Chapter 204

The Ning army's siege officially began. The front army camp approached and shot arrows at the city wall. Dense arrows flew out from the gaps in the shields like locusts and shot at the top of the city. The Feng army on the city wall either blocked with shields or hid behind the arrow stacks. After the enemy's arrow formation passed, they stood up and shot back and forth.

The arrows of both sides shuttled back and forth in the air, and from time to time, the screams of soldiers from both sides after being hit by arrows could be heard. When the Ning army advanced to the bottom of the city wall, sticks, wood, and stones fell from the top of the city, hitting the Ning army holding shields and staggering to the east and west. It was in chaos, but some Ning soldiers still set up ladders and swarmed up.

Compared with the crazy Besa soldiers, the Ning army's speed of climbing the city was much slower. First, the Ning people were far less strong than the Besa people, and secondly, their steel helmets and armor were too heavy, and it was difficult to climb the ladders. The Feng army either used bamboo poles to lift the cloud ladders or sprinkled kerosene on them. Without lighting a fire, a pot of oil was poured down, and the Ning army on top was burned to pieces. Moreover, the cloud ladders covered with kerosene were extremely smooth, and people often slipped off before they climbed very high.

The two sides fought fiercely, but the Ning army could not break through the defense line of the Feng army with only tens of thousands of front troops. At this time, Zhan Wushuang ordered the central army to release arrows to suppress the Feng army on the top of the city.

The central army of nearly 300,000 people released arrows together, and the arrows were almost one wave after another, without any interval in between. The dense rain of arrows like dark clouds passed through the sky and whistled on the top of the city. The Ning army's arrows not only had a long range, but also had great power and a terrifying momentum. They could often completely suppress the enemy's momentum with an overwhelming arrow formation.

Tang Yin had seen the power of the Ning Army's arrow formation long ago, and he was prepared in his heart. When he saw the arrow formation of the enemy's central army coming, he immediately ordered his subordinates not to care about the Ning Army under the city, and all raised their shields to block the enemy's arrows first. The Ning Army's arrow formation is powerful, but it is not good at close combat. Even if the enemy rushes up, it will not be a big problem. On the contrary, it can stop the enemy's arrow formation from the central army. After all, it is impossible for the Ning people to shoot and kill their comrades together.

Under Tang Yin's command, all the Feng Army on the top of the city hid. From a distance, if the city is long, not a single Feng Army can be seen.

Dang, dang, dang!

The rain of arrows from the Ning Army shot to the top of the city, nailed on the stone bricks of the city wall, jingling, sparks flying, and in the blink of an eye, the gray bricks on the city wall could no longer see their original color, and were all covered by black lacquered feather arrows. Shangguan Yuanrang, who was hiding behind the arrow stack, was also secretly shocked. He had only heard that the Ning Army's arrow formation was powerful before, and today he saw that it was indeed well-deserved.

He turned his head to look at Tang Yin, who was squatting behind the arrow stack not far away with a calm face, and asked loudly: "Sir, when will the Ning army's arrow array stop shooting?"

Tang Yin leaned against the arrow stack, smiled calmly, and said: "It will stop soon!" As he spoke, he listened attentively for a moment, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Brothers, prepare for close combat!" While speaking, he had covered himself with spiritual armor and drew out the crescent-shaped double swords.

Hearing the sound, the Feng army put down their bows and arrows, or picked up their spears, or drew their sabers, ready to engage in close combat with the Ning army.

As soon as the rain of arrows stopped, Tang Yin immediately shouted: "Kill--" While speaking, he suddenly stood up from behind the arrow stack, just in time to meet a Ning soldier who had just climbed to the top of the city. The Ning soldier was startled, and his body instinctively leaned back, almost falling off the top of the city. Seeing this, Tang Yin tilted his head, grinned, raised his leg and kicked the Ning soldier on the knee. The latter screamed, and could no longer control his body standing on the wall, and fell on his back. Tang Yin followed closely, jumped onto the arrow stack, and looked down again. The white-haired Ning soldiers had already climbed up along the cloud ladder. He laughed up and closed the two swords in his hands, combining them into one, turning into a long strange sickle. When his arms swung, a layer of blue black fire covered the sickle, making the whole sickle emit a strange blue light. Tang Yin held the knife with both hands and chopped several times at the many Ning soldiers who were about to climb up to him.

The Ning army was still on the ladder, watching the sickle coming at them without being able to dodge, and could only raise the weapons in their hands to parry, but their ordinary weapons could not withstand the spiritual soldiers. With a series of crisp sounds, several steel swords broke, and at the same time, the heads of several Ning soldiers were chopped off alive, and white spiritual mist floated out from their broken necks.

Tang Yin's move also announced the beginning of the close combat between the two sides.

On the city wall, the Ning army that rushed up and the Feng army that guarded the city wall fought in one place. The two sides fought against each other, and the battle was extremely fierce. The Ning soldiers had the advantage of a set of steel armor, which provided them with excellent protection. The advantage of the Feng soldiers was that they were brave and strong in combat. Soldiers were often stabbed by Ning soldiers, and when they fell down, they had to chop back at the opponent, so that they would die together.

The battle was extremely bloody and brutal from the beginning, especially for the Feng army. There was no way to retreat, so they could only fight to the death. Generals led by Tang Yin and Shangguan Yuanrang all went to the battlefield and led the soldiers to fight bloody battles. The generals had the will to die, and the soldiers had no desire to live. The generals could lead by example and charge into battle, and the soldiers would naturally follow.

Only half of the tens of thousands of Ning soldiers came up, and the people behind could not come up. It was not that they did not want to go up, but the Ning soldiers who had already climbed up the city wall were pressed to the edge of the city wall by the Feng army. The soldiers behind wanted to go up and had no place to stay. Looking up, the city wall was full of dense Ning soldiers.

Seeing that the other side could not break through their own defense line, Tang Yin became confident. While waving the sickle in his hand, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, work harder, and push the enemy down in one go!"

Under his order, the Feng army all exerted their strength. The soldiers in front stared with blood-red eyes, stretched their necks and roared, and rushed towards the opponent's weapons. They were stabbed with holes all over by the Ning army's spears and sharp swords. , but it also created an opportunity for the comrades in the rear. Tens of thousands of Feng troops swarmed forward and ran into Ning Bing.

boom!

The collision of armor and armor was deafening. Under the combined force of many wind troops, the entire Ning army who climbed up the city wall took a big step back. Although it was only one step, it suffered a lot for the Ning army in the last row. They Unable to stand, they leaned back and screamed and fell off the wall. Many Ning soldiers panicked and reached out to grab their companions in front of them as they fell. As a result, not only did they fall, but they also implicated their companions in front of them, causing them to both fall. fall.

The falling Ning soldiers became the rolling logs and rocks of the Feng army. They not only injured the Ning army under the city, but also knocked down many of the Ning soldiers on the ladder. A series of chain reactions caused chaos in the Ning army camp.

Seeing that the opponent could no longer hold on, Shangguan Yuanrang suddenly roared, spent all his spiritual energy, and once again used the ultimate spiritual martial arts skill of Ling Luan. He saw a knife-like spiritual wave passing by, and the field was full of flesh and blood. Flying, countless Ning troops gathered together were shattered into pieces, and they screamed in succession. After the chaos, when they looked at the Ning Army camp, a huge gap was immediately opened. The faces of the surrounding Ning troops changed drastically, and they couldn't help but They retreated, but in their horror they forgot that they had no way to retreat at this time, and groups of Ning soldiers fell from the top of the city before they could react.

Shangguan Yuanrang's Lingwu kills made the enemy's troops confused. Tang Yin was not idle either. He swung the sickle in his hand quickly and fiercely. From time to time, Ning soldiers in front were struck by the sword and fell to the ground. The essence in their bodies was turned into spiritual mist, and was finally inhaled into Tang Yin's body. . As a dark spiritual cultivator of the inner sect, Tang Yin has almost no worries about consuming spiritual energy on the battlefield. What's more, now that the death burning of the dark fire has been upgraded to soul burning, the spiritual energy is replenished faster. The more others use it, the weaker their spiritual energy becomes. The more he hit the aura, the stronger he became, which caused too much damage and deterrence to Ning Jun.

Seeing that the two generals were unstoppable and completely suppressed the arrogance of the Ning army, the morale of several regiment commanders was greatly boosted. While waving their spiritual soldiers, they shouted loudly: "Destroy all the Ning army and let the Ning people know our style." The majesty of the army! Use the blood of Ningren to wash away the shame on our heads!"

"kill--"

The morale of the wind troops was boosted, and the burning blood rushed straight to their foreheads. At this time, people had forgotten life and death, only the enemy was left in their eyes, and only the thought of all the enemy troops they had lost was left in their minds. It was as if the Feng Army had been collectively on stimulants. The crazy counterattack made Ning Army unable to resist anymore. The soldiers in front fell down in rows, and the soldiers behind them also fell down in rows.

By the evening of that day, there was no longer a living Ning soldier on the city wall. There were corpses everywhere, and there were Ning people's decapitated heads everywhere. Blood flowed into a river, gurgling down the city wall. The military merits of the Feng Army are calculated based on the enemy's heads. The number of heads gained will be recorded as much merit. When the merits are accumulated to a certain amount, they can be exchanged for a title.

Zhan Wushuang, who was supervising the battle at the rear, saw that the battle had reached this level and felt that there was no need to continue fighting. The morale of the Feng army was too high now and it was already dark. He could only stop here today and fight again tomorrow. He issued a military order for all soldiers fighting in the front to withdraw and call a temporary truce.

His order was a great relief to the exhausted former soldiers who lost most of their troops. The people showed no signs of fighting and quickly retreated as soon as they received the order.

Later, Zhan Wushuang ordered the Jinhua City to be surrounded and fortified, and then ordered people to urge the troops in the rear to transport baggage, speed up the march, and participate in the siege.

Ning's army had many siege weapons, but they were large and bulky and were not carried with the army, falling behind the large team.

Attacking the city today, Zhan Wushuang did not expect that the Feng army in the city would be so powerful and difficult to deal with. He had lost countless soldiers. Now he put away his contempt and planned to use the siege weapons to attack from all sides. He did not believe that this little Jinhua City will make it impossible for our own army of 400,000 to defeat it.

On the other side, the Tianyuan Army led by Tang Yin was also resting. In the afternoon battle, although a lot of enemy soldiers were killed and injured, the Tianyuan Army was not without casualties, but they were relatively light.