Chapter 335 Tippinning Mountains

July 30, 290 in the Imperial Calendar of the Britannia Empire.

20:46 pm.

Southern front line, eastern battlefield, outside Mayin City, Eastern Route Army base camp.

After Su Cheng ordered to stop the attack and withdraw his troops back to camp, the dark clouds in the sky poured down the rain that had been prepared.

Thin rain curtains shrouded Mayin City and the Eastern Route Army camp, adding a hazy and sad beauty to the battlefield that was now full of solemnity.

Raindrops hit Su Cheng's coaching camp one after another, splashing transparent water splashes one after another.

Willie, the commander of the 4th Army, and the commander of the 8th Army—these three knights who hold the highest power in the Eastern Route Army are now gathered in Su Cheng's camp.

Su Cheng was naturally sitting behind the long table in the camp, quietly sipping the warm black tea in his hand while looking at the three people standing in a row in front of the long table with indifferent eyes.

The bodies of the three Willies were all stained with a little blood, and each of them lowered their heads slightly with a look of shame on their faces, just like three children who had done something wrong and were obediently waiting for punishment from their parents.

As for Alan and Deng Jiaer, they were also sent out by Su Cheng at this time. Now in the East Route Army commander's camp in Nuo Da, there are only Su Cheng, Willy, the commander of the 4th Army and the commander of the 8th Army. Only 4 people.

Su Cheng has been silent since he summoned these three people to enter the camp, leaving them standing there while he sat silently behind the long table sipping black tea.

Su Cheng didn't speak, so Willie and the other three naturally didn't dare to talk casually. They could only stand there obediently, with their heads lowered, waiting silently for Su Cheng to speak out.

There was such a strange atmosphere in the camp for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Cheng finally finished the black tea in the cup.

After gently placing the empty black tea cup back on the table, Su Cheng finally spoke:

"In today's battle, 39 siege ladders were damaged, 1,768 soldiers were killed or wounded, and a new knight of the 4th Army was injured. Such huge casualties were incurred, but there was no progress in the capture of Mayin City. From the beginning of the war to the withdrawal of troops, I have not found a successful stronghold on any city wall that can allow the soldiers under the wall to board the city wall stably."

"Everyone, in the face of today's 'brilliant victory', do you have anything to say?"

As Su Cheng spoke, he slowly straightened up his body that was leaning on the back of the chair.

The light from the oil lamp located behind Su Cheng stretched Su Cheng's shadow.

Su Cheng's elongated shadow pressed down on the three Willies like a mountain.

After hearing Su Cheng's almost emotionless question, Willie and the other three shuddered slightly in unison, and thin cold sweat began to appear on their foreheads.

Just now, after finally hearing Su Cheng's speech, the three Willies were actually a little lucky in their hearts.

After all, this kind of silent atmosphere is really uncomfortable.

However, after listening to Su Cheng's questions that he finally managed to say out loud, Willy and the other three fell into even more severe fear and panic than before.

Willy glanced at the commanders of the 4th Army and the 8th Army on his left and right. After thinking for a while, Willy finally sighed softly and took two steps forward, ready to reply to Su Cheng.

Willy is the deputy commander of the East Route Army. He is second only to Su Cheng in terms of status and power in the East Route Army. Therefore, he has the highest status among the three people. In both circumstances, Willy has to take the lead in telling Su Cheng. answer.

"Go back to the coach..." Willy said with a somewhat unwilling tone, "The failure in the first battle against Mayin City was not because our soldiers did not fight bravely enough..."

"Mayin City has sufficient defensive equipment and baggage, as well as boulders, boiling water, and arrows. Before they could reach the city wall, our soldiers were shot by arrows. After rushing to the city wall, they were attacked by boulders and boiling water. Before we could climb the city wall, our soldiers were killed and wounded first..."

"At the same time, the combat effectiveness of the defenders of Mayin City cannot be underestimated.

The defenders of Mayin City have high morale and strong combat effectiveness. Luo Xie, who guards Mayin City, is also very capable. The Luo Lin army on the city wall advances and retreats in an orderly manner and has good strategies. It can be seen that there is a very powerful commander commanding it. them……"

After listening to Willy's words in silence, Su Cheng took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled it from his lungs.

While slowly exhaling, Su Cheng leaned back and leaned on the back of the chair.

"Even though we have been defeated, we can still talk so much and talk so eloquently." Su Cheng's tone already contained a bit of displeasure and ridicule.

"this……"

Willy opened his mouth, intending to say something else, but in the end he closed his lips again obediently, with a look of shame on his face, and at the same time buried his head lower.

He understands that Su Cheng talks a lot. If he loses, he loses. How can he have so many words to defend himself?

Su Cheng moved his gaze, scanning the faces of the three Willies standing in front of him with their heads lowered.

Then, a look of helplessness flashed across Su Cheng's face, and he sighed softly.

Su Cheng knew that today's defeat in the first battle could not be blamed on the three Willies who were in charge of the on-site command and the soldiers below.

After the war started, Su Chengyou continuously inspected the three walls of the north, east and west.

No matter which direction the troops were in, it can be said that they tried their best. From the beginning to the end of the battle, not a single soldier deserted.

But it is a pity that, as Willy just said, the defenders of Mayin City have very strong combat effectiveness and high morale. There are a large number of defensive equipment stored in Mayin City, plus the defender of Mayin City, Luo Xie With his skillful command, Mayin City can now be described as impregnable.

In fact, if Su Cheng continues to launch a fierce attack on Mayin City in the next time and continues to use the human wave tactic, he can indeed win the siege of Mayin City with piles of corpses.

After all, despite the previous series of battles, Su Cheng's troops now have less than 40,000, but compared with the 5,000 defenders of Mayin City, Su Cheng's troops still have the absolute upper hand.

Using the human sea tactic to gradually consume the number of Mayin City defenders, there will always be a day when the city will be breached.

However, Su Cheng did not plan to continue using the human sea tactic to deal with Mayin City.

Although using the human sea tactic to win this siege battle is only a matter of time, using this tactic will cause a problem-that is, the casualties will be very heavy!

According to Su Cheng's estimation, if we really want to use the human wave tactic to break through Mayin City, we will have to pay at least thousands or even tens of thousands of casualties to do it!

This is inconsistent with Su Cheng's combat philosophy of reducing one's own casualties as much as possible.

In Su Cheng's understanding, winning the war is not his goal. His goal is to win the war with as little loss as possible.

However, if he did not use the human sea tactic, Su Cheng could not think of any suitable strategy to deal with Mayin City.

Sigh... It's really difficult... Siege warfare is really annoying... There are really too few strategies available in siege warfare...

After complaining in his heart, Su Cheng stood up and walked towards the exit of the camp.

Naturally, the three Willies immediately and respectfully separated the two sides and made way for the middle road.

Su Cheng walked to the entrance of the camp tent, lifted the curtain, and looked out.

Su Cheng's eyes passed through the heavy rain curtain and turned towards the brightly lit Mayin City in the distance.

Silent, thinking.

At this time, Su Cheng spotted a huge shadow out of the corner of his eye.

This huge shadow crouched on the plain to the west of Mayin City like a monster.

-That's Mount Tippenning.

Tipping Mountain is a mountain range located on the west side of Mayin City. When marching towards Mayin City, Su Cheng also studied the terrain around Mayin City in detail, so for Tippingning Mountain located on the west side of Mayin City Naturally, Su Cheng had some understanding of the mountains.

The Tipping Mountains, with an average altitude of about 900 meters, run east-west and the overall terrain is not steep.

Tipping Ning is not a very large or very steep mountain range, so it is a "holy place" often visited by many idle mountaineers in the Rollin Empire (these people are basically nobles who don't have to worry about their livelihood). Many beginner mountain climbers come to the Tippenning Mountains, which is almost the easiest mountain to practice.

Su Cheng's final goal now, Lixi City, is located about 200 miles southwest of the Tipping Mountains.

Su Cheng only glanced at the Dipinning Mountains for a few times, then withdrew his gaze and continued to look at Mayin City in the distance, which was wrapped in layers of rain curtains.

"How can we capture Mayin City at the lowest cost, and then support the West Route Army that may be fighting the main force of the Luo Lin Army outside Lixi City..."

——Su Cheng murmured in a voice that only he could hear.