In the imperial family, wanting to get warmth was really too difficult, so Jiumo Zhiyan had to consolidate his own power himself.
At this time, Jiumo Zhiyan had not discovered that after Zhang Yufei let them enter the city, he took advantage of the chaos to leave the city.
As for Cai Yun, who was arranged to watch Zhang Yufei, he had already become a corpse.
The room door opened.
Boom!
Suddenly, a burst of firelight flashed head-on, the huge impact force knocked Jiumo Zhiyan flying out, fortunately Mu Tu was strong and blocked most of the impact, otherwise just this one blow would have blown Jiumo Zhiyan into meat paste.
Boom!
Boom!
At the same time, continuous loud explosions rang out in North Desert City, as if countless thunderbolts burst out from underground, the entire North Desert City fell into thick smoke and firelight, screams continued one after another.
“We fell into the trap!”
At this moment, Jiumo Zhiyan, who stood up from the ground, suddenly understood that he had still fallen into Ling Xiao’s trap.
“I did not expect that even I, this old hunter, had my eyes pecked blind by an eagle. This kid actually abandoned the North Desert City that he had worked so hard to build? And how did he get so much explosive? And with such fierce power?”
Tiemu’er Mu Tu’s old face also showed some anger.
He actually capsized in the gutter, tricked by a sixteen-year-old child. If this spread out, how could that be?
“Little prince, the urgent matter now is to rush out of the city. Without the defensive formations blocking, this mere city cannot stop us at all. Even if we lose half the soldiers, we can still catch and kill that kid Ling Xiao!”
Tiemu’er Mu Tu said.
“What Master said is absolutely right!”
Although Jiumo Zhiyan was intelligent, after all, it was his first time leading troops on an expedition. Encountering such a thing, his face still showed some panic.
Fortunately, Tiemu’er Mu Tu’s words quickly calmed him down.
The explosions were still continuing, but the two could not care about that anymore, rushed out of the city lord’s mansion, and ordered the whole army to rush out of the city.
“Listen to my command, divide into two armies, attack the north gate and south gate respectively!”
He had more than one million soldiers. If they only attacked one gate, it might waste a lot of combat power, so splitting into two routes was the best choice.
However, all this was within Ling Xiao’s expectations.
When the Black Crow Empire army approached the city gates, suddenly the lights of formations and arrays lit up, various attacks came overwhelmingly, actually attacking towards inside the city.
“What is going on? In just one day, the defensive formations were actually reversed. This, unless it is a formation master, who could do it?”
Another miscalculation!
Although Jiumo Zhiyan and Tiemu’er Mu Tu had done precise investigation on North Desert City, and knew Zhuge Ming’s prowess.
But according to the conclusions they analyzed, Zhuge Ming’s mecha soldiers simply could not achieve this.
However, they miscalculated one person.
That was Ling Xiao!
Whether it was the explosives or the array reversal, these were all changed because of Ling Xiao.
The explosives were what Ling Xiao had always hidden in the Mountain River World, and now they came in handy.
As for reversing the arrays, that was even more trivial to him, just need to change the connection points of the arrays, only ten minutes to completely reverse them all.
“That young man is more terrifying than we imagined. This is simply catching turtles in a jar!”
Although Mu Tu was angry, he had to admit that Ling Xiao’s performance far exceeded his expectations. “Is this still a young man? He is ten times harder to deal with than that Ji Ning.”
But shocked as they were, at this time they had to desperately charge.
Although the defensive arrays were powerful, they ultimately could not withstand the Black Crow Empire’s charge.
After losing nearly three hundred thousand soldiers, the north gate and south gate were blasted open at the same time.
Plus the soldiers killed by explosions before, total loss exceeded five hundred thousand.
Too many people was also a trouble, because they were dense, so as long as explosives exploded, there must be people blown to death.
The attacks from defensive arrays were the same.
“All charge towards the north gate!”
Even after losing five hundred thousand soldiers, the Black Crow Empire army still had about seven hundred thousand left, and Jiumo Zhiyan and Mu Tu both knew that Ling Xiao’s side had at most forty thousand, the numbers were hugely disparate. Even if there was an ambush, they would not fear.
So charging in one direction was the best choice.
The reason for choosing the north gate instead of the south gate was of course for the retreat route.
The south gate led to the Divine Phoenix Empire. Once past, if the retreat was sealed, it would be bad.
While going north, advance to attack, retreat to defend, much more convenient than now.
At this time, although Mu Tu and Jiumo Zhiyan could still remain calm, the Black Crow Empire army had already become chaotic.
Hundreds of thousands of people, impossible for all to remain calm.
This chaos not only lowered morale, but also greatly reduced combat power.
The Black Crow Empire army had not yet left the city, when suddenly from all directions, singing voices rang out.
This singing, every Black Crow Empire soldier heard very clearly.
Because that was the folk song of the Black Crow Empire.
Hearing such singing, the Black Crow Empire army became panicked, many people thought of their family in hometown, unwilling to continue fighting.
Deserters began to appear.
Deserters for an army were fatal, too affecting morale, more than dead people.
In an instant, more than one hundred thousand people fled in panic, and under Ling Xiao’s arrangement, these deserters were not blocked, they discarded helmets and armor, fled in haste.
Seeing this scene, even the always calm Mu Tu and Jiumo Zhiyan were somewhat panicked.
“Good Ling Xiao, even using psychological warfare, but how does he have so many people?”
Jiumo Zhiyan asked.
“We almost forgot, North Desert City besides tens of thousands of soldiers, there are also more than one hundred thousand civilians, adding up to more than two hundred thousand.”
Mu Tu sighed and said, “Perhaps in normal times, these civilians are just a rabble, but today, our soldiers have become frightened birds. Little prince, you lead the troops to retreat, I will cover the rear. As long as back to the camp, using captives to threaten, that Ling Xiao will naturally hesitate, dare not do anything.”
“Master be careful!”
At this moment, no time for Jiumo Zhiyan to think more, wanting to regroup and turn the situation, must return to the military camp.
Tiemu’er Mu Tu stayed at the end, closely watching the surrounding situation.
He was after all a strong one, possessed the ability to change the battle situation alone. As long as Ling Xiao dared to show up, he would kill Ling Xiao.
Boom!
Boom boom!
Suddenly, firelight soared to the sky, countless thunderbolt bombs were thrown into the crowd, immediately people and horses overturned, countless dead and injured.
This was not only those blown to death, but also those trampled to death by their own people.
Above the canyon ahead, Ling Xiao stood there, gazing coldly at Mu Tu.
In his eyes, the opponent was not Jiumo Zhiyan, but this old guy.
Jiumo Zhiyan was smart, no doubt, but practical experience too poor. If given a few years of training, he would inevitably be a second Mu Tu.
But now, Jiumo Zhiyan was not up to it!
