Chapter 258: The Power of Talismans
The rebels of the Western Qiang came to the city and occupied a 30-40-mile range outside the east gate of Ledu City. They rushed in the direction of the city wall and the city gate. The rebel soldiers who rushed in the front soon fought with the archers defending the city wall.
The rebel archers who fought against Yang Rui's archers were also rebel archers, which was beyond Yang Rui's expectations. And judging from the range and power of their arrows, the level of these archers is by no less than level 4, and it will even be higher. Yang Rui's 4th-level archers can only suppress the rebel archers by taking advantage of the terrain and number!
What Yang Rui didn't know was that at this time, the archers of the rebels did not exert their strongest combat power. In fact, these archers were all 5th-level archers. Due to the obstruction of the Fu River, they lost the support of war horses. Moreover, it was a siege battle, which made these 5th-level archers lose their advantages and could not even exert their power at level 4, which was suppressed by Yang Rui's archers!
If it weren't for this, Yang Rui's archers would probably suffer a big loss when they encountered a battle on the flat ground! Although these archers and cavalrymen of the Western Qiang rebels did not belong to the 5th-level special troops, they were also special troops of the force, which was only half a level lower than the special troops.
While the rebel 5th-level archers fought against Yang Rui's long-range archers, the rebel infantry was also unwilling to fall behind. After Yang Rui burned the rebels' wooden rafts, poplar wood and other materials, the opponent actually built some wooden ladders for siege in a very short time. At this time, they were being used by the Western Qiang rebel soldiers to climb and hit the city walls.
Some rebel soldiers even used poplar trees for crossing the river to climb city walls or hit city gates, and the effect would not be very good.
The rebels of the Western Qiang were coming in full force, and Yang Rui was not unprepared. As early as when the Western Qiang rebels were preparing poplar trees, rafts and other materials to cross the Fu River, Yang Rui also packed up a large amount of wood in the Ledu City warehouse and demolished a large number of useless buildings. After taking the wood, they placed them in a pile in an open area outside the East City Gate. At this time, the rebels flocked in, and this arrangement came in handy.
Yang Rui nodded and saw Zhang Ning, who was standing silently on the East City Gate Tower, slightly raised his hand, and the Tianling Magic Sword pointed at the sky. The color of the sky immediately turned into a ball of fiery red where the sword was facing. Then, a fireball as big as a fist kept hitting down from the fire clouds, and the landing point hit the piles of wood opposite the city gate, covering a large area of 200*200m2 around.
"Crack..."
"Boom...boom..."
"ah!"
"Help!"
These piles of wood and wood were instantly ignited by the fire rain, and the rebel soldiers around him were immediately affected. Most of the soldiers were burned to death without a snorting. Some of the Pan soldiers on the edge also turned into firemen. They ran around and led the flames in all directions.
When placing wood and timber, Yang Rui considered Zhang Ning's skill range. First, the several piles that were ignited were located at the edge of Tianling Fire Rain. Further to the outside, Yang Rui also sprinkled the wood and wood all over the ground, with the purpose of guiding the fire to a further position.
However, because the terrain outside the east gate of Ledu City is really open, and the coverage of the Tianling Fire Rain skill is not very large. The weather is clear and windless, the spread of the fire is not significant. It just slowly extends to the surroundings slowly, and does not expand rapidly as Yang Rui expected, and its effect on blocking the enemy is not obvious.
Therefore, Yang Rui had to let Zhang Ning stop, so as not to waste his Taoist value reserve. Zhang Ning's extremely powerful Tianling Fire Rain skill caused only two or three thousand rebel casualties this time. Once this move is used, it will not be reused within the next three hours.
In contrast, Yang Rui's other preparation effect was better. While demolishing the useless buildings to obtain wood, Yang Rui also obtained a lot of stones. In the Ledu City warehouse, there were already a lot of stones stored. Yang Rui took advantage of the stage before the war to transport all these stones to the east city wall. When the rebel soldiers rushed under the city wall in large numbers, large pieces of stones had been thrown off the city wall by Yang Rui's infantry!
"ah!"
"Do not!"
“…”
All of these stones are heading for the most densely populated areas of rebels, and they often smashed a large area, causing considerable damage! The ones who are responsible for the slaughter of stones are the thousands of 1st-level yellow turban soldiers transformed from Zhang Ning.
"System prompt: Congratulations on obtaining 1 test for the mission of extermination of the Western Qiang rebels."
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The screams and struggles of the Western Qiang rebels under the city continued to be heard along with the system prompts. The offensive and defensive battle between the Western Qiang rebels and Yang Rui was in a stalemate from the beginning.
Yang Rui had only about 10,000 soldiers under his command. Facing hundreds of times the Western Qiang rebels, even with the city wall, it was like a small boat in the sea, which could be submerged at any time. Although the Western Qiang rebels had the advantage of the number of people, they could not make any progress in the face of the strong city, the rain of arrows and the flying rolling stones!
Although the two sides are temporarily in a stalemate and balance, and the Western Qiang soldiers are constantly being injured. Yang Rui's casualties are very low, but once this situation continues, it will inevitably become increasingly unfavorable to Yang Rui's side! The number of people on the other side is too large. Even if the sea of people is used to pile up, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Yang Rui's side to defend the city in the end!
"System prompt: Congratulations on obtaining 1 test for the mission of extermination of the Western Qiang rebels."
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Yang Rui's system prompts for obtaining mission assertion have never stopped. Because he is in a state of defending the city, Yang Rui is difficult to get other items dropped by the Western Qiang rebels for a while. Only the mission assertion is directly distributed to his backpack, so the number is constantly increasing! One hour after the rebels crossed the river, Yang Rui's number of mission assertions obtained had exceeded 2,000, which means that the number of Western Qiang rebels destroyed exceeded 100,000!
Until this time, the attacks of the Western Qiang rebels had not been interrupted. Due to the strong attack of the rebels, the physical strength of the soldiers defending the city, especially the fourth-level and fifth-level archers, had reached their limits. This was based on the fact that Zhang Ning's "sanitation" skills were fully opened and the soldiers' physical strength doubled! Moreover, Zhang Ning would occasionally transfer positions on the city wall, and constantly use the "sanitation" skills to restore the physical strength of the soldiers.
Seeing this, Yang Rui frowned slightly and took out two Taiping Taoist talismans from his backpack.
"Wind Restoration Talisman: Taiping Taoist Magic Talisman, which can generate strong winds, with a range of 1,000 meters and a duration of half an hour! Number of times limits: 1/1."
"Flood Talisman: Taiping Taoist magic Talisman, after being triggered and used, it can be within a width of 100m, causing undifferentiated flood coverage! Number of times limits: 1/1."
Among the two talismans, the "Yufeng Talisman" was obtained by Yang Rui at Zhang Mancheng's residence in Nanyang City; while the "Flood Talisman" was obtained by Yang Rui, Qi Zheng and others when they sneaked into the Yellow Turban camp at the beginning of the plot of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
These two talismans have not been used by Yang Rui since they were obtained. Before the battle, Yang Rui turned them out while thinking about countermeasures. At this time, the battle against the Western Qiang rebels came in handy!
Yang Rui waved his hand and first activated the "Wind Resistance Talisman" and pointed to the area where Zhang Ning used the Tianling Fire Rain. A hurricane suddenly rose up on the ground, and it rotated outwards with full force. Wherever Yang Rui pointed his finger, where would the hurricane blow.
Although the power of the hurricane is great, it will not cause any harm to the soldiers of the Western Qiang rebels. However, if it is combined with the original fire points, it will be very different!
Although Zhang Ning used the Tianling Fire Rain skill to cover a small area, it was slowly expanding outward. It was not taken seriously by the Western Qiang rebels before and was extinguished. At this time, when the hurricane suddenly rose, the fire also rose with the wind. The fire, which had originally stretched for only four or five hundred meters, expanded instantly, and was swept by the strong wind and raging in the direction Yang Rui pointed!
"ah!"
"Help!"
“…”
Yang Rui arranged a large number of combustible objects in advance outside Ledu City. At this time, the fire broke out, and almost all the places where the wind and fire passed turned into a sea of fire. The casualties of the Western Qiang rebel soldiers suddenly increased, and many soldiers turned into firemen, running around like headless flies...
"System prompt: Congratulations on obtaining 1 test for the mission of extermination of the Western Qiang rebels."
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Yang Rui's speed of obtaining mission assertion was also increasing rapidly. As a large number of Western Qiang rebel soldiers died in the sea of fire, the system prompted that the order was almost impossible to distinguish between the front and back! The last time this happened was when the army was burning down in the Battle of Yingchuan!
After the "Wind Restoration Talisman" was successful, Yang Rui did not get carried away because of this, but patiently led the wind and fire to various places outside the east city of Ledu City, trying his best to cover every corner.
Since the fire may also affect the safety of the East City Gate and the city wall, Yang Rui gave priority to direct the fire from the southeast to the bank of the auxiliary river. After operating the hurricane, the fire covered the entire auxiliary river bank was then changed direction and turned back towards the east gate of Ledu City.
As expected, as the city gate was close to the city gate and the city walls had a large number of soldiers' bodies, various raw materials, ordinary clothes and other items accumulated, so the momentum became stronger after the fire approached, and there was a tendency to engulf the city gate and the city wall. Although Yang Rui operated the hurricane in time and rushed far away to the rear of the rebels on the other side of the Fu River, if the nearby fire was not controlled, it would still affect Yang Rui and other soldiers!
At this time, Li Dong, who had already prepared aside, immediately activated the "flood talisman" handed over by Yang Rui in advance! According to Li Dong's finger, a wide flood belt suddenly appeared from more than a hundred meters outside the east city wall, and rushed from the south of the city to the north of the city, successfully blocking the spreading fire!
Chapter completed!