It should be that the strong blockade of the First Brigade was effective. It took more than an hour for the forward troops of the Meng Army to arrive in front of the Shapu City defense line, more than half an hour later than Zhang Jie expected.
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"Xue Chong has done a great job this time. It will be dark in more than an hour and the enemy will not be able to organize several attacks." Zhang Jie built a general platform on the slope in the middle and could clearly see the Meng army's forward through the telescope.
The ones attacking Shapu City this time were the Second and Sixth Armies of Meng. The Second Army was in front and sent the 11th, 12th and 13th Divisions as the vanguard in an attempt to launch a sneak attack. Even if the sneak attack failed, they could still attack first. Go and set up a big camp and surround Shapu City to prevent Shaodian soldiers and civilians from escaping.
"Okay, the enemy troops have divided up. They are trying to get behind us so that we can buy more time." Liang Chong was a little excited.
Generally speaking, there will be a large number of cavalry in the forward troops. Any cavalry commander will lose interest in attacking when he sees the dense horseshoe pits, traps and trenches. Facing a defensive line with fortifications, the cavalry will not be willing to dismount and attack. According to Zhang Jie and Liang Chong's expectations, minus the cavalry that could not exert its power, the Meng Army would not have many troops to attack the front of the 2o1 Division's defense line, and the Meng Army's strength advantage would not be able to be exerted in a short period of time.
Time is favorable to the Shaodian Army, and the sunset is unstoppable. The attacker who needs to move after dark will suffer a great loss, and the defender has the option of withdrawing from Shapu City. The possibility of the Meng Army storming the defense line at any cost is not high. The cavalry opened their own roads and it took a certain amount of time to get behind the defense line. Shaodian's army had time to calmly deploy their defenses.
"Captain Ding, lead your troops behind the earthen wall in the middle." Zhang Zulu ran over and handed Ding Kui an order flag. The captain of the general's personal soldiers came to convey the order to a squadron leader. Such treatment is relatively rare. of.
More than ten people in the First Squadron were injured when they blocked the scouts. Four of them were seriously injured. It is not known whether they can survive the night. Another ten people are not suitable to continue fighting. There are still more than 80 people who can go into battle. .
Ding Kui was treating one of the seriously wounded soldiers, but when the military order came, he could only stop injecting fighting energy into the wounded and went to carry out the mission with his men who were still capable of fighting.
The three earth slopes on the defense line are not symmetrical. In the middle of the defense line is an earth wall about 100 meters wide. When Ding Kui and his people rushed behind the earth wall, he was surprised to find that there were no soldiers guarding this earth wall. .
Before Ding Kui could be surprised for long, five magicians walked down the slope in the middle.
The magician he was was very old. The old moneymen around Ding Kui would call him "senior" when they saw him. The exposed skin was all shriveled, and there seemed to be no flesh and blood underneath, just a layer of skin covering the bones. Ding Kui was far away. You can feel the fire magic in him.
Among the other four magicians, there is an acquaintance of Ding Kui, the magician Qin Zhao from Pingzhong County. Four years have passed since the Demon Rat Trouble in Funiu Mountain. Not long after Qin Zhao was promoted to the later stage of wand-wielding magician, he followed Fu Ji this time. Walking into the army, we set foot on the battlefield of Nanzhao Prefecture.
The old magician walked tremblingly to Ding Kui, looked at him from head to toe, up and down for a long time, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, your mental power is very strong. When the battle begins, you will be responsible for leading the team to protect us. Just leave the defense to us."
"Yes! Dear Mage." Ding Kui quickly saluted, knowing that there was a group of magicians taking action, it must be a tactical arrangement from above.
"You guys wait a minute, I'll make some preparations." After saying this, the old magician took out a few bags and slowly walked towards the earthen wall.
"Ding Kui, long time no see. You are now a famous person in the division." Qin Zhao took the initiative to say hello. He was much more mature than four years ago. He no longer paid attention to other people's origins and backgrounds, and devoted himself to getting into the magical world and living in ordinary ways.
Treat everyone with heart.
"Your Excellency Qin Zhao, who are you?" Ding Kui glanced at the old magician.
"Oh, that's Senior Yu Ku from Shapu City. His strength is infinitely close to that of a tower-opening magician. He said that he wants us to help him defend this earth wall. He will give the enemy a hard blow soon." Qin Zhao knew Ding Kui.
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"Oh, it looks like he is older than my grandpa." Ding Kui remembered that the oldest person he had ever seen was Jiang Tong, but Jiang Tong looked obviously much younger.
Yu Ku opened the bag in his hand and poured out colorful powder at the base of the earth wall, a pinch here and there, his movements slow but his hands steady.
Dong-dong-dong, dense drum sounds came from the north. Due to the obstruction of the earth wall, Ding Kui and the others could not see the movement of the enemy, but they could tell that the enemy had begun to attack the defense line.
Meng's 13th Division was responsible for the frontal attack. Although they knew that the 12th Division behind them would not be able to outflank them so quickly, they quickly launched a tentative attack because of time constraints.
The Meng army lined up in a tight formation, using heavy armored infantry to clear the way, and archers advancing slowly towards a lower slope to the east.
The Shaodian Army on the defense line only had the 2o1 Division, but the Meng Army commander was not sure how many troops were on the opposite side, so he chose a weak-looking point to attack to test the Shaodian Army's firepower.
"During the earlier military intelligence briefing, the Second Meng Army was severely damaged by our 80th Division, right?" Zhang Jie asked.
"That's right, on July 17th they were killed by more than 10,000 people by the 8th Division." Liang Chong was very sure. He clearly remembered every military information he received after the formation of the division.
"Hey, Qiao Meng is so awesome. He has created a psychological shadow in Meng's Second Army. Their command style is more cautious, and they have no determination to eat us up in one go. They are simply cooperating with my training. The archers will suppress the enemy.
The archers of the army are sent to the second group to go down to the trench. If a heavy armored infantry is sent across the trench, the whole group will not come back." Zhang Jie looked much more relaxed.
The Second Battalion of the 2o1 Division recently received a batch of fine armor sent by Cui Dun, which transformed the Second Battalion from a heavy armored infantry brigade into a fine armored infantry brigade. The combat effectiveness of the entire brigade immediately doubled.
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Both the offensive and defensive sides have magicians in the air, responsible for monitoring whether there are magicians on the opposite side joining the battle. When a small number of troops are invested in combat, magic power is generally not used prematurely.
The heavy armored infantry of the Meng Army stepped on three traps one after another, and it cost them forty or fifty men to approach the trench. After withstanding several waves of arrow rain, they finally waited for their own archers to fight back. The exchange of fire between the archers on both sides reduced the heavy fire.
Under the pressure of the infantry, they chopped down the horse piles and jumped into the trenches.
"Kill!" the shouts of the Shaodian Army rang out in the trenches, and war drums were also beating on the slopes to the east.
The commander of the heavy armored infantry stood at the edge of the trench. He did not jump down, but was assessing the enemy situation in the trench. When he found a considerable number of Shaodian fine armored infantry, his scalp went numb, and he hesitated to blow the horn to retreat.