Under the shade of a tree, Wu Lai rested his head on the gun case and was about to take a nap when he suddenly heard a rustling sound nearby. He turned his head and saw Pu Tong crawling towards him with a smile on his face.

"Why are you making such a funny pose?" Wu Lai rolled his eyes at him. "You're sneaking around like that. Tell me, what are you up to?"

"Lord, how dare I hold back my bad intentions in front of you?" Pu Tong crawled to Wu Lai's side with a drooling face. "I saw that you were already lying down, and I walked over to you with big strides. Isn't that disrespectful to you?"

"Thank you very much." Wu Lai turned around and closed his eyes. He had been rushing from last night until now. It would be a lie to say that he was not tired.

"Lord, Lord, Lord, please don't go to sleep yet." Pu Tong shouted hurriedly, "I really want to report something to you."

"Report." Wu Lai was too lazy to even open his eyes.

"Yes!" Pu Tong nodded quickly. "Reporting to the Lord, the Sixth Division has prepared the swimming equipment and guide boats according to your instructions. It is twice as fast as the First Division. Therefore, the Sixth Division kindly asks the Lord to approve the Sixth Division to land first."

"Huh, so you're here to steal the work from the 1st Division. There's a steep cliff opposite us, and there's an enemy checkpoint on the top of the cliff. What if you mess it up, won't my plan fail?" Wu Lai asked.

Pu Tong chuckled and said, "Lord, how could I mess it up? You know, when it comes to training engineers, the Sixth Division is much better than the First Division."

"Why didn't you say this in front of Oddo?" Wu Lai asked with a smile.

"Lord, I was just giving him face." Pu Tong said as he took out a piece of grass from his belt and threw it into his mouth. "Lord, it's been a long time since you let the Sixth Division lead the charge."

"Yes." Wu Lai responded, "But the Sixth Division has more boats than you. Your more than 10,000 people will slowly drift over in their leather bags. It will be dawn when they reach the shore. Let the First Division land first. In terms of attacking the enemy, the First Division is better than you. That's it."

"Don't..." Pu Teng's face turned bitter, and he almost jumped up from the ground...

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One Thousand Steps...

Nine hundred steps...

Eight hundred steps...

The vulture stopped seven hundred and fifty steps from the canyon gate wall.

"Division Commander, the enemy's first row of artillery has begun to adjust the muzzle to point towards us!" Bao Deng reminded urgently before he could adjust the direction through the telescope.

"Retreat a hundred steps!" Vulture shouted loudly, and the regiment commander, deputy regiment commander, battalion commander, and deputy battalion commander in the same row with him immediately turned their horses' heads and pointed their swords in the direction of the Red Valley Bay Fortress, "Turn back! Run a hundred steps!"

After the regiment and battalion commanders shouted in unison, the soldiers of the four regiments turned back in unison and ran away at full speed. In a blink of an eye, they ran dozens of steps away...

Leiden on the second wall was shocked when he saw this, and quickly raised his left hand as a black flag to indicate stop shooting.

"Bastard!" Garlon frowned and clenched his fist. He was so happy when he saw the Assyrian team stopped at 750 steps. He didn't expect that the other side turned around and retreated as soon as they stopped, which made him very happy in vain.

Leiden ran over: "General Garlon, do you want to..."

"No!" Garen glared at Leiden, "Wait until the enemy stops and check the distance first."

Leiden nodded quickly, looked up, and frowned: "General Garlon, they have stopped again."

"I saw it. At this distance..." Garlon hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Aim at the officers in the first row and fire a row of cannons!"

"Okay." Leiden responded and raised the yellow flag in his hand.

Almost at the same time, Bao Deng raised his telescope, took a look, and said, "Division Commander, the enemy's artillery fire is under the command of the general. It is basically certain that the yellow flag is raised for readiness and the black flag is for stop."

The vulture laughed: "Now raising the yellow flag?"

"Yes, the enemy is adjusting the angle of their artillery again." Bao Deng said anxiously.

A cold light flashed in the vulture's eyes, and the horse turned its head: "Retreat a hundred steps!"

"Turn around! Run a hundred steps!"

"Turn around! Run a hundred steps!"

The sound of running "Teng Teng Teng Teng" sounded again...

"These Assyrian jackals!" Garlon was so angry that his eyes were spitting fire. The Assyrian army's quick advance and retreat within these two hundred steps were clearly a trick on them.

"I've known for a long time that the Assyrians are cunning. Humph, I didn't expect them to be so cunning." Leiden clenched his fists, but when he said this, he obviously forgot about Adolf's attack on Helen and Wu Lai.

After running a hundred steps, Vulture reined in his horse and turned around again. He raised his telescope, looked around, and then looked around at the terrain. He turned around and asked the fourth commander, "Have all the artillery arrived?"

"Report to the division commander, the artillery is on standby 250 steps behind our regiment, and the ammunition and wood have arrived." The fourth regiment commander answered loudly.

"Okay!" Vulture waved his hand, "The 4th regiment will retreat another 150 steps, arrange a battalion, build the fence for me, select the artillery positions, and place the best artillery commanders in the middle."

After the fourth regiment commander took the order and turned to leave, Bao Deng smiled slightly and asked, "Is the division commander ready to fire?"

"Of course, the enemy's artillery commander is standing there motionless, and the people on the gun positions are also standing there stupidly, which means that the enemy's artillery has a range of only this far. Look at these square stone piles in front of us." Vulture stretched out his arm and scanned the area fifty steps ahead. "It's ok that they appear so abruptly, but the neat spacing is also dyed with red mud. It's clearly their range scale."

"Commander, you have good eyesight." Bao Deng praised with a smile.

"You must have seen it early on, but you were not sure, so you didn't say it." Vulture laughed and continued, "Boden, I plan to place the 200 spearmen assigned by the lord fifty steps in front of the artillery, and give each of them two sword and shield soldiers to protect them. What do you think?"

"No wonder the division commander chose the Fourth Regiment. It turns out that this had been planned long ago." Bao Deng grinned. Wu Lai only gave the Second Division a total of two hundred shotgunners. After Vulture received them, he threw them all to the Fourth Regiment without saying a word, which made the other regiments jealous. The regiment commanders lined up to beg Vulture to give them as many as possible, but they were all scolded by Vulture in the end.

"Of course. The 4th Regiment is the old team that fought in the ambush at Lunvington. Even though they have the smallest number of people, from the regiment commander to the cooks, they are all veterans. To fight a harassment battle like today, the soldiers have to stand firm. Just think about it, when the enemy's cavalry and horsemen rush over, if some new recruits get scared and retreat, it will implicate others." said Vulture.

"What the division commander said makes sense." Bao Deng nodded. "Although I didn't participate in the ambush at Lunvington, I have also heard about the achievements of you and Oddo. The two regiments that followed you two in the ambush were all elite soldiers."

Vulture smiled and waved his hands: "Not all of them are elite soldiers. They have been training for a long time after the ambush, so they are used to fighting and know how to fight. In terms of elite soldiers, the two special companies under the lord are the real elite soldiers. However, the first company has been disbanded to form a territory security bureau under the defense department. The second company has also been broken up by the lord. Our division is divided into two squads, and Golden Wolf is one of them."

"No wonder the commander values ​​him so much, it turns out that Golden Wolf is the lord's man." Bao Deng nodded thoughtfully.

"He is actually my student." Vulture said with a smile...

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"General Garlon, the enemy is building a fence. They won't set up camp here, will they?" Leiden asked with a frown.

"It's unlikely that we'll set up camp." Garlon shook his head slowly, but his eyes did not leave the direction of the Fourth Regiment.

"Then...are they planning to attack? Attack with artillery?" Leiden suddenly felt a little uneasy.

"That's hard to say, but it doesn't look like it, unless they mounted the cannon on the carriage. But, those are all single-horse carriages. Even if there are cannons on the carriage, the cannons are not big. Didn't Laurence say that the smaller the cannon, the shorter the range..." Before Garlon could finish his words, he caught a glimpse of several puffs of smoke suddenly coming out from the location of the Fourth Regiment - "All of a sudden, all ...

"Oh no! The enemy is opening fire!" Leiden just shrank his neck and shouted, and heard another loud noise. He glanced at the source of the noise subconsciously, and saw a large "cloud" composed of rocks, flames, and smoke that was rapidly expanding. In the "cloud", there were broken limbs and arms...

Leiden was stunned for a moment, and then he was dragged to the ground by Garlon. Then, the four bodyguards squatted down and raised their shields to protect the two of them. The intensive knocking sounds from the shields made Leiden tremble with fear.

"General Garlon, was the artillery position hit by the enemy?!" Leiden asked anxiously.

"Nine out of ten!" Garlon was quite flustered at this time. The Assyrian army's artillery had better range and accuracy than his own artillery. If he couldn't think of a good way to deal with it, Canyon Pass would have to passively take the beating.

"What should we do?!" Leiden had the same idea as Garlon, but he was not as smart as Garlon.

"Don't worry!" Garlon almost roared, "The walls of the gate are made of big stones. As long as we guard the gate, they can't get through!"

"But it's not a good idea to be suppressed like this all the time! General Garlon, think of a solution!" Just as Leiden finished speaking, he heard a series of "bang bang bang" artillery fire...

... "You're doing well! Just keep fighting!" Vulture put down the telescope with a smile and said to the fourth commander beside him, "Hurry up and build the fence. Put the mortars next to the fence. The lord said in the letter that the enemy has a weapon called a gun. You have to pay special attention to it. If the enemy dares to open the gate and rush out, don't wait for my order, bombard them with mortars first, and then charge forward. Humph, get ready with shotguns!"

"Don't worry, Commander, I know how to take advantage of others!" The fourth regiment commander laughed and said.

"That's good." Vulture patted the Fourth Regiment Commander on the shoulder. "We've gained a lot in this battle. Remember, we must first hold them back. When the conditions are ripe, we can discuss the next step. Go, fire a cannon at me every now and then. Choose places with many people, gun positions, and areas where officers are visible. Don't be polite to them."

"Yes!" The fourth commander took the order and left.

Vulture turned his head and looked at Bao Deng. "Bao Deng, you go and pass the message yourself. The 1st, 5th, and 7th Regiments advance 400 steps and line up for orders. The 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 8th Regiments go back to the fortress and ask the fortress to prepare tents and food for us. Also arrange for someone to go to Annan City and bring back the ammunition and supplies allocated to us by the Assyrian Arsenal."

"Yes!" Bao Deng's face was full of smiles. "It's their bad luck to run into the division commander at Canyon Pass."

"That's right." Vulture touched the hilt of his sword. "I'll just waste time with them first, and then give them some trouble at night."

"The commander is saying..." Bao Deng's eyes lit up.

"You'll know when the time comes." Vulture's eyebrows twitched slightly.

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When the rustling sound of the night wind blowing through the treetops sounded again, Wu Lai stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the vague figures below the cliff. More than 20,000 people swimming across the river would make a lot of noise. In order to avoid being noticed by the enemy on the other side, the 1st and 6th divisions hid in the woods during the day and arrived after nightfall.

Pu Tong shrank his neck and asked Wu Lai in a low voice, "Lord, the wind is a bit strong tonight, and it is a slanting wind. Will it affect our swimming?"

"There will be some, but not too big. The water is a little cold today. We have to swim eight miles. Fortunately, the water is relatively calm. However... sacrifices are inevitable..." Wu Lai frowned and said in a low voice.

"Well... Lord, war is always... always inevitable, right?" Pu Tong said hesitantly. Although Wu Lai looked high and mighty in the eyes of those who didn't know the truth, Pu Tong knew clearly that Wu Lai not only had no airs towards the soldiers, but also always cared about them in his heart.

"That's true, but..." Wu Lai couldn't help but sigh softly, and suddenly felt a dull pain in his heart.

Damn Adolf, damn the Tianjuan Army. He cursed in his heart...