Chapter 471: Attacking the City

When the emotions of hatred gradually subsided, Xu Qi’an reexamined the battle and suddenly felt a chill running down his spine and a deep chill rising in his heart.

With his logical reasoning ability, after listening to Zhang Kaitai’s description, he had already reviewed the battle in his mind.

At the center of this battle is the Witch God.

A game and war centered on the Witch God.

Aiding the Demon Barbarians is just a superficial reason, what Wei Yuan really wants to do is to deal with the Witch God (for reasons unknown), while the late Emperor and the Witch God Cult are trying to protect the Witch God.

The layout accordingly made by Wicca is:

The late Emperor was dragging his feet behind the scenes, and when the army entered the enemy territory, he cut off the grain and grass, cut off the army’s supplies, and wore down Wei Yuan’s strength, pushing the Dafeng soldiers into the abyss of doom and gloom.

Subsequently, two Third Grade Spiritual Wisdom Masters, a First Grade Grand Sorcerer, and a Second Grade Transition, did the final closing. As long as Wei Yuan’s troops were weakened to a certain extent, they would inevitably strike.

And Wei Yuan responded by slaughtering cities along the way, raising war with war, and pushing all the way to the hinterland of the Yan Kingdom without any food or armament supplies, with his troops at the capital of the country.

Then, he took a waterway around the enemy’s back.

From here, Wei Yuan was anticipating that the court would drag its feet. That is why he was prepared to fight a fast war from the beginning, leaving no back roads, not wanting supplies, scavenging on the spot to feed the war, and pushing directly to the Witch God Cult’s base camp.

In the final battle of Armageddon, Wei Yuan faced four super experts, and if he was only a Second Grade Martial Artist, it would be impossible for him to defeat all four of them, much less fight for his life against the Sorcerer God.

This is also considered by Wei Yuan, who has a dependency on the Confucian Sage.

“Everyone thought that this battle was to gallop to the aid of the demon barbarians and maintain the balance, who would have thought that there was a deeper purpose behind it ………. The Sorcerer God Cult used a trick to invite the king into a jar. Duke Wei also used a trick to summon the Confucian Sage and flatten the general altar of the Witch God Cult, the gaming and calculations in this are truly mind numbing ………”

Xu Qi’an murmured in his heart.

He still had a few points of doubt that he hadn’t solved, such as since Duke Wei was a Harmonious Dao Realm martial artist, a terrifyingly strong person at the level of non-human being, why did he bide his time for so many years, announcing to the outside world that he didn’t have any cultivation and that he was an ordinary person?

Another example, why did the late emperor want to unite with the Witch God Cult to kill Wei Yuan, although a second-ranked courtier does make people jealous to the point of scalp numbness. But to seek the skin of a tiger would be a good thing?

With Wei Yuan’s relationship with the Empress, as long as the late Emperor pinched this handle, he would have bargaining chips. Moreover, there was a supervisor at the top who was overlooking, and it wasn’t difficult to maintain the stability of the general situation.

On the contrary, the consequences of sending the pawns and generals of one’s own country, of one’s own accord, to the tiger’s mouth of the enemy are obviously greater.

Xu Qi’an thought of a familiar phrase: Why did Your Majesty rebel?

That’s what he’s wondering at this point.

On the last point, Wei Yuan did not hesitate to hold the consciousness of death in battle to capture the Witch God Sect’s main altar, why exactly?

It turns out that I don t even have the ability to collect his body for him ………. Xu Qi’an’s heart ached.

As his thoughts ebbed and flowed, he took a deep breath, “Duke Wei, has been biding his time?”

Zhang Kaitai let out a “hmmm”, gazing out of his mind toward the entrance of the military tent, slowly said:

“After the Battle of Shanhaiguan, Duke Wei had a secret talk with His Majesty, and then he abolished his own cultivation. We couldn’t understand it then, and we can’t understand it now. I didn’t realize that Duke Wei had already secretly re-cultivated his martial arts, and despite the fact that he died in battle, I’m still very relieved.

“Tile pots don’t break on the well, generals can’t avoid dying in front of the battlefield, to be able to die on the battlefield as a powerful man of the world, I have no regrets for Wei Gong.”

Xu Qi’an asked again, “Apart from Yang Yan and Jiang Luchong, you are the only Jin Gong who survived, what are your plans for the future?”

“Being a night watchman for the rest of your life.” Zhang Kaitai sidled his head and looked at him, “What about you?”

The response to him was silence.

At this time, a deputy general hurriedly came running, his face terrified, and said loudly, “Lord Commander, the scouts report that the Yan Kingdom and the Kang Kingdom have gathered 80,000 men and women and are coming towards Yu Yang Pass, and in at most half an hour, they will be under the city.”

Zhang Kaitai’s face changed, “Who is the leader of the army?”

The Vice Admiral said in a deep voice, “Yanjun, Nurhgar.”

Zhang Kaitai froze and fell into silence as he commanded:

“Summon the generals of a thousand captains and above to come here to deliberate, have all the soldiers go up to the city wall, and have the militia go to the warehouses at once to carry the defending instruments and armaments ……..”

He skillfully gave a command without panic, but the grim look on his face indicated that this gong was extraordinarily heavy inside.

In a moment, a dozen or so generals clad in armor and carrying waist swords stepped into the military tent, arching their hands towards Xu Qi’an and Zhang Kaitai as they each took their seats.

Presumably aware of the news that the armies of Yan and Kang were about to descend upon the city, the generals all had serious faces and did not exchange too many pleasantries with Xu Qi’an.

Zhang Kaitai looked around at the crowd and said in a deep voice, “The counterattack from Yan Kang and the two countries is here, so it seems that the Witch God Cult is going to be immortal with us, Da Feng.”

All present were experienced generals with a keen sense of war, and had done an analysis of the situation after withdrawing to the Yuyang Pass.

The Witch God Cult had suffered heavy losses in this battle, having broken seven cities in a row, there were too many things that needed to be done to make things right, and in such a situation, the right thing to do would be to deploy the army to repair those cities that had been broken while sending scouts to keep an eye on the borders.

It was unlikely that the war would be started lightly in the short term, and the opposite would mean that the Witch God Cult would have to go through thick and thin with Da Feng.

“We don’t have enough troops …….”

“There wasn’t enough grain and grass either, Chen Ying realized that the grain and grass hadn’t been shipped over at all after killing those dog officials at the Ministry of Revenue, and that those dog officials at the Ministry of Revenue had deliberately hidden it from us.”

“If you collaborate with the enemy and commit treason, you should be executed by the whole family. Brothers fighting for their lives at the front, these dog officials stabbing us in the back, sons of bitches.”

Zhang Kaitai knocked on the desktop and corrected the topic back, saying:

“What we need to do now is to hold the Yuyang Pass and then send a pond report to the court so that the court can quickly send troops to support us. But food is a problem, the food in the warehouse won’t support the arrival of reinforcements.”

One of the generals mused, “Yuzhou has been a food-producing place since ancient times, the local people will not lack food, so we can collect food from them. We can’t trust those dog officials now, let’s send our own people to collect grain.”

Zhang Kaitai frowned: “This is out of order, and the people may not be willing. At that time, don’t fall into the name of a tyrannical levy, and actively give the civil officials a handle to impeach us.”

“They’ll want to.”

This local general said word for word, “The court has forgotten that debt from forty years ago, but we, the people of the three states, will not.”

With the matter of rations over, the generals turned to the question of troop strength.

One frowned sadly.

“With the speed at which the imperial court is mobilizing troops, can our 16,000-odd men hold the fort?”

The Witch God religion is not like the barbarians, the barbarians attack the city all rely on corpses to pile up, the Witch God religion has siege equipment, a small part of it is made by themselves, part of it is secretly smuggled Dabong equipment.

During the Battle of Shanhaiguan, the Witch God Cult learned from its bitter experience and summarized the reasons for its defeat, believing that heavy anti-personnel weapons were the most important reliance on which the Dafeng could reign over the Nine States.

So they secretly colluded with the officials of Da Bong, appropriated the armaments, and then disassembled them and learned to imitate ………. them. After so many years, they also learned to make many siege equipment.

Including gunpowder.

However, the Witch God Cult did not have warlocks, and those siege equipment, artillery, and chariots and crossbows they made were all mortal objects, whereas the Da Bong’s were magical weapons, and their lethality could not be compared to each other.

“We have to defend even if we can’t, the Witch God Cult is a paper tiger, if we beat them back this wave, we win. If we can’t beat them back, we have to beat them painfully and hurt their vitality. Just like the Battle of Shanhaiguan, let them be devastated for twenty years.”

“The big deal is death.”

As he spoke, Zhang Kaitai’s vice general looked at his immediate superior and said in a deep voice:

“This dog, Chen Ying, left the camp without authorization, and now that we have only a handful of Fourth Grade experts, it’s going to be hard to hold them off. I remember that Nurhgar is a fourth rank, a double fourth rank in the martial arts and sorcerer system.”

These words made the generals in the audience frown and the atmosphere was gloomy.

“Atsushi ……”

Xu Qi’an knocked on the tabletop, attracting the attention of the crowd, and asked, “Dual cultivation in martial arts and sorcery? What kind of character is this Nurhgar.”

To be honest, he was quite knowledgeable nowadays, but he rarely encountered these types of dual system characters.

Somewhat surprised.

Cultivation is so difficult, it’s already hard enough to grope your way through one system, how can you have any extra energy to cultivate another system?

Zhang Kaitai returned his question, “The succession of thrones in the Witch God Sect’s affiliated countries is different from ours in the Central Plains. In the system of Yan Jingkang’s three kingdoms, political affairs were left to the courtiers, and the king held the military power in his hands, so the successive kings were all prim and valiant martial artists, as well as veteran generals who had fought on the sands.

“And above the two, there is a third-ranking expert of the Witch God Cult who acts as the State Master. The State Master does not ask about military affairs, but is the person with the most power in the country. Aside from not being able to abolish the State Ruler, the State Master has the power to decide and negate all matters. The State Sovereign, in fact, is more like a commander in chief who controls a country’s military power.”

No wonder, the king of the Jing State, Xiahou Yushu, is known as a handsome talent second only to the Duke of Wei, I wonder, this one or two, when the emperor is a side job? It’s really a sideline ………..

Xu Qi’an nodded indistinctly, roughly understanding the class system of divine supremacy.

Zhang Kaitai continued:

“Nurhgar is a contemporary Yanjun, his co-ordination ability may not be as good as Xiahou Yushu’s, but in terms of personal battle power, two Xiahou Yushu’s are no match for him. Not only is Nurhgar the peak of the Fourth Grade, he is also the peak of the Fourth Grade of the Dual System.

“Before we went on the trip, we were even prepared to trade two, or three, fourth grades to get rid of him. Who would have thought ………”

Who thought we couldn’t even attack Yandu.

Xu Qi’an calmly swept a glance at the generals present, seeing that they looked grave and seemed to be slightly negative and frustrated by Zhang Kaitai’s narration, he immediately nodded his head and did not ask any further questions.

It is demoralizing to listen to your comrades tell of the might of the enemy.

In terms of war, Xu Qi’an was inexperienced, so he stopped participating and half-closed his eyes, pondering.

His silence was a great disappointment to several generals who knew that Xu Yinluo was a great expert in the art of war.

Dual system’s peak fourth grade, a bit difficult to handle ………. Xu Qi’an weighed the situation in his mind and realized that he was not capable of defeating his opponent.

First of all, the superposition of the means of different systems can produce a qualitative change in the effect. Just as Xu Qi’an had temporarily become an “all-round talent” by virtue of the Confucian books on spells, he had overpowered Li Miaozhen and Chu Yuanzhuan with the power of one person.

And at the time, his was two ranks lower than the two.

Secondly, there were also strengths and weaknesses in the fourth rank, a rising star like Li Miaozhen who had been promoted to the fourth rank for half a year would basically be pressed and whacked when he encountered which peak rank fourth rank powerhouses.

Dual system’s pinnacle of the fourth grade, what concept?

Not many could beat him under the third rank.

“My Heaven and Earth Slash Slash plus Pacific Slash can pose a threat to Fourth Grade experts, but only to a weak Fourth Grade like Li Miaozhen. Moreover, it may not be able to chop the other party, the shocking effect of the Buddhist Lion’s Roar does not work against sorcerers who are proficient in the Domain of Yuan Shen, and if I can’t chop that slash, I’m done for. ……..

“Master Shinshu didn’t wake up either, and you can never wake up someone who is hung up, even if you say nmsl ……….

“The Confucian magic book is a very strong aid, but I don’t have the Hao Ran Zheng Qi to protect my body, so if I use it too hard, I’ll die myself first. If I don’t use it ruthlessly, I can’t kill a dual system at the peak of the fourth grade at all ………..”

After scrutinizing his means, Xu Qi’an was somewhat deflated.

Without being hung up, killing a peak fourth grade dual system with a fifth grade body was too much of a stretch and almost impossible to do.

Even if he joined forces with Li Miaozhen and Zhang Kaitai, and combined the strength of the three of them, he would definitely have no problem fighting a Nurhgar, but there was no shortage of experts in the armies of Yan and Kang, and there were still 80,000 men.

…………

Outside the Yuyang Pass.

The sky was blue, and on the desolate plains, a dense army slowly advanced, in order of artillery, infantry, and cavalry, in a clear hierarchy.

And before the artillery were six huge siege wagons pulled by twenty-eight worn-out horses, siege wagons of this kind made by the Yan Kingdom on the basis of drawings leaked from the Ministry of War.

It can be lifted and lowered, and can be up to seven feet, which is enough to cope with the height of most of the city walls, as for those buildings in the dangerous passes, even if the height is high enough, the siege vehicles can not drive in.

This is also the reason why Wei Yuan did not carry a siege car in the siege, the Yan State barrier is dangerous and narrow, mostly relying on geographical advantage, the siege car has no use.

In the cavalry formation, Nurhgar was mounted on the back of a tall beast, horse-like in appearance, covered in pitch-black scales, with a sharp unicorn horn protruding from its forehead.

Yasukuni’s unicorn scales.

This mount of Nurhgar’s was not a normal one-horned scaled beast, and Xiahou Yushu’s beloved colt was a blood brother from the same mother, both were in the Jingguo Horse Farm, the heir of that psychic demonic beast.

“Elder brother Red Bear, there are only less than 20,000 defenders at Yuyang Pass, how long will it take to take it down, as you assess?”

Nurhgar, white at the temples, twisted his head and looked to a rider at his side.

It was a stout man wearing basalt armor, with a vertical scar on the left side of his face, directly from his eyebrow to his chin, a scar that not only broke his face, but also destroyed one of his eyes.

So it’s a one-eye.

This one-eyed man’s identity was equally honorable, being the blood brother of the king of Kang, Sugudu Red Bear.

Red Bear, as the name suggests.

This person was gifted with amazing brawn, and when he was in the Refined Essence Realm, he had once punched a Qi Practicing Realm martial artist to the point of breaking his bones and tendons.

In the Kingdom of Kang, from the temple down to the rivers and lakes, this person’s cultivation could be ranked in the top twenty.

Sugudu Red Bear squinted his eyes and grinned as he looked away from the towering walls of Jade Yang Pass, “Half a month at most.”

Nurhega shook his head, “I’d say five days, but of course, if things go as I expect, then perhaps three days will suffice.”

Sugudu Red Bear stared at him with a frown.

Nurhgar laughed, ”With Wei Yuan dead, the Da Feng soldiers are demoralized, and seeing these 80,000 men of ours soldiering down the city is another blow. In addition, most of the high-grade martial artists of the Da Feng have already been lost in Jing Shan City. How many masters can there be in a small Jade Sunshine Pass? Even if there are, is it enough for us to kill?”

Sugudu Red Bear nodded slowly.

The portly half-hundred man continued:

“Furthermore, our soldiers are in full swing, Wei Yuan is really the general altar, and the Great Bong Military God died at our Witch God Sect’s general altar, for a change, isn’t that inspiring?”

Their attack on the Jade Sun Pass this time was under the orders of the Witch God Cult’s General Forum, and the order conveyed by State Master Ilbu was simple and concise: kill!

Killing!

Kill as many as you can, as many as you can.

A repeat of the slaughter of thousands of miles forty years ago.

Nurhgar looked at the Daebong flag hunting and waving over the city, narrowed his eyes, and let out a hey:

“Wei Yuan slaughtered my Yan Kingdom’s people and shook the qi of my Witch God Cult. And now, it’s our turn to shake the Great Feng’s qi.”

Shaking up the chi is simple, it’s war, it’s killing.

A country is made up of one individual, and the larger the population, the stronger the qi, and it is self-evident which qi is stronger, a small country of 10,000 people or a large country at the level of 10,000,000 people.

The allied forces of the two Yan Kang countries stopped, the sound of footsteps, wheels, and armor clashing disappeared into silence.

…………

Xu Qi’an, along with Zhang Kaitai and other generals, ascended to the top of the city and looked down from a distance, the 80,000 men and women arrayed neatly, like a cut block of tofu.

These 80,000 people feel like ants small, but the black pressure and dense, the same people feel suffocated, the sense of oppression is like a tide.

The guards at the top of the city had solemn faces, as if they were facing a great enemy.

Zhang Kaitai pressed the hilt of his sword with a solemn expression, overlooking the army below the city, and said in a deep voice:

“The Witch God Cult is different from the Demon Barbarians, who have nothing but cavalry. When we charge and fight with the Demon Barbarians on the sands, we lose more than we win. But the demon barbarians are also very sensible and rarely attack cities.

“But the Witch God Cult has artillery, chariots and crossbows, siege equipment, and foot soldiers who specialize in ant-attachment sieges.”

Xu Qi’an proposed, ”Didn’t you say that Wei Gong had penetrated the Yan Kingdom’s hinterland, the Yan Kingdom had already suffered heavy losses, and now it’s massing its troops, heh, how many troops can he dispatch?

“Perhaps, they’re so empty inside right now, can we go around and sneak into the Yan Kingdom’s capital?”

Zhang Kaitai shook his head, ”It’s not that simple, Nurgah is not stupid, he must have left a minimum number of troops to defend the city and then hold the wall. We have a limited number of artillery and can’t afford a siege.

“Don’t let the artillery be gone by then and the city still hasn’t been captured, won’t we lose our wife and our soldiers. The capital of Yan Kingdom, even Duke Wei didn’t manage to capture it in a short period of time, let alone us.

“If we fight other cities, the battle line is stretched too long, the enemy can easily cut off our provisions, and the brothers sent out will have died in vain.”

Xu Qi’an nodded slowly.

At that moment, he saw a rider coming out of the line, and with his eyesight, he could vaguely make out a stout man with frosty temples and eyes as sharp as swords, with a biting aura.

A black-scaled foreign beast on his hips was divine and ferocious.

Nurhgar? He made a mental guess.

Then, the guards at the city’s head, including Xu Qi’an, saw this Yan Kingdom’s king, raising his saber high, turning his horse towards his own army, roaring:

“Sons and grandsons of the Yan Kingdom, half a month ago, the Dafeng army invaded our territory and slaughtered seven cities in a row, parents and brothers were slaughtered, homes and former homes were burned to a scorched earth, deep hatred, have you forgotten?”

The Yan Kingdom’s army let out a mountainous roar, “Not forgotten!”

Nurhgar continued to growl:

“This is our hatred, but not shame, half a month ago, Wei Yuan died in battle in Jing Shan City, put to death by our Witch God Cult, he paid for his actions with his life. The Great Bong Military God is nothing more than that.

“Da Feng’s proud Military God was easily executed by our Witch God Cult, becoming a stepping stone to our fame in the Nine States. Now, it’s time for the frail Da Feng to taste our wrath.

“We’ll let Da Feng know that the boundaries of the Witch God Cult are inviolable, and that those who kill our people will be paid in blood.”

With every word he said, the Yan Guo soldiers’ aura rose by one point, and so did their confidence.

By the end of the day, the momentum was overwhelming.

The Kang army was equally affected by it and was in high spirits.

This speech was very successful because it had a solid foundation, a solid basis: Wei Yuan was put to death by our Witch God Cult!

In the half-month since the end of the Battle of Jing Shan City, the Yan Kang Jing Tri-States had made a big deal of the news that Wei Yuan had been executed at the General Altar, causing the people, generals, and even the Jiang Hu people of the three countries to be immensely energized.

No matter whether the propaganda of the Wiccan religion is suspected of avoiding the truth or not, the truth is the truth.

The people of Yan Guo, in particular, could be said to have cheered as a nation when they heard the news.

That Dafeng Military God who was so famous in the Battle of Shanhaiguan that the old pawns who participated in the battle back then were scared to death, was not yet put to death by our Witch God Sect.

The people who had been complaining turned angry to happy, and the army that had lost confidence renewed its fighting spirit.

At the top of the city, Xu Qi’an’s face was gloomy.

Nurhgar’s blade pointed toward the Jade Sunshine Pass and droned, “Attack the city!”

At the word of command, the war was fought.

The two 10,000 foot soldiers from Yan Kang’s two countries were the first to charge, pushing three siege wagons, carrying ladders more than ten meters long, and carrying siege hammers weighing hundreds of pounds.

Behind them, archers, artillery, and chariots and crossbows fired in unison to cover the foot soldiers’ attack on the city.

At the top of the city, the drums sounded like thunder and the horns blew long.

Boom, boom, boom!

The artillery mounted on the women’s wall, fired in turn, and one piece of artillery smashed into the enemy, exploding blood and flesh, and splattering limbs and arms.

Boom, boom, boom!

The sound of the bed crossbow firing was clear, a cohesive white light crossbow arrows shot into the distance, the killing power of the crossbow arrows was inferior to the artillery, but the range and penetrating power was much better.

So the crossbows were aimed at the more distant artillery, the chariots and crossbows, and the enemy masters.

Under the Sixth Grade Copper Skin and Iron Bones, no martial artist could block a single blow from a magic crossbow.

And even if it was a Sixth Grade, taking a hard arrow would have to be seriously injured.

In addition to the artillery and bed crossbows, thousands of soldiers bent their bows and arrows and fired vigorously downward.

In half a column of incense, more than a thousand foot soldiers died in the charge.

Shouts and killings, screams, artillery roars, and crossbow fire ……… are interwoven into a bloody and bloody picture.

The only thing that can slowly advance is the siege vehicle.

The siege car was huge, with a skeleton made of a mixture of steel and wood, so even if it took a few cannons, it wouldn’t cause too much damage. It was also guarded by high-grade martial artists to prevent damage from artillery and crossbows.

The steel pods of each siege vehicle contained nearly a hundred elite bruisers.

Once these men are on top of the city, they can tear a hole in the fire net in a short period of time, reducing the pressure on the soldiers climbing and anting below.

Xu Qi’an, who was staring down at the attacking soldiers below, turned his gaze and realized that a siege vehicle had already approached the city wall.

The artilleryman hastily raised his gun and aimed it at the siege vehicle.

A few shells went down, only causing it to tremble violently and crack, unable to destroy it.

“Peace!”

Xu Qi’an lightly tapped his backside.

Pacific sword clanging out of the sheath, whistling and go, dark gold blade light as swift as a line, in a few bearing pillars gently cut, the next moment, “click” sound, the siege car in pieces.

The heavy steel pods came crashing down, killing dozens of foot soldiers.

The Jedi Soldier is indestructible.

At the top of the city, the surrounding Dafeng generals broke out into loud cheers, shouting “Xu Yinluo”, and their morale skyrocketed.

In the distance, in the cavalry camp, Nurhega frowned, looked around, and asked, “Who is that man?”