For the people of Yunyang, the past month is considered to be the period of time when they eat melons and watch the most dramas.
This melon can be traced back to this time last year. At that time, Li De, who was the fourth son of Yunyang, left Yuxi City. This incident caused quite a stir in Yunyang. The official attitude was that Li De and Li Yi failed to compete for the son of Yunyang and were exiled to Yuxi City. The people also accepted this reason. After all, everyone knew that the fourth son of Yunyang was a lazy dude.
But what happened next made everyone feel that things were not that simple.
First of all, when Lord Zhaochen's thirteenth daughter led troops to attack Yuxi City, Yunyang did not send troops to help Lide, but let him fend for himself.
Then, in order not to give everyone the impression that "the fall of Yuxi City means that Yunyang lost to Zhaochen", the lord of Yunyang chose to remove Yuxi City from the territory of Yunyang, and severed the father-son relationship with Li De.
Soon after, Fang Shisan joined Yuxi City and helped Li De to defeat the four cities of Li Neng, the third son of Yunyang.
The lord of Yunyang immediately visited Rivet City, the last city in Li Neng's fief, on the grounds of "visiting relatives", forcing Fang Shisan to retreat.
During the Spring Festival, Li De, the owner of Yuxi City, was called to the capital. During this period, Li Neng launched a surprise attack on Yuxi City and was defeated by Yuxi City.
When the demons invaded, none of Yunyang's soldiers supported Yuxi City. Instead, they piled up troops under the four cities of Zhenmo, Tiebi, Lieyang, and Tianqi. Then Yuxi City was captured by the demons.
After Li De returned from the demon clan, Yuxi City directly swallowed Li Neng's army that came to attack, and captured Li Neng, the third son of Yunyang alive.
And then until now.
Li De accepted the ransom from Yunyang, kept his promise and released Li Neng.
The next day, Yunyang Shizi Liyi led five thousand elite soldiers and horses into Rivet City.
This is a typical grievance situation. After nearly a year of probing you and me, the two people who broke up in Lingyun City at the beginning are now leading an army to start a real contest. Looking at this, whoever loses will bear the name of serving chicken.
This is also a matter of life and death. Needless to say, if Lide lost, the entire family property was given to others as a dowry, and if Li Neng lost, it meant that unless the lord of Yunyang personally conquered Yuxi City, there would no longer be any party in the entire Yunyang territory to compete with. Yuxi City contends.
Therefore, in this war, Li Yi, who had always been impatient, also chose the safest way of fighting.
He handed over the command to a veteran of Yunyang—Fei Luoge, who has passed his sixtieth year this year. Fei Luoge has always focused on stability when using troops, and he is one of the only remaining veterans in Yunyang after experiencing countless wars. He experienced the great battle between Yunyang and Zhaochen, and also fought with Lord Yunyang and Lord Cangzhou, until his physical strength, energy, and ability to fight for power were somewhat inferior to the generals of Yunyang's younger generation. Retired among the first-line generals.
Speaking of which, if it wasn't for the Lord Yunyang's instruction behind his back, it would not be so easy for Li Yi to invite Fei Luoge out of the mountain.
Before Li Neng was released, Fei Luoge had already started to study this siege battle. He sent scouts in advance to find out the geographical environment near Rivet City, and he also had a general understanding of the whole situation. I have to say that the Rivet City is just like its name, it is a nail stuck in a dangerous position, the two sides of the city are mountains, the geographical environment is easy to defend and difficult to attack, although you can also send troops to go straight to Yuxi City, But Ferrog would not take such a risky move.
Once the lone army is cut off from the back, what Ferrog will face is the situation of closing the door and beating the dog. The best thing Lide did was not to make the situation worse, but to keep the opponent from knowing his own details. Even if Lide told Feirog the whole process of his defeat, Fei Rogge still can't accurately calculate how many people there are in Lied's army.
Under such circumstances, Ferrog, as a veteran, adopted the most cautious and safest method: a frontal attack.
After all, the Rivet City has only been in the hands of Lide for a few days. At best, Lide just strengthened the city wall a little bit. The last time the entire city was extensively renovated and expanded was more than 20 years ago when the demons invaded. Li Neng searched for a lot of wealth in it, but never thought of strengthening the defensive power of Rivet City. As a result, although Rivet City has an excellent geographical location, it is not considered a strong city in itself.
After considering all the above considerations, Ferrog ordered 5,000 soldiers, and launched a stormy offensive directly to Rivet City on the second day after Li Neng was released.
Similarly, he really felt the fierce resistance from Rivet City. The ladder will be overturned in less than five seconds, even if it is useless to suppress the defenders on the city wall through the rain of arrows. Fang Shisan has always been good at using archers, so he is also very experienced in dealing with archers. Yuxi City's shield formation is a bit cumbersome in the pursuit battle, but it is completely impregnable in the defense battle.
Ferrog, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, did not panic in the slightest.
If it were Liyi who commanded this army, after seeing the hedgehog-like defensive formation of Rivet City, he would probably start to think about the strategy of repairing the plank road and secretly hiding Chen Cang, but Feirog didn't. He knew very well that the stronger the defense force of Rivet City, the more desperate Lide was to pile up his forces here. Only by breaking Rivet City and beheading all the elite troops under Lide's hands can this war be considered a war. win.
For this reason, sacrifice is inevitable and unavoidable.
The rain of arrows in the sky was like a dark cloud, and the white-haired Feirog stood in front of Rivet City wearing a heavy armor and leaning on a sword.
The right time, the right place, and the harmony between the people, the right time and the right time are equally shared between the two sides, and both the right place and the right people are on Lide's side.
But Feirog has two important cards in his hand, one is the number of people, and the other is armaments.
The revenue of Yuxi City is indeed not to be underestimated, but a large part of it has been invested in reproduction. A lot of money was invested in arming the army, but it was obviously not enough compared to Yunyang's rich and powerful style of play. For example, Feirog brought 100,000 arrows and 30 siege vehicles this time, and he used these weapons without hesitation, completely ignoring those opposing voices, pulling the pressure out of every attack. Full. While depleting the defense array deployed by Fang Shisan, the soldiers defending the city had to be exhausted.
At the same time, he also arranged for soldiers to patrol in turn, to guard against surprise soldiers from Rivet City attacking his camp.
He may not have a place on the strategy list, but Ferrog has completely "don't waste money" in handling the advantageous game. In the case of steady and steady fighting, relying on the advantages of troops and armaments, it will be a matter of time to break through Rivet City.
Fei Luoge himself is also vaguely looking forward to what method Fang Shisan, who is ranked tenth on the strategy list and who is young enough to be his granddaughter, will use to break his situation.