Suddenly, thick smoke surged out of a large house near the northeast of the fortress, and then there was a fire snake dancing. Zhang He, who was expressing his feelings, was shocked when he saw this scene, "It seems that the fortress grain warehouse is there! Take people to see what happened immediately." A general next to him shouted and ran away from the bell tower immediately.

A moment later, a lieutenant hurriedly came to report: "General, military advisor, there was a team of Ross hiding in the grain warehouse. We did not notice that they set fire to escape while the chaos was in trouble, but we had already caught!"

Zhang He frowned and said, "What I care about now is not these Ross people, but food! I will send all the troops in the fortress to rescue food except those that need to be warned!" "Yes!"

Zhang He slapped the railing suddenly and cursed angrily: "Damn it! How could this happen!"

"General Zhang, let's go down too!" Jia Xu said. Zhang He nodded.

The two of them came down from the bell tower and rushed to the front of the grain warehouse. They saw a fire dragon flying and roaring in the night sky. The soldiers surrounding the surroundings who wanted to rescue the grain could not get close at all. At this time, some houses around the grain warehouse were also ignited by the flying fire.

"General Zhang, there is no way to rescue food now. We must stop the fire from spreading!" Jia Xu said anxiously.

Zhang He understood this truth and immediately ordered everyone to tear down the surrounding houses and eliminate the fire that was rushing out.

After working hard for the middle of the night, the fire finally stabilized, but nearly one million dan of food slowly disappeared in the surging flames, which made Zhang He feel angry. The reason why the Langtou Mountain Fortress stores so much food is closely related to the strategy of going out to Nanjing that Emperor Ross has always planned.

Cao Pi stood on the hill at the entrance of the valley and looked at the fiery red sky in the southwest. He couldn't help but feel an unknown premonition in his heart and frowned.

Zhang He and Jia Xu returned to the fortress conference hall. The angry Zhang He ordered all the soldiers of the Ross who set fire to behead them. Zhang He, who was still angry, paced back and forth. The captain who was kneeling on one knee in the fortress was responsible for inspecting the fortress’s grain warehouse, with a strong self-blame in his eyes.

"I want you to watch the grain warehouse! How did you do it?" Zhang He asked angrily.

The captain apologized and said, "The last general is aware of the crime, please punish the general!"

Zhang He snorted coldly, returned to the main seat and sat down, and said in a deep voice: "According to our military rules, one arm should be cut off, you should go down and take the crime by yourself!" "Yes!" The captain Yingnuo said, stood up and retreated.

Jia Xu said in a deep voice: "Originally, our plan was to rely on the large amount of food stored in the fortress to occupy this extremely important strategic location for a long time! However, this plan is probably impossible to achieve now! Fortunately, our army carries a lot of food, and there will be no problems in a short period of time! This important situation must be reported to Your Majesty immediately!" Zhang He nodded.

In the early morning of the next day, the fire that had been burning all night finally went out, and the whole air was filled with a choking smell.

"Someone is coming!" The lookout soldiers at the East City Gate pointed to the east and shouted loudly. The lieutenant under the watchtower immediately looked east and saw a team of people coming quickly towards this side. It was quite large in scale, but the identity was unknown. The lieutenant immediately ordered his subordinates to continue monitoring and sent someone to report to the general on duty.

About two quarters of an hour later, the team came straight to the city gate. A general shouted loudly at the city gate: "I am Gao Lan, open the city gate!"

The general on duty looked at the other party carefully and found that it was indeed Gao Lan. So he immediately ordered the city gate officer to open the city gate and ordered someone to report to Zhang He who was in the conference hall and Jia Xu.

The heavy city gate slowly opened, Gao Lan waved his hand behind him, and the army slowly drove into the city.

When Zhang He saw Gao Lan covered in blood, he was stunned for a moment and hurriedly took Gao Lan's hand into the conference hall. Zhang He ordered people to bring Qingshui. Gao Lan was not polite, so he took off his armor robe and wiped it.

Zhang He asked Gao Lan: "General Gao Lan, how are your casualties in the past few days?"

Gao Lan threw down the towel, and at this time a large basin of clear water had turned into a dirty color like mud. Gao Lan sat down on the chair with his shirtlessness and replied with a deep expression: "The only 80,000 infantrymen in the Third Legion can come back with me, and most of them are taken with thousands of them! Only 50,000 people can come back!" Yu Luo couldn't help but sigh, shook his head and said, "It's the first time I have met such a tragic battle!"

Although Zhang He and Jia Xu had some expectations, they did not expect it to be so tragic that they were speechless.

Gao Lan said with a sad and angry look on his face: "It's hateful that the bodies of the fallen soldiers can only be buried in a hurry and cannot be brought back!"

Zhang He said firmly: "I will definitely take them back to my hometown!" Gao Lan glanced at Zhang He and nodded heavily.

"By the way, where is Tuoba Xiong?" Jia Xu asked.

Gao Lan said: "He went downstairs to settle his team!" Jia Xu nodded and said to Zhang He: "The current primary strategy is to defend the Langtou Mountain Fortress, and when the Tiger Roar Iron Cavalry arrives, they will start a full-scale counterattack!"

Zhang He nodded and said, "That's right!"

Zhang He asked Gao Lan to rest, but Gao Lan was unwilling to rest, so Zhang He could only let him. While Zhang He and others arranged for the treatment of the wounded soldiers, they actively arranged for the fortress defense. Jia Xu originally planned to arrange the soldiers of the Third Legion and the Northern Xianbei Army into a Gaogang woods several miles south of the fortress to echo the fortress. However, the Third Legion suffered heavy casualties and was exhausted, and obviously could no longer take on this responsibility.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the nomadic army and the Liece clan army retreated. At this time, the troops retreated to the Langtoushan Fortress had a total of 240,000, including 40,000 of the Third Legion, 35,000 of the Second Legion, 50,000 of the Northern Xianbei Army, 45,000 of the Liece Army, and 70,000 of the Nomadic army, but there were less than 200,000 of the Nomadic army, and the real backbone were the power of the Third Legion and the Second Legion, and the power of the Nomadic army and the other two tribes were not under great responsibility.

Before the evening of that day, Cao Pi led the 150,000 troops of the two tribes of the Tiger clan and the main force of the headquarters. The situation in front of him surprised him. More than half of the soldiers of the 50,000 Wolf Legion whom he had high hopes were killed or injured, and the other armies also suffered a considerable loss. Cao Pi pointed out the power in his hand, and only 150,000 troops of the two tribes were left with a total force of 300,000 troops, and the total force of the troops was 300,000. Among them, the ones that were not injured or were less injured were about 250,000. The morale of the soldiers was relatively low, and it seemed that they were a little uncomfortable with such a powerful opponent.

Cao Pi felt that without new power, it would be difficult to make any progress. Cao Pi ordered people to send the situation here and his analysis to Petersburg, the capital of Ross.

Then Cao Pi ordered the armies to build camps on the positions of the original Third Legion.

In early autumn, Petersburg is bathed in the warm sunshine, very warm and comfortable. A clear river winds around Petersburg and flows into the distance. The snow-capped mountains in the distance and the vast green nearby complement each other, making it a picturesque scenery.

Peterkai discussed matters with his ministers in the hall, and he seemed in a very good mood because he received a letter from Cao Pi's flying pigeon and learned that the biggest slaughter among the four tribes, the tiger tribe was already good news anyway. Because of this good news, the government and the people's doubts about Cao Pi, an outsider, disappeared all of a sudden.

Just as Peter Cay was discussing matters with his ministers, a messenger hurriedly ran in and reported: "Your Majesty, the general Fei Ge, who was the Great Conquest of the South, passed on a letter!"

Peter Kai's eyes lit up and he laughed at the ministers: "It seems that the General of the Conquest South has brought me good news again! Commitment comes!"

The messenger responded to promise and presented the messenger to Peterkai.

Peter Kai smiled and opened the letter, while His Highness's ministers whispered in excitement.

The smile on Peterkai's face suddenly solidified, and all the ministers felt a strange atmosphere.

Peter Cad suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice: "Today we are here, we will scatter! Prime Minister, the old general comes with me!" Yu Luo, and then walked straight to the side door. The ministers were stunned for a moment, saluted Peter Cad's back, and withdrew from the hall one after another with suspicion, while Prime Minister Goggins and the old general Babulov followed.
Chapter completed!