Nightwatcher

Chapter 691: Ace Troop

Xu Erlang pointed to the map and said:

"Songshan County is one of the important strongholds in Yang Buzheng's second line of defense. If Songshan County is preserved, Qingzhou's grain and grass can be transported to the south through the Songhe route.

"The entire northwest area with Songshan County as the focus can be used as the rear of our army, supporting our army to entangle with the Yunzhou rebels."

Miao Youfang looked around. On the map, Xu Erlang used charcoal to draw the city walls occupied by the Yunzhou Army. "Songshan County" was like a nail embedded in the northwest of the rebel advance line. .

"If you draw it like this, I can see the importance of Songshan County. This hero is still wondering why such a small broken county is so important to Yang Buzheng, even though you often say it is an important stronghold of the defense line. .

"But what's important, I don't have a clear understanding of Mr. Miao. Isn't that obvious at a glance?"

Miao Youfang nodded while watching:

"Erlang is worthy of being a Jinshi of the two rankings. A scholar from Yunlu Academy, I am very comforted by this hero."

"Read more books when you have time to improve your rhetorical level." Xu Erlang replied calmly.

In the face of vulgar warriors, he is quite experienced.

Never easily angered.

Xu Erlang continued:

"Unless the Yunzhou rebels are defeated on the two fronts of Dongling and Wanjun, and they have to increase their troops to the battlefield and are unable to support Zhuo Haoran, otherwise, Zhuo Haoran will not withdraw his troops, but wait for support."

Dongling, Wanjun and Songshan counties formed the second line of defense.

"Then what should we do?" Miao Youfang asked without understanding.

"There is still plenty of food and grass in the city, as well as Zizhong who guard the city. Naturally, we can't stick to it and wait for the reinforcements of Yang Buzheng." Xu Nian pondered:

"The premise is that the battles at Dongling and Wanjun won't be too tragic."

"What if it's tragic?" Miao Youfang asked without understanding.

"Then be prepared to fight a protracted war in isolation." Xu Nian sighed.

Dongling and Wan County are relatively more important than Songshan County.

Fortunately, before he sent troops, Sun Xuanji gave him a large number of heavy firearms, including cannons, bed crossbows, cart crossbows, and firecrackers, all of which were powerful weapons for defending the city.

As for materials such as kerosene and rolling logs, Songshan County has a lot of reserves because of its own wealth.

The Dafeng garrison has the confidence to fight a protracted war.

While speaking, he summoned a centurion and ordered:

"Send scouts out from the west city, take pickaxes and shovels, sneak along the Song River, and squat down the enemy's grain road."

When the centurion took the order to leave, Miao Youfang took the initiative to analyze:

"You want to cut off the enemy's food and grass before the reinforcements come?"

A few days ago, he led the cavalry into the camp, massacred and burned the food and grass of the rebels. Even if the fire was finally extinguished, the remaining food and grass might not last for a few days.

Xu New Year said "hey":

"No, I want to destroy the official road, delay the speed of the enemy's reinforcements, and then anger Zhuo Haoran and force him to attack the city. In this way, we may be able to eat Zhuo Haoran's army before the reinforcements of the rebels arrive."

Marching and fighting must be accompanied by the transportation of food, grass and armaments, and these things depend on vehicles.

The normal movement of the vehicle depends on the road.

A route with thousands of holes will greatly delay the marching speed of reinforcements.

"Brother Miao, you just went through a hard battle, go eat some meat, and you have to be on duty at night."

Xu Nian rubbed his swollen temples and exhaled, "I'm going to take a rest too."

He hadn't closed his eyes all day and all night.

After leaving Miao Youfang, Xu Erlang fell asleep wearing light armor, the hard and diaphragmatic equipment did not hinder him in any way, and fell asleep very quickly.

This is due to the experience of going north to support Yaoman. At that time, the coalition forces of Dafeng and Yaoman were dispersed, and the remnants were scattered everywhere, and they would encounter crisis at any time.

Therefore, he practiced the magical skill of falling asleep quickly even wearing armor.

"Boom boom boom"

The dense and heavy drumming woke up Xu Erlang, he opened his eyes suddenly, bounced off the simple bed, subconsciously turned his head to look at the water leak beside the bed, the time was four o'clock.

just before dawn.

He rushed out of the Urn City with a standard saber in hand. It was pitch black, and the light of the torches on the top of the city was burning fiercely in the cold night.

Miao Youfang, who was rushing towards Wengcheng, met Xu Erlang's eyes, grinned and said:

"That guy is a lunatic, and he took the initiative to attack the city. Isn't this just what we want, and we don't need to think about aggressive methods."

Xu Erlang frowned while walking towards the battlements and said:

"Zhuo Haoran has a violent and impulsive personality, and is easy to fall into aggressive tactics, but we haven't used aggressive tactics yet, and he is not an ordinary person, so he should know that the remaining troops alone are not enough to attack the city.

"This matter is strange."

Miao Youfang asked, "What's wrong?"

I'm not a supervisor, so how did I know that Xu Nian came to the battlements, looked into the distance cautiously, and saw dense enemy troops approaching the city through the expanding flames from the artillery fired from the top of the city.

"Is this going to burn jade and stone together?"

Xu Erlang frowned.

As the thought flickered, he suddenly fell to the left, and a cannonball roared and exploded in his hiding place. The flames rolled in air waves and debris, and splashed in all directions.

Miao Youfang inflated the blower to block the scorching air, allowing Xu Erlang to avoid the fate of being seriously injured.

"Damn it!"

Xu Erlang got up covered in cold sweat, bowed his waist, and ran towards the horse path, shouting:

"Catapults throw kerosene lighting.

"Archers, gunners, get ready, don't lift the oil barrel, first lift the log."

Under his command, the defenders launched a defensive counterattack in an orderly manner. There were rumbles of artillery firing and loud explosions of shells everywhere.

The expanding flames exploded below the city, and exploded on the city wall.

The artilleryman was killed, and the reserve team quickly replaced them.

The bed crossbow artillery was destroyed, and the militia immediately brought in new heavy weapons.

In addition, these conscripted militiamen ran back and forth on the horse path with their waists bent, rescuing the wounded.

The battle was extremely intense.

Holding a standard saber, Zhuo Haoran deftly avoided artillery, arrows, and logs thrown from the top of the city.

We approached the city gate smoothly.

The city gate had been destroyed by him three days ago, but the Yunzhou army failed to pass through the city gate, because the city defenders had already moved tons of stones to block the gate.

There is only one small door that can only allow one person and one horse to pass through.

When defending the city, the small gate was blocked by huge stones.

When leaving the city, dozens of militiamen used hemp ropes to pull away the boulders.

This kind of tactic was commonplace before the emergence of the warlock system.

In ancient times, a separate warehouse for storing stones was built at the gate of each city to ensure that the defenders could quickly seal the gate in time of war.

After the emergence of the warlock system, border towns and main cities were protected by arrays, and the "city closure tactic" was gradually abandoned.

In the past year, Yang Gong resumed the strategy of closing the city and ordered the counties and counties to build warehouses and prepare stones.

The city closure tactics mainly guard against the fourth-rank masters, the city gates cannot stop martial artists of this level, and the city closure technique can ensure that the enemy troops can still be blocked after the city gates are destroyed.

After all, the army is still dominated by ordinary soldiers and low-level warriors.

Zhuo Haoran jumped up, took a few steps on the city wall, and easily climbed to the top of the city. With a sweep of the blade, he cut a cannon and two gunners in two.

thump, thump. Miao Youfang stepped out of the deep pits one after another on the horse path, like a mad bull, bumping into Zhuo Haoran of the fourth rank with his body of the fifth rank.

Zhuo Haoran let out a grin, and the saber intent erupted, and the standard saber instantly turned red like a branding iron, with the intention of beheading everything, as if he was going to kill a fifth-rank guy under the saber.

Not far away, under the protection of the two guards, Xu Erlang swelled with a faint fresh air, with one hand on his back and the other on his lower abdomen, he said in a deep voice:

"Big man, die without regrets.

"My husband, be kind and righteous."

Hanging around his waist, Yang Gong's jade pendant lit up, adding strength to Haoran's righteousness.

At the same time, the guard on Xu Erlang's left bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot an arrow into the sky.

The arrows were tied with fireworks and exploded high in the sky.

After these two sentences, Miao Youfang seemed to have taken a stimulant, and his breath rose sharply, while Zhuo Haoran's eyes were obviously in a daze, the word "benevolence and righteousness" prevented him from chopping out the knife in his hand.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Miao Youfang bullied himself and approached him, slapped the knife in his hand, followed by a lunge on the shoulder, Zhuo Haoran's body flew into the air uncontrollably, and then, Hua Jin Wufu's Expertise -

One set will kill you!

Xu Erlang is a benevolent person of the seventh rank, and what he just used was the ability of the eighth rank of self-cultivation - the power of literary courage.

The greatest function of the power of gallantry is to boost morale, increase the combat power of one's own soldiers, and eliminate certain diseases.

Secondly, it can temporarily affect the enemy's will, and if used well, it can weaken the enemy.

The eighth grade of self-cultivation is the power of writing and courage, and the advanced version is the five virtues. As the name suggests, virtues regulate people's words and deeds, and require others with the "six virtues of a gentleman".

This is very similar to the precepts of Buddhism.

It's just that there is no room for advancement in precepts, and virtue, one step further, is to follow the law.

At that point, there is no need for the "six virtues of a gentleman" to regulate people's words and deeds, and it can be done arbitrarily and forcibly.

boom!

Miao Youfang's combo was forcibly interrupted by Zhuo Haoran who came back to his senses, he was kicked in the lower abdomen immediately, and immediately flew backwards, rolling continuously on the horse path.

Zhuo Haoran ignored the embarrassed Miao Youfang, stomped on the female wall repeatedly, and killed Xu Erlang with a clear goal.

In the past several siege battles, this scholar who was born in Yunlu Academy made him suffer a lot. Relying on the short-term restraint of Confucian magic and cooperating with a fifth-rank martial artist, he repeatedly failed him.

Miao Youfang plowed deep marks on the ground with both elbows and feet, forcefully unloaded, and opened his palm to shoot the two shells in the basket and fling them towards Zhuo Haoran.

Then ignite with a gas engine.

"boom!"

The expanding fire enveloped Zhuo Haoran, Xu Erlang took the opportunity to retreat under the protection of the guards.

He was extremely calm, and he didn't feel the slightest fear of being chased and killed by a fourth-rank martial artist. After Zhuo Haoran rushed out of the fire, he once again cheered up:

"A gentleman should regard peace as the most important thing.

"A gentleman should sacrifice his life for righteousness."

Miao Youfang jumped out from the side with a ferocious expression, entangled with Zhuo Haoran and rolled down the wall.

Dangdang. During the process, the two used their hands and elbows together and fought fiercely. The enemy troops climbing along the ladder were affected and fell screaming.

Miao Youfang was quickly defeated, and Zhuo Haoran punched open the empty door. Immediately afterwards, Zhuo Butcher's palm was like a knife, and the knife's intention erupted in Miao Youfang's chest.

At that time, a sharp gun light shot out like a comet, interrupting Zhuo Haoran's attack and forcing him to block with a palm knife.

Zhu Jun flitted across the wall, and rushed over at a critical moment.

With the strength of Xu Erlang and Miao Youfang, it was really difficult to deal with Zhuo Haoran. Whenever Zhuo Haoran attacked the city, Xu Erlang would let people use fireworks as a letter to notify Zhu Jun at the north city gate.

Zhu Jun knew that the fourth rank of the enemy army was here, so he would rush over immediately.

"boom!"

In the air wave like a cannon explosion, Miao Youfang took the opportunity to break free, stepped on the city wall and returned to the top of the city, guarding Xu Erlang's side.

After Zhuo Haoran split the spear, he also returned to the top of the city and stood on the female wall.

Zhu Jun intervened between the two sides, beckoned for a spear, and confronted Zhuo Haoran.

Zhuo Haoran glanced at Zhu Jun, looked at Xu Nian behind him, and said with a sneer:

"I once boasted in front of the general that I captured Songshan County in five days. Now it is the eighth day, the city has not been captured, and more than half of the elite troops under my command have been lost.

"I can't think of Lao Tzu's first famous name, planted on you, a yellow-haired boy."

Xu Erlang responded calmly, and said lightly:

"It's not wrong for a son to fall on Lao Tzu."

Zhuo Haoran's face flashed with anger, he held back his emotions, and said slowly:

"Do you know why I attacked the city tonight?"

This is exactly what Xu Erlang was puzzled about, but he just responded lightly:

"Because you're tired of living."

A vein twitched on Zhuo Haoran's forehead: "I don't need to get angry with a dying person, because the elite that the national teacher devoted himself to training has already arrived."

"Cruel~"

Suddenly, a high-pitched and sharp cry came from the sky.

At this time, there is a slight dew in the east, and the sky is blue.

Under the deep blue sky, a group of huge monsters flapped their wings and rushed towards Songshan County.

"Suzaku Army!"

Zhuo Haoran glanced at the horizon, retracted his eyes, and said with a sinister smile:

"If the city is broken today, I will slaughter it for three days and three nights."

Flying Beast Army. Xu Erlang's pupils contracted.

Southern Xinjiang.

Xu Qi'an summoned the Pagoda of the Buddha, and the door of the pagoda opened, casting a beam of light.

In the beam of light is Mu Nanzhi holding Bai Ji.

"looking for me?"