bit someone, they dug them out with knives. If one of them failed, three or five would pick him up. In many places, even the parapets were smashed.
The general has not slept for a moment from yesterday morning to today. The war is going to be really difficult, Lieutenant General Bai must not hide it. It’s really hard to say how long we can hold on for now. However, the general has something to say, please Lieutenant General Bai to hold on to Dongcheng, Yongchuan City’s escape route! "
Chen Shen paused again when he said this, lowered his voice, and said: "Vice General Bai should know that once Yongchuan City is successfully defended, it can be said to be an unprecedented first time in the history of the Hong Dynasty, and it will be huge. To a great extent, the current war situation of the entire Hong Dynasty was reversed. The general can't take all the credit, and the share that falls on Vice General Bai must be a heavy share.
Please Lieutenant General Bai never let the general down! "
With Chen Shen's words, Bai Lang naturally promised again and again that he would go all out. But he also understood that when Liu Jianyu asked Chen Shen to come here with such words, he must have understood that Yongchuan City might not be able to hold it for three days. And the so-called retreat. Isn't it the dock in the industrial park outside Dongcheng?
As for who will be left with this escape route, Bailang is still unclear. Because according to the previous intention of the Ministry of War Yamen, Yongchuan City must fight to the end, and even the last soldier must be burned with the city. But will this military order change because of Liu Jianyu's great success in flooding Cantanpa? Hard to say. After all, there has never been a general in the entire Hong Dynasty who is as good as Liu Jianyu in defeating Yunyan. Is it too much and a waste of talent to let people fight to the death as soon as he comes out?
After sending Chen Shen away, Bai Lang didn't take the words and final promises Liu Jianyu asked Chen Shen to take to heart.
Shou? What to keep?
Before, Yunyan's army defeated Pengshan Pass, then Pengshan City, and finally played a trick on the Hong Dynasty's military strategy on the Tianfeng Plain. Then all the way north along the river was overwhelming. If you want to say that the soldiers are the only reason why the barbarians are strong, then Bailang will definitely sneer at you.
I heard before that the Imperial Sect Yun Sect sent its outer disciples to the front line of Pengshan Pass early, and then even more inner disciples participated in the battle of Pengshan City. During the confrontation in Tianfeng Plain, the elders of the Imperial Sect's Yun Sect and even the inner sect also arrived there.
The inner disciples of the Imperial Sect Yun Sect are at least in the middle and late stages of the Mysterious Meridian Realm, and the elders are at least in the early stages of the Dao Dan Realm. But have you ever taken advantage in several wars?
No! Not even once!
What does this mean? This shows that there are forces in Yunyan's army that can compete with or even have an advantage over the master Qi practitioners sent by the Hong Dynasty, regardless of their numbers or cultivation.
In the same way, some troops were left to continue the confrontation with the Hong Dynasty in the Tianfeng Plain. At the same time, partial troops were sent north along the river, plundering food along the way to solve the Hong Dynasty's strategy of clearing the country with strong walls in the Tianfeng Plain. This road is equally strategically significant and extremely important compared to the main force confronting the Hong Dynasty in the Tianfeng Plain. So how can you just watch and not take action?
After learning the true details of the Yunyan barbarians from Hong Xiu, Bailang's views on these barbarians became even more profound.
The people of the Hong Dynasty did not want to die. Even if they could be brave and fight regardless of life and death, they were forced to do so. Why go to the killing fields to risk their lives when they could live a stable life?
But Manzi is different. They came to kill not only to plunder, but plundering was not the purpose of their war. Their main purpose is to carry out "God's War". The more enemies they kill, the happier God will be and the higher their glory will be. As for whether they die or not, they really don't care.
In the past, Bailang would have thought that this was brainwashing under the pretext of holiness. Now I know from Hongxiu that this is just the method of the fairy country. While suppressing too many livestock on your own crop land, let the wolves that suppress the livestock die more to maintain a certain appropriate number.
So Bai Lang has been wondering when those Tao Dan realm experts who must exist in Yun Yan's army will take action. The reason for not taking action at this time can only be that he hopes to "die more and give a better account to God."
So when the barbarians have died enough, those masters will inevitably take action. How can Yongchuan City be defended then?
(End of chapter)
