Chapter 566 Battle of Qingzhou
Chapter 566 Battle of Qingzhou
The 20th year of Yongqing, September 20th, night.
The Qingzhou army launched an attack on Dengfeng City.
The night was like thick ink. From time to time, the sound of torches crackling could be heard from the top of Dengfeng City. The orange-red flames illuminated the densely packed Qingzhou troops on the ladders. The harsh sound of iron hooks scraping against the city walls mixed with roars, as if countless evil spirits were climbing up.
"Shoot!" General Hou shouted.
In an instant, the dark shadows gathered behind the battlements stood up at the same time, and more than a thousand sharp arrows wrapped in resin broke through the air. When the arrow rain fell to the ground, it ignited a sea of fire. Boiling gold juice poured out from the city wall, pouring on the ladders and soldiers, and the smell of burning and blood rushed into the sky.
At the top of the ladder, a garrison officer at the peak of the third realm leaped onto the city wall. The cold light of his scimitar flashed, and more than a dozen heads flew up.
Several masters from the Northern Wei Jianghu Camp immediately surrounded him and thrust their iron spears at the man's throat, but their spears were entangled by the opponent's chains and pulled off the city wall. Several people tumbled in the air and fell heavily on the spikes of the siege tower, splashing blood.
After an hour's fierce battle, the Qingzhou army left behind more than 4,000 corpses and temporarily stopped retreating.
General Hou stood on the top of the city wall, the blade of his sword stained with blood. Although he had no spiritual power, he had fought for many years and knew some martial arts. He had just killed three enemy soldiers, which greatly boosted their morale.
"I have received a secret report that the commander's Wuhuan cavalry will soon cross the river and hold out for seven days. You will all be credited as heroes."
"The general is mighty!"
"The general is mighty!"
Cheers rang out one after another. According to past practice, all the gold, silver and treasures that General Hou had earned for his merits would be distributed in the name of rewards from the emperor. It might be possible to hide it once or twice, but it happened every time, and even the soldiers knew the truth.
Unfortunately, General Hou was not as relaxed as imagined. He leaned his hands on the wall with a heavy face.
For now, the overall direction of the Northern Wei Dynasty is to consolidate the front line, accelerate reforms, and through continuous integration and naturalization, allow the various grassland clans to unite with the local forces in Jiangbei.
Once successful, the two will unleash tremendous power, significantly enhancing the national strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
But the inevitable exclusion and resistance also mean contradictions, and the fundamental purpose of this war to the south is to use military victory to reduce the resistance to change.
"From the moment Dongyang was defeated, there will be no more reinforcements." General Hou sighed, his face helpless.
A total war went against national policy, and local wars had already been lost. The failure in political goals made the war meaningless. The best option was to retreat to Licheng, but it was far away from Dongyang, and the defeated army at that time could not withstand the pursuit of the Skeleton Dragon Riders.
"But there is always a way out. If we keep calm, we will always have a glimmer of hope." General Hou was determined. When he was just a small lieutenant general, he finally survived.
Click!
Under the smoke and fire, the wall paint beside me fell off, revealing the hideous thorns inside.
The stinging pain made General Hou's face turn pale little by little.
He recalled the military report during the attack on Dongyang City, in which Prince Yong led 800 cavalrymen to capture Dengfeng City, but had to withdraw in the end because of too few troops.
But looking at the current situation, it is obvious that the man is not unable to win, but firmly believes that he can win and has left a trap here.
After Gui Man, General Hou became the second person to discover that thorns had penetrated the wall.
"All troops muster, break out of the North City!"
"All troops muster, break out of the North City!"
General Hou roared to the sky, he was so angry that he couldn't help but bleed from the corner of his mouth.
Almost at the same time, as someone canceled the ability Hand of Thorns, the thorns turned into ashes, the hollow city wall began to collapse, and one third of the entire south side was damaged.
"General, leave quickly!"
"General, the Skeleton Dragon Cavalry appeared in the north of the city, and they are coming from Licheng!"
"Brothers, run!"
Under the city wall, Asan was riding on a horse with a lazy look. He patiently selected the military flags and then threw out all the offensive flags.
"Even pigs know what to do at this time."
"Charge! I'll cheer you on!"
Five guerrilla generals each led their troops to charge, and Asan followed symbolically. More than 20,000 Qingzhou troops poured into the gap in the city wall. This time the enemy was defeated at the first charge, knives cut flesh, and spears pierced bodies. Under the moonlight, there were shouts of killing and terrified noises everywhere.
Faced with the city's fall, the defeated Northern Wei soldiers opened the city gates in a panic, but what they faced were the Skeleton Dragon Riders, and Dengfeng City became a huge cage.
……
In the ruins south of the wall, a huge stone was pushed open. Not far away, there were still sporadic resistance from Northern Wei soldiers, but they could not stop the Qingzhou army's advance. Thanks to the full military pay and pensions from the last war, the soldiers were in high spirits.
A thin man in black protected General Hou under him, and his internal organs were shaken violently when he fell from a high altitude.
"General, please go. I know you have done your best. I will cover your retreat and someone will come to pick you up!"
The man in black spoke resolutely. He was a wolf guard directly under the Northern Wei emperor, and his duty was to secretly monitor the generals commanding troops outside the country.
General Hou coughed up blood several times and said calmly, "Direction."
"Xiang Nan!" The man in black stood up, the aura of a sub-hero was evident. When sparks came out of the pipe in his hand, the two captains of the rear army in the Qingzhou army, who were originally used to target the Pei family, immediately rebelled. These two Pei descendants who chose to rebel were of extraordinary value. After all, not everyone would abandon their family because of internal friction.
The south of Dengfeng City suddenly fell into great chaos. General Hou mounted his horse and galloped away without even looking at the fallen city behind him, his eyes full of determination and resoluteness.
"Want to go?"
On the river bank outside the city, in front of more than a hundred cavalrymen, Jiang He was wearing a white gown, holding a bright red longbow with a string like a full moon. An arrow condensed with strong energy emerged and suddenly shot out, and the strong arrow flew into the sky like a tornado.
boom!
A feather fell down, and someone caught the arrow with one hand. The overflowing strong wind cut the surrounding ground into cracks.
The man was dressed in feathered clothes, with a feminine and handsome appearance, and looked to be only about thirty years old. He was from a noble family, and his hands were wrapped with countless red threads, showing extraordinary toughness.
Jiang He couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
The eighth in the world is Yuan Changling, a prince of the Northern Wei royal family.
"I am entrusted with this task and I must be loyal to my king." Yuan Changling said with a smile, "Please show some mercy, Prince Yong. Since ancient times, it has always been a minority for generals to die in battle. This is not appropriate."
Strands of red silk swayed, pulling out more than two dozen corpses and a huge grade-A Yang steel box. This grade of Yang steel is an epic material.
"All the skills that Prince Yong requested are here. I have also killed all the flies from the Jiuliu Sect and the Nanliang Night Guards. I guarantee that the transaction will not cause any trouble to Your Highness."
Yuan Changling smiled kindly and said, "Can I see the son of Brother Wuhuan? I haven't found him in Dongyang City or Qingzhou Army."
Jiang He waved his hand casually.
Among the accompanying cavalry, one cavalryman took off his mask.
Duke Chi-Le looked ashamed; he was surrounded by tigers and wolves, and had just participated in the charge against the Licheng army.
The two sides confronted each other tacitly in the night. Duke Chi-Le rode forward fearfully. Yuan Changling took the opportunity to push out the iron box. The lid opened and all the exercises inside were intact.
"Your Highness Prince Yong, let's say goodbye now."
A few red threads supported the nearly collapsed Chi Le Gong. Yuan Changling checked him, then said goodbye and turned away.
"One life for another, Hou Yanshan is gone, you stay." Jiang He said calmly.
Yuan Changling stopped and turned around, with a half-smile on his feminine face, and said: "Prince Yong wanted to keep the enemy at bay to protect himself, so as not to be forced by Southern Liang to rush north. Why is he now criticizing me?"
Jiang He did not comment, and said: "Chi Le Gong can go, go back and tell the Northern Wei clan that from now on, all the captives in my hands can be redeemed with my skills, and I will not cheat anyone."
"Yes." Duke Chi-Le hurriedly clasped his fists and accepted the order.
Yuan Changling couldn't help laughing in anger, so he raised his leg and kicked him to the ground. Then he charged at him once or twice and he surrendered. If Wuhuan were present, he would have killed him with a hammer.
The Duke of Chi-Le escaped alone, and the hundreds of skeleton dragon riders around him also withdrew from the battlefield.
The night is like water, and Dengfeng City is burning like a torch.
In Jiang He's hand, a silver spear materialized, with dark red lines spreading across the spear, exuding a murderous aura.
"Then fight." Yuan Changling sneered, with red silk flying in his hands.
boom!
Jiang He disappeared on the spot.
The billowing smoke and dust swept backwards, and the silver spear tips looked like an array of iron cavalry, stirring up smoke all over the ground.
As soon as the shot was fired, the ground shook.
Yuan Changling's ten fingers were like hooks, and red lines crisscrossed in front of him like a dense spider web.
Tear it apart!
The red threads broke one by one, and silver light came. Yuan Changling could even see the tiny hairs on the enemy's face. His expression became a little serious, and he weaved the red threads into a shield and stood in front of him.
boom!
The shield burst.
Yuan Changling was shocked and retreated a hundred feet.
Countless red threads pierced into the ground, unloading the enemy's tremendous force. Big pits were blown out at the end of the threads, and the ground within a radius of hundreds of meters was riddled with holes.
“He is not a land immortal, but he has such killing power, it’s amazing!
Yuan Changling lowered his head and glanced at his chest. The overflowing sharp edge crushed some flesh and blood. The silver spear had a powerful killing power that even the world's number one magic weapon, the Sword of Morality, did not possess.
If it weren't for the martial arts state and the body of a land immortal, this shot might have shattered the entire chest.
Boom boom boom!
Jiang He charged again and again, and more than a dozen red silk defenses collapsed one after another. Since his arrival, the experience accumulated from many encounters with the enemy gave birth to a new Dragon Spear Technique - Iron Railing.
The silver spear was handed out, and the fierce spear energy crisscrossed, like a dense and tight iron cavalry formation, charging straight forward.
Boom!
Yuan Changling retreated another three hundred feet, his chest completely collapsed. He spat out fragments of his internal organs casually, with a generous smile on his feminine face.
One hand back, one hand forward.
The red silk is like the sea, surging endlessly.
——Thousand Machines Dragon Hands.
shhhhhh!
Thousands of broken red threads along the way seemed to come alive in an instant, shooting out one after another as straight as guns.
A pitch-black armor emerged on Jiang He's body, but the red silk was extremely sharp, piercing through the armor and body, leaving countless tiny wounds. The bright red corpse gas swept through his body, destroying all life.
A red tsunami is coming from the front.
In an instant, the gun light flashed like a ray of light.
——Dragon Spear Technique: Thousand Mountains of Snow. It was like a heavy snowfall covering thousands of mountains. Thousands of spear lights were densely packed together, blasting huge holes in the red silk tsunami until it was completely annihilated.
But in the collapsing red debris, Yuan Changling suddenly appeared. His feathered clothes had long been damaged, revealing his body made of red silk underneath, and the serious injury on his chest had healed as before.
"Your power is returned to you."
Yuan Changling stretched out one hand and weaved the silk thread into a glove.
boom!
Roughly half of the enormous force released by the dozen charges surged out through the conduction of the red silk. This is the characteristic of the corpse-reincarnation red silk, which can not only be conducted to the ground, but also strike back at the enemy.
The impact hit me head on.
It was like being hit by a mountain. Jiang He retreated sideways with his gun drawn, all the way to the riverside.
Yuan Changling pointed forward, and one by one, woven red kites fell to the ground like a rain of arrows.
The white wings behind Jiang He spread out, and 10,800 holy feathers soared into the sky.
Whoosh whoosh!
The kites and feathers collided in mid-air, splashing out countless sparks, like lanterns that illuminated the night sky.
Countless blood was flowing out of Jiang He's body, and the damage caused by the Thousand Dragon Hand was getting worse.
Whoosh!
Yuan Changling stood a hundred meters away and swung his hand. The broken kites in the air gathered together to form a huge red sword.
The giant sword fell and cut off the water of the Xiabian River with one stroke.
A hundred-meter-long ravine blocked the river in the middle. In the stirred-up water curtain, Jiang He activated the first time ring, the two halves of his body recovered, and the silver spear blasted out.
——Dragon Spear Technique·Wolf Smoke Rising.
——Sub-legendary level: Anger.
The dark red light shattered the giant sword that touched the ground from top to bottom, and the remaining power went straight through Yuan Changling's forehead. The horrific damage almost destroyed his life.
Yuan Changling stumbled back two steps, but suddenly stood firm. His feather robe turned gray and drops of foul-smelling turbid liquid flowed out. His handsome and feminine face disappeared, replaced by a strange head covered with rotten flesh. All the bones and flesh in his body were replaced by red lines.
——Transformation of the immortal into a corpse.
Due to the suppression of the sun's core, local heroic creatures are unable to materialize a thousand-meter-high mythological form, so the immortal transformation that merges the mythological form with themselves has become a signature method.
The moment the Corpse Reincarnation Immortal appeared, a strange and powerful aura whistled out, and the increase in strength was extremely obvious.
"I really don't want to use this trick."
Yuan Changling, who had become extremely ugly, began to grin grimly.
In the distant Dengfeng City, mist from countless corpses surged over, completely restoring his condition and injuries. When he first transformed his corpse into an immortal, he would naturally have a chance to shed his "mortal body".
boom!
Jiang He's face looked normal. The God Hunt was activated and he charged forward, smashing the silver spear across.
——Dragon Spear Technique: Broken Dragon Spine.
A vaguely visible shadow of a giant dragon descended from the sky.
Yuan Changling sneered and said, "Haven't you heard of my Red Lotus?"
Wow!
Within a radius of 100 meters, the ground turned into a wriggling red thread. Rocks, trees, weeds, and river water all changed their shapes. The giant dragon phantom smashed the enemy to death, but Yuan Changling was like a living red thread, standing up again from a huge rock.
At the original place, the huge pit created by the spear technique was covered with a layer of red silk again in the blink of an eye.
Yuan Changling raised one hand to the sky, then suddenly clenched it.
——Red Lotus Tribulation.
Countless threads intertwined and converged, as if giant trees rose from the ground. The extremely sharp trees tore Jiang He into pieces, and the branches swayed wildly like a living beast.
But in an instant, an inexplicable force descended.
The golden blood flowed back, the white jade-like bones were reshaped, and the second time ring was opened. At the moment of recovery, Jiang He stabbed the spear into the ground with both hands.
——Sub-legendary level: Anger.
——Sub-legendary level reversal.
——Sub-legendary skill: Extraordinary Doomsday.
boom!
The red lotus land covering an area of 100 meters met its doomsday. Strands of red threads disintegrated, and the ultimate move of the Divine Transformation and Corpse Reincarnation that made it invincible was annihilated.
Yuan Changling couldn't help but tilt his head, his eye sockets were empty, and turbid and foul-smelling liquid flowed out.
"What the hell are you?"
What responded to him was the extremely violent flash of gunfire.
Two powerful immortal-level warriors on land started a war. Without the restraint of the Sun Soldiers in the military formation, the banks of the Lower Bian River were riddled with holes.
The Dragon Spear Technique·Wolf Smoke Rising, which was empowered by anger, was delivered again. The violent and swift dark red spear light blasted Yuan Changling away. The Divine Transformation·Corpse Transformation eliminated most of the damage, but the residual force still destroyed half of his body.
“Do you think you’re normal?”
Red lines flowed out from Yuan Changling's fingertips as he calmly repaired the damage. A red fish emerged and lingered around him.
The enemy was definitely not a terrestrial immortal, and if we ignored the absurd and incredible reality, then to be more precise, he should only be at the level of a second-level elite. And challenging him across three realms meant that if he was at the same level, he might be killed instantly.
Jiang He's expression remained calm, his attention focused on the red fish surrounding the enemy.
"You, the dignified Prince Yong, are just like a country bumpkin." Yuan Changling grinned and said, "Isn't this a companion weapon created by the luck of the royal family?"
"What a dead man is talking about."
boom!
Jiang He activated the Flash Elegy ten times in a row and closed in instantly. The cost-effectiveness of this kind of flash in the world of Zhulu is higher than that of activating the power of space.
The spear light was bright and the angle was tricky, like a glimmer of light peeking out from the clouds. It shattered the enemy's right shoulder in one move, and the aftermath of the Dragon Spear Technique·Yun Jianfeng's powerful force exploded.
Explosions sounded all over Yuan Changling's body, but he ignored them as he was very clear about his greatest advantage, which was the high total damage immunity granted by his martial arts state and the body of a land immortal.
Letting the damage fall, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the red fish's whiskers, which intertwined into a sword and thrust it out with all his might.
Swish!
The sword light cut the person in front of him vertically, and golden blood spurted out.
But in the next moment, the third time ring was activated. Jiang He ignored the severe pain, turned around and swept across with the gun.
The spear tip cut Yuan Changling in half, and the extraordinary doomsday caused his body to wither. The red silk threads that were extremely good at healing were annihilated one after another, and irreversible collapse began.
"Weaponry."
call!
Yuan Changling discarded his old skin, his spirit retreated, and the red fish immediately gave rise to countless red threads that wrapped around it and served as his body. His instinct told him that he must not be hit hard by the enemy's move just now, otherwise he would not be able to regain his "ascension to immortality" which only happens once a year.
Jiang He pressed forward step by step, activating the God Moves with Heaven technique. In an instant, his speed completely surpassed that of the enemy.
boom!
A figure flashed by, and Yuan Changling's body was destroyed again.
"hydrolysis."
His soul disappeared, and when he reappeared, Yuan Changling was already standing on the surface of the Xiabian River.
Different from ascending to immortality, the Seven Releases of Corpse Immortals is more like a kind of escape technique, which can only be activated when one is seriously injured but not dead. The enemy's attacks are extremely lethal, but because of the total damage immunity, they are always a little short of the mark. The Corpse Immortals inherited by the Northern Wei royal family must first get used to abandoning their physical bodies.
The gunlight continued and the red lines danced.
Because he had very little true energy left, after using the Fishbeard Sword to kill another enemy, Yuan Changling was forced to go on the defensive.
Jiang He suddenly cancelled the God Follows Heaven state and amplified the anger of the God Hunter. This time the speed was so fast that it almost exceeded the enemy's reaction limit.
boom!
Dragon Spear Technique: Iron Railings smashes the prey into pieces.
"Wood solution."
"Get back here."
At the moment Yuan Changling escaped, the past knight behind Jiang He cast the fifth time ring on the enemy, and time went backwards.
call!
Yuan Changling returned to his original place in a daze, his soul trembling.
Jiang He's eyes were dark, and the immortal-level paralysis made him stiff. The Dragon Spear Technique: Soul-Severing Chant pushed the soul damage to the peak, and he fired a shot into the enemy's head.
Click!
The red lines all over Yuan Changling's body shattered, and the destructive damage transmitted caused the weapon Red Fish to be almost completely damaged. He activated the corpse transformation among the seven transformations of the corpse immortal, and directly exited the immortal transformation state.
call!
Yuan Changling suddenly stepped back and turned back into a handsome and feminine nobleman, but the difference between before and after was that his energy was almost exhausted and many of his abilities were put into cooldown.
Without any hesitation, the land immortal turned and left.
"Is it too late to run now?"
Jiang He raised the dragon spear and poured all the energy into it. The sixth time ring was activated. As he continued to accumulate energy, a dazzling light rose in the night. The spear crossed the sky, as mighty as a river.
——The gun of destiny and victory oath.
Yuan Changling had already run more than ten miles, but there was no way to avoid the trajectory of the Spear of Destiny. No matter how he dodged, blocked, or even crossed the space, this spear would be like destiny itself and would eventually hit the target.
The air exploded, and the final flame followed.
The moment the tip of the spear touched Yuan Changling, punishment came.
Flesh and bones crumbled, souls were annihilated, and blood gushed out like lava. The sinful poison's soul-killing ability made it impossible for the wound to heal. When the dragon spear pierced through the enemy and nailed deeply into the ground, the tail of the spear was still buzzing and vibrating, and the ground within a hundred meters was shattered into powder.
[Hint: You have killed the heroic creature Yuan Changling (1/2)]
[Hint: You won the Qingzhou battle with 1 people (3/)]
[Hint: You have killed a prince-level character (1/3)]
Jiang He took a step forward. If the reward for killing the enemy was not too great, he would not be willing to fight to the death with the land immortal right now. The opponent was obviously not very good at attacking. This free and easy king of the Northern Wei Dynasty was the type who focused on survival.
With the appearance of the Knight of the Future, two more time rings were opened, one to revive a complete heroic body, and one to reproduce the immortal weapon, Red Fish.
At this moment in Dengfeng City, the war was nearing its end and the outcome was no longer in doubt. More than 30,000 Tiange and Chile soldiers were killed in the city, and as the price of the annihilation war, the Qingzhou army lost another 4,000 people.
"Asan, lead the troops out of the city and station them there. Notify Laohei and Ada, and send someone to distribute the military pay. Let the two thousand-household teams of the Yongwang Guard collect the bodies. I'll be there right away."
"clear."
After the Qingzhou army withdrew from the city, Jiang He went in and started alchemy. Excluding the losses from being trampled to pieces and burned to ashes, two thousand ordinary evil soldiers and eight hundred evil dragon rider guards were born.
Including the previous 6,000 people and the 2,000 Yongwang Guards, the newly formed Gan Ge Army has a size of 10,000 people. Together with the Qingzhou Army, it is enough to garrison Dengfeng City.
(End of this chapter)