"Damn it!"

General Fang, who was guarded by sword and shield men at the back, was livid. Looking at the wall of fire in front of him, the flames in his own eyes were rising wildly.

After finally waiting until the five walls of fire gradually extinguished, he quickly ordered the engineers to fill in the passage, hoping to capture Xiyun City in one go.

As a result, the siege equipment had just been pushed to the front line, and before it could take effect, a wall of fire suddenly erupted, silencing everyone.

The fire is very big.

According to Chen Ze's instructions, the soldiers poured enough kerosene into the trench two hundred meters behind. Once it was ignited, it would explode like an explosion, and the flames would be almost as tall as a person.

Although the trench is not very wide, it only takes a sprint to jump over it, and at most it will burn a few strands of hair.

But what about siege engines?

In order to prevent the wheels from getting stuck, these trenches have to be filled!

However, the flames are not like ice cubes that break into pieces. When they put down the bag of sand, before the fire in this piece was extinguished, the flames on both sides closed again, and there was no gap at all when viewed from above.

The catapult is made of wood. Although the siege tower is covered with wet animal skins, there are no wheels. Furthermore, with the intensity of the fire, it will not take long for the animal skins to dry out, and by then the tower will be

He fired a salvo of rockets, but he couldn't hold back more than a few rounds.

In order to fill a gap in the fire wall for siege equipment to pass through, it would cost at least twice as many sandbags as the previous ordinary trench!

The previous sandbags can be picked up and used again after the siege equipment passes, but what about the ones in this fire pit?

Sand is not afraid of fire, but the sacks containing sand are afraid of fire. The sand has already dispersed after being thrown in, and cannot be used again. The number of sandbags carried by the poisonous fog army is completely insufficient.

As for using the giant shield of the Blade and Shield Man to create a passage...

What will happen if a wooden wheel rolls over red-hot chrome?

General Fang did not want to make such a useless attempt.

then.

"wait!"

Facing the questioning gazes of the leaders of various forces, General Fang gritted his teeth and forced the word out of his throat.

Right now, all we can do is wait, wait for the flames to go out!

The flames in the trench were so fierce that no one continued to add firewood and fuel. After burning for a while, the flames would naturally become smaller, as was the case with the five walls of fire just now.

General Fang could see clearly that even if the trenches behind the fire wall were full of kerosene, it could only stop them for a moment. According to the extinguishing speed of the previous fire wall, at most, all the fuel in the trenches would be destroyed by half an hour.

It will be exhausted.

It was only a few hours, and although there were still more than two hours left, it was still far from the point where his soldiers would be dizzy from hunger, and their strength would not be greatly affected.

Of course, General Fang, who knew nothing about Chen Ze, did not know what the word "Zi Shi" meant.

Having made some calculations in his mind, General Fang was not in a hurry. He first arranged for the army to rest on the spot, and then ordered everyone to take out the small amount of dry food they carried and spread it evenly. Everyone ate among them, so as to regain their physical strength.

He also made adjustments to his formation.

General Fang did not forget the ambush behind him, and he did not want an unexpected ambush to stab him in the anus from behind during the fierce battle later.

Therefore, some troops were allocated to defend the rear. Together with the cavalry on both sides, an iron barrel formation was set up under Xiyun City.

At the same time, he was not obsessed with taking down the West Gate. While waiting for the flames to extinguish, he also sent out scouts to investigate the situation of the other two gates. Once he had the opportunity, he would not mind bypassing the West Gate and attacking the other gates.

Two places.

When everything was ready, General Fang's eyes passed through the flames and stared directly at the word Xiyun above the tower, his face full of resentment.

His military rank in the Zhu Yan Empire is not low. He was a sixth-level general when he sneaked into the Poison Mist Forest three years ago. He was jealous of accepting this mission because the reward for his high military exploits would allow him to be promoted to the rank of captain in one fell swoop.

After three years of careful planning, I thought I would succeed in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect that I would be stuck on the first step as soon as I walked out of the Poison Mist Forest.

All this was brought to him by the current city defense commander of Xiyun City. General Fang was filled with indignation and secretly vowed that when the city was destroyed, he would crush this man to ashes before he could vent his hatred!

And Chen Ze...

Chen Ze was not on the tower, and he didn't feel the slightest bit of General Fang's resentful gaze.

Seeing that the poisonous fog army under the city was stopped two hundred meters away by the wall of fire, he breathed a sigh of relief. The situation was still under control for the time being.

The greatest threat to city defense is the siege equipment the enemy has on hand.

Needless to say, the siege tower had to be pushed to the edge of the city wall to exert its greatest effect. As for the catapult with powerful long-range strike capabilities, Chen Ze had already made calculations.

A trebuchet is just a trebuchet with four wheels. The attack distance is the same. On flat ground, it is about one hundred meters. But if you want to attack the city tower from above, the distance must be shortened to seventy meters.

Otherwise, the stone bullets can only hit the city wall. Considering the thickness of Xiyun City Wall, the opponent only has three catapults, which is far from enough to collapse the city wall just by throwing stones.

Since the opponent was not even within the effective attack range, he naturally had no reason to stay on top of the city and stare. Taking advantage of this period of time, Chen Ze came down from the city wall and went with Li Quan'an to check what he had assigned him.

schedule.

As for Meng Yang and a group of sword, shield and spearmen, they have disappeared. Chen Ze's own soldiers on the tower are the only five archers who are closely observing the fire below. Once they see that the wall of fire is about to extinguish, they will fire arrows to ignite it.

A trench, very stable.

"grown ups!"

"grown ups!"

When they came down from the city wall, the soldiers along the way stood at attention and saluted when they saw Chen Ze, with genuine respect on their faces.

Xiyun City, which no one is confident can be defended, is still alive and well. Whether it is the wall of fire outside the city or the fire in the enemy's formation, this was all done by Chen Ze. The previous pessimism and despair of the soldiers has weakened a lot.

After stabilizing the morale of the troops and reviving their morale, the soldiers' admiration for Chen Ze was beyond words.

But now is naturally not the time to relax.

While responding to the soldiers, Chen Ze led Li Quan'an quickly to the square in front of the city gate. The place was crowded with people shouting and shouting, and everyone was busy with the work at hand.

The ten trebuchets have been basically set up, and are now arranged in an arrow-shaped formation in a one-two-three formation, with the arrow tips pointing right outside the city gate.

"Sir, the trebuchet has been set up!"

Seeing Chen Ze approaching, Xu Qing, who was commanding the soldiers, wiped the sweat from his forehead and quickly ran to Chen Ze to report.

"very good!"
Chapter completed!