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Chapter 227: The Sassanid Empire's Plot, Li Chen's Crisis! (Please subscribe, please vote)

When two armies are at war, the most important thing is intelligence.

In the central military tent of the Tiance Dynasty, Guo Poyun was constantly fiddling with the sand table to command the various troops.

Intelligence personnel also kept running in from the door and reporting in real time.

The messenger was nearby, waiting for Guo Poyun's command.

Guo Poyun is the commander-in-chief, so he doesn't need to go to the front line. His task is to coordinate.

After all, Li Chen came in person, Li Chen's fighting ability is unquestionable, and there are so many powerful saints around him.

Guo Poyun did his job well, but at this moment, the intelligence personnel reported a message saying that the city of Ardashi was already in great chaos.

The four major demon beast legions all left the city of Ardashi, and the empress was angry because of the betrayal of other families.

As he spoke, the intelligence officer handed the seized secret letter to Guo Poyun.

A general nearby saw this and said, "Marshal, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Sassanid army has been divided into small groups and spread across the rainforest mountains, setting up various traps. Our troops are not familiar with the terrain and have suffered a great loss here.

Moreover, the supply line is too long, and the transport troops are under attack. It is better to seize Ardashi City while the situation is favorable, so that the Sassanid Empire will collapse completely. "

His statement was also affirmed by the soldiers around him.

This is the current battle situation. Except for the vanguard army where Xu Zifeng is leading, which is encountering strong resistance, the other armies are all harassed. These Sassanid army have no desire to fight and just want to drag it out.

When Guo Poyun heard the news, he was overwhelmed. He didn't expect that there was a command genius in the enemy army.

And now, it seems like an opportunity to make the opponent collapse completely.

I heard that Empress Elisa is in the city of Ardashi. As long as we capture the city of Ardashi and capture the empress alive, the Sassanid Empire will definitely surrender.

Guo Poyun didn't know much about the battles in the Saint Realm, but he didn't think anyone could fight against Li Chen.

Even though Tuoba Zhen was so vicious, he was still beaten to death twice by Li Chen.

Another point is that Guo Poyun knows that His Majesty Li Chen is very cautious and not the kind of person who acts recklessly. He always puts stability first in his dealings with others and will not take action without certainty.

The unrest in the city of Ardashi is indeed a godsend.

But Guo Poyun always felt that something was wrong. The opposing commander had such ability, and his subordinates could not possibly do such a thing to sabotage him. Could it be that they had encountered some conflict?
Guo Poyun continued to check the intelligence. The Lionheart Legion and the Earth Dragon Legion of the Sassanid Empire had indeed left the city long ago and were engaged in a battle with the army of the Tiance Dynasty. These two legions were definitely not in the city of Ardashi.

According to intelligence from spies, the Blue Ox Legion was indeed discovered leaving the city of Ardashi a few days ago.

It is said that the Giant Elephant Legion also disappeared mysteriously that night.

Then the changes in the city of Ardashi should be nine out of ten true. At least judging from the intelligence, there is no big problem.

Without these four legions, the strength of other Sassanid forces was greatly reduced.

The correct approach now is to concentrate our forces to attack the city of Ardashi.

While Guo Poyun was thinking, the generals around him asked for orders one after another, saying that they could also lead their troops to support Li Chen's main force.

At this moment, Guo Poyun's pupils suddenly shrank.

"No, this is the enemy's plan. They are deliberately asking us to attack the city of Ardashi."

As he spoke, he began to deploy his troops on the sand table.

"Look, the three Sassanid monster armies have all left Ardashi City. However, those who left were the armies that had invaded the plains for battle and raids. As for the missing giant elephant armies, no one knows where they went. What if they stayed in the city?"

Guo Poyun continued to analyze that the Sassanid Empire did this in order to concentrate the army of our Tiance Dynasty near the city of Ardashi.

Even though the morale of the people in Ardashi City is low, the empress is still there and the infantry regiment is still there, so defending the city is not a big problem.

Then the legions that leave the city can gather the scattered troops and attack our rear defense while we are attacking the city of Ardashi.

As long as the monster army takes the lead, our army will be dispersed and fall into chaos.

At this time, if the giant elephant army in the city rushed out again, the Tiance Dynasty would be doomed to fail.

"The other side is forcing us to fight. If we don't fight, the battle line will be stretched out." As if thinking of something, Guo Poyun asked hurriedly: "Where is your majesty's army marching now? Have they already attacked the city of Ardashi?"

Because the war has been going on for some time, Li Chen's army is expected to have reached the vicinity of Ardashi City according to the plan, even if the marching speed is slow.

This army was commanded by Li Chen himself. If he thought they could fight, he would have already started the exchange of fire.

As long as Li Chen starts fighting, the surrounding legions will have nothing to do and will definitely support Li Chen.

At this time, the intelligence soldier came in and said, "Report to the Marshal, your Majesty's army has begun to attack the city of Ardashi, and the generals of each army are asking whether they can provide support."

Hearing this news, Guo Poyun began to panic.

In his opinion, Li Chen must have known about the civil unrest in Ardashi City, so he started to attack the city in advance.

He immediately gave orders, asking the two surrounding legions to cover Li Chen's retreat, while the other legions continued to search for the traces of the monster legion and encircle and suppress them, preventing them from hurting Li Chen.

Seeing the messengers running out frantically, Guo Poyun actually began to pray in his heart, hoping that Li Chen could hear the news quickly and not be delayed by the city of Ardashi, otherwise it would be too late.

At the same time, Li Chen was really attacking the city of Ardashi.

On the city wall of Ardashi, the empress looked at the army in the distance and smiled confidently.

Duke Azman, who was supposed to have disappeared, is now nearby. He is wearing a cloak with his face hidden in the cloak, and he also has a smile on his face as if his plan has succeeded.

The actual situation was just as Guo Poyun expected. This was the strategy of the Sassanid Empire.

When the Empress proposed the plan of breaking the whole into parts, Duke Azman agreed with it, but he was ready to use a counter-measure.

Let the Blue Ox Legion leave the city of Ardashi and gather the troops.

If the Tian Ce Dynasty fails to capture the city after a long siege, the Qing Niu Legion can swoop down from the northern slope at dawn and directly destroy the Tian Ce Dynasty's rear line of defense.

This is a war that concerns the fate of the country. Duke Hassan of the Nasser family will never choose to leave privately because of his own selfish reasons.

Since the capital was destroyed, the Nasser family had no meaning unless they surrendered.

But now that the battle has come to this point, it is too late to surrender and there is no point in doing so.

So the emperor and his ministers worked together to carry out this plan.

As the saying goes, if you want to deceive your enemies, you must first deceive your own people.

When the empress heard that Duke Azman and his army of giant elephants had disappeared, she was so angry that she wanted to kill someone.

However, that night, Duke Azman came in person to say that he had simply hidden his troops to create the appearance that the army was in disarray.

As long as the Tian Ce Dynasty has spies in Ardashi City, they will definitely pass the news out.

Or if we catch the other messenger, we can also obtain information.

But this information cannot be given too deliberately, otherwise the people of the Tian Ce Dynasty will not believe it.

When the empress heard this, she was overjoyed.

In her opinion, this time the Sassanid king Chu Yixin will make sure that Li Chen will never return!
And today, Li Chen's slow-moving army has arrived at the city.

As expected, they seemed to have received the news and began to prepare for the siege.

This made the empress ecstatic. She felt that after this battle, the Sassanid Empire would become famous across the continent, and her own great achievements would be sung in every corner of the world.

Let the whole world know that the invincible army of the Tiance Dynasty will also be defeated by their Sassanid Empire.

Thinking of this, the young empress felt that this honor came too suddenly.

Li Chen is definitely the best stepping stone for her to reach the top of the world.

Looking at Li Chen riding on a horse opposite her, the empress was preparing to deal with Li Chen's challenge.

When Li Chen asked her to go out for a duel, she refused sharply and mercilessly, and gave Li Chen a hot pot, then Li Chen would order a fierce attack on the city.

A one-on-one duel before the battle? Do you really think I'm stupid? I'm not Tuoba Zhen.

How can I, who occupies the city, fight you in a one-on-one duel?

If it's a one-on-one fight, then what's the use of a city, formations and meridian arrays?

But the empress still didn't know Li Chen very well, and Li Chen was not the kind of person who liked to talk nonsense.

This guy didn't say anything at all, he just kept attacking!

This made the empress prepare a bunch of words to humiliate Li Chen, but she didn't have time to say them out loud, which made her feel suffocated and felt that Li Chen really didn't play by the rules.

At this moment, the defenders on the city wall of Ardashi City could see that the opposite side was a dark mass. Without saying anything, they blew the horn and beat the thunderous drum. The next moment, the Harmonious Pulse Formation, which erupted from the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tiance Dynasty, was like a huge heavenly soldier, suppressing them from all directions.

Seeing the black torrent coming towards them, the depressing atmosphere and feeling of terror shocked the defenders of the city.

Although they occupied the city, the feeling of fear was still very strong.

Seeing the morale being suppressed, the empress immediately burst out with overwhelming power. The shadow of the holy lion behind her raised its head and roared, and the sound waves rolled across the sky like thunder.

The holy lion was gilded all over, and its mane was like thousands of burning golden spears piercing the sky. When its four claws stepped on the ground, spider-web-like cracks appeared in the void.

Its appearance shook the heaven and earth!
The sky is bowed! The earth is trembling!
This is not an illusion, but a change in heaven and earth caused by the overflow of pure power.

The soldiers defending the city looked at the phantom that was about to collapse half of the city and felt their blood boiling and their morale soaring. Even the runes flowing in the city defense formation were coated with a layer of light golden glow.

This is the most powerful empress of the Sassanid Empire and a symbol of supremacy.

However, they did not know how terrifying the enemy they were about to face was.

Li Chen spoke, proving that he was testing.

Once he doesn't speak, it means there is no need for him to even test you.

His silence was more oppressive than any words.

The most powerful weapon of Ardashi City is the city defense formation, but this time the city defense formation has to face the attack of several saints, Li Chen, and hundreds of thousands of troops!

This is not the Holy Mountain City. The Holy Mountain City is upward, so it is easy to lose force and fail to exert strength.

At this time, Li Chen completely activated his artery technique, and a giant god thousands of feet tall was born!

It was like the Emperor himself had arrived! The sky was overturned! The world was in turmoil!

Seeing Li Chen's unleashing power, the empress did not dare to be negligent.

"Start the battle!"

The empress's loud shout resounded through the sky.

Purple-gold beams of light burst out from the seventy-two towers of Ardashi City at the same time, and layers of runes moved on the surface of the city walls like living things.

The totems of the thirty-six constellations emerged on the first layer of the “Tiangang Barrier”.

The second layer of the "Earthly Furnace" gushed out red veins like magma, and the outermost layer of the "Void Mirror World" reflected thousands of distorted illusions.

This is the "Three-Circle National Defense Formation" that the Sassanid Empire spent a hundred years to build.

Saints of all generations have engraved their lifelong insights into it. Once, three peak saints teamed up to bombard it for three days without breaking it!
In front of the Tian Ce Army, eight Saint Realm powerhouses lined up like stars, and the energy in their veins turned into substantial chains that wrapped around the thousand-foot-tall giant god's phantom behind Li Chen.

The giant god's face was exactly the same as Li Chen's, but he had the indifference of an ancient emperor. What he held in his hand was not a sword, but a collapsing scorching white sun.

That is the world-destroying pulse energy gathered by the harmonious pulse formation of hundreds of thousands of troops!

Li Chen finally moved.

The blazing sun in the giant god's phantom hand suddenly shrank into a line, and an indescribable bowstring vibration sound rang out between heaven and earth.

The seven saint-level warriors behind Li Chen cast spells at the same time. Their pupils turned pure silver-white and they chanted ancient forbidden spells.

They just want to gather all their strength on Li Chen.

Only Li Chen can withstand so much power. If it were anyone else, he would have exploded.

When the energy gathered to the extreme, Li Chen's pupils burst out with tremendous power. He pointed his sword at the city defense formation in front of him: "Break it!"

The blazing white light in the giant god's hand behind him seemed to penetrate time and space, and smashed towards the city defense formation.

Boom!

In an instant, cracks appeared on all seventy-two towers at the same time.

The star totems on the first layer of the Tiangang Barrier melted instantly like a piece of paper licked by flames.

The magma in the Earthly Demon Furnace evaporated into nothingness before it even touched the white light.

The void mirror world even emitted a mournful cry of shattered glass.

The empress watched helplessly as the devastating beam of light hit the center of the city wall. The shadow of the Holy Lion instinctively pounced forward, but was torn into pieces into golden rain the moment it came into contact with the light!
The defense of the formation was completely torn apart, and a huge crack appeared on the towering city wall. The crack extended from the top of the wall to the ground, with rubble flying and dust flying.

Amid the roar of the collapsing city wall, a crack deep into the earth appeared throughout the city.

The obsidian bricks engraved with ancient defensive runes now seemed as fragile as a sand castle built by a child.

What's even more terrifying is that it wasn't just the material that was torn apart. The spiritual energy of the earth veins within a hundred miles radius was frantically pouring into the crack, as if the entire destiny of the Sassanid Empire was being swallowed up by this wound!

The world's unrivaled city defense formation was broken just like that?!

Queen Alyssa widened her eyes, her face full of disbelief.

A huge wave of emotions surged in her heart. Even though she had thought of countless scenarios, she had never expected it to turn out like this.

She originally thought that with the help of the city defense formation and two saints, she would be able to resist the attack of the Tiance Dynasty.

But now, she realized that she had underestimated Li Chen and the strength of the Tiance Dynasty.

The soldiers around were also stunned, and their originally high morale disappeared at this moment.

They looked at the huge crack, their hearts filled with fear and despair.

The city defense formation was their last resort. Now that the formation has been broken, what else can they rely on to resist the attack of the Tiance Dynasty?

But Li Chen's attack was not over yet. His voice was as cold as ice: "Attack the city!"

Following his orders, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tiance Dynasty rushed towards the city of Ardashi like a black torrent, and the sound of clanging iron armor could be heard in the smoke and dust.

Their steps were in perfect unison, and every step made the earth tremble.

The light of the Harmonic Vein Array shone on them, and heavenly soldiers were constantly bombarding the city of Ardashi!
The soldiers defending the city of Ardashi are fighting a bloody battle with the army of the Tiance Dynasty!
But the difference is that their momentum has just been destroyed and they are fighting without any rules.

The army of the Tiance Dynasty was too powerful. This was the regular army of the royal family, the army that Li Chen was in! The ace among aces!
Helan Xuan rushed in without caring about his life, vowing to perform well in front of Li Chen!

There was no defensive formation and the city walls were blown down, so the defenders were simply unable to stop the charging cavalry!
The entire city of Ardashi has been filled with shouts of killing all day long, and corpses are everywhere.

On the wall, the Empress heard the roar of Duke Azman: "Your Majesty, please leave! The Blue Bull Corps will not be able to make it in time today. My Giant Elephant Corps is willing to swear to protect Your Majesty until death!"

From this sentence, we can see that Duke Azman is also a loyal person.

The empress was still having trouble getting over the blow. She stared at Li Chen opposite her, then glanced at Duke Azman and said coldly, "Li Chen seemed to have spent a lot of effort to break through the formation. He didn't lead his army in at this time, which proves that he is very weak now. If I kill him, can I turn the tide of the battle?"

This is the only hope the empress found in adversity.

You know, she was just the phantom of the Holy Lion that was destroyed, and she still retained at least eight levels of power.

The move Li Chen just used was definitely not a simple move. It put a huge burden on his body and over-consumed his meridians, so he would definitely not be able to continue fighting.

Hearing this, Duke Azman glanced at Li Chen in the distance and blurted out: "If Your Majesty wants to charge, my Giant Elephant Corps will fight to the death!"

Because he also knew that once Li Chen was killed, the morale of the Tiance Dynasty’s army would be damaged, and there was still a chance!
If Li Chen was captured, it would be even better. The army of the Tiance Dynasty would definitely not dare to continue fighting.

If the situation can really be reversed, Duke Azman thinks it's worth a try.

At this time, Li Chen was observing in front of the formation. He was not interested in things like siege.

With Helan Xuan and other generals around, there was no need for him to go there in person.

He came here just to solve something that others couldn't solve, and that was the city defense formation.

During the march of the past few days, the eight saints were studying and preparing a large wave.

Those present are leaders of various major forces, so there must be some ancient things.

Fairy Youlan of the Tianyan Divine Sect said that her sect had a long heritage, which recorded a forbidden technique. However, to use this forbidden technique, one needed a body that could withstand dozens or even hundreds of times the energy.

It was obvious that Li Chen was this person, so today he tried to bombard the city of Ardashi, but he didn't expect that he could actually destroy it.

Those who are familiar with Li Chen know that he was just too lazy to charge at this time, and as a result, the empress thought he was no longer able to do it.

Then a scene that puzzled Li Chen appeared. The empress came with an army of giant elephants to kill them.

"Although I have consumed some energy, the problem is that I am not yet unable to walk. Do you really dare to deal with me?"

(End of this chapter)