258 The Fall of the Shang Kingdom, the Self-Reliance of the Two Domains, the Chaos of Huanhua, and the Resurgence of the Beacon Smoke
The black-clothed old man was covered in a cold sweat, and he couldn't even have the slightest idea of resisting the little white jade palm, because the unrestrained aura behind him made him know that it was a terrifying existence that could kill him in seconds!
"Giggles, you are really careless, you dare to withdraw all your defenses and prepare to flee without even finding out if there are strong enemies around, I really don't know how your cultivation in this life and death realm came from." A coquettish voice came.
"Your Excellency, the old man is not a person from the Shang court, but he has just been worshiped by the Long family, and now he is willing to give up this offering and leave, and he will never be an enemy of your sect from now on, please raise your noble hand." The old man in black said.
As soon as the old man in black finished speaking, he felt a pain in his qi sea, and then the two acupuncture points in the middle of the body and the Lingtai were numb again, and suddenly beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, and he said in a trembling voice: "Your Excellency, why do you want to seal my cultivation, you don't seem to have that need!" β
"Hehe, of course this girl is not afraid of you, but the person who guards you is not good, so I have to wronged you first, and when I see my master, he will send it to you." Mei Ji walked up to the old man in black and laughed.
When the old man in black saw Mei Ji for the first time, his eyes were straight, and a light called possession burst out in his eyes, but when he stretched out his hand, he suddenly found that his life and death were already in the hands of others.
Mei Ji seemed to be very satisfied with this performance of others, giggled, waved her hand behind her, and said, "Take it down." β
It didn't take long for the defenders of Cuizhu City to be routed on all fronts, nearly 40,000 of them surrendered, and the rest were all killed, not even a single one escaped, Dongfang Minghui looked at the cronie who surrendered and said, "What's your name?" β
"Villain Yang Jing has seen all the adults!" The cronies bowed.
"Yang Jing, the old man now wants you to take us to that secret passage, to an acropolis near Cuizhu City, make a surprise attack, and take it down, are you willing to go?" Dongfang Minghui Road.
"The villain obeys." Yang Jing responded, but hesitated for a moment before turning around to leave.
His smiling gesture was captured by Gao Xuan Zhunjian, and said, "Wait, Yang Jing, you seem to have something to say just now?" β
Yang Jing turned around and hurriedly said: "The villain is just a general, how dare you say more!" β
Dongfang Minghui's eyes lit up, and he said: "But it doesn't hurt to say it, the rules of my Linghua Sect have always been outspoken, and meritorious service will be rewarded!" β
Yang Jing was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "That villain has the courage to say, according to the villain's opinion, it is not appropriate for us to go to other cities through the secret passage now." β
Li Qing's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and he shouted: "Bold, you dare to talk nonsense!" β
Yang Jing was taken aback for a moment, but Gao Xuan stopped him: "It's okay, Yang Jing, tell me your reason." β
"Thank you, Elder." Yang Jing sorted out his thoughts for a moment and continued: "You don't know, my outer twenty-eight cities have their own independent contact methods and codes, just before the army came to attack, we have already notified the six nearby acropolis, so now they must be strong soldiers, and if we go over now, even if we can capture one acropolis, but the remaining five acropolises will inevitably get news, in this way, the advantage of our secret passage can only be used once." β
Gao Xuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said, "What do you suggest?" β
"The villain suggested opening the defensive array, and then sending someone to make it look like the city was attacking, and after three hours, pretending that he couldn't attack and retreating, and then using code words to inform several other acropolis, just say that the enemy army retreated, there is no danger, in this way, they will relax their guard, wait until midnight, let's go through the secret passage, if you are lucky, you can take down one or two acropolis silently, and we can also use this secret passage repeatedly, please make it clear to the elders!" Tu Hui said.
Gao Xuan was silent for a long time when he heard this, pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, suddenly, he raised his head, and two fine lights erupted in his eyes and looked directly at Tu Hui, and Yang Jing also boldly looked at Gao Xuan, without any intention of avoiding it.
Slowly, Gao Xuan spat out a few words from his mouth: "Can I trust you?" β
Yang Jing spit out a word lightly but resolutely: "Yes!" β
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In the depths of the Tiger Roar Pass Valley, Dongfang Tianxiao's army had already converged with Fang Lin, facing the dense army outside the valley that could attack at any time, but a smile appeared on Fang Lin's face.
"Patriarch, you seem to be happy, but now that we are besieged by an army of millions, I really don't see anything to be happy about." Dongfang Tianxiao said.
"Hehe, if we were on the plains now, I'm afraid we would only have to escape, but now we have very favorable terrain, and we also have a ready-made large array for us to drive, so the other party's more than two million troops are not to worry." Fang Lin said with a smile.
"But what if they just retreat and stop attacking?" Li Haoran asked.
"Then it suits my wishes, we can have enough time to strengthen and transform the Tiger Roar Pass, and then this will become a springboard for our attack again, and they, hehe, can only retreat to their original city, in this way, Ruijin City and the six surrounding cities will be empty, we can easily take it, and the reinforcements of the seven southern cities β’β’β’β’β’β’" Fang Lin said with a smile.
"They'll become lonely ghosts, and we'll eat them bit by bit!" Li Haoran said.
"In this case, wouldn't they have to attack desperately!" Princess Xiangxiang said.
Fang Lin nodded, but at this time, Qu Shan'er spoke: "But why haven't they attacked yet?" β
"Because they also know the power of the Xuanjin Great Array, they still have some scruples, and they are in a dilemma." Concubine Shu said.
"Then why don't you~~ Let's go and beat them up first?" Ayinatamo shook her hands.
Dongfang Tianxiao shook his head with a smile and said: "No, they will attack soon, because the longer the stalemate lasts, the more disadvantageous it will be for them, because we have already opened the Tiger Roar Pass, and we can increase our troops at any time." β
At this moment, a loud shout came from Taniguchi: "Catapult, let me go!" β
Whirring, large pieces of rune stones flew into the valley, some smashed on the rock walls on both sides, bursting into large clusters of fire, however, the rock wall that should have been smashed out of many large pits was intact, as if the attacks of these rune stones did not cause any damage to them at all.
Looking at the rune stones that exploded not far ahead, everyone had a smile on their faces, and Bai Lian said: "General Mi is really accurate, the temporary fortifications just keep the enemy's rune stones outside, but we are not affected at all, hehe." β
"Even so, we also have a disadvantage, and that is that our catapults cannot reach the enemy." Oriental Leidao.
"We don't care." Frost said coldly.
After about three rounds of attacks by the Shang army's rune stones, Fang Lin popped up a small flame in the air, everyone was puzzled when they saw this, Wen Yue'er asked, "Fang Lin, what are you doing here, are you playing with fireballs?" β
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, but Fang Lin was full of helplessness, this girl was really cute, smiled bitterly, pinched her little nose and said, "Do you think I'm so boring." β
At this moment, the cliffs on both sides suddenly sounded the sound of a huge bowstring, a sharp sound of breaking the air almost pierced people's eardrums, and the crossbow arrows with thick arms shot through the air to the catapults in the local position, this move seemed to be completely unexpected by the two generals opposite, and there was no deliberate arrangement of the defense of the crossbow guarding the city, and in the loud rumbling sound, dozens of catapults of the merchant army were destroyed, and many unlucky soldiers also became the souls of the arrows!
"Bastard, what are these Tiger Roaring Passes waste for, knowing that they can't hold it, how can they not destroy the fortifications that have been built, but instead they have to leave it for others to use, fuck, what a bunch of waste!" General Hua angrily scolded.
General Long spoke, "Now is not the time to complain about this, we don't have time to delay!" β
"However, if we don't destroy the fortifications they have built first, the damage of the Xuanjin Great Array to us will be too great." General Hua said.
General Long's eyes flashed, and he looked up at the scattered caves on the mountain wall, and said: "We still have forty catapults, all of them will be gathered now, and they will be bombarded for a while, but we must pay attention to the protection of the masters, and after the three rounds of bombardment, we will immediately charge, and strive to let some people rush over before the other party reacts." β
General Hua nodded when he heard this, and said a little helplessly: "It's only like this now, hey, if it weren't for the ineffective handling of those wastes in Tiger Roar Pass, why would we be so passive now." β
Boom, boom, the bombardment of the merchant army soon began, and the counterattack of the Linghua army also came at the same time, countless crossbow arrows shot towards those catapults, but this time the merchant army was prepared, and in an instant, many colored brilliance pierced the sky, colliding with the crossbow arrows that were shot, exploding brilliant fireworks in the sky, and occasionally some missing crossbow arrows were also blocked by the suddenly rising earthy yellow barrier when they were about to approach the catapult.
"Rush!" Suddenly, one of the generals of the merchant army shouted loudly, and then rushed into the valley first, rushing towards the Ling Hua army inside, and then there was a roar that shook the sky, and a large number of merchant troops followed, and the momentum was as unstoppable as a flood that suddenly burst the embankment.
In the narrow terrain of the valley for the army, the lethality of the arrow rain can be said to have been strengthened to the extreme, but a large shield suddenly appeared in the hands of the leading general, and the surface of the shield also flashed with a faint light, no matter what kind of arrow was shot on it, it just made a jingle sound, and then it was bounced off, which had no impact on the shield itself and the people behind it.
"Oh! Hehe, it turned out to be a quasi-spiritual weapon-level shield, which is indeed very rare, it seems that the freedom shield in Sister Shuang's hand is only a bucket-level level. Princess Xiangxiang smiled.
"Hmm" Frost only replied faintly, but the eyes that looked at the shield were full of fire.
The coverage of the rain of arrows in this valley is almost no dead ends, the generals can block it but the rest of the soldiers cannot, some soldiers also took out their shields to resist, at first they can still block it, but it didn't take long to reach the limit, the shield exploded, followed by the sound of sharp weapons entering the body and pieces of screams.
However, in the face of the merchant army that was not afraid of death and the tide was pouring in, the rain of arrows did not have much effect, and soon, the leading general rushed to the fortifications built by the Linghua army with many soldiers, but these fortifications were almost destroyed by the other party, and they did not play much of a role in blocking at all, and the merchant army just rushed over at the cost of dozens of soldiers' lives.
The blood of the leading generals boiled in an instant, and not far in front was the first line of defense of the Linghua Army, which was a shield wall composed of tower shieldmen and pikemen, as long as they could break through this barrier, they could face the upper echelons of the Linghua Army.
"Kill !!" The leading general shouted, and suddenly an extra hammer in his other hand rushed forward, and the merchant army that followed behind him also pounced on him with red eyes as if they had gone mad.
"Fang Lin, why haven't we opened the Xuanjin Great Array yet, there are already quite a few enemy troops pouring into the valley now." Qu Shan'er said a little anxiously.
Dongfang Tianxiao shook his head and said: "These are nothing, and you pay attention, the real large army of the enemy army has not moved yet, these people are killed by our Xuanjin Great Array." β
"If they were for us, why don't we just kill them all?" Ayinata asked, puzzled.
"We can still deal with these cannon fodder, if the Xuanjin Great Array is used, next time they will charge with real elites, and if we don't use it, they must have to throw a rat bogey, which is beneficial to us." Li Haoran said without a smile.
Just when the words of a few people fell, there was a banging sound in front, and the leading general smashed a one-handed hammer on the tower shield of a Linghua Army soldier in front of him, and that tower shield was just a bull-level armor, plus the general's true yuan infusion, where could it still afford to support it, and it immediately exploded, along with a tower shield hand and three pikemen behind it.
The leading general sneered, and was about to rush in through the gap, when suddenly a shield with tortoiseshell lines on one side and a layer of golden light on the surface slammed into him fiercely, and the strength was already beyond the existence of the Yin and Yang Realm!
The leading general hurriedly retreated, the shield in his left hand was horizontally in front of him, and with a clang, the two shields collided and made a symphony of gold and iron, and a faint ripple blocked it, pushing the soldiers on both sides who were closer to him involuntarily retreated several steps, while the leading general retreated five or six steps back and withdrew from the defense range of the Linghua army.
It was only at this time that the leading generals saw clearly that there was a withered old man on the opposite side, although he didn't look very good, but the leading generals knew that the other party's cultivation was on the same level as his own, and he was good at strength, and he was a fierce opponent!
Just when the leading general's thoughts were in turmoil, the old man said lightly: "Old man Bi Yun, seeing that the general's brave martial arts are also a little itchy, I came to ask the general for a few tricks!" β
The leading general snorted coldly and said unceremoniously: "Then you can take it." β
As soon as the words fell, a hammer smashed towards Bi Yun, in the face of this powerful hammer, Bi Yun was not in a hurry, the shield suddenly swung a circle of ripples, and the hammer was blocked with a bang, and then took a step forward, and smashed towards the general's face door with a fist with his left hand, and the general was not panicked, and the left hand shield blocked the punch.
The momentum of the battle between the two was extremely huge, however, there was not much energy spreading, this was not deliberately controlled by the two, but there was a large array of protection in the valley, and the rest of the merchant army also launched a fierce attack on the shield wall, however, they did not have any good weapons, all the attacks were stubbornly resisted outside, and the attack of the spearmen of the Linghua Army caused them huge casualties.
"General Hua, we have already rushed in twenty or thirty thousand people, but the other party still hasn't used the Xuanjin Great Array, do you say they don't know how to use this array, or is it that in the previous battle, the Great Array was broken?" General Long asked suddenly.
General Hua pondered for a long time and said, "I'm not sure, but we still have to be careful, after all, Fang Lin Ke is a ninth-level spirit array master." β
General Long nodded thoughtfully and did not make a sound, and soon, the valley was full of corpses, however, the Shang army's charge was even more fierce than before, suddenly, there was a bang, a tower shield was shattered, and the soldiers behind were also blown out and fell to the ground.
However, it didn't take long for another explosion to make up for the Ling Hua Army, followed by several tower shields being broken one after another, countless Ling Hua Army soldiers were killed, and a huge gap appeared in the defensive formation in an instant, and the merchant army also began to impact these gaps, and the most brutal hand-to-hand combat began!
Just when the merchant army frantically attacked the gap of the Linghua army, countless small ice picks suddenly appeared in mid-air, shooting towards the merchant army on the ground, the merchant army did not check for a while, many people were directly hit, and were shot into a sieve, the attack of the ice pick was just over, and the flying stones in the sky smashed towards the merchant army again, and for a while, the sound of broken bones and tendons rang non-stop, followed by wind blades, fireballs, golden thorns and other attacks in an endless stream.
Under such a dense attack of magic tricks, the merchant army could only retreat, and taking advantage of this time, the gap of the Ling Hua army was quickly closed, seeing this scene, the dragon general in the distance was furious, and shouted: "Fang Lin, this bastard, is shameless to such an extent, even the low-level soldiers have to be slaughtered with their own hands!" β
General Hua shook his head with a solemn face and said, "It's not Fang Lin who made the shot, otherwise those soldiers wouldn't want to come back at all, it seems that Ling Huazong has cultivated a lot of law cultivation in the past few years." β
General Long was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Are you saying that the one who shot just now was the Dharma cultivation disciple that Ling Hua Sect had cultivated in the past few years!" β
General Hua's brows furrowed even deeper, and he nodded: "Looking at the intensity of their attacks, they should all be in the same Taiji Realm as those low-level soldiers, but their use and control of magic techniques are not comparable to those disciples of the so-called great sects, it seems that the strength of the Ling Hua Sect is far beyond our imagination, and the information we have obtained may only be the part that people are willing to show us." β
"Then what should I do, with so many Fa cultivators there, these death squads have simply become death squads." General Long said with a hideous face.
General Hua let out a long sigh and said, "We can only use elite troops now, General Long, we must not keep it." β
General Long nodded and said: "I said a long time ago, there is no need to use these cannon fodder, General Hua, you press the formation for me, and see if Ben will not kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" β
When General Hua heard this, a touch of ecstasy suddenly appeared in his eyes, originally he was still thinking about how to fool General Long to play the vanguard, but now it's okay, he actually mentioned it himself, which saves himself a lot of trouble, General Hua said with a solemn face: "Brother Long must be careful, that Fang Lin is schemingβ’β’β’β’β’β’"
"Okay, Brother Hua, I'll be careful." General Long interrupted General Hua's words impatiently, and with a wave of his hand, he commanded his troops to line up and rush into the valley.
On the battlefield, the leading generals have been completely pressed into the disadvantage by Bi Yun, although the realm of the two is similar, but in terms of real strength, Bi Yun is much stronger, bang, the two of them hit each other again, the leading general's body retreated violently, and at the same time avoided a few arrows that were thrown out, and then, a little on tiptoe again, drifted backwards, obviously he was going to join the large army coming from behind.
Fang Lin looked at the scene in front of him, the corners of his mouth curled up, and said, "That dragon general in Cuizhu City is really a little impatient, knowing that we have the Xuanjin Great Array, he actually came to die." β
Li Haoran said: "I'm afraid his heart can't calm down, after all, he has siphoned off most of the military power of Cuizhu City, if you don't worry, it is a lie at all." β
When everyone heard this, they all laughed, and seeing that the time was almost up, Fang Lin waved his hand and shouted: "Xuanjin Great Array, activate!" β
The golden brilliance in the valley began to shine, and suddenly, the merchant army was in an uproar, they naturally knew the Xuanjin Great Array, and they also knew its terrible, and immediately a frightened wail sounded: "Ahead, fucking hurry up, hurry up and rush out of the scope of this Xuanjin Great Array, don't fucking kill the old men!" β
"Hurry up and withdraw from the back, the Xuanjin Great Array is activated, don't rush forward, I said you don't understand the fuck people, and rush in, looking for death!"
For a while, the entire valley was in chaos, however, the Xuanjin Great Array didn't give them much time, but after three or four breaths, the golden light was fierce, and then, the range expanded rapidly, and soon enveloped almost half of the valley!
"Ah~~~ Don't, help, who will save me!!"
"Quick, the top of the valley is not shrouded, hurry up and flee up!" A rough voice shouted, and when all the merchants heard this, they immediately climbed up the mountain wall without any name, however, just when they had just climbed up no more than a zhang, countless sword lights suddenly burst out from the mountain wall, slashing at those who climbed up, and the sound of the puffing skin and flesh being cut sounded, and in the countless wails, a large number of corpses fell down like dumplings, and the blood gushing like spring water splashed on the mountain wall, dyeing the originally gray rocks red.
Several generals of the Nahe Realm flew directly into the air, wanting to fly out of the enveloping range of this large array, however, just when they just flew to a height of one zhang, a large number of sword lights suddenly appeared around them, and they were enveloped at once, and only a terrible scream was heard between the sword light flying, and a large amount of blood and broken flesh fell from the air, and when the scream disappeared, only a few skeletons fell from the air and fell to the ground and shattered.
General Long looked at the Xuanjin Great Array from behind, listening to the screams inside, although his heart ached, but he gritted his teeth and did not show it, his eyes stared ahead without blinking, just waiting for the moment when the Great Array ended.
I don't know how long it took, the golden light in front finally disappeared, but when he saw the situation in front of him, General Long couldn't help but be stunned, because the front was so clean, except for the blood-red earth and mountain walls, there was nothing else, and everyone was strangled so that there was not even a bone residue left!
All the merchant troops gasped, but General Long quickly reacted and shouted: "Kill~~ Now the Xuanjin Great Array cannot be used for the time being, kill, avenge our brothers!" β
His voice immediately ignited the hatred of all the merchant troops, and one by one they roared with red eyes and rushed towards the Ling Hua army in front of them.
Dongfang Tianxiao saw all this and said with a smile: "This dragon general is quite good at seizing the opportunity, this time the combat power of the merchant army is much stronger." β
Li Haoran nodded and said: "That's true, but if you are carried away by hatred, although you are extremely brave, you will be weaker in the execution of tactics, and when the strength of both sides is about the same, they will be easily dragged down by us." β
Dongfang said: "That's true, we just need to make a defensive posture first, and when they are exhausted, it's time for us to counterattack." β
Fang Lin nodded and said: "It should indeed be so, it proves that it is not us who is in a hurry now, as long as we stabilize the defensive line, they should be the most anxious." β
"Hehe, are they afraid that in a quarter of an hour, we will activate the Xuanjin Great Array again." Qu Shan'er said with a smile.
Dongfang Tian shouted: "Sect Master, my subordinates suggest that our military formation can be pressed up a little more, just one zhang outside the range of the Xuanjin Great Array, in this way, they will be even more crazy to impact!" β
Fang Lin shook his head and said, "No, because our current battle is to release spells, if we don't damage the Xuanjin Great Array, we will lose more than we gain." β
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In an inconspicuous utility room in the City Lord's Mansion of Cuizhu City, Yang Jing stood at the front and pointed to an unsurprising wall in front of him and said to the other people of the Gao Xuan Ruins beside him: "Ladies and gentlemen, that is the entrance to the secret passage, through which we can go to any of the six surrounding cities." β
So saying, he walked to the front of the wall, and slapped it very regularly, and then grasped a lamp on the wall and twisted it gently, and with a gara sound, the wall parted, revealing a passage about six feet wide and a foot high, in which there would be a moonstone on the wall at intervals, making the whole passage very bright.
"Yang Jing, you have done a very good job, so far, everything you have done has satisfied us, rest assured, as long as you help us easily win the six cities, you should take the first credit!" Gao Xuan patted Yang Jing's shoulder and said.
Yang Jing was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the praise of the elders, your subordinates must be full of liver and brains, and they will die!" β
Gao Xuan nodded and was no longer verbose, and directly ordered: "Let's go!" β
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