The Era of Generals

Chapter 372   The focus of the three parties

Xilong City.

The city lord, Ning Zhenggang, was also the supreme commander of the city. He had already walked up to the top of the city himself at this moment, watching the situation outside the city with his brows furrowed.

Knowing that time is running out now, Zheng Yuanyun outside the city just did what he said. Thousands of catapults were quickly set up on the riverside, and then the huge roar continued, and stones fell like rain for a while!

The moat under Xilong City seemed to be raining boulders suddenly. According to Zheng Yuanyun's intention, countless boulders did not attack the city wall of Xilong, but poured directly into the moat according to the distance from near to far.

Ning Zhenggang looked at his own moat as if it was boiling, crazily arousing a lot of water splashes, and gradually clenched his fists.

Zheng Yuanyun's intentions are so clear, as long as he is not a fool, he can know the other party's intentions.

This is breaking the river!

Just, is it that easy?

Ning Zhenggang looked at the enemy catapults that seemed to never stop, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

"Come on!"

He softly shouted, and his subordinates who had been standing by for a long time stepped forward immediately, and heard Ning Zhenggang's order: "Take people upstream and release the water!"

The stone throwing to stop the flow was beyond his expectations, but Ning Zhenggang felt very lucky that he had ordered people to store water in the upper reaches of the river in advance.

Although the moat of Xilong City is not turbulent and rapid, it is not as calm and simple as it is now. The reason for this is that Ning Zhenggang had someone build a dam upstream to reduce the flow and store water. .

Of course, at that time, he did not expect that Zheng Yuanyun would use the method of throwing stones to cut off the flow so rudely and directly, but thought that if the other party got a boat or something, he could use this tactic to start the river while crossing the river. The gate released water, and then used the sudden and turbulent water flow to destroy Zheng Yuanyun's offensive.

Unexpectedly, the second hand of this trick now has an unexpected effect.

Zheng Yuanyun's catapult seems to be running non-stop, but everyone knows that the number of boulders in his hand is limited, that is to say, there will be a time when it will be exhausted.

Now it is time to see whether his stones are consumed first, or when the stones in the moat are finally accumulated to become a passage.

But now that the water gate is released, when the soaring water power roars in, not only can the water level rise a lot, and Zheng Yuanyun's consumption will increase exponentially, but also a large part of the stones can be washed away, making the water level rise. His early investment was in vain.

"My lord, why don't we fight back to distract them?"

The subordinates left as ordered, and the general in charge of the trebuchet came up to him and asked for instructions.

Ning Zhenggang turned his head, looked at him seriously, and said, "Are you a fool or a traitor?"

"ah?"

The general stared wide-eyed, and pointed at himself in disbelief, "Your Excellency, the last general only wants to share the worries of the empire, and has nothing else!"

"Then you let me fight back?"

Ning Zhenggang sneered, "Do you want to hit them, or send them ammunition?"

He pointed to the city, and the general bowed his head in shame when he was stunned.

Zheng Yuanyun is not an idiot. When he commanded the catapult troops, he would naturally consider the issue of the firepower at the top of the city. The opponent was condescending, and the range of the catapult would be farther than his. , the opponent is barely able to make the stone attack a little further away from the river.

The catapult unit commanded by Zheng Yuanyun was stuck at this distance, and he didn't need to attack the city wall, he only needed to dump the stones into the river, which of course would be far away.

Starting the counterattack from the top of the wall, besides sending stones to the opponent, Ning Zhenggang didn't expect it to have any effect.

He didn't really think that his generals were traitors, but he was disappointed by the latter's stupid idea.

At the same time, Zheng Yuanyun's side.

"grown ups!"

Without Xiao Du, the vice-general of the scout became the chief of intelligence today. He walked quickly to Zheng Yuanyun, who was supervising the battle, and reported, "As expected, they have stored water upstream!"

"Ah!"

Zheng Yuanyun sneered endlessly, revealing an expression that really did.

When he first came here, he felt that the water level was a bit low. Now it is not a dry season, and the water level in the river should not be so low. Zheng Yuanyun still knows this.

So he ordered people to throw stones, and on the other hand, he also sent people to investigate the upper reaches of the river. Sure enough, in the news brought by the deputy general, there was information that the upper reaches of the river had been cut off.

"Don't let them open the gate to release the water!"

Zheng Yuanyun turned his eyebrows and stared at his vanguard general.

The latter understood, and after bowing to the order, he made a big move, and a hundred thousand cavalry rushed out quickly, following the vanguard and rushing to the upstream area.

Zheng Yuanyun had a strong army at this time, and a random order would send out a hundred thousand troops, which made him feel proud.

With such elite soldiers and strong generals, why worry about the enemy's city not being broken?

In addition, at the same time, Chen Ze was also issuing instructions.

"Cut off the brake rope directly!"

He said coldly.

The target of this order is Zhang Hualin!

Zhang Hualin, who had been monitoring Zheng Yuanyun in the dark, heard that the other party was planning to throw stones to pave the way for the army to attack Xilong City, so Chen Ze ordered Zhang Hualin to leave temporarily.

Will Zheng Yuanyun's army make any moves for a while, and Zheng Yuanyun, who has arranged everything properly, will not have any important information to find out for the time being, so Chen Ze temporarily asked Zhang Hualin to leave Zheng Yuanyun's side , to do a more important thing.

This matter is exactly what both parties have thought about, regarding the issue of upstream water storage.

What Zheng Yuanyun could think of, Chen Ze could naturally think of it. After he saw the situation of the moat through Zhang Hualin's eyes, the problem of the water level being too low also appeared in his mind.

The difference is that Zheng Yuanyun asked people to go upstream to investigate, but Chen Ze directly asked Zhang Hualin to set off first, and went to the upper reaches of the river more than 20 miles away from Xilong City. Sure enough, he saw the temporary building. Flood control dams.

Zheng Yuanyun's scouts had to report the situation here to the main battalion to let the chief know, but how could Chen Ze have this process, he had clearly seen the dam with his own eyes.

So Chen Ze's order had already been given to Zhang Hualin when Zheng Yuanyun's scouts were still on their way back.

Cutting off the gate rope was to complete Ning Zhenggang's plan first and release a large amount of river water stored upstream.

This embankment was built temporarily, and it is not necessarily very strong. The principle is that a huge wooden solid fence was built upstream to stop the flow of the river, and a steel cable was fixed on both sides of the fence. The upright fence makes the water have to overflow the fence before it can continue down.

As long as the steel cable is cut off, even if it is only on one side, the water flow that has been stored to the extreme will rush down like a mountain roar and a tsunami, and Zheng Yuanyun must be rushed into a dizzy state!