The frenzied siege torrent suddenly stopped, like an intense movie suddenly pressed the pause button, this scene has an indescribable weirdness.

The scout hurriedly stepped forward, reporting everything he saw, his words were intermittent, Zhang Qi really had a hard time listening, anyway, it was not far away, so he simply stepped forward directly.

Lined up, there were several layers of thick shields in front of him, and when he walked out to take a look, even he was taken aback, no wonder the scout reacted like that.

It turned out that the bridge leading to the palace was destroyed at some point, although the river was not wide, but it was by no means a human force to jump over, let alone a shield battle that was difficult to move, and those guards shot across the river, and the human beings suffered heavy losses, so they had to temporarily retreat back with the shield.

This was beyond everyone's expectations, and no one thought that the other party would tear down the bridge, which is too spiritual.

The two sides withdrew from the range of attack, and the stalemate continued.

Returning to the camp, the relevant persons in charge of the various theaters were convened for a meeting to discuss, and some people proposed that they would drag it out, and when they ran out of food, they would naturally rush out and wait for work, but if you consider that these guards have been in the inexplicable space for tens of millions of years, you know that they are all starving to death, and these guards will not die.

Old Bula proposed: "Why don't we build a bridge, but instead of building it as usual, just build an ordinary passable one." ”

Zhang Qi shook his head, if this method worked, he would have proposed it a long time ago, the problem is that the people standing opposite are all bows and arrows, even if it is a shield battle, it can't withstand their damage, not to mention those civilians, building a bridge can only increase casualties, and if the bridge is built too easily, I'm afraid it will be difficult to withstand those heavy shield battles.

At this time, Gongsun Gong stood up and said: "The old man has an idea, my Gongsun family does the logistics industry at home, and at that time encountered the problem of manpower success when the bulk cargo transportation was carried out in Beechcraft, of course, one of my housekeepers gave me an idea, that is, to use the moat to take water transportation, so that the transportation between the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and southeast is much more convenient, at that time I felt feasible, so I sent him to carefully inspect the moat, and found that the river under the river extends in all directions, and it is also connected to the big river outside the city, And the river outside the Imperial City is also its tributary, and there is only one tributary......"

When Gongsun Gong said this, Zhang Qi suddenly woke up, and then he said: "Gongsun seniors mean that we block the entrance of this river, judging from the width of this river, at most half a day, this river will dry up, and we can throw stones and other things remotely by catapults, and we can completely turn this river into a flat road." ”

Gongsun Gong smiled admiringly: "Your Majesty is really amazingly wise, the little old man understood as soon as he said it, but the little old man only thought of cutting off the water source, but he didn't think of using the catapult to fill the river, and the little old man admired." ”

Zhang Qi smiled politely, and then said: "This idea is really good, but there are two problems in it, one is that since the moat is so big, how wide the river is, and the big river connecting the outer city, once we block this tributary, the pressure of the plug will be extremely great, whether it can hold it is a problem, even if it can hold it, I am afraid that the time is limited." Second, once the blockade is broken and the estuary on this side is blocked, wouldn't the entire inner city be in danger of being flooded, and the loss would be too great. ”

Shangguan Yun said: "Your Majesty is compassionate and compassionate, it is still the blessing of Mafa, but those who become big things are not informal, even if Biqi is damaged, once the human race takes the initiative, it is not difficult to rebuild Biqi, I believe everyone can understand this, as for the problem of river water outside the city, we only need to mobilize all the civilians who did not participate in the river dredging operation, with our huge manpower, even if we have a spoonful of people, even if we can't avoid the danger of rushing to the mouth, at least we can greatly extend the time, we are confident that we can conquer the imperial city during this time." ”

Shangguan Yun's words are deeply in line with Zhang Qi's meaning, in fact, Zhang Qi who said it has also thought about it, but if he says it, it will show that he is not benevolent enough, and even has the suspicion of quick success, and the loss of labor and money, but Shangguan Yun said this, but it has achieved Zhang Qi's noble quality.

"Since all the kings have this intention, if they oppose it, they are bent on doing it." Zhang Qi sighed, then his expression was straight, and he stood up and said, "Listen to the order!" ”

"Gongsun Gong led a team to rush to the outside of the city to arrange the matter of blocking the estuary."

"Yes!" Gongsun Gong took the order.

"Liu Xiaosan, you quickly mobilize the heads of each district, and let the nearby people bring things that pass through the water nearby, or lead or dig, and make every effort to delay the impact of the estuary."

"Yes!" Liu Xiaosan also received the order.

"Lord Jin Alliance, quickly mobilize catapults, and once the river starts to be blocked over there, prepare to fill the river immediately."

"Yes!" The Lord of the Golden Alliance came out with the order.

"Everyone else obeys my orders, and as soon as they get through, they will immediately attack the city with all their might."

"Yes......"

The war machine turned again, in the end, Zhang Qi had no last resort, full preparation, the head of the division was already on standby, once the order was launched, all the civilians who could move began to attack the river, and Gongsun Gong personally pointed out several key blockages according to the waterway map drawn last time, and prepared to block the river.

In order to block the river, many people even demolished the bed boards and doors at home, and some people even wrapped themselves in quilts, the so-called unity of mind, probably this is the best portrayal.

Time passed little by little, Zhang Qiyan watched the river go down little by little, until he could see the riverbed below, he waved his hand, the trebuchet roared, sandbags, stones, and planks were thrown indiscriminately, fortunately, the target this time was the riverbed, not with such high accuracy, and the river surface was quickly filled.

In order to disperse the strength of the guards and reduce casualties, Zhang Qi asked the catapult to throw it at several points, so that several "passage points" were formed, and the legion was still divided into several places, and once the attack was launched, it was equivalent to widening the road.

Seeing that the time was slowly ripe, Zhang Qi shouted: "Kill!" ”

The real fight to the death has just begun!

The shield battle was topped with a thick shield, and it was quickly advanced under the joint push of the two, although it lost the advantage of the city wall and distance, but in the same way, the power of the bow and arrow was also enhanced at close range, and before it reached the other side, almost all of the previous batch of shield battles fell under the temporary bridge, and their bodies and shields were filled into new "bridges".

The shield battles behind were not timid because of everything in front of them, but the blood and lives of their comrades aroused their determination to die, these shield battles, long before the siege of the city was deployed, signed a life and death certificate, become a member of the death squad, once they died in battle, their families will be responsible for the future life security and the guild, the guarantor is the guild boss, so there is no worry about them all, so they have long been prepared to die.

Stepping on the corpses of their comrades, they chanted the slogan of freedom, staring at the front with blood-red eyes, using all the strength of their bodies to push the huge shield forward, for them, every extra strength, one more second of speed, it is possible to give thousands of soldiers around them a little more hope of survival, even if the strong arrow is inserted into the chest, as long as they still have a breath, they will never stop moving forward.

One batch, two batches, three batches......

As batch after batch of shield battles fell, their blood had already stained this waterless river red, and each of them had no less than two sharp arrows inserted in their identities, and finally ......

Finally insisted on reaching the attack distance of the human mage, the most advanced mage group was sweating all over their hands, they had been preparing to chant their most powerful magic for a long time, and when they reached the distance, a group of ice falling from the sky roared like snow in June, and even the hottest August made people's hairs stand on end.

Under the all-out attack of magic, ice magic makes the actions of the bow and arrow guards a little stiff, and the thunder and lightning magic makes their vitality decline rapidly, and their first reaction is to counterattack, since you hit me, and the guards with an advantage in attack distance can naturally hit them, so they began to launch a counterattack against the mages in the rear.

The mage's body is the most vulnerable, in order to ensure the strongest attack effect of magic, their armor is the most brittle, a round of counterattack by the bow and arrow guard, which caused the mage to be killed on the spot almost with one person and one arrow, and the human race suffered heavy losses again, but this is valuable, because it is precisely because the mage transferred the attack power of the guard with his life, so that the knife battle in front of him hiding behind the shield jumped up, and an arrow rushed over, rushing straight into the guard formation, launching the most primitive hand-to-hand combat bloody battle.

These warriors who acted as vanguards were some of the most skilled warriors of the guilds, and they naturally had a lot of experience in cutting into long-range archers, and they knew that shield battles and mages had bought them precious time with their lives, and when they rushed into the guard formation, their swords unleashed the most brutal attack without reservation.

The reason why the word tragic is used here is because these soldiers have completely given up any possibility of defense, and any one defensive action means that several, more than a dozen or even hundreds of comrades-in-arms have died for this, so even if they see a sharp arrow rushing to the chest, they will not do any dodging action, but use all their strength to make the strongest move in their lives.

The madness of the war cadres finally tore through the original impermeable defense of the guards, like a leaky ship, and constantly there were war cadres pouring in from this hole, and as more warriors joined, the long-range advantage of the bow and arrow guards was gradually lost, and the Taoist priests began to play their irreplaceable role.

On the other hand, they join the front line of the battle, using flexible movements, wandering behind various shield battles, constantly casting poison spells on the guards on the battlefield, and casting healing spells on those injured warriors, but they are the most dangerous group of people, because they do not have the strong body of a warrior, nor can they hide far behind like a mage, one is not careful, A single arrow can kill them on the battlefield, but it is their presence that increases the efficiency of combat countless times.

However, bow and arrow guards are not the same as human mages, they have the advantage of long-range attacks, but it does not mean that they have the disadvantage of melee combat, and they don't know what material their armor is made of, a few melee full attacks can't kill a guard, this is not the same level as the bow and arrow guard combat power hired by Yuan Men at the beginning, when he saw this, Zhang Qi couldn't help but sigh that this imperial city is really black, and the price of the guards is so high, it is actually a defective product.

The guards are very powerful, and often humans have to pay a few, or even a dozen lives, to kill a guard, which is already the best outcome for humans who have an absolute advantage in numbers.

Although the Corpse King is extremely powerful, it is not as flexible as humans, such as raising shields, protecting, shooting, etc., they can't, so before this, they have not seen the Corpse King, but once they enter this kind of hand-to-hand combat, the time has come for them to start to exert their might.

Zhang Qi pointed at his hand, and a row of corpse kings behind him suddenly accelerated, rushing towards the guards frantically.

The warriors were surprised to find that these terrifying ugly killing gods now not only did not look ugly, but also very cute, the huge body gave them the greatest sense of security, and the pair of sharp claws were as tempting as cakes.

There is no fear in the brain of the corpse king, they face the powerful bow and arrow guards and face the human race, Zhang Qi's lore order, they launched the strongest attack on the guards, one claw down, directly knocked out most of the vitality of a guard, some more exaggerated directly grabbed people's heads, as Zhang Qi's level rose to forty-two, the corpse king's combat power was not the same as it was at the beginning of thirty-seven, more than twice as much.

Maybe the guards felt the terrifying combat power of the corpse king, or maybe it was the nature of dealing with monsters, the bow and arrow guards focused on the corpse king, the bow and arrow was a salvo at them, the corpse king would not dodge, even if they would, they did not avoid the bow and arrow so quickly, you must know that the bow and arrow guards even if they died part of it before, but there are still thousands of living forces, this round of volleys down, the most front row of corpse kings, each at least hundreds of arrows, was killed on the spot.

But at the same time, the Corpse King has bought a little free time for the humans, and the collective attack of the humans has once again caused the Guardian Legion to suffer heavy losses, and when the guards come back to their senses and attack the humans, the last group of Corpse Kings will charge again with the corpse of the Corpse King in front of them, and the result will fall into the previous cycle again.

Although these two rounds of guards have suffered heavy losses, this mode of human beings can only be launched once, or the "cooldown" time is very long, because to recall all the corpse kings, it will take a long time for the day, and during this time, it will be necessary for humans to fight for it with their lives, for humans, these two rounds of blows have made the invincible image of the guards in their minds collapse, and they do not retreat and counterattack, but expand the results again and again.

As soon as the time came, with the end of the daytime summoning, the second wave of corpse king attacks was launched again, with the experience of the previous time, the attack efficiency of the human race doubled again, this time more guards than the last time, and for a while, the on-site battle directly entered the climax.

Suddenly, a strange whistle came from the depths of the palace, and the bow and arrow guards who were still fighting to the death just now retreated like a tide, this move was very abnormal, no matter what, it was impossible for the guards to retreat, this was their fate, they could only die here, and there was absolutely no option to retreat.

Killing red-eyed humans don't think so, and chased after them like crazy to kill, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, it should be like this, but things are not as beautiful as people think, just when humans rushed to the last line of defense of the dynasty, the palace square in front of the palace, a person who was all dumbfounded appeared.

Or forcibly give it a different word, more precisely, it should be a group of people.

This group of people is not large, it seems that there are about more than 100 people, but these more than 100 people are like a spell that freezes everyone's pace of progress.

These people have uniform uniforms, even names, and they have a name that everyone knows - Broadsword Guard.