Chapter 184: Defending the City
"Your Highness, I've already seen it, the barracks of the puppet army have opened up a fire belt, and it is heavily defended, if you want to set it on fire, I'm afraid it's a little difficult!"
Hearing this, Huang Zhang smiled.
"Who said I'm going to burn down their camp?"
"Huh?" Bian Huan and Hu Lie were stunned for a moment.
"Your Highness doesn't burn the camp, so what kind of fire will you use to attack?"
Huang Zhang did not answer them, but took the two to the west gate.
Although the two were puzzled, they still followed, and Hu Lie wanted to see what the big prince had in mind.
He has always been dissatisfied with Huang Zhang, in his opinion, the so-called eldest prince is just a young brother who is used to being chic in Kyoto, and he doesn't know the cruelty of the battlefield at all.
Fire attack? This idea is simply naΓ―ve!
Huang Zhang took the two to the west gate and led them into a surrounding room.
"Why did Your Highness bring us here?" Bian Huan asked curiously.
Huang Zhang stomped on the ground with his foot and said, "It's empty underneath, this was originally the warehouse of the Hong family of the wealthy family in Qingcheng, and I borrowed it." β
Hearing Huang Zhang say this, Bian Huan was even more puzzled, "What does this have to do with fire attack?" β
"I'm going to set fire here!" Huang Zhang looked around and said.
"What!"
As soon as these words came out, both of them couldn't believe it, and set fire to Qingcheng? That's a big deal!
But after thinking about it, it seems that only here can Huang Zhang's fire attack plan succeed.
Huang Zhang explained: "The puppet army has a good sense of defense, but I don't think it's their idea, it should be the suggestion of the people from the Purge, since their camp can't be burned, then burn our own." β
After speaking, Huang Zhang immediately arranged: "Bian Huan, you immediately go down and mobilize the people to build another urn city in the west of the city, and I will bury the puppet army in this urn city!" β
"Understood!" When Bian Huan heard this, he immediately went down to make arrangements.
Hu Lie couldn't help but nod appreciatively when he heard Huang Zhang's bold move, although Huang Zhang's move was very bold, it had to be said that the success rate was much higher than theirs.
"Your Highness, do you need to build another urn city in the south of the city?" Hu Lie asked.
This time, his attitude was not as stiff as before.
Huang Zhang shook his head, "Chengnan doesn't need it, you can't use one move twice at the same time, but I have an important task for you!" β
As soon as he heard that Huang Zhang had a task for him, Hu Lie immediately became serious.
In terms of official position and status, Huang Zhang is undoubtedly the biggest, his position is the same as Bian Huan, Bian Huan obeys Huang Zhangyan, and he naturally has no reason to resist orders.
"You took 8,000 Qianya troops to garrison in the south of the city to resist the siege of the puppet army, but when you saw the fire in the west of the city, you immediately led the army out of the camp to attack the southern camp of the puppet army."
When Hu Lie heard this, he said worriedly: "Your Highness, you have allocated 8,000 people to me, what about the west side of the city?" β
"Chengxi? I have Vulcan elite soldiers, which can be worth millions, what am I worried about? Huang Zhang said with a smile.
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The next day, after the 40,000 puppet troops outside the city set up the camp, the official siege began.
However, the siege on the first day was at most a temptation, and there was no force at all, Bian Huan guarded the west gate, Hu Lie guarded the south gate, and easily blocked the attack of the puppet army.
Of course, the puppet army also found a difference, that is, the defense of the south gate was tighter, and under the defense of the Qianya army, the puppet army could not even go up to the tower of the south gate.
But the west gate is different, the puppet army has attacked the city several times, and almost every time they can climb the city wall, although they will definitely be driven down in the end, but they also find the weak defense in the west of the city.
Just when the barbarian army was tentatively attacking the city, the urn city in the west of the city was also in full swing.
In order to speed up the construction of the urn city, Huang Zhang took local materials and demolished the houses around the urn city, and the wooden planks of the houses were built into wooden walls, and then he began to dig more tunnels in the urn city, and the excavated soil was filled in the wooden wall as the wall foundation.
Then all the roofs of the houses in the urn city were replaced with thatch, and the tiles that were removed were also placed in the wooden wall as the wall foundation, and in the inconspicuous corners of the urn city, Huang Zhang put a jar of tung oil to ignite the fire.
The current urn city has become a Shura field arranged by Huang Zhang!
On the third day, the puppet army began a full-scale siege of the city. This time, they chose the siege target to the west of the city.
This is also the reason why Huang Zhang transferred a large number of troops to the south of the city, he didn't want the puppet army to focus all their energy on the south of the city, so that he would eventually fall short.
Since the puppet army has begun to attack the city on a large scale, Bian Huan is not used to them, watching the puppet soldiers continue to climb the city tower, Bian Huan did not retreat as soon as he fought, on the contrary, Huang Zhang also specially sent recruited recruits to join the battlefield to help the defenders in the west of the city resist wave after wave of attacks.
The battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and seeing the sun setting in the west and the sunset against the background, the entire west of the city was mottled with blood, adding to a bleak scene.
Don't look at the west of the city as hell, but in fact, Bian Huan's losses are not big, two thousand soldiers of the Thousand Teeth Army, the loss is less than two hundred, mainly Huang Zhang's new army is more miserable, the troops of 5,000 people, the loss of a full 1,000 people, more than 2,000 people temporarily lost their combat effectiveness, of course, most of them are inexperienced and suffer a big loss.
However, those who can survive this defense of the city will surely become the main force in the future.
Just as the sunset was about to set, the last siege of the puppet army began.
This time, the scale of the puppet army is not very large, it is just a routine.
But unexpectedly, this simple siege actually broke the west of the city!
As soon as the city gate was broken, even the puppet army itself was stunned.
Especially the general of the West Camp, he was ready to withdraw his troops, but he didn't expect the West Gate to open.
Seeing this scene, the general happily led a large army and began to kill in Qingcheng.
No way, it's too difficult, after attacking for so long during the day, losing thousands of people, and never taking down the city, General Li of the West Camp is about to be driven crazy.
It's hard to take it down, and he doesn't burn high incense.
Seeing that the west of the city was broken, General Li was quite disdainful.
"Hmph, what is the Thousand Teeth Army, it is still the elite of the country, Lao Tzu is the elite!"
After speaking, he drove towards Qingcheng with a proud face.
As soon as he entered Qingcheng, General Li was dumbfounded, thinking that breaking through the West Gate would mean taking Qingcheng, who would have thought that there was a city gate in the West Gate, but this city gate was somewhat old-fashioned, tattered, and vulnerable.
"General, it's too late today, do you want to arrange for the soldiers to live in the city first, and then fight tomorrow?" A soldier suggested.
The main thing is that they have been fighting for a day, and if they fight again, they will be afraid.
Fortunately, General Li is still human, anyway, he has already entered Qingcheng, and it is impossible to be kicked out, so he naturally happily agreed.
In order to prevent the city gate that had been captured with great difficulty from falling back into the hands of the Qianya Army, General Li began to pull all the troops of the Western Camp into the urn city that Huang Zhang had already set up.