Yesterday, Hsu Fengnian had rushed to the top of the city wall from the south without any warning and intruded into Hutou City alone. Not to mention the Beimang army, even Liu Jinu and the other Beiliang soldiers looked at each other in dismay when they heard the news. When Hsu Fengnian had rushed all the way from Huaiyang Pass to Hutou City, a Beimang martial arts master who had temporarily acted as a stable in the south of Hutou City simply abandoned his horse and ran madly toward the main camp. Then, the Beimang's momentum of attacking the city suddenly slowed down and retreated like the tide.
This night, Hsu Fengnian stood on the blood-stained north city wall of Hutou City. The Hutou City's main general and lieutenant he had drunk with last time had lost two of their faces. The careless Ma Jili was dead, and the elegant Chu Hanqing was also dead. When they left, they were in the prime of their lives. From Liu Jinu's calm narration with a hoarse voice and not much emotional fluctuation, Hsu Fengnian learned that the 3,000 elite cavalrymen who could wear heavy armor and fight as heavy cavalry and the 6,000 light cavalrymen in the city were still intact. However, 8,000 of the 24,000 regular infantrymen and nearly 10,000 auxiliary soldiers had died in battle. When Hsu Fengnian had asked how many wounded soldiers there were, Liu Jinu had only said that there were not many wounded soldiers. Hsu Fengnian was silent. In fact, he had known the cruel answer in Huaiyang Pass. The north, northeast, and northwest sides of Hutou City were Beimang's three main attack fronts. Liu Jinu had accurately divided the city into 32 defensive lines, with each lieutenant leading their own defense. If the Beimang barbarians managed to reach the top of the city wall and could not retreat within 30 minutes, Liu Jinu had to mobilize other forces to support them. Then, the main general would be dismissed on the spot and become an ordinary soldier. The deputy would take his place, and so on. In the past two months, a total of seven lieutenants had died in battle.
The reason why Lieutenant Chu Hanqing had died in battle was because the three Senior Captains under his command had died one after another in just two hours. This was the first time that Tiger Head City had a situation where more than six hundred enemies were continuously pouring in. The key point was that the defensive line seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. Furious, Liu Jinu asked the sentries to send a message to Chu Hanqing, who was already covered in blood, saying, "If you really can't defend the city, just say the word. I, Liu Jinu, will personally lead people to help." Beimang, who had finally found a breakthrough, began to frantically mobilize their troops. When Liu Jinu rushed to the battlefield with 800 personal guards and killed off the Beimang barbarians, Chu Hanqing, who had countless corpses at his feet, was sitting in a pool of blood at the foot of the wall. His face had been chopped beyond recognition. If it were not for the bright armor that the general had personally bestowed upon him for his military service, no one would have recognized this corpse as Lieutenant Chu, who had a pair of exceptionally beautiful daughters. He was the Beiliang seed who had been persuaded by the general several times to go to Tai 'an City to take the imperial examinations and become a scholar.
Before dawn, Hsu Fengnian turned his head and looked along the horse path that the Beiliang Frontier Army liked to call the city wall. The corpses on both sides had been removed last night, so the people who appeared on the city wall at this moment were all living people. This seemed like nonsense, but in fact, it was not. As long as ordinary people did not have any illness or difficulties, they might need forty to fifty years to lie in a coffin. But here, they might go from the world of the living to the netherworld in an instant, and there would not be many coffins to lie in.
Hsu Fengnian looked away and said to Liu Jinu, who was about to return to the tall building in the city to pay attention to the first-hand battle situation, "General Liu, at present, I can only make a rough judgment based on the Qi cultivators of the Guanyin Sect. I know that Tuoba Bodhisattva has come south from Xijing and will arrive at the border between Gusai and Liuzhou in about half a day. Therefore, Dong Zhuo urgently stopped the attack to let the scouts pass on the military information to Tuoba Bodhisattva. The Great Grandmaster Qi cultivator Tantai Pingjing is not in Beiliang now, so I can't accurately know Tuoba Bodhisattva's whereabouts. Therefore, I can only stay in Hutou City for another two days and one night at most. To be honest, the outcome of the battle between me and Tuoba Bodhisattva is fifty-fifty. Whoever makes a move later will definitely win. Therefore, I can't let Tuoba Bodhisattva notice the flow of Qi too early. In the early stage, I can only suppress the battle, probably at the Xuan stage, at most at the Celestial stage. At the worst, I have to wait until Dong Zhuo's scouts pass on the military information to Tuoba Bodhisattva. Only then can I kill the most people. "
Liu Jinu hesitated for a moment, "Actually, Your Highness only needs to appear in Hutou City, you don't have to take the risk."
Hsu Fengnian shook his head and said, "Hutou City doesn't need me, Hsu Fengnian, to wave the flag and shout to boost the morale."
Then, Hsu Fengnian smiled and said, "If that's the case, if I come to Hutou City and don't kill the barbarians, am I supposed to stand on the city wall and be a target for the barbarians? Or pretend to be a master? This is actually more tiring than going to the battlefield to kill the barbarians. "
Liu Jinu clenched the hilt of his sword and stared at Hsu Fengnian. He smiled calmly and said, "The war is imminent. Perhaps it's unlucky and against the rules to say this, but I can't help but say this. Everyone can die except for Your Highness. If Your Highness dies, we can't fight in the future."
Hsu Fengnian smiled and said, "General Liu, don't worry. I'm very afraid of death."
Liu Jinu looked at the young lord who probably didn't have time to wear the armor. He turned around and said softly, "Ma Jili has been guarding the front line of the city for more than a month. Originally, he was a burly man of about 180 kilograms. When he died, he was only slightly heavier than Your Highness by about 10 kilograms. Therefore, Your Highness could only wear the armor that Your Highness wore after his death. Everyone in Hutou City said that Ma Jili made a fortune."
Beimang's siege army began to get into formation. Perhaps it was to "welcome" Hsu Fengnian, the King of Beiliang, the catapults that had been quiet on the battlefield were all pushed out.
Liu Jinu exhaled heavily. "They're here!"
Hsu Fengnian smiled softly and said, "Lend me your sword."
Liu Jinu took off the saber hanging on his waist and tossed it to Xu Fengnian. Laughing heartily, he said, "In this life, this general has nothing to worry about. In the past, this cold saber was this general's daughter, nobody could touch it. Today, this daughter is getting married!"
Liu Jinu strode away.
In Jianghu, it was a moonless and windy night to kill people.
On the battlefield, especially in Beiliang's Hutou City and the Longyan Plain where Beimang's army was stationed, this was not important.
When the King of the Southern Courtyard, Dong Zhuo, raised his arm and smashed down.
The majestic sound of the bugle horn suddenly sounded.
Pitch-black armored torrents slowly surged forward from both sides of Dong Zhuo's personal army's phalanx.
Because they couldn't bear the burden or had been overused, only seven hundred or so of the thousand Northern Mang Stone Catapults remained. However, most of the large scale Stone Catapults were still in good condition. Under this round of neat firing, the might of the catapults still caused one's expression to change. It was like flowing fire that filled the sky.
Dong Zhuo subconsciously tapped his teeth lightly and looked around. Other than the nearly 1,000 elite personal cavalry and squires of the Dong family, the top Beimang martial arts experts from the three major sects, Tao Dao Sect, Chess and Sword Music School, and Princess' Grave, were also hidden by him. On the periphery, there were a total of 40 huge ballistae that were said to be able to shoot a sword that was equivalent to the sword of a land sword immortal within a thousand feet. They were all operated by the strongest person in the army, and the remaining dozen or so Qi Refinement Warriors of the Southern Dynasty were in charge of aiming. The originally vibrant Beimang martial arts world was almost ruined to such a small extent before the Beiliang was completely defeated. According to Dong Zhuo's original plan, he should have piled up all the martial arts experts of Beimang on the central line from the beginning. Together with all the Qi Refinement Warriors, they could be tied together into a rope. Even if you were Hsu Fengnian or Xu Yanbing, could you stop them? Unfortunately, even if he was already the King of the Southern Courtyard, he still had to take care of all the forces. As a result, he was now in such a messy and pitiful situation. Was it interesting to go through so much trouble to infiltrate Youzhou to assassinate Yan Wenluan and cause a great loss to his vitality?
Dong Zhuo curled his lips and raised his head. His gaze followed a huge rock that was smashing towards Hutou City and looked at the figure. He said to himself, "Xu, come and kill me. Aren't you tempted to take the head of a general in the midst of thousands of soldiers? Anyway, it's still too early for Tuoba Bodhisattva to get here. If you have the ability, you can open up your realm … If you can dodge the rain of flying swords shot out from the ballista, I, Dong Zhuo, promise … will definitely escape! "
Just as Dong Zhuo was dilly-dallying by himself, the man on the city wall rose into the air like a dazzling white streak of light.
Dong Zhuo narrowed his eyes and clicked his tongue. "One man once fought against millions of soldiers. The Sword Emperor of West Shu did this kind of shady business. What happened in the end? That guy died under the hooves of your Xu family's iron cavalry. Be careful that you don't suffer retribution today. "
Next to the fat man, there was a valiant young woman who was riding a horse and wearing armor. She frowned and said, "Can you kill with your mouth?"
Dong Zhuo put on a straight face and said seriously, "If you never forget, there will be an echo."
This fat man's second daughter-in-law was the daughter of Mount Bubing's leader, Diwu Raccoon. Back in Beimang, she had met Dong Zhuo and Hsu Fengnian once because of the little girl Tao Manwu. But at that time, she never thought that her father would die in the hands of a young man. Even his head was taken back to Beiliang.
Dong Zhuo suddenly laughed and said, "My Dong Army was already on the way to Liuzhou last night. Killing his brother is more interesting than killing Hsu Fengnian. "
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