Chapter 12: The Battle of the Siege

As soon as the guards left with the two guests, Princess Yang couldn't wait to take off her heavy helmet and mask, she stood up and said excitedly, "In my opinion, these two supernatural beings are good people!" Our Shu country has been saved! ”

The priest and his disciple Daorong glanced at each other.

"Princess, the Alien has exerted mental power on you!" Daozhen said with a serious face.

The princess looked shocked: "Won't it?" The old man with the ability has been talking to you, and I have been looking at his apprentice, who only said a few words to me at the end, I didn't see him make any small movements, could it be that Dao Ye and Rong'er saw something abnormal? ”

The princess did not say what she really felt about the young Adeptus, and she was shocked at the first sight of the bass, for the young bass's appearance and outfit had surpassed the most romantic and boundless imagination of a girl. Although the ratio of the bass's two ears to the head is a bit abnormal, the Shu people have believed since ancient times that people with big ears have many natural blessings and become great talents, which only adds to the bass's goodwill in her heart.

Dao Zhen touched the few white whiskers on his chin, and said with a grim face: "I can see that that young ability has extraordinary spiritual power, and his master's ability is even more unheard of. The Fish Plains Tribe's army all have some kind of vicious method of killing people invisibly, but the abilities displayed by these two people just now can't be used to kill people, and I can't guess why they want to cultivate this ability. ”

Daorong said: "Princess, master, I have been secretly trying to use spiritual power to probe their hearts, but to no avail, they seem to be wooden people without any emotional fluctuations. ”

Dao Zhen sighed and said: "Master, I have also tried, that master's ability is completely iron-hearted, although that apprentice is young, his internal strength is extremely profound, this is the most worrying thing, if they join forces with the Yuyuan tribe, we will not be able to prevent it." But Master, I couldn't find any reason to attack them just now, and if their trading conditions come true, it will be a great good thing for our Shu Kingdom. ”

Although the priest and the apprentice were full of worries, the princess's heart was surprisingly relaxed, and she still felt a little surprised and excited when she heard the priest say that the young superhuman had superhuman internal strength.

When she saw the two special guests for the first time, her intuition told her that these two masters and apprentices would definitely not be sent by the Yuyuan tribe, because their clothes and appearance were completely different from the Yuyuan tribe's army abilities described by the Shu King's guards, and they were more like the legendary distant Western Regions talents.

Yang smiled and said: "Dao Ye, if you still can't figure it out, it's better to go to divination again, if you can get an auspicious hexagram this time, it means that this pair of supernatural masters and apprentices are good people, and they will help us defeat the enemy." ”

The priest shook his head and sighed: "Alas, in such a time of crisis, divination is better than sacrificing to ask the sun god for blessing. Tonight's night is dark and windy, and it's a southerly wind, which is just right for the Fish Plains ability to use poison arrows and poison gas to attack the city. We will split up tonight, the princess will strengthen the guards in the city, and I will worship the sun god on the altar. ”

At this time, Daoping, who was sending off the guests, hurried back, she took off her mask and said, "Princess, master, those two supernatural people walked out of the south gate and went to the woods in the northwest, they said to wait there, once the Uohara tribe army attacked the city, they would help." ”

The princess suddenly felt a trace of guilt in her heart, the master and apprentice came to help the Shu people defend the capital, but they were driven out of the city by the Shu people to eat and sleep.

She then asked the priest, "Master Dao, shall we send them some food and clothing?" ”

Dao Zhen's tone was resolute: "No need! They are wandering powerhouses who don't care where they eat and live, and the deal we made is clear, we don't need to give them anything in return until they have completed the conditions for retreating. ”

Although the princess was a little unbearable, she no longer insisted on her own opinions, otherwise the priests and disciples would think that she was soft-hearted and unsuitable for commanding wars.

"Ping'er, you continue to send people to monitor those two supernatural beings, and don't let them sneak into the city at night! Rong'er followed the master to the sacrificial platform, and the princess should be careful! After saying that, Daozhen walked out of the general's mansion.

Bass and Rag immediately contacted Raco as they walked into the woods, and all three of them had intercom devices that allowed them to talk to each other.

After listening to the report of his companions, Raco was a little worried: "How can you win the battle against the enemy's thousands of troops outside the city?" Do you want me to join your battle group? ”

"You can't leave the ship, and if an animal invades the ship at night and causes permanent damage, our combat operations will be meaningless even if they are successful," Rag said. ”

Bass said: "Rako, you just need to send those two solo speeders to assist us in the battle, please set the speedy cars to autopilot according to the route and end point last time, we will wait at the end of the road, if we can't beat the enemy, then we can escape back in the flying car." ”

Raco said: "Okay, I'll send a flying car immediately, and if you judge that you can't win the battle, you must flee the battlefield immediately!" ”

By this time it was already dark, and the cool breeze blowing from the south was getting stronger, and the bass felt a little cold, and hunger welled up in his heart.

He said to his companions, "I'm going to have some food!" Then he sat down on the grass outside the woods and took out a bag of dry food and a bottle of water to eat and drink.

Rag stood up and said to his fellow cybarians, "Have you ever thought that the person we negotiated with just now was not the king of Shu, what if we helped them repel the enemy army tonight, and the king of Shu didn't give us the return we needed?" ”

"I can see that the prince and general in the golden armor are very simple-minded, and he will not fail to keep his promises, but the old priest is suspicious of us. ”

"Bass, have you ever wondered why the prince and general are wearing armor and masks to negotiate a deal with us?" Rag continued to ask.

Bass was indeed a little puzzled by this, they pretended to be empty-handed master and apprentice, and the prince had so many heavily armed guards around him, it stands to reason that the prince should not be afraid, otherwise, how could such a timid person command thousands of troops to fight?

"Maybe he has some scars on his face that he doesn't want us to see." Bass soothed herself.

"There is another possibility by logical reasoning, that he was the one the old priest had temporarily hired to impersonate the prince, and had to wear a mask." Rag Dao.

Bass's heart tightened, but then relaxed, "Although this is possible, there is no need for the priests to do this, because we have never met their prince, so even if it is a pretending person, there is no need to meet us wearing the prince's armor and mask." ”

Rag acquiesced to his companion's reasoning and no longer argued.

As soon as the two of them fell silent, they suddenly heard a rhythmic sound coming from the city, and the two of them looked up and saw billowing smoke rising from the sacrificial area in the southern part of the city.

Rag rose into the air and stretched out his eyes to see him fall to the ground for a while, and said, "It's that old priest who is performing some kind of religious ceremony. ”

"This shows that he doesn't trust us at all to help them defend the capital, or that he doesn't have an estimate of what we can do, so he has to turn to the imaginary gods for help." ”

"Developed human beings are so ignorant!" Rag said, after a moment of silence, continued, "The actions of the priests remind us that we must have an effective battle plan. If our combat operations fail, it will prove the predictive power of the priests, and we will be discredited in this world. ”

"I have sensed that from soldiers to priests, the Shu people in the city are afraid of the enemy's abilities, and as long as we eliminate those abilities, it is possible to repel the enemy's attack, which is the most effective battle plan." Bass Road.

As soon as the two talked about fighting, the enemy came.

I saw a little spark in the southern sky, the earth trembled slightly, and the neighing of horses and the cries of people came with the strong south wind.

There was a loud shout in the nearby castle, and after a while, more figures appeared on the city.

"The war is about to start, but it will take at least half an hour for our speeding car to arrive," Rag said. As long as the enemy does not launch a siege, we will wait where we are. ”

Bass tossed aside the remaining food and water and stood up, activated the energy switch on both pistols he was carrying, and clenched one ready to fire.

Although he had already fought a battle in Russtar, he was still a little nervous in his heart, although the enemy he was dealing with this time was a soldier with a cold weapon, and the lethality of his own weapon had an absolute advantage, but with the two of them facing so many soldiers and horses, the combat effectiveness was far from enough.

The attackers were in the vanguard of a cavalry force of several hundred men, which stopped about three hundred meters from the south gate, and then ran parallel to the southern wall, lined up with the city gate as the center.

The soldiers on the horse each carried a torch in their hands, and by the light of the fire, Bass saw a bundle of plants or something behind the horsemen.

The next move of the cavalry made Bass quickly understand what they were going to do, only to see them take the bundled plants from their horses and place them on the ground, and then light them with torches in their hands.

The defenders, perhaps aware of the serious threat posed to them by the attacking side's actions, suddenly opened the south gate, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out of the castle.

At this time, thousands of infantry came out in unison behind the siege cavalry, all of them archers. At the same time, they fired arrows at the Shu cavalry who rushed over, and the overwhelming arrows were shot at the Shu cavalry from all directions with the help of the wind.

The charging array of the Shu cavalry was suddenly disrupted, most of the cavalry fell to the ground with arrows during the run, and a small part rushed to the front of the attacker's cavalry array, but was immediately besieged and quickly assassinated to the ground.

The Shu cavalry, who finally rushed out, turned around and fled back to the city when they saw that the situation was not good, and the south gate was immediately closed.

Hundreds of fires piled up by the attacking side billowed with smoke, and the smoke shook the castle with a strong southerly wind, and it was not long before the castle was drowned in smoke darker than the night.

The battlefield quickly reached a stalemate, with archers retreating from front of the cavalry, and then, stepping out from behind the attackers' cavalry arrays, hundreds of infantry carrying long wooden ladders.

Bass looked at the battlefield and said, "The attacking side will first use the poisonous smoke to attack, and when the defending side loses its combat effectiveness due to inhalation, it will launch an operation to occupy the castle with soldiers." ”。

"If they attack the city with soldiers, we must stop them, or it will be too late. I can fly into their queue to find those Adepts and destroy them, and you can destroy the soldiers who climb the walls. Rag said.

"No, if we fight like that, we have little chance of success, because it will cost a lot of energy for you to fly through the air looking for their abilities, and I am even more dangerous because they have so many cavalry and archers." However, I think we can wait until the flying car arrives, because the enemy will have to wait for the burning objects to stop emitting smoke before sending soldiers to attack the city. ”

Ragher acquiesced to the bass's judgment.

Luckily, Bass's judgment was accurate, and just as the attacking side's fireworks went out and began to launch a ladder siege, two flying cars appeared in their field of vision.

The two immediately mounted their speedy cars and rushed to the battlefield, starting with Bass rushing forward and firing at the soldiers who were climbing the walls, and one after the other soldiers fell from the long wooden ladder.

By the time the attacker's archers woke up from their panic and lined up in array to fire arrows at the sudden appearance of the ability enemy, Bass had already flown from the west to the east of the castle. He then turned south, flying south as he fired at the attacker's ranks, which were quickly thrown into disarray.

Then Rag flew from west to east, and with his cane weapon he fired, he fired at the soldiers who were climbing the walls. The archers fired a thousand arrows at him.

To the horror of the entire audience, the Paraphile was still flying after being hit by countless arrows, and with all the arrows on his body, he turned back from the east and continued to shoot at the soldiers who climbed the walls.

The trapeze went back and forth several times, and the dozens of wooden ladders on the city wall were empty.

The bass circled around the attacker's array and returned to the western starting point, by which time the enemy line was in disarray. A large group of cavalry and archers laid siege to Bass, who had to flee into the woods.

The cavalry commander of the besiegers undoubtedly hated Bass to the core, and he would rather abandon the siege than find the enemy who shot hundreds of his brother soldiers in an instant.

Hundreds of cavalrymen carried torches and hundreds of archers chased into the woods in search.

By this time, Rag had already flown over the center of the enemy array to search for the Adept, and although he was covered in arrows, he didn't care that the archers on the ground were still shooting arrows at him. The archers on the ground found that the arrows they shot not only failed to kill the flying man, but also fell back to the ground and accidentally injured themselves, so they stopped firing their arrows.

Rag's wide-ranging eyes saw it even at night, and he soon noticed a banner in the center of the procession, surrounded by a group of men on horseback who were not wearing soldiers' uniforms, and he judged them to be the Aliens of the Uohara tribe.

The crutches in Rag's hand were discarded by him as he ran out of energy, and he used his fingers to fire a dozen rays of dead light to wipe out all the riders around the banner.

On the castle head on the south gate of the castle, Princess Yang was blown by the refreshing cold wind for a while, and finally woke up from her slumber, and the guards and soldiers around her also woke up one after another.

When the Yuyuan tribal army rushed over, Princess Yang was already dressed neatly and led the Shu army as a prince general. When she saw that the attackers were about to attack with poisonous smoke, she immediately ordered the cavalry regiment that had been prepared to go out of the city and attack to kick away the enemy's poisonous smoke pile.

But the Yuyuan people had no choice but to be prepared, and they defeated the Shu cavalry with dense poisoned arrows. Poisonous smoke then enveloped the city, and the people in the city soon felt sleepy and fell asleep after inhaling the poisonous air.

However, when the poisonous gas dissipated and then was blown by the bitter south wind, the soldiers and civilians in the city gradually woke up. But those who have just woken up are still weak in their limbs, and if the enemy attacks the city at this time, it will be easy to succeed.

The princess and the soldiers beside her sobered up and looked at the unusual scene on the battlefield outside the city, the Uohara tribal army not only did not attack the city on a large scale but also did not fight and was in chaos, when they looked down, they were immediately shocked, because there were already dozens of long wooden ladders on the southern city wall, but the wooden ladders were empty, and there were more than a dozen enemy soldier corpses lying on the ground under each wooden ladder.