Zheng Ying gave the order and announced the way the army would attack.
Qi Dayong was very satisfied, but there were also people who raised doubts.
"Zheng Shuai, if we only use a small number of troops in front of the fortress, what if Yang Yinglong leads the army to break out? What should we do?"
Zheng Ying sneered.
"I'm afraid that he won't break out. If he does, then he's really looking for death. Where can he go on flat ground? Zhu Miao? Once he enters Sea Dragon Depot, he should know how to write the word 'death', right? "
The generals and advisors suddenly understood and all praised Zheng Ying for his thorough thinking.
The way the Qin Army attacked was thus decided.
And in Zheng Ying's mind, there was another layer of consideration.
Sea Dragon Depot was indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. It could be said to be a natural stronghold. Huge stones were used to build horse tracks, battlements, piers, forts, inner and outer city walls, city gates, and other tight defensive facilities. It was impregnable and good for long-term defense.
But to defend it, it depended on the soldiers' determination to fight to the death. Under the situation of such a huge difference in strength, where did these chieftains and soldiers find the iron will?
After the war entered a stalemate, willpower became extremely important. Willpower that was bought with money and willpower that was cultivated over a long period of time were two different things. One was driven by the combination of spirit and matter, while the other was driven by pure matter.
Soldiers must have spirit, know why they were fighting, have discipline in their hearts, be responsible, and always have a line to remind themselves. This was the biggest difference between a soldier and a ruffian soldier.
The native troops were driven by Yang Yinglong's prestige and money. Be it the Miao troops or the Han troops, they were all driven in this way to fight the war. They won the war no matter how they fought, because they were ferocious, because they always won against the original Ming army, so they had the advantage.
But once they fell into a disadvantageous situation, money could not so easily drive people to fight to the death.
When the Jin soldiers besieged Bianliang City, the Prime Minister of the Song court at that time did not hesitate to betray the royal family and sent the entire royal family, including the Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Concubines, to the Jin camp, just to preserve the bloodline of the Crown Prince and continue the Zhao and Song Dynasties.
After that, he spent a huge sum of money to recruit warriors, asking them to lead the Crown Prince out of the city and go to the south to protect the Zhao and Song Dynasties. In the end, the millions of people in Bianliang City refused to be recruited. Qin Zong's Crown Prince was later discovered to be a fake and was forcibly sent to the Jin Camp.
When one had a mental breakdown, money was meaningless. When it came to the final moment, money would really become feces. However, because there were not many final moments, and no one knew when the final moment would come, money could be used widely.
But when it came to the final moment, what was the use of money?
What was the point of having money but not having the life to spend it?
Therefore, Zheng Ying believed that when the war went on to a certain extent, when he showed the strength of the Qin Army, when the garrison of Bozhou realized that everything was irreversible, the chain of defense facilities of the Hai Long Camp would be like a piece of paper that could be broken with one poke.
For this reason, the Qin Army had to show the strongest fighting force and the determination to attack continuously.
The Qin Army had a large number of soldiers, while the garrison of the Hai Long Camp had few soldiers. The road was narrow, and they couldn't use too many people. It just so happened that Zheng Ying ordered the whole army to be divided into four waves. Each wave would attack for six hours, and they would attack continuously 24 hours a day.
The Bozhou army on the Hai Long Camp had no time to rest.
They only had a little more than 20,000 people, while the Qin Army had 160,000 people. Plus the 40,000 assisting native soldiers, there were a total of 200,000 people. Every six hours, 40,000 Qin Army and 10,000 native soldiers would join forces to attack several checkpoints in front and behind the camps, so they couldn't rest for a moment.
Zheng Ying also stipulated that the artillery attack could not be stopped. Whether they could hit the targets or not, as long as the barrels didn't explode, they had to shoot at the checkpoints with all their might. Don't be stingy with gunpowder and cannonballs. After shooting, someone would send them over. Even if the sky fell and the earth split, they had to keep on fighting.
Let their spirits be tempered in the flames of war.
He wanted to see whether the sky would collapse first, or these people would collapse first!
The Qin Army had already occupied an absolute advantage, whether in strength or in military strength. Simply using absolute strength to crush the enemy was not something the Bozhou army on the Hai Long Camp could withstand.
Zheng Ying also ordered that the first person to climb up to the top of each checkpoint and plant the Daqin's Flying Dragon War Flag would be rewarded with 500 taels of silver and promoted by three levels! The general would be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver and promoted by one level!
With both spiritual encouragement and material stimulation, after receiving Zheng Ying's order, the morale of the Qin Army was greatly boosted.
The sergeants rubbed their fists and palms together, and the generals also stared at the towering checkpoints as if they were looking at a treasure, as if it was not the gate of hell, but the dragon gate.
A dragon gate that could turn a carp into a dragon after jumping over it!
On the evening of the eighth day, Zheng Ying ordered that the soldiers be fed meat and dried rice until they were full. The entire Qin Army, including the native soldiers, were given meat, and they were very full. Then, as usual, the military secretary gave everyone a pep talk, telling them the principle that the enemy would be defeated and they would be victorious, and then went to bed contentedly.
Early the next morning, just after dawn, the 50,000 soldiers in the first wave of attack had eaten dried rice and meat. After two meals in a row, they were full of oil and full of strength.
An Jiangchen's native soldiers were assigned to the first wave of attack, and he was ready to lead them into battle.
No matter what, he had to put on a show, so that the Qin Army would give him something after the battle.
It was true that he didn't make any effort before. Although he was not happy about it, he was too ashamed to ask for the spoils. But he couldn't really refuse it. This time, he was going to fight to show the Qin Army …
Look! I've fought for the Emperor of the Daqin, and I've bled for the Emperor of the Daqin! How dare you not give me a share of the spoils?
After eating a full bowl of meat and two bowls of dried rice, An Jiangchen patted his belly and asked his guards to put on the armor for him.
The upcoming three hours of high-intensity battle was going to be fatal.
The second wave of soldiers stayed in the barracks, sitting or standing quietly, accumulating their strength, waiting for their turn to fight.
When it was the turn of the third and fourth wave of soldiers, they continued to sleep and accumulate their strength. They needed to fight at night, so the Bozhou army wouldn't be allowed to rest. But now they could rest, because there were still a few hours before it was their turn.
The morale of the Qin Army was high, while the Bozhou army at the checkpoint was very uneasy. Facing the densely packed Qin Army, which stretched as far as the eye could see, they only felt their scalps go numb, and they couldn't even hold the weapons in their hands.
Yang Wei, the General in charge of the Rear Pass, was also a relative of Yang Yinglong. He wasn't a talent that could be ranked.
But under the background that the generals and great figures were either killed or captured, Yang Yinglong didn't trust anyone else. He could only choose a general among the dwarves, and pulled Yang Wei out to be the General in charge of the Rear Pass. He didn't have a lot of soldiers under him, only 1,500.
It wasn't that Yang Yinglong didn't want to give more, but he really didn't have a lot of soldiers in his hands. More than 20,000 soldiers and horses had to be distributed to the other passes.
But he wasn't afraid, because the terrain was really very good. The ancients said that in a siege battle, one had to outnumber the defending side by six times in order to have a chance of winning. Looking at the terrain and defense of the Sea Dragon Fort, he wouldn't be afraid even if he had ten times more soldiers.
The Qin Army was exactly ten times more than him.
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