The adjutant of the City Guard was only a level 9 combat division. At this time, Zhang Dali was already a level 1 combat division. His martial arts and axe skills were not comparable to those of ordinary officers in Yueshan area. [】He led 10,000 cavalry to be selected from the regular army, and the combat effectiveness of the City Guard was not as good as that of the regular army, and the number of people was only 4,000. The deputy general was killed by him, and the troops immediately defeated the City Guard.
Zhang Dali led his troops straight to the material area according to the plan, and successfully occupied the material area. Then he divided three thousand people to capture the other three city gates. He led 3,000 cavalry to the City Lord's Mansion. The battle went very smoothly. When he arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Sancai had independently killed nearly 500 enemy soldiers.
When the enemy soldiers turned to fight Zhang Dali outside, Xu Sancai rushed out of the official residence and killed the guard captain and the commander of the thousand-man. The enemy immediately collapsed under the impact of Zhang Dali's cavalry. He did not dare to delay in Jinan City, nor did he dare to carry too much baggage to affect the speed of the troops' travel, so he burned most of the supplies.
Although the troops were attacking smoothly, there were more than 2,000 casualties, and more than 5,000 prisoners were captured, but they were basically members of the transport team that were not members of the combat member. Xu Sancai left some carriages to transport wounded and prisoners, as well as some food and weapons and equipment. The troops did not stay in the city for more time. After cleaning the battlefield, they immediately set off from Jinan City.
Xu Sancai asked hundreds of cavalry and more than 2,000 wounded soldiers to escort supplies and prisoners to return to Hei Iron City by detour. There were more than 3,000 vehicles in the transport team, leaving only a few hundred vehicles, and the rest of the vehicles were burned. However, the horses and captured war horses of the transport team were sent back to Hei Iron City together. These were important materials for the development of the troops and had little impact on the speed of travel, so there was no need to waste.
Xu Sancai led his troops to quickly penetrate into the next county town of Nanyue: Beiguan City. Beiguan City was originally the northern border town of Nanyue, but after An Jiguo demanded Jinan City, Beiguan City became an internal county town. Usually, there were only 5,000 guards in the city. As long as the troops arrived there before the enemy strengthened their defense, it would not be difficult to capture Beiguan City.
Xu Sancai acted quickly and did not allow the enemy to make any preparations. The guard of Beiguan City was just a level 9 combat division. He led the elite troops to seize the gate of Beiguan City first, and then the large army rushed into the city and quickly occupied the city. He burned all the supplies and vehicles of the county city, plundered all the horses and war horses of the transportation team in the city, and immediately left the city.
This time, Xu Sancai did not continue to go deeper, but followed the path to return to the territory. Although there were not many enemies in Beiguan City and caught the enemy off guard, the troops still suffered hundreds of casualties. After returning to the territory, he asked the wounded soldiers to return to Qingtieng City by themselves. Zhang Dali led the remaining cavalry and elite troops to wait at a supply point first, and he went to the rear of the enemy camp in Anji City alone to investigate.
The arrangement of enemy camps is very standardized, with one camp after another forming a company of battalions. The cavalry troops are useless in siege and are responsible for patrol and garrisoning in the rear of the camp. The materials are located in the central army of the legion, including the rescue team of the wounded. The front army is composed of infantry and is responsible for siege tasks.
The camps of the enemy's legions are connected to each other and surrounded Anjicheng. When siege, the enemy fights on their own units and attacks the city from all directions at the same time. The vassal coalition forces are organized into an independent battle sequence, responsible for attacking the north side of Anjicheng. The enemy's attacks are not a strategy, but launching strong attacks on all sides simultaneously has greatly increased the pressure on Anjicheng's defense.
Wang Hu was an officer from the regular army of Yueshan Kingdom, so it was not difficult for him to command the city defense. However, the enemy launched a strong attack from all sides at the same time, and the defenders in the city suddenly seemed to be in short supply. Fortunately, Anjicheng was originally a capital city with tall walls and sound defensive fortifications, which gave the defending troops all the advantage of the geographical advantage.
There are not many types of siege equipment in the Chaos Continent. Although the South Yue Kingdom is a big country in Yueshan area, it is unable to possess advanced magic siege equipment, so it basically uses a simple ladder to attack. During the first day of the siege, the defending troops prepared sufficient wood-rolled stones and bows and arrows, which caused the enemy to suffer heavy losses and returned in a defeat. However, in one day, more than half of the wood-rolled stones were consumed, which made the subsequent defense even more difficult.
The news of the capture of Nancheng reached the front line the next morning, and the general on the front line immediately sent two legions from the front line to help Jinancheng. That night, the news of the capture of Beiguan City also reached the front line, and the general immediately mobilized two legions to return to the rescue of Beiguan City.
Beiguan City and Jinan City are the only way to transport materials from the country. If the two county cities are lost, the army's logistics supply will not be able to keep up. Although the front-line troops carried a large amount of supplies with the army, it was only enough for a month to use and needed to be replenished from the rear. The general naturally could not let any problems with the supply line.
It is necessary to rescue the enemy and thus differentiate the enemy's forces. This is the strategy and tactics of Sun Tzu's art of war. Although the enemy's forces are still nearly twice that of the defending troops, it is naturally not a big problem to defend the city with the assistance of the fortifications of the city wall. The enemy's re-adjustment of the garrison is still siegeing Anjicheng in an all-round way, and still maintaining the attack on the city from all sides at the same time.
After the four enemy corps returned to the rescue, Xu Sancai's troops had already withdrawn their territory. After investigation, the enemy quickly determined that there was only one army that had attacked, but there was no time to catch up. The four army reported the investigation to the general on the front line, and the general finally decided to let the four army stay in two counties to defend the safety of the supply line on the front line.
On the third day of the front-line attack, the rocks in the city were basically exhausted. Of course, the enemy's losses were also very heavy. The rocks and bows and arrows caused more than 30,000 casualties to the enemy in three days. However, these injuries were normal in the eyes of the general, and ordered the troops to continue to attack the city.
The city guards suffered not much loss in the first three days, with tall city wall defense, and the defenders on the city continued to attack with bows and arrows. The enemy's archers did not dare to approach the city wall, and there was no threat to the defensive soldiers. With the assistance of the rolling wood and stones, the enemy soldiers could not reach the city head at all in the first three days, so the casualties of the defenders were insignificant.
However, in three days, the rocks of the defensive troops had been exhausted, and the subsequent defensive pressure would inevitably increase greatly. The siege troops also found that the rocks of the defenders had been cut off. The enemy's general immediately ordered the siege to attack the city with all their strength on the fourth day, and the four generals also supervised the formation themselves.