Chapter three hundred and ninety seventh differences
The next day, it will be white in the east.
The sound of war drums sounded outside Chongzhou City, which made the two coalition forces in the city palpitate. They did not expect that the attack of the dragon troops and horses outside the city would be so urgent.
The siege on the city began as soon as it got light here.
Baishan Guan, fully armored, anxiously walked out of the civilian courtyard where he had rested temporarily, and frowned as he looked at the tens of thousands of bewildered brothers on the main road under the city gate.
Bai Shanguan listened to the increasingly rapid beating of war drums outside the city and pulled out the saber from his waist.
"Brothers, follow me to the city to defend."
Bai Shanguan took the lead and climbed up the city wall with his sword in hand. However, the tens of thousands of soldiers behind him hesitated and looked at each other with hesitant eyes.
They are all elite soldiers who obey orders and prohibitions, but at this moment they are cowardly.
Yesterday's tragic situation on the city wall left a deep impression on them, and they really couldn't muster the courage to climb the city wall again.
If the two armies were to confront each other head-on, they would not hesitate at all. We are all human beings, and no one is necessarily worse than the other.
But if you climb the city wall, you will die in vain. The enemy's artillery is too powerful.
Bai Shanguan stopped halfway up the city ladder and looked at the soldiers under the city gate with complicated eyes. He understood the mood of these brothers, but could he survive without climbing the city?
"Hush!"
A horseman came from the east city gate and stopped under the city gate. The person who came was Ogedai, the commander of the Turkic capital.
"Brother Baishan, the brothers in our tribe don't dare to climb the city wall to fight anymore! You guys..."
As Wokuotai was talking, he saw the hesitant Fei Xiong Guards at the city gate and understood that the situation on Bai Shanguan's side was almost the same as his own.
The brothers were deeply afraid of the artillery fire from the dragon troops outside the city.
Wo Kuotai also knew that it felt uncomfortable to be beaten passively all the time, but now he could no longer contact the big men in Guzhou City. What should he do specifically? Yesterday, he and Bai Shanguan discussed the time in the middle of the night, but there was no accurate answer.
result.
A man dressed as a general came out of Feixiong Guards and climbed up the city ladder and walked to Bai Shanguan.
"General, brothers are not afraid of dying in battle, but brothers do not want to die in a vain battle!"
"Let's climb the city wall. If we can't kill one enemy, we will lose nearly 10,000 brothers in half a day."
"Just be considerate of our brothers, this is not how wars are fought!"
Bai Shanguan frowned as he watched the general in front of him walk down the city stairs and stopped in front of a group of generals: "General Qiu, brothers and I don't want to do this, but at the moment I haven't thought of a more secure solution.
Method!"
"I will tell you what I thought about last night. Let's each express our opinions and choose a more suitable way to deal with Dalong's enemy."
"Now we can either take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, or we can open the city gates and let the dragon soldiers and horses enter the city to start a street fight with them."
"But no matter which method is used, our current military strength is very disadvantageous. The reason why I did not give the order is to see if I can contact the commander and ask him to send reinforcements to support us."
"At this point, since the brothers are no longer willing to go to the city to fight, we can only choose one of the two!"
"Whether you go out to fight out of the city or go into the city with dragon troops and horses, I respect your opinion!"
General Qiu and other generals had not yet spoken, but Wo Kuotai spoke first.
"Brother Baishan, I suggest that we go out of the city to fight. As long as our Turkic warriors mount their horses and attack quickly, the threat from the dragon's artillery fire to us will be much smaller!"
"At least the casualties won't be so heavy, and the deaths won't be so useless!"
"Maybe we can also destroy some of Dalong's artillery outside the city. We Turks don't know anything about defending the city. Only by attacking in the wild can we Turkic warriors exert their strongest combat effectiveness!"
As soon as Wokuotai finished speaking, Bai Shanguan frowned, and the generals of Feixiongwei also frowned slightly.
What Wokuotai said is indeed true. Once the Turks charge on horseback, the threat of the dragon artillery will be reduced to a minimum.
But this is only beneficial to the Turks, because the Flying Bear Guards are not cavalry, but infantry. If they fight out of the city, the Turks can easily use the speed of their horses to avoid artillery bombardment, but their own infantry cannot.
ah.
Once out of the city, they were surrounded by the dragon cavalry outside the city. The dragon artillery turned their muzzles and bombarded their own infantry. Without the city wall to defend them, the casualties among the soldiers would be even more severe.
It's simply a living target for the dragon's artillery.
With hundreds of cavalry, they can cover thousands of people.
The dragon only needs to detach a part of its cavalry to deal with the Turks' cavalry, and the remaining cavalry will surround the Flying Bear Guard. There is almost no difference between leaving the city and climbing the city wall.
They will all die under the bombardment of the dragon.
Besides, people's hearts are so divided that if Wo Kuotai realizes that the situation is not going well, he will lead his cavalry and abandon the city, leaving only the Flying Bear Guard to fight against the enemy dragon.
If Wo Kuotai was one of the twelve generals of the Jin Kingdom and had lived and died with him for many years, Bai Shanguan would still be willing to believe him once, but Wo Kuotai was a Turkic general.
After just a few days of cooperation, Bai Shanguan really didn't dare to put the lives of tens of thousands of his brothers into his hands.
Bai Shanguan hesitated and thought for a long time: "General Wokuotai, I suggest that Dalong's troops be introduced into the city to fight."
"Introduce them into the city to fight. During street fighting, the advantage of the dragon's 50,000 cavalry charge will be minimized."
"At the same time, the houses in the city are widely scattered, and Dalong's people are all huddled at home and dare not go out. As a result, Dalong's artillery is afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, so they don't dare to use it randomly, and they can only engage in a head-to-head confrontation with us.
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"The advantage of the cavalry has been suppressed, and the artillery has become useless again. The dragon's soldiers and horses are not so scary anymore!"
"We are all elites, and victory or defeat depends on God's will."
"This general feels that it is far more advantageous to lead the dragon's troops to fight in the city than to fight outside the city!"
"You Turkic warriors have superb archery skills. When fighting in the streets, you can use the people's alleys to give full play to your archery skills. I don't know what General Ogedai will do."
Wo Kuotai frowned slightly and looked at Bai Shan Guan, at the fine armors on Bai Shan Guan and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Jin, and then at the rough armor on himself and the soldiers around him.
The reason why the Turks were able to be invincible on the grasslands with their crude weapons was simply due to their war horses and their superb riding and archery skills.
Although what Bai Shanguan Cai said was clear and logical, Wokuotai disagreed with him from the bottom of his heart.
Dalong's troops are famous all over the world, so starting a street fight with them is really not a wise move.
Just relying on the second-hand weapons in the hands of his subordinates and giving up the advantage of his cavalry to start a street battle with the well-equipped enemy troops of Dalong, isn't that just a matter of food and drink?
The hand crossbows and serial crossbows in their hands can completely suppress their own soldiers and horses.
"Brother Baishan, I still think it's time to go out of the city to fight!"
Bai Shanguan looked at Wo Kuotai quietly, not knowing what to say.
He is not his subordinate, nor is he qualified to order him how to fight. We only have a cooperative relationship.
Nowadays, there are only two safest ways to deal with the dragon's enemies.
However, the generals on both sides wanted to use their own advantages to preserve the strength of their troops.
As a last resort, differences began to arise in the methods of combat.
Wokuotai looked at Bai Shanguan without hesitation, showing no intention of backing down.
For a moment, war drums were rumbling outside the city, but inside the city it was so quiet that you could hear the needle drop!