The system asked me, a weak woman, to challenge a saint

Obviously, Chen Subaru's latest deployment was based on the movements of enemy scouts. The puppet army plans to establish a forward camp in the northeast of the military town. Therefore, the enemy's main attack direction has almost been determined. Chen Subaru asked Chen Jiao to forcibly break through the enemy scouts' advance camp plan, which would undoubtedly further anger the enemy.

The puppet army has stayed at the Yellow River defense line for a long time. Once they take action, their time is quite limited and they are unlikely to change their plans. Chen Subaru judged that the enraged enemy troops would launch a mad attack on Gaoping County, and he must make a desperate effort to strengthen Gaoping County's defense to the maximum.

They even considered abandoning Chenliu County and placing all their troops in Gaoping County. However, out of caution, Chen Subaru did not implement this bold deployment. Although the puppet army was unlikely to take the risk of being flanked by Puyang and Gaoping counties and detour to Chenliu, he could not guarantee whether the Xuanwu army would leak unfavorable information to the enemy.

Although Li Zhong showed silent protest, he still accepted Chen Subaru's arrangement by default.

After half a day's rest, Chen Jiao returned to their respective military towns with the three hundred monks who had fought with her. Chen Subaru had already said hello in advance, but to ensure safety, Li Zhong re-contacted the other two counties to communicate about the temporary loan of personnel and supplies.

The guardians of Chen Liu and Dong Yan had a good relationship with Li Zhong, and they said they would keep several monks with high reputations in the military town to help Li Zhong deal with the dilemma.

Li Zhong was not as easy to talk to as Chen Jiao. Now that he has taken on this arduous defensive task, he will do whatever it takes to maximize the value of this makeshift team. At this crisis-ridden moment, the entire army must work together to deal with the coming fierce battle.

On the surface, Li Zhong wrote many empty promises and used generous rewards to induce the Gaoping County garrison to build fortifications desperately. At the same time, he continued to learn from Taishan County's battle examples to boost morale. On the one hand, he emphasized the cruelty of the puppet masters, indicating that they would not accept any surrender, and the defenders had no choice but to defend the town; on the other hand, he appropriately exaggerated Chen Subaru's achievements in Taishan County, and hinted that Chen Subaru would reappear in Taishan County to rescue the siege and let the defenders defend the siege. The army had hope and firmly believed that as long as they held on to the military town, reinforcements would come to rescue them.

Secretly, Lin Hu used charm to clean up the interior. She gave "special care" to monks with special talents. Her scouts forced the monks to sign confessions of treason as soon as they noticed signs of desertion. If they really escape before the battle, the evidence will be delivered to the Beifu Army's Central Army Camp before the fall of Gaoping County.

After some renovations, the reconstruction and construction speed of Gaoping County Military Town has been greatly accelerated. A brand new outer city wall was built outside the original defensive formation of the military town.

While Gaoping County was nervously carrying out defense construction, Chen Subaru did not relax at the border of Puyang County. Although the three counties here are close to each other, and Chen Subaru has exposed his strength in front of the Huashen monks, it is unlikely that the enemy will launch a main attack here, but he still tried his best to strengthen the defense of Puyang County and actively scouted the border. His responsibility is not only to defend the military town of Puyang County, but also to contain the entire puppet army within the defense circle of the four counties until reinforcements arrive from the rear.

When Chen Jiao returned to the military town with personnel and supplies, Chen Subaru immediately asked her to take over the defense command, while he and Xueer went to the junction of Puyang County and Gaoping County to conduct personal exploration.

Everyone was busy nervously. Since Chen Subaru had previously exhausted all the material reserves in Puyang County, Chen Jiao felt that the supply was tight after pre-allocating new supplies. Therefore, she did not modify Chen Subaru's defense deployment, but began to train the personnel. Gaoping County went all out to strengthen and improve the outer city wall, and many serial traps were arranged outside the city wall. Thanks to Li Zhong's abundant supplies, he even considered setting up a field position outside the outer city, allowing elite monks to disperse the enemy's offensive with the support of powerful formations, forming a horn with the military town. However, considering that a large amount of supplies would be needed for continuous repair when the military town was under heavy attack, Li Zhong finally gave up this plan and invested all supplies in the construction and supply of the outer city.

Under the supervision of Li Zhong who forgot all about food and sleep, the construction of the outer city of Gaoping County Military Town was carried out for seven days. Although Li Zhong believed that the defense of the outer city was still insufficient and there were too few formations. Once it suffered continuous attacks, the replenishment speed could not keep up with the consumption. After the outer wall lost the protection of the formation, it would be difficult to withstand the violent bombardment of spells. In addition, there are not enough large-scale attack formations built on the inner wall, and the means of counterattack are single. But considering the time and manpower factors, they can't do it better. After all, it still takes a process to convert materials into defensive power. Maybe a sect that specializes in formations can do better, but it can be full of A military town with a large number of mortals and low-level monks does not have such conditions.

At dusk on the seventh day, Lin Hu ended his day's inspection and led the team back to the military town. After exchanging information with Li Zhong, she conducted a routine summons with Puyang County Military Town.

After the formation connection was stable, Lin Hu said: "I am Lin Hu. No trace of the enemy was found in Gaoping County today."

Chen Jiao's voice came from the opposite side: "I understand, Lin Hu. I am Chen Jiao. I just communicated with Yue'er. Today, Puyang County has also found no enemy troops."

After the two parties exchanged information, Lin Hu asked with concern: "Master General Banner, has the young master not returned yet?"

Chen Jiao responded: "He hasn't returned yet. And the investigators haven't sent back any news these days. Maybe the area he explored has exceeded the sound transmission range."

After a brief silence, Lin Hu spoke again: "Master General Banner, I think the young master has not exceeded the sound transmission range. Recently, my scouts have been exploring a hundred miles away. Lin Yue should also send people to explore the previous human puppet scout strongholds. . At that location, the young master should be able to detect our people and bring them back through scouts."

Chen Jiao said in a low voice: "You mean, maybe something happened to Wen Ruo?"

Lin Hu replied: "Although this possibility cannot be ruled out, I think that with the young master's ability, he must have encountered a situation where he was unable to use his spiritual consciousness. Mr. General Banner, do you think that the young master wiped out three scout strongholds in Puyang County? Later, they defeated the scouts at ten strongholds in Gaoping County. This information was sent back to the puppet army. Will they send more powerful enemies to investigate? If the young master encounters these puppets during the investigation, he will most likely hide his aura. ”

Chen Jiao thought for a moment and said: "This is reasonable. But if it is true, the scouts monitoring the old site of the stronghold may be in danger..."

Suddenly, a loud "Boom!" interrupted their conversation, and the sound came from Linhu.

Chen Jiao asked eagerly: "Lin Hu, what happened?"

There was no response from the other side, but the communication array connection was normal. Chen Jiao could only wait anxiously for the news.

After using up several medium-grade spiritual stones, Lin Hu's voice finally came: "Master General Banner, the trap set by the young master has been activated!"