The distant Jiannan Road.
Deep in the vast mountains, countless southern barbarians headed towards Jinguan City under the leadership of witchcraft masters.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them, and they must seize it.
The Central Plains was in chaos, and the Southern Barbarians finally had an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Most of the officers and soldiers from Jiannan Road would go to Chang'an via Shu Road to rescue King Qin.
In this way, Jiannan Road will be empty of troops.
If they can capture Jinguan City in one go, the entire Jiannan Road will fall into their hands.
Of course, the ambitions of the southern barbarians do not stop there.
Their real target is in the Central Plains.
A long, long time ago, the southern barbarians had a chance to conquer the Central Plains, but were ultimately defeated by Meng Sheng.
This is not humiliating. You must know that Meng Sheng can be regarded as the most powerful being among the Confucian saints in the past.
In terms of realm and cultivation, Meng Sheng is the best among all the others.
Even the current academy chief may not have the combat power of Meng Sheng at his peak.
Since then, the southern barbarians have been unable to recover and have to retreat deep into the vast mountains.
Lingering on the last breath, surviving the day.
Although I know that the purpose of doing this is for the continuation of the ethnic group, I feel more or less unhappy in my heart.
But I had to endure the discomfort.
As long as you give yourself enough time, there will eventually be a moment of turnaround.
Now let them wait.
"There should be 20,000 troops stationed in Jinguan City. Should we use dead bodies to attack the city?"
Manipulating dead bodies is the magic weapon master's trump card, but it is generally not used lightly unless absolutely necessary.
Because using the technique of manipulating the dead once consumes a lot of energy for the witch and Gu master, and it takes a long time to recover.
And if there are only 20,000 defenders in Jinguan City, it seems possible to capture it even without manipulating dead bodies.
"It's better to use dead bodies."
The leader of the witch and Gu master thought and evaluated carefully and sighed.
There are not many men left in the Southern Barbarians, and even fewer warriors.
So they must cherish every surviving warrior.
These warriors are the kind of fire that can give birth to more warriors.
This cycle repeats itself.
"There just don't seem to be enough bodies."
Although they fought their way out of the vast mountains, the southern barbarians did not encounter many officers and soldiers. Counting dozens of them, the number of officers and soldiers they had killed recently was only over a thousand.
"If there are not enough corpses, go ahead and create as many corpses as possible. Do you want me to teach you even this?"
The leader of the witch and Gu master said coldly.
"Everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty should die."
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Jinguan City is now surrounded.
The defenders in the city looked at the numerous walking corpses with confusion in their eyes.
Where should they go?
The arrows can penetrate the corpse, but the corpse cannot feel pain, so it will still rush towards the city.
This is much more difficult to deal with than a living person.
After all, living people are afraid, and fear is contagious.
If the death rate of an army exceeds one-tenth, its morale will be weakened or even collapsed.
The army of the dead will not be affected at all.
"General He, what should we do now?"
"These guys can't be killed or driven away. Can we really just sit here and wait to die?"
"How about we set a fire? I heard that the dead are afraid of fire."
"Yes, let's set fire to them and burn them all to ashes."
Since swords, guns and arrows cannot harm the dead army, fire attack is their last hope.
Although this method has not been proven to be really effective, since the legend is so, it certainly makes sense.
"Okay then let's try the fire attack!"
Nowadays, these trapped beast-like soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty can only be used as doctors.
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Facts have proved that fire attacks are very effective. Dead bodies are afraid of fire, very afraid of it.
Although they have long lost their self-awareness, their body instinct still allows them to deliberately dodge.
The fire attack drove away the tide-like offensive of the zombie army, and the witch and Gu masters seemed to be helpless.
Although they can manipulate dead bodies, they cannot force them to behave contrary to their biological instincts.
For a time, there was a commotion within the group of witch and Gu masters.
"What should we do now? Should we continue to attack the city?"
"It seems that the summoned corpse has no way to deal with the fire attack."
"Is it possible that we have to end it ourselves?"
"Although we are not very afraid of fire attacks, we are afraid of swords and arrows. We are all made of flesh and blood. How can we withstand these swords and bloody holes?"
"Shh, don't make any noise, listen to what the leader has to say."
The leader of the southern barbarian witch and Gu master is the person under the greatest pressure at the moment. All eyes are focused on him. Everyone is waiting for him to make a decision.
"Retreat your troops first, and wait until I figure out a way to counter the fire attack."
After thinking about it, he still didn't want to risk the lives of his own people.
As for the dead bodies, they can be recreated at any time, and they can come back once the problem is solved.
"That's all it has been until now."
Seeing that the leader of the witch and Gu masters said this, all the witch and Gu masters and the Southern Barbarian nobles had no choice but to obey the orders.
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"The troops are retreating, the barbarians are retreating!"
The tide of corpses dissipated as quickly as it came.
As soon as the wizard's spell stopped, the body collapsed to the ground like soft mud.
"It's not easy. It's really not easy. Our efforts have finally paid off."
A group of soldiers hugged each other excitedly.
"They have just retreated temporarily and may come back at any time. We cannot take it lightly. But the soldiers can also take a break and breathe a sigh of relief."
"In addition, send someone to Chang'an to report the news. We must let the court let your majesty know the situation here as soon as possible."
At present, the military strength of the entire Jiannan Road is very empty. Not only is Jinguan City facing a crisis, the situation in the entire Jiannan Road is very dangerous.
To be continued...