At this moment, a fire suddenly burst into the sky under this section of the city wall. Twenty Kui Mang beasts were immediately burned by the fire coming out of the ground, screaming, putting down their front legs, turning over and running back, and seven or eight more Kui Mang beasts. The beasts wailed and rolled on the spot, trying to put out the fire, but the flames couldn't put it out at all. The beasts' skins were burned to pieces and they screamed in agony.
The Kui Mang beasts rolled and fled. They were huge in size. Although the fire caused them unbearable pain, it actually did not cause fatal injuries. However, as they fled like this, a large number of tiger and leopard-like spiritual beasts came from them. Their bodies fell into the sea of fire, and many of them were rolled and crushed by them, resulting in numerous casualties.
The Xianqu army and the spirit beasts who suddenly fell into the sea of fire immediately fled in panic, leaving behind a large number of corpses of the monster beasts. The monster beasts that escaped from the sea of fire were also burned a lot.
Seeing the sudden change in the situation, Fu Yu was so angry that he had to put down his command flag and postpone the attack.
As a formation master, Fu Yu certainly knew that the fire that suddenly ignited was not an ordinary flame, but a Lihuo formation deployed by Baiyun City in advance.
This Lihuo formation is an extremely brilliant killing formation. Judging from its scale and strength, it should reach the mid-level prefecture level or above.
The flames of the Lihuo Formation are not caused by the burning of ordinary igniting objects, but by the use of profound array spells to convert the energy source of the formation into Lihuo that cannot be extinguished by water or rolling.
Fu Yu never expected that Baiyun City would use this trick, because it was not unusual for someone in Baiyun City to be able to set up this Lihuo formation, but this formation required a huge amount of spiritual sources.
Fu Yu estimated based on the scope and strength of the Lihuo Formation that it would take at least five years to deploy such a Lihuo Formation that covered almost half of the city wall defense line and could burn and kill the transformed monster. There are millions of high-grade spiritual stones, but this fire just now consumed at least one-third of the spiritual resources of the formation.
Baiyun City was actually willing to spend such a huge amount of spiritual resources to set up the Lihuo Formation, which was beyond Fuyu's expectations. He only used three million high-grade spiritual stones to set up a defensive formation to cut off the Shenmai Valley. Of course, the killing array requires and consumes more spiritual resources than the defensive array.
The Xianqu Army and the spirit beast team below the city retreated in defeat, but there were still two hundred Xianqu Army death squads and thousands of spirit beasts dragging them above the city. The situation of these monster beasts suddenly became very bad.
I saw that Baiyun City's defensive barrier seemed to have suddenly become much more solid. The big demons and spirit beasts who were trying to tear up the barrier and try to get into the city were suddenly stuck by the solid barrier, as if they were trapped by countless vines. Wrapped around the body.
Then, the number of Baiyun City warriors suddenly increased by more than three times on the city wall. They fought against these monster beasts that were unable to advance or retreat. The monster beasts were killed one after another. About half of the monster beasts struggled to exit the barrier, but another one He fell into the Lihuo Formation under the city and was immediately burned to death. In the end, only less than fifty big monsters and about two hundred spirit beasts escaped back. The others were all killed, not by death. The soldiers of Baiyun City at the top of the city fell into the sea of fire below the city and were burned to the point of leaving no bones.
As for the more than 100 Xianqu Army death squads and the more than 200 spirit beast squads who were the first to break through the barrier and enter the city, they were lured into Wengcheng as soon as they entered. Obviously, they were deliberately let in by Baiyun City. The ending can be imagined.
Fu Yu was shocked and angry, but also full of doubts.
Baiyun City, which has been besieged for hundreds of years, lacks most spiritual sources. How could they suddenly have so many spiritual sources to form formations to kill the enemy and strengthen the city's defense array?
The brave army of Baiyun City, which is already short of manpower, should have dispatched more forces to protect Shenmai in Shenmai Valley today. How come there are more warriors appearing on the city wall than the previous two days?
Fuyu couldn't figure it out, so he had to order Jin Jin to withdraw his troops and postpone the attack.
Although the siege battle on this day was brutal, it started later than the Wheat Harvest Battle and ended earlier than the Wheat Harvest Battle. After Fuyu ordered the army to withdraw troops and clean up the battlefield, it was still bright and it was just dusk.
Fuyu ordered one of his personal guards to go to the entrance of Shenmai Valley, and ordered Yashi to come to his commander's tent to report on the battle situation in Shenmai Valley that day.
On this day, Yashi led the five commanders of the Rongli Army to garrison at the mouth of the valley. Originally, there were thousands of Xianqu Army soldiers in the five battalions here, but only one battalion of 200 soldiers was left at his disposal. Lu'an, his ten commanders and the other 800 soldiers of the Xianqu Army participated in the siege battle.
Yashi had just received the information from the informants who were among the Rongli Army, and learned about the situation in the Shenmai Valley that day. He couldn't help but be as surprised, angry, and a little confused as Fuyu.
Yashi was secretly cursing the informant in his mind, blaming him for not reporting the ghost-loving rat and rabbit earlier, but when he saw Fuyu's personal guards coming to summon him, Yashi had no choice but to hand over the defense here to Hu De, the commander of the Zhongwei battalion. He followed this personal guard to the commander's tent at Fuyu Camp.
On the way, Yashi learned about today's siege situation from this personal guard, and he felt even more shocked and confused.
Arriving at Fu Yu's spacious handsome tent, Yashi found that only Fu Yu, Lu An and the sixth elder Leda were present.
"Lao Jiu is here!" Fu Yu saw Yashi and immediately asked, "How is today's wheat harvest battle going?"
"Commander Fu," Yashi said, "There is no wheat harvest war at all today. Baiyun City did not send a single soldier into the Shenmai Valley. I just learned about this situation."
"What?" Fu Yu was stunned, then nodded and said, "I wonder why Baiyun City's defense strength has increased so much today! I didn't expect that they gave up Shenmai."
"Baiyun City's abandonment of Shenmai seems unexpected." Sixth Elder Leda said, "But after careful analysis, it is reasonable."
"Huh?" Fu Yu asked, "What does Lao Liu mean?"
"Fu Shuai," Leda said, "Perhaps the people in Baiyun City feel that they can't defend Shenmai anyway, so they simply give up Shenmai and focus on defending the city. If they defend Baiyun City, they can at least survive for a while. It’s better than being attacked immediately now.”
"I have thought about this possibility," Fu Yu said thoughtfully, "However, based on my understanding of Yan Ruyun, Lai Gu and others, they should not give up Shenmai. We must keep Shenmai from being possessed by spirit addicts. It is indeed difficult to eradicate the rat and rabbit, but as long as they can mobilize enough manpower, it is not impossible. Shenmai is related to their lifeline, how can they give up so easily?"
"Perhaps..." Lu'an said, "They don't know about the spirit-loving rats and rabbits?"
"No!" Fu Yu said, "At dawn today, I deliberately leaked the news about the spirit-loving rats and rabbits to the fine craftsmen in Baiyun City. At the same time, I also asked our fine craftsmen in Baiyun City to release the news. Yan Ruyun Duan There’s no reason why you don’t know.”
"In this case," Lu'an said, "then I believe in Elder Le's judgment. They may have known that it was too late and could not stop the spirit-loving rat rabbit, so they simply gave up the magic wheat and concentrated on city defense. They unexpectedly caused us an unprecedented The harm can be regarded as revenge for us cutting off Shenmai."
"That's right!" Leda said, "We really didn't expect that they would actually abandon Shenmai and go all out to defend the city. Therefore, we misjudged the situation in today's siege battle and suffered greater losses. However, they today They took advantage of the city defense, but lost a lot of magic wheat. More importantly, from now on, they will never get magic wheat again. We don't need to do anything anymore. If we trap him for ten years, we won't The battle was won.”
"Yes!" Lu'an said excitedly, "Not only did they give up the divine wheat today, but they also spent a lot of spiritual resources to set up the formation. Although it caused us a lot of losses, it just shows that they know that they have already I can’t hold on any longer, this is a desperate fight between trapped beasts!”
"Old Shi, be careful what you say!" Leda said, "We are the beasts."
"Uh~" Lu An was embarrassed.
Fu Yu didn't seem to believe their inferences, and didn't care about Lu'an's words. He looked at Yashi who said nothing and said, "Lao Jiu, what do you think?"
"Commander," Yashi said bravely, "The situation on the Shenmai Valley Co-Prosperity Army's side is also somewhat unexpected."
"I know, none of us thought that Baiyun City would give up Shenmai." Fu Yu said, "I want you to talk about your views on them giving up Shenmai and consuming a lot of spiritual sources to set up formations to defeat the enemy. What do you think? Is it possible that they obtained a large amount of spiritual sources from the outside world?"
"Obtaining a large amount of spiritual sources from the outside world?" Yashi shook his head and said, "This should be impossible. Not to mention that we have surrounded Baiyun City so tightly that it is difficult for birds to cross. Even if we do not prohibit outsiders from entering Baiyun City, given the current situation on the mainland, From the looks of it, it is impossible for any force to have so many spiritual sources to support them!
"The accident I'm talking about refers to the spirit-loving rats and rabbits. According to reports, there were no soldiers from Baiyun City and the Co-Prosperity Army to grab the sacred wheat today. The Communist Army calmly harvested all the sacred wheat and also killed the spirit-loving rats and rabbits. I I’m worried that what Baiyun City failed to do was done by the Co-Prosperity Army.”
"Ah?" Leda asked anxiously, "Are you saying that the spirit-loving rat rabbit was wiped out by the Communist Army?"
"Impossible!" Fu Yu said decisively, "The reason why I prepared so many spiritual pikas is to prepare for such a situation. Not only do spiritual pikas eat the spiritual roots of divine wheat, they also prefer divine wheat. Therefore, when the divine wheat matures, the spirit-loving rats and rabbits will also come out of the ground to fight for the divine wheat, and the Co-Prosperity Army will naturally kill them.
"However, the Co-Prosperity Army is greedy and driven by profit. Regardless of whether anyone from Baiyun City participates in harvesting the divine wheat, the Co-Prosperity Army will only take the harvest of the divine wheat as its primary goal. If it doesn't compete with Baiyun City, it will snatch it with its own people.
"Of course, they will also compete with the spirit-loving rats and rabbits, but killing the spirit-loving rats and rabbits is just incidental to the fight for the divine wheat. How much can they kill?
"Don't say that they don't know the dangers of the Psychic Rats and Rabbits. Even if they know, so what? They are disorganized and short-sighted, and everyone only cares about immediate interests. People who know the dangers of the Psychic Rats and Rabbits will just watch others easily harvest the magic wheat. , and go to the thankless task of killing the spirit-loving rats and rabbits by yourself?
"So, I conclude that the Co-Prosperity Army will definitely kill the spirit-loving rats and rabbits, but the number they kill will be very limited. Even if they kill half, or even 90%, the remaining spirit-loving rats will be killed. Rabbits will also eat up all the spiritual roots of Shenmai within a few days. Shenmai will definitely be extinct."
Fuyu is full of confidence in his plan and cannot be doubted by others.
