Chapter 512: Fangling Fire

"Can General Lin be in the house?"

"General Lin has an order. All generals can enter directly without any notification."

The original Fangling County government office was given up by the local county magistrate when Lin Chen arrived.

In the past three days, King Wu seemed to have figured out the details of Lin Chen's soldiers and launched a massive attack on the city.

Different from the first day of temptation.

King Wu ordered his barbarian soldiers to attack the city day and night, and they also had siege engines and trebuchets to help.

The walls of Fangling were already in disrepair, and even if they ordered the people to repair them, they would not be able to stop such an attack.

The wall on the north side of the city quickly collapsed, and a group of barbarian soldiers wearing vine armor even invaded the city!

Fortunately, Qin Liangyu led the county soldiers to resist bravely, and reinforcements arrived in time, so they were able to drive the barbarians out of the city.

If the north of the city is lost, King Wu's army will rush into the city in an instant.

By then, the garrison of only 30,000 people will be overwhelmed by King Wu's army.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this Fang Ling is just struggling to his death.

Da da!

Qin Banghan and his group of about ten middle-level military generals arrived.

The leaders were none other than the three brothers and sisters of Qin Banghan.

Yes.

Qin Liangyu was directly promoted by Lin Chen after a battle in the north of the city.

It happened that two school captains died in the county soldiers, and Qin Liangyu happened to take their place.

When Qin Banghan and others pushed in the door, they saw their master calmly looking through the letters in his hands.

After seeing them coming, he raised his eyes and glanced at Qin Banghan and the others.

"General Lin, I'm here!" Qin Banghan bowed slightly and said, cupping his hands.

"Is the city ready?" Lin Chen put down the letter and asked softly.

"It's all set up!"

When Qin Banghan talked about the arrangement, his body trembled slightly and he was very excited.

Hearing this, Lin Chen stood up slowly.

"In that case, let's proceed as planned."

"yes!"

In the past few days, tens of thousands of people in Fangling City have been safely transferred to Shangyong.

Nowadays, except for the defenders, there are no ordinary people in the city.

Lin Chen had already anticipated today's situation, so before the county magistrate left office, he ordered him to collect a large amount of flammable materials.

Because he had no intention of defending in Fangling and had already prepared a retreat.

Of course, Lin Chen must give King Wu a big gift before leaving.

"Report!!"

At the same time, within King Wu's military camp, the voice of the messenger sounded urgently.

A spy rushed over, bringing the latest news from the front.

"Your Highness! The situation in Fangling City is in chaos, and most of the defenders have abandoned the city and fled!"

King Wu raised his eyebrows when he heard the news. There was no sign of joy or anger on his face, so he asked the spy to explain the situation.

According to what the spies said.

Most of the more than 20,000 defenders in the city were now routed, leaving less than 3,000.

After hearing this, Hong Antong looked happy and congratulated King Wu: "Your Highness, King Wu, this is a great opportunity given by God, and God is really helping me!"

King Wu pretended to be profound and nodded with a smile, but he didn't think so in his heart.

As someone who knows the military, how could he not see that the county soldiers under Lin Chen's command were weak?

This victory was within his expectations.

"Order the army to enter the city!"

King Wu immediately sent an order.

As long as Fangling is captured, a solid barrier can be built for the rear of the army.

After all, if Fangling had been occupied by Li Tang's army, its supplies along the Han River would be threatened.

This is also the reason why King Wu's army did not bypass Fangling and march directly to Hanzhong.

In ancient wars, winning or losing a city was not the key.

The key lies in food supply.

Once there is no food, no matter how tough you are, you will starve to death!

Since ancient times, countless famous generals have been defeated by lack of food.

King Wu knew the importance of food routes, so he had no choice but to attack Fangling.

Anyway, the momentum is strong, so there is no rush.

When he takes Hanzhong, it won't matter even if Prince Ning stabs him in the back.

It can be said.

King Wu led his army to attack Sichuan and Sichuan this time, with the intention of sinking all boats and fighting against the odds.

As the war drums sounded.

King Wu's army attacked Fangling again, almost overwhelmingly.

Just when Wu Jun was about to arrive under the city wall, a sparse rain of arrows suddenly fell from the sky.

This made Wu Jun startled.

Didn't it mean that the defenders in the city ran away?

Soon, King Wu learned the reason.

It turned out that there was a garrison of less than 2,000 people in the city, which called itself the Baigan Army.

Hearing this, King Wu frowned and felt a headache.

He naturally knew that the Baigan Army was extremely powerful in combat.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent people to recruit the Tan family in advance.

However, this plan failed, and the white pole soldiers fell into Lin Chenjia's hands.

"Send the order for the Tengjia soldiers under Wutu Gu to enter the city immediately!" King Wu made a prompt decision and gave the order.

Just look at a group of about five thousand vine-armored soldiers, holding Teng shields and swarming in along the gap in the city wall.

Although a small number of white-pole soldiers came out to stop them, they were ultimately outnumbered and fled in defeat.

Seeing this, King Wu couldn't stop laughing, and his gaze softened a lot as he looked at the protruding bones in the tent.

Unfortunately, Wu Tu Gu was unwilling to hand over the method of making rattan armor, which made the coveted King Wu regretful.

After all, this rattan armor is much better than iron armor. Not to mention its light weight, its defensive power is also first-rate.

Not long after,

After the last defenders in the city fled, King Wu gave the order to enter the city.

"Enter the city!"

However, King Wu learned a piece of news from the spies.

Lin Chenjia ran away.

"Hmph, does this Lin Chenjia really think that I didn't prepare for his escape?" King Wu sneered.

But the next piece of news shocked him.

That is, Fangling City was empty at this time!

When King Wu heard the news, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Could it be..."

As expected!

Rumble!

There were suddenly bursts of loud noises in the city, and the flames shot up into the sky, blazing and illuminating half of the sky.

You know, at this time, the city was full of barbarians who rushed into the city for looting.

When the fire started, they were in big trouble!

For a while, the fire was so big that it could be clearly seen even ten miles away.

The screams and wails in the city were one after another, like hell on earth.

Only the barbarians near the gap in the city wall ran out when the fire was not too big.

It was not until night that the fire in the city gradually went out.

When the Wu army entered the city cautiously, they saw that Fangling was already a ruin.

And the tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers trapped in the city, not even a complete corpse was left, all were burned clean by this fire!

At the same time.

On the only way to retreat from Fangling, Lin Chen shook the blood on the gun.

This King of Wu did have some means, and he actually set up an ambush army of 8,000 people on the retreat road.

However, this was useless.

Under the leadership of Lin Chen, the 8,000 ambush troops were quickly defeated, leaving only corpses.

Of course,

If it were county soldiers, even if the number was several times that of the ambush army, I am afraid that only Lin Chen could resist.

Fortunately, he still had white-pole soldiers, who could fight quickly!

No wonder generals have always liked elite troops since ancient times, and it is obvious which one is more powerful!

After a simple cleanup, Lin Chen led the white-pole soldiers to continue to march towards Shangyong.

The King of Wu's army was demoralized by the fire in Fangling, and did not advance any further for two days.

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