Hou Bing didn't sleep well all night, although the sound of killing outside the eastern city could not reach the county guard's mansion, but after the first military situation woke him up, he was worried about the bad news.

When the morning dawned, he drank a night of refreshing soup, forcibly drove away the fatigue of body and mind, and shook his spirits, and the county keeper's wife personally helped him to tidy up and dress.

"Lord County Guard, all the members of the security summer have been assembled, just waiting for your order. ”

It was still not the news of the city breaking, Hou Bing settled down and said: "Order the public security summer to be divided into ten teams, go to the streets of Xicheng first, gather young and strong recruits as auxiliaries, and gather in the military camp to obey General Zhang's orders." ”

The officials from Nanjing, although they had not experienced the war, knew their responsibilities, and what they should do were not affected by the fear in their hearts, reflecting the ability of the county guard to govern.

Zhang Jie stood on the east tower, and he had not gone down the tower since the first wave of enemy attacks.

Another wave of enemy forces retreated, and no new enemy troops came up, and a new team ran up from under the eastern wall to replace the original defenders.

"My lord, Zuo Jun led the eighth brigade to report. Zuo Jun came to the city tower.

"Okay, thank you. Leave me alone, just command your subordinates. "Zhang Jie has already arranged the order of defending the city, and the specific command is in charge of the captain.

"Yes. Zuo Jun looked at the enemy formation, "My lord, the enemy army doesn't seem to have many siege equipment." ”

Outside the east city, the flags are dense, the enemy chariots attack the horses, stand with guns, dozens of battle formations of large and small are formed in full, and the ten arrow towers built at night are crowded with shield bearers, and there will be archers behind them.

Hundreds of ladders lay perpendicular to the walls, and the enemy battalion kept sending new ones.

"They," Zhang Jie hesitated, "no. If the information in the Commander's Mansion is correct, then there is a forbidden mage in the three northern legions of your country. ”

The Commander's Office has a special function of spying on the elite legions of other countries, constantly collecting and updating the information of the elite legions of various countries, and ordinary legions are not so concerned.

Gurgling, Zuo Jun could hear his own voice swallowing saliva, "If the enemy forces attack, the casualties will be very large." ”

"At the right time, let some of the enemy troops go to the city. ”

"Well, we don't have enough troops to exchange with the enemy. Zuo Jun understood what the division commander meant.

Zhang Jie turned his head, looked at Zuo Jun, and said, "You can delay it for as long as you can, if you can exchange it for reinforcements, it's worth it, if you can't exchange it, then I'll be sorry for my brothers." ”

This is a human life in exchange for time, and letting the enemy army go to the city for hand-to-hand combat can make the opponent's promoted mage throw a mouse bogey, and it is inconvenient to cast a forbidden magic that enlarges the area of attack, but it will inevitably increase the casualties of your own troops.

The number of soldiers in the county town is more than 10,000, and it is said that there are nearly 200,000 enemy troops outside the city, about 20 to 1 ratio, and the result of such a battle can only be the total annihilation.

"Your Excellency's words are serious! Your subordinates are fighting for the kingdom and the people, so how can you be sorry for us! It is better to be able to exchange the lives of the enemy than to be served by someone without being killed, and the subordinates must desperately defend the city wall. Zuo Jun solemnly saluted Zhang Jie.

Let the enemy see the combat effectiveness of the 201st Division, and the elite army will be like that in front of us. ”

At the beginning of a new round of attack, about 5,000 men with longbows stepped into the attack range of the city wall; the shield bearers on the arrow tower suddenly crouched, revealing the archers behind them, and a rain of arrows hit the wall; the ladder on the ground was carried by the infantry, like a huge centipede, and ran towards the city wall at a rapid speed; more than 20 magicians lined up and flew to the top of the arrow tower.

"The trebuchet will be loaded and fired, the archers will attack freely, and the others will pay attention to the position of the ladder!" Zuo Jun, who came down from the city tower, shouted at the top of his voice.

The city walls immediately became busy.

The trebuchet is operated by auxiliaries, the loading of stone bullets, the pull rod of the throwing rod, the proofreading of proofreading, everyone knows what to do.

The eighth brigade of 300 archers was scattered across the city walls, some returning to the towers, some aiming at the ground archers, and some shooting at the infantry carrying the ladders.

The infantry squadron leader hid behind the city wall and looked up from time to time to check the position of the ladder and beckon his men to adjust their position.

More than a dozen magicians flew out of the city, far away from the magicians on the other side, and a third of the magicians of the 201st Division were here.

"Your Excellency, Lord Commander and President Qu are here. "The pro-soldier came to report.

The president of the Nanqiu County Magic Guild has changed several times, and Huo Hu Mingtang returned to the capital not long after the reorganization of the Magic Guild after the war, and the later president no longer has sixth-level combat power.

The current president, Qu Heng, has been in Nanqiu County for the longest time, nearly two years, and has dealt with Zhang Jie.

Zhang Jie came to the staircase and waited, which was regarded as welcoming Hou Bing and Qu Heng.

"What's the situation?" asked Hou Bing when he saw Zhang Jie on the stairs.

Two personal soldiers held shields to escort the two big men to the city tower, blocking the stray arrows flying in from outside from time to time, Zhang Jie didn't answer, Qu Heng said: "It doesn't look good." ”

"The enemy attacked in the middle of the night, maintaining the rhythm of pressure, and this time the force invested in the attack doubled, and it is estimated that they want to test the maximum endurance of the city defense. Zhang Jie swung his sword and opened the arrows, leading Hou Bing and Qu Heng to approach the guardrail.

"Oh, two open towers, twenty wand-wielding magicians, do you use one division to attack at a time?" Qu Heng was dressed in a white robe, and first observed the magician opposite.

"I want to tell you two a bad news, in the latest information of the Commander's Palace, there is a forbidden magician in the Northern Third Legion, named Bandi, who is good at water magic. Zhang Jie told the truth.

Hou Bing's face turned white with a brush, and Qu Heng's pretended relaxed expression became serious. Both of them knew what the Forbidden Mage represented, a force they couldn't match.

"Ding Kui, find Count Ding! He has a sixth-level combat power there. Hou Bing grabbed a straw in the water.

Zhang Jie had to remind: "The Giant Sheep City has fallen, Ding Juma and the princess have retreated to Hengfu City, and there are also sixth-level combat power in the Lejia private army to threaten them, I'm afraid it will be difficult to help us." ”

"I just exchanged news with President Huan yesterday, they were blocked in the swamp and couldn't get out, so they could only protect themselves and couldn't help the county. Earl Ding wanted to come and help, but now that he didn't know where he was, he was afraid that he couldn't help in the current situation. "Qu Heng contacted Huan Qiao before dismantling the interrogation array.

"Are we going to sit back and wait?" Hou Bing was a little out of shape.

Zhang Jie said in a deep voice: "The 201st Division will fight to the last soldier, and will never give up the county. ”

Qu Heng glanced at Zhang Jie, shook his head, and said, "I can't let the people of the guild die, I will tell them the truth, stay if I am willing, and let them break through if I am unwilling." ”

The besieging forces to the west and south did not have enough mages to intercept them, and it was relatively easy for the mages in the city to break through, and they should be able to escape.

"This, that's as it should be. "Hou Bing was a little deflated, the magician was not under his command.

"President Qu, I can understand that I will find a way to hold back the magical power of the enemy army and create a chance for you to break through. ”

10,000 soldiers are easy to train, but it is difficult to train a magician, so it makes no sense for a magician to run away one by one, and to be buried with the county town.

You can't blame Qu Heng for their instigation, Bandi's deterrent power is too strong, and a person who can't compete on the battlefield can decide the outcome of the battle, especially on the side with more troops. Ding Kui dared to use a small number of troops to sneak attack Lejia's private army, mainly because of the sixth-level combat power that had an advantage in high-end combat power and could compete with the opponent.

"Master Ban, do you want to contact Yu Shuai and let Master Lang and Master Zhan come to help?" Tang Qi and Ban Tu walked up to the stage together.

"I heard that there are two great warriors under Na Ding Kui, Lang Chun and Zhan Jie want to stay in the base camp to protect Yu Shuai and His Royal Highness Ji Man, so be cautious at this time. I won't have a sixth-level combat power in the city, and calling them here will only share the credit of the Northern Third Legion, but it won't actually help much. ”

"Well, attack for another morning, drain their strength, and let them even use up the strength to escape. "Tang Qi was not in a hurry to use the trump card in his hand.

The army of his own country seems to concentrate all the forces besieging the city in the east of the city, and there is no movement on the north, west, and south sides, which makes Zhang Jie feel a little more sure, if the strength of the 201st Division is divided into four city walls, it will definitely be insufficient.

There were about 6,000 archers and archers on the towers, six times as many as the defenders on the city walls, and ten times as many infantry as the defenders carrying ladders, and the siege troops in the east put a lot of pressure on the defenders.

Zuo Jun personally went into battle when the enemy attacked the city in the second wave, and cut down more than a dozen enemy troops in a row to plug a gap, and when the seventh wave of siege was repulsed, his fighting spirit was not much left, and the armor on his chest was hit by a fireball, although he had a fighting spirit to protect himself, he still left a black mark.

"Doesn't General Zhang change the garrison of the city? There are less than half of the people left in this brigade, can they hold the next wave of siege?" Qu Heng and the ten magicians chose to stay, and he returned to the city tower.

"President Qu, it seems that the mages of the enemy army are not using all their strength, otherwise there will not be even half of the Eighth Brigade left. Zhang Jie changed the subject.

"Yes, they didn't use all their strength, not even half of their strength, so the magic of your division is also preserving its strength. ”

"Then can I get rid of you, wait for the magician who commands the division to help the Eighth Brigade hold on for another wave. ”

Qu Heng frowned and said, "I can promise you, but they will also increase their attacks, and the Eighth Brigade may lose another half of its people, and this Brigade will be scrapped." "He also has experience in war, and it is very difficult for a brigade to be scrapped and rebuilt, and it may not even be as good as a recruit brigade.

"If the city is broken, does it matter if it is destroyed or not? without consuming the enemy's magicians, we may not have a chance to hold out until dark. Zhang Jie saw that Hou Bing was not in the city tower before he said directly.

Hou Bing went to the Knights' Guild, and the people of the Knights' Guild could take a group of auxiliaries to build fortifications on the streets, and to prepare for the worst-case scenario, after the city wall was breached, it turned into street fighting.

"Okay. Qu Heng took out a magic wand, "Let me ask you one last question, can we keep it until it's dark?"