"Master Ren, they have already withdrawn and are on their way back."
When Ren Baqian heard the voice from the walkie-talkie, he first looked towards the two battalions, but there was no Great Xia army chasing them out. After all, in such a dark night, the Gu Clan's personal strength could be brought into full play.
Moreover, the two battalions have barely calmed down now. It is estimated that treating the wounded, putting out the fire, and gathering the disorderly army will be enough for them to work for a while.
"The matter is over, let's retreat." Ren Baqian asked people to carry mortars, machine guns, and ammunition boxes, and everyone retreated leisurely. When they reached the bottom of the city, they saw the city gate wide open, and everyone filed into the city .
Not long after everyone returned to the City Commander's Mansion, the battle damage was delivered.
The damage was not large, only a few hundred people, among which the flying cavalry suffered negligible damage, but the Central Guard Army lost three to four hundred people, but half of them came back with serious injuries, and only about two hundred were killed in battle.
The loss of the ancient clan was insignificant compared to that of Daxia.
The loss of the Great Xia Army was at least 20,000 to 30,000, and a large amount of food and grass were burned.
However, Ren Baqian was attracted by something described by the flying knight who came back.
At the end of the night attack, due to the soldiers of the ancient tribe hacking and killing in the camp, a group of troops that managed to get together would encounter a group of bombs, and they were still unable to fight back, so the eastern camp launched several artillery pieces.
The flying cavalry didn't take this thing seriously at first, but after the opponent ignited it, countless iron nails sprayed out of it, several flying cavalry were beaten all over by carelessness, and died on the spot.
The number of injured flying knights was even more, at least twenty.
Ren Baqian took the iron nail they sent up in his hand and looked at it. It was half a foot long and the thickness of a little finger. It was made of pig iron, and the bottom was a hexagonal shape slightly larger than the diameter.
"What's the range of this thing?" Ren Baqian asked.
"About two hundred steps. It can kill people at a hundred steps." A flying cavalry captain said.
"That is to say, those who were killed by this thing were all idiots who used this thing to face him within a hundred steps, and they didn't know how to hide?" Ren Baqian said angrily.
"The main reason is that I didn't expect that although this thing can't hit very far, when it hits a piece at a close distance, it's not weak." The flying knight scratched his head and said, he also felt that the death of those subordinates was too wronged.
"There are so many unexpected things. I use this thing to face you, can you hide?" Ren Baqian directly took out a pistol from his waist and pointed it at the flying knight's forehead.
"Of course we have to hide!" the captain said quickly. The head of the prefecture poisoned tens of thousands of people before, and today he took out a weapon that can hit the Great Xia army from a few miles away. Although the details are not clear, a pile of steel balls will be swept out as soon as the explosion explodes. They still knew it was like a sieve, and many flying riders saw this scene from a distance.
Now Ren Baqian is considered to be a number in the hearts of the flying riders. Although this person looks thin and weak, the things in his hands are fatal.
Now as long as it is something he took out, no one dared to underestimate it.
"In any case, today's night attack is a complete victory, and Sir Ren should take the lead." Li Qianqiu laughed.
Although the loss of three or four hundred people, compared to the loss of Daxia, it is enough to make people satisfied.
Ren Baqian waved his hand, with an expression that fame and fortune are like floating clouds to me.
"Although I don't know how much the opponent's army has lost, but it must have lost some. The flying cavalry and the central army also saw that the place where they stored their grain and grass was on fire during the night attack."
This is what Ren Baqian deliberately drew attention to.
"If the other party's grain loss is huge, the other party will definitely rush to send food from the rear. After a while, I will send some walkie-talkies, a repeater and a radio away. I suggest sending some flying cavalry with walkie-talkies and a repeater. A radio station went out to investigate and spread the search. If they encountered Xia Jun’s fast horses, they would immediately intercept and kill them. If they encountered food teams, they would eat them together if they could.
If you can't eat, you can contact the city through the radio and send personnel to support. "
The Empress and Li Qianqiu both nodded slightly, intercepting and killing the other party's Liang Dao must be done, and there is nothing wrong with Ren Baqian's suggestion.
"As for the Great Xia Army here, there may be two choices next.
The first is to shrink the troops to defend and focus on siege. After all, this night attack should also hurt them.
But I think another point is also very possible, that is, jumping over the wall in a hurry.
If the opponent loses too much food and grass, it will take a long time for the grain transport team to arrive, and the opponent may attack aggressively, consuming their own troops to exchange money with us. "
"What is Duizi?" Li Qianqiu asked immediately.
"If the other party is seriously short of food, for example, there are only two days' rations left for 100,000 people, but the food team will arrive in seven days, what should we do? It is not enough to halve the food for each person. When they are too hungry to walk, let's go again." With a massive attack, they don't even have a chance to counterattack.
That being the case, it's better to consume most of them. It would be best if we can break through the city. If we can't break through, we can consume our troops, and it's a worthy death. And their remaining army, even if there is not enough food and grass, is enough to support the arrival of the food team. "
"If the opponent loses too much food and grass, it is likely to do so."
"Exchanging their lives for ours is exchange." Ren Baqian finally concluded.
Li Qianqiu frowned and thought for a long time, then nodded slowly: "It's not impossible."
If you put yourself in the position of the opponent's general, I am afraid that you will choose this way if you have no other choice.
After discussing for a while, everyone saw that it was already late at night, so they all went back to rest.
Generally, there are spies and spies on both sides of the war, and a lot of useful information can be obtained. But in the war between Dayao and Daxia, both sides had almost no spies in the opposing army, so all information can only be speculated.
…
Everyone in Dayao went back to rest, but the barracks in Daxia were brightly lit.
Treat the wounded, put out the fire, count the dead, count the damage, until dawn.
Wu Shenghou sat in the big tent with a livid face, motionless like a stone statue.
The sound of hurried footsteps made him raise his eyelids, looking at the scribe who hurried in, he asked in a deep voice, "How?"
"Daying lost 11,000 casualties, Dongying lost more than 23,000, and Wuying had 876 and 392 remained.
For food and grass, there were only two days of food and grass for the 60,000 army in Dongying, and 75% of them were lost. The big camp had 170,000 troops and ten days' food and grass, and lost 60% of it, while the west camp didn't lose any. "
"How long can the remaining food and grass be used?" Wu Shenghou asked.
"There are still 60,000 troops in the west camp for two days' food and grass, plus the remnants of the east camp, enough food and grass for the 140,000 troops for one day. The food and grass left in the big camp are enough for the army to use for more than four days. That is to say It is enough for five days, and if the daily supply of grain and fodder is halved, it can be used for ten days. But in this way, the soldiers will be powerless to attack."
"How long will it take for the food to be delivered?" Wu Shenghou asked.
"There are still ten days." The scribe whispered. "However, General Wen Yuan and General Zhao Sheng should be able to mobilize some. They are more convenient to supply at the border."
"Notify them!" Wu Shenghou said in a deep voice.
"Notice, let the soldiers have a full meal, and attack the city in two hours!"
"My lord?" The scribe was startled, the soldiers didn't rest almost all night, so they are in such a hurry to attack the city today
"It can't be delayed anymore!" Wu Shenghou said with an ugly face. "You know the kind of attack that Wuying encountered yesterday, right?"
Scribe nodded.
"In addition to the thing that attacked the grain and grass last night, and the thing that they threw into the crowd that would explode, I don't know if the other party has any means to use. It can't continue to drag on, and if you go all out, no matter how big the damage is, you can't kill it." We must take Liao Cheng down, or force out all the cards in their hands."
Wu Shenghou said categorically, for generals, as long as the hole cards are exposed, they can always find a way to deal with them. Only the unknown is the most terrifying. Because it is likely to give you a head-on blow when you think you are about to win, and you will lose the whole game.
"I didn't expect those barbarians to have such a thing in their hands." The scribe smiled wryly.
"This Marquis didn't expect that either." Wu Shenghou sighed softly, he now felt that he was a barbarian.
"These things can't be Dayao's, they were given to them by someone. Capture that person, or kill him."
"The general knows who it is?" the scribe asked, actually he had some guesses in his mind.
"It should be the poisonous man. Chen Shi went out with the military camp yesterday, and saw a person manipulating a weapon from a distance. He is the one who is currently in Liaocheng. Besides, he would rather kill the wrong one than let him go." Wu Shenghou Said.
Ren Baqian was only guessing about the situation of the Great Xia Army, so naturally there were many discrepancies.
However, although the reasons were different, Wu Shenghou's decision was similar to Ren Baqian's guess.
…
In the morning, Ren Baqian sat in the lobby and had breakfast with the empress, burritos, noodle soup, and a big pot of meat the size of a laundry tub.
He watched the pot of meat disappear at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Is Your Majesty full?" Ren Baqian asked softly when the basin bottomed out.
The empress tilted her head, thought for a while and replied: "Half full, but I will take the lead in reducing the amount of food, so that the food and grass in the city can last for a few more days."
Ren Baqian: ...
The two of them hadn't chatted a few words before someone outside reported that Da Xia had attacked the city.
The two looked at each other, and let Baqian point to themselves: "A wise man will gain something after a thousand worries!"
The Empress raised her head and thought for a while, there seemed to be nothing wrong, but she always felt that something was wrong.
In the afternoon, Ren Baqian confirmed his previous thoughts.
The opponent's attack intensity was indeed much greater than before. Soldiers of the Great Xia Army were climbing up the city wall almost every moment, and soldiers fell from the city wall with howling miserably every moment.
Another day passed, and the intensity of Daxia's attack continued unabated. Hundreds of thousands of troops almost took turns to attack, and the city walls in three directions were fighting from morning till night.
When Ren Baqian walked to the small hall of the city magistrate's mansion, he saw Li Qianqiu who was issuing orders inside. After he finished speaking with others, he stepped forward and asked. "Can you still hold it?"
"It's almost a hundred thousand of them." Li Qianqiu said indifferently.
Ren Baqian nodded, "If the pressure is too high, just use the remaining explosives."
"Didn't you use it all the night before?" Li Qianqiu asked doubtfully.
"I still have a box!" Ren Baqian said. The 300 explosive tubes were packed into two boxes. He took out half of them when he bombed the catapult that day, and used them up during the night attack. Now there is only one box left.
"Come on, follow me to ransack the house!" After hearing this, Li Qianqiu stood up from behind the copybook and strode out, calling for people as he walked.
Whoever uses this thing will know, anyway, in Li Qianqiu's eyes, this is a treasure, no matter whether it is useful or not, first get it and then talk.