Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

That morning, Zhang Chen and his companions were suddenly called together. It turned out that the purpose of the insect swarm was discovered by the disciples who were investigating. There was a big river ten miles away from Daliang City, named Huai River. At this time, a large number of insect beasts were digging passages. It was speculated that they were preparing to divert water to flood the city.

This scared everyone. If the swarm of insects really did it, they would have no way to resist. At this time, there were a large number of insect beasts surrounding the city, and their soldiers had no ability to go out of the city and fight the insect beasts head-on. They could only rely on the city walls to fight back.

So he summoned Zhang Chen and others, and prepared to break through from the air to attack the swarm of insects that were digging the tunnel and stop them from digging the tunnel.

When the sun was at its highest at noon, ten large ships rose into the air in a diamond shape, fully loaded with disciples, and flew toward the place where the passage was being dug. Each ship had five foundation-building disciples following.

As the ship flew along, it soon encountered an attack from a large number of flying insects and beasts. It was noon, and many of the flying insects and beasts were not in good condition. Zhang Chen and his companions stood on the ship, facing the attacking insects and beasts. They cast spells to continuously kill the insects and beasts that were attacking the ship. Pieces of insects and beasts fell from the sky like raindrops.

But looking at the swarm of insects that covered the sky, their ship was like sailing into the sea, hit by the waves and swaying. They had to turn around and return before they had advanced half the distance. If it had not been for an emergency situation that activated the ship's defense formation and held out for a while, they would have been in danger of being wiped out.

After returning to the city, everyone started thinking of other ways. Many disciples who could perform earth escape techniques began to try to escape from the earth. However, they did not escape far before they found many tunnels that had been dug by the insect swarm long ago. The tunnels were full of insects and beasts, so it was extremely difficult for them to get through quietly.

After trying every possible method to no avail, Zhang Chen and his men looked gloomy. If this continued, they would be forced to watch helplessly as the swarm of insects brought the river water over and flooded Daliang City.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen and his men had been strictly warned not to let the news reach the soldiers. Otherwise, panic would have occurred. The city might have been in chaos before the water was diverted, and would have collapsed without a fight.

Finally, they came up with a risky idea. They transferred 200,000 soldiers from the city during the day on the next day, gathered them outside the south of the city where the attack was relatively weak, and prepared to launch a frontal attack with Zhang Chen and his disciples as the vanguard.

Troops from other directions were secretly mobilized to the south of the city. Almost all archers were quietly transferred to the city wall in the south of the city to stand by, and all anti-aircraft weapons were also transferred to the south of the city.

Although the swarm of insects was huge in number, it besieged the entire Daliang city, and the number in a single direction was still dispersed. After the army gathered inside the city wall defense, they carried many large-scale attack weapons, with bows and crossbows as standard, and began to slowly attack forward.

Many insect swarms were unable to fight during the day, and for a while the insect swarms in the south of the city were beaten back. At this time, the disciples who were exploring in the air began to warn that a large number of flying insect beasts had taken off, and insect beasts from other directions were also gathering here to provide support.

Then all the attacking soldiers began to stay in place. They had expected this outcome long ago. Their goal this time was to deal with the flying insects and beasts. All the archers and crossbowmen who were secretly mobilized on the city wall began to prepare, and all anti-aircraft weapons were ready.

Less than ten minutes later, the sunlight in the sky was blocked out. Countless flying insects and beasts attacked and charged towards the soldiers. However, they were faced with an overwhelming rain of arrows. All the soldiers desperately shot their bows and arrows at the insect swarms in the sky.

The flying swarm of insects was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses in an instant. After more than a dozen rounds of arrow rain, most of the hundreds of thousands of flying swarms that came to support were lost. Finally, only a few of them survived the counterattack of the swarm on the ground.

Then, seeing more and more insects and beasts coming to support from all sides, the soldiers began to retreat slowly, and finally, under the cover of the soldiers on the city wall, they all retreated safely.

Seeing that they could not break through the city wall, the Zerg had no choice but to retreat. Then they repeated the same trick and sent out soldiers after the Zerg retreated and returned to their previous place, launching a larger attack in the south of the city.

This time, 20,000 armored cavalry were sent to charge, and all archers followed closely behind. This time, regardless of the cost, they continued to attack forward, and before other insect swarms could come to support them, they managed to defeat the insect swarm in the south of the city.

After breaking through the defense network set up by the insect swarm underground, Zhang Chen and his group of disciples who were skilled in earth escape techniques all escaped underground and began to move secretly towards the insect swarm that was digging the river.

All other soldiers began to retreat after completing their covering mission and returned to the city to defend themselves again.

At this time, Zhang Chen and hundreds of his fellow disciples were fleeing forward in the soil. To be on the safe side, they did not flee directly towards the passage dug by the insect swarm at first, but fled forward for two miles and then turned to flee towards the river.

Zhang Chen hid for a whole day, during which he quietly emerged from the ground several times to breathe and adjust his direction, and he was almost discovered every time.

Finally, they arrived at the place where the insect swarm was digging the river. Zhang Chen could already hear a huge noise underground when he was still a mile away from there. The closer he got, the more frightened he became. There were at least hundreds of thousands of insects digging the channel, and the channel was getting longer at a speed visible to the naked eye every moment.

Looking at so many insects and beasts, Zhang Chen was in a dilemma. There were only a few hundred disciples among them. It was simply wishful thinking to want to kill all those insects and beasts.

But there was no other good method for the time being, so Zhang Chen began a sneak attack. He quietly escaped to the middle of a group of insect beasts digging, suddenly appeared, took out the magic sword in his hand, and swung it several times. Several five-meter-long sword beams slashed out, killing dozens of unprepared insect beasts nearby, and then quickly escaped before attracting attention.

Soon the swarm of insects digging the river channel began to riot on a large scale. People emerged from the soil everywhere, cast spells and launched sneak attacks, killing dozens of insect beasts before escaping to other places.

Among the disciples who sneaked in this time, there were ten disciples in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Every time they emerged from the ground, they could kill hundreds of insect beasts. Soon the insect swarm responded, and a group of elite members of the swarm appeared. They ambushed in the insect swarm that was digging the tunnel, waiting for Zhang Chen and his men's sneak attack.

Zhang Chen, who was underground, sensed a lot of digging sounds above his head. He quietly popped his head out of the soil and jumped out. Just as he was about to swing his magic sword, he saw dozens of giant white insects waiting for him. They looked like oversized caterpillars with two protruding antennae on their heads, all aimed at Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he felt a sense of crisis. He quickly used the earth escape technique to prepare to escape into the ground, but it was too late.