Chapter 1401: Retreat to the Inner City

"Three Kingdoms Online Game: The Battle of Princes ()"

The conversation between Huangfu Chaobo and Zhang Yan was not an exaggeration. The reason why the Tang army can have the current power is that the role of cavalry is indispensable. Whether in terms of quantity or eliteness, it is the best in the world. But now Bingzhou is under the attack of the Xianbei army, and Youzhou is being attacked by the Xianbei army.

Among the other princes, Yuan Shao now has a connection with the grassland. I believe that in the next period of time, Wei will spare no effort to develop cavalry. Wei has a large number of war horses imported, which means that its ally Qi also has a way to get war horses.

With one advance and one retreat, the cavalry advantage of the Tang country will be weakened a lot, or even lost, so this is why Huangfu Chaobo is in a hurry to return to Luoyang.

Just when Huangfu Chaobo wanted to rush back to Luoyang, the situation in Chifeng City had become more and more difficult.

After several days of attack, the loss of soldiers and horses in Chifeng City increased day by day, while the Xianbei army's losses were gradually reduced because they took turns to fight, and there were people like Jin Muzhen who understood the siege war.

"Dangdangdang..." The sound of the Xianbei army's withdrawal sounded, but there was no cheering from the Tang army soldiers on the top of the city like a few days ago. There was no way, the defending soldiers were too tired. After four or five days of fighting, only more than 3,000 of the 5,000 soldiers were left, and hundreds of seriously injured soldiers were sent to the inner city for treatment.

Now there are only more than 2,000 soldiers on the city wall defending the city, and Wang Men has left the last 500 most elite cavalrymen who did not participate in the battle. This is his last force to break through. If it were not for the first day of the war, Wang Men ordered all the young and strong men in the city to be gathered together to help defend the city. It is estimated that he would have only one or two thousand soldiers left.

But now, less than half of the nearly 5,000 elite soldiers he recruited are left.

Watching the Xianbei army slowly retreating under the city, Wang Men breathed a sigh of relief and found a slightly cleaner place on the top of the city wall to sit down. He turned his head and looked towards the direction of the west wall. It seemed that the Xianbei army over there had also retreated. Soon, there should be soldiers coming to report the situation over there.

As he expected, he didn't have to wait long. Cheng Ang, who was responsible for defending the west wall, came to report the battle situation: "General, another two hundred brothers have been lost. If this continues, we can't hold on for a few days."

Cheng Ang is Wang Men's confidant. At first, he was just a captain in his army. He has been with Wang Men for more than ten years. Now he has accumulated merits and has become a lieutenant. When Wang Men was the governor of Lulong, Cheng Ang was a lieutenant commanding 5,000 people. But later, Gongsun Zan transferred a large number of Lulong troops, so Cheng Ang's soldiers were left with 2,000 people at most, and only 1,000 of them were elite soldiers they had commanded for many years.

When the Xianbei army attacked, Wang Men arranged for him to defend the western city wall. In just a few days, more than half of his two thousand soldiers had been lost.

As Wang Men's confidant, he also knew that Wang Men was preparing to retreat, so after arranging the things on the top of the city, he hurried to the north city to find Wang Men.

Wang Men did not speak, but turned his head to look at the Xianbei army that had withdrawn several miles away. At this time, Wang Jing, who was covered in blood, stood up and said, "General, the losses have been counted. Today, another 103 people died in battle, 59 were seriously injured, and the rest of the soldiers were basically all injured."

At this point, he took a few steps closer and said in a voice that only the three of them could hear, "Father, if we don't withdraw to the inner city, it is estimated that we will not be able to hold it in two days."

In order not to cause panic in the city these days, Wang Men did not order the outer city generals and officials to withdraw their families to the inner city, but all the injured soldiers were arranged for treatment in the inner city.

As soon as Wang Jing finished speaking, Cheng Ang also looked at Wang Men with expectation, obviously agreeing with Wang Jing's statement.

Wang Men thought for a while, and finally nodded to agree to the two people's request: "Okay, Jing'er, you go and make arrangements. First, send people to transport all the supplies in the outer city back to the inner city.

Then organize soldiers to escort all important family members to retreat to the inner city. Remember, you must wait until dark before proceeding."

Wang Jing understood what Wang Men meant. After dark, there was a curfew in the city, and all the people stayed in their homes. In this way, even when the soldiers in the city transferred supplies, they could conceal it from ordinary people as much as possible. There was no other way. The inner city was only a quarter of the size of the outer city and could not accommodate so many people, so...

"Okay, you two go and make arrangements first. Remember, you must not let the Xianbei patrol outside the city find anything unusual. The soldiers on duty on the city wall will wait until the second half of the night before withdrawing to the inner city."

"Yes!" Hearing this, the two hurriedly responded in unison, and then turned to arrange the night watch and retreat.

Wang Men continued to stay on the city wall, silently watching Chifeng City, which was about to fall into darkness, with mixed feelings in his heart.

After nightfall, Wang Jing began to arrange the transportation of various supplies, while the people in the city had already returned to their homes, hiding in the darkness, watching the busy soldiers on the streets in the city through the cracks in the gates and windows. Many of them thought that the soldiers of the garrison were transporting supplies and preparing for tomorrow's battle, but they didn't know that the governor had abandoned them in the outer city.

However, not everyone was confused by Wang Jing's actions. In a street courtyard near the west gate of the city, there were twenty or thirty people gathered, half of them were players, and the other half were dressed as ordinary people, but If you observe carefully, you will find that they have obvious Xianbei characteristics.

These people are the agents sent by Jin Muzhen to Chifeng City. The leaders are Xiao Yi and Babu. Because of their war in the past few days, some of them have also been recruited into the city defense team. If they participate in the war, It is inevitable that there will be losses, and now sixteen people have been killed by their own people on the city wall alone.

At this time, Xiao Yi, Babu and several others were discussing how to deal with it.

"Brother Xiao Yi, when are Brother Jin and the others going to let us take over? If we don't take action, all our brothers will be killed by our own people." One of the players complained;

"Yes, Xiao Yi, can you contact the lord now? If this continues, if we don't take action, all the brothers brought into the city will be lost." Babu also said from the side;

"I thought about it too, but I didn't receive a signal from Jinda. There's nothing I can do." Xiao Yi also rubbed his head in distress. He was also anxious about the current situation, but unless there were special circumstances in the city, he could only wait for Jin Da. Wooden needle signal.

"No, Brother Yi, the defenders in the city are not transporting supplies to the city wall, but are evacuating supplies to the inner city." At this time, the player in charge of the alert suddenly discovered something unusual about the soldiers in the city.