Everyone's mood eased slightly upon hearing this, but then Xin Yueping said, "This meeting is over. The Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War will remain in the palace. If we can hold the two cities, I will forgive you. If we can't, you two will go down and give an explanation to our soldiers who died in the battle. How do you think?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the imperial guards rushed into the imperial study and dragged the two ministers out before they could react. The two ministers had never thought that they would have the opportunity to live in the palace, let alone in such a situation. I wonder how they would feel.
"Left Prime Minister," Xin Yueping said, "take your newly formed troops to Jingdong for support and try to delay the situation as much as possible." He then looked at Gao Shengtai and said, "Right Prime Minister, go see what's going on with Xin Yuetu. Tell him we're all family and we need to stop making trouble. Hurry and head to Daqima to deploy defenses."
"If Xinyuetu brings reinforcements, I will personally lead the garrison and fight Linhai to the death in Jingdong. If not, the Left Prime Minister will withdraw when the opportunity arises. As long as Taijing is still here, we still have a chance."
On the watchtower in the Qinghe formation, Lin Hai, Cheng Guorong and Ding Lin were carefully observing Jingdong's fortifications through telescopes.
"Speaking of which, Jingdong's defenses are pretty good, but they have the opportunity to do better. Many areas are not well-designed, for example," Cheng Guorong pointed to a section of the moat and said, "bringing fresh water to the moat is a good idea, but the water flow there is obviously faster, which means the river channel below is not deep enough, at least not as deep as the channels on both sides."
"And there are two fewer arrow towers nearby to lock this key position." Ding Lin added.
"Hmm." Lin Hai, who didn't see anything, nodded repeatedly. This showed the importance of professionals in the work. After several years of training, Lin Hai could guarantee that his military ability was completely inferior to that of his students.
So as the nominal head coach, Lin Hai had only one battle plan - talk as little as possible, nod more, say "hmm" more, and let professionals do professional things.
"Principal." Wang Zuo shouted from the bottom of the watchtower, and was then led to the top of the watchtower.
Thus, this ordinary watchtower actually gathered Qinghe's biggest leader Lin Hai, intelligence minister Wang Zuo and two military giants. To be honest, if the Khmer people could detect the movements here and make a desperate attack, there is a chance to catch these big fish in one net.
It’s a pity that the Khmer army, which was not equipped with telescopes, completely ignored this opportunity. This was also the only chance for the Khmer people to win in the entire war.
"Principal, we couldn't lure out the Taijing garrison corps. Only Yang Yizhen came with 40,000 newly mobilized soldiers to support. But Gao Shengtai did send a letter to Yuetu." Ever since he was beaten last time, Wang Zuo's reports seemed to be more concise.
"Oh? Xin Yueping is more cautious than I thought. As expected, when men reach middle age, they no longer have the passion they had in the past. I dare say that if it were ten years ago, Xin Yueping would have led his team to fight me to the death." Lin Hai said with a smile.
Everyone could only laugh... Nonsense, if I don't ask you to come over and fight to the death with me, then I'm simply seeking death.
Although from the marching flags and the official documents within Qinghe it could only be seen that Cheng Guorong's First Army was in Jingdong, the appearance of Ding Lin made it clear that the entire Third Army was behind Jingdong, waiting for the Taijing Garrison Corps to come to reinforce and then attack them hard from behind.
This is why Lin Hai was busy surrounding Jingdong as soon as he arrived. To put it bluntly, it was to cover the battlefield and make the other side misjudge his own military strength.
"Forget it, let's go with plan two. Cheng Guorong, you take the lead, and Ding Lin waits a little longer until Yang Yizhen arrives and eats him. This way, your trip won't be in vain."
On July 20th, the eighth year of Tianxian, as the sun rose, the Qinghe Second Army launched a large, organized force toward Jingdong in a tentative attack. Simultaneously, the Qinghe Third Army also began deploying troops toward Jingdong's rear, intending to form a large-scale pocket formation, waiting for the Taijing reinforcements to fall into as planned.
This action completely exposed Lin Hai's strategic intention, which was to consume the Cambodian mobile forces as much as possible on the Jingdong-Daqima line and prepare for the subsequent attack on Thai capital.
This was also the "slow advance and fast fight" strategy agreed upon by the entire Qinghe high-level leadership before the war, in order to avoid as much as possible the harassment of their supply lines by Cambodian garrisons in various places after they advanced deep into Cambodian territory, thereby causing changes in the overall situation.
The rising sun is accompanied by the falling of stones.
For the sake of confidentiality, of course, more importantly, the limitation of explosives production and the fact that this simple construction outside the city was not suitable for the use of explosives... and so on. The psychological entanglement caused the first wave of attacks from the Crusher Catapult to still throw stones.
The Khmers fully anticipated the catapult attack.
Normally, after the army has besieged a city, it is time to cut down trees and fire cannons. The "roar" here refers to catapults.
Although the soldiers on the first line of arrow towers swore to the officers that they did not see any Qinghe people cutting wood and setting up artillery, the officers still issued orders to defend against catapults and ordered the assembly of their own catapults - aimed at possible Qinghe catapult positions.
In the catapult battle, the defender has the advantage.
After all, the range of everyone's catapults is similar, but the defenders can prepare in advance, mark out positions and firing ranges, and even conduct pre-test fires. In this way, as soon as the artillery battle begins, the defenders can cause great damage to the attackers.
unless...
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