Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

This is the best we can do.

She couldn't bring herself to ask the other party to risk his life to enter the shadow world and seal it off, because the other party was not her subordinate.

Moreover, if it is not a well-trained team and there is no strong enough leader when entering the shadow world, it will inevitably split from within and fight each other. It is better for them to stay outside.

Normally, in this situation, it is necessary to concentrate all efforts to deal with the problem, but Zhou Liu herself is only at the second level of the Extraordinary Realm... She has been in this position for too short a time, and her appeal, leadership, and strength are obviously insufficient.

Being able to defend well is the limit at the moment.

If they wanted to counterattack, they could only wait for support from the province.

Extraordinary people are also considered as talents, and since they are talents, they will inevitably flow to areas with richer resources. This will inevitably lead to the inability to retain people in local areas, and insufficient defense forces in the event of emergencies. Therefore, seven years have passed, and the Changye Division of Nanling City still cannot recover to the state it was seven years ago because it cannot retain people.

Zhou Liu smiled bitterly. He thought he had done a good job in the past few years and was becoming more and more adept at it. However, after encountering the disaster of the invasion of the shadow world, he realized how incompetent and powerless he was.

She felt a little regretful that she had focused too much on official duties and neglected her own cultivation. Before graduation, the instructor said that she had originally had the hope of reaching the third level within five years, but now she was afraid that it would be difficult within ten years.

It expanded too fast, and was different from the ordinary shadow world. There were too many monsters appearing in it. When the first monster walked out of the shadow world, it had already entered the invasion stage.

Next comes the assimilation stage.

There was a knock at the door from the guard.

"Come in." Zhou Liu put away all her expressions. She knew very well how important it was for her to remain calm at this moment.

The person who walked in was none other than a graceful young girl. Mu Yaoxi was not tall, only 1.6 meters, and it was obvious from her appearance that she was not yet an adult.

She looked around the room. In the center of the temporarily requisitioned room were maps and various communication tools. There was only one chair and no bed.

"Sorry to bother you." Mu Yaoxi's gaze fell on Zhou Liu again, and his evaluation of her was slightly higher than before.

Although he lacks experience, he has not slacked off at all. He still intends to persevere. Nanling is a small place after all, and cannot withstand too much consumption for too long.

"How long will it take for the support to arrive?" Mu Yaoxi asked the key question directly: "Any news?"

Zhou Liu replied: "The current answer is three days later."

"It's too late! Didn't you explain the situation again?"

"I've said that, but the response hasn't changed." Zhou Liu couldn't help but clench his fists: "Maybe they really can't spare any manpower."

"This place is only a little over a hundred miles away from the provincial capital. How can it take three days to mobilize manpower?" Mu Yaoxi sneered, "This is ridiculous."

Zhou Liu looked at Mu Yaoxi silently. She had certainly heard of her name, otherwise she would not let a young girl speak like that in front of her.

But in fact, Mu Yaoxi really had the qualifications. She had closed the shadow world twice with her own hands and participated in several operations of the Shenwu Division... When she was less than sixteen years old, she already had more than seven attacks.

Mu Yaoxi wasn't stupid either. She saw everything clearly. Her eyes fell on Zhou Liu's shoulder and she pondered, "It seems this involves another internal power struggle, right?"

She paced around the room. "Although I don't know much about this area, wherever there are people, there's always a struggle for power. You're the head of the Nanling Mayor's Night Division, yet you're so young. You've been in this position for a few years and still maintain your position. I guess you have someone behind you. But this incident is huge. If something unexpected happens and the situation worsens, you'll probably have to 'go down and gain some experience for a few more years.'"

"You see things clearly."

"I don't want to see it so clearly. It's as disgusting as watching a group of insects crawling and digging through rotten food." Mu Yaoxi's voice was cold. Any normal person would feel disgusted by this. As a bystander, she was naturally rational and clear-headed: "No matter how you look at it, it's crossing the line."

"Is there anything you can do?"

"This isn't the capital. I can call on the Divine Martial Division for help, but that's all I can do." Mu Yaoxi stared at the ever-expanding black area on the map. "After all, my ability to mobilize support is limited. If I use my personal connections, I might be able to call on experts from the Divine Martial Division or the Martial Saint Pavilion, but..."

Zhou Liu raised his eyes: "But what?"

Mu Yaoxi said bluntly: "I have no reason to do this."

Zhou Liu's serious expression softened. "Don't act like you're a villain. You've been a huge help these past few days... Without your coordination and intervention, many more people would have been lost. That's enough. If we were to rely entirely on an outsider like you, what would we, the Night's Watch, do? You and I should each do our own job."

Mu Yaoxi crossed her arms. "It's a good thing that you can figure it out, but it also means that you can't do anything about the current situation. Have you ever considered bowing your head?"

Zhou Liu straightened his back: "I'm not afraid of offending people... I'm just afraid of being punished by heaven for my guilty conscience!"

"You can be stubborn, but others can't." Mu Yaoxi turned her head away and said in a more serious tone, "But the people here can't hold out for three days, and they may not arrive in three days! What if it takes five days, six days, or a week? Whether they will continue to delay and put in the effort after they arrive is also a factor. If they want to see you fall, there are naturally a hundred ways... We must not place our hopes on these beasts in human form who only know how to fight for power!"

The official culture of Daxia has a long history.

Seven years ago, there was the Changyesi Incident, and then there were only two brothers left in the Ruan family. The huge industry was divided... Even without the Zhuang brothers, the result was not much different. It can be seen that this person has great skills and is like a fairy fishing.

"I can only say that Nanling City is a small place after all." Mu Yaoxi paused for two seconds, then shook his head and said, "But who said that Chi Qian can't raise a real dragon?"

She said calmly, "What a pity! If it had been two or three years, this little thing could have been easily solved by just one person. You're just unlucky because the timing is wrong."

Zhou Liu also knew who Mu Yaoxi was referring to.

I couldn't help but feel curious. Although I already knew something about the young man, I still wondered why she spoke so highly of him.

But just as he was about to speak, he heard a loud shout and someone rushed in: "The Shadow World has expanded! This time the scope is even larger, hurry up!"

"What, a second expansion?!" Mu Yaoxi's expression also changed: "Won't the danger level reach level seven?"

She rushed out immediately: "I'm going to call the Shenwu Division, you are in charge..."

Before he could finish his words, the ground beneath his feet suddenly darkened in color, and the pitch-black color instantly covered everything.

Mu Yaoxi stopped.

"Damn it...I can't get out now."

Once you fall into the shadow world, there is no way to escape!

Chapter 234 Defending the City

After falling into the shadow world, Zhou Liu immediately got up.

At the same time he pulled out his pistol and released the safety.

Looking around, the light in the shadow world was very dim, and this was a completely unfamiliar environment.

There are also many other people scattered around. The good news is that everyone's landing point is very close, concentrated in this area.

"What the hell is this place?"

Zhou Liu looked around blankly. This was also her first time entering the film world.

The film world is also divided into different situations...

Shadow worlds of different depths have different dangers, and no one knows the depth and setting of the overflowing shadow world.

Each shadow world that emerges separately is completely different, just like swamps that appear on the earth one by one. Even if they eventually merge into each other, their depths are different.

Mu Yaoxi on the side immediately confirmed the situation, looked at the towering city around him, and suddenly had some associations.

She was very experienced. She took just two or three steps to climb up the stairs, climb onto the city wall, and then looked outside the city.

She jumped down and said to Zhou Liu, "If nothing unexpected happens, this shadow world should be a reflection of history..."

Without waiting for Zhou Liu to ask, she said bluntly, "The film world also has different types. I don't have time to explain too much to you right now. In short, you can think of historical reflections as a reproduction of historical scenes... but there are some slight differences. The city we are in is about to be captured."

"I'm not sure of the exact era, but based on the alien species we previously conquered that appeared from the Shadow World, I speculate... they were grassland people, perhaps the Xiongnu."

"And our mission is to defend this city. If we can hold it and repel the enemy's attack, we can put an end to it!"

Zhou Liu immediately said, "You mean, let us defend the city?"

"Yes!"

"Just the people here?"

Zhou Liu looked over and saw that although many of them were extraordinary people or night watchmen, none of them were wearing armor and were not soldiers.

Rely on this group of people to defend the city?

Are you serious?

How can modern people understand how to fight ancient wars? And they don’t even have the equipment.

"That's not something I should be considering." Mu Yaoxi spoke faster: "If we can't hold on, the shadow species outside will break in and everyone will die! In history, the grassland people attacked cities and plundered land, and the methods they used after breaking the city were cruel. Anyone who has read history knows this clearly. Now, everyone must do everything they can to defend this place!"

Zhou Liu's scalp was even more numb, she didn't understand military strategy at all, how could she command at this time.

She knows how to investigate cases, assign personnel, and catch criminals, but military affairs are not her strong point.

"I can't command them." Zhou Liu said, "If there are any veterans here, maybe we can ask them for advice."

She raised her voice. Although several veterans spoke up, they could only put forward a few simple opinions.

Being a modern soldier and being able to fight an ancient city defense battle are two different things...Warfare is progressing, but what is progressing is not one person, but the theory, equipment, and communication system of war.

At this point, no one can do anything.

Finally, it was a night watchman from a military house who proposed the basic strategy of ancient city defense.

The first thing to do is to prevent the enemy from breaking into the city. The grassland people's method of attacking the city is usually to climb up directly and then open the city gate.

They usually did not have such powerful siege weapons. They climbed up the city walls with ropes and ladders, and then defeated the defending troops. As long as one group of people opened a city gate, the remaining soldiers could file in, and the entire city would naturally be captured.

So the core point is that the city wall is the focus.

With this statement, everyone has grasped the core.

But whether it is right or wrong, the parties involved have no idea. Who knows what era the grassland people are from, what tactics the other side will use, and what the average level of soldiers is.

In the shadow world, everything is unknown.

This city is still an isolated city, that is, it has four gates.

A total of five third-level transcendents were pulled into the shadow world. Zhou Liu's original intention was to have four of them lead a group of people to guard a door, and the remaining high-level transcendent needed to pay attention to the movements on all sides and then support the weaker party... However, this arrangement was not implemented, and several third-level transcendents still made their own decisions.

As a result, they were divided into groups of two, two, and one. The remaining door was handed over to Zhou Liu, Mu Yaoxi and others to guard. The reason for this was that, on the one hand, Zhou Liu's arrangement was too unfamiliar, and they were unwilling to disperse to avoid accidents. On the other hand, because Mu Yaoxi and Zhou Liu had the most people around them, they left the main door to them and brought relatively fewer people to guard the side door and the back door.

Call it fear of death or being overly cautious... in the end, the decision was made.

Mu Yaoxi looked at the group of people leaving without even sneering. She had to save the energy to sneer.

"It's obviously a situation where lips are dead and teeth are cold!" Liu Xinghan cursed.

"They're quite clever." Zhou Liu had calmed down by now. Although she didn't know how to defend a city, she had a clear understanding of these people. "A third-level transcendent wouldn't be easily killed in this situation. If they're attacking the main gate, then every time we die, we'll lose another Shadow Seed. Even if they break into the city, it won't matter. They can easily use the terrain here to slowly maneuver around."

Mu Yaoxi said calmly: "In the shadow world, all identities and status are fake. The key is to get out alive. They are all smart people."

"You're just being clever!"

"Those who can survive are the smart ones." Mu Yaoxi retracted his gaze and ordered everyone in the Shenwu Division to put on their weapons and go up to the city wall to be on guard.

"Aren't you a smart person?" Zhou Liu looked at Mu Yaoxi at this time: "In terms of importance, we can all die, but you can't!"

Mu Yaoxi said proudly, "Who do you think I am? Don't underestimate my bravery—I'm the next head of the White Tiger Pavilion of the Divine Martial Division, and a true disciple of the Martial Saint Pavilion. How could I turn around and flee before a mere group of shadow creatures?"

She was born into a military family and was influenced by it since childhood. She knew what a soldier's duty was, and this inherited spirit was engraved deep in her soul.

Since she was young, her family members had passed away one after another, numbering no less than a handful. However, no one showed sadness at the funeral, and her grandfather even admitted that he was proud of his family, so he would never hesitate when it was her turn to sacrifice her life.

This is also the biggest difference between modern soldiers and ancient soldiers.

The fighting will and indomitable spirit of the former under the blessing of nationalism and national honor are unmatched by the latter no matter what.

The pity is that the people here are not modern soldiers, so only a few of them have this spirit of fearlessness and sacrifice.

Less than three minutes after climbing up the city wall, a sound was heard in the distance.

It's the sound of a trumpet.

Under the dim moonlight in the shadow world, one could see a cloud of dust rising and the deafening sound of large horse hooves trampling the ground, as the cavalry were rushing towards them.

As the distance gets closer, closer...

Mu Yaoxi saw with excellent eyesight that the group of shadow creatures, who looked just like the grassland people in history, raised their arms and drew their bowstrings...

She immediately shouted, "The arrows are coming!"

Then the second voice shouted: "Get down!"

There was a buzzing sound that shook the air and the night sky, and the bowstrings were released, as if thousands of arrows were fired at once. The whistling arrows came down with a crackling sound, and a black cloud rose high in the sky, like a swarm of locusts, rising from low to high, from far to near.

Mu Yaoxi stood there without fear. She opened the Yunluo Iron Fan, which immediately unfolded in her hand and turned into a huge round shield covering her front and top.

After a few breaths, a rain of arrows fell.

A series of tinkling sounds continued, as if the rain would never end. It lasted for half a minute and still did not stop.

Mu Yaoxi suddenly understood: "This is segmented shooting!"

This also resulted in many people being unable to conduct long-range attacks at all.

In siege warfare, most of the time, bows and arrows are a deterrent weapon. Through long-range attacks, they suppress people on the city walls and dare not show their heads, so they can only allow the enemy's siege troops to keep approaching. This is the same principle as fire cover.

Shields obtained from the city were raised, and everyone hid under them. Unable to see a thing, they could only feel the constant impact and pressure. Their spirits became increasingly tense, and they passively took the beating. Facing such an attack, who could utter the relaxed exclamation of "fight in the shade"?

Even Mu Yaoxi was the same. She could only stand there and take the beating, waiting for the moment when the rain of arrows would end.