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"If this continues, the walls of Anding City will collapse within a day, and the so-called important towns of Yongzhou Fortress are nothing more than er..."

The catapult kept bombarding the Anding City. The cold light flashed in Liu Ce's eyes. He knew that if this continued, he would probably be able to enter Anding City at night. Everything went as smoothly as he expected before the war.

Zhang Yichao was speechless about this. With such a sharp weapon to break the city, how many strong walls he knew in his impression could withstand such continuous bombardment?

In the future, siege and camp would be much easier than he had imagined. The power of this set of scattering machine completely subverted Zhang Yichao's understanding of war. Only then did he understand what the railway tracks set up on Xuanwu Pass meant.

The catapult still kept turning the winch under the control of Xiahou Qiong's soldiers, and then tied the projectile weighing more than 100 kilograms with a hook to the tied hemp rope on the projectile, and pulled it hard and loaded it into the projectile compartment.

"Hao~~"

As a soldier swung his rock hammer and smashed the machine, a crisp metal sound echoed, and the arm that had been straightened and twisted by the winch slowly tilted forward. At the 90° angle, he threw the huge rock in the bullet casing into the air and rushed straight to Anding City Wall.

"Boom~~"

A roar shocked, and the huge rock hit the bunker walls, and the huge thrust impact directly smashed the bunker walls to pieces.

The defenders of Anding City, hiding behind the walls of the battlement, were caught off guard, and were shattered into the ground in groups. Scattered gravel fell on them, causing considerable damage. The two defenders in the lead were smashed to the cheeks by on the spot by oncoming bricks and stones, and they immediately exclaimed in surprise on the wall...

"Drag on..."

Zhang Dian hurriedly asked the defenders to drag the injured soldiers down the city wall, while he held the broken wall of the battlement wall and continued to pay attention to the movements of the Far East Army outside the city.

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"As soon as our military orders, we set up beacon towers on the three main roads ahead. Two thousand soldiers are guarding the distance between the beacon towers. If Liu Ce's army takes a detour, be sure to intercept them here. At the same time, the beacon tower is ignited and the defenders in Qinzhou are notified to work together to kill..."

At the Sanchakou heading to the stable direction, Xu Zhao immediately ordered his troops to guard three roads here to strictly prevent Liu Ce from entering.

General Tian Yan of Xu Zhao asked: "General Xu, can only guard the three important roads with such a few troops to prevent Liu Ce's army from passing? Shouldn't we go quickly to assist An Ding and gather superior forces to surround him and annihilate him?"

Xu Zhao said: "The Far East Army is equipped with war horses for transportation. If our Yongzhou Army lacks horses, how can we encircle and annihilate him in one fell swoop? Once he breaks through one side and reaches Qinzhou in the rear, all parts of Yongzhou will fall into an extremely passive state without time to react.

As for setting up ambushes on the three roads, the original intention was to consume Liu Ce's troops. The beacon tower was lit to inform the reserve defenders to make good response arrangements. As long as Liu Ce did not gain a reputation, he would turn around and give up the march when he saw the beacon tower ignited.

By then, we were driving him to the southern Qinling Mountains. Once we entered the mountain encirclement, the cavalry of the Far East Army lost its advantage, which added a great chance of victory to our army's annihilation of Liu Ce!"

When Tian Yan heard this, he nodded and said, "General Xu is a good plan. In this case, Liu Ce is afraid that he will be unable to escape and will definitely be buried in this Yongzhou..."

Xu Zhao's eyes were: "Liu Ce must not be underestimated. To be on the safe side, I asked Xia Yu to lead another 5,000 troops to defend the Pingyang Road of Qinling Mountains. Once Liu Ce takes the risk and changes to Qinling Mountains, he will be a headache.

In short, Liu Ce should not be allowed to leave Yongzhou alive. If Liu Ce cannot be killed successfully in this battle, then once he returns to the north and launches a large army to attack, not only will Yongzhou be in danger, but the country of the Great Zhou will be destroyed!"

Tian Yan nodded: "Then I will inform Xia Yuxia Sima and lead the troops to the Qinling Mountains. But in this way, you will have less than 20,000 troops left under your command. The troops who go to Anding to fight against Liu Ce are not superior..."

Xu Zhao didn't care: "Terminating a hero like Liu Ce, a large number of people will become a burden. According to the general's understanding of Liu Ce, his troops fought against the enemy with more people, and fewer people won. Why do you think this is?"

Tian Yan replied: "The Far East Army is well-equipped, and the soldiers are not afraid of death, so they can be one for ten..."

Xu Zhao smiled and shook his head: "What you said is just one-sided words. The internal reason is that most of the people are inconvenient to information between the head and tail. The front army encounters the enemy and the back army does not have time to make corresponding arrangements. It is far less appropriate than a few elite troops to deploy.

When the Monroe defeated the 270,000 Dazhou army with 40,000 cavalry, he also saw that the Dazhou army camp ran for dozens of miles. Just tearing a corner opens to cause the entire Great Zhou army to collapse. It is the same strategy as Liu Ce's combat method..."

"So that's it. Thank you General Xu for your answer. Let the general understand..." Tian Yan suddenly realized and understood the meaning of it.

Xu Zhao waved his hand: "Okay, I will go to help An Ding now. You should stick here. Remember to inform Dong Hu, Dong Qian and others,

Be sure to prepare for the siege when they see the beacon tower ignited. Don’t let Liu Ce break out of their border guards…”

Tian Yan shouted: "Abide by the order!"

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"Bang~~"

"Crazy..."

In the evening, the solid wall of Anding City had already become devastated under the constant attack of the catapult. As the last huge rock hit a section of the wall, the entire wall collapsed immediately. Even the defenders who had no time to dodge at the top of the city also slid down with the city wall and were lifted down.

After the rising smoke dissipated, Liu Ce saw through the mirror that a gap about seven steps wide appeared in the broken city wall.

"Attack..."

Putting down the glass, Liu Ce waved his hand and issued an order to attack.

"Kill~~"

Xiahou Qiong roared and led the three thousand soldiers of the headquarters to rush towards the blocked wall gap.

"The whole army obeys the orders, guards the gap, and swears to death that the Far East Army cannot step into the city half a step!"

The situation was critical, and Zhang Dian made a quick decision and immediately organized the defenders to resist the gap and launched a counterattack against the Far East Army that was coming.

At the same time, above the city head, teams of archers bent their bows and arrows, aiming at the three thousand elite soldiers who were rushing over...

"Run over..."

With more than thirty steps away, Xiahou Qiong roared and ordered the entire army to form a formation and accelerate...

"Shoot the arrow..."

"Shit..."

The archers on the top of the city also released their bowstrings at the command of Wang Mao and shot cold feather arrows at the crowd outside the city.

"defense……"

"Drink~~"

Xiahou Qiong's urgent orders were ordered by a thousand swords and shields who were rushing in front, all lifting the round shield in his hand over his head to protect the vital points.

Liu Ce, who was paying close attention to the stable battle situation from the mirror, was a little shocked to see that the defenders in the city were still so tenacious without the protection of the city wall. He was really rare to see all over the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Zhang Yichao heard this and said, "Mr. Military Governor, if what his subordinates expected was not bad, the Anding Guard should be Wang Mao and Zhang Dian. Both of them were once generals from Xu Zhao and were recommended by Xu Zhao to serve as the Anding Guardian..."
Chapter completed!