Lord of the People of Online Games (Lord of the Gaming World)

"The opposite is Wu Sangui's army. I have to say that Wu Sangui's formation is quite important."

Zhou Yafu followed Chu Tian to the side of the Yi River to observe the realities of Wu Sangui's army.

Fang Xuanling, a military advisor, is also observing the other side: "Wu Sangui's 30,000 soldiers and horses were originally Taishan thieves under Chang Xi's command. If they were recruited in the name of Zang Ba and Sun Guan, even if they did not surrender, the military's heart would be strong. So shake it up."

"Attack on the heart is the top, and siege the city is the bottom. You can set up a pontoon bridge to cross the river to attack, and make Zang Ba and Sun Guan the vanguard. If you encounter the opposite Taishan thief, you can ask them to persuade them to surrender."

Chu Tian quickly understood what Fang Xuanling meant.

After a period of running-in between the two, Chu Tian and Fang Xuanling gradually developed a tacit understanding.

"But wait for the right moment."

Chutian was not in a hurry to attack Wu Sangui, as long as he wanted, he could force the Taishan thieves to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river overnight.

The Taishan thieves are similar to the Yellow Turbans. They are cannon fodder who do not need to pay salaries, and they are responsible for the hard work. The real elite troops will only come in handy at critical moments.

At this time, Yi Li was fighting Xue Rengui one-on-one, but was easily defeated by Xue Rengui and was pushed down in the snow.

"What a lot of strength, I lost."

Yi Li had to admit that Xue Rengui's force was far superior to him.

Chu Tian saw that Yin Li took the initiative to ask Xue Rengui for a one-on-one fight, didn't he feel uncomfortable with himself?

In the thieves of Mount Tai, except for Zang Ba and Sun Guan whose attributes can be seen, the others are all gold-level generals, on the same level as Zhang Kai and Mi Fang.

They haven't surrendered to Chutian, they want to let them give up their military power, but also show absolute force - defeat Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui was a little restless. Chutian gathered 50,000 people and overwhelmed his 30,000 people.

But Chutian never crossed the river to attack, which made Wu Sangui unable to judge Chutian's intentions.

"A few of you go to Beihai Kingdom and invite the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to move south quickly. If Langya Kingdom is unified, the big thing will be gone!"

"You wait until you go to Jucheng and ask for help from Langya State Minister Xiao Jian. Now his lips are dead and his teeth are cold, he can't help!"

Wu Sangui sent two personal soldiers to ask for help.

Xiao Jian, a prince of Juxian County, has 20,000 professional soldiers in his hands. He received a letter of help from Wu Sangui, asking for the opinions of foreigners.

When the stranger heard that Chu Tian from Xiacheng was calling, he was silent for a while.

They had never had a confrontation with Chutian, but they were terrified when they knew that Chutian had captured Langya City and defeated the coalition forces in the battle of Yangdu County.

"Lord Prime Minister, we might as well wait and see what happens."

"Xiacheng Chu Zimou mentions the teacher of tigers and wolves, and must not confront him."

"Xiacheng generals Li Guang and Hua Mulan are enemies of 10,000 people. Even if we have 100,000 soldiers, they are not opponents."

Alien disciples, that is, players who took refuge in Xiao Jian, were talking a lot, mostly advocating that Chu Tian was unstoppable, and persuaded Xiao Jian not to send troops to assist Wu Sangui, so as to avoid getting burned.

Xiao Jian didn't know much about Chutian, but Chutian was well-known among the players. He won the first place in two epic battles, and recently occupied two counties and defeated the anti-Chutian alliance.

Most players wouldn't fight a well-known lord unless they had a different stance.

Xiao Jian listened to a group of strangers touting Chutian, and was greatly displeased: "You can retire."

Considering Chutian's threat to Juxian, Xiao Jian decided to send more than 10,000 troops to help Wu Sangui defend Juxian.

When Jucheng's troops and horses were mobilized, Yiren's disciples found that Xiao Jian was going his own way and could not help but be disappointed.

Some princes can listen to the advice of foreigners,

But some princes don't. If all the princes could listen to persuasion, then there would be no such thing as fooling the prince.

"There is no famous general under Xiao Jian, how can it be possible to defeat Chu Zimou."

"Now we're done. It took me a year to get into the position of a guest, and eat and live for nothing. Now Xiao Jian is looking for a dead end, and I don't know who to defect to in the future."

"It's better to go to Chu Zimou in Xiacheng. He has two counties and is stronger than Xiao Jian. As the first lord of the Eastern Han District, he is already a small prince."

"His subordinates are full of talented people, and he doesn't recruit diners. It's not easy for us to eat a meal with him."

"But not necessarily, as long as we have credit..."

A group of alien disciples are already looking for a way out for themselves. They did not expect Xiao Jian, who was not famous in the Three Kingdoms and was defeated by Zang Ba in history, to compete in the Central Plains. Taking refuge in him just wants to make a living and serve as a springboard for promotion in the future.

Xiao Jian led more than 10,000 soldiers from Ju County to support Wu Sangui, and dozens of flags were displayed.

"This idiot."

Qi Xiaobai murmured when he heard that Xiao Jian brought soldiers to reinforce Wu Sangui.

Chutian temporarily dealt with internal affairs in the tent, and confronted Wu Sangui without any rush.

Recently, a large number of refugees have poured into Langya, including players, most of them are from Beihai Kingdom.

There are too many Yellow Turbans in the North Sea, and the people are struggling to live. The civilians either choose to join the Yellow Turbans or flee.

For Langya Kingdom, which is adjacent to Beihai Kingdom, this is a good opportunity to absorb the population of Qingzhou.

According to the report of Fang Xuanling, who manages the household registration, there are about 20,000 refugees from Beihai Kingdom in the territory under Chutian recently.

The population of Xiacheng was originally 50,000. Later, the 100,000 people who migrated from Langya City to enrich Xiacheng, plus 20,000 refugees from Beihai Kingdom, a total of 170,000 people, making it the second largest city in Chutian territory.

Li Kui organized refugees to reclaim wasteland, build water conservancy, and dig drainage canals and sewers.

City planning is cumbersome, and the scale of Xiacheng has expanded to the point where more complex urban sewers need to be dug, otherwise the plague will soon be rampant.

Fortunately, there are special architectural drawings such as open channels and underdrains in "Lord", and the speed of building urban sewers is also very fast.

But it costs money...

A windfall funded by Xuzhou family to Chutian was soon defeated by Chutian.

More of Chutian's income still comes from loot, land tax, city tax, land sales, and the economic buildings of the lord's mansion.

"My lord, it's snowing."

Xue Rengui, who served as an escort outside the military tent, followed Chutian's order and reminded Chutian after it snowed.

Chu Tian put on his cape and walked outside the tent, only to see the sky was gray and snow was flying.

"Let the Taishan thieves prepare to build a pontoon bridge and cross the river to attack Wu Sangui."

Chutian knew that the time for a decisive victory was coming, so he mobilized the army to prepare.

Chutian's army has prepared wood and plank boats in advance.

The ice on the river is not strong, and tens of thousands of people crossing the river will collapse, so it can only be crossed by means of a pontoon bridge.

The Taishan thieves were regarded as cannon fodder by Chutian, and of course the drudgery of building a pontoon bridge fell on them.

"I have to go out to fight in the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month. I really suffer."

The thieves of Tarzan carried the planks and wooden boats and complained, and their fingers were frozen.

Not many people are willing to march and fight in the cold winter.

Wu Sangui's scout cavalry patrolling the river found that the Taishan thieves who had surrendered to Chutian began to build a pontoon bridge. They were shocked and immediately reported to Wu Sangui.

"Send 2,000 archers to camp on the shore. Once the pontoon built by the other side approaches, ten thousand arrows will be fired."

Wu Sangui has his own way to deal with the opponent's pontoon.

With the morale of the Taishan thief on the opposite side, he couldn't bear the rain of arrows fired by a large number of archers, and would soon collapse because his morale fell to the bottom.

Two thousand archers set out to camp and set up another camp on the opposite side, always keeping an eye on the Taishan thieves who erected the pontoon bridge.

"We were discovered by the enemy on the opposite side. Do we need to repair the pontoon bridge?"

The Tarzan thieves panicked because of the archers who appeared on the opposite side, and asked their leader Yin Li.

Yin Li also asked for instructions to Chu Tian, ​​the highest figure in the current Taishan thief.

"Continue to repair until the bow and arrow on the opposite side are within the range."

"Yes."

Although Yin Li did not understand why Chu Tian suddenly devoted himself to repairing the bridge, the force displayed by Chu Tian forced him to act according to Chu Tian's arrangement.

So the Taishan thief continued to build a bridge over the Yi River despite the heavy snow.

"Is the person on the opposite side an idiot? He didn't go home to hold his wife and children in the twelfth lunar month of winter. He didn't attack the river for several days. The bridge was not built until now, and it was discovered by us."

The archers sent by Wu Sangui were just a joke.

There are archers stationed there, and the pontoon bridge cannot be repaired at all. This is the danger of mountains and rivers.

As long as the defending side uses a few hundred thousand people, it can block a hundred thousand troops.

The Taishan thief also understood this truth. Under the pressure of Chutian, he still had to repair the bridge.

When more than half of the pontoon bridge was repaired, and after entering the range of the archers on the opposite side, one Taishan thief was shot dead, and the rest of the Taishan thieves dispersed.

Yin Li reported the matter to Chu Tian, ​​and he was considered to have completed the task that Chu Tian gave him.

Chu Tian just arranged for Yin Li to personally lead the troops to guard the pontoon bridge, which was more than half repaired, and let him stay put.

Yin Li didn't know what to do, but he still promised to come down.

"Mulan has already started a surprise attack."

Chutian estimated the time. He only gave Hua Mulan one day and asked her to forcibly march 60 kilometers on a snowy day, enter the sphere of influence of Juxian County from the sphere of influence of Chutian, and attack Lingcheng at night.

A black war eagle hovered in the air, its sharp eyes reflecting the empty scene below.

In its eyes, there is a village where hundreds of soldiers are stationed, and there are beacons in the village that are used to convey military information.

Hua Mulan led 2,100 light cavalry from a village 60 kilometers south of Lingcheng, Juxian County, and marched all the way to Lingcheng. With the cover of heavy snow, they attacked Lingcheng, Wu Sangui's stronghold!

The cavalry marched for 30 kilometers in the snow, and some horses and soldiers even froze to death on the way.

Raids come with a price.

The war eagle landed on Mulan's arm.

Hua Mulan stroked her wings, and from the war eagle's call and behavior, she could probably tell that there was a village with garrisoned troops 5 kilometers ahead.

Wu Sangui was careful, and stationed guards in the villages near Lingcheng to light beacon fires and report messages.

Once someone wanted to attack Lingcheng, Lingcheng's defenders could react immediately, causing heavy losses to the attackers.

"Forced march! Wipe out the defenders of the village ahead!"

Hua Mulan ordered that one hundred iron eagle scouts and two thousand light cavalry braved the wind and snow to speed up their march.

Not everyone can do a forced march in a harsh environment, and it has to do with the arms and generals.

If it is a Taishan thief, let alone marching in a harsh environment, even if you walk 30 kilometers normally, your morale will drop long ago, and you will even mutiny because of it.

But the characteristics of Mulan's "heroine heroine" can slow down the rate at which troops' morale declines.

This is why some soldiers are willing to fight to the death for the Lord.

In a village 25 kilometers south of Lingcheng, the defenders hadn't found Mulan's cavalry approaching at this time.

A wooden fence was set up in this village, and hundreds of Taishan thieves were deployed. They were originally Chang Xi's subordinates, and then they took refuge in Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui didn't have the time or money to turn the Thirty Thousand Tai Bandits into professional soldiers.

The two patrolling Tarzan thieves were shot by stray arrows and fell into the snow.

With a quiver on her back and a horned bow in her hand, Hua Mulan attacked the village with her dismounted cavalry.

Under her command, the dismounted cavalry dispersed, blocking all exits from the village.

The Taishan thief stationed in the village seems to have found something wrong, and the surrounding is too quiet.

Several Tarzan thieves opened the wooden door and came out to investigate.

An arrow shot through the throat of one of the bandits!

"There are enemies!"

The bandit immediately shouted, but the oncoming arrow was a dense rain of arrows!

A bandit's wrist was shot through by a sharp arrow, and the force of the arrow was so strong that he even nailed his wrist to the wooden fence!

"kill!"

The dismounted cavalry pulled out the bright Tang Dao, swarmed up, and seized the village gate!

The Taishan thief in the village did not expect that the enemy would make a surprise attack on a snowy day, and hurriedly took on the battle. He was defeated by Hua Mulan and the cavalry she led, and the army was defeated.

The bandit wanted to light the beacon, but was slashed to death by a random knife.

Holding a Tang knife in her hand, Hua Mulan killed four Taishan thieves in a row, and one of them even cut the opponent over with armor.

"General, what should be done with the captured Taishan thief?"

"Kill them all."

Hua Mulan beheaded all the Taishan thieves in the village to avoid surprise attack.

In case there is a tip from the Taishan thief, this surprise attack will lose its meaning, and it will lead to a long-term stalemate in the war and more casualties.

Mulan's cavalry received supplies in this village and rested for a while.

She has a roll of maps in her hand, which is an important item provided by Xu Sheng from Ju County.

Based on the location of the village, Hua Mulan deduced that her army was still 25 kilometers away from Lingcheng.

It was dark now.

The forced march at night was more difficult, and she and her cavalry faced more severe weather.

The temperature at night will continue to drop, and the cold can not be resisted by adding clothes, and it is even more difficult for war horses to withstand the cold.

"Continue to march, be sure to arrive at Lingcheng before dawn, and then capture it!"

Mulan finally decided to complete the surprise attack.

"Why haven't General Li Guang's cavalry kept up?"

Hua Mulan arranged for Li Guangdian to serve as reinforcements when the surprise attack failed.

In order to completely wipe out the enemy in this village, she delayed a little time, and calculated according to the marching speed of the cavalry, Li Guang should have caught up by this time.

However, Hua Mulan rested in the village for another half an hour, and still did not see Li Guang.

"General Li Guang won't get lost..."

Mulan only thought of this possibility.

With Li Guang's somewhat reckless personality, he doesn't seem like a person who will be afraid of the enemy.

"Forget it, our troops should be able to capture Lingcheng. Continuing to wait will delay time."

Li Guang did not appear for a long time, Hua Mulan gave up to join Li Guang, and set off at night with the light cavalry alone, braved the wind, snow and cold, and quickly marched towards Lingcheng.

In the back, Li Guang and Hua Mulan guessed that he was really lost.

There were two forks in a village on the way. Due to the heavy snow covering the horseshoe prints of the cavalry in front, and Li Guang's misjudgment, he and Hua Mulan took a completely different road.

Li Guang kept on his way, but couldn't catch up with Hua Mulan's cavalry, so he couldn't help but mutter to himself: "I didn't expect Hua Mulan to march so fast, I can't even see her shadow, she's really a god in the world. "