Chapter 297

Now that we have finally reached Xibaicheng, we are only one step away from Yancheng. If we withdraw our troops at this time, we will not only fail in our success, but also greatly damage our morale.

Qiu Zhense said: "My lord, we must not retreat now. Food and grass are not a problem. As long as we capture Xibai City, the food and grass in the city will definitely be used by our army." After a pause, he added: "Geng Qiang is in Xibai City. After so long preparations, there must be a lot of food and grass in the city. "

Tang Yin held Shuai An with both hands, leaned forward and said, "Even if there are mountains of gold and silver in Xibai City, we still have to break in to get the things."

Qiu Zhen pondered for a moment and said: "Our army's food and grass are enough for one month. We only need to invade Xibai City within one month, so there is no need to rush, sir!"

Before Tang Yin could answer, Zong Yuan said: "We have to be anxious now! If our army cannot attack Xibai City for a long time, morale is low, and the soldiers are tired, I think Zhong Tian of Yancheng will no longer sit idly by. It makes sense, if Yancheng suddenly sends troops to attack our army and cooperate with the enemy forces in Xibaicheng, the situation of our army will be worrying! "

Oh... This is something Qiu Zhen didn't expect. After carefully considering Zong Yuan's words, it's not unreasonable. Although Zhong Tian may not have such a strategic vision, Zhan Wushuang certainly does. If it is as Zong Yuan said, by the time Tian joined forces with 200,000 Ning troops to attack, and his own army changed from an advantage to a disadvantage.

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and nodded slowly with a solemn expression.

Tang Yin looked at Zong Yuan. He knew that Zong Yuan was cunning, especially his ability to adapt to battlefield situations. He asked: "Mr. Zong Yuan, in your opinion, how should our army break the city?"

Zong Yuan rolled his eyes and said faintly: "We should... use the night attack strategy again!"

When Tang Yin heard this, he smiled bitterly. The last time he attacked Jicheng, he used night attack tactics. Although it was successful in the end, the leader of the Dark Arrow, Cheng Jin, was also seriously injured, and five of the Dark Arrow personnel were lost. Now they use night attack again. Who is the right person to send? Moreover, there are lessons learned from the past, so Xibaicheng will not fail to take precautions.

He shook his head slowly and said, "I'm afraid it won't work this time!"

"But we might as well give it a try!" Zong Yuan said: "Our army must not give the enemy troops in the city time to rest. Even if they do not attack the city in large numbers at night, continuous harassment is still necessary. Your Excellency can send people out to harass them at the same time. While sending people to look for opportunities to sneak into the city, even if the city gate cannot be opened, they can still check the enemy's defense situation, which will be beneficial to our army's deployment during the daytime siege!"

"Yes!" Tang Yin nodded, feeling that what Zong Yuan said was reasonable. He then looked around at the generals present and asked, "Who is willing to lead the troops to harass the enemy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Guang stepped forward, raised his hands and said, "My lord, I will go where I want to go!"

Tang Yin glanced at Wu Guang, nodded and said: "Okay! Wu Guang, I will lead three thousand brothers to harass the enemy from the north of the city!"

"Yes! Sir!"

Wu Guang bowed and took the order.

Tang Yin asked again: "Who is willing to sneak into the city and investigate the enemy's situation?"

This time, no one was present.

The generals are basically light-type spiritual cultivators. It is okay for them to charge in front of the two armies, but they are not suitable for latent operations. They are afraid that they will be discovered by enemy sentries before they even get close to the city wall. Seeing that no one was talking around him, Jiang Mo, the deputy commander of the Dark Arrow, took a step forward and said, "Sir, I am willing to go!"

What Tang Yin was waiting for was his words. As a dark spiritual cultivator, he understood better than anyone else that only dark spiritual cultivators were the most suitable for lurking. Now that Cheng Jin was gone, the tasks of night raids and exploration could only be left to Jiang Mo. Do it.

He nodded, but warned uneasily: "Jiang Mo, General Wu Guang is harassing you in the north of the city. You can look for opportunities to sneak into the city from the south of the city. Remember, enter if you can. If the enemy finds out or notices something is wrong, Withdraw immediately, don’t force it!”

"I understand!" Jiang Mo took the order with his hands raised.

Tang Yin made arrangements. While sending people to conduct night harassment, which played a role in attacking the east and attacking the west, he also sent hidden arrows to secretly sneak into the west hundred cities.

According to Tang Yin's wishes, Wu Guang led 3,000 Tianyuan Army soldiers out of the North Camp and headed straight to Xibai City. When he was almost within range of the enemy, he ordered the entire army to stop advancing, then he put on his spiritual armor and put the sword in his hand. The Yanyue Sword was transformed into a spirit, and he urged his horse forward, shouting loudly in front of the two armies, asking General Peng to come out of the city to fight with him.

Seeing the Tianyuan Army making another move, the Peng Army stationed in the North City became nervous. The soldiers all climbed up the city wall, bows and arrows, and prepared for the attack. No matter how unpleasant Wu Guang's shouting was, the generals in Peng's army just stayed behind closed doors. After shouting for a while, Wu Guang was tired, so he immediately asked his soldiers to scold the formation.

The soldiers of Tianyuan were not as polite and reserved as Wu Guang in their shouting. They scolded and scolded almost all the eight generations of the ancestors of the Peng army and Peng generals on the top of the city.

These three thousand soldiers formed a long line in front of the city. They all held back their strength, blushed and cursed loudly. Some of them also specially brought dozens of buckets of water and put them in the crowd. If they were tired of scolding, they would drink. Now, you can just grab a ladle of water to moisten your throat and continue scolding, as if you won't stop that night until you scold the other person out of the city.

But anyone with a bit of blood will not be able to bear hearing such insults when they see this scene.

really. A Peng general couldn't stand the scolding of Tianyuan's army, so he had the city gate opened, rushed out, and rode his horse straight towards Wu Guang.

Seeing a general coming out of the city, Wu Guang smiled and shouted: "The general will be named!"

The general Peng was full of anger and momentum. He urged his horse to Wu Guang and shouted, "Ask the King of Hell!" As he spoke, he shook his hand and shot a spear, aiming at Wu Guang's throat.

Wu Guang turned sideways, dodged the opponent's sharp edge, and then swung his knife back and slashed the general Peng's head diagonally. The man was tough, and he held the spear horizontally. There was a crisp sound in his ear. Although the general Peng took Wu Guang's knife, his arms were also hurt by the shock, and the spiritual armor at the tiger's mouth was almost shattered.

He shook several times on the horse before he could barely stabilize his body, and secretly shouted in his heart, "It's amazing."

The two horses crossed, and the general Peng suddenly turned back and stabbed Wu Guang in the back with a spear. Wu Guang reacted very quickly, pressed his body down, and with a hiss, the opponent's spear passed over his head. After half a round, the two had some understanding of each other's strength, and when they urged their horses to fight again, they also used all their strength.

Before the opponent could get close to him, Wu Guang took the lead and released a chaotic spiritual wind. The spiritual blades in the sky shot towards General Peng with strong wind. Seeing this, the latter's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly used all his strength to release a chaotic spiritual wind to resist Wu Guang's killing move. The chaotic spiritual winds released by the two men came into contact with each other, and the spiritual blades intersected and collided with each other in the air, with a constant muffled sound of bangs.

This was a confrontation between the tip of the needle and the thorn of the wheat, which did not allow any tricks. Whoever had a higher cultivation level would have the upper hand.

Soon, the chaotic spiritual wind released by General Peng was suppressed by Wu Guang's chaotic spiritual wind and disappeared into thin air, while the remaining spiritual blades continued to fly towards General Peng. General Peng was shocked and swung back and forth on his horse to dodge the spiritual blades, but at this moment, Wu Guang rushed to him at lightning speed, stabbed the knife in his hand, and went straight to General Peng's chest.

The knife was too fast. Not to mention that General Peng was dodging Ling Luanfeng's spiritual blade at this time, even if he was highly concentrated, he might not be able to dodge Wu Guang's full-strength knife.

Puff!

The blade pierced General Peng's chest firmly, the spiritual armor was broken, and the blade directly protruded from his back.

"Ah——"

General Ning let out a heart-wrenching scream. Wu Guang took back the spiritual knife, then slashed it horizontally with his backhand. With a puff, General Peng's head was chopped off to the ground. The headless body had fallen down, but the feet were still hanging in the stirrups. The warhorse was frightened and fled with the body.

Wu Guang shook off the blood on the spiritual knife, then pointed the blade at the top of the city and shouted: "Who else wants to fight me?"

Wow——The Peng army on the top of the city saw clearly that such a powerful general on their side had his head chopped off after only two rounds in front of the enemy. This enemy general was too powerful! How could the Peng army dare to go out of the city to fight, and hurriedly closed the city gate. Wu Guang wanted to take the opportunity to charge forward, but just after running two steps, thousands of arrows fell from the top of the city. In desperation, he had to turn his horse back.

Wu Guang killed the enemy general in two rounds, and the morale of the Tianyuan Army was even stronger, and the shouting and cursing was even louder, but this time the Peng Army learned their lesson. No matter how they shouted and cursed, they just closed the city and pretended to be deaf and dumb. Wu Guang's harassment had a certain effect. Not only did he kill an impulsive Peng general, but he also successfully attracted the attention of the Xibaicheng defenders to the north of the city.

However, Jiang Mo's night attack was far from smooth. It was even discovered by the Peng Army before it was implemented. Because of Mao An's previous experience, Geng Qiang was also afraid of the dark spiritualists in the Tianyuan Army. Peng generals were stationed every section of the four walls to guard against the night attacks of the dark spiritualists with the insight technique.

Jiang Mo and other secret arrow personnel had just sneaked under the wall of the south of Xibai when they were discovered by Peng Jiang on the city wall. At that moment, the alarm bells on the top of the city wall rang loudly, shouts were heard, arrows, sticks, stones, and kerosene fell all at once. Jiang Mo and others did not even dare to rush up and were directly beaten back. This was thanks to their timely reaction and dodge with shadow drift, otherwise it would be difficult to escape unscathed.

Jiang Mo led the secret arrow personnel to flee back, and Tang Yin did not blame him. He had expected such a result and did not have much hope.

Then he sent Zhanhu Commander 3,000 troops from the west of the city to fight the enemy and continue to harass Peng Jun. In the end, even catapults and city-breaking crossbows were used, and from time to time they smashed a few boulders and shot a few wooden stakes. It would be best if they could kill the enemy. Even if they could not hurt the enemy, they had to scare Peng Jun and prevent them from having a chance to rest in peace.

The Tianyuan Army struggled for a whole night, and the Peng Army in Xibai City was also in fear for a whole night. The next day, Tang Yin issued an order for the entire army to attack. Just like the day before, the Pingyuan Army, Chifeng Army and Direct Army attacked the city from three sides, while a small group of Sanshui Army made a feint attack on one side.