The sun climbed halfway up the mountain, and the soldiers of the demon army beat the war drums.
The Demon Realm army was preparing to attack, but the goal of the vanguard troops at the forefront was not the city gate, but the first trench in the wasteland.
The huge siege chariots could not get close, so the demon army could only set up their chariots at the first trench outside Gaoping Pass, a hundred feet away.
Unexpectedly, the defenders at Gaopingguan did not fight with them head-on. They just hid in the trenches and shot people directly with cannons.
"All soldiers launch together." Jun Buyu, who was on the front line, gave the order.
With the buzzing of the bow strings, thousands and thousands of crossbow arrows poured forward like a heavy rain, before the opponent's siege vehicle could be raised.
Many soldiers have already fallen under the rain of arrows!
The hard crossbows hiding in the trenches broke up the formation of the demon army. This was exactly the effect Jun Buyu wanted.
"Fight! Set up a shield formation! Archers fire volley!"
With an angry roar, Wu Neng, the vanguard general from the Demon Realm, shouted and gave orders to the messengers around him.
At this time, they had already been attacked by an army led by Jun Buyu. They suffered many casualties and were given the upper hand by their opponents.
At this time, all the soldiers from outside Longmenguan City were dispatched. Under the command of Qingyue, they launched a merciless attack on the invading enemies.
The crow lying in the woods also moved out. Its mission was to take advantage of the demon army's attack to fly into the sky of the camp and drop leaflets.
During the day, I will ask you to die in front of Gaoping Pass, and at night, I will use a small leaflet to attack your heart. ..
This was Li Xiuyuan's overt and secret calculation.
The siege division's top priority is to attack the heart. As long as the hearts of the demon army are confused, this war will basically be unwinnable.
After all, there are currently many soldiers in the Demon Realm, and their military morale still stands with the two young masters of the Jun family. As long as the two of them climb up and wave, the soldiers may not escape in the middle of the night.
Whenever one person leaves, there will be a second one.
Escape is a plague that, once it begins, cannot be stopped.
Li Xiuyuan was lying in the shade of the woods and fast asleep, while the two sides were already engaged in an earth-shattering fight outside Gaoping Pass outside the city.
Even the crows that had finished scattering the leaflets were far away, circling in the sky.
Seeing the two armies on the ground being killed, people were on their backs, and arrows were flying all over the sky. I don't know how many casualties there were in this battle.
Because there was a huge trench, Gaoping's soldiers obviously took advantage, and the crossbows from the Demon Realm could not reach their heads.
On the contrary, Jun Buyu led an army of five thousand, and a hail of arrows flew out, injuring countless soldiers from the Demon Realm.
The two sides were in a stalemate for two hours. In the end, Jun Buyu saw that the other side was so angry that he sent tens of thousands of troops to charge, and then retreated with his own troops.
Even if they retreat, the demon army will not be able to reach the first trench.
Because Jun Buyu asked his men to light the firewood poured with kerosene in the trench before leaving. Flames shot into the sky and a wall of fire several feet wide immediately appeared on the battlefield.
Even Wu Neng, the vanguard general who rushed up, was dumbfounded and shouted from a distance: "If you have the guts, come and fight with me!"
"Whoosh whoosh!" He was answered by a rain of arrows coming from the sky.
The fire burned for two hours, and the entire trench was burned to ashes, making it impossible to enter.
In desperation, Chen Xueming had no choice but to ask his men to withdraw their troops.
On the first day, the two sides fought a lonely battle. The Demon Realm army suffered thousands of casualties, but they only captured the first trench and were unable to retreat. They sent three thousand generals to garrison here.
Similarly, Jun Buyu and the defenders at Gaoping Pass did not dare to leave in the second trench.
The two sides were separated by a trench and had a stalemate at night.
Qingyue on the tower looked at the scene on the battlefield and said to Chu Feng beside her: "Who will keep watch at night, you or Hua Tianyu?"
Hua Tianyu glanced at Chu Feng and replied: "I'm going. Jun Buyu has been fighting for a day. It's time to take the soldiers with him."
Came back to rest. "
Chu Feng thought for a while and replied: "Okay, I will lead the team to fight them again tomorrow."
Princess Qingyue sighed and said quietly: "If I guess correctly, one to two thousand people from the opponent's army will sneak away tonight."
Chu Feng was stunned, first smiled, and then replied: "That's for sure, otherwise my brother would have slipped out of Gaoping and left the city long ago... He doesn't need to take action, just let the crow fly back, that's enough Already."
Not far away, Chu Feiyan shouted: "It's time to eat."
There are still a few miles away from the battlefield, in the woods.
Li Xiuyuan lit a fire and was cooking two pheasants. This was also the first time the crows had eaten the meat roasted by Li Xiuyuan.
After taking a bite of meat, Crow smiled and said, "Today's Demon Realm army is really a rookie. That vanguard general came from nowhere and actually used a siege tank to attack the trenches."
Li Xiuyuan tore a piece of roasted meat for it and took a sip of wine.
He smiled faintly and said, "That's not good. Jun Buyu can avoid some casualties. Tomorrow, they should change their tactics."
The crow asked: "Do you think anyone will sneak away tonight? How many people will there be?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied: "It doesn't matter how many people escape. As long as one person leaves, their military morale can be shaken."
In his opinion, as long as this seed is sown and planted in the hearts of the 50,000 troops, and if only half of them can sprout, then there will be no suspense in this war.
Not to mention, the three trenches are just an appetizer, and there is a twenty-foot-high city wall behind them.
This is the majestic pass of the Demon Realm, even more majestic than Tianmen Pass. How could it be so easy to attack?
Are Chu Feng, Hua Tianyu, Jun Wuyou, Jun Buyu and others vegetarians?
In his eyes, there was no suspense in this battle, whether it was soldiers versus soldiers or generals.
As long as the big devil doesn't come out of the mountain, these generals will become a grindstone for Chu Feng and others at best.
After taking a sip of wine, Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Let Chu Feng and the others polish their skills on the battlefield in the Demon Realm first, so as not to die after they have reached the sky."
"How many days are we going to stay here?" Crow thought for a moment and asked.
"Three days, no matter how they fight in three days, we have to leave."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said coldly: "I have no intention of spending time here with them."
Crow raised his head and glanced at the night sky, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow's battle doesn't seem to be easy. Is it going to rain heavily in this weather?"
Li Xiuyuan was shocked when he heard this, looked at it and smiled: "Then, why don't you quickly find a cave and want me to turn into a drowned rat?"
The crow chuckled: "Don't worry, there is a forest not far ahead."
That night, there wasn't even a star in the sky, and even the moon didn't know where it was hiding.
What made Chen Xueming even more angry was that the head of the family clearly said that there was an insider in Gaoping Pass, but there was a big battle during the day, but there was no movement at all, not even a firework appeared.
He knew very well that without internal support, it was really not an easy task to rely on his 50,000 troops to capture this magnificent pass in front of him.
As for Hua Tianyu, who was on duty in the second trench in place of Jun Buyu, he did not dare to be careless in the slightest.
He didn't dare to close his eyes the whole night, staring at the other side's soldiers again and again, for fear that the other side would launch a sneak attack while he was not paying attention.
It was not until the end of the hour when Chu Feng came with his army to change defenses that he patted Chu Feng on the shoulder and laughed.
"Today, it looks like they can't dance either!"
"Why?" Chu Feng asked.
Hua Tianyu pointed to the hazy sky, sighed and said, "It's going to rain."
Upon hearing this, Chu Feng glanced at the trench at his feet and tried to ask: "It has to be a heavy rain, otherwise it will be useless?"
Hua Tianyu waved his hand and led his men towards the city, while replying: "Don't be impulsive, play with them slowly and follow their orders."
And this morning
, both the vanguard general Wu Neng and the general Chen Xueming were angry.
Because there were reports from the deputy general on duty, after the soldiers returned to camp last night, they picked up a lot of leaflets.
As a result, during roll call at each military camp this morning, it was discovered that there were more than a thousand people missing. They had all sneaked away overnight.
Chen Xueming held a leaflet in his hand, which read: "Leave the battlefield, let bygones be bygones, and all offenders will be punished!" There was only one word "Jun" in the signature.
Just the word "Jun" made all the soldiers think about it, and they left the military camp overnight without knowing where they were going.
Chen Xueming shook his head and tore up the flyer in his hand.
Looking at the vanguard general Wu Neng, he said: "Tonight, we will send people on guard duty. Any soldiers who escape will be killed on the spot without reporting!"
The two armies were fighting, and his opponent actually retaliated. He was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.
At this time, Crow and Li Xiuyuan had already hid in the cave, waiting for the summer rainstorm to come.
But at this moment, whether it was on the tower of Gaopingguan or Chu Feng in the trenches outside the city, it was not easy at all.
After experiencing yesterday's battle, Chen Xueming personally supervised the army today and sent 30,000 troops to line up in front of the second trench.
Chen Xueming did not send out siege vehicles today, nor did he let his horses charge.
Instead, let the 30,000-strong army cross the first trench, start at the shield formation, and advance forward step by step.
Even Princess Qingyue on the tower frowned tightly. She was not afraid of the enemy charging, but was afraid of advancing inch by inch like today.
In this way, Chu Feng and others had no choice but to give up the second trench.
From the time when the horn of attack was sounded at Chen hour, to the end of Si hour and almost noon, Chu Feng only ordered the soldiers to fire a shot of arrows, because the lethality was too small.
The enemy was covered by a shield array and was not afraid of their arrows at all.
The iron arrows fired by five thousand soldiers were really not enough to see against an army of thirty thousand. Chu Feng turned back to discuss with Qing Yue on the tower and prepared to abandon the second trench.
The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great, there is no need to fight!
At this critical moment, a thunder suddenly sounded in the sky, and before the demon army could recover, a heavy rain suddenly hit.
"Charge!" When the vanguard general saw the heavy rain, he felt bad and had no choice but to charge!
"Send the order for the whole army to charge!" Chen Xueming saw something was wrong and had no choice but to issue the order!
"Woo!" The moment the opponent's attack horn sounded, there was a "Boom!" and a long fire dragon soared into the sky from the second trench.
While this fire started, Chu Feng and his five thousand generals had already retreated to the last trench.
Before Chu Feng and others could settle down, Qingyue's voice came to their ears: "All the troops must withdraw to the city without any mistakes."
When Chu Feng heard this, he said nothing and shouted to the people around him: "No more fighting, go back to the city!"
So, while the Demon Realm army was stunned, the defenders of Gaopingguan evacuated two trenches one after another and headed towards the city.
The vanguard general laughed loudly: "I still want to set a fire today, but God won't help you!"
With such a heavy rainstorm, Chu Feng's fire was like child's play to him.
As everyone knows, even if it rains heavily, it can't put out the flames hidden in the talisman. The fire is not weak at all, and is even more intense than yesterday.
Wu Neng simply shouted to Chen Xueming: "General, we will stay here. Even if we stay there for two hours, we still have to capture the third trench."
From his point of view, if he could capture two trenches in succession without any effort, wouldn't he just have to put in more effort to defend himself in the rain?
It’s worth it, so worth it!
