Five Hundred and Eighteen: The Final Battle (3)

"Step by step, let's take Hezhou. Zhou Yanbo sat on the chair and said.

"Xiao Yan, I remember that you plan to defeat the Xun family in the continent, right?" Yin Die said, "That's why you will use the strategy of step-by-step to attack Hezhou." ”

"yes, what's the problem?"

"Naturally, there is a problem, then if Xiao Yan uses the continent as a decisive battle with the Xun family, then you will not be able to capture Hezhou for a while and a half, I bet with you. Yindie stretched out a finger and said.

"Why are you so sure. ”

"Little goose, do you know how Hezhou came from?"

Zhou Yanbo shook his head very dryly: "I don't know, and what's the use of me going to investigate this matter." ”

"Listen to Xiaoyan, there was no city in Hezhou at all, or Hezhou was not a city that should exist. Yin Die said, "Isn't it strange that Hezhou is only half an hour's journey away from the continent?"

"I don't think it's surprising that Jiazhou is only three hours away from Yecheng. Zhou Yanbo said.

"It's good that you can notice this, but you just notice it, and you don't think about it. Yin Die continued, "Because Hezhou, like Jiazhou, is a city that shouldn't have existed. ”

"Wait a minute, you can explain to me what you just said, why is Jiazhou called a city that shouldn't exist in the first place?" Zhou Yanbo heard Yindie say this, and immediately interrupted her speech.

"It's literal, if Xiao Yan had a city that could be comparable to Jiazhou and could serve as the city from the beginning, such as Yun Yu or Anjing, would you still build Jiazhou City in Yingning? Answer me honestly, you can't lie. ”

"Naturally not, there is already such a city, why do I have to spend time and effort to rebuild a city? Unless the original city can no longer meet the development of the Zhou family. ”

"That's right, that's why I said this, Jiazhou was built by Xiaoyan in order to have a city that could support the Zhou family, so in the same way, Hezhou was built in order to be able to capture the continent. ”

"Isn't that just right? Isn't it equivalent to having a continent after capturing Hezhou? ”

"Listen to me. "Yin Die doesn't want to be interrupted by Zhou Yanbo anymore," The continent can be said to be the east gate to Wuyi, but at the beginning there was no river state, the continent was not easy to attack, because the continent is surrounded by water on three sides, and there is more than one, from the continent to the north and southeast three directions one after another water veins or wetlands surrounded, so this place is called the continent river, this city is called the continent, anyway, these water veins and wetlands have become an obstacle to attack the continent and even Wuyi, as long as the other party controls or destroys all the bridges leading to the continent, even if the wild goose has a million army, it is just like a beast trapped like a swamp。 ”

"Hmm, so what?"

"I don't remember which side it is, anyway, they have repeatedly attacked the continent and have been blocked, as if all means have been exhausted, and there is still no way to take the continent, because just getting close to it has consumed all the physical strength, let alone attacking the city; After many failures, this group of people understood that they could not succeed without a springboard that could attack the continent. ”

"So there is River State?"

"That's right, there is this river state that was hastily built on a loose foundation at the beginning, and it is vulnerable. ”

"Vulnerable?"

"That's exactly how it was at first. "It's easy to break ground on loose ground, and after a city is enclosed with wood, the foundation inside is tamped, and then the camp is built...... It is precisely because of this that the two cities are separated by less than half an hour. ”

"To make it easier to attack, right?"

"Yes, the key is that later, after the capture of the continent, Hezhou was originally going to be demolished, after all, in order to prevent the enemy from using this camp to capture the continent, but it was forced to stop before half of it was demolished, because all the sergeants stood up and opposed, especially those who were responsible for the transportation of grain and grass, their opposition was particularly fierce, and the official road leading to the continent was very difficult to walk, and this newly built camp can be said to be a very good place to rest, so the demolition can only be stopped, not only stopped, this place has also continued to develop, and it has become the city in the continent。 ”

"Later, after the Xun family took over, the official road from the continent to Hezhou was re-corrected and reinforced, ensuring that it was very easy to walk even on a rainy day. ”

"I see, Mao'er, you want to say that even if you capture Hezhou, but because of the gap in strength, Hezhou may not be able to hold it, let alone use Hezhou to attack the continent. ”

"I don't need to be sure of these words, Xiao Yan knows what to do. ”

"Yes, yes, I know ...... in my heart," Zhou Yanbo said by biting his nails.

"Xiaosheng?" Zhou Yanbo shouted after a long time.

"Immortal Lord, is there something wrong?" Xiao Sheng walked in and said, he was originally one of the people who led the attack on the Xun family, and he was all the way in the tripartite army that attacked Nanxiao.

"According to this drawing, ......" Zhou Yanbo said as he handed over the drawings he had just drawn to Xiao Sheng, "Go and get everything done, and by the way, set up the Shenhuo Camp." ”

The drawings are drawn on Zhou Yanbo's arrangement for the placement of the Shenhuo Battalion, although the troops scattered and sent out to attack are not all concentrated, but the Shenhuo Battalion has been completely assembled, after all, it is the main force of Zhou Yanbo's siege. The drawings drew all the defensive buildings of the horse railing, stone platform, and temporary arrow tower, and then the layout of the fire and artillery of the Shenhuo camp was also marked.

"Do it right away. Xiao Sheng said.

"I'll go and prepare the materials first and get them in the evening, but I have to finish them in the shortest amount of time. ”

Early the next morning, He Dian and Xun Tian stood on top of the city tower, and they could clearly see that Zhou Yanbo's side had already arranged everything.

"Crane Wing Array?" Xun Tian looked at and said, Zhou Yanbo's arrangement in front of him was very far forward on the left and right, and a stone platform was built, with a horse fence in front and three rows of musketeers in the back, but there was almost no defense in the center, and the cavalry could simply drive straight into Zhou Yanbo's main formation.

"It's like a crane wing, but it's not. He Dian stood next to Xun Tian and said, "Where is there a crane wing formation with two wings that do not move? Besides, the other party is the one who wants to attack, why use such a defensive formation?"

"That's what I said......"

"This is the Divine Fire Battalion, right? Now the Divine Fire Battalion of the Zhou family is the most elite army in the world. ”

"Yes, after all, this is an army that has completely defeated the Jin cavalry, and it feels very terrifying to see these black hole firearms aimed here. ”

"If you dare to go out, you will definitely be beaten to death. ”

At this time, Zhou Yanbo was also looking at the city tower that was about to attack with a long-range lookout: "Are those two people Xun Tian and He Dian on the city tower?" ”

"Little goose, you can't see clearly from the far-sighted microscope?"

Zhou Yanbo put down the telescope and said, "Longbow." A person who was a scattered servant immediately took a longbow, Zhou Yanbo aimed at the two people on the top of the city tower, pulled the longbow to a full circle, and after letting go, the feather arrow instantly disappeared where Zhou Yanbo was.

But Zhou Yanbo is not the kind of person who is good at archery after all, it is true that the feather arrow went up to the city tower, but the place where it landed was not only very far away from the two people standing on the top of the city tower, but it was also supposed to be nailed into the wooden pillar, but it was inserted very shallowly.

"It's ......," said Yindie, who was looking at it with a telescope.

"Just send it up. Zhou Yanbo said that what he shot out just now was a feather arrow with a letter.

After a while, Xun Tian and He Dian received a letter from Zhou Yanbo, which stated the time and method of Zhou Yanbo's scheduled attack, and the most important thing was that it was a letter of persuasion.

"This Zhou Yanbo is really getting more and more arrogant, he wrote his plan on it without subtlety, and asked us to surrender, does he plan to use the Huairou strategy......"

"This is not Huairou, but Mingmou. Xun Tian looked at it and said with a smile.

"Mingmou?" He Dian was puzzled.

"Zhou Yanbo knew that if he didn't reveal his plan to us, then we would probably be seriously injured in this scene, so in order not to hurt the two of us, he adopted this method of persuasion, which seems to be Huairou, but it is actually a reminder. ”

Xun Wenyou is right, Zhou Yanbo is a fool who only thinks about others. He Dian said.

Xun Tian looked at Zhou Yanbo's letter and rearranged it, leaving only a few people to stare at the city tower, once Zhou Yanbo attacked, standing on the city tower would just be sent to death in vain.

"It's time, Temple. After Su Yu'er saw that the time had come, she reminded her.

"Hmm. Zhou Yanbo held the ink bamboo and first turned around in his hand, and then opened it violently towards Hezhou, "Attack!"

Under an order, the six tiger squat cannons deployed next to the formation attacked the east city gate of Hezhou at the same time, and the tiger squat artillery went back and forth three times in total, and after three shellings, the east city gate of Hezhou became a ruin.

Xiao Sheng, led the lancers to rush into the city and drove Xun Tian and them out of Hezhou. ”

"Command!" Xiao Sheng held his cross spear and led the lancers of the Shenhuo Battalion to rush towards Hezhou.

"Order the tiger to squat and adjust to attack the block behind the city gate. Zhou Yanbo continued.

"Xiao Yan, do you want Xun Tian and He Dian to take their lives?" Yin Die said, just now Luo Yingshe came to report that Xun Tian decided to guard the street.

"Put smoke bombs. Zhou Yanbo added.

At that time, Chunin and Adams designed a smoke cannon shell specifically for the Tiger Squat Cannon based on the smoke grenade developed by Luo Yingshe, which had no lethality, but the area hit would be filled with huge smoke and block the view of the place.

Xiao Sheng led the cavalry to break through the smoke and rush directly towards the street, originally Xuntian's infantry was already struggling to deal with the cavalry, but now their sight was deprived again, so they could only retreat to avoid unnecessary casualties.

"The Shenhuo Battalion stepped forward and the target was to seize the West City Gate of Hezhou!" Zhou Yanbo gave one last order after listening to the voice getting farther and farther away.

After hearing that Zhou Yanbo had invaded Hezhou, Xun Wenyu, who was temporarily located in the continent, couldn't sit still, and he planned to go to support Hezhou, and he was definitely in time for it.

"When the Lord doesn't go, since Zhou Yanbo attacked Hezhou, we have already lost Hezhou. Zhou Yanqing dissuaded Xun Wenyu.

"Why?"

"I guess the first thing he captured when he entered the city was the West City Gate, and then set up defenses at the West City Gate to block the reinforcements coming from Hezhou. ”

"Isn't there still a north and south gate?"

"It's not wrong to think like this, but the attack on Hezhou, only Zhou Yanbo's Shenhuo battalion, accounting for only two percent of the total strength, you must know that Zhou Yanbo's own army accounted for forty percent of the total strength, according to the report of Fengwei, the remaining two centaurs have approached the continent from the north and south one after another, if you leave with the troops, then the continent will immediately be attacked by the north and the south. ”

"When?" Xun Wenyu didn't expect that the Zhou family's army had already penetrated deep into the continent.

"Hezhou can be said to be the bait that Zhou Yanbo used to fish in the continent, as long as you go out, the continent will not be protected. Zhou Yanqing said.