Chapter 246 - Hangu Pass Breaks
Without the hindrance of Liu Bei and others, Dong Zhuo's foreign army attacked the city very smoothly, and soon pounced on the city of Hangu Pass, and saw the giant bears that were transformed one by one on the soldiers' bodies roared and frantically slammed against the wall with their claws, and soon, there were more and more giant bears attacking the city, about a thousand giant bears, going forward and one after another, beating the wall, making the Fu Seal Road patterns on the wall of Hangu Pass endlessly emit bursts of flickering brilliance.
"Tangible and qualitative, not only is the defense power amazing, it can ignore the elemental bows and arrows shot from above the wall, it can also resist the bombardment of spells, and the power is surprisingly large, what is that giant bear?" Long Xiangtian couldn't help but muttered to himself.
Although Liu Bei, Long Xiangtian and the others fled from the battlefield, they did not go too far, but converged together, hiding in the clouds in the distance and continued to watch the battle.
When everyone was really thinking about what it was, Zhang Fei suddenly said: "Hey, I remember, this thing seems to be similar to the 'Innate Divine Beast Technique' we cultivated, and it can also produce this kind of tangible and qualitative illusion, and then enhance its own offensive and defensive capabilities." ”
Everyone couldn't help but think about it carefully, and felt that what Zhang Fei said was indeed true, Guan Yu nodded and said: "What the third brother said is right, it's just that their technique pays too much attention to offensive and defensive capabilities, which weakens its flexibility and ability to run, so it requires the soldiers below to ride beasts." ”
"Well, although they have drawbacks in this exercise, there is no doubt that this is still a very domineering exercise, this kind of exercise has greatly improved the attack and defense power of the soldiers, so these soldiers of the foundation building realm can burst out of the strength of the Jindan level, of course, if they go head-to-head with the Jindan real person, their flexibility will definitely be beaten by the Jindan real person, but they are better than the number! Don't look at them only 1,000, but in groups, even an army of 100,000 can't stop it!" Liu Bei analyzed it and said.
Everyone feels the same way, this is equivalent to a thousand Jindan real people launching a collective charge, that is really God blocking and killing God, and Buddha blocking and killing Buddha.
At this time, Long Xiangtian suddenly said: "Hey, have you noticed that those soldiers are riding are real beasts, not flying swords!"
Everyone heard the words and took a closer look, and they all saw the clues, this is indeed riding a beast, because if it is a flying sword, then these soldiers can fly in the air, but these beasts are not yet in the realm of demon beasts, they can only act on the ground, and they are common beasts in the Xiliang area, Mingkui, similar to the wolf on the earth, but the head is much larger than the wolf, hairless, the skin is hard armor, very vicious, can eat tigers and leopards.
Everyone felt very strange, most of the beasts in the world are the descendants of the wild beasts, brutal by nature, to this day, they are still wild and untamable, difficult to be tamed, Kui is like this, and what makes people feel exaggerated is that this foreign army of soldiers is actually riding Kui beasts, I really don't know how they can tame this thousand Kui.
"Could it be that they have already mastered some kind of means to manipulate the Kui Beast?" Guan Yu couldn't help but say suspiciously.
"Beast control?" Long Xiangtian thought for a moment, and something flashed in his mind, but he couldn't catch it, so he had to shake his head.
"If it is, then it will be troublesome, it means that Dong Zhongying has another cavalry under his command to control the Kui Beast, and it is estimated that with the ferocity of the Kui Beast, the general battle formation cannot withstand such a charge. Liu Bei said worriedly.
Liu Bei and the others quietly went around to the rear of the Xiliang army and found that there was indeed an army of riding beasts, the number of which was about three thousand.
In this regard, Liu Bei couldn't help but say with emotion: "The giant bear is attacking the city, the Kui beast is charging, I don't know if he Dong Zhongying has other means, we only know that Dong Zhongying has risen very quickly over the years, almost sweeping Liangzhou in a crushing situation, forcing Ma Shoucheng and Han Wenyue, who are also in Xiliang, to confront each other in the form of an alliance, but I didn't expect that Dong Zhongying's power is so strong, alas, it seems that we all underestimate him!"
"Ah, can the Hangu Pass still be defended?" Long Xiangtian was shocked and couldn't help asking.
Liu Bei shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say, although the defense of Hangu Pass is still extremely strong, it is estimated that the morale of the soldiers guarding the pass is already very low now, and the key depends on him Yuan Highway!"
Liu Bei's estimate was right, the soldiers guarding the pass were already frightened when they saw the terrifying giant bear attacking the city, and those who had no eyesight really thought that it was a giant beast attacking the city. Behind the giant beast, there are rows of elemental archers, which are arranged according to the different attributes of the archers, such as the flame bow, the thunder bow, the ice bow, etc., in order to fire in a volley, so that the guards of the pass are bitter, the archers dare not show their heads, and the shield soldiers are not willing to open the shield to go to the top, which shows the quality of the Xiliang army and the defending army.
"What a powerful defense, Hangu Pass is worthy of being the barrier of the imperial capital to guard the west, it can really be said that it is a husband and a man, in Xiliang, often the Flying Bear Army is a charge, that is, the pass is broken, I didn't expect that when I arrived here, it would actually make the siege weapon I am proud of be frustrated!" Dong Zhuo couldn't help but sigh.
Li Ru said with a smile on the side: "But although the defense of Hangu Pass is strong, it is difficult to withstand the protracted offensive of the Flying Bear Army, as long as we hold on for another ten days, this Hangu Pass will be broken!"
Dong Zhuo nodded and said: "Well, that's good! The Imperial Capital Coalition Army is just a group of rabble, so there is nothing to worry about, but our time is precious, and we have to rush to the Imperial Capital before the arrival of reinforcements from other princes, so we can't delay, Wen You, I ordered to go down and let the Flying Bear Army step up the siege of the city, regardless of casualties, I will break through the pass within three days!"
Li Ru was taken aback, he didn't expect Dong Zhuo to say "regardless of casualties" In this case, Li Ru knows how much effort and resources it took them to cultivate the Flying Bear Army, Dong Zhuo tried his best, but only cultivated these thousand people, and the casualties were huge losses, but Li Ru also knew that if he could not reach the imperial capital as soon as possible, then the damage would be much greater than this, and the Flying Bear Army would be rebuilt, but if the imperial capital was controlled, everything would be over, even if he returned to Xiliang, he would inevitably suffer from the crusade of the princes of the world and fall into a place of no return.
So the Flying Bear Army got the order and had to desperately attack the city, but in this way, after a long period of exercise, the soldiers of the Flying Bear Army would definitely not be able to bear it, so Li Ru thought of a way to make the Flying Bear Army divide into several waves and take turns to attack the city, so that the cycle repeats and never stops. And the defenders, Yuan Shu only knows how to blindly ask the soldiers to resist, but he himself doesn't know how to be good, there is no other way, he can only rely on Hangu Pass's own defense, although there is a formation to make the wall unbreakable, but this also requires a lot of energy at the cost of such a strong attack, so that for three days in a row, the lower grade spirit coins consumed by the formation are hundreds of millions, converted, they all consume hundreds of top-grade spirit coins, and they are about to catch up with the price of three Daze Dragon and Tiger Pills, if it is not for the army sent by the imperial court, it is completely unaffordable, and it also shows how desperate the war is, but although it is the expenditure of the imperial court, Yuan Shu can not bear such consumption, not to mention that Yuan Shu is thinking about greedy for military spending, so it's good, if he guards for a few more days, Yuan Shu himself will have to post money to go in.
As soon as the war machine starts, it is a bottomless hole, it takes money to maintain the operation of the formation, it takes money when the weapon is damaged, it takes money to heal the wounds, it takes money to distribute the money, the soldiers need to go to the battlefield as soon as possible when the true yuan is exhausted, and they also have to absorb the aura of the lower grade spirit coins to replenish, so many places that need money, so war is to burn money.
Yuan Shu is not a master who can post money, on the one hand, he constantly asks the emperor for money, and on the other hand, he also keeps saving expenses. For the soldiers, reduce the amount of money and reduce the amount of healing elixirs, which makes the soldiers complain, and the formation slows down the amount of spirit coins, so that the defense of the formation has also decreased a lot, so the wall is even more damaged.
Yuan Shu's approach is tantamount to self-destruction of the city wall, but this is also a helpless thing, no one expected that the attack of the Xiliang army was so ferocious, the non-stop attack of the Flying Bear Army, the consumption exceeded their original budget, plus the corruption of the previous ten permanent servants and He Jin in those years, and the consumption of the Yellow Turban, so that the current imperial court does not have much money, so that Yuan Shao can only let Yuan Shu figure out his own way.
In this way, on the fifth day of the Flying Bear Army's siege, Hangu Pass finally couldn't support it, mainly because Yuan Shu had no money, so the formation of blessing the wall defense could no longer operate, and the wall could only rely on its own defense, under the offensive of the Flying Bear Army, the wall was destroyed inch by inch, falling off and peeling off, and finally, the wall broke a big hole, and the Flying Bear Army entered the pass from this opening, killing all sides, and the nearly 200,000 defenders in the pass were also able to resist for a while, and perhaps they could also besiege and kill the Flying Bear Army that entered the pass, and then plug the breach, but Yuan Shu saw that the situation was not effective, so he abandoned the pass and left, leaving the soldiers without a leader, Soon they were killed and lost their armor, the army was defeated, the commander ran away, how could they not run, so they fled, resulting in soon, the Xiliang army had completely captured Hangu Pass.
Five days to break the pass, although it is later than Dong Zhuo's plan, but it is already shocking, if other armies are put to attack the city, even if there are more than 200,000, it is impossible to capture it within five days, if it is not for Yuan Shu's incompetence, plus the Flying Bear Army is really strong, it will definitely not be able to break through Hangu Pass in less than half a month.
Hahahaha! With this Flying Bear Army, what's the difficulty in winning the world! When the Hangu Pass was broken, joy couldn't help but rise to his eyebrows, and Dong Zhuo laughed in his heart.
At this time, a voice echoed from Dong Zhuo's ears, this was the transmission of divine consciousness, and only Dong Zhuo could hear it.
"Are you happy? This is what you deserve, the deity has already helped you with this part of you, and then, it's time for you to help the deity. ”
"Seniors, rest assured, as long as I can enter the imperial capital and control the world, Jiuding will definitely help you find all the seniors!" Dong Zhuo replied with a very respectful attitude.
"Don't worry, the deity only needs the things in Jiuding, this thing is only useful to the deity, it is useless to you, and after taking out the things, Jiuding will naturally belong to you!" the voice continued.
"Thank you seniors, Zhong Ying will definitely try her best to find for your seniors!" Dong Zhuo replied.
Hearing Dong Zhuo say this, the voice stopped talking. Therefore, after Dong Zhuo captured Hangu Pass, he led the army to continue to move forward without stopping, because he knew that once Hangu Pass was broken, the imperial capital would no longer have the strength to defend, and he must enter the imperial capital before the rout of Hangu Pass and the alliance of the princes arrived, then the general trend of the world had been decided.