The actions of more than 40,000 people, no matter how well they take secrecy measures, will still leak the news and arouse the vigilance of the enemy.

Zhang Long first noticed the abnormality.

He hears sounds that shouldn't be heard, and then he struggles to find the source of the sound, and then he thinks about what is causing the sound.

Because he was an expert in digging trenches and caves, he had a set of earthen equipment that listened to sounds.

This listening device consists of two utensils, a jar-shaped object, which is a pottery zuò made from the finest clay firing, filled with clean water.

The other is a drum-shaped, also made of ceramic, with an empty inside and a layer of cowhide on the outside.

These two items are placed in a well-chosen place, which is generally quiet and remote, unaffected by other activities.

Both of these items are very receptive to sound, and they can both pick up sounds that are inaudible to the human ear, resulting in an echo that can be seen vibrating in the water.

When the Heavenly Army opened up the troop transport hole, Zhang Long had already noticed the sound, but because this was the area where Zhang Long was located, and those holes were very deep, even if he noticed it, he couldn't find the source of the sound, so he had to stop it.

However, when the Celestial Army built the Second Ring Trench, it was different, and this sound surrounded the whole city, coming from the periphery and from all directions, which was impossible to ignore.

And the source of the sound is also easy to identify, right on the periphery!

Zhang Long also has a unique way of identifying the direction, he just changes the direction and angle of the two instruments, and the situation of receiving sound is different. The location of the sound source is determined.

Zhang Long also made a decisive decision on the spot, and immediately sent a team of people to test it.

He can still send troops to deploy generals, and after Zeng Guoquan returned, he did not take back his military power.

This undoubtedly gave him great convenience.

However, things did not go as expected, and a team of ten people he sent, together with the ten-man commander, beat dogs like meat buns, and no one came back!

After the allotted time, Zhang Long waited another five minutes. No one has returned. Then he sent another centurion and led a hundred men.

Not only did the number of people increase, but so did the number of teams, and he sent a total of eight hundred-man teams!

He demanded all of them. As soon as you encounter an abnormality. Immediately shout loudly. Send the message back!

Then, let man not fall in love with war and encounter enemies. Retreat now!

This time it really worked, and it didn't take long, so I put it back and yelled.

"Someone!"

"There are traps!"

"There's a ditch!"

"Ah......h

Zhang Long breathed a sigh of relief, this trick really worked, and finally discovered the enemy's whereabouts!

Then his breath was raised again, and he never heard any more shouting!

I'm eight hundred!

Could it be that all 800 people were eaten in one bite?

Moreover, my 800 men are divided into several routes, each in charge of one side, is there an enemy in all directions?

That is, we are surrounded?

What made him even more frightened was that these 800 men were all very good soldiers, and he had told them in advance that if they encountered an enemy, they should run quickly, and if they couldn't even run, wouldn't it be too terrible?

At this time, Zhang Long, who had always been calm, couldn't hold his breath anymore, and hurriedly found Zeng Guoquan and reported the situation.

"I'm sure that we have been surrounded! And the enemy's combat strength is quite terrifying! Yuan Fu, we should make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise, knowing that the back road is cut off, it will cause the morale of the army to be shaken!" Zhang Long told Zeng Guoquan of his reasoning, and proposed his own proposal.

Zeng Guoquan had not yet recovered from the blow of the failed sneak attack, and when he suddenly heard this worse news, his face turned white!

It seems that not only will it not be able to wash away the previous humiliation, but it will also add new wounds!

Now is not the time to think about face and meritorious service, but to be able to live.

If the other heavenly army makes dumplings, it will be impossible to escape when the time comes.

At this time, action must be taken now!

Zeng Guoquan is indeed a hero, and his low feelings only lasted for just ten seconds, and he recovered his mentality and rekindled his fighting spirit.

"It doesn't matter what the military wants, I, a son of Sanxiang, will put life and death aside long ago as soon as I go to the battlefield! If we are really surrounded, we will just fight to the death! But now, we must maintain vitality for the overall situation! Come on! Our brothers and sons will show the highest level and see how to break the deadlock!"

Knowing that the Celestial Army had surrounded itself on all sides, and that there were very powerful defenders in the city, the only way to break through now was to choose a route to rush out.

Of course, it is possible to distract the enemy's attention and cover the real main force of the breakthrough, but there are also great drawbacks to doing so, one is that the enemy has obviously deployed forces in all four directions, and there is no need to divert attention at all to deal with these suspicious soldiers, they are waiting.

On the other hand, suspicious soldiers also need troops, and there are so many people in Xiangyong, scattered out, and the main force will be insufficient.

Zhang Long also agreed to concentrate his forces, in one direction, and go all out to break through, which is more likely to succeed.

He also mentioned that when Dayong was besieged, he once sent people to Changde to ask for help, which may be a foreign aid that can help them break through.

Hearing this information, Zeng Guoquan's spirits lifted, and there may be a hope here!

So, he took a pen and wrote a letter, brushed it a few times, and then sealed it, called one to join the army, and asked him to send it out quickly.

Then he said to Zhao Long: "I hope my secret weapon is useful! I have already thought about it, let's break through from the east and get rid of the encirclement first." In addition, in terms of how to break through, what is Brother Aotian's opinion?"

"Haha, don't be overly oversighted, those tactics and skills that we were proud of in the past don't seem to be enough to worry about under the strength of the Heavenly Army! If you want to give birth to them, you can only follow the rules!" Zhang Long said helplessly.

"Haha! I feel the same way! However, you and my brother don't need to be presumptuous! We feel a headache, but don't they have a headache? This also forces us to play better, doesn't it?" Zeng Guoquan has also let go now, and it is useless to be frustrated and anxious. It's better to abandon this qiē and give it a go!

"Yuan Fu said it well! I think in this way, we must now divide our troops into three ways, and combine the virtual and the real, and the virtual and the real, and perhaps have the hope of success! If foreign aid can come, the possibility of breaking through the siege will increase. ”

"Brother Aotian's attention must be good, I would like to hear it in detail!" Zeng Guoquan couldn't wait.

He admires Zhang Long very much, at this time, he can still think about strategies and tactics in an orderly manner, although he himself can be proud. But the train of thought has long been out of order. There is nothing else but desperate fighting.

First of all, we must hold our existing defensive line, otherwise the enemy's defensive line will not be breached. I lost my position first!

"My own defense line is now also under attack. It is necessary to guard against attacks from the outside. Also beware of the defenders of the city!

"Secondly, it is our frontal assault, which is a regular soldier. Confront the Celestial Army.

"In the end, it's Qibing, this road is our real hope, and I will be personally presided over by Brother Yuanfu!"

"How does this strange army move?" Zeng Guoquan dewed.

"Go underground! I already have a transport road there, which I have never used, and no one else knows about it, but if you extend it for another mile, you will reach the rear of the enemy, and go directly out of the enemy's encirclement! I will send someone to show you the way. ”

"Well, I'm going to charge into battle and lead the army on the right road. Zeng Guoquan heard that the strange soldier just took a detour to escape, which was very inconsistent with his character.

"Brother Yuanfu, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood! There will be a bigger battlefield for you to gallop in the future!" Zhang Long persuaded.

"Okay, I'll listen to Aotian. Where are you?" Zeng Guoquan couldn't help but worry about the safety of his old friend.

"I will stay behind, there is no room for loss here, otherwise all the achievements will be wasted! I will use a small number of troops to hold back the enemy and prevent them from acting rashly, knowing that you have successfully broken through. Zhang Long left the task with the least hope of escape to himself.

"That's not good! You go with me!" Zeng Guoquan was in a hurry! How could he not know that at any time, when breaking through the siege, the troops behind the palace were to replace the dead ghosts and block the swords for others, and they were basically dead.

He couldn't tolerate such a thing, not to mention the hardships and hardships during this time, and if he didn't have the help of this friend who had died in the future, his future would be much bleaker.

"Don't worry, as long as you can get out of danger safely, it will be the best result! My safety, you don't have to worry, I have my own life-saving tricks, don't forget, this is my hometown, and the name of the head snake is not called in vain!"

Zeng Guoquan heard him say this, so he no longer insisted.

Does Zhao Long really have a life-saving trick?

Maybe it's like coming out in a hurry, but it's really not right now.

Then the two of them decided to be the commander of the main army on the east road.

Even if this person is not Zeng Guoquan, he must pretend to be Zeng Guoquan, otherwise there is no coach in the breakthrough, it is too fake!

It is also Zeng Guoquan who can attract the enemy to the greatest extent, provide cover for the other two roads, and finally ensure the success of the surprise attack.

Zeng Guoquan has been prepared for this matter for a long time, he has a cousin who is similar to him in figure and appearance, and more importantly, he is also strong in martial arts, and even his temperament and temperament are very close.

Sometimes when Zeng Guoquan was depressed, he borrowed wine with him to drown his sorrows, and when he saw that the other party was exactly the same as himself, he frowned when he was sad, and when he was happy, he couldn't help laughing, and his troubles suddenly blew away like the wind.

After the two discussed, they didn't know where to find a jar of wine, and when one of them arrived at a bowl, they looked at each other, as if they wanted to imprint each other deeply in their hearts.

At this time, we will separate, and I don't know when we will say goodbye, maybe it will be a farewell to death.

The two of them drank it all and left decisively!

To the east of the encirclement set up by the Heavenly Army, Mai Ke and Wang Quanzhou were there, and the enemy's two temptations were all wiped out by the two of them.

The silent destruction of the enemy in this way still depends on the outstanding performance of the special mixed battalion of the Heavenly Army.

The first ten-person team, or all the mixed battalions, was just like the demonstration example, first of all, the combination of the people of the air element river water element, and a thick fog was created in the daylight, which just covered all these people.

If there was only a thick fog, they could at least open their mouths to speak, but they didn't expect that Tu Yuan Su would also come to join in the fun, and they mixed the thick fog with Tu Yuan Su, so that they didn't dare to open their mouths.

As soon as someone dares to open their mouths, those earthy elements will immediately pour into them, forcing them to shut up immediately!

Even if the mouth is still wide open, it will not help, and it will not make a sound at all, and the air flow that enters and will come out is very strong. How can he speak up?

This credit is the gas element!

Aerogens can turn a warm breeze into a violent wind in every minute, and it is a piece of cake to block people's mouths.

For these blind and dumb enemy troops, without the help of the special battalion, the ordinary soldiers of the Celestial Army took them down.

Knowing that the enemy would not give up, Mai Ke immediately divided the mixed battalion into zero, sending a two-person squad to each direction of encirclement, with two people from each element.

Only six of the ten people who had just been destroyed did it, and in terms of potential, even if the enemy increased dozens of times. The effect will still be the same.

So. Mai Ke sent out to double the manpower, which should be able to cope with various situations.

When Mai Ke and others were dealing with the enemy who came to investigate the ancients, the Tuyuan Su camp dug a trench with great fanfare, and soon formed a ring around the city.

Although they are attacking the earth with soil. Still caused some noise. These noises were the ones that caught Zhang Long's attention in the first place.

Less than half an hour. All the foundation trenches have been dug and the Heavenly Army has officially entered!

At the same time, Chiaki Chiki commanded his engineering troops. Began to build various fortifications, as well as to deal with places that needed special treatment, such as underground rivers, although many small rivers had been solved by digging trenches, and large rivers had to be dealt with specially.

It was in this process that Xiang Yong's eight-hundred-man team came out to test the water again!

As a result, all the mixed special teams drew gourds in the same way and all of them were destroyed!

Sure enough, ten times more than the first squad did not have any different effect on the outcome, the same ending.

It's just that because these people are all novices, in the beginning of the link, they didn't do foolproof, so that a few people made a voice.

Actually, this really can't be blamed on these experts, these three people actually left the brigade for a special reason, and they went to solve the three emergencies.

What they saw was that it was very close to the front before entering the fog.

However, they could only make a sound, and they were immediately sensed by the wind elemental, and a strong wind immediately blew a thick mist into their mouths!

All three of them were immediately banned, just like the rest of Xiang Yong.

Aside from a brief sound, the men disappeared without much noise.

However, it was this cry that provided Zhang Long with a lot of information and made him take corresponding measures.

However, for Mike, this is not a big problem, secrecy is a time task, once the preparation is almost complete, secrecy is not so important.

From the very beginning, the Second Ring Trench was ready to cope with the enemy's attack.

If Zeng Guoquan waited until the Heavenly Army was ready before realizing the danger, then he would not be a good opponent!

Sure enough, not long after, a horse's hooves galloped from a ring of trenches!

It can be seen that the enemy camp on the opposite side is full of dust and smoke, and the sky is like the earth is cracking, and the momentum is huge!

There were 14,000 enemy troops, and they were all cavalry!

Zhang Long is really ruthless, Xiang Yong, who is going to sacrifice here, has concentrated all the cavalry, and he is the absolute main force of Xiang Yong!

And the force he left for his defense was only 2,000 infantry.

With Zeng Guoquan, the real breakthrough was 4,000 people.

These 4,000 people are almost all Zeng Guoquan's personal soldiers, and Zhang Long deliberately emphasized again when he left, even if none of these 4,000 people die, they must also ensure the safety of Zeng Daren!

At this time, the Qing soldiers who broke through head-on had already collided with the eastern front of the Heavenly Army!

It was the 1st Field Division that was responsible for the defense here, and when it saw the enemy's brigade rushing in, it immediately entered a state of imminent battle!

They had already made some preparations in advance, and placed many horse rejection stakes, horse pits, horse barricades, and so on in front of the formation.

These commonly used tools of warfare have indeed played a big role.

The main force of the first level of defense fell into the horse pit, and stumbled over the herds of war horses at once, plus the war horses that were brought down in the back, there were at least four or five hundred!

At this time, I saw the fierceness of these Xiangyong!

The vast majority of Xiang Yong on the horse, the moment the horse fell, flew up! Drew a curve in the air and landed in front!

Not only did they avoid the trampling of the horses that continued to come behind, but they also began to move the horse-rejecting stakes that were placed there!

The ferocity of Xiang Yong is even more reflected in those cavalry who did not fall!

They turned a blind eye to the fallen cavalry in front of them, did not slow down the speed of the reunion in the slightest, and trampled directly on the fallen horses and the robes of their comrades who did not have time to get out, and galloped past them!

And those trampled horses and Xiang Yong didn't even make a call!

The Celestial Army saw those Hunan who had broken away from their horses and tried to clear the horse rejection stakes. Immediately opened the bow and shot arrows, and a dense rain of arrows descended, nailing almost all the Xiangyong who escaped trampling to the ground!

The improved crossbow used by the Celestial Army is very powerful, and the only drawback is that it takes time to install the arrows and reopen the bow.

At this time, the wave of Xiang Yong's charge had already hit the second defensive equipment of the Heavenly Army, and the horse was rejected!

Although it has moved a little, most of them are still there, and the war horses in the front row have been blocked by the rejection stakes, and they cannot cross; there are a few particularly vigorous war horses, when they encounter the rejection stakes, they actually fly up. Horses drifted past months. But in the end, he landed with all his strength, and still fell on the horse rejection pile, his abdomen cracked, and the horse died!

This layer of rejection piles. It actually caused the death of 600 top warriors in Xiangyong!

The last one is the barricade. There are some light and some dark in these blockades. Ming's main thing is to stop people, and many times, it is the horses that leave people. Separate the centaurs and thus lose their combat effectiveness!

The unlucky ones, once they stay, will be bumped into by the cavalry behind, and the light ones will be seriously injured, and the heavy ones will die!

The hidden ropes are even more powerful, they are specially tripped by the feet of horses, and those who are tripped up will fall to the ground in the lightest, and the legs will be broken and broken.

In either case, if the knight above is not particularly mechanical, in a very short time, jumping out of the circle, it is inevitable that he will be trampled to death by the horses behind.

This section of defense caused at least more than 400 Xiangyong deaths.

These blockades, these deaths, had no effect on Xiang Yong at all, and for their charge, it was only about fifteen hundred horses reduced!

These processes were fleeting, and Xiang Yong's cavalry brigade had already been in close contact with the soldiers of the Heavenly Army!

By this time, the specialists of the mixed special battalion had already set their hands dirty!

Seeing that the matter was urgent, the remaining five groups of twelve rushed up, and in the blink of an eye, they opened four openings from the cavalry of the brigade, and each group destroyed two hundred cavalry!

But even if all these things are added up, there are only 2,500 men, and the total number of enemies is as high as 15,000!

In other words, there are still 12,500 complete cavalry in Xiangyong!

All these cavalry pressed on the head of the first division defending on the Eastern Front!

At this time, not only the soldiers of the first division, but also Mai Ke also felt heavy pressure!

And Mai Ke knew that the combat power he had arranged here was only 4,000 people, even according to the number of heads, and the Heavenly Army was absolutely inferior.

Not to mention infantry against cavalry!

The difference in the number of services cannot be made up for by the number of services, not to mention that the number of services with low branches is also small.

Now was not the time to wait, and the officers and men of the 1st Division rose from the trenches and blocked the way of the enemy's charge.

The direct collision of flesh and blood has finally begun!

The equipment of the Heavenly Army is mainly a horse chopping knife, and it is not satisfactory to deal with the cavalry, only to see that they are aimed at the enemy with a single sword!

Uniform, brave and brave!

Regardless of the collision of the enemy's war horses and the presence of the enemy's blades!

Just listened to the sound of "bang", all the enemy soldiers in the front row were stabbed, a piece of horses fell to the ground, their bodies were split, and they fell under the horses!

In this round, nearly 1,000 enemy horsemen were cut down!

In this round, five hundred soldiers of the Heavenly Army also died!

They were either cut off by the enemy's heads, or knocked down by horses and trampled to death.

The rest of the Celestial Army took a step forward, and the gap left by the soldiers below was immediately ignored!

Sharpen again!

"Boom!"

Another thousand cavalry fell to the ground!

One more step forward!

Sharpen again!

"Boom!"

Or a thousand cavalry fell to the ground!

One more step forward!

Sharpen again!

"Boom!"

It's still a thousand cavalry down to the ground!

The enemy's cavalry fell six thousand,

The Celestial Army also paid the price of 3,000 deaths, and the 1,000 men on the front line were the only remaining troops of the first division in this defense line!

Division Commander Duan Wenrui's eyes were red, and when he took off the big hat he was wearing, he was about to rush up, and he was missing!

He saw that there was a gap in the strength of the first line!

Mai Ke didn't expect the battle to be so brutal, in less than five minutes, there were almost 10,000 dead and wounded on both sides!

And it's pure death!

I have already taken care of a little wounded, and I am afraid that not a single one of the 1,000 people who fought there did not persist in fighting with injuries.

Mai Ke had actually notified the Heavenly Army in the southeast and northeast directions to come over, but the battle situation was developing too fast, and before they could come, the family was tossed up.

This Xiangyong is too fierce!

Better than a meat grinder!

If the reinforcements haven't arrived after a while, don't talk about Duan Wenrui, you have to go yourself!

At this moment, there was a change, and a general of the enemy appeared, it was the fake Zeng Guoquan!

Mai Ke grabbed Duan Wenrui and said, "Don't be impatient, I'll have a few words with the enemy generals." ”

Mai Ke then used the technique of tongue blooming spring thunder and said to the enemy general: "Brother Yuanfu, don't come to harm?"

The enemy general ignored him, but crossed the cavalry in the front row, came to the front row, and squinted at Mai Ke: "What's okay? I'm very sick, what do you tell me to do, is it like letting me go unconditionally? If not, you get out of here!"

Hey, this guy has a hotter temper than before, but it's understandable that no one will be happy when he always suffers.

So he said: "You see that so many people have been killed and wounded, can you stop fighting for the time being, let's talk about it first?".

(To be continued......)