Chapter Eighty-Five: A Bitter Battle
The boats were lowered one after another, and soon seventy or eighty people gathered beside each boat.
"Senior sister, what's wrong?" Li Jiaojiao of Que Immortal Palace asked.
"Well... It seems that some people need to turn back to Xilan. Xu Zhilin replied.
"What?!" Li Jiaojiao had a bad premonition, and subconsciously observed the surrounding terrain.
In the open plateau of the Gobi, a poplar forest can be seen in the north, and mountains loom in the far distance in the south.
Raiders avoid mountains and valleys and go to open areas to reduce the risk of ambushes.
"Turning back to Xilan? What's wrong with Xilan?" Li Jiaojiao asked.
"Kumabe detoured to attack Lanzhou!"
The boat was restarted, the sand and dust were rolling, and the four ships carrying more than 100 people flew towards Xilan, twice as fast as when they were marching.
The chaos of the team was no longer out of the system, and the members of the Scattered Cultivation Group had more or less learned the news that the backyard of the Divine Cult was on fire, and they were full of letters for several days, their beaming expressions were not there, and several of the deputy leaders of the day after tomorrow shouted and screamed, barely maintaining order.
After tossing for half an hour, it finally stabilized, the Sky Bombardment Cannon escort was reduced to six, the marching speed was significantly accelerated, and it advanced towards Kangjin Mountain.
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It was nearly dusk and it was getting dark.
Li Jiaojiao sat quietly in the car, and the psychic elk beast consciously followed the car in front and ran quickly.
Suddenly, she heard a faint whirring sound coming from the south, and the cry quickly grew louder, rumbling like an overwhelming herd of beasts approaching.
Li Jiaojiao jumped out of the car and was stunned by the scene in front of her.
Dozens of black dots are getting bigger and bigger, and a super large stone ball with a diameter of five zhang is roaring!
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The wails came and went, and the martial disciples with low cultivation couldn't dodge, and were directly smashed into flesh, and the stone balls exploded on the ground, and countless broken stones and yellow dust and green mist covered a radius of hundreds of zhang in an instant.
Two hundred miles away from the mountains, the mountain wall opened, revealing twenty large holes, extremely large catapults, dense giant springs on the left and right organs, only the steel wire was thicker than a human arm, a group of topless orcs, pushing the stone ball in place, the long arm of the catapult swung, and the boulder shot out again!
Eight hundred bear warriors, more than 100 earth-splitting bears, swarming out of the cave, rushed to the Xuangu God Cult to defeat the legion.
In the scream, the gravel had already shot through the dozens of people in the scattered cultivation group, and even if they were lucky enough to escape the rubble, once the skin was stained with green mist, it would immediately burn and burn, rotting and bleeding pus.
There was a whoa-wow-wow scream all over the field.
The chariot overturned, the dead were everywhere, hundreds of people howled and scratched wildly, and they were caught as bloody people, and the poisonous powder brought out by the explosion of the stone ball was mixed with a variety of poisons, which was spicy and itchy.
Those with high mana risked death and sat on the spot, urgently taking the antidote pill, and using all their strength to force the poison.
A light and shadow swept past Li Jiaojiao, and the speed was so fast that it was already dozens of feet away.
Zou Shizhen soared into the air and met the giant stone ball whistling towards him.
The stone ball fell extremely fast, the fierce wind entrained with a piercing scream, Zou Shizhen's magic trick rushed out, his hands crossed an arc, and the cyan pillar of light inspired by his palm hit the stone ball on the side, with a muffled sound.
The trajectory of the stone ball deflected and fell towards the periphery of the crowd.
Zou Shizhen was vigorously counterattacked, his body sank, and he fell from the air.
The white light gathered in the palm of his hand and swayed outward, and the poisonous mist was not green everywhere he passed, turning into particles of dust and falling suddenly.
He pointed his finger, and the white light illuminated the grimace of a loose pus dripping with blood, and the bloody face immediately faded and swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, stopping the serum pus.
The howling warrior woke up from despair and laughed madly.
"The number of stone balls is limited, and the attack has stopped!" Zou Shizhen's voice spread through everyone's ears.
The mammoths and elkmons were frightened, ran and roared, and even crashed into each other. The gun truck was lucky not to be hit by the stone ball, and the six people guarding the Sky Bombardment Cannon formed a protective light net to block the poisonous mist of rubble.
The six drove the mammoth to turn the muzzle, unfold the gun carriage, shake the handle, lower the angle, and aim at the direction of the incoming ball, one of them stuffed several fist-sized blue spirit stones into the dark groove of the gun mount, and the other loaded a black and shiny cannonball into the barrel.
"A nine-foot diameter flame bomb has tens of thousands of times the explosive power of an ordinary bomb."
The four martial artists who had attained the day after tomorrow closed their eyes and chanted, their hands were clasped together, and a little red light gathered in their palms, and suddenly they shook off, and the red light swayed on the jet-black cannon barrel, and the cannon body lit up, and the golden light flowed, jumping hundreds of golden runes.
"Lie down, plug your ears!" The warriors next to the gun carriage shouted.
He shouted three times in a row, and was the first to lie down and cover his ears.
The two people who fired the cannon roared, and with a wave of their hands, a red light hit the ancient golden pattern that appeared at the bottom of the cannon barrel.
The barrel of the cannon lit up slightly, and it turned red in an instant!
As if from the ground, and as if in the ears, there was an earth-shattering loud explosion!
Bang! The fire flashed, the ground shook, and the smoke swept by!
Li Jiaojiao lay on the ground, even if she covered her ears tightly, her head buzzed, and she couldn't hear anything.
In a few moments, the smoke and smoke of the distant mountains rose up, and a mountain peak collapsed, and after a few breaths, a dull rumbling sound came from the distant horizon.
Zou Shizhen shouted: "Clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded!"
There were all casualties among the three sects of the Divine Sect, and the Scattered Cultivation Group at the bottom of the strength was the worst, with nearly half of the casualties, and some of the injured were too seriously injured, and the body was highly poisonous, which was unbearable to see, and the companions could not bear to continue to suffer, so they simply killed with a knife.
Zou Shizhen sniffed the smell of the poisoner, and stuck some poisonous blood with yellow paper, and the yellow paper was printed with green ripple patterns, Zou Shizhen's eyebrows were frowned, and with a pinch of his fingers, the paper was burned to ashes.
He carefully put the paper ash into the jade box, dripped three drops of transparent liquid, the gray paper ash dissolved, the shallow blood-like stripes rippled out, bubbling up, Zou Shizhen fanned the palm of his hand lightly, and smelled the smell.
"What did Zou Guardian see?" Yang Dong asked.
"The poison is mixed with the poison of the snake, and the poison of other centipedes and scorpions is not difficult to do."
"The snake is an uncommon poison of the Monkey Body, and the catapult was launched from the Eryin Mountain at the junction of the two parts of the Rock Snake, and the Snake Department has been combined with the Bear Department."
Zou Shizhen's eyes flashed coldly, "Quickly set up the formation, continue to fire!"
The wounded were carried onto the elk beast cart and pulled to the north of the team, where a large number of warriors gathered on the south and east and west flanks and arranged a tight formation to prevent a surprise attack.
Zou Shizhen, Yang Tong, and Wu Daxiao urgently discussed and ordered the team to quickly move to the hinterland of the rock department, and be on high alert in the direction of Yinshan Mountain in the south.
The three of them had a hunch that the Bear Fly Alliance would not launch only one round of attacks, and that the follow-up attack would most likely be launched in the dark of night, and the calculation time was approaching.
Zou Shizhen ordered the seven members of the Divine Sect to take a boat thirty miles to the south, while he himself shuttled back and forth on the outside of the team.
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Seventy miles away, the black-pressed Xiongbe army stopped advancing, blew a clear whistle for the leader, and the sixteen catapults in the rear drove to the front of the formation and set up a posture.
The orc mechanics are ingenious, and their talent and means for making large battle equipment are not comparable to those of the human race, among which the bear is the most prominent, which is also the main support for their position as the strongest tribe.
The chief of the bear department, Jireqi, had a peak-level ground-splitting bear in his crotch, and he strangled the thick leather ring around the bear's neck, and kept talking.
"It's in sight of the Terran ships, so let's hold off on the march."
"The catapult continues to be fired, terminated after twenty rounds, and the whole army rushes to the enemy position after the first round of stone-throwing, swears to fight to the death, and kills anyone when it sees it!"
With a beastly glint in his eyes, he picked up a large jug of liquor and drank it down.
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Xue Tong, who was in the deep cave mansion, faintly heard the strange sound of the outer cultivation room, he exhaled a breath of turbid air and pushed open the stone door.
The bone golem sitting cross-legged, a thick fog was tightly wrapped, and two dim soul fires danced in the mist, and the skeleton of the bone golem rang out, rolling with the air mass, and the movement became bigger and bigger.
The bones crackled together, but the color of the white fog became dim, and when the fog was completely gone, the soul fire in the bone golem's eye sockets increased, and it became brighter and more moving.
A martial artist's aura spread out, impacting Xue Tong's Fahai.
The Yaksha skeleton leaped to its feet, and the crimson sword slashed into the stone wall, splitting a five-foot-deep groove.
"Don't mess around!"
Xue Tong explained, covered the stone door, and the sound of broken corpse claws whirring came from next door.
He sighed secretly, the bone puppet was finally limited by the material, and under the urging of various treasures, it took more than seven years to reach the end of the scale, if it was a pair of acquired demon bear bones in the past, I am afraid that it would have risen to the peak long ago.
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Sixteen stone balls are sent to the north!
The stone ball is one zhang in diameter and shines with a blue-black luster.
Ji Liqi roared long, and the ground-splitting bear howled wildly, and flew into the air.
The eight hundred orcs were divided into three strands and rushed out in unison.
Stone projectiles exploded over the raiders, and the debris and poisonous mist rained down, enveloping most of the team at once.
The Cult Legion was prepared, spells and spells were struck, and the blazing clouds of fire burned the poisonous mist to ashes, and the broken stones caused almost no casualties.
With a wave of his hand, Zou Shizhen united into a fan shape and went south to meet the battle.
He sighed secretly, Xiongbe really planned an ambush, and the battle broke out at an undesirable time for the Divine Cult Army, with thousands of people fighting and casualties incalculable. What's even more terrifying is that Jing Yiqing, Yu Di and dozens of others have turned back, and the strength of the legion is very likely to be under the bear department!
He ejected a signal bomb, and the fireball exploded at a height of 300 zhang, calling for reinforcements from Iwabe.
The Sky Bombardment quickly adjusted its angle, and the heavy artillery fired back.
The earth trembled, and a loud bang came from the direction where the stone ball flew, and a fire rose to the sky.
The two sides could already see from afar, the army of the bear department was surging like a tide, and the formation was not chaotic, which showed that the suitable heavy artillery was defeated under the rapid maneuver of the bear department.
In front of the Xiong army, a row of ballistas, steel giant crossbows shot fiercely, dense like rain, while sixteen catapults continued to fire stone balls.
The blue and shiny iron cylinder on the ballista, eighteen round holes filled with steel crossbows, the steel crossbows were as thick as children's arms, and the four burly and strong orcs frantically turned the handlebars and tightened the bracket. At the moment of launch, the gunpowder at the bottom of the crossbow barrel exploded, and the explosive force and the force of the crossbow string burst out at the same time, and lightning shot out the steel crossbow.
The day after tomorrow in the Divine Cult on the outside of the crusading army, the talisman spell was fired continuously, the stone shield and the golden shield formed a shield net, and the huge force of the steel crossbow hit the shield surface, and the shield shattered, but the giant crossbow also fell.
The outside of the Scattered Cultivation Group has the least number of acquired martial artists, the density of the shield net is not good, and from time to time there are huge crossbows that shoot in, and the Scattered Cultivators with low mana are unable to resist such a powerful crossbow, and they all penetrate through the middle of the puff, and nearly 100 people will soon be killed!
The orcs were still a hundred feet away, the spell could not reach, the distance of the bombardment cannon was too close and it was ineffective, Zou Shizhen ordered to charge at full speed, and he took the lead and rushed to the front.
Zou Shizhen was covered with thick clouds above his head, and with a wave of his hand, the red fire Jiao came out through the clouds and pounced on the Xiongbu army in front of him.
The head of the Jiao swung left and right, and its mouth spewed flames, and the ballista was destroyed wherever it passed, and the charred corpses of the orcs flew out of the fire.