Five days passed.

In the past five days, Xingyang City ushered in more troops, heroes from all walks of life led the soldiers and horses of Zicheng, and nearly 7,000 soldiers entered Xingyang City, and the overall strength reached a terrifying army of 50,000. The old city lord Xing Meng endured the pain of losing his son and agreed to expand the camp to the inner city for ten miles again.

Within five days, the generals of Xingyang City had made some plans to try to cross the trench and rescue them. The troops sent carried out a total of five charge battles. However, the first battle was proposed by the three city lords of Blackwater City, Liangwen City, and Da Ya Capital, and led the troops together. The person who took the lead was none other than He Zhe.

He couldn't watch Gao Qingshi continue to be afraid of his feet. On the second day after the completion of the trench, he took the initiative to ask Ying at the early morning meeting, and together with the leaders of the other two cities, he led a thousand elite soldiers to carry out the first attempt to storm the trench.

Gao Qingshi had no way to continue to cringe in the eyes of the generals, so he had to agree to He Zhe's request. Early that morning, the leaders of the three cities, dressed in iron armor, ordered a thousand infantry to go out of the city to call for battle.

The earth-shattering war drums beat above the castle tower, and He Zhe personally led the vanguard troops, each of whom was wrapped in uniforms. He once participated in a crusade against the Western Regions, but only as an accompanying official. This is the first time that He Zhe has put on such a solid and heavy battle armor and personally led so many people. He was the first to go out of the city, just to prevent the other party from shooting them directly into a hornet's nest with archers.

However, when the gates of Xingyang City rumbled open, the soldiers of the Underworld who were waiting behind the trench did not release their arrows. They saw a small group of heavily armored troops disperse towards both sides of the city wall as fast as they could, and the two or three hundred heavily armored shieldmen gathered in the front row immediately crouched down and raised their shields above their heads.

Seeing this, Hezhe, who had scattered to the right side of the city wall, hurriedly waved his hand to the soldiers who were still preparing to go out inside the city gate, telling them not to act rashly.

Beside him was Zheng Ergou, who was also wearing heavy armor. He was riding on a warhorse, and everyone looked the same under the heavy load. The night before, Gao Qingshi agreed to the request of the leaders of the three cities to send troops, and He Zhe returned to the city lord's camp and told He Yue that he would lead troops out of the city tomorrow. She couldn't rest assured, so she asked Zheng Ergou to follow He Zhe out of the city. He Zhe thought about it and agreed.

In front of the vanguard troops on both sides, the opponent's formation stood like a huge stubborn stone, and there was not the slightest gap in it. In addition to the trench that is a mile long, it is clear at a glance that it is at least three or four meters deep and more than two meters wide. Spears poked out of the shields, ready to tear the charging cavalry to shreds.

He was the first person to observe the enemy forces at such close range. He asked the soldiers behind him not to act rashly, he slowly patted his horse, and walked a few steps ahead, followed by Zheng Ergou. It was then that Ho Zhe discovered a situation that surprised him even more.

Two or three meters above the opponent's shield array, an extremely thin and sharp steel rope began to be pulled up from nowhere. This steel rope is reflective and cannot be seen clearly under the sun's rays. He Zhe could see it vaguely, the steel rope was almost as thin as a human hair, but he only had to look at it to know that this extremely long steel rope was extremely sharp, and the steel used must have been something he had never seen before. The Stygian Ze Kingdom pulled up this thing in order to prevent the previous situation where General Murong Yu led the cavalry to cross the shield array at an extremely fast speed!

He Zhe's heart couldn't help but feel a lot colder. He only glanced at the extremely long steel rope that started from nowhere and pulled to know that no matter how strong a war horse was, it was absolutely impossible for a person to jump five meters high. Being able to cross the height of the shield array is already the limit, and once it touches that steel rope...

Moreover, the fact that the other party did not shoot them with arrows now does not mean that they will not release arrows when they really fight. If you want to get past the obstacles of the trench, break through the defenses of the shield and gun formation, and resist countless arrows. To really be able to reach the inside of the encirclement, they will have to make a huge sacrifice!

He Zhe's face changed, and he became extremely ugly completely. Turning around, he slowly gestured to the row of soldiers standing on the right side of the gate. This is what it means to let them mingle gold.

The sound of the golden gong immediately sounded towards the castle tower. Among the thousands of infantry who were ready to go behind the city gate, there was immediately a fierce discussion. This hasn't been fought yet, why do you have to withdraw troops?

And at this moment, the mutation is reborn!

On the right side of the shield array, in a small gap between the two large shields, a sharp arrow with red light suddenly shot out, flying towards He Zhe and Zheng Ergou!

"Be careful!" This arrow was not fast, and Zheng Ergou reacted immediately. He shoved the horse in front of him. But the movement had been delayed for some time, and he had to jerk his legs and lift the horse's head. A sharp arrow with a red aura shot into the forehead of the war horse at once. The war horse fell to the ground in response, and Zheng Ergou fell heavily to the ground.

"City Lord, go back quickly! His target is not you!" This sharp arrow with spiritual light, Zheng Ergou could guess that it was definitely from the bald donkey of the other party. It is impossible for him to use Dao to kill a mortal like He Zhe, his target can only be himself!

The sharp arrows quenched with spiritual light can definitely wear the heavy armor on their bodies in the first time!

Zheng Ergou was in a hurry, and directly used the sound transmission technique on He Zhe. He Zhe, who was pushed off the horse and escaped the catastrophe, had a dusty face and struggled to get up. The soldiers on both sides of the city tower and inside the city gate behind him saw that He Zhe was attacked, and the crowd was furious, and He Zhe hurriedly turned around and shouted, "No, don't come here!"

He also felt that the flying arrow that shot Zheng Ergou's crotch to kill the war horse had an extraordinary origin. It carried a powerful power, and even Hezhe, who was under the protection of heavy armor, felt the threat of death when the arrows passed by. At this time, if the people behind come to save them, the other party will definitely annihilate all the people who came in one fell swoop!

He Zhe had already planned to leave. And he planned before leaving the city, even if the other party released the arrow at the first time, he would not be able to penetrate the Tianyuan Iron Armor on his body, and he and Zheng Ergou also galloped back at the first time, and the soldiers in the rear took a little cover, and there was a great chance that they could retreat with their whole body. But the arrows of the other side ... It was so powerful that he didn't expect.

"He's a cultivator! A cultivator can't use Dao techniques to kill mortals! City Lord, you may also know something about me from the mouth of the eldest lady. So now when you hurry back to the city gate, he won't shoot arrows at you, his target is me!"

Zheng Ergou squatted behind the dead war horse that had fallen to the ground, and anxiously conveyed the message to He Zhe, who was staggering towards him. He pulled over He Zhe, who had walked to the side, and told him again, until he saw him running back to the city gate in small steps, and was answered by the generals, and then he calmed down.

However, Zheng Ergou's situation at this time was already very bad.

The monk did as he said and did not do anything to Hezhe. Zheng Ergou lay on the back of the dead horse and poked his head out slightly. What catches my eye is still a shield wall pressed by black pressure. The gap between the shields was so small that he couldn't be sure that the bald donkey was hiding behind the shield, holding a bow that could kill him with just one arrow, and staring intently at the dead horse's corpse.

Zheng Ergou knew that as long as he probed himself, it was basically impossible to escape the pursuit of the other party's next arrow.

He turned around and saw that the soldiers on the tower inside the city gate were anxiously looking at Zheng Ergou hiding behind the corpse of a dead horse, all of whom did not know how to go to the rescue safely. He Zhe's eyes widened at the city gate, but there was no better way but to hurry.

A quarter of an hour passed.

Zheng Ergou was already sweating all over his body, his spiritual strength was weak, and a feeling of tiredness came up, and he suddenly felt very sleepy. And the dead bald donkey on the other side was really calm, the shield array continued to swing, and he continued to wait for Zheng Ergou to show his face and give a fatal arrow.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps from inside the city gate, and there was a fierce sound above the city tower. Zheng Ergou turned his head again and was surprised to find that the city tower was crowded with soldiers. They were working together to carry several majestic giant crossbows, which were placed on the various arrow towers on the city tower as fast as possible.

"Whoosh-"

The sound of three sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded, and Zheng Ergou's heart raised his throat, but he saw that the corpse was pierced by sharp arrows on the horse's abdomen, and the arrow had been exposed half an inch in length. The bald donkey couldn't hold his breath anymore, and then looked at the giant crossbow that had been quickly built on the city wall, and he suddenly realized that the other side was starting to panic.

Three seconds later.

Together, the three strong soldiers pulled a giant crossbow and fired a huge black arrow with arrowheads, which flew over his head in an instant, shooting towards the opponent's almost impeccable shield defense. The giant crossbows on each arrow tower shot quenching giant arrows at the same time, like a starfire igniting the sky, and the brilliant fire light was fleeting and fell into the shield array behind him.

All kinds of sounds rang out at the same time—the sound of a giant arrow smashing a shield, the sound of flames rising and being extinguished, the wails of soldiers hit by a giant arrow, and the sound of the generals in the circle yelling to maintain order...... Zheng Ergou immediately realized that this was the best time to escape back!

Without hesitation, he quickly rose from behind the dead horse, bent down, and galloped swiftly in the direction of the city gate. The moment he raised his head, if he hadn't reacted quickly and immediately bent down, that extremely fast arrow shadow would have pierced his helmet immediately. Zheng Ergou ran towards the city gate with all his might. And used some swift walking spells, moving left and right.

When he ran to a place only a dozen meters away from the city gate, the soldiers, who had been anxious for a long time, rushed up and raised their shields behind him. The shield array that had just been wounded by the rocket fired a total of five extremely fast spirit arrows. Running into the crowd, he had just breathed a sigh of relief, and once again there was a whistling sound with an extremely strong breath of death in his ears. Zheng Ergou didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly lowered his position as quickly as possible.

With a whoosh, a sharp arrow with spiritual light shot into the white tassel on Zheng Ergou's helmet, which frightened him to sit on the ground all of a sudden, constantly pumping cold air.

"Close the gates ————"

The second time he took the initiative to go out of the city to face the battle, it was only two days later. He Zhe reported the other party's situation to the generals, and everyone was shocked, and the lobby of the main building was full, and meetings were held for more than a day to discuss countermeasures. No one can rest in peace.

Zheng Ergou broke out in a cold sweat and returned to the main camp of Heyue. Due to his busy schedule, He Zhe had not yet had time to ask him about the specific situation. Immediately, he knew how the giant beast that had indirectly saved his life suddenly appeared on the castle tower.

——Just as they were out of the city to face the battle, an army of 5,000 people from the south was led by Jiang Wuya, the general of the southern border. The general belongs to the aristocratic family of the southern Jiang Mansion who has been from Rong for generations. In fact, they received a holy decree from the imperial court more than two months ago when the war was about to break out. The southern border is a special area among the four realms. General Jiang Wuya first sent several of his adjutants to lead troops to support. After the stalemate in the battle, about a month ago, Jiang Wuya asked Li Longzhi, the right deputy general, to take several types of special troops and weapons from the south as the secret weapons of the three armies to the front line of Xingyangcheng. Due to the long distance, the things they carried, and the different types of soldiers, it was an extremely long journey.

However, after the prince's accident, Jiang Wuya once again ordered Wu Shenye, the deputy general of the left, to lead a large number of infantry and light cavalry to rush first. However, it had been several days since Wu Shen arrived at the front line at night, and the army led by General Li Longzhi arrived late.

When they saw the new soldiers in the city gate standing in the middle aisle, and the things that were carried in the rear made it impossible for the generals to blame General Lee for being late.

- The barracks were expanded and divided into two large parts, with a very wide area in between. And in this clearing, under the watchful eye of the soldiers of the South, stood quietly four huge war elephants, with a height of more than five at the shoulder. War elephants have extremely thick legs, and the soles of their feet are two meters wide, just enough to step through a trench with one foot.

Not long ago, General Jiang Wuya suddenly received an urgent report, and with a group of light horses, he also rushed to the front line. In the wide post road on the south side of Heishui City, he met with the deputy general Li Longzhi and rushed to the front line early in the morning of this day. They also brought with them several meticulously crafted, huge quenched flame ballabeds and huge rockets made of special materials. When their army of five or six thousand people gathered behind the camp, the drums of war inside and outside the city tower resounded incomparably. General Li Longzhi immediately led a group of people, lifted half of the quenching flame giant crossbow to the top of the city tower, and fired powerful rockets at the critical moment. Although the damage caused was not significant under the enemy's shield formation's defenses, it caused enough chaos that Zheng Ergou was able to barely escape from his position.

During these two days, the four war elephants, probably because they were not familiar with the climate of the north, often lost their temper and roared, and the soldiers reassured them again and again, and they were barely quiet. However, the roar of the war elephant unique to the southern border shook the heavens and the earth, and it was obvious that the soldiers in the encirclement of the Underworld also heard it. It is very likely that someone already knows the situation on the side of Qin Shanguo.

The three generals of the southern border reported the situation to everyone in the lobby. As we all know, there are a total of four war elephant battalions in the Zhennan Army camp, all of which are rare elephant species that are tamed in the local river valley. The average foot width of the battalion of war elephants they brought reached two and a half meters, and according to the report of the city lord of Hezhe, the width of the trench was about two meters. So, it's just right to use a war elephant to cross the trench and trample the enemy army to pieces!

The generals nodded yes one after another, with a relieved expression on their faces. These four giant elephants are indeed a charcoal in the snow, and to a great extent, they solve the problem of the barrier of the trench. They spent a day developing tactics and again in the early morning two days later.

- Send a shattered war elephant and place fifteen hoplites on it. Have the elephant carry a large elephant mat on its back and hang it at the sides. The soldier can stand on the elephant mat on either side of it, or he can sit on the elephant's back to fight. Huge armor is attached to the legs of elephants. As for the protection of the rest of the parts, it was done by fifteen shield warriors.

Then three thousand light cavalry were named, with the best horses. When the elephants crossed the trench and began to cause confusion in front of the encirclement, the soldiers who had been on the elephants removed the treadboards from the elephant's backs and set them up on the trench as fast as they could. At the same time, the rest of the light cavalry rushed out of the city gate as fast as they could, rushed to the front, dismounted and went directly through the trench, and began to charge. If things go well, there are still 5,000 cavalry hoarding in the city and waiting, ready to send out support. As long as the enemy does not use the reserve force behind the granary, with the strength of a huge war elephant, they have a great chance to annihilate the enemy in the encirclement in front of them in one fell swoop!

However, the situation that morning was a slap in the face to the generals who had been discussing for a long time.

Maybe it was the previous roars that let the Underworld grasp the situation. It is also possible that the enemy made a small effort and told them the news of the war elephants. In the early morning, when the city gate was wide open, the generals who climbed the lookout were surprised to find that at some point, a row of soldiers in front of the other party's encirclement were holding blazing torches in their hands. When they saw heavily armed war elephants carrying soldiers outside the city gate, a loud command was heard from the rear, and the soldiers of the Underworld threw their torches into the trench.

Not only the place where they put it, but the entire trench, the entire trench ignited in an instant. Like a wall of fire, it rises from the bottom of a trench three or four meters deep. The purple-red flames rose more than ten meters high with an unstoppable momentum, and then descended again. It intersected with the sharp steel rope in mid-air, but instead of being melted, the rope became more visible, and everyone saw what it looked like across the entire trench.

The raging flames remained five meters high. The soldiers at the front of the encirclement took two steps back so as not to be injured by the heat. A wall of fire was built over an entire trench.

The sound of the drums on the tower suddenly faded. Jiang Wuya and General Wu Shenye, who were standing among the generals, looked up to the sky and sighed when they saw this, and lowered their heads in frustration.

Soon, the reason for this performance of several generals from the south was revealed before the generals. The battlefield giant elephant, which was heavily armed and had more than a dozen elite heavy horsemen hanging from its body, immediately seemed to be frightened and took a step back the moment it saw this wall of fire rising from the ground and burning. Even the group of southern warriors who had been with it for a long time refused to take a step forward, no matter how much they gave orders.

Soon, the war elephant discovered that the opponent's wall of fire seemed to have a huge amount of energy, and it did not have the slightest tendency to retreat for a long time. It suddenly let out an extremely piercing sound, which shook the faces of everyone on its body with a look of pain. It turned its head, and it was only after repeated beatings from the soldiers above it that it could slow its pace. But he didn't seem to dare to turn back to face the wall of fire because he was afraid.

The elephant species of the giant elephant that lives in the southern part of the northern continent and the great river valley in the south of the Qinshan Kingdom, although it has a huge size and almost invulnerable skin, it is extremely afraid of flames. The only flame that trained war elephants can touch is a normal campfire. But it is clear that the other side has already arranged some uncommon fuel in the trench, so that the ignited flame will last for a long time. And because the war elephant had never seen such a purple fire, the fear in the depths of the blood was awakened, and the only thing left was to flee all the way.

When Jiang Wuya quickly told the generals about this, Coach Gao Qingshi's face became extremely gloomy. A moment later, his voice resounded in the battlefield at the same time as the voice of the opposing general.

"Mingjin retreats!"

"Shoot it!"

Behind the wall of fire, the voice of the opposing general was particularly harsh and loud. The generals on the tower of the city changed color when they heard it. This voice is one of the generals of the Underworld, the general of the royal bloodline!

The sound of bending bows and arrows sounded one after another, all in one go. Before this battle, the bows and arrows that Xiao Zhili and others equipped the front soldiers with were very particular. The entire arrow body is made of Heavenly Meteorite, a rare crafting material in the Western Regions, and can withstand extremely high temperatures without deformation. Above the arrow, there was a ball of hay called the Burning Heartweed. Burning Heart Grass only grows in the southern part of the Underworld, and when it is just plucked, it is highly poisonous, and it will be triggered by high temperatures. Hay is also extremely capable of burning. In other words, all the arrows fired by the soldiers in the first row in front of them will be strengthened by the wall of fire, and become a terrible weapon that not only contains fire, but also is highly poisonous!

Of course, the soldiers who were hanging on the giant elephant and raising their shields were ignorant. When they heard the sound of each other's bows and arrows, they didn't have time to think too much, and one by one they immediately grabbed their shields and blocked them in front of them. Many people stood on cushions hanging from either side of the elephant, raising their shields to defend the elephant's bare skin.

The rain of arrows carried endless flames, and the scorching heat immediately awakened the fear deep in the heart of the giant elephant. Although the Earthshattering Elephant's skin is indestructible, its defense against fire is extremely low. The rain of fire that was like a fire quickly fell above it, and even as the soldiers raised their shields around it to try to protect it, it was completely uncontrollable, and ran towards the city gate with a roar.

"Keep shooting!"

The second wave of arrows arrived a few seconds after the first. Moreover, when he gave the second order, he also ordered every soldier standing in the outermost circle to shoot two at a time.

The giant elephant had barely escaped the range of the first round of arrows, and was running towards the city gate with four giant feet. The soldiers who left the city drove the giant elephant for a long distance, so it was still a little distance from the city gate. The second wave of arrows arrived, this time much more powerful than the first, and each soldier standing on the outermost side was full of bows, and the two celestial iron arrows held in their fingers flew through the wall of fire and shot forward at an extremely fast pace. Suddenly, the Shattered Earth Elephant was surrounded by a rain of firelight and arrows. Before the rocket fell, its wail resounded throughout the battlefield.

The soldiers on it clinged their shields to the bare parts of the elephant's body, trying to protect it. As for themselves, they were all dressed in the hardest armor, made of another kind of divine iron in the Western Regions. The protection ability is extremely strong, but in the face of such a truly overwhelming rain of divine iron arrows falling on his head, a few people can only be left to fate.

The shields in their hands could not cover every inch of the giant elephant's bare skin. And when a large number of sharp arrows made of Heavenly Meteorite Iron fell like a downpour, many people were even stunned or even killed directly in the battle armor. One by one, the shields fell from the elephant that was still struggling to run.

Finally, under the double impact of poison and fire brought by the rain of arrows in the sky, the Shattered Earth Giant Elephant carried the fifteen southern soldiers on its back and fell more than 20 meters in front of the city gate.