After leaving the Wizards' Guild, Ding Kui found a place where no one was around, changed his appearance and height, transformed into a knight, and came to live in an inn near the Knights' Guild in Autumn Twilight City.

Instead of visiting the villages and towns under the jurisdiction of Autumn Twilight City, he rented a practice room from the Knights' Guild, intending to break through to the Shield Breaker Knight before entering the Hengduan Mountains.

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The Meng warship fell into Zhang Xun's suspicious plan, and docked in the north of Juyang City, the Meng army did not rush to surround Juyang City, as Zhang Xun expected, sent several fast horses to the west.

Since the Meng army was not in a hurry to attack the city, Zhang Xun was not polite, and sent scouts to closely monitor the movements of the Meng army until another group of warships landed in the south of Juyang City.

At this time, Qi Nan had already led the people deep into the swamp, and the Meng army did not expect this, so the fleeing team was not pursued.

Seeing that more and more Meng troops were landing, Zhang Xun frowned, "The second brigade canceled the night attack plan, and now the enemy has more than 20,000 people landed, and the fleet is still constantly docking, seeing that their flags are all one legion, the enemy army is not just trying to capture Juyang City." ”

Zhang Xun did not guess wrong, the landing of the Meng army lasted until late at night, and the troops of a whole legion went ashore, and the troops who went ashore in the early stage built a large camp around Juyang City, seeing that the posture was not a temporary military camp.

During this time, an archer shot a letter up the castle tower, and the envelope was marked to be handed over to the castle lord to find it. This is a letter of persuasion to surrender, informing Zhang Xun that it is the Third Army of the Meng State in front of him, and that the 100,000 elite soldiers are not something that thousands of defenders in the city can contend with, and it is the right choice to open the city gate and surrender as soon as possible.

After reading it, Zhang Xun tore the letter to shreds, "Hmph, there are only city lords who died in battle in Shaodian Kingdom, and there are no city lords who surrendered, although I, Zhang Xun, am not talented, I can't bear the responsibility of abandoning the city and abandoning the land, as long as there is still a breath, I will never let Meng Jun step into the giant sheep city half a step." ”

He selected 3,000 young men from the city, barely enough to gather 5,000 defenders, with a brigade to guard each of the four walls, and another 1,000 men as reserves.

The Mongol army did not organize a siege overnight, but only sent archers to shoot rockets at the city from time to time, which shows that the commander of the Mongol state was a very experienced person, on the one hand, he used the numerical advantage to consume the physical strength of the defenders, and on the other hand, he prevented the defenders from sneaking out of the city to attack.

The battle situation in Chunlu Bay was very unfavorable to Shaodian State, and Meng Guo seemed to have transferred all the naval forces on the Tongyuan River, and there were more than 500 large warships alone, and more medium-sized warships could not be counted.

The overwhelming rockets shot at the water village, and the defenders of the Shaodian Kingdom couldn't lift their heads when they were pressed, if they hadn't been repairing the fortifications recently, I was afraid that the water village would be broken if it didn't last until it was dark.

The 120th Division received the news that the wolf smoke had lit up in Juyang City on the way to Chunlu Bay Water Village, and Jian Wen had to send 2,000 people to the Chunlu River crossing to avoid the enemy from going around behind them.

After dark, the 120th Division rushed to the Chunluwan Water Village, and when Jian Wen saw the fire-shining river, he said in a lost voice: "Oops, the main force of the Meng State is here." Immediately send a message to the corps commander, the main force of the Meng State wants to occupy Nanqiu County, and ask the legion to send troops to support us. ”

Han Chu said with a stern face: "I'm afraid that Captain Yan Xun guessed right, the Meng army concentrated the naval army to attack here, and the enemy army was also discovered in Juyang City, and they are going to take Nanqiu County."

Meng Guoming knew that the Eighth Army would rush to Nannuma Prefecture, and with the three legions that were originally stationed in Nannuma Prefecture, they would have to use at least four legions before they dared to attack us.

Now all the pressure is on our side, wait for the legion to react, and then send people to support, it will take three days, can we hold it for three days?"

"Three days?" Jian Wen smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's good that we can withstand one day, no matter what, we have to buy time for our allies, even if we all die here, we must defend the Chunlu Bay Water Village!"

The Mongol navy did not stop attacking, all the warships took turns, and the suicide fireships did not stop charging. Even with the 7,000 more men of the 120th Division, Chunluwan Shuizhai was still struggling to defend, and the number of casualties kept rising, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to hold on for a day.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that fog fell on the river, and the Meng navy suspended the offensive, and the defenders in the Chunluwan water village breathed a sigh of relief.

Jian Wen found Han Chu, took out an arrow and said, "Staff Officer Han, you take the first and second brigades to withdraw to Nanqiu County." It won't be long here, and the water village can be lost, but the county town can't be lost. You let the defenders of the Chunlu River ferry also withdraw to the county seat after dark today, and once the Meng navy sails into the Chunlu River, the ferry will be in no danger. ”

"Commander, what about you? You should go back and stick to the county seat, and your subordinates stay here. Han Chu was reluctant to take the arrow.

"This is a military order! There are no retreating generals in the Twelfth Legion, I can't be the first!" Jian Wen's eyes widened.

Han Chu had no choice but to obediently take the token, and with tears in his eyes, he left the Chunluwan Water Village with the first and second teams.

The fog of the Tongyuan River was up, and Juyang City was not so lucky, and it ushered in the onslaught of the Meng army as soon as it was dawn. Zhang Xun fought bloodily at the head of the city with a spear in his hand, and broke three spears in one morning, and the armor on his body was full of enemy blood.

The small giant sheep city burst out with a tenacious fighting spirit, and the third army of the Meng State attacked for a morning, losing more than 1,000 people and destroying countless siege equipment, but still did not take this small city garrisoned by only 5,000 people.

At noon, the Mongol army made a truce and did not continue to attack the city, but instead divided its troops and went to the west and north. Juyang City was surrounded by military camps, and the Meng army did not have the need to take the city urgently, they had time to waste with the defenders.

Zhang Xun came to the South City Tower to inspect and express his condolences to every defender on the city wall.

At this time, black smoke came out from the back of the barracks outside the city, and then there was a sound of fighting, Zhang Xun looked intently, and was sure that someone was attacking the Meng army from behind, and immediately ordered, "Gather the reserve brigade and follow me out of the city." ”

All the war horses in the city were gathered, and Zhang Xun organized a cavalry brigade, rushed out of the south city gate, and directly charged the Meng military camp.

The commander of the Meng army didn't expect Zhang Xun to dare to rush out in broad daylight, and he didn't expect to kill an ambush army all the way in the swamp in the south.

This force that emerged from behind the Meng army was Qi Nan's city defense army to escort the common people, and after he sent the common people into the swamp secret passage, he took 800 people back to Juyang City. These 800 men lay in ambush behind the barracks in the morning, until noon found that the Meng army had slackened, and Qi Nan immediately ordered an attack.

Qi Nan rushed to the front, saw Zhang Xun leading his troops rushing over, and shouted loudly: "Lord Zhang, I'll come back and pull!"

"Hehe, Commander Qi, it's really yours, this fighter has caught it well!" Zhang Xun stabbed out three spears in succession, forcing back a magician flying in the air, "Let's go, we're killing for a while." ”

The two groups of people joined forces and continued to rush and kill in the Meng military camp, and also specially picked a place with a lot of people to rush, and the Meng magicians who came to support did not dare to cast large-scale magic, for fear that they would accidentally injure their own people.

When the commander of the Meng army reacted and sent troops to support the southern military camp, Zhang Xun saw that the situation was wrong and was not greedy for merit, so he quickly led people back to Juyang City.

After Zhang Xun and Qi Nan rushed like this, most of the southern military camp was damaged, and more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded, which was more than the loss of the entire siege in the morning. The morale of the army and people in Juyang City was greatly boosted, and the determination to defend the city was extremely firm.

Just when Zhang Xun attacked the Meng military camp, the Chunluwan Water Village finally could not withstand the onslaught of the Meng State Water Army, the Water Village fell, and the commander of the Water Village and the commander of the 120th Division were killed, a total of 15,000 people were killed, and none of them were captured.

At the same time, the Hump Mountain Pass and the Chunlu River Crossing were attacked by the Mon army.

The 10th Brigade of the 120th Division has been stationed at the Hump Mountain Pass, and the captain Yan Xun has taken over the command of the pass, plus the original 3,000 defenders of the pass, a total of 4,000 people defend this important military position in Nanqiu County.

Yan Xun stood on the wall of the pass, looked at the enemy troops who were neatly arranged, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, even two divisions dare to attack here, and they underestimate me Yan someone." ”

News of the fierce battle in Nanqiu County reached Zhenjing, and the Commander's Office convened an emergency meeting.

Wang Deng, deputy commander of the General Staff, said: "This time Meng's attack is not the places we expected before, but the nearest Nanqiu County. The General Staff believed that Meng Guo wanted to use Nanqiu County as a base to gradually encroach on other cities and counties in Nanmar Prefecture.

In order to achieve such a strategic goal, a large number of troops are required to land, and they must be sure that they will surpass our country in terms of troops, which is difficult to do with the strength of Meng alone, so it can be inferred that at least Cao will also send troops to Nannumazhou.

At present, the Eighth Army Corps will not be able to reach the war zone until a month, and the two local corps in Linhai Prefecture have not yet arrived in Zhennancheng, and our forces in Nannuma Prefecture are in a weak position in a short period of time, so we should strictly order the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps to hold on to strategic points and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

It was suggested that the 15th Army Corps of Shanyuan Prefecture go south to Hexi Prefecture to take over the defense area of the Fourth Army Corps, the Fourth Army Corps should go south to Yangyuanzhou to take over the defense area of the 14th Army Corps, and the 14th Army Corps should quickly go south to Nannuma Prefecture to block the offensive line of the Meng army.

Zhongwangzhou will set up a corps on the spot and rush to the Nannuma Prefecture Theater as soon as possible; the local armies of Linhai Prefecture and Hailin Prefecture will speed up their march and must enter the theater within half a month; and the 17 th Army Corps of Zhenwang Prefecture will be on standby and ready to go to Hexi Prefecture at any time to take over the defense area of the Third Army Corps. ”

"Have you informed Commander Jiang of your idea?" asked Shaodian Zhang.

"Not yet. Wang Deng replied.

"Don't the others have any opinions?" said Shao Dian Zhang, looking around at the other commanders.

"Deputy Commander Wang's suggestion is to mobilize six corps into Nannuma Prefecture, which will put a lot of pressure on logistics and supplies, and I hope that the local authorities in Zhongwang Prefecture and Nannuma Prefecture can provide assistance. "Everyone else has no opinion, Xun Qi, the commander of the logistics department, doesn't dare not say it, and supplying five legions at the same time is already the upper limit of his existing manpower.