Chapter 398

After receiving the reply from the commander of the Snow Army, Zhao Wu already understood that the Snow Army would not surrender easily, and some words to persuade him to surrender were just empty words. After ordering the vanguard officer to come back, he slowly got up, and Zhao Wu drew his sword. A crisp sword sound came out, and then, Zhao Wu directly ordered the heralds on both sides: "Beat the drum!"

"Knock knock......" A war drum sounded, and the night army became excited, and many night soldiers carrying the ladder wanted to rush through the rain of arrows immediately, but they knew that the stone throwing truck would make it easier for them to break the city.

"Siege," two simple words, Zhao Wu directly gave the order to attack.

The drums of the war "Knock Knock Knock ......" became more rapid, and the soldiers and beasts next to the catapult moved in unison under the instructions of the commander, some of them were responsible for pulling the beasts, and some were responsible for placing stones on the stone-throwing cart.

As the beast pulled, the towed rock-throwing cart directly threw the stones weighing 100 catties out after the specific rope was released. A series of "whirring" sounds were heard from above, and stones smashed into the city wall two hundred meters away from the stone throwing truck in an arc.

"Bang," and not long after, one after another crashing sounds sounded, and the stones smashed against the city wall and shattered, causing a cloud of dust and smoke.

"Ah," the sound of the impact was mixed with the frightened screams of the Snow Army when they were attacked, Ye Mo stood on the city tower and frowned, a little worried about the situation on the city tower. The Night Army was a stone's throw away, and the only equipment they used to deal with the catapults was large ballistas. The ballistae can shoot up to 300 meters away and are used to destroy large equipment such as catapults, but unfortunately there are too few of them.

Under Ye Mo's order, the snow army on both sides of the city tower launched a counterattack with the ballistae set up in advance against the night army's stone throwing cart, and one ballista was launched by several soldiers at the same time, and the strength of each soldier was at the sixth level of the martial realm.

The ballistae used by the Xue army were similar to the crossbows used by Zhao Wu when he was guarding Huangyan Pass, and they were slow to use and could not be activated once a soldier approached. Now that the Night Army has not yet rushed over, the person in charge of using the ballista only needs to avoid the flying stones that are being smashed from afar.

Many of the Night Army's stone-throwing trucks are aimed at the location of the ballista, so those who are using the ballista may be in danger at any time.

"Bang," the stone bricks of the city wall were destroyed by the impact, the broken stone bricks fell under the city, and the originally strong city wall was quickly smashed with holes, and few people were spared the dead and wounded of the snow army left behind.

"Ah......h Only the location of the city tower was not attacked, and the night army seemed to deliberately avoid Ye Mo and the others, only occasionally smashing the stone thrower at the city gate in the hope of breaking the city gate.

The night army's attack on Zephyr City was very loud, and the people in Zephyr City knew about the war between the two armies almost immediately, and the news of the war between the two armies was also told by the first people to know more and more people, and at this moment, the streets at some distance from the city gate were full of people. Among them, women, children, old and children, many of them carried their bags, and once the Snow Army was defeated, they would have to flee from Zephyr.

Originally, the royal family of Snow Country and the people in charge of maintaining order in the city, those who could go to the war had already gone to the war, and almost no one maintained order in the city. In the palace, after the news of the arrival of the soldiers in the city reached the palace that night, the monarch of the Snow Country was urgently discussing with a group of courtiers.

The fact that the Night Army was about to attack the city made the meeting even more tense. When the Snow Emperor asked questions about the decisive battle between the two sides, some ministers advocated that all personnel and the army hold out until the last moment, while others advocated that the army still block the evacuation as soon as possible, so as not to destroy the huge snow country. Regardless of the outcome of the council, the princes, princesses, and concubines in the royal harem are ready to evacuate at this moment.

If they don't leave, once the city is broken and the night army hits the palace, no one will end well.

At this moment, staying with the monarchs and ministers of the Snow Country is also the Qingyuan Great Nation's joining the army, I don't know what's going on, and the matter of asking the Qingyuan Great Power for help has not been agreed, and Qingyuan has to put all his hopes on the Snow Army. Of course, after experiencing several battles in a row, Qingyuan joined the army and could actually guess the final result of this decisive battle, but because of the mission given by Qingyuan's great power, this person has not left.

Once the Snow Country is defeated, Qingyuan will join the army and have to go back to restore his life, because of the many difficulties in the Snow Country, after going back, he will naturally be punished. However, at this point, Qing Yuan has no other choice to join the army, so he can only sigh that it is not easy for him to join the army.

Putting aside the situation in the palace, the city pass is still loud and earth-shattering, the city walls on both sides of the city tower have been smashed to the ground, half of the snow army originally stationed on it has sacrificed, and the remaining half is looking for safety in the ruins. Although Zephyr Castle is the Kyoto of the Snow Country, it seems that the walls are not strong.

On the other side, the high city gate had been broken open after being hit by stones many times, and it was not surprising that something had blocked the back of the city gate, which of course had no effect on the Night Army's attack on Zephyr City.

On the other side, after a number of stone throwing carts of the night army were attacked by ballistas, some of them broke their waists, and some of them were greatly damaged. In short, as long as it is a stone-throwing machine that is attacked by a ballista, most of them will lose their effectiveness on the spot. In addition, there are also many ballistas that miss some night soldiers or fierce beasts, which makes the night army suffer some losses, but unfortunately it does not have any effect on the night army.

After such a long time, the role of the stone thrower had been achieved, and I saw Zhao Wu give the order to attack, and then countless long lines in the army formation went straight to the city wall.

"Rush," a shout erupted from the night army, and countless soldiers waved their weapons and shouted at the snow army on the city wall.

At the same time, Ye Mo on the city tower immediately ordered a defense, and countless snow troops hiding behind the city wall ran from the city to the city wall, and then rushed to the designated position to attack the night army that had rushed over.

"Boom," the sound of arrows flying in unison, and thousands of arrows flew towards the night army running below. Round after round, in a blink of an eye, the arrows in the sky had reached 10,000, and they were heading towards the night army at the front one after another.

"Raise your shield," the generals in front of the night army team did not panic in the face of so many arrow attacks, and gave orders to the soldiers behind them.

After several months of training, the night army was indeed extraordinary, and after receiving the general's instructions, they raised the wooden shields they held in their hands to form rows of shield walls.

"Jingle bell," a series of crashing sounds were made by arrow feathers on the shield, but few arrows could penetrate the shield, and even fewer could reach the Night Army.

"Ah......h

When the Snow Army attacked the Night Army with bows and arrows, the archers behind the vanguard of the Night Army were also not idle, and after reaching the shooting range, under the orders of the Night Army generals, the archers of each square team stopped together and launched an attack on the Snow Army on the city wall.

"Xiu Xiu ......" A series of arrows sounded, and countless arrows flew towards the snow army in the city. The archers of the Night Army were lined up in several phalanxes, distributed in several areas of the entire front, and there were more of them than the Snow Army of the city.

"Ah......h Now the broken walls are much useless, and those archers standing on them are even more dangerous than the night army charging below, many of the snow soldiers fell directly from the city wall after being hit by arrows, and the remaining archers stood in place with palpitations.

After the Night Army was attacked by them, they charged faster, and the will of the living Snow Army was greatly impacted, and the black arrow feathers were like a sharp sword hanging over their heads, which could kill them at any time. In such a situation, the Snow Army's attack on the Night Army was even more ineffective.

At the same time, the generals of the snow army, after seeing that the snow army had suffered such a large loss in the first round of confrontation, immediately asked the snow army under the city to come to the city to support, and the number of archers of the snow army was constantly replenished. It wasn't until the Night Army rushed under the walls that the Snow Army generals stopped adding archers and instead let some soldiers with shields go up to the walls to resist.

As in the case of the Night Army's attack on Xilan Castle that day, the Snow Army constantly threw stones from the castle tower to prevent the Night Army from climbing. Unlike that case, the broken walls provided them with a number of ready-made stone bricks to use.

Before the Night Army climbed the city, the archers of the Night Army followed the vanguard troops to the city, and were attacking the Snow Army at the moment. Many of the Snow Army had just lifted their things up and were shot directly by the Night Army. The screams continued on the long city walls, and corpses kept falling from above, and the losses of the Snow Army were so severe that many of them were now looking for a place to hide.

While the snow army was hiding, the night army infantry waiting under the city began to officially climb the city, and the broken city wall also provided great convenience for the night army. It didn't take much effort for them to climb to the top of the city and fight the Snow Army.

The two armies fought, and the demoralized Snow Army did not leave a single piece of armor behind the morale-strong Night Army who climbed to the city. At the same time, the generals on both sides fought together, and there were many seventh-order martial cultivators in the Snow Army, all of whom were members of those families in Zephyr City. The Snow General's offensive is very strong, and he can kill several night soldiers with one move, which has a great impact on the night army.

Fortunately, the generals of the Night Army supported in time, and with Zhao Wu's full preparation, the generals of the Snow Army had nothing to worry about. Now those ordinary snow troops are not opponents of the night army at all, so to speak, the war has just begun, but the victory and defeat have already been one-sided.

The battle on the city wall became more and more fierce, and the drums beat louder in the rear of the night army, and at present, less than a third of the 200,000 troops of the night army went to the city, and there were many more waiting to go up.

It didn't take long for the battle line to advance from the city wall to the bottom of the city pass, no matter how unscrupulous the generals of the Snow Army did out of helplessness, the momentum of the Night Army had stopped their subordinates, and the battle line of the Snow Army continued to rout, leaving corpses everywhere.

In the face of such a wolf-like night army, the Snow Army had no fighting spirit, if it weren't for the fact that they still knew that Zephyr City was their last line of defense, and their general hadn't given the order to retreat, some soldiers might have fled.