Chapter 253 The fall of Beifeng

   “Alas”

  A sigh sounded softly, and Xu Yuan knew the meaning of Li Qingyan’s words very well.

  From the moment the barbarian army detoured south of the city, the fall of Beifeng City was already doomed.

  When it falls, it does not depend on the determination and morale of the defenders, but on how much the barbarians are willing to pay for the northern closure of the city.

  If you want to change and break the situation, you can only fight an eternal battle in which you win more with less.

  Li Qingyan did this, but failed.

  The barbarian king is not Sun Shiwan.

  Although Li Qingyan gained a lot during this trip, given the absolute difference in military power, even the barbarians would lose twice as much as them. This trip is considered a failure.

  The statistics file after the war records that there are about 60,000 battle-ready soldiers left in Beifeng City.

  But the problem is that most of the 60,000 soldiers are second-line frontier troops with only eight or nine ranks of cultivation. The two real elites in the city have been disabled in the decisive battle in Nancheng.

  The more serious situation is far more than that,

  Nowadays, there is a shortage of source crystals in the Great Formation of Beifeng City and the moat of the city, and the formation patterns in the South City have been completely destroyed.

  In silence,

  Xu Yuan suddenly understood Li Qingyan’s plan:

   “Are you going out of the city to show weakness to the enemy?”

   “Not all.”

  Li Qingyan sat on the table behind him, raised his white chin, looked at the high beam of the barracks with his phoenix eyes, and said in a leisurely tone:

   “My son-in-law, you have to prepare both ways for marching and fighting. If this trip is successful, the siege of Beifeng can be solved. If it fails, it can also cause great damage to the barbarian army, making them afraid to fight again.” Pay a higher price and forcibly attack the city.”

  Nowadays, the Beifeng City does not have the protection of a large formation. The barbarians only need to continue to bombard the city with those powerful trebuchets in the distance, and they can take down this city without bloodshed, which prevents them from going south. The giant city of Beifeng for thousands of years.

  Being able to take down this remnant city of Beifeng without bloodshed by time, the barbarian king will naturally not waste his troops to attack in vain.

  And Li Qingyan wanted this result.

  If the barbarians really waited so long, the high-level cultivators she sent to Dali Mountain for help would be enough for Wu Chenghou and Zong Qingsheng’s class teachers to come back for help.

  At that time, there will be a “cloud energy bomb” to disperse the blizzard, and the entire barbarian army will be a turtle in the urn.

  Silence spread in the barracks, Xu Yuan suddenly said quietly:

   “That being said, my act of detonating the ‘Cloud Qi Bomb’ in Houting County really ruined your plan, Qingyan.”

  His behavior shocked the snakes, and let the barbarians know this killer move in advance.

  After learning that the blizzard in Houting County was scattered by Dayan’s astronomical weapon, and the elite of the sect began to go south, the barbarian king had only one desperate choice.

  Regardless of the loss, continue to storm the ruined city of Beifeng, occupy Beifeng before the arrival of the Zongmen elite, and completely block the 700,000 elites of Dayan in the snow field.

  Li Qingyan did not mean to blame:

   “My son-in-law, you also did something bad with good intentions. The barbarian king should not dare to go to the battlefield after being seriously injured. If the military strength in the city is properly dispatched, it is not difficult to hold those barbarians for two days, but This time, there is a high probability that these barbarians will not be able to be wiped out completely.”

   paused,

  Li Qingyan stared at Xu Yuan, pursed his lips and smiled: “Okay, follow me to the inner wall of the city, I need to show a stable military spirit over there.”

  The Habayashi barracks was much empty. The soldiers who had been patrolling the camp had disappeared, and only a few generals and orderly armored soldiers were running among them to deliver orders.

  Out of the camp, Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan rode a steed along the empty avenue towards the city wall.

  The catapults of the barbarians continued to bombard everything in Beifeng City.

  The white snowflakes are like catkins falling silently from the sky, disturbing and not stained with dust, and gently falling on the ruins.

   All the way through, Xu Yuan was silent all the way.

  Horses step on the snow, leaving a hoofprint on the road.

  Some people were crying for help in the ruins, but no one paid any attention.

  A warrior was held down and tortured away under the pursuit of the Zongmen frontier army because he did not want to go to the city wall to fight against the enemy.

  There is a young man sitting beside the ruins with a numb face.

   There are also frontier soldiers who shuttle through the ruins to rescue the people.

  When the word war falls on the top of a person’s head, it is the weight of Mount Tai.

  The two of them drove their horses across a street, and when they arrived in Nancheng, Xu Yuan frowned involuntarily.

  The battlefield here is still not cleaned up.

  Corpse

  Bodies large and small, complete or mutilated.

  The surrounding area of ​​the city wall has been cleared out and the open space is filled with the corpses of Beifeng defenders. The white cloth is no longer enough with this amount. The bones of these soldiers were covered so that they would not be directly exposed to the air.

  Xu Yuan originally thought that he should have adapted to this kind of picture, but every time he saw it, he still couldn’t help but make waves in his heart.

  A few hours ago, they were probably still laughing and cursing with their comrades, talking about where the service of the courtiers is better, and if they can survive and pay the military salary, they will go to have fun together.

  After a few hours, they became cold corpses that would never speak.

  War

   “Consort.”

  Li Qingyan’s voice suddenly came from beside him.

  He heard the words and looked back.

  She looked at the bones of these soldiers, but her voice was calm:

   “You remember what you said under Beifeng City.”

  Xu Yuan lowered his eyes, nodded slightly, and spit out three words:

   “Never forget.”

  Tombstone

  Establish a monument for these people who died in battle.

  No matter what happens in the future, at least at this moment, they are all dying for the great inflammation.

  The words fell, and the two of them didn’t speak anymore.

  The arrival of Li Qingyan soon caused waves among the soldiers.

   Not only the Habayashi Army, but even the soldiers of the frontier army of many sects showed a little excitement in their eyes.

  A place like the army is very complicated, but it is also very simple to say, especially in this extraordinary feudal dynasty.

  Soldiers always have a different kind of admiration for brave generals, not to mention Li Qingyan, a royal princess who is a nobleman.

  And,

  In this moment of darkness and confusion in the future, they need a “god” as their spiritual sustenance.

  As the person who personally cut off the barbarian general flag and one arm of the barbarian king, Li Qingyan became the “god” they needed in their hearts.

  As the snow on the sky is getting bigger and bigger, the soldiers’ field of vision is getting smaller and smaller.

  As time goes by every minute and every second,

  With the large formation unable to maintain it, most of the high-level disciples of the sect took the opportunity to flee, and also took away part of the high-level combat power in Beifeng City.

  However, Li Zhaoyuan perfectly completed Li Qingyan’s explanation to him.

  Beifeng City, which had been nearly paralyzed after a fierce battle, resumed operation under his methodical dispatch.

   Not only warriors, but even many ordinary people in the city were mobilized under the organization of his prince.

  Scheduling source crystals to charge the formation, a cart of defense equipment was pulled out of the storage, and then sent to the city wall, the armor of the dead soldiers was stripped off and distributed to the knights who were temporarily recruited Dart line warriors.

  The progress of preparations for the entire Beifeng City is orderly under the governance of Li Zhaoyuan.

  But unfortunately, time is still not on their side.

  The time left by the barbarians to Beifeng City was not enough for Li Zhaoyuan to completely mobilize the army and civilians in the city.

  Among the blizzard, the sky was as dark as ink, and the alarm bell rang suddenly and long above Beifeng.

  The barbarians started their siege again.

  First night,

  The barbarian army began to aggressively attack the southern city wall that was not guarded by a large formation. About 70,000 chivalrous regiments and bodyguard warriors were thrown into the battlefield in batches, and the southern city wall was completely turned into a millstone of flesh and blood.

  The second day,

  After a night of hard work, these recruited warriors were replaced by the city wall due to excessive losses.

  Li Qingyan personally led the mixed Habayashi Army and Black Scale Army, repelling several barbarian attacks.

  However, due to the shortage of soldiers, even Li Qingyan’s army formation was unable to maintain the long city defense line of Beifeng Nancheng.

  At two o’clock in the application time, Li Zhaoyuan sent the final reserve team and was thrown into the battlefield in the south of the city.

  The second day into the night,

  Li Qingyan ordered the bones of soldiers to be burned to prevent them from becoming barbarian rations.

  After half an hour,

  The northern and southern city walls were completely lost, and the barbarians occupied the top of the city and began to spread around.

  Until now, the battle in Beifeng City has completely entered street fighting.

  Using the crossbows issued to them and relying on the formations of various military camps, the large-scale chivalrous regiments and bodyguards struggled to block the progress of the barbarians in the blizzard.

  But these resistances are so futile under the absolute military strength gap,

  Before midnight, the entire southern city was completely lost, and countless tall barbarian soldiers poured into the city like a tide along the beastly road.

  After two hours,

  The soldiers of the barbarians arrived at the heart of Beifeng City, the Beifeng government office.

  At dawn on the third day, Beifeng government office was destroyed.

  The remaining defenders in the city were forced to abandon all other blocks and retreat to the final northern city, relying on the formation of the two giant barracks of the Black Scale Guard and Lingshui Palace for defense.

  The barbarian army was blocked and unable to attack for a long time, trying to directly attack the north city wall from the east and west walls, encircling all the defenders in the city.

  At this moment, Li Qingyan ordered the opening of the defense formation that had not been activated for two days, blocking the barbarian army’s attempt to make dumplings.

  So far, the war has temporarily reached a stalemate.

  The wind and snow are swaying, and the wind is blowing everywhere.

  Standing on the north city wall, Li Qingyan looked down at the entire Beifeng giant city with cold eyes.

  In three days, the original row upon row of buildings in the city were now in ruins, and the smoke of gunpowder everywhere made the city feel like the end of the world.

  Looking at it for a long time, Li Qingyan’s eyes gradually became a little complicated, but these complicated things finally turned into a wisp of exhaled hot mist and dissipated in the air.

  The shouting and roaring in the distance make this city gate tower extraordinarily quiet.

  Xu Yuan stood aside, quietly watching the loneliness on her face.

  For three days, he did not follow her, but stayed inside the north city wall.

  But the Black Scale Guard reported to him everything she had done in the past three days.

  From the south city wall to the south city, then to the government office, and finally retreat to the north city wall.

  Kill the enemy, give orders, and retreat step by step unwillingly until there is no way to retreat.

  ”Qing Yan.” His voice was so soft that it was almost overwhelmed by the shouts from a distance: “You grew up here in Beifeng, right?”

  Li Qingyan did not look back, looking at the chaotic Beifeng, his voice was very low:

  ”Of course, I was sent here by my father since I was a child, so it can be regarded as half my homeland.”

   “Homeland?”

  Xu Yuan sighed and persuaded slowly:

   “Qingyan. It is meaningless to continue to defend this Beifeng.”

  Speaking,

  Xu Yuan glanced sideways at the wind and snow outside the northern city.

  There is a huge sect frontier army entrenched there, but they have no intention of reinforcements at all.

  When the dawn of the third day came, the elite sects in Houting County had already arrived outside Beifeng City, but they had no intention of coming for reinforcements. Set up camp.

  Li Qingyan frowned slightly, remained silent for a few breaths, smiled slightly and shook his head:

   “The bottom line of these sects is still the same as before.”

  ”Don’t have any expectations for Zongmen, they can always tell you what is a surprise.”

  Xu Yuan agreed with a smile when he heard the words, paused and then asked softly: “By the way, Qing Yan, why do you think they didn’t come to support?”

  Li Qingyan raised his eyes and glanced at the sky covered by thick snow clouds:

  ”They are waiting, waiting for Uncle Mu and Mr. Zong to meet up in the south. They don’t want to face all the main forces of the barbarians alone. The loss will be huge. Anyway, we have the “cloud energy bomb” and cannot be defeated.”

  “Chi”

  Xu Yuan laughed lowly when he heard the words, and looked in the direction of those camps with a cold look: “I guessed the same as you, but you seem to have forgotten one thing.”

  Li Qingyan looked back at his smiling eyes, his beautiful eyes twinkled, and he said with a smile:

   “You mean they are also waiting for the barbarian king to make a choice?”

   “Yeah.”

  Xu Yuan snapped his fingers and said with a smile: “Didn’t you say it before, if the barbarian king chooses to withdraw his troops, there is a high probability that these sects will sit idly by and let them go north by way.”

  Li Qingyan narrowed his eyes:

   “After letting the barbarians use the route to go north, it will be the defensive belt around Houting County.”

  The defense line around Houting County is composed of several small and medium-sized border towns, which were destroyed before, but several months of repairs have made them relatively strong.

  Xu Yuan naturally understood the other party, and sighed:

  ”Let the barbarians pass by. These sects not only recovered the captured Beifeng City, but also allowed the barbarians to take over the Houting defense line that they repaired.”

   paused,

  Xu Yuan gently pressed his hand on the icy battlements:

   “In this way, only Lord Hou and Mr. Zong are left in the army trapped in the northern snowfield. Why not do it?”

  “.”

  The wind and snow messed up the long hair of the woman in red, and her voice was without any emotion: “This palace. Sooner or later, the nine clans of these sects will be exterminated.”

  Seeing her anger, Xu Yuan reminded again:

   “So, shall we withdraw?”

  Li Qingyan pondered for a moment, looked sideways, and asked without answering:

   “My son-in-law, where did Yuan Hao go?”

  Hearing the words, Xu Yuan’s eyes showed just right doubts:

   “Yuanhao? He’s gone?”

  Li Qingyan spoke slowly:

  ”In the past three days, I have never seen him, nor have I received reports about him from other generals. His ability should not be so unknown.”

  Xu Yuan frowned:

  ”I don’t know about this, I guess I either escaped or died in battle.”

  Speaking,

  Xu Yuan took out a lens and crushed it.

  He is going to shake someone to pick him up and run away.

   Mr. Jiu, who escorted Li Yunqing to Houting County, had already returned to Beifeng City before the barbarians attacked the city.

  But after counting interest,

  Mr. Jiu didn’t come, but Xu Yuan smelled the scent of poisonous roses instead.

  Lou Ji is back.

After  appeared, Lou Ji nodded at Li Qingyan, then looked at Xu Yuan with a smile, and said in a low voice:

   “We are finally willing to leave after a long day?”

  ”I’m done, I have to go.”

  With Lou Ji on the side, Xu Yuan spoke directly, and he answered naturally: “And if you don’t leave, it may be too late.”

  Li Qingyan narrowed her phoenix eyes when she heard the words:

   “It’s done. What?”

  Xu Yuan looked back and grinned, pointing to the north city wall under his feet:

   “Thanks to you, Your Highness, I can freely enter and exit any position on the northern city wall.”

  Li Qingyan’s red pupils shrank slightly, as if realizing something:

   “What do you mean?”

  Xu Yuan shook his head, just said:

   “Qingyan, everything is gained through sacrifice. I will wait for you in Houting County.”

  Lou Ji smiled and waved at Li Qingyan when she heard the words:

   “Little sister, sister will take Chang Tian away first~”

  The words fall,

  The snow is still there, and the figures of the two disappeared above the top of the city

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