Rebirth of the Stars

　　 If it is only the Siege Behemoth and the Mountain Destroyer, although Fan Xiu and others are desperate, it is not impossible. The siege behemoth has a gentle temperament, and can only play a role under the control of the rider. As long as the driver is killed, the siege behemoth will leave the full-blooded battlefield on its own. Although the mountain destroyer is powerful, it belongs to infantry after all, and there is only one brigade, that is, a hundred people, as long as the opponent rushes into the city wall by using the range to kill one by one. After all, arms like this are usually easy to recognize.

　　 What really makes everyone feel ashamed is the wood spirit unit with the song as the unit and the large spear-refining unit with the battalion as the unit.

　　In the city-state army system of the Nieno continent, the number of troops is divided into seven types of titles, ten types: Wu, Shi, Brigade, Qu, Battalion, Division, and Army.

Five people and one team, ten people, one team, twenty people, one squadron, one hundred people, one group, three hundred people, one battalion, 800 people, one battalion, four battalions and two squadrons, that is Three thousand eight hundred places. The ten divisions, two battalions and four brigades are one army, which means that the first army has exactly 40,000 places.

　　 In other words, there are 300 people in the wood spirit army, and 800 people in the large spear refining unit. Because the large refining spear requires two people to operate, the actual number is doubled to 1,600 people.

　　 If the wood spirit troops are not composed of wood spirit tribes who have condensed the "Aura", they are entirely composed of practitioners who are at least the mid-soldier level. Because only the mid-soldier cultivator who has condensed a sea of ​​energy can have the opportunity to become a warlock profession. The warlock profession is the only regular profession among practitioners that can obtain attribute abilities at the human level except for certain awakening talents.

　　 To tell the truth, an ordinary medium-sized city-state has one or two of these four arms, and Fan Xiu would not be surprised. However, Fan Xiu absolutely did not believe that four wood spirit troops, composed entirely of practitioners, and large spear-refining troops that required huge resources, appeared in the organization of Quhe battalions.

　　 In other words, this war is not just a unilateral warfare by the "Iron Child City", it also has a bigger hand pushing it behind the scenes.

　　 Its target is not only his small "Xiuyuan City" but probably the entire "Qin" Alliance.

　　 This is Ning Yuan's guess after digesting the meaning of the power comparison between the two sides and the meaning of the enemy's arms in his memory. And he believes that eight or nine are inseparable from ten.

　　 The current war is only the first step.

　　 Ning Yuan, who was thinking this way, continued to digest the next memory information.

But when everyone in the upper class of "Xiuyuan City" was racking their brains to break the deadlock, a piece of the latest investigation intelligence sent back by our detective riding a horse made Fan Xiu and others suddenly see a glimmer of dawn in the dead. The dawn of hope.

　　 Intelligence showed that perhaps because of their extreme confidence in their own combat power, or because of the difference in the strength of the two sides, the other side did not pay attention to "Xiuyuan City" at all.

In short, I don’t know what the opponent thinks. The siege behemoth troops walked in front of all the troops because of their body size and the huge stepping distance. The mountain destroyers were small and short-legged infantry, so they sat directly in the siege. The body of the behemoth.

The 　　 wood spirit troops and large spear-refining troops are located in the middle of the team, surrounded by a large number of infantry regiments and protected in the center.

　　 cavalry units followed closely on both sides of the siege beast to lead the way. The infantry unit was behind the cavalry.

　　 There is nothing wrong with it. The real problem is that the distance between the cavalry unit and the infantry unit in the rear is so large that it can be said to be completely out of touch. However, even so, the cavalry unit did not mean to wait for the infantry to keep up.

　　 What the entire intelligence expresses is that this time the enemy army will arrive in two waves, a wave of 5,000 cavalry troops, including war monsters and mountain destroyers. A wave of 45,000 includes all the long-range archer troops, logistic support troops and most of the infantry troops, including the wood spirit troops, large-scale spear-refining troops and so on. The intelligence estimated that the time between the arrival of the two waves of enemy forces was at least five days.

　　 The interval of at least five days allowed Fan Xiu and others to see a certain opportunity, an opportunity to use the time difference to completely destroy the opposing cavalry unit and the two siege units.

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, 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 reduce the fear of our army's 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". An opportunity that is almost a once-in-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 by "Iron Child City" to lure Fan Xiu and others out of the city? The staff infers that it is unlikely.

　　 There are three reasons.

　　 One is that the comparison of the strength between the two sides is already very different. Even if the "Xiuyuan City" cannot stand by the comparison of the two sides' military strength, it will at most be a stalemate with the "Iron Baby City" troops.

Second, since Tiezhicheng has dispatched two types of destroyers, the Siege Behemoth and the Mountain Destroyer, which usually only appear in medium-sized city-state siege battles, there is actually not much point in "Xiuyuan City" sticking 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, and 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. So 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 close to a distance of five hundred miles.

　　 "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 in between. The distance between each other is about seven thousand miles.

　　According to the normal infantry marching speed, it will 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 march, but for the huge size of the siege behemoth, it can only pass one by one with one head. And he can only turn around, which can be said to be restricted.

　　 The twenty-mile-long "San Chi Gorge" is only thirty feet wide, but the height is hundreds of 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 "Sanchi Gorge" knew that this was a natural ambush site, even if they knew Fan Xiu, they believed that the troops of the "Iron Zhicheng" would step in because the "Sanchi 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 and charcoal, but fortunately there are not many villages in the lower reaches of the Luotu River Dam. And a few villages have temporarily left because of this upcoming war.

　　 "Xiuyuan City" had a lot of contacts with these river valley villages in the past, so it was morally and righteous to inform the other party 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 road and dense forest are not conducive to the passage of cavalry. The cavalry units of the "Iron Child City" can only pass through 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 Baby City", leaving enough time for subsequent retreat and defense. To know the terrain of the Erotu River Valley, even a behemoth such as a Siege Behemoth would be unable 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 already 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 Child 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 dispersed and transported quite a few veterans to the surrounding city-states of the "Xiuyuan City" through various means.

Oh, right. In order to start a war between the city-states of the Nieno continent and the city-states, it is necessary to inform 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 the residents of the other side's household registration will be directly sent back to their respective cities, and then the Dunjiamen between the two parties will 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”, it was natural that all this had been done before the announcement of the war. It's just that within three days of the buffer period, the offensive army cannot enter within a thousand miles of the attacked city.

　　 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 Nieno, 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 sent about 20,000 troops of various arms to the "Xiuyuan City" thousands of miles away by secret means. Then, 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 will "Xiuyuan City" After being forced into the desperate state of collapse, he used the psychology of the people in "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" into sending troops. For the good bait, it included enough to destroy "Xiuyuan City". The two professional destroyers of the city.