The catapult is the most common siege weapon in the cold weapon era. In many cases, the siege battles were all about the consumption of the catapult.

The reason why this siege in the Rzekazgan area did not use trenchers was, on the one hand, because there were no cities here before, only continuous sieve houses.

On the other hand, it is because this is a cross-border battle between the enemy and us who are in the Kazakh Khanate. The time is too hasty and there is no time to prepare for a catapult.

On the other hand, it is because there is no stone resources exposed to the surface of the Rzekazgan area. Even if everyone has prepared stone trenchers, there are no stone bombs to throw.

It is precisely because of these various reasons that no one wants to use a trencher here in the end.

In fact, Ibn Haidal and his team had prepared a large amount of siege equipment before they officially dispatched their troops, including trenchers.

All siege equipment is made in Uzbekistan using wood provided by the Silver Dog players. They just didn't choose to carry it because there was no stone resources in the Rzekazgan area.

Now their siege is blocked. It seems that only using a catapult can crack the defensive tactics of the elastic launcher developed by the Condor Empire. So when Abbas proposed to use a catapult to siege, Ibn Haidal immediately agreed.

As Ibn Haidal's order was passed back to Uzbekistan, a 200,000-strong reinforcement army immediately carried the materials for assembling trenchers and a large amount of food and supplies to head towards the front line.

After Emil's guidance, Ibn Haidal had completely realized that this would be a protracted war that would likely last for several years. As the supreme commander of the coalition forces, he must not be too impatient and reckless, so after some reflection, he immediately changed his previous tactics.

Emil advised him not to always worry about logistics issues, but as the commander who commands millions of people, how could Ibn Haidal really leave the logistics issues alone?

Since establishing the policy of fighting a protracted war, Ibn Haidal has known that the logistics pressure will increase day by day, because now this is the only weakness of their million-strong army.

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

Ning Yuan, a nouveau riche, may not be able to do other things, but he is definitely a good player in war. He is experienced in many battles and cannot not know the importance of the food industry.

Now in the territory of the Kazakh Khanate, the cavalry power of the Condor Empire occupies a dominant position. Only they attack other people's food channels, and their food channels are absolutely impossible to be attacked by others.

With such a huge advantage in the cavalry, it was impossible for Ning Yuan to allow them to easily transport food and 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 Haidal has built castles on the food road to resist the enemy's sudden attacks, there is still a distance between the castles, which leaves the enemy with space to launch a sudden attack.

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

In this way, the number of people who guarantee logistics is a bit over the standard.

The more troops on the front line, the more people will be able to guarantee logistics.

Before the food and supplies arrived at the front line, more than half of them were 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, even if they have money, 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 there is a problem with some of them, no matter how rich they have, they will have no place to spend it!

After realizing that protracted warfare is a competition for logistics transportation support capabilities, now only the enemy attacks its own logistics transportation and that its side cannot pose any threat to its enemy's logistics transportation, Ibn Haidal decided to change its previous logistics transportation strategy immediately.

Before, they used professional troops to protect the grain transport fleet and logistics personnel, which caused the logistics transportation team to become increasingly bloated, and the food and supplies consumed halfway have become more and more.

Now, Ibn Haidal decided to cut off some of the logistics transport personnel to reduce the consumption of food and supplies on the way.

Considering that the reinforcements stationed in Uzbekistan still consume a large amount of food and supplies every day regardless of whether they come to the front line or not, Ibn Haidal decided to temporarily let the reinforcements act as logistics personnel temporarily, and they will transport food and supplies to the front line.

Although such a change will not reduce the number of logistics personnel, considering that these troops stay in the rear and eat every day, the real logistics personnel can engage in other production labor after returning. One minus one plus, they can still save a lot of food and supplies.

So while ordering people to escort the trencher accessories to the front line, Ibn Haidal also directly ordered the reinforcements to start taking over all matters in the logistics transport convoy.

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The changes in the Central Asian and Middle East coalition forces soon reached Ning Yuan's ears.

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

This trial didn't matter. Ning Yuan quickly felt the enemy's determination. It was not a fool, but it really began to let the army take over the logistics transportation in full.

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

A few days later, the opportunity that Ning Yuan wanted to wait for finally appeared.

"Report to Your Majesty, after a large number of food and supplies were transported to the Rzekazgan area, the enemy began to assemble trenchers on a large scale and use the cement and sand that were transported to make throwing ammunition."

"It seems that the enemy is still a bit tactical."

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

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

If this is the case, he will have to wait for a while. After all, the number of stones that a carriage can carry is very limited.

Using a trencher to siege the city requires a large number of stone bombs. It is a considerable workload just by transporting the carriage from hundreds of kilometers away to the front line.

Fortunately, Ibn Haidal and others are still a little strategic and know how to make cement bombs with cement and sand, otherwise he would have to wait for an extra month.

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

When he knew that the time was almost over, Ning Yuan asked carefully.

"When you go back to your Majesty, because the transportation convoy is large this time and there are many centaur raid teams we sent along the way, the enemy directly organized a huge transportation team of 400,000 people this time.

Based on the previous situation, this transportation team will probably stay in the front line area for about two days. After two days, they will use this to return to Uzbekistan along the original route."

The Seraphic scout replied.

"Since I've come here, I can't let them go back easily. I'll inform me of Ma Qianli and ask him to lead his army to attack immediately. Within half a month, I don't want to see any enemy fleeing from the Kazakh Khanate.

Also, I will send someone to inform Andrew immediately and tell them that they can act."

As he spoke, a cold light flashed in Ning Yuan's eyes.

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"What's going on? Recently, there seem to be a lot of rats and rabbits appearing here. Are there rats and rabbit nests nearby?"

"Nonsense, if there were no nests, how could so many rats and rabbits suddenly appear?"

"Didn't the superior say that the Condor Empire carried out a clearing operation in the Kazakh Khanate? Why did we still leave so many rats and rabbits?

It seems that their solid walls and clearing the wilderness are not going very thoroughly!”

"How can they be on the ground be able to clear the walls, and how can they be hidden under the ground be able to clear the walls?

Besides, these rats and rabbits looked furry, but they didn't have much meat after they were peeled off. So no matter how hard the walls were cleared, no one would compete with these little things that could hide in the ground."

"What are you guys there? Come and peel the skin and cut the meat quickly, otherwise you will not have the portion of the stewed rat and rabbit tonight."

"Come soon, every day, like TMD's death-induced ghost, I know that we can work."

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As the climate gradually warms up, players from Central Asia and Middle East coalition forces stationed in the castle suddenly discovered a large group of rats and rabbits nearby.

At first, they thought that the rats and rabbits were probably transformed by demon players sent by the Condor Heroes Empire, with the purpose of seducing them out and taking the opportunity to seize the castle they guarded.

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

So with a try-and-see attitude, they sent some players with superb shooting skills out of the city to find out.

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

From then on, the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Alliance soldiers stationed in the castle no longer had any defense against the rats and rabbits that appeared around them. Not only that, they would send special people out of the city to hunt some rats and rabbits for everyone to improve their food every day.

As a large number of rats and rabbits were shot and killed by defenders in the castle, the still alive rats and rabbits outside became more and more alert. Whenever someone walked out of the city, they would immediately sound an alarm and then collectively escape into the cave to hide.

When the harvest of hunting became less and less day by day, the soldiers in the castle stopped hunting, calling it the protection of the wild population of rats and rabbits.

The soldiers' favorite thing to do every day is to stand on the city wall while patrolling, while using telescopes to watch rats and rabbits fight and play poker.

Because the nearby rats and rabbits immediately drilled into the hole when there was something wrong with it, they didn't know how many rats and rabbits were left nearby, and they didn't notice that there were suddenly a group of strange rats and rabbits nearby.

Of course, the so-called strangeness is for those rats and rabbits living here. In the eyes of players, as long as they are of a race, all rats and rabbits look almost the same. They can't recognize which rats and rabbits are the new ones.

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Savage July 17, 39

Just as the 400,000 reinforcements escorted to the front line were about to return along the original route, a centaur army of 200,000 people suddenly appeared on their way.

After learning that the enemy had sent 200,000 centaur troops to intercept the reinforcements that were transporting logistics supplies back, Ibn Haidal and others who were preparing ammunition for catapults were immediately confused, because they could not understand the enemy's intention to do so.

Although the centaur army of the Condor Empire has excellent field combat capabilities and does not require any logistical supplies in a short period of time, they dare not launch a strong attack easily when facing the infantry army that set up their formation in advance.

Faced with the halfway interception of the 200,000 centaur army, as long as they do not easily advance and do not give the enemy the chance to rush forward and break the formation, then when the food and supplies carried by the centaur warriors are exhausted, the other party will be forced to evacuate.

In other words, the 200,000 centaur army sent by the Condor Empire could only intercept their reinforcements here for about half a month to twenty days, and then they would evacuate due to exhaustion of food and grass.

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

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

So Ibn Haidal and others really couldn't understand the purpose of the Condor Empire doing this. Was it just to let the 400,000 troops responsible for transportation stay here to consume their food for twenty days?

But the food they stored in the Rezkazgan area was enough for a million troops to eat for more than four months. Even if there were suddenly more than 400,000 people, it was enough for a million troops to last for three and a half months.

If you save money and suffer war losses in some army, you can still survive for five or six months.

So in the eyes of Ibn Haidal and others, the Condor Empire has no meaning to do this, because the other party cannot affect their logistics transportation at all.
Chapter completed!