In an instant, the valley was filled with flames, like a blazing hell.
The situation of the defenders in the pass was not much better. More than half of them had been killed or injured under the previous attacks by poisonous snakes and rockets.
The fire on the plank road rope bridge was immediately extinguished, but it was already broken in many places. When the soldiers guarding the pass eradicated the poisonous snakes that had been ejected into the pass, only ten thousand ghosts survived. And the Wubao standing in the valley was also five out of ten.
Liu was attacked by the mountain ghost with his bare hands and turned into ruins and rubble.
The Qubu militiamen guarding Wubao lost the cover of the fortifications, and had no choice but to brave the scorching heat, raise their weapons, and rush forward one after another, roaring, to fight against the mountain ghosts who were extremely powerful and tall and burly.
Fighting to the death.
The heat wave is rising, the flames are threatening, and the sound of killing is deafening.
Most of the Qubu militiamen were either picked up by the mountain ghosts with their thick and powerful arms like an eagle catching a chicken, thrown into the air and then fell to the ground to death, or they were trampled by the huge feet of the mountain ghosts.
A bloody mess.
Even so, none of the Jiuyou National Army retreated or fought timidly; they knew full well that they were facing a powerful iron army, an army of mountain ghosts with human souls known as the most brave and good at fighting! But
They also know that if they get scared and run away, their families who live and work peacefully on the land behind them will be in catastrophe.
The only way to defeat the invaders is to kill them all!
This is the hard truth that started on the day they joined the Jiuyou National Army and has been deeply ingrained in their hearts.
Therefore, even if they are just ordinary souls, watching their companions being trampled into broken limbs and flesh, even if the enemy in front of them is so tall that it can cast a huge shadow and envelope them, they still hold up their chests resolutely and fight bravely towards them.
forward.
Many Qubu soldiers were bleeding all over, but they still endured the pain and went into battle. Some of the Jiuyou National Army on the rock wall plank road also raised their guns and aimed at the mountain ghosts in the valley without hesitation, and opened fire one after another, covering the Qubu soldiers to kill the enemy.
However, some places in the valley where the fierce fire oil could not flow were still safe and sound. The surviving enemy troops also quickly retreated to these corners, not afraid of being surrounded by the flames, and then launched an attack on the pass.
Another batch of venomous snakes curled up their slender snake bodies on the arms of the snake bone woman who raised her hand to point to the plank road or the rope bridge. After a pause, she catapulted up the cliff.
Enemy troops continued to pour in at the entrance of the valley. Endless snake-bone women and mountain ghosts, armed with steel forks, crossbows, scimitars and other weapons, crossed the wall of fire and poured straight into the valley like an overwhelming mountain.
The dust was billowing, and the enemy troops drove the poisonous snakes to attack while drawing their bows and aiming at the Jiuyou National Army on the pass.
Bai Jin turned a deaf ear to the killing sounds and screams around him, and looked left and right, looking for the enemy commander in the flames.
He knew that the bigger the flames, the faster the fire oil would be consumed. He had to find the enemy's commander before the flames were completely extinguished and capture the thief and king. If the enemy army was in chaos, they would still have a chance to turn defeat into victory.
But after searching for a long time, he could not see even half of the coach, except for the endless snake-bone women, powerful mountain ghosts, and one-horned mountain ghosts.
Most of the powerful mountain ghosts and one-horned mountain ghosts in the valley had already picked up many rocks the size of millstones on the ground. After lifting them above their heads, they aimed at the rope bridges in the mid-air between the valleys and smashed them.
Dozens of huge rocks roared with strong winds, leaping over or under the rope bridges, causing the defenders on the bridges to flee in panic.
One, two, three, ten, eleven; when the twelfth boulder came flying, it finally hit heavily on the broken iron railing of one of the cable bridges.
The cable bridge swayed left and right, huge boulders shattered, and the bridge railings made of iron chains also cracked. Then came the second and third boulders; when the fourth boulder hit, the rope bridge that had been swaying suddenly suddenly shook.
Divide it into two and swing towards the cliffs on both sides.
The defenders on the bridge who had not had time to evacuate either hit the mountain wall with the broken bridge body and died spurting blood from their mouths and noses, or they fell from mid-air into the sea of flames at the bottom of the valley.
At this moment, another sonorous and powerful horn sound came from the mouth of the valley, followed by hundreds of elephant troops. Mounted on the elephant's neck, it has a range of up to three hundred steps and can shoot hundreds of guns at a time.
A hundred tigers with arrows are flying in unison.
Desperation suddenly climbed onto Bai Jin's eyebrows; this kind of rocket is extremely powerful and extremely destructive, and is the second most powerful weapon of mass destruction in the underworld, second only to artillery.
The arrowhead was still black and shiny under the blood-red sunset. With just one glance, Bai Jin recognized that it was a soul-killing arrow made of soul-severing iron. Once any ghost was hit by the arrow, his soul would be shattered and he would be unable to recover.
When the enemy calibrated the white tigers to gallop together, the defenders' casualties would be immeasurable. Bai Jin did not dare to neglect and hurriedly called for flag bearers.
"Be careful with the soul-killing arrows!" Just as he was shouting to the ground, asking the flag bearer to give the order for the troops to find cover, he suddenly saw a white elephant appearing among the elephant army from the corner of his eye. Its skin as white as snow was particularly conspicuous.
The white elephant immediately attracted Bai Jin's attention. He turned around and saw a snake-bone woman sitting on the elephant's back with all white hair and wrinkles on her face.
Although he is old, he does not show any signs of weakness. Apart from the excessive wrinkles on his face, his complexion is still rosy. Wearing a thick golden mountain armor, he does not feel it is strenuous.
"The enemy commander!" These four words flashed through Bai Jin's mind, and he shouted to the flag bearer: "Launch an air strike."
When the flag-bearer receives the order, he throws the flag in his hand, takes a ringing arrow from his waist, and raises it to the sky.
A small fireball suddenly rose into the sky, bursting into brilliant fireworks over the top of the valley.
Both the attacking and defending sides stopped for a moment, looked up in shock, and then continued to fight regardless.
A dragon's roar came from the flaming clouds above their heads, shaking the heaven and earth. The enemy soldiers were startled and looked up to the sky again, and saw hundreds of aerial riders suddenly emerging from the orange-red clouds in the sky.
Some of them were riding fire unicorns, some were riding Bai Ze, and the young general in the lead was actually riding an emerald green chilong; it was none other than Zuo Fan who had jumped into the sky as soon as he opened the door.
Following this group of air cavalry were hundreds of feathered people and ruthless people.
The snake-bone woman sitting on the white elephant was startled and shouted to the elephant cavalry beside her: "Prepare for air defense!".
At the same time, Bai Jin, who was standing on the rope bridge and trembling with excitement, also pointed his sword at the white elephant and shouted angrily at his flying army: "The main attack is on the white elephant and the old snake bone woman!".
With an order, several Nuntou people swooped down from the sky and threw the thunderbolts lit in their hands around the white elephant. The feathered people who followed them also aimed the fire dragons in their hands at the elephant soldiers.
Bombardments continued to hit the cliffs, and explosions fell from the sky one after another, making roaring noises and shaking the ground. Even though the war elephants were thick as armor and resistant to beatings, they could not hide from the explosions and lost the cost of taking away pieces of flesh and blood.
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An unexpected incident occurred, and the enemy troops were caught off guard and suffered numerous casualties. Many elephants' limbs were blown to pieces by the violent explosions. They became unable to stand and stumbled to the ground, crushing the surrounding enemy troops to death.
At this moment, there was not much fire oil left at the bottom of the valley, and the scope of the sea of fire was gradually shrinking, but explosions continued. No matter how well the war elephants were trained, they would inevitably panic and no longer listen to the instructions of the riders, and they would run aimlessly, unable to implement air defense at all.
The Feitian Army of the Nine Nether Kingdom took advantage of the situation, ignited the cannonballs in their hands and threw them towards them, then turned sharply in the air to avoid the explosion and then used the weapons in their hands to slash the surrounding enemy troops with blood.
The white elephant was quite calm. It didn't panic much except for stamping its feet. Under the command of the old snake-bone woman, it calmly turned around and was about to withdraw from the valley.
Seeing this, a Houtou man couldn't help but swoop down from the sky towards it. As he approached, he ignited the sky-shaking thunder in his hand one after another, threw it to the white elephant's belly and feet, and once again spread its wings and soared into the sky.
When the Hsiao-headed people went straight into the sky, a fire started to rise around the white elephant as the explosion surged.
In an instant, the flaming elephant meat flew everywhere, and the old snake-bone woman was also lifted high by the shock wave generated by the explosion. The enemy's faces changed when they saw this, and they watched the commander flying into the sky spitting blood, and their eyes were full of horror.
Immediately afterwards, they exploded, tacitly retreating in a panic toward the way they came. They completely ignored their coach, who had fallen from the sky and crashed on a huge rock in the valley, suffering broken bones and tendons.
"Kill!" Bai Jin saw the right moment and shouted, raising his sword to kill off the rope bridge. The counterattack horn was blown continuously, echoing in the valley.
The Yumen continued to drop bombs, while the Houtoumen had already taken out their repeating crossbows and started strafing the fleeing enemy troops from high altitudes.
Zuo Fan descended from the sky, with the three-pointed and two-edged sword radiating cold light in his hand, slashing and stabbing, killing several enemies in three or five blows; the Chilong sitting down was even more fierce, using its claws and tail at the same time, several war elephants were easily swept down by it
on the ground, and then disembowelled it with its fangs.
The smell of blood that had not dissipated from the valley was now a little stronger.
The red-eyed Jiuyou National Army's morale was greatly boosted, and they raised their swords to kill down the cliff, chasing the remaining enemy troops in the valley.
There were no loud shouts of killing, but whenever they caught up with the enemy, the Jiuyou National Army would stab them without saying a word; only the sad and stern screams kept ringing, echoing one after another in the mountains.
After Yingying and her three disciples sailed on the sea for more than a month, they dressed up as a daughter-in-law and maidservant returning to her parents' home, and set foot on Liutianzhou. After another month of walking, they arrived at Huangquan Road south of Fengdu.
One mile away from Fengdu, Xuanjiao believers dressed as traders' pawns were already waiting by the roadside.
Yingying noticed it and rode a deer forward. She gave the secret signal to the trafficker and the footman and said, "Is it the housekeeper Lao Li?"
"Exactly, Second Miss, thank you for your hard work." The disciple answered fluently, word for word; Yingying slightly opened her mouth and took out the Imperial Master's badge.
The believer took a closer look, and his face suddenly became respectful. He hurriedly looked around, and when he saw that there were no ghosts around, he bowed and lowered his voice and said: "Master, please follow me, and I will take you to sneak into Fengdu." (To be continued)