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The trebuchet is the most common siege weapon in the cold weapon era. In many cases, the beginning of the siege battle is the consumption of the trebuchet.

This time, the reason why neither the enemy nor the enemy used trebuchets in the siege battle that took place in the Rezkazgan area this time is because there was no city at all before, there were only endless felt houses.

On the other hand, it is because this is a cross-border battle between the enemy and the Chinese side deep into the territory of the Kazakh Khanate, and the time is too hasty to prepare the trebuchet.

On the other hand, because there are no exposed stone resources in the Rezkazgan area, even if everyone has prepared trebuchets, there are no stone bombs that can be used for throwing.

It is precisely because of these various reasons that in the end no one wants to use the trebuchet here.

In fact, Ibn Haidar and the others had prepared a large number of siege equipment before they officially launched their troops, including trebuchets.

All the siege equipment was made in Uzbekistan using the wood provided to them by the Yindu players. They just did not choose to carry it because there were no stone resources in the Rezkazgan area.

Now that their siege is blocked, it seems that only the use of catapults can crack the defensive tactics of the elastic launcher developed by the Condor Empire, so when Abbas proposed to use catapults to siege the city, Ibn Haidar immediately agreed.

As Ibn Haidar's order was sent back to Uzbekistan, a 200,000-strong backup corps immediately escorted the materials for assembling the trebuchets and a large amount of food and grass supplies towards the front line.

After some enlightenment from the Emir, Ibn Haidar has fully realized that this will be a protracted war that is likely to last for several years. As the supreme commander of the coalition forces, he must not be too impatient, so he After some reflection, the previous tactics were immediately changed.

The Emir persuaded him not to worry about logistical issues all the time, but as the commander-in-chief of millions of people, how could Ibn Heydar really let go of logistical issues?

Having established a policy of fighting a protracted war, Ibn Heydar knew that the logistical pressures would increase day by day, as this was now the only weak point of their army of millions.

As long as their food routes are cut off, their millions of troops on the front line may collapse at any time.

Ning Yuan, a nouveau riche, may not be good in other aspects, but he is definitely a good player in wars. It is impossible for him who has experienced many battles to not know the importance of food supply.

Now in the territory of the Kazakh Khanate, the cavalry of the Condor Empire occupies a dominant position. Only they can attack other people's food, and their food is absolutely impossible to be attacked by others.

Under the circumstance that the cavalry had such a huge advantage, it was impossible for Ning Yuan to let them easily transport food and forage to the front line. He would definitely send a large number of cavalry troops to carry out various attacks and harassment along the way.

Although Ibn Heydar had already built castles on the grain road to defend against the enemy's surprise attack, there was still a certain distance between the castles, which left room for the enemy to launch a surprise attack.

In order to ensure that the transport convoy can safely travel from one castle to another, they must send a large number of troops to **** it.

As a result, the number of people to support logistics is a bit excessive.

The greater the number of troops on the front lines, the greater the number of people supporting the logistics.

Before the food and grass materials arrived at the front line, more than half of them were consumed by logistics personnel along the way.

This kind of consumption is really too much, and they can afford it in a short time, but if the war really lasts for three or five years, even if they are rich, they may not be able to buy so much food and supplies!

After all, there are only a few countries that are willing to sell them food. Once there is a problem in some of them, no matter how rich they are, they will have nowhere to spend!

After realizing that a protracted war is a competition for logistics and transportation support capabilities, and now only the enemy can attack our own logistics transportation, and we cannot pose any threat to the enemy's logistics transportation, Ibn Heydar decided to immediately change the previous logistics transportation strategy. .

Before, they used professional troops to protect the food convoys and logistics personnel, which caused the logistics transportation team to become more and more bloated, and more food and grass materials were consumed on the way.

Now, Ibn Heydar has decided to cut off part of the logistics and transport personnel, in order to reduce the consumption of food and grass materials on the way.

Considering that the backup troops stationed in Uzbekistan will still consume a lot of food and forage materials every day whether they come to the front line or not, Ibn Heydar decided to temporarily let those backup troops temporarily serve as logistics personnel and let them serve as the front line. The army transported food and forage supplies.

Despite this change, the logistics personnel will not be reduced too much, but considering that these troops stay in the rear to eat every day, and those real logistics personnel can do other production work after returning, they can still be able to Save a lot of food supplies.

So while ordering people to **** the catapult parts to the front line, Ibn Haidar also directly gave orders to those backup troops to start taking over all matters related to the logistics transport convoy.

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The changes in the Central Asia and Middle East coalition forces soon reached Ning Yuan's ears.

When Ning Yuan learned that the enemy had begun to use the army on a large scale to **** food and grass supplies, he immediately sent a centaur army to test the defensive strength of the enemy's transport team.

It doesn't matter this test, Ning Yuan soon felt the determination of the enemy. This was not a trick, but really began to let the army fully take over the logistics and transportation.

Although he has already felt the determination of the enemy, Ning Yuan is not in any hurry, he is still quietly waiting for the best time.

A few days later, the moment that Ning Yuan wanted to wait for finally appeared.

"Report to Your Majesty, after a large amount of food and grass materials were delivered to the Rez Kazgan area, the enemy began to assemble trebuchets on a large scale, and used the transported cement and sand to make throwing ammunition."

"It seems that the enemy is still a little tactical."

After listening to the information brought back by the Seraph scouts, Ning Yuan couldn't help but nodded.

Ning Yuan originally thought that Ibn Haidar and others would transport stone bullets from the rear to the front line if they could not find stone resources.

If this is the case, then he will have to wait a while longer. After all, the number of stones that a carriage can carry is very limited.

Using catapults to siege a city requires a lot of stone bullets, and it is a lot of work to transport them to the front line from hundreds of kilometers away by horse-drawn carts.

Fortunately, Ibn Haidar and others are still a bit strategic and know how to make cement bombs with cement and sand, otherwise he may have to wait an extra month.

"Approximately how many people are in this convoy? When will they return?"

Knowing that it was almost time, Ning Yuan asked carefully.

"Go back to Your Majesty, because the transport convoy was large in size and we sent a lot of centaur raiders along the way, the enemy directly organized a huge transport team of 400,000 people this time.

Judging from the previous situation, the transport team will probably stay in the frontline area for two days, and after two days, they will return to Uzbekistan along the same route. "

The Seraph scout replied.

"Since they're here, I can't let them go back easily. I'll notify Ma Qianli and let him lead the army to attack immediately. Within half a month, I don't want to see any enemy fleeing the territory of the Kazakh Khanate.

In addition, immediately send someone to notify Andrew and tell them that they can act. "

While speaking, a cold light flashed in Ning Yuan's eyes.

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"What's the matter? It seems that a lot of pikas have suddenly appeared here recently. Is there a pika den nearby?"

"Nonsense, if there is no nest, how can there be so many pikas suddenly?"

"Didn't it say above that the Condor Empire carried out a fortification operation in the Kazakh Khanate? Why did they leave us with so many pikas?

It seems that their fortifications are not very thorough! "

"They on the ground can be strong and clear, how can they be strong and clear when they hide in the ground?

Besides, these pikas look at a fluffy mass, but they really don't have much meat after peeling off their skins, so no matter how hard they are, no one will compete with these little things that can hide in the ground. "

"What's the ink on you guys there? Hurry up and peel the skin and cut the meat, or you won't have your share of the stewed pika tonight."

"Coming soon, this day, like a tmd urging ghost, you know let us work."

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As the climate gradually warmed, the players of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces stationed in the castle suddenly found a large group of pikas nearby.

At first, they thought that those pikas were probably transformed from monster players sent by the Condor Empire, their purpose was to seduce them out, and then take the opportunity to seize the castle they guarded.

However, as some pikas started to openly play poker in the wild, they immediately overturned their previous ideas, because Yaozu players couldn't be so perverted.

So with the attitude of trying it out, they sent some players with superb archery skills out of the city to find out.

Soon, those players who went out to inquire about the situation brought back a large number of pika corpses to feed everyone in the city.

From then on, the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition soldiers stationed in the castle no longer had any defense against the pikas that appeared around them. Not only that, they also sent special personnel out of the city to hunt some pikas every day to improve food for everyone.

As a large number of pikas were shot and killed by the defending soldiers in the castle, the pikas that were still alive outside became more and more alert. Whenever someone walked out of the city, they would immediately sound the alarm and then flee collectively. Escape into the cave.

When the harvest of going out hunting became less and less day by day, the soldiers in the castle stopped hunting activities to protect the wild population of pikas.

The soldier's favorite thing to do every day is to stand patrolling the city wall while watching pika fights and playing poker with binoculars.

Since the nearby pikas burrowed into the holes as soon as there was any trouble, they didn't know how many pikas were left nearby, nor did they find that a group of strange pikas suddenly appeared nearby.

Of course, the so-called unfamiliar refers to those pikas living here. In the eyes of the players, as long as they are of one race, all pikas look almost the same, and they can't recognize any mouse at all. Rabbit is sitting on the ground, which pika is new.

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Savage 7/17/39

Just as the 400,000 troops who were escorting grain and forage to the front line were preparing to return along the original road, a centaur army of 200,000 people suddenly appeared on their final road.

After learning that the enemy had dispatched a 200,000 centaur army to intercept the return of the backup army escorting logistics supplies, Ibn Haidar and others who were preparing the catapult ammunition were suddenly full of doubts, because they could not see it at all. Understand the enemy's intention to do so.

Although the Centaur Legion of the Condor Empire was very capable of field battles and did not need any logistical supplies in a short period of time, they did not dare to launch a storm easily in the face of the infantry troops who had formed their positions in advance.

Faced with the half-way interception of the 200,000 centaur army, as long as they do not rashly advance on their side, and do not give the enemy a chance to rush or break through the formation, then when the food and grass materials carried by the centaur warriors are exhausted, the opponent will only forced to evacuate.

In other words, the 200,000 centaur troops sent by the Condor Empire could only intercept their backup troops here for half a month to 20 days, and then they would be evacuated because they ran out of food and grass.

On their side, the transportation interval of grain and grass is one to two months~www.readwn.com~ It takes about ten days for the empty convoy to return to Uzbekistan from Rezkazgan.

Even if the Condor Empire can intercept their logistics transport convoy here for 20 days, plus the time to return, they will have enough time for the next material delivery.

So Ibn Haidar and others really don't understand the purpose of the Condor Empire. Is it just to let the 400,000 troops responsible for transportation stay here to consume their food for 20 days?

But the food they stored in the Rezkazgan area was enough for a million army to eat for more than four months. Even if there were more than 400,000 people suddenly, it would be enough for a million army to last for three and a half months.

If they were more frugal, and if there were military losses in battle, they would be able to hold on to it for five or six months.

Therefore, in the eyes of Ibn Haidar and others, the Condor Empire did not make any sense at all, because the other party could not affect their logistical transportation at all.

The 200,000 centaur army that can be dispatched at any time is also a huge drain on the Condor Empire. With Ning Yuan's character, he doesn't seem to be able to do such meaningless things. So what is the real purpose of Ning Yuan?