The wind and snow disappeared under the power of Yun Qi Bomb.
The earth has seen the sun again, the sky is blue, and the warm sun is shining outside Beifeng City, just like before.
The blood condensed into ice and the frozen bones on the brown ground tell the story of the war and death that just happened here.
After the snow clouds dissipated, the temperature briefly warmed up, and the blood ice on the ground began to melt, turning into nutrients and seeping into the soil.
The flowers and plants here will be quite lush and beautiful next year.
But next year most people here won't see it, because the war is not over,
The huge Beifeng City, whose northern wall collapsed, has now turned into a huge millstone of flesh and blood, constantly devouring the lives of the living.
The momentum of the barbarians was like a rainbow, and the 300,000 sect border troops also tried their best to make the final resistance.
But the barbarian attacks came one after another, stretching like an ocean tide.
As a top soldier with no background, it had been five years since Li Zixiang came to this northern border from the martial arts school affiliated to Lingshui Palace.
Compared with those veteran Youzi who had stayed in the north for more than ten years or even decades, his five years were not that long, but it happened to be a good time for the barbarians to invade the south.
War is a danger but also an opportunity.
When he first saw these tall and burly aliens with ferocious faces on the battlefield, Li Zixiang actually had a natural fear in his heart, but later he gradually found that his fear was a bit funny.
These barbarians all had silver-like pewter spearheads, which looked like they would break into pieces when touched by the Great Yan border troops.
What a bunch of idiots.
You can't defeat him again and again, but you still want to go south to invade Great Yan. What is this but an idiot?
Every time he goes to the battlefield, he can gain a lot of military achievements from these dark-skinned fools.
He was given a chance to get ahead without any background or family background.
In just five years, he went from being a pawn to becoming the dubo he is today.
He is not a high-ranking official in the army, but he has about fifty brothers under his command.
In addition to keeping enough monthly salary for his own cultivation, he can also go to Goulanli to meet his old sweetheart. He has even made an appointment to redeem her life when he saves enough money and let her give birth to a fat boy for him.
But at this moment, these thoughts were all in vain.
On the fourth watch of the day before yesterday, the generals who had been asking them to wait for reinforcements suddenly issued an order to light a fire immediately and prepare to break camp.
Although he was confused, he still did it because those generals definitely thought of much more than him, a big boss.
And just as he thought,
at dawn
Those high-ranking generals once again used that fairy magic to open God's eyes and disperse all those damn snow clouds in the sky.
The barbarians surrounding the camp were directly exposed within their sight range.
Very close.
It was about ten miles east of their camp.
Li Zixiang thought this would be a fierce battle, and he was even a little excited about it.
After all, these barbarians have military merit. If he gets more military merit, he may be promoted to general next year.
As a porter who once worked hard at the dock, this was something he couldn't even imagine.
But there is always a certain gap between ideal and reality.
The generals issued the order not to prepare to meet the enemy, but to avoid the barbarian army and form a formation to march into Beifeng.
This made Li Zixiang, who was eager for military glory, a little disappointed, because in clear weather, unless the barbarians were looking for death, they would not be able to choose to confront their 300,000-strong army head-on.
However, every loss must be rewarded, and soon the general's order made Li Zixiang excited again.
As a frontier army subordinate to Lingshui Palace, Li Zixiang became the vanguard of the troops entering the city.
The barbarians will inevitably leave some defenders in Beifeng City. As long as they attack the city, it will be a great achievement.
But unfortunately,
From the very beginning, the script of Battlefield seems to be spinning out of control.
Countless stones and weapons from the barbarians fell on the marching path of their forward military formation, but this was not a problem for the military formation that had grown into a large army.
The soldiers resonated, and the energy and blood like a sea wave directly smashed all the flying things into powder.
And the barbarians are desperate.
In clear weather, they dared to pursue the army in formation and camp.
Countless barbarian wolf riders rushed directly into the waiting rear army like moths to a flame.
War is about to break out.
Li Zixiang thought the generals would let them change their military formation immediately.
The front army turned to the rear army, deployed its troops, and formed a formation to attack these barbarians head on.
But the general chose to fight while retreating, and let the former troops take the head of Beifeng City as quickly as possible.
Military orders are like mountains, and no matter how hard he understands them, Li Zixiang can only follow them.
After several hours of fierce fighting, they successfully defeated the small number of barbarian troops entrenched on the top of the city and captured the northern city wall.
Thirty thousand elite vanguards entered the city to clean up the remaining barbarian troops in the city. One hundred thousand Chinese troops quickly cleared the city walls. The quartermaster quickly deployed some simple city defense equipment on the city head, preparing to receive the rear troops into the city.
As time goes by,
As the striker among the strikers, Li Zixiang was already jealous in the city, and his brothers beside him fell one after another.
The spiritual knife in his hand curled because of the hard black leather of the barbarians, and he randomly picked up his dead comrades on the ground.
With the blessing of Qi and blood from the military formation, even if he only had a sixth-grade cultivation level, he could not forcefully absorb each of his five-grade soul-condensing swords.
Li Zixiang couldn't remember how many barbarians he had killed with one knife after another, but the black blood had already dyed all the armor on his body black.
And just when these vanguard troops were about to reach the southern city wall and completely recapture Beifeng City, a roar like an earth dragon turning over exploded behind them.
Time seems to stand still at this moment.
The earth-shaking roar made the ground in Beifeng City tremble, and almost everyone looked back at the direction from which the sound came.
In the astonished eyes of all the border troops,
The huge wall of Beifeng that had stood in front of the barbarians for thousands of years collapsed.
Mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, gravel flew, and smoke and dust from the collapse enveloped half of Beifeng City.
What frightened all the grassroots generals was that the connection between their small military formation and their commander was also severed at this time.
The military morale that was originally so powerful was in turmoil at this moment.
The huge collapsed wall blocked the more than 100,000 soldiers who were preparing to enter the city outside the city. The loss of contact with the commander caused the super-large military formation of 300,000 border troops to fall into separate battles.
The originally orderly battle situation began to become chaotic, and the balance of the war began to tilt at this moment.
An hour later, Li Zixiang successfully climbed onto the south city wall and looked back into the city.
Under the clear sky, there is the huge city of Beifeng filled with smoke.
The screams of his comrades could also be faintly heard on the south wall.
collapsed
"Li Tou."
"Li Tou."
"Li Tou!"
A shout from beside him woke Li Zixiang out of his memories, and he glanced around subconsciously.
The surroundings were no longer the giant city of Beifeng, but a vast expanse of white snow. The falling snow in the sky almost completely obscured their sight. A dozen soldiers wrapped in coats sat quietly around to rest, and the tree he was sitting on Standing next to him was a young man wearing ordinary frontier armor.
Looking up at the visitor, Li Zixiang smiled reluctantly:
"Li Xia, what's wrong?"
The visitor was a young man, about twenty years old, who had just graduated from a martial arts school and came to this northern border this year.
Li Xia slightly tightened her cold coat and whispered:
"Li Tou, General Hou just sent a message saying that we will arrive in Houting County soon. Let me prepare and start to break camp."
Li Zixiang was silent for a moment, looked back at the soldiers with low morale around him, and asked, "Have we finally gotten rid of the harassment of those barbarian wolf riders?"
A smile appeared on Li Xia's green face: "Well, General Hou said that Wuchenghou's reinforcements have arrived in the Houting County area, and the barbarians will most likely not dare to pursue them."
Hearing this, Li Zi felt slightly relieved, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and he smiled sincerely:
"That's good, that's good."
It had been four days since the defeat of Beifeng. The armies broke out separately, with the barbarian tribes chasing after them.
It was sunny at the beginning, and they were able to fight and retreat, but this weather only lasted for two days, and a heavy snowstorm came again, and their remnant army of less than 20,000 was targeted by a snowwolf cavalry of the barbarians.
After two days of pursuit, they left the bodies of thousands of brothers in the snowy field.
Of the fifty brothers under him, only these ten are left.
Fortunately, Houting County has arrived and they are finally safe.
After the whole army learned that Hou Ting was coming, the originally low morale finally improved a little, and there was a glimmer of hope in the confused eyes of the grassroots soldiers.
Food, weapons, and safety can all be guaranteed there.
With this belief, after marching for two hours, their remnant army finally arrived at the foot of Houting County.
But the situation after arriving was a little different from Li Zixiang's imagination.
There is no hot water, hot food, or warm rooms here, and even the tall and heavy city gate in Houting County has no intention of opening.
Li Zi subconsciously thought that the defenders regarded them as barbarians, and quickly came to the front of the military column.
He saw General Hou and the young female general from other military departments standing under the city wall.
The two of them raised their heads and seemed to be talking to the people on the city wall, but they were probably using sound transmission and could not hear the conversation between them at all.
On the contrary,
Two figures in red clothes were standing on the city wall of Houting, looking down at their remnants of soldiers who had tried their best to escape with indifferent eyes.
Time passed by, but the city gate still showed no intention of opening. Even some advanced cultivators in the army looked over the wind and snow and saw that the defense equipment on the city wall had been quietly aimed at them.
And at this time,
A gentle and jade-like male voice, blessed by Yuan Qi, passed from the city wall into the ears of every soldier below the city:
"General Hou and General Luo, as long as you agree to this condition, we will immediately open the city to welcome your army into the city. I don't have much patience. A quarter of an hour should be enough for you to consider."
condition?
When Li Zixiang heard this, his eyes became even more confused, and he glanced at the two generals in front of the formation.
But they saw that the expressions of two generals, a man and a woman, were so dark that they could drip with water.
On the opposite side were the soldiers who had begun to discuss in low voices. The remnant army, whose military morale had gradually stabilized, gradually became chaotic at this moment.
In doubt, Li Zixiang turned his skills and raised his eyes to look at the two figures on the city wall.
The man on the city wall seemed to be aware of it, and glanced at him with a smile, but then left frivolously.
Xu Yuan withdrew his gaze, wrapped his coat around him, and asked half-jokingly:
"Qing Yan. Are the conditions you gave a little too much?"
Li Qingyan raised his red lips and was in a very good mood. He chuckled and rolled his eyes at the man beside him:
"Is it enough to hand over all the Sumeru Rings and military supplies?"
Xu Yuan exhaled a breath of white mist, looked at the remaining soldiers below, and said faintly:
"Yesterday, there was news from Yuan Hao that he has received about 30,000 defeated troops one after another. Overall, we can probably receive about 70,000 to 80,000 remnant troops for reorganization. It feels really good to be a white wolf with nothing. , tsk tsk.”
(End of chapter)
