Chapter 323
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Chapter 323: The Spear and Shield Combination (1)
At this moment, Mirror City presented a scene of complete peace.
The city’s inhabitants rose at dawn and rested at sunset, leading quite fulfilling lives.
Yet, sitting in his new office, Luo Ji knew that the waves of invasion battles were far from over.
After a period of development and expansion, the extensive territorial connection brought Luo Ji an advantage, it made it easier for him to deploy his city defense forces.
In most cases, he only needed to concentrate his troops on a few key outer cities to ensure complete security, with one exception…
“Your Majesty, front-line war report!”
A guard rushed in quickly with the war report in hand.
Luo Ji took the report and his brows immediately furrowed.
As mentioned before, in this invasion war, no matter where the enemy player invaded, he could basically ensure security, but there was one exception, the grassland!
Due to its geographical location, even Iron Wall City, the closest to the grassland, could not expand its territory there in a short time.
This resulted in Luo Ji’s territory being split into two parts, one large and one small, with the smaller one being on the grassland.
And precisely this time, the enemy invaded the grassland.
After the ceasefire order expired this time, the invading player was still that Shang Jun.
Luo Ji currently had 3 cities on the grassland: Wild Horse City, White Horse City, and Eagle City.
This time, White Horse City was under attack.
Battles on the grassland were primarily cavalry-based, supplemented by infantry.
But this time, they unexpectedly encountered their nemesis.
According to the description in the war report, Shang Jun seemed to have brought a large number of shield-wielders and spearmen this time.
Undoubtedly, this was a classic ‘spear and shield combination,’ and one of the mainstream slow-attack strategies.
Large shield-wielders held their shields at the front, while spearmen, utilizing the length of their spears, advanced under the cover of the shield-wielders.
This could be said to be a very stable and versatile setup.
Coupled with the deliberately spread-out advance formation, it was clearly aimed at the city’s slingers.
Also, considering the enemy’s performance in the previous invasion battle, this Shang Jun seemed to be a fairly typical cautious player.
His actions also showed Luo Ji nothing overtly suspicious.
As thoughts raced, Luo Ji quickly took out a uniquely shaped bronze military token, then handed it to a guard beside him.
“Take my half military token and rush to Iron Wall City.”
“Order Liu Zheng and Zhou Yi, the generals defending Iron Wall City, to lead troops to reinforce White Horse City!”
“Also, tell them to prioritize capturing the outsider leader alive. If they can’t capture him alive, then kill him. If they can’t even kill him, then drive him into the depths of the grassland.”
“Your subordinate obeys!”
Taking the bronze military token from Luo Ji’s hand, Zhou Cang, a member of the guard team, set off immediately after grabbing some dry rations.
Luo Ji had no intention of personally rushing to the front lines for this battle.
Given Mirror City’s current location, if he personally assembled troops and led them to White Horse City, it would be at least a 5 day journey.
In other words, he would likely make a wasted trip.
Moreover, he was, after all, the Emperor with a large territory under his command.
He was usually busy with countless daily affairs.
If every invasion battle required him to personally go to the front lines, it would be too exhausting.
And It was no wonder he had previously fallen ill from overwork.
After realizing this, Luo Ji decided to relax a bit.
His subordinate generals were not mediocre either, he had to trust their abilities.
Being overly worried about everything was also his ‘player’s disease.’
After giving all the instructions, and then finishing his nutritious and healthy lunch, which had virtually no oil, Luo Ji stretched.
Then, he said to He Liang, the captain of his guard team.
“I’m going to drift on the lake for a while.”
During the closed fishing season, Mirror Lake was very peaceful.
Thus, Mirror Lake became Luo Ji’s best place for his midday break.
Lying on a raft and drifting with the currents also became one of his main ways of relaxation.
It was undeniable that this serene state allowed his thoughts to become clearer, aiding him in organizing future development policies.
Meanwhile, on the other side, White Horse City on the grassland was not so peaceful.
Three consecutive days of siege had shown Shang Jun’s intense determination to breach the city gate.
It was clearly a stance of getting serious after a round of reconnaissance.
This was actually a strategy arranged by Lin Leshi.
It was only a matter of time before their identity was discovered, but concealing it for even one round meant reducing Luo Ji’s preparation time.
So this time, while Shang Jun was conducting reconnaissance, he was also somewhat serious.
After all, if he could truly conquer a city, plunder some resources, or even directly kill Luo Ji and claim Liu Ye’s reward, why wouldn’t he?
Not to mention, he had also discovered a good resource point this time, warhorse resources!
In the cold weapon era, raising cavalry was not easy.
In some respects, aside from a few special troop types, cavalry was arguably the most resource intensive troop type to raise.
When there was an opportunity to seize warhorse resources, no player would hold back, and he was certainly no exception!
“Continue the siege, push forward, push forward!!”
Shang Jun was now eager to occupy the stables within this city.
This wave was definitely an unexpected pleasant surprise.
Relying on the vision provided by the telescope, Bai Ze frowned deeply, watching the army continuously attacking White Horse City’s gate in the distance.
“Hasn’t Burigude arrived yet?! Although the enemy’s siege forces aren’t strong in siege power, White Horse City won’t last many days against such continuous attacks…”
Bai Ze’s light cavalry unit and Burigude’s horse archer unit both had the ability to operate independently on the grassland.
Coupled with their different combat tactics, they usually acted separately to avoid interfering with each other.
But this time, facing the enemy’s highly targeted ‘spear and shield combination,’ a frontal charge would basically be a dead end.
Bai Ze’s light cavalry unit undoubtedly needed some cover.
And for safety’s sake, White Horse City’s precious defending forces clearly couldn’t be easily deployed.
Wild Horse City and Eagle City also didn’t have surplus infantry to send as reinforcements.
The number of infantry units on the grassland was already small.
If the next round of attack failed, or if some unexpected situation occurred, causing the infantry units to be completely wiped out, then White Horse City, without defending forces, would inevitably fall, bringing disaster upon all the people and resources within White Horse City!
They couldn’t afford this risk.
Thus, at this moment, Bai Ze could only patiently wait for Burigude’s horse archer unit to arrive and provide cover for him.
