Chapter 5270: Battle of Niangzi Pass

Niangziguan is located at the foothills of Mianshan Mountain in the northeast of Pingding County, Yangquan Prefecture.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, high up, there are two gates built.

In a normal conventional war, these two gates are enough to deal with enemies ten times as big as one's own.

The Catastrophic War was not a conventional war. As early as more than ten years ago, after Qilisi sounded the war drum, the imperial court began to massively renovate and expand the Niangziguan defense line.

The height and reinforcement of the two city gates were tripled, and five lines of defense were formed by extending the defense line back about 180 miles based on dangerous terrain such as Laojun Cave, Qiankong Cliff, and Chengtian Peak.

The front is the defense line of Laojun Cave. The defense line here is similar to Wangfu Ridge and Duoshi Peak in the Battle of Yingzui Cliff ten years ago, and it plays the role of a urn.

The second line of defense is the two huge passes at Niangzi Pass.

The third line of defense is a fan-shaped defense line centered on Laojun Cave.

The fourth line of defense is Chengtian Cliff. This line of defense is the most dangerous, especially the fifteen-mile-long Xiantian Canyon. In the past ten years, millions of craftsmen have carved it into a killing machine.

The fifth line of defense is Fenglong Mountain in the southeast.

This is the last line of defense.

In front of the Fenglong Mountain defense line is a river called Jinlong River.

Behind the Fenglong Mountain defense line is Shimen. This name is very unfamiliar to the world, but it also has another famous name, Changshan.

Yes, it is the hometown of Zhao Zilong, who goes in and out seven times and shoots out guns like a dragon.

Changshan City is not fortified, so there is no need.

Once the Yumen Pass is broken, the entire Jinzhong and Eastern Shanxi will fall into the hands of heaven.

Further east is the capital city, with tens of millions of troops forming the capital defense line centered on the capital city.

Some military strategists have already deduced the direction of this catastrophic battle.

Although Niangzi Pass has five lines of defense, due to the wrong command of the old commander Xu Kai at the beginning of the war, millions of elites were buried outside the pass. This line of defense is the weakest among the three lines of defense built in the world. If the heavenly army wants to win in the shortest time, the best attack route is to take Niangzi Pass first, and then push eastward to occupy the capital and destroy the human command system. Afterwards, the central army advanced northward

, encircled and annihilated the main force of 25 million people in Shanhaiguan.

When the Shanhaiguan defense line was breached and Tianjie's middle and north armies joined forces, no force in the entire Shanxi, Hebei, and Luyu could pose a threat to Tianjie's army.

The area north of the Huangyan River will be flattened by the Heavenly Cavalry.

At this time, the Yumen Pass thousands of miles away will be destroyed.

As an old man in the army, Xu Kai could naturally see through this.

The current wars between Yumen Pass and Shanhaiguan are all small fights, but Niangzi Pass took the lead in launching a large-scale group charge, which verified Xu Kai's guess.

Thirty legions from the heavenly realm, more than 600,000 troops, slowly came from outside Niangzi Pass.

When they were only three miles away from the first line of defense at Niangziguan, the Tianjie forward began to accelerate.

The giant warrior holding a large shield high roared like a wild beast and rushed towards the huge pass.

This is not a tentative attack, nor is it a small fight. This kind of attack with a large army is just to take down Niangziguan in one go.

During the charge, the overwhelming fireball tore through the air and made a whirring sound. It flew out from the rear of the Celestial Army, passed over their heads, and hit the first line of defense at Niangziguan. Kongya.

The Thousand Holes Cliff turned into a rock wall of flames during the violent vibrations, and the human soldiers could only commit themselves to the holes in the cliff to avoid the flames.

The celestial army ignored the huddled human soldiers in Thousand Holes Cliff, quickly broke through from the lower part of the cliff, and continued to rush towards the second line of defense.

Xu Kai wanted to imitate the battle at Yingzui Cliff ten years ago, and tried to use Qiankong Cliff to consume the heavenly forces.

As a result, the millions of elites hidden in Thousand Holes Cliff were suppressed by the flames of the Legion of Destruction from the heavens, and were unable to emerge at all.

The pioneer giant army in the heaven passed through the bottom of the cliff with almost no losses and arrived at the first gate of Niangzi Pass.

The city wall of Niangziguan was originally twenty feet high. In the past ten years, the city wall has been raised three times to sixty feet.

The huge rock walls are carved with defensive circles.

It is like a black mountain lying across this dangerous place.

The coach Xu Kai, who was standing on the tower of Queguan City, was shocked and angry when he saw the Celestial Vanguard troops rushing to his feet effortlessly.

He ordered the soldiers at Qiankongya in the north to take advantage of the terrain and shoot at the enemy from a high position.

What a pity, the Thousand Holes Cliff in front was completely covered in flames, and waves of fireballs were still hitting the Thousand Holes Cliff continuously, making it impossible for the soldiers on the Thousand Holes Cliff to get their heads out.

Some soldiers pushed aside the stone slabs and bent their bows to shoot, but they were immediately burned by the flames and fell from the holes in the cliff screaming.

Some soldiers wanted to use the Eight Ox Crossbow to shoot. Because the fire was too fierce, the Eight Ox Crossbow fired after only one round, and the cowhide rope was burned by the flames.

Seeing this scene, An Wenxiu, the coach of Tianjie Middle Army, showed a faint smile.

An Wenxiu, male, 33 years old.

He is seven feet tall, with black hair and a high nose.

His skin is very pale and thin, and his eyes are sunken and have heavy dark circles.

He is from Beidi's line, and he used to be the deputy general of the central army.

Not long ago, Princess Jiuque, the daughter of the Northern Emperor, came to the world. Emperor Yan and Emperor Xi sold a favor to Princess Jiuque, so An Wenxiu was promoted to the commander of the middle army.

Although An Wenxiu is young, his cultivation is not low. He is already a master of the spiritual realm.

Moreover, when he was in the heaven, he worshipped under the great Confucian Taoist Xiao. He was familiar with Confucian classics and military strategies, and was very good at fighting.

At the age of 26, he led 40,000 troops and defeated 150,000 rebels of the barbarians in the northern part of the heaven.

An Wenxiu saw the defensive loopholes of Niangzi Pass from the beginning.

Qiankong Cliff is indeed dangerous, but the soldiers in the human world are hiding in the caves dug out in the cliff wall.

As long as the Sky Fire Beast blocks Qiankong Cliff with fireballs, this line of defense will be of little use.

This attack just confirmed An Wenxiu's guess.

A full-strength giant army of more than 6,000 people has arrived at the second line of defense.

They did not rush to attack the city, but quickly assembled weapons under the city.

Now Xu Kai did not care about the report from Yumen Pass received in the morning. The heaven might be collecting ironware from the human world.

He ordered the bows and crossbows of the first line of defense to shoot at the enemy under the city.

The rain of arrows covered the sky and the sun, and it seemed that only the arrows made a whistling sound in the ears, as if even the space was shaking.

Hundreds of thousands of crossbows and crossbows were about to shoot at the enemy.

Suddenly, there was a roar from the ground under his feet.

Then, hundreds of rotating diamond umbrellas were seen whizzing out from the enemy formation.

The opened diamond umbrellas were shot out at a high speed at an angle of about 45 degrees.

Wherever they passed, most of the crossbows and crossbows that fell from the sky were stirred up by the rotating diamond umbrellas, and only less than 30% of the arrows fell on the enemy formation.

Most of these 30% of arrows were nailed on the shields of the giant warriors. This wave of crossbow arrows had almost no effect.