Niangziguan is located at the foothills of Mianshan Mountain in the northeast of Pingding County, Yangquan Prefecture.
It is located near mountains and rivers, and has two gates.
In a normal conventional war, these two gates are enough to deal with an enemy that is ten times as big as one's own.
The Catastrophic War was not a conventional war. As early as more than ten years ago, after Qilisi sounded the war drum, the imperial court began to massively renovate and expand the Niangziguan defense line.
The height and reinforcement of the two city gates were tripled, and the defense line was extended back about 180 miles to form five lines of defense based on dangerous terrain such as Laojun Cave, Qiankong Cliff, and Chengtian Peak.
The front is the defense line of Laojun Cave. The defense line here is similar to Wangfu Ridge and Duoshifeng in the Battle of Yingzui Cliff ten years ago, and it plays the role of a urn.
The second line of defense is the two huge passes at Niangzi Pass.
The third line of defense is a fan-shaped defense line centered on Laojun Cave.
The fourth line of defense is Chengtian Cliff. This line of defense is the most dangerous, especially the fifteen-mile-long Xiantian Canyon. In the past ten years, millions of craftsmen have carved it into a killing machine.
The fifth line of defense is Fenglong Mountain in the southeast.
This is the last line of defense.
In front of the Fenglongshan defense line is a river called Jinlong River.
Behind the Fenglong Mountain defense line is Shimen. This name is very unfamiliar to the world, but it also has another famous name, Changshan.
Yes, it is the hometown of Zhao Zilong, who goes in seven times and comes out seven times, and shoots out guns like a dragon.
Changshan City is not fortified, so there is no need.
Once the Yumen Pass is broken, the whole of Shanxi and eastern Shanxi will fall into the hands of heaven.
Further east is the capital, with tens of millions of troops centered around the capital, forming the Gyeonggi Defense Line.
Some military strategists have already deduced the direction of this catastrophic battle.
Although Niangzi Pass has five lines of defense, due to the wrong command of the old commander Xu Kai at the beginning of the war, millions of elites were buried outside the pass. This line of defense is the weakest among the three lines of defense built in the world.
If the heavenly army wants to win in the shortest time, the best attack route is to take Niangzi Pass first, and then push eastward to occupy the capital and destroy the human command system.
Afterwards, the central army advanced northward, encircled and annihilated the main force of 25 million people in Shanhaiguan.
When the Shanhaiguan defense line was breached and Tianjie's middle and north armies joined forces, no force in the entire Shanxi, Hebei, and Luyu could pose a threat to Tianjie's army.
The area north of the Huangyan River will be flattened by the Heavenly Cavalry.
At this time, the Yumen Pass thousands of miles away will be destroyed by itself.
As an old man in the army, Xu Kai could naturally see through this.
Nowadays, the war between Yumen Pass and Shanhaiguan Pass is just a small fight, but Niangzi Pass took the lead in launching a large-scale group charge, which verified Xu Kai's guess.
Thirty legions from the heavenly realm, more than 600,000 troops, slowly came from outside Niangzi Pass.
When they were only three miles away from the first line of defense at Niangzi Pass, the Tianjie forward began to accelerate.
The giant warrior, holding his big shield high, roared like a wild beast and rushed towards the huge pass.
This is not a tentative attack, nor is it a small fight. This type of attack is based on the pressure of a large army, just to take Niangzi Pass in one go.
During the charge, the overwhelming fireball tore through the air, making a whirring sound, flying out from the rear of the Celestial Army, passing over their heads, and severely hitting the first line of defense at Niangziguan.
Kongya.
The Thousand Holes Cliff turned into a rock wall of flames during the violent vibrations, and the human soldiers could only commit themselves to the holes in the cliff to avoid the flames.
The heavenly army ignored the huddled human soldiers inside Thousand Holes Cliff, quickly broke through from the lower part of the cliff, and continued to rush toward the second line of defense.
Xu Kai wanted to imitate the battle at Yingzui Cliff ten years ago and tried to use Thousand Holes Cliff to consume the Heavenly Realm's troops.
As a result, the millions of elites hidden in Thousand Holes Cliff were suppressed by the flames of the Legion of Destruction from the heavens and were unable to emerge at all.
The pioneer giant army in the heaven passed through the bottom of the cliff with almost no losses and arrived at the first gate of Niangzi Pass.
The city wall of Niangziguan was originally twenty feet high. In the past ten years, the city wall has been raised three times to sixty feet.
The huge rock wall is carved with defensive circles.
It is like a black mountain lying across this dangerous place.
Commander Xu Kai, who was standing on the tower of Queguan City, was shocked and angry when he saw the Celestial Vanguard troops rushing to his feet effortlessly.
He ordered the soldiers at Qiankongya in the north to take advantage of the terrain and shoot at the enemy from a high position.
What a pity, the Thousand Holes Cliff in front was completely covered in flames, and waves of fireballs were still hitting the Thousand Holes Cliff continuously, making it impossible for the soldiers on the Thousand Holes Cliff to get their heads out.
Some soldiers pushed aside the stone slabs and bent their bows to shoot. However, they were immediately burned by the flames and fell from the holes in the cliff while screaming.
Some soldiers wanted to use the Eight Ox Crossbow to shoot, but because the fire was too fierce, the Eight Ox Crossbow fired after only one round, and the cowhide rope was burned by the flames.
Seeing this scene, An Wenxiu, the coach of Tianjie Middle Army, showed a faint smile.
An Wenxiu, male, 33 years old.
He is seven feet tall, with black hair and a high nose.
His skin is very pale and thin, and his eyes are sunken and have heavy dark circles.
He is from Beidi's line, and he used to be the deputy general of the central army.
Not long ago, Princess Jiuque, the daughter of Emperor Bei, came to the world. Emperor Yan and Emperor Xi sold a favor to Princess Jiuque, so An Wenxiu was promoted to the commander of the middle army.
Even though An Wenxiu is young, his cultivation level is not low and he is already a master in the Lingji realm.
Moreover, when this person was in the heaven, he became a disciple of the great Confucian scholar Xiao in the heaven. He was familiar with Confucian classics and military strategies, and was very good at fighting.
At the age of twenty-six, he once led 40,000 troops and defeated the 150,000 rebels from the barbarian rebellion in the northern part of the heaven.
An Wenxiu saw the loopholes in Niangziguan's defense from the very beginning.
Thousand Holes Cliff is indeed dangerous, but the soldiers in the world are all hidden in the caves dug into the cliff.
As long as the Skyfire Beast blocks Thousand Holes Cliff with fireballs, this line of defense will be of little use.
This attack just confirmed An Wenxiu's guess.
A fully-staffed giant army of more than 6,000 people has arrived at the second line of defense.
They did not rush to attack the city, but quickly assembled weapons under the city.
Now Xu Kai couldn't care less about the arrival report from Yumen Pass that he received in the morning. Heaven might be collecting iron tools from the human world.
He ordered the crossbows of the first line of defense to shoot at the enemies below the city together with the Eight Ox Crossbows.
Arrows rained all over the sky, covering the sky and the sun. Only the arrows seemed to be making a swishing sound in my ears, as if even the space was trembling.
Seeing hundreds of thousands of crossbows and crossbows about to hit the enemy.
Suddenly, there was a roar from the ground beneath my feet.
Immediately afterwards, hundreds of rotating diamond umbrellas were seen roaring out from the enemy formation.
The opened Vajra Umbrella shot out in a high-speed rotation at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.
Wherever they passed, most of the crossbows and crossbow arrows that fell from the sky were blown away by the rotating diamond umbrella, and less than 30% of the arrows fell into the enemy's formation.
Most of these 30% arrows were nailed to the giant warrior's shield.
This volley of crossbow arrows had almost no effect.
