Chapter 347
Zhan Wushuang led the Ning army to continue rushing towards Yancheng, and Ziying immediately ordered the Tianying army to chase and kill the latest chapter. When the Tianying army was on the mountain, Zhan Wushuang might have been a little worried. Now that he was down the mountain, Zhan Wushuang was no longer afraid. He immediately ordered the entire army to change the rear team to the front team to meet the Tianying army chasing from behind.
Seeing Zhan Wushuang's posture to fight, the Tianying army immediately stopped chasing, lined up, and confronted the Ning army. Seeing that the other side stopped where they were, the Ning army began to take the initiative to attack. More than 100,000 Ning troops lined up in a neat square formation and pressed towards the Tianying army step by step. Relying only on the combat effectiveness of the Tianying army to fight the Ning army head-on is undoubtedly a futile attempt. Ziying knew this truth very well. Seeing this, he immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.
The current situation is completely opposite to what it was just now. The Tianying army ran in front, and the Ning army followed to kill. The soldiers of the Sky Eagle Army may not be good at fighting, but they are still very fast at running. Moreover, they are wearing leather armor, which is light and convenient, and they can run flexibly. However, the Ning Army wearing steel helmets and steel armors were already exhausted and slowed down after chasing for a short distance.
Zhan Wushuang saw that this was not a solution, so he had to order the entire army to stop chasing and continue to Yancheng, but when they stopped chasing, the Sky Eagle Army turned back and continued to chase after the Ning Army. When the Ning Army turned back to fight again, the Sky Eagle Army ran away again.
This happened several times. The Sky Eagle Army was like a piece of gum, sticking to the Ning Army, but not confronting the Ning Army head-on. Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi were annoyed by the tactics of the Sky Eagle Army, and they hated them so much that their teeth itched, but they really couldn't do anything about them.
After the two sides tossed back and forth several times, it was already dark. After a whole day, the Ning Army didn't even walk 20 miles out of Qianshan Valley. Instead, the soldiers were exhausted, which was more tiring than walking 200 miles.
On the next day, the situation was the same as the day before. The Sky Eagle Army continued to chase the Ning Army, and once the Ning Army showed signs of fighting, they immediately stopped chasing. The two sides stopped and started, and there was no marching speed. The 130,000 Ning Army was dragged down by the 70,000 Sky Eagle Army and was impatient and miserable.
In fact, within Zhong Tian's sphere of influence, Ziying should not be able to fight so easily. As long as the surrounding counties sent troops to assist the Ning Army and hold the Sky Eagle Army, Ziying's tactics would not work. However, at this time, all counties and counties were watching the situation and keeping their troops on hold. No one was willing to come out to wade in the muddy water at this time. The heads of all counties and counties were waiting for the result of the battle of Yancheng. If Zhong Tian could defend Yancheng, they would continue to support Zhong Tian. If the Tianyuan Army could capture Yancheng, they could also turn to the Tianyuan Army as soon as possible. In short, it is the safest strategy to not help either side now.
With the heads of the counties and prefectures in such a state of mind, the Ning Army completely became an isolated army, and was dragged by the 70,000 Tianying Army 200 miles west of Yancheng.
Taking advantage of the opportunity created by Ziying, the main force of the Tianyuan Army launched a fierce attack on Yancheng.
Yancheng was too big, and the Tianyuan Army could not launch a siege. Similarly, the defenders in the city could not do everything. The 80,000 central army guarded such a large Yancheng, and they were short of manpower and stretched to the limit. They could not look forward or backward, left or right, and could only rely on Yancheng's solid city defense to fight desperately. The battle was extremely difficult.
The Tianyuan Army did not use all its strength on the first day of the siege, and only put all its manpower into the siege on the second day.
As the two main directions of attack, the battles at the north gate and the west gate of Yancheng were particularly fierce, and the soldiers on both sides suffered heavy casualties.
Tang Yin was in charge of the direct army and attacked the west gate of Yancheng, while the people in charge of guarding the west gate in Yancheng were Lieutenant General Ye Cheng and Pingnan General Wang Mao.
At this time, Ye Cheng and Wang Mao used all their strength. They both knew that they could still save their lives if the city was in their hands. If the city was broken, even if the Tianyuan Army did not kill them, Zhong Tian would not spare them. They had no choice but to fight to the death. At noon, the battle had reached a white-hot level. Ye Cheng and Wang Mao had personally taken to the battlefield to command their soldiers to resist the fierce attack of the direct army.
There were rolling logs, pounding stones, and kerosene on the top of the city. There were nearly a hundred large catapults in the city, which could attack from far and near, posing a great threat to the direct army, especially the catapults in the city, which would throw huge stones from the city from time to time and smash into the camp of the direct army, immediately knocking down a large number of people. When people finally rushed to the bottom of the city, they had to face the rolling logs, pounding stones, and kerosene flying down from the top of the city. The city defense weapons of the Peng Army seemed to be inexhaustible and inexhaustible. The bodies of the direct army soldiers under and outside the city were countless.
Tang Yin, who was watching the battle from behind, frowned. If this continued, even if all his brothers fought to the death, they would not be able to get close to the city.
Thinking of this, he pulled out his two swords, and when he swung them, the two swords became spiritual and combined into sickles, and then threw a sentence to Qiu Zhen beside him: "I will supervise the battle for me!" After saying this, without Qiu Zhen's reply, Tang Yin urged his horse with his sword and rushed straight to the battlefield in front.
"Big..." Qiu Zhen only shouted the word "big", and Tang Yin had already run far away. He shook his head helplessly and said to the four brothers Wu Guang, Zhan Hu, and Shangguan behind him: "You go and protect the adults!"
In fact, Qiu Zhen didn't need to say anything. Seeing that Tang Yin had personally joined the battle, the four of them had already jumped on their horses. As soon as Qiu Zhen finished speaking, they urged their horses to rush out.
As for Tang Yin, when he approached his own camp, he jumped off his warhorse directly, dragged his sickle, and rushed forward on foot.
After walking a few steps, a huge rock shot from the city flew upside down. The soldiers around him were so scared that they dodged to the left and right, but Tang Yin did not retreat. He continued to rush forward. When the boulder was about to hit his head, he swung the sickle in his hand with all his strength.
Click!
With a crisp sound, the round boulder launched by the trebuchet was cut into two by the edge of the sickle. After landing, looking at the boulder, the cut was as smooth as a mirror.
"grown ups--"
At this time, the surrounding soldiers discovered Tang Yin's existence and screamed in unison.
Tang Yin ignored them. After chopping down the boulder, his forward speed did not slow down at all. In just a moment, he rushed to the bottom of the city wall. He raised his eyes and looked up, and then a black mist rose around him, and his figure disappeared. When he reappeared, he was already on top of the city.
"kill--"
As soon as he appeared, a large group of central troops armed with sabers and spears rushed over. Tang Yin held a sickle in one hand, and after a round of shouts, he could hear the crisp sound of clicking, and dozens of spears stabbed by his sickle were heard. After sweeping away, before the soldiers could retreat, Tang Yin swung out another sword.
flutter!
More than a dozen Peng soldiers were stabbed in the chest, and the dark fire spread from the edge of the sickle to their whole bodies. The people's bodies exuded a trace of white mist, and then they fell to the ground like deflated rubber balls. Seeing the ferocity of the enemies who were attacking the city, and more Peng troops rushing around, Tang Yin saw a surge of people around him, with not even a gap between them.
Tang Yin sneered, stretched out one hand, and used the Shadow Curse, one of the extinct shadow systems. The black ball of light flew into the Peng Bing camp, and countless people were affected by it. However, the Shadow Curse could not spread further. Ye Cheng and Wang Mao arrived with a dozen Peng generals. They all released spiritual pressure to suppress the soldiers affected by the shadow curse, and then pushed them towards the city with spiritual pressure.
The Peng soldiers carrying the Shadow Curse fell to the bottom of the city, which was a pain to the direct troops outside the city who were attacking the city. The Shadow Curse does not distinguish between friends and foes, and affects everyone it sees. In an instant, screams outside the city were heard. Even in one piece. Tang Yin looked down, his heart suddenly tightened, and he shouted loudly: "Spread out! Everyone spread out!"
His shouts seemed insignificant on the chaotic battlefield. Not to mention that no one could hear them. Even if they heard so many direct troops, they couldn't get out of the way all at once. When people finally avoided the influence of the shadow curse, they By the time the effect gradually wore off, hundreds of direct soldiers had been damaged by the shadow curse.
The Shadow Curse's characteristics of being indistinguishable between friend and foe and being uncontrollable were the main reasons why Tang Yin could not use it on the battlefield. This time, he thought that even Zhong Tian had retreated from Yancheng and there were no masters in the city, so he used the Shadow Curse. When I came out, I didn't expect that there were still many warriors with advanced cultivation among the enemy soldiers.
Looking at the tragic death of his own soldiers outside the city, Tang Yin's eyes turned red. He glared at Ye Cheng, Wang Mao and others, and shouted: "I want your lives!" As he spoke, he disappeared and reappeared. At that time, Ye Cheng and others were approaching, and the sickles in their hands were slashing with all their strength.
Tang Yin used all his strength and the power was astonishing. The sickle cut through the air and made a harsh whistling sound.
Seeing the terrifying momentum, Ye Cheng and others did not dare to resist its edge, so people retreated and dodged in unison.
sand!
The sickle almost passed by the spiritual armor on their chests, leaving a long scratch on their spiritual armor. This knife also made Ye Cheng and others break out in cold sweat. After retreating to Tang Yin's attack range, they spoke in the same breath, and Ye Cheng asked suspiciously: "Who are you? Tell me your name!"
"Tang Yin!"
Before Tang Yin finished speaking, the sickle was swept towards Ye Cheng and others with strong wind. However, after Ye Cheng and others heard his name, their expressions changed. No wonder this enemy dark spiritual cultivator was so powerful. It turned out that he was Tang Yin. Seeing Tang Yin coming to attack again, Ye Cheng dared to laugh and said: "Tang Yin, your death day has come today!"
As he spoke, the spear in his hand shone with a strange brilliance, and the cross slash whizzed out. At the same time, Wang Mao and others on his left and right also released their spiritual martial arts skills and swept towards Tang Yin. For a moment, countless spiritual waves and spiritual thorns were all shot towards Tang Yin.
Unexpectedly, Tang Yin's figure suddenly disappeared in front of their eyes. Just when everyone was stunned, there was an evil wind behind him and a spiritual wave struck him.
not good! Ye Cheng and others were all experienced spiritual cultivators. They immediately realized that the other party had appeared behind them in the form of a shadow clone. People rushed forward in unison, and at the same time they counterattacked and stabbed Tang Yin behind him.
They were fast, but Tang Yin was even faster. He used Shadow Drift again and appeared in front of everyone. His strange movement was like a ghost.