The Era of Generals

Xiyun City Tower.

The army of poisonous fog has already appeared, and the atmosphere on the tower is extremely dignified.

Far superior to one's own troops, powerful and unparalleled siege equipment, and the cold murderous intent gradually emitted by the enemy camp.

Everything made the soldiers on the upper floor of Xiyun City feel like heavy boulders were being pressed against their hearts.

Of the 3,000 soldiers in Xiyun City, Chen Ze sent the 1,000 old, weak and remnant soldiers to the southeast two city gates, together with Cao Lang and other generals' private soldiers, ensured that the two city gates had minimum guards , just in case.

As for the remaining 2,000 people, it is composed of 1,000 recruits, 400 city defense teams, and six teams of blockade money sentries.

These two thousand people, Chen Ze broke up and mixed them up, mixed the new recruits into the veteran queue, and then divided them into two thousand-man teams.

One thousand of them patrolled the city tower, while the other thousand went down to rest first, trying to ensure that the soldiers guarding the city had sufficient physical strength.

Of course, this is at the beginning of the battle, when the soldiers are in danger, how can they care about so much.

Even though there are veterans standing next to each recruit, the faces of these recruits who have not experienced battles still show panic and tension from time to time, and the one who keeps them calm is the one standing in the middle of the tower. juvenile.

Chen Ze.

He has never gone down since he went up to the top of the tower, and has been standing behind the low wall to observe the enemy's every move. His calm and calm face is the confidence that supports the recruits to continue to stand firm at this moment.

In terms of the poisonous fog army.

After General Fang gave an order, hundreds of engineering soldiers with sandbags on their shoulders rushed out from the formation, and under the cover of swords and shields, they began to fill the trench in front of the city gate.

Just as Xu Qing thought, the shallow and narrow trench that Chen Ze ordered people to dig was of no use. A few bags of sandbags went down, and then stepped on it, and it was leveled.

Although the trenches were dug very long, they didn't have to fill them all up. They just needed to make passages for large siege machines to pass through.

Just to be on the safe side, General Fang even sent additional manpower to fill in five passages in sections, which were completely sufficient for attacking the city.

It can be seen that General Fang has worked hard on these fugitives during the past year. Just looking at the skilled landfill techniques of those engineers, I don't know how many times they have trained.

Soon, seven or eight trenches were quickly filled out of the way, and the engineering soldiers continued to advance from the 500 meters in front of Xiyun City to the range of 300 meters.

Of course, because the distance is getting longer and longer, in order to save the time of carrying sandbags back and forth, General Fang is also constantly sending more engineers into the battlefield.

"Who is in charge of Xiyun City, is this guy sick!"

General Fang, who was impatient to wait, couldn't help but swear, "What's the use of making so many ditches? Idiot!"

After scolding, seeing the night approaching, he had to send more manpower again and again. The 300 engineering soldiers reserved soon all went to the battlefield, and even more than 600 logistics troops were also sent to help carry the sandbags.

"My lord, are we going to watch like this?"

At the head of Xiyun City, Xu Qing, who was full of disappointment, came back again. He only glanced at the situation outside the city and Chen Ze, who was as immobile as a mountain, and felt even more discouraged.

You said that you made so many trenches just to consume hundreds of sandbags and a little time from the enemy?

Digging was useless, and it was easily filled by the opponent. Less than half an hour later, the opponent easily advanced two hundred meters. Xu Qing looked left and right, but he didn't see what role these trenches played. .

Chen Ze didn't look sideways, and said indifferently: "Maybe the archer can attack?"

Without even looking, Xu Qing said in one breath, "I can't attack!"

Not to mention the archers, all the long-range attack methods in Xiyun City at this moment, even including the dismantled trebuchets, cannot attack at a distance of 500 meters.

This is also the reason why those engineering soldiers are confident and work hard.

"Since it can't be attacked, what else can I do if I don't look at it?"

Chen Ze asked with a light smile.

"..." Xu Qing opened his mouth, a burst of anger in his chest was endured and endured, and he finally suppressed it forcibly. While shaking his head dejectedly, he roared in his heart: "If you can't attack, you can dig a trench for five hundred meters and you can't attack!" What are you doing!"

West Cloud City... was destroyed!

Xu Qing looked sad and had no hope for this third-class counselor.

However, just when he thought of it, Chen Ze, who had been silently watching outside the city gate, suddenly had a flash of light in his eyes, and turned his head to wave to Meng Yang who was waiting beside him.

At this moment, the engineering soldiers outside the city advanced another 70 meters, leaving only about 200 meters away from the Xiyun City Gate, and this distance was the best attack distance for Meng Yang's five archer brothers!

Boom!

Boom boom boom boom!

The bowstring rang loudly on the tower, and the five elite archers in Xuanjia who had been instructed for a long time fired arrows that were soaked in resin and then ignited. The five rockets looked like five shooting stars piercing the sky under the last ray of the setting sun. Quickly attack the engineering brigade.

"Shou!"

The sword and shield guards guarding the engineering soldiers were also well prepared after entering this distance. When they saw the rockets coming, they roared fiercely. Hundreds of huge shields were raised high at the same time, covering themselves and the engineering soldiers.

"Are they just five archers?"

Leader Xu, who was watching the battle from the back of the formation, almost couldn't laugh his teeth out. The five ignited arrows were so eye-catching. Didn't this tell them clearly that there are not enough archers on the tower?

However, just as the smile on his face bloomed, there was a bang, and his eyes were full of fire.

fire!

The five rockets did not attack the enemy army outside the city, but only shot at the trench. As soon as the arrow fell, the wall of fire rose, and five flames soared into the sky between the poisonous mist army and the gate of Xiyun City in an instant. barrier!

"this!"

The slumped Xu Qing's complexion changed, and he glanced at Chen Ze in surprise.

There is a mystery hidden in these ditches, presumably Chen Ze ordered the five hundred weak soldiers to lay dry sticks and dry firewood in the ditches in advance, and then drenched them with kerosene, so that it was possible to instantly ignite the wall of fire with a rocket.

Just now Chen Ze said that he could not attack at a distance of 500 meters, presumably it was for this arrangement, Xu Qing estimated that there might be kerosene in the trenches from 200 meters away.

But on second thought, what's the use of this...

No matter how strong the flame is, there will always be a moment to extinguish it, it's just a little more time, but no matter how much it is delayed, it will not be delayed until the reinforcements arrive.

According to Xu Qing's thinking, since Chen Ze had this arrangement, it would be better to release the arrows later, and light the fire wall when the engineering soldiers approached, at least one or two of them could be burned to death.

Now that the enemy is being fired so loudly in front of the enemy's formation, the enemy is prepared, and the trenches behind are even less likely to be tricked!

How did he know that apart from really wanting to delay the time, the most fundamental purpose of Chen Ze's trench fire array was to give a signal!

As night fell, the flames soaring into the sky not only burned in the eyes of both the enemy and us, but also were carefully watched by those who had been hiding in the dark for a long time.

"My son's order is here, follow me!"

Guo Zi, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, suddenly shook his body, and an inexplicable powerful force suddenly spread throughout his body.

The general star of Wu'an, which was embedded in Guo Zi's body in advance, was also triggered by Chen Ze at the same time as the wall of fire rose!