Xiao Longer and Xiao Qing had gone back to the house to rest a long time ago, and only Li Xiuyuan, Chu Feiyan and Huangfu Shenji were left in front of them.
"Can we hold the battle tomorrow?" Huangfu Shenji looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked solemnly.
Li Xiuyuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then looked at him and said, "If the other side only has 100,000 horses, and we still have 180,000, will you choose to end this battle?"
Huangfu was stunned, looked back at Chu Feiyan, and blurted out: "I definitely won't!"
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "Neither will they!"
"So, no matter what the result is tomorrow, there will still be a hard battle the day after tomorrow?" Chu Feiyan said softly.
"Tomorrow night we will abandon Black Salt City, and you will retreat to the final stage overnight. Xiao Long'er and I will stay behind and play an empty city plan with them." Li Xiuyuan spread his hands and replied helplessly.
The room was quiet and silent.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and said, "No matter what, you two will go back to the military camp first, to encourage the morale of the army, and to prepare for the battle tomorrow."
"Do you want to go out of the city to fight?" Chu Feiyan felt very uncomfortable as she felt that she was useless.
She would rather fight with the enemy on the battlefield than sit on the tower doing nothing while needing protection from others.
"Never leave the city! Wait for them to attack. My appetizers haven't been served yet, what are you afraid of?" Li Xiuyuan replied coldly.
Thinking of the countless large pits Li Xiuyuan dug in Qingfeng Valley, Chu Feiyan and Huangfu Shenji couldn't help but break into a cold sweat. They almost forgot about it. Was that a mass grave?
The two shook their heads and left with satisfied smiles. With the Generalissimo here, they could leave with peace of mind.
...
Early in the morning, Chu Feng brought Wei Qing to Li Xiuyuan and asked how he would face it today.
Li Xiuyuan approached Wei Qing and whispered, and Wei Qing accepted the order with a smile.
"You will guard the city with me today and let the soldiers keep an eye on it." Li Xiuyuan looked at Chu Feng and said.
Today is not a good weather. Dark clouds cover Black Salt City. The streets are cold and quiet. Xiao Longer and Xiao Qing ride on a horse together and run quickly towards the city tower because Chu Ruoyu came back yesterday and told her that there was something wrong today. Great war.
The people in Heiyun City have been evacuated. Apart from the soldiers coming and going, there is not a single person in sight on the streets.
Just after Mao hour, Chu Wudi and others boarded the tower, looked at Li Xiuyuan nervously and asked: "How is the situation?"
Li Xiuyuan pointed to the empty wasteland outside the city and said with a smile, "Almost."
Bifeiyan frowned and looked outside the city, and said in a deep voice: "The army started cooking early in the morning, and the generals are already ready to fight."
Li Xiuyuan nodded, looked at Wei Qing and said, "Are you all ready?"
Wei Qing cupped his fists and replied: "The arrangements were made last night, we just need to give the order from senior brother."
Li Xiuyuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Today's victory or defeat depends on this."
Chu Wudi suddenly pointed to the outside of the city and said, "They are coming."
I saw tens of thousands of cavalry coming on horseback, dressed in black armor, with great momentum, like a black torrent, running on the wasteland, and in a blink of an eye, they stopped two hundred feet away from Black Salt City.
The Silver Moon Kingdom's cavalry counterattacked and once again fought in Black Salt City.
The military flag was fluttering and tilted slightly. Rows of black chariots were covered with black shield formations. The backs of the shield formations were reinforced with pine branches, as if they were specially designed to deal with the heavy slaves in Black Salt City.
Behind the chariot are countless siege ladders and cedars cut from the mountains. The clever Silver Moon wants to use cedars to build a bridge and force the moat to be crossed.
It was late spring outside Black Salt City and it was not desolate. The grassland was covered with dense green grass. Looking around, hundreds of thousands of cavalry were rolling on the green grass like a torrent of steel, which really disfigured the scenery.
From the place where 180,000 cavalry were arrayed to the moat, it was less than 200 feet away. The army could reach this point with just one charge.
But the strange thing is that today's cavalry did not charge. Instead, rows of soldiers holding shields and carrying long swords walked out from behind them.
In front is a heavy vehicle shield array, behind is a cover made of cedar, and behind is siege equipment and densely packed soldiers.
"They gave up their horses and wanted to attack with infantry! Do you want to send out cavalry?" Chu Wudi asked in a deep voice as he looked at the approaching Silver Moon Army.
"No one is allowed to leave the city today!" Li Xiuyuan said coldly, holding an iron bow and looking at the dark grassland soldiers approaching.
"Do you want me to shoot some of them with arrows?" Xiao Qing, who was standing behind Li Xiuyuan, asked anxiously.
No one dared to fire an arrow first without the generalissimo issuing an order.
"Why are you so anxious? The show hasn't started yet? It will be time for you to shoot your arrows later." Li Xiuyuan looked back at the nervous people and suddenly grinned.
Compared to digging holes to bury people, who have I been more afraid of?
"I will issue an order later, let your people fire three rounds first, and then all the army will fire three rounds again, and then give them a surprise!" Di Ye looked at Chu Wudi standing next to him and said quietly.
This is a weird battle.
The attackers did not sound the horn of charge, and the defenders did not beat the drum of defense.
It's more like a child playing house, waiting for the moment when he gets bumped into.
Outside Heiyun City, the gentle spring breeze burned her last moments of life and wreaked havoc on the wasteland desperately...
The spring breeze is blowing strongly in the wilderness.
The iron cavalry in the wilderness is moving forward in an orderly manner.
The palms of the defenders on the city wall were stained with sweat.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the dark army slowly moving forward and couldn't help but chuckled: "This time, I will let you down again."
Chu Feiyan and others hope that this battle will start soon, then win, and then end.
Even the tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the city wall with bows in hand were unwilling to maintain this eerie tranquility in front of the Silver Moon Cavalry.
As if he couldn't notice people's eyes, Li Xiuyuan looked quietly outside Black Salt City, at the green grass on the wasteland, the official roads in the fields, and the dark crowds moving on the grass.
There are no green seedlings in front of Black Salt City, only weeds and wild flowers. Since last winter, after receiving the battle report from Li Xiuyuan, the city lord Feng Yun asked the people in the city to abandon the land outside the city. Go to another place to open up wasteland.
"Let's see how I burn you all." Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan murmured in a low voice.
Seeing that the defenders on the city wall did not respond, the army approaching the moat began to push the cedars forward. The two cedars were tied together and crossed the ten-foot-wide moat.
A thick shield array stood by the river to protect the army behind him. Even if he had to forcibly cross the river, the shield array and the soldiers would work together, sharing life and death, and move forward indomitably.
"Do you want to launch an attack?" Chu Feiyan looked down at the densely packed iron cavalry wearing black armor, and couldn't help but sweat breaking out on his body.
The shield formation on the moat protected the cavalry from crossing the river, and heavy weapons for siege were slowly being transported.
On the opposite side of the moat, the Silver Moon Nation's cavalry were setting up catapults, preparing to throw stones to attack the city...
"We can't let them set up their chariots. Wei Qing, order the heavy slaves to fire two volleys first and destroy the chariots on the other side!" Li Xiuyuan shouted at the messenger.
"Send the order to the slave camp, fire two volleys, and destroy the chariots on the other side!" The ordering soldier waved the red flag in his hand while passing the order!
"Chu Feng, it's up to you, three rounds of volley, don't let them escape!" Li Xiuyuan looked at Chu Feng beside him and shouted loudly.
"Promise to complete the mission!" Chu Feng was ordered to leave.
"Woo!" The heavy slave on the city wall whined, and tens of thousands of iron arrows shot towards the other side of the moat.
Outside Black Salt City in late spring, there was once again a black rain of arrows.
The catapults that had not yet been set up dispersed for a while under the powerful heavy fire.
"Attack! Attack!" The cavalrymen who had already crossed the river roared.
Hundreds of thousands of cavalry on the grassland slowly pressed forward, and the sound of war drums shook the earth and the earth.
"Bang the drum!" Li Xiuyuan shouted coldly.
In an instant, the thunderous war drums were beating in Black Salt City! Earth-shattering.
Groups of iron cavalry rushed toward Black Salt City with their feet on cedars. As they rushed, they kept their shields on their heads with one hand to guard against the rain of arrows that fell from the sky.
"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!" There was a sound of strings, and tens of thousands of rockets poured out on the moat like a rain of arrows.
"Boom!" In the sound, fire clouds rose into the sky from the moat!
Liu Changqing, the vanguard on the military horse, screamed desperately: "They set fire!"
Ye Wubei, who was riding his horse forward, was dumbfounded and muttered to himself: "That guy actually set fire to the water!"
Princess Qingyue, who was directing the army to rush forward, cursed loudly: "How shameless, you actually set fire!"
In just an instant, the thousands of barrels of kerosene poured into the moat by Wei Qing, Chu Feng and others last night were ignited by tens of thousands of rockets. The huge fire dragon set the entire moat on fire with lightning speed.
The pine branches pushed in last night, plus the pine branches piled up by the prairie cavalry to build a bridge across the river today, burned fiercely. The fire became more and more fierce, and there was no possibility of putting it out.
"Send the order and use rockets to destroy the catapults on the other side!" Li Xiuyuan roared quietly.
The messenger quickly waved the red flag.
In the blink of an eye, a fire was slowly burning on the other side.
"You can do whatever you want, let me take a break." Li Xiuyuanwan looked at Xiaoqing and Xiaolonger and smiled lightly.
Xiaoqing and Xiaolonger carried bows and arrows and climbed up the city wall...
Li Xiuyuan moved three chairs, handed one to Chu Feiyan and one to Huangfu Shenji, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, we won't charge today!"
Chu Feiyan pulled up a chair and sat down, clenching her fists and smiling: "They never expected to be tricked again today, right?"
Li Xiuyuan looked back at her and said quietly: "We are the home court here, so we take the initiative. But if we are too weak, even taking the initiative will not have any effect."
Chu Feiyan nodded slightly, agreeing with what he said.
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and continued: "If Princess Dongdong hadn't commanded the army to widen this moat, I wouldn't have been able to stop the 200,000-strong army of the Silver Moon Kingdom despite my immense abilities.
"This idea came from you when you asked Chu Feng to arrange for us to dig. At that time, the soldiers complained that dredging outside the city in this winter was not to mention how painful it was." Chu Feiyan said with a smile.
"Now that I think about it, no matter how much effort I put in and how much hardship I endured, it was still worth it." Li Xiuyuan replied calmly.
Outside Black Salt City, Ye Wubei, Princess Qingyue, pioneer Liu Changqing and others gathered.
The four of them looked at the flames rising in the sky on the moat, and then looked at the catapults burning with rockets on the shore, and shook their heads speechlessly.
"In addition to using fire, what else can this bastard do?" Liu Changqing roared.
Qingyue looked at him and said calmly: "So what, you can use it too."
Ye Hui looked at the soldiers struggling in the sea of fire and shouted bitterly: "Isn't there something we can do?"
"A lot of fuel has been poured into the fire. Even if they jump into the moat, they will die. Their plan is really cruel!" Ye Wubei frowned and said coldly.
"Continue to attack or retreat?" The three looked at Princess Qingyue and asked in unison.
"Let the army retreat. This fire will not go out for four or five hours. Send a small number of soldiers to pick up the injured soldiers and bring them back." Princess Qingyue looked up at Black Salt City and said quietly .
The army is already caught in a sea of fire, and there are no items to put it out. How can we fight this battle?
While the four of them were discussing, the grassland soldiers under Black Salt City knew that there was no hope of attacking the city and fled back one after another. Only then did they realize that their escape route had been cut off.
"How to deal with these people?" Chu Feiyan asked Li Xiuyuan while looking at the panicked Nanyun soldiers outside Black Salt City.
