The huge siege equipment was put into operation, and dozens of pitch-black cans spewed billowing black smoke, braving frightening fire and rushing into the sky, before being thrown onto the plains in front of Sishui Pass.
Chen Shouren's eyes were about to burst, and the famous sword Chixiao was unsheathed, and he slashed out several sword energy to intercept the jars filled with the black fire of the abyss. But where could Song Zhiwen let him succeed? The moment Chen Shouren drew his sword, the famous sword Nuanyu also slashed out several sword auras and rushed towards Chixiao's sword aura!
"laugh!!--"
The two Heavenly Lords faced each other with swords across the Si River. Their swords were full of energy, making people look at them.
Xu Guandong, the guard of Sishui Pass, was galloping. When he looked up, he saw two waves of sword energy clashing with each other above the sky. Three pitch-black jars were smashed into pieces by the sword energy. There was only a "bang" sound, and in the thick smoke, The blazing fire suddenly spread out like a huge curtain!
"What is that!?" the Sishui Pass cavalry said in horror.
"Go back to the city, go back to the city!" Chen Shouren shouted at the top of Sishui Pass.
The second wave of black canisters is ready to be launched.
On the bank of Sishui River, Zhang Yan, the inspector general of the Song Army, showed a sinister and cruel sneer, "Let go!"
With a command, the second wave of black cans rose into the sky!
At the head of Sishui Pass, Chen Shouren took a breath of cold air.
The first wave of black cans has landed.
The three exploding black cans spread a ferocious curtain of fire in the air. Two of the cans failed to reach the Sishuiguan cavalry, but one had already reached the top of the eight thousand men and horses. As soon as it exploded, it was immediately enveloped in scalding flames. Thick black smoke rushed toward the cavalry on the plains!
"laugh!!--"
Black fire burst out and engulfed a small group of people in an instant.
"ah!!!--"
The cavalrymen and horses affected by the black fire were immediately engulfed in the fire. Someone's face was covered with black fire, and his limbs were burned and twisted on the spot. And those cavalrymen whose whole bodies were ignited by black fire tried to break away from the fiercely burning armor, but before they could take off their armor, they were already burned to death!
Some of the war horses were ignited by the black fire, neighing in terror and rushing left and right, throwing the formations of nearby cavalry into chaos.
Xu Guandong felt a chill rush straight to his forehead.
Abyss Black Fire! !
The Sishui Gatekeeper immediately realized what the contents of those jars were, and his tongue felt bitter. He watched the first wave of black jars smash into the charging formation of eight thousand cavalry. With a "bang", the black jars The cans exploded directly, and thick smoke rose into the sky, surrounding the black cans with a radius of more than 80 feet. The fire swept across thousands of troops, and instantly engulfed all the cavalry within the range, including men and horses!
"What's this?!"
"ah!!--"
"Fire, such a big fire!!——"
"Help, help me, help me!!——"
The screams were endless. Most of the cavalrymen who were ignited by the black fire were not killed on the spot. They were all running around with their bodies covered in fire. But where was the use?
The terrifying thing about the black fire of the abyss is that once the fire is ignited, it is difficult to put it out even by pouring water! With black fire, the only way to put out the fire is to wait until it burns out!
Seventy years ago, during the national war in the north, the Song army attacked cities and massacred them with the black fire of the abyss. Without exception, all those cities were burned to ashes!
The reason is that the black fire of the abyss is difficult to extinguish with water. Even on the water, the black fire of the abyss can be ignited. Not only will it burn extremely fiercely, but it will also cause the black fire to burst out, just like setting off firecrackers in the fire.
So when a fire breaks out, it's almost impossible to put it out.
And when the black fire of the abyss has almost burned, and only the attachments ignited by the black fire are burning, and the fire it caused can be extinguished by water, the whole city has been burned red, where can we put out the fire?
The second wave of black cans has arrived over the eight thousand cavalry!
Xu Guandong felt terrified. The first wave of black tanks had completely scattered the cavalry formation. Looking around, hundreds of thousands of cavalry, including men and horses, were burning and rushing around.
And those men and horses that were unfortunately hit by the burning cavalry were immediately ignited. On the plains, there was a scene of tragedy, with wailing everywhere. The cavalry were on fire and burned beyond recognition, like ghosts!
This tragic situation instantly shattered the morale of the team, and all the surviving cavalrymen turned pale with horror.
The black fire of the abyss burned violently, and the billowing smoke emitted a nauseating and pungent smell. The horses of the Sishui Pass defenders were so frightened that they struggled desperately, trying to break away from the restraints of the reins and escape from the battlefield.
Chen Shouren rushed out of Sishui Pass with his sword, trying to block the second wave of black cans.
"Little sir, let's take a look at this sword!" Song Zhiwen said with a smile. The famous sword Nuanyu destroyed a powerful sword energy, like a roaring river. The silver-white sword energy rushed out and rushed straight to Chen Shouren's door. go!
The sword intention of the river is like a long river.
Chen Shouren was caught off guard, and the sword energy from the river came in all directions, full of murderous intent, as if it was trying to take his life.
Tianzun Dongxuan.
Chen Shouren's cultivation exploded at this moment. Behind the Supreme Master of the Four Realms, nine caves suddenly opened, revealing the Great Perfection of Cave Mystery!
The mysterious energy emanated from the nine caves behind Chen Shouren. The young scholar from Jixia Academy held the famous sword Chixiao and walked across the sky. Then he raised the sword and saw a red light going straight towards the sky. The great river that came was gone with sword energy!
Song Zhiwen reached the sky step by step.
Chen Shouren took the opportunity to freeze the second wave of black cans, and with a wave of his hand, he wrapped the black cans together and destroyed them all.
Unexpectedly, when those black tanks were destroyed, they did not erupt into blazing fire, but simply shattered and destroyed, falling into the sky.
The backup plan that Chen Shouren had prepared was completely useless.
The red light and Jianhe collided, shocking the world.
Song Zhiwen had already arrived above Si River and laughed loudly: "Little sir, you have to distinguish between what is real and what is fake, what is fake and what is real!"
The implication is that not all the black canisters projected by siege engines contain abyssal blackfire.
"I never thought that Confucian swordsmanship could be so cunning!" Chen Shouren sneered.
"Thank you." Song Zhiwen said with a smile.
The two waves of sword energy collided, and the aftermath of the sword energy was like a strong wind passing by, sweeping across the sky.
Chi Xiao flew back to Chen Shouren's hands.
At the same time, behind Song Zhiwen, Jiudongtian also appeared.
Two sword cultivators with perfect four realms faced each other in the air, and the battle was about to break out!
In the wilderness, Xu Guandong's eight thousand cavalry had already suffered more than a thousand casualties. The Sishui Pass guard general saw that the morale of the army had dispersed, and the Song Army's vanguard team had successfully crossed the river and disembarked under the leadership of Yang Cheng.
"The shieldmen advance forward, bows and arrows ready!" Yang Cheng shouted.
Xu Guandong's ears heard screams one after another. Those burning cavalry were charging everywhere, and the casualties were increasing.
The Song Army has already begun to advance in formation.
The Sishui Pass guard looked up to the sky and roared, his eyes red, and ordered: "Retreat and return to the city!"
But Zhang Yan obviously didn't want to let them go.
Chen Shouren has been held back by Song Zhiwen. The Song Army Governor gave an order to the inspector and the third round of projection has begun!
Dozens of dark jars rose into the sky.
"Bow and arrow cover!" Chen Shouren shouted.
At the top of the city of Sishui Pass, strong archers stepped forward one after another, lining up their bows and arrows, pointing straight at the sky, hoping to intercept the black can in mid-air.
"put!!"
On top of the city, the captain of the archers shouted.
Thousands of strong archers threw their arrows, and a wave of dark arrows rose into the sky and headed straight for the black tank.
This time there was real truth in the dozens of black cans.
"Boom!!——"
The arrows tore apart one of the black cans, and fire exploded. The horizontal wave of the explosion directly overturned the wave of arrows. In the fire, thick smoke billowed in the sky, and more than a dozen black cans were thrown at Xu Guandong's cavalry team.
"Go quickly, go quickly!!"
"Coming, coming!! No!! -"
"boom!!--"
The moment the three black cans sank into the cavalry's frantically retreating team, they burst out with blazing fire, immediately igniting a large area of cavalry including both men and horses!
The sputtering black fire rushed wildly, and as long as it stuck to it, it would immediately burn violently. In an instant, the light armor of the cavalry would be burned tightly and stick to the body, and the person would be scalded to death.
Tragic.
Xu Guandong's liver and gallbladder were split.
The gate that had not yet been closed at Sishui Pass slowly opened. The cavalrymen who had gone out to fight bravely, but had already retreated in embarrassment before they could even touch Song Jun Mao, drove their horses to run wildly, as if if they slowed down, the terrifying black tank would appear again. It's like falling on their heads.
In the sky, Song Zhiwen and Chen Shouren were already fighting together.
The Supreme Majesty made the two soldiers and horses dare not look directly at each other. The sword energy criss-crossed the sky and occasionally fell on the fields outside Sishui Pass. A ferocious crack immediately appeared on the ground.
Song troops came ashore one after another.
There were tens of thousands of people in the vanguard team. Yang Cheng held a large Xuanhua ax and commanded the flag bearer to raise the flag of the vanguard camp high, and the troops from all departments quickly lined up in the direction of the flag.
The shield bearers advanced directly, and then the archers, infantry soldiers, and siege soldiers were led by three vanguard generals to open up positions.
The Song army was very fast. When the great sun in the east jumped over the top of the mountains, all the vanguard troops led by Yang Cheng had already landed.
"The three armies obey the order, advance and attack the city!!" Yang Cheng roared.
"kill!!--"
The Song army quickly became operational.
A full three thousand shieldmen, led by a vanguard general, pushed the camp directly to a mile outside the city of Sishui Pass!
This distance, for both the Song army and the Sishui Pass defenders, was within the shooting range of their respective archers.
"Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows!" The captain of the archers at Sishui Pass commanded a thousand strong archers on the top of the city to hurl bows and arrows from high above.
At this distance, a strong archer from Sishui Pass could shoot a bow and arrow through a person from head to toe with one arrow, and directly nail the person to the ground!
If it were an armor-piercing arrow, even the Song Army's shield bearers wouldn't be able to stop it for long!
Unfortunately, after nearly a year of fighting, the Sishui Pass defenders had already exhausted all their armor-piercing arrows.
"Shielders cover!" the Song Army's vanguard general ordered, "Archers prepare!"
The two armies lined up, and with an order, the defenders of Sishui Pass struck preemptively. Thousands of densely packed feather arrows rained down from the sky, like a black rainstorm, coming from behind!
The Song army's shieldmen formed a tortoise-shell formation with numerous shields standing in front of the archers.
The sound of arrows hitting the shield was loud.
An arrow passed through the gap in the shield, and the shield bearer fell to the ground. Immediately, infantrymen from the rear came to fill in, acting as shield bearers and continuing to raise the shield.
Occasionally, feather arrows penetrated the shield directly and nailed the shield hand directly to the bottom of the square shield.
With the continuous fighting, not only the armor-piercing arrows of the Sishui Pass defenders were used up, but many of the Song army's square shields were also seriously damaged. Therefore, after a round of arrow rain, there were hundreds of casualties.
"Fire the arrow!"
After the first round of arrows, the shield bearers immediately withdrew. The archers of the Song Army were well prepared, and when they heard the bow strings vibrating together, a wave of arrows rose into the sky, straight to the top of the city of Sishui Pass!
Arrows were fired at each other, causing casualties on both sides.
Some of the defenders at Sishui Pass were shot by arrows and fell directly to the top of the city. They were immediately smashed to pieces.
"Infantry preparation, prepare to attack the city!"
Under the rain of arrows, Yang Cheng gave the order. The vanguard army and siege infantry have prepared long ladders and are preparing to attack Sishui Pass.
The two armies fired back and forth, but within a quarter of an hour, thousands of casualties were already suffered on both sides!
"Damn it, get ready, get ready!!" The pioneer general of the Song Army saw another round of arrows coming. The shields of the Song Army's shieldmen were densely covered with arrows. There were more and more casualties among the shieldmen, and the shields in the hands of many shieldmen were already gone. Vulnerable.
The vanguard general gave an order and called out twice to prepare. The shield hands once again formed a turtle formation, and under the shield, the archers understood and had prepared new arrows.
This kind of feathered arrow is different from the fletched arrows thrown before. The arrow shaft is wrapped with a layer of dark oil cloth. The dark oil cloth exudes a pungent smell that is nauseating.
Oilcloth soaked in the black fire of the abyss.
