Chapter 405: The First Battle of Redstone Castle
With Zheng Haosong's order, the cultivators and physical trainers on the top of the city became nervous, walking quickly on the city wall, laying out killing weapons, and they soon entered the state of war.
"Dong!Dong!Dong!" The rhythmic drum beats sounded amid the cheers of the army of the Heavenly Demon Sect. Their shouts and demonstrations gradually faded, and replaced by the soldiers stepping forward. The uniform sounds formed a death-induced spell on the Blood Shadow Sect monks guarding the pass.
One hundred feet!
Eighty feet!
Sixty feet!
At this time, the body refiner and gun shield soldiers walking in the front could already see the nervous faces of the Blood Shadow Sect monks.
The city wall leading to the main peak of Qianshan is not only thick, but also very high, and is definitely not something that ordinary people can climb up at will. On the city wall, several rows of archers from the Blood Shadow Gate have bent their bows and arrows, and the spirit stone cannons on the city wall are also aimed at the enemy. They are preparing to shoot the army of the Heavenly Demon Sect, which is about to enter a fifty-foot range.
"Stop!" Bu Zheng suddenly gave the order, and the entire infantry phalanx immediately stopped neatly.
At this time, the infantry gave up a passage, and dozens of cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect wearing red and black robes rushed up from behind.
After these monks walked to the formation, they began to recite spells and spells.
"Let the enemy also taste the power of our group spells!" Jiang Chen also smiled slightly at this time.
After suffering a loss from the formation master in Wunan City, he let the group spells break through the city-conservatory formation, he learned from it. He thought that he could only use the formation to break the formation. So he also organized his own magic camp. He organized the ghost monk with the largest number of monks, and supplemented with a foundation-building cultivator who had a rough formation as the commander of the camp, guiding them to attack the enemy with group spells.
And this time, this magic battalion officially participated in the battle for the first time.
The spiritual energy in the air suddenly became dry, and a large area of black ghost fog appeared in the sky, and a large number of green light spots appeared in the air, and they became bigger and bigger.
Then, a green rain of fire began to fall from the sky that suddenly became dark. The center of the rain of fire happened to be on the city wall, and the range was exactly a circle with a radius of fifty feet.
"I didn't expect that the people of the Heavenly Demon Sect also learned the essence and knew to use the formation master to guide and launch group spells. It seems that they should be casting ghost fire skills!" Zheng Haosong looked at the green fire ball in the sky, and Fang said in a deep voice: "Notify our people to cast a blood light shield! Block their ghost fire."
So, after a moment, blue light suddenly appeared above the Red Stone Fort, and a semicircular red shield appeared, which just enveloped the place where the ghost fire fell. As soon as the green fire balls of beans fell on the bloody shield, a stream of blue smoke appeared. Then they disappeared.
"I didn't expect that the enemy also had a formation master. It seems that this attack is a bit difficult!" Jiang Chen's face changed slightly when he saw this.
"The ghost monk is temporarily removed, and the water monks will cast the tsunami technique!" Bu Zheng saw that the enemy's blood shield completely resisted the power of the ghost fire, so he ordered all the water monks to come forward.
At this time, the group of ghost monks who had cast the spell just now quickly went down. Then another group of monks who knew water-based spells came up. Then they also began to chant spells and spells.
After a while, countless water droplets formed out of thin air on the open space outside the castle. They all seemed to be held by an invisible hand and hang in the air. The accumulation became larger and larger. At first, they were still water droplets, but later they were the size of a fist, and then they were about one foot in diameter.
The larger the water droplets accumulate and the more they can't squeeze each other. They merge with each other and merge with the ditches in several trenches outside the castle, finally forming a water wall of dozens of feet high.
"Oh no! They have used the tsunami technique!" Zheng Haosong thought to himself that it was not good. It had just rained heavily here and was approaching the stream. The water vapor content in the air was extremely high. At this time, the tsunami technique used was more than twice the power of normal conditions.
"Hurry! Don't maintain the blood light shield! Everyone casts the blood light wall under the guidance of the formation master!" Zheng Haosong shouted immediately.
At this time, the water wall had completely collapsed on the side close to the city gate. The released water turned into a huge wave and rushed towards the gate of the Red Stone Castle. If this wave really hit the city wall directly, not only would the city gate collapse, but the entire section of the city wall would probably be broken into a big gap. The monks of the Heavenly Demon Sect could drive in.
However, at this time, the monks of the Blood Shadow Sect had already recited the spell of the Blood Light Wall under the guidance of the formation master.
A moment later, a red wall ten meters high and two hundred meters wide stood twenty feet outside the city wall.
There was only a loud "bang" sound, and the waves hit the blood-blocking wall with force, making a huge collision sound.
The red blood wall shook a little under the huge impact of the waves, but it still barely stabilized without falling. The huge wave turned and turned into a torrent after losing its momentum, turning toward the canyon between the mountains.
At this time, the monks on both sides had consumed all their spiritual power because they released two group spells in a row. Some people were unable to stand firm and sat down on the ground.
"Take them down!" Jiang Chen and Zheng Haosong had to ask the body refiners to help all the monks of the magic camp. They sighed in their hearts. It seemed that these full-time magic camp monks would have to rest for at least two days before they could recover.
After this group of monks ended, the blood light wall, blood light shield, ghost fire, tsunami and so on they created before disappeared.
At this time, the siege finally officially kicked off.
"On the spirit stone cannon! Start bombarding the enemy's city wall!"
"Push up and push forward! Get ready to hit the enemy's door!"
"The infantry carried the ladder and prepared to start climbing the city wall! Archers should pay attention to cover and shoot the enemy soldiers on the city wall!"
Bu Zheng, who took over the command of the body refiners, issued one order after another.
At this time, as the cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect pushed the spirit stone cannon forward and bombarded, the blood shadow sect body refiners on the city wall were beaten so hard that they could hardly raise their heads. After all, Jiang Chen's troops used spirit stone cannons equipped with sights. The shooting accuracy was very high.
However, Zheng Haosong also reacted immediately and immediately let his spirit stone cannon start to bombard.
This time he entered the army to capture the entire Qingmu Mountain, so siege equipment such as the spirit stone cannon was more prepared than the army of the Tianmo Sect. Although the shooting accuracy of the cultivators in the Blood Shadow Sect was not high, they were more successful, and their shooting range was farther than that of the Tianmo Sect's spirit stone cannon.
Under the fierce bombardment of both sides, soldiers were constantly hit and fell.
Bu Zheng led his shield soldiers, braved the shells and arrows, and soon approached the city wall. They rushed to the city wall with their shields, squatted down, and hid behind the shield. Soon, thousands of archers rushed over, hid behind the shield, raised their bows and fired, and the rain of arrows sprinkled onto the wall.
At this time, Zheng Haosong saw that the enemy had reached the dead corner of the shooting of the spirit stone cannon, and immediately made an decision, and ordered his body refiners to hide behind the wall without having to fight back. He waited for the enemy to start landing the ladder before going to fight.
"On the ladder! Start climbing the city!"
"Crash into the car! Start hitting the door!"
With Jiang Chen's order, the fierce siege finally officially began.
Both sides attacked each other with arrows and stones at this time, and there were dents of impact and signs of fire on the city wall and the gate. However, it seemed that the Blood Shadow Gate had indeed put in a lot of effort in repairing the city wall. Although these scars looked scary, they did not damage the root. The crashes were often hooked by hooks and failed to break open the door smoothly.
Although the body refiners of the Heavenly Demon Sect attacked the city wall several times under Bu Zheng's leadership, they did not gain a foothold and were driven off the city wall by Zheng Haosong.
Over the day, the offensive side lost more than 3,000 people and the defensive side lost more than 2,500 people. This is considered to be quite close to the death and injury ratio in the siege battle.
The sky was gradually dimming, and the Tianmo Sect and the Blood Shadow Sect were both reluctant to fight against the heavy casualties. Bu Zheng sighed and had to order the troops to withdraw and return to the camp.
After returning to the camp, Bu Zheng dejectedly apologized to Jiang Chen, saying that he was ineffective in fighting and demanded punishment.
However, Jiang Chen did not blame him, but comforted him. Then he said, "Bu Zheng, you are not blamed for your defeat in this battle. It is because the enemy's defense is too strict. Even if I go on the battle myself, there will probably not be much progress."
Bu Zheng lowered his head in shame, while Wan Liang asked nervously: "Senior Brother Jiang, how can we capture Red Stone City now? You can occupy the main peak by taking this city, but you are stuck here and unable to make progress."
"When I attacked the city during the day, I paid attention to it. The defense of the Red Stone Castle is very strict. Although there is no large castle of defense, the terrain is too dangerous and the enemy's number of spirit stone cannons is extremely large. It is very unfavorable for us to attack from the city. Even if we are struggling to survive, we will barely kill the Red Stone Castle. We are afraid that the casualties will be very heavy. In the future, we will no longer be able to deal with the counterattack of the Blood Shadow Sect and some unexpected changes." Jiang Chen walked a few steps in the tent, and then said in a deep voice. He was not completely relieved of Liu Qingchuan.
After hearing this, everyone felt it was reasonable, but just dragging it like this was not a solution. After all, there was only three days to capture the main peak, and one day had passed now.
At this moment, the guards outside the door came to report: "Guardian Jiang, Miss Zhu is here!"
"Oh? Juna is here too? Then please come in quickly!" Jiang Chen was also very happy when he heard this. Because in this battle, he never saw Juna appear from beginning to end, and he thought she had been defending in the back mountain and did not participate in the attack on the front mountain.
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