A gentle breeze blew, and the fourteen literary armies that had rested for a day once again lined up in neat rows, climbed up the Liangjie Mountain city wall, and stood behind thirteen city sections respectively.
Unlike the first time they climbed the city wall, every Pearl River Army soldier's face was filled with confidence and calmness. Even though the stench of blood filled their noses and even spread throughout their bodies, not a single soldier vomited or even frowned.
Because, in their memory, the wall of Jieshan City is a place of blood and fire, but also a place of victory and glory.
Fang Yun looked around and found that there were several soldiers from the Wenjie Army who were in opposition to the Pearl River Army, and their faces were full of anxiety.
Today, the Wenjie Army still has fourteen armies, but the two armies of the Yan State have merged into one to defend a section of the city.
Fang Yun took a look silently. It was the same for all the armies from the two border mountains that had climbed the city before. First, the two armies of one country were merged into one army, then the remaining soldiers of the two countries were merged into one army, and finally all the soldiers of the seven countries were merged into one army.
Then, Fang Yun looked towards the rear of the Pearl River Army.
A total of twenty brand-new crossbow-type mechanisms stood on the tracks of the city wall, ten of which were "light iron poison arrow crossbows" and ten were "ox-head ramming horn crossbows". In addition, there was a great scholar's writing brush in Fang Yun's hand, which had used up all his military merits of these days.
The reason why the Pearl River Army is in high spirits today is partly due to these twenty machines.
After the other literary armies, there were also some machines that were exchanged for military merits by various armies, but there was not a single iron poison arrow crossbow or ox-head ramming horn crossbow. They were all second-rate machines that could pose a threat to the Demon Marquis, but had little effect on the Demon King.
The generals of other civil armies felt ashamed whenever they saw the twenty machine guns of the Pearl River Army, because their respective armies had too little military merit to exchange for these two powerful machine guns, not even enough military merit to exchange for one.
The generals of the Qishan Army standing by looked at the twenty machines that were brighter than the sun, their eyes turning green. Some of the generals even drooled, wishing they could rush up and grab the twenty machines.
In a critical moment, these twenty machines can be regarded as twenty university scholars. Having or not having these twenty machines can almost mean the difference between life and death.
Just last night, the demon world stopped its demon sea tactics. Hundreds of millions of demons were killed, but in return only the lives of millions of human troops. This was a major failure for the demon world.
Starting from this morning, the monsters continued to use normal siege methods. People of all races mixed together to climb the city walls, and everyone from the monster people to the monster lords cooperated freely. The Monster King and the Great Monster King still stayed in the rear, looking for a suitable opportunity.
Time passes slowly.
Soldiers of the Wenjie Army continued to die.
Prince Jing of the Qishan Army returned to the literary world, leaving only two Grand Secretaries, Shang Wu Hou and Gou Bao, in the army. When faced with a sudden large-scale attack by the monsters, the two Grand Secretaries were unable to fully handle the attack, causing the Qishan Army to continue to lose men.
After another three days of fighting, only 90,000 Qishan troops were left. During the rest period, the two armies of each country were combined into one. In this way, the Wenjie army actually only had the armies of six countries plus the Qishan army and the Zhujiang army, and could only defend eight city walls.
The Wenjie army rested for another day, and the eight armies appeared under the wall of Jieshan for the third time, waiting for the order to enter the city.
The number of people in the Pearl River Army and the Six Kingdoms' armies exceeded 100,000, and the armies of Qin and Zhao even exceeded 200,000. Only the Qishan Army had only 90,000 left.
The eight phalanxes were of different sizes, and the smallest Qishan Army looked a little desolate.
Wang Li said in a clear voice: "Grandmaster Gou, you said before the war that you wanted to compete with our Pearl River Army in military merit. How is it now? Our Pearl River Army's military merit has ranked 67th! And our Pearl River Army has only fought for six days at most! Do you know what this means? It means that if we calculate the average merit per day, our Pearl River Army is already in the top five! The armies ahead of our Pearl River Army have basically been fighting for more than a month!"
Gou Bao pretended not to hear and stared at the city wall in front of him.
"Grand Secretary Gou, you competed in military merit with my marquis. We agreed that three months later, the winner would get the flags of both armies, and the loser would donate all his property to Liangjie Mountain and provide it to the human race. Do you remember what I said? Don't you, a grand secretary, dare to answer?" Zhang Qingfeng asked.
Gou Bao snorted coldly, without even looking at Zhang Qingfeng, and said, "It's not even three months yet, and you're celebrating. It's a little too early."
"Before the Wenjie Army joined the war, Grand Secretary Gou claimed that the Pearl River Army would undoubtedly be defeated. Compared to you, we are not early." Zhang Qingfeng hit back.
"Stop talking nonsense, we'll know the result in three months." Gou Bao said.
Wang Li asked: "There is one thing I don't understand. If the number of Qishan troops decreases suddenly and they are unable to participate in the defense and withdraw from the Jieshan city wall, does that mean that the Qishan troops have failed, or that this matter is over?"
"How could I be so shameless? If any army is defeated and unable to defend the Jieshan city wall, it will naturally be equivalent to failure in advance!" Gou Bao said.
"That's good! It seems that the result will be clear in three days." Wang Li said.
Gou Bao smiled coldly and said nothing.
Fang Yun glanced at Gou Bao and a hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes.
Gou Bao was not as expressionless as the deceased Lu Menhou, and his self-control was not very high. But at this time, everyone knew that the 90,000 troops of Qishan Army could not last more than three days, but Gou Bao was still stubborn, which showed that he had found someone to rely on.
"What's his trump card? Could it be..."
Soon, the Liangjieshan Military Headquarters issued an order, and eight armies climbed up the Jieshan city wall for the third time to defend eight sections of the city.
The battle on the Jieshan city wall was still extremely fierce. The eight armies were plunged into a dark battle as soon as they changed their guard.
Fang Yun immediately wrote "Joining the Army" and summoned out ten thousand war poem cavalrymen. Three powerful weapons floated in the sky, standing between the war poem cavalrymen summoned by other generals and the soldiers of the Pearl River Army as the last line of defense. Then Fang Yun sat on Pingbu Qingyun and continued to read and study.
In the battles of the past few days, Fang Yun had been fighting in this way and did not fight directly.
The battle lasted from morning to night, and the Pearl River Army had already replaced its second army of 70,000 people.
Today, 30,000 Qishan soldiers were killed, and now only 60,000 are left. These are the only 60,000 people left in the Qishan army. They cannot rest, and cannot wait for reinforcements, so they can only continue to fight.
Eating dry food while fighting.
Dinner time had just passed when Xie Bingzhi hurriedly ran towards Fang Yun while passing a letter to him.
"Lord Fang, Chu State has sent new troops from Qishan Army to provide assistance. The command department has given the go-ahead, and those reinforcements will soon arrive at the Jieshan city wall!"
Fang Yun was stunned, and instantly understood that Gou Bao must have discussed with the King of Chu long ago that once the Qishan Army was defeated by the Pearl River Army, the King of Chu would definitely send new reinforcements to continue to help the Qishan Army until it defeated the Pearl River Army.
"How many reinforcements are there?" Fang Yun asked.
"The number is strange, only over a hundred people." Xie Bingzhi had approached, and his expression was extremely serious when he spoke.
Fang Yun's face darkened. If there were hundreds of thousands of reinforcements, it would be good news, but if there were only a hundred or so people, it would be bad news.
"It seems that you have also guessed that the literary ranks of those more than one hundred people are probably very high, and there will be no less than three grand secretaries." Xie Bing knew.
Fang Yun nodded without saying a word.
.(To be continued.)