As Xi Heng kept moving back and forth on the city wall, he had no idea how many deafening noises and shouts he had heard.
The city gate became shaky under countless collisions, with its surface dented and covered with cracks.
At another part of the city wall, four battering rams like wooden buildings continuously transported the rebel troops to attack the city wall. After killing one batch after another, it seemed endless.
The battle had been going on for a long time, and Xi Heng had used up half of his energy and blood. He had also killed four of the enemy's dark-force generals.
Some of them were strong, some were weak. The weak ones could have their hearts pierced with just two or three moves, but some had mastered the exquisite hidden power of martial arts. She could only fight them to a draw alone, and had to wait for two generals of the Great Zhao to come to help before she could kill them.
Standing on a relatively stable tower in the battlefield, Xi Heng rubbed her sore arms. She had just used all her strength many times in a row, and now that she had recovered, her skin and flesh were trembling slightly.
"How long will the fight last..." Xi Heng came to the wall, watching the cars crashing and pushing and pulling, making the sound of a bell.
Now both sides have casualties, but the situation has not changed, and the two armies are almost evenly matched.
Although the number of casualties in Tianliang was several times greater than that of the officers and soldiers, even though the ground near the city wall was covered with piles of corpses, there was no reduction in the number of rebels who continued to rush over.
It was as if the soldiers of the Tianliang Army could never be exhausted no matter how hard they tried.
Xi Heng even wondered, could it be that their leader really had the magic to turn beans into soldiers?
Looking at the endless sea of people under the city wall, listening to the endless shouting and roaring, the girl smiled bitterly.
boom--
Suddenly there was a sound of collapse from below.
Her attention was drawn to the loud noise and she looked down.
Then we saw that the huge ramming vehicle below finally fell to the ground under the weight and frequent use. The roof collapsed, and the structures became loose and turned into piles of rolling wood of various sizes, crushing several people to death.
The battering ram was broken into pieces, but the attackers from afar pushed over a similar siege machine. It was obvious that Tianliang had made multiple preparations.
The rough-skinned elephant beast was walking in the front, dragging the new crash vehicle along.
But before the vehicle had even reached halfway, the Jinshi City Gate suddenly opened.
At the call of the flag-bearing officer of Great Zhao, the huge city gate was pushed open, raising dust, and the corpses blocking the gate were knocked away.
The next moment, several knife-blocking carts rushed out from the city gate, with more than a dozen sharp blades flashing in front of the carts, and rammed into the oncoming Tianliang crowd, forcing the approaching rebels to retreat.
The knife cart was pushed into the crowd, and the bright blade immediately pierced several people.
After the area in front of the city gate was cleared, thousands of Zhao cavalrymen who had been prepared in the city rode out of the city, all armed with guns and armor, and rushed straight towards the Tianliang people's formation.
General Zhao Wanli personally led the way, holding high his silver dragon spear, and his shouts spread across the battlefield: "Follow me to charge and kill the enemy!"
"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"
The cavalry charged through the enemy's formation and fought their way out of a large open space, with corpses and blood all over the ground.
Zhao Wanli wore the armor of a general with tiger power and a dark red robe with tiger patterns on his back. Wherever his spear passed, there was no life on the ground.
The wind from his guns shook as he swept across, and more than a hundred rebel soldiers in the front were knocked to the ground. He personally took action, as if he wanted to defeat the entire Tianliang formation in one fell swoop.
The numerous Tianliang soldiers who had been surrounding the city gate were driven back by the might of the cavalry and fled in all directions.
The cavalry first circled the city wall and threw pots of kerosene at the most threatening battering rams from the rear. A raging fire then broke out wildly inside the wooden building, no longer blocked by the rough fire-proof cloth as before.
Before Tianliang could react to the cavalry, several tall battering rams leaning against the city walls had already burst into flames.
Accompanied by the whistling sound of fire, the cavalry continued to charge southward, and most of the Tianliang soldiers retreated.
After a few breaths, the Tianliang army's formation, which was shaped like the Bagua, began to rotate, and a group of elite archers walked out of it.
The archers were dressed in uniform and were all strong and powerful. At the command, they all pulled the bows to their full length and released them together, shooting a torrent of arrows at the oncoming cavalry.
The rain of arrows first hit the armor of the general in the front, but only made a dent without any effect. The cavalry in the rear were all pierced with armor, making it difficult for the arrows to penetrate them.
But the armor can be protected from arrows, but the horses under the soldiers are unable to defend against the large arrows.
After a hail of arrows, dozens of horses suddenly fell backwards, and inertia caused their cavalry to fall to the ground.
The fallen soldiers immediately stood up again, followed the crowd with their legs, and continued to charge.
Amidst the rain of arrows, a team of shield and spear soldiers marched in front of the archers to block the charge for them.
But the leader of the officers and soldiers lifted the reins, the horses leaped high, directly climbed over the people who were blocking them, rushed into the archers' formation, and killed them indiscriminately.
Hundreds of cavalrymen in the rear also shouted and rushed to break down the shield wall and entered Tianliang's Bagua formation.
Both the shield soldiers and archers began to flee and retreated one after another, and the originally complete Bagua formation began to have flaws.
After a moment, a loud shout came from the chaotic Bagua formation:
"Zhao Wanli, do you dare to fight me again?"
"Why not?!" The officers and soldiers pulled the reins, and the horses' front hooves were raised high.
The spear shone with a silver glow, and under the reflection of the tall pillar of fire in the distance, it looked like a celestial soldier descending to earth, majestic and awe-inspiring.
In a flash, a golden light suddenly appeared from the enemy's formation, and a heavy figure leaped into the air, swinging and slashing towards Zhao Wanli like a meteor.
At the same time, General Da Zhao jumped up from his horse, waving his spear in his hand, and thrust a thrust towards the golden light in the sky.
Accompanied by a sound of gun wind like a silver dragon's long roar, the silver and golden lights collided and paused in the air for a moment.
The next moment, the sound of the bell ringing swept across the entire battlefield.
Xi Heng was still standing high on the city wall at the rear to rest. In just a few moments, she had recovered some of her energy and blood.
Looking at the fight between two Hua Jin warriors in the distance, she hesitated whether she should get closer.
Before Xi Heng could make up his mind, other generals of the Great Zhao in the surrounding area had already set out, using their light skills to rush to the battlefield outside the city.
Among them was a female warrior wearing red armor and holding a sword. Her speed was much faster than that of ordinary dark energy, but judging from her momentum, she did not seem to be a transformed energy.
For the dark force warrior, it only takes ten breaths to cover a distance of several hundred meters. The general had already exchanged a few moves with the Tianliang's transformation force warrior and then distanced himself from him.
The generals stood behind the general, forming a semi-circle, staring closely at the enemy's Hua Jin warriors.
Tianliang Huajin paused, and many generals were approaching from behind.
All the surrounding soldiers, whether elite or miscellaneous, made way for the generals of both sides and did not dare to approach.
In the center of the empty battlefield, the strong men from the two teams stared at each other from afar, their momentum strong and calm.
The surrounding sounds gradually faded away. Not only the shouts of fighting, but even the catapults that had been running all the time stopped operating. The ordinary soldiers attacking the city retreated one by one, and the archers also let go of their bowstrings.
For a brief moment, the entire world, which was in chaos just now, was shrouded in silence.
All that was left was the whistling of wind and fire, and the fluttering of flags on both sides.
Xi Heng realized that the battle that would decide the outcome was about to begin.
When she was previously appointed by the general as a military commander of the Great Zhao, she had never heard of such a development.
Perhaps it was because she was not a real military general, but only a temporary fighting force, and as a child of the royal family, the general did not want to let her be in danger, so he did not let her go into the battlefield.
However, the battle was about to break out, so how could Xi Heng just stay where he was?
She immediately caught up with some of the Great Zhao generals who were still on the road, jumped off the city wall, and rushed towards where the general was.
Since he had already decided to join the battle to face the Hua Jin warrior, Xi Heng did not hesitate any longer. He whispered the word "save" in the midst of the fierce battle.
In that instant, the world seemed to have been paused and suddenly stopped.
The roar of fire disappeared, the sound of wind dissipated, and among the scenes seen, the waving and fluttering battle flags seemed to be petrified in an instant, and the rolling and wandering smoke froze on the spot.
All movements and sounds stopped, and Xi Heng himself also stayed where he was, as if his soul had left his body, unable to feel his own flesh and blood.
In the immense silence, words appeared before my vision.
【Archive】
Two large characters appeared in front of him, just like the words "load file" that one would see in a gray space after the physical body died.
Xi Heng subconsciously confirmed it, and the two words turned into blue smoke and dissipated.
A dim light came on, and two files that looked like inventory items appeared before his eyes. Two pictures were printed on the surface of the files, one was a jagged beam of a house, and the other was a dark scene of war.
There was no written statement on the file, but she could somehow understand that the file above was when she was in the village at the foot of Yaowang Mountain.
The one below was the second save file she had decided on at that moment.
When you load the file later, you can choose from these files at will.
Gradually, the file interface turned into transparent colors and gradually disappeared, and the world in front of Xiheng was filled with sound and movement again.
She was stunned for a moment, then retracted her attention and continued to approach General Da Zhao in the front.
Although it feels a bit strange just now, just save the file.
With the new save file set, her mind has become extremely calm. No matter what injuries she suffers in the battle, whether she can be healed, or even if she is seriously injured and on the verge of death... it doesn't matter anymore.
Xi Heng, like other generals with hidden energy martial arts, fell behind the general.
At this moment, Zhao Wanli suddenly glanced back, his eyes stayed on her for a while, and then turned back.
The sky and the earth were dark, and the general was wearing a bronze tiger mask. Xi Heng could not see the expression in his eyes, but nothing mattered now.
The blood-stained sword was slowly pulled out, and she faced the dozens of Tianliang warriors in front of her, slowly taking up the stance of the Red Line Sword Technique.
The night wind blew, and the armor on people's clothes rustled continuously.
Most of the experts among the officers and soldiers have gathered, while the number of people on Tianliang's side is still gradually increasing.
"Zhao Wanli, you are a coward, not staying behind the city wall. You dared to lead these few hundred people to charge our army's position. This is a big taboo in military strategy!"
From behind, an elephant-like beast walked slowly, its footsteps shaking the ground.
There is a pavilion on the elephant's back, in which sits a burly man in a yellow robe.
He wore a golden crown on his head, a brocade robe inside and a golden armor outside. His facial features were square and he had a slight beard. At first glance, he looked righteous.
To the right of the man's seat stood a huge axe with a long handle weighing over a hundred pounds. There were spikes on the top and the tail, and two axe blades of different sizes shone with a cold crescent-like light.
"The traitor Fang Tiande!" Zhao Wanli shouted:
"You were originally a Taoist official under the former emperor. The former emperor treated you with great kindness, bestowing gold, silver, fertile fields, and houses on you. Yet, you, such an ungrateful person, turned ungrateful and went back to the south to rebel under the pretext of visiting relatives. During this time, you insulted heaven and earth and went against reason. You forged talismans to deceive the people, changed the Wanli law to go against the will of heaven, split the counties and kingdoms to cut off the land connection, and occupied the territory of Great Zhao, causing disease and famine everywhere. The dead were exposed and the living were floating like duckweed. You went against the will of mankind!"
"This is a crime against heaven, earth, and man! Today, on behalf of all the people of Zhao, I will obey the order of Emperor Taixiao and lead my army to defeat you!"
Fang Tiande on the elephant's back laughed out loud after hearing this:
"Why don't you say that your Great Zhao court has taken all the benefits of the world for itself? And has put all the harm of the world on the people. As a result, the people are full of resentment and their lives are hanging in the balance. Among the tens of millions of soldiers under my command, who is not forced to follow me in rebellion? Who is not busy and hard to get food and shelter from the cold? Who has not been exploited by your government and court? I am now taking up my axe and gathering my soldiers to revolt, which is in accordance with the will of heaven and the time to settle down and protect my country, and to eliminate all treacherous ministers and treacherous people to establish a new dynasty. But in your mouth, Zhao Wanli, it has become a rebellion against heaven and earth. You are really shameless!"
He suddenly stood up from the elephant's back and grabbed a huge axe with a handle more than two meters long. He looked very majestic.
"Tonight I will use your head as a drink to comfort the people under my command!"
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Chapter 73: Bloodline Prohibition
"Tonight, I will take your head, a member of the Zhao family, and use it as a drink to comfort the people!"
The long handle of the giant axe hammered on the ground, and a strong wind blew past, clearing away countless dust around the feet.
"Come and fight!" Fang Tiande shouted loudly.
The Tianliang generals in the rear responded, drawing their swords and holding their spears and halberds steady.
When Fang Tiande took a step forward with his battle axe raised high, the Tianliangwu around him also rushed towards the officers and soldiers of Da Zhao with their dark golden cloaks waving like flags.
Xi Heng turned his attention back to the conversation between the two sides and looked at the hundreds of bandit warriors in front of him who were wielding various weapons and attacking with different moves.
The enemy had more generals, but their armor and weapons were obviously inferior to those of the officers' soldiers. Most of them looked like guerrillas, unlike her side who had already formed a battle formation and were coordinating and caring for each other.
Xi Heng was not in the formation, nor did he gather with the officers and soldiers. When he saw the enemy rushing towards him, he fearlessly rushed towards the edge of the enemy army with his sword in hand.
In the short distance of a hundred meters, a blood shadow flashed by.
The cold light of the sword blade swept across was extremely bright under the reflection of the raging fire behind it, and the sword energy surged forward -
If this sword were slashed towards the group of miscellaneous soldiers in Tianliang, it could easily chop off dozens of heads.
But now, the enemies she faced were almost all dark energy. Although the sword energy was powerful, it was difficult to defeat the dark energy warriors with one move.
A whistling sound of a knife came from the distance, immediately cutting off a piece of her sword energy.
Another ascetic monk who practiced martial arts and had an extremely thin body turned his body strangely and bent down to avoid the attack.
The enemy generals seemed to think that two dark forces were enough to deal with her, and the other warriors did not move closer to increase their momentum, but instead rushed towards more important targets.
