The spring breeze is blowing strongly in the wilderness.
The iron cavalry in the wilderness is moving forward in an orderly manner.
The palms of the defenders on the city wall were stained with sweat.
Li Ye looked at the dark army slowly moving forward and couldn't help but chuckled: "This time, I will let you down again."
Now I finally understand why my husband wanted to return to Fengyun City. Firstly, he didn’t want to deal with the mess in the Imperial City, and secondly, he had anticipated the unsuspense ending of the Southern Xinjiang battlefield.
The eldest prince and others hope that this battle will start quickly, then win, and then end.
Even the tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the city wall with bows in hand were unwilling to maintain this eerie tranquility in front of the prairie cavalry.
As if unaware of people's gaze, Li Ye looked quietly outside Nanyun City, at the green grass on the wasteland, the official roads in the fields, and the dark crowds moving on the grass.
There are no green seedlings in front of Nanyun City, only weeds and wild flowers. Since last autumn, when three towns in southern Xinjiang were occupied, Yang Kaiyi had let the people in the city abandon the land outside the city. Go to another place to open up wasteland.
"Let's see how I burn you all." Shaking his head, Li Ye murmured in a low voice.
Seeing that the defenders on the city wall did not respond, the army approaching the moat began to push the cedars forward. The two cedars were tied together and crossed the ten-foot-wide moat.
A thick shield array stood by the river to protect the army behind him. Even if he had to forcibly cross the river, the shield array and the soldiers would work together, sharing life and death, and move forward indomitably.
"Do you want to launch an attack?" The eldest prince looked down at the densely packed iron cavalry wearing black armor, and couldn't help but sweat breaking out on his body.
The shield formation on the moat protected the cavalry from crossing the river, and heavy weapons for siege were slowly being transported.
On the other side of the moat, the prairie cavalry were setting up Shi Yin, preparing to throw stones to attack the city...
"We can't let them set up their chariots. Wang Tianhua ordered the heavy slaves to fire two volleys first and destroy the chariots on the other side!" Li Ye shouted at the messenger.
"Send the order to the slave camp, fire two volleys, and destroy the chariots on the other side!" The ordering soldier waved the red flag in his hand while passing the order!
"Nalan Yu, it's up to you, three rounds of volley, don't let them escape!" Li Ye looked at Nalan Yu beside him and shouted loudly.
"Promise to complete the mission!" Nalan Yu was ordered to leave.
"Woo!" The heavy slave on the city wall whined, and tens of thousands of heavy arrows shot toward the other side of the moat.
At the end of spring, outside Mianyun City, there was once again a black rain of arrows.
The catapults that had not yet been set up were scattered one after another under the powerful heavy fire.
"Attack! Attack!" The cavalrymen who had already crossed the river roared.
One hundred thousand cavalry on the grassland slowly pressed forward, and the sound of war drums shook the earth and the earth.
"Bang the drum!" Li Ye shouted coldly.
In an instant, the thunderous war drums were beating in Nanyun City! Earth-shattering.
Groups of iron cavalry stepped on cedars and rushed towards Nanyun City. As they rushed, they never forgot to hold their shields on their heads with one hand to guard against the rain of arrows that fell from the sky.
"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!" There was a sound of strings, and tens of thousands of rockets poured out on the moat like a rain of arrows.
"Boom!" In the sound, fire clouds burst out of the moat and rose!
Yeluqi, who was on the military horse, screamed desperately: "He set fire again!"
Yue Tianlang, who was riding forward on his war horse, was dumbfounded and muttered to himself: "That guy set fire again!"
Lan Feng, who was directing the army to rush forward, yelled: "How shameless, we set fire again!"
In just an instant, in the moat, the thousands of barrels of kerosene poured by Nalan Yu and others last night were ignited by tens of thousands of rockets. The huge fire dragon set the entire moat on fire with lightning speed.
The pine branches pushed in last night, plus the pine branches piled up by the prairie cavalry to build a bridge across the river today, burned fiercely. The fire became more and more fierce, and there was no possibility of putting it out.
"Send the order and use rockets to destroy the catapults on the other side!" Li Ye shouted quietly.
The messenger quickly waved the red flag.
In the blink of an eye, a fire was slowly burning on the other side.
You can do whatever you want, let me take a break. Li Ye looked at Mu Mu and Wei Qingyu and smiled faintly.
Mu Mu and Wei Qingyu carried bows and arrows and climbed onto the city wall...
Li Ye moved two chairs from the room and handed one to the eldest prince: "Don't be nervous, we won't charge today!"
The eldest prince pulled up a chair and sat down, clenching his fists and smiling: "They never expected to be tricked again today, right?"
Li Ye looked back at him and said quietly: "We are the home court here, so we take the initiative. But if we are too weak, even if we take the initiative, it will not have any effect."
The eldest prince nodded.
Li Ye looked at him and continued: "If the Generalissimo hadn't commanded the army to dig this ten-foot-wide moat, I wouldn't have been able to stop the hundreds of thousands of troops from the grassland tribes despite my great abilities.
"This idea was arranged by the old imperial master for us to dig. At that time, the soldiers complained that digging in the wild in this winter was extremely painful," the eldest prince said with a smile.
"Now that I think about it, no matter how much effort I put in and how much hardship I endured, it was still worth it." Li Ye replied lightly.
Outside Nanyun City, Yeluqi, Yue Tianlang, Wu Na Lone Wolf, Lan Feng and others met.
The four of them looked at the flames rising in the sky on the moat, and then looked at the catapults burning with rockets on the shore, and shook their heads speechlessly.
"In addition to using fire, what else can this bastard do? He set me on fire outside Xiaguan." Yue Tianlang roared.
Yeluqi looked at him and said calmly: "So what, you can use it too."
Wu Na Lone Wolf looked at the soldiers struggling in the sea of fire and roared bitterly: "Isn't there some way?"
"A lot of fuel has been poured into the fire. Even if they jump into the moat, they will die. Their plan is really cruel!" Lan Feng frowned and said coldly.
"Continue to attack or retreat?" The three of them looked at Yeluqi and asked in unison.
"Let the army retreat. This fire will not be extinguished for two or three hours. Send a small number of soldiers to pick up the injured soldiers and bring them back." Yeluqi looked up at Nanyun City and said quietly .
The army is already caught in a sea of fire, and there are no items to put it out. How can we fight this battle?
While the four of them were discussing, the grassland soldiers under Nanyun City knew that there was no hope of attacking the city and fled back one after another. Only then did they realize that their escape route had been cut off.
"How to deal with these people?" The eldest prince asked Li Ye, looking at the panicked Nanyun soldiers outside Nanyun City.
"Shout, as long as you surrender, you will be brought back to the city first, and then put back when the battle is over!" Li Ye looked at the cavalry on the moat crying for help. Although he couldn't bear it, he felt helpless.
As Yeluqi said, how can we save a fire with thousands of barrels of kerosene added to it?
The soldiers on both sides once again witnessed the cruelty of war. The fire dragon on the moat completely broke today's attack. Without the ladder to cross the river and the catapult to attack the city, how could we attack?
Mu Mu led Wei Qingyu over, looked at Li Ye and said, "It's so pitiful. Let's let them go today."
"Command, to the grassland tribes below the city, we promise not to harm them if they are willing to surrender!" Li Ye looked at the messenger behind him and said coldly.
"Soldiers on the grassland, put down your weapons and surrender. Our Imperial Guards have promised not to harm you." Someone started shouting on the city wall.
Watching their army retreat, the prairie cavalry who had no hope of escape threw down their weapons.
The gate of Nanyun City slowly opened again, and the army in the city walked out of the city to take over these injured grassland soldiers.
The weapons you put down are sentient beings.
All living beings must not be killed! This is Li Ye's truth.
Neither the eldest prince nor Yang Kaiyi were easy to kill. Seeing that Li Ye had made a decision, the two of them stopped talking and just arranged for personnel to treat the injured grassland soldiers.
Li Ye put away the iron bow he held in his pocket. He didn't fire an arrow today, but his expression was more serious than yesterday.
Murder and arson were not his preference, but he had to do it in order to win the war.
Just like what he said to Yeluqi, there is no right or wrong in this world, only whether you want it or not.
In fact, he has been practicing Buddhism for the longest time, longer than he has been practicing swordsmanship. Since he started copying the first "Ksitigarbha Sutra", he has been roaming in the world of images.
What's more, I later became a disciple of an old monk from the Great Buddha Temple, went to the White Jade City to meet the abbot and received the sixth volume of the Heart Dharma of the Formless Dharmakaya, and then went to the Prajna Temple in Fangcun Mountain to sweep the floor and practice.
Except for not being tonsured, he felt that he was no different from a monk.
Except for the moment when he swung his sword to kill someone.
Mu Mu had been standing behind him, looking at Li Ye who frowned tightly, and she seemed to understand something in her heart.
But at this time, she didn't know what to say to Li Ye? I can only stay by his side quietly.
Li Ye looked at the fireworks rising from the moat and felt that while he was cultivating Buddhism, he was also cultivating demons.
Between Buddha and Demon, he has already reached the extreme.
...
Seeing their army plunged into a sea of flames, the kings of the grassland all galloped forward, hoping to rush to the front line.
Yelu Qi and others each blocked their own Khan. Yelu Qi looked at Yelu Chucai and said, "Our people saw that Nanyun City did not shoot any soldiers who crossed the river."
Lan Feng also looked at Lan Tianqi and said, "They just asked our troops to surrender, and they didn't kill anyone again."
Una Lone Wolf looked at the Khan King Zize Suogu and the general Zize Pingming and said: "This time, we lost again."
"How are the casualties today?" Yelu Chucai frowned and looked at Yelu Qi and asked.
"The specific number of people will be counted later, but according to the situation at the scene, we did not have many casualties. Most of them rushed across the moat." Yeluqi said cautiously.
"Retract the troops and discuss it when we go back." Yelu looked at the other three Khan kings, shook his head and let out a long sigh.
The messenger got the signal and blew the horn to withdraw the troops and return to the camp.
In late spring, Nanyun City once again defeated the invading prairie cavalry!
