In the next five days, Xu Huizu and Chen Bing launched more than twenty tentative attacks on the north side of Crescent Moon Bay.

His troops numbered 150,000 to 60,000, far exceeding the 100,000 originally estimated by Lan Qiao and others. Regarding these extra troops, Yunhe guessed that Xu Huizu should have seconded them from various prefectures and counties along the way.

Xu Huizu's army camped in the vast hilly area to the north of Xuanlang Mountain. The camps stretched for dozens of miles, with flags like the sea and tents like forests. The grandeur of the army reminded people of Cao's army in the Red Cliff poem: "The flags cover the sky with Jingjing flags for thousands of miles."

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In less than two days, all the trees within a dozen miles outside Xianyue Gorge were cut down. On the one hand, it eliminated the possibility of Lanqiao using fire to attack the enemy, and on the other hand, the wood was used to make various heavy equipment and tools.

, such as ladders, car crashes, personnel carriers that can withstand arrows and rolling stones, engineering vehicles that can fill trenches, and terrifying war machines such as trebuchets and heavy ballistae, hundreds of thousands of them were pushed to the ground.

The frontline position is 1,500 steps outside the north entrance of Xianyue Gorge, and subsequent war equipment is still being driven out and delivered to the front of the formation like running water.

Lan Qiao and others looked out from a high position on the arrow tower of Langshan. They couldn't help but feel numb and frightened by Xu Huizu's mighty military appearance and the huge formation.

On the night when Xu Huizu completed the formation, he sent Lan Zuwang to lead a vanguard force to kill Xianyue Gorge and attack the "Guan Tower" of Lanqiao Department on the south side of the mouth of the gorge.

This unit is composed of infantrymen wearing heavy armor. They hold oar shields made of thick wood. There are spikes directly below the shields that can be inserted into the soil. They hide their entire bodies behind the shields and let the arrows rain from the mountains.

, it can be destroyed without any damage.

When they approached the gate tower, Lan Qiao and Feng Yeling each led 1,500 cavalrymen to rush out from behind the left and right walls of the village. They made the enemy's heavy armored infantry unable to turn around and attacked its flanks fiercely. Lan Zuwang knew this.

It was difficult to capture the Guanlou, and the troops retreated from the mouth of the gorge without any disorder. The entire battle lasted less than an hour, and the entire army suffered less than a hundred casualties.

By the next morning, Xu Huizu sent people to penetrate into the woods at the northern foot of Xuanlang Mountain 2, trying to cross the mountains and invade Xianyue Bay.

Yunhe arranged five thousand warriors on each of the two mountains in advance to occupy the enemy. They used various fortifications on the mountain to push back most of the enemy troops. Only the sixty or seventy masters he had seen in Mingjian Mountain before stood up.

Under the leadership of ten "red masks", we climbed to the top of Langshan Mountain for the first time.

Ling Yufei and Tang Li's elite guards relied on the earthen wall on the mountain to repeatedly deal with the enemy's master group. Soldiers guarding other places quickly provided support, and it didn't take long to form a double-team on the enemy's master group.

The enemy was not willing to fight and quickly retreated from the northern hillside to the camp.

Next, Xu Huizu began to try to attack by water.

Fifteen thousand warriors riding on three thousand canoes, crowded like crucian carp crossing a river, quickly gathered from the vast lake of Wanshi Lake to the shore of Crescent Moon Bay.

This was within Yunhe's expectation. On the one hand, the lake near Crescent Bay was dotted with rocks, making it very inconvenient for enemy boats to get around the rocks. In addition, there were a large number of fishing nets set up among the rocks. Many small boats were entangled in the fishing nets and could not move.

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The soldiers of the surprise attack team took advantage of the enemy's dilemma and fired thousands of arrows from the lake shore, immediately causing many enemies to be hit by arrows and fell into the water.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the others abandoned their canoes and simply jumped into the water to escape. They were extremely embarrassed.

After several attempts to no avail, Xu Huizu returned his attention to Xianyue Gorge.

This time he used a specially made troop carrier with a hammer mounted on the head and moved on four wheels. It looked like a movable cabin. The roof was made of giant wood and covered with rawhide. It was not easy to burn even if it was hit by a rocket. Each vehicle could accommodate

There are nearly seventy soldiers.

The most amazing thing is that this kind of personnel carrier can also be dismantled by the enemy from the inside.

They passed through Xianyue Gorge one after another, using the hammers on their fronts to hit the Guan Tower and the village walls on both sides of the Guan Tower.

The eight arrow towers fired arrows endlessly, but they were unable to cause much damage to the personnel carrier.

When the wall could not withstand the impact of the personnel carrier and collapsed, the enemy immediately dismantled the personnel carrier from inside the vehicle on the spot to avoid blocking subsequent tanks.

Seventy soldiers poured out of the vehicle in an instant, and the next troop carrier followed closely, sending the enemies into Crescent Moon Bay one after another, launching a fierce attack on the Guan Tower standing at the front.

Lan Qiao's eyes turned red. Standing on the top platform of the Guan Tower, Tianyi's sword energy was shot out like a barrage of arrows, sweeping towards the enemy troops that were rushing up like a swarm of ants. At the same time, Yunhe, Tieniu, Da Fengxian and Jue

Ming and others also led their troops to rush out from behind. The two armies fought in one place, and the battle was extremely fierce.

Fortunately, this kind of troop carrier was too heavy and slow, which limited the enemy's speed of replenishing troops. When the surprise attack team opened fire in Crescent Moon Bay, the enemy finally couldn't resist it, leaving the corpses of their companions on the ground, and retreated back to Xianyu.

Outside the Moon Gorge.

With this lesson learned, Lan Qiao led people to dig more than a dozen trenches in the gorge overnight. If the enemy sent this kind of personnel carrier to attack again, the trenches must be filled first.

This way they can delay for a few more days.

After blocking the Xianyue Gorge, Xu Huizu's army was like a group of angry bees that had been poked into their nests. They kept probing around the tiny land of Xianyue Bay, trying to find any gaps that could enter the bay, and waited until they passed again.

After three days, I saw that the defenses of Lan Qiao and others, no matter in the mountains, lakes or gorges, were really impenetrable, so they relaxed a little.

After blocking the enemy's offensive for five consecutive days, everyone in Crescent Moon Bay became more confident. They ate grilled fish, drank sweet lake water, sang songs from their respective hometowns, and watched the enemy attack again and again.

, returning without success again and again, feeling extremely proud, venting out all the resentment accumulated when he was driven into the mountains after marching thousands of miles.

In the blink of an eye, another ten days passed. Although Xu Huizu had many troops and a vast camp, he was still unable to launch another threatening attack that could shake the mountain city. There are still many canoes left by the enemy when they first attacked from the lake.

Being entangled in the fishing net seems to be mocking how helpless the Duke of Wei, who became a famous general, was in the face of the lone army of 30,000 people in Lanqiao.

On this morning, Lan Qiao patrolled along the lakeshore as usual. He sensitively discovered that the canoes tangled in fishing nets seemed to be more crowded. Where two boats were crowded together, there were now three or even four boats.

At the same time, the distance between ships also becomes narrower.

At first, he thought it was because the fog on the lake was too thick, causing him to see things wrongly. When he looked again, he found that the ground on the shore seemed to have become wider. At the same time, the place where the lake water couldn't stop washing seemed to have been there yesterday.

Under the lake.

Yes, Lan Qiao scratched his hair and his memories became clearer. Yesterday early in the morning, he and Feng Yeling waded into the lake to catch shrimps together. The same position could have submerged Feng Yeling's ankles at that time.

Is it ebb tide?

Lan Qiao couldn't help but look at the moon in the sky. Although it was already dawn, the white moon could still be seen in the sky.

Nothing unusual...

He was thinking deeply when he suddenly heard a strange sound of water on the lake, and a bamboo raft emerged from the thick fog on the lake.

The bamboo raft carried two beauties one behind the other. When Lan Qiao took a look, he immediately put aside his doubts about the ebb and flow of the tide, and a smile appeared on his face.
Chapter completed!