Chapter 697

The array light rose on the city wall of the earth city, and then a heavy arrow shining with dazzling red light flew out from the city head, shooting at the Azure Void army formation three miles away from the city wall.

The heavy arrow drew an obvious trajectory in the air and finally landed less than a hundred zhang away from the infantry cannon.

This was a marking arrow used by the Liao race to calibrate the range. The Liao army commander on the city wall gave an order, the array light brightened a bit, and then another arrow was shot out. This arrow was blessed by the array, and the range was much farther. It flew across three miles in one breath and landed in the center of Little Wei Yuan's army formation.

A sword light rose in the army formation to intercept this arrow. But the next moment, the Liao defenders who had already measured the range shot ten thousand arrows at once, and a wave of arrow rain whistled towards Little Wei Yuan's army formation.

At this time, the Liao army also opened the city gate, and nearly ten thousand cavalry rode out of the city and lined up under the city. Just in terms of the number of this cavalry, it could also crush this thin small unit of Little Wei Yuan.

The arrow rain flew into mid-air, and Little Wei Yuan finally ordered to fire the cannons. The infantry cannons roared in turns, and shells exploded in the Liao cavalry team, lifting countless Liao people and horses into mid-air. Although the Liao horses were fierce, they had never encountered such an earth-shattering explosion, and many warhorses were startled on the spot, starting to rush and run around, and the riders could not control them.

At the same time, the military Qi of Little Wei Yuan's army formation boiled, and countless heavy earth Daoist methods flew out, meeting the arrow rain coming from mid-air. These Daoist methods were blessed by military Qi, and their power was increased by thirty percent out of thin air, turning into a group of yellow clouds.

The heavy arrows passed through the yellow clouds, and the arrow bodies were immediately like being wrapped in heavy sand and soil, and the arrow bodies were nearly twice as heavy, so they fell sharply and fell in front of the formation.

Although this unit of Little Wei Yuan had only a few thousand people, there were more than a thousand Dao Foundation cultivators! Although most of them were template Dao Foundations, template Dao Foundations were also much stronger than Body Forging Great Perfection.

Little Wei Yuan stabilized the army formation and did not counterattack when the Liao army was in chaos, but only kept shelling the Liao cavalry that came out of the city. After shelling for a while, seeing that the elite Liao cavalry had already suffered more than two thousand casualties, the Liao commander realized that something was wrong and hurriedly withdrew the cavalry back to the city.

During the retreat, Little Wei Yuan concentrated the artillery fire to bombard the city gate, causing heavy casualties to the Liao cavalry again. Finally, the cavalry leader had no choice but to lead the troops around the city and enter the military fortress from the rear city gate.

Little Wei Yuan then ordered to raise the muzzle and bombard the city. Shells passed through the light curtain of the city-guarding array, causing the array to vibrate violently. After landing, it was a violent explosion, and one shot could destroy all the buildings and camps within ten zhang.

Until here, the Liao commander discovered that the speed of the city-guarding array weakening the shells was useless at all; the shells exploded as they should, and one could not use the idea of defending against bed crossbow heavy arrows to defend against shells.

Little Wei Yuan remained unmoved and just kept shelling. The defensive array of the Liao war fortress generally has two functions: one is to defend against Daoist methods, and the other is to delay the flying stones and crossbow arrows. Even the giant arrows shot by bed crossbows, after being slowed down by the city-guarding array, would have their power greatly reduced.

But this kind of city-defense array just cannot defend against cannons. After the shells are slowed down, they still have to be intercepted by Dharma Form cultivators. If Dao Foundations take action rashly, they are easily injured by the explosion.

The sound of cannons was continuous, and Little Wei Yuan made up his mind not to attack, but only to rely on shelling. After shelling for half an hour, the Liao army had suffered more than five thousand casualties, and the commander finally could not hold back. The left and right city gates opened wide, and more than ten thousand light cavalry rushed out from each side, killing towards Little Wei Yuan.

And on Little Wei Yuan's side, the left and right army formations had long set up flying sword guns and fire guns to wait. Four Dharma Form cultivators held rotary machine guns, constructing crossfire on the left and right.

A moment later, the Liao race left behind more than ten thousand corpses, and the remnants did not return to the city, but fled around the city. Afterwards, the Liao city-guarding commander also led the army to abandon the city and flee.

This commander was quite knowledgeable, knowing that he was constantly being shelled in the city, and this city could not be defended at all, so he decisively abandoned the city.

Little Wei Yuan did not pursue, and he couldn't catch up if he wanted to. He led the army into the city and occupied this strong city that could accommodate a hundred thousand troops.

In the distance, there were also faint sounds of guns and cannons. The reinforcements sent by the No. 2 guard city on the right encountered a defense line composed of Dao soldiers and three thousand Azure Void troops. At this time, there were a small number of fire guns in the Dao soldiers, but most of them were still used to using bows and arrows.

And the Azure Void troops here were all flying sword guns, with great power and long range, and there were more than a dozen infantry cannons.

The Liao reinforcements charged several times but failed to break through the defense position, so they had to retreat after leaving behind thousands of corpses. And on Little Wei Yuan's side, only a few hundred people were injured, and only a hundred died in battle.

Little Wei Yuan immediately combined the troops and came to the No. 2 guard city, first setting up a circular defense position in the north, and then bombarding the west gate.

After the shelling lasted for half an hour, the defenders finally could not bear it and fled from the west gate and the east gate, but the Liao army did not expect that the firepower coverage of that circular defense position also reached more than a thousand zhang, so they left behind thousands of corpses when retreating, and only then were they able to escape.

Then it was cleaning the battlefield and counting the results. Honestly, Little Wei Yuan was not very satisfied with these two battles; the total number of enemies killed on both sides was less than forty thousand, and most of them were allowed to escape back.

This was also no way; Little Wei Yuan's troops were insufficient, and in the Liao territory, the mobility of the troops was far inferior to the Liao light cavalry. The two Liao commanders on the front line were also sharp, and they retreated immediately when they saw that the war was unfavorable.

Being able to saw with the northern mountain gate for many years and suppressing the northern mountain gate to retreat step by step, these Liao commanders on the front line were not fuel-efficient lamps.

After occupying the two military fortresses, Little Wei Yuan did not give up, but directly relied on the existing cities to set up defenses, and at the same time notified the rear to send people to clean up the Liao corpses.

He Fang admired Little Wei Yuan to the ground at this time. In this battle, the Azure Void army's firepower was extremely fierce, and it caused heavy casualties to Northern Liao without sweating much, capturing two military fortresses in a row. It is worthy of being the man who went to the Western Regions alone and built a huge foundation for the Azure Void.

It's just that Little Wei Yuan's handling of the Liao corpses was a bit strange. Little Wei Yuan ordered people to strip all the clothes, armor, and property from all the Liao corpses, not even leaving the underwear, and finally only left a corpse that was naked, then put it into a large box, sealed the box, and transported it to the rear.

He Fang was a bit strange, they used to pile the Liao corpses together and burn them with Dao power. How could these corpses be treated like goods in Little Wei Yuan's hands? Not to mention anything else, those cargo boxes were brand new, and the styles were unified, and each box could hold hundreds of corpses.

However, Little Wei Yuan was in charge of the power now, so He Fang couldn't ask too much. And Little Wei Yuan seemed to attach great importance to these corpses, personally inspecting the boxing process for a while.

What He Fang didn't know was that each corpse was transported to the mountain gate after being boxed, loaded onto the flying boat that had been parked there, and then transported to the Azure Void. After the flying boat returned to the Azure Void, it had to transport new ammunition and troops over.

Little Wei Yuan's plan was to transport the entire First Army of Bao Yun over. Elites like the First Army were suitable for attack. It's just that the First Army was configured with many chariots, but it was very troublesome to transport them.

(End of chapter)