Chapter 200

The next morning, after breakfast, the Tianyuan Army began to pack up the camp and set off for Zhong Wen's camp at the junction of Guannan County and Jinguang County.

The 400,000-man army was so powerful that it marched southward and arrived at Zhong Wen's camp that evening. After arriving, the army swarmed in and surrounded Zhong Wen's camp in three layers inside and outside before even setting up the camp. Then, the Tianyuan Army sent out military generals to challenge the enemy and let Zhong Wen come out to fight.

The main force of the Tianyuan Army was coming fiercely, and Zhong Wen was not surprised. He responded calmly and sent out 30,000 soldiers. After leaving the gate, they formed a battle formation. Then, a fast horse rushed out from the crowd, and a military general with a gun sat on the horse to meet the Tianyuan Army generals who were fighting. Both sides exchanged names and fought in one place.

The two generals fought brilliantly, with swords flashing and sabers flying. The soldiers behind them were not idle either, with drums beating and shouting to cheer. The two generals fought for more than ten rounds. The general of Tianyuan Army gradually lost and thought he could not win. He turned his horse and retreated to his own camp, but the other side refused to give in and chased him.

At this time, someone in the Tianyuan Army camp shouted loudly, and then a horse rushed out as fast as an arrow. The general on the horse was covered in white spiritual armor, with a white three-pointed double-edged sword in his hand, and the white horse under his crotch, and the man and the horse were like a white gust of wind.

This person's battle scared the other general. He was too impressed by this person. It was Shangguan Yuanrang who attacked the army's camp early yesterday morning and was unstoppable. The general hurriedly reined in his horse and turned around and ran without even fighting. Shangguan Yuanrang was unwilling to let him go and chased him relentlessly.

At this time, the morale of the Tianyuan Army also rose, shouting and roaring one after another, and the drummer used all his strength to beat the drum to cheer, and the cowhide drum was almost knocked out.

Let’s talk about the general, who ran very fast. Just when he was about to retreat to his own army’s square formation, he quickly hung the gun in his hand on the saddle bridge, then reached out and grabbed a hard bow from the side of the horse, and pulled out an arrow made of pure steel with one hand. When he put the bow on the arrow, the arrow had already been spiritualized. He heard that Shangguan Yuanrang behind him was catching up very close, and without any warning, he suddenly turned around and shot an arrow at Shangguan Yuanrang behind him.

This return horse secretly shot suddenly, and the distance between the two was very close. Shangguan Yuanrang had no time to react, and his forehead was shot by the flying spiritual arrow.

Wow - this sudden change caused an uproar on both sides of the battlefield, especially the Tianyuan Army, who were shocked and horrified. People forgot to close their mouths and could no longer shout.

There was a crisp sound in his ear. The arrow was shot hard. Under the impact, Shangguan Yuanrang leaned back and almost fell on the horse's back.

Seeing that the arrow hit the target, the general couldn't help laughing. He immediately reined in his horse, turned around and ran back. At the same time, he put down his bow and arrow, picked up the silver spear again, and shouted excitedly: "Shangguan Yuanrang, even if you are brave enough to fight against ten thousand men, you will die in my hands today..."

Before he finished speaking, Shangguan Yuanrang, who was about to lie on the horse's back, slowly stood up and said leisurely: "It's too early for you to say that!"

Looking at Shangguan Yuanrang again at this time, the spiritual armor where the arrow hit his forehead was not damaged at all, and there was not even a trace left. Instead, the spiritual arrow shot at him was smashed by his spiritual armor, broken into several pieces, and scattered on the ground.

"Ah?" Seeing this scene, the general was shocked. With his spiritual transformation realm, he couldn't hurt Shangguan Yuanrang with a full-strength arrow. How tough must his spiritual armor be? How high must his cultivation be? He was horrified and screamed, and immediately wanted to turn his horse and run back.

Shangguan Yuanrang sneered and said, "Since you are back, you stay here!" As he spoke, the three-pointed double-edged sword in his hand chopped down Huashan. The sword arrived first, and the spiritual wave arrived first. The general used all his spiritual energy and swept back a spiritual wave, hoping to dissolve the opponent's attack.

But with his spiritual transformation realm, how could he withstand Shangguan Yuanrang's heavy blow. With a puff, the spiritual wave he sent out was split in two and dispersed into nothingness, while the spiritual wave released by Shangguan Yuanrang continued to move forward and hit the general's head.

Puff! Snap!

There were two consecutive crisp sounds, and the general didn't even make a sound. He was split in the middle with his horse, and the two halves of his body fell to the left and right. The blood sprayed from the horse and the man formed a blood mist in the air.

Wow - there was another uproar on the battlefield. This time, the Central Army under Zhong Wen were all horrified, as if they had seen a ghost. They stared at Shangguan Yuanrang, but their legs had already retreated involuntarily.

Shangguan Yuanrang urged his horse to move forward, and the Central Army in front of him retreated three steps, and the entire formation also sank inward.

Shangguan Yuanrang had no intention of turning his horse back to his main formation. He rode his horse back and forth in front of the Central Army, waved his hand holding the sword, pointed at the 30,000 Central Army, and shouted loudly: "Who dares to come out and fight me again?"

Such a large square formation, 30,000 soldiers, more than a dozen generals, were silent, and no one dared to speak.

"Who dares to come out and fight me again?" Shangguan Yuanrang asked three times, and the central army square formation retreated three meters.

"Haha——" Shangguan Yuanrang laughed with his face raised, pointed at the enemy with the tip of his knife, and said proudly: "You rats, you are helping the tyrant. If you surrender now, I will spare your lives. If you don't surrender, my 400,000 troops will kill you without leaving a single piece of armor!"

The Central Army was extremely afraid of Shangguan Yuanrang and did not dare to confront him. People just kept retreating and did not even have the courage to talk to him.

Seeing that the momentum of 30,000 enemy troops was suppressed by Shangguan Yuanrang alone, Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi, and Peng Haochu all saw the opportunity and immediately advised Tang Yin that now was a good time for the whole army to attack. Hearing this, Tang Yin did not delay for a moment, waved his arm forward, and shouted loudly: "All troops attack!"

The military order was like a mountain.

At Tang Yin's order, 400,000 Tianyuan troops set off together. From a distance, dozens of neat square formations pressed towards Zhong Wen's camp*. When they entered the range, thousands of arrows were fired at the same time. The arrows of hundreds of thousands of troops were overwhelming, covering the sun and the moon. The arrows flew into the air and floated in the air like a large dark cloud.

Even with shields protecting them, the 30,000 central troops could not withstand such sharp arrows. For a while, there were continuous screams. The 30,000 people no longer wanted to fight and ran to their own camps. At the same time, Zhong Wen also ordered the withdrawal of troops and retreat to the camp.

The central troops who fled in panic on the battlefield held shields, but from time to time, some were shot in the legs by stray arrows and rolled on the ground like balls. Before they could struggle to get up or pick up their shields, they were pierced all over by the eagle feathers that followed. They looked like a black mass, with only arrows and no human bodies.

The 30,000 people fled back to the camp. The distance was not long and the time was very short. However, in this short time, more than 2,000 central troops died in the arrow formation, which shows the power of the arrow formation.

After all the personnel on their side were withdrawn, the gate of Zhong Wen's camp was immediately closed, and thousands of central troops climbed up the wall and the lookout tower to shoot arrows back. The two sides also turned from a head-on confrontation to a difficult battle.

Zhong Wen intended to repel the enemy from this place, so the camp was very solid and strong, and it had been reinforced and defended for several days. At this time, the defense measures of the camp were no different from those of a military fortress. In addition, the camp was built against the mountain, which could save the pressure of defense on one side and concentrate the troops.

Under the command of Zhong Tian, ​​a part of the central army gathered under the wall of the camp to hold up the fence, defending against the opponent's collision while delivering arrows and rolling logs and stones to the comrades fighting above. Another part of the central army held long spears and stabbed out from time to time through the small holes on the wall of the camp to prevent the Tianyuan army from climbing up. Another part of the central army stood on the wall of the camp, shooting arrows and throwing rolling logs and stones. There were almost no idle people in the nearly 150,000 central troops, and all of them were put to use to form a three-dimensional defensive fortification.

The 400,000-man Tianyuan Army's attack was fierce, but under the Central Army's stubborn defense, they really couldn't get in. Instead, the soldiers in front fell down in groups. The Central Army's defense was too strong, especially the numerous watchtowers, which were now all turned into towers. A large number of Central Army gathered on them, looking down from a high position, and kept shooting arrows, causing great damage to the Tianyuan Army.

Tang Yin, who was watching the battle from behind, looked at the fierce battle in front and couldn't help shaking his head secretly. As expected, as he had guessed at the beginning, Zhong Wen was not an ordinary person. The defense of the entire camp was too strong. If he attacked blindly, it would only increase casualties. It seems that he had to follow the original plan and take risks!

After thinking about it, he conveyed the general's order and ordered the entire army to retreat and no longer attack.

After receiving Tang Yin's order, the Tianyuan Army retreated, but left a lot of corpses outside the camp.

This battle did not last long, but the Tianyuan Army suffered heavy losses, and thousands of soldiers died in the siege. After this battle, the Tianyuan Army did not attack the enemy camp again, and the Central Army, which had learned a lesson, did not dare to go out of the camp to meet the enemy rashly. The two sides began a relatively calm confrontation.

It can be seen that the Tianyuan Army planned to fight a protracted war. The whole army did not retreat, but began to camp on the spot around Zhong Wen's camp, and surrounded the enemy with a long semi-circular camp. Seeing this, Zhong Wen was not nervous. He was happy to be idle if the enemy did not attack. If it dragged on, it would only be beneficial to him. After all, 400,000 Ning troops had already entered Jinguang County and were on their way. When the Ning army arrived, he would attack from both inside and outside, and the 400,000 Tianyuan Army would be immediately annihilated.

He calculated very well, but Zhong Wen was not a god after all. What he never expected was that Tang Yin, the commander of the Tianyuan Army, and Shangguan Yuanrang, who made him most afraid, had already led 50,000 direct troops of Tianyuan County to quietly go to Jinhua City to stop the Ning Army.