Chapter 207: Ji Ning's Dead End
Whether it was Ji Ning on the city wall or Hong Zhenguo under the city wall, they were all calmly observing the situation, hoping to find flaws in the other party's command.
Unlike wars between mortals, each monk, even as an individual, is capable of exerting an astonishing amount of destructive power, which puts even more pressure on the commanders, because they cannot afford to miss a single bit.
Of course, the minds of top monks can fully afford such calculations.
In the past two years, such wars have broken out almost every few days, and unlike the previous national wars, where almost no monks were killed, this war was even more cruel.
Although the monks' ability to protect their lives was much stronger, under such a dense attack, there were still many monks who could not withdraw in time after being injured and died in battle.
Of course, compared to mortal wars, the mortality rate is much lower.
Seeing that a fourth-grade monk was dragged into the formation by the other party, and under the condition of continuous attack, he decisively exposed himself to the Yuan Shen and killed and injured more than ten third-grade rebels around him, Ji Ning's heart was as unmoved as an ancient well.
What he has to consider is the situation of the entire battle situation.
The battle began to become more and more intense, the rebels attacked from all directions like a tide, their spells rained down on the wall, and in the case that each monk had the ability to attack from a distance, the strength of the rebels was greatly exerted!
However, the county soldiers are not without advantages, the thick county town as high as fifty zhang provides enough protection for the county soldiers, and the dense spells and prohibitions outside the city wall are also constantly causing damage to the enemy.
Originally, the city wall of the county town could only be repaired to forty zhang, but after the war began, Ji Ning concentrated the earth monks at hand and forcibly raised the city wall by ten zhang, such a thick city wall played a great role in the war.
As usual, after attacking for a period of time, the rebels will retreat, after all, the monk's spells are also cast by vitality, and the consumption of vitality is too large, and if you don't retreat in time, you will be more likely to be harmed.
However, today, Hong Zhenguo seems to be ruthless, and he is bound to take Penglai City today!
Penglai City, as a county town, itself occupies a traffic artery, and there is also a teleportation array in Penglai City that can directly reach the place where the royal family is still in control, just blocking the teleportation array of Penglai County, so that the entire rebel army has to consume a lot of resources every day, and at the same time, it also restrains a large number of rebels, so that the rebels cannot defeat the resistance of the Tian family with absolute superiority.
It seems that Hong Zhenguo has received a death order today, and he must take Penglai City.
Ji Ning sneered in his heart-Penglai City, is it so easy to take? You have not been able to take Penglai City for two years, let alone today, the city has sufficient materials to defend the city, the military strength is enough, and there are two fortresses to protect it, even if the other party's more than 300,000 people are filled in, they may not be able to take it!
The rebels attacked in turn, and all the monks who had consumed too much vitality would retreat, and then be replaced by newcomers, and after retreating, they would take pills to meditate and breathe to restore their strength, but the county soldiers did not have such preferential treatment.
It's just that the two fortresses in the sky continue to spray strong spell fluctuations, causing great damage to the rebels, and under the cover of the fortress, the county soldiers can also get the same respite.
Judging from this shape, let alone a day, even if you continue to attack for a month, you may not be able to take Penglai City!
Just when Ji Ning was counting in his heart, Hong Zhenguo, who was watching from afar, showed a strange smile on his face.
He leapt up and struck a blow at a fortress in front of Penglai County.
The soldiers of the fortress who had been prepared for a long time activated the shield, received Hong Zhenguo's blow, and then quickly launched a counterattack.
While Hong Zhenguo attracted the attention of this fortress, and the attacks of other rebels attracted the attention of Ji Ning and other warriors, another fortress had a red light on its body.
When Ji Ning noticed that something was wrong, it was too late.
A thick pillar of light was launched from the muzzle of the fortress cannon, and the target was not the rebels, but the western city wall of Penglai County!
"Hong Qingβ"
Ji Ning's eyes were cracked, and his halberd fingers shouted angrily.
Hong Qing is the name of another commander who sits in the fortress.
In the past two years, the other two commanders have been outstanding, and if it weren't for them sitting in two fortresses and being responsible for deploying the firepower of the fortresses, Ji Ning would not be able to control the entire army with one person.
Originally, Ji Ning had doubted whether there would be any problem with the two commanders, but after two years of fighting side by side, such doubts had long since disappeared.
But at this time, a fortress in charge of Hong Qing fired such a fatal shot!
In an unguarded situation, this cannon directly hit the western city wall, and the tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the city wall didn't even have time to scream, so they all turned into flying ashes, and the originally strong city wall also collapsed under this blow!
"Hahaha!"
Hong Zhenguo's laughter swept across the entire Penglai County.
"Ji Ning, let you be a ghost...... The one in charge of the fortress is no longer the Hong Qing you know, but my nephew of Hongfeng! He has been hiding under your command for two years, and finally found an opportunity to kill Hong Qing and take control of the entire fortress! Isn't it strange why we have been attacking continuously for half a month? Just to draw your attention and make you have no chance to discover that a fortress has changed its owner! Now, sons, kill me! Defeat Penglai County and slaughter the city! All the treasury will be divided equally!"
The rebels shouted their promises, and countless rebels changed the direction of their attack and began to swarm towards the west of the city wall!
There, there is no longer any obstruction, there is no protection of the city walls and the fortress above, and the county soldiers, who are absolutely inferior in numbers, have no chance!
Ji Ning made the most correct judgment.
"Withdraw! Withdraw! Withdraw! Hold on!"
The soldiers under Ji Ning's command loudly agreed and withdrew from the city one by one, and the only remaining fortress also sprayed more dense spell brilliance around, buying time for the evacuation of their comrades.
The inner city, the city above the county, there will be the inner city of the store, although the city wall is not as tall and thick as the outer city, but it is also quite good, and after the war, countless civilians came to Penglai County to get shelter, in order to protect the tens of millions of civilians from being harmed by the war between the two sides, Ji Ning also let all the civilians withdraw into the inner city to be protected, and now it also makes the evacuation of the county soldiers faster.
Half a day later, Ji Ning retreated into the inner city with the remnants of the army.
In the previous two years, Ji Ning's army had only lost less than 20,000 people, but in this mere half a day, the loss of his army had reached 30,000, more than the sum of the past two years.
Ten thousand monks in the fortress were killed, and more than 10,000 soldiers stationed on the western city wall were also directly killed, plus the losses on the way to retreat, the current military strength at hand of Ji Ning is only less than 50,000 scarred and weak tired soldiers.
And they are still facing an army of 300,000 rebels.
It's a dead end.
Ji Ning held on to the battlements of the inner city and looked down at the city.
There was anger in his eyes.
The anger was not just directed at Hong Zhenguo, but most of it was concentrated on a young man wearing red clothes and fluttering sleeves beside Hong Zhenguo.
This man is none other than Red Maple.
As the county guard of a certain place, Hongfeng is very familiar with the original commander of Hong Qing, after sneaking into Hong Qing's command alone, he has been lurking, and has not attracted the attention of others, until today, he suddenly shot and killed Hong Qing and took control of the entire fortress!
It is also because of the support of the family, with the support of a large number of innate five elements essence, that Hongfeng broke through from the fifth rank to the peak of the sixth grade, and only then did he have the strength to kill Hong Qing.
And this time he launched it, it can be said that he has made a great contribution to the rebels.
"Ji Ning, you are indeed a talent, you have been guarding the city for so long, and you can still leave so much military resources in the city, it can be seen that you have a good deployment, and now you are exhausted, even if you fall, it is not a crime of war, but the inability of Dongqi to support!"
Red Maple said leisurely.
Ji Ning smiled miserably.
"Even if I will, my brothers will not surrender...... Of the 100,000 robes, only half is left, and I will never surrender to such a sea of blood and hatred. β
Another commander covered in blood stepped forward, and the fortress he controlled had been destroyed by the attack of Hong Zhenguo and the fortress controlled by Hong Feng in the cover just now.
At this moment, the commander also let out a heroic laugh.
"Eastern Qi has raised an army for thousands of years, and as an imperial soldier, I am just dead, brothers, are you willing to fight to the death with me and Ji Ning?"
"Fight to the death! Fight to the death!"
The remnants of less than 50,000 monks roared loudly at the same time, after such a long fight, the two sides already had a deep feud in the sea of blood!
"If you don't want to do it, then kill them all...... Their Jin Dan and Yuan Ying, I want it. β
Hong Feng showed a cruel smile on his face, with so many immortal cultivators, it is enough for him to break through to the seventh grade, or even the eighth grade, right?
"Virtuous nephew, I'm going to divide half of these things. Hong Zhenguo also laughed.
"Of course, no problem. Red Maple laughed as well.
With the devouring technique of demon cultivation, he quickly increased his strength, which was the reason for the rapid expansion of the strength of the high-level of the two Red Qiao families, and a large number of innate five elements essence also allowed the Qiao family of the Hong family to cultivate more army of monks, and it was precisely because of this advantage that the Tian family was only able to reluctantly contain them and not make the battle situation more erosive.
It is clear that now the rebels can pull out this nail in the area and pave a better path for the next battle.
Ji Ning looked up to the sky, and then he looked to the west, which was the direction of the Eastern Qi royal family.
"The ancestors of the Ji family, the child is incompetent and failed to hold Penglai County, now, let the child use this life to make the last contribution to Dongqi. β
The inner city is different from the outer city, although the inner city also has tall and thick walls, but it is not protected by all kinds of forbidden spells and spells.
More than 300,000 rebels raised their hands at the same time, and the instant attack of 300,000 Dao Guanghua could turn the entire inner city into ashes.
And the fortress suspended in the air also shone with dazzling light.
With this blow, the resistance of Penglai County will no longer exist.
When Fang Rui approached Penglai County, he saw this scene.
Even if the rebels attack en masse, the first thing that will hit the inner city will be the huge fortress.