Volume 10 Chapter 401
When Mu Qing led his army to the Red Dragon Altar, the Jade Army had already lined up and waited for a long time.
Seeing that the Wind Army had finally arrived, Baili Tu and a group of Jade Army generals urged their horses to meet them. After seeing Xiao Muqing, Baili Tu bowed and said, "Brother Xiao is finally here, I've been waiting for you!"
"Forgive me, forgive me, I was just casting a spell in the camp and wasted a little time." Xiao Muqing said casually with a smile.
"Cast a spell?" The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Baili Tu was puzzled and asked, "What spell?"
"To break the Red Dragon Altar, it will not be so easy to defeat it with just you and me. So, I just cast a spell in the camp and specially invited 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to help us." Xiao Muqing smiled and talked nonsense.
Baili Tu and the Jade Generals looked at each other, wondering if Xiao Muqing had a brain problem. Casting a spell to invite heavenly soldiers and generals to help, and 100,000? Does this sound like what a normal person would say?
Without waiting for him to respond, Xiao Muqing waved his hand and said, "Brother Baili, you don't need to believe it, you will see the result later."
Seeing that he was serious, Baili Tu really wanted to take a closer look at the Feng Army camp and asked, "Where are the heavenly soldiers and generals that Brother Xiao invited to help now?"
"At midnight, they will descend from the sky!" Xiao Muqing said proudly.
The generals of the Jade Army were all laughing and crying. Gao Yuan came to Baili Tu's side and whispered, "General, look... General Xiao is..." As he spoke, he raised his hand and drew on his helmet.
Baili Tu's face straightened, turned back and whispered, "Don't talk nonsense."
Gao Yuan grinned, it seemed that it was not him who was talking nonsense, but Xiao Muqing.
Baili Tu forced a smile to Xiao Muqing and said, "Since Brother Xiao has invited the heavenly soldiers and generals, we will definitely be able to win this battle."
"That's right! Let the brothers of the Jade Army prepare good wine and meat. After the city is broken, we will hold a banquet in the Red Dragon Altar to celebrate!" Xiao Muqing looked as if it was a matter of course, as if he didn't hear the meaning of Baili Tu's words at all.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Baili Tu nodded absent-mindedly, and then asked with a dry laugh: "Then... should we wait until midnight to attack the city or attack the city immediately?"
"No need to wait until midnight, let's do it now! If we can break the city before midnight, we don't have to bother the heavenly soldiers and generals, it will also be a public morality!" Xiao Muqing said calmly.
"Okay! Just follow Brother Xiao's opinion!" Baili Tu reluctantly agreed, and then shouted to the generals around him: "My army will order the whole army to attack the city!"
The Jade generals returned to the Jade Army's main camp and talked about it. "How can this General Xiao invite heavenly soldiers and generals? Does he really know magic?" "What bullshit magic? If he really has magic, wouldn't Feng Kingdom destroy Mo Kingdom in the blink of an eye?!"
"That's right! In my opinion, this Xiao Muqing is too unreliable. He doesn't look like a commander of an army, but more like... more like a charlatan who spreads rumors!" "It's really hard to imagine that the commander of the famous Pingyuan Army is actually a lunatic!"
The Jade Generals said all kinds of things, but the general meaning was the same. Xiao Muqing was just a name, but in fact he was a lunatic and charlatan who was ignorant and swindled! Fighting side by side with such a person is simply playing with your own life.
Among them, the only one who didn't mock Xiao Muqing was Shi Xiao.
Although he and Xiao Muqing were not necessarily familiar with each other, they were definitely not strangers. When the six countries attacked Zhen, the two often had the opportunity to meet. The impression Xiao Muqing left on him was that he was fierce and fierce to the enemy, humble and arrogant. His humility was only shown in front of the Wind King, but for people other than the Wind King, he was too arrogant. This kind of person is a typical double-faced person, good at flattery, and bullying others, so Shi Xiao did not have a very good impression of Xiao Muqing.
Although the impression was not good, in his heart, Xiao Muqing was definitely not a charlatan or a madman. On the contrary, when fighting against the enemy, he was very cunning, like an old fox who had become a spirit, with many tricks and was hard to figure out.
As for why Xiao Muqing became like this now, Shi Xiao could not explain what was going on, but there must be a conspiracy.
Listening to the ridicule and complaints of the generals, he said coldly: "Everyone, don't bother too much about things that are not our concern. We just need to do our own thing well."
Shi Xiao was the most powerful general in Yuguo, with a high prestige. As soon as he spoke, everyone shut up and dared not say a word.
Soon, the Jade Army's attack began. The Jade Army squares advanced towards the Red Dragon Altar. Looking around, each square was like a carpet on fire. Soldiers holding torches stood side by side, in neat formation and majestic military style.
Seeing the Jade Army's attacking posture, Xiao Muqing also nodded secretly. The Jade Army's formation training was really good, but it was a pity that it was not so pleasing to the eye when fighting.
Baili Tu, who stood side by side with Xiao Muqing, frowned secretly. His soldiers had begun to advance, but the Wind Army did not move at all, and Xiao Muqing had no intention of ordering an attack.
He couldn't help asking: "General Xiao, our soldiers have already started to attack the city. I wonder when your army will go out to fight?"
Xiao Muqing uttered an ah, smiled bitterly, pointed to the front, and said helplessly: "The road in front of the Red Dragon Altar is narrow, and it is crowded just to allow the Jade Army brothers to advance. If our soldiers push up, it will only cause trouble, but it will not help!"
That's true! The terrain of the Red Dragon Altar does not allow a large-scale army to be deployed in an attack. This is one of the reasons why the Red Dragon Altar is difficult to capture. However, it is too much to allow our own side to fight tooth and nail in the front while the Feng army enjoys the success in the rear. It makes no sense.
Baili Tu rolled his eyes and said: "Brother Xiao, how about this, our army attacks here, and your army moves to the east of the city to launch the attack. In this way, we have also reached a pincer attack, making it difficult for the enemy to deal with it. ”
Xiao Muqing shook his head repeatedly and said: "I have personally checked the terrain in the east of the city. It is narrower and steeper there. Let alone attacking the city, even if our soldiers want to advance to the city, it will be difficult. You and I should join forces together. It's better to attack here." Xiao Muqing didn't dare to leave. He was worried that if he wasn't there, the Jade Army would be like before, and after two attacks they found it difficult to win and then retreated to the camp.
Hearing what he said was reasonable, Bailitu didn't want to force it, so he could only patiently say: "That's okay! Our army will fight first in this battle. When our army is weak, your brothers will fight again." Go up!"
"Yes! What Brother Baili said is true!" Xiao Muqing responded with a big nod.
They launched their attack from the main gate of Red Dragon Altar, which is the south of the city. The uphill slope here is the gentlest and the road is relatively widest. But even so, the Jade Army still had great difficulty in advancing.
First of all, the Mo army fired arrows from a high position. Due to the terrain, the range and power of the Mo army's arrow array were greatly increased. When the leading army of the Jade army was still 150 steps away from the Red Dragon Altar, Mo Jun The army's arrow array had already fallen down like a thunderbolt.
Next is the stone trebuchet in the city. Round and round stone bullets keep flying out from the city and smashing into the Jade Army camp, always causing screams. This is not the end yet. The stone bullets fall to the ground. Finally, he had to roll down a long way, and more of the Jade Army were killed and injured this time.
Finally, there are the rolling logs and rocks that fell from the top of the city. Because of the slope, the rolling logs and rocks did not stop after landing, but slowly rolled down the hillside, rolling faster and faster, rolling into the Jade Army. In the camp, there will be waves of wailing.
The attacking Jade Army had not even gotten close to the city wall, but they were killed and wounded countless times by the Mo Army's long-range weapons alone. The soldiers advanced one step at a time, leaving behind the wounded and dead. Wherever the Jade Army passed, they left corpses on the ground and wounded soldiers struggling for help.
If it were before, under such a fierce counterattack by Mo Jun, the Jade Army might have been forced to retreat again, but now, they have the Feng Army behind them, and the Jade Army soldiers don't want to embarrass themselves in front of the Feng Army. People bite the bullet and He stepped on the corpses of his companions and paved a bloody path with his flesh and blood before advancing to the city wall of Red Dragon Altar.
Next, the ladders were set up one after another, and the Jade Soldiers threw away their torches, picked up weapons with one hand, and grabbed the ladder with the other, climbing up with all their strength.
The Jade Army attacked fiercely, and the Mo Army counterattacked even more fiercely. The arrows shot down were as dense as raindrops, and the rolling logs and stones were like snow flakes. The soldiers of the Jade Army attacking the city rushed forward and were shot down, and both sides Not even an hour into the battle, the corpses of the Jade Army under the city wall were already piled up high.
This is not a critical battle, it is more like a suicidal attack like a moth flying into a flame.
Under the high-intensity counterattack of the Mo army, the morale of the Jade army's siege soldiers began to gradually collapse. More and more Jade soldiers were crowded under the city wall, but fewer and fewer soldiers dared to climb the ladders and charge upward.
Soon, the news that the battle situation ahead was unfavorable and that our own offensive was weakening came back to Bailitu.
Bailitu calculated the time in his mind and found that his offensive had lasted for more than an hour, which was not too short. He said to Xiao Muqing: "Brother Xiao, our soldiers have been unable to attack for a long time. They have suffered heavy casualties and are exhausted, right... Is your army coming to attack instead?”
Xiao Muqing was not ambiguous, and immediately gave the order, and the Pingyuan Army soldiers moved forward to replace the Yu Army brothers.
Finally seeing the Pingyuan Army take action, Baili Tu responded with high hopes. He had always heard people say that the Pingyuan Army was extremely ferocious, invincible and invincible. Today, he had the opportunity to see it with his own eyes. How could he not observe the Pingyuan Army carefully? tactics and characteristics.
Under Xiao Muqing's order, all the 50,000 Pingyuan Army officers and soldiers were mobilized to pass the retreating Jade Army, and then formed a neat square formation to press towards the Red Dragon Altar.
It was basically the same situation as the Jade Army encountered when they advanced. When they entered the Red Dragon Altar 150 steps, they were attacked by Mo Jun's arrow formation. But surprisingly, Mo Jun only came down with one arrow formation, and they were defeated. The Pingyuan Army was beaten back.
People stopped moving forward, and there were shouts and shouts in the camp. It was unclear what they were busy with. .