The Era of Generals

"Damn it!"

General Fang, who was guarded by sword and shield hands, had a livid face. Looking at the wall of fire in front of him, the flames in his eyes were also soaring.

After finally waiting for the five walls of fire to gradually extinguish, he hurriedly ordered the engineering soldiers to fill up the passage, trying to take down Xiyun City in one go.

As a result, the siege equipment had just been pushed to the front line, and before it could play a role, a wall of fire suddenly sprang up to silence everyone.

The fire is big.

According to Chen Ze's instructions, the soldiers poured enough kerosene into the two hundred meters behind the trench. Once ignited, it exploded like an explosion, and the flames that sprang out were almost as high as a person.

Although the trench was not dug wide, it only needed a run-up sprint to leap over, at most a few strands of hair were scorched.

But what about siege engines?

In order to prevent the wheels from getting stuck, these trenches have to be filled!

However, the flames are not like breaking ice into pieces. When they went down with a bag of sand, before the fire in this piece was extinguished, the flames on both sides closed together again, and no gap could be seen from above.

The catapult is made of wood. Although the siege tower is covered with wet animal skins, there are no wheels. Moreover, with the intensity of the fire, the animal skins will be dried out in a short time. The rocket volley can't withstand a few rounds.

To fill in a gap in the wall of fire for siege equipment to pass through, it would cost at least twice as much sandbags than the ordinary trench before!

The sandbags from before can be picked up and used after the siege equipment passes through, but what about the ones in the fire pit?

The sand is not afraid of fire, but the sacks containing the sand are afraid of fire. Once the sand is thrown in, the sand will be scattered early, and it cannot be reused at all. The number of sandbags carried by the poisonous fog army is completely insufficient.

As for using the giant shield of the sword and shield hand to build a passage...

What would it be to roll a wooden wheel over hot chrome?

General Fang didn't want to make such a pointless attempt.

then.

"wait!"

Facing the questioning eyes of the leaders of various forces, General Fang gritted his teeth and forced the word out of his throat.

Right now, we can only wait until the flame goes out!

The flames in the trench were huge, and no one continued to add firewood and fuel to it. After burning for a while, the flames would become smaller, just like the five fire walls just now.

General Fang could see very clearly that even though the trenches behind this wall of fire were full of kerosene, they could only stop them for a while. According to the speed at which the wall of fire went out before, at most it would be at midnight, and all the fuel in the trenches would be destroyed. will be exhausted.

It's only a child's hour, although there are still more than two hours, but it is far from the point where his soldiers are dizzy with hunger, and their strength will not be greatly affected.

Of course, General Fang, who knew nothing about Chen Ze, didn't know what the word Zishi meant.

With calculations in his mind, General Fang was not in a hurry. He arranged for the army to rest on the spot first, and then asked everyone to take out the small amount of dry food they carried and distribute them evenly.

In terms of formation, he also made adjustments.

General Fang didn't forget the ambush behind him, and he didn't want to be stabbed by an unexpected ambush from behind during the fierce battle.

Therefore, a part of the army was allocated to defend the rear, and together with the cavalry on both sides, an iron barrel formation was formed under Xiyun City.

At the same time, he was not obsessed with taking down the west city gate. While waiting for the flames to go out, he also sent scouts to investigate the situation of the other two city gates. Once he had the opportunity, he didn't mind bypassing the west city gate and attacking the other two gates. two places.

When everything was ready, General Fang looked through the flames and stared straight at the word Xiyun on the top of the tower, his face full of resentment.

His military rank in the Zhuyan Empire was not low. When he sneaked into the Poisonous Mist Forest three years ago, he was a sixth-class partial general. Accepting this mission was also because of the high military achievements of the reward, which would allow him to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant in one fell swoop.

After carefully planning for three years, I wanted to succeed in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect that I was stuck at the first step just after I walked out of the poisonous mist forest.

All of this was brought to him by the current commander of the city defense of Xiyun City. General Fang was full of indignation, and secretly vowed that when the city was broken, he must crush this person to ashes, so that he could vent his hatred!

And Chen Ze...

Chen Ze was not on the tower, and he didn't feel the slightest bit of resentful gaze from General Fang.

Seeing that the army of poisonous fog under the city was stopped by the fire wall at a distance of 200 meters, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the situation was still under control for the time being.

The biggest threat to city defense is the siege equipment on hand of the enemy.

Needless to say, the siege tower had to be pushed to the edge of the city wall to play its biggest role, and Chen Ze had already calculated the catapult with powerful long-range strike capability.

The catapult is just four wheels installed on the catapult. The attack distance is the same. If it is flat ground, it is about 100 meters, but if you want to shoot upwards and attack the tower, the distance must be shortened to 70 meters. Otherwise, the stone bombs could only hit the city wall. With the thickness of Xiyun City Wall, the opponent only had three catapults, which was far from enough to knock down the city wall with just throwing stones.

Since the opponent didn't even reach the effective attack distance, he naturally had no reason to stay on the top of the city and stare. Taking advantage of this time, Chen Ze came down from the city wall and went with Li Quanan to check the things he had assigned before. schedule.

As for Meng Yang and the group of spearmen with swords, shields and spearmen, they are nowhere to be found. Chen Ze's own soldiers on the tower are only the five archers who are closely watching the fire below. A trench, very stable.

"grown ups!"

"grown ups!"

Coming down from the city wall, all the soldiers along the way stood at attention and saluted when they saw Chen Ze, with respect from the bottom of their hearts on their faces.

No one has the confidence to defend Xiyun City, which is still safe and sound. Whether it is the fire wall outside the city or the fire of the enemy army formation, it is all done by Chen Ze. The pessimism and despair of the soldiers have weakened a lot. After stabilizing the morale of the army and revitalizing their morale, the soldiers' admiration for Chen Ze was beyond words.

But right now is not the time to relax.

While responding to the soldiers, Chen Ze led Li Quan'an to the square in front of the city gate, where people were crowded and shouting, everyone was busy with the work at hand.

The ten trebuchets have basically been set up, and at this time they are arranged in the shape of arrows in the formation of one, two, and three, and the arrow points point to the outside of the city gate.

"My lord, the trebuchet has been set up!"

Seeing Chen Ze approaching, Xu Qing, who commanded the soldiers, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and ran to Chen Ze to report.

"very good!"

Chen Ze glanced at it, nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile, "Where's the slinger? Tell everyone to gather, it's time for class."