Talk:The Mountain Siege/@comment-2001:E68:5444:35B6:6890:A71D:9CCA:9F28-20181223183050

There are plenty of gold and stone piles outside the east side of the base (Dont call it a fortress, its more like the leakiest saddest least defensible base ever with literally twenty entrances, and the Chinese will attack all of them simultaneously). Its best to immediately drop the second TC outside and start booming. Your start army, once you gather into one place, is good enough to clear most of the neutrals. Its best to start in the south to get access to the gold pile and extra berries.

In the beginning its best to defend with cheap light cav, or rattans in towers, but as Ming brings much better siege, and much stronger armies, you will need Onagers and Elite Elephants. Eventually, gates will break, as china just pours a shitload of siege rams and trebs in seventeen random directions and you can't anticipate them all. (Have i mentioned that this "fortress" is clearly designed to be breached. It has even more weak access points than Saladin 6. Le loi is the worst strategy master ever by choosing such a lousy and undefendable location, this was never going to end well.)

To cover the retreat of orange, it's best to build "walls" made out of very large buildings, like siege workshops (as walls are disabled) so that you plug the three entrances from the northeast and the two southeast, as orange is a retard baby that insists on chasing, fighting (and dying to) every Ming they encounter instead of retreating like they are told to. Guard those buildingwalls with keeps garrisoned with villagers / rattans. They wont hold forever, especially the southeastern one, which will be attacked by trebs. But thats ok, all you need to do is distract Ming so that orange never sees a Ming along their path to the corner.

Also, you have to clear every path to the corner, because Orange (which is a retard baby) will choose a different and random path everytime, and you dont want them to walk into ambushes.

You can also save a lot of time by having Le Loi in the corner before orange starts their escape. (Use Le Loi together with your starter army to clear the neutrals.)