Chapter 519: Breaking the City, First to Ascend and Despair

Great Xia Year 12, December 29th, the final moments before daybreak.

The east, south, and north city gates of Beishuocheng began to suffer the first round of the Xia army's bombardment-style arrow rain.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

"Block it, front row raise shields, just block it!"

"Everyone lower your heads, shrink behind the city wall!"

"No need to move, as long as the opposite side doesn't approach, no need to move."

"Rear army, shoot arrows, slow down their charging speed, fast, fast, fast!"

Compared to the small gates on the north and south sides, the attack suffered by the east main gate at this moment was undoubtedly the most terrifying. Above the city wall, dozens of armored generals wandered inside the military formation, constantly shouting loudly.

Whether in bow-making or arrow-making, Great Xia's level was above Beishuo's. If there was any doubt about this point before, then after the two great battles at Zhongyang the day before yesterday and Bai Mu City last night, Beishuo, from top to bottom, basically accepted this point.

Therefore, competing with the Xia army in arrow formations was definitely not going to work.

The Beishuo garrison clearly knew this point, so seeing the Xia army's arrow rain shooting over, the front row of soldiers immediately raised high shields, and the rest either shrank under the city wall or hid behind shields. Only a very small number of people, alternating, shot cold arrows downward through the gaps in the city wall from time to time, attempting to slow down the Xia army's speed.

Clang... clang... clang...

The continuous arrow rain shot by the Xia army either nailed into the city wall or hit the shields. The number that successfully hit the garrison soldiers was almost negligible.

"Rear army, continue shooting arrows; front army, set up ladders and battering rams, attack the city!"

However, the Xia army itself didn't want to rely on arrow formations to break the city.

Liu Yuan, in mid-air, saw the soldiers in the front row, less than fifty meters away from the city wall, and gave the order loudly before leaping down first, directly landing on the top of the city wall.

Bang...

Liu Yuan had only broken through to the Manifesting Yang level this year, with Jade Bone aptitude. Counting the Saint Mark amplification, his strength was less than 6 jun. If placed among Manifesting Yang level experts, it might not count for much, but placed here on the city wall, he was an invincible existence.

He landed violently, creating a strong shockwave that shook all the Beishuo soldiers within a range of ten-plus meters around his body away.

"Sure enough, Lu Yang was right, the Beishuo city wall has something strange..."

However, Liu Yuan, who had shaken away the crowd around him, did not show the slightest joy on his face; instead, looking at the ground, his expression became increasingly solemn.

With over 5 jun of power, a normal cast-iron city wall, no matter how thick, would have been dented a bit by his kick, but this Beishuo city wall did not have the slightest deformation.

Bang...

"The vast majority of this city wall is cast with hundred-forged level iron slurry. After all, it has been passed down for over a hundred years. Beishuo's foundation is indeed astonishing!"

Following Liu Yuan, Yue Feng and Xiao Kangcheng also jumped down one after another. Yue Feng scratched the ground with his knife and saw that there were no less than a hundred silver forging patterns exposed inside, his tone instantly revealing a trace of exclamation.

The entire Left Route Army, besides the commander-in-chief Xia Chuan, had a total of ten Manifesting Yang level experts: Xu Ning, Liu Yuan, Yue Feng, Zhou Yuan, Meng Yi, Zhao Long, Hou Tong, Mu Longhe, Mu Qinghe, and Xiao Kangcheng.

Since it was attacking the city from three sides, it was naturally necessary to distribute the personnel evenly. Before daybreak, Xia Hong had already made the deployment:

Liu Yuan, Yue Feng, and Xiao Kangcheng led twenty-two thousand Xia army elite main forces to attack the east main city gate, with Xia Hong personally supervising the battle and commanding; Xia Chuan took Xu Ning, Zhou Yuan, and Meng Yi, leading the Left Route Army's newly formed First, Second, and Third Battalions, a total of fifteen thousand people, to attack the North City Gate; Mu Longhe took Zhao Long, Hou Tong, and Mu Qinghe, leading the Left Route Army's newly formed Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Battalions, a total of fifteen thousand people, to attack the South City Gate.

Great Xia knew the situation in Beishuocheng like the back of its hand.

The Cold-Resistant level garrison totaled thirty-five thousand, of which ten thousand were elite Beishuo troops. Of the remaining twenty-five thousand, only eighteen thousand were Garrison troops, and the remaining seven thousand were temporarily pulled from hunting teams, which could not be counted as a regular army.

Of course, there were nearly two hundred thousand Earth-Digging level experts in the city, but it was already daytime now. Letting nearly two hundred thousand Earth-Digging level experts fight outside during the day was something even Great Xia couldn't do at the current stage, let alone Beishuo?

So these two hundred thousand Earth-Digging level experts would inevitably not be able to exert any effect;

As for the Manifesting Yang level, counting the heavily injured Yang Zun, Beishuo currently had a total of only 12 people: 6 from Chen Cang, 5 from Beishuo. And it wasn't just Yang Zun who was heavily injured; the leader from Chen Cang, Chu Xuankong, also had both arms crippled. Calculated this way, the Manifesting Yang experts in the city could only count as 10 people.

Since Great Xia occupied an absolute advantage in both troop numbers and high-end combat power, dividing troops to attack the city from three directions simultaneously was naturally the optimal choice.

Beishuo was completely on the passive side. The three routes of the Xia army were not small in number—fifteen thousand people on the north and south sides, and twenty thousand at the east main gate. If any route was broken, it would be a disaster. To hold the city, they could only follow the Xia army and divide their troops, and they had to ensure that all three city gates were held.

Yue Feng landed on the city wall and immediately saw that Beishuo had placed fifteen thousand people at the east main gate, and more than half were elite Beishuo troops.

"Still have some thoughts, putting the heavy troops at the main city gate. But relying on just this many people to block us is too naive..."

"Dongxin, follow me to hold them off. The rest continue shooting arrows, pour water on the city wall, don't let the Xia army come up."

Yue Feng sneered. Seeing Mo Haiwen and Yu Dongxin, these two Manifesting Yang level experts, charging toward him, he directly drew his knife and met them.

Of course, he wasn't the only one; Xiao Kangcheng also followed behind him.

"Liu Yuan, the two of us will deal with him. You occupy the edge of the city wall and let the brothers below rush up first. The city gate definitely won't be broken in a short while..."

Yue Feng's long knife drew a sharp cold blade, colliding violently with Mo Haiwen's long sword. His strength was slightly inferior, and his body retreated three or four steps immediately.

"Daring to be so arrogant, brothers, kill him!"

Mo Haiwen forced Yue Feng back with one strike. Seeing that he didn't fly into the air to escape but continued to stand on the city wall, blocking in front of Liu Yuan with Xiao Kangcheng, knowing that the three wanted to rely on their strength to open a path for the Xia army behind, he shouted angrily and led countless soldiers to surround and kill the three.

His strength was 8 jun, and Yu Dongxin was a bit worse than him, at over 6 jun. If it were a one-on-one fight, Liu Yuan, Yue Feng, and Xiao Kangcheng would all be inferior to them, let alone the fact that the two were currently followed by so many Cold-Resistant level soldiers.

The siege by Mo and Yu on the city wall soon yielded results. Liu Yuan and the three retreated steadily, but in less than ten breaths, they were forced to the edge of the city wall.

No, using "edge" was no longer appropriate, because the three had been tightly surrounded by hundreds or thousands of Beishuo garrison troops, and that so-called edge area had already been occupied by Beishuo garrison troops.

Mo and Yu did not stand in the front row of the soldiers, but rose slightly into the air, about five or six meters off the ground, standing above the heads of Liu Yuan and the three, constantly attacking them.

Clearly, the two were deliberately blocking the path for Liu Yuan and the three to rise into the air, wanting to kill the three before the Xia army soldiers came up.

Clang... clang...

Yue Feng and Xiao Kangcheng were under the most pressure. They had to guard against the Mo and Yu duo above their heads while watching the Beishuo garrison troops constantly shrinking from all directions. Under the double threat, although they had dozens of kills, their activity space became smaller and smaller, and even great knives started to slash at their bodies from time to time.

However, the Beishuo soldiers who slashed them did not show any happy expression on their faces; instead, there was only deep despair.

Only because their blade tips couldn't break through the two's battle armor at all. In dozens of breaths, at least a hundred knives slashed at the two's battle armor, but besides creating some white marks on it, they couldn't play any role at all.

Even because the two's battle armor itself was silver, and the forging patterns were too dense, those white marks weren't even very clear. This feeling of powerlessness, slashing with a knife and having no effect, naturally made them feel increasingly desperate.

"Ten-thousand-forged level silver armor, Great Xia can even make this!"

Mo Haiwen's long sword also slashed several times. His eye for detail was naturally much stronger than those ordinary soldiers. He had long seen that the battle armor worn by Liu Yuan and the three were all ten-thousand-forged level silver armor, and at this moment, his pupils were filled only with envy.

Casting is different from making weapons. It's not that you can make it just because you have the materials.

Battle armor has many accessories and various styles. The key is that the purpose of making it is for people to wear it on the battlefield, so it must be close-fitting and as comfortable as possible, without affecting people's actions. In this way, the precision requirements for the accessories of each part are astonishingly high. Therefore, major camps keep the methods of battle armor casting extremely secret and never pass them on to outsiders.

Beishuo Town, up to now, could only cast hundred-forged level white silver battle armor. For higher-level battle armor, they could only go to the fiefdoms to buy it.

How many years has Great Xia been out in the east?

They can even forge ten-thousand-forged level white silver battle armor! ===== CHAPTER 520 =====