"How's it going? How many troops are left?" the head of the Han family asked his younger brother who came in from outside.
The bamboo clan brother shook his head, his face looked a little ugly, and he said sadly: "There are only 20,000 soldiers left from the Hundred Wars, and more than 5,000 of them can no longer go to the battlefield. There are still many militiamen recruited by young and middle-aged people.
Due to defensive reasons, the recruited militiamen did not suffer too many heavy losses, but it would be difficult to rely on them to defend the city."
The man who spoke knew very well what those militiamen looked like, that is, they were the victorious party, and the militiamen's combat effectiveness might be improved to the same level as those of the veterans.
But the problem is that now they are on the side being suppressed and the militiamen's lack of experience and vigor on the battlefield will become a big loophole.
Once they suffer heavy damage, they will be the first to collapse, and at the same time, they are likely to overwhelm other surrounding phalanxes.
This is also the reason why they have more troops than the Xiliang army outside, but they can only guard inside the city.
"How about we gather our troops to defend the city?" The head of the Han family seemed to be asking other people, but also seemed to be asking himself.
Before the war started, he was confident that he could defend Anding City. No matter how powerful the Xiliang soldiers were, he was confident of defending the city.
But when the real war started, he realized how naive and ridiculous his thoughts were.
When fighting against those Xiliang headquarters soldiers, he found that the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang headquarters soldiers was not boasted by others, but truly demonstrated.
The guards they lead can be regarded as good players in the world, but in the case of a sneak attack, they are very likely to be taken away by those Xiliang soldiers.
At the same time, the Xiliang soldiers' coordination ability is top-notch. The coordination between arms makes them like a small team on the battlefield. Some are responsible for dividing, some are responsible for resisting, and some are responsible for killing.
Most of their guards died tragically due to such cooperation, and they could even kill some third-rate warriors.
Only after the actual battle did they understand why the Ma family's army was so defeated on the grassland.
"If we defend the inner city with all our strength, we can indeed defend it for a while, but if reinforcements cannot arrive in time, we will be trapped in the inner city."
The senior officials, all with bloodstains on their bodies, looked at the family patriarch. They had just returned from fighting on the battlefield. The people here now were all the senior officials of the family. As for the young disciples, they had already retreated before the war came.
Those who can stay here are basically those who have no worries, that is, the main war faction of the Han family are basically here.
"Then let us live and die together in Anding City." The Han family drew their sharp swords: "This city was founded by my ancestor of the Han family. If it is going to die, then we will die with him."
"I swear to live and die with Anding City."
Other senior members of the Han family shouted loudly that no one has ever died in life since ancient times. At their age, they have already enjoyed everything they should enjoy.
The children had been sent away by them before the war started, so they had nothing to worry about and were focused on Anding City.
Li Xiang was in the sky and could not fall into Anding City. The woman was always looking at him. He could not fall down, and naturally the woman could not fall down either.
Therefore, he could only watch the war below helplessly, but with the long bow in his hand, if the master of the Han family wanted to take action again, he would have to take an arrow from him now.
If he really wanted to kill the grandmaster, the woman would not be able to stop him unless he was injured.
The darkness could not block his gaze, and the fighting in the city was always burned in his eyes. He saw the Xiliang army continuing to move forward under the light of fire.
On the other hand, Han Jia's troops were constantly gathering in the inner city. They planned to defend the inner city and wait for reinforcements from afar.
Can they really wait until reinforcements arrive? Li Xiang doesn't think that the Han family's 70,000 cavalry can break through the defensive line he has laid out.
When he decided to storm Anding City, he had already laid out a defensive line of 70,000 cavalry arriving at the Han family. The first line was composed of 3,000 flying bear troops of his own bodyguard cavalry.
The Flying Bear Army led 5,000 Xiliang cavalry, plus 10,000 Xiliang infantry, 2,000 crossbowmen, and 3,000 transport teams, which was enough to block the enemy's 70,000 cavalry.
What we are talking about here is to block, not to destroy. The opponent wants to support Anding City. After all, they have to rush towards the south gate.
Their gate only has the south gate, because the Xiliang soldiers outside the other gates have not been mobilized, and those troops are still in their own camps.
When the Xiliang army set up camp, they were accustomed to digging huge ditches around the camp and setting up various traps.
Moreover, even if the gate of the Xiliang army's camp was wide open, the generals of the Han family's 70,000 cavalry would not dare to rush in with their troops, because no one knew what was ambush in the camp.
There are many things in the Xiliang army that are specially designed to restrain cavalry, such as those bed crossbows that can be inserted deeply into the city wall, and repeating crossbows that can fire dozens of long arrows at once.
These things were spread out in formation, and the cavalry immediately turned around and ran away when they saw it. Who would want to attack such a camp? It would be to die in vain.
Although they are also cavalry, they are not as heavy-armored as the Xiliang cavalry, and even the Xiliang cavalry do not engage in military formations such as charging.
That's just kidding with your own life and the life of your horse.
Therefore, the only thing in front of the enemy is to attack from the South City Gate. Almost all the main Xiliang troops outside the South City Gate have entered the city.
Only the resisting army left by Li Xiang was left, with cavalry on both sides, infantry in the middle, and behind the infantry were crossbowmen, and in the crossbowmen were carriages.
There are a lot of things piled on these carriages. If necessary, they can turn these carriages into thick walls, in which infantry and archers can hide.
This is specially used to deal with enemy cavalry. When the enemy cavalry is about to approach, all melee and long-range soldiers hide in the camp created by the carriage.
"What are you looking at me for? Just watch how the Han family down below is destroyed." Li said to the woman who was looking at him.
The palace owner of Lingjiu Palace smiled and said: "The majestic King Li Xiang of Xiliang is still afraid of others looking at him?"
"It's not because I'm afraid of you." Li Xiang didn't have a good look on his enemy: "I want you to learn how the Han family resisted our Xiliang army. In the future, when our Xiliang army surrounds your Lingjiu Palace, you will do the same.
Use it!"
"Hahaha!" The master of the Lingjiu Palace let out a series of crisp laughter: "If such a day comes, the slave family will definitely lead the sect to surrender to you, the King of Xiliang. At that time, I hope that you, the King of Xiliang, will not forget the little one.
We have done something wrong, please forgive us.
I just don’t know if you, King of Xiliang, can reach the southwest region!
But if you really come, the slave family will surrender to you with hundreds of thousands of people."
Li Xiang could hear the ridicule in the woman's voice. The Vulture Palace has been able to exist for thousands of years only because of their powerful force. They are not trustworthy men and good women.
The Vulture Palace is in the southwest, which is better said to be the western region. The place they are located is a little north of Shu and a little south of the Yellow Sands of the Western Region.
The land in that area is severely deserted, the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, and there is a shortage of water and food. In many cases, all parties will take great action to obtain water.
And the Lingjiu Palace is the most powerful existence in that area. Even the emperor's words there are not as effective as the words of the Lingjiu Palace. Who makes the emperor's sky high and the road far away?
As the boss of that area, the Spiritual Vulture Palace governs many forces. In order to protect themselves, many forces have taken refuge in the Spiritual Vulture Palace and will offer something to them every once in a while.
The Vulture Palace naturally has direct control over these forces. They have a very magical technique that can inject the internal power cultivated from this technique into a person's body, thereby controlling that person.
As long as the other party does not come to the Vulture Palace to make offerings within the stipulated time and does not receive the elixir given by the Vulture Palace, he will suffer pain all over his body and eventually die.
Relying on this kind of skill, Lingjiu Palace has a large number of diehard loyalists, and its subordinates control nearly a hundred thousand martial arts people.
It can be said that if the Vulture Palace is willing, they can establish a powerful country in that area.
"I'm looking forward to it too." Li Xiang said coldly: "I hope the palace master can do what he says."
After speaking, Li Xian looked at the battlefield above and below and ignored the Lord of the Lingjiu Palace in the distance.
The Master of the Lingjiu Palace still looked at Li Xiang. Li Xiang, who was over two meters tall, looked like a little giant in the eyes of the Lingjiu Palace Master. He was simply too tall and too big.
Wearing a red and black armor, the crown feathers on his head, the magical square-shaped painted halberd, and the cloak that blew up in the cold wind, he was like a battlefield killing god.
The Master of Lingjiu Palace suddenly felt that the man in front of him seemed to be very different from the beautiful men he had seen in the imperial capital. One of them was in the sky and the other was on the ground.
Those beautiful men looked like women in front of King Li Xiang of Xiliang. Perhaps such people should be called men.
It was really cheap that the princess married such a powerful, tall and powerful man.
Although she mocked Li Xiang, she knew very well that within the next hundred years, as long as Li Xiang did not die, Xiliang would become a major overlord in the northwest region.
The three major families, the Han family, the Ma family, and the Pang family, will only end up being exterminated. Even if they are not exterminated, they will still be able to survive.
It was only this year that they were able to help the three major families. This was because Xiliang had its own powerful enemies, and they needed to send a few great masters to suppress the ghosts outside the pass.
Otherwise, if all the great masters from Xiliang went south, they would have no choice but to avoid its edge.
Those great masters and masters in Xiliang are not easy to deal with.
The reason why she was able to block Li Xiang today was because of her physical skills and speed, but her speed in bullying Li Xiang was not as good as hers.
If the Ji Mo Sect Master under Xiliang King Li Xiang takes action, she will probably be left without food.
The leader of the Ji Mo Sect is a top master at the same level as her, and the speed of Ji Mo Shenfa is faster than that of their Lingjiu Palace.
Moreover, once the Demonic Sect Master opens the realm, it will be difficult for her to get out.
Li Xiang felt the constant gazes coming from the Lingjiu Palace Master, as if looking at prey or a treasure, and he wanted to hit Fang Tian with his painted halberd.
But his speed was still too slow compared to this woman. He really made a miscalculation. He should have called Xing Liao over from the beginning. If he cooperated with Xing Liao, this woman would definitely not be able to outrun him.
It's a pity that it made the other party wary.
Rumble
On the other side, the general of the Han family's iron cavalry, who received a fierce attack from the Xiliang army, led his army to gallop all the way.
He thought it was just a feint attack, but he didn't expect that the Xiliang army actually broke into Anding City in one fell swoop.
A city gate had been captured in Anding City, and he had to rush there as quickly as possible. If it was any slower, he would have to go over and collect the corpses for the clan leader and the others.
He knew very well how cruelly King Li Xiang of Xiliang treated his enemies. Since he was an enemy, there was no need to hold back, especially after the death of Luo Mu, the leader of King Xiliang's important leader, the Demon Army.
He didn't dare to take any chances, and drove like crazy with 70,000 cavalry.
The Xiliang army in the city was not idle. They continued to occupy the southern part of the city and at the same time launched attacks on other urban areas on the city wall.
They continued to push forward with huge bed crossbows, but when faced with the enemy's phalanx with large shields blocking the front, they used their bed crossbows to break through the enemy.
When the number of enemies is very close, they will use repeating crossbows to fire together. They will use war machinery in combination, and a large number of corpses will be piled up on the ground in front.
The young and middle-aged people gathered in the Han family could hold on for a while with their strength at first, but when they saw the cruelty of the battlefield.
Facing the Xiliang headquarters soldiers who looked like murderous gods, they could either turn around and run away, or kneel on the ground and raise their hands in surrender.
Overnight, the Xiliang army occupied the entire city wall. After occupying the city wall, Xiliang soldiers outside other city gates entered the city through the opened gates.
The battle flags on the city wall have also turned into Xiliang battle flags, and only a large number of soldiers are still hidden in the enemy's inner city and streets.
The Xiliang army did not attack in a hurry. They attacked steadily, consolidated the place they occupied, and then moved forward slowly in small groups.
The civilians in the city were hiding in their homes or underground. They did not dare to show up or make too much noise.
I can only pray secretly that my children are safe. I know those young adults were taken out of their homes.
Seeing that the situation was not good, some young adults took off their clothes and threw them away when they returned home. It was impossible to throw away the weapons. They had to rely on these weapons to protect their relatives.
Xiliang soldiers did not take the initiative to enter those houses where the doors and windows were closed and there was not much sound, but if someone dared to launch a sneak attack on them in the house.
Then they can only say sorry, throw in kerosene and let the house burn. They can't care whether there are innocent people in the house.
