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Furthermore, both the Ninth Army and the New Army thought that taking down the Chuankou County would be very easy as well.
As soon as the two armies entered the Chuankou County, they were attacked by the local army in the mouth of the river.
The Kawaguchi Army did not ambush the main forces of the 9th and New Army. They did not have the strength to do so either.
The scale of this battle was not big, and the military strength of the Kawaguchi army was not great either. However, they were all very elite, catching the logistics support teams off guard. Large quantities of grain and military assets were looted and burned.
Upon hearing the news, the Qi Heng Cavalry Soldiers immediately turned back to reinforce their cavalry, but by the time they had returned, the Chuan Kou Army was already gone without a trace.
He had suffered such a huge loss without even seeing the enemy's face, which made Qi Heng extremely resentful. He immediately ordered the Ninth Army and the New Army to go straight to Tingkou city.
Tingkou City was located at the north side of the Chuankou County, so if one wanted to go deeper into the depths of Chuankou County, the first thing they had to do was to take over Tingkou and use it as a foothold.
According to the investigation reports, the local army within the Tingkou was only around five thousand, while the ninth and new army numbered two hundred thousand. It was as easy as flipping his hand when he took down the Tingkou.
During the siege, the Ninth Army could only serve as a shield and defense, and couldn't rely on Heavy Cavalry to rush up the city walls to break out of the stronghold.
Since the establishment of the new army, they had always been in the middle of battle, and they already had a lot of battle experience, so capturing a small city guarded by five thousand people was naturally not a problem.
Liu Zhang had only sent two legions out to fight. In his opinion, that was already enough, the defending army simply could not stop their own twenty thousand strong assault. But he was wrong. The war had not gone as smoothly as he had imagined.
The resistance of the five thousand strong army was abnormally strong and fierce. Two groups of Feng Army fought one wave, and was repelled the other. They charged several times without any success in the end, and there were even quite a few casualties on their side.
Facing such a situation, Liu Zhang was surprised, but it was already too late, so he could only order his troops to retreat, and only fight tomorrow.
When he returned to the camp, the moment he entered Central Army Tent, Qi Heng immediately came knocking on his door in anger. He hadn't warmed up his seat at all.
Qi Heng was very dissatisfied with the new army's siege today. The grand and mighty Central Army army was actually unable to hit a small town that only had five thousand of the local army guarding it. If word spread out, not only would the new army be disgraced, but also his ninth army would be disgraced.
Within the Central Army Tent, Qi Heng pointed at Liu Zhang's nose and shouted angrily in front of the New Army's generals, "What bullshit are you fighting today? If you can't even defeat five thousand people in a small city, how will you become the commander of this army? "
Don't look at how Qi Heng was an outsider, he currently did not have the position of an official, but his qualifications in the army was much older than Liu Zhang.
He bowed his body and smiled apologetically: "General Qi, I was wrong about today's battle. General Qi is fine too, please take a seat!"
"How can I sit down now?" Qi Heng had a fiery temper, he came quickly and left quickly. He had his hands on his waist, and was pacing back and forth in the big tent, shaking his head while indignantly saying, "Ever since we entered the Chuankou County, our army has not been successful. Now that our logistics team has been attacked, and our attacks have been blocked, isn't this just making Pingyuan Army and us laugh?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The General Qi is right! " Liu Zhang nodded his head repeatedly in agreement.
In fact, even though he did not take down the Tingkou, he was still very depressed and felt even more puzzled. Twenty thousand against ten thousand, Feng Army against Ann Army, the host against the local army, regardless of strength, their own forces, they had the absolute advantage.
He shifted his gaze to the two Regiments of the Seventh and Eighth Regiments that were in charge of the attack today and asked, "General Mao, General Gong, when you two were commanding the siege, did you really think that the garrison would number five thousand?"
Hearing his question, Qi Heng stopped in his tracks. His eyes stared unblinkingly at the Seventh Regiment Elder Mao Yi and the Eighth Regiment Commander Gong Dan.
Mao Yi's face was filled with shame. He lowered his head and whispered, "The defending army is indeed only a few thousand people, but ?" "But ?"
"But what? If you have something to say, just say it! " Liu Zhang said in a serious tone.
"However, there are a lot of Spirit Cultivator s in the army." Mao Yi whispered. Right after he said that, Gong Dan immediately followed up: "Yes, in the army, there are many Spirit Cultivator wearing Ann Army armor. Although the exact number of people is unknown, but it is not a small number, these Spirit Cultivator s are extremely powerful, even if our soldiers managed to rush to the top of the city with much difficulty, they would still be able to beat us down very quickly ?"
"This can't become an excuse for you to be at a disadvantage in battle!" Qi Heng snorted coldly.
Mao Yi and Gong Dan's faces turned red as their heads drooped down even lower. With a trembling voice, they said, "This general's battle is not good, please punish me."
Liu Zhang waved his hands, the battle had already reached this stage, there was no point in punishing them again.
He pondered for a moment, turned his head towards Qi Heng, and asked: "General Qi, do you still remember that during the Imperial Town, the King once mentioned that the wandering practitioners from various places gathered towards the Chuankou County?"
Qi Heng blinked and frowned as he tried to recall. After a while, he said ambiguously, "It seems ?" It must be this! Liu Zhang, do you think that the garrison in the city contains Rangers? "
"There can only be one explanation, otherwise, where did all those Spirit Cultivator s come from?" Liu Zhang faintly said, "It seems that the news that the King received was not false, and her Chuankou County ? I'm afraid that it will not be as easy to fight as we thought! "
He was worried, but Qi Heng grinned and said, "If that's really the case, then that's a good thing."
"What do you mean?"
"The King has always hated Rangers. If the Chuankou County truly brings together many Rangers from all over the world, then this would be a great opportunity for the two of us to perform meritorious deeds." Qi Heng rolled his eyes, grinning from ear to ear.
Liu Zhang, Bai An and the generals on her left and right could not help but roll their eyes.
"Tomorrow, I will personally go out and fight. I want to see just how many Rangers there are in the city's garrison." Qi Heng said in high spirits.
Bai An and Yan Yan both nodded, and said to Liu Zhang: "General, the two of us will head out with General Qi tomorrow!"
did not refuse. A small city like the Tingkou, not fighting on the first day was already shameful enough, but if they did not fight on the second, the soldiers' morale would be greatly affected. So in tomorrow's siege, they could only succeed, and definitely could not fail again.
At this point, he pulled himself together and said seriously, "Except for the Seventh and Eighth Regiments who will stay in camp to rest, all the other Regiments will go to battle tomorrow! First, Second Regiment, mainly attacks North City. Third and Fourth Regiments, mainly attack South City. Fifth and Sixth Regiments, mainly attack Western City. Tomorrow, all the generals must work together to capture Tingkou in one go! "
"Yes sir!" All the generals stood up at the same time, meddling to receive orders.
However, before the new army could leave tomorrow, on the same night, late at night, Tingkou sent out a small group of elites to ambush Feng Army's eastern camp.
The new army and the ninth army, one was an infantry legion and the other was a Cavalry Regiment army. The new army and the ninth army, one was an infantry legion and one was a Cavalry Regiment army army army.
There were only two hundred of them who were trying to sneak an attack on the camp of the new army. The troops relied on their familiarity with the terrain and the lack of security, which allowed them to successfully sneak into the camp and burn down the grain depots at the eastern camp of the Forces nouvelles.
The flames from this huge fire were already more than ten meters high, causing more than half of the new army's east camp to turn red.
After receiving the message from the soldiers below, Liu Zhang did not even put on his armor as he quickly ran out of his room to take a look outside. He was able to clearly see the huge fire that was happening in the east camp from where Central Army Tent was located.
Liu Zhang took a deep breath, and anxiously asked the soldier reporting the news: "Where did the fire come from?"
"Yes ?" It's our army's granary! "
"Huh?" Hearing that, Liu Zhang's head buzzed. Earlier, the logistics team was ambushed, and their food supplies had not been replenished, so if the army's grain depot was burned down again, their troops would lose their food supply. What would the 100 thousand soldiers eat next?
Just then, Liu Zhang's eyes turned red. He pushed his messenger army away, untied a horse outside his tent, mounted it, urged his horse to ride, and quickly galloped towards the east camp.
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The guards around him jumped in fright as they shouted out, "General, be careful! General, slow down!" As they shouted, they swung their legs and chased after him.
Liu Zhang did not care about the guards following him, and kept on urging the horses to run. Not long after, he ran to the location of the fire at the eastern camp and sat on his horse to take a look. The large grain depot had now become a sea of fire, and countless Feng Army s were watering and extinguishing the fire in the surroundings. There were also many soldiers desperately trying to salvage the food from the sea of fire.
How could this be! Seeing this, Liu Zhang was also struck dumb. How could five thousand soldiers have the guts to sneak up on their own hundred thousand strong army camp, and how were their Ann Army so powerful?
He urged his horse to rush into the crowd and shouted to the surrounding Generals And Soldiers of Feng Army: "Fire! Hurry up and put out the fire! "Who knows where the enemy troops are now?"
"General, the enemy has fled!"
"Where do you think you're going ??"
Before he could finish his words, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Suddenly, more than ten crossbow bolts flew towards him from all directions. This turn of events was too sudden. No one expected that someone in the crowd of Wind Army soldiers would shoot a cold arrow at Liu Ji.
If Liu Zhang was cautious at the moment, no matter how many crossbows he shot, they might not be able to hurt him. However, right now, his focus was all on the burning food.
Following the muffled sounds of arrows piercing into flesh, Liu Zhang cried out in pain and fell from his horse.