Chapter 35

"God! What's going on?" Qiu Zhen was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground. His expression suddenly changed and he looked around in shock.

The workers in the blacksmith shop also put down their work and walked out to see what was going on.

Tang Yin frowned and listened. Faintly, he heard shouts of killing coming from the Ning Army camp.

Before he could distinguish it clearly, there was another loud bang, the sound was as loud as thunder in the clear sky.

He reacted very quickly. He was only stunned for a moment and immediately realized that something was wrong. He rushed out of the blacksmith shop and ran towards the city gate, shouting to Qiu Zhen: "Ning's army may have started to attack the city. Don't follow me, go back to the hotel!"

Qiu Zhen didn't listen to him, swung his legs and followed Tang Yin quickly.

Seeing him following him, Tang Yin shouted in a deep voice: "Why are you following me? What can you do on the battlefield?"

Although his words were cruel, they were also true. Qiu Zhen, who was good at strategy, was indeed useless on the battlefield where the two armies were fighting at close quarters.

Qiu Zhen swallowed and gasped, "At least I can help you, or find some helpers!"

Tang Yin glanced at him, was too lazy to talk nonsense, and said casually: "Whatever chapter you want!"

His guess was correct, Ning's army had indeed begun to attack the city.

The huge catapult continuously smashed boulders the size of bathtubs against the Tongmen city wall, making a deafening noise. The huge impact turned into destructive force, smashing the city wall full of holes and sending dirt flying everywhere. .

On the city wall, soldiers from time to time were unable to dodge and were hit by huge rocks falling from the sky. In an instant, their bones were gone and turned into flesh.

For a time, the sound of collisions, shouts of death, screams, shouts and the smashing of bones were heard on the city wall.

The catapult attack was just a prelude, followed closely by the approaching Ning army formation.

The Ning army's attack speed was not fast. They paid attention to formations and the connection and cooperation between the square formations.

The soldiers in the formation advanced slowly and step by step. Of course, this was also related to the armor on the soldiers.

Unlike the Feng soldiers who wore leather armor, Ning soldiers were light and agile. They wore iron helmets and iron armor, which protected themselves well but also sacrificed speed. The soldiers looked very clumsy when moving.

The Ning army used a corps of ten thousand people as the basic square formation, and then the phalanx of five corps formed a Yan-shaped front formation for the attack, followed by a middle formation composed of ten corps, and finally a rear formation composed of five corps.

The first attack on a city is usually tentative, but Ning Jun went against the norm and invested 200,000 people at once. There were 50,000 people in the front line alone. The momentum was terrifying enough.

"The enemy has begun to attack the city, prepare bows and arrows, prepare to roll logs and stones -"

The shouts of captains and captains on the wall were heard one after another, coupled with the roaring stampede of the enemy phalanx outside the city as they advanced, the atmosphere was extremely tense. Everyone present was tense, and a fierce battle was about to break out.

Boom, boom - the boulders were still hitting the city wall. The soldiers of the Feng Kingdom hid behind the arrow stacks, holding their weapons tightly, with expressions of nervousness and fear.

Faced with so many enemies and under such strong pressure, no one can easily stand down.

When the front line of the Ning Army was only a hundred meters away from the foot of Tongmen City, the blood-curdling catapults finally stopped firing, but then the shouts of killing from the city began louder, and the Ning Army soldiers quickened their pace and began to attack the city.

"Follow my command!"

Munemasa Hirotaka didn't know when he climbed onto the tower, leaned down, and shouted condescendingly.

Boom, boom, boom - the footsteps outside the city are getting closer and closer, more and more cold sweat is flowing on the faces of the guards, and people's hands holding weapons are shaking unconsciously.

No one spoke, and the entire city was deathly quiet, with only the sound of breathing and the sound of neat footsteps coming from outside the city.

This kind of silence before the battle is more uncomfortable and depressing than when the battle is ongoing. The tense emotions cannot be released and can only be held in the heart, which makes people almost go crazy.

When the vanguard of the Ning army was only fifty meters away from the city wall, Munemasa Hirotaka finally gave the order to attack. He exerted all his strength, waved the flag in his hand, and shouted at the same time: "Fire the arrow!"

"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow—"

Officers near and far repeated his orders.

With a loud bang, the wind soldiers who had been hiding behind the arrow stacks all stood up and fired a volley at the Ning soldiers below the city.

Buzz - the arrows are as dense as raindrops. For a moment, a row of black clouds was seen floating above the city, falling rapidly towards the Ningjun formation below the city.

Ding-ding-ding-ding! Thump, thump, thump!

The sound of the collision of iron weapons, the piercing sound of armor breaking, and the heart-rending screams were all heard below the city. In just an instant, hundreds of people in the Ning army's formation fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.

But this did not affect the forward speed of Ning's army. The dense soldiers seemed to be emotionless machines, forgetting life and death, forgetting fear, and advancing mechanically.

"Fire arrows, fire arrows, keep firing arrows!"

Amid the shouts of the officers, the soldiers fired their second, third, and fourth volleys.

Soon, the soldiers became numb, and they just kept shooting arrow after arrow. There was no need to aim at this time. The city was covered with enemy troops. Every arrow shot could almost injure them as long as it was powerful enough. enemy.

Even under such a dense rain of arrows, Ning Jun stepped on the corpses of his companions and advanced to Tongmen City. The ladders that had been prepared long ago were set up one after another, and then the Ning soldiers swarmed up like ants.

At this time, the wooden rolling stones prepared on the top of the city came in handy. Some soldiers threw rolling wood, some smashed stones, some poured burning kerosene, and some used long bamboo poles to lift the ladders apart.

It was as if a pot was exploding all over the city wall, with people shouting and neighing. From time to time, Ning Bing, who was halfway up, could be seen screaming and falling from mid-air, just like dumplings.

"Fire the arrow——"

The front line of the Ning army was attacking the city, and the 100,000 people in the middle formation were already within shooting range. As the generals of the Ning army shouted, the 100,000 Ning army and the 100,000 strong bows and crossbows were all ready, and they fired their bows and arrows at the same time. go out.

Ning Guo's bows and arrows are second to none among the nine vassal states. They have long range, great power, and high lethality, which makes people fearful.

One hundred thousand arrows fell from the sky, how terrifying.

The wind soldiers on the city wall didn't see clearly what was going on. Suddenly they realized that it was getting dark. When they looked up, it turned out that the overwhelming arrows were covering the sun.

At this time, it was too late for people to escape.

In just an instant, the wind soldiers who were smashing logs and rocks and pouring kerosene on the city were shot into hedgehogs. Some fell directly to the ground and died, and some fell from the top of the city to the bottom of the city. Their condition was terrible.

"Put up a shield, set up a shield, be careful of enemy bows and arrows!"

The tower was the highest and was not affected by the bows and arrows of the Ning army. Zongzheng Guangxiao could see clearly from a high position that the other party had killed hundreds of people in just one salvo. If they resisted forcefully, it would not take more than a few rounds. All the people must be held accountable on the city wall.

While watching the battle, he was speechless in his heart, sighing that the Ningguo Arrow Array was indeed well-deserved. The Tongmen city wall was extremely high. It was difficult for ordinary arrows to shoot up. Even if it could be shot, the power would be greatly reduced. However, the Ningguo Arrow Array was too terrifying. , it is incredible that it can have such power a hundred meters away from the city wall.

After hearing Munemasa Hirotaka's words, the wind soldiers raised their shields one after another. In this way, the threat of the opponent's arrow array was weakened, but due to their inconvenience in movement, their counterattack against the attacking Ning soldiers was also greatly weakened.

It didn't take long for part of the city wall to be broken through by Ning soldiers. A large number of Ning soldiers climbed up the ladder and started a close-range fight with the Feng Kingdom guards on the city wall.

Ning Guo's arrow array is strong, but when it comes to close combat, Ning's soldiers are far less brave and good at fighting than Feng's soldiers.

Feng Kingdom is a country that has fought for many years and consumes a lot of money. Therefore, the equipment of weapons and armor is lagging behind that of other vassal states. However, the soldiers are extremely brave in battle and have the energy to fight with their lives. Although Ning Kingdom has a large number of people, it is not easy to fight. There is no advantage in being together.

When Tang Yin and Qiu Zhen rushed to the city wall, they saw exactly this scene. The entire city wall was in chaos. Some were killing at close range, some were attacking enemies on ladders, and some were shooting arrows downwards. The sound of fighting was piercing, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

If it were anyone else, Leng Ran would be frightened when he saw this scene, but Tang Yin was not the same. Not only was he not afraid, but he was filled with inexplicable excitement in his heart.

He is a bloodthirsty person himself, and as a dark spiritual cultivator, fighting is equivalent to training for him.

"Why did you come here without any armor? Go back to the hotel quickly!"

There were still many soldiers and generals standing under the inner side of the city wall. After all, the city wall was narrow and could not accommodate 20,000 soldiers. The rest of the people who came out hid under the wall to avoid the Ning army's arrow array.

Tang Yin looked for the voice and saw that the speaker was Wu Mei who was among the soldiers.

"There's a fighting going on in the city, why are you hiding here?" Tang Yin asked back, then he took the steel knife from a soldier's hand and said, "Brother, lend me your knife!" After saying that, he turned around and left. Run towards the wall.

Wu Mei was shocked when she saw this and shouted: "Are you crazy?! You are injured and have no armor, so what can you do?"

Tang Yin didn't even look back, he laughed loudly and said: "If we don't fight, how can my injury be cured?"

Wu Mei was stunned and didn't understand what he meant.

She still wanted to stop Tang Yin, but Qiu Zhen ran over panting, panting, and said: "General Wu, Brother Tang cultivates the spiritual energy of darkness. Fighting can indeed speed up the healing of his injuries."

For Wu Mei, the Dark Spiritual Cultivator is just a legend, and she has no idea about it. As for the miraculous effects of Dark Spiritual Energy, she naturally has no way of knowing.

She wrinkled her delicate brows and murmured: "There is still such a thing, but even so, it is too dangerous for him to go up now!"

"Yes! But who can stop him?" Qiu Zhen said with a bitter smile.

Wu Mei was worried about Tang Yin's safety and couldn't stay under the wall. She moved and said, "I'll help him!"