Chapter Forty-Seven: The City Breaks and Bleeds
As the minutes passed, the originally dark sky became darker as the sun behind the clouds gradually set.
"Patriarch, after our general observations, our walls can hold out for more than two hours under the attack of the coalition forces without changing the frequency," one of the guards reported.
"Report to the Patriarch, the second front has been set up and everything is running normally", another captain of the guard also caught up and reported. Qi Zhen nodded clearly, and after motioning for them to go down, he continued to wait and think.
Although time has passed, Yao Ao, who was originally a little happy, also calmed down. Because Yao Chiwei was riding his horse, the time when he ordered the pursuit was not very different from the time when Qi Zhen ordered, but now Yao Ao has not received the news, which makes Yao Ao also a little flustered. And now he definitely can't pull away, what he can do now is to keep the basic city broken until he gets the exact news.
Time is passing, and it is naturally not only Qi Zhen and Yao Ao who are worried about this. If Yao Ao is the stepping stone to start the war, then the reinforcements of Wang Meng and Wei Liyuan now are the key to making the battle continue. Looking at the darkening sky, as well as Yao Yao's indifferent waiting expression, Wang Meng and Wei Liyuan naturally knew that it would be useless to delay any longer. After briefly saying a few words to Yao Ao, Wang Meng and Wei Liyuan went back to the family in person.
On the way back for the two, they finally met the lazy family troops, although this lazy posture was more or less his own order, but he witnessed the battle on the front line, and he still couldn't stand it when he saw this kind of troops. At this time, Wang Meng was still a little fortunate in his heart, according to the marching speed of the troops, he might not be able to arrive in three hours, Wang Meng was still glad that he came over in person. "You cheer up, straighten out your posture, and rush to the battlefield within an hour," Wang Meng solemnly ordered.
This deliberate laziness is different from natural laziness, although this unit looks very lazy at first glance, but its essence is still a combat unit, so after hearing Wang Meng's order, the unit quickly returned to a combat posture. Wang Meng, who gave the order, immediately rushed back to the battlefield, and what happened to Wei Liyuan was roughly the same.
In less than half an hour, the two of them completed running back and forth, and when the two rushed back to the front of the battle, Yao Ao was already waiting in front of the battle. Seeing the two of them riding their horses, Yao Ao gave an order to reorganize the troops, and under the supervision of the Yao family, the siege battle was soon pulled out again. The coalition forces are preparing, and the Qi family is naturally also preparing. Although this is the Qi family, the gap between the strength of the coalition army and the Qi family is still very large, so there are not many guards who can replace the Qi family, and they are basically the people who fought before.
Yao Ao, who was observant, naturally noticed this detail, and Yao Ao couldn't think of any other possibilities. Looking at the three coalition forces with unchanged personnel, Qi Zhen was very scared, after all, so long had passed, and he had not yet received the news of Qi breaking the enemy, and Qi Zhen was very afraid that the news of the Qi family would not be spread.
Because the battle between the two sides has already begun, and the two sides have nothing to say, so now this state is that the combat readiness of both sides is ready, but they are in a state of immobility. With a small noise in the rear of the coalition army, the long-awaited reinforcements of Wang Meng and Wei Liyuan finally arrived. Reinforcements did come, but there were not many new people, and the people who got together with the two families were only two-thirds of the first force, and it was obvious that the Wang and Wei families did not want to completely block the back road. Seeing this situation, Yao Ao made up his mind to break the city.
"Everyone prepare, attack the city", the reinforcements have arrived, and Yao Ao no longer delayed, and directly issued the order to siege the city.
"Everyone prepares to defend the outer city", Qi Zhen also made war preparations. Although the Qi family has the advantage of defending the city, there is too much difference between the personnel on both sides, as far as defending the city is concerned, if the elders of the Qi family do not take action, every spiritual technician of the Qi family will have to deal with three or four climbers.
Coupled with the reinforcements of the Wang and Wei families, the offensive of the coalition army is becoming more and more fierce, and Qi Zhen has no choice but to send some ordinary soldiers who were originally guarding the second front, and now on average, each psychic artist has nearly two ordinary soldiers by his side to assist. The ordinary soldiers who went into battle were only responsible for throwing some big rocks or pushing down the siege ladders together, so although ordinary people had losses, the losses were very small. Because of the intervention of the ordinary soldiers of the Qi family, the entire battlefield was slowly maintained in a balance. And this balance is not good for the coalition army, because it is currently a siege city, and the ordinary soldiers of the coalition army cannot play a big role, while the ordinary soldiers of the Qi family can be replaced continuously.
Although the losses on both sides of the battle were level, Yao Ao was not happy about it. When Yao Ao was still thinking, Yao Ba on the side asked for an order: "Patriarch, the spiritual skill master of our coalition army is several times that of the Qi family, let me lead people to attack, and I will guarantee to take the outer city within an hour", because it has been a long time from preparation to the start of the war, but the elders of the Yao family have never made a move, which makes Yao Ba, who has always been belligerent, a little unrestrained. Of course, the main battle faction like Yao Ba naturally agreed with Yao Ba's proposal. Looking at his eager subordinates, Yao Ao said: "This Qi Zhen has always loved the people like a son, and now the losses of the ordinary soldiers of the Qi family are getting heavier and heavier, let's wait for half an hour, if Qi Zhen also sends ordinary soldiers to die, you will attack the city", maybe Yao Ao also wanted to delay a little time, so he finally pulled out for half an hour. After speaking, Yao Ao looked at the northwest with a sad face.
This is the case in the war, if the generals on both sides do not fight, and only the soldiers on both sides are dying, then the enthusiasm for the battle will also be reduced, and it is precisely because of this that the coalition army still did not take the outer city for half an hour. Seeing this situation, Yao O also knew that he couldn't delay any longer, Yao O looked at Yao Ba, and then at Wang Meng and Wei Liyuan on the side, and ordered: "Yao Ba listens to the order, leads the elders of the Yao family, and attacks the city."
"Yes", Yao Ba, who got the order, did not hesitate at all, and directly led people to rush up, seeing such a resolute Yao Yao, Wang Meng and Wei Liyuan did not hesitate, and they also ordered the elders to attack.
If some elders were sent to the siege, the elders at the east gate were still the majority, and the number of elders of the coalition army was as high as twenty-four.
Seeing the figure of dozens of people rushing from under the city, Qi Zhen also knew that the coalition army was going to launch a general attack, Qi Zhen couldn't calm down anymore, and immediately shouted: "Ordinary soldiers, ordinary soldiers, immediately retreat to the second front, the elders only defend and not attack, just remember to drag the battle, you only need to drag, it's a big deal that we abandon the outer city", Qi Zhen's order was clear, obviously the last delay.
With the intervention of the elders of the coalition army, the battle situation on both sides has also become a one-sided trend, and the original spiritual technicians will have to be more than a dozen, because of the withdrawal of ordinary soldiers, their pressure has become greater, and the Qi family elders who participated in the battle, one person has to deal with four opponents' spiritual masters, looking at the scorching battle situation, how many times did Qi Wei want to make a move, but seeing the three Yao Ao who had been staring at him in the city, Qi Wei also suppressed the thoughts in his heart, after all, if he made a move, his side would have to deal with the three spiritual skill kings.
Seeing the clansmen die one by one, Qi Wei's face became more and more gloomy, and there were more and more coalition troops in the outer city, and the elders who were dealing with the coalition forces on the side were becoming more and more unbearable.
At this moment, it may be because of insufficient strength, or it may be because of a miss, an elder of the Qi family did not catch the opponent's move, and the next combined attack would take away his life. Qi Wei couldn't restrain it anymore, because the Spirit Master was the mainstay of a family, and he couldn't lose any of them. Seeing Qi Wei's movements, Qi Zhen immediately ordered: "Everyone, everyone retreats to the second front."
With Qi Zhen's order, Qi Wei also saved the elder, and everyone dropped the smoke bombs that had been prepared for a long time and quickly evacuated the outer city. Originally, Yao Ao and the three of them who saw Qi Wei make a move wanted to make a move immediately, but for a moment, Yao Ao seemed to feel something, and immediately shouted: "Everyone, everyone, all retreat, retreat at full speed."
Although I don't know why Yao Ao gave this order, most people still did it. But the Qi family had been prepared for a long time, and most of the coalition forces were still in the joy of breaking the city.
With a monstrous loud noise, the raging fire burned dozens of meters high for a while, and the wall that was more than ten meters high also collapsed. Looking at the scene in front of him, Yao Ao pounded the ground angrily, and Yao Ao realized that it was not that the Qi family's outer city did not make any preparations, but that the Qi family had already planted a bomb in the city wall when they were repairing the city, so it can be said that what they were waiting for was the current blow, and now although the city is broken, it has shed more blood.