Realm of Power

The heavy rain was like a waterfall, washing away the vast square in front of Tianlang City. Countless torrents of water poured down the ravines of the terrain. Long Po's hands were tightly grasped on the cold stone bricks of the city wall. His eyes were full of blood. The city gate Closure means that the southwest cavalry still outside the city has no way to retreat.

The few remaining Southwest Long family cavalry have retreated to the city gate. The Yelu family cavalry behind them, who were unwilling to pursue them, approached the bow and arrow range of the city gate. They could only rein in their mounts unwillingly and waved their weapons in anger. chopping the bloody air,

These few hundred cavalry were already the last of the southwest cavalry that charged out. Not only were their bodies covered in blood, but their physical strength had reached the limit. Some of the horses' legs gave way and they fell to their knees, throwing the people on their backs heavily off their backs. The muddy beach rolled around in a big circle, and then he was lying on the ground with his hands and feet spread out. , panting heavily, not even having the strength to move. A dozen meters in front of them were the iron gates of Sirius City that had been tightly closed together. Each door was made of fine iron. It is made of hundreds of soft tops, and the weight alone requires more than five soldiers to open it.

There's no going back!

The southwest cavalry slowly got up, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, silently, and just took a position silently in front of the city gate. Each cavalry had a determined look on their face, as if they were ready to fight to the end. In the distance, , the Baihe soldiers of the Yelu family also began to gradually stop their horses more than a hundred meters away, and returned with fierce gazes,

The Long family soldiers on the city wall also drew their bowstrings, and they all pointed towards the Guangping below. Countless arrow clusters were bathed in the cold light in the rain. This was the best that the people in the city could do. "Be prepared, kill anyone who comes close." No mercy!" As long as any prairie cavalry dares to approach, a fierce shower of arrows will fly away.

"Don't get too close, be careful of the stones thrown by the Central Bians," Mukrisu shouted loudly, "Come here, chop off the heads of those Central Bians!"

The danger of getting close to the city wall. If you look at the corpses of thousands of Yelü soldiers who were smashed by countless stones, lying on the ground, you will know that there are countless Zhongbia slingshots hidden behind the city wall. The machine spring has been opened. Once it gets close, It must be an overwhelming attack, but how can these Central Bians who dare to offend the grassland warriors be easily bypassed, cut off their heads, and let the Central Bians on the opposite side know that they are in the real grassland? How cowardly and incompetent he is in front of the warriors

"Did you see it, you coward from Zhongbia? This is the price for offending my grassland warriors." Mukrisu smiled grimly. Since he dared to fight with the grassland army, he would naturally have to bear the price of failure. He just wanted to tell the other party. Facing the master of the earth who is protected by the eternal heaven, anyone who offends the master will have to pay a price.

Countless blood-red spheres were thrown out from the Yelu army and rolled into the mud.

"Asshole, these prairie people deserve to die!" The eyes of all the Southwest Army soldiers turned red when their eyes fell on these blood-red spheres. They were the heads of the Southwest Cavalry that had been cut off. There were enough Southwest Cavalry soldiers in this attack. There were six to seven thousand people, but in the end less than two thousand were withdrawn. , the heads of nearly 4,000 people were built into three or four meters-high heads in Jingguan, and they were displayed in front of all the Southwest Long family troops with blood. The rain hit the heads of these dead people, and along the The piles of broken pieces flowed down, a blood-red color,

I don't know when, a heavy drumbeat sounded on the city wall, "Dong, dong, dong!" The drum sound was low, penetrating into people's hearts, and gradually turned into a tight rhythm. The southwest cavalry who were already preparing to fight to the death at the city gate looked stunned. After that, they all showed a touch of solemnity,

"This is...the Chinese Pygmalion drum!"

Yeluguda looked at the battlefield with a stern expression. He heard the sound of drums in his ears, and his face was stunned. Are the Zhongbia people crazy? Yelu Guda frowned slightly. The command drum was the order drum for the Central Asian army to attack. But in the situation in front of him, I really don’t know how the Central Asian soldiers, who were once again forced back to Tianlang City, would attack? The other Yelu soldiers were also at a loss. They didn't know what a commanding drum was. They just felt that the drums were beating like rising up on the battlefield and shouting for death. The blood in their bodies began to boil unconsciously, and a high-spirited fighting spirit filled their hearts. It rises up, and it seems that it is difficult to calm down without a good charge.

"Be careful, the people in China may be cheating!"

The Yelu army in front became commotion, unconsciously retreating a little, with nervous expressions. The previous scene caught them off guard and resulted in numerous casualties. If the powerful Baihe pro-army hadn't crushed the opponent with one force, how would the battle have developed? It's really unpredictable,

Since there is a first time, who dares to say that there is no second time?

The one who vaguely felt something was wrong was Yeluguda in the distance. If the Zhongbia people still had the strength, they would have fought out in one go. There was no need to close the city gate in a hurry, and even their own cavalry were locked out. Let's kill these remaining Central and Bian cavalry first. Yeluguda raised his hand and was about to give an order. His eyes paused. I saw a large length of rope being thrown down from the city. Below the city, I saw the southwest cavalry who had no way to retreat. They wrapped the rope around themselves and pulled it down together. They saw people directly following the city wall. Just pull him up, almost in the blink of an eye, before the eyes of tens of thousands of Yelu troops, he drags dozens of people up at once!

"You bastards, you were fooled, shoot your arrows and kill them!"

Seeing that the fat meat that was already in his mouth was about to slip away, Mukrisu was also anxious. The opponent's drumbeats were simply bluffing. What counterattack was just a delay. It was really stupid not to know that the opponent was deliberately beating the drums to delay time.

Countless grassland bows were raised at the same time, and arrows flew across, shooting at the southwestern cavalry who were dragged up the wall by ropes. The southwestern cavalry who were hanging on the wall by ropes groaned, and immediately saw a large amount of blood splashing from the bodies of these southwestern cavalry. But after all, the distance was already the range limit of the grassland bow. The specialty of the grassland bow was fast speed, not strong penetration. The arrows flew nearby and were already floating with the rain. Only two or three of the ten arrows could hit the target. , but even if some of the southwest cavalry were hit by arrows, the injuries were not too serious. It was only after being hit by arrows that their bodies hit the city wall, which looked like blood rain. Instead, they were in pain and grimaced. After being dragged onto the city wall, they looked more lively.

"Long live!"

"Idiot grassland people" cheered on the city wall. Seeing their companions who had survived a desperate situation were easily rescued, the morale of the entire southwest Long family army burst, and the frustration caused by the setback just now was thrown into the clouds. On the other hand, the Yelu army looked dejected, especially the Baihe personal army. Relying on the armor on their bodies, they actually ran hundreds of cavalrymen to rush to the city gate, but were shot back by the dense arrows shot from the city wall, leaving more than 30 bodies behind. The corpse full of arrows retreated in a hurry.

"Young Patriarch, it was my mistake. I request to lead the army to capture this city in person!"

Mukrisu's face was livid. He knelt in front of Yelu Guda's horse in heavy armor. The rain flowed down the gaps in the armor, and there was already a pond under his feet. The other generals did not dare to say anything. They just looked at Yelu Guda riding on the horse. Mukrisu was a general of the Baihe Army. Strictly speaking, he could be regarded as a slave of the Yelu family. Naturally, his status was not comparable to that of ordinary generals.

"Does our army still have the strength to continue the attack?"

Looking at Mukrisu, Yelu Guda looked cold, hit him hard on the shoulder with the whip, and said sternly, "If it was a mistake under normal circumstances, it would be fine. This time the mistake is really a bit big. This time We marched westward with all our strength, but ended up fleeing in a panic. The army was exhausted after running for days. Attacking Tianlang City was the last bit of strength that the Yelu army could muster. If we had fought hard, we might have been able to take it down. But now, because of your mistake, the bloody efforts of tens of thousands of soldiers have been wasted, and even the morale of the entire army has been seriously fluctuated. Even if I agree to let you continue to attack the city, the emperor will not agree! We have wasted half a day here in vain! Do you want to delay for a whole day? If you still can't take Tianlang City by then, do you want everyone to be buried with you! "

"I dare not!" Mukrisu's forehead was full of sweat. He was angry and embarrassed and proposed to attack the city again, but he forgot the current situation. He was running for his life!

"Order the whole army to bypass Tianlang City!" Yelu Guda took a deep breath. At this moment, he finally felt the anxiety that his father, Yelu Hongtai, had to lead the tribe southward. The imperial army was chasing behind them, and the Southwest Long family also appeared in Tianlang City. This was not going to let people live!

Long Po stood on the top of the city, like a javelin, staring at the cavalry of the Yelu army, like a torrent splitting the rain curtain on the earth, bypassing Tianlang City, and sweeping directly to the northwest. The interception failed! , Inside and outside the city, there was a dead silence. The remaining 20,000-plus Long Family Army soldiers were silent, and the only thing they could hear was the rain.

This time, although the Long Family suffered only 5,000 casualties, they almost lost the excellent war horses they had spent countless money to buy from Obaro in the past two years, as well as the cavalry units they had painstakingly trained and hundreds of Long Family’s core members. The Long Family’s desire to compete with the grassland people was directly defeated without a trace. Such a loss was absolutely heavy for the Long Family, but as the only Central Asian army that almost defeated the grassland people with cavalry, the Long Family Army It is something to be proud of.

As for the Yelu family, Yelu Guda originally had a glimmer of hope, hoping to rest immediately after capturing Tianlang City and then enter the northwest. Otherwise, the biggest possibility is that the emperor will catch up with him and defeat the exhausted Yelu army in one breath, and lose the entire northwest.

Or he will bypass Tianlang City and turn to Luya Mountain in the southwest, where there are still 15,000 elite soldiers of the Yelu family. As long as the two armies can meet, even if the emperor catches up, he will not dare to attack easily. However, the sudden appearance of the Southwest Dragon Army in front of him has made Yelu Guda's little luck disappear without a trace. Luya Mountain may have had problems, otherwise how could the Southwest Dragon Army appear in Tianlang City! Who knows what else he doesn't know about. At this moment, he can only abandon all extravagant hopes and rush into the northwest at all costs!

Yelu Guda, who had made up his mind, had no idea that there was no trace of the imperial army behind him, nor did he know that he had accidentally staggered with a decisive victory. If he had captured Tianlang City and killed Long Po, the head of the Long family, then the dilemma of the entire northwest would have been rewritten! But his cowardice made the only chance for the Yelu family to turn the tide of the war slip away from their hands!

The capital of the northwest, Xijing Gu

Dark clouds rolled up from the sky and piled up quickly. In everyone's sight, the strong wind quickly covered the entire sky and earth, and even blew the earth into wind and grass. Sweeping past this large ravine covered with weeds, with the two-sided attack of the Long Family Army from the south and the Wang Ting Army from the north, the various units that were originally scattered in the northwest region have gathered outside Xijing Gucheng, in large and invisible areas. The grassland tents at the end surrounded the entire Xijinggu outskirts. The battle reports from the areas that had fallen in the past few days made everyone's faces look even more ugly.

The Southwest Long family army that entered from the south is not bad. Facing the Central Asians, the grassland people always have a sense of superiority in their hearts. Even Zhongbia Linhang was defeated. Who are the Southwest Long family? They just want to If you want to take advantage of the situation, the problem is that the wool comes from the sheep, and most of it is stolen from the grassland tribes from the west. What really made the northwest tribes feel anxious was the northern royal court. Although the rise of the Yelu family greatly weakened the influence of the northern royal court, the royal court was the royal court. They were far apart, so everyone could pretend I can't see it. If we really hit Shangjinggu, how many tribes would really dare to fight Wang Ting?

Fortunately, Wang Tingjun's advance was not fast, and coupled with the resistance of some of the Yelu Army defenders, they were able to hold back the vicious tide heading south. However, no one had any idea how this battle would be fought!

At the same time, due to the plight of a shortage of various logistical supplies, and now with this heavy rain, camps everywhere are reinforcing their fences. They stepped up and dug the drainage ditches around the camp deeper. They also roared at the top of their lungs in the strong wind, asking the slaves to work harder. All the real prairie nobles had entered the city, and only the humble prairie pipe heads and humble Only slaves from Central Asia would hide in half-drained, half-mud huts.

The people on the grassland don't have enough tents, let alone them. These Central and African people who survived the catastrophe and struggled to survive usually rely on the leftovers of charity, wearing pipa leaves from the field on their bodies, and holding their heads on their backs. Covered with half a piece of rotten wood, the whole family was shrinking. They gathered together, and their whole body was green except for their eyes, and their skin had been soaked white by the rain. In a few days, more than a thousand corpses of refugees were carried out from the camp shacks, and there were many more who were half dead and half alive. lying in the mud, no one dared to take care of it, and no one dared to clean it up.

"So many people have gathered in Xijinggu. If a plague breaks out, they will all die. These people must be sent away immediately! Even if they starve to death, they cannot starve to death in Xijinggu!" Yelu Qiyeguang's pretty face looked coldly from these messes. He withdrew his gaze from the direction of the camp and glared fiercely at Ruliheng next to him. At a glance, in the past few days, the chaos in Xijinggu had reached a level that frightened her. Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered at once, and with the blind command of Ruli Hengshan, who did not understand government affairs at all, the entire Xijinggu was basically in chaos. It's like being paralyzed, and you still have to fight in such a situation. Isn't this a joke? (To be continued.)