Chapter 198: Breaking the City (2)
Lu Yi looked at Zhuge Suiming.
Zhuge Suiming looked at Lu Yi.
Suddenly, Zhuge Suiming roared, and dozens of crossbows and hundreds of archers on the city wall shot at Lu Yi at the same time.
Lu Yi also let out a long roar, and the Silver Dragon Sword suddenly flew out from his sleeve, turning into a several-foot-long silver rainbow that rushed straight towards Zhuge Suiming.
Dozens of white-robed swordsmen around Zhuge Suiming suddenly changed their expressions. They slapped the scabbards at their waists, and clanging sounds were heard continuously. Dozens of cold lights more than three meters long rose into the air, circling like crows diving into the water, and rushed towards the Silver Dragon Sword.
Zhuge Suiming was also courageous. Facing the Silver Dragon Sword, he did not dodge or evade. Instead, he lifted up a heavy shield with his left hand to protect himself, grabbed a javelin with his right hand, and threw it at Lu Yi with all his strength.
Dozens of cold lights came out from behind and collided with the Silver Dragon Sword.
A series of 'ding-dong' sounds were heard, and dozens of five-foot-long green swords broke one after another and turned into scrap metal and fell to the ground.
Hundreds of arrows and more than a hundred heavy crossbow arrows smashed down on his head. The Silver Dragon Sword spun in the air, and the arrows shattered one after another. The broken arrowheads and arrow shafts fell like heavy rain.
Lu Yi spurted out a mouthful of Guixu Immortal Essence, and the Silver Dragon Sword, which had originally disappeared in its flight, increased in speed again, pulling up a nearly ten-foot-long silver rainbow of light. It flew in front of Zhuge Suiming with a "chi chi" sound and split his thrown javelin into two pieces.
Zhuge Suiming let out a strange cry, and the heavy shield in his left hand was covered with a layer of faint light, and he smashed it hard at the Silver Dragon Sword.
Just as he made a move, a swordsman in white behind him grabbed his collar and pulled him back quickly. He retreated a long distance in two or three steps, jumped out of the city wall, and landed in Wuzhou City.
Lu Yi snorted coldly and slapped the Dark Cloud Beast's head hard. The Dark Cloud Beast let out a loud "ang". It had consumed a lot of Xuanyuan Divine Water in recent days and was nourished by the five elements and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth day and night. This creature had become extremely powerful, much stronger than when Monk Kong Kong gave it to Lu Yi.
Black smoke rose under its feet. It stepped on the black cloud and jumped with Lu Yi across the hundred-foot-wide moat and crashed into the city wall.
"Da da da", this guy actually ran wildly along the vertical city wall, and in an instant rushed up the 64-meter-high city wall. He stood majestically on the battlement of the city wall, raised his two front hooves, spitting saliva and shouting "ang ang".
In the back, Yu Dianhu and other guards were stunned for a moment, and at the same time shouted to the sky: "Lord Tianyang is mighty!"
Afterwards, the 100,000 Yulin soldiers who witnessed all this shouted in unison: "Lord Tianyang is mighty!"
The 300,000 elite Leopard Cavalry of the Eastern Expedition Army were too far away, and many soldiers could not see clearly what was happening here. However, scouts and messengers rode over at full speed and shouted out that Lu Yi had killed thousands of defenders alone and rushed into Wuzhou City single-handedly.
Gradually, the 300,000 Leopard Cavalry of the Eastern Expedition Army cheered in unison and hit their armor and shields with their weapons. The loud "bang bang" noise shook the earth and frightened the defenders on the wall of Wuzhou so much that their faces turned pale.
"Kill him!"
On the city wall of Wuzhou, several guards in golden armor pointed at Lu Yi and yelled hysterically.
A group of elite soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding long-handled axes howled and rushed towards Lu Yi desperately.
A long-handled axe weighing two to three hundred pounds, if used in a regular city defense battle, would definitely be a powerful weapon for defending the city and killing the enemy. It can slash wildly from a high position, and even martial arts masters at the first or second level of the Tuomai realm would be afraid.
But I met Lu Yu...
Lu Yi did not move, and the bear demon's heavy armor flew out of the Beiming Ring. With a "clang" sound, it covered its entire body. Even its face was covered by the thick visor, and it turned into a tin can.
Several of the fastest soldiers rushed over, swinging their axes at Lu Yi and chopped him hard. There was a constant sound of "ding ding", sparks flew, and the axe blades made gaps of varying sizes. The soldiers' knuckles were torn and bleeding, but there was not even a trace left on Lu Yi's heavy armor.
A general in golden armor roared angrily: "Are you all stupid? Chop the horse!"
A dozen armored soldiers rushed up, swinging their axes at the dark cloud beast.
From far and near, archers were shooting at Lu Yi and the Dark Cloud Beast. Arrows flew through the air, making a continuous "chi chi" sound.
The Dark Cloud Beast rolled its eyes and snorted.
As a strange-blood mount that can gallop tens of thousands of miles in an hour, and can also carry tens of thousands of pounds of armor, a spear, and a strong bow over long distances, one can imagine how strong its physical functions are.
Big axes hit it with only muffled "bang bang" sounds, and failed to cut off even a single horse hair.
Instead, this guy jumped around and kicked his hooves desperately, kicking dozens of heavily armored soldiers away, even leaving basin-sized holes in their armor.
Dense waves of arrows came one after another, landing on Lu Yi and the Black Cloud Beast. Sparks flew everywhere or made bang bang sounds, but they could not cause any harm to them.
Lu Yi rode on the Dark Cloud Beast and walked on the city wall . Wherever he passed, countless soldiers howled in disorder, kept rushing up, and were constantly kicked away by the Dark Cloud Beast.
Lu Yi wielded the Silver Dragon Sword and cut the bowstrings of all the crossbows on the city wall, and shouted, "Yu Dianhu, bring some people over here... Build a human ladder, come on!"
On the city wall, all the defenders of Wuzhou City shook in unison.
God damn it!
In Dayin...
No, in the history of the dozen or so dynasties before Dayin, has there ever been a time when, facing a provincial capital, the attacking army did not use siege equipment but instead used human ladders to climb up?
This is not a siege, this is giving heads and military merit to the defenders!
But at this moment, the defenders on this section of the city wall of Wuzhou City suffered heavy casualties, the expeditionary envoy Dugu Suiming fled, and all the important city defense equipment was destroyed by Lu Yi's flying sword. Lu Yi also wandered around with the ferocious black cloud beast, constantly dispersing and killing the defenders who had gathered with great difficulty.
Yu Dianhu raised the emperor's staff in his hand and shouted hysterically: "My Lord, you are so powerful! Brothers, follow me!"
Holding the staff tightly in his left hand and drawing the heavy sword with his right hand, Yu Dianhu jumped off his mount and galloped towards Wuzhou City with big strides.
Whistles sounded, and Lu Yi's three thousand guards jumped off their horses and followed the fish-crazy tigers to run forward. Of course, they did not have the ability of the black cloud beast to jump over the hundred-foot-wide moat, so they ran to the stone bridge outside the west gate of Wuzhou City.
On the gate tower of the west gate of Wuzhou City, a general in golden armor howled hysterically: "Shoot arrows, shoot arrows, don't let them cross the bridge... No, no, destroy this bridge for me, destroy this bridge!"
Lu Yi alone had suppressed them into a miserable state. If the elite troops from Haojing like Yu Dianhu really used human ladders to climb up the city wall, the local generals of Wuzhou City knew very well that the soldiers under their command were definitely no match for Haojing's fierce and powerful army!
Three little donkeys came running over with a clattering sound.
On the city wall, the archers facing the moat bridge in front of the city gate all drew their bows and shot arrows. There was a continuous "chi chi" sound, and arrows fell towards the bridge like a rainstorm.
Three green sword lights shot up into the sky, like dragons stirring up trouble in the sea, and they moved and rolled over the bridge. The arrows were shattered into pieces as soon as they touched the bridge.
Yu Dianhu and the others were ecstatic, and they shouted "The three priests are mighty" one by one, and ran as fast as they could with their long legs. They easily crossed the bridge and came to the foot of the city wall.
"Come, build a human ladder!" Yu Dianhu raised the emperor's staff in his hand, swung the heavy sword and roared loudly: "Duke Tianyang, hold the emperor's staff and conquer the disobedient... You guys, don't make mistakes. Rebellion is a crime that will punish all nine generations of your clan!"
On the city wall, the soldiers were in a panic.
The emperor's staff, rebellion, nine clans will be punished...
This is such a distant thing that it should have nothing to do with these small pawns in the city defense system in their lifetime.
On the city wall, another golden-armored general waved his weapon and shouted, "There is no way out, no way out. You have all participated in strangling the imperial guards in the city... You have the blood of the imperial guards on your hands... You should have killed all of them long ago!"
A crazy murderous look suddenly appeared on the faces of the panicked soldiers on the city wall.
Yes, there is no going back.
A few days ago, Wuzhou Mu Song, together with the expeditionary envoy Zhuge Suiming, hosted a banquet for the generals of the imperial guards and the city defense forces in Wuzhou City. From the commander-in-chief to the most basic centurions and decurions, all were invited to the Wuzhou Mu's Mansion.
Then, the wine was poisoned, and the generals of the imperial guards completely lost the power to resist. It only took half a quarter of an hour to kill them all like chickens.
The wine and meat sent by the governor's office to reward the troops were also poisoned. In the Wuzhou City Imperial Guard camp, 100,000 imperial guards were poisoned. The city defense troops rushed into the camp and beheaded all of them.
The heads of a hundred thousand imperial guards were piled up like a memorial stone, and now they are standing at the gate of the imperial guards camp!
I have committed such a crime... When the capital of Gaojing investigates, all of my family members will be executed, and I will not be able to escape the heavy crime of punishing all nine generations of my clan.
“Kill!”
The soldiers roared madly, drew their bows and shot arrows, and all kinds of city defense equipment fell like raindrops towards the city.
Three long green rainbows flew over, but did not hurt anyone. However, wherever the sword light passed, the bowstrings of strong bows and crossbows broke, the crossbows were torn to pieces by the sword light, and all kinds of city defense equipment such as clappers, oil pans, etc. were also torn apart by the sword light.
On the top of the city wall, the soldiers wailed in unison.
Under the city wall, strong and powerful soldiers shouted slogans as they watched human ladders climbing up to the top of the city wall little by little.
Before the expedition, the soldiers under Lu Yi's command would never have been able to build a human ladder.
A simple calculation shows that the city wall is 64 zhang high. Even if each person is about 1 zhang high, it would be impossible to climb to the top of the city wall without 60 to 70 or 70 to 80 people.
The average weight of a strong man is about 150 kilograms, plus the armor weighing dozens of kilograms, that is about 200 kilograms.
In this way, the soldiers acting as the base below need to bear a weight of 15,000 to 16,000 kilograms.
Even if two or three people share the burden, no one needs to bear thousands of pounds!
The strength of an elite soldier at the peak of Peiyuan Realm is only one thousand kilograms!
How can they hold up the human ladder?
However, along the way, each soldier took two solid red lotus pills with a 10% efficacy, and their physical strength soared, with an average of 7,000 to 8,000 kilograms of physical strength. In addition, many soldiers had successfully expanded their meridians, and opening a meridian could increase their strength by hundreds or even thousands of kilograms.
Climb step by step according to the level of your cultivation.
The one with the highest level of cultivation acts as a base at the bottom, while those with lower levels of cultivation climb upwards.
Although it was a bit difficult, these human ladders actually managed to climb to a place several feet above the top of the wall.
The soldiers who had successfully opened up their meridians shouted loudly, jumped up, stepped on the shoulders of their comrades, and rushed to the top of the city wall.
