Chapter 117: Prologue

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"You said that his village is only 100 zhang open, so tell me, what is going on in this city?" Li Jun trembled and pointed to the city in the distance, and he was furious.

Heichai swallowed his breath and found that his mouth was very dry, and it took a while before he said, "This ...... I didn't expect that in just over three months, he would build a city out of life, and I ...... Alas......"

Looking at the dense crowd inside and outside the city in the distance, Li Jun glared at the black guess with a cold sweat: "You said that he has eight hundred soldiers, you see that there are five or six thousand people there, and if there is one soldier among the three of them, then there are one or two thousand soldiers...... Advisor, advisor, you are ...... But it's a good thing you insisted that I take all the men and horses with me, otherwise we won't have a chance of winning......"

Heichai immediately slapped a sycophant over: "Adult Hongfu Qitian ......"

"Hmph...... Order, tomorrow the fifth watch will make dinner, and the city will be attacked in the morning......" Li Jun was so angry that he turned around and left.

Honk......

The Han soldiers on the city wall looked from afar, only to see countless ragged slaves slowly walking out in the distance, each holding a scimitar in his hand, but without a shield, followed by a large number of neatly dressed soldiers, holding spears and forcing the slaves in front to continue to advance towards the Fire Dance City.

Liu Zhibang on the arrow tower in the inner city saw it from a distance, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he said a few words to the herald next to him, and the soldier left immediately, and ran out of the city like the wind.

Didida ......

A loud brass horn sounded, and Li Jun and Heichai in the distance saw that two groups of soldiers with shields and spears neatly drilled out of the city gates on the north and south sides, formed two neat phalanxes outside the city, vacated the west city wall, and quietly waited for the army of Xia Yuancheng.

Li Jun saw that there were not many people who could see it, and said: "Hmph, although the army is neat, there are only less than a thousand people in total, and they dare to go out of the city to fight with our army, and order the slave army to surround them in two teams, Commander Li, you let the coolie battalion attack the city from the front of the western city wall......"

"Order!" Commander Li went as ordered.

"Quick, or you'll die now......"

More than 2,000 people from the coolie battalion carried a long ladder and were fiercely driven towards the west city wall by the soldiers behind, while the first battalion of Ah Meng and the third battalion of Long Jie on both sides of the city wall quickly adjusted into a tortoiseshell formation when they saw the ant-like slave soldiers rushing up, and the shields were stacked one by one, and countless spears stretched out from the gaps between the shields, like two turtles covered with hedgehog hair.

"Rush ...... Hurry up and rush ...... me" Seeing the Han army coming up, the soldiers of Xia Yuancheng brandished their leather whips even more fiercely.

Although the coolies in the coolie camp did not have a neat and mighty formation, the overwhelming crowd did look a little bluffing.

"Two hundred paces ......" The lookouts on the city wall stared nervously at the battlefield.

"One hundred and sixty steps, forty-five degrees of elevation, ready to ...... Shoot ......"

Whoosh whoosh ......

Countless sharp arrows shot out from the city, like a black torrential rain, falling on the crowd of the besieging party.

"Ah...... Ah......h

"Ah......h

Countless screams came one after another, pulling down the prelude to the offensive and defensive battle.

A ladder was erected on the wide moat, and the coolies who rushed through the moat cost countless lives to finally successfully erect the ladder on the city wall.

"Rush ......"

Commander Li of the Standing Army of Xia Yuancheng shouted loudly, and countless soldiers rushed towards the western city wall with shouts in the dense rain of arrows.

Advance...... Reach......

"Brothers of the first battalion, listen to the command, target the right front, advance ......"

Ah Meng heard the sound of the brass trumpet, watched the battlefield from behind the shield, and gave the order.

"Tiger ......"

"One...... Two...... One...... 2. ......"

Bite......

While......

"Ah......h

Slave cutters rarely slashed shields, and most of them were pierced by piercing spears as soon as they approached, and the tortoiseshell array slowly but surely marched towards the front of the besieging western wall, leaving two neat rows of corpses along the way, like a heavy oil tanker sailing through the sea, carving a deep ravine.

On the other side, Long Jie heard the sound of the brass horn, and also commanded his subordinates to push towards the front of the west city wall, and the two tortoiseshell formations of Ah Meng and Long Jie firmly converged in the middle, intending to surround the head of the Li regiment who was attacking the city head-on.

Heichai watched the two tortoiseshell formations slowly surround Commander Li who was besieging the city, and frowned: "My lord, Liu Zhibang's intention is to use two teams of elite soldiers to encircle and annihilate Commander Li under the city, do you want to send reinforcements......

Li Jun frowned, shook his head and said: "The open space in the west of this city is not open, it is surrounded by dense jungles, and the battlefield in front has been crowded with nearly 10,000 people, so it is really impossible to put it down, and the main force of the other party is all on the west city wall, and you can send people to attack other city walls...... Where is the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment? ”

"The subordinates are here!"

Head Wang was thirty-seven or eighteen years old, not tall, but extremely sturdy, and walked out from behind Li Jun.

Li Jun said to Commander Wang: "You take the people from your headquarters, bypass the battlefield in front of you, and attack the eastern city wall!" ”

"Order!" Commander Wang was ordered to leave.

On the high arrow tower, Liu Zhibang carefully looked at the chaotic battlefield, and suddenly his eyes were attracted by the crowd behind Li Jun's army in the distance, looking at the jungle where thousands of people were hidden, the corners of Liu Zhibang's mouth crossed a slight arc.

Liu Zhibang said to a herald beside him: "Send an order to Commander Chai Zhongchai, and order him to block the enemy with all his strength, and not let the enemy go to the city......"

Commander Wang led his subordinates to move forward in the jungle with difficulty, and from time to time someone fell into the trap in the jungle, and a scream reached his ears, which added to his irritable mood.

"There is an enemy ......" immediately sounded a warning in front.

"Ah...... Ah......h

Head Wang was so frightened that he dodged and hid behind a tree, and when he looked back and forward, he saw countless figures shuttling through the jungle.

"Ah......h

"Ah......h

Captain Wang was startled by the screams beside him, and when he looked up, he saw archers everywhere on the top of the tree, and his subordinates kept falling with arrows, and Captain Wang screamed angrily.

"Brothers, rush me......"

"Rush ...... Ah......h

"Ah......h

In a burst of charge, Commander Wang lost more than 100 brothers, and the ubiquitous enemy forced Commander Wang to retreat to his original place.

A herald rushed to Li Jun's side and said, "Report, Commander Wang has been ambushed in the forest, and the two sides are in a stalemate, unable to advance an inch ......."

"Got it......"

Li Jun looked at the two tortoiseshell formations in the field, although slow, they were actually extremely stable towards the middle of the west wall, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

Li Jun turned his head to look at Heichai and said, "Strategist, you see how to deal with the current situation, if you really let those two shield formations surround Commander Li, then Commander Li will be in danger......

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