Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 713: Forty thousand elite troops from Liaodong are attacking!

Liu Ye kept talking for nearly half an hour before he stopped.

Everyone pointed behind him and pointed at him.

Liu Ye turned around and saw Zhang Sui standing behind him. He smiled at him and said, "Is it over?"

Liu Ye came back to his senses, his face pale, and he was about to kneel down and said, "My Lord..."

Zhang Sui hurriedly helped Liu Ye up and said, "You've been with me for so long, don't you know my personality?"

"You're minding your own business."

"On the battlefield, fighting is the first priority."

"If you must say that you don't respect me, you might as well have told me to stay out of the way when I first got here."

Liu Ye smiled awkwardly.

The other generals also laughed out loud.

Liu Ye scratched his head and said, "Next time, I won't dare to do it again."

Zhang Sui said indifferently: "I didn't say anything about you, right? It's easy to change the country, but it's hard to change one's nature."

"As a human being, you can't always cater to others."

"Whatever happens, happens."

"I won't do anything unless it's a mistake of principle."

Liu Ye then nodded, pulled out a piece of cloth from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Sui.

Zhang Sui took it, glanced at it, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Gongsun Gong's.

Just like he had previously written to the governor of Liaodong County, clearly stating all the strength of the army that would attack Changli.

Gongsun Gong also revealed his cards: 6,000 Changli city defense troops + 20,000 elite Han people + 10,000 elite Buyeo troops + 10,000 elite Goguryeo troops.

Gongsun Gong also made special annotations about these elite troops of Buyeo and Goguryeo: All the people of Buyeo and Goguryeo were soldiers, and the elite troops dispatched by the two vassal states this time were the strongest men between the ages of twelve and twenty-six.

The agreed meeting time is tomorrow morning, when the sun is rising.

The two sides will start fighting at noon tomorrow.

Zhang Sui finished reading the content on the cloth strip, threw it to Liu Ye and said, "It's up to you tomorrow."

Liu Ye took the cloth strip and responded.

Early the next morning, Zhang Sui and Yanshi got up early.

It was still far from daybreak, but the entire camp was already busy.

The cook is busy preparing breakfast.

Soldiers gathered from all directions into small groups to confirm all matters concerning today's battle.

After breakfast, the sky was getting light.

For this battle, Liu Ye dispatched an army of 40,000.

In addition to the 30,000 Donghu soldiers led by Liu Ye himself, the Fourth Legion led by Qian Zhao also dispatched 10,000 soldiers.

Zhang Sui took his personal soldiers and Yan Shi to the rear of the army.

The 40,000-strong army formed 20 square formations, with 50 thunder chariots as the core.

The area around the fifty Thunderbolt chariots was already filled with huge rocks as big as five-year-old children.

Zhang Sui stood at the rear of the army, standing on the shoulders of two of his personal soldiers, overlooking the entire city.

At first glance, the 40,000-strong army gives people a very shocking feeling.

However, Zhang Sui still sighed.

Siege warfare and positional warfare are completely different.

If there were 40,000 people engaged in a positional battle, covering all the mountains and plains, it would be terrifying.

In a siege, although 40,000 people are terrifying, they seem powerless compared to the high city walls.

It feels like tens of thousands of ants facing an elephant.

Therefore, many famous generals who defended the city appeared in the late Han Dynasty in history.

Cao Ren, Xu Sheng, Huo Jun and so on.

Even Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu Han, was so powerful that he had mastered the art of war in his later years. However, even with an army of tens of thousands, he could only retreat in defeat when facing Hao Zhao, who had only a few thousand men.

but--

Zhang Sui's eyes fell on the fifty Thunderbolt chariots at the front of the army.

The biggest difference between his attack on Hao Zhao and Zhuge Liang's attack on Hao Zhao was that the terrain of Chencang, which Zhuge Liang attacked, was dangerous and could not accommodate the Thunderbolt Chariot.

It is even more unable to accommodate so many Thunderbolt cars.

The dispatch of fifty Thunderbolt vehicles at one time this time is probably a grand event for Thunderbolt vehicles.

I guess I won’t see this again in future sieges.

Building and operating fifty Thunderbolt vehicles would require too much manpower and material resources.

If every game was played like this, Hebei would have been drained long ago. Even the current Hebei team cannot sustain such consumption.

Half an hour after Liu Ye's army was in formation, the sky became completely bright.

Soldiers kept rushing up on the walls of Changli.

These newly emerged soldiers were obviously more energetic and fiercer than the previous soldiers defending the city.

They found a position on the city wall and formed a battle formation.

Between the battlements, one could clearly see soldiers roaring and screaming with ferocious eyes, as if they wanted to eat people.

Next to Zhang Sui, Yan Shi, wearing a visor, pointed to a battlement in the distance and whispered, "General, those are the Goguryeo people."

"Very fierce."

"If we fight alone, the Donghu people of Wuhuan in our three counties are basically no match for us."

"The living conditions of these Goguryeo people are even more difficult than our Donghu people. They can't support themselves even if they work hard all their lives."

"Their royal family is also blatantly robbing food."

"In order to survive, the people of Goguryeo had to go out to sea as pirates, burning, killing and looting everywhere."

"The vast majority of ordinary people, over the age of 40, will die."

"They didn't die of illness. They starved to death."

"Because there was not enough food, miasma was everywhere, and there were countless poisonous insects. Therefore, when the people of Goguryeo were in their forties, they looked like Han people in their sixties. Their faces were old, and their bodies could not resist disasters."

"In order to save food and to provide a way for their offspring, most people over the age of 40 dug a deep pit and hid in it, refusing to eat or drink, waiting to die."

"If it's a woman, it's better."

"If it's a man, it's basically the same situation."

"Therefore, the men of Goguryeo went to the battlefield and were extremely fierce."

"After all, for them, going back would mean death, so it would be better for them to make achievements on the battlefield and receive rewards when they return."

After a pause, Yan Shi continued, "This is why I offered that strategy to you, General."

“It’s too difficult for these people.”

"It's not just the Donghu people who have a hard time, it's the Goguryeo people too."

"Because no one has good land to farm and feed themselves."

“So, everyone actually envies the Han people.”

"Although we are all common people, the Han people are not much better off."

"But everything is different in comparison."

Just as Yanshi was chattering, the city gate suddenly made a rattling sound and slowly opened.

The drawbridge was lowered.

Then, thousands of soldiers trotted out of the city gate.

These soldiers are all very young.

However, everyone's face was full of hideousness.

Yanshi stopped her rambling and shouted to the soldiers in the rear: "The Goguryeo people are coming out!"

After thousands of Goguryeo soldiers trotted out, hundreds of armored soldiers riding on war horses came out, surrounding a young figure wearing silver armor and a red cloak.

The young figure held the reins in his left hand and a spear in his right.

His eyes were sharp as thorns.

Glancing at the army across the moat ahead, the young figure showed no emotion at all.

Even his gaze did not linger on the army.

His eyes fell on the fifty huge aircraft at the front of the army.

There was a trace of confusion in his eyes.

Are these the fifty Thunderbolt chariots mentioned in the general’s letter?
It looks pretty scary.

However, if he wanted to fight against Changli, who had nearly 50,000 people and was defending the city himself,

A cruel smile flashed across the young figure's face.

It depends on whether the general's 40,000 troops are enough to chop them down!

The young figure was none other than Gongsun Gong.

Gongsun Gong rode his horse to the front of thousands of Goguryeo soldiers, then stopped at the end of the original suspension bridge and pointed forward.

Dozens of his personal soldiers shouted in unison, "Commander-in-Chief Gongsun Gong of Changli requests to see the general!"

"Changli Commander Gongsun Gong requests to see the General!"

"Changli Commander Gongsun Gong requests to see the General!"

The roar continued to echo outside Changli City.

On the city wall and outside the city, all the soldiers fell silent.

(End of this chapter)