Rebirth of the Stars

According to the calculations of the "Xiuyuan City" staff, if it is possible to destroy the leading cavalry units that are completely out of touch with the rear infantry in the "Iron Child City", including the Siege Behemoth and the Mountain Destroyer, which are the most threatening to the city defense, and then dig in the middle. The Rotu River Dam, which is on the inevitable route of the attack, can at least secure a buffer time of seven to ten days for the "Xiuyuan City". Counting the advancing speed and expected arrival time of the Alliance reinforcements, the severe situation of Xiuyuan City, which originally needed to hold on to the city for half a month, will be directly reduced by half.

　　 Based on the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, if the enemy cavalry can be defeated, even a battle loss ratio of 1.5:1 or even 2:1 will greatly stimulate the morale of our army and alleviate the fear of our army's new recruits on the battlefield. Moreover, based on the inference of the enemy's route on the intelligence, there happened to be an excellent ambush spot along the way.

　　 It can be said that this is an opportunity in the eyes of everyone in "Xiuyuan City". A chance close to a lifetime. And as long as you operate it properly, you may be able to complete a classic battle.

　　 As for whether this is a trap specially designed to lure Fan Xiu and others out of the city by the "Iron Child City"? The staff infers that it is unlikely.

　　 There are three reasons.

　　 First, the comparison of the strengths between the two sides is very disparity. Even if the "Xiuyuan City" cannot stand by the comparison of the forces between the two sides, it is at most a stalemate with the "Iron Zhicheng" troops.

The second is that since Tiezhicheng dispatched the Siege Behemoth and the Mountain Destroyer, which are usually only used in medium-sized city-state siege battles, the city-breaking units, then "Xiuyuan City" does not actually make much sense if it sticks to it or not. .

The third is based on the above two, "Iron Child City" does not need to use the expensive cavalry and two high-gloss siege units to give "Xiuyuan City" such a seemingly easy-to-kill miscellaneous fish. The opponent sets a trap.

　　 But even if the decision-makers of "Iron Child City" really had something wrong with their brains and were silly using these 5,000 strong soldiers as bait just to catch him "Xiuyuan City", this little trash fish, Fan Xiu recognized him.

　　 Because of the current situation, even if it is a 100% trap, Fan Xiu has no choice but to step on it. What's more, according to calculations, the possibility of a trap is less than one in ten thousand.

　　 It is completely meaningless to continue to stick to the city according to the original plan. If you take the initiative to attack, you may win that one ten thousandth of the vague vitality.

　　Since ninety-nine percent of the city will be destroyed regardless of whether it is attacked or not, why not give it a go?

　　 After nearly a night of discussions among the senior officials of the "Xiuyuan City", they unanimously decided to give it a try.

　　 The soldiers are very fast. Therefore, when the two waves of scouts sent back the same information, Fan Xiu no longer waited for repeated confirmations from subsequent scouts. At the end of the morning the next day after receiving the information, he quietly organized the army to lead 8000 Zhengzu and 5000. A total of 13,000 people from the city-defense and logistics mixed forces marched hurriedly toward the planned ambush site thousands or two hundred miles away in the dark.

　　 Tell me about the time here. As mentioned earlier, the general qualities of the creatures of both the Nieno continent and the stars are very strong, and it is normal to walk two or three hundred miles a day. The marching speed of the city-state army's short-legged infantry is basically about eighty miles an hour. Twelve earthly branches in the four crowns a day. Normally, except for mid-course meals and rest, the troops probably marched less than five to six hours a day when they marched to the two crowns. Nearly more than four hundred miles and close to five hundred miles away.

　　 "Iron Zhicheng" and "Xiuyuan City" are not adjacent to each other, and there are several small city-states belonging to other alliances and town-level or even village-level miscellaneous fish city-states that have not joined any alliances. The distance between each other is about seven thousand miles.

　　According to the normal infantry marching speed, it would take about fifteen days, that is, half a month. Coupled with the influence of the intermediate terrain, it would take about 20 to 25 days to reach the "Xiuyuan City" after borrowing from other alliance city-states.

　　 Of course, the cavalry speed is at least halved, which is about ten to twelve days. Taking into account that some terrain is not conducive to the passage of the siege behemoth, some normal cavalry requires the siege behemoth to open the way to pass smoothly, so the calculation that arrived five to six days earlier can be said to be accurate.

　　 The location of the ambush planned by "Xiuyuan City" was two hundred miles in front of the Luotu River Dam in a gorge called "Sanchi Gorge".

　　 "San Chi Gorge" naturally does not mean that the canyon is only three feet wide, but refers to the narrow gorge, "only three feet in the radius".

　　 Some large canyons are basically more than one hundred feet wide, while the width of the "Sanchi Gorge" is only thirty feet. The normal cavalry marching is enough for ten people to travel, but for the huge size of the siege beast, it can only pass one by one with one head. And can only turn around, it can be said to be restricted.

　　 The twenty-mile-long "San Chi Gorge" is only thirty feet wide, but it has a height of one hundred feet. Although it is relatively steep, it is still conducive to the arrangement, which can be said to be a natural ambush terrain.

　　 "Xiuyuan City" is the cavalry unit that intends to ambush "Iron Zhicheng" here.

Although all the soldiers who saw the terrain of the "Three Chi Gorge" knew that this was a natural ambush site, even if they knew Fan Xiu, they believed that the army of the "Iron Zhicheng" would step in, because the "San Chi Gorge" was from The "Tiezhicheng" direction is the only way to attack the "Xiuyuan City".

　　 Hundred and fifty miles behind the "Sanchi" Gorge is the topography of the valley wetland under the Luotu River Dam. Once the two hundred miles downstream of the Luotu River dam is dug up, it will instantly become Zeguo.

　　 Although the means of digging the dam to divert floods can easily cause the consequences of life, but fortunately there are not many villages in the lower reaches of the Luotu River Dam. Moreover, a few villages have temporarily left because of the upcoming war.

　　 "Xiuyuan City" had a lot of contacts with these river valley villages in the past, so in moral justice told the other side the news that this piece may become a battlefield. Therefore, the residents of these villages have basically sought refuge in nearby city-states.

Between the topography of the 　　 river valley and the "Sanchi Gorge" is a forest covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles. The narrow forest roads and dense forests are not conducive to the passage of cavalry. The cavalry units of the "Iron Child City" can only pass on a large scale when the road is opened by the behemoths of the city.

　　 Gorge Road, dense forests, and river valleys formed the core of the "Xiuyuan City" ambush. The "Three Chi Gorge" ambush can completely wipe out the "Iron Zhicheng" cavalry and siege troops. It is naturally the most ideal result. Even if it fails, it can rely on the buffer of the dense forest to evacuate quickly. After leaving the dense forest, the Luotu River Dam can be completely blocked. Cut off the enemy's pursuit of the "Iron Child City", leaving enough time for the subsequent retreat and defense. To know the terrain of the Erotu River Valley, even a behemoth such as a siege behemoth would be difficult to move in the valley that became Ze Kingdom. The troops of "Iron Zhicheng" can only choose a detour if they want to pass. And the next place where large troops can pass is Dingling Road, 1,500 miles away from the lower reaches of the Luotu River.

　　 But how do you say? Although everyone in "Xiuyuan City" had used everything to calculate this battle, they did not calculate that "Iron Child City" really used the 5,000 strong army as bait.

　　 From the moment Fan Xiu led the troops out of the city, "Xiuyuan City" had completely fallen into the calculations of "Iron Baby City".

　　 Ambush is indeed a good idea, not only for everyone in "Xiuyuan City," it is also true for "Iron Zhicheng" who wants to take down "Xiuyuan City" without damage.

　　 So, when the army of "Xiuyuan City" planned to ambush was approaching the location of the "San Chi Gorge" ambush, they were counter-ambushed by "Iron Zhicheng".

　　 was ambushed at the junction of the Luotu River Valley and the dense forest.

　　 In his memory, Fan Xiu still can't figure out how all this happened. Ning Yuan deduced the "Yaoyan" based on the information in his memory, but he had some relatively reliable guesses.

　　 Before the war with the "Xiuyuan City" was announced, the "Tiezhicheng" had already dispersed and transported quite a few veterans to the surrounding city-states of "Xiuyuan City" through various means.

Oh, right. In order to start a war between the city-states of the Nieno continent, it is necessary to inform them through rules. After the announcement, both parties have a three-day buffer period.

Take the current war as an example. After the "Tiezhicheng" issued a war announcement to the "Xiuyuan City", all residents of the other side's household registration in the other city will be directly sent back to their respective cities, and the Dunjiamen between the two sides will also be blockade.

　　 Within three days, "Xiuyuan City" can ask allies for help and conduct war mobilization, or request a third party to conduct war mediation.

　　 As the offensive "Iron Child City", of course, all this was done before the announcement of the war was issued. It's just that within three days of the buffer period, the offensive army cannot enter the attacked city within a thousand miles.

　　 So even if the two sides of the war are very close, no one can do it during the three-day buffer period.

　　 Of course, sneak attacks and undeclared warfare are also common in the Nieno continent, but that requires certain conditions to be launched. I won't be tired of it here.

Before the announcement of the war, the "Tiezhicheng" had already sent about 20,000 troops of various arms to the "Xiuyuan City" thousands of miles away by secret means. After the announcement of the war, they secretly gathered and hid in the river valley. In the dense forest outside.

　　 It can be said that it is very simple to hide 20,000 people in the dense forest of Baili. Unless you know it in advance and investigate it purposefully, it will be difficult for even a professional scout to find it.

After hiding the 20,000 ambush troops, "Iron Zhicheng" used 50,000 attacking troops on the surface, including four desperate special troops, to attract the attention of everyone in "Xiuyuan City", and "Xiuyuan City" After being forced into the desperate state of collapse, he used the psychology of everyone in the "Xiuyuan City" to place a pocket.

This pocket is the "Iron Child City" that Fan Xiu and others didn't believe that it actually used a full 5,000 strong army to lure "Xiuyuan City" to send troops, and it included enough bait to destroy "Xiuyuan City". The two professional destroyers of the city.

　　 "Iron Child City" deliberately caused the 5000 cavalry unit to be completely disconnected from the rear infantry unit, including the large-scale spear-making unit capable of mass destruction and field control, and the wood spirit unit.

　　 Although the out-of-line forward force possessed the danger level enough to destroy "Xiuyuan City", it also gave "Xiuyuan City" a ray of hope in the realm of death. In particular, the purpose of the "Qin" Alliance determines that it will not abandon any city-state under its command, and will definitely send reinforcements as quickly as possible. On the only way to "Iron Zhicheng" and "Xiuyuan City", there are excellent terrains that can be used to ambush and delay time.

This is almost destined that "Xiuyuan City" will definitely choose to take the initiative after seeing "hope", and for behemoths like Siege Behemoths and infantry killers like cavalry, only "San Chi Gorge" is the best. Ambush terrain.

　　 Now that it has been determined where the "Xiuyuan City" will be located, it is self-explanatory where the pocket sheet is suitable.

　　 Therefore, when Fan Xiu led the troops to enter the dense forest just after passing the river beach and going to rest, 20000 ambush soldiers from the "Iron Baby City" showed their "fangs" in the dense forest.

　　 A dense rain of arrows shot from the edge of the dense forest and directly stunned the "Xiuyuan Army" who had just planned to bury the pot for cooking.

　　The "Iron Zhicheng" infantry who rushed out of the forest in large numbers immediately horrified the "Xiuyuan Army" who were mostly new recruits.

　　 Then everything happened naturally.

　　 The morale of the "Xiuyuan Army" collapsed less than a quarter of an hour after receiving the battle. The soldiers in the front began to rout, and the soldiers in the rear began to rout directly, and then the entire army collapsed and collapsed. In the end is the crash and escape.

　　 Fan Xiu, as the lord and general of the "Xiuyuan City", also did not escape the fate of being engulfed and fleeing.

After chasing and fleeing all the way, when there were more than 300 miles away from "Xiuyuan City", I finally got rid of the chasing troops of "Iron Zhicheng" temporarily, and then gathered the troops all the way, and finally left the "Xiuyuan City". "The lieutenant in the abandoned camp for more than two hundred miles gathered all the rest of the defeated army. .

　　 The original army of more than 12,000 is now only less than 3,000. Except for 500 guards, there are less than 800 veterans who are barely able to fight. The rest are all new recruits who have been temporarily abandoned.

　　 And now the exhausted troops just took a rest for less than an hour, and the chasing troops of "Iron Zhicheng" caught up again.