Lord of the Desert

Chapter 352
The next day, early morning.

The sun and moon rarely meet each other.

The smoke from the kitchen is torn apart by the strong wind.

As usual, the Yum Army's military meeting was held at the same time as breakfast.

It was also at this time that Hong Fan realized that today, September [-], was his nineteenth birthday.

He mentioned it casually.

Qiu Yuankui hurriedly asked for another bowl of noodles with eggs on it.

After the meal, the army went out into battle.

Hong Fan came to the city again with his army and saw the true face of Duan Licheng after she had taken off her make-up.

The neat and solemn horses and deer antlers turned into pieces of wood all over the ground.

Shallow pits and deep pits were largely filled in.

Even the newly built wooden corridors were dismantled and brought back after completing their mission to save wood and transportation capacity.

Looking around, from the front of the formation to the base of the wall, there is only a barren, smooth road.

And all kinds of siege equipment are being continuously pushed to the front of the battle from the Yum Victorious Army.

Three hundred steps away from the city head, two Shengzhou cast-iron heavy cannons were lined up in the middle.

To the left and right of the iron cannon, five six-tipped gun carriages capable of throwing thirty kilograms of stone bombs 200 meters spread out on both sides.

The number of the simplest equipment, such as single-shooter cannons, already exceeds a hundred, and they are arranged in five rows forward.

At two quarters of time (08:30 am), the Chinese army received the order and began to suppress the city.

For a moment, the stones fell through the air like rain falling.

On the general commanding platform, Hong Fan could only hear the harsh groan of wood friction and the labor chant of the artillery carriage when it was reloading.

The roar of the cannon carts and crossbows lasted for an entire hour.

The crossbows on the three turrets were smashed, the battlements were broken like bread, and all the defenders hiding behind were driven to the bottom of the city.

The cast-iron heavy cannon also fired several times, peeling off large pieces of city bricks, slightly revealing the pale golden and unshakable rammed earth city body inside.

Then, six larger siege engines were pushed to the front line by the auxiliary army.

Four car ladders, two adjacent to the car.

The former is five meters wide and more than ten feet high. The ladder can be put directly up to the top of the city, similar to a large ladder.

The latter is even more exaggerated.

It is eight meters wide and has five floors inside. The top is as high as the battlements and there is a wooden bridge with barbs on the front.

Once the bridge is leveled and set up on the top of the city, there will be two protected stairwells up and down the city wall, and soldiers can continuously go up.

At noon ([-] o'clock noon), Xu Yuntao gave the general attack order and personally held the mallet and beat the drum.

The six siege engines slowly pressed forward under the support of manpower.

At this moment, the world is in overdrive.

The trumpet in Duanli City sobbed.

Under the leadership of grassroots officers, the defenders swarmed back to their positions along the footpath, with swords, spears and spears standing everywhere like a city upon a city.

Hong Fan followed closely beside the car. The heartbeat in his ears was faster than the steps under his feet. Every beat shook his whole body along his arteries.

Linche is two hundred steps away from the city.

Hundreds of crossbow and shield soldiers scattered in front.

Hong Fan saw the red flag on the turret waving in the wind, and many different tones sounded in the city.

They shouted the same word.

[Fire arrows. 】

Within a few breaths, the roar of arrows followed each other like a tidal wave.

There was a scary clicking sound on the wooden board approaching the car.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of stones rose from the back of the city.

Taking advantage of the space filled in the past few days, the Tianfeng Army demolished large areas of residential buildings to use as positions, and at the same time built dozens of artillery carts using beams and columns as materials.

The flying rocks crisscrossed each other, hitting only one person out of ten, creating a crisp and dull death.

War proves itself with blood, what is the ultimate violence?

Linche is a hundred steps away from the city.

Hong Fan can no longer hear his own heartbeat.

He just felt like a scroll exploded in front of him, squeezing into his field of vision with an irresistible gesture.

The shouts of people, the roar of flying objects, the collision and destruction of wood, stone, metal, flesh and bones...

This is heard.

The smoke from military boots, the black smoke from incomplete combustion of tung oil, the rolled flag, the splashed blood...

This is seen.

Countless things were happening every moment, and an overdose of information filled his mind.

Hong Fan couldn't think anymore and just followed the giant weapon, focusing on deflecting the stone bullets with flying sand.

The city is near.

On the east side, Gu Yixin was holding a gun in front, trying to get to the city in one step, but was intercepted by a double-headed star shuttle.

Tang Shengwang stood high on the turret with his eyes closed tightly, and behind him there were three Hunshenjing arrayed to help him.

On the west side, Qiu Yuankui's eyes gathered a ray of light, and he hit the city head with pure yang energy from a distance, but was blasted by Li Xiqi's wind knife.The car is thirty steps away from the city.

The cannon stones are slightly sparse and the arrow rain is denser.

The heavy city guard crossbow fired on the horse wall and penetrated the side planks of the third layer of the car body.

Hong Fan didn't hear anyone's voice, but saw scarlet flashes inside the box and his cheeks were slightly warm.

He was startled, and then a cloud of sand rolled up.

Within a radius of ten feet, everything remains dim and yellow.

"Listen to my orders!"

Hong Fan roared, becoming the only voice around Lin Che.

"Thirty steps forward!"

The deserted sand is like a curtain, cutting off the shooting sight of the city and the chaos and noise on all sides.

The infantry marched in unison under Hong Fan's call, and after ten or twenty breaths, they heard the sound of a heavy object squeezing.

Pick up the city by car.

In the city and in the car, people's hearts were beating with fright.

There was a moment of dead silence.

"Let me board first!"

Later, Zuo Junjun Hou Pujian, who was on the fourth floor of Linche, burst out shouting.

The heavy armored soldiers on the third and fourth floors who ascended the battalion first put down their visors.

The ordinary soldiers further down chewed the ghost kings distributed in advance.

The sand and fog dispersed.

The wooden bridge on the fifth floor of the car connects to the city head.

The first to take action was the Tianfeng Army.

At the first moment, four soldiers held iron pots and poured boiling tung oil on the roof of the car.

Almost as soon as the hot oil splashed, the fired rockets and thrown torches arrived.

The roof of the car "soared" with an air explosion, exploding into golden flames.

Then there is the killing method "breathing wind" from "Xiaoyao Yin" by the Tianfeng Army officer.

The fire took advantage of the wind and actually burned the roof of the car covered with wet mud into a sea of ​​flames.

Everything has been rehearsed.

"Extinguishing!"

Pu Jian shouted, leading several soldiers of the Penetrating Realm up the fire and covering the passage with a thick cloth filled with water.

At the same time that the carriage bridge connected the city, Hong Fan walked up to the city from three feet away.

People are like dragons leading the way, and sand is like the wind chasing after them.

When he stepped onto the battlement, the people and the sand became one, and he had already put on his sand armor and raised it up two feet.

Two spears pierced his ribs.

Hong Fan ignored it and used brute force to cut it off.

The burning sand was thrown, destroying three people at once.

Two warriors in heavy armor pressed forward and were knocked down by sand shells.

Hong Fan was about to clear the city when he suddenly heard the roar of the wind.

The sand armor suddenly thickened and received a five-liang weight four-edged armor-piercing arrow.

This is just the beginning.

On the multi-story turrets higher than the city wall, the defenders deployed intensive long-range firepower.

Most of them are mortal crossbowmen, and a few are warriors holding steel bows.

The arrows rained down, making Hong Fan feel substantial pressure.

Even more sharp and difficult to get rid of is the flying sword of the Tang family warrior.

Sand fog rises.

Immediately, it was forcibly blown away by the "breathing wind".

For a time, Hong Fan had no choice but to fight against the defenders with long-range attacks, and the life star's true essence dropped almost like a flood.

In the next city section, the second approaching car was leaning against the wall.

The heavy armored soldiers marched up to the city with their shields on their backs, but the road they faced was still not smooth.

Outside the arrow formation, many five- to six-foot-high movable wooden walls with rollers were erected from both sides, creating temporary partitions at the top of the city...

At the Yum Victory Army position, the artillery carriage adjusted its angle and fired again.

The attackers desperately pushed up the city wall, and the defenders also refused to retreat.

Half past noon.

Thick smoke rose into the sky from the battlefield.

The rays of the scorching sun poured over the city like molten iron.

Under the influence of various different drugs such as stimulants, inhibitors, and hallucinogens, the soldiers of both sides were like machines made of flesh and blood, fighting together fearlessly.

(End of this chapter)