[560] Night Battle
The blood dispersed, and the tent fell silent.
Tubo's arrogance and arrogance made the ghost soldiers outside the tent stay away, and even if they were very curious, none of them came close to the tent.
Inside the tent, the pungent gore solidified the air and made time stand still. In the eyes of Bi Shu and Tu Bo, a fierce murderous aura burst out in unison, shooting straight towards each other.
The shoulder blade of his right shoulder was already broken, and he couldn't raise his right hand at all, let alone swing his knife freely. In front of the steel knife in his hand, which was dripping with blood, the anxious and angry Tu Bo suddenly felt that he was a lamb to the slaughter. What followed was a sense of humiliation like a raging undercurrent.
However, he also re-acquainted himself with the harvest in front of him, who was not very famous in the Beiyin Dynasty and was not a powerful ghost general, but he could concentrate all his ghost energy on his arms in the lightning and flint, instantly increasing the strength and speed of his arms, and cutting off the ghost heads of ten ghosts in one go, which seems to be not to be underestimated.
A thought flashed through his mind, and Tubo had already thrown the big knife in his hand towards his left hand, and the nine iron rings hanging on the knife made a loud noise. At the same time, the harvest is also making a move here. Only this time he was no longer a thorn, but slashed towards Tubo.
The steel knife fell as quickly as lightning bolts, rolling up the strong wind that flipped and collided, and the sword light also skyrocketed, and the blade was even more powerful.
Secretly startled, Tubo hurriedly raised his breath and jumped back when he held the thick hilt of the big knife with his left hand. But he was already shrouded in the light of the knife, but he still couldn't dodge the knife of the steel knife in his hand, and the blow that slipped off his breastplate clinging to him.
The sharp tip of the knife slid across his breastplate, and sparks flew everywhere it went.
He was a naïve ghost, so he left no stone unturned, and he knew that today was either Tubo's death or his death. If Emperor Xudu had given him a chance to redress his grievances, he would not have sent Tubo to lead the ghosts and ghosts to face him.
Tuber must die.
With such determination, this slash is full of strength. By the time he withdrew his steel sword, Tuber's thick breastplate had shattered.
On the placket under the armor, there was a crisp sound of "hiss" immediately afterward, and when the cuirass hit the ground, a long opening from right to left, from top to bottom, was opened. Through the long mouth, you can clearly see the red blood-colored skin on Tubo's chest, and a few strands of thick chest hair.
It's just that there is not the slightest obvious external injury, but the battle-hardened Tubo knows that if he takes a step slower, with the strength and speed of the knife just now, his chest may not be as simple as skin turning flesh open, and there is more blood. It is very likely that the bone will be broken and the meridian will be broken, and he will not think about getting out of bed for ten days and half a month.
At this thought, Tu Boden's palms broke out in cold sweat. The opposite person had jumped up on tiptoe again, and pounced on him, the cold light that burst out from the knife in his hand did not decrease but increased.
Tubo didn't dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly put the big knife in his hand across his chest, ready to take the other party's majestic and aggressive slash.
He didn't expect to retract his sword in mid-air, and then he jumped above his head with a boost of energy, making his defensive moves completely ineffective. And the harvest that landed immediately, the toes touched the ground again. But this time he didn't jump, but spun around.
The steel knife in his hand moved with him, and after drawing a crescent-shaped arc with a wind sweep, he slashed Tubo's waist fiercely.
Bei Shu, who is accustomed to fighting, knows that he will definitely lose to the other party in a head-to-head confrontation, after all, Tubo is an ancient god of the underworld, not to mention the ghostly spirit, and has rich actual combat experience. Moreover, there are many Xudu troops and a king of Hades outside this tent, and he does not seek to kill Tubo, but only to slash Tubo with one blow, and then buy time to escape.
I'll talk about the rest when I get out.
Tubo only felt a chill in his lower back, and then he turned around despite the constant pain in his waist. His eyes swept in front of him, but there was no trace of the harvest, only an extra opening on the wall of the tent not far away, which was being blown by the hot wind and swaying, and the hula was making a chaotic sound......
After nightfall, Manjiang City is not so sultry. The bereavements and mourning flags erected on the head of the city are displayed in the night with the river breeze blowing outside the city.
Xiao Shizhu, who was shrinking in the palace and sitting at the door of the main hall, frowned slightly, and the firelight in the main hall behind him shone from behind him, and he could vaguely see the word depression written on his shadowy face.
In the war in Dongyizhou, he had already twice predicted that the war would happen incorrectly. The first time was the lack of food for the Xudu army, and the time that could not hold on was delayed by five or six days compared to the time he predicted.
The second time was the attack time of the Corpse Soul Army and the Skeleton Beast Cavalry, and he thought that when the other party was a hundred miles away, he would rush in a day at most.
Unexpectedly, now ten days have passed, and the enemy army has not yet reached the city. It's really impermanent, which makes Xiao Shizhu a little impetuous.
"My lord. How cold it is on the ground, get up quickly. When he came to the gate of the temple, Yuhua, who was about to report to him about the situation in the city, saw him sitting cross-legged on the ground and hurried forward to help him.
Xiao Shizhu finally squeezed out the first smile of today, gently pushed away Yuhua's hand, and said, "It's okay, it's cool on the ground." You have something to say. ”。
"The empty cavalry under my command and the fungus people under Lord Shenji have reported, the corpse soul army hundreds of miles away has obtained the grain and grass of the corpse country, and the rest is over, and they have drawn their camps and come to Manjiang City, and it is the skeleton beast cavalry that takes the lead. ”。
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Shizhu suddenly stood up from the ground, stared at her with open eyes, and asked urgently, "Is this true?"
"Really, I don't dare to fool anyone. Yuhua replied with a smile.
Xiao Shizhu was silent when he heard this, turned around and walked into the main hall, and after a while, he strode out with the Moon Destroying Sword. He said, "Let's go, go to the city." At the same time, her feet kept moving forward, and Yuka also answered and hurried to follow.
After these two ghosts passed through most of the Manjiang City, they climbed the city gate building of the north gate one after the other.
Xiao Shizhu looked out from the railing in front of the building, although there was no ghost in the darkness, he could feel that there was a huge ghost qi, which was coming from a distance.
The ghost aura did not come from one ghost, but from hundreds of thousands of ghosts. There is also a fierce murderous aura and a rich corpse aura, from which it is constantly revealed.
"Turn off the lights. Xiao Shizhu became excited, looked around and ordered: "All artillery and demon soul gunners are in place. ”。
Such a strong ghost aura, accompanied by a murderous and lifeless corpse aura, could only be the ghost soldiers of the Corpse Soul Army.
And the best way to fight at night in the underworld is to take advantage of the night eyes of the demon spirits to fight back against the enemy in the dark, which is the most effective way.
The lights on the city walls were soon all extinguished. The vast walls were plunged into darkness, and silence came like a tidal wave, and in an instant the entire wall was completely submerged.
Xiao Shizhu stood quietly in the darkness with the defenders of the city, staring at the front with his eyes, gradually becoming a little nervous.
It was the first time that the Nine Shadows Army here had faced a unique cavalry in the underworld, so there was still a little excitement from novelty in the tension.
After a while, I heard the rumbling sound of beast's hooves stomping on the ground in the distance, which was not deafening, but it could be heard clearly.
Xiao Shizhu listened attentively, and the closer the rumbling sounded, the louder it became. Although there was no fire in the darkness, it could be judged from the sound, and at this time, these beast cavalry were only a dozen miles away from the north of the city.
After another moment, the rumbling sound was getting closer and closer, and Xiao Shizhu was vaguely in the darkness, and saw dust and smoke rising in the wilderness outside the city.
The beast cavalry advancing in the dark was already close at hand.
After Xiao Shizhu gestured to the gunners around him, the guns on the wall were calibrated one after another. When everything was ready, the rumbling sound brought by the beast's hooves had reached the city, and Xiao Shizhu immediately made a decision, and shouted without hesitation: "Fire!"
When the shout landed, I saw the firelight Dao Dao on the head of the city burst out of the darkness, and in the roaring and violent cannon sound, hundreds of gorgeous streams of light like meteors flew rainbows, shooting towards the outside of the city, and slashed through the red arc of the Dao Dao in mid-air.
At the same time, there was also a swishing sound outside the city, and tens of thousands of iron arrows rushed like dense rain to knock on the lotus, like falling meteors, rushing towards the city to break through the sky. The quick-eyed Nine Shadows Army hurriedly leaned down and squatted, and saw an iron arrow whistling past their iron helmets, falling behind them, piercing into the masonry on the city wall, stirring up the powder of the Dao Soaring.
There were even dozens of dark flags and mourning flags standing at the head of the city, which turned into rags in the blink of an eye under the iron arrows that were fired, swirling and swaying in mid-air with the night wind.
Even though most of the Nine Shadow Nation Army reacted quickly, there were still one hundred and ten Nine Shadow Army who were still able to recover and didn't have time to dodge, when they were instantly stabbed into a thousand holes by the rapid iron arrows. He didn't even scream, and he died under the splash of ghost blood.
In the flash of light, the shells of the first round of shelling of the Nine Shadows National Army exploded one after another in various places outside the city.
The dust rolled down and the flames rose, and I saw the skeleton cavalry outside the city being blown to pieces by the artillery, scattered and scattered under the rising smoke of gunpowder. And the riders on their backs did not escape the result of being burned by the flames.
The flames gave the vanguard riders of the skeleton beast cavalry a scorching bone, Rao is these corpse souls have a strong self-healing ability, but they are deeply wrapped in flames, and they also end up with cracked flesh and scorched bones in an instant. The self-healing ability that they were proud of was useless under the high-temperature flames that erupted after the shells of the Nine Shadows Army's poisonous fire god cannon exploded.
Outside the city, the scorching wind swept through the smoke and swirled upward, and the heavens and the earth instantly turned into a huge furnace.
With the monstrous flames outside the city, Xiao Shizhu looked around, and it could be seen that the outside of the city was full of beast cavalry. The skeleton beasts composed of white bones are dense and endless.
This formation made all the ghosts look at it and sigh at its magnificence.
The artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom then roared towards the outside of the city, and the cannonballs were thrown through the air one after another, crashing into the army of skeleton beasts outside the city with unmistakable accuracy.
The skeleton beasts with broken bones could not get up from the ground again, but if they were just skeleton beasts that were scattered by the blast wave of the explosion, the scattered white bones could be combined again in an instant, and they rushed towards Manjiang City again.
In an instant, there were already thousands of skeleton beasts in the flames and explosions, under the rising dust and gunpowder smoke, facing the fierce wind and heat waves to rush to the corner of the wall, and after lining up, they began to slam the city wall with the beast head composed of only the white bones of the forest.
A skeleton beast has no deterrent power, but thousands of skeleton beasts slammed their heads against the city wall, and the solid and tall walls of Manjiang City couldn't help but tremble slightly under their slamming.
Such a simple and crude way of attacking and breaking through the defense really created a precedent in the military history of the Yin and Yang worlds.