NOVEL NEXT Chapter 78: Fire Fox Country
It is very common for fellow townsmen to defend fellow townsmen in Wei.
The most common faction in Wei is the township party, which can be as small as a township or a town, or as large as a county or a state.
Therefore, Zhou Yuan's entry into the capital from Huaizhou was not really a free entry.
Even if he did not join the Huaizhou faction, as long as he entered the capital, he would be labeled as a Huaizhou scholar.
It can even be said that as long as he did not clearly distinguish his relationship with the Huaizhou faction, people in the capital would tacitly assume that he was a member of the Huaizhou faction.
After all, he was born in Huaizhou, grew up in Huaizhou, and worked in Huaizhou. He was a die-hard Huaizhou person.
Therefore, even though he and the candidates from Huaizhou were also in a competitive relationship, they still regarded Zhou Yuan as their own in terms of their general position.
"Thank you for your warning, brother. I am a long-range shooter, not a close-range warrior. I can't go wrong with the protection of the soldiers in the camp."
The two candidates for the spiritual test saw that Zhou Yuan had made up his mind, so they stopped persuading him. They bowed to each other and returned to the barracks.
After Zhou Yuan left, the two gathered together again.
"Brother Gu, why don't you take the opportunity to perform martial arts."
"What's the point of performing? I've already mastered it. But that Sima Zhou was a little impulsive. It was a waste of energy and effort to fight hard at the last minute, and it was not worth it in the end."
"That's true. Sima Zhou was probably from a poor family. There was no secret realm inherited in his family, so he had to seize the opportunity to experience the secret realm."
"That's even more amazing. A poor family can be rewarded by the court for spiritual tests. He must be either extraordinary or brave.
He is a long-range shooter. I'm afraid he is a sharp archer with a sharp bow and arrows who can hit the target every time."
While the two candidates were analyzing Zhou Yuan's situation, Zhou Yuan also arrived at the secret realm of South City.
The entrance to the secret realm is in a spacious warehouse, where a blue-purple vortex is constantly rotating.
[Dungeon: Two-Tailed Fox Country]
[Recommended challenge level 10, recommended challenge number 10~20]
"The secret realm in the south city is easier to attack, but it also requires a warrior to lead the team. The injury rate in the secret realm in the north city is higher, and the governor only opened the secret realm in the south city for you.
The demon leader in this secret realm is a two-tailed demon fox, which needs to be killed twice to kill the enemy, so you have to be careful."
Although Liu Canjun thought that with Zhou Yuan's archery skills, it would not be a big problem to attack the secret realm of the fox country.
But he still routinely entrusted some intelligence to prevent the new generation of candidate warriors in Huaizhou from being injured in the secret realm of his own military camp.
Zhou Yuan was very grateful and bowed his hands to thank him before joining the attack team.
The captain leading the team was a very strong bald man, and the scar on his head showed his origin.
"Young man, let's make a deal first. I know it's not easy for you to get a place in the spiritual test, but what we do is also murderous.
If you don't perform well and endanger the lives of soldiers, you must obey orders and retreat.
Otherwise, I don't care whether you are Jiang Ren's confidant or the descendant of a prominent family, you must be severely punished by military law."
Jiang Ren, the captain of Jing'an, was not very useful when he arrived at the Huaizhou camp.
The monk captain was obviously dissatisfied with the temporary transfer, but because of the order of the governor of Huaizhou, he had to accept it with a pinch of his nose.
"General, don't worry, the soldiers of Jing'an also know the military law, and they are definitely not children playing tricks."
"Okay, if you can catch up with us after entering the battle, I will take you with me in the next few days."
If you are recognized, you may fight side by side, but if you are not recognized, you will naturally be dismissed.
Zhou Yuan didn't say much. He didn't have much reputation, so he could only prove his ability in actual combat.
"Huaizhou Tiger Soldiers, follow me into the battle."
At the command of the monk captain, the soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding tower shields entered the secret realm first, followed by the archer team.
Huaizhou Camp is indeed the garrison of the state capital. The arrows equipped for the archer team in the camp are all blood arrows.
The armor of those soldiers looks extraordinary. Not only is it exquisitely made, but also has a large defense area. Even the face is protected, leaving only two holes as observation ports.
As soon as Zhou Yuan entered the Fox Country Secret Realm, he knew why the Huaizhou soldiers attached so much importance to defense.
Because there were many fox archers about 1.5 meters tall standing on the low wall in front of him that was less than three meters high.
[Level 10 Fox Country Pitcher], [Level 10 Fox Country Archer], [Level 12 Fox Country Vanguard]
Zhou Yuan roughly estimated that there were about a hundred Fox Country soldiers on the low wall.
And most of these Fox Country soldiers were long-range attacks. Even if the Huaizhou soldiers kept advancing, they remained stable and motionless.
They did not start attacking until the Huaizhou soldiers entered their range.
"Raise your shields, archers fight back."
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..., the sound of arrows flying resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant.
Each archer was attached to two tower shields, fighting a war of attrition in the dumbest way.
Among them, Zhou Yuan's record was extremely impressive, and he received many attentions from the monk captain.
But even so, the Huaizhou soldiers were still overly suppressed and had to struggle in the rain of arrows.
After about five minutes of confrontation, the monk captain ordered the soldiers to retreat in an orderly manner and replaced the next batch of armored soldiers.
Zhou Yuan found that the injury rate of Huaizhou armored soldiers was a bit high, and almost a few were injured every time they rotated.
After rotating ten teams in this way, the archers cleared the Fox Country archers on the city wall.
Even so, they said that today's progress was smooth, and they usually needed to rotate twelve or thirteen teams to complete the work.
Without the suppression of the long-range Fox Country archers, the Fox Country pitchers on the city wall were quickly cleared out.
Just when Zhou Yuan thought that he was going to break through the gate and attack the city, the monk captain suddenly lost his martial ethics.
"Send the engineers in, Sima Zhou should go back and come back tomorrow."
"Captain, what are you going to do?"
"Dig trenches and set them on fire. Otherwise, if we rely on soldiers to advance, the losses will be too great."
The houses inside the low city wall are mostly wooden structures and very crowded, which is really suitable for setting fire.
When Zhou Yuan arrived the next day, he found that two trenches had been dug under the low city wall, and igniters were laid inside.
The soldiers in charge of arson wrapped their mouths and noses with wet cloths, threw burning materials into the city one by one, and after the fire started in the city, they ignited the igniters in the trenches.
As the fire spread, soldiers from the Fox Country were led out of the city from time to time, fell into the first trench and slowed down, and then fell into the second trench and were stabbed to death by armored soldiers holding long spears.
Under such a rogue attack, even the long-range Fox Country archers could not play their advantages.
Because the distance of the first trench was just within their range, they fell into the trench and launched inaccurate projectiles in the fire.
The sound of drums continued to ring, and the flame drums used by the Jing'an Army increased the intensity of the flames in the two trenches.
The hairy fox archer who fell into the trench became a new fire starter, and his health bar continued to drop.
As the flames gradually rose and more and more fox soldiers died, the boss in the city finally jumped out on his own initiative.
[Level 15 Two-Tailed Fox Head]
A boss with a fox head and a human body appeared, swinging two huge tails. The long tails ignited by the flames seemed to be two flaming whips.
"Melee warriors are ready to fight. After the demon leader sheds his tail and turns into a beast, control his limbs and head and tail first."