The shrill whistle of "beep" broke the silence of the night, and the iron beast's lookout hole opened, shooting rockets outward, and soldiers kept coming out from behind, throwing torches around.

Bands of cyan armored soldiers approached the iron beast that stood between the walls and the barracks in the darkness.

The Iron Beast will not retreat to the camp at night when it is close to its own camp, and the soldiers will stay behind to prevent the enemy from leaving the city and destroying the trenches that have been dug.

Whoosh, a few cold arrows shot at Koshien, where the probe was checking the enemy's situation. His neck tightened, as if he had been dragged by a galloping horse, and the whole person was pulled into the air and thrown to the ground.

"Don't show your head, just throw the torch out, the first team will report the enemy situation at the lookout, and the others will guard the back door. "It was Fan Yuzhen who dragged Jiaziyuan back.

The third brigade responsible for guarding the iron beasts was very vigilant, and after nightfall, they set up multiple mechanisms in front of them, and once an enemy army approached within a hundred meters, it would be discovered.

The sporadic firelight barely illuminated the surroundings of the ten iron beasts, and the figures in the direction of the military flag pass were longing, and there were constantly cold arrows shooting at the lookout holes of the iron beasts and the outcropping soldiers of the Shaodian Kingdom.

"Ignition!" shouted one of the group's figures.

"Ignition!", "Ignition!", "Ignition!", "Ignition!", ......

A flurry of low shouts passed the command to "ignite".

The torches were lit one after another, revealing the heavily armed Meng soldiers in the darkness, and about two or three thousand people were already approaching the iron beast.

"Woo!" The low horn sounded, and even the soldiers of the Shaodian Kingdom in the Iron Beast heard it clearly, and the general of the Meng State gave the order to attack.

Coax, coax, coax, countless fires were lit a hundred or so steps behind the iron beast.

"Calibrate, prepare, put!" Mao Jian pointed forward.

Lined up groups of archers shot the first wave of rockets into the air, making an arc in the air, either front or back, left or right, scattered among the charging troops of the Mon Kingdom.

"One hundred and fifty paces at a fixed point, intercept ten bursts of salvos, prepare, release!" Mao Jian rhythmically commanded the archers to attack.

Yu Zhong is not a junior brother who has just stepped on the battlefield, how can he not guard against the enemy army to destroy the iron beast at night. He cobbled together a thousand archers and handed them over to Mao Jian's command, and as long as they attacked the enemy and lit the torches, this ranged force could reap the human life.

Mao Jian has rich experience in water warfare, unlike Fan Yuzhen, who is good at boarding ships, he is especially good at commanding archers, and his level can be ranked in the middle of the 75th Division.

The commander of the Meng army secretly screamed when he saw the fire lit up, his subordinates were rushing forward with all their might, and there would be a large number of casualties when retreating, so he had to bite the bullet and let the trumpeter urge his subordinates to speed up the rush forward, so that they could be able to melee with the enemy troops guarding the iron beast, and the threat of enemy archers would be greatly reduced.

"Those with long weapons guarded the outside, and those with short weapons guarded the inside, and they carried bows and arrows and short spears to attack freely. "Fan Yuzhen held a long axe and guarded the outermost part of the back door, and had completely taken over the command of the fourth squadron in Koshien.

Jiaziyuan stood behind Fan Yuzhen stupidly, with short spears stuck in his back, one in each hand, and a pair of eight-sided hammers at his feet.

A group of Meng soldiers dodged their bows and arrows and circled behind the iron beasts, just in time to meet the 4th squadron, which was waiting for them. The officer who took the lead stared at Fan Yuzhen at a glance, crossed his chest, and rushed towards Fan Yuzhen quickly.

"Look at the axe. Fan Yuzhen had an axe on his head, and the huge axe face was aimed at the top of the head of the Meng officer with the sound of the howling wind.

The Meng officer bowed forward and arrowed back, steadied his horse's steps, and crossed his fists to meet him.

Fan Yuzhen turned the handle of the axe with his back hand, and the axe surface drew an arc to the side, changing direction into a barricade and slashing away.

The officer of Meng Guo took a step forward, slapped his axe with his double wedge, his skills were very flexible, and his strength seemed to be not under Fan Yuzhen.

Whew, a short spear with a sharp spin shot into the ears of the Meng officer.

This hit the node where the remaining strength of the Meng officer's hand was released, so that he couldn't change his move to block. Immediately his waist sank, his head jerked down, and the short spear flew past the back of his head.

After a while, Fan Yuzhen's back hand turned again, and the axe changed direction again, sweeping straight into the leg of the Meng officer.

"Not good!" the officer shouted, and he leaned forward with his body, seeing that his legs were about to be cut off by a giant axe.

It was too late, but it was too soon, and a spear stabbed out from behind the Meng officer and stuck diagonally into the ground in front of him. With a click, the spear was cut off by the giant axe, but the castration of the giant axe slowed down, and the Meng officer took advantage of the momentum to kick out, kicked on the axe, and jumped backwards with his own strength. He had barely stood on his feet when there was a sharp pain in his feet, and a short spear landed on the spot and plunged into his feet.

Fan Yuzhen's long axe stretched out and dragged the Meng officer to the ground, and then made a move of "iron ox turning the plow", and cut the Meng officer into three pieces on the spot. Behind her, Koshien fired three spears in succession, pinning the soldiers who had rescued the Meng officers to the ground.

Before Fan Yuzhen could catch her breath, she rushed up to two more teams of Meng Guo sergeants. The Iron Beast guarded by the 4th Squadron was surrounded by at least three squadrons on all sides.

"Listen to the wind and change the archer to short arrows, support the four iron beasts in the middle, freely choose the target to attack, and the others rest in place. Seeing that most of the enemy army had come into contact with the third brigade guarding the Iron Beast, Mao Jian revised the attack order.

"Die!" Jiao Mingguang roared angrily, and the tip of the gun lit up a spear, shooting a fleeing Meng soldier to the heart.

Jiao Mingguang stood with his gun in his hand, looking at the few iron beasts surrounded in the distance, with an anxious look on his face, "Why can't the ambush army come on?"

The Mon army that attacked the Iron Beasts numbered about 3,000 men, but not evenly matched to each Iron Beast, and the Iron Beasts, guarded by the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Squadrons in the middle, were attacked by more enemy troops.

Woo, woo, woo, a low horn sounded from the Shaodian National Army camp.

"First Brigade, Attack!"

"Second Brigade, attack!"

As soon as the turf on both sides of the archers was turned over, a thousand men on each side of the 75th Division got up, and it was the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 75th Division, which had long been ambushed here, and they rushed towards their comrades who were surrounded by the regiments a hundred paces away.

With a backhand axe, Fan Yuzhen slapped an enemy soldier who wanted to bully her into the air, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, hold on for a while, our reinforcements will come up and pull!"

Koshien struggled to drag a wounded subordinate on the ground back into the Iron Beast, turned around and picked up the twin hammers on the ground, screamed strangely, and charged at an enemy soldier.

The morale of the 3rd Brigade was greatly boosted, and the two outermost squadrons, after clearing the enemy forces attacking them, launched a counter-charge in the direction of the central iron beast under the command of Jiao Mingguang and Xu Chudong.

Smack, Ma Pre was slapped in the face.

"How did I tell you, let them dig under the city, and then fight to the death when they forcibly attack the city, who told you to send troops to attack at night?"

"Subordinate, subordinate, subordinate convicted. Ma prepaid me for a moment, but still obediently admitted his mistake, "My subordinates immediately sent two more divisions out of the pass to respond, and the enemy's 75th division did not dare to pursue at night." ”

"Stupid! It is easy for an army of 20,000 to go out, but it is difficult to withdraw. Do you think that there is only one 75 th division in front of the pass? At least one division and regiment will be able to rush into the battlefield at high speed in less than half an hour as long as they rush up and hold off our troops.

Can you let our cavalry division rush out of the pass at high speed? Which of your troops can defeat the enemy's Eighth Army in a night battle? Send your troops out again or send them to death! Immediately Mingjin will collect the troops, and the archers will cover the wall. Helian Yu couldn't wait to kick Ma Pre down the city tower.

When, dang, dang, there was a hurried sound of gongs at the military flag gate.

On the other side, Jiang Zhi and Yu Zhong stood on the platform.

"Chief of Staff, it seems that the enemy forces are cautious. Yu Zhong said as he looked at the retreating enemy troops.

"It is unreasonable to come to the night attack on the first night and retreat when you suffer a loss. There is at least one legion behind the pass, and the commander of the pass has enough troops, and he doesn't dare to send 20,000 or 30,000 people to force our army back?" Jiang Zhi frowned.

"There is indeed a difference in the style of the enemy general's use of troops, maybe it is because of the change of command in the battle. Yu Zhong also saw the problem, "Recently, our unit has strengthened the anti-reconnaissance deployment, and the enemy army cannot understand the details of our army, and there are not many troops who dare to fight our army in the night battle, and they dare not send troops to respond to it when we change my command." ”

It is not easy to rush up, and it is even more difficult to retreat, the troops of the Meng army's night attack found that there was an ambush and had no intention of fighting, when the gong sounded, the Meng army was suddenly in chaos, and the troops who were not bitten left their colleagues and ran away, and the troops who were bitten fell into a bitter battle and could not get out.

As soon as the Meng army withdrew, Mao Jian was happy again, and hurriedly arranged for the archers to shoot rapidly, blocking the retreat of the enemy army with a continuous rain of arrows.

Less than 1,000 of the 3,000-strong night raiders eventually fled back to Junqi Pass, while Fan Yuzhen's third brigade, which was responsible for guarding the Iron Beast, only paid the price of about 200 casualties.

The battle loss ratio between Shaodian and Meng reached 1:10.

Helian Yu looked at the battle report in his hand and suddenly smiled, "The Eighth Legion must be nearby, they won't have only one legion to fight me, there should be other legions to respond, and there are a lot of people here at the Military Banner Pass."

Someone came, gave the commanders of the Cao and Qi armies an offensive order, ordered the Third Army Corps to hold the southern defense area, ordered the Ninth Army Corps to attack at will, and ordered the Thirteenth Army Corps to go to Dougou Pass to shake it for a while, and then return immediately. ”

Jiang Zhi followed Yu Zhong back to the Chinese army tent of the 75th Division, staring at the map spread out on the table and pondering.

Yu Zhong waved his hand and motioned to step back left and right, so as not to disturb Jiang Zhi's train of thought, and he stared at the map and fell into thought.

"Change the commander in front of the battle, then Helian Yu is likely to be at the Junqi Pass, and she is also in the Seventh Legion, and the night attack in front of the pass can completely evolve into a big melee that is uncontrollable by both sides.

She didn't dare to fight, indicating that the troops were not sufficient or guessing that the main force of our army was nearby, no matter what the reason was, it was not a good thing. No, no, I have to change my thinking, what would happen if I were her?" Jiang Zhi said to himself.

Yu Zhong didn't know the deployment of the main force in the theater, so he casually continued: "The enemy army can wait for us to tackle the key problems and use the geographical advantage to fight with our army." ”