Xiuxian: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 599 Siege
"The enemy is at the gate?!"

Xu Yang's eyes focused, but before he could say anything, he saw an undercurrent like a tide suddenly appearing outside, transforming into thousands of troops and forming a camp.

It was the Demonic Abyss Army, composed of three lords, with nearly 10,000 people. They were so numerous and dense that they appeared outside the city like a colony of ants.

There are no more than ten thousand people, but there are countless more than ten thousand. The deterrent power of a legion composed of nearly ten thousand soldiers is needless to say.

Zhang Yan and Feng Chengdu both changed color. Before they could react, they saw the city gate opened and a group of elite cavalry rushed out.

This elite cavalry consisted of only 200 men, all dressed in white and riding white horses, except for the leading general who was heavily armed and rode a red horse.

Exactly...

Mulan, the female archer
Arms level: Level 1 (Elite)

Soldier attributes: 24 physical strength, 15 intelligence, 15 charm
Equipment of the troops: iron war bow, cone-head arrows, iron spears, white feather tasseled helmets, silver-plated light armor, silver-plated greaves, plate armor gloves, and white-haired armored horses.

Soldier skills: first-level physical fitness LV10, first-level strong attack LV8, second-level strong bow LV1, first-level infantry combat LV8, first-level riding LV10, first-level mounted archery LV10, proficiency in bows and arrows, proficiency in pole weapons.

Special skills of the army: Female archers (Mulan joined the army in place of her father. Women are as brave as men. These extraordinary women who followed Mulan's example and joined the army have both the bravery of men and the dexterity of women. They are excellent archers. Their range, shooting speed, accuracy and riding speed are increased by 50%)

Introduction to the troops: Hua Mulan's personal archers and cavalry are composed of countless female heroes who disguised themselves as men and joined the army in place of their fathers.

……

"drive!"

Two hundred elite cavalrymen, lightly equipped, came out at an astonishing speed, like a white horse passing by in a crack, and arrived at the battlefront in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, the other side also reacted and immediately formed a line. The infantry raised their shields to defend against the enemy, and the cavalry went out in full gear.

However, before the battle line was formed, elite cavalry had already rushed over. The leading general drew his bow and arrow, and the guards on his left and right followed suit.

Suddenly...

"Whoosh!!!"

There were a series of sounds of breaking through the air, which suddenly merged into one sound. In an instant, thousands of arrows fell from the sky like rain, covering the enemy camp with a bang.

Hero's special skill - Thousands of arrows fired at once!
With Hua Mulan's current intelligence and charm attributes, as well as the enhancement of tactics and command, this stunt can allow two hundred archers to shoot tens of thousands of arrows in an instant.

There were no more than ten thousand people, but there were countless more than ten thousand. The same went for the arrows. Tens of thousands of arrows were shot, forming a rain of arrows like a black cloud and a dark curtain, covering the enemy camp from top to bottom. Immediately, wailing broke out everywhere, and people and horses fell to the ground.

Although the enemy was prepared and had infantrymen holding up shields in formation to specifically resist this type of attack, the enemy's rain of arrows was too strong and too dense. Even if the infantrymen were heavily armed and held up shields to fight back, the arrows were still able to break the shields and penetrate the armor, causing casualties.

There was no other way. The twenty-four points of physical strength, the second-level strong bow skill and the first-level full-level cavalry archery skill, plus the characteristics of the "Heroine Archers" made the arrows of Mulan's personal guards particularly deadly, and even the infantry shield formation could hardly resist them completely.

This was the case for the infantrymen who raised their shields to fight back, not to mention the archers and cavalrymen in the rear. Blood splattered under the rain of arrows, and it was extremely tragic, and in an instant, hundreds of lightly armed and shieldless archers and cavalrymen fell dead.

Together with the infantry at the front who resisted most of the arrows, this rain of arrows directly caused nearly a thousand casualties to the enemy.

"Damn it!"

"Such riding speed, such range!"

"It's a special type of archer-cavalry!"

"Cavalry counterattack, cavalry counterattack!"

As soon as they entered the territory, they were hit hard. The two lords in the central army looked at their troops who had suffered heavy casualties and immediately ordered the cavalry to charge.

however……

"retreat!"

Hua Mulan remained expressionless, turned her horse's head, and led two hundred personal archers and cavalry back to the city, with no intention of engaging the enemy at all.

As a female archer and cavalryman, she was lightly equipped and good at charging on fast horses. It was not easy for her to engage in a tangle with the enemy, not to mention that the enemy had an army of nearly 10,000 people. Once she was entangled with these two hundred light cavalry, she would surely be destroyed.

So, she rode away. Her purpose of establishing her authority had been achieved, and there was no reason to engage in a meaningless fight.

"Boom!"

Mulan led her army back to the city, and the gate weighing tens of thousands of pounds crashed down, directly blocking the city gate exit.

"Humph!"

"You can run fast!"

Seeing this, they stopped the pursuit, reorganized their formation and began to set up camp.

"It seems they want to fight a long siege!"

On the city wall, Xu Yang watched the battle situation and quickly came to a conclusion.

Zhang Yan and the other person in the back also came back to their senses at this time. Looking at Hua Mulan riding back on horseback below, they looked horrified but could not say anything. They could only agree with Xu Yang: "Since the enemy has the siege skill of laying siege to the city, they must use time to besiege the city and wear down our morale and combat power."

As they spoke, Zhang Yan looked a little worried, and Feng Cheng also looked nervous.

The effect of the siege skill, Enemy at the Gate, is self-evident. It not only prohibits enemy lords from entering and exiting the Tower of Babel, but also suppresses enemy territory, rendering production buildings ineffective and reducing enemy morale over time.

The three special effects are linked together. Sealing the Tower of Babel can cut off the enemy's reinforcements, suppressing production buildings can consume the enemy's resources, not to mention the impact on morale, which directly weakens and strikes the enemy's combat effectiveness.

With such siege skills, as long as the enemy is surrounded for a period of time, the strategic goal of "one gains while the other loses" can be achieved. There is even a chance to cause internal strife in the enemy and take over the territory without bloodshed.

Look, Zhang Yan now feels a little regretful.

The reason she came this time was, firstly, to repay Xu Yang for the favor he had done her last time, and secondly, to gain some benefits. She never expected that the other party would do this.

The son of a wealthy family cannot sit still in the hall. Entering and exiting the Tower of Babel is the lord's last means of survival. If the other party seals it, wouldn't it force them to fight to the death?

But can they win? The opponents are veteran lords with more than 6,000 and 7,000 reputation rankings. This time they have formed a coalition force and are at the gates of the city. There are nearly 10,000 civilized troops, as well as many special arms. Their combat power is terrifying.

Facing such an invasion, the only way to have a chance of victory is to defend the city.

Go out of town for a field battle?

You will definitely die! But now the enemy is forcing you to leave the city. If you don't leave, they will drag you to death and exhaust you. In the end, you may not even have the capital to give it a try.

What to do?

"Let them surround me!"

Xu Yang smiled, not caring at all. He handed over the command of the battlefield to Hua Mulan, and returned to the tavern with Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng.

It has to be said that as a veteran lord, the opponent's strategic vision is very vicious. This "enemy at the gate" strategy is used just right. It can have a good restraining effect on both the orthodox lords who are mainly in groups and the solo lords with outstanding personal martial arts. Every point is impeccable.

But they didn't know that their opponent was an anomaly like him.

siege?

You're surrounded!

His territory doesn't have much, but it has a lot of food resources. It won't be a problem for him to eat for several years with this stock.

As for morale consumption, as long as there is enough food, the morale of the Yellow Turban troops can be maintained at a certain stable value. Even if they cannot perform exceptionally well, at least they will not collapse at the first blow, and it is more than enough for defending the city.

The Yellow Turbans are in such a condition, not to mention the Female Guards, who already have extremely high basic morale. Coupled with the special skill bonus of Hua Mulan, the commander-in-chief of the personal army, even if the enemy surrounds them for half a year, it will not affect the performance of the Female Guards, and they can even maintain a daily round of firing thousands of arrows.

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Therefore, the siege did not pose much of a threat to him. On the contrary, the longer it dragged on, the more powerful it would be. If it dragged on for more than three months, he could even turn defense into offense and launch a counterattack.

Although he didn't know whether the other party planned to besiege the city for three months, he couldn't help anyway. Instead of staying on the city wall and wasting time, giving the enemy a chance to behead him, he might as well go back to the tavern and make more pancakes to support the battlefield.

And so it went, a month later.

On the city wall, Zhang Yan frowned and Feng Cheng remained silent.

Looking from a distance, one could see that a camp had been set up outside the city. The camp had wooden walls and tall towers. The two armies faced each other, both defending themselves strictly and not giving the enemy any chance to escape.

These three Demon Abyss Lords really wanted to waste time until they died. They besieged the city for a month without launching a single attack. They only set up camp outside the city and built a large number of defensive buildings and siege equipment.

That’s right, defensive buildings. As long as you have the corresponding skills or civilization traits, you can build various buildings and even turn the tables even in enemy territory.

Now, these three Demon Abyss Lords have built a "camp" with many towers, besieging the city and forcing them to go out of the city for a decisive battle.

But how could they get out of the city? They were no match for the enemy to begin with, and now the enemy had built a camp, making it even more difficult for them to win.

But they did not leave the city. The siege equipment built by the other side was clearly a preparation for the final general attack.

"Some powerful siege engines, such as giant catapults, take a lot of time to build."

"But that's why, once these siege engines are built, they can pose a huge threat to defensive facilities such as city walls and towers, and can even destroy the entire city defense system from a distance."

"The enemy is going for a siege, so they must have siege equipment like giant catapults. If they build a dozen or twenty of them, they can knock down the city walls and towers from a distance. We will be left with no city to defend and will be in the most desperate situation."

“This is a slow death!”

Zhang Yan had a stern look on her face, and was filled with worry, yet she was helpless.

Looking over, I saw groups of Yellow Turban teams sitting against the city wall, enjoying their lunch.

"Well!"

"This pancake..."

"Master Qu actually gave us this kind of food?"

"Long live the commander, long live the great and wise teacher, long live the peaceful heaven!"

They surround theirs and we eat ours. This is the current situation of the Yellow Turban Army.

Morale didn't drop much, but it didn't improve much either. It seemed like the whole thing was just a matter of eating and waiting to die.

The Mulan army on the other side was in much the same situation. Although they would look for opportunities to launch a volley of arrows at the enemy every day, as the enemy prepared themselves and built camps and other defensive facilities, the effect of the volley of arrows became increasingly worse. After a month, they killed and wounded less than two thousand enemy soldiers.

There's nothing you can do. They don't attack the city, but hide in the camp to fight with you. No matter how strong your rain of arrows is, you can't shoot through the enemy's camp. It's a good record to have this.

But if we continue to consume like this...

"It's been a month!"

"Almost?"

In the Demon Abyss camp, three lords gathered together. Augustus, dressed in a red robe and golden armor, sat in the middle seat. On his left and right were Zhao Wuji and Adams, who looked cold and a little exasperated!

During this month, they did not launch any offensive and were unilaterally consumed by the enemy, with more than 2,000 casualties. Most of them were from Zhao Wuji's "Taishoism Army" and Adams' "Federal Army". Augustus' "Roman Legion" suffered the least casualties.

There was no way. Most of the troops under Zhao Wuji's Taiping Religion Army and Adams' Federal Army were lightly armed archers with simple equipment and weak defense. They suffered heavy casualties in the face of the rain of arrows. However, Augustus' Roman Legion was a heavily armed force that could effectively resist arrows.

Although everyone was in the same boat, Zhao Wuji and Adams were still a little frustrated in the face of such casualties. They looked at Augustus together: "Are we being too cautious? The other party is just a rookie lord. Is it worth wasting our time like this?"

Augustus' expression remained unchanged: "The purpose of our trip is to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost. Although the opponent is a rookie lord, he must have a powerful trump card to rely on to be able to jump up the rankings like this. If we attack him forcefully, both sides will suffer losses, which is not worth the loss."

"All right!"

After hearing what he said, the two of them could not refute and could only say in a deep voice: "Can we move on to the second stage? The enemy's rain of arrows must be contained, otherwise we will also lose more than we gain."

"Ok!"

Augustus nodded, then stood up and walked out.

See you later...

"Enemy Lord "Augustus" used his special skill - Reinforcement Order!"

"Enemy reinforcements are arriving!"

"The enemy's military strength has reached 15,000, and the special skill "Enemy at the Gate" has increased in effectiveness!"

"Your territory is under siege. Lords and heroes are forbidden to enter or leave the Tower of Babel. All production buildings, recruitment buildings, and training buildings lose their effects. Food resource consumption doubles. The morale of all arms is reduced by 5 to 15 points per day!"

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