Daqin: I, Fusu, can summon the undead

Chapter 75: Another Battle at Yanmen Pass

Amid the sound of drums, the coalition forces pushed the wooden city wall and stopped three hundred steps away from Yanmen Pass.

Standing on the high platform behind the wooden wall, Li Mu looked at the densely packed undead on the frozen wall of Yanmen Pass and immediately ordered: "Prepare the catapults, kerosene, and crossbows!"

"Get the kerosene ready for the catapult! Get the crossbow ready!"

When the messenger received the order, he immediately ran quickly in the army and repeated Li Mu's order loudly.

As the order was given, the coalition soldiers operating the catapults and crossbows behind the thick wooden wall quickly put jars of kerosene into the catapults and put crossbow arrows on the crossbow strings.

The gentle drumbeats began to accelerate.

"put!"

As Li Mu gave orders, the orders were quickly transmitted among the troops.

Behind the wooden wall, the prepared catapults and crossbows were all fired in an instant.

Thousands of jars of kerosene flew up from behind the wooden wall with flames, and flew towards Yanmen Pass in a parabola.

From a distance, it looks as spectacular as a flaming meteor shower.

On the wall of Yanmen Pass, looking at the kerosene flying in the sky, the shield soldier skeletons stood still and raised their shields.

Thousands of jars of kerosene were smashed onto the ice-covered city walls and into the pass, kerosene splashed everywhere, and orange flames quickly spread on the city walls and in the city, and the raging flames enveloped the undead.

"Throw rocks to fight back!"

Looking at the fireballs flying outside the city, Odebiao gave the order.

In the pass, the undead placed pieces of ice as big as millstones onto the heavy catapults. Then, pulled by the skeleton beasts, hundreds of ice blocks weighing 200 to 300 kilograms flew out of the pass and smashed towards the coalition army outside the city.

Although Fusu was not allowed to take the initiative to attack, he was also required to actively defend.

While the coalition forces outside the city were preparing, Odebiao was also actively preparing, including the manufacture of more than 300 heavy catapults.

This catapult can throw huge rocks and ice blocks weighing 300 to 500 kilograms over a distance of 600 steps. In terms of weight and distance, it is far superior to the existing catapults in the Central Plains.

Millstone-like ice blocks kept hitting the wooden wall, making it bang. From time to time, the sound of wood breaking could be heard, and broken ice and wood chips kept splashing.

The Allied soldiers behind the wooden wall were all very nervous when they heard the banging sounds.

More ice blocks flew directly over the wooden wall and smashed into the coalition forces lined up in the rear.

These ice blocks were as powerful as cannonballs. When they fell on the mud outside the pass, the mud could splash more than ten meters high.

Seeing the huge ice blocks flying, the allied soldiers tried to dodge them, but they were still hit or scraped by them. They would die if they were hit, and they would be disabled if they were touched. The broken ice blocks were as dangerous as bricks and stones.

"Catapult, switch to catapult!"

"Crossbow, fire!"

Li Mu looked at the Yanmen Pass city wall covered in flames and immediately gave orders again.

Following the messenger's quick steps.

The catapults no longer threw kerosene, but instead threw bowl-sized stones.

Tens of thousands of huge rocks hit Yanmen Pass like hail.

Then, thousands of crude crossbow arrows flew up from the back of the catapults, whistling towards the walls of Yanmen Pass. Yanmen Pass, in the raging fire, the shield soldier skeletons raised their shields again to block.

For a moment, the shield was smashed with a bang.

The crossbow arrow shot directly through the shield of the shield soldier skeleton.

A skeleton soldier was shot through the head, and the skeleton soldier next to him immediately picked up the exposed soul flame and devoured it.

As they swallowed the soul fire, some skeleton soldiers even began to advance, and mottled black spots began to appear on their white bones. This was the phenomenon of ordinary skeletons advancing to black bone skeletons.

"Humph!"

Odebiao casually caught a crudely made crossbow arrow that was shot at him, snorted coldly, and immediately ordered: "Crossbows fire back!"

Following Odebiao's order, a large number of crossbow arrows were also shot from Yanmen Pass towards the coalition forces outside the pass.

The two sides were separated by a distance of more than 300 steps, and they continued to shoot stones and crossbow arrows at each other.
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On the other side, Qin, Chu, and Wei jointly gathered 105 million troops and stationed them at Yiqu Pass, with veteran general Wang Jian commanding 60 and Chu general Xiang Yan commanding 45. This was the first time the two of them fought together.

Outside Yiqiu Pass are 150 million undead led by the giant corpse warrior Badwan.

Faced with the undead with superior military strength, the Qin, Chu and Wei coalition forces inside Yiqu Pass did not dare to act rashly, let alone go to the Hetao Plain to fight against the undead who would not get tired. They just confronted the undead across the pass, waiting for more reinforcements to arrive.

Badawan did not attack Yiqiu Pass, but led his troops to watch from afar, waiting for Fusu's order.

"Wang Jian, you have had a lot of contact with the undead, do you have any strategy to defeat the enemy?"

On the city wall of Yiqiu Pass, Xiang Yan looked at the overwhelming number of undead on the plain in the distance, turned to Wang Jian and asked.

"No!" Wang Jian shrugged very simply. "These undead don't get tired, don't get exhausted, don't need to rest, don't need to sleep, don't fear death, ignore pain, in short, you can't fight them in close combat, otherwise you will probably get stuck in the quagmire, so the best way is to attack from a distance!"

"Attack from a distance!!!" Xiang Yan was speechless when he heard this.

They were inside the pass, how could they attack the undead from a distance? Now the undead were only five miles outside the pass, and the city gate was only that big. If they went out to fight, the undead would probably take the opportunity to attack the city.

"Why don't we send troops to launch a surprise attack?" Xiang Yan suggested.

"That's impossible!" Wang Jian rejected Xiang Yan's proposal without hesitation. He said, "The undead don't need to sleep, nor do they get tired. They are always ready for battle."

At this point, Wang Jian pointed to the eagles circling in the sky and said again: "You see those eagles in the sky!"

"What's wrong with those eagles?" Xiang Yan asked puzzledly while looking at the eagles in the sky.

Wang Jian's face was solemn. He said, "Normal animals would have fled long ago when facing the undead. Those eagles are scouts of the undead. Our every move is known to the undead. If we want to send out special forces for a surprise attack, I'm afraid that as soon as the troops are sent out, the commander of the undead will have already planned how to eat our special forces."

"How the hell are we going to fight this!" Xiang Yan was speechless. The enemy was only five miles away from the city, and the enemy cavalry could rush out of the city in just a quarter of an hour. It was unrealistic to fight outside the city under the current circumstances. If he wanted to send a surprise attack, his every move would be under the enemy's watch.

"Make more arrows, prepare more food! Wait for the situation and reinforcements!"

Wang Jian simply uttered twelve words.

He was sure that Fusu would pacify the Western Regions first before launching a large-scale attack on the Central Plains.

If Yiqiu Pass wanted to take the initiative to attack, it would have to wait until attacks from other directions made a major breakthrough before it would have a chance.

Otherwise, defending instead of attacking is the best option at the moment.

But it was obvious that the undead outside the pass had no intention of attacking. They just stood across the pass and confronted the coalition forces at Yiqiu Pass. They were obviously also waiting for the outcome of the war in other directions.

(End of this chapter)