The Dark Legion finally launched its first large-scale siege campaign half a month after arriving in Xuancheng, of course, they were also very cautious, although their overall strength was stronger than that of the Qi army, and through the Demon Bat Riders' air raids and attacks in batches in the past half a month, the Qi soldiers were generally lacking in physical strength and highly nervous. But this attack is related to whether the Dark Legion can directly occupy the entire Hanhai Demon Spirit Continent, and the two Mingyi envoys naturally did not dare to slack off in the slightest, it can be said that they launched the attack after making all the preparations, and it is obvious that this is an inevitable battle.

At the head of Xuancheng City, the soldiers of Qi were also fully prepared, and the soldiers who came and went had all the necessary measures for defense, including the well-stocked crossbow arrows and sandalwood rolling stones, thirty trebuchets and twenty heavy bed crossbows specially designed to defend against the raids of the Demon Bat Riders in the air, and the iron arrow boxes on the bed crossbows were already stocked with iron long arrows specially used to deal with the Demon Bat Riders. On the north city wall, the most elite soldiers of the 15,000 Qi Kingdom stood on the head of the city and carefully inspected every part of the city wall, and the neatly stacked spears and cowhide shields had already been held in the hands of every soldier guarding the front line, and every soldier held his breath and watched the dark army in the distance gradually approaching the city wall of Xuancheng under the momentum of black clouds.

In this large-scale siege, the Dark Legion dispatched a total of three armies to attack separately, of which the northern city was the main attack, and the east and west cities were mainly flank attacks. Among the armies attacking in the main northern city, the lowliest ordinary Dark Legion humanoid soldiers are the mainstay, but even the most ordinary humanoid soldiers, they are stronger than ordinary ordinary people in terms of stature, speed and combat effectiveness, and they have all been blessed by the abilities of the dark evil gods.

And the humanoid soldiers are just used as a foreshadowing to attract firepower, and the siege of the Dark Legion is different from the countries on the Hanhai Demon Spirit Continent that use siege tools such as ladders and chariots, and they rely on a special kind of corps - the Spider Corps. They will attack the northern wall as the second group of siege soldiers, and the Spider Corps and the Demon Bat Riders are more or less the same, they are both special riders riding on the backs of the Demon Bat and the Spider to attack. It's just that the spiders and bats they rode were not comparable to the Hanhai Demon Spirit Continent in terms of size and aggression. These are also strengthened by the dark power of the dark evil god, and the dark legion is actually a special demon legion.

Thousands of humanoid soldiers attracted the attention of the archers on the tower, and the three thousand crossbowmen were all elite soldiers who had participated in many battles with the feudal kingdom, and their archery skills were extremely high, and they successfully suppressed the attack of the humanoid soldiers of the Dark Legion with a single round of arrows.

But the humanoid soldiers were just bait, or more precisely, just for the attack of the Spider Corps in the rear - the "death squad", just when the attention of the soldiers of Qi was focused on the humanoid soldiers, the Spider Corps quickly dispatched, and the number of Demon Bat Riders was the same, and the number of Spider Corps was only a few hundred. But it was these hundreds of spider corps that were the main force attacking Xuancheng.

All the riders of the Spider Corps are wearing a dexterous coat made of black spider silk, the spiders of the Spider Corps are extremely special, the spiders blessed by the dark power of the dark evil god are not afraid of swords, guns and crossbow arrows, and the coat made of its spider silk is wrapped around the outside of the armor like silk, which can most effectively resist bows and crossbows.

And these spiders are all giant octagonal spiders that are half a human tall and three people wide, with a strange black color all around, except for a pair of small reddish-brown eyes, the whole body is covered with thick fluff, and the dexterous mouth hisses and spits spider silk to help them move forward. And by constantly turning his head to achieve the purpose of controlling the direction. The rider on the spider's back is holding a huge shield to help the sitting spider resist the crossbow arrows fired at high speed in the air, mainly to resist the crossbow arrows shot above the eyes. Although these spiders are not afraid of crossbow arrows, if they hit the most vulnerable eyes without any protection, they are destroyed. Riders usually don't need to carry a shield, because carrying a shield will greatly affect the speed of climbing the city wall, and even throwing it away in the middle of the road is extremely inconvenient.

But in the face of the most elite archery and crossbowmen in the Qi country, the Ming Yi envoy personally ordered them to carry the shield of the spider corps, a defensive weapon that was not convenient to climb the city wall, mainly to protect the spiders who sat down. Once they reach the bottom of the walls safely, it's time to show off their Spider Corps' greatest strength – the speed at which they can climb the walls.

At the head of the city of Qi, there were already soldiers who had already told the news of the Spider Corps to Xuan Lejun, the monarch of Qi who was personally supervising the battle, and Xuan Lejun hurriedly rushed to the vicinity of the battlements where the Spider Corps charged. Although their crossbowmen were extremely skilled in archery, and were able to hit the most protruding legs of these spiders with every arrow in a state of high tension, it did not have a good effect, and the spiders' movements were not limited by the crossbow shots, but instead bounced off all attacks with their tenacious front legs. Lu Deng hurriedly said to Xuan Lejun: "Your Majesty, this spider must have special abilities, Wei Chen suggested using the bed crossbow iron arrow to directly break their legs!"

Xuan Lejun nodded and accepted Lu Deng's proposal, but he also found another point worth paying attention to, that is, these hundreds of spiders were all hunched on a rider holding a black giant shield, although the rider's body and face could not be seen clearly, but from the actions of the riders, it was obvious that the reason why they held the giant shield was to protect the most vulnerable part of the spider sitting down - the eyes.

"Herald!" Xuan Lejun raised his right hand and shouted loudly, "The bed crossbow is aimed at the front legs, and the crossbowmen aim at the eyes of these big spiders!"

"Yes!" Lu Deng and Shi Lanbo quickly rushed to the northern city wall to give orders. The hundreds of personal guards around Xuan Lejun, the Purple Gold Forbidden Army, closely guarded Xuan Lejun's front directly, and everyone could see that these special spiders were definitely not good, and they were even likely to directly threaten Xuan Lejun's safety.

But Xuan Lejun's expression was always the same, he had already made up his mind to live and die with Xuancheng, and his wife and unborn children had already gone south to Huicheng under the protection of Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing. He no longer has any worries, he can let go and fight to the death against the dark army in order to defend his homeland, even if he may be defeated and die in the end, but Xuan Lejun has already been prepared, he is fearless. Not only him, but all the 70,000 Qi soldiers who stayed in Xuancheng voluntarily stayed, including 30,000 Zijin Forbidden Army and 30,000 Qingxuan Army, as well as 10,000 elites who surrendered among the rebels in Li Dan's patrol battalion, and they were also willing to give everything they had to defend the country.

Xuan Lejun's order had been given, and the Qi army, which was still a little confused, quickly changed its strategy, and the three thousand crossbowmen no longer shot at the legs of these spiders, but instead directly pierced the arrows and shot at the weakest eye of these spiders. Since this spider corps is now very close to the north wall of Xuancheng, the heavy bed crossbow on the head of the city has also begun to play its own effect, and the two soldiers jointly push the bed crossbow to aim at the front leg of the big spider that is about to approach the city tower at the same time, pull the bowstring and launch the iron crossbow arrow that has been installed in the machine frame.

"Plop-" The protection on the spider's front legs could not resist the powerful penetrating power of the iron crossbow arrows, and the two rounds of iron crossbow arrows shot down, dozens of spiders' front legs were ruthlessly pierced, and the speed of travel became noticeably slowed, and even five of them had fallen to the ground and could not continue walking. The riders of the Spider Corps hurriedly shielded the spider's front legs, they all knew very well that the spider's front legs were the most vulnerable except for their eyes, and the front legs were also the most critical legs to control the position, and once the front legs were broken, these spiders would not be able to continue walking. After seeing the power of the iron crossbow arrows for the first time, these riders did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and hurriedly protected the shield in their hands in front of the spider's front legs.

At this time, the rain of arrows shot by the three thousand crossbowmen on the north wall of Xuancheng also fell, and when the iron crossbow arrows pierced the front legs of these spiders and made them unable to move, it was easy for these three thousand crossbowmen with excellent archery skills to shoot these spiders in the eye. The rain of arrows fell, most of them hitting the spiders in the eye with precision. Before the rider had time to react, dozens of spiders had already been shot through the most vulnerable eyes, and the spiders who had lost their eyes began to go berserk, not controlled by the rider on their backs, and even showed signs of chaos colliding with each other. This kind of collision also made the more than 10,000 humanoid soldiers who covered the attack of the spider corps couldn't help but be frightened, and retreated back again and again.

"Shoot again!" Xuan Le Jun saw that this round of crossbow arrows had suppressed the attack of the Dark Legion's spider legion, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly gave the order for the second archery. The three thousand people behind him quickly took out the next arrow from the quiver behind him, and the second round of arrow rain came out again, which had completely suppressed the Spider Legion's surprise attack plan on the city tower.

However, there are still a few spiders that have successfully approached the north city wall of Xuancheng, they quickly spit out spider silk and accurately wound the city bricks on the north city wall, the rider on his back jumped up in the next moment and jumped directly on the city wall with one hand to hold the spider silk, and the other hand took out a sharp four-cornered flying blade from his arms and projected it towards the Qi soldiers on the city tower, and several Qi soldiers who had no time to react screamed and fell down the city wall. Their armor and spider silk were enough to withstand the average crossbow bolt, and they had even gained the upper hand on the eastern walls of the northern city. However, the Qi soldiers on the city tower also took precautions, and raised their shields one after another to block the ejection of the flying blade, and a stalemate formed on the eastern section of the city wall.

At the head of the city, Xuan Lejun, who heard the news, hurried over, and when he saw it, he immediately sneered, "Pour fire oil! Directly set fire to these spider silks! I want them to see the consequences of draping spider silk on their bodies! Let them know that our Hanhai Demon Spirit Continent is by no means a persimmon that can be pinched at will!"

The walls of Xuancheng City itself are made of blue bricks and stones, and they are not afraid of fire, and Shi Lanbo, who is mainly responsible for the defense of the eastern section, immediately shouted: "Pour oil! Crossbowmen exchange rockets! Let the Dark Legion see how powerful we are!"