Patches of mountains, camps, and torrents of iron armor rolled out of the ground and shaking the mountains. In the sound of an iron armor, under the guidance of a flag, it converged into a sea in front of Fengming Mountain.

There seems to be no end to the large and small torrents, the front end has crossed the aisle to the grassy slope, and the back end is still in the gate.

The sun rises three poles, and a large array is formed. The smoke and dust under the feet slowly dissipated, more than 100,000 soldiers spread all over the mountains, with the gentle grass slope undulating, there is no end in sight, the scene is shocking.

The sunlight reflected by the nail leaves shines like a sparkling star, weaving into a brilliant sea of stars.

On the top of the mountain, the sound of war drums fell like thunder, one, two, three...... From sparse to dense, from slow to urgent, the sound is in the ears, as if it is just an instant, and it covers the world within a radius of dozens of miles.

In the front, several infantry formations marched slowly out to the beat of drums, and the waves spread across the grassy slopes of the road. When they split into two directions and approached the Black Stone Valley and the White Wind Mouth, they were like two majestic dragons sticking out of the ironclad ocean.

The dragon has the potential to swallow mountains and cities.

The ironclad dragon stopped in front of the gate, and the crossbowmen moved forward, setting up a formation on the north side of the grassy slope.

The arm crossbow is in front, the Fuyuan crossbow is in the middle, and the bamboo pole crossbow is in the back. In addition, a siege bed crossbow was also pushed to the designated position by the soldiers. All the crossbowmen combined, no less than 20,000, all facing the city.

The armor soldiers carrying the siege ladder temporarily slowed down, and the two wings of the elite cavalry cruised back and forth to prevent a strong enemy from killing the city.

When the crossbow array was ready, the leading general waved his flag and reported to the simple towering watchtower built on the highest hillside behind the formation—it was the command platform of the army.

When the flag was also heard from the watchtower, in the crossbow array, the sonorous and powerful shouts of the generals sounded: "Crossbowmen are ready!"

The soldier behind the crossbow with his arm stretched was half-lying down, pulling the bowstring in his hand, bowing his body with his feet, and the crossbow with his arm stretched out and turned into the shape of a full moon, and the sergeant on the side loaded the crossbow and aimed it at the city.

The crossbowman of the Fuyuan crossbow has a similar action, the difference is that the bowstring is pulled apart by the assistance of the two soldiers on the left and right, and it is pulled on the trigger, and the crossbow is firmly supported on the crossbowman's chest with the chest of the column.

The chariot-like bamboo pole crossbow and bed crossbow were completely fixed to the ground, and the soldiers twisted the ropes, pulled the bowstring apart, fixed it with a trigger, and then put the arm-thick crossbow arrows into the arrow slot.

After all the soldiers were ready, staring at the main general of the crossbow array in Guancheng, he suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist, pointed in the direction of the target, and shouted: "First round, salvo, release!"

In front of a small formation, a famous general waved down the flag in his hand.

The buzzing sound of strings, dull, heavy, powerful and crisp, is like a howl of a ghost. Connected to each other, covering everything, as if the sky is falling, it sounds both sore and trembling.

It was like an infinite black cloud, rising from the crossbow array, covering the sky in an instant, blocking the sunlight, darkening the heavens and the earth, and then rushing to Guancheng at the right moment, shooting out a cloud of earth, stone and dust.

There are a lot of crossbows and arrows mixed with stars, or drill into the stone like tofu, or directly smash the stone, and more are nailed to the city wall, forming an irregular "ladder".

After several crossbow bolts were covered, countless foot soldiers in armor and sharp feet, hugging one cloud ladder after another, began to rush towards the city, like a tide. The tremor of the earth was suddenly violent, and the yellow dust was like a wave.

"Eleventh round, shoot, release!"

"Twelfth round, shoot, release!"

"Thirteenth round, shoot, release!"

One after another, black clouds rose from behind the infantry soldiers who rushed forward, leaping over their heads, and covering the city one after another.

The city, including the left and right mountain bags, was bombarded indiscriminately. The soldiers of the Tianyuan Army who were hiding behind the female wall were shot because the female wall was damaged, and there were also many gaps in the battle formation of the Tianyuan Army on the mountain bag.

The black tide soon arrived at the bottom of the city, a cloud ladder, the soldiers leaned on the city wall, the first soldier to hold a horizontal knife, the left hand to hold the shield, the right hand to climb the ladder, like ants to climb up.

Cultivators are like apes, with the help of thick crossbow arrows inserted in the city wall, quickly rippling upwards and jumping, and cultivating to a high imperial qi realm, they only need to borrow a simple force to climb the female wall.

The Tianyuan Army, which had just hid behind the female wall, appeared from behind the female wall at this moment, pouring down the stones and rolling wood in their hands, and constantly throwing them towards the Yanmen Army attached to the ants, during which there were many soldiers who shot the Yanmen Army on the cloud ladder with bows and arrows.

Some people were hit by rocks and rolling logs, and fell from the ladder screaming, and some people blocked the arrows with a round shield, and still climbed.

Some cultivators were shot by a talisman bow and fell to the city like dumplings, while some cultivators flexibly avoided the arrows and quickly jumped to the head of the city and met the Tianyuan army in short combat.

The rain of arrows shot from the crossbow array continued to cover the city and the mountains on both sides, shooting and killing countless Tianyuan troops on the other side. But in order to avoid hurting his own people, there were no crossbow arrows that landed on the city.

In the rear formation of the infantry army in front of the city, there were groups of archers showing their heads, shooting the Tianyuan army at the head of the city with bows and arrows, and planning to go to the city with their comrades in front. Some Tianyuan soldiers were shot and planted at the head of the city, while others fell behind the female wall.

The scene became extremely bloody in an instant, under the stones and arrows, in the hand-to-hand combat, the city suddenly became a purgatory of blood and fire, and soldiers from both sides continued to die here.

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In front of the Baifengkou Pass, Zhao Ning on horseback fought fiercely on the flank of the infantry army. He is out of range of the bow and arrows in the castle, and unless he gallops forward and actively joins the battlefield, he does not have to worry about stray arrows.

In the first battle of the vanguard, Zhao Ning's military merits were the first, and his position has changed, and he is no longer just the commander of the B-word battalion. The soldiers attacking Baifengkou at the moment are personally commanded by Zhao Beiwang, and he is considered a deputy general.

Baifengkou is the place where the Yanmen army feints, the purpose is to attract reinforcements from the reserves of the Tianyuan army, to achieve this goal, it is not enough to attack fiercely, the soldiers not only need to capture the city, but also have to rush forward.

Because of this, there are many soldiers here at the moment, some of them are besieging the city, and more are waiting in formation, or preparing for rotation, or after making progress in the front, follow their comrades to fight into the white wind outlet.

After watching it for a while, Zhao Ning had already made a minimum inference about the progress of the battle situation.

The morale of the Yanmen army was still good, the soldiers fought bravely, and they could be called going forward and succession, and the casualties did not make them retreat, and many cultivators took the lead in attacking the city and killing a lot of enemies.

The archers in front of the city, with the cooperation of the comrades who first ascended, can also be called close, and many soldiers rely on their strategies to climb to the top of the city, and have the opportunity to fight with the Tianyuan army in close combat.

The infantry of the Yanmen Army are all wearing iron armor. The armor's good defensive properties prevent them from being easily pierced by arrows, which makes their offensive continuous.

On the other hand, the defenders of the city are not as good as the Yanmen army in terms of armor, although the troops defending the city in the first battle should be elite, and the armament level is higher, but many of the defenders still have no armor, and the armor is also the vast majority of leather armor.

The defensive performance of iron armor and leather armor is not on the same level no matter how it is compared.

If you face an ordinary grassland army, this is enough, and Guancheng will soon be captured by Yanmen and enter the internal "street fighting" part. But at this moment, the Yanmen Army is facing the Tianyuan Army.

The Tian Yuan Army is no longer familiar with the tactics of foot soldiers, after all, it is defending the city at this moment, and it naturally occupies a huge advantage. Their elite characteristics in a hundred battles and the superiority in the number of cultivators were also vividly exerted in the battle.

To put it simply, it is easy for the Yanmen army to attack the city, but it is more difficult to gain a foothold in the city than to climb to the sky.

Every Yanmen Army cultivator who jumped onto the top of the city would be slaughtered by the Tian Yuan Army cultivators before they could cut down a few opponents, and the Shangcheng soldiers who were not led by elite cultivators would be quickly defeated by the Tian Yuan Army soldiers.

Although the officers and men of the Yanmen Army are well-trained, there is an essential difference between training and actual combat, and those who are besieging the city at this time are not the vanguard cavalry who have fought bloody battles before.

On the battlefield, in the flesh and blood grinding plate, there is a danger of death at every moment, there are comrades who die in battle all the time, almost every Yanmen army soldier is highly nervous, and it is inevitable that blood will go up when fighting.

With every blow they struck, they tried their best, every time they slashed, they wanted to hack the enemy in front of them to death, and every step they took was intended to make real progress. They roared and shouted, excited and apprehensive.

Many times, in their minds, they only have themselves who are fighting, and in the face of the enemy coming forward, they only think about killing the other party by themselves, for fear that if they are slow down, their lives will be gone.

They completely forgot that their own fights and swords would hinder their companions. I also forgot that even if I didn't kill the other party with a single knife, if there were companions who answered in time, they would not die, or even be injured.

There is no such thing as a tight fit.

If you twist out any of the Yanmen Army officers and soldiers, they all know very well the importance of close cooperation in the battle formation, and if they are thrown on the training ground, they will definitely cooperate closely.

But I know in my heart that it's easy, but it's hard to do.

What can be done in normal times is not easy to do in the face of an enemy with no end in sight, in front of countless sharp blades that swing at you, and in the battlefield where you will be hacked to death in the next moment.

And the officers and men of the Tianyuan Army are very calm, and their tactics are also extremely smart.

In the face of the powerful attack of the Yanmen army, they knew when to retreat and when to attack, and they knew which moves were fatal and which ones were just looking mighty.

Sometimes, they deliberately exposed flaws and let the Yanmen army slash, and then when the Yanmen army cut it down with a knife, the old tricks were exhausted and the new tricks were not launched, they seized the opportunity to severely damage the soldiers of the Yanmen army.

Sometimes, when their combat strength was inferior to the opponent in front of them, they used the parts protected by armor to meet the blades of the soldiers of the Yanmen army, and exchanged their own injuries for the lives of the Yanmen army.

Sometimes, the soldiers of the Tianyuan Army only resisted the offensive of the Yanmen Army, even if he himself was forced into a desperate situation and would be killed in the next moment, but he was not chaotic at all, and his companions could always kill the Yanmen Army in time.

There were also times when several soldiers of the Tianyuan Army were unfavorable in battle, so they retreated, attracting the Yanmen Army to chase and kill, so that the warriors of the Yanmen Army in front of them broke away from their companions and swarmed up to encircle and annihilate them.

At some point, the Tianyuan Army, which was fighting fiercely with the elite cultivators of the Yanmen Army, suddenly rolled and dodged one by one, and then a cold arrow shot out from behind that person, severely damaging the cultivators of the Yanmen Army.

In the entire Chengtou battlefield, in the face of the heavily armored Yanmen Army, the soldiers of the Tianyuan Army rarely sought a chance to kill with a single sword.

They are more likely to use a very small price to injure the Yanmen army, and when the Yanmen army is injured, its combat strength is weakened, it is panicked, and it is indiscriminately waved to defend it, and then they see the flaw and kill it.

Since the Yanmen army did not have the cooperation in place, it could not cover and rescue the injured comrades in time, let alone seize the opportunity to expand the results of the battle in time when the comrades made some progress.

The infantry army of the Yanmen Army, which should have been good at infantry tactics and hand-to-hand combat, has not opened up a war zone at the head of the city that can accommodate dozens of people because it has no combat experience, let alone formed a general trend.

The battle did not last long, and the Yanmen army had already suffered many casualties. If it is a competition for the courage of blood, the Yanmen Army at this moment will definitely not lose to the Tianyuan Army, but how can the courage of blood be more important than the real strength?

If you shout and scream, and you are not afraid of pain or death, you can defeat a strong enemy, then the war is too simple, and the strong will be worthless.

Zhao Ning didn't need to think about it, he could deduce that if he continued to fight like this, after an hour, the Yanmen army's attack would be repulsed, and it would take at least thousands of lives to capture Guancheng.

In the offensive and defensive battles between cultivators and Fu soldiers, the capture of Guancheng only crossed the first threshold, and there were still many thresholds behind, and the temporarily occupied city wall could easily be recaptured by the enemy.

And the Tianyuan Army's Heavenly Wolf Bow, although it can't compete with the Yanmen Army's Fuyuan crossbow and bed crossbow because it is holding a bow, but when it comes to the internal "street battle", it can exert its great power.

That must be another nightmare for the Yanmen Army.

The inference of the battle situation could not satisfy Zhao Ning, so he decided to play in person.