The simultaneous charge from the east, south and west sides only happened on the first day, and never happened from the second to the fifth day. But this did not put much pressure on the Hatra army, because they were the defenders, and although they were exhausted by the harassment in the past few days, the losses were small, and they all believed that this time the enemy's charge was just another harassment.

Inside the fortification line, all the archers were ready to shoot again. This was their best means of consuming the Assyrian army, and they did not need to worry about running out of arrows and crossbows in the short term.

Pu Tong rushed into the first charging formation of the Sixth Division waving his sword. Although he knew that this was another feint attack, it did not prevent him from releasing his momentum.

"Pay attention to the formation!" Pu Tong shouted as he rode his horse.

At the same time, Hatra also received a report -

"Your Highness, the enemy is charging from three sides at the same time."

Hatra frowned: "What is the enemy's formation like?"

"Push forward on all fronts, with a neat formation and shield bearers in the front row." The deputy general replied.

"Don't worry, it's just a feint to harass us." Hatra smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "At most, it's just to consume our arrows and crossbows."

"Your Highness is wise." The deputy general breathed a sigh of relief. He was a little shocked when he received the report from the signalman just now - he thought the Assyrian army had launched a general attack.

"No special orders are needed. Each defense line knows how to deal with it. By the way, the north side must be closely monitored and no omissions can be made." Hatra added.

"Yes, Your Highness, I will send the message immediately." The deputy general nodded quickly.

"Well, by the way, let the logistics guys come over." Hartla stretched lazily. Now most of the troops were outside the city, and food and water had to be transported out of the city. In order to ensure sufficient safety, the city gates had to be opened only when absolutely necessary. From the second day on, the food and water of the defenders outside the city were all lowered from the city wall, which naturally had a significant impact on the soldiers' meals.

So Hatra felt that he needed to have a good "talk" with the generals in charge of logistics.

"Yes, Your Highness."

…

"Reporting to the lord, our army has been attacked on three sides! The enemy used arrows and crossbows to defend as usual, and did not rush out to fight!" Golden Wolf reported loudly.

Wu Lai didn't even raise his head: "Got it! Signalman! Order everyone to withdraw to their original positions!"

"Signalman received! Repeat! Everyone retreat to their original positions! Everyone retreat to their original positions!"

"Flag signal received! All retreat to your original positions!"

Ye Renwu, who was sitting next to a tree stump seven or eight steps to the left of Wu Lai, frowned.

After Wu Lai put the extra copper piece in his hand back into the groove, he looked up at the sky and did not move for a long time, as if he had suddenly turned into a sculpture.

Ye Renwu's gaze fell on Wu Lai's left hand. She was very surprised because she saw that Wu Lai's left hand was trembling slightly.

What's wrong with him? Night Blade Dance wondered.

After waiting for a long while, Wu Lai finally withdrew his gaze from the sky.

"Light the beacon! Two plumes of black smoke!" he shouted.

…

In the afternoon, Hatra led several followers to the top of the south gate tower. Upon seeing this, the officers stationed there hurriedly came forward to greet them.

"How's it going?" asked Hartella.

The leading deputy general recounted the situation over the past half day and added: "Just now, the enemy approached our fortifications for the third time, 400 steps away."

"You are just bluffing again." Hatra laughed and the officers around him also laughed along.

"Your Highness is certainly right." The leading deputy general nodded and said, "But this time, they placed the archers in front of the formation."

Hartla thought for a moment, then smiled and waved his hand, "My king thinks that they found that the shield soldiers' feint attack was a waste of time, so they wanted to send archers to fight against our army to avoid suffering too much loss."

"Then they have made a wrong idea. Under the wise leadership of His Royal Highness King Wushuang, our army's fortifications and deployment outside the city are enough to provide the best protection for the archers. No matter who the enemy comes, the result will be the same." A deputy general said with a smile.

Hatra's face turned serious, and the deputy general quickly stopped smiling.

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Hatra frowned. "Don't forget our army's defeat in Kayiked. According to my estimation, the enemy's artillery is insufficient. Otherwise, they would have used this weapon at the first opportunity. But don't think that the enemy won't use this weapon. Humph, the cunning of the Assyrians is world-famous. So, you all need to keep your eyes open and keep a close eye on the enemy's movements."

"Yes, Your Highness. Please rest assured that we will be vigilant at all times. If enemy artillery appears, we will charge forward as planned and destroy the enemy's artillery positions at all costs." The leading deputy general puffed out his chest and said in a loud voice.

"Okay." Hatra patted the deputy general's left shoulder and was about to say some more words of encouragement when he suddenly heard a report in his ears.

"Your Highness, the enemy troops on the east and west are retreating."

Retreat? Hatra was stunned, his eyes subconsciously swept forward, and then he frowned.

Pu Tong's Sixth Division was also retreating, but not all of it but most of it. The long rows at the front of the original formation did not move. In other words, the cavalry, shield soldiers, spearmen, and swordmen were all retreating, while the archers stayed.

What are they doing? Hatra frowned - when two armies are facing each other, it is the most terrible thing to not know the opponent's intentions, not to mention that the opponent is a man who can play a feint for six days...

"Have the enemy troops on the east and west not retreated completely?!" Hatra asked anxiously.

"This... Your Highness, there is no report on this!"

"What?!" Hatra turned around angrily, "Go investigate!"

The military intelligence officer quickly responded and turned around to urge the flag signal to inquire. Seeing Hatra like this, the officers around him also became a little nervous. They took out their telescopes to look at the movement of Pudong's Sixth Division in front of them. Then, they all saw Pudong - this guy was carrying a big flag and riding back and forth in front of the archers' position.

Pu Tong was cheering up the twelve archery battalions that remained. Among all the Assyrian divisions, Pu Tong's Sixth Division had the most archers, because these guys, whom Wu Lei called "good field players," loved to dig pits and ambush their opponents, and they were determined not to engage in close combat, which naturally resulted in the Sixth Division being the weakest in positional warfare but the strongest in guerrilla warfare.

The number of archers under Pu Tong was almost twice that of the other divisions, and the number of artillery and shells was almost the same, which was why Woolley placed his Sixth Division alone in the south - in terms of long-range firepower, Pu Tong's Sixth Division was enough to match the two divisions in the east and west.

Pu Tong carried a large flag on his right shoulder and a loud speaker in his left hand.

"Warriors of the Archery Battalion! It is almost time for you to fight for the glory of Assyria! You must always remember that our Assyrian army is a righteous army! In the past few years, the Tianjuan people have invaded and attacked everywhere in order to realize their delusion of self-sufficiency and dominating the continent! They bullied the weak and enslaved civilians. Their behavior is shameful! They must be punished! And who will punish them?! Answer me!"

"We! We! We!" the Archery Battalion cheered.

"That's right!" Putong raised the flag vigorously, "It's us! Today! It's the key to determine the outcome of the battle of Menia! Your performance! It's related to whether Assyria can successfully recapture Menia! This requires you to be brave and tenacious! Tell me! Are you brave?!"

"Brave! Brave! Brave!"

"Are you tough?!"

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"Tenacious! Tenacious! Tenacious!"

"Well done! I'm proud of you! I look forward to your performance! I believe! We will be invincible! We will be unstoppable!"

"Invincible! Invincible! Invincible! Invincible! Invincible!..." The soldiers shouted slogans in unison.

Pu Tong took a long breath, turned his horse around, and raised the Sixth Division's flag towards Broken Blade Mountain...

Lord, the Sixth Division will not let you down! Pu Tong said in his heart.

…

"Report to the Lord! Our troops in the southeast and west have all completed their movements as instructed!"

"Report to the Lord! Our army's archery positions on the east, south and west sides have been deployed!"

"Report to the Lord! Our army's artillery vehicles in the southeast, northwest and northeast are moving to the designated locations!"

"Report to the Lord! The commander of the Sixth Division, Pu Tong, is saluting you!"

On the sand table in front of Wu Lai, most of the copper round pieces had been removed...

"Wu Lai, I don't understand your deployment. Can you explain it to me?" When Ye Jianwu was five steps away from Wu Lai, two special forces soldiers stopped her. They would not let Ye Jianwu get too close to Wu Lai. After all, she was a general of Tianjuan. Although there had been no unusual movements during this period of time, it was always right to be more cautious.

"Okay." Wu Lai's straightforwardness was beyond Ye Jianwu's expectations. "Don't stop her. Let her come over."

The two special forces soldiers released Night Blade Dance as they were told. One of them hesitated for a moment, then pulled the long chain on Night Blade Dance's hand, tucked it into his waist chain and wrapped it around a few times. In this way, Night Blade Dance couldn't even raise his hand.

"I'm not as shameless as your lord." Ye Renwu said to the special forces soldier.

"It's hard to say." The soldier's answer almost made Wu Lai laugh out loud.

Ye Jianwu walked to Wu Lai's side, glanced at the sand table, and said, "We have fought against each other for many rounds on the sand table. I have always thought that I know your tactics very well. Even in the Battle of Kayikede, all your fighting methods were within my imagination. But I really can't understand your deployment today. I think it's not a feint attack again."

Wu Lai looked at Ye Jianwu's face and smiled slightly: "In fact, you will understand as soon as I say it."

"Then tell me." A hint of anticipation flashed across Ye Renwu's eyes.

"I built three dams upstream of the Menia River. Now the water there has submerged more than ten mountains. And downstream of the Menia River, only ten miles away from the city of Menia, I built three more dams," said Wu Lai.

After Ye Renwu heard this, her voice suddenly trembled involuntarily: "Wu Lai, the upstream is to store water, and the downstream is to block water, right?"

Wu Lai nodded slowly...

…

Hatra quickly ran back to the command tower, his brow still furrowed. The Assyrian army was doing this on three sides at the same time, and there was obviously something fishy going on.

Just as he sat down, the intelligence officer's voice came from the door: "Your Highness, there are enemy troops moving in the north, but they are not approaching, they are just forming a battle array far away."

"There's movement in the north too?" Hatra's heart sank even more. Just as he was about to give the order to make arrangements, he heard the guards' exclamations and faint rumbling sounds in the corridor outside the tower.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! The flood is coming!" the guards screamed.

"Flood?!" Hartella jumped up from his chair, rushed out the door in two steps and ran into the corridor.

Hatra looked up and saw that huge waves had surged in the northeast of Menia. The raging flood was rushing down. The two rivers that had been dry for a long time had long disappeared. Only the waves were surging all over the ground, and the rumbling waves were still hitting the houses, trees, earth walls, stone steps...

In a few breaths, the area around the command tower where Hatra was located turned into a vast ocean. Not to mention the roads and ditches, even the lower buildings had disappeared. Most of the slightly taller buildings were soaked in water, and some only had half of their roofs exposed, looking so helpless...

But the flood would never stop. It was like countless monsters that had just broken free from their restraints, surging, biting, rolling, running wildly and rapidly...

Hatra's legs suddenly went weak, and if he hadn't quickly grabbed the railing, he would have stumbled and fallen to the ground...