There are currently only 20,000 light cavalry in the main city of Luping, and the remaining 600,000 troops are stationed on the border. If you want to send troops to Luping, you can only withdraw them from the border garrisons.

Fortunately, there are still enough troops, and withdrawing 200,000 troops will not have much impact.

Lu Ping is now surrounded by allies, and his territory does not border the enemy at all.

Under Lu Ping's protection, these allies developed very rapidly and their strength increased rapidly.

Now that they all have a certain ability to protect themselves, Lu Ping naturally doesn't have to worry.

In order to avoid wasting time in mobilizing troops, Lu Ping ordered the 200,000 troops to gather directly at the border of the county city.

The next day, early morning.

Lu Ping led 20,000 light cavalry and joined the 200,000-strong army that night.

Afterwards, Lu Ping sent a message to Xia Mo, asking if she was in place.

Once a player lord enters the NPC territory, he will be automatically regarded as declaring war on the NPC. Lu Ping and Xia Mo are ready to launch an attack at the same time and then see how the NPC lord reacts.

The NPC county city defenders are quite powerful, with one million soldiers and one thousand generals.

This is not the point. The point is that the NPC county city is too terrifying. The city wall is fifteen meters high and five meters thick. There are defensive facilities such as arrow towers on the wall, and there is a moat outside the city. This is the most difficult part.

It is impossible to capture such a city without four or five times more troops.

What Lu Ping hopes most now is that the NPC lord can go out of the city to fight, so that Lu Ping will have the opportunity to eliminate the defenders bit by bit.

However, Lu Ping estimated that this situation would not happen, because there had been player lords attacking NPCs before.

All successful examples relied on strong attacks, and there was never any field battle.

Of course, the so-called strong attack was definitely not carried out by a single player lord, but by a dozen or so lords working together, relying on persistence.

Soon, Lu Ping received a reply from Xia Mo, informing Lu Ping that she had arrived at the border.

After receiving the reply, Lu Ping led his army across the border without any hesitation.

"Ding, system prompt, you have entered the NPC territory."

"Ding, system prompt, due to your behavior, the NPC lord has great hostility towards you."

"Ding, system prompt, the NPC lord has decided to declare war on you."

As soon as he stepped into the NPC territory, a system prompt sounded in Lu Ping's mind.

Of course, Lu Ping didn't care about this, as he came here to attack the NPC.

The County City NPC territory is huge, covering nearly a thousand square kilometers, with more than twenty county towns and nearly two thousand villages.

In addition to villages, all county towns also have garrisons, with each county town having a garrison of 100,000 troops and 100 military generals.

Of course, these garrisons are separate, and the million-strong army in the county city is not included.

There are ninety-nine county cities on the third level of the World Battlefield, and more than thirty of them have been captured so far.

The battlefield of all nations has been around for forty years, and on average, not one city can be captured per year. You can imagine how difficult it is to capture a county city.

The player lords who captured these county towns, without exception, concentrated their forces to attack the county towns, and automatically ignored the county towns below.

Therefore, Lu Ping did not plan to attack these county towns, but went directly to the county town.

......

Lu Ping led his army all the way towards the county town at an astonishing speed.

It only took three days to reach the county city.

At this time, Xia Mo's army had also arrived.

"Husband, it looks like this county town is not easy to conquer."

Looking at the majestic county town, Xia Mo said with a serious expression.

Xia Mo was right. The county town in front of them was indeed difficult to attack. The city wall was fifteen meters high, with crossbow and arrow towers everywhere, and there was also a moat.

If we attack by force, we will definitely pay a huge price.

The key point is that Lu Ping and Xia Mo do not have enough troops. Four hundred thousand against one million, how is that possible?

"Yes, the city defense is amazing."

"Unfortunately, they didn't come out either."

Lu Ping also sighed.

Lu Ping originally sent troops this time with a try-it-out attitude, hoping that the NPC lord would come out of the city to fight, and then look for opportunities in the war.

But now Lu Ping's troops were already at the gates of the city, and the other side didn't make any movement.

This put Lu Ping in a dilemma.

"Since they won't come out, we have no choice but to attack the city and see how they react," Xia Mo said.

"But even if we want to attack, we must first fill the moat." Lu Ping said after a moment of silence.

The moat of the county town is more than ten meters wide. If the moat is not filled up, there is no way to attack it.

"How about we try to use our generals' skills to break the city?"

"In this way, the collapsed city wall can at least fill part of the moat." Xia Mo pondered.

"Well, that's feasible!" Lu Ping nodded.

Then, the two began to prepare.

Soon, hundreds of generals lined up.

On this expedition, Lu Ping and Xia Mo brought a total of nearly seven hundred generals.

The purpose of bringing so many generals is, of course, to capture the city.

However, Lu Ping also knew that it was not easy to break the city by relying on the military skills.

The city wall of the county town is not comparable to that of the county town. Not to mention the height, the thickness of five meters alone is enough to make Lu Ping suffer.

There is also a moat blocking the way, and enemy generals are watching covetously from the city walls.

Therefore, there is no way to break it without more than five attacks.

Fortunately, the defenders would not leave the city, so Lu Ping and Xia Mo saved themselves a lot of trouble.

......

A few minutes later, Lu Ping launched his first attack.

“Boom boom boom!”

Bursts of explosions were heard one after another, the target city wall shook violently, and mud fragments on the wall flew everywhere.

But that was the only result. The city wall still stood, but it was damaged in some places.

"As expected of a county town, the city walls are quite strong."

Looking towards the city wall, Lu Ping sighed.

"It doesn't matter. They won't come out anyway. We can just take our time."

"After more than ten days of continuous attacks, I don't believe the city wall won't fall down." Xia Mo comforted.

"Um!"

"Then continue tomorrow!"

Lu Ping nodded.

......

Five or six days passed in a blink of an eye, and under Lu Ping's fierce bombardment, a corner of the west side of the county city finally collapsed.

As expected, the rubble fell and partially filled the moat.

However, the collapsed area of ​​the city wall was too small, less than twenty meters, and only a small part of the moat was filled and there were rubble everywhere, making it impossible to pass through smoothly.

Now, Lu Ping and Xia Mo were in a dilemma. This was not a solution.

"Master, why don't you try another method?"

Just when Lu Ping was in danger, the voice of the weapon spirit sounded in his ears.

"Another way?" Lu Ping was moved when he heard this.

"Yes, this county town is extremely strong, and the owner does not have enough troops to attack it." said the spirit of the weapon.

"Oh, so you have a good idea?" Lu Ping asked immediately.

"Of course."

"Tell me quickly, what's the solution?" Lu Ping asked hurriedly.

"The method is simple. Master just needs to capture all the county towns, and the county town defenders will definitely go out of the city to fight." said the spirit of the weapon.

"What? Are you sure?" Lu Ping was shocked when he heard that.