The battle at Niangziguan touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.
At this moment, all the eyes and topics in the world are on Niangziguan.
Early this morning, after Tianjie destroyed the catapults on the second line of defense at Niangziguan, it used the siege cloud tower to start a close battle with the human defenders on the second line of defense.
There are constantly mad warriors who have transformed into madmen, carrying giant axes and jumping from the high cloud tower to the city wall.
The goal of this group of berserkers is not to kill people, but to try to destroy the world's most powerful city defense weapon, the rolling log.
With the existence of these rolling logs weighing thousands of kilograms, it would be difficult for the Skeleton Legion to exert its combat power.
As for conquering the Niangziguan defense line with the help of Siege Cloud Tower, An Wenxiu is not so arrogant.
The siege cloud tower can only be used by madman warriors. As for giant warriors who are huge and weigh up to 1,000 kilograms, they cannot board the siege cloud tower and are easily crushed.
The few berserkers transported by hundreds of siege cloud towers alone cannot pose a substantial threat to the human defenders.
The battle ten years ago showed the heavenly army the determination of the human soldiers to resist and defend their homeland.
This group of lowly ants will fill it in with human lives at any cost and take back every inch of the defense line occupied by the enemy.
Xu Kai also discovered An Wenxiu's intention immediately.
Now that enemies have begun to appear on the top of the city, Xu Kai is not panicking.
This gray-haired old man has the stability of sitting on a Diaoyutai.
From early morning to dusk, the two sides fought fiercely for several hours, and nearly half of the rolling logs were destroyed.
Without the targeted weapon of rolling logs, many skeleton warriors successfully climbed to the top of the city wall and started hand-to-hand combat with the human defenders.
It was only then that Xu Kai ordered the destruction of hundreds of siege cloud towers posted by the enemy.
Many holes were suddenly opened on the city wall, and packages of ignited black gunpowder were thrown out of the holes.
Although those siege cloud towers are coated with fire-proof liquid and are not afraid of fire, the huge energy generated instantly when the black powder explodes can still easily tear the siege cloud tower apart.
Continuous explosions sounded near the city wall.
Most of the hundreds of siege cloud towers collapsed in this round of explosions.
At this time, hundreds of mad warriors on the city wall who were fighting fiercely with the human defenders roared in anger and despair after discovering that the siege cloud tower behind them had been destroyed.
Xu Kai knew that the next war would weaken. After all, he was an old man. After sitting here for a day and a night, he was already exhausted. After giving a few orders, he turned around and went back to rest.
The six to seven hundred mad warriors who have lost their way out have become turtles in a jar.
The city wall is dozens of feet high. If you jump off, you will definitely be thrown to death.
Their final way out is to be eaten away bit by bit by the human defenders.
Xu Kai didn't want to waste his troops. If it were a normal confrontation, killing these hundreds of mad warriors would cost the world at least 8,000 elite soldiers.
Before Xu Kai left, his first order was to shoot these mad warriors from a distance with a crossbow.
When the Siege Cloud Tower was destroyed, An Wenxiu sighed.
He also knew that it would take at least an hour to reorganize a new siege cloud tower.
There was no way to bring back the mad warriors who had stormed the city wall.
It was already dark, so An Wenxiu ordered a temporary halt to the attack, and the entire army retreated to set up camp five miles away from the first line of defense at Niangzi Pass.
After a day and night of fierce fighting, the golden sound in the heaven finally ended with the defeat in the heaven.
Half an hour later, the capital, the imperial palace.
The emperor sat on a large dragon chair, and his clothes were embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon, shining brightly in the candlelight of the hall.
In the main hall, all the civil and military officials were present.
They were all discussing the war between their wives, and they did not end the meeting even after dark.
The battle report from Niangziguan was also passed on.
Tianjie has withdrawn its troops and the two sides have entered a period of truce.
After counting, it was found that in this siege, more than 36,300 people were killed and more than 29,000 people were injured.
The Pegasus troops lost 3,200 horses, and the northern Xinjiang air cavalry suffered a huge loss, totaling 6,000 horses.
When it comes to individual combat, the Tianma Army's Detachment of Women is far inferior to the Northern Xinjiang Air Cavalry.
Northern Xinjiang's air cavalry suffered such heavy losses, mainly due to insufficient gunpowder equipment.
The black gunpowder that Zhan Ying obtained through Ye Xiaochuan's relationship was all equipped for the human army in northern Liaoning and was not supplied to the northern Xinjiang air cavalry.
In this battle, the human losses were great, and the losses in heaven were also considerable.
The Heavenly Six-Winged Army lost 4,500 riders, the Madmen Army lost 1,500 people, and the Skeleton Army lost nearly 2,000 people.
As for the most powerful giant army, the losses were not great, with only 300 casualties.
Behind the battle report is a memorial from Xu Kai asking the court for black powder.
Black gunpowder has always been in the hands of the five tribes in southern Xinjiang and the Tiannu Kingdom. The imperial court only began to imitate black powder after the Battle of Longmen, and the quantity was not very large.
Xu Kai had always regarded black gunpowder as his trump card and did not dare to use it freely. Otherwise, he would have used black gunpowder to blow up the opponent's siege cloud tower, and the battle would not have lasted so long.
Xu Kai said so in the memorial, but the real situation was not like this.
The black gunpowder currently stored in Niangziguan is enough to fight a high-intensity battle. The reason why Xu Kai delayed using black gunpowder until dusk was because he did it intentionally.
He not only needs to train his troops through actual combat, but also consume the enemy's vitality.
In this catastrophe, the world has two advantages.
With more people, fight locally.
From the very beginning, Xu Kai deployed millions of elites outside Niangzi Pass, just to consume the vitality of the heaven bit by bit through layer upon layer of resistance.
But he didn't expect that the external defense line would be vulnerable to the fierce attack of the Skyfire Beast.
Now, Xu Kai has applied this plan to Niangziguan's defense line.
He now still has an elite army of 25 million in his hands. Behind the army, there are at least 15 million civilian craftsmen who can take up swords and fight the enemy at any time.
According to intelligence, the total number of troops in the Tianjie Middle Route Army led by An Wenxiu is only two million.
He wants to use the human sea tactic to consume the enemy's strength bit by bit.
Today's battle has consumed more than 6,000 combat forces from the Heaven Realm. Although the total number of human casualties was nearly ten times that of the Heaven Realm, in general, this battle was a victory for the Human Realm.
This battle-loss ratio is completely acceptable.
When they heard that General Xu Kai had repelled this fierce enemy attack, all the princes in the court quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and many people began to praise General Xu for being as brave as before.
Before that, most of these princes and ministers were cursing Xu Kai for his lack of military talent.
Some people even think that Xu Kai cannot defend Niangzi Pass. Now that Niangzi Pass is the main battlefield, Zhao Zian, the coach of Yumen Pass, should be transferred to Niangzi Pass...
Although they are all idiots, they also know that once Niangzi Pass is lost, the territory of Gyeonggi Province will definitely not be protected.
I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has secretly established the Southern Court in Jinling to prepare for the fall of the capital.
The day when Niangzi Pass was breached was when His Royal Highness officially retreated to Jinling.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can run away, but people like him cannot.
They are all a group of old nobles who have long lost the heroic spirit and spirit of their ancestors who rode horses to conquer the world. Prince Zhao Shiyu is the representative of the Eagle Faction, so naturally he will not take them with him.
Their only fantasy is that the human defenders can guard the three major passes and block the enemy from the country forever.
Now that Niangziguan is guarded, these gentlemen are naturally happy.
However, within a quarter of an hour of their happiness, their bad news came.
A royal monk wearing a flying fish costume walked into the hall quickly and said: "Your Majesty, I just received news from the Cangyun Gate. At noon today, the fleet going south was intercepted by the cultivators of the Nanhai Xiaoyao Sect. Now the entire
The fleet going south has been hijacked by the Xiaoyao faction and has arrived at Dayangui in the South China Sea."
