Chapter 969

During the construction of the new city, other aspects of construction may not be satisfactory, but on the city wall, there is no slack and wholehearted dedication.

Based on the original foundation, the giant stones mined by the small world were used to add structure, and the city wall built was hundreds of feet high. Uh, hundreds of feet is a rhetorical technique, but it actually looks like twenty meters.

Anyway, the city wall is tall and strong, and there is a blockhouse every 500 meters on the city wall, which can accommodate a hundred shooters.

It looks quite majestic from a distance, although after entering the city, it is a bit of a golden appearance.

In addition to the city wall, there is also the wide river city dug out by nearly ten thousand Jiangcheng soldiers who were still captives before. A kind of mine-shaped bomb plant with poisonous spikes and a durian-like bomb plant was planted in the river.

If anyone wants to cross the river, they will only be pierced with holes and die.

Because the weapons of the Daos family from the samurai family have not been delivered yet, there are no weapons for defending the city for the time being.

However, under Chen Fang's assignment, the blacksmith shop went all out, preparing thousands of large iron pots and a huge amount of raw materials for making golden juice.

There is also a lot of rolling stones from the small world.

These arrangements are naturally prepared by Chen Fang after copying the preparations of the Huahua family's ancient defense of the city.

I don't know if it will work, but I think it will come in handy.

After all, the world is backward in war, and there are almost no corresponding siege equipment.

Some are also core energy cannons, but the big ones are too heavy to move with the army, and the small ones are not powerful enough to hit unreinforced city walls. If they hit walls hundreds of feet high and tens of meters wide, they are bombs. Beads hit the wall, no effect.

Apart from the core energy cannon, the only thing that can make the city wall useless is the flying troops.

It's a pity that except for the big federal city or the royal family in the southern border, they can gather a little flying troops, so don't think about other places. It would be good to have two or three flying mutant beasts, let alone form a combat force.

Maybe in the future, after the griffins in the new city are bred, there will be a flying army, but now those ordinary cities don't even think about it.

So to a large extent, when the Hecheng army came here to attack the city, they would choose to hit the city gate and build ladders to the top of the city just like the flower planters did in ancient times. Chen Fang's arrangement would most likely be used.

The war was approaching, and everyone was very nervous. As the days passed, as the scouts began to continuously send back information about the Hecheng army, this nervousness became more and more obvious.

Of course, there are two types of tension.

A sense of fear like ordinary city dwellers, they feel afraid.

Afraid of breaking the city, afraid of being killed.

The other is not fear, but spiritual excitement.

For example, in the army, those soldiers who came from Jiangcheng to take refuge were all in high spirits, wishing that the Hecheng army would come to the city immediately so that they could avenge their hatred.

Compared with ordinary citizens and soldiers, the senior management of Xincheng is more stressed.

After all, a 100,000-strong army is about to approach the city, and those who say that there is no pressure are stupid and bold, but they are really bold.

Uh, when it comes to the most stressed person, it is undoubtedly Chen Fang.

As the battle strategy customizer and commander in chief of this city defense battle, the lives of more than 30,000 people are on their shoulders, so the pressure is naturally extremely great.

So Chen Fang ran to the city wall during the day to see if there were any omissions, and at night he reviewed the combat strategy again and again to see if there were any loopholes or flaws, and there was almost no time to rest.

The charming girls felt distressed naturally, but they didn't try to stop them. Everyone knows that now is not an easy time.

Eight days passed like this, and the scouts came to report that the Hecheng army had stationed near the wild lake with a strong presence in the north, but it had never been named.

After getting the news, Chen Fang secretly went to check it, and what he saw were densely connected tents.

This situation was naturally within Chen Fang's prediction, so he took the tree demon warriors and set fire to it that night.

It's a pity that the fire started, but the effect was not great. No night attack troops were arranged to cooperate with attracting attention and harassment. The fire was quickly extinguished after it started, and there were not many casualties.

But it's not useless.

Although not many people were burned to death, a lot of food and grass storage places that Chen Fang visited on purpose were burned, at least enough for 100,000 people for two days' rations.

Regardless of the weight for only two days, if calculated as one catty per person per day, 100,000 people will consume at least 100,000 kilograms in two days.

When the army goes out to fight, the consumption of food and grass in the early stage must be prepared in advance, and they will bring different amounts of food and grass according to the estimation of the war.

Just like this time in Hecheng, the 100,000 troops only took them for 13 to 15 days, which was only enough food and grass for the road and the battle for up to three days.

The reason why there are so few is because they feel that they can take the new city in this period of time.

And as long as the city is occupied, and it happens to be after the autumn harvest, there will definitely be no shortage of food in the city, so naturally there is no need to prepare too much.

The abacus was well calculated, but Chen Fang's burning made Heles, the commander of the army of Hecheng, very angry, and killed a hundred guards who failed to take care of the grain and grass.

Don't be annoyed.

The previous march on the road had already consumed more than 60% of the food and grass. This time, after burning two days of rations, the Hecheng army now only had four or five days of rations left at most.

Next, it will take at least a day for the army to go to the new city.

It is impossible to launch a siege immediately when we arrive. After walking for a day, we must not take a break to resupply, so it will take at least a day and a half.

If the battle goes well and it takes only a little time to capture the new city, there is no problem.

But if it drags on for three or four days without food, what will happen?

Heles didn't dare to think.

Then is he sure to capture the new city in a short time?

Heles was sure at first without knowing the city walls of the new city.

But just in the morning, the scouts sent out reported that after the small city had erected a hundred-foot-high city wall, he was not so confident that he could win a battle.

He estimated that it would take a whole day for the soldiers to attack and stand firm at the top of the city.

But at night, Chen Fang lit a fire, which made Heles realize that there were smart people in that small town who knew how to burn food and grass. With such people, the other party must have made sufficient preparations to defend the city.

This made him turn one day of estimation into two days.

And this just hits the bottom line where food and grass are about to run out.

Heles is now in a dilemma.

He stayed where he was and waited, and asked someone to go back and notify Hecheng to bring supplies, but it was conservatively estimated that his army would starve for at least two days when the food and grass arrived.

They haven't eaten for the past two days, and the soldiers haven't gone crazy to bomb the camp. If the small town takes this opportunity to send troops to attack, the losses will definitely be heavy.

Continue to advance towards the small town, and the soldiers approach the city to fight. I am afraid that they will not take down the opponent's city before the food and grass are exhausted. Without food and grass supplies, the soldiers will be hungry and have no energy to fight.

"Damn it, pull these people's corpses out, then chop them up and feed them to the dogs."

The upset Heles looked at the bodies of the executed guards on the ground and said harshly.

The subordinates at the side were stunned for a moment, and asked stupidly: "My lord, but we don't bring dogs, can we feed those mutant beasts to the cavalry?"

Heles was furious immediately when he heard this, "Come on, take him and feed him to the dogs together."

"Forgive me, my lord."

His subordinates begged for mercy loudly, but the angry Heles simply ignored him and let the other party be dragged away by the soldiers.

"snort."

Heles left with a shake of his hand, returned to his tent, made a decision after thinking for a long time, and called the guards outside the tent.

"Give an order to the guy camp, don't make breakfast tomorrow."

"There is also an order for the entire army to set off early tomorrow morning, speeding up and not stopping halfway."

The guards were ordered to leave.

After giving the order, Heles stood in the tent with his hands behind his back, a wise light flashed in his eyes.

Haha, as smart as I am, two rations are saved in this way, and I can last another day, which is considered a bottom line.