Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 126 The Siege Begins

Dong Zhuo thought of everything well, but after Han Sui's Xiliang cavalry made this sudden attack, they stopped attacking again, and there was no movement for two whole days. The high-level psychological game between the two sides, the so-called soldiers never tire of deceit, commanding generals on the battlefield must make their own judgments on the situation on the battlefield at all times, and your opponent will also speculate on your thoughts.

Therefore, behind many classic battles in history, there will be quite complex situations and on-the-spot games between the warring parties. Sometimes the party that can win the final victory really needs some luck in addition to its own military strength and strategic and tactical arrangements. For example, if the opponent happens to hit the muzzle you set up in the game with you, then naturally you can suddenly gain a great advantage on the battlefield.

Dong Zhuo's psychological tactic of letting soldiers keep defensive loopholes can only be effective in a short period of time. The point is that if the opponent gains advantage in a short period of time and launches an attack again, it will make the opponent mistakenly think that Dong Zhuo's soldiers have not had time to re-arrange for defense, but Once the time is a little longer, Dong Zhuo is given enough time to redeploy and strengthen the defensive loopholes, and a very obvious defensive loophole is left at this time, then it will be difficult to bluff people, and the opponent will be you at first glance. No matter how stupid the opponent is, no matter how stupid the opponent is, he will not be fooled by the trap set on purpose.

At this time, the initiative to attack was still in Han Sui's hands, but Dong Zhuo finally made up his mind to break this situation. Since Han Sui's troops did not come to attack, then he would take the initiative to attack Yunwu City.

Dong Zhuo ordered his soldiers to prepare for the siege, especially to transport the detachable siege equipment to the front. The overall defense of Yunwu City mainly relies on the natural mountain and some walls built against the mountain. A city that relies on the trend of the mountain for defense usually has many places with rather complicated terrain, which may be neither conducive to offense nor defense.

The reason why it is not conducive to defense is because some areas with complex terrain, as the defender, will subconsciously ignore their importance, thinking that the attacker is unlikely to launch an attack from these places, so it may become an opening for the attacker. The special location of the situation is just that Dong Zhuo does not have Sun Jian's macaque army who are good at climbing, so it seems that he is not able to take advantage of these terrains.

In fact, the effective siege distance of the entire east line of Yunwu City is very short, and the south line is slightly longer. However, Dong Zhuo launched an attack from the east line. This led to a problem, that is, Dong Zhuo's logistics supply line would be exposed to the attack line of Han Sui's Xiliang cavalry for a long distance, which was a problem that Dong Zhuo had to solve if he wanted to launch a siege.

The solution Dong Zhuo thought of was to make a quick decision. He had been leading his troops to defend before, but it was unlikely that the supply line would be exposed to the Xiliang cavalry attack in the later stage. Now his idea is to bring enough siege stations for a period of time at once. If he can't take all the food supplies he needs before Yunwu City is exhausted, he will simply lead his troops to retreat. Anyway, since there is no way to give the logistics supply line enough protection, then simply don't use the logistics line.

As for the issue of Xiliang cavalry attacking him from the flanks and rear once the siege begins, Dong Zhuo has also figured it out. It is only necessary to execute it to the death.

To be honest, Dong Zhuo didn't have much confidence in whether his troops had the ability to maintain combat stability in the face of Xiliang cavalry attacking from behind, and to attack the city uninterruptedly. But so far, it can only be a gamble.

Han Sui's main force had actually arrived at the east gate of Yunwu City a few days ago, but Han Sui never gave instructions to launch an attack, but waited patiently for Dong Zhuo to fully deploy the siege troops in the city. Outside the city, he just ordered the archers inside the city to keep shooting at the siege troops outside the city.

The number of arrows in Yunwu City is sufficient, so Han Sui doesn't need to panic too much. First use the bow and crossbow to consume the enemy's vitality in the city, and then let the Xiliang cavalry find the opportunity to attack from the flanks and rear at the same time. If Dong Zhuo's siege If there is a weak spot in the army, Han Sui will take the opportunity to lead his army out of the city to attack Dong Zhuo's army together with Xiliang cavalry.

And if Dong Zhuo's troops performed well enough to defend against the Xiliang cavalry attack without revealing many flaws, then Han Sui would continue to wait for the opportunity. According to the battle news, although Sun Jian's attack seemed fierce, he was unable to shake the solid defense of the north gate defenders at all, and instead caused heavy losses to himself.

After learning this, Han Sui became even more calm. He now felt that he was sure to defend against the attacks of Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo at the same time, and the situation was developing in a direction that was more and more favorable to him.

Before Dong Zhuo was not in a hurry to attack the city, but when he really started to attack the city, he felt that it was not so easy in his heart. There were quite a lot of archers in Han Sui City, and Dong Zhuo's pikemen without shield defense lost a lot. Pikemen are actually the main components of an army, and they account for the largest number, because the cost of pikemen is the lowest no matter whether it is compared with cavalry, crossbows, or sword and shield soldiers.

Sword and shield soldiers are the elite forces that rush to the forefront to maintain the stability of the formation. It is not an easy task for ancient soldiers to use sword and shield well at the same time, just like using bows and arrows and horseback archery. The combat method of personal skills, the elite sword and shield infantry will consume a lot of resources in the process of selection and training, while the pikemen are the simplest, and the requirements for the soldiers' personal combat skills are the lowest, and they are also the number requirements The biggest thing is that they also take on very important responsibilities, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the opponent's cavalry and spearmen, and protecting the rear output such as crossbowmen on their own side.

Although they are cannon fodder to a certain extent, once the pikemen lose too much and a large number of soldiers flee, then both siege equipment and long-range crossbowmen will lack protection, especially when facing Xiliang With the repeated impact of cavalry, the output environment of the back row crossbowmen will be very bad.

The crossbowman is often the most important lethal force in a battle, which side can protect the crossbowman better, and which side can often maintain sufficient combat effectiveness.

And Han Sui was very cunning. He asked the crossbowmen in the city to focus on shooting at the middle of Dong Zhuo's battle formation. There were mainly pikemen who lacked shield defense, and they became a living target for the crossbowmen all of a sudden. After several rounds of rain of arrows, the morale of these pikemen in Dong Zhuo's formation dropped significantly, and the morale of the soldiers began to be unstable.

(End of this chapter)