Chapter 720: Defending the City (1)
On the city walls, it was busy.
A soldier is carrying supplies, such as rune arrows, fire crystals, crossbow arrows, etc., which will definitely consume a lot in the battle, so before the battle, you must prepare some first, and when the battle begins, you must also replenish it at any time.
General Zhang, wearing armor, stood on the city wall, and looked into the distance, and could see dense enemies, gathered in the distance.
Some of these enemies have human body and snake tail, others have human limbs, but the head is long snake head, and so on.
They were dressed in armor, and from a high place, they could barely see the edge, not to mention tens of thousands.
Speaking of which, before the great change, there were few large-scale siege wars in the underworld, and most of the city's armies were used to clean up the surrounding dead corpses and skeletons, but during this time, this Nanshan City was subjected to two unusual sieges one after another.
Once, it was naturally the Yelian Temple attacking the city, and the Yelian Temple at that time attacked directly from mid-air, and there was no army, so the army of Nanshan City was naturally useless, but directly used high-end battles.
Naturally, there is no need to say much about the result, when Kong Guanjie, the former city lord of Longnan City, had already died, this city did not last long at all, it was breached, and finally occupied by Yelian Temple without a single soldier.
After that, there was a cleansing, and because there was nothing to lose, it quickly calmed down.
And as a general of the army, he is still a general, but the person who has been loyal since then has changed.
After that, there was a change in the underworld, thunder and cracking, followed by a siege of corpses and ghosts, which was the most thrilling one, but fortunately, there was no danger to survive.
But now, how long has it been? The snake clan attacked the city again, and it was really more and more troublesome every time.
It is also very rare for such frequent wars to occur.
General Zhang grabbed the long sword at his waist and frowned, looking at the enemy in the distance.
Compared with those irrational dead corpse wandering souls, this snake clan is not only different in appearance, but in terms of wisdom, it is the same as people, plus there are many opponents, and I don't know if this city can be defended.
Although he was worried in his heart, he didn't show it on his face, he knew that as a general, even if he didn't have confidence and certainty, he couldn't let the soldiers below see it, otherwise, this battle would not be defeated.
I only hope that the Buddha of Yelian Temple can once again show her might and turn the tide.
Thinking of this, a woman with a slender figure and an outstanding face flashed in his mind, this woman did not appear when Yelian Temple attacked the city, and it was only after the capture of the city that he had only seen a few times, but that's all.
The only thing that can be seen is the acting city lord Zhu Xinnuo.
"Lao Zhang, how is it?" Just as he was thinking about it, a voice suddenly woke him up, and without looking, General Zhang knew who the person who spoke was, it was General Lin, one of the only two generals in Nanshan City.
Speaking of which, these two people have been in charge of the army of Nanshan City for nearly a hundred years, and they can be regarded as brothers and sisters.
"It's not very good." General Zhang lowered his voice a little to avoid being seen by the soldiers around him.
Seeing General Zhang say this, General Lin nodded, then took out a monocular from his waist and looked into the distance.
There are monoculars, and General Lin can see more carefully, and even the dense snake scales on these snake people can be seen clearly.
Not to mention the snake letters that these snake people are constantly swallowing, and the fangs exposed, just looking at it, makes people feel chilled.
"According to the report of the spies, the number of these snake people is as high as 100,000." General Lin said about the information he had just obtained.
"Really?" General Zhang's face changed slightly, he had just guessed that there were tens of thousands, but now he directly said that there were 100,000, and the difference was big.
"It should be true." General Lin said, "It's the news that Miss Yuanli brought back. ”
"Miss Yuanli is also a snake man......" General Zhang's tone seemed to be a little hesitant.
"I know a little bit about this." General Lin said: "There are four groups in the snake clan, Miss Yuanli is the Red Refining King Snake, and was wiped out by the Snake King, and in the end, only Miss Yuanli escaped alone, and then met Miss Song, and has been following her ever since. ”
"In this way, Miss Yuanli and the Snake King have a grudge against the clan." After General Zhang finished speaking, his face was a little surprised, he looked at General Lin and asked, "How do you know so well?" ”
"I heard City Lord Zhu talk about it just now, so I asked a few more words." General Lin laughed and explained.
I see.
General Zhang nodded, if it was said by City Lord Zhu, it must be credible.
"Now what can they do now, Lord Zhu?"
General Zhang is more concerned about this, if people from other cities come to attack the city, they are afraid that they will not be too worried, because even if the city is breached, the other party will not kill them, but will recruit, although it is impossible to be a general, but after all, there is no need to worry about their lives.
However, now it is the snake clan that is attacking the city, and if the other party captures the city, it may be impossible to slaughter the city, and there is no way to retreat at all, and this psychology will naturally be a little different.
"The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth." General Lin said.
“……。” Hearing this, General Zhang was speechless for a while, this is a good thing to say, but if you really say it, it basically means that there is no way but to watch and do it.
At this moment, the snake army in the distance suddenly moved, and General Lin hurriedly said, "They are here!" ”
After saying that, he made a gesture, and immediately a herald saw it and blew the horn.
The loud horn sounded in the sky, and the already tense atmosphere became even tighter.
A moment later, Song Jianqiu and the others, who had already come to Nanshan City, also went up to the city wall.
Hearing the footsteps, the two generals hurriedly turned around and were about to salute, when they were stopped by Song Jianqiu: "The two generals don't need to be polite. How's it going? ”
"The snake people are starting to get closer."
Standing on the city wall, Song Jianqiu activated the sword technique, and her extremely distant vision allowed her to see more clearly without a telescope.
The snake men were half-human, half-snake, odd-looking, but all of them wore armor, with soldiers with swords and shields in the front row and spearmen in the back.
When they stood still, they formed a phalanx, which looked very formal and disciplined, but once they attacked, the whole team dispersed.
However, this is also normal, after all, the way the snake tail travels is different from that of humans, not to mention that these snake soldiers are mixed in appearance, and it is already very good to be able to maintain a certain degree of neatness.
Yuanli also stood at the head of the city at this time, turning into the appearance of a mature woman, with a snake tail in her body, looking at the snake army gradually approaching with a gloomy face, her eyes were full of hatred.
When there were still more than two hundred meters away from the city gate, a part of the snake soldiers in the back row suddenly stopped, and then pulled out the flying spear from the bag they were carrying behind their backs, and threw it vigorously.
"Open the moat!" General Zhang's face changed, and he hurriedly gave an order.
Although the flying spears were thrown at the same time, because of the different individual strengths, some of the flying spears were extremely fast, and they fell down first, and General Zhang's order had just been issued, and they had already crossed a distance of two hundred meters and landed on the top of the city.
Although they are only flying spears, their power is amazing, no worse than the heavy crossbows shot by siege crossbows, a few of them are inserted in the city, directly cracking the ground of the city, and some of them cross the city wall, fall into the city, and penetrate into the roof, and suddenly the small half of the roof collapses, and I don't know if anyone was hurt.
The most unfortunate thing is that there is still a soldier who was directly passed through his body, and suddenly let out a miserable scream, and the whole became almost nothing, if it wasn't for a soldier on the side who was quick and grabbed him, otherwise he would be blown away directly, fly into the sky, and be eaten by ghosts.
Just before more flying spears fell, the protective barrier finally lit up, and the subsequent flying spears fell on the barrier like a drizzle, and the barrier fluctuated for a while, as if it would be broken at any time, making people pinch a cold sweat.
At this time, everyone standing on the city wall made a move, and at the same time, several rune drums were also activated, and bright pillars of light swept left and right in mid-air, constantly destroying the falling flying spears to reduce the pressure on the barrier.
At the same time, the crossbow bolts on the city walls began to wind up, attacking the group of spearmen two hundred meters away, and at this distance, only heavy crossbows could shoot such a long distance and still maintain their power.
Obviously, the Serpents are well aware of the flaws of the protective barrier, one being unable to withstand continuous and dense attacks, and the other being unable to withstand attacks that exceed the upper limit.
However, the latter is very difficult to reach, on the contrary, the former is relatively easy, just like now, when the dense rain-like flying spears fall, they will continue to consume the energy of a small area, and the continuous consumption will limit the recovery speed of the barrier, and it is very likely that it will be breached because of this.
This flaw is actually not a secret, but it is not so simple to really be able to do this, even if tens of thousands of human archers shoot runic arrows to attack the barrier, although they are equally dense, they cannot meet the requirements.
That's why the spears thrown by these snake men are amazing, far more powerful than the archers' rune arrows, so that's why they are like this.
Waves of flying spears fell, and the snake people who threw the flying spears did not seem to stop, even if the heavy crossbows shot from the city wall caused casualties to them, they still did not move at all, and did not lose their morale in the slightest, showing amazing discipline.
In fact, before this, even Song Jianqiu, including Song Jianqiu, thought that the discipline of the snake clan was very low, and it was Yuanli who said the same.
But now it seems that after the entire snake clan was absorbed by the snake king, this army has changed a lot, and it is far from what Yuanli understood at the beginning.