Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 223 Wang Xiu's Mistake

Outside the city, it was snowing heavily, covered in silver.

It was Zhao Cheng's words.Simultaneously with the great victory at Shiliting, Wang Xiu sent Li Tianrun to lead a full 1000 men to rush into Yangshan Mountain, but the cottage is empty, and now no one knows where they went?
Chizhou seems small, but now that the mountains are covered by heavy snow, except for the good horses from the north that can barely move, the thick snow makes it difficult to move, let alone march to find people.

So now Wang Xiu has a big head!

At that time Wang Xiu took advantage of the news provided by Zhu Xiao that the government was anxious to bring peace, but in fact, due to distraction, this opportunity was also taken advantage of by the unpredictable Bai Chenxiang.

"When I was deploying to eat the Xiang army, that bitch was also deploying a retreat plan, in time for this winter, to abandon the good sheep mountain they built with their own hands?"

Looking at the nearby Chizhou City, Wang Xiu murmured to himself.

The bandits under him poured their blood on their chests, eager to rush into the city, so that they could easily possess countless wealth and beauties.But there is no good way at the moment, and the big boss has a lot of scruples.

There is no need to be afraid of the government forces in other counties, large and small copycat competitors have been hacked to death long before this, and incorporated, and now Wang Xiu has gathered more than [-] leaders, all sharpening their knives.

But only the stubborn and mysterious Bai Chenxiang was a huge hidden danger, like a thorn in the flesh.God knows what amazing move that crazy woman will do when the army is besieging the city?
If it was said that she would commit suicide, no one would believe it, not even Wang Xiu.But since the Battle of Xishan, she brought a mere hundred old, weak, sick and disabled, and used that weird "featherless arrow" to ruin Wang Xiu's event. Watch out for that crazy woman who can make people bleed to death.

"Don't worry, my lord, Chizhou is already under my control. It is only a matter of time before the city is broken. Sooner or later they will have civil strife."

Li Tianyun almost said some words of comfort.

Wang Xiu still looked worried, "At first, I thought the same thing as you. But now seven days have passed, Chizhou City is impregnable, and the dead soldiers I deployed in advance in the city were seen through, and there was no wave. No news was sent. came out, so I don’t know what role Zhu Xiao is playing now. I only know that Zhao Cheng is the real opponent. At least he has quickly and decisively implemented the curfew and fully controlled Chizhou City. With such reaction and control, even if he does not The army also makes me worry about the next changes."

The rest of the people looked at each other, feeling that the scholar was being flattered too much.

Wang Xiu ignored everyone's thoughts, and raised her finger to point at the city, "We prepared in advance, thinking that we could take advantage of the shortage of supplies in winter and make them collapse internally by besieging the city. Now it seems that this king didn't understand it at the time, and made a mistake."

"It happened to be winter, which gave Zhao Cheng the opportunity to control the hearts of the people. It happened to be winter, and the disease in the closed city was eliminated. It happened to be the coldest winter, which solved the shortage of water sources under the siege of the army..."

Hearing this, the subordinates, including Li Tianren, didn't quite understand.

Wang Xiu also explained, "Rin Dong looks terrible, but the key is how to use it. There are also many advantages. If there are disadvantages, there are many advantages. In the past, as soon as the refugees without order entered the city, they would feces and urine everywhere, bringing flies overwhelming the sky, and then quickly Most of the water sources were polluted. The hot weather evaporated the water in the entire city. Therefore, to a certain extent, it is okay not to eat, but as long as there is a lack of water, they will inevitably die and trample within three days."

"Only this winter stopped the source of the disease and solved the water source problem. Looking at it now, Chizhou City is not in chaos. I even feel that Zhao Cheng chose to plan against us in winter from the very beginning?"

Wang Xiu is really familiar with the art of war and prepared to fight, but unfortunately he also underestimated the opponent's ability to a certain extent.

If he had known Zhao Cheng was so awesome from the beginning, Wang Xiu would have chosen to endure it until summer, when it would be easy to break into Chizhou City.No matter how powerful he is in execution and how well the order and environment in the city are maintained, he only needs to throw a circle of dead cows and rotten horse meat around the city. Once the sun shines, flies will overwhelm the sky within an hour, and then the flies that penetrate everywhere will " "Siege the city" and take the initiative to pollute.It will be broken in seven days at most!
However, these are just fantasies now, and the war broke out in the cold of winter.What was unexpected was that the previous year's harvest was bumper, and the overall grain reserves in Chizhou City were not bad. As for whether Zhao Cheng was able to cut grain from the local tyrants without causing civil strife, it all depended on his ability.

But now it seems that Wang Xiu thinks that Zhao Cheng has such ability.

What was even more unexpected was that even after the food was cut off, Bai Chenxiang was still self-reliant and did not let others slaughter him.

People who are on the pill don't have the pill, and that's a counter-signal, a hidden danger.From now on, Wang Xiu has noticed these details.

But what to do about it no one knows.

"The order is to attack the city on a medium scale tonight, and conduct the third trial and error of the offensive and defensive battle. In a short time, we must test Zhao Cheng's organizational strength."

Wang Xiu's tone was full of worry, "Although they are in danger, it will not be easy for me to wait. We will not be given too much time. After the spring, we will face the imperial court's army entering the south of the Yangtze River at any time. If we fail to take Chizhou and stand With a firm foothold, Fang La, the old fox, will definitely endure and lurk, and will not cooperate with the uprising. If they don't attract the attention of the army, and our foundation is unstable, then we will officially go on the road of no return."

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The unanimous goal now is to get through this damn first month.

Different times mean different conditions.In fact, the first month of later generations is not cold, but in the so-called Little Ice Age, the winter time became very long, and the south was slightly better. If it was in the northern part of the country, the temperature would drop sharply and snow would start in September.October entered the freezing period, and it did not recover until February of the following year.

This means that the Hu people in the northern part of Saibei receive very short sunshine hours, and experience "two winters" every year. The winter is prolonged and the other seasons are shortened. If there is not enough fermentation period, the condition of aquatic plants will be very poor, thus reducing the production of cattle, horses and sheep. The absolute number also determines their maximum population carrying capacity.

This is actually the pressure and motivation for their southern expedition.

The environment determines a person's character.Under the strong pressure of survival, the coordination and control of the Hu people's government is only at the fifth level, so their internal competition for survival is extremely fierce. The habit of certain tribes to kill the elderly and children as soon as winter comes is formed in this environment. .

This law of natural selection determines that there are few of them, but once they survive, they are ruthless people who are close to beasts, and there is a clear gap between the combat power of the Han people.

This gap was basically impossible in ancient times, unless it was transitioned to the era of material explosion or hot weapons.

Basically, Zhao Cheng has nothing to do now, and Zhao Cheng, who likes to talk about wars on paper, is tossing these data, hoping to have a target, and calculate the individual gap between grassroots people and Wang Xiurui.

The conclusion is that the variables are too large to be counted, and any algorithm can eventually trap itself.

In short, it can only be understood as: the law of strength in numbers does not apply at the moment, and once it is used, it will definitely not adapt to the climate.

Therefore, it is not easy to confront Wang Xiu. Once the confrontation occurs, the casualties caused by the large gap between the individual soldiers can cause the confidence of the "crowd" in Chizhou to collapse, and the hearts of the people will be scattered. Wang Xiu is not needed to attack the city. There will always be someone who will lead the way and open the door.

These are the calculations so far, and Zhao Cheng's general assessment of the offensive and defensive battle of Chizhou City: under any conditions, it cannot be forced to attack.

The concept of greater strength in numbers can only be saved until a special elite unit savagely harvests Wang Xiu two or three times and reverses the entire war initiative.To put it simply, it is called the tailwind period.

But now the rebel siege and heavy snowfall have blocked everything that can be done.If we only break through once, we might be able to do it as long as we are willing to pay the price, but even if we do it, it will be difficult to contact Bai Chenxiang's special forces and decide on tactics.

If there is enough time and equipment, such as three months, and the selection base is large enough, Zhao Cheng may be able to train a usable special force.

Not all wars require huge troops. For example, Li Shimin's world-famous [-] Xuanjia Heavenly Soldiers are enough to break through Yinshan Mountain. Even if it is a weak Song Dynasty, Di Qing's [-] divine cavalry are enough to break through Kunlun Pass.

Unfortunately, although there are individual armors in the system, the unlocking time is short, and the number of purchases is limited. Since the official war clouded over, Zhao Cheng has only accumulated more than [-] sets.

And there is no more time. Standing on the top of the city to observe now, I have a hunch that maybe tonight Wang Xiubu will carry out a rather high-intensity siege on an unprecedented scale.

What exactly did this judgment come from? Zhao Cheng himself couldn't say for sure. Maybe it was because he observed their army formation carefully every day and found that there were some changes today.

It's just a feeling.But we all know that if you drive too much, you will feel like a car, and if you shoot too much, you will feel like a gun.After seeing too much of the unchanging Wang Xiujun formation, Zhao Cheng now has a sense of war.In addition, doing anything also requires some luck.

(End of this chapter)