Later, there was no choice but to give orders to the guards, and all the masters also gave orders to their servants. The guards are of course the most trusted confidants around the lord. Most of them are the people who serve the dead from the clan. They can only obey the orders of the city lord. The servants must first be loyal to the head of the family and must also execute such orders.
As a result, after the Shaowu Army set up a formation on the hem of Taihe City, the city gate opened wide and a bunch of adults tied up inside. This matter was still rumored as a "good story" many years later. As soon as the Shaowu Army arrived, the people in the city took the initiative to tie up the adults to offer the city. After the Shaowu Army got the city, they also rewarded the people with great rewards. In fact, the servants had to hand over to the master first, and then the master decided how to distribute it.
It is too important to capture Taihe City. There are several main nodes in Shaowu's strategic plan. The first node is Feihong City and the second node is Taihe City. After obtaining the granary materials in Taihe City, as long as the military rations obtained by Shaowu here are enough for the front-line army to support until the summer of the next year. Shaowu's choice is very good. The capture of the city is just shortly after the autumn harvest.
If the problem of on-site supply is not solved, the supply line will be too long and too unsafe to be transported from Jinsha City of Bashi Country to enter Baiju City, Guxiong City, Feihong City, Jiuzhang City, and then transport military supplies to Taihe City.
Another more important result was that Shaowu cut off an important supply line of the Xiangqiong army, not cut it from the middle, but directly attacked its source. The Jingshi Kingdom's military commander-in-chief Yuxuan did not want to give up Taihe City, but he did not expect that the Yuegeng army would collapse so quickly, and Shaowu's advance was so amazing, not as slow as he was when he captured Feihong City.
Even if there were still troops in the rear of the Xiangshi Kingdom, Yu Xuan had no time to transfer the military formation to Taihe City. He wisely recruited all the garrison formations that could come from nearby cities, and gathered outside the capital to meet the enemy.
The capture of Taihe City was very smooth, but it would be impossible to continue to march forward. Shaowu knew very well that he was about to usher in a real decisive battle. To the south of Taihe City is Longma City, and Longma City is the most important military center of the Xiangshi Kingdom. If Longma City is captured, Shaowu's army can return to Bashi Kingdom and cut off the Xiangshi Kingdom's retreat.
To the west of Taihe City is the capital of the Xiangshi Kingdom. Should we first attack the capital or capture Longma City? Shaowu had already made a decision and ordered the army to continue westward to the Xiangshi Kingdom. If we attack Longma City, although we could cut off the retreat of Xiangqian and return to Bashi Kingdom, we might also be attacked from two directions.
If the capital is captured, the retreat of the capital can also be cut off. It also causes the capital of the county town to lose its command center, and it will be easily defeated by Shaowu in the future. However, attacking the capital will not only have to face the deployment of heavy troops, but Yu Xuan will also transfer the heavy troops of Longma City to the capital for a decisive battle. This is the biggest test that Shaowu faces since the army advances. No matter how successful his strategy is, he must have the strength to win!
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When Shaowu captured Taihe City and continued his march, Xiangqiong's army also crossed the line between Pengshan and Zhangrenshan. The battle to surround Badu City had been fighting for more than half a month. When Bao Qi was defending the defense line between Pengshan and Zhangrenshan, Shrike had continuously withdrawn the nearby people and reinforcements into the city. When Xiangqi was at the city, Shrike closed the city gate and could not leave.
Under normal circumstances, the real decisive battle is not like this. As long as the shriek has enough troops, he should line up outside the city to have the hope of repelling Xiangqian and winning. Once the capital is surrounded, it is equivalent to being cut off from the outside world. The Bashi Kingdom also lost the command center.
But the Shrike obviously did not have the confidence to fight against the prime minister's army in the field, and concentrated a large number of military and civilians in the city to defend without seeking merits but without making any mistakes. Because he knew that the current command center of Bashiguo was not entirely in the capital. More government orders were transmitted from Sands City to various places.
What surprised Xiangqiong was that he had a great cost to break the passes between Pengshan and Zhangrenshan, but the besieging Badu City was extremely smooth. No reinforcements came from all over the Bashi Kingdom. Only this plain surrounded by mountains and the capital in the middle of the plain. Xiangqiong's purpose was to capture the capital. He had already arrived here and would never stop and had no time to divide his troops to capture other cities.
The three generations of monarchs before Shaowu had managed the Ba Capital for many years and had already built it into the most magnificent and solid city on the Ba Yuan. Of course, it was not so easy to capture. Even if you were poor, you had to invest all your heavy troops and concentrate your efforts to fight. You just sent a small group of troops to guard against the passes in other directions.
He created various siege equipment, mobilized elite military formations and reserve military formations to take turns to attack. The casualties of both the offense and defense were very serious, but Xiangqiong did not break through the city defense. He originally thought that under the current situation, Badu City, which was far away from the front, would have been empty in defense, but the defending soldiers were much more than he thought and had strong combat power.
Shaowu took away the elite field army from the middle school, but the army army that defended the capital was not transferred. The Shrike promptly withdrew so many people and supplies, and organized young and strong armed forces to take turns to fight in the city. Whenever a small gap and destruction appeared in the strong city wall under the attack, the city's Gonggong would cast spells and repair them in time at night.
Xiangqiong was getting more and more impatient. Since the advancing, his mood has changed a lot. He has been conquering the three cities of Wangqiu, Pinggu and Yeliang in succession, and the information he had mastered in advance was completely correct, which made the monarch full of energy. However, the resistance he encountered in Pengshan and Joker Mountain exceeded his imagination. Not only was the war fierce but it was delayed for too long, which made the monarch furious.
After breaking through the defense line, the army was rushing forward and completely encircling Badu City was extremely smooth. It seemed that Badu City had consumed all its defensive power at the pass, which made Xiangqiong proud. However, the strong attack in the past half month had paid such a huge price for casualties, but he could not get the Badu City, which made Xiangqiong irritable and angry.
In his plan, it only takes one month to capture Badu City, and it will inevitably change if it takes too long.
After nearly half a month of fighting, the offensive of the Xiangqiong army had not decreased, but the logistics supply was a little tight. Although Xiangqiong marched quickly in the Bashi country, he did not seize any military supplies along the way. After breaking through the defense line, he went to the richest fertile land on the Bayuan, but found that almost all the things that could be moved outside the city had been emptied. He even drove very few prisoners of war that could be collected on the spot.
A large number of military supplies need to be transported from the capital and Taihe City to Longma City, and then passed through the occupied city walls in Bashi Kingdom and transported through Pengshan and Zhangrenshan Passes through the plains to reach the front line. The larger the scale of the war, the greater the consumption. He not only needed to transport military rations, but also needed to replenish military sources and arrows, soldiers and armor.
At this moment, Xiangqiong received an urgent battle report from Bingzheng Yuxuan: Taihe City has been captured by Shaowu, and the army led by the Shaowu Office is undoubtedly the main force of the Bashi Kingdom; Yuxuan shrinks his strength and mobilizes the reserve army formation to fight the Shaowu Army to decisively outside the capital, striving to defeat Shaowu and regain Taihe City.
Xiangqiong almost vomited blood. Last time he received news that Yuegeng's army was defeated, he almost drew his sword and slashed an attendant who advised him not to be too excited. In this situation, Xiangqiong had only two choices. He either returned immediately and blocked the Shaowu army in the hinterland of the Xiangshi Kingdom, or broke through the capital of Ba in one go.
The palace of Xiangqian was set up in a large village near Badu City. The furious king threw away the cup in his hand, and the table in front of him was chopped over. The servants around him were so scared that they retreated outside the house. After he calmed down, he gritted his teeth and sneered: "Young work, Young work, I take advantage of the opportunity, you also take advantage of the opportunity. I want to attack your capital, and you also attack my capital. You follow my footsteps, learn from me in your tricks, and are not afraid of people laughing at me!
You have not yet arrived at my capital, and I have attacked your capital for half a month, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city have suffered heavy casualties. Then let's see who captured the opponent's capital first? You took away the elite field soldiers in the country, and killing the enemy is also self-destructive. After capturing so many city blocks along the way, I see how many elite soldiers you can still have!"
Xiangqian decided to continue to attack Badu City. At least from the perspective of time, the Shaowu Army had just approached the Prime Minister's Capital, and he had been besieging Badu for so many days. Why was the fat meat that was about to come out of his mouth willing to spit it out like this? Moreover, the army now had no time to rush back. It would be best to return to the army and give Shaowu a fat blow after capturing Badu City.
Before entering, Xiangqiong felt that this was an excellent opportunity. He could calmly go deep into the hinterland of Bashi Kingdom. Even if he couldn't beat the capital, he could make Shaowu surrender and occupy a lot of city blocks and population. However, when the war reached this level, he was in a dilemma and could only take a gamble. The words that ridiculed Shaowu just now were just cheering him up.
Xiangqiong immediately summoned the generals to arrange war. When the king and his ministers discussed it, Xiangqiong's anger that had just been suppressed broke out again and cursed him. He first cursed Zheng Gu, then Yue Geng, and then began to curse Bing Zheng Yuxuan. The servant coughed repeatedly and signaled him not to get angry in public. The generals also persuaded the king not to blame Yuxuan deeply at this moment.
The current situation is already like this. Yu Xuan still has to stay in the capital to preside over the overall situation in the rear and continue to deal with the young army. If the news of the king cursing Yu Xuan on the front line is transmitted back, it may have a bad impact on morale. At present, we can only try our best to encourage Yu Xuan to fight bravely, and we will talk about what happens in the future.
Xiangqiong accepted the suggestion and urgently sent an envoy to encourage Yu Xuan, asking him to mobilize the military formations from each city to promptly block Shaowu from the capital. The logistics support line from Guodu to Longma City cannot be lost. Since it takes time to convey intelligence and military orders, when Xiangqiong decided to launch the strongest offensive to break through Badu City in one fell swoop, Yu Xuan led the army to fight Shaowu.
Xiangqiong made two more decisions on the front line: the first was to let the reserve army led by General Yuexuan, the general of Zhenguo, pass through Pengshan and Zhangrenshan Pass and transferred to the Badu City; the second was to include the monks in the army and go directly to the battlefield to attack the city, use their magical powers to try to open a gap and let the army rush into the city. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!