#2018 - War Begins
Borderlands, Jade Mountain City.
Jun Wuxie spent many consecutive days explaining the Holy Battle Art and the path of cultivation to the soldiers.
When he returned from the various military camps, Nalan Jingyi, Feng Ling, and the ten Phoenix Guards had completely refined the forbidden resources of the gods and broken through the forbidden realm of the gods.
In the past month, their strength had greatly improved.
Not only did the breakthrough in the forbidden realm of the gods bring a multiple increase in strength, but the improvement of cultivation methods and the increase in the power of supernatural secret techniques also brought an increase in strength.
This increased their overall comprehensive combat effectiveness by one level.
In the days that followed.
Jun Wuxie spent his days honing their combat awareness.
Either he would have them join forces to besiege him, or he would have them fight him one-on-one.
They constantly comprehended skills and accumulated combat experience in battle.
At night, he would accompany Jingya's secondary body.
Thus, as time passed, their combat awareness improved rapidly.
Every day they would be covered in wounds from the battles.
Jun Wuxie was not soft-hearted at all.
Whether it was Nalan Jingyi, Feng Ling, or the ten Phoenix Guards.
Every day they would be tortured to the point of near death. By evening, they were usually covered in injuries.
At that time, he would stop, send them life essence to repair their injuries, and then have them recall the day's battle process in their minds, digest and absorb it, and comprehend from it.
On the sixtieth day since they came to Jade Mountain City on the frontier.
A low horn sounded on the watchtower atop the mountain range outside the city.
Suddenly, the entire Jade Mountain City became tense.
The defending soldiers all climbed onto the city walls.
"Quickly send someone to notify the fortresses that the Langya army is preparing to attack the city!
Tell the fortress generals that they must hold on no matter what. The fortress must stand as long as the person is there. We must never let the Langya army break through any of our defenses!"
Qi Zhenshan issued military orders.
Before long, a rumbling sound came from the distance.
In the area along the border, the entire sky became gloomy.
Dark clouds appeared in the sky there, moving towards Jade Mountain City.
As time went on, the rumbling of the earth became more and more heart-shaking, as if the entire mountain range was roaring.
"Master, Emperor, General, the Langya border army has mobilized its entire army!
The army is heading straight for us, and judging from its size, it is close to two million!"
A junior general came to report.
"Understood, step back."
Qi Zhenshan and the others looked solemn and felt a little nervous.
Although there were rune war crossbows, the garrison here only had two million soldiers, scattered along the long city wall defense line.
Each section of the city wall defense line only had tens of thousands of soldiers, but they had to withstand the impact of hundreds of thousands of Langya troops.
Although he had been in many battles, he had never fought a battle with such a disparity in the number of troops.
"Don't be nervous, stay calm.
Feng Ling, accompany Jingyi to the military camp and lead the elite of the 100,000 elites to prepare to rush out of the city to kill."
"Yes!"
Feng Ling and Nalan Jingyi had already put on their battle armor, and so had the ten Phoenix Guards, looking heroic and valiant.
"Qi Zhenshan, have people move the war sand table to the city wall. You will now follow me to the city wall."
"Yes, Master."
Qi Zhenshan signaled his subordinates to move the sand table away, and then followed Jun Wuxie out of the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion.
Inside the city, countless people walked out of their homes.
They each carried out the stretchers they had prepared and came to the area near the city wall.
When Jun Wuxie and the others arrived at the city wall, they could already see the shadows of the Langya army on the horizon.
However, they could not see the whole picture, because the Langya army attacking Jade Mountain City had already divided into dozens of routes, advancing towards Jade Mountain City from the land between the mountains.
As the Langya army moved, the earth shook, and the rumbling sound echoed endlessly between the mountains, its momentum soaring into the sky and smoke filling the sky.
Finally, they stopped more than ten miles away from the city wall.
The whole world was quiet, and the dust raised gradually dissipated.
The Langya army, covered in blood-colored armor, revealed its full appearance.
The metal armor on their bodies gleamed with a cold golden luster in the morning sun, tinged with blood, like a torrent of steel.
"Lanling Emperor, I advise you to open the city and surrender, and do not resist stubbornly!
Your Jade Mountain frontier district has only two million troops, which is difficult to contend with my Langya army.
If you are a qualified emperor, you should not watch your soldiers die in vain.
Open the city and surrender, and my emperor will spare your life and will not kill you, but will only imprison you.
At least, you can save your life.
Otherwise, wherever my Langya army's iron cavalry passes, we will surely flatten your Jade Mountain frontier and leave corpses everywhere!"
"Shut up! What level are you at to deserve to talk to my emperor and come here to clamor!
Listen up, you Langya troops, you are nothing but a bunch of chickens and dogs.
How dare you speak wildly, wanting to break through my Jade Mountain frontier? What are you!"
Qi Zhenshan's voice was like rolling thunder, sweeping across the world outside the city and echoing between the mountains.
"Looking for death! An isolated Jade Mountain County dares to challenge my Langya army.
Since you are so stubborn, my Langya army will have to use your blood and corpses to tell you how weak you are!
Three armies, listen to the order, start attacking the city!"
The Langya army general raised the sword in his hand and pointed it at Jade Mountain City.
"Woo—Woo woo—"
In the Langya army, the war horn sounded, thick and desolate.
Rumble!
The Langya army in front scattered to both sides, and a large number of catapults were pushed out from behind, as well as siege crossbows, densely packed.
They pushed the catapults and crossbows forward for about several hundred meters.
"Release!"
In an instant, thousands of catapults launched huge rolling stones.
These rolling stones were not ordinary stones, but were burning with rune light, instantly breaking through thousands of meters of sky and accurately hitting the Jade Mountain city wall.
"Kill!"
The Langya infantry generals roared, leading their subordinates and soldiers to rush towards the city wall like a torrent of blood-colored steel.
Such scenes were played out on every section of the city outside, separated by mountains.
For a time, beacon smoke billowed, killing surged into the sky, and the sound of charging shook the earth.
Boom—
One after another, rune-burning boulders fell on the city wall of Jade Mountain City, smashing the city wall's defense runes to burst.
Even with the defense runes, stone chips still splashed on the surface of the city wall.
The soldiers on the city wall kept dodging, and the archers pulled their long bows and launched a round of volleys at the outside of the city.
The arrows made a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and the rune light on the arrows was brilliant.
In order to ensure that the archers could continue shooting, the infantry soldiers joined forces to resist the rune boulders, and some were shocked to the point of vomiting blood.
Outside the city, the Langya infantry advanced rapidly.
They held up their shields and moved forward against the rain of arrows.
Although the shields blocked most of the arrows, some of the arrows' impact still caused some of the Langya army's shields to tilt, exposing their bodies and being pierced by the arrows.
Faced with the Jade Mountain City defenders' counterattack, the Langya army was constantly dying.
However, this rate of damage was not large, and it was nothing for the astonishing number of Langya troops.
"Master, should we fire the rune war crossbow arrows?"
Qi Zhenshan couldn't help but ask as he watched the densely packed Langya army about to hit the city wall.
"Not in a hurry."
His main intention was to leave more people for Nalan Jingyi to lead the army out of the city to charge and kill, in order to enhance her imperial prestige.
......
The earth-shattering shouts of killing resounded throughout the heavens and earth.
The Langya army rushing in the front had already arrived under the city, and they took out siege ladders from their Najie, placed them on the city wall, and climbed up frantically.
Because the city wall was engraved with runes, there would be a gravity effect within a certain range from the city wall.
This made it impossible for the Langya army to jump directly from the ground to the city wall, so they could only use siege ladders.
They climbed very fast.
The defenders on the city wall immediately waved their spears and stabbed down.
One after another, Langya troops fell from the ladders, and those behind continued to climb up.
As time went on, the city wall was piled with the corpses of Langya troops, and they still did not gain the slightest advantage.
The Langya army's commander frowned.
It could be seen that the number of defenders in Jade Mountain City was seriously insufficient, far less than he had expected.
It seemed that they had been transferred to other fortresses for defense.
However, such a small number of Jade Mountain defenders actually caused them to suffer a lot of losses, and they did not gain any advantage at all.
The casualties of the Jade Mountain defenders were actually much smaller than their casualties.
Although the casualties of the attacking side were originally much larger.
However, that was based on the situation where the Jade Mountain City defenders were of the previous scale.
How many Jade Mountain City defenders are there now, less than one-tenth of them.
Under such circumstances, they were still able to achieve such a high casualty ratio.
"Bastard! When did the Jade Mountain City defenders become so brave!
Come, all the remaining infantry except for the cavalry, press them all up!
Taking advantage of the emptiness of the Jade Mountain City defense and the serious shortage of troops, we must strive to take it down for me, so as to avoid a protracted war and greater consumption in the future!"
"Yes!"
Several Langya generals led their subordinates to launch an attack.
The battlefield here is located outside the middle city gate of Jade Mountain City, which is the widest section of the dozens of defense lines.
Here, the number of siege troops sent by the Langya army was close to one million.
Except for 200,000 elite cavalry, 100,000 archers, and 50,000 catapult operators, the remaining nearly 600,000 were all infantry.
In the first round, they sent only a few hundred thousand siege infantry.
At this time, the remaining 400,000 infantry were all dispatched.
"Rune war crossbows, prepare!"
Jun Wuxie looked at the scene outside the city and issued an order to Qi Zhenshan beside him.
Qi Zhenshan immediately gestured to the general guarding the rune war crossbow.
Seeing the gesture, he immediately ordered his men to adjust the firing angle and distance of the ballista.
"Fire!"
Following the general's command, with a loud boom, the rune war ballista erupted with dazzling light.
Swish, swish, swish!
Rune-covered bolts shot out one after another.
In an instant, the world's vital energy was completely devoured by the bolts.
It could be clearly seen that the vital energy rushed madly towards the bolts, causing the entire space to tremble slightly.
"Quick, dodge!"
The main general of the Langya army saw the bolts shoot out from afar, instantly devouring the world's vital energy. His heart leaped, and a bad premonition arose, and he shouted like thunder.
Boom!
The rune bolts landed in the attacking Langya army, instantly exploding, and the energy wave swept out. Within a radius of tens of meters, all the Langya soldiers were blown away, letting out miserable screams.
Especially the Langya soldiers closest to the firing point of the bolts, were instantly blasted into mincemeat by the energy.
Even those on the edge of the impact range coughed up blood, and the blood-colored armor on their bodies shattered.
One after another, rune bolts continuously landed in the Langya army, the roar of explosions continued, and patches of energy impacted outwards.
The Langya army suffered heavy casualties, and the military formation was in chaos.
"Keep your distance, spread out, don't panic, keep rushing forward!
As long as you rush to the bottom of the city wall, their bolts will not be able to pose a threat to you!
The soldiers who have reached the city wall, focus your fire on the location of the ballista!"
The main general of the Langya army's voice was like thunder, echoing on the battlefield, commanding the siege army.
"Catapult troops, lock onto that ballista for me, use the catapults to suppress them, don't let them fire any more bolts!"
For a time, the sky was covered with boulders smashing towards the area where the rune war ballista was located.
Those boulders fell like burning fireballs.
"Go, block the boulders, ensure the normal firing of the rune bolts!"
Qi Zhenshan said to several Extremely High God Realm generals under his command.
Those generals rushed over, waving their battle spears, shattering or shaking away the falling rocks.
At this time, no less than 300,000 Langya infantry had rushed to a distance of one thousand meters outside the city.
Jun Wuxie immediately transmitted his voice to Nalan Jingyi, signaling her that she could leave the city.
"Open the city gate!"
It was Nalan Jingyi's voice.
Rumble!
The heavy divine iron gate opened amidst the roar.
Nalan Jingyi drove the rune chariot, leading the elite of the 100,000 elite troops out of the city gate.
"Soldiers, follow me to charge and kill, defeat the Langya bandits!"
Her voice carried the majesty of an emperor, her aura was full, and she drew her battle sword with a clang, rushing to the front.
Feng Ling and the Ten Phoenix Guards were also on the chariot with her.
"Kill!"
The 100,000 elite troops' battle energy was interconnected, like a torrent sweeping across the earth, following her towards the Langya infantry.
Soon, they engaged in close combat with the Langya infantry.
Nalan Jingyi and Feng Ling and others waved their battle swords on the moving rune chariot, charging and killing all the way into the middle of the Langya infantry.
The Langya infantry did not expect the Lanhai Emperor to lead troops to charge out at this time.
Seeing him so brave, they couldn't help but be thrown into chaos for a time.
Seeing this, the main general of the Langya army immediately stopped them, which stabilized the Langya infantry and fought with the 100,000 elite troops.
"Lanling Emperor, you are really seeking your own death, you even dare to leave the city!"
The commander of the Langya army attacking this road sneered, he turned to several people wearing Langya battle armor beside him and said: "Everyone, the Lanling Emperor has come out, now it's up to you strongmen from the Lanling Royal Mansion."
"He will undoubtedly die!"
Those people said coldly, then one of them jumped from his mount into the high sky, and then quickly fell, and then jumped into the high sky again.
Jumping up and down like this, they quickly arrived at the battlefield and directly launched an attack on Nalan Jingyi.
Seeing this, Feng Ling waved her long sword, and the sword energy crisscrossed, cutting off the route of the two strongmen rushing towards Nalan Jingyi.
Then, she left the chariot and fought fiercely with the two strongmen.
On Nalan Jingyi's side, she faced a Half-Step Heavenly God Realm strongman alone.
Soon, the Langya commander sent several more True God Absolute Heaven Realm strongmen to join the battlefield, impacting the elite troops of Jade Mountain City, but they were blocked by the Ten Phoenix Guards.
...
After a period of time.
"Report! The Seventh Fortress, the 393rd defense line has suffered heavy casualties. The Langya army, several times larger than us, is attacking in turn. The soldiers on the defense line have no danger to defend, and they are fighting to the death without retreating. Now, more than 30% of them have been killed or injured!"
"What?"
Qi Zhenshan's face was ashen, how could the Langya army divide so many troops to attack the 393rd defense line?
He was about to transfer troops from other fortresses to support.
Jun Wuxie stopped him and said: "Immediately send someone to move the rune war ballista here over!"
"Yes!"
Qi Zhenshan ordered two important generals under his command to personally take the rune war ballista to the front.
"Master, without the rune war ballista, here..."
"It doesn't matter here, with me here, let alone a million troops, even if a few million more come, it's useless."
He said calmly, his eyes focused on the scene of Nalan Jingyi and others fighting with the strongmen disguised as the Lanling Royal Mansion on the battlefield.
Although the people from the Lanling Royal Mansion put on the Langya army armor, he could see the Human King True Qi at a glance.
