It is a small city, because it is close to the cold land city, the city here has high walls and thick walls, it is not only a place for merchants to gather, but also a place for heavy troops, and there are more than 3,000 people stationed here. Wu Gen did not hesitate to take these people into his own pocket, just to replenish the soldiers lost by the previous ancestor Yuantong in the First World War.

Today, the city is a large construction site, with three trenches dug along the city walls to a depth of one foot, filled with spiked thistles. At the head of the city, bows and crossbows were busy adjusting their positions, and huge wooden rolling stones were placed all over the walls.

From time to time, when the birds flew over the city, and the horses came in and out of the city gates. A large number of city residents were lining up in the direction of Hanlu City.

Less than two miles away from the south city gate, there is a small mound, which is called a forest mound by many people in the city. The wooded hills, which were originally overgrown with trees, have now been cut down, and there are no less than a dozen sharp fences along the dirt slopes, leaving only a narrow passage in the middle for people to pass, and the rest of the place is full of traps, large and small.

Between the mound and the city of Yuanli, the trucks are lined up in two rows from end to end, and there are people behind them who are piling up earth and stones with the support of the cars, and building two earthen walls, with an interval of 100 steps between the walls.

Behind the earthen wall, the Northern Army is stepping up the construction of three military villages, which are connected with Linqiu and Yuanli City, which is equivalent to expanding the Yuanli City into a small city.

Viewed from the air, from the city of Shan Li to the forest hills, a ten-mile defensive line was formed, firmly locking the road to the west of the coalition army. Although the earthen wall in the middle of the nearly two miles looks rudimentary, it is within the range of the arrows of the forest hill and the city of Qianli, and can be supported by both sides. In addition, there is also the support of the military village behind him, in fact, the strength of the troops is not thin.

This time, Wu Jian almost threw all his family's chariots here, if it weren't for the urgency of time, according to his temperament, he would not have built seven or eight earthen walls to stop the iron cavalry of the coalition army.

At the top of the forest hill, Wu Gen was discussing with Baoxiang, Meng Shun, and Le Xi about the armament.

The forest mound is not large, and it is not easy to accommodate more than 3,000 people. The reason why it is necessary to focus on the defense here is because the forest mound is the only commanding height outside the entire city of Yuanli. Occupying this hill, you can overlook the city of Qianli, and in addition, with the terrifying range of the Cangjia cavalry, it is enough to threaten the southern city gate.

Therefore, Wu Jian placed the most capable Meng Shun here, and also placed the good archery Lexi here to resist the archers of the Cang family.

Just in case, Wu Gan handed over the Yanshi sent by Ji Ye to Meng Shun to command, and prepared to guard against the enemy's strong attack.

These days, the busiest thing is to do this bug, helping to dig tunnels in the mountains and build underground fortifications all day long.

I thought about it at the beginning, but I survived the catastrophe with Wu Gan, and after Suo Ji's careful feeding for so many days, he had begun to show his wonders.

Not only can the body be large or small, and it can come and go freely in the soil, but this guy can also spew out a kind of venom, whether it is a person or a weapon, as long as it is stained, it will be turned into a pile of yellow water. Even if the Dharma weapon is polluted, it will also lose spirituality.

"Lexi, those sky-shaking bows are still working." Wu Yan turned his head to look at Le Xi, who was looking at the hard bow in his hand.

"This thing is very wonderful, with the blessing of this bow, I have the confidence to shoot against the Cang family." Le Xi looked excited, and couldn't put down the bow in his hand, "But there are not many soldiers who can be used, only thirty percent." ”

"Almost, this bow is already physically demanding." Wu Gan's face ached, and the spirit jade he had saved with great difficulty was gone, "Meng Quchang, what else do you need here, do you want to send someone here again." ”

Meng Shun glanced at the dense fence on the slope, and said in a deep voice: "The terrain here is narrow, and it is useless to have more people, and if it is defeated, it will be easy to disturb the morale of the army." The only thing to worry about is the wounded and food and grass, and in addition, the earthen wall in the middle must be connected in case of emergency. If our army retreats westward, we need to cover Fang Cheng with men and horses, after all, neither I nor the music chief's men have horses this time. ”

"Okay, I'll take someone to guard the earthen wall at that time, don't worry about the horse, Wuyang will coordinate it." Wu Qian nodded and looked to the east. In the past two days, the coalition forces have sent a lot of scouts here, but the brigade has not yet appeared.

"Is the final decisive battle set at Catching Deer Ridge?" The elephant sat on the ground, sweating profusely under the scorching sun.

"Yes, I've already informed Himeya of the plan, and I don't really want to fight in the city. As you have seen, there is wilderness on all sides, which makes it easy for the army to move. The terrain of Luling is easier for our army to defend, and there are many forks in the road to maneuver. Wu Yan spread out a map and showed everyone the terrain of Catching Deer Ridge.

"It's just that we have to fight this battle, otherwise Ji Chen will punish us, and the dreadnought army will be handed over to others, whether we stay or leave at that time, doesn't it make Ji Ye difficult." Wu Yan sighed and slammed his fist on the ground, "So, I can only agree with Ji Ye and prepare with both hands." The main decisive battle field is in the Catching Deer Ridge, if the thief army is strong, if we can't get out, we will defend the city of Yuanli, and wait for him to come to help, whether it is dead or alive depends on the will of heaven. ”

Meng Shun raised his head and looked at the two earthen walls under the forest hill that had been winding all the way to the city of Yuanli, "Lord of the village, I am not worried about the city and the forest hill here, the weakest point of this defense line at the moment is these two miles. Not only did they have to face the impact of the cavalry on the side, but also those soldiers of the Ba family, if they launched the secret technique at close range, they would move the foundation of the earthen wall, and it would be inappropriate if the foundation collapsed. ”

Hearing this, Baoxiang patted Meng Shun's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Old Meng, you are a good hand at fighting, but you are far worse than Wu Ganke when you build walls and holes."

But anyone who has fought can see that the city and the forest hill are not easy to fight, and only the earthen wall is the weak point. A long wooden plank was driven under the earthen wall, even if the Ba family broke it, but his secret skills were limited after all, and he could change the terrain by three or four feet at most, so he didn't have to worry too much about the earthen wall collapsing.

In addition, both sides can condescendingly support the earthen wall, behind the earthen wall, all the Chinese troops have been assembled, even if the enemy breaks through, as long as it does not collapse completely, it is enough to eliminate these fish that have slipped through the net. ”

"But without these earthen walls, wouldn't it be better for us to defend the forest hills and the city of Huli." Lexi didn't understand why he deliberately increased the front of the defense.

Wu Yan stood up and pointed to the city in the distance, "Actually, this is related to the decisive battle location we chose, if we only defend Lin Qiu and Yuanli City, it looks better to defend, but the thieves are overwhelming, if I am surrounded by these two places, how can I leave this place smoothly and arrive at Catching Deer Ridge." With this wall in our way, at least we will stop the enemy when we retreat.

Secondly, if this place is used as the site of a decisive battle, it is very vulnerable to the impact of the enemy if it is unsheltered in the wilderness. What we do is to temporarily build a big city that has not been closed, so that the army can have a support. ”

Seeing Le Xi's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Meng Shun smiled and said, "I know what you want to say, so I don't need the owner of the village to explain my doubts." Isn't it if the coalition forces bypass this ten-mile defense line and attack us from the west?

This is simple, not to mention the earthen wall, the city is about 40 miles long, plus the forest mound is more than 50 miles long. If the enemy goes around to the west to attack, such a long distance, his army will inevitably be stretched very thin, forming a long belt, even if it only surrounds the city gate, it will definitely show a lot of flaws.

It is true that our cavalry is vegetarian, choosing the source of its weakness, messing up its troops, dividing and annihilating, no matter how many coalition forces there are, how can we stand this little bit of being eaten.

If the coalition forces dare to do this, then let's not go to Luling, let's fight a decisive battle here. I think the owner of the village deliberately set up this earthen wall to lure the enemy to attack. ”

The corners of Wu Gan's mouth twitched, he really didn't think about the idea of luring the enemy to attack the earthen wall, and then disturb the enemy and annihilate the enemy, he just thought that there was a wall to support the bottom of his heart.

Turning to face the east, Wu Yan laughed, "Don't worry, the coalition forces won't be so stupid, even if Lu Lie and the others don't understand, how can those suppressors not know." As soon as this wall is erected, the coalition forces will have to attack three places at the same time to reduce the pressure on our defense. If there is no geographical advantage, we will create a geographical advantage.

In this battle, I am going to let the left army be responsible for the defense of the forest hill, and the rest of the left army and Ai Kai's division are located in the military village under the mountain. Zhang Wuyang of the Chinese army led the Chinese army to garrison the other two military villages and earthen walls, and Xue Xin led the right army to garrison the city of Qili. As for Captain Shui and Niu Chao, those mastiffs are used as reserves, ready to support everywhere. ”

"What about Zu Yuantong." Baoxiang listened to Wu Gan's arrangement, but did not hear the task of Houjun Zu Yuantong.

"Oh, I asked him to catch Deer Ridge." Wu Yan scratched his head, "In the last battle, more than half of his troops were damaged, and he has lost his combat strength, so it is better to go to Luling in advance to arrange fortifications." ”

As he spoke, the dust and smoke billowed from under the forest hills, and a jade-white insect more than a foot long and the thickness of a bucket came out of the soil, raised its head and turned around, its body suddenly shrunk to three feet long, and its waist became the thickness of an arm, and it turned around and burrowed into the soil again.

After a while, the soil at Wu Gan's feet surged, but he came out of the soil. When he saw Wu Gan, he wrapped his legs affectionately, climbed to his arms and circled them a few times. His eyes like black beans stared at Wu Gan, and he gently slapped his arm with his tail like a coquette.

Wu Yan smiled and took out two pills from his arms, took out some Tianyan rice, and fed them to Dan Xing's mouth.

Not to mention Wu Gan's arrangement of troops and the strengthening of the city's defense, in the camp of the coalition army, Lu Lie, Gu Yangsi and others were discussing the matter of sending troops.

After a battle with Wu Gen a few days ago to escape, Lu Lie originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but under the persuasion of Gu Yangsi and several Zhen Fu, he could only integrate his military strength first, after all, the previous war was the loss of the disconnection between the front army and the Chinese army. The coalition forces outnumbered each other, and there was no need to give up their own advantages for the sake of a fast march.

But he didn't want some rumors in the army to have a headache recently, which made Lu Lie have a headache, so he had to call someone to deal with the matter.

"Brother Gu, Ji Chen didn't withdraw Wu Yan this time, but it's cheaper." In the big tent, Lu Lie was the first to speak.

"It should be Ji Ye who protected Wu Gan, but this is good, Wu Gan will inevitably be constrained in the future, and he will no longer do what he wants as before." Gu Yangsi put down a few pieces of paper in his hand and rubbed his temples, "But there are some troubles in the coalition army, and you must have heard of it." ”

"Yes, there is a saying in the army these days, saying that although this time it is an alliance of six families, in fact, it is the Lu family, the Gu family and our Cang family. The Qiu Lin family, the Ba family, and the Murong family were purely sitting on the back and watching the tiger fight, and the generals in the army were also dissatisfied. Cang Yi said on the side.

"The Qiu Lin family retreated because they lost a lot of soldiers and horses in front of them, and they had to patrol the grain road. As for the Ba family, Bahong handed over 10,000 horses to us without saying a word, and the other men and horses are still watching the important place of transshipment in Yediyuan, coordinating the transportation of grain, is it possible to give up Yediyuan? As for the Murong family, what can those 5,000 people do. Lu Lie looked angry and slapped the handsome case heavily.

Gu Yangsi glanced at the people in the tent, and said faintly: "Such absurd words should be a means used by the other party, and it is not worth refuting the counter-plan to retaliate against us." There are also some lists of the Li Tong Ji family here, including Qiu Linhe and Murong Yuqiang.

Although they knew that this was fake, the list had spread among the army, making many generals worry that the back road would be cut off. Everyone discussed how to deal with this matter, as a big war would start, so as not to shake the morale of the army. ”

"If you don't transfer Qiu Linhe and a few others to the army, then the rumors will be broken." Cang Yi suggested on the side.

"No." Gujia Zhenfu Gu dared to veto categorically, "There are many rewards in the Japanese army in the past few days, there are righteous eagle troops infested around our grain road, it should be to reconnoiter the movement of our army, if the grain road is cut off, I am afraid that our army will collapse without a fight before it reaches Hanlu City." ”

"Then do you want the Murong family to increase troops to take care of the grain road." Lu Lie looked at Gu Yangsi.

After a moment of silence, Gu Yangsi sighed, "Now that the Northern Army is building fortifications in Qianli City, the longer the time gets, the more difficult it will be, and it is better to send troops sooner rather than later." In this way, half of the Ba family's men and horses in Yediyuan were transferred to the front to enrich the army, and the Chulin family still guarded the grain route and supported by cameras.

As for the Murong family, don't move, if there are more people, the pressure on supplies will be great, the key is that his family has a little relationship with the Ji family after all, just in case, let them guard Yediyuan, and contain the rest of the Ba family. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden to spread rumors in the army, and our army will march quickly to take the city as soon as possible, you can see if it is okay, Brother Lu. ”

"But, let's do it." Lu Lie thought about it and finally made up his mind.

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