The system asked me, a weak woman, to challenge a saint

Although the defenders were determined, they were ultimately unable to defeat the army of puppets who had superior quantity and quality. After two hours of bloody fighting, the eight hundred defenders suffered heavy casualties, more than half of whom were killed. They were eventually besieged in the outer city by a steady stream of puppet warriors who poured into the city walls.

Although Li Zhong was determined to die with the enemy, he would not make unnecessary sacrifices. Under his command, the defenders strived to maximize the kills of the enemy while reducing their own casualties.

When the puppet army once again broke through the gap in the city wall and the defenders were unable to block it, Li Zhong decisively issued an order for the guerrilla array to temporarily abandon air operations and go all out to cover the contraction and retreat of the contradictory array.

This decision caused the guerrilla array to withstand concentrated attacks from the air by elite soldiers and lost a lot of combat power. However, it successfully gathered the scattered forces in one place and built a stronger defensive formation.

Li Zhong led the remaining defenders to retreat to the most well-preserved defensive building in the outer city, which was the core of the outer city formation. Although the city defense formation had been completely destroyed, the core of the formation was luckily preserved. Although the spirit gathering formation was affected, most of the nodes were still close to the core, so it could still maintain normal operation.

The buildings outside the core of the formation are still well preserved, and the medium-sized defensive formation is still struggling to maintain operation. The previously injured soldiers have been transferred here for centralized treatment. There are many spare formation materials scattered in the building. Several formation masters are busy using these resources to urgently arrange several small formations to assist defense.

When they retreated to the core of the formation, the defenders' three guerrilla formations and two contradiction formations were completely wiped out. Together with the scattered remaining soldiers, there were only less than 300 people left.

What is even more heartbreaking is that while Li Zhong was covering the retreat of the troops, he unfortunately encountered two Nascent Soul Realm people who came to investigate the situation in the city. Under the fierce attack of these two puppets, all Li Zhong's guards were killed, and Li Zhong himself was seriously injured and fell into a coma. Fortunately, a commander turned around and risked his life to save him, and he survived.

Fortunately, the two hundred households did not continue the pursuit after annihilating Li Zhong's team, and the commander mistakenly thought that what he brought back was only Li Zhong's body. However, after entering the core of the formation, the medical staff were surprised to find that Li Zhong was still alive.

As more than three hundred defenders retreated into the core of the formation, the defensive strength was significantly enhanced. Although the puppet army surrounded the core, the defensive formation in the core area, protected by the shield formed by the spiritual power provided by the spirit gathering array, and supplemented by the long-range interference and attack capabilities of the small auxiliary formation, made the puppets no matter what Attacking from the air or on the ground cannot easily break through this line of defense.

The two hundred households once tested the defensive power of the core of the formation. However, after finding that it was solid and difficult to shake, they no longer wasted energy and chose to leave the city to return to their lives.

The puppets who attacked the outer city comprised a queue of twenty hundred people. They suffered few losses before breaching the outer walls. Once inside the outer city, however, each cohort suffered varying degrees of casualties.

The puppet generals were not surprised by this kind of battle situation. They understood that the defenders of the Jin Dynasty were engaged in a trapped beast fight within the outer city wall, and their forced attack would inevitably lead to considerable casualties.

In the previous battles, several military generals had paid a huge price to imbue their spells and spiritual arrows with the power of law, which caused serious losses in their spiritual and physical strength. After all, this is just the outer city of a military town, and it is impossible for them to continuously use such high-end methods. In addition, they were also worried that the high-level monks would fall into the enemy's trap, so they could only send puppet soldiers to carry out a strong attack.

Although these generals' spiritual consciousness had already clearly investigated the situation in the city, they were still uneasy, so they ordered hundreds of households in the army to investigate the situation in the outer city in detail. It was precisely because of this that the two hundred households had to bite the bullet and enter the outer city. After eliminating a group of resisting monks, they tried to attack the core of the formation. After finding that it could not be broken, they sent this information back to the main camp.

There was no trap, and this conclusion plunged the puppet generals into deep suspicion.

Since no new orders have been sent from the camp, and enough soldiers have poured into the entire outer city, although they cannot attack the core of the formation for the time being, they have surrounded it and the air. As long as the people If the puppets are willing, even if it rains heavily, not a drop of water will fall into the core of the formation.

The time has reached the second quarter, and there are still no new orders from the puppet camp, so the puppets continue to besiege the core of the formation.

The defenders in the formation tried their best to resist the siege of the puppet army. Li Zhong was still in a coma. Because his injuries were too serious, the doctors did not have any precious medicinal materials in their hands, so they could only watch his vitality gradually disappear.

Outside the outer city wall, there are still hundreds of puppet soldiers on standby. For the army of puppets, the dilapidated buildings in the outer city have become useless, and they have no interest in connecting. The reason why they are on standby is because there were already a thousand soldiers before. The remaining people surrounded the core of the formation.

Although there were not many soldiers outside the city, hundreds of families chose to stay here. They already have a deep understanding of the strength of the defenders and know that they can eliminate the remaining defenders without taking action personally. Their mission is to look for possible traps and ensure that no one can take advantage of them.

The resistance of the monks in the outer city was so weak that the hundreds of households almost lost interest in attacking. They have already begun to make detailed plans on how to conquer Gaoping Military Town, and are only waiting for the final order from the camp.

, At this moment, the two generals responsible for spiritual consciousness exploration in the human puppet camp suddenly felt that their spiritual consciousness was strongly suppressed. A powerful and unfamiliar spiritual consciousness suddenly cut off their exploration of the outer city. Since the monks' spiritual consciousness usually covers all directions, once the spiritual consciousness in a certain direction is blocked, it means that the entire scope of exploration is greatly reduced.

The two generals immediately reported the situation to the puppet commander. Almost at the same moment, Chen Subaru held the Liangyi Heavenly Ice Sword, fell from the sky, and blended into the crowd of people outside the city wall.

He learned this move from the three Qian Boss who had previously raided Lin Yue's formation. In order to enhance concealment, Chen Subaru cleverly used a Yin and Yang gate when approaching the spiritual detection range of hundreds of households. When the white portal suddenly appeared in front of them, before the hundreds of households had time to react, Chen Subaru burst out of the portal like an arrow from a string, striking the enemy by surprise.

Before rushing into the black gate, Chen Subaru had already accurately targeted all the puppets in the Nascent Soul Realm with his extraordinary divine consciousness. Then, he cleverly adjusted the exit direction of the white door so that he could rush straight towards the crowd outside the door as quickly as possible. Before the enemy could make any reaction, the Liangyi Tianbing Sword in Chen Subaru's hand had already flown out, drawing a thrilling arc.

The twelve hundred households in this arc didn't even have time to let out a scream, but their heads were in different places, and their Nascent Souls were shattered.

Driven by inertia, Chen Subaru rushed a distance of more than two hundred feet before finally stopping. He turned around and met the Liangyi Tianbing Sword that flew straight back after killing the enemy general.

At this time, the remaining six hundred households recovered from the shock. They looked at the twelve corpses around them, and a chill rushed from the soles of their feet to their foreheads, making them shiver.