Chapter 205: Siege (1)
Qi Li rode his horse at a trot and came straight to the place three miles from the east gate.
There were only a few generals in heavy armor following him, and other than that, there was only the outer sect elder of the Heart Sword Sect.
"Lu Yi!" Qi Li pointed at Lu Yi.
"Rules!" Lu Yi put his hands on the parapet of the city wall and sneered at Qi Li: "Rules, do you understand? I am also a long-standing vassal family. As an 'earl' of the imperial court, you must respectfully address me as 'Lord Lu'!"
Qi Li closed his mouth tightly, and felt a mouthful of hot blood rushing from his heart to his throat, making him feel fuming.
He thought again of the "greetings" on the wooden signs on the road, his face suddenly turned dark red, and his hands that were holding the reins were shaking violently.
After a moment of silence, Qi Li sneered: "The emperor is unjust..."
Lu Yu pointed at Qi Li and interrupted him: "Stop talking nonsense, just rebel. I hate you guys who rebel and still make excuses for yourselves... You're a whore, but you still want to build a chastity arch. Who are you doing this for?"
Qi Li spat out a mouthful of blood.
"You!" Qi Li glared at Lu Yi.
"If you want to fight, fight. If you don't want to fight, get out of here." Lu Yi looked at Qi Li lazily, "Stop saying those nonsense to fool the common people. What nonsense, such as the emperor is unjust, and the hen crows at dawn, can only fool the common people. Is it fun to say it here?"
"This city wall is 640 feet high. I see that the army you brought is just cavalry, without any siege equipment." Lu Yi shook his head and said with emotion: "It looks like we can't take the city today. I'll wait for you to build the equipment. Take your time, we're not in a hurry!"
Lu Yi is not in a hurry.
Let Qi Li’s army build siege equipment outside.
It is not easy to build suitable siege equipment for a 64-zhang high city wall. There are mountains and forests outside Wuzhou City, but the trees in the mountains and forests are only 70 to 80 zhang high at most, and the thickness can be hugged by one person. Such wood cannot be used to build such a huge siege equipment.
Lu Yi patted the battlements of the city wall in front of him and felt quite satisfied with it.
High in the sky, a huge albatross is circling.
On the back of the albatross stood a swordsman from the Haojian Palace dressed in snow-white clothes.
Lu Yu looked up at the swordsmen and shouted towards the outside of the city: "Qi Li, tell those people in Haojian Palace that if they dare to interfere with the siege, all the descendants of the Zhuge family in Haojing will be beheaded. Did you hear me clearly?"
Qi Li was in a mess.
In the air, the people from Haojian Palace who heard Lu Yi's call were also in an uproar.
An albatross descended rapidly, arriving at a height of less than a hundred feet from the ground, and spread its wings to circle rapidly in a very small circle. On the bird's back, a middle-aged man shouted angrily: "Lord Tianyang, the Zhuge family's Haojing lineage, they are against Dayin..."
Lu Yi pointed at the man and interrupted him: "Zhuge Mingming said the same thing, saying that he was loyal to Dayin and his loyalty was known to the sun and the moon. But Your Majesty doesn't believe it... Anyway, your Haojian Palace is one of the culprits of this rebellion. We will slowly settle the matter of Dongjie City later."
"But if you dare to attack Wuzhou City, I will immediately report to His Majesty and have all the people with the surname Zhuge in Gaojing City, as well as anyone who has any connection with them, beheaded in public. Do you believe it?"
On the bird's back, the middle-aged man roared: "Stupid monarch, treacherous ministers! You..."
Lu Yi snatched the long spear from the hand of a soldier next to him, and with a loud shout, the long spear flew out of his hand, bringing with it a violent gust of wind, and with a "puff" it pierced through the head of the extremely huge albatross.
The huge bird's head exploded, and on the bird's back, more than a dozen sword guards from the Haojian Palace screamed in unison, circling and falling along with the body of the big bird.
Behind Lu Yi, Yu Dianhu roared, and thousands of crossbowmen raised their heavy crossbows together. With a loud "crack" sound, dense arrows shot into the sky, hitting more than a dozen sword guards and making their flesh and blood fly. The powerful arrows pierced their bodies and almost tore them apart in the air.
Dozens of albatrosses swooped down suddenly, and hundreds of Haojian Palace sword guards whistled loudly, stood on the backs of the birds, and shot arrows at the Yulin Army and Leopard Cavalry on the city wall.
Someone on the bird's back shouted: "The emperor is unjust, the emperor has lost his virtue, he favors treacherous people and harms the virtuous... Kill, kill, kill!"
The Zhuge clan members in the Haojian Palace reacted.
No matter what Zhuge Mingming's current situation is in Haojing City, anyway, breaking through Wuzhou City, killing Lu Yi and preventing him from delivering messages to Haojing City can ensure the safety of Zhuge Mingming and other Zhuge clan members.
Sword cultivator.
Even sword cultivators in the secular world are masters of emotional control. The so-called sword heart is clear, but in fact they are cold and ruthless.
After figuring this out, the senior Zhuge family members among the sword guards immediately gave orders and launched an attack.
It doesn’t matter whether the army outside the city cooperates or not.
There are thousands of albatrosses and tens of thousands of elite sword guards from the Hao Sword Palace, including about 7,000 sword guards at the Tuomai level. Once such elite troops attack the city, no city in the current Dayin will be able to withstand such an attack.
On the city wall, the Yulin Army and the Baotu Cavalry were all wearing heavy armor. They also fought back with strong bows and crossbows.
All of a sudden, a dense rain of arrows swooped down or rose against the sky. The arrows were so dense that some arrows even collided with each other in the air, causing the arrowheads to explode and the arrow shafts to blow into countless pieces.
The soldiers who were defending the city even carried up the crossbows and pointed them toward the sky. Huge crossbow arrows shot up into the sky with terrible sonic booms, blowing up the albatrosses in mid-air.
Outside the city gate, Qi Li and others were stunned.
In pursuit of ultimate lethality, these city-defending crossbows are huge in size and are almost entirely made of special alloys. A standard heavy-duty crossbow weighs at least four to five thousand kilograms.
When the crossbow is fired, the bowstring and mechanism vibrate, and the recoil force is probably around tens of thousands of pounds.
Ordinary soldiers, even the most elite ones, are only at the Peiyuan realm.
A soldier at the peak of Peiyuan Realm has a strength of at most one thousand kilograms.
Even if several soldiers worked together, it would be impossible to lift these heavy crossbows and use them as air defense weapons, which were designed to deal with siege infantry.
But these soldiers did it!
Roughly speaking, these soldiers carrying crossbows might have reached the Tuomai realm?
What a joke!
It's ridiculous!
At the Tuomai realm, one can become a leading general in any army. How is it possible for him to be a small soldier here on the city wall?
But looking closely, on the walls on both sides of Lu Yi, there were at least thousands of soldiers carrying thousands of crossbows and firing in the air. Huge albatrosses were wailing as they were blown up in the air. Dense arrows swept across the sky like a rainstorm, making the sword guards on the backs of the albatrosses howl in pain. Some of them fell from the sky and were smashed into meat patties on the ground.
The areas near the four city gate towers in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest became the focus of attack by the sword guards of Haojian Palace.
However, the strength of the soldiers under Lu Yi increased greatly, and they were all wearing heavy armor. Arrows fell from the sky, and only a few soldiers were accidentally hit in the face by arrows, with their cheeks pierced through to the back of their heads. They screamed in pain and were helped down by their comrades.
Instead, the sword guards of Haojian Palace who were standing on the back of the albatross and slowly falling from the sky suffered heavy losses. In just a cup of tea, at least two thousand sword guards who dived from the sky were killed.
One after another, the huge albatrosses were severely damaged and killed by the crossbows. Their huge bodies fell from the sky and hit the city walls, which caused even greater trouble to the defending soldiers.
The truth is, these guys were too big, and when they fell on the city wall, it became inconvenient for the soldiers on that section of the wall to move.
There were nearly five thousand sword guards attacking each of the four city gates.
The remaining 10,000-plus sword guards, riding more than a thousand albatrosses, slowly descended towards the urban area of Wuzhou City, preparing to bite the enemy in the stomach.
What they didn't notice was that on the streets of Wuzhou City, teams of heavily armored cavalry were ready to go.
On the tops of some tall buildings in the city, brand new and shiny crossbows that had just been taken out of the armory were set up, waiting for them to drop from the sky.
Among the military intelligence sent to Haojing, there was information that Dongjie City was attacked from the air by the sword guards of Haojian Palace relying on these albatrosses.
Since Lu Yi was waiting for Qi Li's arrival in Wuzhou City, how could he not be on guard against these big birds?
Albatrosses spread their huge wings and slowly floated down.
In the sky, a red shadow flew rapidly through the large flocks of albatrosses, accompanied by a fragrant greeting. Wherever it passed, a very fine wisp of fire flashed, and a huge fire suddenly ignited on the albatrosses.
These albatrosses usually soar high in the sky, but often go into the sea to hunt big fish to fill their stomachs.
In order to move in the sea water, these albatrosses naturally secrete a large amount of oil on their feathers. When hunting, these oils can ensure that their feathers will not be wetted by sea water, ensuring that they can fly again.
But once these greases come into contact with fire...
The disciples of Haojian Palace had never had such a combat plan before, and no one told them what they should do if their big bird mounts were caught on fire in the sky!
These albatrosses flew above Wuzhou City and prepared to land. They were nearly a thousand feet above the ground.
One-headed bird, two-headed bird, three-headed bird...
The red shadow flew very fast, spewing sparks from its mouth as it flew, setting one big bird after another on fire.
In just half a cup of tea, more than 500 albatrosses turned into a huge fireball, wailing and falling straight from the sky. Along with them fell, there were also thousands of sword guards from the Hao Sword Palace.
Sparks flew and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
Hundreds of big birds and thousands of Haojian Palace sword guards fell heavily to the ground. The scene was simply... horrific.
A caracal squatted stupidly on the top of a tall building, watching the big birds falling from the sky. It was stunned for a while, then it bared its teeth and waved its two front paws towards the sky.
In the sky, most of the remaining albatrosses wailed, and under the hysterical urging of the sword guards on their backs, they sped up their descent in a panic.
However, the albatrosses are large birds with their specialties of huge size and great endurance. They are very safe and can hover in the sky for half a year without landing.
As for speed, they really don't have much speed.
Especially when it comes to diving rapidly from the sky, their ancestors did not evolve this function!
No matter how the sword guards urged them, the albatrosses still descended at a beautiful speed.
The big parrot ran back happily, opened its little mouth, and bursts of flames spurted out again.
