The Tianxuan Empire is located in the northernmost part of the Zongheng Mountain Range, and a border pass is called Yemao Pass.

Yemaoguan belongs to Kongxiang County, and is within the territory of the three princes Tie Anle, but it is only subject to the unified deployment and control of the Zhenxi Army.

The pass is one hundred and twenty miles away from the vertical and horizontal mountain range, and 50,000 imperial Zhenxi troops are stationed in the pass.

1,300 miles southwest of the pass is the Desert of Death.

The general of the defenders is called Uriel, who is a fierce general and has always won the appreciation of the king of Zhenxi.

Yemao Pass is the worst of the twelve border passes in the empire, affected by the cold climate of the ice and snow wasteland, although it is not covered with snow all year round, the temperature is now extremely low.

For some reason, this year's soldiers' cold-proof clothing has not yet arrived, and even the stock in the military ration warehouse is not much left, which makes Uriel very irritable.

He has always been extremely considerate of his subordinates, and he eats and lives with ordinary soldiers on weekdays, mingling with each other, and has a very high reputation among the border soldiers.

Seeing the hundreds of soldiers standing on duty on the wall of the pass shivering from the cold, Uriel felt very uncomfortable.

It had long been known that the Feidu Empire was actively deploying troops to attack the Tianxuan Border Pass, but Urik did not think that the Yemao Pass he was guarding would be attacked by the enemy.

Like almost all the Zhenxi Army, he held the same opinion, Feidu would only concentrate his forces to attack the southernmost passes, as for him, even if Feidu Army captured it, what could he do?

Can you still fly through the desert of death with wings?

Or plunge headlong into Yinshan County, a barren land where birds don't, and run all the way to the easternmost edge to cross Wuxi Creek?

Unless the commander of the Flying Empire is a fool.

However, even so, he told his soldiers not to let their guard down.

The delay in future supplies made the soldiers complain, although no one complained about Uriel, but he was still very unhappy in his heart.

He had already sent three summons to the marshal, all of whom said that the military supply was tight now, and he was asked to hold on for a while.

Hang on?

How to persevere?

The soldiers were wearing thin clothes, so they couldn't even hold the spears in their hands, how could they hold on?

In the past ten days, I can only make do with boiling some gruel to drink, many soldiers are so hungry that they can't sleep in the middle of the night, and they even have the heart to go hunting in the mountains, how can they insist?

Uriel did not dare to complain in front of the generalissimo, and he was always grateful for promoting and appreciating his king of Zhenxi.

Perhaps, it was just a momentary negligence on the part of the quartermaster, who did not want to think about it and did not want to think about it.

But what is imminent is that the stockpile of grain can last for seven or eight days at most, and if the supplies have not been delivered after these seven or eight days, will he really order the whole army to take turns to go into the mountains to hunt?

He was in a bad mood, but he drank a few more glasses of inferior step wine tonight, and his head hurt slightly, which actually upset him, and he always felt as if something was about to happen.

He just thought that it was all his own psychology, and he thought that he had been too concerned about military rations and clothes recently, which made him uneasy.

Sighing secretly, Uriel put down the machete weighing seven hundred pounds beside him, and lay down on the cold wooden bed with only a thin blanket, gradually feeling sleepiness.

・・・・・・

Uriel was awakened by a fierce shout of killing.

Is something wrong?

This was the first reaction of Uriel, who had been in the army for many years, and he grabbed the machete beside him and shouted: "Someone!"

His guards ran in and said with a panicked face: "Report to the general, the enemy ・・・・・・ attack!"

This is a rookie egg*, he has never seen a big battle, Uriel lowered his face and scolded: "What are you panicking about? Where is the enemy attack! Don't hurry up and prepare a battle armor for this general!"

The guards didn't dare to say more, and with trembling hands, they finally helped Uriel put on his armor!

At this moment, an adjutant general rushed into the house and reported in a loud voice: "General Qiyu, our pass is being fiercely attacked by hundreds of thousands of elite Feidu cavalry!"

What? hundreds of thousands?

So much?

Flying across the elite cavalry?

When did Feidu have cavalry?

Uriel didn't think that this deputy general, who had followed him in the army for nearly 20 years, was untrustworthy, and his heart sank, and he ordered repeatedly: "Blow the emergency whistle, and the whole army will gather!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

There were several violent crashing sounds at the city gate, which was clearly hitting the city gate with a battering ram!

"Woooooo

The urgent assembly whistle of the whole army sounded throughout the pass, and all the officers and men who had always been strict in governing the army quickly gathered and completed the whole team!

Uriel clenched the machete in his hand, climbed onto the platform, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, I didn't expect that the damn dodoers would dare to attack our Yemao Pass, everyone be prepared to kill the enemy in blood, the enemy knows that we are short of food and clothing, and they are here to send us warmth! The first and second regiments are responsible for the defense of the city wall, the fifth regiment is ready for logistics transportation, and the third and fourth regiments are ready to go out of the pass to meet the battle!"

With that, the machete in his hand slashed into the void, and the army of tens of thousands of people quickly began to operate independently.

There is no torch on the pass, but you can clearly see everything on the pass, because the red light outside the pass has already illuminated half of the sky!

With a pair of guards, Uriel climbed the city wall, approached the pass to take a look, and almost gasped!

I'm a good girl, isn't this Feidu really crazy?

Under the light of the fire, he saw that the outside of the pass was full of elite cavalry soldiers flying over!

The Feidu soldiers, who were already tall and extremely strong, were murderous one by one, and what shocked Uriel was not the fine armor on their bodies, nor the obviously high-quality spears in their hands, but what shocked him inexplicably was that these Feidu soldiers were not ordinary war horses!

That's a beast pet!

It's all a fifth-order beast mad bull!

This is a fifth-order demonic beast that lives in a large canyon in the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, and is famous for its rough skin and thick flesh, infinite strength, and large numbers.

It seems that these rampaging bulls have been subdued by powerful cultivators and sealed into the beast control card, which is why they have become the riding pets of these flying soldiers!

Oh my God, even the most elite cavalry of our empire is only nearly 100,000 people, and the beast pets used are only five or six order beasts.

This cavalry army that surrounds the pass and can't see the end, at least there are one or two hundred thousand people, where did the imperial army come from so many horsemen?

At this moment, the defenders of Tianxuan above the pass heard a huge voice shouting outside the pass: "The defenders of Tianxuan listen! The powerful Feidu elite cavalry is here, persuade Er and others to quickly open the city gate and surrender, but spare Er and wait for his life, if not, General Hugh blames this for ordering the slaughter of the city!"

Uriel looked around, but he didn't see the figure speaking, and he was shocked again.

That man's voice was so loud that it shook his eardrums with a faint pain, this was clearly a powerful cultivator, a cultivator close to him!

At this moment, Uriel had already seen that the 20,000 men of the first and second regiments had already prepared a defensive posture with shields and long hook guns, and on the main road in the city, 3,000 cavalry had been assembled, and more than 10,000 infantry behind the cavalry were also ready.

He whispered to the people around him: "Pass on my military order, the third regiment is responsible for guarding the city gate, and the fourth regiment will follow me to the city to defend against the enemy to support the brothers of the first regiment and the second regiment!"

An adjutant general hurried out of the herald to go down.

Wu Lie was angry and shouted: "Who is coming? Quickly report the name, the Ye Mao guard of the Western Army of the Tianxuan Empire is here, and he is arrogant!"

During the shouting, Uriel had already taken a general look at the situation of the enemy army in front of the battle outside the pass, and found no trace of the cultivator, and his heart was a little relieved.

If there were still powerful cultivators in this army, Ye Mao Pass would really not be safe!

A sharp whistle suddenly remembered in the enemy formation outside the pass, and Uriel glanced at it, and shouted in a gallant voice: "Raise your shield, arrow attack!"

All the soldiers immediately pressed the thick shield in their hands against the top of their heads, trying their best to cover their bodies, but no one was willing to make a commotion.

At this time, it was clear that the true strength of a well-trained army was coming, even in the case of raising a shield to defend, the soldiers of the first and second regiments behind the battlements on the city wall still prepared the most famous rhino horn bow of Tianxuan and put it in their most convenient position, these defenders were all experts in riding and archery!

And at this moment, a uniform bowstring tremor sounded outside the pass, and then with the red light in the sky, people only saw countless locust-like arrows sprinkled directly into the city wall of Yemao Pass like a huge net!

The sound of swishing filled everyone's ears, it was the terrible sound of arrows slashing through the air!

Some veterans who have been in battle for a long time just listened to these sounds and judged that the arrows fired by the flying army in this round were definitely no less than 100,000!

Especially Uriel, a heart suddenly sank to the bottom!

In an instant, these more than 100,000 arrows covered almost every place in Yemao Pass indiscriminately, even if there was a thick shield to cover it, there would still be many soldiers who were more or less injured in this round of arrow rain!

Dangdang!

Arrows kept falling on the thick shield, making a buzzing sound!

This round of arrow rain directly turned one-third of the area in Yemao Pass into an arrow target, full of arrows!

Some of the wounded soldiers were cut through their shoulders and backs by arrows, and some were injured in their legs, but at this moment, they gritted their teeth one by one, and no one snorted in pain!

The stubbornness and tenacity of the Tianxuan people are vividly reflected in these soldiers!

The soldiers of the first and second regiments, who were not injured, took advantage of the gap and wanted to pick up their bows and arrows to counterattack, but they heard the terrible sound of the bowstring vibrating again!

The archery of this flying army is so exquisite, and the speed of changing arrows is so fast?

The Tianxuan defenders were all shocked.

Two waves of arrow rain hit before and after, and they didn't give the Tianxuan defenders any time to fight back, and the arrow rain was dense like a net in the red light in the sky, and Uriel roared again: "Raise your shield!"

With a roar, he shook his hand and threw a small yellow round object into the sky above the pass, and the thing grew in the wind, and in an instant, it became extremely huge, completely covering the entire pass!

At this time, the Tianxuan soldiers knew that this was the general's only low-grade treasure weapon, the Heaven Shield, and he had made a move!

Suddenly, the two commanders of the first and second regiments let out a light whistle from their mouths at the same time, and the soldiers who were originally hiding behind the wall battlements with thick shields quickly threw away the thick shields and picked up the rhino horn bow placed beside them, and instantly aimed at the Feidu army formation that was drawing arrows from outside the Guan!

"Put!"

The two regiment commanders whispered in unison, and at the moment when the enemy formation outside the pass sounded again.

20,000 Heavenly Xuan's Xuantian Iron Arrows, from top to bottom, instantly spilled into the enemy formation!

And the more than 100,000 arrows shot by the Feidu people again were all blocked by the sky-covering shield!

In the blink of an eye, this group of soldiers had already shot three arrows in succession! The speed of the shooting, the accuracy of the coverage area, was by no means inferior to the flying archers!

It's a pity that the three rounds of arrow rain are like falling into a cotton ball, and they didn't stir up the slightest movement!

60,000 arrows fell into the enemy's formation, and even the copper wall could shoot three rounds of arrows from a single opening, but it didn't cause the slightest damage to anyone in the enemy formation, what a strange thing?!

What's going on?

"Oh no, these Flying Thieves are wearing snowmelt armor!" Uriel's face turned pale, obviously his spiritual power was already very difficult to support the huge sky-covering shield, but he still roared through the gaps!

Dizzy!

How did these flyers suddenly become exploding rich?

Melting Snow Armor, even the rookies in the Tianxuan Defenders know its great name!

Without him, the Snow Melting Armor is too famous.

And this armor, which is specially designed to defend against arrows, is completely the archer's deadliest nemesis!

Even the flying sword and flying needle-like magic weapon wearing the snowmelt armor to defend the cultivator is more than enough, let alone the ordinary bow and arrow of the army?

The morale of the Tianxuan soldiers dropped to freezing point in an instant!

The Flyer, who originally couldn't ride and shoot, was like he had been reborn, and suddenly rode a beast pet, wearing a snowmelt armor that specializes in restraining bows and arrows, and constantly skillfully opened the bow and arrows, is this a dream?

Many people in the Tianxuan garrison couldn't believe what they had seen, but looking at the general's sky-covering shield above their heads, which they were familiar with, trembling in the rain of arrows, they realized that all this was true.

The Tianxuan soldiers did not waste any more arrows, but began to prepare defensive equipment such as oil pots and rolling wood, and the 10,000 soldiers of the fifth regiment continued to transport these weapons to the city wall from the back barracks.

The regimental commander of Ulle Chong made a gesture, and his face was already full of sweat at the moment!

On such a cold night, all the Tianxuan defenders were almost soaked in hot sweat at this moment!

Uriel knew very well that once his shield could not hold on, the other party would use the rain of arrows covering a huge area as a cover and officially send people to attack the city!

At that time, it was the beginning of the battle that would test the toughest test of the defenders!

In the cold night wind, all the soldiers felt their blood boiling!

This is something flowing in the bones of Tianxuan people, that is unyielding and brave!

For thousands of years, Tianxuan has never been defeated in the war with the Feidu people, and this precedent must not be allowed to be opened in Yemao Pass!

This thought became almost the same idea of the defenders!

The shield of the sky was crumbling in the new round of arrow rain, and Ullewa spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his face was as pale as paper!

At this moment, a huge sound of the turning of the machine spring suddenly sounded among the 14,000 regiments of soldiers on the main road, it was ten catapults!

The efficiency of the Fifth Regiment was really frighteningly high, and in just a few moments, ten catapults were prepared for the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment!

Just as Uriel suddenly fell to the ground, and the shield turned into a yellow glimmer and retracted into his body like lightning, stones the size of a square table flew up in the air, flew over the city wall in an instant, and fell into the enemy formation!

Ten catapults are in action!

This time, the screams of the flying soldiers in snowmelt armor came and went, and it was obvious that they had been injured a lot in this round of stone rain!

Uriel, who barely stood up and leaned over to the battlement to look out, found that after this round, the other party had injured at least a thousand people!

But for no less than 100,000 enemy troops, this damage is simply a drop in the bucket!

Moreover, what he didn't know was that the flying army that attacked this time was not 100,000 people, but a full 300,000!

300,000 elite divisions with Warcraft as riding pets!

However, this round of stone throwing still stopped the opponent's arrow rain attack as he wished!

The machine spring sounded again, and another round of stone-throwing flew out of the city!

There was a commotion in the Feidu army formation, and the formation was in chaos.

Just when the Tianxuan soldiers were feeling happy and excited, they suddenly saw dozens of red light clusters rising from the rear of the enemy formation like lightning and flying directly towards Yemao Pass!

A regiment leader shouted hoarsely: "It's the Fireball Technique!" God, there are cultivators, everyone hurry up and set up a rain curtain!"

Uriel was miserable in his heart, he knew the strength of one and two regiments, and the rain curtain they arranged together could only resist three fireball attacks of this density and intensity at most, but what should he do after three rounds?

Just now, he tried his best to let the Heaven Shield resist four or five breaths of time, but he didn't expect that this would hurt his mind a lot, but he just stuffed a pill into his mouth indiscriminately, and now when was the time when he was about to rest his injuries? He pinched a few seals with both hands, and actually began to join the ranks of the hundreds of cultivators in the first and second regiments of the hundreds of cultivators who were shallow cultivators casting spells, and joined them in arranging the rain curtain.

Thirty or forty fireballs of various sizes finally fell, and they were about to fall into the middle of the twenty or thirty thousand defenders of the city wall.

At this moment, a cyan almost transparent water curtain suddenly rose rapidly from the crowd on the city wall, just blocking the dozens of fireballs!

Rain!

A shallow defensive spell that specializes in defending against fireballs!

This is a collective defense spell commonly used by low-level cultivators on the battlefield!

Thousands of people unleashed it at the same time, and the power was naturally extraordinary, and those fireballs flickered on the rain curtain for three or five breaths, and then they dissipated!

At this time, Uriel looked out of the pass, and suddenly felt as if his whole person had sunk into a thousand-year-old ice cellar, and the cold had penetrated deep into his bone marrow!

The red light reflected the sky in a terrible light!

Because, three or four hundred fireballs of different sizes rose from the rear of the enemy formation again, flying straight towards Yemao Pass!

Uriel, who retracted his eyes, found that even though he knew that this rain curtain would definitely not be able to withstand the attack of so many fireballs from the other side, there was no trace of fear on the faces of all the soldiers on the city wall at this moment!

Uriel gritted his teeth, determined to protect his soldiers to the death even if he died here!

It seems that the life and death of these soldiers who get along with them day and night are all in their own thoughts!

In times of extreme danger, Uriel was as calm as water at this time, because he had already strengthened his determination to die!

As long as I don't die, I will never let these cultivators who joined the Flying Army harm my soldiers!

He was about to fight to the death, when suddenly, the rookie guard, who had long forgotten what fear was after him, pulled his sleeve and whispered, "General, look!"