Chapter 83: Flesh and blood millstone

Everywhere around were surging yellow breaths, and the Liao cavalry seemed to be able to appear from everywhere at any time. The whistling of heavy arrows kept ringing in Wei Yuan's ears, and from time to time, a few strange sharp whistles would be mixed in. That was a brand new type of sharp arrow, specifically shot from high altitude, which could slightly change its trajectory when falling, automatically searching for human soldiers, which was simply impossible to guard against. Many people were shot and killed by arrows falling from high altitude right before Wei Yuan's eyes.

The range of this kind of arrow was extremely far, at least Wei Yuan hadn't seen where the archer was.

Wei Yuan spurred his horse through a cluster of yellow Qi and subconsciously took a breath, immediately feeling as if he had inhaled a cluster of sand, his mouth and nose burning, indescribably uncomfortable. This was not that there was really sand and dust in the yellow Qi, but a pure stimulation and damage to the human body. These yellow Qi all came from the Liao domain, accompanied by the Northern Liao knights. Now there were many Liao cavalry on the battlefield, so yellow Qi was everywhere, almost no different from the Liao domain.

A battlefield appeared in front of Wei Yuan's side, and a dozen Liao cavalry were surrounding a few people and hacking. Corpses were everywhere, and those few people were clearly at the end of their rope.

"No! I don't want to die!" One of them suddenly soared into the sky and flew toward the distance.

"Idiot!" Wei Yuan didn't have time to stop him and could only curse in a low voice.

That person had only flown out a few dozen zhang when bursts of whistling sounded in the air, and at least twenty arrows arrived, shooting him into a sieve.

One of the manuals issued by the Taichu Palace before the war stated: Those who are not in the late stage of Foundation Establishment must not soar in the Northern Liao battlefield.

Yellow Qi suddenly surged around Wei Yuan, and a Northern Liao centurion flew into the air, looking at the battlefield situation.

Wei Yuan instinctively waved his hand, and a Flying Sand Technique hit him head-on. A whirlwind suddenly appeared around the centurion, and fist-sized sand and stones smashed into him like raindrops, immediately making his breath floating, almost unable to maintain his floating. It was not without benefits to have more yellow Qi in the Liao domain; at least the power of the Flying Sand Technique increased by fifty percent out of thin air, and it had now become Wei Yuan's most commonly used Daoist technique.

The centurion hadn't recovered from the sand bombardment when a golden sword shadow suddenly flew from the air, piercing through his body! Subsequently, a lightning bolt appeared out of thin air, smashing onto his body, finally knocking the centurion down. Before he landed, Wei Yuan's short spear tore through the air, piercing his body.

In just an instant, this centurion became a dead person. The rule of not soaring was equally applicable to the Liao cavalry.

Unknowingly, Wei Yuan had been fighting for more than half an hour. He had changed to the sixth box of throwing spears, his bow and arrows had long been shot out, and now he was using arrows picked up from the corpses of Liao cavalry.

After fighting for so long, the actual distance advanced was less than ten miles. Wei Yuan mostly fought back and forth, mainly to kill and injure the enemy. Not long ago, Bao Yun fired a third signal arrow, and the information transmitted was: City defense is stable, reinforcements have arrived.

After this information was transmitted, many reinforcements changed their strategy, no longer blindly approaching the city where Bao Yun was besieged, but fighting more with the intercepting Liao cavalry. Killing a large number of Liao cavalry could also reduce the pressure on city defense.

Wei Yuan was also like this. After charging and killing for a few more miles, Wei Yuan suddenly felt his eyes brighten, and he saw a thick clear light rising in the distance, rushing straight into the sky! The yellow Qi around Wei Yuan thinned rapidly under the illumination of the clear light, constantly melting.

The place where the clear light rose was Bao Yun's city.

As the yellow Qi of the Liao domain was dispelled, Wei Yuan's vision suddenly widened, soon expanding to about a hundred miles. He exerted a little force, leaped up, stood on the horse's back, and looked into the distance.

Below the clear energy was Bao Yun's city. Bao Yun could have originally guarded a county town, but she chose to guard forward, and the defense zone was a dock fortress, just like Wei Yuan's. It was just that the dock fortress Wei Yuan saw now was ten times larger than Shayang Village, simply half a county town.

Thousands of Northern Liao iron cavalry outside the dock fortress were like a huge vortex, spinning rapidly around the central dock fortress, countless sharp arrows shooting toward the dock fortress, and at every moment, many Liao cavalry were trying to charge toward the city wall. There were also thousands of Liao cavalry galloping back and forth in the north, borrowing the momentum of the charge to throw waves of arrow rain toward the dock fortress from a thousand zhang away.

There were more than five thousand cavalry besieging the dock fortress alone, and there were unknown numbers of Mobile Corps Commander teams in the vast area around intercepting the reinforcements rushing over.

Bao Yun's dock fortress had completely changed its appearance, with deep pits one foot wide and three feet deep all around. Slightly different from the earth pits dug by Fang Hetong, the inner walls of these pits were reinforced with iron plates. With the toughness of the Liao horse, once it stepped into one, it would inevitably break its leg. Between the deep pits, there were countless iron thorns a foot long; stepping on them would inevitably hurt the hooves. Layers of obstacles made it impossible for the Liao cavalry to gallop wantonly within a hundred hundred-foot units of the dock fortress, and even if people were not afraid, the horses would instinctively dodge.

The dock fortress city wall was three ten-foot units high, far exceeding ordinary dock fortresses, and even a bit higher than county city walls. The wall body shone with green light, and it was unknown what Daoist technique had been used to treat it; heavy arrows shot onto the wall could only sink in a little bit. The wall battlements were all covered with iron plates, and armor-piercing heavy arrows could only barely pierce through, posing no threat to the defenders hiding behind. This dock fortress was probably the same as Bao Yun's courtyard in the Taichu Palace, all thoroughly renovated.

The defenders on the wall were all wearing green armor, decorated with gold patterns, and each of them held a powerful crossbow, aiming at the Liao cavalry and shooting. After one batch finished shooting, they immediately changed to the next batch, also leaning out and shooting, and after shooting, they changed to the next batch, orderly and without any panic.

Waves of crossbow arrows shot toward the besieging Liao cavalry like a rainstorm, seemingly endless. As long as the Liao cavalry approached the dock fortress, they would be shot down, and those who dared to charge toward the dock fortress were, without exception, shot into sieves.

The huge clear Qi column was several zhang thick, and a precious tree faintly appeared inside. Every time the precious tree shook, the clear Qi column would scatter a circle of clear light, blessing the defenders and soldiers, and at the same time driving away the yellow Qi of the Liao domain. Without the yellow Qi, the Liao cavalry were naturally three points weaker, while the defenders were blessed by the clear Qi, full of spirit, and didn't know fatigue at all.

Just looking from afar, Wei Yuan felt that he saw a huge steel hedgehog. Thousands of elite defenders, endless powerful bows and crossbows, and the blessing of large-scale formations, who could take this down?

Wei Yuan suddenly felt danger, his body sank, and he lay on the horse's back. Several sharp arrows flew over his head, and two of them even sank down following his action of lying down, actually having a slight tracking ability. Fortunately, the grade of these two arrows was not high, and they could only barely be called magic tools, and the turning was not flexible enough, otherwise Wei Yuan would have been hit by at least one arrow. Although being hit by one arrow didn't matter much to Wei Yuan, it would affect his actions to some extent.

Wei Yuan hadn't soared yet, just stood a head taller than others on the horse, and was shot by several arrows.

Wei Yuan raised his hand and covered a galloping Liao cavalry nearby with a Flying Sand Technique, but the power of this Flying Sand Technique was surprisingly small, actually not knocking him off the horse, nor causing the warhorse to stumble. Only then did Wei Yuan remember that the yellow Qi of the Liao domain had been dispelled, and now the battlefield was all human clear Qi, and the five elements of the battlefield had changed from fire, metal, and earth to wood, metal, and water.

Wei Yuan waved his hand again. This time it was a Water Blade Technique full of Daoist power. The power of this Water Blade Technique was indeed much greater, instantly cutting the Liao cavalry and his horse into wounds, falling off the horse and collapsing. Then Wei Yuan added a flying spear to end his life.

Fighting to this point, Wei Yuan had already tested a set of fighting methods, that is, to injure the Liao cavalry or obstruct their actions with Daoist techniques, and then end it with a short spear. This set of fighting methods was surprisingly efficient, but it also relied on a formidable physical body and surging Daoist power. If it were an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, he would have exhausted his Daoist power and collapsed after throwing a box of short spears.

At this time, a huge battlefield had formed with Bao Yun's dock fortress as the center. Thousands of Liao cavalry had gathered on the battlefield, while teams of human reinforcements entered the battlefield and fought with the peripheral Mobile Corps Commander cavalry. The entire battlefield had been shrouded in human clear Qi, and the yellow Qi of the Liao domain had almost completely disappeared, thus becoming a huge trap, pressing thousands of Liao cavalry into the human clear domain. The originally fierce Liao cavalry gradually became weak, and the battle situation began to turn around bit by bit.

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