Chapter 662: If you look to the west, I will face the east
Whether it is Xia Xu or Xia Wan now, they are not as leisurely as Xia Xiao's life. He enjoyed peace before the storm, but Xia Wan often held an umbrella under the cold rain and never had a chance to put it down.
An umbrella can shelter from the rain, but the cold air around it is difficult to resist. She just stood quietly, accustomed to her surroundings, waiting for her to leave or Xie Yi to return. She resolutely guarded her one-third of an acre of land, facing the clown jumping around in front of her, but her eyebrows were cold and her face was expressionless.
Occasionally, the slanting rain fell on Xia Wan's frosty face, and she also gave birth to anger, but she didn't say a word, but she opened her eyes vigilantly in the cold dark and rainy night. She was enduring the silence, like a beast without claws, ready to retreat or move forward at any moment.
If it is said that Xia Wan is night, shuttling through the shadows, she is competing for the secret competition of scheming every day, resisting the southern target, and considering the southern businessmen's advance. That Xia Xu is the sun, standing on the Xiyang city wall all day long, with a three-foot iron sword in his hand, he built an immortal feat. He is one of the youngest generals in Great Xia, he has been in the army since he was a child, and now he has been in the army for nearly ten years, but he is only thirty years old.
At this time, the sky was gloomy, like the faces of soldiers who were always vigilant. Even if they were eating, they could not relax, chewed all the meat and bones in their mouths, swallowed them in one gulp, and hurriedly looked back at the city walls. The people on it stood beside the Great Xia military flag, which reassured them.
That back is strong enough, representing a strong force, and it is naturally Xia Xu who stays. His face was dry and cracked by the cold wind, and there was a scar on his cheekbone that had not healed. The corners of the mouth are cracked, and there is a lot of slag on the outside, but there is no time to manage. But the pair of eyes staring at the west, as sharp as an eagle's falcon, perceiving the wind and grass in the distance, will not let any foreigner easily rush into this level.
Xiyang had suffered too much impact, and the once thick city wall was full of scars, and if it weren't for his blessing, it would have collapsed long ago. And as long as he is there, when the sun rises in the east, Xiyang City, which is within the reach of the sun, will still be the territory of Great Xia!
It's an obsession with dignity, and they retreat and retreat, so far from the border that they can't afford to lose an inch of land at will. It is precisely because of this thought that the stone cone in front of Xiyang City is chaotic, like a forest.
The forest was full of ferocity, and the frozen blood was sprinkled everywhere, like a dark red moss, and the corpses on it that had been repeatedly charred and blackened recorded the horrific story of what happened here. They were all invaders of the Southern Shang Dynasty, and none of the Great Xia soldiers had the right to bury and rest.
On the way to their continuous attack, Xia Xu found some ways. Every three or four days, they would come in the middle of the night, trying to swallow themselves and the rest of the soldiers, and thus take the empty city.
Xiyang occupies a geographical advantage, easy to defend and difficult to attack, which has always been a pain in the heart of Nanshang, and it has sacrificed countless soldiers. Even the Shenwei Legion cultivated by the prince was killed in battle, and now the former sun is empty, which is a good opportunity. But because of the tasks issued by the five major forces to Great Xia, they didn't want to march with great fanfare, so they secretly captured this place.
Since he took the initiative to ask Ying to choose to stay, Xia Xu would not give Nanshang the slightest chance, he always stood on the city wall, sat down day and night to sleep, and stood up vigilantly. Due to overwork, those eyes were bloodshot, and they lost the brightness of a normal person, but as a cultivator, Xia Xu could recover in an instant.
After eating and resting for a short time, the soldiers carried arrows on their backs and carried new crossbows to the city wall to avoid the Nanshang Daytime attack. The more they have no precedent, the more likely they are to make it. Xia Xu had an ominous premonition, sat down with his ass, and smashed the bricks and stones of the city wall. On it, he seals his hands and absorbs the vitality of heaven and earth.
There were not many cultivators in Xiyang at this time, and as the blade of a sword, they had to recover well enough to deal with the next Nanshang attack. At the same time, Xia Xu's responsibilities are very heavy.
The soldiers on the city wall were extremely uncomfortable with the cold wind, but they could only grit their teeth and stare into the distance in the cold environment of their faces, hands and feet. When they didn't notice anything, Xia Xu's perception seeped into the ground through the city wall, and through his keen perception of the earth, he saw a bunch of people groping their way towards this side.
They shouldn't have imagined that they would stay awake day and night on the city wall, but the people of Great Xia have perseverance.
Angry, when the soldiers around him were immediately vigilant, Xia Xu's arm was raised violently, and more than ten people thousands of miles away were rushed into the sky. In the midst of the miserable scream, Xia Xu's rough stone-like palm was inserted into the wall of the city that rippled violently, like water, and pulled out a two-meter-long stone spear from it.
The stone spear was thrown by it, and in an instant it broke through the cold wind, and quickly shot out in the eyes of everyone, and then shattered, stabbing them into a sieve. When the lifeless corpse landed, although no sound could be heard here, the soldiers were all excited, and their eyes looked at Xia Xu with more admiration. If there was no Xia Xu, those southern merchants who had figured out the trap would have captured this faster, but Xia Xu frowned tightly and said loudly:
"Rest in place and stand guard in shifts!"
"Yes!"
After a neat cheer, he sat down again. In fact, he was able to kill those southern merchants invisibly before, but in order to improve morale. Now it seems that the effect is good, but I don't know when the southern merchants will attack. It is very tiring to speculate on other people's thoughts, Xia Xu is not good at it, if he is stronger, he doesn't need to guess, he can kill them all like Xiao Er, but he has neither Xia Xiao's strength nor Xia Wan's wisdom, so he can't get rid of it in the slightest.
The day passed quickly, and when night fell, it was when they were at their most energetic. There was not a single fire on the walls, but countless fires were lit in front of them, and the corpses burned with them, and then they emitted a disgusting stench. But the soldiers on the city wall can see the soldiers attacking from the south through it.
On the extremely high city wall, the soldiers stretched out their hands to bake the fire, and Xia Xu looked at the sea of fire in front of him, waiting for the movement to come out. The flames resemble the old witch on the altar, dancing a slightly eerie dance. They stretched out countless long, slender and fiery arms, and constantly writhed their bodies in a bewitching posture. As the flames writhed, it became a lion and roared towards the walls.
The attackers have a clear idea, the people on the city wall are small characters, as long as the city wall is broken, they can be eliminated and capture Xiyang. But the fire lion attacked under the light of the fire, but it did not cause the slightest movement, and the shaking of the city wall was completely different from what the soldiers thought.
The extremely calm soldiers glanced at each other and looked under the city wall, only to see that the fire lion was fierce, but it was stopped by the claws of the rock armor beast. The huge giant beast changed in size due to Xia Xu's control, and its back shell full of rock protrusions was still in the city wall, and at this time, it moved forward step by step, pushing it back.
Xia Xu held the Great Xia military flag, jumped off the city wall, stood on top of the rock armor beast's head, and ordered it to tear the fire lion apart when it burst out of vitality. The waves of air sent the flames in all directions, scattering all over the ground, and brightening the place, as if there were sparks everywhere.
"Get out of here, fight openly!"
After Xia Xu roared, the southern merchant who kept groping in the dark still did not appear. Their aura was hidden by the Yuan Qi, which made Xia Xu feel tricky, this time they sent out more cultivators than before, and there were more people, how would he deal with it?
Xia Xiao had already expected this situation, but there was no way to deal with it, the cultivators of Great Xia were not as many as Nanshang, and now they were all withdrawn, and there were only four people in the army, and they were all standing in front of the city wall at this time, but there was still a feeling of being surrounded by wolves.
The wall behind it lost its characteristics of being hard and indestructible in front of the practitioners, but it was not a retreat, but a cliff. Xia Xu turned his back to it and wouldn't take half a step back no matter what. It is the duty of a soldier to guard his own land, and it is his unbreakable arrogance!
The armor was worn on his body, and the extremely heavy breastplate had saved him several times, which was the most important thing to save his life. Xia Xu looked around, someone was coming. The moment they came into view, countless arrows rained down on them. The arrows seemed to be nailed into the ground, crisscrossing and crisscrossing, but they were difficult to injure the enemy.
The stone forest squirmed, and stabbed towards them under Xia Xu's constant control. But there is an extremely fatal flaw in the earth-moving vitality, that is, it is too bulky. That sluggishness is hidden deep within the energy, making it difficult to move quickly. Therefore, tonight's battle is a difficult and decisive battle.
By doing so, NCB obviously violated the original advice of the five major forces, they did not force NCB to destroy their ambitions, and they did not allow trouble to occur at this time. But they secretly encroached on Xiyang, even if they were punished, it was a matter that the overall situation had already decided, how could they intervene? This is nothing more than a test of courage.
The battle lasted for a long time, and when the sun rose in the east, the flames of the battlefield were extinguished. Xia Xu was lying on the city wall, his body was depleted, and he was weak and broke out in a cold sweat. There are not many soldiers around him, lying horizontally and vertically, without the slightest strength to recall, but many cultivators and soldiers in Nanshang have been crushed in a scarlet light.
The flames of the night were still dancing in his eyes, Xia Xu looked at the sky, and suddenly felt that the sun was not so dazzling. He had forgotten how much vitality he had been subjected to, and he didn't know how many spears and swords had injured his body. He didn't bother to think, he just closed his eyes when his breath was sluggish, thirsty, but he didn't care.
With his head tilted to the east, this eldest brother who was concerned about Daxia and missed his brother temporarily fell. Xia Xiao over there also looked to the west, but he didn't know the situation. Some people are ruthless, only moved by interests, and some people do not hesitate to do so, both of them are a minority, but even less, it is your joke, but I take it seriously.
There was one more person on the city wall of Xiyang in Great Xia, and the slender figure was not much dressed, and the white skin was in sharp contrast to the heaven and earth that had been burned by the fire. This seemingly harmless man will turn the tide of the war with simple and crude means, simpler than anyone thinks. Even Xia Xiao himself didn't expect it to develop like this.
The cold wind blows, the battlefield is bleak, fortunately there is no song in the court, and someone asks. Xia Jinghong went to court today, and when he got home, he brought back a holy message.