Chapter 448: Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy
The fifth year of Taichu, mid-September.
A million-strong foreign army marched to the gates of Xianyang.
This was the first time since the founding of the Qin Dynasty that the capital was invaded by foreign forces.
It was also a severe test faced by the Qin State.
Yu Qian was appointed commander-in-chief of the battle to defend the city.
He gathered all the resources he could gather at this stage in Xianyang City.
To ensure that nothing goes wrong during the defense of the city.
However, this approach made many generals feel confused.
"Concentrate all the resources of Xianyang City and the border counties here. What should we do if the foreign tribes surround Xianyang without attacking it and gradually swallow up the surrounding towns?"
Faced with this confusion, Yu Qian's answer was also very decisive.
"If Xianyang can't be defended, what's the point of having the surrounding cities and counties?"
These words were like a revelation, which strengthened the determination of the existing generals to defend the city.
September 17th.
Temujin personally led 200,000 vanguard troops to support the battle.
now.
In the imperial city.
For the first time, Daji wore bright armor and reviewed the troops.
She rode on her horse and passed through the phalanx of soldiers at a rapid speed.
He glanced at every soldier with a firm look.
final.
She came to the platform and pulled out Ying Yuan's "Human Emperor Sword".
He raised the sharp blade high above his head and shouted:
"The Qin army is mighty!"
"The Qin army is mighty!"
“…”
With every fall of her powerful voice.
Fifty thousand soldiers responded in unison.
"The Qin army is mighty!"
These four words echoed between heaven and earth in the imperial city for a long time.
Then, wait until all the soldiers slowly fell silent.
Daji continued, "Today, the foreigners are at the gates of our city. They are burning, killing, looting, and committing all sorts of evil on the territory of our Great Qin!"
"I, the Queen of Great Qin, will stand with you and defend Xianyang until death!"
"The spirit of the Qin army will never be extinguished!"
As soon as the words fell.
It seems that the entire universe is filled with only one word: [War!]
The Human Emperor Sword in Daji's hand.
In this world, only Ying Yuan and she could pull it out.
The reason why she could use the Human Emperor Sword was simply because she was Ying Yuan's wife.
She is the dignified mother of the Qin Dynasty!
There is no time to lose.
Yu Qian also stood on the platform for reviewing generals.
Start deploying troops.
Xianyang is surrounded by mountains on two sides and close to water on one side.
It has unique geographical advantages.
Therefore, there is no need to send a large number of soldiers to guard the four city gates.
Only the east city gate was guarded by Yu Qian himself with 30,000 men.
As for the other three city gates.
In order to prevent Temujin from taking risky moves, Yu Qian also sent soldiers to garrison.
The people in Xianyang City volunteered to serve as laborers.
Carrying various defense equipment, supplies, etc. for the soldiers defending the city.
Just in case, Yu Qian has summoned the young and strong men in the city to join the army.
Training new recruits, even though he is not good at it.
Cao Cao and other commanders were transferred to foreign tribes by Ying Yuan.
However, with the background of the court, it is not difficult to find a general suitable for training troops.
In fact, if Ying Yuan had not taken away all of the Qin Dynasty's foundation.
Temujin's speed of conquering cities was definitely not that fast.
He might not even be able to break through the borders of the Qin Dynasty.
That afternoon.
The foreign vanguard army of 200,000 came to attack the city.
However, they did not use large siege equipment.
Just shot some arrows.
He also ordered some foreign soldiers to charge into the city.
However, they were all easily defeated by Yu Qian.
Thus, the alien race's first siege ended hastily.
Among these 50,000 soldiers, only a small number had fought against foreign races.
The rest of the soldiers were those left behind to guard Xianyang before Ying Yuan went on the expedition, and they had never fought with foreign races.
After this battle, they found that the foreign race was just like this.
"I thought they were so strong. They attacked the city with 200,000 men, but we easily repelled them, didn't we?"
"Even if they have a million-strong army, what good does it do? With that kind of fighting power, they can't possibly capture our Xianyang City within a month!"
“…”
After hearing the voices of the soldiers, Yu Qian frowned deeply and said:
"You, don't be so happy too soon. Don't you see that the enemy's first attack on the city is just to test our combat capabilities?"
"They didn't even use large-scale siege equipment. I heard that the enemy used nearly a hundred catapults when they attacked Yanzhou."
"It's clear that they've already mastered the use of siege equipment. Secondly, in just the first battle, even though we knew the enemy was testing us, our army still deployed tens of thousands of arrows."
"With this kind of consumption, how long do you think our army can squander its supplies even if they are sufficient?"
When defending the city.
Yu Qian stood side by side with the soldiers and personally commanded the battle.
He knew very well that in the first battle, the enemy only wanted to test the defensive firepower of Xianyang City.
But even so, he could only force the enemy to retreat at the cost of consuming a large amount of supplies.
The reason was that there were too few soldiers defending the city.
Fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, even if it's one to two or even three to one.
Yu Qian felt that it was a very loss-making thing.
"Neither Temujin nor the foreign soldiers are simple."
"The enemy we face may be even more powerful than the State of Jin."
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