After watching his troops leave, Zhao Yanxun himself was not idle, but went into the village to inspect.
This Zhuangzi is called Beixi Village. It is not very large in area. There are mountains to the northeast and a river to the southeast, so the defensive pressure is not very great.
Now that three armies are gathered here, Zhao Yanxun divides three sections of defense lines according to the terrain, and each of the three thousand households is responsible for one.
Among the three lines of defense, the north line and the middle line are under the greatest pressure, and Fang Sheng and Wang Cheng are responsible for the defense respectively.
The defensive pressure on the southern front was relatively light, so Zhao Yanxun gave it to Gao Zheng'an because he had the smallest number of subordinates.
The defense line is built based on private houses, so the actual defense line is not very long, and the longest southern line is only more than 200 meters.
Arriving at the entrance of the village, this area belongs to the middle line defense area, and there is a small road leading to the official road in front.
There are private houses on both sides of the village entrance. The defense line here is twenty meters long. It is the most difficult place to defend in the middle line.
At this moment, Fang Sheng is personally guarding here, directing and building a defensive line.
Looking ahead, Zhao Yanxun asked slowly: "I'm afraid it won't be of much use if you dig the ditch now!"
"It's better to dig as much as you can, it's better than not digging at all!" Wang Cheng explained with his waist raised.
Walking forward slowly, when he saw Zhao Yanxun arriving, all the soldiers around him knelt down and saluted.
"Do whatever you have to do, no need to be polite!" Zhao Yanxun said in a deep voice.
The soldiers continued to work, and then Zhao Yanxun asked: "In addition to digging trenches, how else do you plan to defend?"
"Reporting to the prince, apart from the ditch, there is Juma behind, and finally there is Fire Attack!"
"Fire attack?"
"I have been ordered to find wood, and use the strong ones to drive the horses, and the rest will be used as firewood!"
This arrangement was quite reasonable. Zhao Yanxun then asked: "What should be done if this line of defense is breached?"
Wang Cheng replied cautiously: "Reporting to the prince, as long as the village entrance is strictly guarded on the central line, even if other places are breached, we can still resist with the help of houses!"
The houses in Beixi Village are densely packed, which is why Zhao Yanxun chose this place for defense.
The number of zombies brought by Zhu Jinzhang was too great. Their army, which did not have the ability to maneuver quickly, was really at a disadvantage in defending in the wild.
"Be well prepared and be sure to guard against them!"
"I will not let you down!"
Nodding, Zhao Yanxun continued to inspect other places, while Wang Cheng continued to direct at the same place.
"See the prince..."
"See the prince..."
"No gift..."
Everywhere he went, Zhao Yanxun encountered soldiers saluting him, and he had to let them off one by one.
Looking around, there are people busy everywhere in the village.
Some were moving chairs and benches out, some were tearing down doors and beams, some were searching for firewood, and some were dragging bodies out.
These corpses are zombies that were wiped out in the village and need to be cleaned up and burned.
There were not many people in the village to begin with, and they had been leaving the village for more than a year, resulting in a further decrease in the number of zombies in the village.
When they came to the highest point in the village, there was a big locust tree. Zhao Yanxun jumped up.
Although the accompanying guards knew that Zhao Yanxun was highly skilled in martial arts, they were still frightened by the leap of nearly two feet. This was not the level a human should be.
"Your Highness is truly destined..."
This idea came to the minds of the guards, because this was the only reasonable explanation.
At this moment, Zhao Yanxun was looking out from a high place and could already see a large group of corpses approaching in the northwest, only four or five miles away from the village.
The group of corpses stretched for seven or eight miles to the east, being attracted by the Ming soldiers in front.
But this job is really not easy to do. As Zhu Xiaoan said before, there are too many difficulties in the process.
If you are not careful, the soldiers guiding the zombies will be entangled by the zombies and trapped to death.
"Brother, the Yong army has withdrawn into the village, making it much easier to defend. This is not good news!" Zhu Xiaohe said at the side.
Zhu Jinzhang smiled and said: "That being said, we are not in a hurry. Even if the corpse group cannot attack, we can still trap them to death as long as we surround them for seven or eight days!"
Zhu Xiaohe nodded repeatedly, but he did not expect this.
"The corpses surrounded them, so our manpower was sent to block the northern exit of Tianma Castle so that they could not get food out!"
Zhu Jinzhang smiled and said: "When the time comes, the Beixi Village in front will be their burial place!"
He had a rare smile on his face since the war started, and it was obvious that he was really happy at this moment.
But at this moment, a scout came from a distance on horseback, his face looking extremely anxious.
"Your Majesty, the Yong Army sent out cavalry and severely damaged two of our troops!"
The bad news came so suddenly, the smile on Zhu Jinzhang's face stopped abruptly.
"Cavalry? Where did Yong's army get the cavalry?" Zhu Jinzhang was extremely angry.
Before and after the launch, intelligence from various sources showed that the Yong army had no cavalry available at all.
Zhu Xiaohe said from the side: "Could it be...that it's our horse?"
"Xiao'an was defeated and retreated, but those horses are still there. They must have been captured by Yong's army!"
Not to mention, Zhu Xiaohe guessed it right.
"Where are they? Take me there!" Zhu Jinzhang said coldly.
Unless he kills these people himself, it will be difficult to eliminate the evil spirit in his heart.
"Your Majesty, it's just in the southwest..."
But just after he finished speaking, another person came on horseback and reported: "Your Majesty, the cavalry of Prince Yong's Mansion led the corpses to attack our army. Three teams have been trapped!"
Hearing this, Zhu Jinzhang felt as if he had been hit hard.
Of the fifteen teams under his command, three were severely damaged, and now four more teams are in danger. This makes Zhu Jinzhang feel better.
"I will take people to the north, Xiaohe, you go to the south, find Xiao'an... take his people and destroy the Yong Army cavalry!"
Zhu Xiaohe also knew that the matter was of great importance, so he quickly replied: "Yes!"
So the two set off separately. Zhu Jinzhang took more than fifty of his men with him, while Zhu Xiaohe only took five or six of his men to go south.
There were Yong Army cavalry wreaking havoc at both ends of the south, which affected nearly seven to eight thousand zombies. Only the middle ten thousand were guided to continue moving forward. At this moment, it was less than three miles away from Beixi Village.
"Woohoo...come on, come on..." the soldiers on horseback shouted loudly.
These soldiers of the Ming Army are attracting the corpses to move forward.
The officer leading the team said loudly: "The village is ahead. Let's get closer, lead the corpses to within twenty feet, and then throw the flesh and blood over!"
In addition to attracting people by sound, they also brought bloody pork, which they brought in the mountains.
The smell of blood and human voices attract zombies to move forward.
At this moment, these Ming Army soldiers could already see the Yong Army soldiers hiding behind the fortifications...
At this moment, the Ming army has entered the area of 30 feet, and their team of more than 40 people can complete the mission immediately.
But at this moment, I heard a shout from the other side: "Fire the arrow..."
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of sound in the air, and six Ming soldiers who were guiding the zombies were shot dead on the spot.
