Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2272: The God of Death's Thousand-Man Team Attacks, Bai Qi Provides Protection Again

"General, General, the city gate has been blown open!"

A soldier rushed into the camp command center with an excited look on his face.

Bai Qi, Wang Jian and Zhang Liao took turns to attack the city, and these few days, it was Bai Qi's turn.

Therefore, now, it is Bai Qi who is in charge of the front-line camp.

"Got it! Light the beacon fire immediately and send a signal to General Qi Jiguang!" Bai Qi nodded.

They had been attacking fiercely for more than half a year and had suffered heavy losses. Although Xu Da in Jiangxia City had the advantage of defense, his losses were much less than theirs.

However, the long-term fighting had already exhausted the soldiers, and most of them were injured.

Moreover, during the past six months, the entire Jiangxia City had been bombed to pieces, and it had reached the point where it could be breached at any time.

In the Battle of Jiangxia, it was a difficult task to capture Jiangxia.

After breaking through Jiangxia, how to kill as many enemy troops as possible became another difficult problem.

The city of Jiangxia was originally built on the river. In addition to the land gate, there is also a water gate in the city!

Therefore, once Jiangxia was captured, the enemy would have sufficient conditions to preserve their manpower as much as possible through water forces.

Therefore, after hearing that the soldiers had broken through the city gate, Bai Qi's first reaction was to send a signal to Qi Jiguang's navy.

Although Qi Jiguang had been trying his best to avoid a decisive battle with the enemy's joint navy, when the time came to take action, he had to take action.

The more we delay the enemy's navy as much as possible, the smaller the possibility and escape rate of the enemy troops in Jiangxia City will be.

Moreover, in the past, when the enemy was strong and we were weak, Qi Jiguang would have avoided fighting as much as possible. But in this situation, the enemy's losses meant that they had no time to deal with Qi Jiguang. This situation was a great opportunity for Qi Jiguang to attack.

"General Cunxiao, lead my thousand-man killing team to attack! Make sure to keep Xu Da!"

Even if there is support from the navy, it does not mean that the soldiers can board the ship directly after teleporting. They must go out of the water gate and board the ship one by one. This is a process, not a result.

Therefore, how to make good use of the time in between is also related to how to kill the enemy as much as possible.

And if we were to ask who Bai Qi most wanted to keep in Jiangxia City, it would of course be Xu Da, the main general.

If such a top-notch general were to hide and hold his ground, it would be an almost unsolvable problem that could only be overcome with flesh and blood.

  In the battle of Jiangxia alone, they lost 80,000 soldiers. They couldn't possibly throw away so many soldiers every time they attacked a fortified city!

They could afford to fight a tough battle once or twice, but if it kept happening all the time, no one in the world could afford it. If they fought more of these tough battles, no matter how rich the Jin army was, it would not be able to afford it.

Previously, due to the war situation in the Jianghuai region, Xu Da had no choice but to withdraw some troops to the Jianghuai region.

However, even so, the former Jiangxia City, excluding the navy, still had a military force of up to 120,000.

However, in the six-month offensive and defensive battle, the Jin army lost about 1 soldiers, and Jiangxia City also lost nearly 2 soldiers. Even if it was Bai Qi or Wang Jian, facing a strong city like Jiangxia and a famous general like Xu Da, it would be impossible to achieve a : loss ratio.

In fact, over the past six months, at the best time, Bai Qi's casualties barely reached 1:3, and most of the time, the casualties were even close to 1:4.

The Jin army sent 80,000 soldiers, but at most 25,000 of the enemy's soldiers died.

The reason why Jiangxia City has lost nearly 40,000 soldiers is that these people were completely killed by the Jin army's use of national strength.

Three thousand catapults, more than five thousand crossbows, and eighty thousand cans of kerosene. The Jin army invested less than one-third of the supplies in Jiangxia. Especially the kerosene, the kerosene stored in Jiangxia was at most only one-fourth of the kerosene in the hands of the Jin army.

For quite a long time, especially when Wang Jian was in charge, they just kept digging trenches and canals on the ground and kept breaking through towards the Jiangxia city gate.

A large number of catapults were deployed in these trenches and ditches, firing at Jiangxia City day and night.

Even though the siege during the day was over, the engineers could not rest at night and took turns to continuously fire catapults and crossbows.

At this time, it was impossible for Xu Da to withdraw the soldiers on the city wall. After all, if he really withdrew all the soldiers in order to avoid catapults and crossbows, once the enemy launched an attack at this time, it would be all over.

The probability of the enemy attacking is not high, but that does not mean there is no probability. You cannot gamble on such low-probability events, especially low-probability ones that can be controlled artificially. If you lose the bet, you will die.

Even if it took ten cans of kerosene to burn one person to death, and even if it took more than a hundred stones to smash one person to death, the accumulated number over more than half a year is still a terrifying number.

Therefore, a large part of the casualties of the defenders in Jiangxia City were actually caused by Bai Qi and Wang Jian who forcibly utilized the national strength.

And it was precisely because the Jin army had been bombarding day and night for a long time that they also fought a bloody battle for more than half a year under the Jiangxia City. However, they were also exhausted, but the defenders in Jiangxia City were obviously more tired.

In order to keep Xu Da, Bai Qi directly handed over his own thousand-man team of killers, which was almost equivalent to his personal guards, to Li Cunxiao.

As for why Li Cunxiao's own Flying Tiger Battalion was not used, in the city with many streets, whether the Flying Tiger Battalion as cavalry could be more effective, or the Killing God Thousand Man Squad as infantry, must be a matter of opinion.

At least, Bai Qi believed that the Thousand-Man Killing God Team would be more effective in such an environment.

"Don't worry, Governor. We won't let that guy get away!" Li Cunxiao said, patting his chest.

Regardless of whether it can be done or not, make this guarantee first. After all, it is just a guarantee, not a military order.

"Oh..." Bai Qi sighed deeply in his heart.

Li Cunxiao's assurance did not make Bai Qi feel at ease.

  When fighting in the south, if the navy is not strong enough, it will be constrained everywhere!

Once Xu Da boarded the warship, it would be difficult to capture him. No matter how brave Li Cunxiao was, he could not swim across the Yangtze River.

"General Hou Yi..." Bai Qi turned his head to take a look and decided to add another layer of protection.