Riding a chopping horse and stepping into the world

Chapter 148 Dilemma
War is a confrontation between the willpower of both sides. In urban offensive and defensive warfare, the attacker is the spear and the defender is the shield. Whoever has the strongest willpower will survive to the end. Of course, this is only under the same conditions on both sides.

A war not only tests the will of soldiers, but also considers logistics and tactics.

What consumes the most during siege warfare?In addition to the lives of soldiers, there are also weapons and equipment. If there are fewer siege equipment in the siege, or there is no effective fire suppression, the siege for no reason will only increase casualties.

And if the defenders lack the equipment and arrows to defend the city, then the soldiers defending the city can only watch the enemy break through the gate, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, without giving full play to the advantage of defending the city.

Historically, most city defense battles ended with the defender's city being destroyed, and there were only a few successful cases of defense.

Almost most of the successful battles of defending the city were aided by reinforcements who rushed to the city in time to assist in the battle, and successfully rescued the siege by pinching internal and external attacks.

Or it can only be defended if there are new troops to garrison the city wall. The city defense without external reinforcements will be breached sooner or later.

September 230nd in the fourth year of the calendar [-], today is destined to be an unforgettable day for the people of Yan'an County.

The sun was still on the other side of the mountain, and when there was only peripheral vision, a horn sounded on the city wall of the west gate of Yan'an County.

The long sound of the horn swears the beginning of the war, and also reminds the other soldiers in Yan'an County that the bandits have begun to attack the city.

Outside the bandit camp in Ximen, Yan'an County, there were more than 1000 bandits holding weapons, more than 100 bandits carrying ladders, and more than a dozen bandits pushing a crash car, slowly approaching the west gate.

And just in front of the bandits were three hundred civilians from Yan'an County wearing civilian clothes. These civilians were tied with their hands connected by a rope and lined up in three rows.

Behind these common people were bandits who were about to attack the city. The bandits who followed closely behind the common people held swords and forced the common people of Yan'an County to walk towards the west gate.

Some thieves carried ladders and walked among the people, and the same was true for crashing cars.

Soon, the bandits pressed 200 people to a place nearly [-] meters away from the city wall.

A bandit who seemed to be the leader came to the front of the people on horseback, drew out the long and narrow saber at his waist, pointed at Zhang Tie and others on the city wall, and said loudly: "Listen up, people in the city, I advise you to go immediately!" Kaesong surrenders, hand over money, otherwise."

The bandit sword pointed back at the common people standing behind him, "Otherwise I will kill these common people."

"My lord, please open the city gate!"

"My lord, help me! My lord!"

"Hong'er, I am your father, let your lord open the city gate!"

The people who were pointed at by swords and guns begged loudly to Zhang Tie and others on the city wall. The meaning was very clear, that is, they hoped that the soldiers on the city wall would open the city gate and surrender, and they did not want to be killed by the bandits.

"My lord, you must not surrender in Kaesong, they are all—"

A young commoner shouted loudly towards the city wall, but unfortunately he was stabbed in the chest by the bandit behind him before he could finish his sentence.

The young commoner slowly fell to the ground, still muttering to himself: "Sir, you must not open the door and surrender-"

The dead young people made the people around them tremble, and they all looked at the bandit with blood still dripping from the tip of the knife with fear on their faces.

Some of the people who wanted to keep shouting not to open the city and surrender all shrank their necks, not daring to speak out.

Licking the blood from the tip of the knife, the bandit looked at the trembling common people with a ferocious face, and waved at the common people in front of him. The common people fell down on the ground, and the crotch was wet immediately. , but was frightened incontinence.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me."

The civilians who collapsed on the ground held their heads in their hands and yelled in a low voice in horror, fearing that their voices would be too loud and they would be directly slaughtered by the bandits in front of them.

"Hahaha!"

The bandit with the knife pointed the knife at the people on the ground, laughed a few times, and then swept across many people with ferocious eyes.

That ferocious look made the hearts of many people jump, fearing that this bandit would raise his knife to kill again.

"Whoever dares to say what he said like that, this is the end."

The bandit kicked the dead civilians, warned them, and then spat at the corpses, "Bah, you guys, you still want to be a hero, why did you go so early?"

On the city wall of the west gate, looking at a rebellious civilian who was randomly beheaded by bandits, all the people on the wall, including Zhang Tie, looked very ugly, and their eyes were about to burst into flames when they looked at the bandits.

Zhang Tie and others never expected that the bandits in front of them would use the common people as conditions to make the guarding soldiers open the city and surrender.

What's more, I didn't expect that the bandits were so cruel, and the people would kill them as soon as they said they wanted to, without even blinking an eye.

The death of the young people made Zhang Tie's eyes twitch, he secretly clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "Why don't these damn bandits die!" '

Looking back at the expressions of the soldiers, Zhang Tie secretly breathed a sigh of relief after finding that there was nothing wrong with them except for their ugly faces. "Fortunately, our people are stationed at the west gate today. If the people stationed are still soldiers from Yan'an County, the consequences are really unimaginable." '

Indeed, if the soldiers from Yan'an County were stationed at the west gate today, they would probably open the city gate and surrender, because the people outside, with their relatives, would not let the bandits slaughter them.

Since more than 300 civilians were brought here today, it is not difficult to figure out that these bandits had this idea from the beginning, otherwise it would be impossible to capture so many civilians.

Bang!
Wei Yan slammed his fist against the city wall, and with a muffled sound, he gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, these cunning bandits actually take advantage of innocent civilians."

Zhang Tie on the side also frowned. It was absolutely impossible for Kaesong to surrender, but it was still hard for Zhang Tie to watch the people die at the hands of bandits.

At this time, Yan Beichen took a step forward, pointed at the people behind him, and said to Zhang Tiezheng: "My lord, you must not open the city and surrender. Behind this gate is the county town. The safety of the people inside is on our shoulders."

Nodding his head slightly, Zhang Tie sighed secretly, "I'm sorry, I can only choose to protect my own people, because they are more numerous than you, and more innocent people cannot be harmed." '

At the same time, Zhang Tie became even more dissatisfied with the magistrate of Yan'an County, because the cause of all this was caused by the magistrate of Yan'an County. 'snort!Damn vanity. '

When he came to the edge of the city wall, Zhang Tie said loudly in the direction outside the city: "People outside the city, I'm sorry, I can't open the city and surrender, because there are more common people behind me."

"My lord, don't my lord."

"My lord, save us, woo woo woo."

"Kaesong surrenders, my lord!"

As soon as Zhang Tie finished speaking, most of the people outside the city began to cry loudly, shouting for help incessantly.

Only a few people breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the other companions begging for mercy with complicated expressions.

PS: The second update, I struggled with this for a while, and finally, I decided to write it like this, the reality is so cruel.

(End of this chapter)