Chapter 845 Sleepless Night

After listening to the soldiers' story, Shi Lei fell into silence and could not speak for a long time.

Let's not talk about those green-skinned creatures. From the soldiers' story, the huge green-skinned monster is really a monster! The Plain City was breached in a short time, and the green-skinned monster played a key role.

If there was no green-skinned monster, no matter how strong those green-skinned creatures were, it would not be so easy to break the city gate in a short time.

As long as the city gate can hold up, the city defense forces can stop them outside the city, and then use the city defense advantage to attack them.

Of course, there are not so many ifs in reality. Shi Lei quickly focused his thoughts on how to deal with the green-skinned monster.

At present, the green-skinned monster is equivalent to the three-bow bed crossbow in their Great Zhou siege troops, which can directly change the form of the siege and greatly reduce the difficulty of the entire siege.

But relatively speaking, as long as the green-skinned monster can be solved, the group of green-skinned creatures on the opposite side, even if their individual strength is stronger than their human soldiers, cannot easily capture the city they are defending!

After confirming this idea, Shi Lei's thoughts quickly unfolded.

[Ordinary steel knives can only break the opponent's skin and flesh, but cannot cut off the opponent's fingers. It is still unknown whether enchanted weapons can do this. The safest way is to use a crossbow! ]

[The three-bow crossbow is not flexible enough. It is best to configure a city defense crossbow! ]

However, equipment such as a city defense crossbow is not available just because you want it.

This wave of them came as a siege force, so it is naturally impossible to bring any city defense equipment, not to mention that the production efficiency of city defense crossbows and three-bow crossbows has always been low.

When the Liang State army attacked their Anling City at the beginning of the year, they had just arranged city defense crossbows for each city in the Great Zhou. Apart from that, there were no extra ones.

As his thoughts flew, Shi Lei spread out the animal skin paper and wrote two letters at the fastest speed.

One was sent to Anling City to urgently requisition the city defense crossbows of Anling City, and the other was sent to Xianyang City to report the matter to their majesty.

Not only because he mobilized the city defense crossbow, a heavy city defense weapon, without authorization, but also because of the appearance of these green-skinned creatures.

If the situation here is beyond his control, then His Majesty can receive this information earlier and respond earlier.

After sending the two letters overnight, Shi Lei has made up his mind. He will gather troops and rush to Yuancheng tomorrow morning.

This Yuancheng is located behind Pingyuan City. It is said that it was a country called Yuanguo thirty years ago. Later, it was annexed and changed to Yuancheng. It is the second city they attacked and the closest to Pingyuan City.

With a clear route, it can be reached in about five days of normal marching.

Although they don’t have city defense crossbows at hand at this time, Shi Lei obviously can’t let more cities fall into the hands of those green-skinned creatures.

This busy work lasted until most of the night. Shi Lei, who returned to the bedroom, should normally rest for a while to avoid affecting tomorrow’s state, but he can’t sleep at all now!

Faced with this situation, Shi Lei simply didn’t sleep and sat up to think about the subsequent arrangements.

The main force will set off after breakfast tomorrow. In Daliang City, his adjutant will lead 500 garrisons.

Because Zhuo Ge and his team left all the new recruits to him before they left, Shi Lei still has enough troops at the moment.

Counting the total number, the total number of troops deployed by Da Zhou in Xinbei District is 5,000 at the moment.

Under this premise, each city has arranged 500 troops for garrison, adding up to a total of 3,000, which is a must.

They have just conquered Liang State. If they don't arrange enough garrison troops, who knows what kind of chaos will happen after their main force leaves? If there is a fire in the rear, the situation will be even worse!

In this way, Shi Lei still has 2,000 troops to move with him.

If he can reach Yuancheng before the green-skinned creatures on the opposite side and join the 500 garrisons, the number of troops in Shi Lei's hands can be increased to 2,500.

According to the information he has obtained so far, the number of green-skinned creatures on the opposite side is only thousands, and the maximum number does not exceed 1,500.

Maybe their individual strength is stronger than their human soldiers, but they have the advantage in numbers, plus the city defense advantage...

"Tsk!"

Shi Lei still has no idea.

The fundamental reason is that it is indeed because of the green-skinned monster mentioned in the intelligence. If there is no way to deal with the green-skinned monster, the city defense advantage will not exist.

As for the advantage in manpower...

Although the number of soldiers is 2,500, more than half of them are recruits who have only participated in the "Swallowing Liang War".

Because the gap between the military strength of Liang State and their Great Zhou is too large, they have completely crushed all the way.

The only thing that can slow down their siege efficiency is the distance between the cities.

Winning too easily, the opponent has no power to resist. This makes them basically have few casualties, but also makes this batch of recruits lack real training. At the critical moment, they are somewhat useless.

Thinking of this, Shi Lei is also a little irritated.

At the same time, regardless of the fact that it is two o'clock in the morning, he hurriedly ordered people to call Jie Liancheng over.

Xie Liancheng also knew what happened during the day, but he was very confident, or he was very confident in his own strength. He felt that no matter what the enemy was, he would be able to capture it easily, so his sleep quality was not affected at all.

At two o'clock in the morning, he was sleeping in a daze. Being forcibly woken up, he couldn't be in a good mood.

Fortunately, even in this state, Xie Liancheng still had some rationality and didn't get angry.

After washing his face with cold water, Xie Liancheng, who probably realized that something was wrong, quickly came to Shi Lei.

"I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel, I didn't want to disturb your rest, but if I don't confirm this with you, I really can't sleep or eat!"

Xie Liancheng has recently been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel for his meritorious service in capturing Centaur mercenaries and defeating the Liang army, and for his subsequent merits in supporting the Liang war with Shi Lei.

After entering the door, looking at Shi Lei's anxious look, Xie Liancheng's anger had been mostly vented.

"What's going on?"

Faced with Xie Liancheng's question, Shi Lei quickly told him about the green-skinned creature and the monster.

After listening, Xie Liancheng's face became solemn at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

The news during the day made him roughly understand that Pingyuan City had encountered an enemy, but he didn't expect that the enemy this time was so outrageous!

A huge monster that can directly smash the city gate with brute force, and at the same time, it is so tall that it can grab the top of the wall and climb up the city wall with a jump, and even a steel knife can't cut it!

This kind of thing beyond common sense, he has never encountered it before.

For a moment, even Xie Liancheng, who has always been extremely confident in his own strength, is obviously a little unsure at this moment...