Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 845 Sleepless Night
After listening to the soldier's story, Shi Lei fell into silence and could not speak for a long time.

Let’s not talk about those green-skinned creatures. Judging from the soldiers’ stories, the huge green-skinned monster is really a complete monster! Pingyuan City was captured in a short period of time, and the green-skinned monster played a key role.

Without the green-skinned monster, no matter how strong those green-skinned creatures are, it would not be that easy to break through the city gate in a short time.

As long as the city gate can withstand it, the city defense troops can keep them out of the city and then use the advantages of city defense to attack them.

Of course, reality didn't have so many ifs. Shi Lei quickly focused his thoughts on how to deal with the green-skinned monster.

From the current point of view, the green-skinned monster is equivalent to the three-bow bed crossbow in their Great Zhou siege force. It can directly change the form of siege warfare and greatly reduce the difficulty of the entire siege.

But on the other hand, as long as the green-skinned monster can be eliminated, even if the group of green-skinned creatures on the opposite side are individually stronger than their human soldiers, they will not be able to easily capture the city they are defending!

After confirming this idea, Shi Lei's thoughts quickly unfolded.

[Ordinary steel knives can at most break the opponent's flesh, but they cannot cut off the opponent's fingers. It is not yet known whether enchanted weapons can do this. The safest way is to use a crossbow! 】

[The three-bow crossbow is not flexible enough, it is best to equip it with a city defense crossbow! 】

However, equipment such as city defense crossbows is not something you can just have if you want.

This wave of them came as a siege force, so it was naturally impossible for them to bring any city defense equipment, not to mention that the production efficiency of city defense crossbows and three-bow bed crossbows had always been low.

At the beginning of the year, when the Liang State troops attacked Anling City, they had just arranged for each city to have crossbow defenses on the city walls. Apart from that, there was nothing superfluous.

As his thoughts raced, Shi Lei spread out the parchment and wrote two letters as quickly as possible.

One letter was sent to Anling City to urgently mobilize Anling City's city defense crossbows, and the other letter was sent to Xianyang City to report the matter to their majesty.

Not only because of his unauthorized deployment of important city defense weapons such as city defense crossbows, but also because of the appearance of these green-skinned creatures.

If the situation here is beyond his control, then His Majesty will receive this information earlier and be able to respond earlier.

After sending the two letters overnight, Shi Lei had already made up his mind to gather troops and rush to Yuancheng early tomorrow morning.

Yuancheng is located behind Pingyuan City. I heard that thirty years ago it was a country called Yuan Kingdom. It was later annexed and was renamed Yuancheng. It was the second city they attacked and was the closest to Pingyuan City.

With a clear route and a normal march, it can be reached in almost five days.

Although they didn't have city defense crossbows on hand at the moment, Shi Lei obviously couldn't let more cities fall into the hands of those green-skinned creatures.

This busy work lasted until midnight. When Shi Lei returned to the bedroom, normally he should have rested for a while so as not to affect his condition tomorrow, but he couldn't sleep now!
Faced with this situation, Shi Lei simply stopped sleeping and sat up to think about the follow-up arrangements.

The large army will set off after breakfast tomorrow. On the Daliang City side, his adjutant will lead the 500 garrison to stay.

Because Drogo and his men left all the recruits to him before they left, Shi Lei now had enough troops.

Calculating the total number, the total number of troops deployed in New Taipei District by Zhou Dynasty at this moment is 5,000.

Under this premise, five hundred troops were arranged for garrison in each city. Together, the total was three thousand, which was necessary.

They had just captured the Liang Kingdom. If they didn't arrange enough garrison troops, who knows what chaos would happen after their large army left? When the rear catches fire, the situation will be even worse!

In this way, Shi Lei still has 2,000 troops to act with him.

If he could reach Yuancheng before the green-skinned creatures on the opposite side and join up with the 500 garrison, then Shi Lei's strength could be increased to 2,500. According to the information he has obtained so far, there are only thousands of green-skinned creatures on the opposite side, and the number does not exceed 1,500 at most.

Perhaps their individual strength is stronger than their human soldiers, but they have an advantage in numbers, plus the advantage of city defense...

"Tsk!"

Shi Lei still felt unsure.

The root cause is indeed the green-skinned monster mentioned in the intelligence. If there is no way to deal with the green-skinned monster, the city defense advantage will not exist.

As for the strength advantage...

Although the number of troops is 2,500, more than half of them are recruits who have only participated in the "War of Tunliang".

Because the military strength gap between Liang Guo and their Zhou Dynasty was so big, they were completely crushed along the way.

The only thing that can slow down their siege efficiency is the distance between cities.

The victory was too easy, and the opponent had no resistance. This not only caused them to have few casualties, but also caused this group of recruits to lack real training. At the critical moment, they were somewhat useless.

Thinking of this, Shi Lei felt a little irritable.

At the same time, regardless of the fact that it was two o'clock in the morning, he quickly ordered someone to call Xie Liancheng over.

Xie Liancheng also knew what happened during the day, but he was more ambitious, or he was very confident in his own strength. He felt that no matter what the enemy was, he would be able to capture it by himself, so the quality of his sleep was not affected at all.

At two o'clock in the morning, he was sleeping in a daze. If someone woke him up forcibly, he would not be in a good mood.

Fortunately, even in this state, Xie Liancheng still had some sense and did not go crazy.

After washing his face with cold water, Xie Liancheng, who probably realized something was wrong, quickly came to Shi Lei.

"I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel. I didn't want to disturb your rest, but if I don't confirm this with you, I really won't be able to sleep or eat well!"

Xie Liancheng's recent achievements in capturing Centaur mercenaries and defeating the Liang Kingdom's large army, plus his subsequent contribution to support the Liang Kingdom's war with Shi Lei, has now been officially promoted to lieutenant colonel.

After entering the door, looking at Shi Lei's anxious look, most of the anger in Xie Liancheng's heart had been vented.

"what is going on?"

Faced with Jie Liancheng's questions, Shi Lei quickly told him about the green-skinned creature and the monster.

After listening, Xie Liancheng's face became serious at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

The news during the day made him roughly aware that Pingyuan City had encountered an enemy, but he did not expect that this time the enemy would be so outrageous!

A huge monster that can smash open city gates with brute force. At the same time, he is so tall that he can grab the top of the wall and climb up the city wall with his hand. He can't even cut it with a steel knife!

He had never encountered anything like this that was beyond common sense.

Suddenly, even Xie Liancheng, who had always been extremely confident in his own strength, was obviously a little unsure...

(End of this chapter)