Chapter 220: The Sky Crashes and Earth Shatters

The envoy of Xingchang County jumped into the hall excitedly, ready to report the fruits of victory to His Majesty - recently, the entire Qixia Kingdom, including Wu Fanghai, is losing battles, but we are winning battles. You see, what a matter of saving face.

So, don't mention it if the messenger is too excited. He didn't see that sitting on the throne was Her Highness the Princess who was already dressed in a red military uniform. In other words, his eyes didn't see anything at all right now—he was completely out of focus, and he was just full of excitement and wanted to convey this exciting news.

But Ouyang Qingque's voice woke up the messenger. He stopped, widened his eyes, and looked hard for a long time:

Yo, it's a replacement!

what's the situation?

That's a princess, right?

Where is the emperor?

The messenger's head was a little dazed. Looking carefully, the left and right arms of all the people in the court hall are tied with hemp - this has gone to two great emperors one after another, and one arm is not enough.

The envoy stared at this weird scene, and was stunned for a moment. Am I...shouldn't be too excited?

In fact, Ouyang Qingque's voice froze the atmosphere in the entire court. And Ouyang Si was even more frightened by his sister: why are you so stubborn!

"Cough cough!" Ouyang Si coughed twice, "Well, continue to report on Xingchang County."

"Oh... yes, yes." The emissary started talking in a daze, and finally said with emphasis:

"Your Highness, before the subordinate came down, the county guard specifically explained that we now have more than 100,000 prisoners in our hands, and the county guard is going to exchange prisoners with the Kingdom of Jinyang. But how to exchange them, the county guard dare not decide without authorization."

After hearing this, Liu Xinyu was overjoyed. I had just taken power, and I had encountered such a 'good thing'.

what is this? This is God's will!

But after the excitement, Liu Xinyu immediately ordered: "Go back and tell Gu Xingdong that this king will exchange prisoners with the Kingdom of Jinyang in Xingchang County.

As for the time... You follow the strategic plan, and you will be notified when you are ready.

Minister of the Ministry of War Yu Tiegan, you will go to Xingchang County to coordinate this matter. "

"Yes." Yu Tiegan immediately took the order and followed the envoy to leave.

When Tie Gan left, Liu Xinyu thought for a while and then ordered: "Let Wu Fanghai stabilize the front line, and the forces around the Nine Suns Sect begin to retreat, and take away everything that can be taken away. Destroy the ones that cannot be taken away! And cut off Nine Suns All the connections of the sect in the surrounding area isolate the location of the Jiuyang sect.

If you have the opportunity, you can try to launch some attacks on Jiuyangzong, and attack the subsidiary forces and military forces of Jiuyangzong.

There is also Wuyang County's accelerated retreat, which must not be mistaken. "

After a short pause, Liu Xinyu suddenly turned to look at Hu Yinglan next to her, "Hu Yinglan, go to Ninghe County to see how the military forces in Ninghe County are preparing.

If you are ready, let Liu Jingming lead the army to attack Jiuyangzong. The main thing is to use artillery to destroy the gates of Jiuyangzong, etc. Even if they can't defeat Jiuyangzong, they must make Jiuyangzong... have no peace! The Nine Suns Sect must be prevented from intervening in the war! "

"Yes!" Hu Yinglan also left.

Liu Xinyu glanced at the court again, his eyes paused slightly on Ouyang Qingque, but quickly passed over Ouyang Qingque—now that the country is still unstable, Liu Xinyu knew very well that it was not the time to settle accounts.

In the end, Liu Xinyu's eyes fell on Su Ming, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. "Su Ming, what happened to the treasury?"

Su Ming immediately came out: "Your Highness, because the pills are purchased at any cost, the spirit stones are almost exhausted. But the pills can last for three months. In addition to the pills provided by the Canglan Kingdom, it is expected Support for eight months.

As for magic treasures and magic weapons, most of them are now provided by Ninghe County, so for the time being... don't worry. "

Liu Xinyu took a deep breath. Once upon a time, a powerful country had only "a few months to live". Liu Xinyu raised her head to look at the roof, her eyes seemed to see through the houses, the white clouds, and the endless void.

After a while, Liu Xinyu said slowly: "Everyone, work hard. There is no need to talk about the situation now, the Qixia Kingdom has lost one-third of its land."

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Time quietly came to the next day; the sun had already risen, and Zhang Hao was facing the sun with a faint smile on his face, but there was an indescribable heaviness in the smile.

Standing on the top of the city, Zhang Hao first saw Huang Mingshan and others finishing the work. Last night, Feng Zhiling used the flying boat to return to the Zhang family, and brought Huang Mingshan and others, as well as a full 50 tons of explosives! That advanced explosive.

Dynamite is very simple to make, just mix well. Not as tedious to make as cannonballs. Even these rush-made explosives are not purified-they are all about quantity.

At this time, Huang Mingshan and others had already buried fifty tons of explosives underground. That's definitely an insane number.

Seeing that Huang Mingshan and the others began to retreat, Zhang Hao turned his head to look outside the city wall, and saw the attacking troops starting to return from a distance, and these troops brought back a large amount of supplies. The coolies for transportation are of course the local residents of the Kingdom of Jinyang, including captives.

In the past more than a day, almost 30 hours, the army of Xingchang County swept across a radius of 500 miles.

On the side of the Kingdom of Jinyang, large and small families, businesses, wealthy families, government offices, etc. were purged, and most of those whose cultivation had surpassed the foundation establishment period were killed. The army and officials were captured as prisoners and transported supplies along the way. Then the army ambushed many reinforcements from the Kingdom of Jinyang by means of besieging points and fighting for reinforcements.

For the Kingdom of Jinyang, this was a completely unexpected war and disaster. The defenders, generals, officials, etc. in many places failed to react until they died.

too suddenly!

Don't underestimate the officials and generals in small places, they are the foundation; without these foundations, the rule of a region can be paralyzed by more than 70%.

The reason why it is so crazy is because Zhang Hao and others know very well that everyone is just taking advantage of a sneak attack, and it is impossible to defend this level. So, what everyone has to do now is...complete destruction! Leave a mess for the country of Jinyang, and use this to buy time for your own country.

Originally, the plan was to cause disasters for thousands of miles, but the actual implementation was always different from the plan. After all, the Kingdom of Jinyang still has some foundations, and the resistance is relatively strong.

At dawn today, the Kingdom of Jinyang finally organized more than a dozen legions, oppressing them from all directions.

After confirming the news, the Qixia Kingdom's troops began to return one after another, and each army brought back a large amount of resources and a large number of captives.

Zhang Hao was watching, but saw Guan Zhengqing flying back excitedly, still holding a person in his hand. When he came to the city wall, Guan Zhengqing threw the man to the ground.

Zhang Hao was a little curious. Seeing that this man was dressed luxuriously, it was not simple at first glance; it seemed that... he didn't wear pants? "Who is this? It can't be the prince or something?"

"No, it's the sheriff of Yunhai County. After Yunhai Customs, there is Yunhai County, the westernmost county in the Kingdom of Jinyang. We've all reached the county town, but the county town hasn't had time to raise its defenses yet. Haha, I When I caught this guy, I just got up from my concubine's bed to look for pants."

Zhang Hao: ...

There were more and more troops returning, and everyone was discussing excitedly, and there were even a few guys carrying girls on their shoulders. The army did not stay in the city, but directly crossed the checkpoint and headed south.

Zhang Hao looked at the struggling and crying girls and frowned slightly.

Seeing this, Guan Zhengqing patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder: "Just turn a blind eye to it. Soldiers are born and died, and they must always have something to think about. Besides, you think that the army of Jinyang Kingdom entered our country without committing any crimes." ?"

Zhang Hao took a deep breath, raised his head slightly and looked into the distance - he didn't want to see what was going on right now.

Zhang Hao knew very well that these things are naturally indispensable in wars, but he still couldn't bear to witness them. Unable to bear it, Zhang Hao said softly: "There are many intelligent beings in this world, but only our human race will wantonly conquer on our own land."

Guan Zhengqing looked sideways at Zhang Hao, and finally nodded slowly: "Maybe. But so what? We don't want to fail, we don't want to be subjugated slaves, we can only fight!

This time the war was not started by us.

If there's a bug, it's not ours either! "

Zhang Hao didn't say anything, just quietly looked into the distance.

Everything is going according to plan. At noon, the army was almost completely withdrawn, and countless supplies and prisoners were looted. The army did not stop, and immediately withdrew from Yunhai Customs, leaving an empty city behind.

However, Zhang Hao and the others withdrew, but Dugu Junjie, Gu Xingdong and others led more than 10,000 elites to defend the city.

High in the sky, Zhang Hao's last glance before leaving was a black army coming from the east. Because it was too far away, what I saw was a black line.

The tens of thousands of troops temporarily formed by the Kingdom of Jinyang charged angrily.

But what greeted them was artillery.

When they were still ten kilometers away from the checkpoint, the artillery began to greet them.

Zhang Hao only saw this, and was led by Feng Zhiling and flew away from the sky. The main force of the army retreated to Huaishan Pass in the south. Compared with the lonely Yunguan Pass, Huaishan Pass is completely within the influence of Xingchang County and is easy to defend. The army will completely occupy Huaishan Pass and establish a new line of defense at Huaishan Pass.

After flying for a while, Zhang Hao looked down at the ground. The main force of the army was nearly 200,000, with almost 120,000 captives in charge, and a large amount of supplies, advancing unhurriedly. The team stretches for more than 20 kilometers, like a long black dragon winding among mountains, river valleys and flat land.

Everyone was talking and laughing, driving the captives to transport supplies from time to time; they didn't have the slightest worry about the legions that came from the Kingdom of Jinyang frantically at the rear.

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When Zhang Hao and the other army disappeared, Dugu Junjie and Gu Xingdong stood on the top of Yunhaiguan City, looking at the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Jinyang coming in front of them, and listening to the roaring artillery next to them, Dugu Junjie had some pointers country:

"The enemy is estimated to have 130,000, no more than 150,000. But this time the incident happened suddenly, the Jinyang Kingdom's temporary army may not have much combat effectiveness.

It can't be said to be a mob, but it is definitely not an elite.

You said, how long can they last under the attack of artillery? "

Gu Xingdong looked at it for a while, but his face was more serious: "I think they can persist under the city wall. You see, they scattered.

They haven't found a way to defend against artillery for the time being, but at least they have found a way to reduce casualties. "

Dugu Junjie looked at it, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared: "Sure enough, you can't underestimate any enemy."

At this time, the army of the Kingdom of Jinyang formed a group of a hundred people, maintained a defensive posture, and slowly approached Yunhai Pass; each group was separated by a distance of 20 to 30 meters.

Not only that, but the direction of the team's advance is no longer a straight line, but a serpentine route, which makes it more difficult for the artillery to aim. Although this made their progress a lot slower.

Dugu Junjie's pupils gradually shrank, but at the next moment, he smiled again: "The artillery pauses its attack and waits for the enemy to approach before firing. I don't believe they can still maintain this formation when they are under the city wall!"

Gu Xingdong also showed a smile on his face. Yes, compared to the vastness ahead, the area under the city wall is limited. If they continue to maintain such a loose formation, they will not be able to launch an effective attack on the city wall; if they want to launch an effective attack, they must gather.

Gu Xingdong's smile gradually grew: "It's interesting! I don't know who the commander-in-chief of the other party is. I really want to see his expression at this time. By the way, how many shells do we have?"

"180!" Dugu Junjie said without hesitation.

"Do you want to save some?" Gu Xingdong said hesitantly.

"No. In the past few days, 1,000 shells have been added to the rear. There is no shortage of shells at Huaishan Pass."

"That's good!" Gu Xingdong showed his snow-white teeth, which seemed to have a cold gleam.

The muzzle lowered slowly, and the five first-generation artillery left here were always aimed at the legion of the Kingdom of Jinyang. It's not that the artillery doesn't attack at all. As long as there is a chance, everyone doesn't mind a wave.

Well, being idle is also idle! Shoot a few shots when you are bored...

Compared to the excitement of Dugu Junjie and Gu Xingdong, the commander of Jinyang Kingdom frowned. The commander in chief of this incident is none other than He Dongkui. Since the last mission in Xinglintang failed, He Dongkui was reprimanded by the emperor.

This time, the incident happened suddenly again, and the country of Jinyang is actually not very rich-in fact, after a series of plans, the country of Jinyang is also a little tight. For a while, it was a bit of a 'no general available' situation.

The emperor of the Kingdom of Jinyang thought for a long time, and had to send He Dongkui to fight again. In the face of this sudden incident, He Dongkui had no choice but to hastily mobilize troops from all directions, and before he even had time to rectify, he ordered troops from all over the place to come in a hurry.

Fortunately, He Dongkui also has some talents. He actually organized the army during the march and tried to integrate different armies.

On the way forward, He Dongkui was also thinking about how to deal with the artillery that came out of nowhere from Qixia Kingdom. After much deliberation, I actually came up with a simple and effective method - to disperse.

However, during the march, it is no problem to disperse; but seeing the Yunguan Pass, He Dongkui was worried-if he wanted to attack the pass, he had to gather a large army. And to assemble the army, we must face the attack of artillery!

Not only struggled for a moment, but He Dongkui suddenly discovered a problem-there is no protective barrier in the checkpoint ahead!

Looking at the collapsed and unrepaired city gate, He Dongkui suddenly patted his head: "What are you thinking about, I'm thinking too much! Facing the defensive barrier every day, suddenly there is a level without a defensive barrier , Didn't even notice!

cavalry! "

"Here!" The cavalry general responded.

"Siege!"

"Ah... cavalry attacking the city?" The cavalry general was dumbfounded. "General, our mounts are either dragon horses or ordinary monster horses. They can barely fly into the air, but they are not flexible."

"It's okay, haven't you noticed that the opponent doesn't have a defensive barrier? And I will personally lead the masters to fight for you."

The cavalry was ready, and He Dongkui let out a long roar, "All those above the golden core stage, form an formation. Swim in the dragon formation!"

Tens of thousands of people gathered in the sky, and they formed a long snake formation. This is a huge battle formation about two kilometers long. Tens of thousands of people are pushing towards the city wall like waves. Wherever it passed, the wind and clouds were turbulent, and a gust of wind with a height of one thousand meters and no end in sight was rolled up between the sky and the earth.

The wind kicked up mud and rocks and snapped trees.

On the city wall, Dugu Junjie and Gu Xingdong looked at each other. Gu Xingdong calmly ordered: "Withdraw!"

Tens of thousands of people formed a battle formation and retreated in an orderly manner; several Nascent Soul Stage raised their artillery and quickly retreated to the rear; while retreating, they attacked at the same time. On the clouds formed by the practitioners, the artillery fired.

That's right, in the sky, on the clouds and mist gathered by the practitioners, several Nascent Soul Stages jointly controlled the artillery attack.

In addition to artillery, there are also a large number of bows and crossbows. Of course, attacks such as talisman treasures are indispensable.

Everyone fight and retreat, take it easy. After chasing for more than ten kilometers, the masters of the Kingdom of Jinyang began to retreat. They were afraid of running into an ambush if they continued to pursue—they were afraid of being tossed about by this army from Qixia Kingdom recently.

"Let's go back!" He Dongkui sighed, and returned to Yunhai Customs. Looking at the broken checkpoint, he was filled with emotion for a while.

"Fortunately, finally regained the checkpoint!" A general next to him sighed, at least he could give an explanation to the emperor, to the country, and to the legion fighting in the country of Qixia.

He Dongkui looked around and nodded slowly, "You arrange everyone to stay here, and I will go around to see the situation."

After He Dongkui finished speaking, he flew to the periphery, and he wanted to tell all the soldiers that we had won, and the Qixia Kingdom's attack was just a counterattack, so don't worry.

Morale needs to be encouraged, and soldiers must be informed of some victories. And He Dongkui also wanted to use this victory to complete the integration of different armies.

Sure enough, under the encouragement of He Dongkui, morale gradually increased, and everyone entered Yunhaiguan in an orderly manner, and some teams even began to repair the city wall and defensive barriers.

Noon came gradually.

At this time, the sun shines directly on the earth.

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Under the land of Yunhaiguan, in a place that no one can see or predict (on the side wall of the well), a beam of sunlight happened to be reflected on a formation, and a flame formation suddenly started to operate.

With the ability of a cultivator, it is actually not difficult to arrange a simple, 'triggered' flame formation.

The power of the flame array is also very small, it just lights up a candle-like flame. This flame is so weak that there is no aura fluctuation at all. Even if a Nascent Soul stage master stood by, he wouldn't be able to detect it.

On the ground, 50,000 to 60,000 troops have already moved in, and most of the temporary residents are elites, including a large number of masters.

He Dongkui is still outside commanding the legion to move into Yunguan.

Suddenly, He Dongkui felt the ground tremble under his feet. Before he could react, he saw Yunhaiguan... crashing into the sky.

Fierce flames erupted from the ground, and the entire checkpoint rose several feet high out of thin air; the next moment, the entire checkpoint shattered and turned into debris all over the sky. The rock shattered, and the human body turned into mist.

The high-altitude clouds instantly shattered and disappeared. Within a radius of three to two kilometers, all the plants and human bodies shattered almost simultaneously.

A water-like shock wave suddenly appeared like a translucent sphere, and expanded with lightning speed. Under the shock wave, the whole world was distorted and shattered.

As the shock wave passed, rocks shattered, mountains collapsed, and the soldiers outside the city wall shattered like air balloons, turning into blood mist all over the sky.

The speed of the shock wave has far exceeded the speed of sound.

When He Dongkui was in a daze, the shock wave had just appeared; in the blink of an eye, this shock wave was all in his field of vision, as if the whole world was covered by ripples.

He Dongkui was in a daze, what's wrong?

In the next instant, the shock wave swept across.

He Dongkui activated the treasure armor almost instinctively, but at the next moment he felt his head buzzing, and the world was spinning. The foundation of the Nascent Soul Stage couldn't resist the impact, and he hit the ground.

At this moment, He Dongkui couldn't see, hear, or even feel. He seems to be cut off from the world, and the world around him is in chaos.

There are only boundless sharp sounds, like arrows piercing into the brain, piercing into the internal organs, destroying the foundation of his Nascent Soul stage. After that, He Dongkui vaguely felt that his body was being torn apart, but his whole body was already numb and he couldn't feel any pain.

I don't know how long it took, but He Dongkui had a faint feeling, he could finally feel his body, hands and feet.

"Not dead yet?" He Dongkui tried his best to run the Nascent Soul, and gradually felt a little warmth in his body, and his physical strength recovered a little. He struggled to get up, wiped his face, but was surprised that his face was covered with blood.

Blood flowed from the eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ears; He Dongkui looked like a ghost at this time, but unfortunately he couldn't see his own image.

And the precious armor on He Dongkui's body was like broken porcelain, full of cracks; every time He Dongkui moved, pieces fell off.

It is also thanks to Yuan Yingqi's strong body, and thanks to He Dongkui who instinctively activated the treasure armor at the end. But even so, He Dongkui just felt that he couldn't lift his strength all over his body. He only felt that from his soul to his body, he had been emptied and crushed countless times.

He shook his head, but felt dizzy; barely wiped the blood from his eyes, and barely raised his head, but was completely stunned.

Is this... the end of the world?

A cloud of mushrooms has rushed to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, even surpassing the height of the white clouds.

Around the mushroom cloud, all the white clouds with a radius of hundreds of miles disappeared, and there was only a rolling, ugly mushroom cloud in the middle. The surrounding white clouds are wavy, spreading outward in circles.

The former Yunhaiguan has completely disappeared, there is only a tumbling, black and yellowish-brown mud and smoke, and nothing can be seen clearly.

Not only that, the soil and smoke spread like a gust of wind, forming a gloomy storm.

The peaks on both sides seemed to have been bitten by monsters, and half of the peaks collapsed. As far as the eye can see, there are bloody corpses all over the place, and all the vegetation has disappeared. The ground was abruptly scraped off a layer.

Seeing the storm coming, He Dongkui couldn't stand up. He managed to touch the storage ring on his hand, but found that the storage ring was full of cracks. Carefully opened the storage ring, but only heard a crackling sound, the storage ring was completely broken, and some items fell out.

He Dongkui randomly found some pills and stuffed them into his mouth, then put some pills in his bosom, and reluctantly walked out. With every step, blood flowed down. His body surface, like porcelain, is densely covered with fine cracks.

The elixir barely brought weak physical strength, but was finally overtaken by the storm. He Dongkui is like a leaf in a strong wind, unable to control himself. From time to time, it was thrown into the sky, and from time to time it rolled on the ground.

While rolling, He Dongkui fell into a crater by luck.

"Ahem..." He Dongkui lay on his stomach in the crater, struggling. If it weren't for the foundation of the Nascent Soul stage, I'm afraid he would have died at this time. But this time is not good.

The pain gradually emerged, and the inside and outside of the body seemed to be on fire, the pain was indescribable. And the efficacy of the elixir began to play again, repairing the body, a kind of numbness and itching penetrated into the bone marrow and soul.

"Ah..." He Dongkui roared in pain, but he couldn't hear his own voice.

The world seems to be deathly quiet.

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