Above the 5,000-zhang sky, a huge castle shaped like a gossip plate is suspended here. Due to the accumulation of a large amount of water vapor in the surrounding area, there was a constant sound of thunder, and thick lightning swept nearby, and a large part of it was absorbed and swallowed by this castle.

And every influx of electricity will make the runes that are gradually fading on the periphery of this castle in the sky turn into a bright state again.

"Although it's not the first time I've come to Sky City, every time I come here, I feel very surprised and shocked! It's incredible, I'm really from us humans?"

On the top floor of the center of the Bagua Castle, a young man in a black robe was walking around an altar. He was looking around, at the layers of buildings below, and at the clouds and lightning around the castle.

A group of people who think they are gods, to be precise. ”

An old man with white hair and silver hair half-closed eyes sat on the altar.

At this time, if Yang Guang and Zhang Kongming, the sons of heaven, were here, they would definitely be able to recognize this person, it was Chen Taiwei, the national teacher of Nanchen who they feared.

And when this person spoke, he was looking intently at the front of the array.

It was a map of the ground with a radius of thirty zhang, but it magically showed the entire battlefield in great detail in front of his eyes.

"Don't you have anything to say at this point? ”

"Why?"

The young man stopped and looked at the old man: "The national teacher thinks that we may not be able to take this camp, right?"

"Exactly!"

The old man bowed his head slightly, and shifted his gaze to the direction of the young man: "I still know Li Shimin, this person is the one who turned the tide half a year ago, and finally defeated you, right? It can be seen that his military skills are not bad, and such disadvantages can be reversed." Now this person has built the camp so steadily, and he has 7,000 elites of the forbidden army in hand. How difficult is it for us to break through this camp?"

The young man looked at the old man: "If your old man was willing to join forces with us half a year ago, the current Great Sui would have changed hands long ago." ”

"Half a year ago, it was difficult for me to even move a finger, and I didn't know that this was not the trap for you to lure me into the net? His children and grandchildren must not be a good thing. And—"

The old man shook his head and sneered: "Is there any point in talking about this now?"

"It really doesn't make sense!"

The young man sighed lightly and turned his gaze to Yutu again: "Li Shimin's son is especially good at guarding. With only the strength in our hands now, it is indeed a little difficult to break through this camp in addition to containing the imperial camp. But don't forget that we still have an ally. ”

"Ally, do you mean the one who is hiding near Luoyang now?"

The old man sneered again: "If he could come, he would have come a long time ago." The two people in the imperial city have always been eyeing him. ”

"Although this person can't be there in person, he still has subordinates. The eight parts of the Demon Dragon are not trivial. In addition—"

As he spoke, the young man walked over to the map, and with a flick of his sleeve, he nailed a knife to the center of the map.

"Do you think that Lord Guogong's planning and arrangement this time is only to this extent?"

Mrs. Chen didn't speak after hearing this, and looked at the young man fixedly. After a while, Fang said: "I hope my current investment is worth it." ”

"It's just the bones of a hundred and fifty primeval dragons, and even if they all fall here, I think we can afford to pay for them. ”

At this time, the young man's face was filled with a smile: "I think Master Guoshi, you don't have any other choice, don't you? If you want to avenge your children and grandchildren." ”

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The 1,800 soldiers and 50 magicians brought by Zhuang Shicheng were simply a send-off in the snow for Li Shimin.

The hidden danger of insufficient manpower in the left rear battalion was immediately solved.

The key is that there are 1,850 people, none of whom are weak, and the overall combat effectiveness is equivalent to a formation of troops.

Needless to say, the fifty sorcerers are all fifth-grade sorcerers, who have received the rank of 'Feather Warrior' and can fight with the army.

The remaining 1,850 people, of which more than 900 people, were selected armor soldiers under the jurisdiction of Yuan Yu Wenhua and Sima Dejiao. All of them are seventh-rank ranks, and their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of Li Shimin's pro-army guards.

The other 900 people were drawn from the guards of the major princes and magnates. The combat effectiveness of these people is still stronger, and there is no shortage of them in the fourth and fifth grades, and they are the lackeys and minions raised by the major clans and major families.

Although these guys are inevitably rusty on the battle formation, but this time, they just rely on the walled wall to defend, and they don't need to use the battle formation or anything.

To Li Shimin's surprise, they also brought three quivers, which were full of demonic arrows, which were allocated by the Chinese army's imperial camp.

- These arrows, even if they are used against wild beasts, have great lethality.

In addition, Song Laosheng and Pei Qiantong, the two prison gates, are both handsome generals who have cultivated to the third grade and can take charge of themselves.

What's even more rare is that in case the soldiers brought by the two did not listen to the order, the Son of Heaven even granted him the right to cut first and then play. Since Song Laosheng and Pei Qiantong are below, but those who dare to disobey his military orders can be killed immediately, and they only need to report to the military department afterwards.

However, the second generals Song and Pei did not have any unconvincing thoughts about Li Shimin. After all, the latter's merits and family background are all on the surface, and the Son of Heaven's trust in this person is not beyond their reach.

Li Shimin rearranged the defense, and after each section of the wall, urgently repaired the arrow platform and the Tibetan soldier cave. He saw that there were also a large number of skeleton archers among the underworld army on the other side. At this time, piling up a large number of troops on the city walls is the most stupid thing to do.

With the help of the sorcerers commanded by Zhang Kongming, they built very quickly. The soldiers manipulated the ink armor to push the soil layer well, and the sorcerers could then perform the technique of petrification.

And just when twenty stone arrow towers with steel plates were rising from the ground in the camp. Outside the camp, a desolate horn sounded suddenly.

In the next moment, the Netherworld army, which had stopped eight miles away, began to move again. Although there was no command such as a drum beat, the footsteps of these skeleton corpses were still uniform, and each step caused a large earthquake to roar.

However, the first offensive launched by the opposite side came from above the clouds. Thousands of black raindrops fell from the sky.

Zhang Kongming immediately dodged and returned to the formation altar, and as he played a spell, dozens of red pillars of fire immediately rushed into the sky, and the high temperature generated at that moment evaporated these black raindrops instantly.

But the poison was still there, and as the steam spread, Li Shimin's nose faintly smelled a trace of foul odor. Just a little smell made him feel slightly dizzy.

Fortunately, next, another storm swooped in from the direction of the Chinese army's imperial camp, blowing away all the water vapor.

"Manipulate the way of heaven, transform the two rituals, give birth to yin and yang, turn the tide, and should be pardoned. Heaven and earth are endless, and Qiankun borrows the law-"

As Zhang Kongming took the dust in his hand again, those red pillars of fire instantly evolved into a barrier like an umbrella cover, propped up above their heads.

Li Shimin glanced upwards and saw that above the clouds, there were still dripping raindrops falling. But with this layer of sun flame cover, those black raindrops will basically evaporate and dissipate before they pass through. Even if there is an occasional fish that slips through the net, it is difficult to be a big problem.

He sighed at the strange spell exchange, and then shifted his gaze to the outside of the high wall. In this moment, the 90,000-strong underworld army had advanced to a distance of about six miles.

And on the two wings of this huge underworld army, the skeleton archers with 12,000 bodies stood first, formed two arrow arrays, and began to set up arrows and spread their bows, ready to shoot in the direction of the camp.

But before that, Li Shimin let out a soft snort.

"All catapults, throw arrows at the opposite side!"

With Li Shimin's order, there was a burst of winch whirling sound from the rear. And just a moment later, hundreds of scattered flying stones were thrown out, and after crossing the sky, they fell into the arrow array formed by the skeleton shooters on the opposite side.

This time, you can see the benefits of Li Shimin's preparation in advance, the other camps are at most only assembled with four or five trebuchets, but on his side, it is as high as sixteen!

Compared to the complex process of ink armor, trebuchet is actually not difficult to make, but this thing requires a lot of animal tendons and ropes. Li Shimin considered that these things did not occupy space and were not very sensitive, so he also brought a lot of them out when he set off from Luoyang.

In fact, after this, there were still a lot of beast tendons and ropes left in the carriage they brought.

The reason why he only assembled sixteen was because he was short on the number of people he could use to operate the trebuchet, and there was no more space in the camp.

At that time, he didn't expect that there would be 3,000 more elite soldiers in his hands.

At this time, when the gravel fell, it was emptied in an instant. In a burst of shock, more than 2,000 skeleton shooters were blasted to pieces at this moment.

"How can it be so powerful?"

Yu Wenji looked ahead in surprise, and he found that only a small fraction of the skeleton shooters had been hit head-on by the rubble.

"Did I read it wrong, or was it that stuff was too unbeaten?"

He wasn't completely ignorant of magic. I know that these skeleton shooters, although their combat power is not as good as that of the living, but in the middle of the night, it is their strongest moment.

But just now, the bodies of many skeleton shooters were only slightly shaken by the shock wave brought by the rubble, and they directly shattered and disintegrated.

- No matter how you look at it, this situation is too exaggerated.

"It's a demon pattern!"

The eldest grandson Wuji was expressionless, and responded in a flat voice: "In the past two days, as soon as those magicians have free time, Li Shimin will ask them to engrave evil talismans on those broken stones. If you complete one, you will be given 150 yuan. ”