Chapter 789 – Attacking the City

Wei Yuan at first glance gave him the power to choose between two options, but in fact, there was no choice, it was impossible for him to return to aid Subterranean Dragon City.

Xu Pingfeng’s thoughts were clear, compared to Yunzhou’s elite troops, it was a pity that Subterranean City was gone, but the elite troops were the most important.

After making a choice and abandoning the Submerged Dragon City, there are two paths in front of them, the first one is to protect the Yunzhou Army to retreat back to Yongzhou or Qingzhou, turning the active into passive and letting the Da Feng come to attack and pull out the city, while the Yunzhou Army defends the city.

The advantage of this strategy is that the Dafeng, who now suffered heavy losses, most likely did not have the strength to recapture Yongzhou and Qingzhou, and would choose to rest and recuperate, and then fight again after the fall harvest.

But when it came to transcendent battle power, Yunzhou was stuck in the same dilemma that Da Bong had been in before, and was bound to lose.

In addition, it was yet to be seen whether the Galaxia Tree and the White Emperor, who were in the Northern Realm at this time, would be able to retreat in one piece from the siege of the Great Feng Transcendent powerhouses.

If the Gala Tree and the White Emperor were killed and defeated at this moment, then retreating to Qingzhou would just be waiting for death.

Secondly, to take the capital city regardless of the circumstances and support Ji Xuan to become the emperor, he went along with the situation to forcefully impact the Divine Fate Master.

Currently, he had only refined the qi of Yunzhou, Qingzhou, and Yongzhou, and the qi of the three states was unable to accomplish a Heavenly Fate Master.

If he added in the Da Feng Kyoto, after capturing the capital, beheading the female emperor, and supporting Ji Xuan to ascend to the throne, he would have a chance to impact the Heavenly Fate Master.

If one considered the Heaven’s Mandate Master who refined the entire Central Plains as the peak of the first grade, then one’s self, who forcefully impacted the Heaven’s Mandate Master, would probably be in the early stages.

In fact, there was no choice, he could only let go, there was no way back.

In the sound of the drums, Xu Pingfeng closed his palms together and violently pulled them apart, pulling out a small palm-sized flag, which had many colors such as black, white, red, green and yellow.

He had been preparing for this siege for twenty years, and every detail had been taken into account, so how could he have missed the capital’s defense array?

Different formations were inscribed in these small flags, and each flag symbolized a break in the city’s defense array.

“Tinker …….”

Two small flags shot out, and the sharp end of the small flags’ flagstaffs easily embedded themselves in the city wall.

Click! The city wall at the corresponding place chafed, cracks spreading spiderweb-like.

The protective grand formation that enveloped the city’s head was instantly weakened by a few points.

Buzz!

In the space to Xu Pingfeng’s side, a majestic blade qi that distorted the air rushed out, cutting him in two with a quick flash.

The white-clothed figure was like a dream bubble, appearing a dozen feet away and once again flinging out two small flags.

Duk Duk!

In the sound of steel nails piercing through the wall, small flags were embedded in the masonry of the city wall, creating cracks in the wall and destroying the formations in the corresponding areas.

The blade intent that decimated everything couldn’t catch up with the white-clothed warlock who could teleport recklessly, so it immediately changed its strategy and chopped towards the black pressurized Yunzhou army.

“Hmph!”

A cold snort resounded from Xu Pingfeng’s nostrils.

Kou Yangzhou is bullying the Yunzhou army without a big formation to guard it, under normal circumstances, transcendentally strong people are more restrained and rarely take action against ordinary soldiers, and a lose-lose fight is not beneficial to anyone.

Unless it’s at the end of the line and one side is going to play out, this will kill and maim ordinary armorers regardless.

Until the last moment, when everyone thinks they can win, they are unwilling to use this kind of lose-lose fight.

And now, the capital was protected by the city defense array, and before the array broke, it was invincible. On the contrary, the Yunzhou army was bare and had nothing.

This allows Kou Yangzhou not to the end of the road, but has a “lose-lose” approach to the bottom of the fight.

Xu Pingfeng decisively gave up on breaking the formation and teleported back to the Yunzhou military formation, blocking in front of the saber qi, with one hand stretched out flat, palm facing outwards, holding up a grayish earth defense formation, and as the saber qi chopped through the heavy formation, the other hand lifted up and gently wiped it.

The terrifying blade qi that twisted the air, as if it had lost its support, slowly “went out”.

In that moment just now, Xu Pingfeng had shielded the “blade qi”, making Kou Yangzhou forget for a moment that he had exerted his blade intent, while the blade qi had no entity, it was the condensation of the master’s will, and when Kou Yangzhou forgot about it, he was naturally powerless to maintain it.

Under a large audience, the art of shielding heavenly chances would immediately fail just as soon as it took effect, but this momentary shielding was sufficient against the sword intent that had no entity.

After dissolving the blade intent of the second grade martial artist, Xu Pingfeng flexed his fingers and flicked them repeatedly, causing the small flags to shoot out and disappear one after another, and in the next second, they appeared on the walls and nailed into the walls, cracking the formations in the corresponding areas.

He’s playing teleportation out of the box.

How could a crude martial artist who only knew how to destroy by brute force stop him from cracking the formation.

With the sound of “Duk Duk Duk”, the formation covering the capital was no longer able to continue and collapsed.

Xu Pingfeng’s figure appeared high in the air, his hands laced together with his thumbs and forefingers to incorporate the city walls below.

The twelve flame circle formations were layered on top of each other, and the power of the Fire Spirit converged crazily.

Buzz!

The air wave shook, and blinding pillars of fire descended into the sky, seeming to burn the Da Bong soldiers at the top of the city to ashes.

Sun Xuanji held up twelve grayish circular formations with his hands toward the sky, and the city at his feet quickly sanded away, an earth wave rising up against the sky, just as the descending pillar of fire crashed into it.

Earth over fire!

The second and third disciples of the Szeth were the first to complete a pair of waves.

Knock knock!

Drums meditating, Yunzhou army carrying siege equipment, launched a charge, Fang just close to the city wall, suddenly the ground to kill, the sound of explosions, the soldiers in the frantic run have not yet understood what happened, the body was blown apart, the sky and the earth.

Soldiers on the side of a fluke did not die, but also by the underground explosion splash of white phosphorus stained, suddenly flames, how to extinguish, was burned alive into a skeleton.

Song Qing’s mines dealt a terrible blow to the attacking soldiers.

…………

Yunzhou, Subterranean City.

Blood stained armor, Nangong Qianruo carrying a war sword, standing on the top of the hill, overlooking the city burning smoke, temperament of the feminine him, rare more than a few points of iron blood heroic.

There were routed figures all around, the people screaming and holding their heads in their hands, yesterday they were still dreaming of the noble people of the capital.

Today, they were slaughtered and died at the point of the enemy’s sword.

The 5,000 armored soldiers in Subterranean Dragon City, led by the city’s experts, were gradually outmatched after half an hour to a fierce battle, and turned into an alleyway battle.

By this point, the main army had been wiped out by Da Bong’s heavily armored soldiers, leaving only a few remnants to use the terrain to fight back.

Behind Nangong Qianlou, were the bodies lying horizontally, all dressed brightly, they were the royal family of a lineage five hundred years ago, after five hundred years of prosperity, this lineage is extremely populous, in the hilltop compound alone, there are hundreds of Ji Clan members.

He had no thoughts of leaving anyone alive and gave the order to kill without amnesty.

This is the Nangong Qianrou to the royal family to leave the decency, otherwise, the male and not to mention, on these delicate golden branches, it is difficult to escape the fate of becoming a plaything.

The armorers had been in the deserted military town for five months, and were all so hungry and thirsty that the sight of a sow made their eyebrows rise.

At this moment, a blood-stained armored general ran out of the courtyard with great strides, came behind Nangong Qianlou, and clasped his fists:

“Nangong Jinluo, the brothers found two women in the basement.”

Nangong Qianlou faintly said:

“Just kill it, why report it.”

The general, with an odd face, said:

“She, she called herself Xu Yinluo’s birth mother.”

Upon hearing this, Nangong Qianlou raised his eyebrows, he already knew Xu Qi’an’s life from where the Huaiqing Servant Chief was.

After Xu Pingfeng formally ascended the stage, the courtiers remembered this figure, and of course knew of his relationship with Xu Qi’an.

This matter was not a secret in the higher echelons of the officialdom, but the princes, out of the same tacit understanding, blocked the news and prohibited anyone from spreading the relationship between Xu Qi’an and Xu Pingfeng.

Of course, all of you are not trying to cover up for the Xu family, it’s just that Xu Qi’an’s prestige is too important to the dynastic court to allow any taint.

The head of the guards as the son of heaven close ministers, belonging to the ranks of the senior, that night, one by one, everything, all told Nangong Qianru.

When Nangong Qianlou learned of Xu Qi’an’s identity, she gloated while feeling damn sorry for the kid.

“Kill!”

He gave the order in a cold tone.

What’s the use of keeping parents who are worse than dogs and pigs.

“Yes!”

The general clasped his fists, led the order to retreat, and just walked out two steps, Nangong Qianruo called out to him again and changed his words:

“Bring her here.”

Thinking carefully, Nangong Qianrou felt that this kind of thing was not good to overstep her bounds, so she might as well bring it back to Xu Qi’an to dispose of it herself, and also reap a wave of favors.

Not long ago, two armored soldiers escorted two women over, Nangong Qianruo automatically ignored the maidservant, examined the woman with excellent appearance and temperament, she looked quite calm, no panic and fear.

Walking with a light pace, obviously has a not weak cultivation.

Of course, this is not weak, the comparison is with ordinary people.

“Are you Xu Qi’an’s biological mother?” Nangong Qianrou asked coldly.

The woman in fancy dress asked, looking left and right:

“Where is my child.”

Her voice was gentle and soft, permeated with the unassuming, unhurried composure of a noblewoman.

The female servant girl, on the other hand, was trembling with fear and her small face was white.

“So eager to find death?” Nangong Qianlou laughed.

He thinks that this woman, seeing a great disaster on the horizon, is thinking of finding Xu Qi’an and playing the affection card to try to get through it.

But with Nangong Qianrou’s understanding of Xu Qi’an, that kid is not exactly ruthless, but he is also a decisive generation. This blood is thicker than water card, most likely does not work.

The woman’s eyes dimmed, she took a breath, and asked again:

“How was the battle in the Central Plains? Did Xu Pingfeng lose?”

Nangong Qianlou faintly said:

“Whether he loses or not I don’t know, but you guys are dead. When you guys decided to treat him as an outcast back then, did you ever think that today would come?”

The woman laughed bitterly:

“Big brother and the clan’s intestines are green with remorse, and as for Xu Pingfeng, from what I know of him, he has the heart to kill me.”

Nangong Qianlou scrutinized her:

“Kill you?”

The woman, however, stopped talking.

At this time, a silhouette scurried up from the foot of the mountain and smashed beside Nangong Qianrou with a rumble, it was Yang Yan who was carrying a silver spear.

Yang Yan, whose expression was as cold and hard as a carving, swept a glance at the corpses behind Nangong Qianruo, then looked at the beautiful woman, and finally looked at Nangong Qianruo.

The two had worked together for many years at Wei Yuan’s side and had long had a tacit understanding, Nangong Qianruo read his eyes and said:

“The Subterranean Dragon City Lord has not been found, and is most likely in White Emperor City. Since Xu Pingfeng hasn’t returned by now, it means that he has given up on Yunzhou. Once we’re done clearing out the people here, we’ll kill our way to White Emperor City.”

After killing the mountaintop, Nangong Qianlou only captured a group of royal clansmen, but did not find the city lord who claimed to be the emperor.

Not too disappointed, if the other hand does not have a teleportation jade talisman this kind of life-saving means, that would be strange.

Yang Yan nodded gently:

“No need to mind him.”

For the beheading mission, the one to behead was not just that city lord, but the main camp of the rebel army was to be wiped out.

Having leveled the main camp, that city lord, even if he was alive, wouldn’t be able to become a climate.

Yang Yan said:

“After killing all the city’s experts and armorers, they dispersed the people and set fire to the city.”

When Nangong Qianlou nodded, he looked at the beautiful woman again:

“Why isn’t this woman killed.”

“She is Xu Qi’an’s birth mother.” Nangong Qianlou explained.

Yang Yan drifted off.

………..

“Bang Bang Bang!”

The cannons spewed flames, the bowstrings thundered, and the projectiles and arrows harvested the waves of enemy troops that tried to charge.

On the streets of the outer city, sandbags and miscellaneous objects were piled up into fortifications to block the cavalry’s charge, and Zhu Guangxiao and Song Tingfeng led the night watchmen, as well as fifty imperial sword guards, hiding behind the fortifications.

The bodies of the people of the outer city and of the enemy were sprawled out in front of them.

They had already repelled the third wave of the attack and were about to run out of arrows and projectiles.

Zhu Guangxiao leaned towards Song Tingfeng and said in a deep voice:

“Almost out of arrows and projectiles, one more wave at most, then we’ll have to play with this group of rebels.”

“Play what life, play what life?” Song Tingfeng twisted his head to spit on him and cursed:

“Pig brain, fighting like you, ten lives are not enough. Arrows and projectiles are gone, of course we retreat, Wei Gong has set up nine lines of defense in the outer city, we just retreat while fighting.”

The city wall was only the first line of defense, there was still the outer city behind the wall, and after the outer city there was still the wall of the inner city, and even if the rebels hit the inner city, they would still have to face the even more heavily defended imperial city.

Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao were in charge of the second line of defense in the south of the outer city, and of the four gates of the capital, only the south side of the city was currently out of guard, with the rebels swarming in.

Just ……… very unlucky!

Although Song Tingfeng has not read military books, but he is resourceful, the city gate is not panicked even if it is lost, the capital has enough strategic depth, defense line after defense line, it is completely possible to fight a war of attrition with the Yunzhou army.

Scoffed at Zhu Guangxiao’s solid hearted fighting style of people in the tower and the tower breaking down.

On the battlefield, the most important thing is never to kill the enemy, but to live.

…………

The Imperial Palace.

In the underground palace of Xiyuan, the concubines of the harem and the families of the officials were housed in this sanctuary.

This place was six feet deep from the ground, and it was arranged with breath-shielding spells, so even a high-grade magician would find it difficult to observe the abnormality of this place in a short period of time.

The aunt, like the other ladies, was scared like a quail, her face was white, and her beautiful face was covered with fear and anxiety.

Xu Ling Yue stayed by her mother’s side in silence, holding her hand to comfort her:

“Mother, don’t be afraid, we’ll be fine.”

Auntie has never experienced the storm, she is just an ordinary woman, how can she not be afraid?

“The rebels are hitting the capital, so I can’t say they’ll hit the palace right away.” The more the aunt thought about it, the more frightened she became.

Munanjia waved her hand:

“Wei Yuan isn’t alive, with him, we won’t lose the war.”

With a bemused look on her face, she said:

“Besides, the capital is full of experts and big, it won’t be easy for the rebels to hit the palace, well, even if we’re in danger, right half of it will come from Xu Pingfeng.”

Aunt said, that dog is the most cold-blooded and ruthless, specializing in killing relatives, it seems that I am dead today.

“Where is Ning Yan? Is Ning Banquet in the capital?” The aunt grabbed her daughter’s hand and said:

“Mother won’t be afraid if Ning Banquet comes.”

The concubines and officials on the side of the female family members, heard the eyes slightly bright, the heart has no reason to stabilize a lot.

They were used to hearing the legend of Xu Qi’an in their deep chambers, the figure of one man and one sword who had wiped out the Witch God Cult’s 300,000-strong army.

He is the first strongest man in the Dafeng today, the pillar of the town.

With him around, the rebels, no matter how ferocious they were, would be wiped out sooner or later.

On the high building, the dragon robed Huaiqing looked out from a great distance, vaguely seeing Kou Yangzhou and Xu Pingfeng chasing and fighting in the air, the jade talisman in her hand never let go for a moment.

From her position, she couldn’t actually hear the artillery fire outside the city, but knew that there was a fierce battle going on there.

Duke Wei said that the Yunzhou rebels were a one-two punch.

When the rebels hit the city, that’s when Da Bong closed the door and beat the dog. Only that would be extremely costly.

Wyvern turned sideways and peered toward the northern border.

Today was the last day of the Transition Battle, and she was waiting for Xu Qi’an.

It’s up to DaBong to succeed or fail.

……….

The rebels have not been able to attack the inner city yet, and even in the outer city, only the southern city has been lost.

The twelve guards of the capital and the forbidden army, the night watchmen and other men and horses were engaged in alleyway and guerrilla warfare with the rebels, and could not be divided into winners and losers in a short period of time.

But panic spread among the people.

They can not see the situation, do not understand the strategic analysis, the most intuitive feeling is that the rebels attacked the capital, and listen to the sound of artillery rumbling, may not have hit the city.

In this way I find that the people of the city are thrown into a state of panic.

Da Feng was established for six hundred years, except for the time when Wu Zong cleared the ruler’s side, the capital has never had a disaster of swords and armies.

As a matter of fact, most of the people do not even know the history of Wu Zong’s Qingjunbi, and even if they do, it was hundreds of years ago.

They were born in the capital and grew old in the capital, and they remembered that the most ferocious battle was the Battle of Shanhaiguan, which was also won by Da Bong.

So the people of the capital are proud, and the prouder they are, the more intense the trepidation caused when their confidence is shattered.

The other day, when the court ordered the defense and the entire capital city entered a state of readiness, they started to worry, looking at the situation, the Yunzhou rebels are likely to fight their way into the capital city.

Unsurprisingly, it really came.

The streets of the inner city were empty, with columns of soldiers patrolling the streets to keep watch, and a curfew was imposed so that no people were allowed to leave their homes without authorization.

This ban effectively put an end to the riots caused by the people’s panic.

The capital’s soldiers couldn’t all be committed to the front line, some had to stay behind to maintain order.

These two to three million people were left unattended, and if they made a scene, the damage and impact caused would definitely be much worse than the rebels.

“The rebels are really going to hit.”

“I now suspect that the great victory of Xunzhou City was a lie, and that Xu Yinluo didn’t win Yunzhou at all.”

“Yes, if he had won the battle, how could the rebels have fought their way to the capital.”

“What to do, what to do?”

“Father, don’t be afraid, Xu Yinluo will repel the enemy.”

“Silly child, alas!”

Families shut their doors to talk and be afraid.

That is to say, they longed for the court to end the war earlier, but also secretly cursed the court for its mediocrity and incompetence.

Instead, the child is pure, believing that Xu Yinluo will banish the enemy and is confident.

……

PS: 5000 words, so update is a little late. Ask for a song and a monthly ticket.