The wind and snow vanished under the power of the clouds.

The earth saw the light of day again, the sky was blue, and the warm sun was sprinkled outside the Beifeng City, just like before the ancient times.

The frozen blood and frozen bones on the brown ground tell of the war and death that had just taken place here.

The snow clouds dissipate followed by a brief warmer temperature, and the blood ice on the ground begins to melt and seep into the soil as nutrients.

In the coming year, the flowers and plants here are expected to be lush and beautiful.

But in the coming year, most of the people here will not be able to see it, because the war is not over,

The massive Northern Lockdown City with the collapse of the northern wall has now turned into a huge flesh grinding disc, constantly devouring the lives of the living.

The momentum of the barbarians is like a rainbow, and the 300,000 sect border troops are also trying to make the last resistance.

But the barbarian offensive was wave after wave, stretching like a tidal wave.

As a big-headed soldier with no background, Li Zixiang had come to this northern realm from the martial arts hall under the Lingshui Palace for five years.

Compared with those veterans who have been in the north for more than ten years or even decades, his five years are not a long time, but they just happened to be a good time for the barbarians to invade the south.

War is both a danger and an opportunity.

When he first saw these tall and burly people with hideous faces on the battlefield, Li Zixiang actually had a natural fear in his heart, but then he gradually found that his fear was a little funny.

These barbarians are all silver-like pewter spearheads, and the Great Yan Border Army will shatter when they touch it.

What a bunch of idiots.

I can't fight it, and I still want to come south to invade Dayan, isn't this a stupid thing?

Every time he goes to battle, he can get a lot of military feats from this group of dark-skinned stupid big guys.

gave him a chance to get ahead without background or family background.

In just five years, he has gone from being a pawn to being the Duber he is today.

He was not a big official in the army, but he also had about fifty brothers under him.

In addition to keeping enough for his own cultivation, he can also go to the hook column to meet his old friend, and even made an appointment to redeem her when he saves enough money, so that she can give birth to a big fat boy for him.

But at the moment, these thoughts have come to naught.

On the fourth watch day before yesterday, the generals who had been telling them to stand by for help suddenly issued an order for them to immediately light a fire and prepare to pull out the camp.

He was puzzled, but he did it, because the generals definitely thought of a lot more than he was.

And just as he thought,

At dawn

Those high-ranking generals once again used that kind of immortal magic to open God's eyes and disperse all the damn snow clouds in the sky.

The barbarians who were surrounding the camp were directly exposed to their line of sight.

It's close.

It was about ten miles east of their camp.

Li Zixiang thought that this would be a vicious battle, and he was even a little excited about it.

After all, these barbarians are all military merits, and with more military merits, he may be promoted to general next year.

As a porter who used to sell coolies on the docks, this was something he could not have imagined.

But there is always a certain gap between the ideal and the reality.

The generals gave the order not to prepare to meet the enemy, but to avoid the barbarian army and form a camp into Beifeng.

This made Li Zixiang, who was eager for military merits, a little disappointed, because in the case of clear weather, unless the barbarians were looking for death, it was impossible for them to choose to face their 300,000 army head-on.

However, there must be gains if there are losses, and soon the general's order made Li Zixiang excited again.

As a subordinate border army of Lingshui Palace, Li Zixiang became the vanguard of entering the city.

The barbarians will inevitably leave some of the defenders in the North Closure City, as long as he captures the city, then this is a great achievement.

But alas,

From the very beginning, the script of the battlefield seemed to start to get out of hand.

The barbarians' countless slings of ordnance fell on the way of their vanguard formation, but this was not a matter for the army to become a large army.

The soldiers resonated, and the qi and blood like the tide of the sea directly beat all these flying things into powder.

And the barbarians don't want to die.

In clear weather, they dared to pursue the large army that had formed a camp.

Countless barbarian wolf riders rushed directly into the rear army like moths to fire.

War is on the verge of breaking out.

Li Zixiang thought that the generals would let them change the military formation immediately.

The front army turned to the rear army, spread out the troops, and lined up to meet these barbarians who did not know whether they were alive or dead.

But the general chose to fight and retreat, and let these former troops take the head of the northern city as quickly as possible.

The military order is like a mountain, and if you don't understand it, Li Zixiang can only do it.

After several hours of fierce fighting, they managed to defeat the small number of barbarian forces entrenched on the top of the city and capture the northern city wall.

30,000 vanguard elites entered the city to clean up the remnants of the barbarian troops in the city, 100,000 Chinese troops quickly swept the city walls, and the quartermaster quickly arranged some simple city defense equipment on the city, ready to meet the rear army into the city.

Over time,

As the striker among the forwards, Li Zixiang was already red-eyed in the city, and the brothers beside him fell one after another.

The spirit knife in his hand curled up because of the barbarian's hard black skin, and he picked up the dead comrades on the ground at will.

With the blessing of the military array's qi and blood, even if he only has a six-rank cultivation, his five-rank soul condensation cannot be hard-connected with each sword.

Knife after knife, Li Zixiang couldn't remember how many barbarians he had killed, but the black blood had already stained all the armor on his body black.

And just as their vanguard troops were about to arrive at the southern city wall and completely regain the northern blockade, a roar like an earth dragon turning over exploded behind them.

Time, in this moment, seems to stand still.

The earth-shattering roar made the ground tremble throughout the Northern Lockdown City, and almost everyone looked back in the direction where the voice came from.

In the stunned eyes of all the border soldiers,

The giant wall of the North Seal, which had stood in front of the barbarians for thousands of years, collapsed.

The ground cracked in the landslides, the debris splashed, and the smoke and dust raised from the collapse shrouded half of the Northern Lockdown City.

To the horror of all the grassroots generals, the connection between the small military formation they formed and the commander was also severed at this time.

The original momentum of the military spirit is turbulent at this moment.

The collapsed giant wall blocked the more than 100,000 broken army that had been preparing to enter the city outside the city, and the loss of contact with the commander made the super-large army formation condensed by the 300,000 border army fall into its own battle.

The originally orderly battle situation began to become chaotic, and the balance of war began to tilt at this moment.

An hour later, Li Zixiang successfully climbed the south city wall and looked back at the city.

Under the clear sky, there is the Beifeng giant city full of gunsmoke.

The screams of their comrades could also be heard on the southern city wall.

Collapsed

"Plum head."

"Li Tou."

"Li Tou!"

A shout from beside him woke Li Zixiang from his memories and subconsciously glanced around.

The surroundings are no longer the giant city of Beifeng, but a white snowfield, the sky is falling and the snow is almost completely obscured their vision, more than a dozen soldiers wrapped in overcoats sit quietly around to rest, and next to the tree where he is sitting is a young man wearing ordinary border army armor.

Raising his eyes to look at the comer, Li Zixiang smiled reluctantly:

"Li Xia, what's wrong?"

The person who came was a young man in his twenties, who had just graduated from the martial arts hall and came to the northern realm this year.

Li Xia slightly tightened the warm coat on his body and said in a low voice:

"Li Tou, General Hou just sent a message saying that we will be able to arrive in Houting County soon, let me wait and prepare to start pulling out the camp and advancing."

Li Zixiang was silent for a while, glanced back at the soldiers around him who were demoralized, and asked, "We. . . Is this a way to get rid of the attacks of those barbarian wolf riders? ”

A smile appeared on Li Xia's green face: "Well, General Hou said that Marquis Wucheng's reinforcements have arrived in the area of Houting County, and there is a high probability that the barbarians will not dare to chase deeply." ”

Hearing this, Li Zi's heart was also slightly relaxed, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and he smiled sincerely:

"That's fine, that's fine."

It has been four days since the defeat of Beifeng, and the armies have broken through separately, and the barbarian tribes are in hot pursuit in the rear.

At first, the weather was clear, and they were able to fight and retreat, but this weather only lasted for two days, and the blizzard fell again, and their remnant army of less than 20,000 was targeted by a snow wolf rider of the barbarians.

After two days of pursuit, they left the corpses of thousands of brothers in the snowy field.

Of his fifty brothers, only a dozen or so remain.

But fortunately, Houting County arrived, and they were finally safe

After the whole army learned that Hou Ting was coming, the originally low morale finally warmed up a little, and there was a glimmer of hope in the blank eyes of the grassroots soldiers.

Food, weapons, and safety can be guaranteed there.

Under this belief, after a rapid march for two hours, their remnants finally arrived at the foot of Houting County.

But the situation after arriving was a little different from what Li Zixiang had imagined.

There was no hot water, no hot food, no warm rooms, and not even the tall, heavy gates of Houting County had the slightest intention of opening.

Li Zi subconsciously thought that the defenders had mistaken them for barbarians, and walked quickly to the front of the military column.

He saw General Hou and the young female general from the other military headquarters standing under the city wall.

The two of them raised their heads, as if they were talking to the people on the city walls, but they were supposed to be using a transmission, and they couldn't hear each other.

And on the other hand,

Two red-clothed figures were standing on the wall of the Hou Pavilion, looking down indifferently at their remnants who had fled here with all their might.

Time passed minute by minute, and the city gate still had no intention of opening, and even some advanced cultivators in the army crossed the wind and snow to see that the city guarding equipment on the city wall had been quietly aimed at them.

And at this time,

A male voice as warm as jade passed through the blessing of Yuan Qi, and came from the city wall into the ears of every soldier under the city:

"General Hou and General Luo, as long as you agree to this condition, we will immediately open the city to welcome your army into the city, my son is not patient, a quarter of an hour should be enough for you to consider."

Condition?

When Li Zixiang heard this, his eyes were even more puzzled, and he glanced at the two generals in front of him.

But I saw that the expressions of the two generals, a man and a woman, were so black that they could drip water.

On the other hand, the soldiers who had begun to talk in a whisper, and the remnants of the army, which had gradually stabilized, gradually became chaotic at this moment.

In confusion, Li Zi looked at the two figures on the city wall.

The man on the city wall seemed to be aware of it, and swept his eyes with a smile, but left in an instant.

Xu Yuan retracted his gaze, wrapped his coat, and asked half-jokingly:

"Qingyan. Isn't the condition you're giving a little too much? ”

Li Qingyan's red lips hooked, he was in a very good mood, he laughed, and glanced at the man beside him:

"Surrender all the Sumeru Rings and ordnance supplies?"

Xu Yuan exhaled a mouthful of white mist, stared at the remnants below, and said faintly:

"Yuan Hao came to the news yesterday that he has successively received about 30,000 defeated soldiers, and overall calculation, we can probably receive about 70,000 or 80,000 remnants of the army for reorganization, and the feeling of the empty glove white wolf is really good, tsk."

(End of chapter)