empire wars

Chapter 150 Northern Qiang Allied Army
In the early morning of the next day, the siege horn sounded and the rumbling sound made the towering city walls shake like an earthquake.

Giant catapults approached slowly, and behind them were archers holding Bailian crossbows and Qilin bows.

And, one hundred Tianyi sharpshooters.

"attack!"

With an order, at a distance of 300 meters from the city wall, arrows and flowing stones flew towards the city wall.

The soldiers defending the city who were gathering were attacked fiercely.

Suddenly flesh and blood flew everywhere, and blood splattered everywhere.

"Despicable and shameless!"

Yu Zhan heard that the enemy army was coming to attack the city again, so he quickly came to the top of the city, and when he saw this scene, he cursed loudly.

"Counterattack counterattack, a bunch of trash!"

Yu Zhan scolded angrily.

"General, our arrows are not far enough to attack them."

All of them smiled wryly.

The siege army took advantage of the equipment to launch ultra-long-range attacks on the defenders, but they couldn't even counterattack.

"Trash, where's the catapult?"

"General, the catapults on the top of the city were all destroyed by the enemy yesterday, and the new catapults have not been dismantled yet."

"Then why are you still standing there, quickly dismantle it and move it to the top of the city, and quickly assemble it to fight back!"

"The enemy has begun to attack the city again."

Soldiers came hastily.

In the city lord's mansion, all the masters looked out of the window, without the soldiers notifying them, the rumble of flowing stones had already spread throughout the city.

"Don't worry, the enemy can't break through the city wall, and they will never be able to enter the city."

Yu Benzhi looked normal, as if he wasn't worried at all.

"Yu Zhoumu, how were the casualties yesterday?"

someone asked out loud.

"Yeah, you have to tell us some facts, so that we don't even know the strength of both sides."

Someone else echoed.

There was a big battle yesterday, and the entire Liangzhou city was in a state of battle, and the transfer of military power was in the hands of Benzhi. The others could only cooperate and act without knowing the overall situation of the battle.

"Our side lost 2 people."

Looking at the eager gazes, Yu Benzhi said indifferently.

"Where's the enemy?"

"Rough statistics, around [-]."

"How come there are more casualties than the enemy?"

"The enemy army came well prepared. They have all the siege equipment, bows, crossbows, and arrows. They also have the famous Tianyi marksmen. Their overall strength is one level stronger than our army."

Speaking of this, Yu Benzhi didn't continue talking.

In fact, Yu Benzhi did not tell them the real situation.

If you tell them that in yesterday's battle, more than 3 people were lost in the battle, while the enemy's battle loss was less than [-], I am afraid that half of the people here will have the idea of ​​surrendering.

Not to mention the upcoming food crisis, as well as the ordnance and other resources in the city, nearly half of which was consumed by the First World War yesterday.

Even, the Killing God Army rushed to the top of the city several times, advancing a distance of more than ten meters.

If it weren't for the general defenders of the city fighting, the strong men cut off their wrists, and directly used heavy shield soldiers to push the soldiers down the city wall indiscriminately, I am afraid that the city wall would have already fallen.

Even so, it is still extremely difficult to defend the city wall.

All of this can only be borne by Ben alone. If outsiders know about it, it will definitely cause panic.

"I have decided to enlist the able-bodied men in the city today, and the number is tentatively set at [-]."

Yu Benzhi said solemnly.

When the rest of the people heard this, they all nodded. This is the only way now.

In fact, Yu Benzhi also wanted the families to send private soldiers, but after thinking about it, he gave up this idea.

Private soldiers are a taboo for every family, unless you have to, you must not violate them.

Unless, Yu Benzhi has the power to suppress the overall situation.

It's a pity, Li Shide is from the Li family, so it would be great if he was a natural martial artist from the Yu family.

I'm afraid that if he gave an order, everyone present would dare not to obey.

In the current situation, although each family is very obedient on the surface, it is because the fundamental interests of each family have not been touched.

If they wait until the moment of life and death, who knows what they will do.

I am afraid that it is very possible to take Yu Benzhi's head on the spot and surrender to the army outside the city.

"In times of crisis, each family will bear some of the food and weapons needed."

Yu Benzhi looked at the faces of each family, and continued. "In addition, we have already contacted Beiqiang, and there is a possibility of further cooperation."

Among them, many people's faces became very ugly.

Previously, the Northern Qiang, Anxi, and Korean coalition invaded Western Yongliang Prefecture, captured many counties, and destroyed many big families.

Some families that escaped by chance moved to Liangzhou City with their entire family. Although not all of them died, their property shrunk significantly.

Even the local families in Liangzhou City had their interests greatly affected.

These days, I have been living on my laurels.

Finally, as the big family of the Lie Han royal family, they treat the Northern Qiang people with a barbarian mentality.

Cooperating with the Northern Qiang people is undoubtedly self-deprecating.

For them, it is better to seek refuge with Qin Yuan.

"Okay, this is the end of the matter, there is no way out."

Yu Benzhi said decisively, not giving others a chance to speak.

At the same time, someone passed on the Northern Qiang envoy.

There are two Northern Qiang envoys, representing the An family and the Han family respectively.

In the hall, people mainly belong to Yu Ben's lineage, chatting with him, while other families just watched with cold eyes, or in other words, now that Yu Ben's family is the dominant one, other people have no chance to intervene at all.

"Finally, the eldest prince still has another worry, that is, Bai Qi, the general under Qin Yuan, is an innate warrior, and our clan has no strength to contend with it."

Han's envoy looked at Yu Benzhi and said. "I heard that you have an innate agreement, which can prevent the enemy's innate combat power from participating in the war. Now that we have reached cooperation and jointly deal with Qin Yuan's forces, I don't know whether the innate agreement is effective for our clan."

"This... I will try my best to fight for you."

Yu Benzhi hesitated for a moment.

The Anhan envoys looked at each other after hearing the words, but their attitude became hesitant.

Among the two clans, there is no combat power like innate warriors.

Therefore, we can only pin our hopes on Liangzhou City.

If Bai Qi, an innate warrior, cannot be restricted, then the reinforcements that the An-Han coalition forces can provide will inevitably be greatly reduced.

After all, it was Bai Qi's participation in the battle on the border of Jincheng County, and the [-] Northern Qiang Army was completely wiped out without the slightest resistance.

"Then let's wait for the good news from the state pastor."

An Han envoy left at the same time.

Yu Benzhi's face was gloomy, he sat for a while, and left without saying a word.

Others looked at each other in blank dismay, some sneered, some gloated, and some smiled helplessly.

At the same time, some people looked at the person in the corner. He was a descendant of the Li family and held an important official position.

The Li family, Li Shide, has always been neutral and impartial, but this has also led to the consequence that Liangzhou City cannot support itself.

If Li Shide could help out when the Northern Qiang-An-Korean coalition forces attacked Xiyong Liangzhou, the ending might change drastically.

After Yu Benzhi left, he went to find three innate warriors.

The three of Xia Yuanfeng stay together, one is to supervise each other, and the other is to unite as one, only the three of them can fight against Bai Qi together.

"I can't help you with that."

After hearing Yu Benzhi's request, Li Shide could only sigh and shake his head.

In fact, Li Shide didn't want to participate in the turmoil of this war. No matter who wins or loses, there is no benefit or harm to the Li family and himself.

In particular, the Li family is just a newly promoted family with an unstable foundation, so joining one side rashly will cause trouble for the upper body.

At his level, there is no shortage of glory and preciousness, and he only hopes that the Yu family can be passed down from afar.

As for betting on the power of one of the princes like other innate warriors, it has to be said that the newly promoted Li family is not yet able to participate.

The struggle in the world is a piece of cake full of temptations. The division of interests is often accompanied by crisis. If you are not careful, the whole family will be destroyed.

"Brother Li, since the Northern Qiang people are cooperating with Yuzhou Mu, they belong to the same camp, and naturally fall within the scope of the innate covenant."

It was Wei Zhaowen who spoke up. "It seems that the family of the Liehan Dynasty ranks first, and I am willing to help you, just to prevent Liangzhou City from falling into the hands of thieves."

With Wei Zhaowen's attitude, it seems that he stood on his own and was hostile to Qin Yuan.

Xia Yuanfeng looked around at the few people, and continued to close his eyes and meditate, thinking that it was nothing to do with himself, hanging high.

Li Shide and Yu Benzhi were stunned for a moment.

When Yu Benzhi heard this, he was very happy and expressed his gratitude again and again.

After leaving, he immediately found the envoy of An and Han, and discussed the matter of fighting with the Northern Qiang Allied Forces against Qin Yuan's army.

The war on the second day lasted until late at night.

However, the siege party carried out a long-range attack and bombed for a whole day, and less than a hundred people were injured.

On the side defending the city, at least tens of thousands of soldiers were pierced by thousands of arrows, and died of falling stones.

It was night, and the city guards were cleaning up the corpses on the battlefield. Broken arrows, gravel, morale was low, and there were even many gossips circulating.

The military camp twenty miles away from Liangzhou City.

Qin Yuan led the Kirin Legion to arrive.

"I have heard about the Taishan Covenant."

Qin Yuan frowned, "I just didn't expect them to appear at this time."

"Because the lord's rise is too fast, the major families in the Central Plains are vigilant, and they use the Taishan Covenant to limit the expansion of the lord's power."

Zhu Gemo said.

"Meet with them first, and then discuss the final siege strategy."

Qin Yuan pondered.

Now that he has exchanged all his luck points for special soldiers, Liangzhou City will definitely capture them to replenish his luck points, and no one can stop him.

If these three people really don't know what is good or bad, then Qin Yuan will not care about the Taishan Covenant, and first take Liangzhou City by force.

As for the sanctions imposed by the Taishan Covenant, at that time Qin Yuan was already at the peak level of innate combat power, plus Bai Qi Mengtian, all the special elite arms, even the Tiandaozong at its peak, dared to fight, and was afraid of internal division Serious Tarzan Covenant.

When Bai Qi went outside the tent, he saw that he was heading towards Liangzhou city, unleashing his aura of innate power.

After a while, three lights and shadows pierced through the void and descended on the barracks.

"Three, my lord is here to invite you."

Bai Qi looked at the three of them and said, and quickly flew into a tent below.

"What a big shelf!"

Wei Zhaowen said dissatisfied.

Thinking that they are dignified innate warriors, they are guests everywhere, but who would have thought that Qin Yuan would summon them in this way.

"After all, he is a new prince, so it's not surprising that he is a little arrogant."

Xia Yuanfeng said softly, "This time, we are for the Taishan Covenant, not to provoke a war between the two sides."

While speaking, his eyes fell on Wei Zhaowen.

Wei Zhaowen's behavior is obviously stimulating the two sides to enter into an endless hostile trend.

Especially supporting the Northern Qiang-An-Korean coalition forces made the war intensify.

Of course, as neutrals, Xia Yuanfeng and Li Shide also did not interfere with Wei Zhaowen's actions.

"Ha ha."

Wei Zhaowen chuckled.

The three of them landed, and immediately felt a series of sharp gazes coming towards them.

Three hundred Tianyi sharpshooters holding dark golden longbows, two hundred Qinglong Yulin soldiers riding on dragon horses, and two hundred black wolf imperial cavalry sitting on black wolves.

Seven hundred eyes fell on them at the same time, which actually put a pressure on them.

"This"

The three of them were secretly shocked that these 700 people were all acquired martial artists.

If it is real combat strength, it is at least equivalent to seven warriors in the innate realm.

Thinking of this, the three of them acted cautiously, and their dissatisfaction with Qin Yuan disappeared.

With such a strong elite army, a bit of arrogance is worthy of this strength.

Entering the tent, seeing the majestic Qin Yuan, the three of them had different feelings in their hearts.

"Seniors, please sit down."

Qin Yuan pointed to the chair next to him.

After the three of them sat down, Xia Yuanfeng spoke first, introduced his identity, explained the purpose of his visit, and explained the rules of the Taishan Covenant.

Xia Yuanfeng is the guardian of the Taishan Covenant, a casual cultivator who roams the world, and does not belong to any party.

Li Shide is a member of a semi-reclusive family in Liangzhou City, but he has repeatedly emphasized that he himself belongs to the neutral camp and does not take sides.

The last Wei Zhaowen was sent by a family from the Central Plains. Although he was also the guardian of the Taishan Covenant, he came with the task of disturbing the situation in Xiyong Liangzhou.

"Why in Youjiang City, the Taishan Covenant did not restrict King Nanjing."

Qin Yuan raised a question.

"This matter is complicated. The battle in Youjiang City broke out very suddenly, and it was not known in advance that King Nanjing had broken through to the innate realm. Therefore, the innate covenant of the Taishan Covenant did not restrict those kings of Nanjing. These innate warriors."

Xia Yuanfeng explained, and at the same time reminded Qin Yuan. "Of course, King Nanjing's fate was not easy. He became the enemy of all the aristocratic families. The Xuanbing Sword Sect that Xuanying belongs to was rejected by the whole world. I just hope that no one will follow in his footsteps."

In that battle, the King of Southern Jing attacked and killed the leaders of the princes of all parties, which not only aroused Yuan Ao and Zhuge Hui's fury at the time, but also became the enemy of all the aristocratic families afterwards.

The same is true for Xuanying, now he can only be tightly tied to the Nanjiang King, the entire Xuanbingjian sect's disciples have been besieged by people from the Jianghu, and now they only dare to walk in the territory of Nanjiang Jingzhou.

As for Feng Dai who died in the battle, not many people pursued him. After all, death is the most important thing. At the same time, Feng Dai was a lone cultivator with no powerful background behind him.

Therefore, after the outbreak of that war, the members of the Taishan Covenant attached great importance to it.

Among the princes present at that time, almost all of them were invested by innate warriors.

If that fell in one battle, what's the use of revenge afterwards.

Therefore, in order to prevent this scene from happening again, the members of the Taishan Covenant gathered again to re-establish the innate covenant, so that the warriors with innate power on all sides should restrain themselves and not easily attack the princes and leaders.

After all, behind the powerful princes of one side, there is not one or two innate warriors.

If everyone did this, seeing the rising power of the princes of the other side, and sending innate warriors to kill the leaders of the princes, wouldn't the whole world be in chaos.

Of course, there is also a reason for restricting Qin Yuan.

(End of this chapter)