Heaven's Formula

Chapter 8 The Third Party

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Looking at the black army that surrounded him, Yuan Jiu's face turned ashen.

"What about the reinforcements that King Dongsheng promised? How long will it take for them to arrive at Bumi Mansion?"

"It should be soon, my lord," the staff officer beside him wiped his sweat, "The former army passed through Shangma City yesterday, and they will definitely arrive before sunset today. But you, you should go back to the camp first. It's becoming very dangerous..."

"This is the harbor." He said with a sullen face.

"My lord?" The staff officer couldn't understand for a moment.

"You are not invincible, are you?" Yuan Jiu said with a cold face, "It is impossible for the enemy to really besiege this city, but because of this, I must stand in everyone's sight."

This is the ancestral motto of the Yuanjiu family.

The back road that is too easy to get is also the dead end that ruins everything.

If he left the city wall, rumors would spread that he had already boarded a boat and fled because the soldiers would not last long.At that time, morale will collapse, and the city will be handed over to others.Even if he survived, he lost all his century-old family property, what face would he have to meet his ancestors?

Sending his own child to Shanghai is already the limit of what he can do.

"I'd like to see if Dongfang's mechanism beast is really as difficult to deal with as described." Yuan Jiu gritted his teeth and said, "Let the artillerymen prepare!"

Anyway, Bumi Mansion is bigger than the cities captured by the enemy before, and he doesn't believe that the opponent can break through the city gate within a day.

When King Dongsheng's cavalry arrived, he would be able to cooperate with the opponent to launch a counterattack and completely annihilate these peasant troops who didn't even have horses in the outskirts.

That's right, they are just a bunch of rough and lowly peasants!

Let these people become soldiers who made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, it is simply ridiculous!

What's even more exaggerated is that Yuanjiu Shidi also heard that Queen Yama is engaged in land redistribution, looting all the farmland belonging to the aristocratic family, and then distributing it to those farmers who are willing to cultivate the land without taking a penny, as long as they pay on time A certain amount of food is enough.This kind of behavior has undoubtedly crossed the bottom line that the aristocratic family can accept. Originally, the princes of Dongsheng still had a sense of dispensation for the Queen of Yama, and even thought that it would be okay to confess her, but now the other party only has One kind of ending is to go into hell completely, so that she will never be reborn forever.

All the nobles and samurai in Bumi Mansion knew that no matter what, this enemy army should not be allowed to enter the city!

When the mechanism beast approached the city within three hundred steps, the iron barrel cannon erected on the city wall fired first.

Accompanied by a series of shocking roars, the iron ball escaped and flew towards the enemy's front line——

However, the opponent suddenly accelerated, changed his previous strategy of advancing steadily, and galloped forward in three steps at a time.Artillery is good for killing densely packed siege soldiers, but it is completely inaccurate in the face of such fast-moving targets.None of the first shots hit, and all the projectiles smashed into the soil.

"kill--!"

At the same time, high-pitched shouts broke out in the May Army.

The sound was overwhelming for a while, and the defenders on the city wall couldn't help but tremble with fear.

The distance of [-] steps was broken in less than a few tens of breaths, and the organ beast rushing to the front raised the multi-barreled air rifles on both sides, and began to pour firepower at the top of the city!

In an instant, projectiles rained down on the brick wall, stirring up a hazy cloud of dust.

"Don't retreat, put on the explosive talisman, and fight back!"

The generals of the defending army roared with all their might, and the soldiers also tried to fight back with bows and crossbows, but they had no experience in resisting fire suppression at all. They just raised their bodies to shoot arrows as usual, but they were shot down by bullets, and the activated explosive charms reversed. It exploded on the city wall, blasting the surrounding officers and soldiers to pieces!

"My lord, get down quickly, it's not safe here!" the staff officer leaned over and shouted.

"I'm right here in the city! No one is allowed to leave!" Yuan Jiu remained unmoved while leaning on his samurai sword, "I will never die at the hands of these mobs!"

"We can't let them continue fighting like this," an adjutant yelled, "Where is the Ninja Team? It's time for them to go out!"

As soon as the words fell, a dozen or so figures in black jumped down from the city wall and ran towards the organ beast like ghosts.

The latter reacted quite quickly, and immediately aimed one side of the gun at the ninja.

The bullet rain overturned several people in an instant, but some of them rushed to the organ beast.

These people themselves carried explosive charms.

A few pillars of dazzling fire suddenly shot up into the sky!

Four or five organ beasts seemed to be silent, but the smoke dissipated. Yuan Jiu and the others were astonished to discover that such a rapid explosion only destroyed the outer armor of the organ beast, and the vines arranged in layers inside resisted the explosion like a barrier. The shock brought by the character!

At this time, the organ beasts of the second phalanx had also arrived.They erected their shields and formed a solid wall with both offensive and defensive capabilities. At this moment, no matter whether it was artillery or explosive arrows, it would be difficult for the evil horse army to retreat half a step.

On the contrary, the artillery of the evil horse army began to bombard, and there was no need to measure the ballistic trajectory at a distance of [-] paces, and the shotgun could be sent to the top of the city wall only by direct aiming.The warheads triggered by this delay are like grenades, which will explode after landing, and their lethality is more than one level higher than the iron barrel guns of the Bumi Mansion defenders.

Then the siege-type Xuanwu directly crossed the front line, and stepped forward to hit the city gate.Although the soldiers above braved the hail of bullets and threw hot oil and rocks, they were all bounced off by the giant shield, and could hardly exert their due effect.Xuanwu, on the other hand, used its own weight and detachable battering hammer to collapse the city gate within a few hits.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the start of the battle, there was a gap in Bumi Mansion's defense.

He was dumbfounded for a long time.

Although he had heard the rhetoric of the retreating rogues in other cities, it was a completely different experience to actually see it with his own eyes.

This kind of battle that no longer relies on personal bravery and the ability of the spirit is completely beyond his understanding of war.

Those rogues were not bragging about their enemies, the facts were even more astonishing than he expected!

Even if you don't want to, now is the time to send out the guards.

While he was gritting his teeth and waiting to give an order, a loud voice suddenly came from the north of the field.

For a long time, he poked his head out from behind the wall, and saw a group of dark figures running towards the city.

Reinforcements... finally arrived!

"Is that the reinforcements of King Dongsheng?" Wu Yueyao frowned, raised his binoculars and looked north.

"It's indeed Dongsheng warrior...but it doesn't look like it..." Ninghong looked at it for a moment, "Why do you feel that they are running for their lives instead of charging our army?"

Indeed, May also noticed this.The terrain here is open, and the enemy has no shortage of horses, no matter how you think about it, you should use cavalry to charge first.

But these people couldn't even see a horse.

And many soldiers didn't even draw their weapons.

"Wait... the sea, the sea!" Suddenly someone exclaimed, "Master Wuyue, look in the direction of the sea!"

May Yao turned the lookout.

I saw a dense sail shadow on the gray sea.

Chapter 8 and Nine: The Enemy Across the Sea

"That's... the West Pole warship?" Nina Hong asked in surprise.

The tall ship sides, the eye-catching towers at the tail, and the three mainsail masts are all the characteristics of ships in the West Pole—she had seen similar ships when Natalin was building a port in the northeast of Yama.

"No, the flag they hang is the seven-star flag!" Wu Yue frowned, "As far as I know, this is the emblem only used by the Seven-Star Privy Council."

"Seven Stars... the Privy Council?"

"You mean, they are from the mainland?"

"Is this fleet related to Jinxia City?"

Everyone was talking for a while.

"No," Wuyue clenched her fists, "the ones who come here have absolutely no good intentions! This group of people—— are Jinxia's enemies!"

Except for the group of people who followed him and honed in Jinxia, ​​Yama Island knows little about the changes in the mainland. Most people don't know the relationship between the court and the Privy Council, and they don't know that the seven-star alchemist has fought against Jinxia City. Meet each other, the situation is the same as fire and water.Their arrival must not be good news for Yamaguchi.

Sure enough, as soon as her words fell, clusters of red flames flickered in the fleet.

"They are bombarding King Dongsheng's army!" Nina Hong exclaimed.

With the explosion and thick smoke brought by the shells landing, the soldiers who were already fleeing ran faster. They rushed to the north wall of Bumi Mansion in a panic, even ignoring the encircling defense line of Princess Yama in the middle.

Now Wu Yueyao knew why these reinforcements didn't even have a horse.

It is necessary to pass through a narrow mountain road from the north to Bumi. They may have been attacked by sea ships in the middle of the march, and they suddenly collapsed. When the horses were frightened, they were far more difficult to control than people. On horseback, there is a high probability that they will be taken off the cliff together by panicked horses.

Now these people are not so much reinforcements as a group of driven lambs.

In addition, Wuyue also noticed that the enemy's artillery was extremely fierce, in stark contrast to the iron barrel artillery at the top of Bumi Prefecture.Every time a fire is fired, it will set off a round of flames in the defeated army. The latter has long been frightened. It is better to lie prone on the spot or retreat to the hinterland of the countryside, but no one thinks of doing so.

At this moment, the fleet that was already close to the edge of the beach dropped anchor.

The opponent does not seem to have any intention of directly attacking the harbor.

Then many soldiers in armor slid down from the hanging ladder on the ship and fell directly into the sea water—what is astonishing is that they did not sink into the sea like stones, but ran directly on the sea surface!It was as if what they were stepping on was not sea water, but soft blue sand!

"No, these people are coming for us!" Wu Yueyao's heart sank, and he saw this group of fresh troops rushing down from the north, colliding with the right wing of the encirclement.Since the main force of the siege was not located there, there was no mechanism beast to sit in the town, and only an infantry of about [-] people was used to block the north gate of Bumi Mansion to prevent the troops inside the city from breaking out from the encirclement to the north.

The commanding officer on the right also responded quickly, adjusting Bingfeng to face the incoming enemy head-on, but Wu Yue felt the huge gap in strength between the two sides as soon as they fought.

This group of armored soldiers is undoubtedly the elite of the elite. The bamboo spears and iron swords used by their troops are almost vulnerable to the opponent's fine iron armor, and even the air rifles have no obvious effect.Moreover, the enemy obviously invested several alchemists, one of them was a man in green clothes who was particularly conspicuous. He seemed to be strolling on the battlefield, causing bloody storms wherever he went.Most of the fighters couldn't even get close to him, and their limbs would break if they got close to him a little bit. The scene looked very strange.

"Is that a monster?"

"Bastard, why can't the rifle team knock him down!?"

There was a commotion in the Chinese army.

An idea popped up in Wuyue's mind: high-ranking alchemist.When she was in Jinxia, ​​she had seen the horror of these people who were named Qingjian and Yuyi who were sensitive to Qi.Their abilities are often difficult to measure with common sense, and sometimes one person can resist an army.It is true that they are also flesh and blood, and they also have their own weaknesses. If the [-] army puts all their strength into it, they may be able to defeat each other, but that price is unacceptable to Wu Yueyao.

She made a judgment based on instinct, "Pass my order, let the Xuanwu troops support the right wing and cut off the rear, the central army and the left wing will retreat immediately, and give up this siege battle!"

"My lord, but... we are about to invade the city!" Arima Keiichiro said rather unwillingly.

"Retreat is the right choice." Nina Hong agreed. "The opponent has warships and artillery. Even if we capture Bumi City, we can only be passively beaten. What's more, the enemy has alchemists in command, and we can't take advantage of it even in street fighting. The 3 people are the hole cards in the hands of His Highness May, and they must not be lost here!"

She knew very well in her heart that the lord's actions had annoyed many aristocrats. The reason why they did not dare to act rashly was because the lord held the power that could easily destroy them.If the damage is too large, it is still a trivial matter to be unable to continue to expand the territory, and the fire in the rear is what Wu Yue fears most.

With the change of semaphore and the sound of gold ringing, the army began to retreat eastward.However, the Xuanwu troops led by Ningqing turned around and intercepted the uninvited guests rushing onto the beach.

"Crush them!"

Nagino raised the green dragon sword and slashed at the Seven Star soldier who was closest to him.

Compared with the air rifle, she still prefers this steel broadsword made and gifted by Jinxia Machine Building Bureau. The ghost's origin endows it with a strong physique, and this heavy weapon can often perform well under her control. Because of the impact of Xuanwu mechanism beast.

The soldiers who tried to stop her were horrified to find that the swords in their hands were no match for one round, even if they were holding a small shield, they would be cut in half by the whistling long sword!

Xuanwu, who was following behind, took the opportunity to open fire. The firepower density and projectile power of the large-caliber multi-barreled air rifle were not at the same level as the individual rifle. A blood mist instantly rose in the phalanx of the Seven Star Troops, and the originally anxious battlefield also followed. They were killed and separated in two.

"Let's go!" Nina Qing yelled at the right-wing troops, "We'll break the rear here!"

"Yes...!" The generals led their subordinates out of the field one after another, and the Seven Star Army followed them again, as if they did not intend to let them go easily.

At this time, the figure of the man in Tsing Yi appeared in Nagino's field of vision.

Even after killing dozens of people and messing up the right-wing line of defense, he was still in perfect condition, and there was not even a trace of blood on the hem of his robe.

Looking at each other, Nagino felt a strong sense of oppression.

This person reminded her of Xia Fan - both of them looked like Mr. Pianpian, but when she got along with the former, she felt soft and relaxed, while the latter just looked at each other, and she felt chills in her heart.

There was no trace of pity for the living in his eyes.

——It doesn’t matter whether it’s May’s troops or Qixing’s soldiers, it’s the same for him.

Chapter 8 Seven Star Alchemist

"I am the general under Mayu Princess, the green-faced ghost Nina Qing!" Nina Qing took a deep breath and shouted, "The one who comes has a name!"

There is no doubt that the opponent's status in the enemy army is extraordinary, as long as he can be obtained, the enemy's pursuit will be chaotic.

"Common name?" the man said with a flick of his sleeves, "You are already dead, so what's the point of asking so many questions?"

"You and I haven't fought yet, so how can we say that the outcome has been decided?" Nina Qing continued to circle around, "I have killed a lot of people who are sensitive to Qi."

Even if it's just a few more words - the right wing needs time to distance itself and gather the wounded.

However, the other party seemed to see her thoughts, "You want to delay time? You have some brains. Forget it, I'll send you on your way—"

After speaking, he raised his finger to Nagino.

The latter immediately focused his gaze on his finger movements.

Without incantations, it should be a double spell, and medicine introduction becomes the key to determine the type of spell.This is also the most important information in the battle between the qi sensers. If you can judge the opponent's spell type in advance, you can think of a countermeasure earlier!

His hands were empty.

Is it just a single operation?Or... is he going to feint?

At this moment, Nagino saw that the tip of the man's finger twisted slightly, as if the scenery between the two was covered with a layer of mist!

If she hadn't been staring at it intently, she wouldn't have noticed this subtle change at all!

Almost subconsciously, she raised the long knife to block her chest, and her body fell to one side——

when!

Something thumped against the hilt of her knife, sending out a stream of sparks.The huge impact caused her to lose her balance in an instant, and her feet were sent flying.At the same time, the right hand holding the handle of the knife felt a distinct chill.