Chapter 238

On the night of April 14th, Xia Hong had indeed seen the Longyou troops in action with his own eyes.

The problem was that the opponent of the Longyou troops that night was the Blood Guards, who were equal in strength to them.

Therefore, in a strict sense, he had not yet personally experienced how great the gap was between a team composed of hunting squad members and a true professional army.

But at this very moment, Yu Wentao, who was far away in Yanglu, had truly experienced it.

The gap between the two was simply too great!

This huge chasm could simply be described as a world of difference.

The 48th year of Longyou, April 17th, four hours before dawn.

"Rebels of Wu Shuang and Hanqiong, die!"

"Brothers, start the slaughter!"

"A bunch of motley crew, daring to challenge Longshan, kill!"

"Charge!"

………………

North of Yangyuan Peak, above the deep trench, more than a dozen wooden planks had already been laid.

Hundreds of black-armored soldiers had long since stepped on the planks and rushed onto the side of the earthen mound, trampling over the hundreds of corpses on the ground, roaring as they charged toward the top of the mound.

Judging from the fact that more than half of the planks had been destroyed and hundreds of corpses were lying on the ground on this side of the mound, the battle had clearly been going on for a while.

"We cannot retreat anymore, brothers, hold on! If we let the Longyou troops rush up, we will all die. Hold on for a while longer, the reinforcements from the south will soon..."

Wu Ying slashed open several iron arrows flying toward him with his blade, only roaring at the retreating crowd behind him. But before he could even finish his sentence, a wave of arrows flew toward his head, forcing him to shut his mouth.

He drew his blade and swung it at high speed. Although he successfully slashed open this wave of arrows, only receiving three painless arrow wounds, he was directly surrounded by the Longyou troops galloping from below.

Even more fatal was that the retreat of the crowd behind him was still continuing.

"More than a thousand people wanting to block five hundred Longyou troops, you think too beautifully. Since you want to take care of both ends, then I will make it so you cannot take care of either end!"

Among the crowd of Longyou troops surrounding Wu Ying, a white-clothed middle-aged man holding a snake-spear suddenly rushed out. It was Li Xuantian, who had fled in a panic in the first half of the night.

Li Xuantian's face was cold and stern. The look in his eyes toward Wu Ying was filled with murderous intent. The snake-spear directly knocked away several people from Wu Shuang on the way and hooked straight toward Wu Ying.

Whoosh...

The zhang-long snake-spear brought out a flash of fire in the air. Seeing the power of Li Xuantian's strike, Wu Ying had no intention of taking it head-on and dodged to the side. But how could his speed compare to Li Xuantian's?

"Collect some interest for He Tu first, die!"

Li Xuantian's voice was filled with rage. As strong as Longshan was, the number of Cold-Resistant-level members was extremely limited. In the first half of the night, He Tu had been killed by the joint efforts of Wu Xiong, Han Jiuli, and three others so that he could escape smoothly. How could he not avenge such a great hatred?

As soon as he returned to Yucheng, he immediately summoned five hundred Longyou troops, and brought along the over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms controlled by Yucheng, directly attacking Yangyuan Peak.

He Tu was killed, and Li Xuantian was angry, but he was not so blinded by anger. The action of attacking Yangyuan Peak seemed hasty and impulsive, but it was all within his plan.

And if there were no accidents, the success rate was also extremely high.

He had already figured out how many people were at Yangyuan Peak.

Wu Shuang and Hanqiong together had a total of over 1,400; the Earth-Digging Realms of Yanglu itself were only over 600, adding up to a total of just over 2,000;

Cold-Resistant-level members currently included only Wu Xiong, Han Jiuli, Wu Ying, Wu Lin, and one more, Lin Ye from Zhaoyang, totaling five people, the strongest being no more than Seven Manes, not worth worrying about.

Such a small force could not be the opponent of five hundred Longyou troops. Once the terrain advantage of Yangyuan Peak was broken, the Yanglu encampment would be easily obtained.

The subsequent development was not much different from his plan. It only took him one hour to rush from Yucheng to Yangyuan Peak, and it took less than half an hour to solve the difficult point of the outer trench of Yangyuan Peak.

The Longyou troops crossed the trench and had already killed the defenders on the north side. Next, as long as they detoured to the south side and coordinated with the wave of people led by Cheng Guang and Yue Qian, they could easily defeat the defenders on the south side. The Yanglu encampment would not be able to escape!

It sounded slow, but these were just a thought in Li Xuantian's mind.

Wu Ying was inferior to him in both speed and strength, let alone being surrounded by Longyou troops, leaving him no room to escape.

The snake-spear pierced fiercely into Wu Ying's shoulder. Li Xuantian did not let him off, exerting force with both arms to suddenly lift Wu Ying up, then pulled out the snake-spear, drawing a dazzling long blade in mid-air, and suddenly attacked Wu Ying's neck.

Clang...

"I knew you were here too. Rest assured, none of you will escape!"

A broadsword attacked from the side, only causing the snake-spear to shift its position slightly. Li Xuantian seemed to have expected this, gripping the broadsword with both hands and exerting force, actually using the snake-spear to forcibly frame the broadsword and continue to slash toward Wu Ying's neck.

Yu Wentao, dressed in black, saw that he had failed to block the snake-spear. While his face changed in shock, he exerted force with both hands again, attempting to step forward again. But the next second, sensing a sword edge stabbing from behind, the corners of his eyes twitched violently, his body suddenly retreated backward, and he retracted the broadsword to block his back.

Swish...

The broadsword blocked the sword tip behind him, and a huge force was transmitted. Yu Wentao's body lunged forward for more than ten meters. Turning his head to look, he discovered that another thin man holding a sharp sword and wearing iron armor had arrived, staring at him covetously.

"Song Kang, stop him. Wait for me to kill Wu Ying, then I will come to help you."

Another Six-Manes Cold-Resistant-level member. Longshan really has many experts!

While Yu Wentao sighed in his heart, he saw a large group of Longyou troops already detouring around the earthen mound and killing toward the south. His heart jumped violently, and for a moment, he even forgot to pay attention to Wu Ying.

"The thousand people on the south side are also led by two Cold-Resistant-level members. Han Jiuli and Wu Xiong cannot block them with over a thousand people. If these five hundred Longyou troops rush over, Yangyuan Peak will definitely be broken. They won't even be able to hold out for a single night. The strength of these Longyou troops is simply... too strong!"

Yu Wentao looked at the Longyou troops breaking the formation and killing the enemy, noticing the hundred-forged silver patterns on their black armor and weapons, as well as the force of the arrows shot, all of which were above 30,000 jin. The shock was almost written all over his face.

Just as he had expected before, the five of them joined forces to kill He Tu, and Li Xuantian would not let it go. Sure enough, in the second half of the night, Li Xuantian, who had not run for long, brought five hundred Longyou troops and over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms to kill directly at Yangyuan Peak.

Li Xuantian did not attack rashly, but sent two Cold-Resistant-level members to lead over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms to start attacking from the drawbridge position on the south side. Han Jiuli and Wu Xiong knew he had a backup plan, so they split half of the people to defend on the south side, and let Yu Wentao and Wu Ying lead the remaining half to patrol the surroundings, guarding against Li Xuantian bringing people to attack from other positions.

Sure enough, they discovered five hundred Longyou troops setting up wooden planks on the north side. Originally, according to Yu Wentao's assumption, he and Wu Ying, two Cold-Resistant-level members, led over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms to guard this side of the trench. As long as they found a way to destroy all the wooden planks and not let the other side come over, or directly let some people onto the planks and then shoot arrows to harass them, not to mention defeating the Longyou troops, holding them off should not be a problem.

But facts proved that he was terribly wrong.

The Longyou troops only used one wave of arrows to crush the defenders on this side. Then Li Xuantian personally rushed across the trench, relying on his strength to protect a wooden plank connecting the two ends, successfully letting over fifty or sixty Longyou troops come over.

Later, Li Xuantian personally led these fifty or sixty people to forcibly tear open the defensive line composed of over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms and also destroyed their arrow formation. All the other wooden planks played their role, and the subsequent four hundred plus Longyou troops all came over in a swarm.

Once they came over, it was the beginning of the rout.

Before seeing Li Xuantian, Wu Xiong and Han Jiuli were very cautious. Of the over a thousand people they brought to the south side to defend, only four hundred plus were people from their own camps, and the remaining six hundred plus were all Earth-Digging Realms controlled by Yanglu. Their fighting will was certainly not very high.

But the north side was different. The over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms were all people from the Wu Shuang and Hanqiong camps, so their fighting will should have been unquestionable.

But even so, after the Longyou troops rushed across the trench, they failed to successfully hold off a single wave, and after only persisting for more than ten minutes, they all collapsed.

In front of the battlefield, a Longyou soldier held a strong bow, shot an iron arrow that directly penetrated two Earth-Digging Realm defenders, and then while running wildly forward, put the strong bow behind his back, drew a large saber, and caught up with another Earth-Digging Realm, killing him with one blow. The whole set of actions was clean and neat, without any hesitation.

"The basic strength is all above 30,000 jin; the pulling force of the iron-fetal bow is at least above 30 shi; plus hundred-forged iron armor and hundred-forged weapons, whether it is their own cultivation or weapon equipment, they are far superior to these ordinary Earth-Digging Realms. Not only that, but their combat ability is also much, much stronger than theirs.

On average, a single Longyou soldier, in a one-on-one situation, can deal with at least three to five people. If the army presses the formation together, not to mention three or five times, even if they face enemies ten times their number, they probably won't be afraid at all.

No wonder, no wonder Wu Xiong and Han Jiuli were so afraid before. The strength of this Longyou army is really too strong. Even if Does Da Xia's thousand-man army came, I'm afraid the outcome wouldn't be much better. This is the Longyou army!"

The shock in Yu Wentao's heart could not be calmed for a long time. Only after truly witnessing the strength of the Longyou troops did he realize how terrifying the gap was between the hunting squads of ordinary camps and a true army.

Does Da Xia's intermediate hunting squad's current selection criteria are already very strict, but the basic strength standard is only 15,000 jin; the popularity of hundred-forged weapons is only about 60%, let alone hundred-forged armor, which, except for Cold-Resistant-level members, only a very small number of wealthy people can wear; as for combat ability, perhaps it is a little stronger than Wu Shuang and Hanqiong's, but compared to the Longyou troops, the gap is still very obvious.

"If there are no reinforcements, relying on these few people of Wu Xiong and Han Jiuli, Yangyuan Peak cannot be held. Lord Deputy's plan is estimated to fall through. I must find a way to withdraw first, otherwise, if I am surrounded by the Longyou troops, I will lose a layer of skin even if I don't die!"

Wu Ying, who was surrounded before, was already in a precarious situation led by Li Xuantian with over a hundred Longyou troops, and it was only one step away from death.

Looking at Song Kang, who was staring at him, the desire to retreat in Yu Wentao's heart grew stronger. As long as Li Xuantian killed Wu Ying, he would immediately come over to join forces with Song Kang to kill him. He naturally would not wait here foolishly.

"Wanting to run now, it's not that simple!"

Almost the moment Yu Wentao retreated, Song Kang moved.

Clearly, he was not only guarding against Yu Wentao saving Wu Ying, but also guarding against Yu Wentao escaping.

The sword edge whistled away, and in an instant, it stabbed into Yu Wentao's back. The terrifying force swept up the snow on the ground, showing the power of this sword.

"Relying on you, wanting to stop me!"

Yu Wentao snorted coldly. Although his strength was only Five Manes after the breakthrough, counting the 30% increase of the Holy Pattern, he had a full Seven Manes of strength. For Song Kang, with his Six Manes of strength, to want to forcibly keep him was undoubtedly a daydream.

His body paused slightly, the broadsword rotated horizontally in front of him, and borrowing the force of the collision with Song Kang's long sword, he suddenly bounced forward, directly fleeing toward the east side of the earthen mound.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh... However, before he had escaped more than ten meters away, a dense wave of arrows suddenly attacked from the south side. Yu Wentao was caught off guard and was hit by two arrows in his arm.

"Relying on me alone, naturally it won't work!"

Pfft...

The sound of Song Kang's mocking laughter came to his ears. Yu Wentao endured the pain and pulled out the two iron arrows from his arm. Seeing blood spurting from the wound, he immediately took a handful of gold sore powder from his bosom and applied it to the wound, then turned his head to look at the south side, his expression suddenly sinking violently.

The Longyou troops brought by Li Xuantian were about five hundred. When they just rushed across the trench, the casualties were almost zero. They beat the over a thousand people stationed on the earthen mound into a comprehensive rout, losing at most twenty or so people.

Of the remaining four hundred plus people, only dozens were cooperating with Li Xuantian to surround and kill Wu Ying; the other four hundred had originally detoured to the south side.

But at this moment, another hundred people had actually returned from that side.

And this group of people, after using bows and arrows to keep Yu Wentao, immediately rushed over, dispersed, and surrounded him directly.

"Still able to split off over a hundred people to come over, it seems the south side has also been broken!"

While Yu Wentao's expression was gloomy, he turned his head and discovered that the battle sounds on the earthen mound had already spread to the outskirts of the Yanglu encampment, and his mood became even heavier.

!

"The strength of the Longyou troops is really too strong. If I don't go back in time to notify my lord, if we meet them rashly later, the camp will probably suffer a big loss!"

From the appearance of the feinting army on the south side to the Longyou troops breaking through Yangyuan Peak and fighting to the outskirts of the Yanglu encampment, it took less than two hours in total.

You must know that Wu Xiong and Han Jiuli had a full two thousand defenders in their hands.

Plus the terrain of Yangyuan Peak, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Two hours...

Not to mention that the time was so fast, the key was that the casualties of the Longyou troops were not large!

According to Yu Wentao's own visual estimation, just now on the north side, they died at most twenty or so people, almost all of whom were too forgetful of themselves in the charge, were surrounded by the defenders on this side, and finally piled to death by human wave tactics.

Li Xuantian had already arranged over a thousand Earth-Digging Realms to feint on the south side. The four hundred Longyou troops who just went over had even less pressure than this side, and it is estimated that the casualties were also negligible.

After these nearly five hundred Longyou troops occupied Yanglu, how much pressure they formed on the Beehive, only he knows for now. At all costs, I must pass the news back!

Yu Wentao's gaze gradually became firm. Although he had only merged into Does Da Xia for one year, in this year, he had gained and improved more than in the previous ten-plus years, so he had long had an extremely strong sense of belonging to Does Da Xia.

This sense of belonging made him naturally put Does Da Xia's interests first in everything he did, even overriding his own life and death.

So at this moment, being surrounded by over a hundred Longyou troops and Song Kang, his first reaction was not to consider his own life and death, but Does Da Xia's subsequent response.

"Ah..."

Not far away, a scream from Wu Ying came.

Yu Wentao moved at the sound, without any hesitation, fleeing frantically toward the east side.

If Wu Ying died, Li Xuantian could free up his hands, and with Song Kang and a hundred Longyou troops, he really would have no possibility of escaping.

Must seize this last opportunity!

"Quick, shoot arrows!"

Song Kang clearly did not expect Yu Wentao to be so decisive, but his reaction was also very fast. While chasing, he loudly ordered the Longyou troops to shoot arrows to block him.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

The Longyou troops had extremely high combat proficiency. Hearing the sound, they immediately shot a wave of arrows, blocking the east route where Yu Wentao was fleeing, forcing Yu Wentao to have no choice but to flee toward the top of the earthen mound, which was the outskirts of the Yanglu encampment in the south.

Song Kang grabbed his sword and followed closely. Before he had chased for a few breaths, Li Xuantian behind him was carrying a human head in his hand and swept past him directly.

"Lin Ye of Zhaoyang, it's your turn, die!"

Li Xuantian was carrying Wu Ying's head in his left hand and holding a spear in his right. With a few big strides, he caught up with Yu Wentao in front. With a roar, the long spear rolled up more than ten meters of snow mist and suddenly stabbed toward Yu Wentao's back.

Shoo...

The speed of the spear tip was too fast, rubbing against the air to create sparks, actually evaporating the surrounding snow mist, like a galloping dagger, quickly piercing through Yu Wentao's back.

Shoo...

Yu Wentao's body, which was already in a galloping state, crashed forward for dozens of meters, directly hitting the building wall on the outskirts of the Yanglu encampment, hitting and collapsing two houses in a row, before finally stopping.

"Pfft..."

Yu Wentao stood up from the ruins, spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale. Looking at the wound broken on his chest, he immediately took out a medicinal pill and stuffed it into his mouth.

After the pill entered his abdomen, his pale face immediately recovered a bit, and the blood gushing from the wound on his chest also immediately stagnated.

"Fortunately, I have the Blood Sore Pill, otherwise I would have lost my life!"

A trace of luck flashed on Yu Wentao's face. Sensing that Li Xuantian behind him was still chasing him relentlessly, he immediately got up and fled toward the inner circle.

"Wanting to escape, dream on!"

Li Xuantian's angry roar came like a nightmare, and that terrifying snake-spear attacked from behind again. Yu Wentao was really a bit desperate now.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

However, at this moment, a wave of arrows flew from the buildings on both sides, actually forcibly stopping Li Xuantian.

"Brother Lin, come in quickly!"

Wu Xiong's voice was no less than heavenly music to Yu Wentao at this moment.

He looked up and saw Wu Xiong, Han Jiuli, and Wu Lin, and quickly got up and ran to the side of the three.

"Five hundred, how could five hundred Longyou troops come over? Longshan has a total of only one thousand Longyou troops. Splitting a full half over here, are they not dealing with Hou Hu?"

"The thousand Earth-Digging Realms on the south side are all Yucheng's people. With so many people coming, we can't hold them at all. We can't hold them, we must send someone to notify Hou Hu and let him send reinforcements over, otherwise, all of us will die!"

The three of them had panicked expressions and were full of panic, no longer having the high spirits when they captured Yanglu and drove away Li Xuantian before. They kept trembling and wanted to notify Hou Hu to let him send reinforcements quickly.

They were beaten silly!

It seems that these camps in Longyou don't know much about Longshan's strength. They all know that the Longyou troops are powerful, but powerful to this extent clearly exceeded their expectations.

"Where is Wu Ying? Brother Lin?"

Wu Xiong remembered something and asked Yu Wentao.

Yu Wentao just wanted to answer, when a human head flew over from the north.

"The person is here, catch!"

Li Xuantian's sneer came. More than four hundred Longyou troops, plus about seven hundred Earth-Digging Realms from Yucheng, had already reassembled behind him.

Yue Qian, Song Kang, and Cheng Guang, three Cold-Resistant-level members, stood behind him.

Yu Wentao clutched his chest, looked around at the remaining people on his side, and roughly counted that there were less than nine hundred, and his expression suddenly sank a bit.

He had personally participated in the battle on the north side just now.

Not to mention the strength of the five hundred Longyou troops, the thousand people led by Wu Ying were almost beaten into a rout in one encounter, but because they fled too fast, the number of deaths was not too many, only three hundred plus, not even half.

But now here, there were only eight hundred plus people left.

That is to say, in the battle on the south side just now, of the over a thousand people, only two hundred plus were left in the end.

"It really was hit by Li Xuan. Wanting to take care of both ends, the result is that neither end can be taken care of. Even if there are reinforcements, it is impossible to arrive in a short while. These two families took Yangyuan Peak and it only took six days at most, and it changed hands so quickly!"

Yu Wentao's expression was gloomy, his gaze constantly shifting on the flank, trying to find an opportunity to escape, but after searching for a long time, he still gained nothing in the end.

Li Xuantian led three Cold-Resistant-level members, each leading over a hundred Longyou troops, blocking them from the front, back, left, and right, clearly not intending to give them a chance to escape.

"Don't you have guts? Don't you like to challenge Longshan with Hou Hu? Daring to kill He Tu, today I will let your two families be removed from the list, charge for me!"

Just one Wu Ying was clearly not enough to extinguish the anger in Li Xuantian's heart.

"Yanglu's camp is at Yangyuan Peak, located at..."

"Kill, leave none alive!"

(End of chapter)