When Li Qing opened his eyes, an hour had passed.

Although his negative state, which was weakened by fifty percent of all his attributes, was still there, he was full of energy and physical strength, and even his hunger was much less.

The meager true qi vortex in the dantian has grown by fifty percent, and the quality of true qi is also three or four points purer than before.

Li Qing nodded with satisfaction and said to himself, "Sure enough, when the true qi is exhausted and the state of extreme exhaustion, the effect of meditation and cultivation is far stronger than usual. It seems that I will try to cultivate like this a lot in the future. ”

At this time, Chu Lingfeng was still cultivating.

Her true qi is many times stronger than Li Qingjing's. It only took an hour for Li Qing to finish his cultivation. Even if Chu Lingfeng's cultivation realm far surpassed Li Qing's, he absorbed more and faster heaven and earth spiritual qi when meditating, and it would take three or four hours to finish a cultivation.

Li Qing didn't disturb Chu Lingfeng, stood up, and said to the little dragon girl, Scarlett, and Ni Yuanyuan, who were protecting the Dharma, "Thank you for your hard work. ”

"It should." Ni Yuanyuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "But I didn't do anything, I was pretending most of the time." ”

Scarlett also smiled and said, "I'm the same, just standing here and posing." After that battle, I actually didn't have much strength left, and I was always recovering on my own. If you want to say that it is hard, it is still the dragon who is the hardest, don't look at her sitting on the chair as if she is dozing, in fact, she has not let her guard down for a minute. ”

As a beastmaster druid, Scarlett's mental power is quite powerful, and she can sense that the little dragon girl's perception has been shrouding her surroundings, monitoring all the movements around her.

Continuing to diffuse perception like this all the time is also a constant drain on mental power, and it is not a small burden on the spirit. After a long time, no matter how strong a person is, he will be mentally exhausted.

"Next, I'll protect the Spirit Wind." Li Qing said to Xiaolongnu: "You are also very tired, take a rest first." ”

The little dragon girl nodded, retracted her perception, and really began to close her eyes and recuperate.

Li Qing looked up and saw that the sky was slightly dark, and couldn't help but wonder: "It's all this time, and the Amaterasu Army hasn't started attacking yet?" ”

"Su Su set off a big fireworks." Scarlett smiled: "Amaterasu was completely stunned, and there was no movement for an hour. However, Susu said that the Amaterasu army may have to attack overnight, and the battle could happen at any time. ”

"Fireworks? Susu also brought fireworks? Li Qing was even more strange: "But what kind of fireworks can deter the Amaterasu Army?" ”

When he meditated, he went into a state of deep meditation and was ignorant of what was happening around him. Even if more than 900 explosive packages exploded one after another, the sound was earth-shattering and deafening, Li Qing did not notice it in the slightest.

It is precisely because of this that when Li Qing and Chu Lingfeng are cultivating, they need someone to protect the Fa.

"The Amaterasu army gathered more than 900 defeated soldiers who were defeated by us, and each of them issued an explosive package, and asked them to use it as a death squad to bomb the city."

Ni Yuanyuan explained: "But Su Su didn't know what method he used to detonate all the explosives bags of the Amaterasu death squad members. They rushed halfway and the explosive package exploded. There were more than 900 explosive packets, all of which exploded in ten seconds. Everyone was stupefied, and I was taken aback at first. ”

"Me too." Scarlett patted her towering chest and said with a sigh of relief, "I thought the mountains would be blown up." Fortunately, there were only a lot of craters in front of the fortress. More than 900 craters were densely packed together, but they could bring a lot of trouble to the attack of the Amaterasu army. ”

"Heh, it's Susu. Sure enough, if you don't make a move, it's just a big scene. Li Qing said with a smile. Although he had never seen the grand fireworks with his own eyes, he could also imagine how amazing it would be for more than 900 explosives packets to explode in ten seconds.

That kind of huge explosion scene, I'm afraid that even he will be taken aback when he is caught off guard.

At this time, Li Qing's stomach suddenly made a soft sound. Although the voice was small, Scarlett heard it clearly, and said with a smile: "You have only eaten breakfast since the morning, and you have been fighting for most of the day, and now you are very hungry, right?" I'll get you something to eat. ”

Soon, she brought back food from the cafeteria and ate it with Li Qing and Ni Yuanyuan.

Li Qing swallowed ten meat buns in one go, chewed two pieces of salted meat cleanly, and then stopped contentedly - fortunately, the food in this world is full of energy. If it was on the earth, with Li Qing's current strength, with his hunger level at the moment, a hundred meat buns and twenty and a half catties of salted meat might not be able to make him full.

Scarlett and Ni Yuanyuan ate much more elegantly than Li Qing, each holding a meat bun and nibbling on it in small bites. It wasn't until Li Qing was full that they each ate two buns.

"Eat more?" Li Qing reminded: "Tonight, I'm afraid I will have to fight all night." When the time comes, if you want to eat, I'm afraid you can only do it between battles. Time is of the essence, and I am afraid that there is no time to wash my hands. Eating with the blood of the enemy on your hands is not a pleasant feeling. ”

Scarlett said with a little pride: "Don't mention the blood of the enemy on my hands, even if the bun is stained with blood, I can eat it." I'm not the same as I used to be! ”

Ni Yuanyuan also smiled: "Xiao Qingzi, don't underestimate your sister." Don't forget, my sister is a policeman. Although he is not as heavy as the forensic doctor, he has also had the experience of eating breakfast in front of the corpse that was dismantled at the scene of the bloodbath. Sister's appetite is much stronger than you think! ”

Hearing what they said, Li Qing stopped persuading, took two more buns by himself, and ate them slowly to increase his reserves.

He knew that after the war resumed, ordinary soldiers, Scarlett, and Ni Yuanyuan might have the opportunity to take turns eating during the battle, but he might not have the opportunity at that time.

As the garrison commander of Zhongshan Island, even if he is no longer in command, he must charge forward in battle to boost morale. Others can rest, but he can't. Others can get off the line of fire to adjust, but he must always be on the front line.

He once promised in public that as long as he did not die, the military flag of the empire would always fly on Zhongshan Island. He must take concrete action and deliver on his promises.

While Li Qing and the others were happily eating a simple battlefield meal of meat buns and salted meat, the legendary mage Hopkins was not happy to taste the delicacies on the table.

Dinner was plentiful. Veal steak, baked snails, grilled foie gras, lobster, caviar, creamy mushroom bisque...... Each dish is carefully prepared by top chefs from the Holy Light Alliance, and every ingredient is the highest quality ingredients.

Some of these ingredients, which are only available in the Western Continent, have to be teleported to Amaterasu Province with a teleportation array, and then kept fresh with special magic props, and brought all the way here. When taken out of the booster, the ingredients are still in their most tender condition.

This table dinner is worth at least 100 gold. In the Eastern Empire, it was enough for an ordinary family of four to live comfortably for ten years.

But the priceless, fresh and delicious delicacies at this table made Hopkins hard to swallow.

It's not that the food isn't good enough, it's that he's in a bad mood.

A day had passed, and the hilltop fortress was still under the control of the Imperial army. The plan to quickly occupy Zhongshan Island, quickly establish a solid forward base, and then enter Yingzhou and occupy Yingzhou has been bankrupt.

The specially selected elite Amaterasu army suffered 5,000 casualties, five mid-level mages from the Holy Light Alliance were killed, and eleven Silver Shield Knights were killed in battle, including the deputy head of the Silver Shield Knights......

All this made Hopkins' mood worse than ever.

With a loud voice, Hopkins threw down his knife and fork, waved his hand to signal the attendants to withdraw the uneaten dinner, walked out of the captain's room, came to the command platform, and said to Sakamoto Tokito, who was observing the battle situation on the command platform: "What's the matter with the Army?" Why haven't you started attacking yet? Scared by that woman? Do they really have to be on the front line myself for them to go to war? ”

"The master is angry." Sakamoto bowed and said cautiously: "The army has just had dinner, and now it is full of food and drink, ready to go to war at any time." ”

"So what are you waiting for?" Hopkins said in a stiff tone: "Order the army to attack immediately!" Dare to cower and behead them all! Therland! ”

A battle priest dressed in pale gold half-body armor, lined with white robes, with a tall figure, tough facial features, and a powerful aura, trotted up to the command platform when he heard the voice, and said, "Respected master, what do you command?" ”

"You brought the battle priest and the paladin to oversee the battle." Hopkins said in a deep voice: "Remember, your task is only to supervise the battle, and you must not be within 200 meters of the mountain fortress. ”

"Yes, Master." This battle priest with seventeenth-level strength made a loud promise, and with four battle priests and ten holy warriors of the Radiant Holy Sect, he disembarked and landed, and went to the Amaterasu army to supervise the battle.

In this Amaterasu army, there are only five battle priests, ten holy warriors, and twenty priests left from the Holy Light Alliance. Now Hopkins sent all the battle priests and paladins out of the country in one go, but only let them supervise the battle, and did not allow them to participate in the battle themselves.

The death of eleven Silver Shield Knights was a wake-up call for Hopkins. He would never allow battle priests and paladins to fight until the most critical moment.

In fact, the strength of the battle priest is very strong. It can not only fight, but also assist, and its various aura abilities of auxiliary nature, as well as various blessing effects, can immediately improve the combat effectiveness of the troops. If there is no transcendent forbidden area, only these five battle priests can decide the outcome of the battle.

And the Holy Warrior of the Lord of Radiance, whose status in the church is higher than that of the Silver Shield Knight. His personal strength is also stronger than that of the Silver Shield Knight of the same level. The leader of the holy warrior was only nineteenth level strength, but he was not inferior to Kyelheimer, the deputy head of the Silver Shield Knights.

The Knights of the Silver Shield are also of a certain secular nature. Every knight with a silver shield has the status of a nobleman. The Battle Priest and the Paladin, on the other hand, are purely religious warriors, the Blades of the Gods, who have given up everything in the world and will only fight for the gods.

Their faith is stronger than that of the Silver Shield Knights, and their morale is even higher than that of the Silver Shield Knights. The Knights of the Silver Shield may falter and collapse, but the Battle Priests and Paladins will never be.

It's a pity that the existence of the transcendent forbidden area has made the powerful battle priests and holy warriors useless. Now it can only be used to supervise the war.

Hopkins ordered the battle, and sent fifteen more overseers who would never be soft, and the Amaterasu army did not dare to delay any longer, and the artillery positions roared, and ten thousand people marched one by one, and in the sound of bombardment, they advanced towards the hilltop fortress one by one.

The terrain of the hilltop fortress is dangerous, and only the direction of the main gate is suitable for the attack of the large army. The rest of the sides, as early as the construction of the fort, have been artificially cut into a 90-degree steep slope, up and down the difference of more than 40 meters.

And even in the direction of the main gate, which is suitable for the attack of the army, it can only be deployed by more than a thousand people at a time. Therefore, although the Amaterasu army had an absolute advantage in strength, it could only invest troops in batches, and could not put 10,000 troops into a full-scale siege.

After the artillery positions of the Amarashi Army opened fire, the imperial defenders of the hilltop fortress were not to be outdone and fired back. The second phase of the offensive and defensive battle on Zhongshan Island was officially unveiled in the sound of this rumbling artillery.