Nightwatcher
Chapter 789 Siege
At first glance, Wei Yuan gave him the right to choose one of the two, but in fact he has no choice, and it is impossible for him to return to Qianlong City.
Xu Pingfeng's thinking is very clear. Compared with the elite troops of Yunzhou, Qianlong City will be gone if it is gone. It is a pity, but the elite troops are the most important.
After making a choice and abandoning Qianlong City, there are two roads in front of you. First, protect the Yunzhou army and return to Yongzhou or Qingzhou, and turn the initiative into passive. city.
The advantage of this strategy is that Dafeng, who has suffered heavy losses, probably has no troops to recapture Yongzhou and Qingzhou, and will choose to recuperate and fight after the autumn harvest.
But in terms of extraordinary combat power, Yunzhou fell into the predicament before Dafeng, and it will undoubtedly lose.
In addition, it is not yet known whether Jialuoshu and Baidi, who are in the northern border at this time, can escape the siege of Dafeng's extraordinary powerhouse.
If Jia Luoshu and Baidi were killed and defeated at this moment, then retreating to Qingzhou is just waiting for death.
Second, he recklessly captured the capital and supported Ji Xuan to proclaim himself emperor, so he took advantage of the situation to forcibly attack the destiny master.
At present, he has only refined the luck of Yunzhou, Qingzhou, and Yongzhou, and the luck of the three states cannot become a Destiny Master.
If he added Dafeng to the capital, captured the capital, beheaded the empress, and supported Ji Xuan to ascend the throne, he would have a chance to attack the Destiny Master.
If one regards the destiny master who refines the entire Central Plains as a first-rank peak, then the person who forcibly attacks the destiny master himself is probably in the early stage.
In fact, he has no choice, he can only give it a go, there is no way out.
Amid the sound of the drum, Xu Pingfeng folded his palms together and pulled them apart violently, pulling out palm-sized small flags. The flags were black, white, red, green, yellow and many other colors.
He has been preparing for this siege for twenty years, taking every detail into account, how could he miss the capital's defensive formation?
Different formations are depicted in these small flags, and each flag symbolizes a flaw in the city defense formation.
"Ding Ding."
Two small flags shot out. The tails of the flagpoles of the small flags were sharp and easily embedded into the city wall.
Click! The corresponding part of the city wall was cracked, and the cracks spread like spider webs.
The protective formation that enveloped the top of the city weakened a bit in an instant.
hum!
In the space beside Xu Pingfeng, a majestic saber energy distorting the air rushed out, cutting him in two with lightning speed.
The figure in white appeared like a dream bubble, more than ten feet away, and threw out two small flags again.
Tuk Tuk!
Amid the sound of steel nails piercing through the wall, the small flag embedded itself in the masonry of the city wall, causing cracks in the wall and destroying the formation in the corresponding area.
The sword intent to destroy everything couldn't catch up with the warlock in white who could teleport at will, so he immediately changed his strategy and slashed towards the dark Yunzhou army.
"snort!"
Xu Pingfeng snorted coldly in his nasal cavity.
Kou Yangzhou is bullying the Yunzhou army without a large formation to guard it. Under normal circumstances, the superpowers are more restrained and rarely attack ordinary soldiers.
Unless it is at the end of the road and one party is about to finish, this will kill ordinary soldiers recklessly.
Until the last moment, everyone thinks they can win, so they are unwilling to use this kind of play that hurts both sides.
But now, the capital is protected by a large city defense formation, and before the formation is broken, it will remain invincible. On the other hand, the Yunzhou Army has nothing bare.
This allowed Kou Yangzhou to have the confidence to play "both sides hurt" before reaching the end of the road.
Xu Pingfeng resolutely gave up breaking the formation, and teleported back to the Yunzhou army formation. He stood in front of the saber qi, stretched out his hand with the palm facing outwards, and propped up a series of gray earth defense formations. The other hand raised and wiped lightly.
The terrifying knife aura that distorted the air slowly "extinguished" as if it had lost its support.
At that moment just now, Xu Pingfeng shielded the "sword energy", making Kou Yangzhou forget that he had cast the sword energy for a moment, and the knife energy has no substance, it is the cohesion of the master's will, when Kou Yangzhou forgets it, he will naturally be unable to maintain it.
Under the large audience, the technique of shielding heaven's secrets will immediately fail as soon as it takes effect, but this moment of shielding is enough to target the saber intent that has no entity.
After dispelling the sword intent of the second-rank martial artist, Xu Pingfeng flicked his fingers repeatedly, causing the small flags to shoot out and disappear one after another. The next second, they appeared on the wall, nailed into the wall, and broke the formation in the corresponding area.
He played teleportation well.
How could a vulgar martial artist who only knew brute force destruction stop him from cracking the formation.
In the sound of "Du Tu Tu", the formation that shrouded the capital could no longer sustain it and collapsed.
Xu Pingfeng's figure appeared high in the sky, with his thumbs and index fingers clasped together to include the city wall below.
Twelve circles of flames are stacked on top of each other, and the power of the fire spirit is crazily gathered.
hum!
With a shock of air, a dazzling pillar of fire fell from the sky, as if it was about to burn the soldiers at the top of the city to ashes.
Sun Xuanji propped up twelve gray circular formations with his hands facing the sky, the top of the city under his feet was quickly deserted, and a wave of earth went up against the sky, and the pillar of fire that happened to fall collided directly.
Turk fire!
Si Tianjian's second and third disciples took the lead in completing a confrontation.
Boom boom boom!
Meditating with the sound of drums, the Yunzhou army carried the siege equipment and launched a charge. Fang Fu approached the city wall and suddenly let out a murderous intent.
The soldiers on the side were lucky enough to survive, and they were also contaminated by the white phosphorus splashed from the underground explosion. The flames blazed suddenly, and they couldn't be extinguished, and they were burned alive into skeletons.
Song Qing's landmines dealt a painful blow to the siege soldiers.
Yunzhou, Qianlong City.
The armor was stained red with blood. Nangong Qianrou stood on the top of the mountain with a saber in his hand, overlooking the smoldering city. With his feminine temperament, he was a little more iron-blooded and heroic than usual.
There are fleeing figures everywhere, and the common people are screaming and fleeing. Yesterday they were still dreaming of the noble people in the capital.
Today, he was brutally slaughtered and died tragically at the edge of the enemy's knife.
The 5,000 soldiers in Qianlong City, led by the masters in the city, after half an hour of fierce fighting, gradually lost and turned into street fighting.
By this time, the main force had been wiped out by Dafeng's heavily armored soldiers, leaving only a few remnants who were using the terrain to resist stubbornly.
Behind Nangong Qianrou is a dead body, all dressed brightly. They belong to the royal family of the same line 500 years ago. After 500 years of multiplication, the population of this line is extremely large. , there are hundreds of members of the Ji clan.
He had no intention of keeping alive, so he gave the order to kill Unpardonable.
This is Nangong Qianrou's respect for the royal family, otherwise, let alone men, these delicate golden branches and jade leaves will inevitably end up becoming playthings.
The soldiers stayed in the deserted military town for five months, all of them were hungry and thirsty, and they felt pretty when they saw a sow.
At this time, a general in blood-stained armor strode out of the courtyard, came behind Nangong Qianrou, clasped his fists and said:
"Nangong Jinluo, the brothers found two female relatives in the basement."
Nangong Qianrou said lightly:
"Just kill it, why report it."
The general looked strange and said:
"She, she claims to be Yinluo's biological mother."
Hearing this, Nangong Qianrou raised her eyebrows, he already knew about Xu Qi'an's life experience from Huaiqing's chief guard.
After Xu Pingfeng officially stepped onto the stage, all the princes in the court remembered this character one after another, and of course they also knew about his relationship with Xu Qi'an.
This matter was not a secret among the top officials, but out of the same tacit understanding, the princes blocked the news and prohibited anyone from spreading the relationship between Xu Qi'an and Xu Pingfeng.
Of course, the gentlemen did not want to cover up the Xu family's ugliness, but Xu Qi'an's prestige was too important to the court to tolerate any stains.
As a close minister of the emperor, the head of the guard belonged to the high-level ranks. He told Nangong Qianrou everything about every detail that night.
When Nangong Qianrou learned of Xu Qi'an's identity, she gloated at his misfortune, but at the same time felt that this kid was really pitiful.
"killed!"
He gave the order in a cold tone.
Parents who are not as good as pigs and dogs, what's the use of keeping them.
"yes!"
The general clasped his fists and retreated under the command. Just after taking two steps, Nangong Qianrou stopped him again and changed his words:
"Bring her here."
Thinking about it carefully, Nangong Qianrou felt that it was not good to do this kind of thing on her behalf, she might as well take it back and hand it over to Xu Qi'an for her own disposal, and gain a wave of favors.
Not long after, two soldiers escorted the two girls over. Nangong Qianrou automatically ignored the maidservant and looked at the woman with excellent appearance and temperament. She looked calm, without panic or fear.
Walking steps are light, obviously not weak cultivation base.
Of course, this is not weak, compared to ordinary people.
"Are you Xu Qi'an's biological mother?" Nangong Qianrou asked coldly.
The woman in Chinese clothes looked left and right, and asked:
"Where is my baby?"
Her voice was gentle and gentle, revealing the calmness of a lady who was neither humble nor overbearing, neither anxious nor slow.
The maidservant was trembling, her face was pale.
"In such a hurry to seek death?" Nangong Qianrou smiled.
He thought that this woman saw the imminent disaster, so she wanted to find Xu Qi'an to play the family card, trying to survive the disaster.
But based on Nangong Qianrou's understanding of Xu Qi'an, although that kid is not considered cruel, he is also a decisive person. This blood is thicker than water card is mostly useless.
The woman's eyes were dim, she took a breath, and asked again:
"How is the battle in the Central Plains? Xu Pingfeng lost?"
Nangong Qianrou said lightly:
"I don't know if he will win or not, but you are dead. When you decided to treat him as an abandoned child, did you ever think that you would have today?"
The woman smiled bitterly and said:
"Brother and the rest of the clan are remorseful. As for Xu Pingfeng, based on what I know about him, he already has the heart to kill me."
Nangong Qianrou examined her:
"kill you?"
The woman stopped talking.
At this time, a figure sprang up from the foot of the mountain and landed beside Nangong Qianrou with a bang. It was Yang Yan who was carrying a silver gun.
Yang Yan, whose expression was as cold as a sculpture, glanced at the corpse behind Nangong Qianrou, then at the beautiful woman, and finally at Nangong Qianrou.
The two have worked together by Wei Yuan's side for many years, and they have a tacit understanding. Nangong Qianrou understood his eyes and said:
"The owner of Qianlong City has not been found, most likely in Baidi City. Since Xu Pingfeng has not returned yet, it means that he has given up on Yunzhou. We will go to Baidi City after cleaning up the people here."
After reaching the top of the mountain, Nangong Qianrou only captured a group of royal family members, but did not find the city lord who called himself emperor.
I'm not too disappointed. It would be strange if the other party didn't have life-saving means such as teleporting jade charms.
Yang Yan nodded lightly:
"Don't worry about him."
For the beheading mission, it is not just the city lord who will be beheaded, but the rebel base camp.
If the base camp is leveled, even if the city lord is alive, he will not be able to become a climate.
Yang Yan said:
"Kill all the masters and soldiers in the city, then disperse the people and set fire to the city."
After Nangong Qianrou nodded, he looked at the beautiful woman again:
"Why didn't this woman kill her?"
"She is Xu Qi'an's biological mother." Nangong Qianrou explained.
Yang Yan was stunned.
"Bang bang bang!"
The firecrackers spit flames, the bowstrings thundered, and the projectiles and arrows harvested waves of enemy troops trying to charge.
On the streets of the outer city, sandbags and sundries were piled up as fortifications to block the cavalry's charge. Zhu Guangxiao and Song Tingfeng led the guards and fifty sword guards to hide behind the fortifications.
In front of them lay the corpses of the people in the outer city and the enemy soldiers.
They have repelled the third wave of attack, and the arrows and projectiles are about to be exhausted.
Zhu Guangxiao leaned towards Song Tingfeng and said in a deep voice:
"We are running out of arrows and projectiles, at most one more wave, and then we will fight with this group of rebels."
"What fate, what fate?" Song Tingfeng turned his head and spat at him, cursing:
"Pig Brain, like your style of fighting, ten lives are not enough. The arrows and projectiles are gone, of course we should retreat. Wei Gong has set up nine lines of defense in the outer city, and we will fight while retreating."
The city wall was only the first line of defense. Behind the city wall was the outer city, and behind the outer city was the inner city wall. Even if the rebels reached the inner city, they would have to face the more tightly guarded imperial city.
Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao were in charge of the second line of defense in the south of the outer city. Of the four gates in the capital, only the south side of the city was lost, and the rebels swarmed in.
Just... very unlucky!
Although Song Tingfeng has never read military books, he is clever and does not panic if the city gate is lost. The capital has enough strategic depth, and the defense line is one after another, which is completely capable of fighting a war of attrition with the Yunzhou Army.
He sneered at Zhu Guangxiao's solid-eyed style of play where the tower exists and the tower breaks.
On the battlefield, the most important thing is not to kill the enemy, but to survive.
royal palace.
In the Xiyuan underground palace, the harem concubines and officials' families are placed in this refuge.
This place is six feet deep from the ground, and there is a magic weapon that shields the breath. Even a high-level warlock can hardly observe the abnormality here in a short time.
Like the other female relatives, my aunt was scared like a quail, her face was pale, and her beautiful face was full of fear and anxiety.
Xu Lingyue silently accompanied her mother, holding her hand to comfort her:
"Mother, don't be afraid, we'll be fine."
My aunt has never experienced wind and rain, she is just an ordinary woman, how can she not be afraid?
"The rebels have already invaded the capital, and they may invade the palace immediately." The more my aunt thought about it, the more frightened she became.
Mu Nanzhi waved her hand:
"Isn't Wei Yuan alive? With him around, we won't lose the war."
She looked calm and said:
"Besides, there are so many masters in the capital, and they are big. It is not easy for the rebels to attack the palace. Well, even if we are in danger, half of them are from Xu Pingfeng."
My aunt said to herself, that dog is the most cold-blooded and ruthless, and only kills relatives. It seems that I am doomed today.
"Where is Ning Yan? Is Ning Yan in the capital?" The aunt grabbed her daughter's hand and said:
"Mother won't be afraid if Ning Yan comes."
The concubines and officials' wives nearby, their eyes lit up slightly when they heard the words, their hearts felt much more at ease for no reason.
They were in the deep boudoir, and they were used to hearing the legend of Xu Qi'an, that person who wiped out the 300,000 army of the Witch God Sect with one sword.
He is the most powerful person in Dafeng today, and the pillar of the country.
With him around, no matter how fierce the rebels are, they will be wiped out sooner or later.
On a tall building, Huaiqing, who was dressed in a dragon robe, looked into the distance and vaguely saw Kou Yangzhou and Xu Pingfeng chasing and fighting fiercely in the air. The jade talisman in her hand never loosened for a moment.
In her position, she couldn't actually hear the gunfire outside the city, but she knew that there was a fierce battle taking place there.
Wei Gong said that the rebel army in Yunzhou worked hard at one stroke, then declined again, and exhausted three times.
When the rebels entered the city, it was the time when Dafeng closed his door and beat the dogs. It's just that it will pay a very heavy price.
Huaiqing turned sideways and looked towards the north.
Today is the last day of the Tribulation War, and she is waiting for Xu Qi'an.
The success or failure of Dafeng depends on him.
The rebels haven't been able to break into the inner city yet, even if it's the outer city, only the southern city is lost.
The Twelve Guards of the capital, the imperial guards, and the men and women are engaged in street fighting and guerrilla warfare with the rebels, and it is impossible to tell the winner in a short time.
But panic spread among the people.
They couldn't see the situation clearly, and they didn't understand strategic analysis. The most intuitive feeling was that the rebels had attacked the capital, and hearing the sound of artillery rumbling, they might have already entered the city.
In this way, I found that the common people in the market were plunged into panic.
In the 600 years since the founding of Dafeng, except for the time when Wu Zongqing was sidelined, the capital has never had any disasters caused by swordsmen.
In fact, most people don't even know the history of Emperor Wu Zongqing's side. Even if they knew, it was hundreds of years ago.
They were born in the capital and grew up in the capital. The most dangerous battle in their memory was the Battle of Shanhaiguan, which was won by Dafeng.
Therefore, the people in the capital are proud, and the more proud they are, the more intense the fear will be when their confidence is shattered.
A few days ago, the imperial court ordered the deployment of defenses, and the entire capital was in a state of preparation for war. They began to worry. Judging from the posture, the Yunzhou rebels were likely to invade the capital.
As expected, it really came.
The streets in the inner city were empty, and a line of soldiers patrolled the streets to guard the streets. Curfew measures were adopted, and no one was allowed to leave their homes without authorization.
This ban effectively put an end to riots caused by panic among the people.
It is impossible for all the soldiers in the capital to go to the front line, some of them must stay to maintain order.
These two to three million people are left unattended. If they break out, the damage and impact will definitely be much more serious than that of the rebels.
"The rebels are really coming."
"Now I suspect that the victory in Xunzhou City was a lie. Xu Yinluo didn't win Yunzhou at all."
"Yeah, if he wins, how could the rebels reach the capital?"
"How to do how to do?"
"Father, don't be afraid, Xu Yinluo will repel the enemy."
"Silly boy, alas!"
Every family closed their doors to discuss, fearful and terrified.
That is, he longed for the court to end the war as soon as possible, and secretly cursed the court for being incompetent.
On the contrary, the child is very pure, thinking that Xu Yinluo will expel the enemy, and is full of confidence.
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