In the final pinnacle duel of the Snow Sword Line, eighteen martial arts masters stood outside the Northern City, blocking the advance of the 400,000 Beimang army with their flesh and blood. This chapter is a chapter that makes the blood of many readers boil, and it is also a chapter that many readers criticize. The reason for the criticism is nothing more than how the 18 masters can block the 400,000 troops, why should they carry the 400,000 troops without adopting guerrilla tactics or beheading tactics?
Let's first take a look at what is the purpose of the Eighteen Masters' defense of the city? In the Battle of Liangmang, Beimang's 400,000 troops pressed towards the Northern City, but they did not only attack this place. The three prefectures of Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Liuzhou of Northern Liang all faced the invasion of Beimang, and Beiliang, known as 300,000 iron horses, exchanged 100,000 deaths and wounds for 350,000 troops of Beimang at the time of the First Liangmang War, and even if there was a supplement, it was limited, and there were only 100,000 Northern Liang army towns in the north city.
Therefore, it would be unrealistic to let the Northern Liang Army directly confront the Beimang Army. If you refuse to leave the city to defend the city, the Beimang army with large siege equipment such as catapults and carts can drive straight in. Even if eighteen sect masters were allowed to participate in the defense of the city, the other side also had martial arts masters and immortals to help, and the Beimang side could completely use siege machines such as catapults to consume the strength of the eighteen masters first, and then let their own masters kill them, and finally they could not stop the Beimang army.
Therefore, the eighteen sect masters went out of the city to fight a battle, not to destroy these 400,000 Beimang troops. Their main purpose is twofold. One is to destroy their siege machinery as much as possible, and everyone who has played the Imperial Era knows how much attrition would be if there were no trebuchets and pure infantry sieges. The second is to suppress their siege infantry as much as possible, let their infantry dismount and attack the city, and reduce their lethality, so that the Northern Liang Army can gain a greater advantage.
After the First World War of rejecting beicheng, the final result was that eight of the eighteen masters were killed in battle. In addition, the elite infantry died more than 10,000 people, and more than 10,000 people in the north of the mang army became a decoration, which was an effective elimination of a siege force in beimang and achieved a more ideal result. After this, the Northern Liang Army, which was recuperating in the city, went out of the city to fight.
According to what Xu Fengnian said to Pei Nanwei later, after the end of the War of Resisting Northern City, the Beimang army retreated less than 200,000 horses. The previous eighteen sect masters rushed to kill about 50,000, 400,000 troops still had 350,000 left, and less than 200,000 retreated, that is to say, later the Northern Liang Army rushed to kill and killed about 150,000, but the Northern Liang Army did not seem to mention the specific number in the article on how many casualties in the Battle of Resisting The Northern City.
To answer again, why didn't the eighteen masters participate in guerrilla tactics? Li Chungang broke the armor for half an hour, two thousand and six, even if the Eighteenth Sect Master was not as good as him, but the blunt knife cut the flesh, killed the enemy on the edge of the Beimang Army, was not involved in it, it was okay to kill a few hundred at a time, and slowly grinding could always grind away four hundred thousand troops.
It is indeed possible to do so, but one problem is that Beimang also has masters, and if it is reduced to zero guerrilla warfare, such as Tuoba Bodhisattva to catch Mao Shulang, superior Horseseille inferior horses, it will definitely not run. And such gua sha does not know when to cut. Ignoring this damage, the Beimang army directly pounded the Yellow Dragon and pushed it directly to the North City.
The same reason why these special forces are not used for decapitation tactics is also the same reason. One is that the other party also has a master, Tuoba Bodhisattva is blessed by the heavenly immortals, and the immortals help each other. Even if Deng Tai'a, Xu Fengnian, and others did not fear these immortals, the other sect masters were still inferior to these immortals. As long as these masters were entangled, they were easily killed by the army, just like lou huang, killed by three thousand cavalry.
There is also the problem of the situation, the two sides are already at the head of the war, and it is no longer realistic to sneak attack and behead. There is hope of sneaking into the past before the engagement. Rejecting the North City is like a crystal in the King's Canyon, the tower of your three-way highland has been demolished, the opposite highland is still intact, and the opposite line of soldiers and heroes have been pushed over. You can only choose to consume the opposing line and block the opposing hero first, rather than trying to steal the crystal from the opposite side at this time.
In the next issue, we will talk about why in the war against the North City, there were few people from the three religions participating in the war.
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