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The trebuchet is the most common siege weapon in the cold weapon era. In many cases, the consumption of the trebuchet is the starting point of the siege battle.

The reason why neither the enemy nor we used trebuchets in this siege battle that took place in the Zhezkazgan area was partly because there was no city at all here before, only a series of felt houses.

On the other hand, it was because this was a cross-border battle between the enemy and ourselves deep into the territory of the Kazakh Khanate. The time was too hasty and there was no time to prepare the trebuchet.

On the other hand, it is because there are no stone resources exposed on the surface in the Zhezkazgan area. Even if everyone prepares trebuchets, there are no stone bullets to use.

It is precisely because of these various reasons that in the end no one wanted to use the trebuchet here.

In fact, Ibn Haidar and the others had prepared a large number of siege equipment, including trebuchets, before they officially launched their troops.

All siege equipment was made in Uzbekistan using wood provided to them by Yindu players. They just did not choose to carry it because there were no stone resources in the Zhezkazgan area.

Now that their siege is blocked, it seems that only the use of trebuchets can break the defensive tactics of the elastic launch device developed by the Condor Empire. So when Abbas proposed using trebuchets to siege the city, Ibn Haidar immediately agreed.

As Ibn Haidar's order was sent back to Uzbekistan, a backup army of 200,000 people immediately escorted the materials for assembling trebuchets and a large amount of grain and grass supplies towards the front line.

After some enlightenment from the emir, Ibn Haidar has fully realized that this will be a protracted war that is likely to last for several years. As the supreme commander of the coalition forces, he must not be too impatient and aggressive, so he After some reflection, he immediately changed his previous tactics.

The emir persuaded him not to worry about logistical issues all the time, but as a commander in charge of millions of people, how could Ibn Haidar really let go of logistical issues?

Since establishing the policy of fighting a protracted war, Ibn Haidar knew that the pressure on logistics would increase day by day, because now this was the only weakness of their million-strong army.

As long as their food routes are cut off, their millions of troops on the front line may collapse at any time.

Ning Yuan, an upstart, may not be good at things, but he is definitely a good fighter. Having experienced hundreds of battles, it is impossible for him not to know the importance of food routes.

Now within the territory of the Kazakh Khanate,

The cavalry force of the Condor Empire occupies a dominant position. They can only attack other people's food channels. Their food channels are absolutely impossible to be attacked by others.

With the cavalry having such a huge advantage, it was impossible for Ning Yuan to allow them to easily transport grain and grass supplies to the front line. He would definitely send a large number of cavalry troops to carry out various attacks and harassment along the way.

Although Ibn Haidar had already proposed to build castles on the grain road to resist the enemy's surprise attacks, there was still a certain distance between the castles, which left room for the enemy to launch surprise attacks.

In order to ensure that the transport convoy can go from one castle to another safely, they must send a large number of troops to escort it.

As a result, the number of people supporting logistics is a bit excessive.

The more troops there are on the front lines, the more people there are to support logistics.

Before the grain and grass supplies arrived at the front line, more than half of them had already been consumed by logistics personnel along the way.

This kind of consumption is too great, and they can afford it in a short period of time, but if the war really lasts for three to five years, no matter how rich they are, they may not be able to buy so much food and supplies!

After all, there are only a few countries that are willing to sell them food. Once problems arise in some of these countries, they will have nowhere to spend their money no matter how much money they have!

After realizing that a protracted war is a competition of logistics and transportation support capabilities, and now the enemy can only attack our own logistics and transportation, and we cannot pose any threat to the enemy's logistics and transportation, Ibn Haidar decided to immediately change the previous logistics and transportation strategy. .

In the past, they used professional troops to protect the food transport convoys and logistics personnel. This caused the logistics transportation team to become increasingly bloated, and more food and supplies were consumed halfway along the way.

Now, Ibn Haidar decided to cut down part of the logistics and transportation personnel to reduce the consumption of food and supplies halfway.

Considering that the support troops stationed in Uzbekistan would still consume a large amount of food and supplies every day, regardless of whether they came to the front line or not, Ibn Haidar decided to temporarily let those support troops temporarily serve as logistics personnel and let them provide support for the front line. The army transported grain and grass supplies.

Despite this change, the logistics personnel will still not be reduced too much, but considering that these troops stay in the rear and work every day, and those real logistics personnel can engage in other productive labor after returning, one minus and one plus, they can still Save a lot of food and supplies.

So while ordering people to escort the trebuchet accessories to the front line, Ibn Haidar also directly gave orders to the backup troops and asked them to start taking over all matters related to the logistics transport convoy.

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The changes in the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Allied Forces quickly reached Ning Yuan's ears.

When Ning Yuan learned that the enemy began to use troops on a large scale to escort grain and grass supplies, he immediately sent a centaur army to test the defensive strength of the enemy's transportation team.

This test didn't matter, Ning Yuan soon felt the enemy's determination. This was not a deception, but it really began to allow the army to fully take over logistics and transportation.

Although he had sensed the enemy's determination, Ning Yuan was not in any hurry. He was still quietly waiting for the best opportunity.

A few days later, the opportunity that Ning Yuan had been waiting for finally appeared.

"Your Majesty, after a large amount of grain and grass materials were transported to the Zhezkazgan area, the enemy began to assemble trebuchets on a large scale and used the transported cement and sand to make throwing ammunition."

"It seems that the enemy still has some tactical savvy."

After listening to the information brought back by the Seraph scout, Ning Yuan couldn't help but nodded.

Ning Yuan originally thought that Ibn Haidar and others would transport stone bullets from the rear to the front line if they could not find stone resources.

If that was the case, he would have to wait a while longer. After all, the number of stones that a carriage could carry was very limited.

Using trebuchets to attack a city requires a large amount of stone bombs. Just transporting them from hundreds of kilometers to the front line by horse-drawn carriages is a lot of work.

Fortunately, Ibn Haidar and others were somewhat strategic and knew how to use cement and sand to make cement bombs, otherwise he might have had to wait an extra month.

"How many people are there in this transport team? When will they return?"

Knowing that it was almost time, Ning Yuan began to inquire carefully.

"Back to Your Majesty, due to the large scale of this transport convoy and the large number of Centaur raiders we sent along the way, the enemy directly organized a huge transport convoy of 400,000 people this time.

Judging from the previous situation, this transportation team will stay in the frontline area for about two days. After two days, they will return to Uzbekistan along the original route. "

Seraph Scout replied.

"Now that they are here, we can't let them go back easily. Let me inform Ma Qianli and ask him to lead the army to attack immediately. Within half a month, I don't want to see any enemies fleeing the territory of the Kazakh Khanate.

In addition, someone was immediately sent to inform Andrew's side and told them that they could take action. "

While speaking, a cold light flashed in Ning Yuan's eyes.

...

"What's going on? A lot of pikas seem to have suddenly appeared here recently. Is there a pika nest nearby?"

"Nonsense, if there were no nests, how could so many pikas suddenly appear?"

"Didn't the above say that the Condor Empire carried out a clearing operation in the territory of the Kazakh Khanate? Why did it leave us so many rats and rabbits?

It seems that their efforts to clear the country were not very thorough! "

"They who are on the ground can hold on to the wall and clear the field, but how can they who are hiding under the ground hold the wall and clear the field?

Besides, these rats and rabbits look like a fluffy ball, but if they are really skinned, they won’t have much meat left. So no matter how hard the wall is and the wilderness is clear, no one will compete with these little things that can hide underground. "

"What are you doing there? Hurry up and peel the skin and cut the meat. Otherwise, you won't get a share of the stewed rat and rabbit tonight."

"Come right away. Every day, like a damn ghost, he knows how to make us work."

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As the climate gradually warmed up, players from the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces stationed in the castle suddenly discovered that a large group of pikas had appeared nearby.

At first, they thought that those rats and rabbits were probably transformed from the demon players sent by the Condor Empire. Their purpose was to lure them out and then seize the opportunity to seize the castle they were guarding.

However, as some pikas began to openly play poker in the wild, they immediately overturned their previous ideas, because demon players could not be so perverted.

So with the attitude of giving it a try, they sent some players with excellent shooting skills out of the city to find out.

Soon, those players who went out to inquire about the situation brought back a large number of rat and rabbit carcasses to feed everyone in the city.

From then on, the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition soldiers stationed in the castle no longer had any precautions against the pikas appearing around them. Not only that, they would also send special personnel out of the city to hunt some pikas every day to improve everyone's food.

As a large number of pikas were shot and killed by the garrison soldiers in the castle, the living pikas outside became more and more alert. Whenever someone walked out of the city, they would immediately sound the alarm and then flee collectively. Take shelter in a cave.

When the harvest from hunting became less and less day by day, the soldiers in the castle stopped hunting activities, euphemistically claiming to protect the wild population of pikas.

The soldiers' favorite thing to do every day was to stand on the city wall and patrol while using binoculars to watch rats and rabbits fight and play cards.

Since the nearby pikas immediately burrowed into their holes at the slightest sign of disturbance, they didn't know how many pikas were left nearby, nor did they notice that a group of strange pikas suddenly appeared nearby.

Of course, the so-called strangeness refers to the pikas and rabbits living here. In the eyes of the players, as long as they are of the same race, all pikas and rabbits look almost the same, and they cannot recognize any rat at all. The rabbit is a local householder, and the pika is new.

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Savage July 17, 39

Just as the 400,000 backup troops escorting grain and supplies to the front line were preparing to return along the original route, a 200,000 Centaur army suddenly appeared on their final route.

After learning that the enemy had sent an army of 200,000 centaurs to intercept the return of the backup troops escorting logistics supplies, Ibn Haidar and others who were preparing trebuchet ammunition were suddenly filled with doubts, because they could not see it at all. Understand the enemy's intention to do this.

Although the Centaur Legion of the Condor Empire has excellent field combat capabilities and does not require any logistical supplies in a short period of time, they do not dare to launch a forceful attack easily in the face of the infantry troops who have formed their positions in advance.

Facing the interception of 200,000 centaur troops, as long as they do not advance easily and do not give the enemy a chance to rush into the formation or break the formation, then when the food and grass supplies carried by the centaur warriors are exhausted, the opponent will only Can be forced to evacuate.

In other words, the 200,000 centaur troops sent by the Condor Empire can only intercept their backup troops here for about half a month to twenty days, and then they will evacuate because they run out of food and grass.

The interval between food and grass transportation on their side is one to two months, and it will take about ten days for the empty convoy to return to Uzbekistan from Zhezkazgan.

Even if the Condor Empire can intercept their logistics transport convoy here for twenty days, plus the return time, they will have enough time to carry out the next material delivery.

So Ibn Haidar and others really couldn't understand the purpose of the Condor Empire. Is it just to keep the 400,000 troops responsible for transportation here to consume their food for twenty days?

But the food they stored in the Zhezkazgan area was enough to feed a million-strong army for more than four months. Even if there were more than 400,000 people suddenly added, it would still be enough for a million-strong army to last for three and a half months.

If we are more frugal and some troops suffer battle losses, we can still last for five or six months.

Therefore, in the view of Ibn Haidar and others, it makes no sense at all for the Condor Empire to do this, because the other party cannot affect their logistics and transportation at all.

But dispatching an army of 200,000 centaurs at every turn is also a huge drain on the Condor Empire. With Ning Yuan's character, he seems unlikely to do such meaningless things. So what is Ning Yuan's real purpose in doing this?