Nine dragons fight for the throne, I don't want to sit on this throne

"Report, Your Highness, 30,000 elite enemy troops are coming from the center!"

On the south city wall, scouts came to report.

Chu Ning put his hands behind his back and looked at the battle situation outside the city with a solemn look on his face.

"It seems that Murong Zhu wants to fight a decisive battle with me!"

Chu Ning narrowed his eyes and asked in a deep voice: "What is the situation of the other three city gates?"

The scout quickly replied, "Your Highness, the enemy has deployed 50,000 troops at each of the three city gates and is madly attacking the city."

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier came forward to report: "Your Highness, there is an emergency in the east of the city!"

Then, two more soldiers came up to the city wall and reported: "Your Highness, there is an emergency in the west of the city!"

"Your Highness, there is an emergency in the north of the city!"

Chu Ning's face looked a little ugly.

The gamble is a bit big this time!

The entire army had only 120,000 people, 50,000 of whom were in the north of the city, and the remaining 70,000 were divided into three parts and guarded the three city gates.

There are only more than 20,000 people at each city gate, and it is indeed very stressful to deal with 50,000 enemy troops.

Moreover, the enemy has been attacking without stopping for a moment since last night, which has made our soldiers exhausted.

The enemy had a large number of people and was divided into many echelons to attack continuously, constantly consuming the morale and physical strength of our soldiers.

If we continue to fight like this, I’m afraid we won’t be able to hold out for today, let alone two days.

Thinking of this, Chu Ning narrowed his eyes and a fierce look flashed across his face: "Master Liu, you must immediately organize the people in the city. Anyone who can pick up a weapon must go up to the city wall!"

"This……"

Liu Shouren's face changed drastically: "Your Highness, I'm afraid the people won't climb the city wall easily."

"Humph, if they don't guard the city walls, then they can just wait for the enemy to enter the city and massacre them!"

Chu Ning's face was full of coldness: "They only have two choices, either to advance and retreat with our army, or to wait for our army to be defeated and slaughtered!

Tell them what I said, and let them choose whether to go or not!"

Liu Shouren gave a bitter smile and could only bow and leave.

There is no other way now, we can only gather people to defend the city together.

At this point in the battle, neither side had the possibility of retreating and could only continue fighting.

When Chu Ning saw Liu Shouren leaving, he turned around and looked outside the city. At this moment, Helian Mingyue had led his troops to hide together, while Guan Yun was leading a crazy attack.

But this would bring trouble. If the enemy army of 30,000 came, how would they respond?

Fifty thousand against fifty thousand, they have a great chance of winning.

But if it is 50,000 against 80,000, and the enemy is surrounding them, they have no chance of winning.

Although the Modao team is very powerful, their number is too small after all.

"I have no choice but to use my trump card!"

Chu Ning's eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Wu Lin!"

"The general is here!"

"You lead a thousand cavalrymen out of the city and sprinkle iron nails on the periphery of the battlefield to prevent the enemy cavalry from charging. At the same time, send Guan Yun to let him hold out until dark!"

"Yes!" Wu Lin responded and immediately led a thousand cavalrymen out of the city.

At this moment, the Zhao army outside the city had been surrounded, and they could only watch Wu Lin and his soldiers scattering iron nails.

Helian Mingyue's face looked a little ugly: "It seems that Chu Ning had already anticipated our army's deployment and actually prepared iron nails in advance. This will hinder the speed of our army's support and will also make our cavalry dare not charge."

"Come on, organize a team to rush out and spread the news!"

In order to prevent the supporting troops from being damaged, Helian Mingyue made a prompt decision and ordered the troops to break out.

However, Guan Yun also realized Helian Mingyue's purpose and immediately ordered the crossbow team to concentrate their arrows on the enemy.

For a while, there were constant shouts of killing!

But no matter how the Zhao army tried to break through, they could not break through the defense of the crossbow team. In addition, there were other Chu troops attacking around them, so the Zhao army quickly retreated.

They were beaten back in just three quarters of an hour!

Helian Mingyue's heart sank and a cold look appeared on his face.

According to this trend, it would be impossible for him to lead his troops out without the support of reinforcements.

While he was lost in thought, he heard the roar of war horses in the distance.

"Our reinforcements are coming!"

"Hahahaha, once our reinforcements arrive, our army will be able to annihilate the enemy."

"Damn Chu army, prepare to die!"

"General, give the order quickly. We will cooperate with the reinforcements to kill all these Chu troops!"

The Zhao army was filled with righteous indignation and each of them wanted to attack immediately.

Helian Mingyue looked at the cavalry rushing towards him with an ugly expression.

The Chu army was unaware that the iron nails would greatly hinder the cavalry charge. Unfortunately, he had no way of passing on the message and could only watch his own cavalry rush over.

Sure enough, as the cavalry charged, they soon encountered iron nails.

Suddenly, the war horses wailed and ran around wildly, causing the cavalry formation to be in chaos and the original momentum of the charge was blocked.

The leading general, Dongfang Kuang, was a tall, rough man. He was furious when he saw this scene. "Move aside your horses immediately. Send someone to clean up the iron nails on the ground. Send someone else to check if there are any other iron nails. Clean them all up!"

The 30,000 elite soldiers are all cavalry. If there are iron nails on the ground, they cannot get through at all. The best way is to clear the iron nails first.

Although it will delay some time, it is better than letting the cavalry suffer losses.

At the order, the Zhao army began to clear the iron nails on the battlefield.

Chu Ning was standing on the city wall, looking down at the scene, with a sneer on his face: "It's just as I expected!"

Wu Lin and his men scattered a lot of iron nails, and some of the nails were deliberately scattered far away from the battlefield, just to delay the opponent's attack!

With so many nails, it would take at least an hour for the other party to clean up, and by then, it would be dark.

As soon as it gets dark, another plan can be implemented.

However, there is still more than an hour before dark, and I don’t know whether the other three city gates can accept it.

At this time, Liu Shouren came to report excitedly: "Your Highness, all the able-bodied men in the city have climbed up the city wall to support us. Our army has repelled this wave of fierce attacks by the enemy."

Chu Ning was not surprised by this. When faced with life and death, no one wants to die.

Upon hearing that the Zhao army was going to massacre the city, everyone naturally united to defend the city.

"Don't take it lightly!"

Chu Ning said in a deep voice: "Murong Zhu will definitely not give up this opportunity, and the next offensive will definitely be more fierce!

You must immediately go into the city to organize people to transport the city defense equipment. The enemy will surely launch an all-out attack under the cover of darkness tonight.

Oh, and prepare some more thorns. Hanging them on the city walls can slow down the enemy's attack."

Liu Shouren then suddenly realized that the thorns that His Highness had asked him to prepare at the beginning were to be used here.

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I will go down and arrange it right away!" Liu Shouren bowed and left.

On the other side, Murong Zhu also received news from Dongfang Kuang.

"Humph, I didn't expect Chu Ning to come up with such a trick to stop our cavalry!"

Murong Zhu's face was gloomy: "Does he think he can reverse the defeat like this? Pass the order down, let Dongfang Kuang launch an attack as soon as possible!

In addition, all the soldiers at the other three city gates were replaced and had a full meal, and then launched a general attack after dark.

Tonight, Dingxiang City will be captured, and I will capture Chu Ning alive!"

Tens of thousands of people have been lost in this battle. It is impossible to give up at this point, so we can only charge in with all our might.

What's more, 50,000 Chu troops have already been lured out from the south of the city. How can we miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

But at this time, a general next to him frowned and said, "General, I think there is another unit of the enemy army that has not appeared yet."

Murong Zhu was stunned: "Which troops?"

"It's the enemy's cavalry with all white horses."

Murong Zhu's expression changed slightly: "Come here, immediately investigate the movements of this enemy cavalry!"