Yunyang looked at the generals who remained silent and silently shook his head without blaming anything.
Now the situation in Kanzhou is limited to the first letter. Not to mention that they don't know what to do. They can only be anxious and glare at the sudden difference!
"Report, the deputy commander sent a message!"
"Submit!"
"Got the order!"
Yunyang took the paper handed over by the soldier without hesitation and started reading it by the candlelight.
After a long time, Yunyang straightened up with a complicated expression, frowned and looked at Dongfang Ming and others who were waiting eagerly, and handed out the rice paper in his hand.
"Circuit it around, the reason has been found."
After hearing this, the generals like Dongfang Ming hurriedly took the rice paper and gathered together in front of the candlelight to examine the contents.
After Wan Mingliang, Yunchong, Nangong Ye, and Lu Chengjie joined forces outside Kanzhou City, they were concentrating their forces to take down this difficult nut of Kanzhou in one fell swoop.
As long as Kanzhou is defeated and the Jin garrison in the city annihilates the prisoners in one fell swoop, the Jin's defensive strength will be less than six cities.
To pacify the Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop and capture the Jin Kingdom's capital is just a matter of time.
The deployment of troops and the project plan were discussed by the four people, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.
The four of them, as before, ordered the infantry to attack the city and the cavalry to attack in a roundabout way to prevent the stragglers from the Turks and the Jin Kingdom from sneaking up on the rear army as usual.
The four commanded soldiers and horses to surround them on all sides, intending to use thunderous force and artillery fire to forcefully knock on the gate of Kanzhou and capture Kanzhou, a naturally dangerous and fortified city of the Jin Kingdom, in one fell swoop.
It was no different from before, the army was pressing forward step by step, and in cooperation with each other, they began to attack the four walls of Kanzhou.
The scouts came to report that there were nearly 10,000 Turkic cavalry and an unknown number of Jin soldiers and horses driving thousands of yaks towards Kanzhou.
The news about the Turkic Fire Oxen Formation has already spread among the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Wan Mingliang and his other troops have experience in fighting against the Turkic Fire Oxen Formation.
They also knew how to break the formation, so the four of them gathered together to discuss how to deal with the enemy without making any fuss.
After a little discussion, the four of them formulated a strategy to deal with the enemy.
The defensive cavalry encircled tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry and tried to annihilate them all in one fell swoop.
For the formation of several thousand fire oxen, it is natural to divide the siege infantry to resist with fire, supplemented by crossbows and artillery, and maybe prepare a sumptuous whole ox feast for the brothers.
The arrangement of the four people can be said to be comprehensive, with almost everything taken into consideration.
However, the four of them never expected that everything went very smoothly. Only when it came to resisting the Turkic Fire Bull Formation, the tried and tested method of using fire to resist the enemy failed.
Thousands of bullocks, completely unafraid of the blazing fire in front of them, charged into the infantry phalanx like crazy.
The spear pierced the cow's neck directly and failed to resist their ferocious momentum.
The four people immediately discussed a countermeasure, hurriedly issued orders, and changed their formation, hoping to minimize the loss.
However, before the order was sent to the captains of each team, the yaks made the same noise as Lei Zhenzi, exploding everywhere in the army formation.
The dragon infantry phalanx outside the three city walls in the west, south and north suffered unprecedented heavy losses in less than an hour.
The four of them had no choice but to withdraw their troops, stop the attack on Kanzhou, withdraw their troops for repairs, and start investigating why these beasts were uncharacteristically not afraid of the raging fire in front of them, and charged into the fire with all their lives.
Wan Mingliang's scouts easily found out the reason from the yak carcasses.
The reason why these cattle are crazy and fearless of death lies in the forage they eat.
The generals will naturally be familiar with the names of the fodder and some medicines mentioned in the letter.
Because when the dragons were short of war horses, they prepared a lot of these things in order to breed their war horses.
In other words, the fodder these cows eat is mixed with aphrodisiacs specially designed to aphrodisiac for animals.
The reason why the cattle went crazy in the Fire Bull Formation a few days ago was because they were frightened and stimulated.
As for the fire bull array outside Kanzhou City, the madness of these bulls was truly insane. They only knew how to charge forward instinctively.
As for what they were looking for, only the dead cows themselves knew.
Although thousands of healthy cattle carcasses were confiscated during the battlefield cleaning, Wan Mingliang and others hesitated to use the beef to replenish the bodies of the injured soldiers.
If the medicinal properties of this beef still exist, there will be no women in the military camp.
The letter stated the reason for the heavy damage and the request of the four people waiting for the Yunyang Military Law Enforcement Office.
"Despicable. No wonder we suffered such heavy losses."
"Sigh... Although I am saddened by the casualties of our brothers, we cannot say that the enemy is despicable. The two sides are fighting each other with their own unique plans. We can only blame our generals for their inferior skills."
"To be fair, although bullocks are a top priority for any of our three countries, compared with the lives of soldiers, if I were the enemy's commander, I would not hesitate to use them
The cows come to replace the lives of the soldiers."
"This is true. According to the battle strategy report, 30% of our brothers' casualties were caused by the collision and trampling of Turkic cattle herds, and 70% were damaged by the explosion of these fire and thunder bombs.
Based on the power of the Jin Dynasty's fire and thunder bombs that we saw a few days ago, I'm afraid these bullocks carry a lot of fire and thunder bombs, at least not less than three thousand.
As for whether the size of the fire bombs has changed, I can’t say.”
Yunyang listened to the discussion of the generals, frowning and taking a puff of smoke: "Sigh... Although I regret the number of casualties among the soldiers, I can only say that it is not unfair.
It’s because we think of the female Khan of Turks too simply.
Even when the Fire Ox Formation was at its wits' end several times, she still dared to let her subordinates drive a large number of Fire Ox Formation to attack our main force, which had a large number of troops. She must have had a plan.
It's because we think of things too simply.
It seems that the deputy commander and the governor also thought that the Turks had no skills, so they resorted to their old tricks and offered useless resistance.
But we never expected that it would bring us such a huge loss.
Credit is credit, and fault is fault, and they cannot be confused. Now is the time to employ people. The military recorder and the military commander first record their faults.
As for how to deal with it, we will leave it to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel to deal with it after the victory."
"It's an order."
"That's all we have to do now. If we accuse the general again at this time and the news reaches the ears of the soldiers, I'm afraid it will cause even more panic."
"The general seconded the proposal!"
"We second the proposal."
Yunyang picked up the battle report and read it carefully for a while, pondering for a long time.
"The most important thing now is how to deal with the Turks using this suicidal method to attack our main army next time.
Yesterday Wan Mingliang and his troops suffered heavy losses, and tomorrow we may suffer heavy losses.
Once the army's formation is deployed, it is not so easy to change the formation in time.
If we also encounter this situation, how should we resist it?
Who can tell me what they think?
Another point is, how many yaks the Turks currently have that can be used as fire bull formation scouts must be investigated as soon as possible.
Only by knowing the number of cattle can our defensive measures predict the enemy's opportunities.
Otherwise, you will always worry about the rear and be very passive when attacking the city."
Dongfang Ming hesitated for a moment: "Commander, there is a way in the end that you can try!"
"Oh? Tell me!"
"Send one of the six cavalry guards of the New Army to divide into two lines and conduct a 20-mile radius around our main army, supplemented by scouts for continuous reconnaissance.
Disperse 50% of the army's sharpshooters into their army.
The real threat from the Turkic Fire Bull Formation this time came from the fire and thunder bombs carried by the cattle.
It's not a big problem for a sharpshooter to shoot rockets onto the fire and thunder bombs on the back of cattle.
Let these fire bull formations stifle their potential threats under the attack of our cavalry before they get close to my main army.
I wonder what the commander-in-chief and the brothers think of this plan?"
"wonderful!"
"Seconded!"
"The general also agreed that the real threat of the Fire Bull Formation is to the large number of infantry in the phalanx, but to the fast cavalry, it is nothing.
We can no longer let their Fire Bull Formation get close to our infantry."
Yunyang pondered for a while, nodded heavily, and finally made a decision.
"This is how you defend yourself against the enemy."
"Arrogant, Dongfang Ming!"
"The end is here!"
"One of you will send a message to the deputy commander about how to defend the enemy and how to deal with them, and the other will immediately send a message to Cheng Kai and the others of the Six Guards of the New Army, asking them to no matter what, they must allocate one guard and horse and divide them into two groups.
, to protect the outer perimeter of our main siege army and to defend against the enemy."
"Got the order!"
"You all perform your duties. First go to comfort the wounded soldiers. I will sort out the battle strategy and pass the battle report to King Bingjian."