Under the city of Kunyang, the Nine Tigers of the Northern Army commanded the elite soldiers of the Northern Army and protected the new emperor Wang Mang from patrolling.
The morale of the 800,000 new dynasty army has risen sharply because of Wang Mang’s personal conquest.
Wang Mang made people build catapults, siege hammers, ladder trucks, and dig tunnels.
In contrast to Wang Yi and Wang Xun's underestimation of Kunyang City, Wang Mang is like an enemy.
"If I lose this battle, I will lose everything about me, including my life."
Wang Mang's face was solemn.
He turned his head and asked Wang Yi: "I have promised to take Liu Xiu's first-level person, I can seal 100,000 households and reward 200,000 gold. Isn't anyone willing to kill Liu Xiu in exchange for a reward?"
"Your Majesty, I haven't heard of anyone who took Liu Xiu's first rank. It seems that Liu Xiu is quite popular among the Green Forest Army."
"Since it’s hard to come by, then I can only send an army to defeat Liu Xiu and behead him. For this day, I have made a lot of preparations. As long as I kill Liu Xiu and put down the peasant army uprising everywhere, the world Will settle down again."
Wang Mang's tone was full of uncertainty.
Yan You came to Wang Mang and said to Wang Mang: "Your Majesty, I have ascertained the whereabouts of the 20,000 cavalry soldiers who came out of Kunyang City. At this moment, they are recruiting the Green Forest Army soldiers and horses from outside the city, and they are preparing to join forces with the defenders inside the city. Relieve the defenders of Kunyang City. Please take care of your Majesty."
"Is Liu Xiu among the 20,000 cavalry?"
"I don't know..."
"It seems that Liu Xiu is mostly outside the city. He will not sit down and wait for death, otherwise he will not be Liu Xiu. Using Kunyang City as a bait to attract Liu Xiu, I must kill him to secure the throne. "
Wang Mang soon had an idea.
Although Yan You didn’t understand why Wang Mang was so upset with Liu Xiu, he still followed the command line: “The end general led a team of cavalry to patrol in the direction of Licheng. Once Liu Xiu marches towards Kunyang, he will immediately notify his Majesty.”
"Very well, Yan You, it seems that you are much more reliable than Wang Yi and Wang Xun. I will give you the tiger army and one hundred thousand army."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Wang Yi asked with an old face, "Your Majesty means that we will besiege Kunyang City instead of attacking?"
"No, we must storm Kunyang City to force Liu Xiu back to help as soon as possible, but Kunyang City is not allowed to surrender, nor can it really capture Kunyang City. I don't believe that the 800,000 army will lose to Liu Xiu's tens of thousands. people."
Wang Mang is confident that he has elite soldiers, and he has gathered soldiers and horses from various states and counties in the world, and he will not be able to beat Liu Xiu's tens of thousands.
If it were only 800,000 Yellow Turbans, it might be defeated by 30,000 cavalry, but Wang Mang had no shortage of high-level arms and generals. He might lack one or two top commanders.
The army of the new dynasty was ordered by Wang Mang to attack Kunyang City!
The trebuchet roared, and the boulders smashed down!
Boom!
The stone hit a battlement, the rubble splashed, and several cracks appeared in the battlement.
The Green Forest Army on the city wall was stunned by the trebuchet, and did not dare to look up.
"The thieves have attacked the city!"
A green forest sergeant shouted in horror.
Liang Hongyu led a team of crossbowmen to the city, risking being killed by a catapult, looking at the enemy soldiers outside the city.
Boom! There was another loud noise, and the huge boulder thrown by the trebuchet hit the tower, the tiles broke and fell, and the dust was full!
Liang Hongyu was unmoved, because her sight was already attracted by the army.
Wang Mang sent the first batch of troops to attack Kunyang City, with 100,000!
For the small city of Kunyang, this kind of force is already a bit of exaltation and cannot be fully deployed.
The dense new army flooded the city of Kunyang. Kunyang city became a solid reef, letting the wave of the army of the new dynasty beat!
The huge stone fell, the bed crossbow roared, the huge siege tower approached the city wall, and one hundred thousand new troops began to storm this solid city!
Thirty thousand crossbowmen fired with all their arrows, covering the defenders on the wall, Liang Hongyu had to hide behind the wall!
The thick crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow have amazing penetrating power, and they even fell into the city wall!
"How many arrows did Wang Mang prepare in advance?"
Liang Hongyu rarely saw such a generous enemy army, directly using tens of thousands of archers to suppress the defenders, shooting continuously, and the archers on the wall did not dare to raise their heads to fight back.
Huo Qing led the shooting battalion to ascend the city, and must brave the enemy's arrow rain to suppress the siege enemy.
The army of the new dynasty is already under the cover of archers. Ants are attached to the city. Dozens of ladders have hooked the city wall. The siege tower is less than 30 meters away from the city wall!
"Use kerosene!"
The hot oil poured down and flowed down the ladder. The soldiers screamed and then rolled down. The ladder is burning because of the hot temperature!
Liang Hongyu’s Jianyan crossbowmen fired a salvo of rockets. Liang Hongyu, as a hero, has an extra ignition bonus to the fire arrow. Because the two siege towers were shot by too many rockets, the siege enemy could not extinguish the raging fire in time, and rolled Smoke rises!
"kill!"
There are already new soldiers on the city. They fought with the green forest army on the city wall. They collided with weapons and splashed flesh and blood. From time to time, siege enemy troops were pushed down by the defenders and fell from the seven-meter city wall to pieces!
Ten thousand bones will die, there are more than ten thousand bones here!
"My brother is fighting in Central Asia, and Chutian is gathering soldiers and horses outside the city. I can't hold them back. I have to defend this city anyway."
Huo Qing has a bonus for defending the city, which can increase the defense of the defender and provide a bonus to the morale of the defender.
Because she and Liang Hongyu were in command of the crossbowmen, they killed and wounded the siege of the new army, and tried their best to delay the progress of the new army's siege.
Yanyou’s one hundred thousand new army has been unable to capture Kunyang City for a long time.
Another important reason is that Wang Mang does not plan to take Kunyang so soon, but wants to use Kunyang to lure Liu Xiu, the son of destiny.
Wang Mang’s mind was not placed on Kunyang City. He was deploying the remaining 700,000 troops, waiting for Liu Xiu and Chutian to cast himself into the net.
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On the other side, Liu Xiu personally led three thousand dead soldiers and joined forces with Chutian's twenty thousand cavalry to rescue Kunyang, while Ma Wu and Wang Ba generals led 14,000 foot riders and were responsible for the subsequent response.
Chu Tian was shocked by Liu Xiu's courage, how dare he?
Liu Xiu brought three thousand cavalry soldiers and wanted to save Kunyang.
Chutian didn't know whether to say Liu Xiu was brave, or to say that he was really just letting go.
"Wang Mang came in person to stabilize the army. You can't underestimate the 800,000 new army. Wang Mang, who established the new dynasty, is a weird person in his own right and cannot be inferred according to common sense. I hope that with Liu Xiu, he can really turn the bad. Your judgment was wrong, and I will deduct your salary when you go back."
Chutian believed that Liu Xiu was the son of out-and-out luck because he followed Sun Bin's suggestion, so he chose to follow Liu Xiu's adventure and did not make his own claim.
With all the money, Chutian’s 20,000 cavalry, plus the 17,000 Green Forest Army recruited by Liu Xiu, total 37,000.
There are 29,000 people in Kunyang City, which is equivalent to an increase of the total force to 66,000.
66,000 soldiers and horses, against 840,000 soldiers and horses, the ratio is still huge.
Wang Mang’s army only had special arms, and the number exceeded 60,000, which is conceivable.
Chutian here, except for the fierce general Zhao Yun, no other cavalry generals came. If King Arthur, Tai Shi Ci, Monk Wan Yan Chen, Yu Chi Gong and others were present, they might not have been so critical.
The bonuses that Chutian’s cavalry received were Chutian’s two cavalry traits, "Cale Wolf and White Deer" and "Fenglang Juxu~www..com~ because they were not dealing with foreign forces, so they were "closing the wolf to live in Xu". The effect is not complete.
In addition to this, there are also the aura of the whole army "Han Wu" (addition to the civilized arms of the Han Empire), "Tian Khan" (addition to alien cavalry).
Sun Bin's military division support feature also has a bonus.
Finally, it is the unknown aura of the entire army of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.
With several effects superimposed, Chutian's cavalry power is still quite explosive.
The problem is that the cavalry cannot completely fall into the 800,000 army.
Once the speed of the cavalry slows down, the combat strength of the cavalry unit itself will decrease, and the advantage of the cavalry will be lost.
Sun Bin was also a little worried about Liu Xiu’s luck: “The minister’s judgment should not show much deviation. The minister has a hunch that as long as he follows Liu Xiu and doesn’t mess around easily, he can win.”
"It's that simple?"
This was when Chu Tian rarely held his thigh.
The first time I encountered Tang Taizong in a national war before, it was also Tang Taizong Li Shimin who overturned the Goryeo stick and the Goguryeo army, and Chutian followed suit.
And this time, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu seemed to be very powerful. None of these founding emperors were ordinary people.
But there is a saying, the feeling of hugging the thigh is not bad, Chu Tian hasn't felt this way for a long time.
Liu Xiu didn't know that Wang Mang had already set up a net in front of him, waiting for him to return.
