The Qing army's advance was not fast and they seemed very steady. They knew what they were doing and as they moved slowly and naturally, their accumulated momentum grew stronger and stronger, so much so that when Lu Meng saw the enemy at the other end of the horizon, the clouds had already collided with each other.

"Send someone to inform General Zhou Yu and General Lu Xun of the situation!" Lu Meng's face was very calm. He was not panicked because things were beyond his expectations. On the contrary, Lu Meng was eager to try.

"It's not that easy to take this city!"

During the two days of arranging the defense, Lu Meng did not do nothing. He actively commanded his soldiers to dig trenches and left a large number of gullies and traps outside the border town. These things certainly could not stop the main army, but they could block one or two.

The Qing army advanced slowly, without anyone making any sound. On the desolate battlefield, there were only chaotic footsteps, but these footsteps became more regular as the army advanced.

Everyone's breathing became heavier, and the unique atmosphere of the battlefield made both the enemy and us feel the heaviness of the air and the mental pressure.

Even the criminal army began to unify unconsciously under the unification of this momentum.

Duoduo looked at the criminal army with satisfaction as their momentum was unified. Although the formation was messy, it was enough to achieve this level.

"Pass the order down, Aobai, Haoge, each take 30,000 criminal soldiers and regular soldiers, go around to the two side gates to attack the city, and start the attack from the main gate!"

"Yes!"

Upon hearing this, the officers under his command answered loudly, and then quickly deployed troops and arranged the criminal army into square brick formations. The Qing court had no habit of skimping on supplies, and even the criminal army was armed with complete equipment.

This group of criminal soldiers have all undergone extensive training. After being armed and arranged in strict formations, they really look like regular troops.

When the criminal army arrived at the city gates, Lu Meng could even see the complex expressions on their faces with his naked eyes.

"Something like a vassal army? They are somewhat similar to the Dalits in Kushan, but these guys look much more elite. Do you plan to use cannon fodder to attack the city first to deplete the defenders' strength?"

Lu Meng silently estimated the other party's commander's intention, and also saw the scattered troops detouring towards the left and right city gates.

Lu Meng ignored them. There were officers guarding the city gates on both sides, as well as constructed terracotta warriors. Even if there were some veterans hidden among the cannon fodder, they would not be enough to capture the city gates.

On the contrary, at the main gate, the other party is actually planning to attack by force?

This was a completely irrational way of fighting, and for a moment Lu Meng was unsure of the enemy's intentions. He could only write down everything he saw as intelligence and inform Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.

All three of them are wise men, and they can understand each other's meaning through simple communication.

When the criminal army waded through ditches and traps and arrived two hundred steps below the city wall, Lu Meng's eyes became sharp, and the war had completely begun.

"Shoot!" There was no need for Lu Meng to give the order. The middle-level officers naturally gave the order the moment the criminal army rushed into the coverage of the rain of arrows.

At a distance of one hundred steps, before Yan Yan gave the order to shoot, the gun formation at the front of the enemy army had already roared and rushed towards the Xinghan Army under the orders of the commanders behind them.

The criminals fell down like grass being mowed. Although they were wearing armor, the arrow shooters were all Danyang soldiers. Relying on their cooperation and the combined strength of several people, the arrows they shot were strong and powerful, which could not be resisted by ordinary defense.

Arrows shot and killed the criminals one after another, but more criminals broke through the rain of death arrows and arrived under the city wall in the successive death charges.

"Rain of arrows suppress!"

When the criminals charged to within a hundred steps of the city wall, Dodo gave an order and thousands of archers immediately rushed out and began to counterattack with a rain of arrows around the city wall.

However, facing the rain of arrows from the Qing court, the armored Danyang soldiers did not dodge at all. They just lowered their heads and continued to draw their bows and shoot arrows. Naturally, their teammates around them held up shields for protection.

Even if some arrows could penetrate the shield and hit the armor, the soldiers on the city wall would hardly be seriously injured as long as they were not hit by vital parts.

"Cao Zixiao's legion talent is really useful!"

Lu Meng looked at the defenders who were counterattacked by the rain of arrows but suffered almost no casualties.

He thought silently in his heart that he imitated and learned Cao Ren's legion talent, and separated it into a secret art of defending the city.

It can add the defensive power of the city wall to the soldiers defending the city. Although the proportion is more obvious than Cao Ren’s legion talent, it also significantly improves the soldiers’ defensive capabilities.

However, the only problem with this thing is that it does not distinguish between friend and foe. Any soldier who climbs onto the city wall will enjoy this defense bonus.

At this moment, it is completely appropriate.

"Are they officers specially trained to defend the city?"

Duoduo also realized that something was wrong. The Royal Guard-level horse archers provided cover with a rain of arrows, but the enemy was not affected much.

He immediately realized the general situation and made some inferences about Cao Ren's abilities.

"Change the javelin."

Seeing dozens or hundreds of criminal soldiers falling down like grass being mowed, Dodo, who was commanding the entire army, didn't even blink. Not only the criminals, but even if those who died were regular soldiers, he wouldn't blink an eye.

Death on the battlefield is almost like breathing. Before the war is over, any unnecessary emotions will lead to defeat on the battlefield.

With great calmness, he ordered the horse archers to abandon their bows and arrows and use javelins instead.

This attitude of not being shaken by one's own losses allowed the Qing army to witness the death of large numbers of criminals without any chaos.

Following the order from the Qing army officer in command, the wandering archers all picked up the three-foot-long steel spears on their backs and threw them fiercely at the Xinghan soldiers on the city wall.

Compared to bows and arrows that are not easy to penetrate armor, short spears thrown with great force can easily penetrate Xinghan's armor. However, as before, very few short spears can get past the protection of Danyang's shield wall.

Lu Meng did not order anyone to attack these scattered and wandering archers, even though they did cause interference to the soldiers defending the city. However, Lu Meng's goal was clear, which was to kill as many cannon fodders under the city walls as possible.

"Cannon fodder can indeed be used to consume the enemy if used properly, but the prerequisite is that it is used well!"

Lu Meng sneered as he looked at the sacrificial formation he had set up in the city, which was achieved using the Xuanxiang military formation and had the effects of blood sacrifice and reserve strength.

The more of these cannon fodders die, the more power will accumulate in the formation. This power can be used for strengthening, recovery, and even for mystical attacks.

Lu Meng calmly looked at the deaths under the city wall. Before the other side could react, he had to accumulate enough reserves so that he could get more breathing space and recovery opportunities during the subsequent attacks of the other side's regular army.

"Put some cannon fodder on the city wall, and the city defense troops prepare for close combat!" Lu Meng gave orders calmly, asking the archers to continue suppressing the subsequent criminals while creating several gaps in some places to allow the criminals to climb up.

The sacrificial formation requires more flesh and blood, and the bodies of these sinners will become the best nutrients.

Roaring, the first group of criminals climbed up the city wall with the help of the ladder. At the moment of meeting the spears, they burst out with their strongest momentum as much as possible. When the gap between the two sides is almost the same, the war is fought with momentum.

However, the soldiers defending the city would certainly not be suppressed by such momentum. Relying on their extraordinary organizational ability, they demonstrated elite coordination and battlefield intuition.

Some swept across with guns, some made feint attacks to confuse the enemy, and some attacked directly at vital points. The Danyang team in twos and threes acted like one person.

The seemingly chaotic attack, with the mutual cover and cooperation of three or five soldiers from Gui Danyang, made the criminals who rushed up the city wall feel what it meant to be surrounded by enemies. The criminals, who had almost no cooperation, could not resist this suppression at all.

Even if they rushed to the city wall, they would not be able to advance the front line even a step further.

They are like waves crashing against rocks again and again, shattering into pieces.

"It's easier to climb the wall than expected? Was it intentional? Or is it because of insufficient manpower?"

"The frontline troops are moving forward to cover the criminal troops' charge!"

Upon seeing this, Duoduo thought for a moment and directly ordered the archer troops to move forward, and then suppressed them with arrows from the Yun Tower.

However, facing the rain of arrows shot by the Qing army, the Danyang soldiers, on the one hand, cooperated with their comrades to burst out with all their strength to suppress the criminals in front of them, and on the other hand, bent their bodies to reduce their surface area, and either dodged naturally or raised their guns to deflect the rain of arrows used by the Qing army to suppress them.

"Ding Ding Ding ~"

Many arrows were directly deflected by Danyang, and the remaining arrows that could not be dodged mostly hit their armor. As they were armed to the point of being suppressed, they naturally would not die from them.

There is a warmed silk cloth inside the armor, so as long as it is not a vital part, it is not a big deal.

While the war was in full swing at the main gate, fierce fighting also began at the other two mountain gates.

The war drums roared and the shouts of killing shook the earth all day long, as if the entire armies of both sides had engaged in battle, and all kinds of roars broke out everywhere.

Compared to the fierce fighting at the main gate, the two sides seemed relatively quiet, but there was also fierce fighting. A large number of criminals died every minute and every second, and the blood and energy that escaped after their death gathered in the sacrificial formation in the city.

At sunset that day, the Qing army chose to call off the battle. The so-called all-out battle was just an illusion. No one was putting all their efforts into the battle. The Qing army mainly consumed the criminals. At most, they let some troops cooperate with siege equipment to suppress the soldiers on the city wall.

Lu Meng did not activate the construct warriors either, and both sides maintained a tentative attitude.

However, Duoduo's offensive was obviously not that simple. That night, Duoduo launched another siege. However, the focus of this siege was not the city defended by Lu Meng, but the direction where Zhou Yu was.

Zhou Yu did not choose to defend the camp. Knowing that the camp could not be defended, he chose to take the initiative to attack.

When the two sides met, they were both caught off guard, but Zhou Yu reacted quickly. He directly put a halo of intelligence reduction on the other side's guys who looked like officers, and then asked the orchestra to start playing intelligence-reducing music.

Compared to attacking the camp, there was a big target to support and it was less likely to make mistakes, but this time the two sides met on a narrow road, which would truly test the command capabilities of the officers on both sides.

"Follow me!" Sun Ce naturally displayed his monarch talent. This meeting time that was completely beyond his expectations made Sun Ce a little worried, but Sun Ce knew what he should do.

Along with Sun Ce's charge, Xinghan's side, under the command of officers at all levels, formed a group and followed Sun Ce to rush forward.

As the rain of arrows flew, the spears of both sides were almost hitting each other's chest at this moment.

Immediately afterwards, both sides roared and collided with each other without reservation.

"Kill!" Xinghan suddenly let out a roar the moment the vanguards of both sides came into contact. The well-trained soldiers cooperated with their comrades around them, formed small formations in twos and threes, and rushed towards the opposite side.

"It's the army from the previous camp. Their quality is not very high. How dare they fight us in the field?" Hauge frowned, subconsciously suspecting that the other party had some conspiracy.

They should have been the ones to attack the other side, but the other side actually dared to come forward to meet them. Could it be that the cavalry was nearby?

Being alert in his heart, Hauge began to give conservative commands and sent out scouts to scout the vicinity, fearing that the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry would suddenly appear behind them.

"Shaler, go stop that guy. We can't let him continue to wreak havoc!"

But no matter how much he thought about it, Hauge looked at the unscrupulous Sun Ce and immediately sent out Sharle who was eager to try.

"Yes!" Sharle received the order and rushed forward with the Qiantian Camp headquarters without hesitation. He wanted to see who would live and who would die between Sun Ce and him this time.

Sharle took the lead, waving the weapon in his hand, leading his elite headquarters with the most powerful guards as the core, and directly formed a vanguard in the camp, rushing towards Sun Ce who was easily suppressing the Qing army head-on.

Accompanied by the brilliant yet somewhat crazy blood-red light, all the people under the Qiantian Camp entered their peak state.

Roaring and howling, Sharle's elite troops were the first to collide with Zhou Yu's vanguard troops. The weapon flew in Sharle's hand, and he easily cut off the long spear that the Han army stabbed at him, and then blood splattered! He led his elite troops to kill the Danyang soldiers in front of him and rushed directly to Sun Ce.

The moment the two sides met, they both tried their best to burst out with their strongest momentum. They both knew that the other party was definitely not an easy opponent to deal with, and they had to do their best.

Under the cover of rain of arrows and the attack of sword and shield soldiers, the dense spear formation of spearmen was like a hedgehog.

The soldiers on both sides entered a white-hot state in an instant, but this time, Hauge did not just stand by and watch, but chose to charge and join the battle.

"Soldiers, follow me!"

The moment Sharle tore a gap in the Xinghan Army's front line, Hauge immediately led the Eight Banners Cavalry and rushed in through the gap in the front line. For a moment, his momentum was so great that it seemed as if he was going to cut off the connection point of Xinghan's flank in one breath.

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