The dawn of dawn tore through the silence of the night.

Ling Wei closed the city.

Xue Yi was dressed in armor and his face was solemn, he stood on the city wall, the cloak behind him hunting under the howling wind.

There were tiny snowflakes floating in the sky, and I don't know if they were blown down from the snowy mountains by the wind or from the clouds on the sky.

The wind was howling, and the tiny snowflakes were hitting the armor, and the skin actually brought a faint stinging pain.

However, at this time, the soldiers of the city had no time to pay attention to this, and they all looked down on the city with heavy faces.

Under the city, on a fairly gentle hillside, the black and oppressive military array could not see the end at a glance, as if it was connected with the phantom of the lofty mountains at the end of the sky.

The drums of war beat and the flags fluttered.

The dull sound of the horn blew and shattered the frost in the sky.

The 300,000-strong army of the Fire Worship Court slowly advanced to the sound of war drums.

A moment later, tens of thousands of vanguard armies launched an attack on Lingwei Pass.

The course of the battle was extremely tragic.

Lingwei Pass City stands on the mountainside, condescending, plus the city is seven zhang, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, as if they could not see this, the court of the Fire Worship still sent tens of thousands of troops to attack the city, even if they built the ladder on the city wall, they still could not reach the city wall, and could only let the boulders, sasswood, and gold juice on the city wall smash and kill.

At the foot of the mountain.

Luo Yade looked like a soldier who was sent to death, and there was no emotion on his face.

Beside him, Mu Yanxin frowned.

"General, isn't it too much of a waste of troops to attack the city like this!

Even he, a martial artist who is not good at military affairs, can see that such a siege will definitely not be able to take Ling Wei Pass, but Luo Yade has no intention of stopping.

Luo Yade shook his head slightly, "If you want to break through Lingwei Pass, you can only attack the city like this!" ”

"Why?" Mu Yanxin was puzzled.

Royard didn't explain, just said, "Just wait and see!" ”

On the opposite city wall, Xue Yi also frowned.

Zhao Gao asked him to guard Ling Wei Pass for ten days, and to be honest, he didn't worry too much.

With the construction of Lingwei Pass, not to mention keeping it for ten days, it is guarding it for thirty days, and he is also confident.

However, in the face of such a siege method of the Fire Worship Palace, Xue Yi suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart.

As a general, you must not look at the enemy too stupidly.

If the enemy does something that seems stupid, it must have another purpose.

He was sure that Royad, the great general of the Fire Worship Court, was definitely not a stupid person. So what is he doing such a stupid thing for?

"More than thirty years ago, Lingwei Pass was broken because of internal problems, and this time I have already known the hidden dangers inside, and it is absolutely impossible for them to break through Lingwei Pass from the inside."

"So how do they want to break through Lingwei Pass this time? Could it be that they really filled Ling Wei Pass with corpses? ”

"Corpses!"

Xue Yi looked at the corpses pressed down layer by layer, and his brows furrowed into a pimple.

Bang Bang Bang!

At this moment, the enemy troops on the opposite side retreated, leaving only corpses all over the ground.

And Xue Yi looked at it for a long time and didn't find anything abnormal.

This was the first attack of the Fire Worship Court, and it was a tentative attack, but they still left tens of thousands of corpses behind.

In the following days, the Fire Worship Court launched an attack every day, three times a day, in the morning, noon and evening, and the time was fixed without any change.

This kind of siege made Xue Yi feel even more strange.

It's just that he couldn't figure out what the hell Royard was up to.

Lingwei Pass is not an ordinary pass, but a real military fortress.

Compared with Yunyan City, Xiangshan City, and Nanyang City, it is a stronger side fortress, and its difficulty is comparable to that of Shuzhou's Jianmen Pass.

Shuzhou Jianmen Pass is known as the first pass of Dali, and Lingwei Pass can be called the second pass of Dali.

Not only is the terrain dangerous, but the city is fully equipped with defensive equipment.

Rolling stones, sasswood, cauldrons, golden juices, crossbows, etc., there is no shortage of everything.

If you want to capture such a fortress, the difficulty can be imagined.

However, for several days, Loyad attacked the city in an extremely clumsy way, which was simply to send the soldiers of the Fire Worship Court to their deaths.

Such an unreasonable move made the uneasy emotions in Xue Yi's heart continue to surge.

He always felt that he had overlooked something, but he couldn't think of what it was.

Not only did he not think of it, but even the generals under his command were full of confusion.

In the blink of an eye.

The time came to the ninth day agreed between Xue Yi and Zhao Gao.

As long as he holds on for another day, his agreement with Zhao Gao will be completed.

At this time, the corpses under the city of Lingwei Pass had reached 100,000 in size, and the corpse mountain had been buried halfway up to the city wall.

It was freezing cold, but the corpses did not decompose, and even had a tendency to freeze, which looked even more terrifying.

In the past two days, the siege of the Fire King Court has been carried out by stepping on these corpses.

You must know that the Fire Worship Court only has a total of 300,000 troops, but it has 100,000 soldiers under this Lingwei Pass.

The dark and dreary night seemed to be smeared on the sky with boundless thick ink, and there was not even a glimmer of stars.

The howling cold wind seemed to push the dim night and swallow everything.

on the city walls.

The soldiers who were keeping vigil stomped their feet tiredly.

Exhausted, they were drowsy, but the cold wind made them afraid to sleep.

Once asleep, what awaits them is likely to be frozen to death.

The silence of the night was a little terrible except for the howling of the cold wind.

Suddenly.

A slight noise sounded, but under the howling of the cold wind, it did not attract the attention of the night watchman.

But then the noise grew louder and louder.

Click, click, like something breaking.

There are more and more voices like this.

At last the night watchman heard.

"What a sound!"

The night watchmen looked down at the city, but unfortunately it was so gray that they could hardly see anything.

Click, click~~

The sound is getting louder.

The soldiers heard it.

They looked at each other with panicked expressions.

"Quick, quick, there is an abnormality, warning!" Someone shouted.

Woo woo ~ ~

The dull sound of the horn suddenly resounded into the night.

The silence of Lingwei Pass immediately became noisy.

Xue Yi, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by the sound of a horn and jumped up from the bed suddenly.

He was still wearing iron armor, and with a long sword in his hand, he galloped in the direction of the city wall.

"What's going on?"

However, when he came to the city wall, there was only a large number of soldiers gathered on the wall, and there was no fighting.

"General, there are some strange sounds!"

Someone reported it.

It's just that there are more and more soldiers climbing the city walls, and the noisy sound masks other anomalies.

"Silence!"

Xue Yi snorted coldly.

Suddenly, there was silence on the city walls.

Click, click~~

Strange sounds became apparent.

Xue Yi's face changed.

He grabbed a torch and threw it down the city.

Under the dim firelight, strange figures were trembling slightly, and their stiff hands and feet were swinging and shaking.

The pupils in Xue Yi's eyes shrank suddenly.

All the soldiers on the city wall turned pale.

It was as if an icy chill had frozen them.

"He, he, he, how did they live again?"

Someone asked with a trembling stammer.

Xue Yi's face was also pale, and his heart was also trembling.

But he still had a shred of reason in his heart.

Ghoul art!

He suddenly remembered an evil spell.

It is a legend from the countries of the Western Regions.

Legend has it that thousands of years ago, someone in the Western Regions used the art of ghouls to control thousands of corpses, and this person was made a god of death by the people of the Western Regions, which means that the existence of death can be controlled.

However, this is just a legend, no one knows whether it is true or not, and there are no books about it.

Everyone thinks it's fake, but now everything proves that the legend is true.

100,000 ghouls!

Xue Yi shuddered suddenly.

"Quick, set fire!"

He roared loudly.

The next moment, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly woke up and were busy one by one.

On this bare mountain, it was not easy to set fire, but fortunately, the materials in Lingwei Pass were quite abundant.

Jars of lamp oil and bundles of firewood were carried up the city walls.

There are not many trees in the city, and those trees are all under the city, and many astute generals directly led their soldiers to dismantle the door panels, desks, and even beds.

At this time, they can't care about anything else.

Although they didn't know if the flames would stop the ghouls, they put all their hopes on the flames.

In extreme fear, they just want to ignite the flame, the bigger the better.

It is the flame of hope, the flame that can dispel fear.

As bundles of firewood were lit, and cans of lamp oil were spilled, flames rose from all over the walls.

Billowing smoke almost touched the ground under the howling cold wind.

In the flames, countless figures were still vibrating, and they became more flexible, no, it should be them.

In the flames, they began to climb up the walls, but before they could climb the walls, they were burned to ashes by the flames.

It's just that there are countless ghouls surging behind them, and they drown the flames, only countless black smoke billowing under the cold wind.

Under the thick smoke, the soldiers on the city wall were choked and coughed.

The smoke mixed with the smell of burning was particularly choking.

Xue Yi's face was gloomy and uncertain.

The flames obviously couldn't stop the ghouls, and even because of the smoke brought by the flames, it was difficult for the soldiers to fight anymore.

At the beginning, Qin Wei broke through the Pingman Pass with thick smoke, but now Xue Yi and the others set fire to themselves.

In fact, it was not a trap for themselves, at least the fire brought a lot of damage to those ghouls, delaying their time to rush to the city wall.

At this time, Xue Yi didn't have time to think about it, and directly ordered: "Exit the city wall!" ”

The city wall could no longer be defended, but they could not give up Lingwei Pass, so they could only retreat into the city.

In just a few breaths, Xue Yi had already made a decision.

As he gave orders, the soldiers retreated from the walls and built rudimentary fortifications in the streets and between the houses.

Smoke billowed and draugr crawled in layers, setting up a ladder on the majestic city wall like a stack of arhats.

About half an hour later, a large number of ghouls appeared on the city walls.

And inside the city, Xue Yi had already commanded the soldiers to prepare for the battle with the ghouls in the city.

In the face of these terrifying ghouls, the soldiers felt shudders, and fear swirled in their hearts.

But Xue Yi knew very well that they couldn't give up Ling Weiguan.

Fighting, there is still a glimmer of life, if they give up Ling Wei Pass, they have only a dead end.

Within hundreds of miles around Lingwei Pass, there were desolate mountains and mountains, and if they left Lingwei Pass in a hurry, what awaited them would be cold and hungry.

Seeing the ghouls surging like a wave, the soldiers finally fought with them.

Ghouls are fearless, have no pain, and will still attack even if they have severed their hands and feet.

Only by cutting off their heads will they really die.

There were only 60,000 defenders in the city, and the defenders lost more than 10,000 in these nine days of fighting, and now there are less than 50,000 soldiers who can fight.

There were 100,000 ghouls outside the city, and although many of them were burned by the flames, they were still more numerous than the defenders.

The two sides fought, and the defenders in the city were very difficult.

The will to survive keeps them desperate, but the terrifying ghouls make them desperate.

……

At the foot of the mountain.

Luo Yade and Mu Yanxin looked at Ling Weiguan with thick smoke.

Mu Yanxin's face was very ugly, he was naturally not worried about Ling Weiguan's soldiers, he just felt evil about this ghoul technique.

"That's what you do?"

"That's right!" Royard's face was as usual.

"The art of ghouls is too evil." Mu Yanxin said in a low voice.

Royard shook his head and said, "It's not magic that is evil, it's people!" ”

"For me, the means by which I can defeat the enemy are the means of good, whether evil or not."

Mu Yanxin was silent.

Although he didn't like it, Royard was right.

The ghoul technique is evil, but it can defeat enemies.

"How did you get the ghoul technique?" Mu Yanxin asked.

Luo Yade said: "We have always had the art of ghouls, but no one has successfully cultivated it before. ”

A chill flashed in Mu Yanxin's eyes.

He is the high priest of the Fire Worship Court, and the Fire King Court has always possessed the art of ghouls, and he doesn't even know it.

And it shouldn't be an easy thing to cultivate the art of ghouls, let alone envoy 100,000 ghouls, which is definitely not something that one person can do.

He didn't know anything about such an important matter, which was obviously because the Fire Worship Court didn't treat him as its own.

However, at this time, Mu Yanxin didn't care about this, but just hid the dissatisfaction in his heart.

……

On the windy peaks.

Zhao Gao stood with his hands in his hands, looking in the direction of Ling Weiguan.

He had already received the news of everything that had happened in Lingwei Pass.

Although it was only an hour's time, the members of the powerful Nets had already figured everything out.

He didn't make a move, and he didn't let the members of the net make a move.

Because even if he led the members of the net into battle now, it wouldn't help.

There were only a few hundred of them, and they couldn't stop the 100,000 ghouls.

Of course, he didn't sit idly by, he was waiting for news from the members of the net.

"My lord, their location has been found!"

Xiao Wu walked quickly behind Zhao Gao and said coldly.

"Where?" Zhao Gao asked.

"It's in the camp of the Fire King's Court!" Xiao Wudao.

Zhao Gao bowed slightly.

Zhao Gao didn't know much about the ghoul technique, but they knew that the ghoul technique needed to be performed by people, and the person who performed it must not be too far away.

It is enough to know this.

Eliminating 100,000 ghouls is far more difficult than solving the ghoul arts.

"My lord, we're going to destroy those people, right?" Xiao Wu couldn't help but say.

The ghouls are too wicked, and the ones who wield the ghoul spell are even more evil.

Zhao Gao shook his head, "Wait." ”

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait until dawn!" Zhao Gaodao.

"Dawn!"

Xiao Wu was puzzled.

"The ten-day period has come, and it is time for them to come." Zhao Gaodao.

"But Ling Weiguan's soldiers don't know if they can hold out until dawn." Xiao Wu said in a low voice.

Zhao Gao's face was cold, "Some sacrifices are necessary. ”

(End of chapter)