"Withdraw."
Jia Qianyu's face was a little pale and her voice was a little weak. With just one move, she could already feel the energy and blood surging in her body.
"But if you don't take it now, you may not have a chance next time!"
Zhao Shen is still a young man, and he is prone to radicalization as soon as he gets angry.
Jia Qianyu put her hands on his shoulders, leaned slightly, and breathed into his ear.
"I'm injured."
Zhao Shen immediately became nervous and was about to ask her when he felt Jia Qianyu's hand press.
"They were discovered before they could move far away. You helped me walk."
"The general is so powerful, and Master Jia is no match for him?"
Zhao Shen lowered his voice, feeling horrified.
Returning to the city tower, Zhao Shen looked unhappy as he looked at the army of stone men retreating in the distance.
Zhao Zhen is very calm
"What's wrong? I'm still not happy after defending their attack."
Zhao Shendao
"Why did you suddenly withdraw your troops? In today's battle, with the help of Jiajiazhuang, our army had the upper hand."
Zhao Zhen shook his head, he was still a young man after all, full of energy.
"How is Master Jia's injury?"
"She said it's just a surge of Qi and blood, and it can be done by adjusting the breath for a while."
"Okay, here's the order for all the soldiers to rest for half a day."
Zhao Shen is puzzled
"Then what?"
Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Shen, let out a sigh of relief, and then said
"Each go back and tidy up. In the afternoon, the army will withdraw from Jizhou and retreat to Ningchuan Prefecture."
"What!"
When Zhao Shen heard this, he was furious and looked at Zhao Zhen.
"Bang!"
The silver gun in his hand hit the ground hard.
"How can you retreat!"
Zhao Zhen sighed, knowing that his brother would react this way.
"In today's battle, although we have a slight upper hand, our gunpowder is seriously insufficient. If we continue to defend, it will only be a matter of time before the city is defeated."
"But with Jiajiazhuang's help, we can at least delay a little longer and wait for Qingzhou's gunpowder support to arrive."
"Not coming back."
Zhao Shen was shocked.
"What's not coming."
Zhao Zhen said slowly
"Letter from Qingzhou, the war is tense and they will no longer support us with gunpowder."
"boom!"
Zhao Shen shot straight into the city wall.
"Then they just watched hundreds of thousands of people in Jizhou being massacred!"
Zhao Zhen patted his shoulder and comforted him.
"Retreating to Ningchuan Prefecture. Firstly, it is the base camp of Jiajiazhuang, so we can get more support. Secondly, being able to bring Chu Family Villa into the battle is the best option at the moment."
"Continuing to stay here will only increase consumption. By then, if Jizhou is defeated again, it will be defeated step by step."
"What about the people? As the lord of Jizhou City, how can I ignore the people and escape first?"
Zhao Shen looked directly at Zhao Zhen and asked.
Zhao Zhen's eyes were still very calm. That day in Qingzhou City, the nineteen city lords only spent a few words to decide the life and death of millions of people in Taiyang City.
In comparison, the current Jizhou is even insignificant.
What's more, the letter sent from Qingzhou and the story described in it had completely moved Zhao Zhen.
"If we don't give up the hundreds of thousands of people now, tens of millions of people will die in the future."
"But……"
The two brothers stood at the top of the city and argued for several hours.
Finally, it ended with Zhao Shen throwing down the silver gun in his hand, turning around angrily and leaving.
At this time, Zhao Zhen finally had a trace of apology in his eyes, but after an instant, only determination remained.
"City Lord, the black-armored army has withdrawn from the north gate."
After Zhao Shen left, a black armored soldier knelt in front of Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen exhaled slightly, put his hands behind his back, and there seemed to be some murderous intent in his eyes.
"At night, we will retreat."
On a starry night, the city of Jizhou is quiet. Due to the war, the city has become much depressed recently. At night, the city is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.
Several fast horses took advantage of the night and rushed towards the north gate.
It’s early morning on the second day of August.
As soon as the people in Jizhou City woke up, they realized something was wrong in the city.
The troops that used to patrol the streets all the time disappeared.
At first, no one cared about these things. They only thought that it was because the war was tense and everyone was transferred to the city gate.
But when the crash that resounded throughout the city appeared at the south gate, the people finally felt a hint of panic.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"boom!"
On the street closest to the south gate, the people only saw the city gate burst open and countless stone men pouring into the city.
"Run!"
I don’t know who shouted, and the city became noisy.
Countless people had no time to collect their belongings and ran straight to the North City Gate.
The stone men army continued to pour along the street, but the strange thing was that the stone men did not kill the people, but just continued to disperse in all directions along the street.
But the people naturally did not dare to stop. From south to north, more and more people got the news. Like a snowball, more and more people gathered towards the north gate.
But when they finally arrived at the north gate, something extremely strange happened.
The North City Gate disappeared.
That's right, the North City Gate, where people used to come and go every day, is gone.
What the common people saw before their eyes was a tall and solid city wall. High above, the three simple characters of the North City Gate carved in stone were still clearly visible on the top of the wall.
But underneath, there were only brand new stone bricks and wet plaster flowing out from the cracks in the stones.
The north city gate was blocked.
"What's going on? Where is the City Lord?"
Someone yelled, and the scene became noisy again. The people were frightened and anxious. Some people even wanted to climb up the wall, while others desperately wanted to tear down the wall.
But it didn't help, and an atmosphere of despair began to spread throughout the city.
The Stone Army's actions in the city lasted for two hours.
As noon approached, the shaking on the ground gradually calmed down, and the Stone Army's actions stopped.
In the distant sky, there was a series of rumbling friction sounds, as if something huge was rotating.
To the south, in Penglai City, five towering towers burst out with endless light.
The dazzling light illuminated the entire Jizhou, even covering up the midday sun.
At this moment, the army of stone men that had been stationed throughout the city began to shake.
Going out of the east city gate, there is a group of stone men blocking the city gate.
At first, it was just the stone man at the front. Under the dazzling light, his body began to become transparent.
Then, the light became stronger, and the completely transparent stone man began to melt!
It turned into a pool of liquid and melted directly into the stone slabs on the ground.
Then, one, two, one team, two teams, and slowly, the entire team began to melt in order from strong to weak light.
"ah!"
At the North City Gate, a sudden scream fell into silence among the originally noisy people.
Among the crowd, one person suddenly became hideous-looking, his eyeballs bulged rapidly, and the whites of his eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes.
When everyone saw this, they exclaimed.
"Click!"
The crisp bones were dislocated, and the man's body was twisted into a twist in front of everyone!
Then, with a terrifying stab, the man shattered into a pool of blood and splashed on the ground!
Before the crowd could react, someone screamed again.
"boom!"
Another pool of blood.
Then, one after another, people were broken into blood.
In the blink of an eye, the crowd dispersed and fled in all directions, but no matter where they fled, it seemed that they could not escape their destined fate.
Three miles outside the north city, three people stopped here on horseback.
The person in the center is none other than Zhao Zhen, with Jia Qianyu and the commander of the black armored army protecting him on both sides.
"Master Jia, the rest is up to you."
Zhao Zhen looked at Jia Qianyu.
Jia Qianyu's eyes flickered for a moment, then he immediately got together and jumped to a high place, then turned into a stream of light and swept towards the city gate.
Not long after, Jia Qianyu's figure jumped to the top of the city tower and looked at the people fleeing desperately below, with a face like a flat lake.
Her eyes rested on an old man. The old man's limbs were twisted and misaligned, and the bloody bones had broken through the skin and were exposed like fangs.
"boom!"
Under Jia Qianyu's surprised gaze, the old man was squeezed into a pool of scarlet blood by an unknown force.
Suddenly, she felt a shaking under her feet and she was a little unsteady.
"Um!"
The picture in front of him was distorted, as if there was a layer of water ripples rippling in the void, blocking his sight.
Inexplicable emotions appeared on Jia Qianyu's face.
He hit the void with a palm, but he felt a powerful stagnation. His internal energy was reduced to nothing when it encountered the ripples of water.
Jia Qianyu retracted his palm in surprise. Not only that, the thin layer of water ripples was still extending outward.
She kept running along the city wall, but the water ripples expanded very quickly, as if an invisible barrier was gradually building up over Jizhou.
From the four directions of southeast, northwest, water ripples spread upward along the city wall, and finally gathered toward the center, forming a dome-shaped membrane that covered the entire city.
"What is this?"
Jia Qianyu gently touched the transparent film, and a line formed between her brows.
But in an instant, the shock in her pupils was beyond words.
"Could it be... a barrier!"
"Boom!"
The sky suddenly became dark, and a thunder shook the world.
"Boom!"
The second thunder sounded, and the city wall shook violently, as if it was about to fall apart.
"Boom!"
With the third thunder, a huge crack suddenly appeared in the city wall under Jia Qianyu's feet!
"How can it be!"
There was a trace of panic in Jia Qianyu's eyes. What kind of invisible power caused this ancient city that has existed for countless years to be in such a crisis.
Jizhou City is an old city that has existed since the time of the First Emperor!
"Boom!"
The third sound of thunder shook the five tall buildings in the distance, and five arc-shaped ripples washed away the clouds and spread in all directions.
At this moment, the dome-shaped membrane seems to be responding to those ripples. The membrane shrinks and continues to condense towards the dome.
"The barrier...has been taken back?"
Jia Qianyu felt that the distortion in front of his eyes disappeared, and his vision returned to normal again.
And tragedies in Jizhou City continue to happen.
"Boom!"
The fourth thunder sounded, and Jia Qianyu felt flustered, as if there was a huge boulder pressing down on his heart, which was extremely dull.
"what happened?"
The fear that didn't come came over her whole body. She observed her surroundings and kept sensing, but she was still unable to detect the source of this fear.
But Shenjue told her that she must escape from here immediately.
It has to be said that although Jia Qianyu is a woman, she is far more decisive than ordinary men.
He made up his mind in an instant and retreated away from the city wall.
"boom!"
Just as her feet left the city wall, her body was still in mid-air.
High in the sky, the sharp airflow left several scars on her body, and she flew backwards.
Looking up, a huge blade full of gaps broke through the cloud surface.
But he saw that the blade was actually transparent, and only the tip of the iceberg emerged from the clouds, hundreds of feet long!
"Boom!"
The sharp blade cut the clouds in two, the wind and clouds surged, and the heavy rain suddenly started!
