"Alas"

A sigh sounded softly, and Xu Yuan knew very well what Li Qingyan meant.

From the moment the barbarian army detoured to the south of the city, the fall of the Northern Blockade was already doomed.

When it will fall, in fact, does not depend on the determination and morale of the defenders, but on how much the barbarian side is willing to pay for the northern blockade.

If you want to change and break the game, you can only fight an eternal battle of winning more with less.

Li Qingyan did so, but failed.

The barbarian king is not Sun 100,000.

Although Li Qingyan made a lot of gains on this trip, under the absolute military disparity, even if the barbarian tribe lost twice as much as theirs, as long as he failed to break through the morale of the barbarians in one fell swoop and trigger a chain of defeats, then this trip would be regarded as a failure.

The post-war statistics file recorded that there were still about 60,000 combatable soldiers left in the North Closure City.

But the problem is that most of these 60,000 soldiers are second-line border troops with only eight or nine grades of cultivation, and the real two real elites in the city have been crippled in the decisive battle of Nancheng.

And there's more to it than that.

Today, the source crystal of the Great Formation of the Northern Closure City is in short supply, the Southern City Formation has been completely destroyed, the flying demon beasts are gone, and the snow in the sky has begun to fall again.

In silence,

Xu Yuan suddenly understood Li Qingyan's plan:

"You actually want to show weakness to the enemy when you go out of the city?"

"Not exactly."

Li Qingyan leaned on the table behind him, raised his fair chin, looked at the roof beam of the high barracks with a pair of phoenix eyes, and said in a leisurely tone:

"Horses, marching and fighting are all preparations with both hands, if this trip is successful, the siege of Beifeng can be solved. If it fails, it can also cause great damage to the barbarian army, so that they dare not pay a greater price to force the siege of the city. ”

Now that the Beifeng City has no protection from a large array, the barbarians only need to continue to bombard the city with those trebuchets that have performed miracles in the distance, and they can take this Beifeng Giant City that has blocked their southward footsteps for thousands of years without blood.

can rely on time to take this Beifeng remnant city without blood, and the barbarian king will naturally not consume military strength to attack in vain.

And this is what Li Qingyan wants.

If the barbarians really waited so long, the high-level cultivators she sent to the area of Dali Mountain to ask for help would be enough for Marquis Wu Cheng and Zong Qingsheng to come to their aid.

At that time, there were 'cloud bullets' to disperse the blizzard, and the entire barbarian army was a turtle in an urn.

Silence spread in the barracks, and Xu Yuan suddenly said faintly:

"So to speak. My act of having people detonate the 'Yunqi Bomb' in the area of Houting County really ruined Qingyan's plan. ”

His actions startled the snake and let the barbarians know about this killing move in advance.

And after learning that the blizzard in the area of Houting County was dispersed by the celestial weapons of Great Yan, and the elite of the sect began to move south, the barbarian king was left with only one desperate choice.

Regardless of the losses, he continued to storm the remnants of the Beifeng, occupied the Beifeng before the elite of the sect arrived, and completely blocked the 700,000 elites of Dayan in the snowfield.

Li Qingyan did not mean to blame:

"Don Ma, you also did bad things with good intentions, the barbarian king should not dare to go to the battlefield again if he was seriously injured, if it is properly dispatched, with the current military strength in the city, it is not difficult to hold those barbarians for two days, but this time there is a high probability that it will not be able to completely exterminate these barbarians."

After a pause,

Li Qingyan stared at Xu Yuan, pursed his lips and smiled: "Okay, go to the city wall with the main palace to walk, I need to stabilize the army's spirit over there." ”

The Yulin barracks were much empty, and the soldiers who had been patrolling the camp were gone, leaving only a few generals and soldiers in herald armor running around to give orders.

Out of the camp, Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan rode a horse along the empty avenue towards the city wall.

The barbarians' catapults continued to bombard everything in the Northern Blockade.

The white snowflakes fell silently from the sky like catkins, disturbing and not staining the dust, and fell softly on the ruins.

Walking all the way, Xu Yuan was silent all the way.

Horses' hooves step on the snow, leaving a hoof print on the road.

Some people wailed for help in the rubble, but no one paid attention.

Because some warriors were unwilling to go to the city wall to resist the enemy, they were held down and tortured under the pursuit of the border army of the sect.

There was a young man sitting by the ruins with a numb face.

There are also border troops who shuttle through the ruins to rescue the people.

When the word war falls on the head of an individual, it is the weight of Mount Tai.

The two of them drove across a street and arrived in Nancheng, Xu Yuan's brows couldn't help frowning.

The battlefield here is still not finished.

corpse

Large and small corpses, complete or mutilated.

The open space around the city wall was cleared out and the corpses of the Beifeng defenders were placed, and the white cloth was no longer enough in this amount, and the green cloth with no end in sight simply covered the bones of these soldiers, so that they would not be directly exposed to the corpse air.

Xu Yuan originally felt that he should have adapted to this kind of picture, but every time he saw it, he still couldn't help but make waves in his heart.

A few hours ago, they were probably still laughing and scolding with their comrades, saying that where the service was better, and if they could survive and pay the military salary, they would go together to have fun.

After a few hours, they were cold corpses that would never speak.

war

"Pony."

Li Qingyan's voice suddenly came from his side.

He looked back.

She looked at the bones of these soldiers, but her voice was calm:

"Remember what you said under the North Blockade."

Xu Yuan lowered his eyes, bowed his head slightly, and spit out three words:

"I won't forget."

Erection of monuments

Erect a monument to these who died in battle.

No matter what happens in the future, at least at this moment, they are all dying for the Great Flame.

When the words fell, neither of them said anything more.

Li Qingyan's arrival soon set off waves among the soldiers.

Not only the Yulin Army, but even the soldiers of many sect border armies showed a little excitement in their eyes.

It's complicated to say that the army is a place like this, but it's also easy to say simple, especially in this extraordinary feudal dynasty.

Soldiers always have a different kind of admiration for brave generals, not to mention Li Qingyan, a princess of the dynasty who is a noble nobleman.

And

In this dark and confused moment of the future, they need a "god" as a spiritual sustenance.

As the person who personally cut off the barbarian general's banner and one of the barbarian king's arms, Li Qingyan naturally became the "god" they needed in their hearts.

As the snow in the sky grew heavier, so did the soldier's field of vision.

As the minutes ticked by,

In the case that the great array was unable to maintain, most of the high-level disciples of the sect took the opportunity to flee, and also took away some of the high-level combat power in the Northern Closure City.

However, Li Zhaoyuan perfectly completed Li Qingyan's explanation to him.

The Northern Blockade, which had been almost paralyzed after a fierce battle, resumed operation again under his methodical scheduling.

Not only the martial artists, but even many ordinary people in the city were mobilized under the organization of his prince.

Dispatch Yuan Jing to charge the large array, and truckloads of city defense equipment were pulled out of the warehouse, and then sent to the city wall, and the armor of the fallen soldiers was removed and distributed to the temporarily recruited warriors.

The progress of the preparation for the entire Northern Blockade was in an orderly manner under Li Zhaoyuan's governance.

But alas, time is still not on their side.

The time left by the barbarians to seal the city in the north was not enough for Li Zhaoyuan to completely mobilize the entire army and civilians in the city.

In the blizzard, the sky was as dark as ink, and the alarm bell rang abruptly above the north seal.

Barbarians, once again began their siege.

First Night,

The barbarian army began to attack the southern city wall without a large array to protect it, and about 70,000 chivalrous regiments and dart warriors were thrown into the battlefield in batches, and the southern city wall was completely turned into a flesh and blood grinding plate.

On the second day,

After a night of hard fighting, these recruited warriors were rotated off the city wall due to excessive losses.

Li Qingyan personally led the mixed Yulin Army and the Black Scale Army to repel several attacks by the barbarians.

However, due to the shortage of soldiers, even if Li Qingyan organized a military formation, he was unable to maintain the long city defense line of Beifeng Nancheng.

At two moments, Li Zhaoyuan sent the last reserve to be thrown into the battlefield south of the city.

On the second day and night,

Li Qingyan ordered the bones of the soldiers to be burned to prevent them from becoming barbarian rations.

Half an hour later,

The northern and southern walls of the city were completely lost, and the barbarians occupied the city and began to spread around.

Until this moment, the battle situation in the North Lockdown City has completely entered the street battle.

The large chivalrous regiment and the dart company used the array crossbows issued to them, relying on the formations of various military camps, and struggled to block the pace of the barbarians' advance in the blizzard.

But these resistances all seem so futile in the face of the absolute disparity in military strength,

Before the hour of the night came, the entire southern city was still completely lost, and countless tall barbarian soldiers poured into the city like a tidal wave along the beast path.

Two hours later

The barbarian soldiers arrived at the heart of the Beifeng City, the Beifeng Mansion.

At dawn on the third day, the Beifeng Mansion was broken.

The remnants of the defenders in the city were forced to abandon all the remaining blocks and retreat to the last of the northern city, relying on the formation of the two giant military camps of the Black Scale Guard and the Lingshui Palace to defend it.

The barbarian army was blocked and could not attack for a long time, and tried to attack the north wall directly from the east and west walls, surrounding all the defenders in the city.

At this moment, the city protection array, which had not been activated for two days, was finally ordered to be opened by Li Qingyan, blocking the barbarian army's attempt to make dumplings.

At this point, the war was temporarily deadlocked.

The wind and snow are shaking, and the wind is blowing in all directions.

Standing on the north city wall, Li Qingyan looked down on the entire Beifeng Giant City with cold eyes.

In three days, the original rows of buildings in the city have been in ruins all over the place, and the smoke of gunpowder burning everywhere makes the city feel like the end has come.

After staring at it for a long time, Li Qingyan's eyes gradually became a little complicated, but these complexities eventually turned into a hot mist that dissipated into the air.

The shouting and roaring in the distance made this city gate tower exceptionally silent.

Xu Yuan stood aside, quietly watching the loneliness on her face.

For three days, he did not follow her, but remained within the northern walls.

But the Blackscale Guard reported to him everything she had done in the past three days.

From the south city wall to the south city, then to the government office, and finally retreat to the north city wall.

Kill the enemy, give the order, and retreat step by step unwillingly, until. There is no way back.

"Clear Flame." His voice was so soft that it was almost overshadowed by the shouting in the distance: "You grew up in this Beifeng, right?" ”

Li Qingyan didn't look back, looking at the chaotic Beifeng, his voice was very low:

"Of course, this palace was sent here by my father since I was a child, and it can be regarded as half of my homeland."

"Homeland?"

Xu Yuan sighed and slowly persuaded:

"Qingyan. It is pointless for this Beifeng to continue to hold. ”

Saying,

Xu Yuan glanced sideways at the wind and snow outside Beicheng.

There, there was a huge sect border army entrenched, but they had no intention of reinforcing at all.

When the dawn of the third day came, the elite of the sect in the area of Houting County had already arrived outside the Beifeng City, but they had no intention of coming for reinforcements, but began to set up camp outside the Beifeng City.

Li Qingyan's willow eyebrows furrowed slightly, he was silent for a few breaths, and shook his head with a slight chuckle:

"The bottom line of these sect people is still the same as always."

"Don't expect anything from the sect, they can always tell you what a surprise is."

Xu Yuan smiled and agreed when he heard this, paused and asked softly, "By the way, Qingyan, why don't you think they came to support?" ”

Li Qingyan raised his eyes and glanced at the sky covered by heavy snow clouds:

"They are waiting, waiting for Uncle Mu and Mr. Zong to converge in the south, they don't want to face all the main forces of the barbarians alone, the losses will be very large, anyway, we can't defeat the "Yunqi Bullet". ”

"Snort"

Xu Yuan chuckled when he heard this, and his eyes were a little cold when he looked at the direction of those camps: "I guessed the same as you, but there is one thing you seem to have forgotten." ”

Li Qingyan looked back at his smiling gaze, his beautiful eyes flashed, and he said with a smile:

"You're saying they're also waiting for the Barbarian King to make a choice?"

"yes."

Xu Yuan snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Didn't you say it before, if the barbarian king chooses to withdraw his troops, there is a high probability that these sects will sit idly by and let them go north." ”

Li Qingyan's eyes narrowed:

"Let the barbarians take advantage of the road to go north, and then it will be the defensive belt around Houting County."

The defensive line around Houting County is made up of several small and medium-sized border towns, which had been destroyed before, but had become somewhat solid after months of repairs.

Xu Yuan naturally understood the other party, and sighed:

"Letting the barbarians pass, these sects will not only recover the captured Beifeng City, but also allow the barbarians to take over the Houting defense line that they repaired."

After a pause,

Xu Yuan gently pressed his hand on the cold and biting battlements:

"In this way, the only army trapped in the northern snow field is Hou Ye and Mr. Zong, why not?"

“.”

The wind and snow blew the long hair of the woman in red, and her voice did not carry any emotion: "Hongu. Sooner or later, this group of people from the sect will be wiped out. ”

Looking at her anger, Xu Yuan reminded again:

"So, shall we withdraw?"

Li Qingyan pondered for a moment, looked sideways, and asked without answering:

"Horse, where did Yuan Hao go?"

Hearing this, Xu Yuan's eyes showed just the right amount of doubt:

"Yuan Hao? He's gone? ”

Li Qingyan's voice was slow:

"In the past three days, this palace has never seen him, nor has he received reports from other generals about him, with his ability, he should not be so obscure."

Xu Yuan frowned:

"I don't know about this, I guess I either escaped or died in battle."

Speaking of which,

Xu Yuan took out a lens and crushed it.

He's going to shake someone to pick him up and run away.

Mr. Jiu, who escorted Li Yunqing to Houting County, had already returned to the city of Beifeng before the barbarians attacked the city.

But after counting the interest,

Mr. Jiu didn't come, but let Xu Yuan smell a poisonous fragrance of flowers.

Lou Ji is back.

After appearing, Lou Ji nodded at Li Qingyan, then looked at Xu Yuan with a smile, and said in a low voice:

"We're finally willing to go?"

"When it's done, we have to go."

Lou Ji was on the side, Xu Yuan's words were much more direct, and he replied as a matter of course: "And it may be a little late if you don't leave." ”

Li Qingyan's phoenix eyes narrowed when he heard this:

"It's done. What's the matter? ”

Xu Yuan looked back and grinned, and pointed to the north city wall at his feet:

"Thanks to you, Your Highness, I am free to enter and exit any part of the northern city wall."

Li Qingyan's red pupils shrank slightly, as if he realized something:

"What do you mean?"

Xu Yuan shook his head and just said:

"Qingyan, everything is something that can only be gained, I will wait for you in the area of Houting County."

Lou Ji smiled when she heard this, and waved her hand at Li Qingyan:

"Little sister, my sister took Changtian away first~"

Words fall,

The wind and snow were still there, and the figures of the two disappeared above the city

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