On the official road to Qiuchang City, the long procession was like a long black dragon, slowly moving forward.

The road was too rough for cavalry to march, so all the sergeants dismounted, gathered their horses together, and deposited them in the middle army, and marched forward with the troops.

Once you enter the hinterland of Qiuchang City, you will appear a vast plain, which is the foundation of Qiuchang City, and it is also very suitable for cavalry troops to fight.

If you want to enter the hinterland of Qiuchang City, the first problem to be solved is the first city of Qiuchang City, which is also the gate of the Qiuchang City area, and this city is called: Zhu'an City.

According to the previous intelligence and scout news, the city wall of Zhu'an City is fifteen zhang, built of green bricks, with a radius of more than ten miles, and tens of thousands of people in the city, which is also one of the few fortified cities in the enclave.

Zhu'an Castle is the gateway to the five cities of Qiuchang, and if you want to enter Qiuchang Castle from the current road, you must pass through Zhu'an Castle. The city was built in the middle of the road, and there were no other roads on either side, only dense jungles and towering mountains, and the terrain looked somewhat similar to the city of Changxiang.

Zhu'an City is not too far from the wooden city wall seen before, only a few dozen miles away, in the process of marching, Ye Guan sent scouts forward from time to time, carefully observing the enemy's movements, until the army marched to Zhu'an City ten miles ago, did not find any abnormal movement of the enemy army, and there was no trace of any signs in the jungle on the left and right.

Ten miles in front of the city, this place is much wider than before, Ye Guan ordered to set up camp, the whole army immediately began to act, according to the previous arrangement, this time divided into four brigades, straight up the mountains on the left and right. The mountains near Zhu'an Castle are not very high, and the terrain is relatively flat, but not yet to the extent that cavalry can gallop.

The camp was quickly set up, and although Ding Jiang, who was in charge of the thousand troops, had ordered his sergeants to prepare for battle, the enemy had not made the slightest move until the camp was completed.

After all the preparations were made, the four generals gathered in Ye Guan's camp, and at this moment, several people had different expressions before they were gone, and they didn't speak, quietly waiting for Ye Guan to speak.

The Dongwangfu army made such a big move, but the enemy army did not take any action, which couldn't help but make all the generals wonder, including Ye Guan.

According to Ye Guan's thoughts, the people behind Shen Tuyan need a lot of death to accumulate dead energy. However, the route of the previous march was a very easy road to ambush, and if an ambush was set up here, it would cause a large number of casualties to the Eastern Wangfu army. But to his surprise, Shen Tuyan did not do this, but instead put the entire Dongwang Mansion 20,000 soldiers into the territory of Qiuchang City, and the soldiers were coming to the city at this moment, which meant that Shen Tuyan gave up the natural danger of Zongqiu Mountain and chose to confront the Dongwang Mansion head-on.

Ye Guan sat behind the bookcase, but this time he was not struggling to close his eyes and recuperate, but with his thumb on his forehead, thinking quickly about all the possible things and the direction of development in his mind, trying to find the most suitable route among them.

The four generals sat at Ye Guan's hand, very silent, looking at Ye Guan quietly. In the big tent, there was silence, and only the sound of Ye Guan's fingers tapping lightly on the bookcase could be heard, which seemed a bit loud in a quiet environment.

"Knock...... Knock ......" Ye Guan's index finger tapped on the table, making a knocking sound, and at the same time, he quickly calculated in his heart, frowning slightly.

Up to now, Ye Guan hadn't seen any decent resistance from Qiu Changcheng, as if he hadn't reacted much to the entry of the Dongwang Mansion, except for a simple battle that happened yesterday, he had never seen a single enclave sergeant, especially this Zhu'an City. When he arrived near this city, Ye Guan also felt that the enemy's movements were a little strange.

Scout news, the enemy army at the head of the city with flags, but did not find any enemy troops appeared on the city, the entire Zhu'an City, like an empty city.

At this point, it was no longer a question of whether Ye Guan wanted to attack the city. If this Zhu'an City is not moved, the army of the Eastern Wangfu will have to return the same way, and it will even affect the entire plan of the Eastern Wangfu in the enclave. Even if Ye Guan didn't want the people behind the scenes to use the war to accumulate dead energy, he had to send it when the arrow was ready.

"Ordered. Ye Guan suddenly stopped tapping on the bookcase, raised his head, and looked at the four generals in front of him.

As soon as the words fell, the four generals were shocked and got up in unison.

"Destiny to gallop the wolf army, you can start to build large engineering equipment, mainly large trebuchets, the time limit is one day, in one day, I will see no less than five. Ye Guan swept away the appearance of the old man next door before, his eyes burst with essence, and he looked at Ding Jiang.

When the two generals, Ding Jiang and Tu Xingping, heard this, they immediately clasped their fists with both hands and said loudly: "Subordinate orders!"

"All matters concerning the defense of the camp are entrusted to the Guards, including the surrounding mountains and camps, and the Guards scout battalions are given the right to deploy them, and the surrounding area of thirty miles is to be clearly arranged without error. Immediately, Ye Guan looked at Kou Long.

The two generals, Kou Long and Ren Zijin, were shocked, and then hugged their fists and said, "Subordinates take orders!"

"Hurry up, at midnight, attack the city!" Ye Guan took out two tokens from the order bucket on the bookcase and handed them to Ding Jiang and Kou Long respectively, and the two immediately stepped forward and took the order.

The four generals walked out of the tent, and Ye Guan immediately stood up, his face no longer showing the slightest hesitation, with a trace of perseverance and determination.

"If there is no other way, then make one!" Ye Guan showed his eyes, and then left the camp tent, stood outside the tent, and began to carefully observe the surrounding terrain.

The terrain near Zhu'an City is much flatter than before, the only thing that has not changed is the dense forest, the smallest tree is also the thickness of two people hugging each other, this woodland, let alone a hundred years.

With Ye Guan's military order, the entire army began to move, the wolf army was sent to the hills of the sergeant, immediately cut down the trees on the spot, and dragged back to the camp at a very fast speed, the wolf army 10,000 sergeants, divided into a team of 100 people, the surrounding trees were quickly cut down, and then began to manufacture engineering equipment.

The sergeants of the Guards also took action, built several sentry posts on the hills on both sides, and in order not to affect the view, they also began to cut down trees, and built a simple city wall again with the felled trees, so that there was a buffer area between the large camp and the sentry post, and if the enemy really attacked and broke through the outermost wall, the large camp was already ready to meet the enemy.

The sergeants of the two legions moved quickly, their hands and feet were nimble, and their progress was fast.

Ye Guan inspected the barracks, and saw that all the sergeants were full of momentum and all of them were moving, and he felt a little comforted in his heart, so he led a war horse, walked out of the gate of the barracks, and went in the direction of Zhu'an City in front of him. He wanted to take a closer look at the situation near Zhu'an City, after all, it was still ten miles away from Zhu'an City.

Soon, Ye Guan was followed by several sergeants and arrived in front of Zhu'an City.

At noon, the sun is like fire, and the whole Zhu'an City looks tall and majestic under the scorching sun. The brick walls look impregnable, smooth and seamless, as if there were no gaps in them from a distance. If you look closely, you can see that the gaps between the bricks have been filled with some material, making the entire city wall look unusually solid.

On the front, two crimson gates were tightly closed, and the gate looked heavy at the vicissitudes of life, and several yellow copper nails were nailed to the gate, and a sense of antiquity came to the face.

On the city wall, the flags were waving, rippling in the wind, Ye Guan's eyes narrowed slightly, but on this city wall, there was no figure in sight.

In this way, the city is in the middle of the road, and there is dense woodland on the left and right, and there is no edge in sight.

Ye Guan frowned slightly, and no longer looked at the city wall, but looked at the woodland on both sides. When the hills arrived here, they lost their traces, and only the hundred-year-old forest remained, standing quietly left and right, extremely lush.

His expression moved slightly, Ye Guan turned around and whispered to a few sergeants beside him: "You wait here, I'll come when I go." ”

Before a few sergeants could speak, Ye Guan's figure moved, and immediately disappeared in place, heading straight for the forest trees on the side.

The speed was fast, Ye Guan soon arrived under the woods on the side, and as soon as his figure moved, he jumped up the trunk of the tree, and quickly moved between the trunks until the edge of Zhu'an City, before stopping.

The trees are towering, more than 20 zhang high, standing on the high branches, the whole Zhu'an City is in full view.

Ye Guan's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the city wall of Zhu'an City, but saw that the city wall was full of defensive materials, bows, crossbows, rolling stones, and the city wall was wide, enough for three war horses to walk side by side. But there was not a single figure on such a wide wall.

I couldn't help frowning slightly, and then looked into the city.

Zhu'an City has a radius of more than ten miles, and there are more than 100,000 people in the city. At this moment, the houses and streets, pavilions, mansions and farmlands in the city are in full view.

But the strange thing is that in the entire Zhu'an City, no trace of anyone was found. In such a large city, there was not a single person, the streets were empty, and the city was silent.

Seeing such a situation, Ye Guan couldn't help frowning, he had never seen such a strange thing before, he couldn't help but shake his figure, moved a few times above the trunk again, and when he reached the city wall, the figure moved, called the wind fighting qi to protect the body, and the whole person fluttered down on the city wall.

Standing on top of the broad city wall, what I had seen on the trunk of the tree clearly appeared in front of me. On both sides of Yeguan, there are full of military supplies, longbows and crossbows, arrows and feathers, rolling stones, long knives and spears, and wood and oil, which are full of fire oil on the city wall.

But what is strange now is that on the walls of Zhu'an City, there is no figure in sight, let alone a human figure, not even a corpse.

Such a situation couldn't help but make Ye Guan's heart tighten, and he immediately walked forward along the city wall and went straight to the city gate and watchtower.

Ye Guan was extremely fast, and soon arrived at the watchtower above the gate of Zhu'an City, only to see that the gate of the watchtower was closed, and there was no sound, so he took two steps forward and pushed open the gate of the watchtower.

In the watchtower, a big bell is hanging in the middle of the watchtower, and the huge bell and pestle are hanging quietly in the air, motionless. On the side of the big bell, several side-by-side bookcases stood together, and there were many letters on them, Ye Guan stepped forward to check, but saw that on this bookcase, there were even leftover hemp cakes on the side, and on the other bookcase, there was a half-written letter, which wrote the movements of his own army, but only half of it was written. The brush is placed on the pen holder, and there is no strange thing about the whole watchtower.

But, there was no one.

It was as if the people in this watchtower suddenly received some order or notice, and left calmly, without taking anything with them.

Ye Guan frowned, and did not find any useful clues in the watchtower, so he came down from the watchtower until he went down to the ground, and he did not see a person, and did not hear any sound.

Standing in the corridor of the city gate of Zhu'an City, looking at the gate, the city gate is locked by two huge bolts, and on both sides of the road, there are two rows of spears neatly placed.

A feeling of uneasiness surged into Ye Guan's heart, and the entire Zhu'an City was empty!