Chapter 1282

On the square, after a moment of daze, the people actually sped up the distribution of weapons under the loud reprimand of that silver-armored middle-aged man.

Finally, someone came over and began to organize Han Li and the other private armed forces and body refiners into teams.

Since the great battle was imminent, these usually unruly body refiners actually became extremely cooperative. In a short while, they formed several teams of two hundred people each.

The Tian Dong Firm itself had over two hundred people, so it naturally became one of these teams.

The young and strong ordinary people served as reserves and were not immediately deployed; instead, these body refiners who had cultivated various techniques and the privately armed forces that had undergone some training were immediately sent to the city walls to assist An Yuan City's soldiers in defending against the beast horde.

It was quite a coincidence—whether it was because the Tian Dong Firm's group was too conspicuous, the first batch of people sent to the walls happened to include them.

Thus, Han Li and the two hundred guards of the Tian Dong Firm were assigned to a section of the city wall, where they jointly defended this stretch with over a thousand soldiers stationed there.

Han Li stood on the city wall gazing into the distance, seeing only that the blue【color】 wolf pack had ceased its howling and was slowly approaching this side, like a moving blue【color】 grassland that seemed endless to the eye.

With so many blue wolves moving together, the 'shasha' sound rose and fell continuously, and it even seemed like an extraordinarily orderly sight, unconsciously revealing a shocking momentum that brought an immense, hard-to-describe pressure upon those on the city wall.

Many soldiers' faces【color】 turned pale, yet no one bothered to give any pre-battle mobilization.

For ordinary people, if the city were breached, their only fate along with their families in the city would be to be buried in the wolves' bellies. Therefore, even though their hearts were filled with extraordinary fear, when the time came to resist the beast horde, these soldiers would certainly not fail to fight desperately. Thus, after the squad leaders and low-ranking officers on each section of the city wall issued some combat preparation orders, no one spoke further, merely standing in silent, strict readiness.

Although the wolf pack appeared to move slowly, under everyone's gaze it gradually became clearer. Some mutant wolf beasts in the pack, nearly twice the size of ordinary blue wolves, could now be seen clearly.

These giant wolves were scattered throughout the pack; although their bodies were still pale blue【color】, their eyes had turned from black【color】 to an eerie emerald green, and as their gaze flickered, they seemed to possess a certain spirituality.

Seeing this, Han Li's brow involuntarily twitched.

These mutant wolf beasts truly seemed difficult to deal with, and their numbers were so great.

At this moment, he stood beside a burly giant whose shoulders were broad and waist thick, whose height was two zhang, behind the An Yuan City military officer in charge of this section of the city wall. This was precisely Zhang Kui, who had experienced several beast tides and had specially proposed this suggestion.

Let the two of them be solely responsible for protecting this commander.

After all, if this person encountered trouble, it could cause this section's defense to fall into a certain chaos.

That giant was Du Xiao, a body refiner from the Tian Dong Firm, who practiced a strange technique that allowed his body to enlarge and simultaneously generate immense strength—the larger his stature, the greater his strength. It was said he had already cultivated to an extremely high realm. Before Han Li's arrival, he had been the strongest man in the Tian Dong Firm's guard unit.

Han Li served as deputy captain of the guard unit, and among the few who were dissatisfied and wanted to provoke him was this very man.

However, when Han Li lifted a thousand-jin fake mountain stone with both hands and easily threw it into the air, this man, shocked, immediately admitted his inferiority on the spot.

Now Han Li gripped with one hand what appeared to be an ordinary thick-backed saber, while the giant held a two-zhang-long specially made wolf-tooth club, and the two followed closely behind the officer, one on the left and one on the right.

The officer was over thirty years old, slightly tall and thin in build, wearing a full suit of iron armor, with a long sword hanging at his waist. Although his face was ordinary, his eyes shone with divine light as they moved, giving off an aura of unangered威.

It seemed that although he was merely an ordinary officer in the army, he was also a body refiner of considerable cultivation.

This was not strange at all—among the common people of the Spirit Realm who had achieved some success in body refinement, joining the human cities' armies originally accounted for more than half. Among them were not a few terrifying existences who had cultivated body refinement to the extreme, existences that even high-level cultivators would not dare to ignore.

Just as Han Li stared expressionlessly at the beast horde, which seemed like a blue tide approaching the city wall ever closer, a sudden booming of deep, heavy sounds came from behind him, followed by over a hundred red fireballs, each several zhang in volume, shooting out from somewhere in the city and crashing hard into the wolf pack only a few li from the city wall.

With a loud rumbling, hundreds of fire clouds exploded in the wolf pack, instantly engulfing over a hundred nearby blue wolves, which were then burned open, flesh rotting, and died on the spot. Although it was only ordinary fire, these wolf beasts were merely ordinary beasts and naturally had no resistance to such fierce fire.

Seeing this, Han Li's expression【color】 stirred, and he turned his head to glance back.

He saw not far behind the city wall, in a certain open space, row upon row of devices similar to the mortal realm's catapults, arranged in several lines, numbering about a hundred or so.

A large number of soldiers were busy placing red, spherical objects into them, and then someone gave a command with a wave of the hand, and these devices were launched out, becoming one huge fireball after another just like before, tracing arcs in the air and landing precisely in the beast horde beyond the other side of the city wall.

Instantly, another large number of blue wolves were turned into charred corpses.

With only two such attacks, nearly twenty thousand blue wolves were immediately wiped out—power that could not be considered small.

Just as Han Li was feeling somewhat surprised, he suddenly noticed that after these two attacks, this kind of assault ceased abruptly, and no more such huge fireballs appeared.

When Han Li revealed a thoughtful expression, the distant wolf pack seemed to have been enraged by this attack, and amid a series of stirring wolf howls, the entire beast horde, led by dozens of mutant giant wolves leaping forward, suddenly began to run.

The ground transmitted a rumbling tremor; over a short distance of several li, the wolf pack arrived in the blink of an eye, and the beast horde simultaneously launched a fierce attack along a stretch of over ten li of the city wall.

Blue wolves leapt into the air one by one, their claws like blades scraping the smooth city wall, actually embedding themselves an inch or so into it, then after retracting and pushing off again, they actually scaled the walls like flying over eaves and walking on walls, rushing straight for the battlements.

And on the battlements at first, upon the command of the frontline commanders at various points, various arrows rained down like raindrops, the 'pupu' sound continuing without cease, as large numbers of blue wolves were pierced through the body and fell down.

Even ordinary people in the Spirit Realm have strength far greater than that of ordinary people in the mortal realm, so their killing power is naturally not to be trifled with.

However, the number of blue wolves that the city wall favored was truly too great; this bit of damage could not possibly harm the beast horde's muscles and bones, and instead, under the mad assault without regard for casualties, in a short while wolf beasts had already charged onto the battlements.

The human defenders on the battlements had long been waiting; as soon as a blue wolf stepped onto the battlements, three or four spear-like long weapons would immediately attack simultaneously, easily hooking the wolf to the ground, and then a flash of blade light would cut it into mincemeat on the spot, leaving no time for it to show its might.

For a time, arrows rained down like rain below the city, blade lights and sword shadows flashed above, and shouts of killing and wolf howls intertwined together.

Han Li did not make a move, merely following that low-ranking officer as he walked back and forth on this section of the city wall, listening to his repeated commands directing the soldiers on how to defend, and from time to time adjusting the deployment of defensive forces.

In his view, although the ordinary blue wolves now appearing seemed ferociously abnormal, the human side had nurtured and stored their energy for a long time, so it was impossible for them to fall behind so easily.

He estimated that the true hard battle should come in the days ahead.

As for the direction of the red python, on the other side of An Yuan City, although it was too far to see clearly what was happening there, faint sounds of slaughter could still be heard, indicating that the red python beast horde had likewise launched an attack.

This battle began at noon and continued until afternoon, during which the entire An Yuan City seemed to be enveloped by a thick, bloody aura.

The sky【color】 began to darken somewhat, as one sun after another disappeared, and the crescent moon gradually increased in number.

Yet the wolf pack's attack did not cease for a moment, and even grew increasingly fierce and violent. As beasts that had not yet awakened spiritual intelligence, once their bloodthirsty heavenly【nature】 was aroused, their terrifying aspect probably only began to truly reveal a trace or two at this moment.

The officer guarding Han Li, whose face had originally been composed, now began to sink into gloom, because merely this half-day of battle had already caused the ordinary soldiers defending the city wall to suffer casualties of one-third, and even the Tian Dong Firm's guard unit had lost over twenty men.

At this moment, from behind the blue【color】 wolf pack, suddenly came two sharp, long-short wolf howls, and the mutant giant wolves that had mysteriously vanished from the beast pack after the assault began finally reappeared beneath the city wall.

These giant wolves could easily reach a height of five or six zhang with a light leap, and their movements were as swift as lightning. The crossbow bolts shot by ordinary soldiers at them had almost no effect, as if a gust of wind, they easily leapt onto the battlements.

The soldiers naturally stationed on the battlements, without hesitation, brought out all kinds of weapons, but these giant wolves, with their large frames, merely swayed slightly and strangely leapt high over these defenders, then their sharp fangs flashed, and they twisted their bodies to lunge back at these soldiers.

In an instant, blood light burst forth, and every battlement struck by the mutant giant wolves immediately suffered heavy casualties!

The section of the battlements under Han Li's responsibility likewise saw several mutant giant wolves leap up, and in an instant, over ten people were casualties.

Seeing this, the officer immediately ordered the Tian Dong Firm's body refiners to rush over and slaughter them, while the ordinary soldiers only needed to deal with the ordinary blue wolves and not disturb the defenders' formation.

Indeed, including Zhang Kui's dozen or so body refiners who charged forward, they immediately brought the situation under control.

But suddenly, a nearby soldier cried out in alarm, two blue shadows flashed at the city wall, and from just outside a small section of the city wall nearest the officer, two mutant giant wolves leapt up again—one plunged straight into the crowd, causing those soldiers to fall into great chaos, while the other, accompanied by a fishy wind, fiercely lunged at this officer.

They actually knew that this person wearing standardized armor was the commander, and simultaneously understood the strategy of feinting east and striking west.

"Seek death!"

The giant Du Xiao shouted loudly, his wolf-tooth club in hand sweeping out, and instantly a fierce wind howled as it pressed down upon the lunging giant wolf.

Even if this wolf's body is far tougher than that of an ordinary blue wolf, being struck by a weapon still leaves it with no chance of survival.

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