The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1113: 1108th: Darkest
Chapter 1113: The Darkest
“Quick! Stones! Stones! Kerosene! Quick!” the Xiliang soldiers shouted loudly.
Fortunately, Sar Khan was foresighted. When the city was besieged, he had people make preparations and brought up all the things that could be used to resist the siege.
However, the shields were slanted above the heads of several people, not only blocking the arrows from the wall, but even the stones thrown from the wall could not do any harm to them. They could only make the shields slide down two or three inches, and then get stuck on the rivets embedded in the gaps in the wall, and the stones also rolled down from the inclined surface of the shield.
The soldiers of the Shuoyang Army at Niujiao Mountain cooperated well with each other, and their upward momentum was not strong but steady.
The Xiliang soldiers poured the burning kerosene, and it fell through the gaps in their shields onto the soldiers. Some soldiers were set on fire and fell from the sky before they could put out the fire on their bodies. Some of the flames burned the protective ropes, but this did not stop the Da Zhou soldiers from climbing the city wall. Instead, it made the soldiers speed up. They gritted their teeth and roared, ready to rush up to fight a decisive battle with the Xiliang Army and the Tianfeng Army.
Bai Jinzhi, who was standing at the front on horseback, saw the soldiers springing up from the base of the city wall like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. They climbed higher and higher and had already occupied half of the city wall. He gritted his teeth, raised the red tasseled spear in his hand high, his eyes were red, and his voice was loud and deafening: “Soldiers of the Great Zhou! The brothers of the Shuoyang Army have cleared the way for us. In this battle, we must take Pingdu City within half an hour! Kill!”
As soon as Bai Jinzhi finished speaking, he rushed out first.
The soldiers raised their swords and the sound of killing shook the sky.
The first batch of soldiers from Niujiao Mountain of the Shuoyang Army had already rushed to the top of the city wall and started fighting with the Xiliang Army and the Tianfeng Army. They also threw down a ladder for the soldiers who were rushing over to climb up the city wall.
The ladders were also pushed to the front of the city wall, and more and more soldiers of the Great Zhou rushed into the city.
Bai Jinzhi’s bravery and willingness to take the lead in rushing to the city wall greatly inspired the soldiers.
Bai Jinzhi knew that the more giant elephants she killed here, the easier it would be to defeat her fifth brother later. She ordered her soldiers to charge into the city, occupy the high ground on the city wall, and open the city gates!
In the place that was so slippery from being trampled and polished by the soldiers that it was impossible to stand, she had prepared a big gift for the elephant army of Tianfeng Kingdom, so what they had to do when they climbed up the city wall was to occupy the high ground and disperse and force those giant elephants out of the city.
Sar Khan did not expect that the speed of the Great Zhou’s siege would be so fast, so fast that they did not even have time to prepare.
The speed and strange way in which the Shuoyang Army soldiers climbed the city wall were something that Tianfeng Kingdom and Xiliang had never seen before. They were greatly shocked and inevitably began to feel like retreating.
Seeing how the Shuoyang Army advanced steadily and quickly and climbed the city walls with a minimum of casualties, and seeing the bravery of King Gao Yi of the Great Zhou, the soldiers of the Great Zhou became as brave as if they had drunk chicken blood. They climbed up the city walls and fought bloody battles with the soldiers of the Tianfeng Kingdom and Xiliang at all costs, their bodies covered in blood… they were blood-thirsty!
Just as their majesty said, all of them… have no way out, behind them are tens of thousands of people of the Great Zhou! They are their relatives, wives and children!
If they don’t want the war to extend to the territory of the Great Zhou, they must destroy the enemy on the territory of Xiliang!
When their comrades fell beside them, they picked up their swords, bows and crossbows and continued to fight, including their comrades’ shares, just hoping to kill a few more enemy soldiers before they died, so that in the future… fewer people in the Great Zhou Dynasty would die!
They are the elite warriors of the Great Zhou. When in danger, they should bravely stand in the front of the people of the Great Zhou and use their lives to protect the safety of the people of the Great Zhou, no matter what powerful enemies or giant beasts they face!
They lit the kerosene prepared by the Tianfeng Kingdom and poured it on the giant elephant. The archers desperately shot the elephant army with rockets. The giant elephant, whose body was on fire, screamed and roared as it collided with the surroundings, knocking down houses and tents on the long street and spreading flames everywhere. The soldiers of the Tianfeng Kingdom and Xiliang were affected and rolled around. Wherever the flames touched… that place was ignited, and the fire in Pingdu City became bigger and bigger.
A giant elephant with fire on its body rushed towards the city gate like crazy, and knocked open the heavy gate of Pingdu City in one go. It rushed out of the city gate with fire and roaring, and then slipped and rolled on the ground in the snow.
Although Pingdu City is large, because elephants are afraid of cold, the Tianfeng Kingdom brought all of its precious elephant troops into the city to avoid the wind and snow, making the city seem extremely crowded.
It was also because the Tianfeng Kingdom had never had an enemy in the past hundred years. There was no winter in the land where their Tianfeng Kingdom was located… and no one had ever dared to actively attack a city with elephant troops, so they had never considered bringing all the elephant troops into the city. If they encountered an attacking elephant army that swarmed towards the city gate, no one would be able to get out, and even the city walls would be shaken.
The bone whistle that could command the elephant army sounded, but the elephants, whose large areas of their bodies were covered in flames and burning, were completely out of control. Only the elephants whose bodies were not yet stained with kerosene or… the flames had been extinguished, obeyed the command of the bone whistle and lined up to the south gate of Pingdu City.
The soldiers of the Great Zhou only seized the city walls and did not rush down to fight. They frantically shot at the elephant army with arrows and crossbows. The stones and kerosene that Sar Khan had sent to the city walls to resist… became the weapons that the soldiers of the Great Zhou who had already occupied the city walls used to deal with the Xiliang Army and the Tianfeng Army that were forced down the city walls, and even the elephant army that was not ready to retreat.
Sar Khan was greatly surprised. This was an enemy that Tianfeng Kingdom had never encountered before. He heard that the Great Zhou had a special force that could climb up the city wall at a very fast speed and was not afraid of attacks from stones and crossbows. He wanted to go and take a look, but was pulled by the Great Witch’s disciple to sit on the giant elephant…
The retreat route of Tianfeng Kingdom is south of Danshui River, so now Tianfeng Kingdom can only rush out from the south gate.
The North Gate…has been breached by the Great Zhou!
At the south gate, the Tianfeng Kingdom sent out its elephant army to fight with the Yan army guarding the south gate of Pingdu City, vowing to fight their way out.
Sitting on the giant elephant, Sar Khan was ready to break through the south gate and charge out at any time, with his fists clenched tightly, feeling frustrated… and angry, never before had he felt so strong.
He looked up at the dark night sky with tiny snowflakes floating in it, and wanted to ask the gods why they treated the Tianfeng Kingdom in this way, as the Tianfeng Kingdom was his most loyal believers.
He really wanted to give the order right now, turn around and attack Pingyang City, capture Bai Qingyan alive, force her to tell him the whereabouts of Yu Chan, and then kill all the Zhou pariahs in front of Bai Qingyan!
But he didn’t dare…
The fear and respect of the Tianfeng people for the gods have been deeply rooted in their bones since ancient times, especially… since the gods brought down punishment and allowed the desert to swallow up the land of Tianfeng, the Tianfeng people’s awe and fear of the gods has reached its peak.