Chapter 922: Ji Ling Leads His Army to Attack Yulou

Ji Ling knew what Shu Shao meant. If he couldn't capture the city before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, he would have to give up Yulou and Anfeng, preserve his strength, and retreat to Liaoxian and Anfeng. After all, he still had tens of thousands of elite soldiers. If he couldn't achieve his original goal, he would have to preserve his strength. As long as the army was still there, there was still a chance.

Thinking of this, Ji Ling finally made up his mind, stood up suddenly and ordered: "Okay, someone send the army to go to Yulou City and prepare to attack the city!"

As Ji Ling's military order was issued, Yuan Shu's army began to set up camp and marched towards Yulou County. By noon, the army arrived five miles northwest of Yulou City. While Ji Ling ordered the army to set up camp and start making siege equipment, he and the generals came to Yulou City under the escort of his personal guards.

When an army of 70,000 to 80,000 appeared in the northwest of the city, the generals on the top of the city were shocked. They did not expect that Ji Ling's army still had 70,000 to 80,000 troops. You know, only 20,000 of their own troops can participate in the battle, and the rest of the soldiers are injured to varying degrees. Of course, if they can hold on for eight to ten days, more than 10,000 of the more than 30,000 wounded soldiers can recover to 70% to 80%, which means they can basically participate in the battle.

What relieved the generals in the city was that Ji Ling's army did not seem to have any signs of attacking the city immediately. On the city wall, Zhang He was leading the generals to inspect the defense of the walls on all sides. When he heard the alarm bell on the west wall, he immediately rushed to the west city.

Seeing the troops of Yuan Shu's army outside the city, Zhang He was not surprised. If he were Ji Ling, he would also lead his army to test it. At least, he would not give up before seeing the news of the reinforcements from the An Dong army. Moreover, Ji Ling occupied the advantage of the terrain, and it was very convenient for him to recruit soldiers, civilians, and craftsmen. The attack would not stop until he saw the reinforcements from the other side.

In the afternoon, Ji Ling's army finally began the necessary preparations before the ant attack, that is, the filling of the moat. Because when the Andong army attacked Yulou a few days ago, they had already filled several siege passages, but after Zhang He occupied the city, he immediately sent people to recruit civilians to dredge the moat, so the first thing Ji Ling's army did after arriving was to fill the dredged moat again to create a siege passage.

With the order of Ji Ling's central army, thousands of civilians began to advance towards the moat in the west and north. They all carried cloth bags filled with soil and ran towards the moat under the protection of shields and bows and arrows.

The attack of Ji Ling's army finally began. Filling the moat to build a siege passage was only one of Ji Ling's methods. The second was to order civilian craftsmen to speed up the construction of siege equipment. At the same time, Ji Ling again ordered the Anfeng garrison to recruit another 20,000 new soldiers and send them to Yulou. This is the maximum number of troops that Anfeng can recruit, and almost all the suitable troops in Anfeng City have been recruited.

Since he decided to make preparations for both situations, Ji Ling must consider the problem of tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his command. If things go wrong, he must preserve these tens of thousands of elite soldiers to the maximum extent in order to prepare for the subsequent wars, so the best troops for attacking the city are these newly recruited soldiers.

Of course, if he thinks there is a way to do it, he will not hesitate to press tens of thousands of elite soldiers in one fell swoop, capture Yulou City, and annihilate the Andong Army in the city.

Just when Ji Ling's army began to attack Yulou, Huang Zhong had already left Yulou under the escort of a thousand cavalrymen and broke out in the direction of Geyang.

At this time, in Geyang City, Yuzhou reinforcements had arrived one after another, and countless money, food and equipment had also arrived. After a period of silence, Geyang City became lively again.

Huangfu Chaobo no longer needed to be in charge of the war in Yulou, and all defense was arranged by Zhang He. Taking advantage of this gap, Huangfu Chaobo asked someone to invite Zongheng Tianxia. The war in these days has made Huangfu Chaobo have no time to understand the situation of other allies for a long time. The most important thing is the situation of the people in Bingzhou. Now it is in the war, and neither the player's personal communicator nor the alliance channel can be used.

After entering the county, Zongheng Tianxia handed the troops to Chen Dao, and then he went offline to contact the Nightingale who stayed behind. After learning about the situation of his territory in detail, he rested for a while before going online again. Of course, there must be news from other players. After receiving the news that Huangfu Chaobo invited him, he immediately rushed to the county government with Shacuolang.

As soon as they met, several people smiled bitterly. Shacuolang is now almost a bare commander, and there are less than fifty soldiers left from the two thousand soldiers he brought. Zongheng Tianxia is not much better. There are only 2,000 soldiers left in the 5,000-man army camp. The 2,000 white soldiers lost in the dungeon are now only 1,000.

"Sit down." Seeing the two of them, Huangfu Chaobo smiled and said, "This time, we lost Jingzhou because of carelessness."

Zongheng Tianxia laughed and said, "Why didn't your two military advisors find anything unusual?"

Huangfu Chaobo smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that my brothers didn't work hard, but the enemy is too cunning!"

As soon as the words came out, the three of them laughed.

After a long time, Huangfu Chaobo said, "There are a lot of losses in soldiers and horses, but the military merits should still be good. And many of the soldiers who survived should have met Chen Dao's selection criteria, right?"

The last sentence he said was directed at Zongheng Tianxia. The selection conditions for special troops are very harsh. For example, the strongest Xianzhen Camp under Huangfu Chaobo can almost be said to have reached the condition of one in a thousand. Although Chen Dao's Bailao soldiers are not as strong as Xianzhen Camp, it is estimated that at least one in a hundred or hundreds of people are selected.

For example, Zongheng Tianxia now occupies five cities, with 10,000 combat troops and 25,000 guards, but Chen Dao's subordinates have always been just over 2,000 soldiers. The first 2,000 of them were selected from Kong Jun's army, which means that only a few hundred of his own soldiers were selected. It can be seen that the conditions are not so easy to meet.

After hearing what Huangfu Chaobo said, Zongheng Tianxia looked much better and said, "It's a blessing in disguise. Shuzhi told me that these soldiers have basically met the preliminary selection requirements for Bailuo soldiers. If they can all survive, Bailuo can be expanded to 3,000 people, which should be considered a gain."

"Two bosses, you and your soldiers have been trained, but I have suffered heavy losses. Only a few dozen of the two thousand soldiers are left..." Shacuolang said with a sad face;