Da Zhuang was fighting in Qin before. After Hai Dongqing appeared, Jin Feng ordered Da Zhuang to fully shrink the front line and change from offensive to defensive.
Jin Feng asked Da Zhuang to hold on to the city that had been captured, and at the same time mobilize as many manpower as possible to gather in the direction of Xizhou. In case Dang Xiang's army came from Xizhou, the escort agency must be prepared.
For Da Zhuang, Jin Feng's order was almost an impossible task.
Because the progress of the escort division was so smooth before, many wealthy and powerful people ran away before they could go, and the government soldiers were also disbanded.
Da Zhuang and the others can just go and occupy the city, recruit militiamen, form a militia team, and maintain order.
During this process, the Bell Group will organize local people to divide the land.
By the time the fields were divided, the militia was almost ready.
The progress is so smooth, the expansion speed is also very fast, and the manpower is always insufficient.
Now Jin Feng suddenly asked him to allocate manpower, which really put Da Zhuang in a very difficult position.
However, Da Zhuang also understood the reason why Jin Feng did this. Despite all kinds of pressure, he mobilized two thousand troops and horses from various counties in Qin as quickly as possible and rushed to Xizhou.
Although most of the bodyguards and chamber of commerce men in Dangxiang were detained, Han Feng had previously arranged many secret lines to enter Dangxiang. These secret lines were originally hidden in secret, but they escaped this time.
News came from behind the scenes that the Southern Expedition Camp across from Xizhou and Qingshui Valley had been abandoned before, but recently party soldiers appeared again, and many craftsmen were repairing the camp. The intention was self-evident.
The hidden line also found signs of large armies marching across Dangxiang.
Although there is no way to ascertain their specific number for the time being, Tie Shixin compiled the intelligence from various places and estimated that the party sent an army of at least more than 150,000 people.
About 50,000 of the 150,000 people headed towards Qingshui Valley, and the other 100,000 headed towards Xizhou.
Including the 20,000 border troops originally present in Xizhou, the total total is 120,000.
The bodyguards had been short on manpower before. Xizhou City only had two companies of defenders, totaling no more than 200 people.
Even if you add in the two thousand people Da Zhuang temporarily gathered, there are only more than two thousand people, not as much as the opponent's fraction!
If it were in Qingshui Valley, the bodyguards might have a fight with the opponent by taking advantage of the difficult terrain, but there was a large wasteland outside Xizhou City, which was most suitable for cavalry to attack on horseback.
Even if the escort has a heavy crossbow, catapult, grenade, and black armor, it is absolutely impossible to defeat the opponent on this kind of terrain.
After all, the party's cavalry is very powerful.
The main reason why Tieniu's previous raid on Dangxiang King City was successful was due to airships and flash bombs.
Just like Haidongqing restrains airships, flash bombs also restrain war horses.
Cavalry can also cover their eyes to avoid damage from flash bombs, but they can't cover their horses' eyes as well, right?
No matter it is day or night, if the flash bomb is thrown down, the war horse will be temporarily blinded, and then collide into a ball, destroying itself without any attack.
If this were not the case, let alone Tieniu with only 500 men, even with 5,000 men, it would be difficult to fight all the way to Dangxiang King City.
But now that the airship cannot be used, Jin Feng must make other preparations to be able to defend Xizhou.
A few days ago, I asked Xiaoyu to arrange for someone to send a batch of supplies to Da Zhuang, which was Jin Feng's preparation.
"The airship cannot be used, so we can only arrange a caravan to deliver the goods from the ground. It will probably take a few days to reach Xizhou." Xiaoyu answered.
"The things have been delivered. Let Da Zhuang immediately arrange for people to start training according to the training manual." Jin Feng reminded.
"yes!"
"By the way, is there no news from Yuguan City?" Jin Feng asked again.
After learning about the existence of Haidongqing, Jin Feng asked Xiaoyu to contact Yuguan City and Pingjiang County as soon as possible.
Now a reply has been sent from Pingjiang County, reporting that everything is normal.
However, there was still no news from Yuguan City, which made Jin Feng very worried. He would ask Xiaoyu every time he saw her in the past two days.
Unfortunately, he didn't get the answer he wanted every time.
It was the same this time. Xiaoyu shook her head and said, "No..."
"It seems that the Eastern Barbarians should have deployed Haidongqing outside Yuguan City!"
Jin Feng sighed helplessly: "I hope brother Tiezi can persist until Zhenyuan No. 1 and rush over!"
Just outside Yuguan City is Dongman, which is also a place rich in Haidongqing.
As long as you place a few sea greens outside the city, you can catch all the homing pigeons that want to leave or enter Yuguan City.
Zhenyuan No. 1 is the first steam engine ship assembled by Jin Feng in the East China Sea. Yesterday, it set out for the East China Sea carrying various supplies, and then headed north from the East China Sea to the Bohai Sea to deliver supplies to Liu Tie.
"My brother is the safest at what he does, and he will definitely be able to persevere!"
Xiaoyu looked northeast and prayed for her brother.
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In Yuguan City, Liu Tie, who Jin Feng and Xiaoyu were talking about, was standing on the city wall with a serious face.
On the day when the King of Jin ambushed the flying team, the Eastern Barbarians also entangled the army and launched a fierce attack on Yuguan City.
Liu Tie immediately dispatched four airships, preparing to bomb the opponent's cavalry regiment.
But as soon as the airship left the city, the Dongman people released three Haidongqing.
The airship was torn apart by Hai Dongqing under the eyes of the escort, and fell to the ground, broken into pieces.
Before Liu Tie could send people to recover the bodies of his comrades and the wreckage of the airship, the Eastern Barbarian cavalry arrived.
The brutal siege battle began immediately.
The bodyguards did not expect that the enemy could destroy the airship and were caught off guard. By the time Liu Tie came to his senses and organized the bodyguards to defend themselves, the Eastern Barbarians' cavalry vanguard had almost rushed to the bottom of the city wall.
Fortunately, Liu Tie has always been prudent in his work. Even if he had airships and flash bombs to restrain the cavalry, he immediately assembled a lot of heavy crossbows and catapults on the city wall after taking over Yuguan City.
Fortunately, we were able to withstand the attack of the Eastern Barbarians immediately.
Catapults in particular played a big role.
In order to hit the enemy as hard as possible, Liu Tie not only loaded the basket of the catapult with stones, but also loaded it with kerosene and flash bombs.
The lethality of this mixed filling is much greater than that of a single filling.
Every attack by a catapult can cause massive casualties to the Eastern Barbarians.
Relatively speaking, the lethality of heavy crossbows is much weaker.
When shooting horizontally, the heavy crossbow can be used like a skewer. One arrow can shoot through several cavalry, but when shooting from the city wall, one arrow can only kill one cavalry.
If you are unlucky and don't aim, you will miss none.
After discovering this, Liu Tie immediately ordered people to dismantle most of the heavy crossbows and replace them with catapults.
The Chanyu of the Eastern Barbarians was beaten by Zhang Liang and Liu Tie until he escaped from Yuguan City like a lost dog. He has always held a grudge. Now that he has the opportunity to take revenge, he will not let it go.
Less than two hours after the first siege failed, the second siege was launched.