Global Warring States: Get the Tang Taizong template at the beginning

Chapter 299 Attacking Liangshan City

In Xiqin City, on this day, the troops of Li Qian's forces who were attacking the city outside suddenly stopped.

Except for the thunder chariots that were still throwing stones into the city from time to time to destroy arrow towers and houses, other siege equipment, such as crossbows, siege towers, siege chariots, etc., had stopped at this time, and there were no soldiers attacking the city.

For the defenders of Xiqin City, the atmosphere was somewhat weird.

"There must be something wrong!"

The Overlord of Western Qin paced back and forth on the city wall anxiously.

Judging from his experience of fighting with Li Qian many times, Li Qian's camp was so quiet that he must be up to something.

In fact, the Overlord of Western Qin guessed right.

Because Li Qian led 10,000 cavalrymen to Anzhong County overnight to ambush the Liangshan army leaving the city, Li Jing, the top-notch commander who took over Li Qian's command of the remaining 70,000 troops, did not act rashly and continue to attack the city, but chose to monitor the troops of the Overlord of Western Qin.

As long as the Overlord of Western Qin does not dare to leave the city, Li Jing's goal will be achieved.

Moreover, Li Jing received Li Qian's good news and smiled knowingly.

Li Qian defeated Ji Shiyu's 50,000 Liangshan troops, eliminated, captured and dispersed 40,000 of them. Ji Shiyu only led 10,000 remnants to escape back to Liangshan City. It can be said that the Liangshan army was almost destroyed. Without a year or so, Ji Shiyu would find it difficult to restore an army of such size.

But will Li Qian give him this opportunity?
The Overlord of Western Qin guessed in advance that Li Qian would send troops to attack Western Qin City, so he prepared his troops and specially invited a player with the template of the famous city defender "Wei Xiaokuan" to command the defenders, providing a high defense bonus for the defenders of Western Qin City. Therefore, Western Qin City was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and even Li Qian had difficulty in attacking it by force.

However, Ji Shiyu did not expect that Li Qian’s first target in unifying Nanyang County was not the Overlord of Western Qin, but him, Ji Shiyu, and his main city, Liangshan City.

Because Ji Shiyu never expected that Li Qian would be the first to attack Liangshan City, the defense of Liangshan City was far inferior to that of Xiqin City.

This was also the first step that Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui planned for Li Qian to conquer Nanyang - to take Liangshan first.

Along with Li Qian's victory report, Li Jing also received Li Qian's order - Wei Rui, Ma Long, and Hu Fen's chariot corps of 10,000 soldiers were to transport some siege equipment to Anzhong County.

In addition to mobilizing the chariot corps, which was best at defense, to transport siege equipment to Anzhong County to attack Liangshan City, Li Qian also mobilized 40,000 troops and transferred them all to Liangshan City, preparing to forcibly capture the city.

As long as Liangshan City is captured, Anzhong County can be controlled, and the strength of the two counties can be used to counter the alliance of the greatest emperor in history.

Because some of the siege equipment had been dismantled and transported away, Li Jing simply stopped attacking the city. Instead, he set up camp outside the city of Xiqin with the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands to monitor the every move of the Overlord of Xiqin.

At the same time, Li Jing's 20,000 troops and Gao Xianzhi and Wei Yan's 20,000 defenders in Longtan Town supported each other. Even if the two powerful generals, the Overlord of Western Qin and the King of Backers Yang Lin, joined forces, they did not dare to act rashly.

The Overlord of Western Qin, who was trapped in the city of Western Qin, did not know about Li Qian's secret transfer of troops at the first time.

From the perspective of the Overlord of Western Qin, the enemy's behavior outside the city was very strange. After the fierce offensive in the previous few days, they suddenly became quiet, and there were horse-drawn carriages constantly leaving the camp. No one knew what they were doing.

"Report! Something terrible has happened. Ji Shiyu's 50,000 Liangshan troops were ambushed by the cavalry of the scholar Sheng Zuoyi in the woods of Anzhong County. Almost all of them were wiped out. Ji Shiyu only had time to take away 10,000 remaining soldiers and escape back to Liangshan City! Now the scholar Sheng Zuoyi has led his cavalry to the gates of Liangshan City!"

Finally, the Overlord of Western Qin understood why the enemy outside the city behaved so strangely.

It turns out that Li Qian's first target was not him, the Overlord of Western Qin, but Timely Rain, the first lord player in Anzhong County who had obtained the Song Jiang template! Timely Rain was unlucky. In order to support him, the Overlord of Western Qin, he was ambushed by Li Qian and was almost annihilated. Even his own territory was in danger.

"Katsusaku's cavalry is elusive and really hard to deal with..."

The Overlord of Western Qin suddenly broke out in a sweat.

He also couldn't have imagined that Li Qian, who was still attacking the city yesterday, led the cavalry to appear on Ji Shiyu's territory today and successfully ambushed Ji Shiyu.

Not to mention timely rain, if it were him, the Overlord of Western Qin, he might also be hit.

Therefore, the Overlord of Western Qin did not dare to call Ji Shiyu a fool.

"Since the scholar Sheng Zuoyi was able to attack Anzhong County overnight, it means that he led all cavalry. Cavalry are not good at attacking cities, so it is very likely that the scholar Sheng Zuoyi will not be able to conquer Liangshan City for a while. In order to attack the city, he should have transferred some infantry, archers and siege equipment. In this case, let's take advantage of his departure to raid the troops he left outside the city and let him know that I, the Overlord of Western Qin, am not someone to be trifled with."

When the Overlord of Western Qin saw the obviously reduced number of siege weapons outside the city and the reduced size of the camp, he finally understood everything.

The number of enemy troops and siege equipment outside the city decreased because a batch of siege equipment, infantry and archers were transferred to attack Liangshan City.

At this time, there were only about 20,000 enemy troops outside the city, and the 20,000 defenders of Longtan Town were inside the town, not outside Xiqin City.

If they could win the battle quickly and send troops to attack the enemy outside the city, the Overlord of Western Qin might only face 20,000 soldiers.

There are 15000 defenders in Xiqin City. Even if 35000 people are left to defend the city and the Overlord of Xiqin only leads people to fight, the number of troops will far exceed the enemy troops outside the city.

“We need to plan carefully.”

The Overlord of Western Qin had an idea, and summoned King Yang Lin, the two historical generals he recruited, and his fellow players to discuss the battle...

Zheng Wang and Daliangzao, two lord players of Nanyang County, were the main members of this coalition. They were on their way when they heard that Ji Shiyu was defeated by Li Qian's ambush. They were timid for a moment and immediately stopped to wait and see, fearing that they would fall into Li Qian's ambush.

They sent out a large number of scouts, and even if there was a mountain, a forest, or a bridge ahead, they would check the ground three feet deep.

Once it gets dark, set up camp immediately.

They are being cautious.

However, this would inevitably affect their advancing speed. The distance that could originally be covered in one day might now take two or three days.

They also had something to say. What should they do if they advanced rashly and fell into Li Qian's ambush?
The Emperor of the Ages was still behind the King of Zheng and the Great Liangzao because his territory was far away. Because the King of Zheng and the Great Liangzao were too slow, the 100,000-strong army of the Emperor of the Ages was about to catch up with them.

The emperor was furious, but he could do nothing about them.

At the same time, 50,000 reinforcements arrived in Anzhong County and joined Li Qian. Li Qian mobilized 60,000 troops and officially launched the attack on Liangshan City.

(End of this chapter)