Chapter 428: World Chapter: The Xuanyong Army Rising to Resistance (4)

"Isn't it? I can analyze it for you."

Amid the stunned and shocked gazes of the soldiers, Shang Yang looked around at the captains around him with a mysterious look.

"First of all, in my opinion, although we don't have heroes stationed, we still have three major advantages! The ancients said; an army without a reason will not only fail but also put itself in danger! This time, the enemy took the initiative to invade our Xuanyong country, and even had the evil idea of ​​getting involved in the great Jixia Academy. It was a foolish act that risked the world's condemnation and was completely courting its own destruction! Although they have won a temporary victory by chance, in the eyes of the world, they are just a group of rebels who disturb the peace! On the other hand, we are a righteous army fighting to defend our homeland. Even if we die in battle today, I believe that our feats and achievements will surely be passed down through the ages, and the enemy will also be cursed by thousands of people. Therefore, in terms of the issue of people's support, we have an absolute advantage of justice!
Secondly, we have high ground as a barrier, and high ground has had the geographical advantage of being easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times. Normally, if you really want to capture a high ground, the attacker must send out more than three times the number of troops as the defender. So in fact, as long as the arrangement is reasonable, even if the enemy has heroes, it is not so easy to completely capture our high ground!
Finally, the enemy must want to win the battle quickly after this long expedition. They simply cannot afford to waste time, so we have more advantages as the defenders in terms of time! This is just like what I said before. In this war, we don’t necessarily have to defeat the enemy’s heroes to win. What we have to do is actually just one word: delay! "

"Delay?" This time, even Yingyu, who was listening to Shang Yang's explanation of his views in amazement along with the soldiers, could not help but ask this question.

Looking back at the beautiful girl beside him whose eyes were as bright as stars, Shang Yang smiled and nodded: "That's right, drag!"

After saying that, he turned back and said to the Xuanyong soldiers who were getting more and more excited, "Please think about it carefully. As one of the vassal states of Jixia Academy, our Xuanyong Kingdom is the only barrier to protect Jixia Academy. As the saying goes, the lips and teeth are cold. Now Xuanyong Kingdom is in danger, so will Jixia Academy just sit back and do nothing? To put it more bluntly, will those other forces who are eyeing Jixia Academy sit back and wait for it to be replaced?"

The whole place fell into complete silence.

As soldiers, they only pay attention to the changes in the situation on the battlefield, and are far from being as far-sighted as Shang Yang, who even considered the situation outside the battlefield!
With the soldiers looking at us with increasing admiration, Shang Yang continued, "In summary, even if we are completely powerless to fight against the enemy heroes, why should we choose to fight head-on? On the contrary, as long as we hold our ground and prevent the enemy from making any further progress, we will have won a complete victory! What we really need to do is not to flee or be afraid, but to completely block the enemy's advance with our flesh and blood and wait for the support of Jixia Academy and even the various Jixia forces!!"

Victory is in sight!

This is what Shang Yang really wanted to say!!
“That seems to be the case.”

"sharp."

"Even when facing a monster like a hero, we really have a chance of winning!"

"That's right. Actually, we just need to hold on to the high ground. I see, that's how it is!!"

After listening to Shang Yang's analysis and explanation of the entire war, this time, everyone looked at him with admiration!
If they still had some doubts and dissatisfaction with this roaring soldier just now, now they have reached a new consensus; this unknown soldier will definitely be able to turn the tide and lead them to preserve the last line of defense of Xuanyong State! !

This is the real hero.

When facing a powerful enemy, the unknown Shang Yang stepped forward and demonstrated his outstanding and sharp combat ability. With his incomparable courage and determination, he inspired the army that was facing collapse and strengthened the determination of all Xuanyong soldiers to resist to the end!

Because Shang Yang had an excellent strategic vision and was the first representative of the pro-war faction to stand up, after initially stabilizing the overall military morale, without any special pardon from Ying Zheng, the leaderless Xuanyong Army naturally acquiesced to Shang Yang as their supreme commander. This was the highest honor, but also the heaviest burden!

Shang Yang looked up at the dark clouded sky, and recalled the life and death experiences in the past three years since he joined the army, as well as the current responsibility, and could not help but feel thrilling.

However, Shang Yang no longer had time to indulge in these things, because at this moment his not-so-strong body had already shouldered the heavy burden of the country's rise and fall, and he still had a lot of things to do.

The first thing to do is to further strengthen the troops stationed on the high ground!
"Currently, the total number of soldiers in the upper, middle, and lower legions in the highlands is 12, including 2 magic troops, 1 heavy armored artillery troops, and 9 infantry!"

We have too few troops!
After listening to the report of a thousand-man captain, Shang Yang was silent for about ten seconds, and then issued the first military order in a low and powerful voice:
"Immediately send out the signal soldiers. In the name of His Majesty the Emperor, mobilize all the corps stationed in the important towns in the rear to quickly support the highlands. Remember, all of them, including those non-regular reserve troops! Upon receiving the order, all important towns must set out immediately without delay. Those who violate the order will be executed immediately!"

Due to his personal ambition, Shang Yang usually paid attention to the deployment of defense in Xuanyong privately. According to his estimation, if the recruitment went smoothly, there would be an estimated 37 reserve troops in the rear! With a constant supply of troops, it would not be a problem to hold the high ground in a short period of time.

But this is not enough.

So after a brief thought, Shang Yang issued a second military order:

"The upper and lower heights must be defended immediately. The order of the arms is: 1 shield soldiers in the front, 2000 magic women soldiers in the middle, and 500 artillery vehicles in the rear. In addition, all the soldiers in the legion, including the remaining 7 shield soldiers, 1600 magic women soldiers, and 9000 artillery vehicles, must be deployed on the middle heights according to the above requirements!"

Obviously, in the deployment of extremely limited troops, Shang Yang "favored some over others" and deployed almost all of the remaining troops to the central high ground.

But this does not mean that Shang Yang is biased, but because Shang Yang had already paid attention to it before the war. In this canyon war, the heroes of both sides basically fought fiercely on the front battlefield in the middle lane. According to this inference, the enemy heroes, including large-scale siege troops, will definitely come along the middle road to the high ground, so it is understandable that the middle high ground is heavily guarded.

However, it must be pointed out that before this, Shang Yang had never led troops to fight a war, but from his concise and concise combat command, it is not difficult to see that he is very good at deploying troops and has his own unique insights into the war in the canyon.

Obviously, all of the above benefited from Shang Yang's secret "lessons" in private. Although he was just a small soldier, he had the ambition and aspiration to achieve great things, and was always preparing for it: he was well-read, and had carefully studied the terrain of the canyon (otherwise he would not have gotten lost in the wild area with Yingyu), and often made some small clay figures to simulate soldiers (often ridiculed by all the soldiers except Yingyu), to simulate a large-scale canyon war, and paid closer attention to the dynamic changes of the battlefield than all the thousand-man commanders, and even the heroes of Xuanyong.

It is precisely because of his dream and the accumulation of efforts over time that Shang Yang has become as powerful as he is today. Although he is just a small soldier, he is brave, resourceful and courageous!
So, we still have to have dreams. Otherwise, how can we say that opportunities always come to those who are prepared?
Of course, Shang Yang did not just do things to impress the soldiers, he also made some decisions that shocked the soldiers.

(End of this chapter)