The Counterattack of the Villains

There is a large city at the foot of Zhonghe Peak in Diancang Mountain in Nanzhao, called Dali City. It is the capital of Nanzhao in this world and the most important holy city of the Bai Miao people. The Nuwa Temple is located here.

At the same time on Earth, this city was still called Yangjume City. It was not until more than two hundred years later, when Duan Siping unified the southwest and established the Dali Kingdom, that it was renamed Dali City.

However, although the world of Fairy Sword has a clear historical background, it is strictly an imaginary world.

In this world, you can see place names and objects from all dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

The current Nanzhao Kingdom is respected by the Nanman King, the leader of the Bai Miao tribe.

But two months ago, Zhao Maisi, a Qingping official (equivalent to the prime minister of the Central Plains court), suddenly led the Black Miao people to launch a rebellion with the intention of usurping the power of Nanzhao.

The ancestor of Zhao Maisi was originally from the Tang Dynasty. He was captured during the war between the Tang Dynasty and Nanzhao. Because of his proficiency in Confucianism, he was appreciated by the then Nanman King and appointed as the teacher of the royal family's children.

He taught three generations of Nanman kings, actively promoted the friendly relations between Nanzhao and Datang, and played a vital role in promoting the economic and cultural exchanges between Datang and Nanzhao.

Therefore, the Zhao family rose rapidly in Nanzhao and gradually became a top aristocratic family. They also intermarried with the Black Miao people from generation to generation, and finally integrated into Nanzhao completely and became a member of the Black Miao people.

Zhao Maisi is the seventh generation and a representative figure of the Black Miao people.

This person has been extremely smart and scheming since he was a child, and he also has corresponding ambitions.

He had been preparing for this rebellion for twenty years, secretly winning over many barbarian tribes, and once it was launched, it was like thunder.

He took Shanchan City, the eastern capital of Nanzhao, as his capital, proclaimed himself the Witch King, raised an army of 30,000 Black Miao people, and a miscellaneous army of 120,000 people from other barbarian and Yi tribes, to attack the territory of the White Miao people.

The Bai Miao were caught off guard and could not organize effective resistance. They were retreating steadily and suffered heavy casualties.

In just two months, almost all the land was lost and most of the soldiers were destroyed. In the end, they had to retreat to Dali City for a final resistance.

In the original plot, due to a misunderstanding between Zixuan and Lin Yeping, Zixuan left a letter and returned to Nanzhao.

When the rebellion broke out, she relied on the strength of her descendants, Nuwa, to barely resist Heimiao's offensive.

In the end, the result of this rebellion was that the Nanzhao Kingdom was divided, and the black and white seedlings were divided into separate states.

It was not until more than eighty years later that the marriage between Zixuan's daughter Lin Qing'er and Zhao Mai's descendant, the Witch King of that generation, eased the relationship between Black and White Miao.

Unfortunately, in the end, Baiyue was destroyed again, and Black and White Miao, who had shown signs of restoring their relationship, became enemies again.

It was not until a hundred years later that Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er exposed Bai Yue's true identity, and through Zhao Ling'er's self-sacrifice, destroyed Bai Yue and the Water Monster, did the Black and White Miao truly reunite as a family and respect the leader of the Dali White Miao as their king.

But now because Zixuan has not returned to Nanzhao, the Bai Miao people have lost their most important strength, causing the Bai Miao people to reach a critical point, and the disaster of national subjugation is only imminent.

…

Dali City Wall.

Her hair is covered with silver threads, but her face has never aged. She is still as young as a young woman. She stands next to a burly middle-aged man wearing a fishtail hat with a characteristic Bai Miao style, a white shirt underneath, and a jacket.

The man was Fenglong, the contemporary king of the Southern Barbarians. He had a Miao knife hanging on his waist and a bow and arrow in his hand, looking at the city with a solemn expression.

At this time, the sky was full of clouds, the scenery was magnificent and unparalleled, and the black seedlings and barbarian army under the city were making endless noises, and their ferocious faces were faintly visible.

"Fenglong, look at today's situation. With an army of hundreds of thousands of black seedlings, it's really easy to flatten the city of Dali. I think you'd better surrender as soon as possible!"

"As the old saying goes, those who know the current affairs are heroes. You must know that God's will is hard to disobey. It is God's destiny for me, Hei Miao, to govern Nanzhao. If you act against God, you will only waste the lives of the soldiers and people of this city."

The rebels were ready to attack the city. Heimiao general Hels stood a stone's throw away and shouted to Feng Long on the city wall.

His words sounded somewhat bluffing. Although with the number of rebels, it was only a matter of time before they could capture Dali City, but it was by no means as easy as he said.

The city wall of Dali is two to five feet high and more than three feet thick. How can it be so easy to break through?

However, they were caught off guard in the early stage and suffered huge losses, resulting in a shortage of troops. There was only a fortified city but not so many troops to defend it.

Moreover, the Black Miao rebellion came too suddenly and attacked Dali City so quickly that Dali City had no time to prepare defense materials.

Not to mention the stone bullets used in bows and arrows and trebuchets, even rolling stones, wood, and hot oil were not prepared in time.

But even so, if Heimiao wanted to conquer Dali City, he would have to pay a huge price.

Hearing this, Fenglong was furious and shouted: "Shut up, you are Miao people and you actually united with foreigners to massacre our people in Nanzhao. The rebellious ministers and traitors dare to talk about destiny. You will die."

After saying this, he quickly pulled out an arrow from the quiver at his waist, opened his bow and nocked the arrow, and shot the arrow towards Herth's chest.

"God's Coming"

Fenglong's arm strength is not weak, the arrow is powerful and fast, and the range is far beyond the ordinary meaning of one arrow.

Helsing had no time to dodge, so he raised the Miao knife reflexively and pushed it on the knife with his left hand, blocking it in front of his chest.

Nanzhao's Miao Dao is very similar to the Tang Hengdao, except that it has no tip and is nearly twice as wide as the Tang Hengdao. It is not the slender Miao Dao used by Qi Jiajun, which looks like a grain seedling, hence its name.

On the contrary, it is more like an extended version of the watermelon knife. Therefore, the Miao knife's cutting power is more powerful, but it cannot be used for stabbing, and its defensive area is relatively wide.

"bite"

As soon as Herth raised his Miao Dao, an arrow flew towards him. With a crisp sound, the arrow missed and hit the blade of the knife. He blocked the arrow after all.

Hersi took five steps back before releasing the force. Beads of sweat broke out uncontrollably on his forehead, and he was secretly frightened. This Fenglong's bravery was indeed well-deserved.

A group of black seedling warriors holding vine shields immediately rushed forward and protected Herth firmly.

Helsing had just calmed down from the shock, and felt great hatred in his heart. He angrily pulled out his sword and swung it forward, shouting angrily: "Attack the city."

"Bodudu..."

The rapid sound of the horn horn was the signal to attack the city. The trebuchets at the rear immediately started to throw pieces of stone bombs towards the city head.

In an instant, the Bai Miao warriors at the top of the city were smashed to death and countless others were injured, and shrill screams rang out from the top of the city.

At the same time as the trebuchets were launched, the barbarian army also carried long ladders, pushed rams, and roared towards the city walls and gates.

The sword and shield wielder held the vine shield above his head to resist the arrows shot from the city wall.

The manufacturing method of those rattan shields comes from the same source as the rattan armor soldiers of the Three Kingdoms. They are all made of oil, and their defense against cold weapons is not as good as the Meng iron shields of the Tang Dynasty.

However, due to the shortcoming of being afraid of fire and being flammable, after Zhuge Liang burned the rattan armor soldiers during the Three Kingdoms period, the Southern Barbarians no longer used it to make rattan armor. They were mostly used to make rattan shields.

In this way, even if it is set on fire, it can be thrown away at any time.

Although Heimiao's offensive was so fierce and fast that Dali City did not have time to prepare for war, rockets will always be prepared at all times.

Therefore, when the barbarians charged, Honglong immediately ordered the use of rockets.

As soon as the rockets came out, the vine shields of many sword and shield soldiers were ignited. They had to throw away their vine shields and charge forward against the rain of arrows.

Fenglong put Jianyu's focus on the car.

Compared with ants attacking the city, rushing cars poses a greater threat to the city gate.

Once the city gate is breached, the rebels can break through Dali City with minimal casualties.

As long as the city gate is kept intact, the rebels will have to pay a heavy price if they want to break the city.

After all, there were not many archers in Dali City. After focusing on dealing with charging cars, the first wave of 5,000 barbarian soldiers charged only lost two to three hundred people and successfully approached the city wall.

A long ladder was built, and the cruel ant attack began.

Due to the lack of rolling stones and hot oil, the Bai Miao warriors guarding the city had no choice but to use wooden forks to knock down the long ladder.

But every time he was pushed down, the barbarian soldiers immediately put him up again.

Although the defenders would have a huge advantage in this kind of battle, it would consume a lot of their physical strength.

The weight of the long ladder itself is not light, and coupled with the weight of the barbarian soldiers climbing on it, it takes a lot of effort to knock it down, and it usually requires the combined efforts of several people to do it.

Therefore, in a siege war, the siege party will suffer heavy casualties, so it usually requires several times, or even ten times, the number of troops of the defenders to win.

The defenders of the city are often exhausted. When the soldiers of the defenders are exhausted, the city will be defeated.

At this time, although the number of rebels was less than ten times that of the Bai Miao warriors, it was still nearly eight times larger. As long as the tactics were arranged properly, it would only take a day or two to conquer Dali.

After the war began, the Southern Barbarian King Fenglong commanded the defense of the city, while the Holy Aunt led a group of Bai Miao priests to go around treating injured Bai Miao warriors.

The barbarian soldiers attacked wave after wave, almost non-stop.

Each wave of attacks consisted of 5,000 men. Whenever Herth discovered that the siege troops had reached a certain number of casualties but still showed no signs of attacking the city wall, he would order the troops to withdraw and then attack with another wave.

The withdrawn soldiers returned to the rear to rest, and it was always the fresh troops in full strength who launched the attack.

He just wanted to use this kind of wheel battle to consume the white seedlings defending the city to death.

At the same time, it was also to maintain the balance of the barbarian tribes and avoid causing dissatisfaction among the chiefs of the barbarian tribes.

Everyone's casualties were almost the same, and no one could fault them.

The reason why those barbarians were willing to be cannon fodder and responsible for the most brutal siege battle was naturally because the benefits promised by Zhao Maisi were enough to make them tempted.

The troops of the Heimiao headquarters will have to maintain the stability of the Nanzhao Kingdom in the future. Unlike the barbarian tribes who just want to grab a wave and leave, naturally they cannot suffer too much loss.

This battle lasted from morning to sunset, and Bai Miao could not rest for a moment, which was very exhausting. During several attacks in the afternoon, some barbarian soldiers once rushed to the top of the city.

But every time, Feng Long led a group of warriors with high martial arts skills to annihilate the barbarians who rushed to the city.

However, after fighting for a whole day, they were almost at the end of their strength.

As for the more than 20 siege troops on the Black Miao side, only more than half of them have been rotated, and ten siege troops have been resting.

Even if Black Miao does not plan to attack the city overnight, it is still okay to send a small army to continue to harass Dali and prevent the White Miao defenders from resting.

Fenglong and Shenggu both felt despair in their hearts. If this situation continues, tomorrow will be the day when the city of Dali is destroyed and the Bai Miao people perish.

…

After enduring a whole night of harassment, the Bai Miao warriors were extremely exhausted.

As soon as day broke, Herth immediately ordered the siege to continue. The Bai Miao people held on for another half day. By the end of the afternoon, they were no longer able to resist.

The barbarian soldiers surged onto the city wall like a tide, and the Bai Miao warriors were defeated right before their eyes. The situation had reached a critical moment.

Just when Honglong was about to order the evacuation of the city wall and retreat to Nuwa Temple, a turning point finally appeared.

In the sky, a square-shaped painted halberd flew from the northeast like a meteor from the sky.

Li Mu crossed his arms across his chest and stood on the halberd's head. Nuyuan, Zixuan, and Lin Yeping sat sideways on the halberd's pole, steady and stable.

They all carry a long sword. In the past six months, the three of them have practiced swordsmanship with Li Mu, and their combat prowess has greatly improved.

Nuyuan's previous fighting style relied on her sharp claws.

But Li Mu didn't want others to know that she was a demon, so he passed on his self-created "Unparalleled Sword Technique" to her.

As for his two friends, Zixuan and Lin Yeping, he would certainly not be too precious about them. As long as he didn't spread the Shushan School's sword techniques to others, there would be no problem with his other martial arts.

When she saw the situation below, Zixuan felt very anxious.

At this time, the barbarian soldiers had already swarmed up the city wall and stood firm, resisting the attack of the Bai Miao warriors, making the Bai Miao warriors unable to push down the long ladder.

If this continues, it will only take a moment and a half. When more and more barbarians are on the city wall, the Bai Miao warriors will have no choice but to be defeated.

Li Mu also knew that this was the critical moment, so his magic power immediately exploded, making Fang Tianji go a little faster.

He pressed down the halberd and rushed towards the city wall.

When they were less than ten feet away from the city wall, the three people sitting on the halberd pole each jumped up and rushed towards the city wall.

"Qiang Qiang Qiang"

After three sounds of swords being unsheathed, the three of them each jumped into the sky above a battle group, swish-swish their swords in succession, and sword energy flowed out.

"Puff puff puff..."

"Uh-huh..."

Blood immediately splattered on the barbarian soldiers' bodies, and they fell backwards, knocking down a group of their own men.

Seeing an opportunity, the Bai Miao warriors rushed forward with a shout and a whoop, holding Miao knives and spears in their hands to greet the fallen barbarian soldiers.

After dealing with a group of barbarian soldiers, Zixuan and others rushed to the long ladder, first beheaded the barbarian soldiers who had just climbed up, and then overthrew the long ladder with one palm.

Li Mu's eyes swept across the battlefield. When he saw a burly man wearing white clothes and a Zha armor, who was being surrounded by a group of barbarians, his eyes immediately stopped.

He instantly judged that this person was unusual, because both the Bai Miao warriors and the barbarian soldiers were dressed in commoners and had no stomach at all.

Those who wore leather armor or zhajiao were basically generals giving orders, so Li Mu jumped over there without hesitation, and the Square Heavenly Halberd under his feet spun around and fell into his palm.

Still three to four feet away from the battle group, Li Mu volleyed towards the barbarians with a halberd.

"boom"

"ah……"

Fenglong's eyes were red with bloodshed. He waved the Miao knife in his hand desperately and chopped down the barbarian soldiers who were besieging him from the front.

Suddenly, he slashed out with his sword and cut all of them in the air. For some reason, the barbarian soldiers flew up without any warning, dancing and screaming in mid-air.

The next moment, a blue light flashed, and the flying barbarian soldiers froze, their screams suddenly stopped, and they were thrown into the city wall, falling with a crackle under the city.

The barbarians were flying into the city, which meant that the attack came from outside the city.

Fenglong subconsciously looked outside the city wall, and saw a handsome man in white clothes and a handsome figure, holding a square-shaped halberd, stepping out of the city wall and landing just in front of him.

"Brother, you are good at martial arts." Li Mu nodded to Fenglong, praised him, and swept away a group of barbarians who were rushing towards him with a sweep of his square halberd.

Fenglong, who was stunned, immediately came to his senses and quickly asked: "What's your name is this brother? Where does he come from?"

Li Mu said quickly: "My Jiang Ming, I am a good friend of the noble high priest Miss Zixuan. I was entrusted by her to come to help. If you have any questions, we can wait until the rebels are defeated."

After saying this, Li Mu said no more, but strode forward, sweeping down the charging barbarians one by one, and then overturned the long ladders one by one.

The top priority was to clear out the barbarians who had climbed up the city wall. The barbarians on the wall were mixed with the Bai Miao warriors, and he was unable to use large-scale attacks.

Only after wiping out the barbarians on the city wall and repelling this wave of attacks, could he activate the peerless mowing mode and slaughter the rebels.

On the other side, Lin Yeping, Zixuan, and Nuyuan were each responsible for a section of the city wall.

They unfolded their sword skills, and the city wall was immediately covered with their afterimages. As the long swords flashed, the barbarian soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

The Bai Miao warriors gained precious respite and immediately gathered together to form an array, pushing forward behind the three of them.

In front of Lin Yeping were dozens of barbarian soldiers, crowded together and stabbing him with their spears.

The Bai Miao warriors who were following Lin Yeping couldn't help but feel their hearts tightening and broke into a cold sweat for Lin Yeping.

There was almost no gap between the dozens of barbarian soldiers. This was also the basis for the army to deal with martial arts masters.

As long as you don't give the opponent room to move around, no matter how brilliant your body skills are, there is no use for it.

Once a martial arts master loses the advantage of his body skills, almost half of his martial arts skills will be wasted, and in the end he will be consumed alive.

Faced with this kind of situation, those with profound skills like Zixuan and Nuyuan usually use their sword energy to force their way through.

But although doing this is simple, it consumes a lot of skill. Only those with profound skills like them have the confidence to squander it like this.

Lin Yeping would not do this because he could not afford to squander it.

Facing the spears that were coming at him, he did not fight with the opponent, but jumped onto the female wall and killed the barbarians from the side.

Facing the spear that was turned and thrust at him, he fell backwards, but his feet seemed to be nailed to the parapet, and he did not fall off the city wall.

Like a roly-poly, he turned half a circle outside the female wall, avoiding the stabbing spear, and then turned back. With a sweep of his long sword, the barbarian soldiers who attacked him fell down holding their necks.

When the Bai Miao warriors behind Lin Yeping saw this, they all cheered, and their morale was greatly boosted.

At that moment, he mustered up his remaining strength, shouted, and suddenly rushed forward, smashing the remaining barbarian soldiers into sieves.

With the participation of Li Mu and others, the barbarians who rushed to the city wall were quickly eliminated.

Even the long ladder that the barbarian soldiers stood up again and planned to put up on the city wall was nearly half cut off by the sword energy, and the horn horn sound of the retreating troops soon sounded.

Hells, who was supervising the battle below, cursed angrily and shouted angrily: "Send stone bullets to me."

He had seen the scene where Li Mu and others flew up the city wall with the Fang Tianji just now, knowing that the opponent had strong reinforcements coming, and the battle to attack Dali City would definitely be full of twists and turns.

He never thought that he could not break through this point. The Bai Miao warriors were already at the end of their strength and could almost be ignored.

Even if the opponent comes to practice, how many people can he kill?

As long as the one who comes is not a god, an army of hundreds of thousands will be able to kill the other party.

Because they misjudged the strength of Li Mu and others, the Black Miao tribe and the barbarian tribes were destined to learn a painful lesson.