Wang Ling, twenty miles outside the city of Shen'en;

Eastern Army Camp, Duke Phoenix Camp.

In the huge tent, Phoenix was sitting upright in the chief at this time;

The camp was a little confused, and it was obvious that a lot of people had just left here.

The young duke frowned and thought about ways to break the current situation.

In front of him was a large map drawn with the military personnel, which detailed the current situation of the two armies.

The Zhongjie Army has completely arrived at the battlefield, with a total force of about 45,000; including the eight thousand people stationed in Shen'en City, there are a total of 53,000 people, distributed along the walls of Shen'en City, forming a long snake formation;

The current total strength of the Eastern Army is 65,000, which is confronting with roughly the same formation, and has a certain advantage in terms of number of people;

At the same time, the newly recruited soldiers in the East are also under training. In a month, about 20,000 new forces will join the battle.

These 20,000 people will further expand the winning chances of the Eastern Army, and what is more important is the ordnance they can bring;

Phoenix is ​​very much looking forward to the siege equipment they can bring - crashes, arrow towers, ladders, bed crossbows, and large catapults...

These things are essential to break through the walls of Shenxiang City.

The success of this war was somewhat beyond Phoenix's imagination, so that the support from the rear could not keep up in time;

Originally, there was no reserve related to siege equipment in the East Realm - even if there were, it was almost destroyed because it was not used for many years and could not be put into actual use;

It is unimaginable to rely solely on infantry and cavalry to conquer Shen'en City - even if these 65,000 people rushed forward, they could not cut the city wall with a long spear and a short sword.

Fortunately, the East Realm still has relevant drawings and complete materials, and it only takes a certain amount of time to send them to the battlefield.

Originally, Duke Phoenix's idea was that after hitting the city of Shen'en, these weapons could be completed and put into battle;

But now the people have arrived, but the weapons have not been completed.

The processing locations of most siege equipment are located in Bluekong City on the eastern coast of the East. After completion, they can be transported directly to the rear of Wangguan Town by sea, and after a short land transportation, they can be delivered to the Eastern Army camp.

By then, this stalemate situation will be resolved: although the enemy has advantages in training level and equipment quality, it is at a disadvantage in quantity and morale;

As long as the enemy's defense can be defeated, the siege equipment should be pushed under the city wall, the whole army will break through the city wall with one go, and this war can be declared victory-the defense of Lieyang Castle is not comparable to the city wall, and Phoenix's purpose is to avenge Duke Myrones and has no idea about the power of the throne;

In other words, you only need to maintain the current situation and wait - in the combat meeting just now, Phoenix also told his subordinates.

Now we need to consolidate the front and buy time; the most important task is to prevent the enemy from launching raids at night.

For this, Phoenix ordered his subordinates to maintain strict vigilance and prepare for defense of the positions, and lay sharp wooden stakes and pits near the camp to prevent the enemy cavalry from assaulting;

On the other hand, he acted according to the ideas of many vassals - Phoenix thought this behavior was a bit stupid, but from the perspective of numbing the enemy, he still followed the opinions of his vassals.

That is to persuade the enemy soldiers to surrender.

Through sound magic, spread flyers and other methods, we will publicize the reasons for the war to begin to the soldiers in the middle realm, persuade them to withdraw from the battlefield or to defect to the East realm; for those who abandon darkness and turn to the light, the East realm will be rewarded with great rewards—

However, this is useless. The customs of the eastern part of the Middle Realm are not consistent, and people do not have a sense of belonging at all. More importantly, their families are still in the Middle Realm. If they surrender rashly, the fate of their families can be imagined;

Even if Myrons was too lazy to pursue the matter, if the salary could not be delivered to his family, then joining this war would not have much meaning to the soldiers in the Middle Realm.

As Phoenix thought, the sound magic and flyers were used for several days, with little effect - but the vassals' opinions were much calmer.

Can't they make some useful suggestions...ah.

Phoenix felt a little sleepy; in the past few days, he had been responsible for too many things, which could be called physical and mental exhaustion;

Although each of the vassals was loyal and brave, the suggestions made really make Phoenix feel tired - because the peace in the east was too long, they had lost their relatively basic military knowledge.

Phoenix had no choice but to do this... He rubbed his somewhat swollen temples.

You can only select some useful ones from them as much as possible.

"Hey, brother!" Noah broke into the camp without notice - Phoenix no longer wanted to scold him anymore, it was useless.

He was the most unruly among all the nobles and the most capable one; he has made the most contributions since he initiated the revenge, but he has made many minor mistakes;

"Hey? The meeting has been completed? Ahhhh, I'm late, I'm late, I'm sorry~" Noah said with a smile - although he had no intention of repentance at all.

Because he knew that this meeting was just a briefing on routine matters and there were no important issues to say.

Recently, he had been trying to lead a cavalry team to attack the enemy's camp, but was rejected by Phoenix - this time the enemy was no longer as experienced as before, and he could see from the formation arranged and the preparations around the camp;

"Noah." Phoenix sighed, "I'm tired enough for my brother, don't cause any more trouble."

"Well... I didn't come in vain! I met the messenger at the entrance of the camp and got the latest news from him!" Noah was so excited that he raised the two pieces of parchment in his hand: "The news is here!"

"Good news or bad news?" Phoenix has said more than once about Noah's obvious violation of military orders, but the former has been repeatedly taught.

"First of all, good news." Noah was not going to ask his brother which one to listen to first. "The Duke of the Southland Islands has accepted the gifts we have given and promised to give us the necessary help."

This news made Phoenix's spirit slightly higher - this matter he had been very worried about before.

The best way to transport those large machinery to the front line is to use a large enough boat to transport it by sea.

If you choose land transportation, long and tortuous roads will delay a considerable time, and those machinery are prone to damage during long transport - after all, things like crashing arrow towers are not very strong;

The Duke of the Southern Realm was really helping him a lot...
Chapter completed!