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He was horrified to find that the ground within a radius of three zhang began to churn like boiling water, and then it sank downward, as if the sky was collapsing and the earth cracked, and a huge crater with a diameter of more than four zhang and six feet deep appeared in front of him.

In an instant, everything on the ground vanished in front of me, as if suddenly in a hellish cave.

Including Zhao Lan, more than fifty shield soldiers, licensed soldiers, auxiliaries and people gathered in this area were instantly sucked into the pit, and then the mudslide mixed with the water of the moat swept from the surroundings, and the muddy mud waves surged, completely swallowing the more than fifty soldiers in an instant.

I saw the countless arms and heads struggling and stumbling in the muddy waves, roaring and screaming, but they were all useless, and disappeared into the mud in a few breaths.

The sentence is overwhelmed!

Earth-based magic circle!

This is a high-level earth-based spell in the form of a formation!

When he felt the suction coming from the ground, Zhao Lan realized that something was wrong.

He plucked the onion on a dry land, stepped on the right foot with his left foot, and then slammed his right foot on the back of his left foot, and with a nimble flip of his body, he bounced into the air, and then stretched out in the air, and the handguard hook in his hand cut off two flying arrows, which had already floated five feet away.

Everyone was stunned by the sudden change.

There was a commotion on the city wall, and there was chaos under the city wall, and before everyone could react, another moat thirty zhang away from the city changed again, in the same way, with the same result, more than sixty soldiers fell to the ground again and disappeared without a trace.

The huge sense of fear made the soldiers of the Caizhou Army under the city chaotic, and no matter who they were, it was difficult to accept this kind of drastic change like a natural disaster without warning.

Some of the soldiers threw down their shields and screens and ran back, and the overseers could not stop them, while some of the soldiers thought it was a punishment from heaven and simply knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

At this time, the officer's scolding and angry scolding were difficult to play a role, and the too strong stimulation made many soldiers and civilians become frenzied, and they couldn't control the situation for a while.

Seizing this opportunity, the crossbow team and the archers almost immediately pressed on the ground, covering these chaotic Caizhou soldiers under the rain of arrows, but the trebuchet suspended the strike, and the shield and the screen card lost their effect, which is the time for the crossbow and bow to play their maximum effect.

Deng Guinian and Luo Zhen on the city wall couldn't help but high-five each other in celebration, although the real killing of these two earth-based magic arrays on the soldiers was very limited, and the total number of people was only more than a hundred, but the impact it brought was immeasurable.

The entire left army formation of the Caizhou Army was almost completely disrupted, especially everything that was done by the river reclamation spent in front was almost in vain.

Originally, a section of the moat had been filled, and as soon as this earth system magic array was activated, this section of the ground became a swamp, and there was a rotten quagmire within a radius of ten zhang, and no matter how human or horse, it was impossible to set foot at all.

Yuan Wuwei and others, who were standing on the tower and observing the battle situation on the front line, were also shocked by this sudden upheaval.

Although they had long expected that the enemy might have magic equipment to help, they never thought that the other party would actually design this kind of earth-based magic array, and obviously expected that their own side would choose this direction to attack the city.

The faces of all the generals standing on the tower car became extremely ugly, and people like Yuan Wenji, Yuan Wenhuai and others were even a little impatient and were about to step forward to ask for battle.

Even Yuan Wuwei couldn't help but be a little eager to try, but when he saw Yuan Wuwei's expressionless face, he barely suppressed the restlessness in his heart.

In the end, Yuan Wuxing suggested softly: "Third brother, do you want someone to pick up Yunhuai and let the left army withdraw temporarily?"

Yuan Wuwei stood silent for a long time before shaking his head: "No, if Yun Huai can't even control this little bit of formation, then he, the commander of the army, really deserves to be a bit unworthy of his name! I believe that Yun Huai can control the situation." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent.

You can't control the slightest situation, if you call Zhao Lan back at this time, I am afraid that the next time you lead the army, it will be rare to have Zhao Lan.

This will undoubtedly deal a huge blow to the prestige and psychology of Zhao Lan, the leading figure with foreign surnames in the Eight Pillars of Ruyang, and will also attract some unnecessary doubts from the generals with foreign surnames.

Zhao Lan did have a flustered situation, he had never encountered this kind of situation, especially the sudden attack of this kind of large magic array, he had no experience in dealing with it.

However, as one of the leading figures in the Eight Pillars of Ruyang, Zhao Lan naturally has his own outstanding features, and calm response is the most basic ability.

On the one hand, he ordered the officers not to be busy with the overseers to block the fleeing soldiers, but to join them and guide them to retreat in an orderly manner, and on the other hand, he himself led the deputy commanders to rush to the front line and command the soldiers who had not yet dropped their shields and screen cards to raise the shields and screen cards again to protect the soldiers and people in the confusion.

In fact, the direct damage brought by the magic array to the left army was not large, and most of the losses of more than 100 people were auxiliary soldiers and people, which was insignificant for a war of this scale.

And the biggest loss was that after the chaos caused by the magic array to the entire left army, the Gu Shi army took the opportunity to attack with strong crossbows and bows and arrows, at least causing losses of more than 300 people, plus the losses during the previous advance, the entire left army in just one hour, 500 people died or lost their combat effectiveness.

After retreating two hundred steps, the Caizhou Left Army finally regained its footing, but at this time, the bed crossbow on the Gushi city wall began to regain its power, which brought a commotion to the already frightened soldiers.

Zhao Lan almost bit her lip, and her heart was dripping blood.

Originally, he thought that although this Gushi City was difficult to bite, but with the elite of Caizhou's army and his own strength, it was not a problem to level this city, and he even had the idea of competing with Yuan Wenyu to see who could climb the head of Gushi City first, but he didn't expect that this sudden blow would simply stunned him.

It's just that at this time, he can't think about anything else, so he can only grit his teeth and straighten out the team to avoid greater losses.

It was only after retreating three hundred and fifty paces that the entire left army finally stabilized its position.

Under the shouting and even punching and kicking of the officers, the soldiers finally came to their senses and began to regroup the whole team, while the auxiliaries and civilians also began to cower and put the dirt bags back on their backs, but everyone knew that at this time they were afraid that their courage and efficiency would be greatly reduced.

Affected by the rout of the left army, Yuan Wenyu's right army was also greatly affected.

After the left army de facto withdrew from the battle formation for rectification, the crossbowmen and archers suddenly increased the intensity of the attack on the right army, so that the price paid by the right army in filling the moat was also doubled.

Yuan Wenyu was also unwilling to lose to Zhao Lan, so he was naturally unwilling to let go of this opportunity, and would rather pay a greater price to complete the task of filling the moat.

It's just that this made the right army suffer, and the strong crossbowmen and archers who were originally pressing on the side of the left army quickly moved to the right flank position, and the losses caused to the right army even exceeded that of the left army, but the task was finally completed.

The three sections of the moat of more than 30 zhang were finally filled, and the entire city wall east of the north gate of Gushi was exposed in front of the Caizhou army, but the loss of the right army exceeded 800 people, which can be said to be a broken muscle, of course, for the entire Caizhou army, this is nothing.

With the heavy losses of the right army of the Caizhou army, but it retreated in an orderly manner, the whole battlefield tended to be calm, but this was only the calm before the greater storm came.

Wen Yan comforted Zhao Lan, who was a little depressed, Yuan Wuwei signaled Zhao Lan to go down to rest first, but Zhao Lan refused to rest, Yuan Wuwei knew that the other party's heart was on fire, and he was not reluctant, and took a group of generals back to the big tent and reopened the military discussion.

"Ladies and gentlemen, for now, we have achieved the victory of the first stage, we have reached our goal, the moat east of the north gate of Gushi City has been basically filled by us, and it has only taken us less than two hours, which means that Gushi City has opened half of the gate for us. ”

Yuan Wuwei's first sentence made the generals stunned and then refreshed at the same time, the boss's words were not wrong, casualties are not important, the key is whether the goal is achieved.

An army of 13,000, in addition to the 2,000 cavalry, also had 11,000 people, and the loss was more than 1,000, which seemed not small, but this was on the premise of filling half of the opponent's moat in two hours.

Now the Caizhou army still has 10,000 troops ready to enter the battle at any time, and the moat under the east city wall has been basically filled, which means that the Caizhou army can reach directly under the Gushi city wall and launch a strong attack.

"However, the first battle also exposed some of our shortcomings, and it also made our Caizhou Army see the good performance of the Gushi Army. Yuan Wuwei analyzed and summarized in an orderly manner.

The head of the family told him that this time the battle against Gushi was not only as simple as taking Gushi, but also the best opportunity for the younger generation to train the army, so the small characters known as the Eight Pillars of Ruyang came four in one go, including Zhao Lan, a leader with a foreign surname other than the Yuan family.

It's just that I didn't expect to give Zhao Lan a head on the head in the first battle, and Zhao Lan was a little stunned.

Still lacks some experience, but this is all reasonable, no one is born with it, and they are not slowly maturing in one war after another, not to mention that Zhao Lan's performance is not bad, but his luck is a little worse.

"I have to bear the main responsibility for the defeat of the left army, I underestimated the Gu Shi Army's attainments in magic, and at the same time, the staff pavilion is also responsible, we have not yet grasped the situation of the few magicians from Bianliang to the Gu Shi Army, I estimate that most of these earth system magic arrays are related to the people from Bianliang. Yuan Wuwei talked eloquently, even when talking about his responsibilities, he was still calm and elegant. (To be continued.) )