Chapter 671: Post-War Matters

When the archers under the city realized that their shots were useless, Iron Heart gave the order to withdraw with a blushing face. As soon as the flying army withdrew, the next step was to clean up the battlefield, and the impact of the battle between the two sides today was even greater, and it was impossible to clean up the battlefield as it did yesterday. Of course, how to clean up the battlefield is not a problem that Lin Xuanzhong needs to consider.

Today, another enemy general was killed, but unfortunately another enemy general escaped. Although he didn't fight with the two enemy generals for a long time, being able to fight against two high-level martial cultivators today still made Lin Xuanzhong very happy.

Similar to Lin Xuanzhong's mood, the same is true of those reinforcements who landed in the city after being blocked by the enemy. Compared with yesterday, there are still more people killed today. As the elite of the night army, the performance of those people today undoubtedly greatly affected the morale of the enemy army.

"Marshal, the enemy army has withdrawn," Not long after, a herald went to the main hall of the city tower to report the battle situation to Zhao Xu.

In the next time, Zhao Xu led people out of the main hall of the city tower. Under the dazzling light, the smell of blood in the city became stronger, and the cold wind blew. Looking at the two enemy commanders below from a distance, Zhao Xu's mood was somewhat complicated.

The losses brought by the two attacks of the coalition army to the night army were not only in terms of personnel, but also in the morale of the army, although today it ended with the victory of the night army, but the impact of the coalition army's attack was not eliminated, but made Zhao Xu realize that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the night army.

"Let the enemy retreat ten miles away, and then throw all the enemy corpses in the city," a simple explanation, Zhao Xu turned around and left directly. Zhang Daring and Li Jianran followed, and immediately after, only Yan Nantian and several other generals were left at the city tower.

"The enemy generals under the city listen, quickly retreat ten miles, otherwise don't want to collect the corpses of your soldiers," Catching up with the general surnamed 10,000, Yan Nantian immediately conveyed a message to the enemy general.

On the other side, the general's eyes flashed a few times, and he was already a little frightened of Yan Nantian in the city. did not respond directly to Yan Nantian, the general surnamed Wan pulled the reins and rode directly to the position of the two coalition commanders to report the military situation.

"Report to the marshal, the enemy army requires us to immediately withdraw our troops to ten miles outside the city, otherwise we will not be allowed to bring back the corpses of the soldiers," ran to Tie Xin in a gloomy manner, and the general surnamed Wan directly told their commander Yan Nantian's request.

"How can this be reasonable, the enemy dares to threaten Ben Shuai like this, it is a crime that deserves death," the calm confidence on Tie Xin's face before had long since disappeared, and now there was only a look of anger on his face. Compared with Shi Jiangchuan, who suffered a defeat yesterday, the iron heart at this moment can be said to have no commander's demeanor at all.

"Marshal, that ......" Seeing Tie Xin's face full of anger, the general surnamed Wan was very worried in his heart.

"Withdraw the army for ten miles," on the other side, although the anger was hard to dissipate, after seeing the night army in the city, Tie Xin also understood that they could not continue to attack the city today. Now that the morale of the night army is high, it will only backfire if you force the siege, so it is best to follow the original plan.

"Yes," after receiving Tie Xin's instructions, after the general surnamed Wan agreed, he immediately went over to Yan Nantian and said that he could accept the conditions, but the Fei Army wanted to take the injured Fei Jun under the city first. Regarding the request of the general surnamed Wan, Yan Nantian was not embarrassed.

After some time, hundreds of thousands of coalition troops retreated in unison, until they were ten miles away. When it was determined that the coalition forces had withdrawn to a far distance, Yan Nantian immediately commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

The corpses of the flying army were thrown from the city walls by the Night Army, but the arrows inserted in those corpses, as well as all the weapons above and below the city, would be used as trophies for the Night Army. The two sides have already fought to the point of mutual hatred, and there is no need for the Night Army to show mercy to their subordinates.

Today's siege of the Flying Army can be said to be anticlimactic, with a beautiful beginning but no beautiful ending, this defeat also made Tie Xin and Shi Jiangchuan completely understand the fact that the elite of the night army who have experienced many life and death tests are indeed not comparable to ordinary soldiers. If they were unable to exploit their numerical superiority and confine the battlefield to a few hundred meters of walls, they would not be able to defeat the Night Army.

With this thought, the two marshals had a better understanding of the current situation, and although they suffered two defeats, it was not necessarily a bad thing for them.

Yan Nantian breathed a sigh of relief after his side could clean up the battlefield normally, today's attack by the Fei Army also made Yan Nantian realize that their city wall was not as stable as it looked, and it seemed that both sides of the coalition army had the ability to easily attack the city wall. I don't know if the enemy's combat methods are too clever, or if there is a problem with the deployment of his own troops, in short, Yan Nantian knows that he must not underestimate the coalition forces.

After handing over the affairs of cleaning up the battlefield to the generals below, Yan Nantian went to attend the important meeting that Zhao Xu was holding. Not surprisingly, today Zhao Xu had to discuss with the generals the enemy's intention to attack the city.

Among those generals in charge of cleaning up the battlefield was Lin Xuanzhong, and although it was not the first time he was in charge of such a thing, it was a challenge to clean up the corpses in such a cramped and bloody place.

Now the city was covered in blood, and corpses were still covered in the ground. If you only clean up the corpse, you will leave a trail of blood, which will remain on the walls unless it is the next rainstorm, but it is winter and there will be no rainstorm.

In the harsh sunlight, bright red blood soaked the cracks of the stone bricks, and then flowed down from the entrances of several long stairs, staining the stone steps red, bloody and dazzling. It wasn't until an hour later that the city and the city were cleaned up.

In the past time, the corpses of those enemy soldiers have been transported, and it is not surprising that the flying soldiers responsible for disposing of the corpses are all veterans, all of them are old and frail, and they are weak, just watching them carry the corpses makes people very anxious, and the night army in the city naturally did not think about taking them to avenge their brothers who died in battle.

After the enemy army carried away the corpses as agreed, the night army in the city once again opened the gates of the city, which had been subjected to two days of onslaught, and went out of the city to recover the logs, stones and other materials used before the city.

The blood stains on those things can only be washed away with water, and the materials in the city are limited, and the recycled things have to be reused. By the time the hundreds of meters of walls had been washed up and down with water, the smell of blood was no longer as strong as it had been during the armistice, and some soldiers continued to stand guard on the city.

Under the fluttering night flag, the night soldiers looked solemn, not affected by the surrounding environment at all, and guarded their posts wholeheartedly. The cold wind was blowing, the icy breath was constantly dispelling the smell of blood in the air, and in the increasingly brilliant sunlight, the slightly dilapidated city wall revealed a ruthless cruelty all the time.

Two hours after the end of the war, the city gradually returned to normal. Lin Xuanzhong and Zhang Jiutian, who were covered in blood earlier, had already gone back to wash. The two of them have not been in the battle for a long time today, but the process of fighting is more intense. Speaking of which, neither of them expected that there would be so many enemy troops in the city in advance. Fortunately, the enemy army is only outnumbered, otherwise today's battle would not have ended so easily.

When he rested in the courtyard after washing, the nervous mood in Lin Xuanzhong's heart had disappeared, and everything was back to normal. When Lin Xuanzhong recalled the situation before the war, the strong contrast made Lin Xuanzhong realize that he had unconsciously become accustomed to the cruelty of war.

Although it is impossible to judge whether it is good or bad, it is always a good thing that the mind becomes stronger and stronger. Besides, the rights and wrongs of the war have long been immeasurable, and Lin Xuanzhong is just happy that he can survive.

"General, the marshal ordered you to go over quickly to participate in the discussion," I don't know how long it took, Zhang Jiutian came in from the courtyard gate to interrupt Lin Xuanzhong's cultivation, and at the same time informed Lin Xuanzhong of the matter above about the convening of the council.

Stopping the movements in his hand, Lin Xuanzhong walked to Zhang Jiutian's side. While nodding to Zhang Jiutian, he carefully experienced the changes in himself. After two days of fighting, it seems that his strength has improved again, and Lin Xuanzhong is naturally very happy about the improvement of his own strength.

"General, what do you say the marshal wants to discuss with you today?" As the deputy general of the first-class wolf general, because of Lin Xuanzhong's relationship, Zhang Jiutian's status in the army has naturally risen recently, and ordinary generals have to greet Zhang Jiutian politely when they meet him. Based on the changes in his own identity, Zhang Jiutian naturally paid more attention to the military above.

"Just like yesterday, let's discuss the intention of the coalition forces to attack the city in advance!" Recalling the content of yesterday's council, it was not difficult for Lin Xuanzhong to make a guess.

"What does the general think is the purpose of the coalition army to attack the city in advance?" Zhang Jiutian nodded and asked again.

"Both times the coalition attacked in the form of a tentative, and both ended in defeats, probably really just trying to see how well we could defend the city. ”

"Today's siege methods of the Fei Army are very efficient, if the Fei Army and the Yang Army cooperate to attack the city with all their might, does the general think we can really hold Fancheng?"

"No matter how many people come from the coalition army, only the city gate is not broken, the number of participants in the coalition army has been limited, with the advantage of city defense, the night army should have no problem holding Fancheng," his tone changed, Lin Xuanzhong looked at Zhang Jiutian with a puzzled face and said, "Don't you even have this confidence?"

"Of course not, the subordinates just felt that the two coalition commanders were a little different from the resourceful Ruan Qiling at the beginning. In any case, the two sieges of the coalition forces were not expected. Although they all ended in failure, their subordinates felt that the only weakness of the current coalition army was that they did not have large-scale siege equipment, otherwise it was really possible to break through Fancheng in one fell swoop. ”

"Siege equipment," silently recited Lin Xuanzhong suddenly thought of the kind of siege vehicle that the Wing Army had used when he was defending the city in Windless City. That kind of siege vehicle is completely a huge force, even the most elite soldiers can't resist head-on, thinking about the role of siege vehicles in breaking the city, Lin Xuanzhong can only sigh at Zhang Jiutian's foresight, while thinking about whether they can still hold Fancheng by then.