At dawn, snowflakes drifted in the sky, pure and crystalline, and slowly fell onto the muddy battlefield, quickly engulfed in blood, and the earth became even more filthy and dark. Gradually, the gray and white of the east loomed, without a trace of color, and the pits on the battlefield were reflected, showing no bright white, some were footprints, some were humanoid, and more were round pits, and the size of a human head.

The sky will be faintly bright, and the pillar of fire cloud of the enemy's camp suddenly disappears, followed by an earth-shaking sound, and the stagnant water on the ground is also rippling. More than 100,000 corpse beasts were pressed into a black one, formed into nine phalanxes, and pressed towards Cai Cheng. The corpse beast pawns that appeared this time were more numerous and more oppressive than before, and there was only one direction in which they were heading, the south gate of Cai City.

In front of the phalanx of corpse beasts were lined up with nine giant bed crossbows, the size of three chariots, each bed crossbow was pushed forward by three grizzly bears in front of it, and behind the grizzly bears was a huge copper cart, which was loaded with crossbow arrows half a foot thick and two feet long, and the crossbow arrows were equipped with three barbs in addition to fine iron arrows. Such a crossbow arrow can not only penetrate the city wall, but also hook the city wall. The tail of the bolt is equipped with a copper ring with a long iron chain attached to the giant bed crossbow. Behind the giant bed crossbow, there stood three rows of corpse beast pawns wrapped in iron armor, and each corpse beast pawn held a nine-palace continuous crossbow in his hand, ready to attack.

The defenders of Caicheng were awakened by the sudden appearance of corpse beast soldiers, and they hurriedly climbed to the top of the city, and at first sight they saw twenty-seven grizzly bears pushing nine giant bed crossbows, all aimed at the south gate. The soldiers defending the city all gasped.

Zhan Wuxian looked at it, and said in his heart: Today will be a fierce battle, and I don't know how many people will die. As soon as Zhan Wuxian turned around, his heart throbbed violently, and he shouted: "Immediately send an order, all the soldiers of the east, west, and north gates will assemble at the south gate and prepare to meet the corpse beast pawns." ”

Fei Wuji said: "All the troops go to the south gate, what if the corpse beast pawn attacks the other three gates?" ”

"Senior brother, look at the formation of the corpse beast pawns, they are about to concentrate their forces to storm the south gate. The other three will be fine. ”

"Soldiers don't get tired of cheating, are you so sure?"

Zhan Wuxian thought for a moment and said, "Okay, leave a thousand soldiers at each of the east, west, and north gates, and all the others go to the south gate." ”

Fei Wuji didn't speak again, he was wondering how Zhan Wuxian had concluded that the corpse beast pawn was going to storm the south gate and not go to the other gates. If you lead your own troops to attack the city, you will definitely not do this, and you will definitely divide a part of your forces to attack the other gates and distract the enemy's resistance.

As the order was conveyed to the east, west, and north gates, the defenders quickly assembled at the south gate.

"You are all the best warriors in the world, the Divine Fire Soldiers, the Soul Warriors, the Soul Wood Pawns, and the corpse beast pawns are just a group of ants in front of you, and no matter how many there are, they are all mantis arms as cars, killing themselves. Are you scared of the corpse beasts? Zhan Wuxian shouted to the soldiers standing up and down the city wall.

"Ants are not afraid, they are despised by me!" The garrison shouted in unison, and at the same time stretched out the thumb of his right hand and brushed down in unison.

"The corpse beast pawns are cruel and tyrannical, and they will not show mercy to their subordinates. If you don't kill him, he will kill you. It doesn't matter if you are from Chu, Qin, Jin or Qi. ”

"Swear to fight the corpse beast to the death!"

"If the corpse beast pawns capture Cai City, they will not be satisfied, they will also attack the Qin State, the Jin State, and the Qi State, and when the time comes, your wives and children will be killed by the corpse beast pawns. What do you think we should do? ”

"Swear to defend Caicheng to the death, swear to defend Caicheng to the death."

"Prepare your bow and arrows, aim them at the head of the corpse beast pawn, and don't show mercy!"

The first three rows on the city wall are the Jinshi, who took a step forward neatly, and set up their bows and arrows together, and nearly 10,000 people moved in unison, as if they were made by one person. They aimed at the corpse beast pawn, and just waited for it to enter the range of fire, and at the sound of an order, ten thousand arrows were fired. Behind the Soul Warriors, there are soul wood pawns, each holding a long ge, with a short sword on their backs, ready to fight the corpse beast pawn in close combat; Around the city gate, there are divine fire soldiers, and every five divine fire soldiers have a copper cart in front of them, which is covered with swords and halberds, all of which are aimed at the south city gate to prevent the corpse beasts from breaking through the city gate.

Under the city, the corpse beast pawn marched in a neat pace, advancing step by step, and suddenly stopped three arrows away from the south city gate. The cold wind was bitter, the flags were waving, and the snowflakes like ice cubes slapped on everyone's faces, and no one shook a bit. There was a sudden silence on the battlefield, and the only sound was the cold wind passing through the ears. This silence before the big war was suffocating, and the heartbeat was like a war drum, the first to beat out.

The soldiers watched as two grizzly bears moved away from the giant bed crossbow, and the other grizzly bear carried a crossbow arrow like a bronze pillar in the main hall, and laboriously loaded it onto the bed crossbow. With a command, the two grizzly bears let go of their bed crossbows, and huge crossbow arrows shot out, and with a loud "boom", the crossbow arrows pierced the city wall. Another command was given, and the three grizzly bears dragged the chains behind their crossbow arrows, straightening them and threatening to bring the walls down. The defenders of the city were all frightened, and suddenly the shadows in front of them shook, and eight huge crossbow arrows had already flown in, bang, bang, bang, all of them into the walls of Caicheng. In an instant, there were nine iron chains connecting the corpse beast army with the Caicheng city wall, and the iron chains became tighter and tighter, and the masonry of the city wall began to fall off.

"Don't panic, everyone!" Zhan Wuxian shouted, "Go and cut off the chains." Immediately, nine warriors flew up to the chains and slashed with their swords. I saw that the place where the iron chain and the sword collided emitted shining sparks, the sound of gold and iron, the sound of clanging and piercing, and only a few sword marks appeared in the iron chain, and the others were not damaged.

"Up!" Fei Wuji ordered. I saw that nine divine fire soldiers also flew over, came to the golden warrior, pointed the tip of the sword, and immediately a flame erupted to calcinate the iron chain.

Gongzi sneered in the battle: Ignorance, how can the Tiangang God Iron Chain be destroyed by ordinary blades. However, he saw that the flames spewed out by the Divine Fire Soldiers gradually burned the Tiangang Divine Iron Chain red, and the sword of the Soul Golden Warrior cut the gap in the iron chain bigger and bigger, and it was not good for me to continue like this. Childe shouted at the enemy: "Attack!" "I saw that the corpse beasts were swarming and attacking the city gate, and some of them jumped directly onto the Tiangang Divine Chain to attack the Divine Fire Soldiers and the Spirited Jinshi.

When the corpse beast pawn was still a stone's throw away from the city wall, Zhan Wuxian ordered: "Release the arrows." "For a while, ten thousand arrows were fired, like flying locusts, the first row of corpse beast pawns was shot down, the second row rushed up and was shot down, and then the third row rushed up, or was shot down, just like this wave after wave, so reciprocating, not long before the corpse beast pawn corpse under the city wall was covered with a thick layer, and the corpse beast pawn behind stepped on the corpse in front and continued to rush forward. Those corpse beasts didn't know what death was, what fear was, and they were completely inhuman, and they continued to rush towards the city gate, and at the same time, the rain of arrows did not stop for a moment.

At this time, the corpse beast pawn on the Tiangang Divine Iron Chain had also fought with the Divine Fire Soldier and the Soul Jinshi. Although the Divine Fire Soldier and the Soul Warrior are profound, brave and fierce, but the corpse beast pawn is numerous, I don't know when, under the iron chain, fly up dozens of rope sets, regardless of the enemy or me, and the Divine Fire Soldier, the Soul Warrior, and the corpse beast pawn are trapped, dragged down, indiscriminately, and killed them with random blades.

The Tiangang Divine Iron Chain was devoid of the Divine Fire Soldiers and the Soul Gold Warriors, and the corpse beast soldiers drove straight along the iron chain and jumped up the city wall.

"Archers, corpse beasts on chains. The soul wood pawn blocked the corpse beast pawn on the city wall, and could not let one enter the city. Under Zhan Wuxian's order, some of the archers turned around and shot at the corpse beast pawns on the Tiangang God Iron Chain, so that there was one less archer to block the corpse beast pawns on the ground, causing some of the corpse beast pawns to rush to the city and shoot at the soldiers in the city with the Jiugong Lian crossbow. As a result, soldiers were constantly shot and fell from the walls.

The crossbow arrows of the two sides shot at each other, and after a while, the city wall was full of crossbow arrows, like thorns in the back, and a thick layer of corpse beast corpses was laid under the city wall, several feet high, and the corpses were full of crossbow arrows, dense as thorns. The corpse beast pawns continued to surge forward, the rumbling of war drums, and the shouts of soldiers on both sides were earth-shattering, and there was no pause for a moment. Swords and spears were infested, swords flowed, blood splattered, stained the city walls, dyed the earth, the rivers red, and the sky red.

The attack of the corpse beast pawn lasted from sunrise to sunrise, and the arrow rain of the defenders of Caicheng also fell from one to the unitary time, during which there was no interruption, both sides were red-eyed, and they were numb, and the corpse beast pawns continued to charge forward, and the defenders of Caicheng continued to pull their bows and shoot arrows, as if those arms were no longer their own, and they were unconscious.

As the former capital of the Cai Kingdom, Cai Cheng has exceptionally strong walls. After Xiong Qiji was ordered to capture Caicheng, he built and strengthened the city wall, added a one-foot-thick copper pillar to the city wall, and built it with huge stones on the periphery, making it a real copper wall. The corpse beast's bed crossbow and giant arrows could only destroy the perimeter of the wall, knocking its masonry into a hole, and the copper pillars inside protected the wall.

The corpse beast who rushed to the bottom of the city wall, erected a ladder, and climbed up. The defenders of Caicheng had already prepared, first poured tung oil on the ladder, and then lit it with torches, and burned the ladder without waiting for the corpse beast to climb the city wall. However, there were many corpse beasts, and the ladders were all over the city wall, and the tung oil was not enough, so they tied the two ends of a giant tree with iron chains, and then set the giant tree on fire, and swung along the city wall, hitting the ladder and the corpse beasts.

When the two armies faced each other on the city wall, the corpse beast in front of the city gate brought a bed crossbow and a giant arrow, which was hitting the city gate. The gate of Caicheng is made of ancient nan wood, which is reinforced with copper strips, painted with sealing oil, and wrapped with copper plates, and the end is very strong. Dozens of corpse beast guards carried the bed crossbow and the giant arrow and struck it more than fifty times before the city gate broke through a hole, and the end of the bed crossbow giant arrow was stuck in the doorway. Then the corpse beast pawn struggled to pull the bed crossbow and giant arrows back, and dozens of corpse beast pawns couldn't pull the Tongmu city gate open. At this moment, a leader-like corpse beast soldier roared, and a grizzly bear heard the news and rushed over, grabbed the chain on the ground that connected the giant arrow of the bed crossbow, and pulled it back. The corpse beast pawn door roared, and at the same time stepped forward to help pull it together, and in an instant, the half of the gate was broken and collapsed, and the corpse beast pawns swarmed in with their blades.

The divine fire soldiers waiting for them were already ready at the city gate, and before the corpse beast soldiers could rush through the city gate, the copper cart directly crashed into it. The Divine Fire soldiers on both sides of the copper chariot used Dage to slash and kill the corpse beasts, and stacked them with copper chariots to quickly block the gap in the city gate.

"Retreat!" The Divine Flame quickly exited the doorway, and the corpse beast pawn followed behind.

"Put!" The Divine Flame shouted as he exited the doorway. I saw eight hundred and sixty-four half-foot-thick copper pillars falling from the ceiling of the door hole, divided into eight rows and eight columns standing in the door hole, and at the same time hundreds of stones one foot square fell down, filling the door hole, and also filling the corpse beast soldiers who rushed into the city gate hole. Even so, there are still more than 5,000 corpse beasts gathered in front of the gate, they continue to chop with knives and axes, push, pull and drag, and constantly hollow out the copper car stones in the city gate hole, after a long time, the south city gate is in danger of being broken again. Seeing this on the city tower, Fei Wuji said in his heart: My Divine Fire Soldier is responsible for guarding the south gate, if it is broken again, my face will be gloomy, and I must first deal with the more than 1,000 corpse beasts in front of the gate, and the city gate will be safe and sound.

So, Fei Wuji didn't say hello to anyone, jumped off the city wall, and rushed into the group of corpse beasts alone, fighting hard to stop the corpse beasts from destroying the city gate. Zhan Wuxian was commanding the enemy, and at a glance he saw the chaos at the city gate, and Fei Wuji was rushing left and right in the middle, brave and fierce. However, there are many corpse beasts, and Fei Wuji is surrounded by water, and if he misses the slightest, Fei Wuji's life will be in danger. Zhan Wuxian quickly led the two hundred soul soldiers, secretly covered the past from the side, stopped twenty steps away from the corpse beast pawns, each found cover, bent their bows and arrows to aim, and with an order, the corpse beast pawns fell down one after another. The corpse beast pawn found that his flank was under a sneak attack, and immediately split a circle and fired at the soul wood pawn with a crossbow arrow. After a while, the soul wood pawn feather arrow was shot, and both sides suffered casualties.

"Up!" More than a hundred soul wood pawns rushed into the corpse beast pawn group and fought hard. Seeing that his commander was trapped, the Divine Fire soldiers in the city gate also jumped down from the city wall with more than 200 people to help Fei Wuji. For a time, in front of the city gate, the two sides scuffled. Under the attack of the Divine Fire Soldier and the Soul Wood Pawn, the Corpse Beast Pawn was quickly annihilated and the danger in front of the door was relieved.

Zhan Wuxian walked over, stretched out his hand to pull Fei Wuji, and the two were about to speak, when they felt that the ground shook a little, as if an earthquake had occurred.

"The city wall is about to be dragged up, Mr. Zhan come up and take a look." Someone shouted from the city walls. Zhan Wuxian and Fei Wuji glanced at each other and nodded to each other, the brothers trusted and supported each other for the first time, and they were unanimous to the outside world. The two got up and flew up the city wall, where they saw dozens of grizzly bears dragging nine chains and struggling to pull them back. The other end of the chain was tied to the giant arrow of the bed crossbow, and the arrows of the giant arrow of the bed crossbow were all inserted into the city wall, and the masonry of the outer skin fell like flowing water, and the city wall began to shake, and the iron chain was also full of corpse beasts, approaching the city step by step.

"The soul wood pawn is responsible for the corpse beast pawn under the city, and the soul warrior is responsible for the corpse beast pawn on the iron chain, shoot with all your strength, and you can't let a corpse beast pawn break into the city." Zhan Wuxian ordered.

I saw that the green arrow shadow was facing downward, and the white arrow shadow was facing upward, and the white and green were distinct. But just when the two sides were holding each other, a group of tiger-eating beasts flew in the sky, covering the sky and the sun. When he was about to fly to the city wall, he jumped off the back of the tiger eater, and immediately fought with the defenders on the city wall.

"Up there, shoot down the Tiger Eater up there." Zhan Wuxian pointed his finger at the sky and shouted, "Where is the Yang clan, you drive the tiger eaters out of the city!" ”

"Whoa!" Hundreds of people within the city walls agreed at the same time. I saw hundreds of gold and bronze flying beasts flying out of a large courtyard in the city, on which stood the clansmen of the Yang clan, each with a bow and arrow, led by the patriarch of the Yang clan, Yang Shooting Ri, aiming at the tiger eater, and fighting in the air.

Yang Shooting Day is the sibling brother of raising the shooting night, and there are five brothers in this generation of the Yang clan, raising the shooting day, raising the shooting moon, raising the shooting star, raising the shooting Chen, and raising the shooting night. The Yang clan has a tradition since ancient times, but whoever shoots the arrow most accurately in the clan is the patriarch of the new generation of the Yang clan. Whenever the patriarch of the previous generation dies of illness or retires, there is an archery competition in the clan.