After waiting for a long time, the defenders on the city wall finally appeared.

However, the group of defenders who appeared was much beyond everyone's imagination.

I saw the so-called "defenders" on the city wall, all without armor, holding some rough rusty swords and spears, old, weak, sick and disabled, looking at the menacing army under the city, one trembled like chaff, and even the weapons could not be held steadily, they were completely a group of ordinary people, not soldiers.

"These are the common people of the city. Cheng Dehu said angrily: "Using this kind of means, these rebellions really deserve to die." ”

The other generals also had gloomy faces.

The defenders on the city were not defenders at all, but pure civilians of the royal city, who were obviously brought in temporarily, and some weapons were distributed indiscriminately, forcing them to come up and defend the city.

In the face of the army under the city, these people have not yet fled, presumably because there are people behind them to oversee the army, or because they are under some kind of coercion.

This move is not cunning, obviously the Wang Cheng family already knew that they would not be able to resist the attack at all, so they adopted such a strategy. In this way, the Qin Wang Army had no way to attack at all, and it was easy to break through the walls defended by these ordinary people. But first of all, can you bear to attack these ordinary people, even if you are ruthless in attacking the city, even if you lay down the city wall, you will end up with a notoriety of slaughtering civilians. Qingyun has not yet ascended to the throne, and the time will be long in the future, but at this time, he must not ruin his reputation.

Since ancient times, there have been tactics of driving slaves or civilians as cannon fodder shields, but most of them are wars between two races or two countries. For example, in the history of Chen Long's previous life on earth, this method was not uncommon, at the end of the Song Dynasty, the Mongols were brutal, and the army attacked the city, and it was the pioneers who drove the captured Southern Song Dynasty civilians as cannon fodder in the front, and then the Mongol army followed. Anyway, it is the enemy civilian, the ruler is ruthless, and there will be no psychological burden.

However, I have never seen such a thing as a human shield for the common people of our own country, and if it were in any other period, this method would undoubtedly make the hearts of the people ruin, and it would be the way to bring about self-destruction. The Wangcheng family even took out this method, which shows that they are completely mad and reckless of the consequences.

But even if they will lose the hearts of the people and perish in the future, it will be a long time later, and at this juncture, the other party has no way to do anything about it.

"What should we do? It's already under the royal city, can we only watch it like this?"

At this time, it is impossible to say that you will retreat, but in such a situation, you cannot send troops to attack for a while.

Qingyun didn't know what to do, although he wiped out 100,000 troops with a sword in Anming Pass a few days ago, it was still too difficult for him to order the slaughter of civilians, so he had to look at Long Chen for help.

Long Chen shook his head and smiled: "These people, do they think that they can keep the royal city in this way?"

This kind of thing must not be done too much, otherwise I don't know if I can defend the city, and I am afraid that the civilians in the city will rise up and rebel first.

And even if civilians are used to hold the city hostage, it should not be like now, except for civilians, there is not even a serious soldier. After all, it is also necessary to take into account the possibility of the other party's heart directly attacking the city regardless of the lives of civilians, and naturally deploy a real army, otherwise if the opposite side rushes, what can these civilians do, I am afraid that the city wall will fall in minutes.

In Chen Long's opinion, the other party did not really want to keep Wang Cheng in this way, but it seemed like he wanted to delay time.

But what is the reason for the delay?

From the mouth of the old man Changyuan, he already knew that there was a Heavenly Witch Ancestor behind the rebellious family in Wangcheng, could it be that he was waiting for this person? Wasn't he in Wangcheng?

Long Chen shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

Anyway, since the other party wants to delay time, let him drag it.

Chen Long gave the order to go down, camp in place, and stand still.

If you want time, I'll give you time.

If you change to someone else, knowing that the other party is delaying time, you will naturally find a way to step up the siege and not give the other party a chance. But Chen Long is different, he wants to see what the Wangcheng family does not hesitate to use to blackmail the people to defend the city, and they all want to delay time?

Can he still use any powerful trump card to turn defeat into victory in one fell swoop? Then he wants to see and see more.

This is the surplus that only the strong will have, let you have a thousand schemes, ten thousand plans, I will sit here and wait.

Although the nominal commander is Qingyun, everyone knows that the mysterious gentleman is the backbone of the entire army, since he ordered the troops not to move, although all the soldiers are impatient, but they are also patient to wait.

In the city, after receiving a report, saying that the opponent's army was camped outside the city and had no intention of attacking, the eldest grandson and several people were relieved to see that the plan had taken effect.

If it weren't really the end of the road, they wouldn't want to get rid of it.

In a blink of an eye, three days have passed.

For three days, King Qin's army stood still under the city, and the city had no intention of attacking or withdrawing those civilians, and the two sides were deadlocked.

By the fourth day, the soldiers were already very anxious, and even Long Chen was a little impatient, thinking that I would give you time, but you would have dragged it out too long.

The civilians in the city made the soldiers very troubled, but of course it was not a problem for Chen Long, he just wanted to see what hole cards the other party had, but there was no movement for three days, and Chen Long also began to consider whether to simply attack the city directly, he didn't have much time to accompany the other side to play here.

It wasn't until the early morning of the fourth day that Long Chen decided to wait another day before attacking, but at this moment, he heard a burst of laughter in the royal city.

"Hahahaha, this seat has finally achieved great success! Hahahaha! Who else in the world is the opponent of this seat?"

In this voice, with a bit of arrogance and a bit of joy, it actually spread throughout the entire huge royal city inside and outside.

In the city, the eldest grandson and several other family heads stood up in surprise when they heard this voice.

"The Ancestor is finally out of the customs!"

Outside the city, the old man of Changyuan heard this voice and was slightly surprised: "Sure enough, it's him, Heavenly Witch Ancestor!"

The corners of Chen Long's mouth hooked slightly: "Is there finally a little movement? After waiting for three days, don't let me down too much." ”

At the same time, under the palace in the city, the white-haired old man, that is, the Heavenly Witch Ancestor, was looking up to the sky and laughing.

In front of him, in the center of the formation, the piece of Heavenly Spirit Jade had completely disappeared, and in its place was a thin old man in a yellow robe.

The old man described it as withered, and it looked like he had run out of oil, and he was still staring at the Heavenly Witch Ancestor.

"Tianwu, if you destroy my Anyun inheritance, I will be a ghost, and I won't let you go!"

Heavenly Witch Ancestor sneered, and with a wave of his hand, a light appeared, and the body of the thin old man turned into flying ashes, scattering inch by inch.

"Ghost, don't say you've become a ghost, even if it's a god, I'm not afraid, hahaha. ”