Volume I: Kitazawa Volume Chapter 57: The Eve of the War
In the night sky, Kong Ming lanterns full of characters floated in the direction of the Double Wolf Valley, converging into a sea of fluorescent yellow lights in the sky.
Tonight's wind direction was reversed by the daytime battle, and the Kong Ming lantern flew high and high, floating like stars in the night sky. Each Kong Ming lantern has a calculated oil, and when it floats to a certain distance, it will automatically land, and it is full of characters written on it so that people who are still alive outside the valley can see it.
The barbarian attack is imminent, and the people inside the city hope that those who are still alive outside the city will organize together to fight against the barbarians. After waiting for the barbarians to break through the city gates, they will attack from the rear to form an encirclement.
It's not that people don't have confidence that they can withstand the barbarian attack, but the odds of victory are too low. The equipment of defense is far from sufficient, and they lack experience, the kind of experience that can be applied to the battlefield. They are about to face a war and not a drill, and no one will know what will happen next.
All they can do is think of everything possible.
The spirit axis was completely damaged and unusable due to spatial fluctuations a long time ago, and it may have been the work of the so-called barbarian wizard with half-elf blood. So far, it is most reliable to transmit information on the battlefield with words or signals, and the barbarians' space skills are strangely powerful, and they will destroy all information arrays before the war begins.
But the most interesting thing is that they can't read the Terran script.
The barbarians have been fighting for thousands of years, and apart from the extensive communication on the battlefield, other places such as words and language are completely unable to communicate. This makes it impossible for the two races to negotiate, language is something that their barbarians can't learn, and the Terrans still can't know what the barbarians rely on to communicate.
Tuoba Ran stood on the city wall, quietly looking at the glowing yellow waves that floated into the wasteland. The long hair behind the back flutters in the wind, like a veil like a veil. The Wind God Sword on his waist vibrated rhythmically, as if he was breathing.
A cyan dress is like a blooming begonia flower in the wind, and the skirt dances lightly, which is so beautiful that people can't bear to break this tranquility.
It's just that this is a battlefield.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, there is news from the feather team that the barbarians are starting to move. Tian Zhuangzhuang also put on his armor and climbed the tower.
"Are the shadow teams ready?" Tuoba Ran looked back at a team of all black-clothed people in the city, her hand holding the sword trembled a little, she felt as if something was about to leak out of her eyes, but she didn't dare to show that weakness in the crowd she faced.
What she represents is the determination of all the remaining people in the entire Winter Spirit Ancient Realm. If she wavers, then she can only lose the whole game.
The Shadow Troupe's mission is the most brutal, they have to go out of the city to attract the barbarians to lead them to the south gate of the ancient city, so as to relieve the pressure on the north gate. The teleportation spirit array is the closest to the north gate, and once the barbarians break through the city gate, the chance of directly attacking the teleportation spirit array is very high. The pressure on the remaining people will also increase, and the south gate is far away from the north gate, so they can somewhat contain some strength to buy time for Ye Xuan to repair the spirit array.
"Back to the princess, it's all ready. Tian Qingyang also went up to the city tower and knelt down on one knee to report the situation.
Previously, Tuoba Ran and Tian Zhuangzhuang were both surprised when they learned that Tian Qingyang led the film team, they never thought that Tian Qingyang would actually want to take on such a task that was almost to death.
His actions had changed Tuoba Ran's understanding of him, and Tian Zhuangzhuang couldn't tell what he meant by doing so.
The only thing they knew was that Tian Qingyang was now in the middle and late stages of the Inner Realm Realm, ranking eighth on the list, and his strength was strong. Although the territory of Dongling Gu is rich in resources, it is indeed a little terrifying according to Tian Qingyang's progress speed.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, the Yan team is also ready. ”
"Team Thunder too. ”
Xiao Kui, the sixth-ranked Young Sect Master of the Huoyan Sect, and Lei Li, who ranked ninth, also ascended the stairs one after another, one leading the Yan team and the other leading the Lei team, each with a small wooden plaque around their waists, engraved with their names and the words Yan or Lei. If they die in battle, it will be their only identity, if they may collect their bodies.
When they first entered the ancient city, the Ministry of Wind Hyacinth discovered several unsealed weapon crates in the underground warehouse inside the city. There were about 300 barbarian knives inside. These are all barbarian weapons made of special materials and secret methods, which have been continuously improved after thousands of years of warfare, and are specially designed to deal with barbarians.
Not to mention these weapons, just these weapon boxes are three-grade spiritual weapons, imperial military materials, and it is a capital offense for those who possess them privately, and they can stop the decay of stored materials. These weapons are not spiritual weapons, their only characteristic is that they are hard and sharp, and can only be used by the Terrans.
In the hands of a true warrior, they can be transformed into artifacts of war, easily slicing through the muscles of barbarians and chopping their bones into pieces.
It's just that these knives are all in the hands of Team Thunder, because they.
Fight the barbarians head-on!
The main task of the Thunder Team led by Lei Li is to protect the teleportation spirit array and protect the safety of the wounded. All they have to do is to confront the barbarians, using their bodies and blades to build a line of defense, which is no less difficult than the Shadow Team.
"Is everything alright?"
A little boy in a wheelchair on the city wall slowly moved to Tuoba Ran's side, and a smile that was extremely inappropriate for his age appeared on his somewhat immature face.
"It's already good. ”
Tuoba Ran nodded slightly after seeing the boy, and now all the tactics in the city are from this person's hands. The boy's name is Xie Zheng, and his family has been in the army for generations, according to him, his grandfather's generation also went to Tianlong Pass to fight, and the family has accumulated a lot of military books. According to the Ministry of Wind and Hyacinth, when Xie Zheng was ten years old, he commanded a small number of city guards against a group of bandits and won a great victory.
His own strength was only in the Spirit Realm, and his legs were bitten off by the wolf rider, but it only took him half an hour to plan all the defensive formations and deduce the seven possibilities and prevent them all. And on the basis of Lei Li's suggestion before, four squads were divided.
The Feather Team delivers the news, the Shadow Team attracts the Barbarians, the Yan Team strikes the defensive city wall from a distance, and the Thunder Team protects the Teleportation Spirit Array.
All the formations and formations are in the hands of this boy, and everyone has no objections after reading them, which is convincing.
"I don't know what the situation is on Ye Gongzi's side, our hopes are all on his side. Xie Zheng looked at the figure under the pillar of light, and a strange luster flashed in his dark pupils.
"Yes, I believe him. Tuoba Ran looked at Ye Xuan's figure and clenched the Wind God Sword: "Wine!"
Tuoba Ran and the others faced the training ground in the city, and the black area was full of people. All of them drank wine, some in wooden bowls, some in helmets. Even the drinks were brought in from outside, and all the food was distributed to the teams before the whole team, and there was no leftover.
There is no retreat in this battle, either defeat or victory.
Tuoba Ran looked at the people who were almost the same age as him under the castle tower, looking at their eyes that were either expectant or confused, and suddenly his nose was sour.
They are all looking at themselves, they want answers, they can't cry.
Tuoba Ran took a deep breath, glanced in the direction where Ye Xuan was, and grabbed the hilt of the sword.
"In a little while, we will go to war with the barbarians. The vitality of the wind attribute echoed through the crowd with Takuba's words, setting off her voice with incomparable majesty.
"There are two tasks. First, resist the barbarian attack before Ye Xuan finished repairing the spirit array, and hold out until everyone evacuates. Second, kill the barbarians as much as possible to avenge the death of our warriors. ”
"That'...... What if we all fail, and the spirit array is not opened?" A cowardly little girl seemed to be unable to bear such a depressing atmosphere anymore, and suddenly looked at Tuoba Ran with fierce eyes, her words expressed the doubts in the hearts of everyone present, and for a while, people spoke earnestly.
"Completely destroy the spirit array, don't let the barbarian wizards open the door to the outside world, and kill every barbarian who can kill one. If we wipe them out, there may be hope of survival, but of course this is the last thing we want to see. ”
"I know what you're afraid of, I'm scared too, I want to go home too, I miss my family too. Do you think we can go back?" Tuobaran suddenly changed his words, causing everyone to stop talking.
"We have to resist the barbarians, do you know why?" Tuobaran glanced around and saw that none of them dared to answer.
"This space is stuck in the space defense array, which means that half of it is inside the continent, and it is generally outside the continent, that is, where the barbarians in the coastal areas are infested. ”
"And the ancient city we are standing on now is in that half of the space outside the continent. What does this mean? It means that once the barbarians break through this ancient city, they will enter the space of the continent. I think everyone knows how powerful the barbarian wizard's space magic is, and the human race has not been able to surpass it for thousands of years, and even so far it has only built space portals. ”
"But barbarian wizards are different, as long as they step into the space within the Wind Rock Empire, they will be able to create a teleportation spirit array and destroy the spatial defense array in a very short time, opening a gap in our imperial defense line. Countless barbarians will pour in from that gap and set foot on the lands of our Eastern Land. ”
"The Wind Whisper Empire will become the first inland battlefield to stop the barbarians, and the ten northern states will become a hotbed of war in an instant, maybe when you sleep, the former paradise will become a scorched earth without grass and trees. The Barbarian Spatial Teleportation Spirit Array will fall like snowflakes on our hometown, or even on your doorstep. ”
"Have you ever thought about it?"
Tuobaran's words pierced the souls of everyone present like a sharp sword, and no one moved even though the wind blew, as if they had seen the scene, the hell on earth where the ghosts were flying and screaming.
"What we are guarding now is not only our lives, but also the lives of thousands of families on the other side of the space, their futures, the future of our families. They are all hoping that we will come back alive. ”
As he spoke, some people silently shed tears, and the tears just flowed out and fell, and they were blown into ice slag by the cold wind, this is the battlefield, and you can't be sad, only cruel.
"I will join the Thunder Team to guard the spatial teleportation spirit array, and if it really fails in the end, I will destroy the spirit array with my own hands. I, Aldes Tuoba Ran, the fourteenth princess of the Wind Rock Empire, the Child of the Wind, walk the talk!"
"See off the warriors!"
Takubaran raised his glass and drank the wine from the glass. All the people under the walls drank together, and the spicy wine mixed with their tears of anguish and anger swallowed into their stomachs, and no one questioned Takubaran's words.
Because long before she dared to go out of the city alone to save people, she was already their king.
The cold wind tore the battle flag that had been hung on the city wall for thousands of years, and it could not be torn through thousands of years, and it has been standing on the city wall to watch, watching over generations of brave men.
"Open the gates!"
"We will win!" Tian Qingyang shouted with his long sword held high.
"Victory!" shouted the Shadow Team.
"Victory!" shouted the whole army.
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
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The elegy of history is only for the losers, and the souls of the dead will never be far from the battlefield.
The Shadow Team quickly disappeared into the snowy night outside the city, and no one looked back until the moment the city gates closed. The remnant of the flag hunts, watching over the land that is about to be impregnated.
The surviving Shadow Team recalled: At that moment, everyone became prey, and there would be fewer people at intervals. The terrible chewing sound never disappeared behind them, and all they could do was run, run as hard as they could, because whoever ran slower would disappear.
Most of those who survive will never be able to run in the snowy night, even if they dare not move, forever......