The Era of Generals

"My lord, this is a great plan!"

At the head of Xiyun City, Xu Qing, who had been lamenting and pessimistic all the time, swept away the gloom on his face, and looked at Chen Ze with bright eyes.

He naturally saw the fire behind the poisonous fog army, and at the same time guessed the cause of the fire.

Regarding Chen Ze's abnormal behavior of ordering people to dig a trench at a distance of 500 meters, he suddenly understood at this moment, and guessed the key to it.

It turned out to be the idea!

While showing admiration on his face, Xu Qing also punched himself on the head, feeling ashamed at the previous contempt for Chen Ze.

But Chen Ze was calm, which was praised by Xu Qing. He just turned his head and smiled at him slightly, and still focused on the enemy army outside the city.

"My lord, what shall we do now?"

Xu Qing, who thought he had guessed Chen Ze's plan, rubbed his hands excitedly, and said sternly, "Would you like to take advantage of the chaos in the opponent's army and rush out to fight him!"

This time it was Chen Ze's turn to be stunned. He rolled his eyes at an angle that Xu Qing couldn't see, and when he turned to look at Xu Qing, he seemed to be looking at an idiot.

"I don't think it's necessary..."

"Instead of risking my life out of the city, I might as well just wait in the city."

He shook his head slightly, rejecting Xu Qing's suggestion.

"wait?"

The excitement on Xu Qing's face stagnated, and he said anxiously: "My lord, absolutely not!"

Chen Ze asked: "How do you say?"

"My lord, look!"

Xu Qing pointed to the fire outside the city, and said eagerly: "Because of your lord's ingenious plan, the enemy has no food and grass at this moment. This is our great opportunity, if we miss it..."

He raised his finger and pointed further away, "When the enemy army sent people back to the Forest of Poisonous Mist to bring food and grass, my lord's plan was in vain, at most it delayed the enemy army for half a day, that's all. If we can't wait for reinforcements at this time, it won't help!"

Chen Ze waited for him to finish, then shook his head and said, "They dare not go back to transport grain and grass."

Although Chen Ze did not expect that the soldiers of the supply team would exaggerate the number of ambushes in order to save their lives, but he told Guo Zi and others to retreat immediately after a blow, and he did order them to sneak into the forest of poisonous mist.

Of course, the purpose is not to really force Guo Zi and others to hit the food transport troops like death squads, but just to serve as a deterrent.

He just wants to let the enemy commander know that I made it clear that an ambush was arranged on your road to transport food, will you be lucky?

Unlucky, it is necessary to send more people in order to prevent ambushes, resulting in insufficient troops.

If that was the case, Chen Ze wouldn't mind waiting until the other party was most exhausted to come out of the city. This was also the purpose of arranging the 2,000 people at the west gate to rest in rotation, just to keep a commando team in good condition in his hands.

If you are unlucky, the enemy has only two choices, either retreat the whole army, or attack the city with all their strength.

If he retreats, Chen Ze has no way to keep the opponent, but it doesn't matter, the gap between retreat and advance is enough for him to do a lot of things, next time the poisonous fog army comes again, it will not be so easy to drive straight in.

As for another option...

When Chen Ze was analyzing the situation to Xu Qing, it was also the time when General Fang pointed his sword at Xiyun City.

"Attack Xiyun City with all your strength?"

Xu Qing's eyes were wide open, and he couldn't help turning his head to look outside the city. It seemed that the other party was really about to make a big push, and his expression changed drastically.

"Isn't this counterproductive?"

Attacking the city with all your strength when the food and grass are known to be destroyed, this is cutting off your own escape route, and if a person has no escape route...

"Not urgent."

But Chen Ze said calmly: "They won't be able to attack for a while."

"Instead of worrying about this, why don't you go down and see for me, is that thing ready?"

The direction he pointed was inside the city wall.

"this is!"

Xu Qing wanted to say something more, but knew that Chen Ze would not listen to him, so he shook his head helplessly and walked down the tower.

However, through the incident of burning food and grass, Xu Qing no longer doubted Chen Ze so much, and even had a faint expectation. Perhaps, it was as Mr. Jing said...

After sending Xu Qing away, when Chen Ze looked out of the city again, the corner of his mouth curved into a cruel arc.

Defend the city for five days?

Waiting for reinforcements?

No, he didn't want to.

After coming to this world, apart from such trivial matters as suppressing bandits, this battle is his first battle in the true sense!

How could the first battle end with the defense of the city for five days?

The reason why he said that he was not sure about defeating the enemy when he was at the military plane, but only sure about delaying time, was because of his identity.

It is not convincing for a small counselor to volunteer to be the commander of the city defense. If he can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop with his outrageous words, what will happen?

I'm afraid that even that Mr. Jing will think that he is a bombastic talker, so how can he rest assured to hand over the military token to him?

It is said that the city will be defended for five days, but from the very beginning, Chen Ze has been planning a strategy to defeat the enemy with one blow.

Whether it was digging trenches or ordering Guo Zi to lead his men to destroy food and supplies, what Chen Ze was doing was the same thing, that was... procrastination!

If you want to say what his greatest strength is, it is undoubtedly the star.

But two of his three generals are cooling off today, and their strength is not at full strength.

Furthermore, the use of the general star has a time limit. Without providing fragment enhancements, the initial time for possessing to appear is only half an hour.

Therefore, Chen Ze not only had to procrastinate, but also needed to control the battle situation within the effective time of the general star. This was the key to whether he could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Right now, everything is going according to his plan. Even when he looked outside the city in a blink of an eye, Chen Ze could already see the poisonous fog army lined up in a tight formation, advancing step by step towards Xiyun City.

As he expected, the general who commanded the poisonous fog army finally chose to fight hard, and launched a full-scale attack when the soldiers' supply demand was not high for the time being!

This is also predictable.

After all, the poisonous mist army can retreat safely, but what about the millions of elites around Emperor Zhu Yan?

Fighting is exhausting, and the consumption will increase every day. The Zhuyan Empire is also anxiously waiting for Xiyun City to be broken, so that they can drive straight in and cut off the logistics supplies of Bo'an City.

Based on this consideration, the choices the other party can make are within expectation.

Then, the next step is to strictly control the time for the decisive battle between the two armies. Regarding this point, Chen Ze has already made arrangements.

The five walls of fire that had been lit before were gradually being extinguished, and the army of poisonous mist had also advanced 300 meters away from Xiyun City, just beyond the range of the archers.

Catapults, siege towers, battering rams, these large siege equipment have been pushed out by the opponent, and the final general attack will be launched as soon as the flames are extinguished!

However, at this moment, when the five walls of fire were about to be extinguished, Chen Ze's hand slowly swiped across the night sky.

Whoosh!

Another rocket that was burning with flames came.

boom!

In another trench behind the five walls of fire, exuberant flames soared into the sky!