Rivers and lakes in another world

Chapter 533 Northern Xinjiang ([-])

What you have mastered is your own, and others cannot take it away even if they want to use means.

It's just that the progress of the cultivation of Mantra Poison Art is not fast, it not only requires you to have a certain cultivation talent, but also requires a considerable degree of knowledge of poison art.

Although the Mantra Poison Art is very detailed, it is still difficult to understand. Chen Zheng's previous knowledge of poison art can be said to be blank.

For existences such as poisonous arts and medical skills, whether they have talent is one aspect, and whether they have perseverance is another aspect.

Compared with other martial arts knowledge, poison and medical skills are relatively fair.

It is also possible to catch up with the footsteps of geniuses through acquired efforts, and it is true that hard work can make up for one's weakness.

Maybe a person's talent is average, but after many years of study, contact with herbal medicines and patients, he will make considerable progress in medical and poisonous skills.

Of course, the premise of this is that people have really learned, instead of reading a book and thinking about a book to heal the world and so on. This is something that geniuses can do, not ordinary people.

Chen Zheng has been learning the basic knowledge according to the above since he obtained the Mantra Poison Jue, but his own talent is mediocre. Although he has the best poisonous gas, it is because the materials he used to make the Hundred Poisons Soup are exquisite and the effect is very good. Well, coupled with the existence of the golden thread Gu worm, it will not be poisoned, but it will create the best poisonous gas.

Although the basic knowledge of poison art is recorded in detail, and some parts have annotations made by the Poison Immortal Sanren, it is still difficult to learn such a field that Chen Zheng is unfamiliar with.

Up to now, Chen Zheng can configure some basic poisons, but the effect is mediocre, and can only be used on warriors below the luck level, it is not as effective as directly injecting the poison gas in his body into the enemy's body.

Moreover, it was only under the guidance of Xu Xiaoxiao that Chen Zheng made such progress. Otherwise, before, Chen Zheng would study the exercises step by step and mechanically, and his understanding would be a little worse. He would have to figure it out on his own a lot of the time. This knowledge is so so so, and even some parts are still incomprehensible, there is no way, the talent is not enough, and the exercises and classics are so mysterious.

You may not be able to understand it just by reading the text. A simple example is that you can rigidly remember that one plus one equals two, but why is one plus one equals two? This requires a professional person to interpret it, but it is a pity that , Duxian Sanren is gone, and there is no one to guide Chen Zheng. After all, such things as mantras and poisons are almost single-handed, and no one knows the content of them, let alone guidance.

Therefore, Chen Zheng's progress on his own was relatively slow.

Fortunately, Xu Xiaoxiao came later. Her achievements in poison art are very good. Although her cultivation has been affected and suppressed, she has a wealth of theoretical knowledge. If there is anything Chen Zheng doesn't understand, she can ask Xu Xiaoxiao for advice.

At any rate, she was considered a good trading partner, and Xu Xiaoxiao was a disciple of the Hundred Flowers Sect and a member of the Demon Sect, but she did not learn the extreme methods of the Demon Sect, but was a very simple researcher.

Even she and Chen Zheng read the Mantra and Poison Jue together. While helping Chen Zheng, Xu Xiaoxiao can also learn something beneficial to herself from the experience of her predecessors.

Just when Chen Zheng was still thinking wildly, a dull horn sound interrupted Chen Zheng's thoughts and brought him back to his senses.

The sound of the horn was not Beiyan's bugle, it sounded desolate and wild.

The horns of the countries in the Central Plains are mostly made of metal, while the prairie people often use bull horns, so the sound is different when they are blown out, and they can be recognized by listening.

Chen Zheng and the others did not understand the symbolism of the horn sound, but as Wu Tong, Yan Xuelan and others who had experience in fighting with the prairie people, they could immediately understand what the horn meant. This was a signal for the prairie people to attack.

Attacking directly as soon as they come up has always been the style of the grassland people. Setting up camps and the like are all the practices of the Central Plains countries. That is out of consideration for morale.

Prairie people need to consider morale, no need, as long as they go out to fight, these heroic prairie warriors will be excited, and the closer they are to the target, the higher their mood will be, because this means that the battle will happen soon, they can Drinking the blood of the enemy, it is simply too high.

As for the morale of those slaves, it doesn't matter, they just need to bow their heads and obey orders. The grassland people will not take care of their feelings. As long as you work, who cares whether your mood is good or bad?
"Get into battle, raise your shield, and defend." Wu Tong calmly gave the order. At this time, all the soldiers on the top of the city were soldiers from the Zhenbei Army, and there were no girls from Luanfengwei. It's not that Wu Tong didn't want Yan Xuelan to However, the Luanfengwei's shields are relatively small and can hold half of the body at most, while the Zhenbei Army almost all have large shields, which can better resist attacks.

At the same time, there were soldiers from the Fengchun Camp on the top of the city. They quickly formed a defensive line with large black iron shields, and their speed was comparable to that of the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army.

They are all at the forefront and ready to meet the attack of the prairie people.

As for the rest of the martial arts masters, they are all slightly behind.

Why not just use the ballista to shoot it?Of course, it was in response to the next action of the prairie man.

Those relatively rough catapults were pushed to the front line. These tasks were operated by slaves, and they were completely pulled by human power, which was relatively primitive.

Although the moving speed is slow, but there are too many slaves, if ten people can't pull up fast, then I will come to a hundred.

Anyway, in the eyes of the people on Beiyan's side, the slaves below were as densely packed as ants, dragging the catapult forward.

There are also slave leaders waving whips, either loudly yelling or urging, and whipping those who are slow to make them work harder.

After estimating the launch position, the catapult stopped and began to load.

Everyone on the pass stared at the movement of the catapult with serious faces, but did not respond.

That's why Wu Tong didn't let the ballista fight back. Compared to the range, the catapult was much farther than the ballista. If you exposed the position of the defense equipment on your side in advance, it would be easy to be set fire by the enemy's catapult.

Although the quality and accuracy of the things made by the prairie people are average, they can't stand up to the large number of them, and there can be fifty or sixty of them.Just to push the catapult forward requires 6000 to [-] people.

Of course, we must not forget that the ammunition of the catapult does not come out out of thin air, and throwing the air will not have any lethality. According to the geographical location, some materials can be obtained locally, and some need to be prepared in advance.

Because this is a plain area, it is difficult to excavate large stones. If there are people who are proficient in soil attributes but can turn soil into stones, they can be directly used as stones that can be thrown.

Compared with ordinary stones, such stones are more lethal and heavier, and they also have a bit of earth attribute energy attached to them. Vitality fighters will be a little tired, and they have to make stones without stopping, which consumes a lot of energy.

Apart from these basic things, grassland people use more disgusting things.

Such as rotting corpses, feces and the like.

This grassland has the most, whether it is human or animal, it can be collected along the way and used as ammunition for siege.

This is not only a disgusting enemy, but also a very effective offensive method.

The mixture of these corpses and feces has a strong smell and contains a lot of toxins that can cause disease. In addition, the wizards of the prairie people used various methods, and each of these mixtures was like a bomb. The explosion not only The power is not bad, and it has a strong toxin and is not low in corrosiveness. It has a strong lethality to both the magic circle and the personnel.

At the same time, it can also disgust opponents psychologically. This kind of bad taste is what grassland people like most.

The first thing Daxingguan needs to face is such a bombardment.

Soon the catapults were filled one by one, and there were stones and corpses inside, especially those corpses used a special technique, each of them was inflated like a balloon, as if it would burst when touched, and there were It is a variety of deadly poisons and evil martial arts witchcraft, specially used to deal with the large formation of the Beiyan people.

For so many years, Beiyan's turtle shell array has been a headache for the grassland people. Without the defense of the array, the power of the bows and arrows that the grassland people are proud of will be greatly weakened. Arrows that could have penetrated the armor are likely to After weakening, only a small white spot will be left, which will not have the desired effect.

It's just that the number of fights has increased, and they also know about the magic circle. Naturally, the grassland people have figured out a way. Since the magic circle of the Beiyan people is troublesome, they will destroy the magic circle and use all kinds of dirty energy to make the magic circle. A lot of vitality was lost, wouldn't the magic circle be broken in the end?
After the first wave of ammunition was loaded, the prairie people didn't conduct a test firing at all, and all pulled the rope to shoot.

Wu Tong and the others are no strangers to this relatively simple operation. It is not that they have not fought against grassland people in the past ten years. They have long known that they do not have the habit of test shooting, and prefer simple and rough The way to do it is to fight.

As a result, the angle and strength of this batch of throwing stones were not very good. Not to mention the city wall of the pass, they didn't even touch the boundary of the outer magic circle.

There is still a long distance to touch those stones, which should be due to insufficient strength.It fell on the ground and smashed a very obvious big pit, bringing up a cloud of smoke and dust.

As for the mixture of corpses, they exploded outside the magic circle at a lighter distance, and all kinds of dirty things inside splashed out and fell on the ground. The ground turned black and green smoke came out at the same time. Not a little corrosive.

The others didn't react too much, but Chen Zheng felt a little nauseous after seeing it, it was so disgusting, even though he had experienced many battles, but the number of times he faced such disgusting things was too few, and he felt a little sick for a while. Difficult to accept.

The first wave of stones didn't even hit the side, so the prairie people didn't feel it was a slap in the face. However, some tribal warriors still waved their whips and whipped the slaves while scolding the slave leaders to quickly adjust their positions and angles to attack.

Then he took the slave head like a dog's leg, and whipped it up with a whip, urging the slaves he managed to readjust.

Soon the second wave of ammunition was reloaded.

Perhaps it was the whip that had an effect, this time the stones and mixture hit the magic circle accurately, causing a series of ripples amidst the explosion and roar.

Twenty or thirty steps away from the city wall, a faint light curtain was supported, and every explosion of stones and mixtures was intercepted by it.

This is Daxingguan's defensive array, which is specially used to defend against the enemy's long-range attacks. Whether you use arrow rain, martial arts, throwing stones, etc., you will be blocked by the array.

You prairie people know how to use slaves to consume the materials, physical strength and energy of the defenders.

Then we, Beiyan, can also use formations to achieve the same effect. War is often a matter of comparing the consumption of the two sides.

Now both sides are waiting to see if the magic circle will be breached.

If it is breached, the defenders of Daxing Pass need to prepare to meet the enemy head-on. If it is not breached, the prairie people can only use their hands to destroy the formation. Anyway, it is all consumption, the difference is that the consumption is different.

As for destroying the catapults, don't even think about it. The soldiers at Daxingguan can still fight the prairie people by virtue of the location of the pass. If they are on the plain, they can chase many prairie warriors on horseback.

Not every army can fight the cavalry head-on on the plains like the Yanwu army, and return with a big victory.

There are [-] elite prairie warriors below, and it would be terrible for them to rush up directly.

Therefore, we must find ways to consume the effective strength of the prairie people and delay time. Reinforcements will arrive in a week. By then, these prairie people will not be able to capture Daxing Pass even if they double their numbers.

In order to delay the time, this vitality stone is also supplied in large quantities, and he is not stingy at all.

So everyone could only hear the roar of stones falling to the ground and the explosion of the mixture, but under the action of the defensive formation, the city wall was not harmed.

However, the light curtain is gradually weakening with each attack, and the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army are also reporting rapidly, and the consumption of vitality stones has begun to increase.

However, Wu Tong didn't care, and asked people to put all the vitality stones on it. If the ammunition of the prairie people's catapults could be completely consumed, they would be much more comfortable in the next battle of defending the city.

It is a very cost-effective deal to exchange foreign objects such as vitality stones for the soldiers because the physical exertion is very small.

This kind of attack lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the light curtain seemed to be destroyed at any time, but it still persisted tenaciously.

At critical moments, there will be a wave of timely energy replenishment to maintain the operation of the magic circle.

(End of this chapter)