Wei Yan called the formation for a day without seeing Liu Xun's response. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, he rode back to the camp and found the demon ant. He asked the demon ant to command its army of ants to help attack the city.
"We don't have many siege equipment, so don't act rashly unless we are completely sure." Chu Nan handed over the rams and ladders he brought to Wei Yan. Wei Yan decided how to fight the battle, but asked him to save some time.
Damn it, if these things are gone, they won't be able to fight large-scale sieges for a long time.
Although Chu Nan is opposed to forceful attack, being opposed to forceful attack and not having the ability to forcefully attack are two different things.
"Lord, I think Liu Xun's ability is average, but there should be powerful people in this city. Yesterday I chased Liu Xun, no matter how Liu Xun screamed, the city gate never opened. Today I scream like this, do you think the other party will
Won't you notice?" Wei Yan asked while nodding.
"When you have this doubt in your mind, no matter whether the other party notices it or not, just treat it as if the other party has noticed it." Chu Nan said almost without thinking.
Wei Yan nodded when he heard this and said: "General, I will not use these things tonight."
"The things have been given to you. It's up to you to decide how to use them." Chu Nan said casually.
"Well, I'll say goodbye!" Wei Yan agreed and went to find the demon ant. The demon ant can now communicate with people and can write a lot of words. This makes it very convenient for the demon ant to communicate with people other than Chu Nan.
Whether military skills can be used on ants has not yet been determined. Wei Yan roughly summarized the use of demon ants. If it is used as the main attack, the combat effectiveness is actually limited, unless it is against ordinary people, or like Shouchun, the basic public support has been dispersed.
The place.
But wherever there is a serious army, if the ant tide wants to win head-on, let alone the few ants that the demon ants have gathered now, even if it is the same as last time, it will take a few days to gather all the ants within a hundred miles.
use.
In Wei Yan's view, using the ant swarm for a frontal attack was a very foolish thing.
Ants can destroy some important enemy buildings, such as drum towers, catapults, and bed crossbows, which are not usually used. As long as you can identify them, they can be destroyed easily.
But monster ants can identify it, but it is difficult for ordinary ants to identify it. They can only determine a rough range.
The next step is to dig tunnels. This is also a common method for dealing with such fortified cities with large armies. However, ant waves may dig tunnels faster than people. The most important thing is that the movement is small and difficult to detect.
How should we fight if the enemy already knows that he is planning a surprise attack tonight?
Wei Yan brought the demon ants to the outside of Shuxian City and frowned while looking at the Shuxian City Wall?
In the end, Wei Yan planned to split up with the demon ant soldiers. He was responsible for leading the troops to attack the city. It would be best if he could capture it. It didn't matter if he couldn't. This time, his task was mainly to attract the defenders in the city, while the demon ants were responsible for taking advantage of the city.
When the defenders were attracted, they led their ant army to dig a tunnel into the city to prepare for the breach of the city tomorrow.
This city must be destroyed either tonight or tomorrow night, but it must be destroyed anyway.
After the demon ants probably finished what they wanted to do, they flew away immediately. Wei Yan took his troops and tried a sneak attack, but the entry into the city went surprisingly smoothly!
"Not good!" Wei Yan looked at the soldiers who covered the city head and started to seize the city gate. His heart sank and he quickly ordered them to withdraw from the city wall. But the next moment, when the city gate was opened, those soldiers got the order.
As he retreated, he heard the roar of gongs and drums in the city, followed by countless arrows flying in. The soldiers who opened the city gate were killed by arrows. Liu Xun led his troops to the outside of the city and picked up a human head.
He laughed loudly and said: "Wei Yan, why don't you attack? My general has been waiting for you in the middle of the night! Hahaha~"
Wei Yan snorted coldly, waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him formed a military formation, followed by a burst of crunching sounds, accompanied by the roar of the military formation's catapults, and stone bombs were thrown out one after another, breaking through the air.
The stone bullets fell like meteors!
"Junior, you were just lucky enough to beat me. Do you really think this general is so easy to bully!?" Liu Xun raised the spear in his hand, and an air wall appeared on the city wall. Although the stone bullet hit the air wall and shook violently, it still shook the air wall violently.
It has never been defeated.
Liu Xun took one look and laughed loudly: "Little thief Wei Yan, if you don't come to attack, my general will close the city gate!"
Wei Yan looked at the wide open city gate, his face sinking, but he had no intention of rushing forward. Upon seeing this, Liu Xun laughed and ordered his soldiers to close the city gate.
"Is there any ambush in the city?" Wei Yan frowned and ordered catapults and crossbows to fire stone bullets and giant crossbows at the enemy city wall wildly. At the same time, he ordered a group of men to go up to the city wall to wait and see. Only this time, the soldiers who tried to climb up the city wall
But he failed and was knocked off the city wall.
The formation has disappeared!?
However, Wei Yan noticed something was wrong. The opponent's military formation seemed to only protect the city wall, but not the soldiers on the wall. He said in a deep voice: "Quick, ladder, attack up! Maintain the military formation!"
Wei Yan quickly ordered his men to attack the city wall. There was a sound of fighting on the wall, but after a while, he saw a soldier running down and said to Wei Yan: "General, the enemy defending the city is not human!"
"??" When Wei Yan heard this, he frowned and looked at the other party: "What's the explanation?"
"When we climbed up to the city wall, we saw dozens of enemy soldiers on the wall. We didn't think much and rushed forward to fight. Only then did we realize that the enemy soldiers who appeared on the city wall were not living people at all, but corpses.
The wooden puppet is not very powerful, but it is spinning around on the city wall like a whirlwind. Our soldiers cannot take it down for a while, and the more they hit it, the faster it spins." The soldier said with a bitter smile.
"Wooden puppet?" Wei Yan frowned, and after a moment he said, "Take me to see it!"
With that said, Wei Yan personally led the team to the city, but saw a figure on the wall wandering around. He looked at it carefully, and it was indeed as the soldiers said, it was a human-shaped puppet. It was said to be human-shaped, but the bottom was conical.
Yes, the arm is made of the edge of a knife. When it turns, it is like a spirally rotating knife. If this thing touches it, I am afraid that there will be an extra gash on the body immediately.
Seeing a puppet turning this way, Wei Yan slashed with his backhand, but saw the puppet turning faster.
Wei Yan was a little surprised. He knew better than anyone else the weight of his sword. Although it was just a casual sword, ordinary generals might not be able to catch it.
And as he slashed out the knife, several other puppets turned this way, and they seemed to be in contact with each other?
"Retreat!" Wei Yan himself was not afraid, but even if the soldiers were protected by military formations, they might not be able to withstand a few blows, so he immediately ordered the generals to retreat.
"kill!"
At this moment, rows of black shadows appeared on the city tower, and they fired a series of shots in this direction. Wei Yan led his men and horses to retreat back from the city, protecting the ladder and retreating all the way out of the opponent's range.
Fortunately, the opponent did not use fire attacks, otherwise the ladder might not be able to be saved...
Just as he was thinking about it, Wei Yan suddenly paused and turned to look in the direction of the city. The opponent's series of counterattacks were interlocking with each other. How could he not have thought of the fire attack?
"General?" A general looked at Wei Yan and asked doubtfully.
"Catapults, pour kerosene on the stone bullets and throw them towards the city wall. Prepare rockets for me and shoot at the city head immediately!" Wei Yan turned around and looked in the direction of the city head. I'm afraid it's not that he didn't expect it, but he didn't dare to use it.
Fire attack, right?
The generals didn't know why, but they quickly agreed. They quickly brought kerosene and touched the stone bullets to ignite them, and then used catapults to throw them towards the city head.
The arrow clusters were wrapped in cloth strips, then ignited with kerosene on the altar, and shot towards the city. The arrow clusters were wrapped in cloth strips and turned into rockets. The accuracy and strength would be affected, but it was not important.
Wei Yan sat on his horse and stared in the direction of the city.
Sure enough, as stone bullets continued to fall on the city top, the wooden puppets spinning like tops were finally ignited. Looking at the city at this moment, I saw several figures who were ignited but still maintained their fire.
Irregular motion trajectories circled around the city wall, constantly igniting other wooden puppets. For a time, dozens of fire shadows appeared on a section of the city wall.
What surprised Wei Yan even more was that the ambushes who shot arrows on the city tower were also wooden puppets. No wonder they climbed up so easily when they sent people to steal the city, and no ambush was found. Such a silent ambush was very difficult to discover.
Disaster.
Where did the enemy's main force go?
Wei Yan's expression suddenly changed. There were not many enemy soldiers and horses, and it was enough to defend the city. But why do we need to rely on this thing to defend the city at night? The military formation that just protected the city wall didn't seem to be very powerful, and it relied more on popularity.
On the city wall, the opponent clearly had enough manpower, but they did not use soldiers and horses to ambush them. Instead, they produced dozens of puppets...
not good!
Thinking of this, Wei Yan quickly turned his horse's head and looked in the direction of the main camp. When he saw the fire lighting up again, his expression changed drastically. He didn't care about attacking the city and shouted: "Quick, gather the troops and follow me."
Go save our lord!"
Chu Nan didn't have any decent generals around him. If the enemy succeeded in a sneak attack, he would be in trouble.
Wei Yan and his men and horses had just driven halfway when they saw a bright fire in the Chu Nan camp, and the sound of killings was loud. Following the fire, there seemed to be black clouds passing by, and in the sky, a white dove kept swooping and flapping its wings.
"Kill!" The fierce sound of fighting resounded through the night sky, but it sounded like it was the Xuzhou Army that had the upper hand, but the sound of the Lujiang Army's sneak attack could hardly be heard.
"Hurry!" Although he was not sure what happened, Wei Yan still led his troops to rush towards the battlefield quickly, regardless of the burning city wall behind him. When he led his troops all the way to the vicinity of the Chunan camp, he saw a
Zhilujiang's rebel army was intercepted by Zhou Cang, Wei Yue and Pei Yuanshao, and was running away in all directions.
When Wei Yan saw this, without saying a word, he raised his sword and went forward. Cooperating with Zhou Cang, Wei Yue, and Pei Yuanshao, he killed the rebel army until they abandoned their helmets and armor, and fled in panic until dawn, following the Lujiang army.
, they fell one after another, leaving only corpses on the ground, and the battle was not completely over until this point.
"The general is so incompetent that he actually allowed these thieves to come to my lord. Please punish me!" Wei Yan led his men to Chu Nan, knelt down directly in front of Chu Nan, and said with a look of shame on his face.