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The Cang Hong City was a heavy city in the northeast of the Empire of Sarn. It had a prosperous economy and was a natural barrier. The Central City was about 20 miles wide and had over 500 thousand residents. There were over 80,000 regular soldiers stationed here.

Looking from the Cang Hong City to the north, the Helian Mountains stretched for thousands of miles. This was the only pass, and it could be said that it was impossible to open it by one man. To the south of Cang Hong City, it was a flat plain that spanned a thousand miles and gave Empire of Sarn nearly twenty percent of the food. This city was the last perilous pass in the northeast of the empire. If the city was broken, then there would be no more dangers within a thousand miles. The land within a thousand miles was completely exposed to the enemy's iron hooves!

The next morning, Tianxing Mercenary Group and the 200 thousand strong army left at the same time.

At sunset, they met up at a place fifty miles south of Cang Hong City. At the same time, the enemy troops advanced another hundred miles and set up camp at a place two hundred miles away from the north entrance of Cang Hong City. The city lord, Count Tasmo, welcomed them personally, feeling both anxious and alarmed. At least, the imperial army had arrived at the Broken City!

Duke Tasmo prostrated in front of Larier and said in pain, "Your Highness! If you did not rush over in time, how could the 80,000 strong army of the Cang Hong City contend against the enemy?

Larier shot a glance at him, and was extremely unhappy in his heart. The two great army had just reunited, and he had only just reunited with his sister. Since the war had ended and the army had arrived, it didn't matter if he came or not. It was superfluous!

Pulling MerLin's hand, she tenderly pulled her to her side and sat down, then said indifferently: "Count, stand up, if you have anything to say to Viscount Shawk, you should be the commander in chief in the army."

There were a group of core generals sitting in the middle tent, but Shawk was the only one not to be seen. Although Count Tasmo had heard of Shawk's name, he did not know what he looked like.

Lan Feng frowned, he stood up and walked out of the tent, the voice that contained true energy sounded throughout the entire camp: "Shawk! "Come out now, the commander is absent from the meeting, you sure are arrogant!"

The war was imminent. Over two hundred miles away was an enemy army of 300 thousand. An emergency military situation could appear at any moment. As the general of the army, he had to maintain a hundred percent vigilance at all times. For him to be absent from such an important military information meeting, it was no wonder that Lan Feng was furious.

With the sound of surging Innate Qi, it spread to every corner of the camp. Everyone was shocked, Tianxing Mercenary Group who was used to this kind of brothers drinking amongst themselves was fine, but the 200 thousand strong Empire of Sarn army was talking animatedly. They knew about Shawk and Lan Feng's big names, their achievements were obvious to all, and the Second Prince did not object to giving his authority as the commander. However, as the Vice Commander-in-Chief of the army, to actually scold the Commander in front of so many people, this was still the first time he had encountered such a situation. According to the laws of the army, this was enough to behead Lan Feng!

Not long later, Shawk scolded as he ran over from a distance. As he ran, he shouted, "I'm going to die! I just slept for a while, the enemy troops are still more than 200 miles away, why are you in such a hurry? There's even a meeting of the Central Army, why would they hold a meeting of the Central Army when there's nothing to do? Was there an emergency? "Really!"

Just as Lan Feng was about to kick him, he suddenly saw that Shawk's eyes were black, a pair of red eyes were about to drip blood, his mind was extremely weak, he pulled him back and said: "Did you steal something last night? Even if he hadn't slept all night, he shouldn't be like this, right? A grand Blue Stage! "

"Blue Stage my ass!" Shawk punched him in the chest and muttered, "Try not to sleep for a few days and don't cultivate for the entire night. Will you become like me?"

An inexplicable wave of emotions and self-blame rippled in his heart. He never thought that Shawk had already been sleepless for the past few days.

As someone who had reached the Blue Stage, staying up for a few days and not eating was not a big deal. However, she had to take some time out to meditate and cultivate, after all, experts were still human beings. Traveling during the day and racking his brains at night like this, even someone who had been beaten down by iron wouldn't be able to take it.

Lan Feng looked at him apologetically and said softly, "Why don't you go and sleep for a while more?"

"You're already awake, what are you sleeping for? "Okay, go in and hold your Central Army meeting!" Shawk walked into the tent and suddenly said a few words: "You have to support me later, I have an idea."

The people in the tent could clearly hear the two's shouts. On one side, they felt that it wasn't appropriate for them to be like this. How could they be so loose in the army? On the other side, the rest of them could not say anything, putting aside the fact that Shawk was the highest ranked officer, his glorious battle achievements were already there, that was a fact that they could not erase, who would have the ability to criticize him? Unless you were more capable than him, being able to cut off a country's land without having a back-up supply and with a large number of people to support you.

Larier welcomed Shawk to the main seat, and his gaze landed on's extremely dispirited face. He seemed to have thought of something in his heart, and a trace of praise appeared on his face.

Shawk was not the least bit courteous as he sat on the main seat and spoke with an unquestionable tone: "The citizens of Cang Hong City City will leave first, leaving behind the rations of eighty thousand soldiers for two days, and all the other valuables will be taken away. The 80,000 officers will stand guard for one day and then evacuate. I think that there's no problem at all for the 80,000 members to stand guard for one day even if there's a natural risk to the 300 thousand, right? "But you are not allowed to go out of the city to fight, drag it out for me. If you can't fight, try not to fight. One day later, regardless of the outcome, abandon the city and escape!"

"What did you say?"

Count Tasmo could not believe his ears. The other generals, including His Highness Larier, all revealed looks of doubt.

Shawk did not care about Tasmo's question, and ignored everyone's gaze as he continued, "The enemy troops are about 200 miles away from Cang Hong City, which is at least a day's journey. Adding the delay for a day, there are a total of two days. In the past two days, he had mobilized the entire army and set up a trap a hundred meters away from the south moat of Cang Hong City City. It was a very big trap, its width was the same as the Cang Hong City, and its length was naturally the better. All the civilians in the city were to be dug up, and the entire army was to be dug up as well. They were to dig as hard as they could, at a depth of three meters. We have the Magician here, so we can just use magic explosion, but the longer we dig, the better it is. "

Everyone was startled, the inside of the tent became quiet, after a while, Larier frowned: "Commander Shawk, you aren't prepared to use this trap to fight the enemy, right? For those who are slightly stronger, this kind of trap is useless. "

Shawk laughed insidiously, and said coldly: "You'll know soon enough. Do they think that they can do whatever they want just because they learned my tactics? How ridiculous! If my schemes were to be used on me, aren't I just asking for trouble? I will make it so that they won't even be able to cry! Everyone, do you have any other questions? "

One of the generals stood up and bowed to Shawk, then said in a deep voice: "Lord Commander, you should at least have told us the entire plan, and without knowing the plan, subordinate."

"Sir, are you sure there are no enemy spies in our army? Naturally, I cannot tell you my plan. To put it bluntly, aside from your highness, there is no one in your army that I can completely trust. I am now the commander of the army, and you are my subordinates. The duty of a soldier is to obey, do you have any other questions? "

Shawk interrupted him without a trace of politeness. The general's face and ears were flushed red from his words, filled with anger.

No matter what, he was still a Count of the Empire. He had been on the battlefield for more than ten years, yet he had been robbed of his dignity by a little kid in front of so many comrades.

Lan Feng stood up, and said solemnly: "The military order is like a mountain! No matter what position he originally held, Shawk was now the commander of the army. Even His Royal Highness had to obey, did the general want to disobey the military order? The best way to deal with the potential for a dissonance in the situation is to kill it in the cradle when the seedling appears. I think the general should understand what I mean! "

Threats! A naked threat! Kill if you don't obey, this was what Lan Feng wanted!

"You …"

"General Doca!" Larier stood up and took out a badge from his waist. He raised it above his head and shouted, "I said before, Shawk is the general of the army, his words here are the orders of the army. Everyone, including me, must obey them unconditionally! Are you listening or not? "

The night passed silently. Early the next morning, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Cang Hong City withdrew from the city. The elderly, women and children were led by a thousand strong army into the depths of the mountains. Another ten thousand men went to the city and took away all the valuables. After a day, besides the eighty thousand soldiers who guarded the city and the two days' worth of food, it was as if the Cang Hong City had been robbed by bandits. They couldn't even find a single gold coin!

Large patches of crops that had just matured and could not be harvested were uprooted. The core members of the Tianxing Mercenary Group, who had access to space, travelled back and forth, and were responsible for taking away the large amount of soil that had been dug out, and sending it to other places.

Battle qi was used to dig and the magic was continuously released, blasting large holes in the ground one after another. Under the joint efforts of hundreds of thousands of people, on the first day, a huge pit with a width of 20 miles, a depth of 3 meters, and a length of 10 miles appeared in the south of the city.

At this time, the enemy army had arrived at the city gates. They were stationed about twenty miles away from the Cang Hong City City entrance.