Chapter Forty-Eight: Soldiers Descend on the City
Late at night on the second day, Xia Yu, Xia Xiu and Xia Lin stood on the wall of Mocheng and looked at the place where the 300,000 army was stationed. Suddenly, in the dark night, a raging fire rose into the sky, and the place where the fire started was the granary of the 300,000 army! The fire burned for an hour, until Zhang Yun returned to Mocheng, Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the 300,000 army had been broken!
In the morning, Xia Yu released hundreds of officers under Tian Bixiong's command, Tian Bixiong looked puzzled, and when he returned to the barracks, he was angry in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Go back to Beijing!" In this way, the 300,000 army left under the leadership of Tian Bixiong. In all directions of Mocheng, the city gate was wide open, and the Xia family chamber of commerce in the surrounding cities transported countless grain reserves into Mocheng in an orderly manner.
Three days later, in the hall of the Xia Mansion, Xia Yu was receiving three distinguished guests, and it was Tao Yu who came here with Qin Tianqi and the giant spirit. As soon as the three of them arrived in Mocheng, they heard that the three brothers of the Xia family had defeated an army of 300,000 without losing a single soldier, and they couldn't help but sigh: Sure enough, it is a tiger father without a dog! Xia Yu learned from Tao Yu that Xia Yi would return to Mocheng in the near future, and he was very excited in his heart, and immediately held a banquet for the three of them to catch the wind and wash the dust, and cleaned up three empty rooms for them to live in.
On the other hand, in the palace of the Great Chu Kingdom, Zhu Tongwu was dressed in a dragon robe, sitting on the dragon chair, he stared at Tian Bixiong who was kneeling below, his face was angry, and he said angrily: "Bastard, I let you lead an army of 300,000, but you can't beat a small Mocheng! You still have the face to come back!" Tian Bixiong was shocked, immediately put his forehead on the ground, and said in fear: "The emperor is angry, in Mocheng, there are hundreds of masters of the innate realm, although the last general leads 300,000 troops, but all of them are the acquired realm, and they are indeed not their opponents!"
At this time, a person walked out on the left side of the dragon chair, he was wrapped in a black robe, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't worry, the innate realm, how much do I want!" This person boldly walked into the main hall, Zhu Tongwu was not angry, but greeted him with a smile, and said: "Master, some little things, why did you alarm you?" The black-robed man waved his hand and said: "The master has long suspected that there is something strange in the Xia Mansion, and sure enough, there are hundreds of innate masters hidden!" He looked at Zhu Tongwu, took out a wooden box, and said in a low voice: " In this wooden box, there is the immortal medicine Heavenly Spirit Grass, you order someone to boil it into a soup, and the peak cultivator of the day after tomorrow can enter the innate realm with just one bite. This box of Heavenly Spirit Grass is enough to create 50,000 Innate Realm cultivators!
After the black-robed man finished speaking, Zhu Tongwu immediately stepped forward, respectfully took the wooden box, and thanked the black-robed man. Tian Bixiong immediately raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, with the elixir of the Immortal Lord, the last general implores the emperor to allow the last general to make meritorious service and lead the army to break through Mocheng!" Zhu Tongwu asked a eunuch to hand the wooden box to Tian Bixiong, and then said: "Okay, I will give you another chance! Go down and prepare!" Tian Bixiong listened, thanked Zhu Tongwu and the black-robed man for his kindness, and then withdrew from the main hall.
At this moment, Zhu Tongwu said to the black-robed man: "Master, that Xia Mansion, is it really so powerful?" The black-robed man said in a hoarse voice: "It's not that Xia Mansion is powerful, but that Xia Yi has some ability!" After that, the black robed man's eyes were cold, and he secretly said in his heart: "Xia Yi, the deity is going to destroy your foundation and destroy your soul!"
In Zhongzhou, after Xia Yi said goodbye to the demon monk, he marched towards the Great Chu State day and night. A few days later, passing through a valley, but seeing apes frolicking all over the mountains, he secretly thought to himself, did he come to the territory of the ape clan? At this time, a huge figure quietly appeared on Xia Yi's side, he looked up and saw that there was a huge ape, all brown and with six ears, it was the six-eared macaque king, Ye Tongming! Xia Yi treated him with a salute: "Senior Ye, I didn't expect to meet again?" Ye Tongming's face was kind, and he leaned down and said: "I have heard Xiaoyou's movement a long time ago, and I have come to invite you to sit in my clan's cave!" Xia Yi nodded: "Senior is polite!" Then, Ye Tongming took Xia Yi and disappeared in place in an instant.
But after a breath, Xia Yi came to a huge grotto, the inside of the grotto was extremely tall and empty, all kinds of furnishings were readily available, and after walking through several huge stone rooms, Ye Tongming took Xia Yi to a stone hall. Bai Ziyue and the others were all sitting in the center of the stone hall, Ye Tongming walked in with Xia Yi, only to see the Netherworld Black Ape King Xuan Zhutian laughing and saying to Xia Yi: "Haha, Brother Xia, don't come here if you haven't seen you for ten years!"
The four ape kings are all ape bodies, even if they sit in the grotto, they are dozens of zhang high! Xia Yi stood in the stone hall, looked at the four giants in front of him, and said, "Xia Yi has seen all the predecessors!" Lingming Stone Monkey King Sun Sheng said: "Junior Brother Xia doesn't need to be polite!" Xia Yi looked at the four great ape kings and said respectfully: "I don't know if the four seniors greeted Xia Yi to come, what advice do you have?"
Bai Ziyue immediately said: "Junior Brother Xia helped my ape clan when it was in danger, and now, your Xia Mansion is worried, I will call you here and send you back to your house!" Xia Yi heard this, his face changed, and he asked: "Senior, I don't know what is going on in my Xia Mansion?" Bai Ziyue said: "My fourth brother is the six-eared macaque king, good at listening to sounds, able to perceive, knowing before and after, and has the magical power that everything is clear! Four years ago, a figure of evil qi entangled, entered the palace of your Great Chu State, since then, the Great Chu Kingdom has begun to target Mocheng, and there is no big deal!" Now, that person has begun to attack you Mocheng, so I will ask the fourth brother to find you and send you back to Nanzhou. ”
Xia Yi listened, thought for a while, and immediately said: "Thank you seniors for informing me!" With Xia Yi's speed, if you want to fly from Zhongzhou to Nanzhou, it will take two or three years to go all out. Now that Bai Ziyue is sending him off, he should be able to arrive in Mocheng in less than half a month. Bai Ziyue said to Xia Yi: "Without further ado, you come into my palm and set off immediately!" Xia Yi immediately jumped into Bai Ziyue's palm, Bai Ziyue nodded to the other three, and then disappeared into the stone hall. As soon as Bai Ziyue disappeared, a golden ape more than ten zhang tall instantly appeared in the stone hall, and shouted loudly: "Brother Xia, Brother Xia" Then he looked puzzled, looked at Sun Sheng and asked, "Uncle Xia, where is Brother Xia?" Sun Sheng's face was stern, and he reprimanded: "Yuan Ao, you are only in the Yuanying realm now, you have just been able to speak people, what are you doing here without stepping up your cultivation?" Xia Yi has his own things to do, you should take the revival of our clan as your own responsibility!" As soon as Sun Sheng finished speaking, an arrogant voice came from the outside world: " When did the ape clan fall into such a poor mountain and bad water? Who is the patriarch, come to see me quickly!" Sun Sheng was furious when he heard this, and an iron rod suddenly appeared in his hand, and he said angrily: "Bastard!" and then disappeared in place.
Outside Mocheng, Tian Bixiong led 50,000 innate masters to come and call for battle under the city.
"Xia Yu, open the city gate immediately, this general is not guilty of the past, spare your life!"
Xia Yu stood at the head of the city, his face gloomy. 50,000 innate masters, enough to sweep through several countries, but now they have come to attack Mocheng. He looked at the direction of the palace and kept thinking in his heart, this matter is not so simple! Tao Yu stood beside Xia Yu and said in a deep voice: "The army of 50,000 innate cultivators! If they attack together, Mocheng will definitely fall!" Although Tao Yu is in the Yuanying realm, he can kill innate cultivators in seconds, but 50,000 innate cultivators are lined up in a row, stretching out his neck for him to kill, and that is not something that can be killed in a while! The sky gradually became depressed, and Mocheng looked precarious at the moment!
Under the city, Tian Bixiong led an army of 50,000 innate cultivators, constantly calling for battle, and the city wall had already been strengthened to a height of ten zhang, and there were tens of thousands of dark grids on the wall, all of which were equipped with bows and crossbows and arrows, so it was inconvenient for Tian Bixiong's army to forcibly attack the city. At this moment, in the tent of Tian Bixiong's 50,000 military camp, dozens of siege vehicles were launched, and on top of these vehicles, huge steel columns were hung with thick chains, and the entire vehicles were made of stainless steel, leaving a five-inch-deep rut mark on the ground!
Tian Bixiong laughed and said: "Xia Yu, this is a siege weapon specially built to deal with your Mocheng, no matter how strong your city wall is, with these giant steel pillars to hit the city day and night, within two days, your Mocheng city wall will definitely collapse! Hahaha........." Immediately, Tian Bixiong waved his hand, dozens of huge rushing cars slowly came to the city of Mocheng, and the thick steel pillars began to smash violently against the city wall, and the huge crashing sound came one after another, as if the entire city of Mocheng was trembling.
On the city wall, a slight tremor made a trace of gloom appear in everyone's hearts, Xia Yu asked: "Archer, can you shoot the enemy siege personnel?" A man with a bow and arrow on his back came and said respectfully: "The eldest prince, the siege car is made of stainless steel, and the siege enemy army is all hidden behind the car and cannot be aimed!" Xia Yu's face was gloomy and his brows were furrowed.
At this time, Xia Xiu said beside him: "Come on, bring all the fierce fire oil to this son!" Not long after, hundreds of barrels of fierce fire oil appeared on the city wall. Xia Xiu immediately ordered: "Pour this oil on the rushing car!" Suddenly, a large amount of fierce fire oil poured down from the city wall and sprinkled on the rushing car under the city and on the soldiers in the rear. At this time, arrows with fire shot down from the city wall, and dozens of rushing carts were immediately in flames. Those who were responsible for the siege were all innate masters, but they did not reach the realm of invulnerability and invulnerability, and they were suddenly burned by the fire, screaming and rolling in place.
Tian Bixiong immediately ordered the siege soldiers to withdraw, and then he said: "Xia Yu, General Ben is here, see how much fierce fire oil you have in Mocheng!" After that, he ordered 50,000 troops to camp on the spot and garrison troops outside Mocheng. Then, Tian Bixiong glanced at Xia Yu, turned around and returned to the tent.
On the city wall, Xia Lin said to Xia Xiu: "Second brother, this move is not a long-term plan after all!" Xia Xiu's face was embarrassed, and he said: "I also know that at this moment, it is a time to be able to delay for a while, and when the father-in-law returns, these 50,000 innate masters will naturally be solved!"
In the next few days, the two sides began to engage in a tug-of-war, as soon as the fire on the rushing car was extinguished, someone immediately began to attack the city, and a large number of soldiers on the city wall began to pour fierce fire oil and set the rushing car on fire. The sound of intermittent collision came from under the city wall, and Xia Yu frowned all day long, looking forward to Xia Yi's return as soon as possible.
After more than ten days, on the city wall, Xia Yu's face was a little haggard. He was worried in his heart, this ink city, my father-in-law handed it over to me and others, and I must not throw it away. At this time, a small soldier stepped forward and said in a slur manner: "Eldest son...... The fierce fire oil is going to run out today!" Xia Yu listened, his face became even more gloomy, and then he waved his hand and said, "Got it, go down!" The little soldier retreated.
Xia Xiu and Xia Lin stepped forward and asked, "Big brother, what should I do next?" Xia Yu said in a deep voice: "Intensify the training of soldiers! As soon as the city wall is broken, it is indispensable to flow a river of blood!" Xia Xiu and Xia Lin nodded solemnly.