The moment before dawn is the darkest time in the night sky, even on a clear night with twin moons shining brightly, because at this moment in the sky, the twin moons have already disappeared, but the sun has not yet bloomed...

At this moment, the 120,000 Tianjuan troops had already sneaked into the front two miles of the North and South Peaks under the cover of night, and their vanguard scouts had even entered both sides of the horse trail between the two peaks...

When another gust of mountain breeze blew by, a large torch on the south side of the North Peak suddenly fell to the ground, and then quickly a pair of big hands picked it up and put it back in its original place.

"Pass the order down, everyone, prepare for battle." Bailey on the South Peak saw this scene, and then he patted the messenger beside him excitedly.

"Yes." The two messengers jumped up and ran away.

Bailey let out a long breath and touched the sword at his waist with his right hand. He had been waiting for the signal from the North Peak all night, or perhaps, waiting to send the same signal to the North Peak - there was a special large torch on both the North and South Peaks, which was not afraid of wind and rain, and its flame was redder than that of ordinary torches. When it fell down and then stood up again, it meant that enemy troops appeared in front of it.

Bailey was in charge of the South Peak, and naturally Sares was in charge of the North Peak. The two of them led nearly 5,000 people to defend the mountain respectively. The remaining nearly 15,000 people from the Fourth and Fifth Regiments were handed over to Wu Lai. He personally guarded the checkpoint and became the innermost and most stressful point in this triangular defense area, because behind him was the road leading to Spritania.

No signal was sent to the checkpoint because there was no need for it. Once the war broke out between the North and South Peaks, there would inevitably be the sound of artillery fire. The checkpoints were not far apart, so it was impossible not to hear it.

At this moment, Wu Lai was sitting on the stone tower at the back of the checkpoint. This was the highest point of the checkpoint. According to Wu Lai's words, it was a good place to look far into the future.

Wu Lai was guarded by four soldiers from the First Special Forces Company. This was the first time that the commander of the First Special Forces Company disobeyed Wu Lai's arrangement, because Wu Lai didn't want even a guard at the beginning. With the war imminent, it would be much better to use elite fighters from the Special Forces Company in the war zone rather than standing here stupidly.

But in the end, Woolley agreed because he really couldn't refuse Yi Lian's kindness.

Next to Wu Lai's big chair, the cute baby was lying lazily, with a piece of deer leg sticking out from the corner of its mouth. It was obvious that it was full, otherwise, based on Wu Lai's understanding of it, how could it hide anything in its mouth?

"Mengbao, stop smacking your lips. Take the time to get some sleep. You've been very tired today." Wu Lai patted Mengbao's forehead and said.

Meng Bao shook his head and pushed Wu Lai and the chair away by half an elbow. There was nothing he could do because he was too big...

…

After taking another look at the sky, Helen said word by word, "Light the fire."

"Yes." An attendant bowed his head and agreed, then ran to the railing at the back and shouted loudly -

"ignition!"

After dozens of people responded in unison, a chaotic and powerful sound of running broke the silence again. After just a few breaths, a bright light suddenly appeared in the darkness. Then, a "whoosh whoosh" sound was heard one after another, and a tall pile of firewood was ignited fifty steps behind each of the six observation towers.

Flames suddenly rose from the dry branches dipped in oil, and in an instant they illuminated a large area of ​​low clouds and made the tall observation tower shine brightly.

When the fire lit up, Helen's spirits lifted, and she immediately raised her sleeves - "Attack!"

The flames were the signal and order to charge. From the moment the flames burst out, the attack of 120,000 people from the three Tianjuan Legions officially began...

What kind of noise would it be if more than 100,000 people ran at the same time?

The sound of chaotic footsteps can be heard from far away like thunder.

The running footsteps can make the earth tremble.

The clanging sounds of armor plates and weapons rubbing against each other seemed to be beating out a different rhythm...

There were no shouts, no yells, and no torches, because a faint light had appeared in the sky, and the outlines of the two peaks in the north and south were about to emerge in front of them. That was where they needed to attack...

All the Tianjuan soldiers were rushing forward, but even in the midst of the rush, they still maintained their formation, because on the left and right wings of each legion, there were more than a thousand cavalrymen defining the direction for them...

On the South Peak, Bailey raised his sword: "Artillery ready!"

"Yes! Artillery ready!"

On the North Peak, Sareth put down the telescope, and a trace of solemnity flashed across his eyes: "Everyone get ready."

As the voices of agreement came one after another, Sareth summoned a messenger to him and said, "Go and tell the lord immediately that Emperor Tianjuan is in the second observation tower on the right side of us."

"yes!"

It seemed that in just a moment, more than 100,000 Tianjuan soldiers had rushed into the one-mile area in front of the peak. Then the First Corps of the Left Army led by Li Moli stopped abruptly, and the Second Corps of the Left Army and the Second Corps of the Right Army changed direction and rushed towards the horse path between the peaks.

"Set up the big catapult for me!" Li Moli drew his sword and shouted, but suddenly he could not help but be stunned, wondering why the enemy army hadn't fired yet? Did they really not react? When Li Moli was thinking like this, Helen was also muttering in her heart. She didn't believe that the three legions of more than 100,000 people did not alarm the Wu Lai army. However, the torches on the two peaks neither increased nor decreased, and the imagined human figures did not appear in panic...

Just as he was thinking, the messenger officer suddenly approached quickly, knelt on one knee, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, Liumu Town is in a tough battle, requesting reinforcements!"

"Hard fight?! Reinforcements?!" Helen's heart suddenly skipped a beat...

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Liumu Town is not very close to the area where Helen leads her troops. There are low hills, gullies, and patches of woods blocking the way. Therefore, unless there is thunder and lightning, it is difficult for the legion camp to notice any movement there.

To be specific, the Liumu Town garrison suffered from incorrect intelligence - the scouts reported that there were about 3,000 enemy troops moving in the southwest of the town. This was not wrong, but the problem was that the scouts who reported only found the bait deliberately thrown by Yin'er, but did not find the Sixth Regiment in the northeast. In fact, they did not even see Yin'er's ambush...

The garrison's initial response was correct - strengthen defenses, stay indoors, and just ignore you. After all, you are just a small group of about 3,000 people. How can you create a big wave?

After waiting for the enemy for a long time, In'er, who had not seen any arrival of the enemy, simply "delivered himself to the door" after finding out the garrison's intentions - he led the cavalry to play a harassment war with the garrison with bows and arrows, whistling back and forth, and every time he appeared, he took away a dozen lives as fast as lightning. Then he did not want to fight, but ran away as soon as he came into contact with the enemy, and his movements were particularly coquettish, sometimes going southwest, sometimes due south, and soon running to the west.

After this happened four times, the garrison's temper was finally provoked. When In'er's cavalry approached the southwest town gate for the fifth time, arrows like raindrops came from behind the town gate's protective wall and hit the cavalry of the Seventh Regiment. Nearly a hundred cavalrymen were shot down from their horses with just one round of volleys.

Then, the town gate suddenly opened, and two thousand cavalry and four thousand infantry rushed out of the town gate...

Yin'er immediately led his team to turn around. The garrison's pursuit troops no longer had the heart to ignore them, and they gnashed their teeth and chased after them. Yin'er was naturally happy to see that they were catching up quickly, and ordered everyone to increase the speed of the horses...

At the same time, there was a sudden movement in the bushes a hundred steps outside the protective wall due north of Liumu Town - a hundred soldiers from the Sixth Regiment with mud on their faces and grass leaves and branches tied to their bodies slowly crawled forward, constantly moving towards the protective wall. A hundred steps behind the protective wall was the brightly lit garrison camp and the soldiers who looked tired and resentful.

It's impossible not to feel resentful. Not only am I harassed and yelled at in the middle of the night, but I also have to assemble the troops, be called upon to attack, and line up to wait for reinforcements or not. No one would be happy to have to deal with these things.

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But if they knew what they were about to face, perhaps they would not have time to complain.

After a while, ten single-soldier crossbows quietly aimed at the figure on the parapet. After a very abrupt bird cry, the buzzing sound of the springs accompanied by the sound of the wind broke the silence of the night...

As soon as the screams of the defenders on the wall were heard, the soldiers of the Sixth Regiment, who had already touched the edge of the wall, jumped up and began to work in a hurry - placing the base, pulling out the tripod, adjusting the bracket steering machine, preparing the shells...

The hundred or so people from the Sixth Regiment brought a total of twenty mortars, and all of these twenty mortars had to be prepared within two breaths, because the screams would alarm the enemy and give them a direction. Once the enemy moved before us, the action plan would be aborted.

"Ready!" The command sounded hurriedly. There was no response, nor was there any need for a response. This was the requirement of a night raid. The moment the command "ready" was heard, it was the last moment to launch the attack.

"Release!" a loud shout rang out.

"Tong tong tong tong..." The sound of twenty mortars firing rang out in succession. In the blink of an eye, the camp of the Liumu garrison turned into a purgatory. Many soldiers fell in a pool of blood before they could even react. The camp was in chaos, with cries for help and screams merging into one...

"Ready!" A second command was sounded outside the parapet. On the parapet, footsteps and human figures were approaching rapidly from the left and right directions.

The archers and crossbowmen who were responsible for covering the mortar gunners rushed over immediately...

"Release!" the shout rang out again.

“All, all, all…”

While the soldiers left behind in the Liumu Town garrison camp kept falling down in the chaos, the thousands of soldiers chasing them tasted a little sweetness - the cavalrymen among them who were waiting for the opportunity to tire out had a slight advantage in horsepower over the Seventh Regiment Cavalry Team. Not only were they getting closer and closer, they also shot down nearly a hundred of the Seventh Regiment Cavalry Teams in succession...

The constant screams of his own cavalry falling off their horses behind him made In'er feel heartbroken. You have to know that those who were guarding the rear were all soldiers from the Xiuman family. In'er felt that even if the Xiuman army was gone, its glory and courage were still there. In that case, he could not let other cavalry guard the rear to provide cover.

She wanted to rein in her horse and then turn around and rush towards the enemy with her sword, but she couldn't do that because she was less than a mile away from the ambush circle. After leading these enemies there, how could she have fewer opportunities for revenge? Yiner slowed down her horse and kept moving towards the back from the middle of the queue.

"Colonel, what are you doing?" A second lieutenant couldn't help but ask anxiously after seeing Yin'er's actions in the light of the torch.

"Keep running!" The moment Yin'er waved at the second lieutenant, she had already fallen to the end of the team.

"General Yin'er." A soldier at the rear had just had time to greet her when two feather arrows pierced his neck fiercely...

"Plop", the soldier fell off his horse.

Yin'er frowned and looked back, then caught a glimpse of a few yellow rays flying towards her rapidly. She bent down and leaned over the saddle, and swung her sword hard to knock away two of them. One of the remaining two cut a bloody groove on the back of her right hand, and the other flew straight over her head and nailed into the back of a soldier in front of her.

"Prepare the caltrops!" Yin'er had no time to care about his injuries at the moment. After shouting loudly, he put away his sword and stretched out his arm to take off the wooden box the size of a human head on the left side of the saddle.

"Yes!" A chaotic response sounded in In'er's ears, and the soldiers behind the palace took off the wooden boxes and moved the copper buttons like In'er.

"Hold on a little longer!" Yin'er had just shouted when another feather arrow came flying through the air and pierced her right shoulder with a "puff". The arrowhead went straight through her shoulder, causing her to grimace in pain and almost shed tears.

"General!" a soldier who saw it nearby shouted. Although the Xiuman Army was gone and Inr's rank was only colonel, in the minds of those soldiers of the reorganized Xiuman Army, Inr was still the heroic and high-spirited Assyrian woman.

"I'm fine! Everyone, run faster!" Yin'er gritted his teeth and endured the pain. He kicked the horse's belly repeatedly with his legs, but the arrogant shouting behind him was getting closer and closer.

"Chase! Kill them all!"

"Aim at them! Shoot as hard as you can! These idiots are holding torches to light the way for us! Hahahahaha!"