empire grow

Chapter 198
Above the castle!

Zhou Cang stood at a high point, observing the surrounding situation.

At the same time, on the surrounding mountains, some strange flags will appear from time to time. These flags are sometimes waving, sometimes standing still, and sometimes changing various strange shapes.

This is the semaphore that Zhou Cang researched based on the book of war given to him by Huang Yun. According to the description in the book of war, this semaphore is more suitable for use on the sea.But Zhou Cang used it on land, among mountains.

Looking at those semaphores, the lieutenant who had been by Zhou Cang's side quickly recorded them, because these semaphores might determine the fate of Xiyuan City.

"General Zhou didn't expect that you have even learned the art of war to such an extent. I'm so envious." Meng Aniu looked at the surrounding mountains and admired him in his heart, because Huang Yun was fighting with him at the beginning. The one who gave them the book of war turned out that Zhou Cang was training soldiers and managing the Northern Territory, and now he even learned the book of war so well that he could master it, while Meng Aniu himself only had brute force and could only fight everywhere. Did not grow.

"As long as you put your heart into it, you can do it too." With the passage of time, Zhou Cang has become more calm and composed, and is no longer as unstable as before.

"Listen, people in the city, I will only give you a stick of incense. If you don't open the city and surrender, then when my army arrives tomorrow and breaks the city, there will be no chickens or dogs left in the city." Shan Fang's face was gloomy. He looked at Zhou Cang and the others and said.

Hearing his words, the people of Xiyuan City who were helping to strengthen the city's defense all looked gloomy, and they must have been frightened.However, such things are likely to happen every day in the future, so Zhou Cang did not persuade them.

At the same time, Zhou Cang's deputy general suddenly raised his head and said: "Several generals, based on the previous intelligence, it seems that this army is coming in alone, and no one has appeared in the army behind."

"Are you sure?" Zhou Cang's eyes lit up.

"According to the general's defense, there are six secret sentries that can see the enemy's approach, and the answers they sent back are all the same." The deputy general straightened his body and replied seriously.

"The lone army goes deep?" Zhou Cang looked at the enemy soldiers under the tower, then looked at the lieutenant general and said, "Immediately send a message to the army ambushing in the west mountain, let them cut off the enemy's return route. And let the ambush in the east mountain cooperate with the one in the west mountain." Defensive action.”

"General...!" the deputy general said hesitantly.

"Go ahead...don't worry about other things, I'll take care of them." Zhou Cang said firmly.

Although Zhou Cang is known for his stability, don't forget that Zhou Cang in the past was a naked bandit who liked more adventures.It's just that Zhou Cang's adventure is based on a certain success rate.The current situation will undoubtedly be of great help to our own side, and the success rate is very high.

Today's Xiyuan City has just been recovered, and it is facing such a situation. For Yanhuang Kingdom, this is very dangerous.After all, the people in the city are forced by the tiger's prestige, so they will cooperate with the army.Once the army has a flaw, or loses the battle, then they will definitely betray themselves mercilessly, and there will be no place for them to cry when the time comes.

Therefore, Zhou Cang must win a big victory in the early stage of the war, and stabilize the morale of the army in turn, so that the people around him can trust him and trust himself as the highest officer. At the same time, he can use a victory to stabilize the confidence of the soldiers. A head-on blow to the enemy, let them know their strength.

The lieutenant general hesitated for a while, but under Zhou Cang's firm gaze, the lieutenant finally followed Zhou Cang's wishes and raised the flag towards the mountains on both sides of Xiyuan City.

At the semaphore, standing on the tower, you can see some sneaky figures on the west and east mountains, and they are all moving slowly.

In fact, when Huang Yun set up his defenses, these two armies just hoped that they could be stationed on it and try not to let the enemy occupy these two mountains.Otherwise, the other side can condescend and take a rough look at the situation in Xiyuan City, then for their own side, they will be in a passive situation.

Therefore, from the beginning of the selection of the two troops, they have been clearly told that this is a death battle, and they are likely to all die.

Therefore, the number of people in these two places is not very large, and there are barely two hundred people on each of the two hills.

At this time, they received Zhou Cang's order, without any hesitation, they began to rush towards the road that the Luanxing Vanguard Army could retreat.Before the Luanxing army came, Zhou Cang had already taken them around several surrounding areas.So they are very familiar with the surrounding terrain and the things they have.

Even without a map, they can rely on their own feelings to find the target location smoothly.What's more, for the sake of safety, Zhou Cang assigned them a local civilian as a guide.

After the two mountains received the news, Zhou Cang turned to look at Meng Aniu and said, "General Meng, although it is not time to misappropriate your life army, but the situation requires it now, so I hope you can lead your life army out of the city." Kill all the enemy troops outside the city here."

"No problem." Meng A Niu patted his chest confidently.

"Very good, then I will stand on the tower and wait for the good news from General Meng." Zhou Cang smiled and patted Meng Aniu on the shoulder.

"The food and wine prepared by the way, I will enjoy when I come back." Meng A Niu said carelessly, then turned and left.

"General, although General Meng's soldiers and horses are very powerful, can they defeat the enemy army on the opposite side?" Zhou Cang's deputy general said with a serious expression: "Look, general, the enemy's army Vanguard, their equipment is so good that our army will have to pay three times the price if we want to wipe them all out. However, the number of General Meng's army is similar to that of the enemy army, and it is very dangerous in the end. The general believes that our army should go all out to wipe out the enemy troops outside the city in one fell swoop."

"Although what you said is very reasonable, at this time, I absolutely don't want the army in the city to suffer greater losses." Zhou Cang patted the surrounding city walls with his hands and said: "Next, our army will stick to the city. , to block the attack of Luanxing's army, so there can be no casualties, let alone a sense of fatigue, otherwise the enemy will be the first to wear down. That is definitely not a good thing for our army, so now we can only hope, Stored in General Meng Aniu, he can wipe out the opponent in one battle."

"I can only hope so." The lieutenant sighed helplessly.

However, at this moment, Zhou Cang's eyes fell on the army behind Meng A Niu, and he said in surprise: "No, why have I never seen the equipment of this army?"

"The last general has never seen it, what's going on?" the deputy general asked suspiciously.

"I understand, this must be His Majesty, the army secretly prepared, it must be like this!" Zhou Cang's face suddenly turned red, and the generals who joined the Yanhuang Kingdom may not be clear, but Zhou Cang is very clear, their Majesty, He is a man of great powers, mysterious and unpredictable, and can often drive out some unexpected things.

"With this army, even if we can't wipe out the enemy army, I think we can capture more than half of it without major losses." For a moment, Zhou Cang felt boundless self-confidence.

In fact, this army was indeed prepared secretly by Huang Yun. It was small in number, but it used all of Huang Yun's high-quality materials. The armor and weapons it made definitely surpassed the scope of the first-level vassal state, and even surpassed the scope of the second-level vassal state. Class dependent country.This army can be said to be Huang Yun's ace army, and this is also the first time it is in battle, so most people don't know about it, and they don't know his existence.The only ones I know so far are Huang Yun and Meng A Niu.

This is also the reason why Meng A Niu looked a little unhappy when he heard that he was going to be a reserve team at the beginning.

As soon as the city gate was opened, the Shanfang on the opposite side saw the army led by Meng Aniu.But for the sake of safety, Meng Aniu's army is also all cavalry.

"Wow quack, general, the city gate is open, I think they must be ready to surrender." A general of Luan Xing said happily.

However, before he finished speaking, he saw Meng Aniu's well-equipped army, and immediately shut his mouth.

Shan Fang looked at Meng A Niu, with a bloodthirsty impulse in his eyes, he really wanted to kill someone now.

In the past, when Luanxing went to conquer the first-level vassal state, there was basically no resistance at the border. As soon as the vanguard army arrived, those cities began to surrender.After all, they are far away from the imperial city. The so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so no one will follow the instructions of the imperial city completely.That's why Shanfang applied to be a vanguard and led the army to conquer here.

Unexpectedly, this time I encountered a hard bone.

But this is better, as the general of the army, there is no one who is not bloodthirsty.

Shan Fang is even more of a murderous maniac. Every time he goes out to battle, he has to personally go into battle and kill several enemy generals before giving up.

Therefore, when Shan Fang saw Meng A Niu coming out, his face immediately lit up.Because he could see that the equipment on Meng Aniu's body, as well as the people who followed him on the left and right, were all first-class talents in the first-level vassal state.

Then Meng Aniu's status must not be low, otherwise it would be impossible to be surrounded by these people.

As long as Meng A Niu is killed, even if the city cannot be captured, a lot of credit can be gained.If the opponent is the defender of Xiyuan City, then it will be even more important for the future siege.Thinking of this, Shan Fang couldn't help muttering: "There is a way to heaven, you don't go, and there is no way to hell, you just barge in. You deserve to die at the hands of the general today. I hope you will repent when you go down, haha ...!"

Meng A Niu didn't seem to see Shan Fang's expression, but slowly raised his right hand, and then slowly put it down.

"The whole army charges...!"

"The whole army charges...!"

(End of this chapter)