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

Although the puppet general is a puppet, he is not a fool. He does not care about the temporary outer city defense of Gaoping Military Town. The reason why they did not attack the outer city was simply to test Gaoping Military Town's trump card.

However, Junzhen's weak counterattack gradually made the puppet generals lose their patience.

In the early morning of the next day, it was still dark, and the defenders of the outer city looked a little tired after a night of offensive by the puppet army. Although Li Zhong personally participated in the defense, he was still unable to understand the intention behind the innocuous feint attack carried out by this army of puppets overnight.

Although the offensive of the puppet army is slow, it can be considered a good thing for the military town that is waiting for reinforcements. However, Li Zhong always felt something was wrong. Although he couldn't understand the attack strategies of the puppets, he understood their purpose. For a small military town, the puppet army was indeed powerful, but on the frontal battlefield of Jin Dynasty, it was not enough to turn the tide of the war. Once the reinforcements arrive, it will not be difficult to destroy these puppets.

Under Chen Subaru's repeated intervention, the puppet's offensive plan was repeatedly undermined. They have wasted a lot of time since their whereabouts were exposed. Li Zhong was puzzled as to why the other party continued to delay.

Not only Li Zhong, but also the puppet general was confused. Who are these defenders of Gaoping Military Town? Their formations are vulnerable, their counterattacks pose no threat, and the city wall can be breached with just one spell. Is their attitude towards this war such a child's play? The defense level of the military town that was able to dispatch troops to destroy the scout stronghold before was so low?

The hundreds of households attacking the city continuously conveyed the latest military information to the Chinese army's tent. Faced with this defense that was obviously designed to lure the enemy, the puppet generals discussed it all night.

In the end, in view of the urgency of time, the puppet generals decided to make a desperate move. Even if they sacrificed one or two thousand households and their men, they would risk launching an offensive to break through the defense line of Gaoping County, and then go all the way south to attack the final part of Beifu Army Town. A line of defense, at all costs, to ensure that at least a thousand puppet assassins can break through the defense line and sneak into Dajin.

The night before dawn was extremely dark, and the army of puppets had not seen any movement for half an hour. The garrison soldiers all speculated that the enemy might not attack again, so they became a little slack. Li Zhong noticed this situation and immediately instructed his commanders to remind the defenders to be more vigilant.

At this moment, the puppet siege camp in the distance suddenly shone with a dazzling light. Then, like meteors piercing the night sky, the fireballs fell one after another, instantly destroying the shield of the city defense formation, and finally fell in the area near the city wall. The fireballs that landed on the city wall not only destroyed the formations written on it, but also made huge holes in the city wall, causing death or injury to the soldiers and monks who failed to evade in time.

Immediately afterwards, a dense rain of arrows like raindrops came from a distance. These arrows with golden lightning shot into the outer city wall, instantly paralyzing nearly half of the formation and forcing all the soldiers in the archer's corridor of the city wall. Lower the city wall, making it impossible for the defenders to raise their heads.

After the arrow rain passed, the lightning remaining on the arrows outside the wall did not dissipate. Instead, it continued to affect nearby walls, making it impossible for the defenders to repair the damaged formation. This left the soldiers and monks who risked their lives to repair the city wall with almost no substantial results before the next round of arrow rain arrived.

Li Zhong was caught off guard by the powerful siege tactics of the puppet army. Due to the passive attack of the puppet army before, he arranged for 1,500 defenders to rotate defense every 500 people. However, under the enemy's long-range attack in front of them, the troops on duty suffered heavy losses and were unable to evacuate. The troops that followed the rotation were also suppressed by fireballs and arrows and were unable to replace them at all.

Soon, Li Zhong was surprised to find that the fireballs and rain of arrows from the puppet army began to extend toward the inside of the city wall after almost destroying the city wall defense.

Although there are many small defensive formations arranged in the outer city, these formations are like child's play in front of the magic of the puppet army. The defenders can only keep avoiding the landing points of the fireballs and looking for solid buildings to avoid the rain of arrows. attack.

Fortunately, the extended firepower was not as intensive as the attack on the city wall. Although there were some casualties among the defenders, they were not serious. However, many nodes of the city defense formation have been damaged, and repairing them is as difficult as rearranging them.

Two quarters of an hour later, the puppet army finally stopped its long-range attack.

"The enemy has begun to attack!"

Li Zhong hid in a building with only half the roof left, and when he was commanding and dispatching the defenders to set up defenses as quickly as possible, a monk who took the risk to jump onto the broken city wall issued a warning cry to the city.

However, his voice was drowned out by a huge roar, and the city wall where he was standing collapsed.

At the critical moment, Li Zhong rushed out of the building without hesitation and loudly rebuked the nearby defenders: "Don't panic! Form a formation to meet the enemy!"

He and several of his accompanying commanders burst out with the aura of the Core Formation Realm, like a beacon guiding a straying ship, causing the surrounding panicked defenders to move closer to them.

After gathering more than a hundred defenders, Li Zhong directed them to quickly rush to the gap and form a defensive formation. Once the Jin army formation is formed, regardless of their level of cultivation, whether they are soldiers or monks, their weapons and magic weapons will shine with dazzling light.

Since almost all the defensive buildings in the outer city were destroyed and the lighting facilities were reduced to nothing, the gap in the city wall was completely dark at this moment. Only the distant firelight and the aura of the military formations vaguely reflected the billowing dust.

"The shield bearer is in front, and the fire spirit arrows are ready!" Li Zhong gave the order sternly.

Using his spiritual vision, he saw that the attacking formation of puppets on the opposite side of the gap was passing through the gap in the city wall, and the two sides were about to fall into a fierce close battle.

"Steady, steady, listen to my orders!" Li Zhong paced anxiously behind the contradictory hand to give instructions.

He picked up a broken spear from nowhere and held it in his hand. Suddenly, he stopped and raised his gun and threw it forward. As soon as a brave puppet soldier broke out of the dust, he was pierced through the chest by a gun and flew back.

Li Zhong stood up with his sword drawn and shouted an order: "Raise your spear! Archers fire with all their strength!"

Normally, contrarians fight in teams of two, with the shield hand holding a shield and setting up a spear, while the spearman behind is responsible for adjusting the direction of the thrust. Under ideal conditions, the two men's cooperation would be enough to withstand the enemy's horse attack. Even ordinary infantry will be blocked by spears and lose the momentum of charge. When the shield-bearer successfully blocks the enemy infantry, the spear-bearer can take the opportunity to stab the enemy behind him with his spear, while the shield-bearer will draw his sword and slash the enemy in front of him.

Under the command of Li Zhong, twenty-six groups of rebels lined up in order and stood ready. At the same time, fifty-two archers followed closely behind. They filled their bow strings with fire arrows and shot them at an angle. Fifty-two spiritual arrows drew a bright arc in the air and instantly collided with the elite soldiers in the air. In the explosion of spiritual arrows, more than a dozen celebrity puppets were shot down and fell into the dust, with their lives and deaths uncertain. The elite soldiers who were attacked changed the direction of attack one after another, or raised the height of their magical weapons to avoid the attacks of spiritual arrows.