"So what?" Ling Xiao's eyes lit up, secretly thinking that this city lord's position could be held for so many years, and he was safe, it seemed that the other party was not a good stubble, so he seemed to need to change his tactics.

"So Emperor Qiankun should be the only strong general under him, he sent you to put smoke bombs on us, asking us to give up resistance, how can there be such a cheap thing!" He slapped the table suddenly, and the soldiers hidden around him immediately appeared, with swords, guns, swords, halberds, and eighteen blades in their hands, encircling Ling Xiao from far and near.

Ling Xiao applauded leisurely and looked at the city lord approvingly: "Not bad, the city lord really has a set, maybe you are right, I shouldn't have put smoke bombs on you." As he spoke, he also stood up, and the soldiers around him immediately took a step back in unison, but the formation was not chaotic.

"Don't move!" the city lord said with a gloomy face: "No matter how powerful you are, so many people are so close to you, if you go together, you can't get out of the way, right?"

Ling Xiao looked left and right, shrugged his shoulders and said: "It seems to be, but it is necessary to sacrifice so many people, abolish me alone, Emperor Qiankun sees that I am overdue, then your city is not guaranteed, and..." His eyes narrowed, and he walked out from behind the table with his hands behind his back: "Since you think that I am a strong general under Emperor Qiankun, why don't you think clearly that I will come alone?"

The city lord's face turned pale: "What do you mean?"

"I mean, even if it's just me, then it's enough, I have the power to slaughter the city, so why bother with the crowd?"

Upon contact with his slightest gaze, the city lord suddenly felt as if he was in a hell that was half ice, fire and half locks, and fear erupted from the bottom of his heart like magma, quickly strikingly throughout his body.

After a long confrontation, the city lord finally sat back in his seat as if he had experienced ten years of vicissitudes, and booed: "You can do what you want, as long as you let the people of the city go..."

Ling Xiao saw that the city lord had softened his attitude, and he no longer pressed too hard, and gave a stick to a sweet date, which was a necessary means of negotiation. His smile made people feel comfortable and convinced: "Actually, city lord, you also know that Moon City was originally under the jurisdiction of Emperor Qiankun, and now he just wants to take back his sovereignty." Therefore, as long as the sovereignty is handed back, I will not move anything in the city, what should the people do, you are still the city lord, and the guards will still be the guards, and they will not change. ”

"What..."The city lord didn't expect Ling Xiao to give him such a good treatment, but he immediately said vigilantly: "There will be no pie in the sky, you must have other plans, if you want to surrender to me without blood, please also show some sincerity." ”

Ling Xiao nodded: "It seems that the city lord is already his own person, so it is okay for me to say it together, in fact, it is like this..."

Early the next morning, the city lord sent a general to defend the city, and took Ling Xiao to begin to familiarize himself with the operation of the entire city's forces.

The two climbed to the high lookout on the east side of the city.

At this time, the sun was full of sunshine, Ling Xiao greeted the sun, took a deep breath of the cold and soft air unique to the early morning, and his spirit was even more invigorated.

Looking up, I saw that due to the special topography of Moon City, there was a similar lookout every kilometer in the city, which was far away from end to end, connecting into a fan. There are guards above, and under the lookout, there is also a small barracks within a radius of 100 meters according to the eight array diagrams. The defender explained that the air defense troops in the barracks would be able to cooperate with the defenders at the lookout as soon as the enemy attacked from the air.

Ling Xiao nodded, walked off the lookout, and observed it in person. Along the way, the guard enthusiastically introduced to him all kinds of troops and distribution, the armored troops and elite commandos are in the main city, that is, the place where Ling Xiao had a banquet last night, and the patrol soldiers double as infantry, with super high hand-to-hand combat skills, which can not only prevent riots in the city in time, save troops, but also fight head-on with the strong enemy at the fastest time to break in, drag down the local forces, and let the armored soldiers and commandos in the main city have time to prepare for the battle. The defender went on to say that there are special soldiers in the north and south outside the city at a certain distance, and they are also engineers, each with a variety of skills, whether it is camouflage and repair building field battles, or long-range attacks and close combat, they are all one enemy hundred.

Ling Xiao was secretly surprised when he heard this, thinking that if he really encountered those special soldiers he said yesterday, I am afraid that he would indeed have some trouble dealing with them. The two walked back to the lookout again, and then Ling Xiao suddenly noticed that in some sand areas outside the city, there were many people with clothes of exactly the same color as the sand, and he secretly shouted: "Is there still someone who wants to attack the city?"

The guard was stunned: "It's all desert here, what do you want sailors for?"

Ling Xiao shook his head and said, "Although I can see that the troops distributed in the city are just right, and they complement each other. And because of the shape of the city, these troops are deliberately lined up in a cloud dragon formation with the main city as the origin, this formation, regardless of the front and rear, can play a role in protecting the cavalry on both wings and the safety of the main city, and can also be used to break through the enemy army. But after all, it is better to defend than to attack, and if one day you plan to expand outward, no matter what the reason, as long as you expand, there will definitely be war, and if you get to the sea or the river, your combat power will be greatly reduced. Therefore, I suggest that you take out some soldiers with high understanding and train them to be sailors.

The guard general listened to his analysis, and secretly praised him for not being an ordinary person. But it seems too difficult to train sailors in Moon City, after all, there is only sand and no river here, do you want the soldiers to strip naked on the sand and play the so-called dry swimming? He told Ling Xiao his thoughts.

Ling Xiao already had a plan: "I am free to arrange this, from now on, you will pick a few trustworthy generals, transfer troops, and step up training, I will lead you to capture a city in ten days, which should be only half a month away from here." And there is also a river that crosses it, and when you occupy it, you can train sailors, and use it as a charge, so that if someone comes to attack it, you can also meet each other. ”

"But we've never invaded any other city before. When the guard heard that he was going to wage war with the outside world so soon, he was shocked and hurriedly said.

Ling Xiao glanced at him: "The world is not peaceful, you are only a temporary paradise here, if you don't offend people, people will also offend you." In that case, we also need to prepare in advance. This war is not an invasion, but the recovery of the surrounding territory, paving the way for future recuperation and peace. ”

The guard general also made sense when he heard what he said, and he also knew that the current power of Moon City was in Ling Xiao's hands, so he didn't say anything more. He just wondered in his heart, Ling Xiao looked like he was only in his early twenties, could it be that in addition to his trembling martial arts, he also had the mind to win a decisive victory? Could it be that God would really give a person such a perfect soul?

Although Ling Xiao was confident on the surface, he was also very excited in his heart. This is the first time he has commanded troops to fight, and the various military techniques and geography he talked about before are actually from the book, and they have not really been practiced. And once it is put into action, there are many variables to face, so he does not know what will really happen then. Therefore, this battle is just a practice, and he can't go out in person every time in the future battles, so this "pro-campaign" can be said to be a rare opportunity, and it can also allow him to further understand himself from a realistic perspective.

Time is fleeting, Ling Xiao led the reorganized army, has rushed to the periphery of Banshan City, and divided the strength of Moon City into four, respectively from the east, south, west, north four directions around Banshan City, forming east, south, west, north four fronts, the east is the important road between Banshan City and the neighboring city, arrange a thousand men and horses to ambush and standby, block the retreating army of Banshan City or harass the enemy's reinforcements, so that the other party can not come to support in time;

The south is the second battlefield, in order to confront the defenders of the Mid-Mountain City, so that it can not echo the end of the line, with 5,000 soldiers and horses; the west battlefield is mostly precipices, although the enemy does not dare to attack the Ling Xiao army from here, but just in case, it is still arranged for 1,000 soldiers to be on standby at any time, and the north battlefield is the first battlefield, where the 10,000 main forces are all concentrated here to confront the Banshan City on the mountainside.

To say that Ling Xiao chose this mid-mountain city, it is also because although the terrain of the mid-mountain city is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is a lot of distance from the surrounding neighboring cities, it is difficult for the enemy's reinforcements to be supported in a short time, and the most important thing is that the mid-mountain city is not like the moon city, rich in materials and a lot of food, Ling Xiao wants to fight this battle, what he wants is to plunder the military supplies of this mid-mountain city, for the follow-up development of the moon city. However, when he arranged all this and sent spies, when the first wave of scouts sent out reported the news, Ling Xiao felt a little painful. The defenders of the southern front were a little better, although the opposing army was outnumbered, but after all, there was a lack of effective organization and training. The army on the southern front was at a disadvantage on the surface, but it was still able to hold out and fight under the city. It's just that on the southern front, the enemy army has a natural barrier, and the food and materials in the city are also abundant, and if the battle continues for a long time, it can only be a confrontation between the two sides, and the situation of the two sides cannot fight, and once the other party's reinforcements arrive, Moon City is located on the edge of the desert, and the materials are in short supply, so it will have to make plans to retreat.

As for the battle situation on the eastern front, it is even more unfavorable, the most important thing in the eastern battlefield is to block the enemy's retreat and the support of reinforcements, after all, Moon City is insufficient, the only thing to do in the eastern battlefield is guerrilla tactics, harassment is okay, but the frontal confrontation, whether it is the opponent's retreat or reinforcements, is bound to lose.

This is the war, it is the result of the combination of armaments, soldiers, and tactics, but there is no difference between the combat effectiveness of the commander, even if Ling Xiao is powerful, he can't fight with tens of thousands of troops, and in the end he will definitely win, I'm afraid that he himself is almost useless.

However, the name of the person, the shadow of the tree, although the strength of Moon City has been greatly improved under Ling Xiao's rectification, but no one knows about this in the outside world, so the city lord of Mid-Mountain City must have taken advantage of the fact that Moon City was once weak in force, and he will definitely not prepare as early as the beginning, so the battlefield on all sides will not fall into a life-and-death situation at the beginning, and according to the news of the City Lord of Moon City and the guards, with the level of the City Lord of Mid-Mountain City, you can't make a life-and-death decision.

Moon City has insufficient troops and short supplies, under these two major drawbacks, this war can only be a quick attack, and cannot fight a protracted war, this is Ling Xiao's own judgment, when he first captured this Moon City, he already understood these truths in his heart.

Therefore, when Ling Xiao had just received the news that the spies had reported that the distress signal from Mid-Levels City had been conveyed, he was a little anxious.