When he woke up again, Lu Qian found that he had been tied up like a dumpling and was lying on the hospital bed. 【Reading.com】

"My lord, are you awake?" the soldier guarding him suddenly shouted excitedly when he opened his eyes.

"I'm not dead?"

"Nope. ”

"How's the battle going, have you taken the emperor?" Lu Qian asked.

"The battle is not very good, and the imperial capital has not been won yet. The soldier said with a frown.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on, haven't we already rushed in?" Lu Qian asked.

The soldier didn't hide anything, and told everything he knew.

Lu Qian only knew at this time that he had been in a coma for seven days and seven nights, and many things had happened during this time.

First of all, at that time, Wei Hu ordered his subordinates to launch rune arrows, and his subordinates carried them out to the letter, but there were people everywhere at that time, and the shooting boundary of the rune arrows was blocked, so as soon as the rune arrows flew out, they hit people and exploded.

At that time, there were five or six rune arrow ballistas in the defenders, and they exploded almost at the same time, and the power was so great that it was conceivable that within a radius of two hundred meters, not to mention people, even the surrounding buildings were completely razed, and the soldiers of both the defenders and the pioneer battalion were all dead.

Lu Qian was lucky and was pushed into the hole in the city wall by the impact, so he picked up a life.

After seeing him faint, the soldiers of the pioneer battalion not only sent him off the front line, but also did not give up on the attack.

It's just that at this time, the defenders also went crazy and gave up hand-to-hand combat, but kept greeting with rune arrows.

In this way, even if the soldiers of the pioneer battalion are not afraid of death, after all, they are flesh and blood, and they can't resist it at all, and they are blasted out by rune arrows, and the big hole is also blocked.

Seeing that the opportunity to get it was missed, the generals on Song Li's side were inevitably a little disappointed, and even their morale was a little low.

Seeing this scene, Song Li could only temporarily stop the attack, and then began to make a large number of **.

Song Li stopped attacking the city, but Wei Qianli was not idle, I don't know if he was stimulated or inspired by Song Li, he also started the strategy of attacking instead of defending.

Wei Qianli put on a posture of a loser, mobilized hundreds of rune arrow ballista carts in his hand, and then opened the city gate and began to bombard Song Li's side indiscriminately.

If it's just bombing, it's nothing, just retreat the barracks a little and it's over, after all, the range of the ballista will eventually come to an end, even if it is long. But Wei Qianli did not intend to stop there, and when the rune arrows bombarded, he also sent cavalry to attack the military camp where the gifts were given, and at the same time set fire to it.

Although Song Li was in charge, there was no such tragic thing as burning the camp for 800 miles, but it also lost a lot of soldiers, and the morale was inevitably traumatized again.

Song Li has never been a person who sits and waits to be beaten and does not fight back, in order to take revenge on Wei Qianli, he began to set up a game.

When Wei Qianli was ready to repeat his old trick and open the way with rune arrows again, and then the cavalry then attacked Song Li's military camp, Song Li made a move.

He ordered people to bury thousands of pounds of ** around the camp, and also secretly buried a copycat bomb made by him at the gate of the imperial capital.

He did this because he thought that Wei Qianli would definitely not stop if he took advantage, and because the ballista was inconvenient to move, if it was not protected by heavy troops, it would never be too far away from the city gate, otherwise as long as his side attacked desperately, it was very likely that he would be completely left behind.

Because of this, he planted a bomb at the gate of the city.

Seeing that Wei Qianli was really as he expected, and played such a hand again, Song Li unceremoniously lit the bomb.

Because of the conditions, it was impossible for Song Li to make the bomb too big, not that he didn't want to, but if it was too big, it would not be easy to bury it at the city gate.

Although the bomb is not large, the power after the explosion is still very remarkable.

And the purpose of this bomb is not to kill and injure the enemy, but to deal with those ballistas.

Although the rune arrow is powerful, the disadvantage is that it can easily explode, and the slightest violent vibration or impact will trigger and explode. This is also the reason why rune arrows, a large-scale killing weapon, are not widely used in the empire's army, and it is too inconvenient to use and transport.

At this time, as soon as the bomb below rang off, shrapnel flew, the shock wave spread, and the nearest rune arrow exploded, and the other rune arrows also exploded.

In an instant, it was as if an explosive warehouse had been ignited outside the gate of the imperial capital, and the explosion was earth-shattering, with flames soaring into the sky, and at the same time, smoke and dust rose up, forming a mushroom cloud.

The ballistas and the surrounding defenders were all gone, not a single piece of scum left.

At the same time as the rune arrow exploded, the gunpowder buried outside Song Li's military camp also exploded at the same time.

At this moment, it was the time when the cavalry sent by Wei Qianli ran to storm the barracks, under the violent explosion, these cavalry also suffered heavy losses, and what was even worse was that without waiting for them to evacuate, Song Li sent soldiers to launch the siege battle again.

In order to make it easier for those ballistas and cavalry to retreat, the gate of the imperial capital was not closed, but a passage was left.

Although the explosion of the rune arrow was amazing, after all, it was still some distance from the city gate, and the gate of the imperial capital was extremely hard, so it was not damaged, but the passage left behind gave Song Li a golden opportunity.

And so the battle began again.

It's just that this time it was not the entrance to the cave that was added, but the city gate.

The battle began abruptly but fiercely, with both sides red-eyed and refusing to give in, and the corpses at the city gate were piled up into a hill.

In the end, in the end, Wei Qianli took advantage of the defense of the city, and although he paid a lot of price, he still closed the city gate.

After that, Wei Qianli also learned a lesson, no longer took the initiative to attack, and was determined to carry out the turtle defense flow to the end.

Song Li was not discouraged, and after two days, he started the attack again, this time he made 50,000 catties of **, and at the same time buried the explosion point in several directions, and then detonated at the same time.

Such a multi-point flowering strategy, the effect is still quite good, and several holes were opened in the city wall at once, coupled with the experience of Lu Qian and others in attacking before, various situations have been dealt with, so the beginning was relatively smooth.

But when the defenders' defense line was about to collapse, some powerful cultivators suddenly appeared and joined the battle.

No matter how brave the soldiers on Song Li's side were, it was only for ordinary people, and they didn't have the slightest advantage over these cultivators, and they were almost unilaterally slaughtered like cutting melons and vegetables, and then had to retreat, and the holes that were blown out were also blocked by the defenders again.

There were also a few relatively minor battles, in which both sides suffered losses, but there was never a winner.

"Didn't the marshal come up with a better way?" Lu Qian asked.

"I heard that the marshal has often summoned the generals to discuss matters recently, and I heard that the marshal was in a good mood this morning, and it seems that he has already found a way to break the city. ”

"Then what are you waiting for, help me up, how can there be no pioneer camp here at this time. Lu Qian struggled to get up, but the feeling of weakness made him lie down again before he could sit up.

"That's not good, the marshal said, let you rest in peace, and when the city is broken, our pioneer camp will definitely be indispensable when rewarding meritorious deeds. ”

"Alas. Lu Qian sighed, and could only lie down helplessly again, looking out the window, but thinking about the war outside.

After a stalemate of seven days and seven nights, he was never able to take the imperial capital, and his men suffered nearly 40,000 casualties.

He also asked about the situation on Zhan Long's side, and the battle situation was much more tragic than his own side, and the casualties were even more serious.

These days, Song Li racked his brains to think of a way, but no matter how good the plan was, he was ultimately vetoed, because no matter how good the plan is, someone has to implement it after all.

However, although the number of soldiers under his command is large, most of them are ordinary people, and there are no cultivators who are too strong, if they just fight with ordinary defenders, it is no problem, but whenever they finally gain the upper hand and the defenders send those cultivators out, the situation that was originally beneficial to him will be quickly reversed.

This made Song Li very depressed, he didn't expect to go up in person, but every time he was persuaded by the generals without waiting for him to finish speaking.

After all, he is the commander of the first army, and he is the backbone of everyone present, if he is there, no matter how tragic the battle is, no matter how serious the casualties are, from the general to the ordinary soldier, he will not panic too much, but if he has three longs and two shorts, this battle does not need to be fought again, and the army will collapse in an instant.

Song Li also realized this, so in the end he could only nest in the handsome tent and find a way.

He thought of sending out the Blade Commando, but on second thought, good steel had to be used on the blade, otherwise it would be wasted.

According to the intelligence, there are a lot of monks hidden in the defenders, and their strength is not much different from that of the Blade Assault Corps.

Song Li was not afraid of simply delaying time, what he was worried about was that these cultivators were not the cards in the hands of the Holy Emperor, if he still had other stronger forces hidden, then if he played at this time, his blade assault group might have to be wiped out.

Of course, Song Li also considered whether to recruit Li Jing, Li Kangtian and others, who were still hiding in the imperial capital at this time, to help him and use them as a powerful help to suppress these cultivators, but after thinking about it again, he gave up this tempting idea.

The reason is that he is also worried that the Holy Emperor still has hole cards in his hand that he does not know, such as a mysterious force that the war dragon said.

If there is really such a group of people, ordinary soldiers alone are not enough to help them, and at the critical moment, strong people such as Li Jing and Li Kangtian are also needed to come out to act as a timpani.

What's more, they are lurking in the imperial capital at this time, and they are also a force to be reckoned with, for themselves it is a trump card that may reverse the situation at a critical moment, and for the Holy Emperor, it is a knife stuck in his heart but he doesn't know when it will be fatal.

This alone is enough to have a deterrent effect on the Holy Emperor. Therefore, it is far better to not use them than to use them