Chapter 1195 First Battle

"finally come."

"This battle is a battle entrusted to me by the commander-in-chief. I must fight well and live up to the commander-in-chief's entrustment."

"At the same time, I will make it the most glorious fight of my life."

Du Si clenched his fists and looked at the huge Hucheng army below the city, secretly swearing in his heart.

Looking at the sunset in the sky, the hawks flying in the sky, the soldiers waiting in battle above the city, and the 200,000 enemy troops below the city, Si felt heroic in his heart.

"Sound the horn."

"Woo~woo~"

With one order, the horns on Suzaku City sounded in unison, surrounding the wilderness like an ancient beast roaring.

As the horn sounded, all the soldiers in Suzaku City unleashed their weapons, clanging and clanging, showing their sharpness.

"Beat the drum!"

"Boom~boom~boom"

The sound of the drum sounded like thunder rolling in the sky, shocking people's hearts.

Du Si raised the sword in his hand and roared, and all the soldiers followed suit.

"Ho, ho, ho."

The roar was full of murderous intent, and its momentum was like a rainbow.

Horns, drums, and roars, the three voices merged with each other, and the indescribable unity of purpose and endless murderous aura.

With such a situation, the Hucheng army, which was exhausted mentally and physically, was frightened and timid before fighting.

As soon as he arrived, Hai Lie was dismounted. Hai Lie's face was extremely gloomy. Although he didn't want to go out to fight when the army was exhausted, but seeing the officers who were gradually becoming discouraged by the opponent's majestic prestige, the army's morale was unstable, and the soldiers were restless, he knew If it drags on, the morale of the army will collapse directly.

Therefore, this battle must be fought immediately, and only blood and life can be used to awaken the gradually lost military spirit and blood spirit of the soldiers on our side.

"Siege!"

Hai Lie slit his eyes ferociously and roared angrily.

Forced by Hai Lie's power, the officers could only bite the bullet and lead their troops to attack, slowly approaching the city wall.

On the wall at the head of Suzaku City, Hai Lie saw the enemy advancing, so he also gave the order to attack.

Countless arrows and bullets poured down.

"Raise the shield."

The soldiers in the front row of the enemy army under the city, under the command of the officer, raised the shield in their hands and put it on their heads, forming a shield wall with staggered sides.

The attack falls, hitting the shield.

When the two collide, there is a crackling sound, like rain hitting a pipa leaf, playing one piece.

Du Si frowned and watched, because the shield blocked it, it sounded lively, but his own attack did not cause too many casualties to the enemy.

"Stone throwing."

So they all ordered again and again.

The soldiers picked up the prepared stones and threw them down the city.

The falling rock smashed into the shield formation below, and amidst the dull impact sound, it immediately caused screams.

The Hucheng soldiers who formed the shield formation were terrified and retreated when they saw their comrades in arms smashed to death one by one by the stones.

Upon seeing this, Hai Lie immediately ordered his long-range troops to fire a volley towards the city to provide cover fire.

The long-range troops of the Hucheng army were extremely numerous, no less than 50,000. They were arranged in formation, and the salvo attacks were as dense as a storm, covering the head of Suzaku city.

"Riser."

In response to this overwhelming offensive, Du Si calmly commanded the soldiers and erected a palm-thick iron plate that had been prepared in advance.

With the iron plate together, all the soldiers hid behind, which made Hucheng's long-range offensive fail, and did not achieve much effect.

Du Si saw that his side did not lose much under such a monstrous offensive, and he admired Chen Fang from the bottom of his heart.

Because the idea of ​​using iron plates to resist the enemy's long-range attacks was written by Chen Fang in the battle plan he gave him.

If this idea is there, Dusi thinks that the wave of fire just now would at least reduce the number of his defenders by half.

"The commander-in-chief is the best fighter among us. I'm not as good as him."

Du Si sighed, and then focused on directing the soldiers to fight.

Under the city, Hailie saw the iron plates erected on the enemy's city wall, he was really speechless.

He had never thought that there was such a way of defending against long-range strikes, which he had never seen before, and this kind of operation almost made him dodge.

"This commander is not simple."

Experts will know if there is one as soon as they make a move.

Hai Lie felt extremely apprehensive, but for now he is still holding on.

"Ranged units remain suppressed."

"The front line continues to advance."

Although the attack of the long-range troops of the Hucheng army was blocked by the iron plate, this also reduced the attack on the Suzaku city wall a lot, allowing the front soldiers of the Hucheng army to continue to move forward.

Holding their shields, the soldiers in front of Hu City approached the city wall step by step.

At this time, the soldiers carrying the ladders hidden under the shield rushed out and put the ladders on the top of the city.

The soldiers in the first row climbed up the ladder with their shields on their backs, and the people behind him also climbed up the ladder to climb the city under his protection.

Hai Lie shouted and gave the order, and the soldiers risked their lives to push down the stones and trees placed on the top of the city.

In an instant, the rolling stone fell down and hit the soldiers of Hucheng who were on the ladder or on it.

"ah."

"Crack"

The shrill screams and the sound of the ladder snapping in the middle were endless.

Soldiers, broken ladders, rolling stones and trees all fell from above and hit the people below, causing another horrific cry.

Flesh and blood fly, the scene is very tragic, it is soul-stirring.

Afterwards, the army of Hucheng stormed for a long time under the command of Hailie, but they still failed to attack Suzaku city, and lost more than 10,000 people.

When the battle was dark and the moon was in the sky, Suzaku City was still stable, but the morale of the Hu City army, which had been unable to attack for a long time, plummeted, the offensive was sluggish, and the soldiers were weak.

"Oh, order the whole army to retreat."

Knowing that there was no chance today, Hai Lie could only sigh and order the whole army to retreat temporarily, setting up a large camp a few miles away from the city.

The whole army retreated safely, Hai Lie and a group of officers sat in the big tent with sad faces.

Originally, they thought that with their 200,000 troops, they could easily break through the city, but they didn't expect that they fought so hard and lost nearly 10,000, and they couldn't shake the enemy's city by a single point.

Hai Lie looked solemn, pacing back and forth in the big tent, thinking hard about how to fight tomorrow in order to take down the city in front of him.

After walking around for a while, Hai Lie asked, "Has the person sent out to investigate come back?"

After the troops retreated, Hai Lie sent out sentries to investigate the terrain information of the city in front of him.

"Not yet, but it should be soon."

An officer replied, and as soon as his words fell, a soldier bleeding all over his body staggered and was helped in.

"My lord, I'll wait for the investigation to come back."

The wounded soldier panted and submitted the detection results.

Hai Lie took it, waved someone to take away the wounded sentry, and then carefully looked at the information in his hand.

This is a rough map of Nirvana City.

The big city is the center, surrounded by four stars.

The unusual layout made Hai Lie frown and his heart tremble.

"It's really clever to be able to come up with this layout."

The four cities are guarded outside, and each direction is like a pocket. If you can't break through one of them, you can't directly attack the big city, or you will be trapped in the pocket, turning into a difficult situation.

"Look at it too."

Hai Lie handed over the map in his hand to everyone to circulate.

But there are not many capable officers under him, so he can't see why.

"My lord, is there anything special about this place? Isn't there four more small towns than other cities?" someone asked.

Hai Lie snorted coldly: "If you don't see it, use your brain."

The man shrank his neck and lowered his head.

Hailie ignored him, sat back in his chair with a gloomy face, looked at the officer below and said, "Tell me, how to fight next."

The officers looked at each other and fell silent.

The tent fell into silence, and the atmosphere was very dull.

Hai Lie suppressed the desire to explode, leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind.

But as time passed, the officers could feel that Hai Lie was like a volcano about to erupt, and the anger in their hearts became more and more intense.

They knew that if no one came out to say a few words, it would lead to a storm of scolding and even beatings.

Some people couldn't bear the pressure, so they could only stand up and say bravely: "My lord, there are so many soldiers in our army, we can completely surround the city and trap them to death."

Hai Lie closed his eyes and said coldly, "Sleeping to death? How do you think we can trap them to death, instead of being chased and beaten two days later when we ran out of food and grass."

The person who came out to speak broke out in cold sweat, bowed his head and dared not speak.

"Sit back for me, mindless thing."

Hailie scolded.

As if received amnesty, the man tremblingly returned to his original position, sitting paralyzed.

After another period of silence, another person spoke.

"My lord, I think it is possible to encircle, but it is not a trap, but an attack. I don't believe that their four small cities are as strong as today's city."

Hailie opened his eyes, looked at the man, and said, "Tell me specifically."

The man said: "We have a lot of troops. Today the whole army is only on one side. Many troops are vacant and can't help. Therefore, I suggest sending 50,000 to 40,000 troops to each direction to launch a fierce attack at the same time. With so many troops allocated and heavy troops deployed on all sides, as long as one of the cities is relatively weak in defense, it can become a breakthrough. At that time, we only need to concentrate the troops of the two cities near this city, and we will definitely be able to take it."

After the man finished speaking, someone got inspiration from the words and immediately stood up and said, "My lord, I think it's okay to send troops to attack the four cities, but don't distribute them equally, and focus on attacking the two adjacent ones, and the other two are for show." , to induce them to send troops to help the other two, and we will take the opportunity to concentrate the remaining troops to attack one of the cities where the troops have been transferred, so that we should be able to take it easily."

The words of the two caused Hai Lie to think.

After a while, Hailie accepted the latter's proposal.

"Okay, tomorrow morning, each of you will take your troops and divide your troops to the four cities."

Then Hai Lie began to deploy.

After a while, Hailie dispersed the crowd and told them to go back to rest and get ready to fight tomorrow morning.

After they were all gone, Hai Lie also took a day's exhaustion to rest, preparing to recharge his energy and command the battle tomorrow.

However, they wanted to take a good rest, but Nirvana City naturally refused to allow it.

According to the battle plan, the Dusi arranged for several cavalry to leave the city in the middle of the night and went to the camp of the Hucheng army. They did not seek to kill the enemy, but only made noise, beat gongs and drums, and made noise. They also sent a few griffin knights to fly to the camp. Throwing a few plant bombs on their heads made the soldiers of the Hucheng army restless.

Angrily, Hai Lie sent people to chase them out, but the cavalry and thieves who came to make noise couldn't catch up.

If you can't catch up, don't chase him, but the damn thing is, if you stop chasing him, he will come back again. After one or two times, the people sent by Hai Lie collapsed and made a fuss to change a group of people.

So I changed the batch, but the result was the same.

In the end, Hai Lie really had no choice but to let his troops go out on patrol, guarding the periphery all the time and strictly guarding against it, so that he could have a moment of peace.

It was indeed a moment of peace, because when Hai Lie made countermeasures and arrangements, there were only one or two hours left in the morning.

So in the early morning of the next day, none of the soldiers in the Hucheng army had a good rest, and their bodies became more and more exhausted.

"I have never seen such despicable methods."

A burly officer with red eyes and dark circles cursed angrily.

The others were also full of indignation, but they didn't yell and curse like the officers, because they didn't have the strength or spirit to support their opening. After all, they were a group of pampered people before.

Hai Lie looked at the dispirited army with a headache, hesitating whether to launch an attack today, but this slightest hesitation was quickly left behind by him, because he realized that if he did not launch an attack today, he would definitely face the next night. A new round of harassment, if you can't get enough rest, you will only get more and more tired, and the more you procrastinate, the more disadvantageous you will be.

And there is only one day left of the army's food, and the next supply does not know when it will be delivered.

Under various factors, it is the best choice to launch an attack only when the soldiers still have energy and are not dragged down.

"lets go."

Hai Lie picked up the water bag, washed his face with cold water, and gave the combat order after forcefully raising his spirits.

The officers dragged their exhausted bodies and led the troops under their command who were also in poor spirits to the place of combat.

Hai Lie watched, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, he didn't know if his decision was right or not, but the order had been issued, and the current situation forced him to do so, so he could only comfort himself.

"It's fine to fight, as long as you fight, your spirit will be high, and the fatigue caused by the stimulation of life and death is nothing."

Then Hai Lie looked at the head of Suzaku City not far away, with fierce eyes.

"Just wait, I will take down your damn city today, and I will torture you severely when the time comes."

"And that commander, don't die, or I won't be able to cut off your eyelids and let you taste the pain of not being able to sleep."

After a few words, Hai Lie returned to the army and waited for the assigned three armies to take their positions, and waited for the moment to issue a combat order.

The Hucheng army divided up, and Hailie naturally received the news.

"Hehe, it really is as the commander-in-chief expected."

Hai Lie listened to the news reported by the soldiers, and looked at the guesses and countermeasures given by Chen Fang in the battle plan.

"The commander-in-chief is simply too powerful. Before the battle even started, he predicted the enemy's possible behavior. This kind of judgment, like a prophet of gods and ghosts, is simply too terrifying."

"Fortunately, the commander-in-chief is one of our own. If he is an enemy, I really dare not think about it."

Hai Lie sighed for a while, then collected his expression, and said to the messenger: "Notify the three cities and follow the plan without any mistakes."

"yes."

The orderly took the order to leave.

Hai Lie walked up to the top of the city, glanced at the Hucheng army below the city, and then looked east.

"Siege, who is not?"