Dong Zhuo was clad in armor and carrying a saber as he sat on a large and majestic steed. The man and horse complemented each other perfectly. Although Dong Zhuo was fat, he did not appear fat and bloated. Compared to the King of the South Courtyard who controlled half of the Beimang army, Zhao Yi and Zhao Yuang of the Guangling Path were indeed much more lacking in appearance. Dong Zhuo straightened his neck and looked at the white rainbow that had fallen in front of the city. His eyes were shining. He was also a skilled martial artist. Otherwise, he would have been beaten into a skinny man if he had not swindled the daughter of the Fifth Raccoon of the Bingbing Mountain.
Personally, Dong Zhuo did not have a bad impression of Hsu Fengnian from the opposing camp. When they first met in Beimang, he was the founder of the Dong Army, a separatist force. He was still separated from the current King of the South Courtyard by the Great General of the Beimang. It could even be said that if Hsu Fengnian had not appeared out of nowhere and not only succeeded in usurping the position of the King of Beiliang, but also won the hearts of the Beiliang cavalry and the hearts of the people of Beiliang, then Dong Zhuo would at most be working under Liu Gui or Yang Yuanzan, just like Hong Jingyan and Zhong Tan. In addition, Dong Zhuo owed Hsu Fengnian a favor because of the incident with Tao Manwu. Therefore, if it was not for the general trend, Dong Zhuo actually wanted to sit down and have a good chat with Hsu Fengnian. He wanted to learn from the famous scholars of the Central Plains who liked to chat and talk about heroes over wine on a snowy night instead of being in such a situation.
In Dong Zhuo's vision, the person was indeed as expected. Because he was afraid of Tuoba Bodhisattva, he did not display the supreme cultivation of the Celestial State. Instead, he "borrowed" weapons from the border army of Hutou City or the armored soldiers of Beimang to block the giant stones thrown by nearly a thousand catapults. The attacking figure landed in the open space between the two armies. Although he had suppressed his Qi and momentum, his momentum was not inferior to the scene of thousands of cavalry charging out of the city. This made Dong Zhuo who was limited to the Vajra State because of his root bone and fate could not help but tremble with fear. Fatty Dong said that even the Sword Emperor of Xishu could not be a match for ten thousand people on the battlefield. However, Dong Zhuo knew that if Hsu Fengnian did not have the worry of Tuoba Bodhisattva and allowed him to fight freely, the formation of the Beimang siege army, which was mostly infantrymen and only had two-winged cavalry, would be easily disrupted. Therefore, Dong Zhuo hoped that the Great Guru would show the magnanimity of an immortal on the land and ignore the fight between the ants under his feet. It would be best if he came alone to find trouble with Dong Zhuo.
In this regard, Dong Zhuo had already prepared a response. In addition to the top masters around him and the large ballistae that could shoot the Immortal Sword of Thousand Feet, Dong Zhuo had also placed many masters who could conceal their Qi in the cavalry on both sides. As long as Hsu Fengnian was deeply trapped in the formation, when he wanted to retreat, it would be easy for them to form a circle around him. Not to mention intercepting and killing Hsu Fengnian who was returning to Hutou City, the worst case scenario would be to consume a large amount of Hsu Fengnian's essence, Qi and spirit. In this way, they would be able to delay until Tuoba Bodhisattva entered the formation.
For this reason, Dong Zhuo had specially asked several grandmasters of Beimang and repeatedly confirmed that after entering the Celestial Phenomenon State, one would be able to achieve what the Confucians called the Heaven's Perception and be able to resonate with heaven and earth. Then, the Qi in the martial artist's body would be like a turbulent river meeting a flood season. It could be said that it was like adding wings to a tiger. However, this kind of behavior that belonged to stealing the Qi of heaven and earth had a congenital flaw, that was, God could only add flowers to brocade, but could not provide timely help. Once it involved the consumption of the martial artist's root, it would still be difficult to make up for it in a short period of time. Otherwise, two grandmasters of the Celestial Phenomenon State would not be able to determine the winner even if they fought until the end of time. In the past, there was an old swordsman named Li Chungang at Liyang Lake. He had used one Qi to break two thousand and six hundred armors by the Guangling River. Most of the ordinary people were shocked by the number of the Great Destruction Cavalry. However, only those who had reached a higher level in martial arts would understand that the true horror lay in the two words "one Qi". This meant that the old man named Li Chungang did not care about the celestial phenomenon of Qi and Qi. One Qi was one Qi, and one sword was one sword.
Dong Zhuo had made it clear that he wanted to use the lives of hundreds or even thousands of Beimang masters and soldiers to deplete a trace of Hsu Fengnian's root, just so that the King of the Northern Courtyard, Tuoba Bodhisattva, could have a better chance of victory.
In his line of sight, the streak of white light began to charge in a straight line in a barbaric manner. Dong Zhuo curled his lips and said, "If he wasn't the King of Beiliang and was just a man of Jianghu, then who in the world would be able to stop him? Being Li Chungang and Cao Changqing, he's really cool … This guy is really admirable. It's said that those women from the Norland Tycoons have all offered money, saying that as long as I capture this unparalleled young king and let them enjoy him once, they would dare to offer five thousand taels of gold, and the price is negotiable. It's just one night of sex, how many sons of the Dong family can I feed with this amount of money?! Damn it, I, Dong Zhuo, am only a little fatter and taller than that Xu guy, am I inferior in any way? Why don't you yell at me that just hearing the name Hsu Fengnian makes my ears pregnant? "
Fatty Dong's wife coughed a few times when she heard the vulgar words and vulgar words, reminding her man to pay attention to his image in public. Dong Zhuo turned a deaf ear and continued to talk to himself, "If it were me, not to mention five thousand taels of gold, even five hundred taels of silver would be fine …"
His wife, who was already burning with anger, glared at him and said, "Dong Zhuo!"
Fatty Dong shrunk his neck and restrained the frivolous expression that he deliberately showed to reduce his nervousness. He said indifferently, "They're here."
One person, one saber.
Hsu Fengnian began to break the formation.
After more than a month of bloody siege, the Northern Mang barbarians, who grew up on horseback, paid a huge price of more than 20,000 casualties. Facing the towering city wall to the north of Hutou City, the Northern Mang barbarians, from the captains who had to climb the city wall to the most ordinary soldiers, began to grow rapidly. As they rushed forward, they estimated when the crossbows of the city wall with all kinds of crossbows of Northern Liang would shoot out, and they would collectively raise their shields. Of course, they wouldn't stop moving forward. Although it was inevitable that they would slow down their advance and even give the Northern Liang archers on the city wall one or two more chances to shoot, Northern Mang had proven that this seemingly unremarkable little trick could bring unexpected damage reduction effects. After all, the accuracy of the Northern Liang's crossbows was too amazing. Even if they were advancing in formation, as long as they dared to ignore the splashing arrows, the Northern Liang Border Army dared to kill them within 300 steps of the city wall in order to reach the city wall sooner.
In front of Dong Zhuo's eyes, there were three densely-packed armored torrents, which were almost mixed with all the siege weapons recorded in military books. The contributions of the Southern Dynasties couldn't be ignored. There was a battering ram cart pushed by dozens of strong men; a mobile opposite tower as high as the city wall, or even higher than the city wall. The opposite tower was wrapped in special cowhide that could stop rockets, and there were nearly a hundred people hiding in it; a hook ladder with pulleys at the bottom; and a trench bridge that was originally only used to level the trench. Under the suggestion of Dong Zhuo's aides in the tent, once they were placed on the city wall, it would be like an artificial slope. At that time, the reason why Beimang was able to send six hundred people to the city wall at the same time was because of the two trench bridges that turned something rotten into something magical … More than thirty thousand infantrymen, and as many as fifteen thousand in the middle army that was mainly attacking the north side of Tiger Head City. The two flanks were slightly less in number, so they attacked the north side of Tiger Head City. Between the two gaps formed by the three square formations of infantrymen, there were two groups of over a thousand elite cavalry that took the lead to break in, trying their best to suppress the rain of arrows. On the two outermost flanks, there were two groups of cavalry charging separately. Besides supporting the siege soldiers with their skillful archery skills to prevent the cavalry in Tiger Head City from attacking, they also needed to restrain the cavalry stationed in Huaiyang Pass from afar to deal with the lightning attacks of the Beiliang cavalry reinforcements that came and went as fast as the wind.
According to Zhong Tan's valuable experience in sieging cities at Hulukou on the eastern front, the continuous attack on Hutou City should be led by about ten chiliarchs who were well-trained and close to the battlefield. Once there was an emergency situation where a chiliarch lost 200 or at most 300 men, this troop should immediately withdraw from the battlefield regardless of the outcome. Then, a chiliarch in the rear should lead the troops to replace them in sieging the city. If these 10,000 men who were eyeing the city covetously found an opportunity on the battlefield, Dong Zhuo would also give them the military power to act as they pleased. They would not need to wait for orders from the commander-in-chief's tent and could immediately send their troops to the battlefield. Those chiliarchs who were hoping for a fluke and not to make any mistakes, because they missed the opportunity, before they could return to the camp, two of them had already been executed by the King of South Courtyard's cavalry. Because of this, two of the Generals were demoted to chiliarchs. One of them managed to atone for his crime and eventually led 300 men of sacrifice to attack Hutou City's city wall. After killing a Beiliang lieutenant surnamed Zhu, he was personally beheaded by Liu Jinu and died on the city wall. His corpse was nailed to the neck by a Beiliang soldier with a flying hook and hung on the city wall. After Beimang took back the badly mutilated corpse, Dong Zhuo personally sent the first Generals to die on the central front battlefield into a coffin and sent people to transport it back to the Southern Dynasty.
At this moment, when the two groups of cavalry who were charging ahead saw that lightning-fast figure crash into the central army's infantry, some of the cavalry who were proficient in riding and archery received orders from their commander-in-chief, almost simultaneously released a rain of arrows into the empty space in the center. Even though almost all of the cavalry had predicted that person's speed and did not shoot at him but at the area in front of him, they still only saw the arrows land behind that white streak. It was simply too fast!
The two groups of cavalry no longer wasted the arrows in their bags and continued to charge forward.
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