The Era of Generals

Chapter 185   Taking offense as defense

"Where are the reinforcements? Haven't arrived yet?"

Inside the Bo'an army tent, Zheng Yuanyun roared louder than louder.

Amidst the roar, all the generals in the tent were speechless, and no one could answer Zheng Yuanyun's question at this moment.

The battle has already begun, and after fighting for a day and a night, the loss of troops on both sides is extremely high.

Zhang Chengwang was short of food and grass, so before the food crisis broke out for the time being, he went all out and launched wave after wave of swift and violent charges against the Bo'an barracks in a deadly battle regardless of consumption.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Zheng Yuanyun was still caught off guard by Zhang Chengwang's charge regardless of consumption.

Bo'an City's troops were already smaller than Zhu Yan's army, and the opponent showed a stance of fighting for their lives, but Zheng Yuanyun's troops were attrition far more than the opponent's.

So far, Zhu Yan's army has lost 300,000 troops, but in Bo'an City, nearly 500,000 soldiers fell on the battlefield forever.

If it wasn't for the tacit understanding between the two sides fighting for a while and sending people to clean up the corpses on the battlefield and delaying for some time, it is estimated that the loss of troops would have increased by one-third!

Even his own brother, Zheng Yuanlong, was accidentally injured by Liu Ya in the last match, and he is currently receiving emergency treatment from the army doctor, and so far his life is still in danger.

How could this make Zheng Yuanyun not angry?

Zheng Yuanyun, who was beaten so red-eyed, didn't have time to think about whether it was worth it or not. He didn't regret this kind of problem in the end. When riding a tiger, he could only keep asking the city behind to send support. At least he had to beat Zhang Chengwang The craziest moment.

However, the arrival of reinforcements will always take time.

Although he had sent a large number of messengers in the first place, it would take time to go back and forth. In addition, what he requested was the last defender of the rear city, so the handover and scheduling could not be completed in an instant.

So up to now, even in the city closest to Bo'an, no reinforcements have arrived yet.

Without supplements, Zheng Yuanyun was in a hurry, and there was a burst of cursing, regardless of the fact that many of the generals present were the city lords of the rear city. Before the reinforcements arrived, their urgency was no lower than that of Zheng Yuanyun.

"Master Zheng, calm down and be in a hurry. The old man has a plan here, and it may delay for a little longer."

At this time, anyone who can speak calmly, without fear of Zheng Yuanyun's power, is too old.

Since that day, Mr. Hua seems to have quit drinking, and he really hasn't drunk it again.

As soon as he opened his mouth at this moment, the eyes of all the generals focused on him, and Zheng Yuanyun no longer cared about continuing his commanding appearance, so he immediately asked, "What's your opinion, Mr. Hua?"

"I can't talk about a high opinion."

Hua Lao shook his head slightly, looked through the big tent, glanced in the direction of Bo'an City, and said: "Since the two armies can't fight each other, let's attack the city!"

"Siege?"

Zheng Yuanyun was stunned, never thought that the strategy Hua Lao said was to attack the city?

With the current situation, they are still attacking the city?

If the person who said this was not Hua Lao, Zheng Yuanyun could not hold back his anger long ago, and he was afraid that he would have to order someone to drag him out and beat him fifty times.

As we all know, it is difficult to siege a city but easy to defend it. It is not surprising that the soldiers on the attacking side lose several times more troops than the defending side in a siege battle.

Their current strength is already weaker than that of their opponents, and they still face the difficulties and run to attack the city. Is it because they think they haven't collapsed fast enough?

"Hua Lao, with our current strength, it seems that it is not suitable..."

Zheng Yuanyun took a deep breath, restraining the burning anger in his heart.

This is the wise general Qingyang?

Are you stupid to drink?

Hua Lao didn't mind the strange eyes of everyone in the tent looking at him, and said indifferently: "Siege depends on how you attack the city."

"Who said that as long as you attack a city, you must do your best?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was stunned. Hua Lao's words seemed to be...

Zheng Yuanyun also looked ponderous, but Luo Zongbing at the side suddenly said: "I see, Hua Lao means to lock Zhu Yan's army in Bo'an City!"

He clapped his hands and sighed, and praised: "This plan is very clever!"

At this time, the generals also realized what the old Hua's so-called strategy came from.

Right now, the two armies are fighting outside the city, and the competition is hard power.

The two sides have been fighting against each other for many years, and they are evenly matched. Zhang Chengwang and Zheng Yuanyun also know the bottom line. What kind of formation the opponent will make and how to respond in the battle situation, these have long been clear.

Therefore, the so-called hard power is more reflected in the number of troops.

On this point, before the reinforcements arrived, Zhu Yan's army had the upper hand.

The reason for this situation was that Zhang Chengwang could dispatch troops from the city to launch death charges again and again without any scruples, but instead caused huge casualties to Bo'an's army.

This is also understandable. After all, Zhang Chengwang probably did not hide the fact that the food and grass were about to run out. The soldiers of the Zhu Yan Empire could be described as a mourning army.

On the other hand, on the side of the Bo'an army, anyone with a discerning eye can see who has the upper hand now. They only need to trap Zhu Yan's army in the city, and when the opponent's food and grass are exhausted, they can take it down almost without a single soldier. enemy.

That being the case, how can there be motivation to fight?

It is not difficult to understand the current situation caused by the ups and downs.

The most important thing now is to delay the arrival of reinforcements, so that the situation of the battle can be reversed.

The siege war proposed by Hua Lao can just solve this problem.

Zhu Yan's army did not set up another barracks outside the city, but relied on the high walls and thick walls of the city to use Bo'an City as a stronghold.

This is of course true, with Bo'an City here, Zhang Chengwang has no worries at all, he only needs to send troops to attack the enemy, and he doesn't need to think too much about being attacked.

This is actually the reason why Hua Lao proposed to attack Bo'an City.

What he wanted was not to really capture Bo'an City, but to regain the initiative and not make Zhang Chengwang too comfortable.

The army is overwhelming the city, will you Zhang Cheng keep watch or not?

If you want to defend, you have to devote energy to deploying city defense matters, and the frequency of that kind of death-like charge has to be greatly reduced.

Do not keep?

If you don't keep it, you can continue to send troops out of the city to try.

The army is guarding you outside, come one to kill one, come two to kill one pair, it is impossible to organize an effective charge like before.

Before, it was because Zhang Chengwang was afraid that he would find the army outside the city as soon as he entered Bo'an City, so the general camp was set up dozens of miles away, but Zhang Chengwang was given a great buffer.

Siege is just a way of saying it. According to Elder Yi Hua, the main goal is to block Zhang Chengwang's movement space step by step and prevent him from occupying the initiative on the battlefield.

Zheng Yuanyun let out a heavy breath, "Then... what Elder Yi Hua meant."