"Yeah?"

Meng Hu smiled and turned around and shouted at the hundreds of veterans standing behind him, "Let's go, follow me!"

Hundreds of veterans agreed and followed Meng Hu to the city gate directly above the city gate like a wolf or a tiger. Standing at the city gate, looking down, I saw a huge city-slamming car lying across the city gate. The whole city-slamming car was made of solid logs, with a thick layer of iron armor on the top and both sides. The iron armor was covered with a layer of raw cowhide, which was indestructible to swords and guns, and oil and water were not soaked!

"Roar!Roar!Roar!"

Accompanied by the loud and rhythmic sound of the trumpet, the city gate under its feet was under a violent impact. From the degree of trembling at the head of the city, it can be judged that the force of the hammer hitting the city gate was very strong. In this case, the city gate would be smashed for at most one meal.

"Hmph, just because of this, I want to open the city gate? It's too naive!"

Meng Hu sneered twice, and a cold murderous intent suddenly burst into the corner of his mouth. He turned around and began to issue a commander, "You, take a team of people to carry firewood and get more hay! You, go over there, the more the turbulence, the better, and you, prepare the torch immediately, the more the better, go..."

Hundreds of veterans quickly began to act, and more strong men followed suit and began to be busy.

In less than a moment, the city above the city gate was filled with dry firewood and hay, as well as large cans of tinder oil. A bunch of fires were also burning on the city wall, emitting amazing heat.

With Meng Hu's order, large bundles of dry firewood and hay poured down from the city, and soon piled up hills around the siege cart. Then, large cans of tiny oil fell from the city and smashed into the siege cart to break. The splashing tiny oil instantly soaked the mountain of dry firewood around, and the air soon began to smell pungent tiny oil...

"not good!"

A general of Mingyue in the car screamed in horror, "The enemy wants to attack with fire, retreat immediately!"

"Swish! Swish swish..."

It was too late for everything. As the general Mingyue finished speaking, dozens or hundreds of torches had been ruthlessly thrown down from the city. The dry firewood and hay soaked with tinder oil began to burn. In less than a moment, the flames and rolling smoke had completely swallowed the entire siege car. A continuous cough sounded in the almost sealed car.

"Ahem cough cough..."

Amid the violent coughing, the soldiers of the Mingyue Empire could not bear the double destruction of thick smoke and scorching heat, fled out of the siege car in panic, and were soon swallowed by the singing flames. The soldiers of the Mingyue Empire, which were crowded not far from the siege car, were also affected by the fish in the pond, and hundreds of people were buried in the sea of ​​fire.

"Hahaha……"

Seeing the soldiers of the Mingyue Empire struggling and wailing in the sea of ​​fire, Meng Hu felt an inexplicable pleasure and smiled grimly at the sky, "Baby, come on, let the horse come over, hahaha..."

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The army in the bright moon.

The fierce battle has been going on for nearly a whole day, but the Mingyue Empire Army has never been able to invade the city!

On several occasions, the Mingyue Empire Army had already planted the empire's Mingyue flag onto the city wall, but soon, they were driven off the city wall by the counterattack of the Guanghui Empire Army. The resistance of the Guanghui Empire Army was much more tenacious than Situ Rui expected. Although the fierce battle had lasted all day, it seemed that the defenders' counterattack showed no sign of weakening.

Situ Rui even felt a little uneasy, and the defenders' counterattack seemed to be getting sharper!

When the third city-killing car attacking the city gate was buried in the sea of ​​fire, watching dozens or hundreds of imperial soldiers running and wailing in the sea of ​​fire, Situ Rui suddenly twitched violently, and he couldn't help but take two steps forward, as if he wanted to get closer to see who destroyed his sharp siege weapon?

"Boom boom!"

Two loud noises suddenly attracted Situ Rui's attention. When he looked at him quickly, he saw that two towering siege cars had collapsed. When one of them fell, he hit the other nearby, and then they collapsed into broken wood and broken boards splashing all over the sky. Hundreds of imperial soldiers were struggling and wailing under the ruins of the siege cars.

"Siege Car!"

Yan Ting followed and took two steps forward and hissed, "Our siege car!

"Gagaha...boom!"

Yan Ting finished speaking, the last siege car slowly turned around and then smashed to the ground. At this point, more than 30 siege cars of the Mingyue Empire Army had been destroyed by the defenders.

When the last siege car fell down, the glorious defenders on the city finally cheered and their morale was greatly boosted!

After a whole day of fierce fighting and after paying a heavy price, the Glorious Imperial Army finally destroyed the most sharp siege weapon of the Mingyue Imperial Army. At this point, the first day of the Mingyue Imperial Army's offensive had been frozen and disintegrated. If this battle continues, there is no possibility of gaining anything besides increasing unnecessary casualties.

Situ Rui's facial muscle twitched violently twice, and ordered Yan Ting in an extremely difficult tone: "Tell me the order, the entire army retreat, stop the attack..."

“Woo woo woo woo…”

The low horn sounded in the sky in an instant. When the horn sounded withdrawing troops, the Mingyue Empire soldiers crowded at the foot of the city wall were no longer interested in fighting, and began to turn around and retreat. In less than a moment, they retreated back like a tide of ebbing back to their own formation.

Seeing this scene, the Glorious Imperial Army on the top of the city cheered like a tsunami. Whether it was the veterans of the Fourth Division, the guards recruited by various prefectures, or the temporary recruitment of strong men, they waved everything they could waving, and howled hysterically, and many people even cried and communicated with tears.

In the distance, in the Governor's Office in the center of the city, Zhao Qinghan, dressed in plain clothes, stood solemnly on the rooftop. Looking at the imperial soldiers cheering on the city in the distance, his ears were filled with cheers like tsunamis of the soldiers. Zhao Qinghan couldn't help but smile on his beautiful face.

Suddenly, Meng Hu's strong figure floated in front of Zhao Qinghan's eyes again, and his sonorous voice sounded in his ears: "As long as I am here, no one can hurt you..."

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That night, the bright moon camp.

Situ Rui was looking at the night sky outside the tent with his hands on his back, and he was dazed. More than a dozen division commanders had gathered in Situ Rui's central army tent, standing on both sides with his knife, and he didn't dare to breathe. The atmosphere in the tent seemed a little depressed. Obviously, the frustration of the offensive during the day made them feel heavy.

"I underestimated the enemy."

After a while, Situ Rui sighed and said, "It was my governor who underestimated the enemy. I didn't expect that Zhao Qinghan, a little girl, could mobilize the strong men in the city to participate in defending the city. What's particularly rare is that these strong men actually acted so bravely, which is a bit beyond my governor's expectations."

Yan Ting whispered: "Governor General, this is probably what Meng Hu did again."

"Meng Hu?"

Situ Rui murmured, and the expression on his face gradually became unprecedentedly solemn, "You are right. It is probably Meng Hu's idea to mobilize the strong men to participate in defending the city, but what method did this guy use to make the strong men in the city become so brave? Under the tide of our army's offensive, it is incredible, it is incredible."

Although Situ Rui is good at fighting, he is a native powerful man in the Middle Earth after all. His understanding of the power of the people is far less profound than that of Meng Hu, a time traveler. In this world, only Meng Hu knows that the power of ordinary people in order to defend their homes is amazing. What Meng Hu does is just to awaken this power.

Of course, it is also dangerous to awaken this power. Once the people's power is awakened, the old order will inevitably be challenged. This is also the reason why the major empires in Middle-earth world tried their best to curb the awakening of the people's power. However, Meng Hu had no such concerns. He originally had to challenge the old order!

As he was speaking, an aide rushed into the tent and whispered a few softly to Yan Ting.

Yan Ting's face was tragic and reported to Situ Rui: "Governor General, the casualties have been counted. During the day, our army suffered more than 27,000 casualties, of which more than 8,000 were killed in battle, and more than 3,000 were seriously injured. If they could not receive timely treatment, I am afraid..."

An inhalation sound suddenly sounded in the tent. More than a dozen division commanders looked at each other and their faces changed drastically. Obviously, they did not expect that the casualties would be so heavy. You must know that these casualties were all elites of the Mingyue Empire Army. At this casualties speed today, in ten days, the 300,000 troops outside Xiling City would basically lose their combat effectiveness!

Situ Rui's face suddenly became extremely gloomy. After a long time, he groaned and said coldly: "I am afraid that the casualties of the Guanghui Empire Army will be even heavier than ours!"

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Situ Rui was right. The casualties of the Guanghui Empire Army were indeed much heavier than those of the Mingyue Empire Army. Although they were defending the city and had strong cities to rely on, the vast majority of the people who participated in the war were strong men who had never received military training, and there were guards who had never been on the battlefield.

After a fierce battle in one day, the casualties of the Guanghui Empire Army were extremely shocking. More than half of the 20,000 guard teams were killed and half of the casualties of the tyrants could not even be accurately counted. It was only when the alive tyrants gathered again in Xiling Square that Meng Hu roughly judged that at least one-third of the casualties, that is, nearly 30,000 people!

In other words, after the fierce battle on the first day, nearly 50,000 defenders of the Guanghui Empire suffered casualties, almost twice that of the Mingyue Empire!

The only thing that is thankful is that the more than 10,000 regular troops of the Fourth Division have suffered little casualties.

This is also related to Meng Hu's strategy of defending the city. Meng Hu adopted the extremely cruel tactic of defending the city from a sea of ​​people, pushing the never-trained men and the guards who have never been on the battlefield to the front line, using them to consume the spirit of the Mingyue Imperial Army. When there is a gap, the regular army of the Fourth Division will then step forward to make up for the leak and plug the gap.
Chapter completed!