The Era of Generals

Chapter 454 - Procrastination

"All ready, fire!"

Watching Ouyang Lixing's troops approaching coldly, Zheng Yuanyun was not even interested in talking to them, and when he saw that his troops were directly within the range of his trebuchet troops, he immediately ordered to open fire.

This is also the reason why he is on the defensive side at the moment. The range of the trebuchet erected condescendingly is naturally longer than that of the ground troops, so it is understandable to fire a shot first.

However, Ouyang Lixing is naturally not a fool. He led the army all the way forward, and he was also stuck in the farthest range of the opponent. Just as Zheng Yuanyun ordered to fire, Ouyang Lixing also raised his hand violently, ordering the entire army to stop go ahead.

As a result, a large amount of artillery fire from the Juhe city fell into the empty space, and the furthest rolling stone rolled to the feet of Ouyang Lixing's vanguard. In terms of actual damage, it did not hurt at all.

"General Zheng, why are you so angry?"

Ouyang Lixing looked at the mess in front of him, smiled slightly and said, "Wouldn't it be a waste of ammunition to fire so early?"

"snort!"

Zheng Yuanyun stared at him coldly, the other party was a military commander with outstanding vigor and blood, there was no pressure to talk to him from this distance, but he didn't have that kind of ability, so he simply ignored it.

Wasting ammo?

The most important thing that Juhe City lacks is the reserve of combat power materials. The round of unison just now was only four or five hundred trebuchets. For the materials of Juhe City itself, it is not a drop in the bucket.

Although it was a little early, but of course Zheng Yuanyun knew very well that Ouyang Lixing would not come from afar and attack the city like this, right?

He would have stopped too. Zheng Yuanyun's order was just a strategy to let the archers shoot their arrows and shoot the ground in a conventional siege battle, to warn the enemy not to come forward.

At this height, trebuchets can naturally hit farther than bows and arrows, and the shells fired will not disappear. At this time, they are piled up in such a mess on the siege road of Ouyang Lixing. Speaking of which, Zheng Yuanyun's order is not for delay.

It will take at least half a day for the reinforcements from the rear to arrive. This time is not long, and it is definitely not short. Especially when the battle situation is changing rapidly, it is difficult to say whether there will be any changes.

In any case, Zheng Yuanyun still had a clear understanding of his current strength. Before the reinforcements arrived, he was always at a disadvantage, and he could delay as long as he could.

The shells fired by the trebuchet piled up under the city, which would also hinder Ouyang Lixing's forward troops, at least making it difficult for the opponent to charge so smoothly.

Therefore, what responded to Ouyang Lixing's sneer was a large number of stones that exploded from Juhe City again. Although they were not ignited for the sake of saving kerosene, it also made Ouyang Lixing's front a lot more bumpy.

Zheng Yuanyun didn't want to hide his thoughts, and Ouyang Lixing naturally understood the purpose of his actions.

Now that he had expected it, of course Ouyang Lixing's heart would not fluctuate. Seeing that Zheng Yuanyun didn't want to talk to him, he shook his head and smiled, and waved to the lieutenant in a blink of an eye.

He didn't just rush over in a daze like this, and then just say a siege and it's over. On the way here, Ouyang Lixing also formulated a variety of combat strategies with the lieutenants. Now Zheng Yuanyun's response is actually in their expectation. among.

So how to deal with it?

very simple.

Ouyang Lixing's biggest advantage now is the large number of troops. Of course, he will not waste this advantage. Unlike Zheng Yuanyun, Ouyang Lixing is not a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

So he couldn't do what Zheng Yuanyun did. He knew that he would lose a lot if he rushed up by force, but he didn't care about ordering the soldiers to press forward.

Since the opponent fought so fiercely on the frontal battlefield, then try another city gate.

With an order, the troops on the left and right wings, which had been deployed long ago, split up and left, making a detour and outflanking the other two gates of Juhe City.

The deployment of his left and right wings is also completely in accordance with the siege model, in which all kinds of configurations are complete, including siege towers, impact hammers, ladders, catapults, etc. are all available.

As soon as the two sides were divided, one million troops were immediately distributed, and the left and right each had 500,000 troops. They wanted to test Zheng Yuanyun's deployment with a strategy of comprehensive outflanking.

After all, there are only 600,000 defenders in Juhe City. Ouyang Lixing can exhaust the defenders at the top of the city by constantly pulling, just bullying the opponent's few people, so as to find the opponent's defensive flaws in the process of constant pulling .

So right under Zheng Yuanyun's nose, Ouyang divided his troops without any concealment.

Standing at the head of Juhe City, Zheng Yuanyun could only watch helplessly as the two torrents of steel on the left and right circled away, and it was impossible to know where their destination was.

Only then did he look back at the lieutenant who had slightly questioned his order before.

If he just placed tens of thousands of defenders on the left and right gates symbolically, as the lieutenant general thought, how could he guard against other people's well-equipped elite soldiers and strong generals?

With 150,000 against 500,000, and Juhe City's strong material reserves, this is the only way to fight.

Without paying attention to the troops allocated by the opponent, Zheng Yuanyun knew that the pressure on the frontal battlefield would still be the greatest at this moment.

And Ouyang Lixing didn't let him down. While dividing the troops, he also waved his hand, and the engineering troops that had been prepared for a long time began to slowly advance to the front line under the cover of the sword and shield hands.

Zheng Yuanyun's trebuchet shells that were forcibly used to block the road were indeed effective. If Ouyang Lixing wanted to attack the city, he had to clear a way first.

And how could Zheng Yuanyun let him get what he wanted? If you think about it, then it's enough!

In an instant, countless slings roared in. The engineering soldiers just started to carefully move the first sling, and then suddenly hundreds of slings came, which made everyone back away in shock.

As a result, the road was not cleared, but it became even more messy.

The deputy general who led the engineering troops looked back helplessly, not knowing that he had scolded the city lord who originally lived in Hecheng hundreds of times.

It's okay, what are you doing with so many sling reserves?

However, the coach he was looking at, Ouyang Lixing, looked much calmer than him, as if he didn't take Zheng Yuanyun's response seriously.

Seeing that the road ahead was difficult to clear, he still had no intention of ordering a strong attack, but waved his hand again in a leisurely manner.

The two flanking cavalry suddenly came out more and more, like two sharp knives piercing the two sides of the city.

Siege with cavalry?

Zheng Yuanyun frowned slightly, and didn't think it would have any effect, but since the opponent was Ouyang Lixing, just to be on the safe side, he also held the flag high.

boom!

The trebuchet roared again, but this time it hit the two sharp knives that were coming straight.