Chapter Seventy-Five: The Siege
The south gate of Chifeng City.
As a small border city, Chifeng City is not large, but its gates are very majestic, which is somewhat incommensurate with the scale of the city.
This is mainly due to the fact that the Red Ridge Jungle is connected to the borders of several countries, not all of which are friendly to the Red Banner Empire, and the Empire cannot be defenseless against it. The Yu family's perennial garrison in Chifeng City, and the city's defense is quite complete, which is the defense made by the Red Banner Empire.
The south gate is not very tall, but it is extremely strong, and the garrison facilities such as lookouts and arrow towers are also very complete, and dozens of regular soldiers are stationed for a long time, which is enough to guard against a small raid - this refers to a raid launched by regular, elite soldiers. If it was just a rabble like the mob in Chifeng City, even if there were hundreds or thousands of people, they might not be able to gnaw down the south city gate.
But at this moment, in the open space hundreds of meters in front of the South City Gate, there were about 300 mobs gathered by hedgehogs, who were clamoring to attack the South City Gate.
In the crowd, the bearded Li Wei secretly glanced at He Zhiyuan, who was standing at the front, with an expressionless face, and sighed with a complicated face.
For He Zhiyuan, when he was in the fortress, Li Wei felt that this person was not simple. But now he knew that he had been too conservative. How can this be described as "not simple"? This person is simply a ...... But even Levi had to admit that even if he was a madman, He Zhiyuan was a very powerful madman.
After He Zhiyuan kidnapped Li Wei, he used the same means to annex another mob that had fled. After that, relying on the advantage of numbers, he continued to annex and collect those fleeing mobs, and in the end, he gathered more than 300 people!
What's even more incredible is that in this process, I don't know how He Zhiyuan did it, in short, the troops of the powerful Yu Family's Phoenix Beast Legion were easily toyed with by He Zhiyuan. He seemed to know the whereabouts of all the Yu family's troops, and he could always respond before the other party approached, either fleeing or hiding.
Several times, He Zhiyuan led everyone to hide in the grass, almost watching the soldiers of the Phoenix Beast Legion walk under everyone's noses.
He Zhiyuan's miraculous performance gave confidence to these temporarily attached mobs, originally these mobs were already desperate trapped beasts under the pursuit of the Yu family's army, and suddenly someone was willing to take them to find a way to live, naturally everything was disobedient. Not to mention that He Zhiyuan was the warrior who picked the roof of the Yu family, which made the mob feel convincing.
A temporary team was just pulled together by He Zhiyuan, and they were ready to follow He Zhiyuan to storm the south city gate! After all, rushing out of the city gate meant that his life was saved. And the sheer superiority in numbers also emboldened each other.
These Jianghu men don't understand military affairs, they only use the rules of Jianghu fighting to understand the battle, so everyone thinks that hundreds of people against twenty or thirty defenders, even if the other party has city defense protection, it shouldn't be difficult to win, right?
Looking at the swarthy city wall in the distance, Li Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead, speculating in his heart about the attack method that He Zhiyuan might use.
Unlike others, Levi had been a soldier and knew some military affairs, and he knew very well that even if the hundreds of mobs died at the moment, they would not be able to bite the not tall South City Gate.
It depends on what new means He Zhiyuan will come up with to deal with the defenders...... With He Zhiyuan's previous performance, he shouldn't have no means to deal with the defenders, otherwise wouldn't it be in vain to spend so much effort to gather people?
By this time, the sky was already a little cloudy. In Li Wei's expectant gaze, he saw He Zhiyuan slowly pull out the ghost tooth scimitar, and then ...... Then I heard him shout, "Kill!" and took the lead and spread his feet and rushed towards the gate in front of him.
"Kill!" The heroes of the rivers and lakes who were already about to move suddenly surged with enthusiasm, and followed He Zhiyuan to rush towards the city gate with a scream.
"I'm X, that's it?" At this moment, Levi, who was originally full of anticipation, almost squirted a mouthful of old blood on the ground. He really wanted to ask He Zhiyuan, could it be that everyone was busy for a long time, just to rush up together to die in the end?
But being coerced by the flow of people, Levi had already involuntarily followed the crowd and flocked to the south gate not far away.
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The captain of the guard of the South City Gate is named Yu Yong, who is Yu Ji's distant cousin, and he is not happy in the Yu family, and he is not diligent in doing things on weekdays.
Tonight, although Yu Yong received an early military order to guard against a mob raid, he didn't take it too seriously. In his opinion, how could those stragglers and brave mobs dare to have the courage and ability to attack the city defenses head-on? Isn't this looking for death? Therefore, Yu Yong did not take any special precautions, and only arranged for a few sentries to go to his sleep.
So when He Zhiyuan gathered hundreds of mobs and slaughtered towards the south city gate, Yu Yong was still a little confused. Where the hell did these damn mobs come from?
The chief was stunned, and the garrisons on the city gate naturally reacted a little slower.
By the time these soldiers finally reacted and hurriedly took their positions and prepared for battle, the mob that rushed the fastest had already rushed to a place no more than 100 meters away from the south gate.
Fortunately, the distance of more than 100 meters was enough for these soldiers to sweep away these hundreds of mobs.
"Shhh
"Ahh
Just as Yu Yong was about to give the order to release the arrow, a black light exploded, and a black scythe slashed at Yu Yong's throat like lightning.
Yu Yong's cultivation is not weak, and he is about to reach the cultivation of the late stage of the beast soul stage. But in the face of this scythe, he actually had a feeling that he couldn't dodge.
In a hurry, Yu Yong only had time to turn sideways before he was slashed on the shoulder by the black sickle, and blood immediately flew everywhere.
The next moment, a dark blue, translucent figure took shape. This is the blue ghost that He Zhiyuan brought out of the prison, this extremely fast, almost invisible undead creature hidden in the darkness before dawn has become the best siege weapon at this time, and the city wall several meters high is not an obstacle at all for this floating ghost.
The sudden sneak attack of the blue ghost immediately plunged the city gate defenders into chaos. Yu Yong alone was obviously unable to deal with this powerful undead creature, and this little officer who was not valued by the Yu family obviously had no intention of swearing allegiance to the Yu family, and when his life was threatened, he immediately shouted and called for help from the defenders beside him, resulting in a small number of defenders who held their posts and attacked the mob, and they could not form a suppression.
"Knock Knock ......"
Just when there was chaos on the city wall, He Zhiyuan's second wave of siege weapons was officially launched. Those are three puppet robots that are more than two meters tall and run like tanks!