Chapter 845: Sleepless Night
After listening to the soldier's story, Shi Lei fell into silence and could not speak for a long time.
Let’s not talk about those green-skinned creatures. From what the soldiers said, that huge green-skinned monster was really a monster! Plain City was breached in a short period of time, and that green-skinned monster played a key role.
If there were no green-skinned monsters, no matter how strong those green-skinned creatures were, it would not be easy to break through the city gate in a short period of time.
As long as the city gates can be held, the city defense forces can keep them outside the city and then attack them with the advantage of city defense.
Of course, there aren't so many ifs in reality, and Shi Lei quickly focused his thoughts on how to deal with the green-skinned monster.
As of now, the green-skinned monster is equivalent to the three-bow crossbow in their Great Zhou siege troops. It can directly change the form of siege warfare and greatly reduce the difficulty of the entire siege.
But on the other hand, as long as they can get rid of that green-skinned monster, the green-skinned creatures on the opposite side, even if their individual strength is stronger than their human soldiers, will not be able to easily capture the city they are defending!
After confirming this idea, Shi Lei's thoughts quickly unfolded.
[An ordinary steel knife can only break the opponent's skin and flesh, but it cannot cut off the opponent's fingers. It is still unknown whether enchanted weapons can do this. The safest way is to use a crossbow! ]
[The three-bow crossbow is not flexible enough, it is best to configure a city defense crossbow! ]
However, equipment like city defense crossbows is not something you can get whenever you want.
This time they came as a siege force, so naturally they could not bring any city defense equipment, not to mention that the production efficiency of city defense crossbows and three-bow crossbows has always been low.
When the Liang army attacked their Anling City at the beginning of the year, their Great Zhou had just arranged city defense crossbows for each city, and there were no extras.
As his thoughts raced, Shi Lei spread out the parchment and wrote two letters as quickly as possible.
One letter was sent to Anling City, requesting the urgent requisition of Anling City's city defense crossbows, and the other was sent to Xianyang City to report the matter to their Majesty.
It was not only because he had mobilized the city defense crossbow, an important city defense weapon, without authorization, but also because of the appearance of these green-skinned creatures.
In case the situation here is beyond his control, if His Majesty receives this information earlier, he can also take response measures earlier.
The two letters were sent out overnight, and Shi Lei had already made up his mind. He would gather troops and rush to Yuancheng early the next morning.
This Yuan City is located behind Pingyuan City. I heard that it was a country called Yuan Kingdom thirty years ago. Later it was annexed and changed to Yuan City. It was the second city they captured and was the closest to Pingyuan City.
If the route is clear and the march is normal, the destination can be reached in about five days.
Even though they didn't have any city defense crossbows at the moment, Shi Lei obviously couldn't allow more cities to fall into the hands of those green-skinned creatures.
This busy work lasted until late at night. When Shi Lei returned to his bedroom, he should have rested for a while to avoid affecting his condition tomorrow, but he couldn't sleep at all! Faced with this situation, Shi Lei simply didn't sleep and sat up to think about the follow-up arrangements.
The main force will set out after breakfast tomorrow. In Daliang City, his adjutant will lead 500 garrison troops to guard it.
Because Drogo and his men left all the recruits to him before they left, Shi Lei now had enough troops.
Counting the total number, the total number of troops deployed by the Great Zhou in the New North District is 5,000.
Under this premise, each city has 500 soldiers stationed there for garrison, adding up to a total of 3,000, which is a must.
They had just conquered Liang State. If they didn't arrange enough garrison troops, who knew what would happen after their main force left? If there was a fire in the rear, the situation would be even worse!
In this way, Shi Lei still has two thousand soldiers who can act with him.
If they could reach Yuancheng before the green-skinned creatures on the opposite side and join up with the 500 garrison troops, the number of troops under Shi Lei's command would increase to 2,500.
According to the information he has obtained so far, there are only thousands of green-skinned creatures on the opposite side, and the maximum number does not exceed fifteen hundred.
Maybe their individual strength is stronger than that of human soldiers, but they have the advantage in numbers, plus the advantage of city defense...
“Tsk!”
Shi Lei still felt unsure.
The fundamental reason is indeed because of the green-skinned monster mentioned in the intelligence. If the green-skinned monster cannot be dealt with, the city defense advantage will no longer exist.
As for the military advantage...
Although there are 2,500 soldiers, more than half of them are new recruits who have only participated in the "Tunliang War".
Because the gap in military strength between Liang State and their Great Zhou was so huge, they completely crushed the enemy along the way.
The only thing that could slow down their siege efficiency was the distance between cities.
They won too easily and the enemy had no power to resist, which meant that they suffered basically no casualties. However, it also meant that these new recruits lacked real training, and when the critical moment came, they were somewhat useless.
Thinking of this, Shi Lei also felt a little irritated.
At the same time, regardless of the fact that it was already two o'clock in the morning, he quickly ordered someone to call Jie Liancheng over.
Xie Liancheng also knew what happened during the day, but he was very confident, or he was very confident in his own abilities. He felt that no matter who the enemy was, he would be able to defeat them easily, so his sleep quality was not affected at all.
It was two o'clock in the morning and he was soundly asleep. He was forcibly woken up and it was impossible for him to be in a good mood.
Fortunately, even in this state, Xie Liancheng still retained some rationality and did not lose his temper.
After washing his face with cold water, Xie Liancheng, probably realizing that something had happened, quickly came to Shi Lei.
"I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel. I didn't mean to disturb your rest, but if I don't confirm this with you, I really won't be able to sleep or eat!"
Xie Liancheng has recently been officially promoted to lieutenant colonel due to his meritorious service in capturing Centaur mercenaries and defeating the Liang army, as well as his subsequent contribution in supporting the Liang war with Shi Lei.
After entering the room, seeing Shi Lei's anxious look, Xie Liancheng's anger had mostly subsided.
"what is going on?"
In response to Jie Liancheng's questions, Shi Lei quickly told him about the green-skinned creature and the monster.
After hearing this, Xie Liancheng's expression became solemn at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.
The news during the day gave him a rough idea that Pingyuan City had encountered enemies, but he did not expect that the enemy this time was so outrageous!
A huge monster that can smash open the city gate with brute force, and is so tall that he can climb up the city wall by grabbing the top of the wall with just a jump, and even a steel knife cannot cut it!
He had never encountered such an unreasonable thing before.
For a moment, even Xie Liancheng, who had always been extremely confident in his own abilities, was clearly a little unsure...
(End of this chapter)
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