Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

Zhang Chen returned to his residence and took out the spirit stone to restore his spiritual energy. After a life-threatening expedition this time, Zhang Chen finally understood that even if he found out any information, it would be useless in the eyes of the team leader.

In the evening of the next day, Zhang Chen began to patrol the city wall. The wall was densely covered with bows and crossbows, and there were many larger crossbows behind them. Rows of catapults were also prepared, and behind them were piles of stones and some grease sealed in jars.

Although Wuyun City has 300,000 soldiers, they are not just guarding Wuyun City. Although there are mountains blocking the way and it is difficult for the Zerg to climb on the ground, the Zerg have flying insects that can fly over the mountains and wait for opportunities to launch sneak attacks. Therefore, heavy troops are deployed on the top of Wushan Mountain and Yunshan Mountain to form a tight defense.

Zhang Chen came to the top of the Mist Mountain through the passage. The mountain was called Mist Mountain because of the fog. At this time, the fog dissipated and Zhang Chen looked at the steep cliffs on both sides. It would take a lot of effort for the Zerg to climb over this mountain, and even if they climbed up, it would be difficult to get down from the other side, and they could easily become sitting ducks.

Therefore, Zhang Chen speculated that the direction of the Zerg's attack would definitely be the city wall, and the mountain walls on both sides might use flying insects to attack.

However, flying insect beasts have weak defenses and cannot play an important role alone, but can only play a supporting role.

Zhang Chen walked down the mountain and came to the city wall. When he was preparing to gather intelligence at night, he saw movement in front of him. It seemed that a black river appeared in the distance, flowing slowly towards Wuyun City.

Zhang Chen immediately used the eye-clearing technique to see clearly that it was a dense swarm of insects, gathered together and rushed towards Wuyun City in a mighty force.

Zhang Chen immediately sounded the alarm, and soon the city wall was filled with people. The buzzing sound of bows and crossbows could be heard continuously, and the catapults at the back were also loaded with stones, all waiting for the order to fire.

Soon, the swarm of insects came into range. Following the commander's order, a rain of black arrows rose into the air and shot towards the swarm of insects. Catapults and crossbows also roared continuously.

Soon the swarm of insects was covered in casualties. They couldn't get close at all and were killed and wounded in the first wave.

Soon the second wave of Zerg came like a tide. This time, the Zerg in front stopped advancing when they were almost within the attack range of the crossbows. The Zerg in the front separated, and hundreds of Zerg beasts with forelimbs like shovels, narrow bodies, and conical heads came up from behind. They were three meters long and half a meter wide, lined up in a row.

"Digger."

When Zhang Chen saw them appear, he also murmured.

I saw them stretching out their shovel-like front limbs and digging the soil frantically. Dust was flying, and soon their figures were already buried in the soil.

Zhang Chen quickly told the general in charge this information, but the general was not panicked at all. It turned out that the area extending three hundred meters outward from the city wall was all hard stone layers underground. Those insects and beasts could dig to three hundred meters away from the city gate at most, and by then they would be greeted by powerful bows and crossbows.

But Zhang Chen waited all night and did not see the insect beasts responsible for digging come out. It was not until dawn that the insect swarm began to retreat.

Due to the abnormal behavior of the Zerg, Zhang Chen did not go to investigate the Zerg's movements last night. Now, looking outside the city wall, it was empty, except for some flying insects patrolling from time to time.

This went on for two days. The swarm of insects arrived in the evening, but they were still beyond the attack of bows and crossbows. They were confronting the soldiers on the city wall, which made the soldiers very tired. They had to stay alert all night for fear that the swarm of insects would suddenly attack.

On the afternoon of the third day, it was a cloudy day, and the sky was dark, as if it was evening. The swarm of insects arrived much earlier this time.

Zhang Chen also came to the city wall. After a moment, he saw the soil layer 300 meters in front of the city wall rolling up and down. It was obvious that a lot of things were about to come out from below. Soon, he saw tentacles extending out, followed by the conical head.

At this time, Zhang Chen was a little confused. With their speed, it shouldn't have taken them so long to dig here. Thinking it was a geological problem, he didn't think much about it.

Seeing this, the soldiers shot their bows and crossbows at them. Screams were immediately heard and the other insects and beasts shrank back. Soon the digging worms retreated from the back, and then a swarm of insects like a tide began to enter the tunnel that the digging worms had just dug.

All the soldiers began to be on high alert, and soon they saw rows of giant insect beasts wearing black armor emerging from the exit. They were much larger than ordinary insect beasts, and they rushed to the front, like giant shields, protecting the insect beasts behind them.

Densely packed crossbow arrows were shot out, hitting the armor with a metallic collision sound. Only a few were not blocked due to the angle and fell down, and the ones behind them immediately filled the gaps.

"Quick, prepare to throw stones."

"Loading..."

"emission."

"Quick, throw the Molotov cocktail."

As commands were given one after another, the catapults in the rear roared with anger, and countless huge rocks smashed towards the swarms of insects.

At this moment, the swarm of insects has advanced fifty meters. The light insect beasts behind it are extremely fast. They have jumped in front of the giant insect beasts and are running towards the city wall at high speed.

Arrows rained down like rain, and insects and beasts fell one after another, but the insects and beasts seemed to be endless and kept popping up.

Gradually, many insects and beasts attacked the city wall and began to spray venom and corrosive body fluids at the wall. Clear smoke began to rise from the bottom of the wall.

The commanding officer did not panic, but directed the soldiers in an orderly manner to pour buckets of hot oil. When a lot of insects and beasts gathered below, he immediately lit it. Then flames shot up into the sky and a burnt smell wafted out.

The insect beasts continued to scream. After about half an hour, Zhang Chen saw that the insect beast group had slowly retreated.

The soldiers cheered and celebrated. They won the victory right at the beginning of the battle, which greatly boosted their morale.

It was also Zhang Chen's first time to participate in such a war, and he couldn't help but sigh that at this moment, personal ability would not play much of a role. Even low-level cultivators like them could only defeat a hundred at most, and could not play a big role.

Zhang Chen saw that there were no Zergs in the distance and estimated that they would not attack for the time being, so he prepared to go back and rest for a while and go to investigate later. He had not gone to investigate in the past few days and was scolded by his uncle who led the team. Zhang Chen always evaded the question by saying that the Zerg was abnormal.

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall were also changing shifts. A new team of soldiers came up to take over the city defense, and then arranged for the soldiers to go out of the city before dark to clean up the battlefield, repair the damaged city walls, pick up crossbow arrows, and move stones.

Zhang Chen stood on the city wall and looked at the open secret door below. Rows of soldiers went out to pick up crossbow arrows and carry stones. Suddenly, he felt uneasy.

But he didn't know what went wrong. When he was getting anxious, the general in charge walked up to Zhang Chen and said:

"Master, is there any problem?"

"I feel a little uneasy, but I don't know what the problem is. This time, the Zerg attack didn't gain any advantage, but instead caused so many casualties. Isn't this abnormal?"

Zhang Chen expressed his doubts, hoping that he could analyze it and provide him with some inspiration.

But the general didn't take it to heart at all. Instead, he said with a smug look on his face:

"Our city has high walls and strong bows and crossbows. How can they possibly take advantage of us? No matter how many of them come, they will just die."

Zhang Chen glanced at him. He had seen those insect beasts with his own eyes. They were organized and had plans. It would never be so simple, nor would they come to die in vain. They must have a purpose for doing this.