novelaction Chapter 139 The city is broken
Chapter 139 The city is broken
Chapter 139 The City Falls
The beast horde grew larger and larger, and the species became increasingly diverse. They no longer formed separate camps based on species, but instead attacked the city walls together in a mixed manner.
These wild beasts came one after another, dying in waves only to be replaced by fresh ones. When the ones in front got tired, fresh troops would naturally take their place, just like a group of tireless siege machines.
The cultivators guarding the city dared not relax their vigilance in the slightest. Led by Hengshan and Xiao Chong, they held the beast horde firmly outside the city, refusing to retreat an inch.
By this time, everyone in the city knew that the day the city fell would be the day they perished. In the vast sea of beasts, trying to break through the encirclement by individual strength was harder than climbing to heaven.
Even if one's martial arts cultivation has reached the level of Yokoyama, the chance of escaping safely is extremely slim.
Therefore, the entire town of Tiannan was united in its resolve. No one mentioned the reward anymore, nor did anyone dream of escaping alone. Everyone was focused on how to drive back the beast horde, or at the very least, defend the city walls.
After successfully repelling several waves of attacks from wild beasts, night finally fell.
At this time, the wild beasts outside the city were already littered with corpses, and the cultivators defending the city had also lost hundreds of people.
As if somewhat afraid of the torches and other objects lit up on the city wall, most of the beasts quieted down and stopped their frenzied attacks, instead surrounding the city wall tightly, as if waiting for dawn to launch a final assault.
Everyone in the city was exhausted after a long day, so they took this opportunity to replenish their energy, leaving only a few people to take turns on night watch.
As dawn approached, a faint sound, like winter thunder, echoed from the open fields outside the city, growing closer and closer to the city walls, waking everyone inside.
Outside the city, nearly a hundred giant elephants lined up in neat rows and slowly appeared in everyone's sight.
Compared to the countless other wild beasts, these giant elephants were few in number, but their size was even more astonishing. Even the smallest of the elephants in the herd was almost as big as the two blue and white one-horned bulls.
Each giant elephant possessed two long, thick tusks, like spears, which gleamed eerily white in the firelight. Combined with its several-foot-long gray fur, it appeared even more ferocious and menacing.
"My God! What kind of wild beast is this? It looks terrifying."
"It looks similar to an elephant, but I've never heard of an elephant that looks like this before."
"Such a huge wild beast is probably not easy to deal with!"
"What's the point of fighting? With our level of cultivation, we'd probably be crushed into mincemeat with a single stomp."
"There's no way out..."
Upon seeing these colossal elephants, most of the people on the city wall did not recognize them and nervously asked those around them. Xiao Chong also turned his head towards Hengshan, his eyes full of inquiry.
Hengshan's expression was very unpleasant. After a long pause, he said, "This is a Mongolian mammoth, which lives deep in the Southern Wilderness. It is incredibly strong. With our martial arts cultivation, we are basically no threat to them."
Mammoths are generally docile and have never been known to attack humans unprovoked, so it's unclear why they suddenly changed their nature and joined this beast tide.
Xiao Chong seemed completely unsurprised by this, saying, "Brother Heng, don't forget, this beast tide is completely controlled by someone. Everything cannot be judged by common sense. I just want to know how to keep them outside the city?"
"There is no way."
Yokoyama recovered his composure and replied with a heavy expression, "I originally thought that with the people in the city, it wouldn't be a problem to hold out for three to five days, and that there might be a turning point then."
But now that the Mongol mare has joined the siege, it's clear we can't hold the city any longer; its fall is imminent. We should prepare to retreat back into the city.
As they were talking, the herd of elephants arrived at the city walls and lined up in a row.
As if to prove his words were true, Yokoyama took a long spear and threw it at a Mongolian mammoth.
hum!
The spear flashed past, flying down from the city wall with a sharp whistling sound, its tail leaving a thin white line in the air.
At such a short distance, and from such a high vantage point, the spear moved with incredible speed. Xiao Chong didn't even have time to blink before the spear struck the belly of a mammoth.
Bang!
The mammoth seemed completely unaffected. It shook its body, sending the spear flying. The spear bounced a few times on the ground and fell back down, its tip bent.
hiss!
The people on the city wall gasped, and as if they had all suffered from a toothache, they sucked their teeth loudly.
This is too powerful! Hengshan is the strongest in Tiannan Town, but now Hengshan has attacked with all his might, yet he couldn't even hurt Meng Maxiang in the slightest. How can anyone else possibly resist?
Seeing this scene, everyone wanted to go home, find their mothers, and eat their own food... Well, even if they did eat at this point, it wouldn't taste good, and there was nowhere to escape. They had nowhere to go home and could only leave it to fate.
Fortunately, although these mammoths were abnormally strong, they were slow-moving, so they could still escape. The problem was that in addition to the mammoth herd, there were other agile wild beasts.
After making up their minds, everyone picked up their weapons and retreated into the city, waiting for the city to fall so they could switch to street fighting and eliminate these wild beasts in motion.
Bang! Bang bang...
The mammoths began their assault on the city. Relying on their powerful bodies and extraordinary defensive capabilities, they disregarded city gates and charged straight at any section of the wall in front of them.
The earth began to tremble, the city walls began to shake, and the cracking sounds of earth and stone breaking were incessant.
As the mayor of Tiannan Town, Hengshan naturally could not leave first, nor could his sense of honor as a member of a prominent family allow him to do so. Therefore, he could only arrange for everyone to retreat in batches, while he himself stayed behind to hold the city wall.
If Hengshan doesn't leave, Xiao Chong will naturally stay with him.
Now that everyone's lives are intertwined, we must advance and retreat together. Putting aside his desire to get in touch with the Yoko family through Yokoyama, the fact that Yokoyama saved his life in the battle with the One-Horned Bull means he cannot back down even a step.
Although Xiao Chong was somewhat greedy and cunning, he was not a heartless or ungrateful person. He might be lenient in minor matters, but he would never cross his bottom line; this was his consistent principle in life.
Therefore, Xiao Chong only arranged for Yin Feng to lead the fat man and other members of the Xiao family to retreat to the town magistrate's mansion, while he himself stayed by Hengshan's side and never left his side.
Of course, as members of the same Feiyue City lineage, the Situ siblings were also arranged to retreat with Yin Feng.
However, Situ Jiannan was unusually stubborn and refused to retreat first. He forced Yin Feng to take Situ Mingyue away, while he himself stayed with Hengshan and Xiao Chong.
After being trained by Xiao Chong for some time, Yin Feng became more decisive in his actions. He knew that his men staying here would not only be of little use, but would also distract Xiao Chong from taking care of them. Therefore, after receiving the order, he did not hesitate and quickly left with Fatty and the others.
boom!
When most of the people had retreated, the city wall finally could not withstand the impact of the elephant herd. First, a huge gap was smashed open, and then sections collapsed one after another, and all kinds of wild beasts followed the mammoths and swarmed in.