Chapter 723: Defending the City (4)
However, even so, the snake clan still has the upper hand, and now the key is how to break into the city, as long as it attacks the city, then Nanshan City is gone.
The area outside Nanshan City is not very wide, and it can accommodate more than 10,000 people at most, and the 100,000 army of the snake clan cannot be squeezed in, but even so, seeing the banner of the snake clan in Rulin oppressing, it also gives people great pressure.
It can be seen that the generals who command the army of the snake clan want this effect, and what they want is to use their strong military superiority to make the soldiers of Nanshan City psychologically collapse.
But now the city gate can't be captured for a while, and the snake soldiers in front of him have suffered more casualties, which also makes the snake generals nervous.
Therefore, in the rear military tent, the patriarch of the black king snake Ussuri, the patriarch of the black mamba king snake Heiman Basha, the patriarch of the king snake of Mangshan Mang, and the three patriarchs of the king snake are discussing countermeasures with the army general Ralimu.
In fact, it is not the first time that the Snake Clan has attacked a Terran city, and hundreds of years ago, the Snake Clan has also attacked the Terran city many times, and even once owned several large cities in the plains and wilderness.
But because of the chaos in the underworld at that time, several snake tribes were not only hostile to the human race, but also hated each other, and under the external and internal strife, they gradually lost these cities and retreated into the mountains and forests.
For the snake clan, in fact, it is more suitable to live in the mountains and forests, after all, since it is a snake clan, although it has no physical body, it still maintains the habits of many snakes, likes to drill holes, likes to suck yin qi, etc., and the mountains and forests just meet these characteristics, so since retreating into the mountains and forests, no snake clan has ever thought of returning to the plains and building a city.
If it weren't for the appearance of the Snake King, I'm afraid this situation would have continued forever.
Ralimu is an experienced general, he participated in siege warfare hundreds of years ago, so now that the Serpent King wants to capture a human city, he will attack the city in the same way as he did hundreds of years ago.
The two cities were both easy and completely different from the situation hundreds of years ago.
He thought that the cities after him would be like this, but now he has bitten into the hard bones.
Judging from the battle situation, there was no doubt that their army had the upper hand, but even so, the situation was stalemate, and the stubborn resistance of the soldiers of Nanshan City was something he did not expect.
Although he knew that if they continued, sooner or later they would win, but the key was that there was still the Snake King behind, and he didn't dare to delay it for too long, so as not to cause the Snake King's wrath.
Therefore, after discovering that the situation was deadlocked, he immediately summoned the three patriarchs of the royal family to discuss.
In fact, most of the time, he was still talking, and the three patriarchs were listening: "...... It was a bit difficult to break through the city walls...... I think it's quicker to break through the gates...... I'll have people make a makeshift piece of ramming wood on the surrounding hills, and if you break through the gates, we'll win. ”
The three patriarchs, in addition to the Mangshan King Snake being the head of the snake, the Black Mamba King Snake and the Black King Snake are both human body snakes.
After listening to Ralimu's words, the King of Mangshan Snake Mang spat out the snake letter and said, "Leave this matter to our Mangshan clan!" ”
Raliwood nodded and said, "Yes!" Prepare a few more for hitting wood; If the Terrans see that we have a collision with the wood, they will definitely try to destroy it, so we must prepare a few for backup, and at the same time try to be as thick as possible, but not too thick, otherwise we will not be able to lift it. ”
"Then my Black Mamba Clan and the Wushao Royal Clan will be in charge of covering." Black Mamba King Snake Patriarch Heiman Basha said.
"Yes."
"This team is called the goal-breaking team."
After the brief battle meeting, someone will give the minutes of this meeting to the snake king further back to see, if there is any doubt or suggestion, the snake king will propose, if not, then follow the plan.
Soon after, a stout tree appeared on the battlefield after a simple trim.
The tree was more than four meters in diameter and 100 meters long, and was held up by hundreds of snake wrestlers, shouting slogans and moving forward.
The soldiers of Nanshan City on the city wall immediately discovered this situation and knew that the snake clan was going to use this tree as a knock wood to break open the city gate, so under the order of the officer, they aimed their heavy crossbows and talisman drums at this group of people.
However, there is a high place to be condescending, but there are also disadvantages, this tree is too thick, the snake warrior is held up below, and on the top of the city wall, you can only see the trees, but you can't see the snake people below.
In this case, neither the Fu Drum nor the Heavy Crossbow can hit the target, the latter misses the target directly, and the former can only leave scorch marks on the surface of the trees; After all, such a thick tree cannot be burned in a short period of time.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Qingli ignored the attack of the flying spearmen, and continued to attack this goal-breaking team, and huge fire jade balls kept falling, some hit trees, and some fell to the ground, but even if the temperature was high, or it exploded, it was difficult to stop this team from advancing.
On the contrary, it was himself, because he flew too low, and as a result, he was almost used as a target by the spearmen, and he inserted a flying spear.
After failing to stop it, Zhou Qingli could only take off again, and after flying to a high place, he released the last fire jade ball.
This ball of fire jade was huge, nearly ten meters in diameter, and when it fell, it actually fell with a roar.
Before he could reach the ground, the snake soldiers felt the scorching heat roasting them, and a large amount of soul power dissipated, causing a white mist to appear on the ground.
In this case, the goal team was the first to bear the brunt, and in this case, they did not care about the trees, and threw the trees one after another, and then fled in all directions.
However, because of the hasty action, many people were crushed under the trees, constantly struggling, hissing, and finally unable to get out, they could only watch as they were pressed and watched this huge ball of fire jade fall.
After spitting out this fire jade ball, Zhou Qingli could be regarded as having exhausted most of the ghost pill power in his body, so he could only return to the city wall, recover his body, and hold the Immortal Sword, while killing the enemy, while paying attention to the situation of the fire jade ball.
Because the fire jade ball was too large and its speed was a bit slow, all the snake soldiers fled one after another at the landing point, except for those unlucky ghosts who were crushed under the tree, most of them had already fled the range.
In the end, the fire jade ball fell to the ground, and then there was a loud bang, the explosion was deafening, and a dark cloud rose from the explosion site, and the flames first rose like a fountain, rising into the sky, dozens of meters high, and then fell heavily, like a torrent, spreading on the ground, drowning the surrounding snake soldiers.
For a while, the screams were endless, and a white smoke rose from the sea of fire.
Burned by such heat, the tree turned into char, and even though it was still wood inside, it could no longer be used.
However, before Zhou Qingli could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw another tree being carried over in the distance, and it was no longer one, but three.
This made him frown, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that this broken door wood will be endless, where is there so much soul power to destroy?
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a large red cloud floating from the side of the mountain, flowing down the hillside like flowing water, and the trees that passed along the way became charred black, and then could not support it, collapsed, and fell to the ground.
The fire cloud is an obvious feature, and as soon as you see this fire cloud, you know that it is the fire cloud ghost mother who is coming.
But to people's surprise, behind the fire cloud, there was a group of people dressed in vine-woven clothes, like savages, rushing down.
The men shouted loudly, armed with broadswords and spears, and rushed down with the clouds of fire.
People who can come out of the mountains and wear tree and rattan clothes are also a very significant feature, Zhou Qingli recognized at a glance that these people are the ghosts of the mountains, referred to as mountain ghosts.
But I don't know, where did the Huoyun Ghost Mother find this group of mountain ghosts and let them come out to fight, no wonder the Yuanli who entered the mountain with him came back, but the Huoyun Ghost Mother was not seen for a long time.
Song Jianqiu didn't think that the Huoyun Ghost Mother would flee or rebel or anything, they were worried that she was in danger, but now it seemed that she should have brought these mountain ghosts out, so they delayed the time.
The fire cloud quickly fell on the battlefield, her goal was very clear, that is, those door-breaking teams carrying trees, so a large area of fire clouds directly wrapped these snake people, and suddenly a miserable scream sounded, and the thick trees also quickly became scorched black in the fire clouds, but it didn't look like they were baked by high temperatures, but some kind of corrosive feeling.
The mountain ghosts following the fire cloud were thousands of people, and several flags with different markings fluttered in the crowd, indicating that there were different ethnic groups in this group.
Now, they gathered together, rushed out of the forest, and joined the battle.
Song Jianqiu, who was fighting with Zhu Xinnuo and others and the giant snake on the wall, saw the logo of the Yeshan ghost village, and saw that the mountain ghosts were like a sharp knife, inserted into the snake army, and cut the forward, so he knew that this was a rare opportunity, and immediately pulled out the Feixia flag and threw it outside the city, and the flag fell from the air and was rooted outside the city.
Before the surrounding snake soldiers could react, countless Feixia soldiers flew out of the flag.
Bai Qi and the ghost general, who were originally fighting on the city wall, also fell outside with the Feixia flag, and after flying out of the flag, Bai Qi's face was cold, he pulled out his long sword, and united with the Feixia army to set up a military formation, and began to harvest some of the snake soldiers outside the city gate.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the gate of Nanshan City was also opened, and a large number of Nanshan City soldiers rushed out of the city, pressing back the snake soldiers who wanted to rush into the city.
For a time, the Snake Clan's strikers were attacked by the enemy in the back and abdomen, and were cut by the Feixia Army, fighting separately, and the situation was suddenly in danger and in danger.
Seeing this, the general of the snake clan immediately accelerated the advance of the army, he wanted to overwhelm people with momentum before, but at this time, he couldn't care about so much, if he was slow, I am afraid that the forwards would all fall here.
After all, the army of the snake clan is numerous, and if it really rushes over, it will almost only take a charge to destroy this good situation.
(End of chapter)