Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 118 Hell on Earth is War

Touman glared at the Xuanming Patriarch and said sternly, "I have never been afraid of the Qin State or its 200,000 Qin soldiers. I, the Xiongnu, are descendants of the Yellow Emperor. During the Shang Dynasty, I was expelled to the north of the Yin Mountains. I danced with tigers and wolves all day long and roamed in cold lands. The Central Plains called us Quanrong, Shanrong, Hunzhou, and Xianyun. We are of the same origin, but why do they live in fertile land and regard us as barbarians? We are not allowed to set foot in the Central Plains and rise up to resist. I have never been submissive and afraid since I was born. I have always been determined to lead the Xiongnu cavalry across the Yellow River and take back the land where my ancestors once lived, bathe in the scorching sun, drink the river water, and let my descendants wear silk clothes. "I missed the opportunity ten years ago and was laughed at by the world. It's not that I'm afraid, but the time has not come. What can a mere 30,000 cavalrymen invade Zhao? In the end, it's still Qin that benefits. Now, I have been gathering strength for more than ten years for this opportunity. It's the time when my Xiongnu soldiers are strong and powerful. How can I stop in this thousand-mile desert? If I go back, how can I be worthy of the dead soldiers, how can I face my wife, children and tribesmen? I will regret it all my life. Fear! I have never had it in my heart, and I have never had it in the blood of my Xiongnu men. Fear! We will only leave it to the enemy!"

At some point, several generals who were kneeling on the ground had stood up and were trying to wipe away the tears in their eyes. Ugud knelt down with a plop and said in a sonorous voice: "Please give the order, Khan, to cross the desert, take revenge, and take back the mountains and rivers!"

The surrounding soldiers shouted excitedly: "Cross the desert, avenge our hatred, take back the mountains and rivers,..." The shouts of 300,000 troops resounded through the sky.

Patriarch Xuanming laughed, but his voice was drowned out by the shouting, and no one could hear or see it.

Touman raised his hand, waited for the shouting to stop, and shouted, "Head to Shanggu!"

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The red sun, the fiery clouds, the blue sky and the golden sea, the flying yellow sand, stretching far and wide. After two days of traveling day and night, all the passion turned into unbearable hunger and thirst, and the body was exhausted, leaving only persistence.

The gate of Shanggu was in sight. The 300,000-strong army, covered in a layer of dust, drank the last sip of water, forced themselves to cheer up, regained their vitality, lined up their battle formation, and fought to the death.

The city wall of Shanggu is flat, much shorter than that of Yanmen Pass, only a dozen feet high. The city gate is only a few feet wide and does not look very solid.

Wuzhan stood on the top of the city wall, wearing a white robe, with fluttering black hair and a pale face. He calmly looked at the slowly approaching Hun army. Tens of thousands of Qin soldiers were on high alert on and inside the city.

Ling Kongzi stood beside him and sighed, "Why do you have to go back to your hometown and come here again!"

Wuzhan pondered and said, "This is war. Millions of people died for it, perhaps just for a word or a thought!"

There are only two roads from Dai County to Shanggu, inside the pass and outside the pass. The people of Dai County and Shanggu know both of them, but there is too much fog all year round and it is easy to get lost, so few people choose to take the shortcut outside the pass. In order to lead the Hun army into the valley outside the pass, Wuzhan set up a series of magic arrays, secret plots, and ambushes from Yanmen, forcing the Huns not to follow him and to choose a shortcut outside the pass to overtake the Qin army. Unexpectedly, the Hun army entered the valley before the magic arrays were used.

As for the trap in the valley, Wuzhan had already ordered Lingkongzi to lead 20,000 cavalrymen to rush to Shanggu with Meng Tian. After arriving at Shanggu, they blew down the stone cliffs on both sides of the exit, blocking the exit and setting up an illusion. Even if the Qin army found out, it would take a day to clear the rubble. However, the Hun army was unaware and soon missed the exit and was led into the winding ravines. Wuzhan did not want to commit too much killing, so he planned to trap the Huns for a few more days and release them when their food and grass ran out. At that time, the Huns would have no choice but to retreat. However, he never expected that the ancestor Xuanming would use his divine sense to discover the exit leading to the desert. The stone barrier at the exit was not set up by Wuzhan, but had existed since the Western Zhou Dynasty. Perhaps at that time, they began to resist the invasion from the north.

Touman raised his long sword and rode forward, his eyes bloodshot, his sword pointed without any obstacle, and shouted angrily: "Today, I will cut you into pieces!"

Jin Xingzi laughed and said, "Why are you killing us? So many of you have died, and you still think it's not enough? The young master has already given you a way to live, why do you still come here to die!"

Touman said angrily, "You are only good at plotting and scheming. How dare you have a fair fight with me, the Xiongnu?"

"All is fair in war. I know this even though I don't know the art of war. You are the Great Khan of the Xiongnu, but have you ever seen a victory won fairly? Your skills are not as good as mine, and you still refuse to admit defeat. I advise you to take your exhausted army back to sleep. Don't sleep here forever!"

Touman was furious and shouted, "How shameless! I will break through the gate and crush you, a bunch of despicable soldiers!"

He turned his horse around and galloped in front of the soldiers, shouting: "Heroes of the Xiongnu, our brothers were killed by the Qin army in this city, 130,000 of them, and they almost buried us in the valley with the most despicable method. Now we have run out of food and grass, and drank the last drop of water. Why do we want to come back?"

"Avenge our grievances and take back our country!..." The army shouted in unison, their morale was boosted and the earth was shaking.

Touman swung his long sword and roared at the city wall: "Break through the city gate and drink all their blood!"

As soon as the order was given, the war drums roared, and tens of thousands of soldiers, holding shields and shouting, rushed towards the city walls like a wave.

After breaking through Yanmen Pass, in order to march quickly, the heavy siege equipment was parked outside Yanmen Pass, and only a dozen light battering rams and hundreds of ladders were brought. Therefore, the Huns chose to attack by force right away.

Seeing the Xiongnu approaching the city, General Fan gave the order, "Shoot!"

Arrows were shot at the oncoming waves like dense rain. There were 10,000 archers and crossbowmen on the city wall, divided into two teams. After shooting arrows, one team immediately retreated to nock their arrows, while the second team went forward to continue shooting arrows, and the cycle continued like this, with the rain of arrows never stopping.

In an instant, thousands of Hun soldiers were shot to death before they even reached the city. They fell to the ground screaming, but most of the arrows hit their shields.

The Hun cavalry followed the infantry, drawing their bows and arrows to cover the infantry as they climbed the wall. Thousands of arrows rose up, drawing curves in the air, like a river in the sky, pouring down and shooting at the Qin army on the city. The Qin archers were protected by shields, but some of them were unable to dodge and were hit by the arrows, screaming in pain.

For a moment, the sky above the gate was filled with densely packed arrows, whistling like a strong wind. The contest between the archers of the two armies was evenly matched.

The Xiongnu infantry had rushed to the city wall, leaning against it, holding their shields, and forming a long line. The infantry that arrived later climbed onto their shields and built a human wall. Ladders were set up on the city wall, and the infantry rushed up along the ladders. The city gate was rammed by the sound of battering rams. Seeing this, the Qin army poured kerosene and burning sand and rolled down logs and rocks. Suddenly, there was thick smoke, raging flames, and screams under the city.

Looking at the soldiers who died one after another, Touman was heartbroken and said to the Xuanming Patriarch: "Didn't the Patriarch promise to help me defeat the Qin army? I wonder when you will take action and what kind of magical power you will use?"

The old ancestor said hoarsely: "Now is not the time, Great Khan, don't be impatient. When the time comes, everything will fall into place, and the Great Khan will understand."

Seeing that the Xuanming Patriarch was unwilling to tell him, Touman did not continue to ask, and turned to Qiu Linshan and said, "Qiu Linshan, listen to my order. Take 10,000 cavalrymen now, and when the city is broken, charge into the city!"

Qiu Linshan knelt on the ground and said, "I have obeyed your command!" He stood up and called the troops.

Not long after, the Qin army ran out of logs and stones. Some soldiers had already climbed up the city wall, but were surrounded by the Qin soldiers on the city wall and died tragically under the hail of bullets. However, this caused chaos on the city wall and the rain of arrows stopped. More and more Hun soldiers rushed up from behind. Weapons collided on the city wall, blood splattered, and the shouts of killing were like a tsunami and a landslide.

With a loud bang, the city gate was knocked down. The Xiongnu soldiers were about to charge into the city waving their scimitars, but they saw the Qin cavalry rushing out of the city with spears and halberds in their hands. General Xu waved his long sword like a tiger, and wherever he went, there was blood.

Qiu Linshan roared, "Kill them all without leaving a single piece of armor!" He waved his sickle, rushed to the front, and led tens of thousands of cavalrymen to rush towards the Qin cavalry that had rushed out. Yellow sand was flying, murderous aura was rising, and the earth was rumbling.

The Hun soldiers at the city gate heard the sound of galloping behind them and stopped fighting. They separated to both sides to allow the cavalry to pass.

When General Xu saw Qiu Linshan and his troops rushing towards him, his eyes became bloodshot. He shouted loudly, swung his sword, and rushed towards Qiu Linshan.

General Fan saw this from the city wall and shouted, "General Xu, come back soon!" He knew that General Xu was competitive, disobeyed military orders, and was eager for success.

How could General Xu hear the shouting? Both horses were running at their fastest speed. When they were about to meet, Qiu Linshan pulled out a small bronze tube, which suddenly emitted a black light.

General Xu was swinging his sword to chop Qiu Linshan off his horse with one strike, but he was caught off guard and was hit by a black needle right in the middle of his forehead. He let out a scream, fell backwards off his horse, and died.

Seeing the Hun cavalry rushing to the city gate, the Qin soldiers who rushed out found it difficult to resist. At this time, Jin Xingzi flew down from the city gate and landed in front of the city gate with a bang. The dust was shaken to both sides. He smiled at Qiu Linshan, and with a "puff", he spurted out a hot flame that was more than ten meters long and two meters wide, and pounced on the rushing Hun cavalry like a fire dragon.

When Qiu Linshan saw him jump down from a city wall more than ten feet high without any injury, he knew that his skills must be extraordinary, so he was secretly on guard. When the flames came towards him, he was shocked and leaned back to avoid the flames. He thought he could avoid the flames, but the warhorse he was sitting on had nowhere to hide. The horse's head caught fire, neighed and fell down. Qiu Linshan's body then flew out into the flames, screaming in pain, his whole body burning with smoke. The cavalrymen behind him fell to the ground, screaming, and were burned to death.

Jin Xingzi took a step forward, kicked out one foot, and kicked Qiu Linshan's body with a "bang". The body flew hundreds of feet high before falling into the galloping cavalry and being trampled to pieces.

Jin Xingzi spewed out several more breaths of flame, each of which burned dozens of people to death. The cavalrymen who were charging over were frightened half to death, not knowing what kind of evil magic was this. They panicked and scattered, not daring to rush straight for the gate.

Jin Xingzi shouted to the Qin soldiers who were rushing out, "Retreat back to the city to defend it, and don't leave the city!" He turned around and ran into the city. The Qin army heard the shouting and retreated into the city one after another.

Although Jin Xingzi and Ling Kongzi have reached the Nascent Soul stage, they possess natural magic skills that are much stronger than those of cultivators of the same period. Therefore, in a battlefield where there are very few masters of cultivation, they are hard to find an opponent if they fight alone.

When Touman saw the tragic deaths of Qiu Linshan and the loss of a general, he was furious and wanted to rush into the city to kill the enemy himself, but was stopped by Ugud.

Ugud was known as the most powerful general of the Xiongnu. He was not only an excellent martial artist, but also had extraordinary intelligence and strategy. He had made many military achievements and was loyal to Touman. He was also the only one who could persuade Touman. Although he was young, he became Touman's trump card and the backbone of the Xiongnu.

On the city wall, more and more Hun soldiers climbed up the wall, reaching tens of thousands, and fought with the Qin army. The scene was extremely tragic. Inside the city, tripwires and chevaux de frise had already been set up. Long spears, halberds, and long spears were as dense as walls, forming a circle. The Hun cavalry who rushed in were like moths to a flame, and they died in batches. It was a horrible sight.

This battle was a battle of life and death. The Huns had no way to retreat, and the Qin army had no way to retreat either. Therefore, the scene was extremely tragic and tragic. Although the Huns had a large number of people, they were exhausted and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. The Qin army was waiting here and had made sufficient preparations. Although the city gates were not strong, they inflicted heavy casualties on the Huns.

Wuzhe stood on the city wall, looking at the tragic deaths everywhere, and lamented in his heart: "War is always hell on earth!"

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The Xuanming Patriarch smiled grimly beside Touman and said, "The time has come. Khan, please watch how I destroy the Qin army in front of you!"

At that time, the fiery sun sank into the sea of ​​sand, the dark moon appeared dark red, corpses piled up like mountains, and the smell of blood filled the entire sky.

(End of this chapter)