Chapter 1092: Chapter 1086: Surrounded on All Sides
Bai Qingyan steadied her breath, released the arrow, drew another arrow swiftly, aimed towards Bai Qingyu’s direction…
The arrow brushed past Bai Qingyu’s right arm, precisely shooting down the Xiliang soldier on horseback.
Bai Qingyu spun his horse around with his spear, piercing through the Xiliang general’s throat, and pulled back the spear with blood splattering.
Out of the corner of her eye, Bai Qingyan sensed a glint beside Bai Qingyu, turned her arrowhead, and released the arrow… The fierce arrows spun, flew swiftly… striking the neck of the Xiliang general’s horse wielding the scimitar. The horse let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground, causing the Xiliang general blocking Bai Qingyu to die under Bai Qingyu’s horse’s hooves.
The Rong soldiers initially felt fear seeing the Zhou archers shoot from the city wall, but when the arrows seemed to have eyes and did not harm them, instead helping eliminate the Xiliang troops threatening their lives, they felt relieved.
Bai Qingyan safeguarded Bai Qingyu from the city wall. Bai Qingyu, trusting his sister’s archery skills, felt more liberated in his movements…
Seeing the Elephant Army about to charge below the city tower, Bai Qingyu shouted, “Stop the Elephant Army!”
The Rong soldiers rushed towards the Elephant Army with a sacrifice mentality, and when one rope couldn’t hold, they used two ropes, three ropes, five ropes… ten ropes!
Bai Qingyan did not dare take her eyes off Bai Qingyu for a moment, only shouting orders, “Archers, prepare the fire arrows!”
Shen Kunyang, guarding Bai Qingyan, shouted orders loudly, “Archers, prepare the fire arrows, aim for those elephants and shoot to kill!”
Messengers dispersed along the city wall, relaying the orders, “Archers, prepare the fire arrows, aim for the elephants and shoot to kill!”
“Archers, prepare the fire arrows, aim for the elephants and shoot to kill!”
The resounding relay orders echoed on Pingyang City’s walls, as the first wave of archers retreated, those dipped in fiery oil stepped forward, shooting arrows targeted at the giant elephants.
The unit led by Wang Qiulu had already joined the battlefield.
Xie Xun led the Yan Army into the fray.
A mere six thousand Xiliang troops were hardly enough to endure…
The Tianfeng Kingdom’s general looked around, chilled, the Xiliang and Tianfeng were besieged from all sides, relying only on the Elephant Army, hence they had to fight desperately.
The Tianfeng Kingdom general hardened his heart and blew the bone whistle tightly clamped between his lips.
Bai Qingyan, focused intently on A Yu, twitched her ears, and she caught it!
She swiftly turned her arrowhead, fixed her gaze, and decisively released the arrow.
The arrow shot out rapidly, scraping sparks off the armor atop the giant elephant, advancing swiftly, while the Tianfeng Kingdom general holding the bone whistle felt the force hit his helmet fiercely. The arrow could not entirely penetrate the powder-coated helmet, only embedding its arrowhead as both sustained damage; the Tianfeng Kingdom general’s vision blackened, and he fell from his galloping horse…
“General!”
“General!”
The Tianfeng Kingdom cavalry saw their general fall from the saddle, dismounting in panic while shouting in their language, seeing their bloodied general, they lifted him onto a horse, shouting for a retreat.
But now, there was no chance to retreat, surrounded on all sides, relying on the Elephant Army to break through, but… the general who controlled the Elephant Army with the bone whistle was now unconscious, his head bloody, uncertain of survival.
One giant elephant from the Tianfeng Kingdom had already charged beneath the city wall, stretching its trunk and trumpeting towards the city gate…
The giant elephant’s first strike nearly broke the ancient iron-clad city gate’s bar, bending it, and the soldiers hurriedly set up defenses at the entrance, compacting the snow solidly, sliding back and forth to create a slippery ice path…
The soldiers holding sharp blades stood in formation behind the ice path, bodies tense, waiting for the moment the giant elephant crashed into the city.
After the giant elephant’s first charge, the pungent spicy air flooded into the elephant’s sensitive trunk, disturbing the rampaging city-gate-ramming elephant, making it thrash madly, striking the wall, then the gate again.
The city tower shook under the elephant’s impact, even Shen Kunyang, a lifelong warrior, had never seen such terrifying beasts, instinctively approached to steady Bai Qingyan, “Your Majesty! You should leave now!”
“There’s no time to leave the city tower now!” Bai Qingyan’s sight lost track of Bai Qingyu, drawing an arrow and searching intently, she saw a fierce Xiliang soldier raise a blade to strike their Zhou Elite soldier, she lifted her chin, aimed, gritting her teeth she drew the bow and shot…
Before the Xiliang soldier’s blade fell, the arrow pierced through the Xiliang soldier’s neck, the Zhou soldier glanced towards the city wall, recognizing their comrades protected them, their Monarch… the infamous God of Slaughter, stood on the city wall, drawing and shooting arrows by their side!
The soldier couldn’t help but feel blood boiling, quickly rising, grabbing a broadsword and charging back into the melee.
Where Xiao Rongyan’s sword blade reached, the blood mist sprayed in the bitterly cold winter night, the spattered blood froze into shards upon touching the ground, his fierce horse neighed wildly, he steady on the saddle, gripping his reins firmly, with his bloodied longsword protecting beneath the city wall, shouting fiercely, “Shoot the elephants in the eyes, force them back!”
Before the Yan Army could shoot at the elephants’ eyes, the pungent air had already made the sensitive elephants uncomfortable, causing the herd to stagger madly, one elephant swinging its trunk… its feet slipping on the compacted snow, and fell heavily, even shaking the ground.
As the giant elephant fell, the soldiers roared charging swiftly, aiming for the gap between the elephant armor plates, thrusting their blades into the gap with all their might till the hilt, the elephant shrieked in agony, struggling to rise… throwing the soldiers climbing its body off, yet couldn’t get up, slipped again, the Zhou soldiers swarmed forward, together stabbing the armor gap on the elephant.
Watching one giant elephant after another from the Tianfeng Kingdom fall, soon covered by Zhou soldiers crawling fiercely over them, like dense ants fearlessly challenging a giant beast.
“Your Majesty!” A general from the Zhai family among the Xiliang Eight Great Families swiftly approached, extending a hand to Li Tianfu, saying, “Your Majesty, the Yan Army has brought reinforcements, we’re besieged from all sides, the situation is dire, we cannot linger in battle, I will strive to escort Your Majesty out!”
Li Tianfu gritted his teeth, glanced at the brightly lit Pingyang City gate, resolved, grabbing the Zhai family general’s hand, saying, “Retreat!”
“Xiliang soldiers, at any cost, carve a blood path for the Monarch! Charge!”
The Xiliang soldiers originally came with fervor, but now indeed faced enemies all around…