The largest city in the central part of Anling County is called Chunyang City.
Just like its name, the scenery here is as beautiful as spring all year round.
Chunyang City is adjacent to Ninghe River in the west and is the most important river transportation place in Anling County. It is connected to Roucheng in the north and Nancheng in the south. It has convenient transportation and developed commerce and trade.
To the east of Chunyang City is Chunyang Mountain. Chunyang Mountain points north and south but does not stretch too far. It just blocks the city from everything coming from the east like a transcendent city wall, keeping the good weather and good weather.
West of Chunyang Mountain.
At this time, the sun in Chunyang City was still bright, but the people in the city could not feel the warmth at all, because the war was raging here, and the shouts of killing coming from the north and south walls were like winter thunder, shaking people's hearts with chills, and from time to time they sounded
The muffled sound of the boulders hitting the city wall was more like a drum beating in people's hearts, heavy and depressing.
The defenders on the city wall had long been numb and could only shoot arrows or throw stones mechanically amidst the roars of the officers. Even if the fear in their hearts was swallowing their hearts like demons, they did not dare to take a step back because
In the three days since the enemy's attack, nearly a hundred fearful and cowardly warriors had been beheaded in public by Lord Shiromu's soldiers!
They did not die under the enemy's sword but died in the hands of their own people first. Not only that, after their death, their family members would be forcibly recruited to the city wall. The old ones were already at an age where it was difficult to hold a sword.
The younger ones would be so frightened that they would pee and pee, but even so, the city pastor did not let them take a step back. Anyone who was too timid to do so would be punished as a deserter.
To desert is to die.
To advance without retreat is to fight to the death.
There were already many corpses piled outside the city, but the number of corpses inside the city was not that small at all.
The military town outside the city was in constant rotation, and flying swords were hovering in the air with unparalleled momentum. Whenever a city wall was suppressed by a volley of trebuchets and could not raise its head, the flying swords would fall and be destroyed by the people inside the city.
The flying sword can block it well, but once it fails to intercept, the flying sword will be like a sickle that harvests human lives, cutting through the city wall, leaving a bloody...
There are also flames and thick smoke, rising on the wind, coming with the wind, overwhelming the sky, and seemingly never ending...
Despair...
Three or four miles away from the city, the attacking army's camp was built on a high ground. In front of the camp, the general's flag with the word "Chen" was flying in the wind. Under the general's flag, Chen Jingzhi, wearing silver armor and a red cloak, stood expressionless.
There, he watched the offensive and defensive game up and down the distant city wall motionlessly, and military orders popped out from his mouth from time to time, which were then passed on by the herald and quickly fed back to the battlefield with flags. The surging winds and clouds forced him to the city wall again and again.
There is almost no way to survive.
But every time the city wall seemed to be on the verge of a desperate situation, a surge of life would emerge from the inside out, filling the gap and taking away the lives of the waves of soldiers who came to attack the city...
.
"General!" A military commander covered in dust and black charcoal stains came flying from the high ground. As he ran, he lifted up his visor, revealing a dirty but very young face. He was a little out of breath.
He ran to Chen Jingzhi and gave a military salute and then said, "General, Han Feng's soldiers are all too weak. Please replace them all with my men. As long as the general promises me that he will capture the South City Gate before dark,
General, I would like to issue a military order, I...!"
"Go back and take your troops," Chen Jingzhi uttered eight words without even looking at the young military commander.
The young military commander took one look at Chen Jingzhi's face and did not dare to say another word. His face was full of anger, but he could only grit his teeth and turn around and run back to the battlefield.
A woman wearing white clothes and a white hat and veil who was always standing not far behind Chen Jingzhi slowly walked up to Chen Jingzhi, looking at the battlefield in the distance like him and said, "Let our people go, don't worry, Chunyang City
It's not Xigu Pass. You can enter the city by just sneaking into the team and attacking with force." She turned to look at Chen Jingzhi and said slowly, "If he loses too many men and wastes too much time in Chunyang City, it will not be useful for his overall plan.
unfavorable."
"It's not that Jingzhi is unwilling, but that he can't." Chen Jingzhi was still staring at the battlefield. He paused and handed down two more military orders before turning to the woman in white and saying, "Jingzhi thought when he first arrived at Chunyang City three days ago.
They quickly captured this big city, but they were accidentally ambushed by the city's defenders and lost a lot of men. They even lost half of their siege equipment. It can be said that the Cangyan Army suffered the first major defeat since it sent troops. This is also
It’s nothing. I think we just need to fight steadily from now on. After all, judging from the intelligence left by Han Feng, our side has an advantage over the Chunyang City defenders in terms of both the number of troops and the level of experts, but there are all kinds of conspiracies.
Every time we are about to make an achievement, we will fail. It seems that the defense of the city has been extremely difficult, but in fact it is not the case. The defender in the city is just tempting us to show him our cards one by one."
"Since you already know the opponent's intention and you still attack like this for three days, are you trying to lure the opponent to reveal his trump card first?" asked the woman in white.
"There is no point in trying to be smart when you encounter someone of the level of the city guard." Chen Jingzhi shook his head and looked at the battlefield in the distance with calm eyes, "I was just testing the defense line on the other side. No matter how good the guard in the city is,
Defend, but after all, the time I have been here is too short, it is impossible to build the defense line of Chunyang City like Sichuan City. No matter the thickness or completeness of the defense line is not perfect, as long as I increase the offensive intensity to a certain level
, and then rely on the superiority of troops to attack in turns, the defenders in the city will most likely collapse first."
He lowered his voice and seemed to be talking to himself, "The straw that breaks the camel's back is never the last straw. The morale of the people in Chunyang City is not good enough. It is impossible to win this battle without force, but there is nothing we can do if everyone is their own master...
..”
The woman in white looked back at Chen Jingzhi again, "You mean the city guard is not Chunyang City Shepherd Yan Zhengting, but the one who defeated Meng Zian... Chuan City Guard Xing Jushu?!"
"Yan Zhengting has guarded Chunyang City for the Yan family for decades. He is undoubtedly loyal. I believe he dares to launch a life-and-death battle for the entire city. But based on this scattered defense line, I know that he is not the chief defender of the city.
"Well, if he was actually in charge of the army, I would have entered the city on the second day at most." Chen Jingzhi shook his head, "But the situation is completely different now. Not only is he the person in charge of the army in the city, nine out of ten
It is Xing Jushu, and there is a high probability that he will bring many masters, even that person... Therefore, we cannot allow any luck in this battle. We must go all out and not make any big mistakes, otherwise we will not be able to
When we talk about troops entering Roucheng and Sichuan City, even this Chunyang City... we can't even enter."
As soon as they finished speaking, the woman in white and Chen Jingzhi looked to the north together. Their gazes crossed the entire Chunyang City and landed on the north city wall, because right at the stall where they were talking, a sound suddenly came from the distant direction of the north city wall.
There was a loud explosion, and immediately visible to the naked eye, a corner of the city wall there was missing!!
"That's..." The woman in white's voice was full of murderous intent, "A strong man in the seventh realm!!!"
Chen Jingzhi remained expressionless, but narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly, "In this case, this battle... will be a matter of life and death!!!"