"well"
A sigh sounded softly, and Xu Yuan clearly understood the meaning of Li Qingyan's words.
From the moment the barbarian army detoured to the south of the city, the fall of Beifeng City was doomed.
When it falls does not actually depend on the determination and morale of the defenders, but on how much the barbarians are willing to pay for Beifeng City.
If you want to change, if you want to break the situation, you can only fight an eternal battle of defeating more with less.
Li Qingyan did this, but failed.
The strange king of the barbarians is not Sun Shiwan.
Although Li Qingyan made a lot of gains during this trip, due to the absolute disparity in military power, even if the barbarians lost twice as much as they did, as long as they failed to break down the morale of the barbarians in one fell swoop and trigger a chain rout, then the trip would be considered a failure.
Post-war statistical files record that there are about 60,000 fighting soldiers left in Beifeng City.
But the problem is that most of these 60,000 soldiers are second-line frontier troops with only eight or nine levels of cultivation. The two real elites in the city have been disabled in the decisive battle in Nancheng.
And the more serious situation is far more than that,
Nowadays, Beifeng City's defense formation is in short supply of source crystals, the formation patterns in the south city have been completely destroyed, flying monsters are flying around ten times, and the snow has started to fall again.
in silence,
Xu Yuan suddenly understood Li Qingyan’s plan:
"Are you actually going out of the city to show weakness to the enemy?"
"Not entirely."
Li Qingyan sat back on the table behind him, raised his fair chin, looked at the high beams of the barracks with his phoenix eyes, and said in a leisurely tone:
"Consort, you have to be prepared for both marches and battles. If this trip succeeds, the siege of Beifeng can be solved. If it fails, it will also cause great damage to the barbarian army, making them afraid to pay a higher price for a forced attack. city."
Nowadays, Beifeng City no longer has the protection of a large formation. The barbarians only need to use those powerful trebuchets from a distance to continuously bombard the city. city.
Being able to take down the remaining city of Beifeng without any bloodshed by relying on time, the Barbarian King would naturally not waste his military strength in a forceful attack.
And this is the result Li Qingyan wants.
If the barbarians had waited so long, the number of high-level cultivators she sent to the Dali Mountain area to ask for help would have been enough for Wu Chenghou and Zong Qingsheng to return for help.
At that time, there will be "Yun Qi Bomb" to disperse the blizzard, and the entire barbarian army will be a turtle in the urn.
Silence spread in the barracks, and Xu Yuan suddenly said quietly:
"In that case, my act of having someone detonate the 'Yunqi Bomb' in Houting County really ruined your plan, Qingyan."
His behavior frightened the snake and allowed the barbarians to know this killing move in advance.
After learning that the blizzard in Houting County had been dispersed by Dayan's celestial weapons and that the elite of the sect began to move south, the Barbarian King was left with only one desperate option.
Regardless of the losses, they continued to storm the remaining city of Beifeng, occupied Beifeng before the elites of the sect arrived, and completely blocked Dayan's 700,000 elites in the snowfield.
Li Qingyan did not mean to blame:
"Consort, you have good intentions and have done bad things. The barbarian king should not dare to go to the battlefield again after being seriously injured. If it is properly planned, with the current military strength in the city, it is not difficult to defend the barbarians for two days, but there is a high probability that it will not be possible this time. These barbarians will be completely wiped out."
After a pause,
Li Qingyan stared at Xu Yuan, pursed his lips and smiled: "Okay, follow me to the city wall for a walk. I am needed there to stabilize the morale of the army."
The Yulin military camp was much emptier. The soldiers who were patrolling the camp were gone. Only a few generals and soldiers in armored messengers were left running around delivering orders.
After leaving the camp, Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan rode a horse along the empty road towards the city wall.
The barbarian catapults continued to bombard everything in Beifeng City.
White snowflakes fell silently from the sky like catkins, noisy but not stained by dust, falling softly on the ruins.
Xu Yuan was silent as they walked along.
The horses' hooves trampled on the snow, leaving a hoofprint on the road.
Some people wailed for help in the ruins, but no one paid attention.
Because some warriors were unwilling to go to the city wall to resist the enemy, they were held down and tortured by the sect's border troops.
There was a young man sitting next to the ruins with a numb face.
There are also border troops who shuttle through the ruins to rescue people.
When the word war falls on an individual's head, it is the most important thing.
The two of them rode horses and turned around a street. When they arrived in Nancheng, Xu Yuan's brows couldn't help but frown.
The battlefield here is still not clean yet.
corpse
Bodies large and small, complete or mutilated.
The clearing around the city wall was filled with the corpses of the Northern Feng defenders. The white cloth was no longer enough in this quantity. The endless colorful cloth simply covered the bones of these soldiers, leaving They will not directly expose the body to the air.
Xu Yuan originally thought that he should have adapted to this kind of scene, but he still couldn't help but stir up waves in his heart every time he saw it.
A few hours ago, they were probably laughing and yelling with their comrades, talking about where the waiters had better service, and if they survived and were paid military pay, they would go there and have fun together.
A few hours later, they became cold corpses that could never speak.
war
"Consort."
Li Qingyan's voice suddenly came from beside him.
He heard the words and looked back.
She looked at the corpses of these soldiers, but her voice was very calm:
"Remember what you said at the foot of Beifeng City."
Xu Yuan lowered his eyes, nodded slightly, and uttered three words:
"I won't forget."
erect a monument
Build monuments for those who died in battle.
No matter what happened in the future, at least at this moment, they all died for Great Yan.
After the words fell, neither of them spoke anymore.
Li Qingyan's arrival soon caused waves among the soldiers.
Not only the Yulin Army, but also many soldiers from the sect's border army showed a little excitement in their eyes.
A place like the army can be said to be complicated, but it can also be said to be simple, especially in this extraordinary feudal dynasty.
Soldiers always have a different kind of admiration for brave generals, let alone Li Qingyan, a princess of the Tianhuang noble dynasty.
and,
In this dark and confusing moment in the future, they need a "god" as their spiritual sustenance.
As the person who personally cut off the barbarian general's flag and one of the barbarian king's arms, Li Qingyan naturally became the "god" they needed.
As the snow in the sky becomes heavier and heavier, the soldiers' field of vision becomes smaller and smaller.
As time passes by,
When the formation was unable to maintain itself, most of the high-ranking disciples of the sect took the opportunity to flee, taking away part of the high-level combat power in Beifeng City.
However, Li Zhaoyuan perfectly completed Li Qingyan's instructions to him.
Beifeng City, which had been nearly paralyzed after a fierce battle, resumed operation under his methodical dispatch.
Not only the martial arts disciples, but also many ordinary people in the city were mobilized under his prince's organization.
Source crystals were dispatched to charge the formation, and cartloads of city defense equipment were pulled out of storage, and then sent to the city wall. The armor of the dead soldiers was stripped off and distributed to the temporarily recruited knights and bodyguards.
The preparations for the entire Beifeng City were in an orderly manner under Li Zhaoyuan's management.
But unfortunately, time is still not on their side.
The time left by the barbarians to Beifeng City was not enough for Li Zhaoyuan to completely mobilize the entire city's soldiers and civilians.
In the blizzard, the sky was as dark as ink, and the alarm bell rang suddenly above Beifeng.
The barbarians began their siege again.
the first night,
The barbarian army began to attack the south city wall unprotected by a large formation. About 70,000 knights and escort warriors were thrown into the battlefield in batches. The south city wall was completely turned into a millstone of flesh and blood.
On the second day,
After a night of hard fighting, these conscripted warriors were rotated off the city wall due to excessive losses.
Li Qingyan personally led the mixed Yulin Army and Black Scale Army to repel several barbarian attacks.
However, due to the shortage of soldiers, even Li Qingyan's military formation was unable to maintain the long city defense line of Beifeng Nancheng.
At two o'clock in the morning, Li Zhaoyuan sent out the final reserve team and was thrown into the battlefield south of the city.
At night on the second day,
Li Qingyan ordered the soldiers' bones to be burned to prevent them from becoming rations for the barbarians.
Half an hour later,
The northern and southern city walls were completely lost, and the barbarians occupied the city head and began to spread to the surrounding areas.
Until this moment, the battle situation in Beifeng City has completely entered street fighting.
The large group of knights and escorts used the formation crossbows issued to them, relying on the formations of various military camps, and struggled to block the advancement of the barbarians in the blizzard.
But these resistances all seemed so futile given the absolute disparity in military power.
Before midnight, the entire southern city was still completely lost. Countless tall barbarian soldiers poured into various parts of the city along the beastly paths like a sea tide.
two hours later
The barbarian soldiers arrived at the heart of Beifeng City, Beifeng Mansion Office.
At dawn on the third day, Beifeng Mansion was defeated.
The remaining defenders in the city were forced to abandon all other blocks and retreat to the northern city, relying on the formations of the two giant military camps of the Black Scale Guard and Lingshui Palace for defense.
The barbarian army was blocked and unable to attack for a long time. They tried to directly attack the north city wall from the east and west walls and surrounded all the defenders in the city.
At this moment, the city defense formation that had not been activated for two days was finally activated by Li Qingyan's order, blocking the barbarian army's attempt to make dumplings.
At this point, the war has reached a stalemate.
The snow was blowing and the wind was blowing.
Standing on the north city wall, Li Qingyan looked down at the entire Beifeng giant city with cold eyes.
In three days, the buildings that had been lined up in the city were now in ruins, and the smoke ignited everywhere made the city feel like the end of the world.
After staring for a long time, Li Qingyan's eyes gradually became a little complicated, but these complications eventually turned into a hot mist of exhalation and dissipated in the air.
The shouts and roars in the distance made this city gate tower extremely silent.
Xu Yuan stood aside and looked at the loneliness on her face quietly.
For three days, he had not been with her, but had stayed within the northern city wall.
But the Black Scale Guard reported everything she had done in the past three days to him.
From the south city wall to the south city, then to the government office, and finally retreated to the north city wall.
Kill the enemy, give the order, and retreat step by step unwillingly until there is no way to retreat.
"Qingyan." His voice was very soft, so soft that it was almost drowned out by shouts from afar: "You grew up in Beifeng, right?"
Li Qingyan didn't look back, looked at the chaos in Beifeng, and said in a low voice:
"Of course, I have been sent here by my father since I was a child, so it can be regarded as half of my hometown."
"Homeland?"
Xu Yuan sighed and slowly advised:
"Qing Yan. There is no point in continuing to defend Beifeng."
Saying,
Xu Yuan glanced sideways at the snow outside Beicheng.
There, there was a huge sect border army entrenched there, but they had no intention of reinforcing them.
When dawn came on the third day, the elite sects from Houting County had already arrived outside Beifeng City, but they had no intention of coming for reinforcements. Instead, they began to camp outside Beifeng City.
Li Qingyan frowned slightly, remained silent for a few breaths, smiled slightly and shook his head:
"The bottom line of these sect members is still the same as before."
"Don't have any expectations for the sect, they can always tell you what a surprise is."
Xu Yuan heard the words and agreed with a smile, then paused and asked softly: "By the way, Qing Yan, why do you think they didn't come to support?"
Li Qingyan raised his eyes and glanced at the sky covered by thick snow clouds:
"They are waiting for Uncle Mu and Mr. Zong to go south to meet up. They don't want to face the entire main force of the barbarians alone. The losses will be huge. Anyway, we have the "Yunqi Bomb" and we can't defeat them."
"laugh"
Xu Yuan chuckled when he heard this, and looked in the direction of the camps with a cold look: "I guessed about the same as you, but you seem to have forgotten one thing."
Li Qingyan looked back at his smiling gaze, her beautiful eyes flashed, and she said with a smile:
"You mean they are also waiting for the Barbarian King to make a choice?"
"yes."
Xu Yuan snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Didn't you tell me before? If the Barbarian King chooses to withdraw his troops, these sects will most likely sit idly by and let them use the road to go north."
Li Qingyan narrowed his eyes:
"Let the barbarians use the road to go north, and then it will be the defensive belt around Houting County."
The defense line around Houting County is composed of several small and medium-sized border towns. They were destroyed before, but several months of repairs have made them relatively strong.
Xu Yuan naturally understood the other party a little bit and sighed:
"Allowing the barbarians to pass by, these sects not only regained the captured Beifeng City, but also allowed the barbarians to take over the Houting defense line that they had repaired."
After a pause,
Xu Yuan gently pressed his hand on the bitterly cold battlements:
"In this way, the only troops trapped in the snowy fields in the north are the Marquis and Mr. Zong. Why not?"
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The wind and snow ruffled the long hair of the woman in red, and her voice contained no emotion: "Sooner or later, I will annihilate these nine clans of sect members."
Seeing her anger, Xu Yuan reminded again:
"So, shall we withdraw?"
Li Qingyan pondered for a moment, looked sideways, and asked without answering:
"Consort, where has Yuan Hao gone?"
Hearing this, Xu Yuan's eyes showed a hint of doubt:
"Yuan Hao? He's missing?"
Li Qingyan said in a slow voice:
"In the past three days, I have never seen him, nor have I received any reports about him from other generals. With his ability, he should not be so unknown."
Xu Yuan frowned:
"I don't know about this. I guess he either escaped or died in the battle."
After all,
Xu Yuan took out a lens and crushed it.
He wanted to wave someone over to pick him up and run away.
Mr. Jiu, who escorted Li Yunqing to Houting County, had returned to Beifeng City before the barbarians attacked the city.
But after counting the interest,
Mr. Jiu didn't come, but Xu Yuan smelled the scent of poisonous roses.
Lou Ji is back.
After appearing, Lou Ji nodded towards Li Qingyan, then looked at Xu Yuan with a smile, and whispered:
"Are we finally willing to leave in Changtian?"
"When things are done, it's natural to leave."
With Lou Ji by his side, Xu Yuan's words were very direct and he replied naturally: "And it might be too late if we don't leave."
Li Qingyan half-squinted his eyes when he heard this:
"It's done. What is it?"
Xu Yuan looked back, grinned, and pointed to the north wall at his feet:
"Thanks to you, Your Highness, I can freely enter and exit any location on the northern city wall."
Li Qingyan's red pupils shrank slightly, as if he realized something:
"What do you mean?"
Xu Yuan shook his head and just said:
"Qing Yan, everything must be sacrificed to achieve something. I'll be waiting for you in Houting County."
Lou Ji heard this and waved her hand towards Li Qingyan with a smile:
"Little sister, elder sister will take Changtian away first~"
The words fell,
The wind and snow were still there, and the two figures disappeared above the city.
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