readytorunbook Chapter 292 Attack
Chapter 292 Attack
But Ning Yi could only gather the miscellaneous soldiers in the end. After all, those miscellaneous soldiers were still very important. Although they had been captured, they were once soldiers and had fought on the battlefield.
They have all been screened out. They are okay for doing odd jobs, but they can also be used to defend the city.
But Ning Yi is not the kind of person who would just stand firm and not fight back.
He pondered and said, "This won't work. It's too passive. I have to find a way to trick them."
Qin Haifeng was startled. He knew how bold this lord was. He dared to run out with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight against 100,000 cavalry. It was a real head-on confrontation, and it would almost be a fight to the death.
No one else would dare to do that. They had never heard of infantry of the same strength defeating cavalry. But this leader managed to defeat the same number of cavalry.
Seeing that the lord wanted to attack again, he immediately advised: "Your Highness, please do not act rashly. After all, now is not the time to take the initiative to attack. The barbarian army is here. If they block our retreat, we will have no way to retreat."
Ning Yi glanced at him and said with a smile: "What are you thinking about? This prince is not that stupid."
What a joke! At this moment, even if we send so many troops out of the city and then pull out our own private army for a head-on confrontation, we probably won't be able to defeat these barbarian armies.
After all, the barbarian army has 400,000 soldiers, and 200,000 cavalry alone.
How can this be an opponent?
Ning Yi pondered for a while, snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "I got it."
When the barbarian army left at dusk, Ning Yi went into the city first and asked people to treat the wounded.
Then, a large number of officers were summoned to the city gate.
Pointing to the city gate, he said, "Here, build a city wall for this prince."
"A barbican?" Several officers defending the city were stunned. "Your Highness, there is a barbican ahead of us."
After all, every city gate has a barbican, which is why Hushan Pass is so strong.
Ning Yi nodded: "This prince knows, but that is the open city wall, everyone knows it, but no one knows about the city wall here."
"Call over some menial soldiers and get to work immediately. This city wall doesn't need to be too high; a simple wall will suffice."
What he needed was a wall that was impossible to climb up and could just surround people.
Five large city gates were built in this way inside the city, and the speed had to be fast.
There were a lot of menial workers, because they never went to the battlefield during the day.
There are many houses in the inner city now, and there is also a lot of wood and bricks. The teams were quickly separated and started to build immediately, and the speed was still very fast.
The next morning, Ning Yi arrived at the front line and could see it from a high vantage point.
Behind the five large city gates, there is a semicircular city wall. The wall of this city wall is not high, only about three meters, and it is not wide or thick, so it only needs one person to occupy the back.
Many people don’t know why Ning Yi built this city wall, and he worked overnight to complete it.
Fortunately, it was the menial soldiers who did the work, otherwise ordinary soldiers would have done it and we wouldn’t have to guard the city today.
Ning Yi called all the main guards and said, "This prince instructs you to relax the city gates today and deliberately let the barbarians in."
"Ah?" Several guards were confused.
"Your Highness, if they come in, the city will be broken."
"Your Highness, this is too risky."
Ning Yi shook his head slightly: "You guys, what are you thinking about?"
"We just need to let their people in. This inner city wall will be their grave."
"This one is enough to trick tens of thousands of them. Isn't that good?"
Several people suddenly realized that this was what His Highness had in mind. No wonder he insisted on repairing the city wall overnight. They thought it was feasible.
However, Ning Yi reminded him that it was up to him to decide when the city gates would need to be opened.
In addition, there must be sufficient reserve teams prepared, and the weights must be prepared, and there must be no mistakes.
Today, Ning Yi was personally watching from the front, and the barbarians continued to attack all morning.
They are the cannon fodder of the barbarian Khan. They are used to continuously put pressure on the Dawu troops in the city and consume the troops in the city. This is the role of cannon fodder.
The barbarian Khan had no worries about using these cannon fodder, as they were not his direct descendants anyway.
Reducing the number of troops in the city will allow the soldiers in the city to consume their physical strength and not waste their elite troops. Why not do it?
By noon, the barbarian army retreated, but the rebels who had eaten early still attacked again.
These were all tricks of the barbarians. They attacked all day long without stopping, wave after wave, leaving no time for the people in the city to rest.
Similarly, the people in the city had become accustomed to the barbarians' siege methods within a few days, and they also went up to resist in batches.
They eat in the back while fighting in the front, and both sides have almost reached a tacit understanding.
By the afternoon, it was almost dusk.
Ning Yi finally gave the order to show weakness under the expectation of the officers at several city gates.
The defenders on the city wall suddenly weakened, and the rebels who kept rushing up were stunned.
However, the defenders were beaten back step by step by them, so they were naturally happy and charged forward with roars.
They quickly occupied a lot of the city walls, and even the city gates below were breached one after another.
The barbarian Khan thought that the day was almost over from a distance, but he did not expect to encounter this situation.
Atulu exclaimed: "Great Khan, the attack has begun, the attack has really begun, Hushan Pass will be breached."
But the Barbarian Khan frowned. "That shouldn't be the case. Hushan Pass has been under attack for several days, and it's clear that the defenders are still putting up a tough fight. How could they suddenly give up? This must be a trick."
The barbarian Khan is not a fool. The walls of Hushan Pass, which are difficult to conquer every day, suddenly become weak in resistance. Everyone thinks this must be fake.
However, soon someone from the front came running to report that they had indeed attacked and had actually occupied several of the city walls.
They are currently attacking the last gate of the city.
As for the defenders on the city wall, they were still fighting desperately and attacking upwards continuously, but they were suppressed.
Because those who were resisting were actually some miscellaneous soldiers from the Beijing camp, the tens of thousands of elite soldiers defending the city had suffered heavy losses.
Atulu immediately said, "Great Khan, at this moment, the city walls are occupied. Once the inner gate of the city walls is breached, Hushan Pass will also be breached."
The Barbarian Khan asked again, "What's the situation in the military camps on both wings?"
The visitor excitedly explained, "Khan, the military camps on both wings also suffered heavy casualties. These soldiers at Hushan Pass are actually mostly ordinary soldiers from the Beijing camp."
The barbarian Khan looked at Aturu, who looked unhappy.
What this means is that Aturu's 100,000 elite troops and 70,000 to 80,000 cannon fodder were actually defeated by a group of ordinary Beijing camp soldiers. This shows how incompetent they were.
But Atulu immediately said: "They still have 30,000 elite cavalry at Hushan Pass. These 30,000 cavalry are the real elite."