Two hundred and ninetieth eight chapters big city decision
When these young practitioners gradually became silent but felt uneasy, in fact, in a village behind the hill that was not far away from them, a man in black was also watching quietly.
That lost mountain.
This man has long black hair. His hair is longer than that of ordinary women and reaches below his waist. However, it is not tied with anything.
His long, disheveled hair hid his face quite a bit, but his face was still covered with a black scarf, leaving only a pair of eyes shining in the dark night.
He looked at the hill quietly, motionless, as if he had merged with the entire night.
After most array masters have completed setting up the array, they will want to admire their masterpiece, and he is no exception.
When the hill gradually returned to calm and moist water vapor drifted in with the gentle night wind, he was finally sure that when the power of the magic circle exploded, there was no more rioting energy of heaven and earth.
Any practitioner who is on the verge of death will definitely struggle beyond the limit. If these practitioners from the Southern Dynasties, who are following with war horses as guides, fall into his magic circle, many groups of chaotic vitality will burst out when they die.
Power, but it doesn't exist now. This can only mean that even though the arrangement of his magic circle is perfect in his opinion, it is one of his rare masterpieces in recent years, it still has no effect. It's like a punch that accumulates power.
It still hit an empty space.
Being able to escape in time from the power of this magic circle can only mean that there is a powerful formation master among these practitioners. Only a formation master can detect clues in advance and detect the precursors of the power of the magic formation.
Although he did not think that the opponent's formation master could be more accomplished than himself, the existence of such an formation master was always a big trouble for him.
He turned around silently, passed through this deserted village, passed through a forest, and arrived at a depression formed by a dry river bed. His long hair did not move at all in the breeze, looking extremely strange.
"General!"
There was a carriage and several cavalrymen waiting for him in this depression. When they saw his figure, these sergeants bowed extremely respectfully.
The man in black entered the carriage without saying a word.
The hoofs of these war horses are wrapped with something unknown, and there is no sound when walking. Even the carriage he is in is always flowing with a faint fluorescence, and there is no sound even when the wheels run over the stones.
any sound.
The man in black in the carriage closed his eyes and soon fell into a real deep sleep.
Unlike the Southern Dynasty's own border troops, he led the troops deep into the Southern Dynasty and needed to be the final word figure at many times. He needed to pay enough attention to opponents who might hinder his strategic goals.
The ownership of Jiange to Tie Ce's army was not only a major event in the world of Southern Dynasties practitioners. For such a Southern Dynasty army with many practitioners, his thoughts were different from those of ordinary generals.
He could try to kill some of the practitioners, but he would never, like most generals, allocate superior forces to try to wipe out this iron army.
In his opinion, the best way is to throw this Iron Ce army away from the battlefield and prevent this Iron Ce army from participating in the battle before he completes the key battle.
The same goes for this batch of potentially threatening ordnance.
All he had to do was hold back the footsteps of these people, and by the time he captured the city, these ordnance and the iron army would be useless when they returned to that city.
He and Zhongshan Wang Yuanying were very different in leading troops, but this time they had the same idea. No matter how they fought, they pursued time.
The riverbed where his carriages and horses were located had plenty of water a few dozen days ago, but with the outbreak of some battles upstream and the construction of many city fortifications, the water flow in this river was completely cut off, even if there had been one or two heavy rains before.
, the accumulated rainwater quickly seeped deep into the ground in the dry river bed, leaving only moisture among the rocks on the river bed, making the grass growing on the river bed more vigorous and dense.
The Southern Liang and the Northern Wei occupies most of the fertile land in this world. For the world where the Southern Liang and the Northern Wei are located, the border between the two is the middle of the world, which is a flatter wilderness.
Going north along this meandering riverbed, there are occasionally some uncoordinated mountain and forest protrusions in the wilderness shrouded in darkness, but the ground becomes more and more flat.
At the upper end of the riverbed, there were some lights in the darkness.
When dark clouds cover the moon and the night becomes darker, these lights appear clearer.
But only when you are very close can you clearly see the outline of a big city.
This large city, which is difficult to see in the deep darkness, is exceptionally majestic when viewed up close. The straight walls with some inward slopes are tall and thick, and the water in the moat below is turbid and churning for unknown reasons.
Even if practitioners are close to each other, they will also feel a sense of insurmountability.
Many official roads leading to this city also connect some cities and fortresses, but those cities and fortresses that have been damaged by the war are as different as a farmhouse from a royal palace compared with the size of this city.
The clear firelight in the darkness came from the city wall. Huge fires were burning in many open places on the city wall, and hot stones were roasting on the fires. This kind of ordinary stone from Yongyang Mountain in the Southern Dynasty also played an important role in the war.
The role of the character. After the red-hot stone is thrown with a catapult, it will explode when it encounters sharp cold in the air. A red stone the size of a head will explode into hundreds of sharp-edged stones in the air.
piece.
As long as one of these sharp stones falling from the sky hits the vital part of an ordinary soldier, a fresh life can be harvested.
The sound of heavy objects and small objects flying in the air continued to sound. It was already dark, but the battle around this big city continued.
That night, the Northern Wei army attacked the city several times and was repelled. At this moment, it seemed that the Northern Wei army was suppressed outside the moat and could not even get close to filling the river. However, there were still soldiers from the Southern Dynasty falling down from the city wall.
Ordinary weapons shot from the city wall can pose a fatal threat to ordinary soldiers, but they cannot prevent the approach of practitioners.
Sometimes the opponent's cultivator could not be seen at all in the night, but often the roar of flying swords would suddenly sound, and then blood flowers would fly from the city wall.
Ruyin Sword Sect is also a practicing sect that has experienced three dynasties in the south and has always been valued. Its location is not far from Jiankang. No matter in the previous dynasty or in Nanliang at this time, many powerful people sent their children to it.
The cultivation of Ruyin Sword Sect also brought many resources to Ruyin Sword Sect. After Xiao Yan ascended the throne, Ruyin Sword Sect was directly ordered to become one of the training institutions in the army. Many people who performed poorly in the army
Young people who are secular will be drawn out and sent to Ruyin Sword Sect to practice.
Compared with Ruyin Sword Sect, although the students in colleges like Nantianyuan may have higher talents and more prominent family backgrounds, their combat experience cannot be compared with the practitioners of Ruyin Sword Sect.
Tu Yunqing, a practitioner of the Ruyin Sword Sect, has studied in the Ruyin Sword Sect for three years. Before that, he was one of the best scouts in the border army. At this time, he was wearing an ordinary infantry leather armor, which was somewhat
Standing cowering behind a stone-throwing ordnance.
In front of him was a Southern Dynasty general wearing light armor. Before that, this general had issued several military orders.
There seemed to be nothing in the night ahead. The churning water vapor in the moat was lower than the city wall. Standing on the city wall and looking at the soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the wilderness below, it was like watching tiny people moving in the clouds.
However, a dangerous energy appeared in his perception, which was also the energy he wanted to capture.
The true energy accumulated in the meridians in his body exploded instantly, and the ordinary leather armor on his body made a heart-stopping cracking sound. An extremely cold sword intent bloomed from behind him, turning into a shocking rainbow and striking directly at a quietly rising vapor in front of him.
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Just hearing a loud bang, the two Southern Dynasty sergeants who were bowing near the outer edge of the city wall were even pushed back by the sudden burst of air waves and fell to the ground.
The water vapor has disappeared, and the two small swords trembled sharply in the air.
The corners of Tu Yunqing's mouth were bleeding, but his expression remained unchanged. With the sharp light in his eyes, his flying sword slashed forward forcefully again.
The flying sword from the unknown swordsman of the Northern Wei Dynasty screamed, like a poisonous snake that had been struck seven inches. It no longer had any strength and fell to the top of the city wall with a clang.
Tu Yunqing's expression relaxed, and the general in front of him who had used his body as bait also let out a long sigh of relief, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
However, at this moment, a sword light flashed in the darkness behind Tu Yunqing's head.
A flying sword suddenly appeared and pierced the back of his head before he had time to react. Then it broke through the hardest forehead bone and rushed out with hot blood.
The general who had used his body as bait let out a horrified exclamation. Before he could turn around, blood had already sprayed on his body. However, the flying sword didn't stop at all, not even bothering to cut his throat, and just passed through his neck.
It flew nearby and quickly passed through the water vapor under the city wall.
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More exclamations sounded from the city walls.
The loudest exclamation broke out at the south gate of the city wall.
In the wilderness outside the south gate of the city wall is the main camp area of the Northern Wei army.
In the past few days, the Northern Wei army that initially arrived numbered tens of thousands. After a siege, most of the Northern Wei army quietly retreated. The newly replaced Northern Wei army only numbered
About ten thousand.
There were 60,000 Southern Dynasty troops in the city. Under such circumstances, the city's general did not hesitate to leave the city for a surprise attack. However, what people did not expect was that in the wilderness outside the South Gate, the Southern Dynasty army suffered a huge defeat.
More than 13,000 people were damaged.
The Northern Wei army, which totaled less than 16,000 to 7,000 men, only lost less than 3,000 men.
The biggest reason for such an incredible battle loss ratio is not that the newly arrived Northern Wei army of more than 10,000 people is too elite, but because there are many practitioners in this army, and during the raid that day,
The soil in a large area outside the south gate suddenly became soft and muddy. It turned from the normal mud into a swamp-like one. In an instant, the Southern Dynasty army that rushed out with great momentum was thrown into chaos, making it impossible to fight according to the imagined plan.
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This kind of change in the landscape can only come from the formation divisions in the opponent's army. In the following battle, with the arrival of nearly 10,000 Northern Wei troops, the Southern Dynasty troops in the city no longer had the confidence to charge out.
However, the Southern Dynasty sergeants in the city have also observed a very strange phenomenon in the past few days. The more than 10,000 Northern Wei troops who had formation divisions at the beginning and the rest of the Northern Wei troops were not mixed, and were strictly separated.
This Northern Wei army now occupied the main camp outside the south gate, while the rest of the Northern Wei army set up camps outside the other gates.
Nearly half of the Southern Dynasty troops in the city were Lan Huaigong's troops and belonged to the frontier army. The other half were local troops and other reinforcements mobilized from the fighting place. After discovering this strange phenomenon, the generals in the city were already making plans.
The other gates launched a surprise attack to avoid the battle plan with the army from the south gate.
The Northern Wei army outside the south gate has a particularly gloomy temperament. Even in the dark, it seems that there are very few fires, giving people the feeling that there is no need for fire for meals.
But tonight, the Wei army outside the south gate made a surprising movement, and piles of bright bonfires were lit.
In addition to the camp area, the battlefields a few miles outside the south gate from the camp area were also lit up with flames that reached into the sky. However, before it was time to have a cup of tea, the outside of the south gate of this big city was actually as bright as day.
In the light of the fire, the more than 10,000 Northern Wei troops in the camp seemed to have rushed out, led by several trains of chariots.
On top of a chariot in the middle, there were no men, but two female generals, one in red and one in blue.
Their faces cannot be seen clearly from a distance, but from the top of the city, one can only see the tall and plump woman in red, while the slim and graceful woman in blue.
The clothes on these two women were obviously not battle armor, but the cavalry behind their chariots were covered in black armor. Compared with the beauty and glamor of these two women, their temperament seemed particularly cold.
The horses under these cavalrymen were hung with ropes to drag heavy objects.
More than 10,000 Wei troops came unhurriedly towards the south gate like a tide. The Southern Dynasty sergeants in the city were already extremely nervous. In the next moment, many people saw clearly what these cavalry troops were dragging behind them, and they were horrified.