Chapter 104

Guo Zi listened in a daze, and then scratched his head after a while, "It's so complicated!"

"But... if it's delayed like this, isn't Zhu Yan Empire afraid that Bo'an City will have more and more reinforcements, and finally counterattack?"

After listening for so long, Guo Zi asked the doubts in his heart.

He doesn't have so much fancy, as an elite soldier who charges forward, his understanding of war is much more intuitive.

When it comes to war, whoever has the most is the best? This can't be wrong, right?

In Guo Zi's mind, Zhu Yan Empire is playing with fire!

After besieging the city for such a long time without attacking, what if the troops gathered in Bo'an City surpassed that of the Zhu Yan Empire, and seeing the lack of food and grass, they simply rushed out of the city to fight the opponent to the death, then...

Anyway, Guo Zi felt that he would definitely do this and would not sit still.

However, when he said this, Chen Ze was not doing well, and Li Quanan was already looking at him meaningfully.

"What, did I say something wrong?"

In front of these tactical players, Guo Zi felt that his confidence was not too strong, but he still firmly believed that his statement was not wrong.

"It is impossible to have more troops than the Zhu Yan Empire."

Li Quanan shook his head slightly, denying Guo Zi's statement.

"Why?"

Guo Zi was puzzled, but also dissatisfied, "Why can't Bo'an's troops overtake?"

"When I first heard that Bo'an was in trouble, the cities of all parties were sending reinforcements. Anluo province alone probably had..."

He scratched his head, couldn't remember the exact number clearly, and said uncertainly, "At least two million!"

"There are two million."

Li Quanan agrees with this number.

"That's over!"

Guo Zi spread his hands, "This is only the province of Anluo. You see, even the province of Heyuan is sending troops to Bo'an City. The longer this delays, the more troops there will be!"

While the two were talking, Chen Ze paid attention to the situation on Xu Qing's side. Seeing that it would take some time, he couldn't help but turned around and joined the discussion, and said with a wry smile, "You should take a look at the map of Bo'an City first."

"Um, this..."

Guo Zi was ashamed.

map?

Of course he has seen it!

When Chen Ze and Li Quanan reasoned just now, he had looked at it many times.

But to him, it doesn't seem to make much difference whether he looks at it or not.

"Look, Bo'an City is here."

Chen Ze knelt down and pointed to the location of Bo'an City on the map, "From the map, Bo'an City is only this big, but in fact Bo'an City is very big, but..."

"It's not infinite, is it?"

He was persuasive, and waited for Guo Zi to nod blankly before he said, "Why is the total strength of Anluo Province at two million? This is also taking into account the capacity of Bo'an City!"

"Defending the city is more advantageous than attacking the city. With the scale of Bo'an City, the number of two million is a very comfortable number in terms of city defense scheduling. obstruction."

"Then, if two million people defend the city, how many people need to attack the city?"

Chen Ze looked at the bewildered Guo Zi, and gave the answer himself: "Three million, at least!"

"Considering how easy it is to defend and how difficult it is to attack Bo'an City, the total force is between 3.5 million and 4 million, which is a relatively safe number."

"Only when the opponent's strength reaches this number, Bo'an City will recklessly request support from the surrounding provinces, without considering the limit of capacity."

"Of course, there is no need to think about it at that time. Once the siege begins, the troops of both sides will be consumed at an extremely terrifying speed. It is not an exaggeration to compare the battlefield to a meat grinder."

Guo Zi was really at a loss, he had no idea what Chen Ze was talking about.

Chen Ze continued: "After so many years of confrontation with Bo'an City, the three cities of Zhu Yan will not be unaware of this, so they will not provoke Bo'an City."

"It's true that their strength has been increasing, but they are kept at a relatively restrained level, so that Bo'an City will not feel life and death and frantically ask for help."

"At present, the troops invested by the Zhuyan Empire are far from reaching that number. They always slowly invest 200,000 troops after the reinforcements in Bo'an City reach a certain level. It made Bo'an City feel unable to cope."

"In this way, the total strength of the two sides is not much different. In order to be safe, Bo'an City will of course choose to focus on defending the city. After all, given the geographical advantage of Bo'an City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, wouldn't it be foolish to give up?"

Hearing this, Guo Zi couldn't help being discouraged for a while, and still unwilling to say: "I understand the meaning of the big brother, the Zhu Yan Empire just wants to forcefully bring down Bo'an City, but once the food and grass are exhausted, the people in the city Will more than two million soldiers and millions of civilians just sit and die?"

"If it were me, I would definitely fight!"

Li Quan'an shook his head secretly when he heard it, and explained for Chen Ze: "Yes, you will definitely be able to fight hard, but can you fight hard?"

"That's why my lord asked you to look at the map carefully."

He pointed to the location of Bo'an City on the map with one hand, and said with a frown: "Bo'an City is located at the pass of Anluo Province. This terrain is like an upside-down bottle. Bo'an City is the mouth of the bottle, which is the narrowest in the whole bottle. When going out from Bo'an, the terrain will gradually open up, which is conducive to the large-scale advance of the group army."

"The Zhu Yan Empire's army took advantage of this terrain to press down on the outside of Bo'an City."

"Furthermore, the main city gate facing the enemy is very wide, and it can also attack a large number of soldiers at the same time, but the left and right city gates are built against the mountains, which are about half narrower than the main city gate. Facing the city gate of Anluo Province from behind is useless for sending troops."

"Then if you want to fight, Bo'an City can only use these three gates to send troops, and the result can be imagined."

Li Quan'an sighed, seeing that Chen Ze didn't intend to speak again, he said again: "The Zhu Yan Empire has already deployed heavy troops outside, and is waiting for you to go out of the city to fight desperately. The two sides are fighting at the same time. Level, in this battle, there will be no defeat but no victory!"

Guo Zi was silent, only then did he realize what he was thinking, Chen Ze and Li Quan'an had already seen through it, it was ridiculous that he was still obsessed here.

But he didn't know that Chen Ze saw that Xu Qing couldn't finish it for a while, so he explained to Guo Zi to check for gaps.

The same is true for summoning Cheng Yu.

Before, Chen Ze was too confident that he didn't realize the other party's real plan. Although he realized it later and had an insight into the other party's intention, he made a mistake in the end.

A mistake is a mistake, he didn't mean to be arrogant, so he asked Cheng Yu to come out, the two of them re-analyzed the situation, and finally came to the same conclusion.

After answering Guo Zi's doubts, it was almost time. Chen Ze raised his eyes and saw Xu Qing leading a convoy of supplies rushing towards him.