Yao Wuyi's preparations in the past few days were not in vain, and the 600,000 army was running in an orderly manner. Catapults, heavy crossbows, ladders, archers, and death phalanxes were all ready, and although the army was slightly sluggish due to the sudden death of many generals, everything was ready by the time of the ugly hour.

Under Yao Wuyi's bloody suppression, the death-defying phalanx composed of the captured Stygian Warriors and the old and weak women and children was put at the forefront. At dawn, 600,000 troops advanced a mile outside the city, and the real soldiers came to the city.

The army of black oppression, the banner of flames, there is no end in sight, as if the sky and the earth are shrouded in red smoke. It's overwhelming.

Last night, when the Chiyan camp suddenly became brightly lit, Yang Li and Brother Zi rushed to the South Gate Tower. At midnight, the earth was clearly trembling, and the people of the city turned pale. The rousing trumpet sounded in the dark night, the beacon fire was lit, the wolf smoke rose, and it was finally coming!

Jinghua Castle has stood in the dark water for hundreds of years, and its defense capability is only under Amaterasu, with four castle towers in the south, east, and west. Among them, the south gate defense is the most solid, the city tower can accommodate four horses in parallel, there is an armory, standing patrol and defense army of 3,000, wartime can increase to nearly 10,000.

The city wall is as high as 27 zhang, as wide as 5 zhang, and the city gate weighs 10,000 catties, and it is necessary to borrow a huge waterwheel and a hundred soldiers to pull it up. Four waterwheels were placed in the moat outside the city, and the ropes had already been cut.

At this time, the south gate can be said to be inaccessible. But even this strong defense did not give much confidence to the soldiers on the towers.

The light of the fire reflected the nervous expressions of the soldiers, and people unconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands, trying to add some courage to themselves.

Yang Li stood at the head of the city and glanced at the young commander of the forbidden army beside him, as an old man of the military department, he had read countless people in his life, but he couldn't understand Brother Zi, or some couldn't understand the orders of the palace.

He clearly saw the changes in Brother Zi in the past two years, and he became more and more of a mature general, although he was not as good as Xie Yun and other famous generals, but he was by no means a mediocre and incompetent person.

He didn't understand why he had to allocate a lot of manpower and material resources to the palace to build a second or even third line of defense at this time of life and death. If all 100,000 troops are put into the battlefield at the South Gate and united as one, it may not be impossible to stalemate for some time.

Ever since the news of Wuchen's resurrection came out, he had always believed that the change in the situation was imminent, and it was impossible for Xie Yun to be held back by Jing Wusheng. As long as you keep at it, there will always be miracles.

But at the moment, there are only 20,000 guards at the south gate, and whether they can survive two or three days is a huge problem.

Once the South Gate falls, what will happen to the people in the city? What is the point of keeping a corner of the palace for a short time? Although Xuan Zhongqi is crazy, he is not stupid, Xuan Tiangang is ambitious and not an ignorant person, and he has great expectations for Brother Zi. And they are not timid and mediocre, how could they make such a decision?

He couldn't figure it out, and could only attribute it all to the gray shadow that often appeared around them, the eerie man named Mie.

He shook his head and sighed, "The big war is imminent, and you really aren't here to preside over the overall situation, Grand Commander?"

Brother Zi's expression was calm: "I have a reason why I have to go back, if you want to go back, you can go with me." ”

Yang Li smiled sadly: "I'm an old bone, I'd rather die under this city wall, I'm just a pity, and now I don't even have an old friend who fights side by side."

Brother Zi showed a trace of respect in his eyes, respectfully held a junior salute, and said slowly but firmly: "As long as you survive three days."

Yang Li was slightly stunned, and didn't say anything more, just nodded silently.

When the sky was slightly bright, and the soldiers on the tower of the city finally saw the crowd swarming under the city, they couldn't help but be surprised.

On June 21, the third year of the war, on the day of the gentle wind and drizzle, the defense of Jinghua City, which left a strong mark in the history of Amaterasu, officially kicked off. But no one at the time could have imagined that the war would eventually develop to the point of uncontrollable development.

On the eve of June 21, a contingent of recruits quietly left the south gate before the city gate fell, and these recruits, who had been training for less than five days, were given an extremely difficult task.

They were ordered to go to the coke forest located on the southeast side of Jinghua City to detonate saltpeter, disrupt the enemy's rear, and use saltpeter to blow up the Ganges River and flood the entire southwest three continents as a last resort.

On the one hand, this move was extremely bold and risky, and the feasibility was very small, and on the other hand, it hurt the heavens and was despised by the world, so when Wu Fang first heard this order, he expressed strong dissatisfaction and refused to carry out the military order.

At this time, facing the pressure of the army, Wu Fang had to choose to compromise with Brother Zi, perhaps out of trust in him, or out of love for the recruits. Since military orders are like mountains and cannot be changed, let's let as many people live as possible.

A total of 3,856 people took advantage of the darkness of the night to embark on a journey of little hope. However, to Wu Fang's surprise, their march went smoothly, and the expected situation of being discovered by enemy scouts did not happen.

Wu Fang was already ready to break the whole into pieces and respond to emergencies at any time, but what he didn't expect was that all the way was safe.

At first, he also thought that he might have fallen into the trap of the other party, but when he saw from a distance that countless lights suddenly lit up in the Chiyan camp, and there was a noisy and chaotic scene in the military camp, he guessed that something big might have happened in the other camp, causing a riot, so that he had no time to care.

"My lord, I said we're lucky, hehe", Li Qiu smiled seemingly relaxed, which can be regarded as emboldening everyone.

"yes, there should be a coke forest ahead, and when the time comes, let's dig out saltpeter and set a fire to burn their butts. ”

"That's a good idea, haha", Peng Liao and Liu Hu looked at each other and smiled, not showing any nervousness.

Wu Fang turned to look at the teenagers around him, and sighed in his heart: The little ones have become much more reliable, it would be great if we could give them more time to grow.

After Xuan Hua left, Chu Feiyan tore off his disguised mask, and there was no need to cover it up. Now with this miserable appearance, I'm afraid Ye Xiaoxiao may not be able to recognize him.

He staggered forward in the woods, falling and getting up from time to time, his consciousness became more and more blurred, and finally fell into the woods, the instinct for survival was still supporting him, his mouth was very thirsty, and he was repeatedly muttering water in a daze... Water....