Chapter 10: City Battles

Unexpectedly, when Zhang Fan applied for the recruitment and came to the head of Shanyang City after identification, he found that his father Zhang Tian and even the Lin family had also come to a gathering place under the city, of course, at the same time, there were more than ten leaders of the Zhang family on the periphery of the Zhenwu Gate, most of whom were cultivators of the eighth or ninth rank of the outer gate, and there were only a very few seventh-grade martial artists. Perhaps the officers in charge of combat readiness liaison have specially assembled their personnel according to the reported area.

"Fan'er, why are you also enlisted in the Great War? This is not the place you should be. Hurry up and go to Shanyang City to hide first!Your mother, the Liang family, and the other brothers should all be in the city," Zhang Tian said with a lot of worry at this time. According to the general practice, in Great Xia, this kind of relatively dangerous war of attrition is to avoid people who have no achievements and no apprentices to participate. There is no doubt that at the same level, if a highly qualified young warrior dies in battle, it means not only losing himself, but also his possible heirs and apprentices in the future.

Most of the elders who came from the other veins of the Zhang family were a little unimpressed when they saw Zhang Fan's estimation of the cultivation above and below the five grades of the outer gate, and the cultivation that was approaching adulthood was just being able to debut was not much talent. Even if you don't know how serious it is to come to such a dangerous place to train. However, it is not good to say some buried words in front of Zhang Tian, and it is worth using some seemingly polite counter-words as a foil.

"Hehe, my nephew is young, and his courage is commendable, but it's too dangerous here, so let's go to the city for a while!"

At this time, Lin suddenly reminded: "Unexpectedly, this is only three or four days of work, and Fan'er has already changed from the third grade of the outer door to the five grades of the outer gate with internal force fluctuations, and it looks a lot more mature... ”

Hearing this, the others just felt a little weird, but Zhang Tian remembered something under the reminder. Even if he is a genius teenager, even if it is much easier to improve his skills in the early stage of the outer gate than the upper level of the outer gate, he will definitely not complete a breakthrough at the level of the two grades in just a few days. The breakthrough of the first product can be said to be a coincidence, and the second product reveals a certain kind of strangeness. Combined with the performance that was also somewhat beyond common sense in the previous family competition, Zhang Tian at this time also began to suspect that Fan'er at this time was still not the original Fan'er.

Zhang Fan didn't say anything when he saw it, but replied indifferently: "In this case, I will go back to the city to take a look at my family for the time being, and it doesn't hurt to come back if the war in the outer city is in danger... ”

Hearing such words, many people were somewhat disappreciative in their hearts, and secretly laughed in their hearts that this young man of the Zhang family was still a little self-aware.

When Zhang Fan returned to the courtyard where the Liang family and others were in the city, he saw that his mother was safe and sound, and it seemed that his status in the family had changed greatly from before, and his heart settled down a little. But at this time, the Liang family was still a little uneasy in his heart for some reason: "I heard rumors from many well-informed people in the city: this time there are as many as one million people in the coalition army who came straight to Shanyang City, and there will be a lot of warriors who want to come with them, and they will inevitably exceed the average number, I really don't know if this battle is fierce or auspicious... ”

Zhang Fan also said somewhat solemnly: "When the war is about to start, I will take a look first, if it is impossible, the child will find a way to take his mother to take his mother to take shelter in the city for a while and then find an opportunity to break through... ”

Regarding this battle, based on some of the information that Zhang Fan has learned, it is not completely impossible for his own side to win with the convenience of the defensive side. At least because of the protection of the city walls, the most prominent force advantage in the Four Nations Alliance will be largely negated, as long as the number of warriors who follow this vanguard is not too large, it should be assured. Compared with the Great Xia Dynasty, although Tianfeng and other countries had superiority in military strength and national strength, the scale and quality of warriors were often not outstanding.

Hearing the sound of war drums in the direction of the city in the distance, Zhang Fan did not have the intention of passively avoiding the battle, but first followed many people in the city to the top of the tower in the middle of the city, about sixty or seventy zhang, to watch the battle situation in the distance, and according to the arrangement, as a reserve, ready to reinforce at any time according to the warning signal when there is a crisis at the head of the city. At the same time, Zhang Fan also looked at the general aura and strength of the people around him who were also in the reserves, and combined with the situation he had roughly felt in the defense line at the head of the city before, his heart was a little calm. Shanyang City near the True Martial Gate is also considered a place where martial arts flourish in the territory of Great Xia. The martial artists of the entire Great Xia Dynasty are estimated to be around three million, but among them, the scale of the masters above the seventh grade of the outer gate is only about 1230,000, and the top masters of the outer gate of the ninth grade of the outer gate are thousands of scales, and now it seems that there are no less than 100 people in this Shanyang City alone, as long as the defense is properly arranged. The elite warriors of the four countries who came with a million troops should not have much of the upper hand. After all, compared to the Great Xia Dynasty, the martial arts strength of the surrounding Tianfeng and other countries is not strong, and even if the martial artists who come with a million troops are concentrated, there should not be more than two thousand, and there should be no more than two masters above and below the nine grades of the outer gate.

However, what Zhang Fan didn't expect was that not long after the tide-like war drums and shouts of killing in the distance sounded, a column of beacon smoke rose into the sky in the direction of the city.

In the north of the city, hundreds of thousands of archers spread out dozens of rows of depth, in the city head of more than ten miles of continuous sixty strong bows to cover the sky and the sun when the rain of arrows began to suppress, but did not expect that only in the direction of the attack in the north of the city, there were hundreds of masters gathered and unexpectedly flew out from the ordinary soldiers, with a speed like a beast in a very short period of time approached to the city wall only a dozen zhang away from the city wall and flew up, just from the speed and body of these people can be judged that these people are by no means comparable to ordinary martial artists, at least they are all masters of the outer door of about eight or nine grades。

However, even so, it still did not cause any tension, and the Great Xia masters who were on the inside of the city and were ready to meet the enemy at any time also flocked to this time, ready to confront the warriors of the four countries who flew up to the city at any time, at least they could contain Qi and avoid too large-scale casualties among the ordinary officers and soldiers on the city head.

However, when the real confrontation unfolded from the city, in just a few breaths, at least seven or eight Jiupin masters who were responsible for defending the city in the north of the city were either killed or injured, and most of them were not killed or injured in direct hand-to-hand combat or weapon exchanges.