"Ancient Dragon, what is that?"

The eldest grandson Wuji was very puzzled, he didn't know much about magic after all.

But after Zhang Yurou heard this, her face was as pale as earth: "How is this possible?"

The primeval dragon is a creature that exists even older than the beasts. The wild beasts are not extinct in today's world, and there are still sporadic wild beast species, living in the border wilderness. But the ancient desolate dragon is a creature that has been extinct since the history of the human race.

It is rumored that they were once the overlords of this land, and have some kinship with lizards, crocodiles, and birds, but the body of the primeval desolate dragon is much larger and stronger, and it can control the earth, water, fire, and wind, and it has the strength equivalent to the five-rank martial arts cultivation from birth, and when it comes to adulthood, even if it is a first-grade human race powerhouse, it may not be able to defeat it.

- In fact, the five-zhang tall body alone is terrifying enough. This means that the three-and-a-half-foot-high fortified wall they built is likely to be useless.

However, as of nowadays, the bones of the primeval desolate dragon are rare. They themselves have this extremely high medicinal value, and they are also the spiritual materials that must be used in many spells, and they are also excellent materials for Taoists to make 'puppet Taoist soldiers'.

Therefore, even an incomplete desolate dragon bone can be sold for a sky-high price of 50,000 yuan in the black market, and in the past 30 years, only 50 desolate dragon bones have been sold in the black market in Jiangnan, so Zhang Yurou feels unbelievable.

"Let's fight!"

Li Shimin sighed: "Command all departments, all staff prepare for war!"

Soon, all the departments of the Great Cause Hall were in their positions under his military orders. Even Xuanjia is also part of the wall.

At this time, Li Shimin's prestige in the army rose again. Before, many people felt that Li Shimin had built so many fortifications here, which was completely in vain, and he wasted manpower, and he only knew how to toss his subordinates.

But after the Son of Heaven gave a generous reward before, most of their grievances were dissipated. When the army of corpses and bones arrives, the soldiers of the Great Cause Hall and Xuanjiadu will only be left with worship.

Compared with the embarrassment and haste of the other battalions before the battle, the left rear battalion they stationed in was the most calm and well-fortified.

The ditches, antlers, horses, archery, catapults, smarbles, and semi-permanent walls were hard to build, but everyone knew that the existence of these facilities and equipment could save their lives.

Not long after, the corpse army that Li Shimin said was as high as 90,000 strange, as well as those ancient desolate dragons full of iron armor, all appeared in everyone's field of vision one after another.

The momentum of the corpse army was already terrifying, and it was completely incomparable to the one in the evening. There was even a group of knights in the range of four thousand to four thousand five hundred—of course, they were not sacrificed necromantic knights, but they were only temporarily recruited, and the armor was not complete, and most of the weapons were rotten.

But the corpse aura on these corpse riders is quite rich, and their eyes are glowing with a slight red light.

This made Li Shimin vigilant and watched for a long time. His reincarnation heavenly eye just knew that there were dozens of extremely powerful existences in it.

The luck of that great master of magic was very good, and in this imperial garden, not only a large number of dead people were buried, but also many soldiers with good strength.

Li Shimin was even more worried about how much the combat power of these corpse riders would be strengthened with the blessing of that great grandmaster's 'Divine Evil Corpse Soul Transformation'?

In addition, there are also desolate beasts, and the formation skills of the great master of spells are like two people in the evening. Not only was the formation of the skeleton soldiers much stricter than before, but this person had even organized many desolate beasts into separate armies. There are more than 3,000 heads, and at the same time, the momentum is huge, and the momentum is like overwhelming the sea.

But the most terrifying thing was the fifty primeval beasts.

The eldest grandson, Wuji, finally understood why Li Shimin would say that he would rather face those necromantic knights now.

It was indeed a behemoth, with a huge body, covered in huge iron armor, and with every step, the ground around it shook slightly.

They vary in shape, some with large heads, short forelimbs, and stout receding heads, while others resemble enlarged pangolins covered in spikes and have large, sharp horns on the top of their heads.

"It's true!" Zhang Yurou was still incredulous: "Where did they get the bones of such an ancient desolate dragon?"

The eldest grandson Wuji said in a dry voice: "Vilusha, our siege crossbows, the number may be a little insufficient. ”

Before setting off from Luoyang this time, Li Shimin had a hunch and brought a full sixty sets of parts for eight-armed siege crossbows, which was the maximum number of equipment allowed for a town in the Great Sui military system.

At this time, there were more than 2,000 soldiers in the palace under his command, which was equivalent to the level of an Eagle Yang Mansion in the government army, and even half a level higher, while although there were only more than 1,000 people in Xuanjiadu, the level was the same as that of the Daye Palace, and it could barely be regarded as an army of a town.

Of course, this is also because his father still controls the Weiwei Temple. Weiwei Temple is also responsible for managing the honor guard equipment of the forbidden army, so as long as Li Shimin's request is not excessive, and he does not violate the law and discipline, the officials over there will let him take what he wants.

If Li Shimin is willing to give money, then as long as he doesn't want to privately store weapons and plot rebellion, other things that are not very serious violations of law and discipline can be accepted by that side - such as stealing three or five hundred ink armors from the treasury on the grounds of 'scrapping'.

That day, when Li Shimin brought back those siege crossbow parts from the treasury of Weiwei Temple, the eldest grandson Wuji felt that he was making a big fuss, but at this time he was regretting it. Knowing this, Li Shimin should have been persuaded to bring more siege crossbows.

Those primeval desolate dragons are by no means imaginary. I'm afraid that only a siege crossbow combined with a special demonic crossbow can kill it.

At this time, it was far more than the eldest grandson Wuji, who felt heavy pressure. The entire left rear camp fell into a state of dead silence.

Before Li Shimin took the initiative to lead the iron cavalry to attack, the morale that was boosted was gone.

However, the huge corpse army stopped advancing when it approached the wall of their fortress about eight miles. It also happens to be an eight-armed giant crossbow, the ultimate killing distance.

Zhang Yurou looked at the huge military array, and couldn't help but feel in a trance.

"I used to read ancient books, which said that those great masters of magic in ancient times had the power to destroy cities and destroy countries. I always felt ridiculous at the time, but now I believe it. ”

Unconsciously, she had a slight admiration for the way of magic that she didn't care much about before.

"The Chengtian Qinghua Zhenjun of the Imperial Camp told me that they had determined that this great master of magic was Chen Taiwei, the national master of the Southern Dynasty. It is rumored that he has been incarnated and died, but now he is still alive. ”

Five Thunder God Lie Zhenjun Zhang Kongming twisted his beard with his hand and said: "This must be borrowing the help of a certain treasure, and even using the secret technique of damaging Shouyuan." After all, he was also an adult, and it was absolutely impossible to achieve this point with only the leyline, the formation altar, and the mana of Chen Tianshi himself. ”

Tang Yuanhua squinted at Li Shimin: "Lord Zhige, I want to ask why they are holding their ground, and what should our army do next?"

"Nature responds to all changes with the same!"

Li Shimin's face twitched, at this time, he didn't have the courage to lead the iron cavalry to attack or anything.

Even if wisdom is heavenly, there is a limit to what can be done in this situation.

"The reason why they are standing still is what they should be waiting for. Until then, let the soldiers make some more three-pronged arrows. ”

Ordinary arrows are useless against skeleton corpses. Only runic arrows and oil rockets can inflict massive damage on them.

But the former is used to deal with the skeleton soldiers, which is too wasteful. The latter could not be produced on a large scale due to the limited oil oil, and the eldest grandson Shunde led a group of auxiliary soldiers and eunuchs in the army to work overnight, and only made 5,000 oil rockets, and there were no more.

And the three-pronged arrow that Li Shimin mentioned is a kind of forked arrow.

This was not equipped in the army, and could only be made of wood on an improvised basis, and the arrows were also made of wood. Although the lethality is limited, if you are at a close range within 200 zhang, you can break up those skeleton racks with only the impact power of the bow and crossbow.

After that, the camp spent a little half a moment in this silence. Then in all directions, there were bursts of roars.

It was the loud sound of the trebuchet's winch spinning rapidly, and the crash of the boulder falling to the ground.

Soon after, there was an earth-shattering noise and shouting, which reached their ears, and the hum caused by the angry shooting of more than 10,000 powerful bows almost deafened people's eardrums.

Li Shimin looked at the various camps around the Chinese army on the lookout. In addition to their side and the Chinese army, all the units of the forbidden army stationed here were caught in a fierce battle.

There were also flames rising into the sky and falling into the night sky in the distance. It was the protective array in the camp that stimulated, bombarding the flames of the sun towards the opposite side.

Unfortunately, due to the obstacles and distance, he couldn't tell how many skeletons there were on the opposite side of these friendly troops.

However, on their side, most of them are the main direction of attack of the Chen Dynasty National Teacher. After all, Zhang Daoquan, the great master of magic in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only recruited 370,000 underworld troops.

is also a god-level magician, even if Chen Taiwei uses the power of the Supreme Treasure, he will not exceed this number too much.

But this is the national teacher of the Chen Dynasty, what is the intention?

Now, according to the calculation of 370,000 underworld troops, there are about 94,000 enemies on his side, plus the part that was swept out by them in the evening, it is 140,000.

Around the imperial camp of the Chinese army, there are a total of eight battalions guarding the guard. If the other seven directions were evenly divided, there would only be an army of 30,000 to 40,000 skeletons.

But the camp built by his colleagues, although the defense facilities are not as complete as on his side, are also quite strong. The 30,000 or so skeleton corpse army is simply not enough to break through these camps. And if it is lower than that, then even a little containment will not be possible.

Unless—