According to the calculations of the staff group of "Xiuyuan City", if the vanguard cavalry units of "Tiezhi City" that were completely disconnected from the infantry in the rear, including the siege monsters and mountain destroyers who were the most threatening to the city's defense, and then dig the Luotu River dam on the route of the attack in the middle of the way, it would be able to gain at least seven to ten days of buffer time for "Xiuyuan City". Counting the speed of the alliance's reinforcements and the expected arrival time, the grim situation that Xiuyuan City originally needed to hold the city for half a month will be directly cut in half.

Based on the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, if the enemy cavalry can be defeated, even a battle loss ratio of 1.5:1 or even 2:1 will greatly stimulate the morale of our army and reduce the fear of our new recruits when they first enter the battlefield. And according to the intelligence of the enemy's route, there is an excellent ambush spot on the way.

It can be said that this is an opportunity in the eyes of everyone in "Xiuyuan City". An almost once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And with the right work, you might be able to complete a classic campaign.

As for whether this could be a trap by the "Iron Childish City" to lure Fan Xiu and others out of the city? The staff deduced that it was unlikely.

There are three reasons for this.

First, the comparison of the strength of the two sides is already very different, and with the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, even if the "Xiuyuan City" cannot hold out, it will at most be a stalemate with the "Tiezhi City" troops.

The second is that since Tiezhi City has sent siege beasts and mountain destroyers, two types of city-breaking troops that usually only appear in the siege battles of medium-sized city-states, it actually doesn't make much sense for "Xiuyuan City" to stick to it or not.

Third, based on the above two items, "Tiezhi City" does not need to use the already elite cavalry and two high-gloss siege troops to set traps for such a seemingly indestructible miscellaneous fish opponent as "Xiuyuan City".

However, even if the decision-making level of "Tiezhi City" really had a problem with his brain, and he was stupid and used these 5,000 strong soldiers as bait just to catch his small miscellaneous fish of "Xiuyuan City", he Fan Xiu also recognized it.

Because in today's situation, even if it is a 100% trap, Fan Xiu has no choice but to step on it. What's more, according to calculations, the probability of being a trap is less than 1 in 10,000.

It is completely pointless to continue to hold on to the city as originally planned, and it is possible to fight for the slim chance of 1 in 10,000 if you take the initiative to attack.

Since 99 percent of the city will be destroyed and killed, no matter whether you attack or not, why not give it a go?

After discussing for nearly a night, the high-level leaders of "Xiuyuan City" unanimously decided to give it a go.

Soldiers are fast. Therefore, when the two waves of reconnaissance cavalry sent back the same information, Fan Xiu no longer waited for the repeated confirmation of the follow-up reconnaissance cavalry, and at the end of the morning of the second day after receiving the information, he quietly led the army with 8,000 soldiers and 5,000 garrison and logistics mixed troops, a total of 13,000 people, and took advantage of the night to march towards the predetermined ambush site 1,200 miles away.

Let's talk about the time. As mentioned earlier, the general quality of the creatures of both the Neno Continent and the Stars is very strong, and it is normal to walk two or three hundred miles a day. The marching speed of the short-legged infantry of the city-state army was basically about 80 miles an hour. Four crowns in a day and twelve earthly branch hours, normally speaking, excluding eating and resting halfway, the troops march for less than two crowns a day, that is, five to six hours. Almost 400 miles or more, close to 500 miles away.

"Tiezhi City" and "Xiuyuan City" are not adjacent, and there are several small city-states belonging to other alliances and town-level or even village-level miscellaneous fish city-states that have not joined any alliance. The distance between them is about 7,000 miles.

According to the normal infantry marching speed, it will take about fifteen days, that is, half a month. Coupled with the influence of the middle terrain, it takes about twenty to twenty-five days to reach "Xiuyuan City" when borrowing from other alliance city-states.

Of course, the cavalry speed was reduced by at least half, that is, about ten to twelve days. Considering that some terrain is not conducive to the passage of the siege behemoths, and some of the normal terrain cavalry needs the siege behemoths to open the way to pass smoothly, so the calculation of arriving five to six days earlier can be said to be accurate.

The proposed ambush site of "Xiuyuan City" was in a canyon called "Sanchi Gorge" two hundred miles in front of the Luotu River Dam.

"Three feet gorge" naturally does not mean that the canyon is only three feet wide, but that the canyon is narrow, "only three feet in the square circle".

The width of some large canyons is basically more than 100 zhang, while the width of the "Sanchi Gorge" valley is only 30 zhang. A normal cavalry march is enough for ten people to march in length, but for the huge size of the siege beast, it can only pass one by one. And can only go on and can't turn around, so to speak, it is restricted.

Although the valley width of the 20-mile-long "Sanchi Gorge" is only 30 zhang, the height is 100 zhang. Although it is relatively steep, it is quite conducive to arrangement, and it can be said to be a natural ambush terrain.

"Xiuyuan City" is the cavalry unit that intends to ambush the "Tiezhi City" here.

Although all the soldiers who saw the terrain of the "Three Feet Gorge" knew that this was a natural ambush site, even Fan Xiu believed that the army of the "Tiezhi City" would step in, because the "Three Feet Gorge" was the only way to attack the "Xiuyuan City" from the direction of the "Tiezhi City".

One hundred and fifty miles behind the "Three Feet" Gorge is the wetland terrain of the river valley under the Rotu River Dam. Once the Luotu River Dam is excavated, the two hundred miles downstream will be transformed into a Zeguo in an instant.

Although the method of damming and diverting flood water can easily cause human suffering, fortunately there are not many villages downstream of the Rotu dam. And a small number of villages have been temporarily displaced by the impending war.

"Xiuyuan City" had a lot of contacts with these river valley villages in the past, so it was morally instructive to inform the other party of the news that this area might become a battlefield. As a result, most of the inhabitants of these villages have taken refuge in nearby city-states.

Between the topography of the river valley and the "Three Feet Gorge" is a forest covering an area of 100 miles. The narrow forest road and dense forest are not conducive to the passage of cavalry, and the cavalry troops of the "Iron Childish City" can only pass on a large scale under the opening of the way of the siege monsters.

Gorges, dense forests, and river valleys formed the core of the ambush of "Xiuyuan City". The "Sanchi Gorge" ambush can completely annihilate the cavalry and siege troops of the "Tiezhi City" is naturally the most ideal result, even if it fails, it can rely on the buffer of the dense forest to quickly evacuate, and after leaving the dense forest, it can also dig the Luotu River dam to completely block the pursuit of the enemy army in the "Tiezhi City", leaving enough time for the subsequent retreat and defense. You must know that with the terrain of the Rotu River Valley, even a behemoth like a siege beast will not be able to move an inch in the valley that has become Zeguo. The troops of the "Iron Childish City" can only choose to make a detour if they want to pass. The next place that could be used for large troops to pass through was the Dingling Road, 1,500 miles downstream of the Rotu River.

But how to say it? Although the people of "Xiuyuan City" have used everything to calculate this battle, they have not calculated that the "Iron Childcare City" is really using these 5,000 strong troops as bait to use.

From the moment Fan Xiu led the troops out of the city, "Xiuyuan City" had completely fallen into the calculation of "Tiezhi City".

An ambush is indeed a good idea, not only for the people of "Xiuyuan City", but also for the "Iron Childish City" who wants to take "Xiuyuan City" without damage.

As a result, the army of "Xiuyuan City", which planned to ambush, was ambushed by "Tiezhi City" when it approached the ambush site of "Sanchi Gorge".

The ambush took place at the junction of the Rotu River valley and the dense forest.

In his memory, Fan Xiu still can't figure out how all this happened. Ning Yuan deduced it in reverse according to the information in his memory, but he had some kind of relatively reliable guess.

Before the "Tiezhi City" announced the war with the "Xiuyuan City", a considerable number of troops and veterans had been dispersed and transported to several city-states around the "Xiuyuan City" in various ways.

Oh yes. In the continent of Neno, if there is to be a war between the city-states, it is necessary to inform them through the rules. There is a three-day grace period for both parties after the announcement.

Take the current war as an example, after the "Iron Childcare City" launches a war announcement to the "Xiuyuan City", all the registered residents of the other side in the other city's city will be directly teleported back to their respective cities, and then the Dunjia Gate between the two sides will also be blocked.

Within three days, the "Xiuyuan City" can ask allies for help and war mobilization, and can also request a third party to mediate the war.

As the attacking party, the "Iron Childish City" naturally had done all this before the war announcement was issued. However, during the three days of the buffer period, the attacking army will not be able to enter within 1000 miles of the attacked city.

Therefore, even if the two sides of the war are very close, no one can do anything during the three-day buffer period.

Of course, sneak attacks, undeclared wars are also common in the continent of Neno, but certain conditions need to be met before they can be launched. I won't repeat it here.

Before the war announcement was issued, about 20,000 multi-arms troops had been secretly sent to various places thousands of miles away from the "Xiuyuan City", and then after the war announcement was issued, they were secretly assembled and hidden in the dense forest outside the river valley.

It can be said that it is very simple to hide 20,000 people in a hundred miles of dense forest. Unless you know it in advance and investigate it purposefully, it will be difficult for even a professional scout to find out.

After hiding the ambush force of 20,000 people, the "Tiezhi City" attracted the attention of everyone in the "Xiuyuan City" with 50,000 attack troops on the surface, including four special forces that made people desperate, and after forcing the "Xiuyuan City" into a desperate collapse of death, they used the psychology of the people in the "Xiuyuan City" to lay a pocket.

This pocket is what Fan Xiu and others don't believe in the "Iron Childish City", which really used a full 5,000 strong troops to lure the "Xiuyuan City" to send troops, and for the sake of the bait, it even included two professional city-breaking troops that were enough to destroy the "Xiuyuan City".

The "Iron Childish City" deliberately made the 5,000 cavalry units completely disconnected from the infantry units in the rear, including the large spear refining units and wood spirit troops with mass destruction and field control capabilities.

Although the disjointed forward force has a dangerous degree enough to destroy the "Xiuyuan City", it also makes the "Xiuyuan City" see a glimmer of hope in the realm of mortality. In particular, the purpose of the "Qin" alliance determines that it will not give up any of the city-states under its command, and will definitely send reinforcements as quickly as possible. And the "Iron Childish City" and "Xiuyuan City" have excellent terrain that can be used enough to ambush and delay time.

This is almost destined that "Xiuyuan City" will definitely choose to take the initiative to attack after seeing "hope", and for behemoths such as siege monsters and infantry killers such as cavalry, only "Three Feet Gorge" is the best terrain for ambush.

Now that it has been calculated where the "Xiuyuan City" will set up an ambush, it is self-evident where the pocket is appropriate.

Therefore, when Fan Xiu led the troops to enter the dense forest after passing through the river beach to rest, 20,000 ambush soldiers from the "Iron Childcare City" showed their "fangs" in the dense forest.

A dense rain of arrows shot out from the edge of the dense forest directly stunned the "Xiuyuan Army" who had just planned to bury the pot and cook.

The infantry of the "Iron Childbearing City" that rushed out of the forest immediately afterwards directly shocked the "Xiuyuan Army", most of which had just turned into new recruits.

Then everything happened naturally.

The morale of the "Xiuyuan Army" collapsed directly in less than a quarter of an hour after the engagement, the front soldiers began to rout, and the rear soldiers directly began to rout, and then the whole army collapsed. Finally, there is the Great Escape.

Fan Xiu, as the city lord and general of "Xiuyuan City", also did not escape the fate of being coerced and fleeing.

chased and fled all the way, and finally got rid of the pursuing troops of "Tiezhi City" temporarily when there were still more than 300 miles away from "Xiuyuan City", and then collected the rout army all the way, and finally collected all the rest of the rout army in this abandoned camp more than 200 miles away from "Xiuyuan City".

The original army of more than 12,000 is now less than 3,000 left, and in addition to the 500 personal guards, there are less than 800 veterans who barely have combat power, and the rest are all recruits who have been temporarily scrapped.

And now the exhausted troops had just rested for less than an hour, and the pursuing troops of the "Iron Childish City" had once again caught up.

Ning Yuan, or the current "Fan Xiu", had an intuitive understanding of his own situation after digesting the memory information, and also had a vague guess about the next situation.

This war in the "sand table" enchantment, if you are not mistaken, is a real city-state war on the continent of Nieno.

In the sand table enchantment that will appear in this war, Ning Yuan estimates that the ending in history should not be good.

The reason why Ning Yuan appeared here was probably that the designer wanted Ning Yuan to avoid the direction of this war, or to deviate from the unhappy ending as much as possible.

According to Ning Yuan's guess, the real Fan Xiu should not have died in this war, which means that the worst outcome of Fan Xiu in this war should be captured. But in the next battle, whether he was captured or captured in the later war, Ning Yuan couldn't guess.

According to the available information, the general direction that Ning Yuan deduced with the "Yanyan" and Qimen induction was nothing more than two kinds.

The remnants of the "Xiuyuan City" were surrounded and annihilated here, and Fan Xiu and others were captured.

The remnants of the "Xiuyuan City" were defeated again, and the city in the rear was reversed, resulting in the city being directly occupied and Fan Xiu and others being captured.

Ning Yuan deduced that the latter was more likely.

With the military strength of the "Iron Childish City", even if it is not so much effort, it can easily capture the "Xiuyuan City". It's just that in the case of "Xiuyuan City" refusing to defend the city, it will cause damage to the city wall. There were mountain-destroying wrestlers and siege beasts, and Ning Yuan estimated that this damage should be irreversible.

So why did the "Xiuyuan City", which could be captured no matter what it did, as a medium-sized city-state with an overwhelming advantage in resources, military strength, or others, so why did it not hesitate to lure the "Xiuyuan Army" out of the city with 5,000 elite soldiers as bait?

After all, what is the reason for this city-state war?

In Fan Xiu's memory, Ning Yuan didn't find an answer. "Tiezhi City" only issued a war notice to "Xiuyuan City", and then directly sent troops to "Xiuyuan City". Fan Xiu even wanted to find a third party to mediate the war during the buffer period, but he didn't know how to mediate. It seems that the "Iron Childish City" wants to destroy the "Xiuyuan City" for no reason. In the information that Fan Xiu collected later, there was even a description that "Tiezhi City" wanted to slaughter "Xiuyuan City".

"Why?" These are the three words that have been in the minds of Fan Xiu and the staff of "Xiuyuan City" since the declaration of war in "Tiezhi City". It is also a question that everyone is puzzled by.

It wasn't until he received the information about the four special forces that Fan Xiu's mind seemed to flash a flash of inspiration, and he had a vague guess. But for many reasons, I didn't think carefully about that vague thought.

However, Ning Yuan, who digested Fan Xiu's memory, faintly speculated about the hidden veil in this somewhat confused war because of the influence of his talent.

Based on what I learned from memory. "Iron Childish City", which can only be regarded as an ordinary mid-level city-state among medium-sized city-states, should not be able to have four relatively special troops at the same time. Especially the Wood Spirit Force, a pure warlock cultivator or a pure wood spirit clan cultivator, and a large spear refining force, which is extremely money-burning.

A mature medium-sized city-state, that is, the kind of city-state with a population of one million and an extremely high proportion of 30% cultivators (of course, even a medium-sized city-state with a population of one million cannot reach the level of a perfect 300,000 cultivators), among all 300,000 practitioners, it may be possible to find a warlock professional with a qu, or even more, but it is not easy to find a professional with all the qu being wood-type warlocks.

To put it bluntly, among the 300,000 cultivators, there are only about two of the 100,000 medium-sized city-states with a population of one million, and at most three.

No matter how you calculate it, it is impossible for the "Iron Childish City" to be among them.

Even if they are not warlock cultivators, but the Wood Spirit Clan, which is extremely easy to form a Wood Spirit Army, it is the same.

Because the Wood Spirit Clan is a rather exclusive race among all the Spirit Races in the Neno Continent, and they basically only live in the major "Forest Alliance", such as the "Dragon Sen Alliance", an alliance dominated by the Spirit Race in the Dragon Blood Great Forest. The Wood Spirit Clan rarely appears in Terran-dominated territory.

Of course, if a certain city-state has established a "friendship" with a certain Wood Spirit race, that would be a different matter.

But as far as the "Iron Childcare City" in the memory information is concerned, Ning Yuan doesn't think that the other party will hook up with a certain Wood Spirit Clan.

From this, Ning Yuan speculated that the Wood Spirit troops should not be the troops that originally belonged to the "Iron Childcare City".

Let's look at the "large gun-refining" troops. Refining guns, especially large-scale refining guns, was a new thing that had only appeared for a few hundred years in Fan Xiu's era.

That's right, unlike other gas refining technology products, which usually change from large to small, refining guns are an "outlier" from small to large.

The refining spears of the Nino Continent were originally toys for cultivators, but they were just things that mortals used to deal with beasts and intimidate those timid fierce demon beasts.

Until someone had the whim to refine the spear by refining the treasure weapon.

Although the refining gun was originally powered by source stones, it basically activated ammunition in a mechanical way. It is fast and powerful for mortals, but it is only for mortals.

For cultivators, even if they are just preparatory cultivators who have condensed the "Qi Seed", as long as the refining spear of mechanical kinetic energy does not hit the vital point of death, it will only make them injured. And mid-level cultivators who step into the "Sea of Qi" will be able to rely on their improved reflexes to dodge this mechanical kinetic energy of refining spear ammunition.

However, this changed after the appearance of the refining spear, which uses the power of runes as the active energy.

The cultivators found that this kind of refining spear, which uses the source stone as the energy source and is activated by runes, can threaten the cultivators of the military level in the hands of mortals. And if it is in the hands of a cultivator, such as a cultivator in the middle of the military rank, it can even pose a threat to a cultivator who has just entered the husband level.

This discovery intrigued those practitioners and began to study it, and the subsequent discovery completely changed the fate of the "toy" of refining guns. It also led to the birth of a new subclass among late-stage cultivators.

The name of the new subclass is "Gunner".

That major discovery is the popular "caliber is justice".

It has been found that under the same material, the larger the caliber of the refining gun, the more and more advanced runes of the same kind are engraved, and the power under the same ammunition will produce geometric differences.

Whether it is the superposition of the same rune or the change of caliber, the large-scale refining of the gun has become an inevitable choice.

However, although the gun refining thing is good, it has a disadvantage, that is, it burns money extremely much. This is especially true for large-scale gun-refining units of the standard. In Fan Xiu's time, the refining gun had not yet realized the production line operation, and it could only be refined individually by the skilled workers of the refining workshop.

Of course, with the memory information digested by Ning Yuan, it is not that the "Iron Childcare City" cannot afford to raise a battalion of large-scale gun refining troops, but that it is not necessary for the "Iron Childcare City" to raise such a force.

Based on the available intelligence, it is unlikely that this large spear-refining force is also the original unit of the "Iron Childish City".

In fact, there is a more direct evidence that these two troops are not the troops of the "Iron Childcare City", that is, from the "Iron Childcare City" battle reports that have been circulated in the past, there have been no "Wood Spirit Troops" and "Large Gun Refining Troops". Even the siege beast troops did not appear.

Only the Destroying Mountain Lux is an elite unit cultivated by the "Iron Childcare City" itself. Moreover, in the information that has been circulated for so many years, the "Iron Childcare City" has only trained a little more than two brigades of mountain-destroying wrestlers, and so far it has not even been satisfied with a mountain-destroying wrestler song.

Since the Wood Spirits, Refining Spears, and Behemoth Troops are not the troops of the Iron Childish City, where did they come from? And why did he temporarily join the "Iron Childish City" to participate in this already disparity war?

Then let's go back to the original question again. With such a luxurious lineup and military strength, why did the "Iron Childish City" go to such great lengths to lure the army of Xiuyuan City out of the city?

Faintly, Ning Yuan already had a guess.

One of the purposes of the "Iron Childish City" or the force behind the "Iron Childish City" is undoubtedly "Xiuyuan City", but it is very likely that what the other party wants is not a dilapidated "Xiuyuan City", but an "intact" "Xiuyuan City".

This is the immediate purpose of this war.

So what is the deeper purpose?

Ning Yuan remembered the letter for help sent by Fan Xiu in the memory information, his heart was cold, and his scalp was faintly numb.

An "intact" "Xiuyuan City".

A request for help has been sent.

The purpose of the "Qin" alliance.

A "line" scurried up.

Ning Yuan's heart was heavy.

I remembered what the herald had just said, and the pursuers had surrounded them on three sides.

Since it is an encirclement, why not completely encircle?

Even if it is "three missing one", why do you leave the side to retreat to the city?

"It's really undisguised." Ning Yuan sneered mockingly in his heart.

However, because of the other party's undisguised attitude, although Ning Yuan was in a heavy mood, he also had some vague thoughts.

Although he said a lot, only a few breaths had passed, and the herald was still half-kneeling on the ground, looking at "Fan Xiu" with his fists clenched.

While deducing the feasibility of those vague ideas with "Yan Yan" in his consciousness, "Fan Xiu" said to the herald:

"You go and inform Vice General Zhao to gather all the remnants of our army's scouts, and I have an order to issue it."

After speaking, he turned to look at the map on the low table, and said calmly: "Go, I'll come out later." ”

"Yes." When the herald heard the calm and calm voice of "Fan Xiu", the despair in his heart eased slightly, and he got up and saluted and ran out of the tent.

At this time, the shouts of killing in the front camp of the camp had faintly approached the middle camp.