Dark Fairy

Chapter 340 War is coming
The sun had just set to the west, and the soldiers on the top of the city were handing over, and the next night watch team was about to go to work.

"Huh? What is that?"

Just as they were about to change the guard, a gray-green column of smoke suddenly rose from the southwest. At first glance, it looked like a small insect standing in the sky.

"There's a fire? But the smoke is too small. No! That's not a fire, it's smoke! The gray-green color represents the Rongcheng area! Quick! Go and notify the general!"

Soon Liu Jianyu, his lieutenants and Qi practitioners all came to the high place of the city wall here, and soon saw the smoke column from the southwest from a distance.

"It's the Beacon Tower on Jufu Mountain. It should be that Shuangqing City lit up the Beacon Smoke first, and then Ju Fushan followed suit. The gray-green represents the Rongcheng area, and the attack is now nearly half a month faster than we expected! Yunyan It's moving faster than expected!"

Standing beside Liu Jianyu, Chen Shen frowned and gave a worried tone of judgment.

"It seems that the barbarians have collected a lot of food and grass in the area before Rongcheng, and the marching speed is deliberately speeding up. If Rongcheng is captured, can they cross the river and go straight to Shunning?"

Chen Shen shook his head and said: "Probably not. All the ships around Rongcheng have been cleaned up before. They were either scuttled or dragged upstream to dock. Not to mention the big ships that can cross the river within a radius of dozens of miles, all the sailboats have been found. There is less than one piece. Moreover, it is the high water season in Changshui recently. The river surface is wider, deeper and more rapid than normal, making it more difficult to cross the river."

"If you can't cross the river, the barbarians will continue to go north along the river. The next hub city in this distance should be Shuangqing City, right?"

Although there is no map in front of him, every city along the river has been firmly remembered by Liu Jianyu. Which city is important and which city is unimportant. Now that the battle in Rongcheng has appeared, he immediately remembered it in his heart. Made a judgment.

It was not only Liu Jianyu who kept the map along the river in his mind, but also Chen Shen, and even all the lieutenants present, including Bailang who stood at the end, also remembered it firmly.

"Rongcheng extends in all directions. Water and land routes are more convenient than our Yongchuan City, and there are official roads directly on the opposite bank. It is indeed a good landing place. But it is useless without ships. The next few big cities are mainly hubs in the region. , or it is caused by commerce and trade with special industries, including Shuangqing City. In fact, it does not constitute the conditions for crossing the river on the surface."

Although Chen Shen's words were reserved, those present who had a picture of the war situation in their minds knew what he was alluding to.

"Where's the pontoon bridge?" A Qi practitioner nearby asked suddenly.

"There are two large Huiwan areas going up from Rongcheng City and down from Shuangqing City. The water flow there is relatively gentle. If there are special means to get on the pontoon bridge, it is naturally the most suitable. But Manzi's weight, It is still quite difficult to build a bridge with ordnance, let alone a pontoon bridge of hundreds of feet, which has never appeared in history."

Finally, Liu Jianyu waved his hand to stop the discussion of the people below.

Coming down from the city wall and returning to the barracks, Liu Jianyu and the others gathered around the sand table to express their opinions.

Bailang stood in an inconspicuous corner without saying a word, but he listened very carefully, subconsciously nodding from time to time.He is very clear that he is a real layman in terms of military strategy, he listens more and reads more, and talks less.This is definitely a good opportunity for him to learn military strategy.

Even this discussion in the big account was the first time that Bailang participated in a large-scale military meeting where he participated in the analysis of the specific situation and the formulation of corresponding strategies.In the past, because of his special status, he would always be deliberately excluded by Liu Jianyu.This time, Liu Jianyu was probably a little anxious, that's why he missed Bailang and didn't continue to avoid him.

Bailang listened and discovered that the generals present had the same judgment about Yunyan continuing to move north along the river. They all believed that Rongcheng could not stop the barbarians at all. At the same time, they did not think that the large mountainous forest area after Rongcheng could trap the barbarians. How long to stay.Even though the cities over there are already preparing to integrate their forces and take the initiative to attack the barbarians in the forest, they are still not favored.

A person like the Black Tiger General of Pengshan Pass couldn't stop the barbarians with the help of natural dangers, so he wanted to give the barbarians a head-on blow in a mere forest belt?

As for the pontoon.This is simply not within the scope of discussion of these generals.

Because the Changshui River is very wide, and the current is fast-moving in most places, it is not easy to sail a boat and want to build a pontoon bridge is simply a dream.

Of course, if you want to insist that Qi practitioners use the mighty power of heaven and earth to make pontoon bridges appear on the surface of the river or directly freeze a section of the surface of the river, is that okay?

OK!Of course, there must be such a powerful Qi trainer.

But what level of cultivation is required to achieve this?The Xuanmai realm is definitely not good, but what about the Dao Dan realm?It's definitely not possible. Otherwise, after bypassing the Tianfeng Plain, Yunyan Manzi doesn't need to go so deep along the river. Wouldn't it be enough to just set up a pontoon bridge and go straight to Shunning?There are also some barbarians who are Qi practitioners in the Dao Dan realm.

Is that a Qi practitioner who is above the Dao Dan realm and returns to the God realm?
Although Bailang didn't know what skills a qi trainer in the god-returning state had, but he believed that a qi trainer with this level of cultivation should really be able to overthrow mountains, burn mountains, burn lakes and rivers.

It's just that would a qi trainer of this kind of cultivation follow Yunyan barbarian to a battle of gods?This is not in your own country?

Therefore, the generals present directly skipped the possibility of crossing the pontoon bridge.What they judged was that Yunyan Manzi should want to cross by boat.

"Now the ships have been registered at the various water villages, and the docks that need to berth every day are also fixed. Ship owners are no longer allowed to visit the riverbank at night without permission. Moreover, the use of ships will become less and less for us as the ships gradually shrink. Getting smaller and smaller.

The general thought that since the ships could not go to many places as the river was gradually blocked, it would be better to control the number first. "

"Yes, small and medium ships can be kept, and large ships can be scuttled or burned directly."

"What if the barbarians don't come here? Haven't the damage been done?"

"Don't be afraid of [-], just in case, just be prepared. There is no room for chance in the current war!"

As for how to deal with it if the barbarians are killed, there are also concerns. It is still the same as that of Pengshan City and Tianfeng Plain.No one wants to meet a barbarian in the wild, as there has never been a chance of winning in the history of the Hong Dynasty.

"Now I'm afraid that the barbarians are marching fast. If the barbarians touch and break the city in many places without reacting, then the ships along the river will have no time to deal with them, and many of them will surely fall into the hands of the barbarians."

As soon as someone said this, Bai Lang even felt that the faces of many people in the big tent relaxed.I guess everyone can probably think of this, they just don’t say it.If the Yunyan army obtains enough ships to cross the river in advance, they will definitely cross directly to Shunning. In this way, wouldn't the possibility of Yongchuan City being attacked be reduced?

Although everyone talks about fighting to the death, it is naturally better not to die.

(End of this chapter)