#2025 - Your death is approaching.

“Qi Zhenshan, bring out a few miniature Divine Spirit Ships.”

“Master.”

Qi Zhenshan’s palm shimmered with light, and several hazy small boats appeared, which he respectfully handed to Jun Wuxie.

“Wan’er, Lingfei, Shuyuan, each of you take a Divine Spirit Ship.

When the war starts, you will be responsible for patrolling all the attacked sections of the city walls, and provide support wherever it is needed.”

After saying that, he summoned Lanlan and instructed the little fellow with the same words.

Lanlan looked like she hadn't woken up yet. It took her a few breaths to react to his words before she excitedly patted her chest with her small paws, “Iiya, will definitely complete the mission!”

Rumble!

In the distance, the sound of the earth shaking became clearer and more intense.

Looking into the distance, smoke and dust billowed, sweeping across the sky, like dark clouds sweeping over, shrouding the entire Jade Mountain City in gloom.

Gradually, the flood of the Langya army appeared in sight.

The number was impossible to estimate.

Because the full view of the Langya army could not be seen at all.

The front of the Langya army had already reached the edge of the battlefield, but the rear was densely packed, extending who knows how far.

They stopped.

In the middle of the countless Langya troops, there were several chariots, with many people standing on them.

Either half-step Heavenly Gods from the Langya aristocratic Wang family, or half-step Heavenly Gods from the Lanling Royal Mansion. Among them, one person was suspected to be the commander of the Langya army.

“Lanling Emperor, Minister Yue, you have been allowed to hide in Jade Mountain City and eke out an existence for half a year.

Today, it is time to settle accounts with you!

Now, my eighty million Langya soldiers are pressing down on the border. Your Jade Mountain City will be as vulnerable as a pile of dirt.

I advise you to open the city and surrender as soon as possible, bind your arms, wear shackles, and come out of the city to beg for forgiveness, and perhaps you will be spared death!”

The commander of the Langya border army’s voice was like thunder, coming from afar, echoing in the sky above the battlefield.

“A bunch of worthless rabble, how dare you speak wildly, you are nothing more than defeated soldiers!

In the battle half a year ago, you left behind seven million corpses and millions of wounded soldiers, fleeing in disgrace and without dignity. It seems that you have selectively forgotten.

I must say, you Langya army really know how to comfort and fantasize yourselves, hahaha!”

Qi Zhenshan retorted sharply, every word cutting open the Langya army’s bloody scars like a blade.

The Langya army commander and generals were so angry that their faces turned livid and they trembled all over.

“Qi Zhenshan, you ignorant fool!

Since you still want to be stubborn, then my Langya army will trample over this Jade Mountain City, slaughter all the residents of this city, and turn Jade Mountain City into a ghost town!”

After the Langya commander finished speaking, he drew out his sword with a clang and pointed it forward: “Charge! Trample over Jade Mountain City and kill the Lanling Emperor!”

“Kill!”

Rumble.

Hundreds of thousands of Langya troops roared, their battle cries soared into the sky, shaking the wilderness, rushing towards the Jade Mountain city walls like a flood.

The same scene was also playing out on the corresponding battlefields of other defended sections of the city wall.

For a time, on dozens of sections of the city wall, the rune war machines shone brightly, continuously firing rune crossbow bolts.

The soldiers and generals controlling the war machines quickly moved the direction of the rune war machines, frantically bombarding the area outside the city in a fan shape.

These rune war machines had long been filled with ten thousand rune crossbow bolts.

In the past six months, the Ministry of Works of the Imperial Capital had transported tens of millions of crossbow bolts.

Even if the crossbow bolts of the rune war machines reached a firing speed of ten bolts every breath, there was no need to worry about the shortage of crossbow bolts.

Boom—

Everywhere on the battlefield where each section of the city wall was located, there were shock waves formed by exploding energy, like heavy bombs exploding.

Although the Langya army was trying their best to dodge, trying to avoid the bombardment of the rune war machines.

However, the firing speed of the rune war machines was too fast.

It was impossible for them to completely avoid it.

On the battlefield, with the roar of explosions, there were screams.

A large number of Langya troops were blasted into mincemeat by the energy shock waves, or their corpses were incomplete.

Even the Langya troops who were relatively far away from the explosion point of the rune crossbow bolts suffered heavy damage.

“Don’t panic, pay attention to dodging. As long as you rush to the front of the city wall, they will not be able to shoot!”

The thunderous voices of the Langya army's various commanders echoed on the battlefield.

They were both shocked and angry.

They originally thought that they already understood the power of the strange and terrifying rune war machines.

But they did not expect that when they attacked the city last time, the defending army of Jade Mountain City did not show the strongest power of this war machine.

At that time, its rate of fire was far less than it is now.

“Archers, prepare to volley!”

On the city wall, the defending generals issued orders.

Immediately, the archers, who had been ready to go, launched a round of overwhelming arrow rain at the Langya army that had broken through the bombardment of the rune war machines.

Arrow rain, round after round.

Even if the Langya army raised their shields to resist, many people were still hit by arrows.

The entire battlefield was filled with screams.

Boom!

In the sky above the battlefield, densely packed boulders came crashing through the air.

The boulders burned rune energy, forming energy shock waves, and smashed towards the defending soldiers on the city wall.

The defending soldiers fired arrows while dodging.

The defending generals waved their spears and knocked the boulders down from the air.

“Charge! Take down Jade Mountain City and trample over the frontier fortress of the Lanling Dynasty!”

The Langya army generals who had already rushed to the front of the city wall waved their spears.

The Langya army behind them roared, took out siege ladders, placed them on the city wall, and climbed up frantically.

But they found that the difficulty of climbing the city wall was several times higher than last time.

The gravity suppression of this city wall was too terrifying, making them feel very heavy.

The defending soldiers on the city wall used spears as long as ten meters to stab down.

These spears were all specially made and very sharp.

The Langya army was about to climb up, and then they were stabbed down.

Outside the entire city wall, the Langya army kept falling from the siege ladders like dumplings.

Their weapons were far from reaching the length of the defending army's weapons.

Some Langya generals, stepping on the siege ladders and resisting the stabbing of the spears, wanted to forcibly rush up, but were knocked down by the defending generals.

For a time, the attacking and defending sides entered a stalemate.

Although it was difficult for the Langya army to climb the city wall and suffered heavy casualties, their generals did not blink their eyes.

This was only the first batch of attacking troops, and there were many more batches preparing behind them.

They wanted to see if the defending army of this Jade Mountain City was made of iron and could last for how long.

With so many of them, they could exhaust them to death.

The entire defending army of Jade Mountain City added up to only two million.

And they had arranged forty million troops for this attack on the Jade Mountain City defense alone!

The purpose was to concentrate superior forces and forcibly break through this frontier town known as the Steel City Wall!

The Langya generals commanded the army to attack the city in an orderly manner, while also having people send the wounded soldiers back to the rear of the army.

They used a decentralized strategy to transport the wounded.

Usually, one person would take two wounded soldiers, with a certain distance between each other.

In this way, they avoided the bombardment of the rune war machines.

Since the first batch of attacking Langya troops had all rushed to not far from the city, they had exceeded the closest attack distance of the rune war machines.

Therefore, the rune war machines could no longer bombard these attacking Langya troops.

They could only choose to bombard the Langya troops who were transporting the wounded soldiers.

Even if they were very scattered, shooting like this seemed to be a waste of rune crossbow bolts.

However, the generals controlling the rune war machines did not hesitate to issue the shooting order.

Each rune war crossbow bed had prepared hundreds of thousands of rune crossbow bolts, so there was no need to consider whether the consumption was high or wasteful for the time being.

Seeing that the defending army was actually using war machines with great power to bombard their retreating wounded soldiers.

The Langya generals' faces were extremely gloomy, and they were so angry that they almost vomited blood.

They really weren't afraid of wasting them!

Were there many of those special rune crossbow bolts with such power?

How many of those rune crossbow bolts did Jade Mountain City have?

… …

The section of the city wall where Jun Wuxie was located was the central city gate of Jade Mountain City facing the Lanling Dynasty, and it was also the largest main city gate.

Since there were no rune war machines here, it faced the greatest pressure.

The mighty Langya army continuously rushed to the city wall from the siege ladders.

The defending soldiers stabbed frantically, but it was difficult to stop them all.

In many places, the Langya army almost climbed up.

Jun Wuxie waited quietly.

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more critical.

At this time, intelligence from other fortress points arrived.

He and Qi Zhenshan stood in front of the war sand table, pointed to some fortresses on it, and said: “Quickly have these fortresses transfer one-quarter of their soldiers over!”

“Yes!”

The people who came to report the situation from each fortress immediately left on Divine Spirit Ships.

The fortresses he chose were all those where the Langya army's offensive was relatively weak, and the number of Langya troops attacking each point of the fortress was relatively small.

Even if one-quarter was transferred, it would not put pressure on the defense of those places.

“Kill!”

Many Langya troops had already rushed to the city wall, including mid- and low-level Langya army generals.

“Quickly kill them!”

Seeing this, Jun Wuxie took the lead, his body like a swift wind, pulling up a trail of afterimages.

A cyan-gold battle spear was sacrificed and thrown out violently.

Clang!

The Dragon Roar Battle Spear emitted a loud dragon roar.

The Azure Dragon on it seemed to come alive. As the battle spear charged, all the Langya troops were penetrated along the way. Even the Langya generals were instantly killed.

He did not flick out sword waves to attack, because the sword waves swept across, it was an indiscriminate attack, and it would inevitably hurt his own people.

Wherever the Dragon Roar Battle Spear went, all the enemies on that hundred-meter route died.

Runes bloomed under his feet, following the battle spear.

When the battle spear's remaining power was exhausted, he reached out and grabbed the spear shaft and continued to charge.

His speed was extremely fast, moving at supersonic speeds. The city walls stretching for dozens of miles were breached by him in just ten breaths.

The defending soldiers were greatly encouraged by this!

However, under the continuous attacks of the Langya army, the defenders were constantly engaged in high-intensity combat, resulting in severe exhaustion.

Fortunately, soldiers were soon transferred from various fortresses and arrived.

They quickly replaced the greatly depleted defenders, while the original defenders quickly took pills to recover.

At the edge of the battlefield, the Langya commander watched this scene and couldn't help but sneer.

"Alternating defense, but you still only have so many people.

Even if you transfer people from other fortresses to support you, so what?

Let's see how long you can last!"

He was extremely confident.

The battle lasted for a long time, and the first batch of Langya troops began to retreat, having suffered more than half casualties.

The second batch of Langya troops launched an attack, giving the Yushan City defenders no time to breathe.

Relying on their tenfold numerical advantage, they took turns attacking Yushan City.

Thus, the war continued until the seventh day.

Although the death rate of the Yushan City defenders was extremely low, there were many wounded.

Many soldiers had to fight with injuries.

Those with more serious injuries were carried away by the logistics and rescue teams spontaneously organized by the people to heal their wounds.

As the battle became more and more intense and lasted longer and longer, the number of Yushan City defenders continued to decrease.

On the Langya army's side, those half-step Heavenly Gods had no intention of taking action.

They just watched quietly, their cold eyes piercing through the sky, staring at the city walls.

After continuously attacking the city for seven or eight days, the defenders of Yushan City were very tired.

They could all see that.

And in these days, that person surnamed Yue had hardly rested, and had been going back and forth on the city walls, killing the soldiers on their side who climbed the walls.

Although those soldiers were far weaker than the person surnamed Yue.

However, the person surnamed Yue was constantly consuming energy, and was definitely not at his peak state now.

"Your death is near."

A sneer appeared on their faces.

The reasons for not taking action until today were, firstly, to exhaust the target's energy, and secondly, to wait for him to take the initiative to leave the city, so as not to step into the traps he had set up and fall into his tricks.

According to the current situation, the defenders were already exhausted.

The person surnamed Yue was also very clear that if this continued, Yushan City would inevitably fall.

The only way to change the situation was to leave the city and capture and kill their main general.

They believed that the person surnamed Yue would definitely make such a choice.

"Master, the soldiers are severely exhausted. If this continues for another two days, I'm afraid..."

Qi Zhenshan said pantingly, having killed Langya soldiers climbing the city walls all the way, arriving beside Jun Wuxie, his armor covered in blood.

"Woo woo—"

The sound of the Langya army's retreat horn rang out on the battlefield.

Immediately, the fourth batch of attacking Langya troops retreated like a tide.

Jun Wuxie looked outside the city, where the corpses of the Langya army were piled up like mountains under the city walls, and the blood had gathered into rivers.

"I know, don't worry."

Jun Wuxie's gaze pierced through the sky, locking onto the Langya army commander.

"Quickly, let the soldiers go down to bandage their wounds, and let the resting soldiers come to replace them!"

Qi Zhenshan said to the deputy general beside him.

"Woo—Woo woo—"

Not long after, the sound of the Langya army's attack horn rang again.

This was the fifth batch!

"Kill!"

The earth-shattering cries of battle resounded through the sky. At the edge of the battlefield, hundreds of thousands of Langya troops swept in like a tide.

"Jingyi, lead the elite troops out of the city to meet the enemy!"

"Okay!"

Nalan Jingyi's face, body, and hair were covered in blood.

Hearing Jun Wuxie's words, she immediately gathered the elite troops with Feng Ling and others, and gathered under the city gate.

"Wan'er, Lingfei, you go with Jingyi!

Remember, don't kill those half-step Heavenly Gods, just seriously injure them.

What we need now is not a complete victory, but to prolong the war."

Jun Wuxie knew very well that if they left the city at this time, a large number of half-step Heavenly Gods would definitely attack Jingyi.

Because in these days, most of the half-step Heavenly God realm Langya generals from other routes had gathered at the edge of this battlefield.

Other battlefields were difficult to break through, but this was the most promising place to break through.

Moreover, he was here, and Nalan Jingyi was also here.

The Wang family's and Xiao family's half-step Heavenly Gods were all here.

"Lanlan, Shuyuan, you will kill out of the city with me later to capture the Langya border army commander!"

"Iya~"

The little guy came to him and sat down beside him, licking his hand with his tongue, looking sharply at the army rushing in outside the city.

"Have you used your control-type divine power these days?"

Jun Wuxie stroked its head.

"Iya, no~"

Lanlan shook her head, looking well-behaved.

Jun Wuxie nodded and said nothing more.

This was his request to Lanlan, asking it not to use control-type divine powers, so as not to cause a sense of crisis to other dynasties, thereby making him the target of public criticism.

Now was not the time to fully confront other dynasties or aristocratic families.