After the sound of the earth-shattering drums, there was a huge fireball that pierced through the sky, whistling towards Zhu'an City, and the huge sound tore through the sky, like a wild beast roaring.

The soldiers defending Zhu'an City were accustomed to this kind of voice, and they didn't pay much attention to it, and everyone performed their duties, waiting for the general's orders.

But soon, many sergeants discovered that this long-range trebuchet attack seemed to be much more dense than before. The ignited fireball kept blasting into Zhu'an City, and the originally isolated fire belt had already been destroyed and was already in ruins, and now, the houses that were still intact around the ruins were also ignited by the raging fire.

In his opinion, with Ye Guan's deterrence in the city, the enemy army should also be tentative to start attacking, but at present, such frequent long-range trebuchet attacks, the frequency far exceeds the previous attacks, as if it is about to launch a general attack.

Naturally, the buildings in the city don't need to be taken care of, long before Ye Guan came back, Ding Jiang had already sent soldiers to take defensive measures, and the buildings in the area that had been attacked by long-range trebuchets were all demolished, and the flammable beams and other items were moved to areas that were not suitable for attack, and in the nearby area, every other street, several houses were demolished, which was also to prevent the spread of fire and burn the entire city.

What Ding Jiang cares about now is the movement of the enemy army. He leaned over and looked into the distance from the battlements, and under the shadow of the night, he could vaguely see that the enemy army was preparing a phalanx in the distance, and many enemy troops were densely packed, and they really had the intention of general attack.

Seeing the enemy's movements, Ding Jiang frowned slightly, but he did not send someone to ask Ye Guan, judging from his long-term experience on the battlefield, even if the enemy wants to launch a general attack, the safest way is to arrange a small number of troops to attack first, find out the key points and weaknesses of the city's defense, and then concentrate troops to advance, so as to achieve the best results.

In the previous days, the enemy army had done the same, and they were not in a hurry to attack, but kept trying. Last night, Ding Jiang thought that the enemy army was finally going to attack, but with Ye Guan's sudden arrival, the enemy army dispelled the idea of attacking immediately, and it can be seen that even the generals of the enclave were already afraid of Ye Guan's reputation.

Today, the regrouping will also be mainly a tentative offensive, and it is absolutely impossible to launch a general offensive at the beginning, unless the enemy's general is a simple-minded man.

Ding Jiang withdrew his body, leaned on the battlements on the side, smiled at the sergeant next to him, and said: "Pass the order, let all the sergeants be calm and not be impatient, everything is waiting for my order, if the enemy army does not launch a general attack, all the sergeants in ambush are not allowed to move no matter how far the battle situation develops." ”

The sergeant on the side was obviously stunned, this military order Ding Jiang had already issued it once before, why do you want to say it again now, he was slightly stunned, but he didn't say anything, he answered, and went to the following to give the order.

Ding Jiang's expression was very relaxed, as if he didn't take the enemy army in his eyes at all, and he kept talking and laughing with the sergeants around him, but he knew in his heart that the enemy's attack behind would not be so easy to deal with, just relying on the two thousand defenders at the head of the city, it was not easy to block the tens of thousands of enemy soldiers.

I felt difficult in my heart, but I couldn't show anything on my face, so I could only show that I was confident. This is not that he has any slight words about Ye Guan's strategy, but if he wants to really convince the enemy that he has lost his combat effectiveness and there is no ambush, this is really more difficult, and it is not so easy to do. However, if you can't do this, you won't be able to get the opportunity to counterattack the enemy, and in this battle, the grasp of the fighter plane is very important.

"Knock...... Knock ......"

The sound of the earth-shattering drums in the enemy's phalanx resounded in the ears, and with the sound of the drums, a sound of neat footsteps began to be heard in the distance, and immediately, the warning and horn of the sentry were heard in the ears, and the enemy's attack began.

"All ready!" Ding Jiang immediately got up, pulled out the sword at his waist, pointed directly at the city, and shouted: "The enemy army is coming, all the soldiers cheer up, catch up with the former, and there will be no mercy!"

"Yes!"

All the soldiers stood up, their bows wound, their swords unsheathed, their shouts like thunder, their eyes like torches, and they all performed their duties and stared at the advancing enemy phalanx in the distance.

They have seen a lot of such situations, and they don't feel nervous at all. The city wall of Zhu'an City is so strong, the city gate is even more reinforced, the enemy has attacked several times, and the city car has also rushed to the city, and now there are still the remains of several city vehicles under the city, and the heavy cast iron gate is not an ordinary city car can be knocked open. And looking at it, the phalanx where the enemy army is marching, at most two brigades of men, just such a small number of people, it is impossible to take Zhu'an City, or Zhu'an City under the defense of Dongwangfu.

The morale of the generals of the Eastern Prince's Mansion was high, and they did not pay attention to a phalanx of the enemy army at all.

The enemy phalanx advanced very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it had marched to the near front, and the large shield of the enemy in the front row was raised, blocking the bow and crossbow at the head of the city for the crossbowmen behind him, and the sergeants behind him were closely aligned, and they raised their small shields in their hands. In the phalanx, four city-pushing towers, two city-rushing vehicles, and the suggested trebuchet were all pushed up, and Ding Jiang stared at it, and even saw the shadow of a heavy crossbow in the middle of the enemy army's phalanx.

"Hey, they really brought something good with them this time. Ding Jiang teased: "Brothers, a new toy is here, ready to fight!"

Under Ding Jiang's order, all the sergeants held their breath and focused, and aimed their bows and crossbows at the enemy soldiers not far away, just waiting for them to enter the firing range, Ding Jiang ordered, and immediately ten thousand arrows would be fired.

"Whoa, whoa, whoop ......" The enemy phalanx was clearly armored, and its steps were neat, and there was a sound of neat armor rubbing, and when it approached the city wall, it was full of footsteps and slowly advanced forward.

Ding Jiang looked at the trebuchets and heavy crossbows in the enemy formation, and frowned slightly.

In peacetime, in the face of such an attack by the enemy, Ding Jiang would definitely order the flanks to ambush the cavalry, ready to attack at any time to destroy the enemy's siege equipment, but now the situation is special, there is no place to ambush the cavalry on the left and right flanks, and there is no equipment for trebuchets above the head of his own city, which has really become a problem. Although the walls of Zhu'an City are strong, and the stones of ordinary trebuchets will not be too much of a problem, but the splashing of stones will definitely cause damage to the soldiers defending at the head of the city, which Ding Jiang definitely does not want to see.

The only thing that can be used is the only heavy crossbow in the back gate watchtower, this heavy crossbow has only five crossbow arrows, if it is used now, it will not be able to deal with the enemy's large army in the back.

After a little distraction, the enemy's phalanx was already within the firing range, Ding Jiang raised his eyebrows, looked at the direction of the enemy, and shouted: "Release the arrow!"

At the sound of an order, ten thousand arrows were fired.

The strategic materials of Zhu'an City were all left over from Shen Tuyan's hasty abandonment of the city before, and they could completely withstand consumption. Above the city, bows and arrows rained down, shooting straight at the advancing enemy phalanx not far away. As the arrows fell, the enemy suffered casualties immediately.

Although the enemy army was well armoured and the big shield was in front, it could not block all the positions, and from time to time an enemy sergeant fell, and the sergeant behind him immediately stepped forward, raised the big shield of the fallen man, and moved forward again.

The combat quality displayed by the opposing army is not at all like a temporary civilian soldier, but like an army that has been trained for a long time, with a degree of relaxation, although they are still a little flustered in the change of formation, but they cannot be described as new soldiers.

The advance was all the way, the enemy did not stop because of a small number of casualties, and there were no cowards or escapers in the phalanx, and all the sergeants fought forward with great difficulty with the arrows at the head of the city, leaving many corpses behind with each step.

It wasn't until they had advanced twenty paces that the enemy's shield suddenly pulled, and the crossbowmen hidden behind the shield suddenly shot arrows in unison, and the arrows roared towards the city. The soldiers of the Eastern Palace's mansion dodged one after another, but some of them were shot and fell to the ground, and some died immediately.

"Beware of the enemy's crossbow arrows, roll the stone and prepare the wood!" Ding Jiang stood on top of the city, commanding loudly, while he had been observing the movement of the enemy's trebuchet. Large siege equipment such as trebuchets is not so easy to advance, but it is better to shoot at a long range, which is not at all achievable with crossbow arrows. At this moment, at the rear of the enemy phalanx, two trebuchets had been equipped, and the huge rolling stones were placed in the trembling, ready to be excited.

"Trebuchet! Secret!"

With Ding Jiang's shout, the enemy's two trebuchets were activated at the same time, and two huge ignited fireballs went straight to the city, roaring and hitting the city wall with a "boom", picking up a dazzling firelight.

Because of Ding Jiang's reminder, many sergeants hid behind the battlements, and these two fireballs did not have any effect on the defending sergeants, and in the interval between the trebuchets being activated, the sergeants at the head of the city poked their heads out again and shot arrows at the city.

With the continuous advance of the enemy phalanx, both the defender and the besieger had casualties, but the casualty ratio of the defender was much lower than that of the besieger, and after the enemy left a corpse, the sergeant in the front row finally reached the city, and immediately raised the large shield above his head, and then, the tower was slowly pushed forward and placed on the edge of the city wall.

"Boom!"

Two more flaming fireballs bombarded and hit the city head, and the other party obviously adjusted the angle, and these two fireballs exploded on the city wall. Ding Jiang saw with his own eyes that the sergeant of the book title died at the moment of the fireball explosion, the raging fire burned on the wall, and the left and right sergeants dodged one after another, and at this moment, the enemy's Push City Tower arrived.

"Boom!" The wooden bridge that pushed the tower was built on the top of the city, and immediately several enemy soldiers rushed up the city wall, and when they saw the soldiers of the East Wangfu, they raised their swords and slashed.

Ding Jiang's eyes were red, he waved the long knife in his hand, and killed the enemy sergeant in one place, and after cutting down an enemy soldier, he said loudly: "Thunder stone and log down! The rest of the people will destroy the Tuicheng Tower immediately!"

As he spoke, he slashed the enemy soldier who rushed in front of him to the ground, and then his figure flashed and went straight to the Push City Tower in front of him.

The thunderstone rolling wood was immediately pushed down from the top of the city, and the enemy troops holding the big shield high under the city could not bear such a heavy pressure, and immediately suffered casualties, but the remaining enemy troops still rushed up to the city head along the push tower. At the same time, the enemy's charging carts had already reached the city gate.

"Fire oil!" Ding Jiang roared, at the same time, his people had already killed the edge of a city tower, after cutting down an enemy soldier, he instantly jumped on the city tower, flew up and kicked the enemy in front of him, he wanted to kick the enemy army and then swing his knife to destroy the tower with his fighting spirit.

But this inadvertent kick was easily dodged by the enemy on the opposite side, and then, Ding Jiang immediately felt a chill all over his body, and a steel knife slashed down head-on.

Ding Jiang felt a pang in his heart, when he was fighting against the enemy before, he had not encountered a one-in-one enemy at all, and all the enemy sergeants who rushed in front of him were killed by him with one move, Ding Jiang had a warrior-level cultivation, and in an army with ordinary people as the main component, such a cultivation was already top-notch.

Before he had time to think about it, Ding Jiang suddenly flashed to the side, dodging the oncoming long knife, and at the same time, the long knife in his hand was horizontal, and the fighting energy in his body gushed out, pointing directly at the enemy's face.

"Wow. ”

A crisp sound came, and the enemy quickly drew his knife, directly blocking Ding Jiang's hasty blow. Ding Jiang stood firm, and then fixed his eyes on his opponent.

The person in front of him, of medium stature, dressed as an ordinary sergeant, was placed in the crowd, and there was no conspicuous place at all, but this person gave Ding Jiang the feeling that his cultivation was no longer under him. This man's eyes were shining, and the corners of his mouth were sinister, and he was looking at himself.

Suddenly, Ding Jiang immediately realized something, and immediately ordered loudly, but the noise was not in his ears, he turned his head to look, but saw several other towers of the city, also killed a few advanced enemy soldiers, rushed into the East Wangfu soldiers as if into a no-man's land, only a few moments, several people died, just a moment of effort, there are already signs of loss in front of the city.

"Damn!" Ding Jiang's eyes were about to crack, but he suddenly felt the wind behind him, and he was busy subconsciously swinging his knife to block, and a crisp weapon impact sound came, and the enemy's blow was extremely powerful, and he directly retracted Ding Jiang's long knife, slapped his armor and made his body forced, and his steps involuntarily took two steps back.

I was shocked in my heart, and I immediately calmed down. In the face of cultivators of the same level, there must not be a trace of distraction, otherwise he is likely to die under the opponent's sword, and he will not be able to save the city wall at that time.

This thought quickly flashed through Ding Jiang's mind, and before he could stand firmly, the enemy's long knife attacked again. With a horizontal heart, he invoked the fighting spirit of his whole body and immediately killed the other party.

Above the city, with the addition of several cultivation masters, the situation immediately changed, and the two thousand soldiers arranged by the Dongwang Mansion on the city wall, among which there were only a small number of cultivators, and most of the generals above the centurion level were only at the monk level, and they were not opponents of the warrior-level enemy.

For a time, the sound of shouting and killing on the city wall resounded through the world, and at the city gate, the enemy's rushing vehicles kept hitting the gate of Zhu'an City.