Chapter 299: Weird Empty City
On the official road of Qiongshan, heading to Qiuchang City, the long line slowly moved forward like a long black dragon.
The road was a bit rugged and was not suitable for cavalry, so all the soldiers dismounted, gathered the horses together, stored them in the central army, and marched forward with the team.
Once you enter the hinterland of Qiuchang City, a vast plain will appear. This place is the foundation for the establishment of Qiuchang City, and it is also very suitable for cavalry troops to fight.
If you want to enter the hinterland of Qiuchang City, the first problem to be solved is the first city of Qiuchang City, which is also the gate of Qiuchang City. This city is called Zhu'an City.
According to previous information and scouts, the city wall of Zhu'an City was 15 meters and built with blue bricks, with a radius of more than ten miles. There were tens of thousands of people in the city, which was one of the few strong cities in the enclave.
Zhu'an City is the gateway to the five cities of Qiuchang. If you want to enter Qiuchang from the current road, you must pass Zhu'an City. This city is built in the middle of the road, and there are no other roads on both sides. There are only dense jungles and towering mountains. The terrain looks a bit similar to Changxiangcheng.
Zhu'an City is not too far from the wooden wall I saw before, only a few dozen miles away. During the process, Ye Guan sent scouts from time to time to carefully observe the enemy's movements. When the army marched ten miles ahead of Zhu'an City, he did not find any abnormal movements in the enemy's jungle. There was no sign of any sign in the jungle on both sides.
Ten miles in front of the city, this place is much wider than before. Ye Guan ordered a camp and the entire army immediately began to act. According to the previous arrangement, four brigades were divided into this time and went straight to the mountains on both sides. The mountains near Zhu'an City were not very high and the terrain was relatively flat, but it was not yet at the level where the cavalry could let the gallop.
The camp was quickly established. Although Ding Jiang, who was in charge of the Thousand Army troops, ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle, the enemy did not move at all until the camp was completed.
After all the preparations were made, the four generals gathered in Ye Guan's tent. At this moment, the few people had different expressions before, and they didn't say anything, waiting quietly for Ye Guan to speak.
The Dongwang Mansion Army made such a big move, but the enemy did not take any action, which made all the generals confused, including Ye Guan.
According to Ye Guan's idea, the people behind Shen Tuyan needed a large amount of death to accumulate death energy. However, the previous march was very easy to set up an ambush. If an ambush was set up here, it would cause a large number of casualties in the Dongwang Mansion army. But to his surprise, Shen Tuyan did not do this. Instead, he placed 20,000 soldiers in the entire Dongwang Mansion into Qiuchang City. At this moment, the troops were at the city, which meant that Shen Tuyan gave up the natural danger of Zongqiu Mountain and chose to fight against the Dongwang Mansion head-on.
Ye Guan sat behind the desk like a book, but this time he was not worried about closing his eyes and resting, but pressing his thumb against his forehead, thinking about all possible things and directions in his mind, and trying to find the most suitable route among them.
The four generals sat Ye Guan's hands, very silent, looking at Ye Guan quietly. In the big tent, there was silence, and only the sound of Ye Guan's fingers gently tapping the desk was heard. In the quiet environment, the sound seemed a little loud.
"Dong...dong..." Ye Guan's index finger hit the table, making a dongdong sound, and at the same time, his heart quickly calculated and his brow frowned slightly.
Until now, Ye Guan has not seen any decent resistance in Qiu Changcheng, as if he has not reacted much to the entry of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. Apart from a simple battle that happened yesterday, he has never seen a soldier in the enclave, especially Zhu'an City. When he arrived near this city, Ye Guan also felt that the enemy's movements were a bit weird.
According to the scout, the enemy's city flags were waving, but no enemy troops appeared above the city. The entire Zhu'an City looked like an empty city.
At this point, it is no longer a problem for Ye Guanxiang not to attack the city. If he does not move Zhu'an City, the army of the East Prince's Mansion will return the same route, which will even affect the entire plan of the East Prince's Mansion in the enclave. Even though Ye Guan did not want the person behind the scene to accumulate energy from the war, the arrow was forced to fire on the string.
"Order." Ye Guan suddenly stopped tapping the desk, raised his head and looked at the four generals in front of him.
As soon as the words were finished, the four generals were shocked and stood up together.
"The Wolf Army can start building large-scale engineering equipment, mainly large-scale catapults, with a time limit of one day. Within one day, I will see no less than five." Ye Guan swept away the appearance of the old man next door before, and a gleam burst out in his eyes, looking at Ding Jiang.
When the two generals Ding Jiang and Tu Xingping heard this, they immediately clasped their fists and whispered: "I am the Lord!"
"All camp defense matters are handed over to the Guards, including surrounding mountains and camps. The Guards' scout camp is given the right to allocate the 30-mile range, and the surrounding area is clearly identified without any mistakes." Then, Ye Guan looked at Kou Long.
The two generals Kou Long and Ren Zijin were shocked, and then clasped their fists and said, "I will receive the order!"
"Go quickly and attack the city at midnight!" Ye Guan took out two tokens from the order bucket on the desk and handed them over to Ding Jiang and Kou Long. The two of them immediately stepped forward and took the order and left.
The four generals left the camp, and Ye Guan immediately stood up, his face no longer had a look of hesitation, with a hint of perseverance and decisiveness.
"Since there is no other way, let's make one!" Ye Guan's eyes were shining, and then he left the camp, stood outside the account, and began to carefully observe the surrounding terrain.
The terrain near Zhu'an City is much flatter than before. The only thing that has not changed is the dense forest. The smallest trees are also the thickness of two people hugging each other. This forest land has been around for at least hundreds of years.
As Ye Guan's military order was issued, the entire army began to move. The Chilang Army was sent to the hills and immediately cut down trees on the spot and dragged them back to the camp at a very fast speed. The Chilang Army's 10,000 soldiers were divided into a team of 100 people. The surrounding trees were quickly cut down and then began to manufacture engineering equipment.
The soldiers of the Guards also acted one after another and built several posts on the hills on both sides. In order not to affect their vision, they also began to cut down trees and built a simple city wall again with the cut down trees. In this way, there was a buffer area between the camp and the post. If the enemy really attacked and broke through the outermost city wall, the camp was ready to respond to the enemy.
The soldiers of the two legions moved quickly, with quick hands and feet, and made rapid progress.
Ye Guan inspected the military camp and saw that all the soldiers were in high spirits and all the personnel were acting. He felt a little comforted, so he led a war horse out of the gate of the military camp and headed towards Zhu'an City ahead. He wanted to take a closer look at the situation near Zhu'an City, after all, it was still ten miles away from Zhu'an City.
Soon, Ye Guan, followed by several soldiers, arrived near Zhu'an City.
At noon, the sun was as hot as fire, and the entire Zhu'an City looked tall and majestic under the scorching sun. The city wall made of blue bricks looked indestructible, with smooth walls. From a distance, it seemed that there were no gaps. Looking closely, I don't know what materials were used to fill the gaps between blue bricks, making the entire city wall look extremely solid.
On the front, two crimson doors were closed tightly. The door looked vicissitudes and heavy. Several yellow copper nails were nailed on the door, and a quaint feeling came to my face.
On the city wall, flags fluttered and rippled with the wind. Ye Guan's eyes narrowed slightly, but there was no figure on the city wall.
Such a city is blocking the middle of the road, with dense woodland on both sides, and at first glance, there is no boundary.
Ye Guan frowned slightly, no longer looking at the city wall, but looked at the woodland on both sides. When the hills arrived here, they lost their traces, and only a hundred-year-old forest was left, standing quietly on the left and right, extremely lush.
With a slightly moved look, Ye Guan turned around and said softly to the soldiers beside him: "You are waiting here, I will come when I go."
Before several soldiers could speak, Ye Guan's figure moved and immediately disappeared from the spot, heading straight to Linmu on the side.
With a very fast speed, Ye Guan quickly reached the woods beside him. When his figure moved, he rushed up to the trunks and quickly moved between the trunks until the edge of Zhu'an City, and then stopped.
The trees are towering, more than twenty feet tall. Standing on the branches of the high place, you can see the entire Zhu'an City.
Ye Guan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the city wall of Zhu'an City. He saw that the city wall was filled with defensive materials, with all kinds of bows, crossbows and rolling stones. The city wall was wide enough for three war horses to walk side by side. But there was no one on such a wide city wall.
He couldn't help but frowned slightly and looked into the city again.
Zhu'an City is more than ten miles in a radius, and there are tens of thousands of people in the city. At this moment, you can see the houses, streets, pavilions, towers, houses, farmlands and fields in the city.
But what is strange is that no trace of a person was found in the entire Zhu'an City. There was no figure in such a large city, and the streets were as empty as wild, and the city was silent.
Seeing this situation, Ye Guan couldn't help but frown. He had never seen such a strange thing before. He couldn't help but swayed on the tree trunk a few times. When he arrived near the city wall, his figure moved and called the wind fighting spirit to protect his body. He fell on the city wall.
Standing on the wide city wall, the situation I saw on the tree trunks before appeared clearly in front of me. Both sides of Ye Guan were filled with military supplies, long bows, strong crossbows, rolling stones, long swords, spears, and squat wood and squat oil. They were placed on the city walls in full bloom. Looking at it, Zhuan City was already fully prepared and just waiting for the soldiers of the East Prince's Mansion to attack.
But now the strange thing is that there is no one on the walls of Zhu'an City. Not to mention the figure, there is no one body.
This situation made Ye Guan feel nervous and immediately followed the city wall and headed straight to the city gate and looked at the building.
Ye Guan was extremely fast and soon arrived in front of the Wang Tower above the Zhu'an City Gate. The gate of the Wang Tower was closed and silently, so he stepped forward two steps and pushed open the Wang Tower Gate.
Inside the watchtower, a big bell was hanging in the middle of the watchtower. The huge bell pestle was quietly hanging in the air, motionless. Aside from the big bell, several side-by-side book cases were erected together, and there were many letters on it. Ye Guan went up to check it, but saw that there were even leftover cakes on the desk. On the other desk, there was a half-written letter, which wrote the movements of his own army, but only half of it was written. The brush was placed on the pen holder, and there was no strangeness in the entire watchtower.
But there is no one.
It seemed as if the person in the building suddenly received some order or notice and left calmly without taking any items.
Ye Guan frowned and did not find any useful clues in the building. Therefore, from the building down to the building until he got down to the ground, he did not see a single person or hear any sound.
Standing inside the gate corridor of Zhu'an City, looking to the gate, the gate was locked by two huge bolts, and there were two rows of spears neatly placed on both sides of the corridor.
A feeling of uneasiness surged into Ye Guan's heart, and the entire Zhu'an City was empty!
Chapter completed!