Chapter 81 There is a new discovery
The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated the huge manor, like a huge beast built of blue bricks, crawling beside the Wuding River.
The endless Wuding River is less than five miles away from the edge of this manor covering an area of tens of thousands of acres. The rumbling sound of flowing water can be faintly heard.
Under the setting sun, a large army was marching along an official road less than ten miles away from the river, getting closer and closer to this huge manor.
"Captain, we finally arrived at our destination on time."
"Yes! I just wonder if the king wants to attack the city tonight or wait until tomorrow?"
"I have to say, this manor is tall and big. It is much taller and bigger than the wall of Dingbian City!"
The young warriors of the second team, which was the last in the young camp, were led by three people who walked side by side. Seeing that the team in front had stopped advancing, Tang Guangqiang and Cao Yongxiang spoke one after another to Li Dingguo who was riding on the big black horse.
They were both right.
Indeed, the city wall of Dingbian City is about six zhang high and thirty zhang wide. It is built by ramming and compacting the earth, and then wrapping it with blue bricks.
The large circle of tall city walls of Tianjiazhuang Fort in front of us, although the building materials and masonry techniques are no different from those of Dingbian City, is nine feet high and three feet wide, and looks very majestic.
It is unknown how much manpower and resources were spent just to build the wall that surrounds the entire Tianjiazhuang.
This world is too dangerous. As a local tyrant or a noble family, you will not hesitate to spend any amount of money on this, no matter how huge it is.
After all, a safe and reliable home is the foundation of a family.
From this we can see how wealthy these wealthy gentry and families are in this magical world.
The two major combat targets of this rebel army were: if Zhang Xianzhong captured any of the local gentry's manors, the supplies, money, food, and training resources he would gain would be much more than what he had gained from the Dingbian City he had captured previously.
"I think we won't attack the city right away today."
"In all likelihood, our rebel army will camp outside this city for one night."
Li Dingguo looked in all directions and listened in all directions. He saw that the troops in front had stopped advancing and had begun to move. They must have received orders from the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong. It seemed that they were going to set up camp. He said to Cao Yongxiang and Tang Guangqiang.
"Da da……"
At this time, a group of about ten soldiers from the old camp, holding high the command flag, rode fast horses and galloped from the front of the central army. They circled the entire rebel army and shouted repeatedly: "The king has ordered that the soldiers of the logistics camp should immediately start to choose a place to set up camp!"
"All soldiers from the old camp and the young camp must be on high alert. While on guard, be prepared to engage the enemy!"
"Once you find the enemy daring enough to attack from outside the city, you can form a battle formation to meet them on your own!"
"Also, the king ordered the soldiers from the old camp and the young camp to immediately send out patrols to clear all dangers around the camp!"
This team of soldiers holding command flags ran around the army twice, and only returned to the center of the army after making sure that everyone understood the order.
"Tang Guangqiang, Cao Yongxiang!"
Li Dingguo did not dare to neglect it. After a brief thought, he began to issue orders, "You two are responsible for patrolling around our youth camp. If you find any danger that you are able to deal with, eliminate it immediately."
"If you can't handle it, come back and report immediately!"
"Even if we encounter ordinary passers-by, we must drive them away immediately!"
"Anyone who dares to make trouble will be killed without mercy!"
Although he had never truly experienced war in his past or present life, it did not prevent him from issuing orders.
There is no need to think about it, we know that the people who dare to stay around the rebels are definitely not ordinary refugees.
Under normal circumstances, ordinary refugees would have been scared and run away when they saw such a large army. How could they have the courage to get close?
"Yes! Captain!"
"Captain, we remember this!"
Tang Guangqiang and Cao Yongxiang obeyed the order in unison, then rode away on their horses, quickly disappearing from everyone's sight.
In such formal occasions, they would not call Li Dingguo "boss" as they did in the past, but would address him by his military rank.
This is the rule in the army, and we cannot be so casual about it as usual. "The rest of you, dismount for the time being, but don't take off your armor, don't let go of your weapons, and stay alert at all times!"
"If the situation changes, you must immediately mount your horses and form a battle formation, and follow me to launch an attack!"
After Tang Guangqiang and Cao Yongxiang left, Li Dingguo continued to give his orders to the remaining young warriors.
Although he didn't think that the people in Tianjiazhuang Fort would dare to open the city gate and launch an attack on them, nothing is absolute, and it is always better to be cautious.
The outcome of this war depends on the 800 soldiers of the Old Camp led by Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang.
Li Dingguo estimated that this time their youth camp was most likely just here to make a cameo appearance and go through the motions.
As long as Zhang Xianzhong was not crazy, he would not let the battalion of orphan boys, who had been trained with great difficulty, charge at the enemy before they had grown up.
At most, after breaking through the landlord's manor, let them follow the soldiers of the old camp, take advantage of the situation to pursue, break into the manor in one fell swoop, and eliminate some enemies.
Seeing Li Dingguo's arrangement, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier followed suit and ordered their subordinates to do the same.
They also sent out two talented warriors with late first-level martial arts cultivation from their own teams to patrol and guard the surroundings of the team.
The remaining soldiers, still fully armed, formed a column and dispersed to guard the logistics battalion soldiers who were choosing a place to set up camp in the center circle.
This is the order that Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to give, and you just need to follow it.
For a moment, except for the 800 soldiers from the old camp of the rebel army and the orphan camp, the remaining 5,000 soldiers from the logistics camp, acted collectively and, somewhat flustered, began to carry out the tedious work of setting up camp under the command of some senior military craftsmen.
Although they had already been trained in this kind of camping work, this was the first time they actually carried out this kind of collective operation in the wild.
Therefore, from time to time, someone was scolded by the soldiers of the old camp, making the place noisy and somewhat disorderly.
But everything has a process from nothing to something and cannot be achieved overnight.
If they want to become truly qualified logistics battalion soldiers, they need a lot of time to practice, and it cannot be rushed.
"Kewang, you and the vanguard team have been here for more than half a day. Have you found anything?"
Zhang Xianzhong looked at the soldiers in the logistics camp who became chaotic once the actual combat operations began, shook his head helplessly, and then turned his gaze to Zhang Kewang beside him.
"Father."
Zhang Kewang quickly stepped forward, bowed, and reported, "I led the vanguard soldiers along the way and did not encounter any abnormal situation."
"However, after arriving outside the Tianjiazhuang Fort, I took two hundred soldiers from the old camp and patrolled around, and killed more than a dozen enemy spies in succession."
"After that, they kept the city gates shut tightly, as if they were determined to defend the city to the death, hoping to use the tall walls of the castle to force us to retreat."
"besides……"
Zhang Kewang suddenly thought of something and said solemnly, "Not long ago, when I approached the city wall, I seemed to sense a fleeting aura of the same level in the city."
"This kind of aura is definitely emitted by a master in the Qi Refining Realm!"
"This is inconsistent with the intelligence we collected previously, which is a bit puzzling."
"If my perception is correct, the Qi Refining Realm expert hidden in Tianjiazhuang should also be at the early fourth level of martial arts cultivation, which is still within my ability to deal with."
"The aura he revealed for a moment earlier must have meant that he wanted to fight but was immediately stopped by someone."
"I just don't know whether this unknown Qi Refining Realm expert is one of Tianjiazhuangbao's own people, or an expert they have spent a lot of money to invite to help."
After saying this, Zhang Kewang fell into deep thought, feeling somewhat puzzled.
There is no way. If the previous situation was wrong, it might bring some unknown changes to this siege.
This has to make people a little worried.
(End of this chapter)
