If the Battle of Zhenbeicheng was a tactical victory for the bastion, then the offensive and defensive wars in the north of the country showed its strategic victory.

Due to the extensive use of forts in the Li Kingdom, the northern tribes gradually struggled to move along the northern border of the Li Kingdom, and despite previous invasions at any time, they were able to achieve fruitful results.

In the past, the northern tribes relied on their superiority in cavalry to move across the plains in the north of the Li Kingdom and were arrogant.

However, after the extensive use of bastions in the past, conquering a town was extremely time-consuming, leaving them without enough time and financial resources to use force to capture those bastions one by one.

At that time, even if the Li Kingdom failed in a field battle, as long as there were sufficient fortresses to defend the base, they would have enough time to make a comeback. Therefore, the form of war gradually shifted from field battles to siege warfare.

Although building a bastion consumes considerable energy and wealth, besieging it is almost as time-consuming and laborious, and a siege often lasts for months or even years.

During the limited season each year when northern tribesmen are most suitable for waging war, a commander would be considered lucky if he could conquer one or two fortresses.

This situation, in turn, stimulated the various countries to build fortresses.

The most famous one is the fortification zone on the northern border of Li Kingdom. The northern border of Li Kingdom has become a big fortress.

This slow war pattern centered on the attack and defense of fortresses has continued to this day.

Since the current Li king has organized an unprecedentedly large force, even if a part of the force is detached to monitor the bastion and control the supply line, the remaining force is still strong enough.

This allows the army to quickly rely on the border fortification areas and penetrate directly into the core.

Since then, the bastion has also changed in response to the new situation. The functions of the fortress have been integrated with those of the barracks. Counterattacks outside the fort have become the main means of defense. This has greatly extended the defense range of the bastion beyond the range of large ballistas.

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And what appeared in front of the Third Prince and the others now, the central area of ​​the Southern Wilderness King's City, was actually a group of bastions.

In other words, this is not a bastion, but a large fortress group composed of many bastions. It is also a cross vitality point with extremely strong defense. Although this area is not large, it is

, but its defensive power is particularly strong, and it is integrated with the function of this barracks, allowing it to last for a long time, and it is not easily captured by the Hai Clan army.

However, now that they have reached this point, the third prince of the Sea Tribe will naturally not stop there, so he orders a strong attack.

However, this time's strong attack is different from the last attack on the Southern Wilderness King's City. The last time they attacked the Southern Wilderness King's City, they were blocked directly under the city. This Southern Wilderness King's City still has an overall and complete defense system.

And those in the Southern Wilderness

The savages, under the unified command of the city-defending generals, fought repeatedly with the attacking Hai Clan on the city wall. Relying on the height of the Southern Wilderness King's City and the organized and systematic counterattack, they dragged the Hai Clan into a situation where they had to retreat.

But this time it was different. Due to Keda and Yingsha, the raid was a success at the beginning, so much so that the Southern Wilderness King City was directly captured.

The current imperial city is basically under the control of the Hai Clan army, that is, the central area has not been captured yet.

However, it is also surrounded by the Hai Clan army, and the most important point is that this fortress is a relatively small place compared to the entire Southern Wilderness King City, and the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized are limited.

In this way, if attacks continue, the fortress will always be breached.

Therefore, the third prince of the Sea Tribe confidently launched the order to attack.

The first is to use this in the surrounding areas to capture these high-rise buildings and conduct fire suppression on this fortress.

You must know that although those tall buildings are not as high as these fortresses, if you shoot with bows and arrows at this height, and then build this simple archery tower, coupled with the tall stature of the Hai people, it will naturally give great pressure to the fortresses.

Such a situation is naturally difficult to solve, but although the castle was suppressed with long-range weapons, the fortress was still unable to be breached.

This is mainly because this kind of fortress is not like a city wall or an ordinary city. This set is basically useless. You can only use the ladder to carry out the storm.

But this attack using a ladder is not an easy task for the Sea Clan.

Due to the extremely large size of the Sea Clan, there are only a few people who can climb up each ladder, which does not create a suppressive advantage on the fortress.

As for the other methods of siege, there are no particularly big gains for the time being.

This is the characteristic of the bastion. Its defense mechanism is not the only one, but it is also extremely offensive. The result of the first storm was that the sea warriors dropped hundreds of corpses in an instant, but without any results.

"Third Prince, this city is difficult to attack!" All the generals who had suffered heavy losses said to the Third Prince.

In the current situation, it is impossible to withdraw like this, but we still hope that the third prince will not push too hard.

The third prince showed no expression at this time and ordered to continue the attack.

The existence of the Sea Clan is very cruel. People like the Third Prince have seen countless crueler things. In his eyes, the existence of these Sea Clan is only valuable, and he does not care about their life or death.

So under the strict orders of the third prince, waves of strong attacks began.

A large number of stone bullets launched a crazy attack towards the city head. This is a long-range artillery car. The attack range is extremely long. Once it falls on the city wall, it will kill a large area.

And the most important thing is that they drew a kind of rune on this stone bullet, which will explode when it hits the target.

This violent explosion caused great damage to the people of the Southern Wilderness who were guarding the castle.

And the most important thing is the casualties. Although the castle is strong enough, it still needs this personnel to guard it. If all the people in the castle are killed and they don't dare to appear at the top of the city, then it will definitely be more difficult for the Sea Clan to attack.

Be simpler.

In fact, this was indeed the case. When the overwhelming stone bullets hit the city head, it immediately caused the death of a large number of defenders.

The casualties have forced these Southern Wilders to dare not stay at the city gate for the time being.

The third prince of the Sea Tribe ordered a strong attack. These Sea Tribe warriors did not dare to disobey and could only attack the fortress desperately.

Under the attack of batches of live ammunition, all the Southern Wilders guarding the surface of the fortress had been killed or wounded, or had retreated.

And when these Sea Warriors rushed up to the city wall, the Southern Wilderness people immediately rushed up and fought with the Sea Warriors, trying to force them down. The two sides started a battle on the city wall.

It was a tough battle. Whenever the Sea Warriors used live ammunition, after a bombardment on the city wall, the Sea Warriors rushed up.

At this time, the people from the Southern Wilderness who had been hiding during the live ammunition attack immediately rushed out to fight with the Sea Tribe warriors and forced them off the city wall.

Due to the huge body of the Sea Tribe warriors, only a small number of them could be sent up by the ladder each time. Faced with attacks from a larger number of people from the Southern Wilderness, they were often forced to withdraw from the city wall.

At this time, the sea warriors could only use stone bullets again to kill and injure the enemy.

But after several rounds of back and forth, the Southern Wilderness man also became smarter. As soon as he forced the Sea Warrior off the city wall, they quickly hid, which greatly weakened the killing effect of the stone bullet attack, and then

Then he suddenly jumped out to fight with the sea warriors who had climbed to the top of the city.

In this way, the two sides repeatedly saw each other. Although the sea warriors were not able to completely capture the castle for a while, it gradually became apparent that the Southern Wilderness man was at a disadvantage because the castle was too small and there were too few people.

As their casualties increased, their resistance gradually became weaker and weaker.

The third prince of Haizhu, who had been watching the battle below, burst into laughter and said, "You see, the resistance of these southerners is no longer enough. We only need to continue to attack a few more times and we will be able to capture this castle. Then we will reward you based on your merits."
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