While the southern city was in a tight situation, there was no fighting on the eastern front.
Apart from the howling cold wind, the only thing left above the entire East City was the "click-click" sound made by the groups of soldiers patrolling in the snow.
The distance between the gate tower of the East City and the South City is quite far, and the battle situation there can't be clearly seen. There can only be some rising smoke and faint shouts and roars.
But even if they only heard these sounds, it was enough for the Yulin Guards and the border troops in the East City to imagine the battle situation in the South City.
Some people are afraid, some are grateful, and some are eager to try.
Xu Yuan stood on the city gate tower and looked at the different expressions of the soldiers below, and sighed slightly:
"Vice Admiral Cang, do you think Qing Yan's plan will work?"
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After finishing speaking, Vice Admiral Cang, who lowered his eyes, seemed not to have heard Xu Yuan's question.
Ever since he knew His Highness Wu Yuan's intentions, he had been thinking about something.
When Xu Yuan saw this, he didn't rush him, knowing that the other party was probably thinking about military affairs.
After a while,
Vice Admiral Cang glanced at the smoke in front of him, and then at the somewhat thin city defense formation on the dome.
The defensive formation of Beifeng City is a large formation composed of small formations interlocking with each other. The collapse of the formation in the south of the city did not affect the operation of the formation here, but the overloaded operation of the formation there has affected the rest. Part of the Yuan Qi was transferred.
In other words,
Before the Yunqi is replenished, the protection that this city defense formation can provide can basically be said to be no more than one in ten.
With his thoughts at this point, Vice Admiral Cang sighed:
"That barbarian king is not a fuel-efficient lamp. The battle situation is changing rapidly. I don't know whether he can succeed. But with the princess in the south of the city, at least he will not collapse."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan glanced at Nancheng, which was filled with smoke.
With the blessing of the Blood Origin Heart Destruction Technique, he could see the flesh and blood covered in the inner city over there and frozen into ice.
In ancient wars in previous lives, basically one or two percent of the soldiers had to be defeated before they were defeated. Those who persisted in defeating only thirty percent of the soldiers were elites. They didn't know what the war situation would be like in this extraordinary world.
Looking back, Xu Yuan said softly:
"As long as we don't get defeated, we will have gained something during this trip."
Vice Admiral Cang chuckled and said:
"Mr. Xu, I don't know whether you have captured Cang, but I suggest you go back to the government office first."
"Go back to the government office?"
Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows and subconsciously glanced at the thick smoke that blocked the sun: "Lieutenant Cang, what did you find?"
Vice Admiral Cang also looked at the smoke screen that filled the sky outside the city:
"Master Xu, as the war has progressed so far, those barbarian tribal chiefs who are full of brains and muscles are either dead, or have become vassals of other large tribes under the leadership of the barbarian king."
After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan responded quickly:
"You mean that after learning that Li Qingyan attacked the flank of the Barbarian King's army, they would not choose to send troops to assist, but would directly attack the city from the east and west?"
"Yes, the chiefs of the few remaining tribes of the barbarians are very aware of my elite fighting power, Dayan. Even if there is an emergency dispatch of reinforcements, the princess can directly turn the troops to fight back from the southern city to the city."
Vice Admiral Cang seemed to know these old opponents of the barbarians very well, his eyes were solemn:
"They are all old foxes who have experienced thousands of battles, and they have a keen sense of changes in the battle situation. The fact that the princess dares to lead an army to attack the Barbarian King's camp means that she has brought nine out of ten elites in our Beifeng City. The city is naturally empty, and the benefits The biggest choice is to trust the barbarian king and directly lead his troops to attack the city."
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Listening to Lieutenant General Cang's analysis, Xu Yuan subconsciously glanced at the Yulin army waiting in formation below.
Yes, Li Qingyan is ready.
He had previously thought that his fiancée had left this camp of Yulin Guards to support her, but now he saw that she was not planning to come back from the east city gate at all.
However, are all those who play tactics so deeply minded?
I don’t know if he will be able to suppress this woman with her breasts covered in the future.
Well, I miss the second day of Dabingtuozi.
Seeing Xu Yuan's silence, Vice Admiral Cang cupped his hands directly after finishing speaking:
"Mr. Xu, there is probably going to be a war in Dongcheng soon. I'm offended."
After all,
He didn't give Xu Yuan time to react, and directly shouted in a low voice:
"Qu Li, Zhang Hong, you two will escort Mr. Xu back to the government office!"
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Xu Yuan glanced at Deputy General Cang in surprise.
Under the premise that the barbarians would attack the city, he knew that the other party would not let him stay on the city gate. The fifth-grade cultivation level was indeed quite high among these generally sixth- and seventh-grade Yulin elites, but among the rebels , a stray arrow fired from an instrument or the siege of a barbarian squad could kill him.
But he didn't expect that the other party would take the initiative to help him pave the way.
This lieutenant general has a future.
Glancing at the two deputy generals' guards who were running over, Xu Yuan grinned and said:
"Lieutenant Cang, you understand me quite well."
Vice Admiral Cang’s expression did not change:
"If you make any mistake, Cang will not be able to deliver a message to the princess, and the princess will not be able to deliver a message to the Prime Minister. Please do it."
Xu Yuan pondered for a moment and shook his head.
Vice Admiral Cang frowned.
Xu Yuan smiled and said:
“A gentleman does not build a dangerous wall, but doesn’t this wall become a dangerous wall?”
Vice Admiral Cang looked a little puzzled:
"Mr. Xu, there is no point in you staying on this wall."
Of course Xu Yuan knew it was meaningless.
If he was at the South City Wall at the moment, it might still have some meaning.
After all, there is a black scale army over there.
After brainwashing from Tianan Martial Arts School and the Black Scale Army, a kind of personality cult has been formed in the hearts of most of the Black Scale Army.
A cult of personality for his dad.
Even if he did nothing in the past, as long as he stood on the city wall, it would be equivalent to the prince's personal expedition to the black scale army, which would increase their morale.
However, except for one battalion of the Yulin Army in East City, there are only 10,000 regular sect frontier troops.
But the problem is that he dare not go back to the government office now.
Li Zhaoyuan is still staying in the government office.
Lieutenant General Cang will not be unfavorable to him, but this is not necessarily the case for Li Zhaoyuan.
Although the bombing of the sect's warehouse was instigated by Qin Weijiu and executed by Su Meimo, it has not yet been determined whether Li Zhaoyuan was involved.
If the other party really cooperates with Qin Weijiu, they must want to get rid of him.
Even if you don't know that he is the designated heir of the Prime Minister's Mansion, you will still want to get rid of him based on his soaring cultivation level in the past year.
The barbarians attacked the city, and the three sons of the Prime Minister died violently. How pleasant it sounds to hear~
after all,
A Prime Minister's Mansion without an heir is the best Prime Minister's Mansion.
Xu Yuan stared at Vice Admiral Cang and said seriously:
"Lieutenant Cang, not everything in this world needs a meaning. There are many things that I need to experience personally and see with my own eyes. Otherwise, in the future, the lives of these soldiers will always be just in the files in my understanding. A string of cold numbers.”
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Deputy General Cang's eyes changed for a moment, and his eyes softened when he looked at Xu Yuan. He didn't say anything, but he waved his hand to let the two deputy generals go down.
Amidst the cold wind and the distant shouts of killing coming from the south of the city, time passed by minute by second.
suddenly,
A hurricane suddenly set off, but what came was not a barbarian, but a slender figure wearing a prince's jade robe.
It was Li Zhaoyuan.
Seeing the other party, Xu Yuan's expression remained unchanged, but his heart sank slightly.
A moment of silence,
Xu Yuan did not move, but Lieutenant General Cang knelt on the ground:
"Your Highness!"
Li Zhaoyuan glanced at him, his voice was neither cold nor indifferent, with a hint of alienation:
"Vice General Cang, the military situation is urgent and there is no need to be polite."
Upon hearing this, Lieutenant General Cang stood up immediately, looked at Li Zhaoyuan's toes and cupped his hands and said:
"Now that the barbarians are about to attack the city, why are you here, Your Highness?"
Li Zhaoyuan's sharp-browed and starry-eyed face still showed a serious smile:
"I have done everything I can do within the government office. If the military situation is urgent, I, as the prince, naturally have to contribute on the front line."
Xu Yuan glanced up and down at the second prince.
Although he had slapped this kid in the face, he actually didn't know the second prince's cultivation level. After all, his father was walking in front when he was slapped in the face.
But looking at the other party's unfathomable aura, he must be a third-grade grandmaster.
Vice Admiral Cang still lowered his head and handed over his hands:
"Your Highness, on the battlefield, there is no ordinary cultivator fighting. You have a body of thousands of gold."
"Vice General Cang."
Li Zhaoyuan raised his hand to interrupt him, looked at the patrolling soldiers below with complicated eyes, and said in a serious tone:
"I need to see with my own eyes these soldiers who died for the Great Flame. Otherwise, in the future, they may just be a string of cold names in my heart."
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There was a moment of silence,
Lieutenant General Cang coughed lightly and raised his saluting hand forward:
"Ahem, His Highness is worried about the soldiers. Cang will bear this in mind."
The words fell,
Lieutenant General Cang straightened up and looked out of the city intently.
And at this time,
Li Zhaoyuan turned to Xu Yuan and asked:
"Third Young Master, why don't you go back to your office and rest?"
Xu Yuan suppressed his smile and said:
"Me, I want to see what the front line looks like."
Li Zhaoyuan advised with concern:
"War is not a child's play. Safety is the most important thing. If Third Young Master is willing, I will immediately arrange for escorts to take you back to the government office."
When Xu Yuan heard this, he immediately hissed in his heart.
broken.
This guy doesn't really want to play the trick of "Barbarians attack the city and the three sons of the Prime Minister die violently", does he?
Facing the other party's sincere eyes, Xu Yuan shook his head.
"Thank you for your concern. Isn't there Vice Admiral Cang here?"
After a moment's pause, he turned around and asked:
"But Your Highness, if you want to remember the importance of soldiers' lives, why don't you go to Nancheng? You should be needed more there."
The reason why Li Zhaoyuan came here was so weird that it was difficult for Xu Yuan not to think about it.
Xu Yuan did know that the other party wanted to establish prestige among the Great Yan Army.
But the problem is that if he really wants to establish his prestige, wouldn't it be a better choice for Li Zhaoyuan to go to Nancheng now?
Not only is the military situation in Nancheng more urgent and high-level cultivators are needed, but Li Qingyan is also there.
The danger is a little more dangerous, but greater risk means greater reward.
Li Yunqing, the sixth person, might not dare, but Li Zhaoyuan definitely dared to take this risk.
There was no clue in the look on Li Zhaoyuan's face, and he replied without thinking:
"The imperial sister and Commander Yuan are already stationed over there, so I don't need to go there anymore."
"Ah"
Xu Yuan chuckled noncommittally, and suddenly looked sideways at Lieutenant General Cang and asked:
"Lieutenant General Cang, your habit of controlling military formations is to rush to the front, or to sit at the rear?"
According to the internal records of the military formation in the Prime Minister's Office, generals are basically required to be in charge of the central army. Even if the general at the center of the formation is injured, it will affect the maintenance of the military formation. If he is killed, the entire military formation will collapse directly.
But previously in Vientiane City, Xu Yuan and Yuan Hao's fighting style was that the general would rush directly to the front.
Vice Admiral Cang’s voice was calm:
"Cang's cultivation of military formations is not as good as Her Royal Highness's. She usually sits in the middle of the army."
Xu Yuan nodded when he heard this:
"That's good."
If Vice Admiral Cang likes to rush in front as much as Yuan Hao, then he really has to run away directly.
Although he wasn't sure whether Li Zhaoyuan wanted to attack him, he couldn't gamble on this thing.
Vice Admiral Cang said softly:
"Don't worry, Mr. Xu, as long as the general is still alive, you will definitely not make any mistakes."
"Thank you."
Xu Yuan smiled easily and turned to look at Li Zhaoyuan aside:
"Your Highness, is this your first time on the front line?"
"yes."
Li Zhaoyuan looked back with a faint smile on his lips:
"The third young master should be the same, but why do I feel that you are not nervous at all?"
Xu Yuan spread his hands and looked very bachelor:
"I'm used to being laid-back, and I don't have the habit of being nervous."
After a pause, he stared at him again and smiled:
"But although I'm not nervous, I care about my life. The Second Highness will have to take care of me for a while. So many people have seen His Highness next to me. If there is danger, it will be unreasonable for you not to help me."
At the end, Xu Yuan slightly emphasized his tone.
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Li Zhaoyuan's eyes narrowed slightly.
Xu Yuan looked at him with a smile.
Li Zhaoyuan took the lead to look away and whispered:
"There should be other Black Scale Guards in the city, right?"
Xu Yuan also looked at the smoke barrier in front of him, blocking his view, and said with a smile:
"Indeed, there are, but I don't know where they are now."
Li Zhaoyuan's voice was calm and soothing:
"Oh, the Third Young Master is Mr. Xu's most beloved heir, and Mr. Xu is the pillar of our Great Yan Kingdom. I will naturally protect the Third Young Master."
Not long after Li Zhaoyuan finished speaking,
The barbarians in the east of the city, who had withstood the bombardment of monsters, finally began their attack on the east city.
Since there was no war colossus to the east, the barbarians immediately asked their warriors to throw countless iron spikes when they attacked the city. These iron spikes were deeply embedded in the city wall, forming a ladder on the surface of the city wall for the barbarian soldiers to borrow strength.
The smoke released by the blinding sun became the best cover for these barbarians to attack the city at this moment.
Countless barbarian soldiers took advantage of the fog's agile ants to attack.
Although the city defense formation in the sky has become somewhat looming due to the insufficient supply of source energy, it still continues to provide shelter for the Great Flame defenders on the city wall, and all kinds of city defense equipment are directed toward the fog below. shoot.
From time to time, you can hear the painful whines coming from the city.
In the mist below the city, from time to time, monster beast totems would shoot out and attack the formation in the sky.
Every impact would cause the city defense formation to sway for a moment.
After a stalemate over a cup of tea,
The first barbarian jumped onto the city wall, but his tall body of more than ten feet was cut in two by a Yulin soldier.
But then came the second barbarian tribe, the tenth barbarian tribe, and the hundredth barbarian tribe!
This was the first time Xu Yuan saw a group like the Barbarians with his own eyes.
It's human-shaped, but it looks terrifying at first glance, giving it an uncanny valley effect.
The Yulin army, who had formed a military formation on the city wall and was waiting for them, seemed to have adapted to the opponent's appearance. The standard ancient ingot long sword was swung fiercely.
Kill as many as you come up to.
It was almost a one-sided massacre.
The dark blood of the barbarians gradually stained the city wall, rising into heat and dissipating in an instant, quickly turning into solid ice in the biting cold temperature.
But soon, the city defense formation in the sky seemed to have exhausted its energy due to the impact of those totems in the fog. The frequency of attacks gradually slowed down, and the Great Yan defenders finally suffered their first casualty.
And once it begins, the casualties will never stop.
The barbarians below the city seemed to stretch endlessly, and after killing one, two more would jump up.
The barbarians who built a bridgehead on the city wall tried to expand their victory, but the patterned crossbow arrows placed at different heights caused them to fly bloody.
Xu Yuan saw a barbarian leader whose aura was not weaker than his own, trying to attack the formation crossbow. As a result, his body was beaten and disappeared instantly, leaving only one pair of legs standing on the spot.
I also saw a Yu Linya general being hit by a totem shadow and instantly exploded into blood foam.
The hot red and black blood was continuously splashed, and was rapidly cooled and frozen under the freezing temperature. Finally, it was shattered by the intertwined source energy of both sides, turning into ice particles flying all over the sky.
Standing on the city gate tower, Xu Yuan silently looked at the war below that belonged to the extraordinary world. His breathing changed from slow to rapid, and finally returned to normal from rapid to normal.
Under the tide of barbarians,
One after another, the valuable formation crossbows were destroyed, and the desperate Yulin soldiers fell into a pool of blood one by one. The area occupied by the barbarians on the city wall began to spread step by step.
This is the price, the price for Li Qingyan's desperate effort to concentrate his forces for a decisive battle.
The advantage of the south of the city was obtained at the cost of the crisis situation in the east and west cities.
Time seems to have no concept at this moment.
Only the splattering blood and the smell of death filled the city wall
At this point in the fight, it is completely a competition between the willpower of the generals and soldiers of both sides.
Whoever collapses first will lose.
Xu Yuan clenched his fists slightly, but suddenly realized that Li Zhaoyuan beside him suddenly disappeared.
next moment,
A burst of dazzling white lightning almost illuminated the sky shrouded in snow clouds, and the powerful aura belonging to a first-class metamorphosis began to wreak havoc on the city wall seemingly unbridled.
The Dao Domain suddenly appeared, and the sky was filled with thunder and lightning in a radius of a hundred feet!
In the blink of an eye,
Hundreds of tall barbarian soldiers fell to the ground and turned into charcoal.
Seeing this scene,
Xu Yuan's pupils shrank suddenly.
It’s bad, he slapped a mortal prince in the face before in the palace.
But the next moment, Xu Yuan raised his eyes to look at the city defense formation in the sky.
Even if Li Zhaoyuan is a powerful person who has transformed from the ordinary, he does not believe that the other party dares to be so arrogant in a war of this scale.
Because the next moment the high-level cultivator took action, there was a bombardment from the military formation.
And just as Xu Yuan thought,
Li Zhaoyuan had just launched his Dao Domain, and before his moves had stopped, a giant python suddenly rushed out of the smoke screen!
The tough city wall immediately turned into powder the moment it touched the python's body, invading Li Zhaoyuan's sky-filled thunder field. The thick thunder arc hit the python's shadow but could not stop it at all.
It's a pity that the city defense formation in the sky, which had been almost stagnant, reappeared at this moment.
Li Zhaoyuan's whole body instantly formed a thick shield.
The shield collided with the giant python, and the two sources of energy intertwined with each other. The huge shock made the entire East City tremble slightly!
Xu Yuan steadied his body and instantly understood what the second prince wanted to do.
Deliberately restraining the source of the city's protective formation, he took action at the critical moment. With the protection of the formation, he used his own strength to defeat the morale of the barbarians in one fell swoop.
The barbarian general below who controls the military formation totem is naturally no slower than Xu Yuan.
After Li Zhaoyuan killed nearly a hundred barbarian soldiers, a giant turtle shell phantom condensed in front of Li Zhaoyuan's lightning arc.
The thunder domain converged in an instant, and the thunder in the bright sky gradually turned into a frightening purple. Li Zhaoyuan's speed suddenly surged again!
At this moment, the city defense formation in the sky also dropped an invisible heavy pressure.
The moment the turtle shell phantom was intertwined with lightning arcs and heavy pressure, cracks appeared one after another, and then spread rapidly. In a few breaths, it shattered into pieces, directly turning into dots of starlight and disappearing in the air.
Just when Xu Yuan thought that Li Zhaoyuan would continue his solo show, he suddenly stopped and flew back to the city gate tower.
Xu Yuan looked at Li Zhaoyuan, whose body was still flashing with bursts of thunder, and asked with a smile:
"Your Highness, the city defense formation has completely run out of energy reserves?"
Li Zhaoyuan also answered very honestly:
"It's natural. I don't dare to mess around in this kind of military formation. The morale of the barbarians should be broken. I'll leave the next thing to Lieutenant General Cang."
After this incident, the offensive and defensive momentum on the city wall changed again.
Shortly after,
Excited exclamations from the city wall reached Xu Yuan’s ears:
"The barbarians retreat!"
"The barbarians retreat!"
"Your Highness, a thousand years old!"
"Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Royal Highness, your military fortune is prosperous!!"
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Listening to these shouts, Xu Yuan looked back and cupped his hands at Li Zhaoyuan:
"Your Highness has gained a lot. His cultivation is so deep, which really scares Chang Tian."
Li Zhaoyuan still had the same indifferent expression as before, his face was slightly pale, and he smiled slightly:
"You don't have to be polite, Third Young Master. This time, I used some external help."
After a moment's pause,
Li Zhaoyuan seemed to hear something, glanced sideways in the direction of Nancheng, and said with a chuckle:
"The imperial sister has also entered the city. She asked me to take you, Third Young Master, there."
Xu Yuan did not move when he heard the words, and grinned:
"Oh? How did you get in touch?"
"The city protection formation, our royal family can control the formation, and naturally we can use it to communicate within the city."
Li Zhaoyuan pointed to the top of the dome and smiled warmly: "Of course, Third Young Master, you can also ask Deputy General Cang to arrange for someone to send you there."
Xu Yuan looked at the other party deeply and laughed:
"Look at what you said, Your Highness, you're out of touch."
After all,
Xu Yuan looked sideways at Lieutenant General Cang, whose face turned pale due to the backlash from the military formation, and said loudly:
"Vice General Cang, I will go with the Second Highness to see Qing Yan first. Take care."
Dragged by Li Zhaoyuan with Yuanqi, Xu Yuan and his two men quickly arrived at Nancheng, where the Yulin Army was located.
They arrived together outside the huge barracks belonging to Li Qingyan,
Before the two of them spoke to the guard outside the door, Li Qingyan's rustling voice came from the barracks:
"Second brother, please wait a moment. The prince-in-law will come in first."
It's a little late, it's 6k long, and it's sent after the code is finished.
or?
(End of chapter)
