Volume 11: The First Law Chapter 35 The world is changing and I need to break in
The army rushed along the post road built by the Hu family for transporting ore.
As we get further away from the Daqing Mine, the scenery around the post road becomes more vivid.
This lifted the spirits of the miners who had been in the mines for many years and were accustomed to the dark colors.
As the sky darkened, the army finally stopped.
They were already close to Anling City and now needed to recuperate and restore their energy in preparation for the upcoming tough battle.
Lu Qingshan dismounted from his horse, holding the Taoist sword Dragon Bird, and looked into the distance.
Anling City came into view.
The mottled city walls have weathered the years, and on the top of the city walls there are hazy figures of people moving back and forth. A rough count shows that there are at least a thousand of them.
The Hu family was already prepared.
There are many villages and towns around the road from Daqing Mine to Anling City.
The Qingshan Army already has several thousand men and their formation is massive, so once they are mobilized, their whereabouts cannot be concealed at all.
Lu Qingshan never thought of hiding it.
Behind him, Gu Tianyan walked forward with a solemn expression.
"General, the Hu family has a deep foundation. Even if it is just a small city, they can mobilize a thousand people to defend it in a short time. They have tall city walls, defensive equipment and heavy city gates to rely on, and the Qingshan Army does not have powerful siege equipment to assist. If we still choose to force the attack, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses."
Gu Tianyan and Lu Qingshan said.
The Qingshan Army was still a grassroots team, without any siege equipment such as catapults, artillery, and ladders.
Under such circumstances, this battle is destined not to be easy.
At least that's what Gu Tianyan thought.
"Don't worry." Lu Qingshan waved his hand, but didn't take Gu Tianyan's worries seriously at all.
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It's getting darker.
Lu Qingshan mounted his horse again, turned around, and shouted to all the Qingshan troops: "Boys, get ready to follow me after you have rested."
"This world belongs to us!"
"Attack the city!"
Lu Qingshan wiped his palm downwards, clamped his legs together, kicked the four legs of the horse under his crotch, and galloped out first, heading straight for Anling City.
Thousands of Qingshan soldiers rushed out together.
It was dusk, and the setting sun dyed the sky and the earth a deep red.
Lu Qingshan's body was bathed in the setting sun, and his armor was a blazing red, just like the same color as the dragon bird.
He was moving very fast, with no intention of slowing down at all. Soon he had put some distance between himself and the Qingshan Army behind him.
If you look down from the sky, you will see something like this:
The army lined up on the plain and charged the city, with a horse leading from far ahead, raising a cloud of dust.
Those who didn’t know would think that the army in the rear was chasing Lu Qingshan.
"They are trying to attack, shoot your arrows!"
"There are still stones. When they get close, smash them to death!"
The commander in charge of commanding and dispatching the Anling City garrison on the city wall saw this scene and started shouting and issuing various orders quickly.
Under his command, feather arrows suddenly whizzed out from the city wall.
The first batch of arrows were almost all aimed at Lu Qingshan - because at this time only Lu Qingshan was within the range of the bow and arrow.
In response, Lu Qingshan simply raised the Dragon Bird and waved it.
The dragon bird clanked and cut down the feather arrows one after another.
Although the man was fine, the horse under Lu Qingshan's crotch could not withstand the arrows that fell like rain and water.
An arrow pierced the horse's head, and then more feathered arrows fell into the horse's body, penetrating three-quarters of the flesh.
Warm horse blood splattered everywhere.
The horse, which was running at high speed, knelt on its front hooves in pain, and its body was pulled upside down by the huge inertia, flipping far away.
But at the moment the horse fell, Lu Qingshan had already jumped off the horse's back, his figure like a ghost, and then rushed towards the city wall.
The sound of whistling wind kept passing over his head.
With the help of a Dragon Bird, Lu Qingshan was able to defend himself perfectly. All the arrows could not hit him and could not stop him.
"Follow the general!" Gu Tianyan looked at Lu Qingshan's back and could only grit his teeth and shout, trying his best to keep up with Lu Qingshan's pace.
He didn't know how Lu Qingshan was planning to break into the city, but with the general charging ahead, how could they retreat or fall behind?
The current situation is that Lu Qingshan, who is walking alone in the front and has no intention of retreating in the face of the rain of arrows, seems to have single-handedly mobilized the thousands of Qingshan troops, bringing a momentum of courage to the entire army.
Even though they were just mortals, even though twenty days ago they were just miners and slaves who had not received any training, but at this moment, no one was afraid anymore.
In the rain of arrows, Lu Qingshan danced like a dragon, and his swordsmanship was as magical as a ghost.
Under the incredulous gaze of the Anling City defenders on the city wall, Lu Qingshan actually walked through the boiling battlefield and was only a few dozen feet away from the city gate.
There was a city wall ahead, and no other way forward.
Not only did Lu Qingshan not slow down, he even accelerated again.
His pace became faster and faster. With each step, he leaped several feet and then landed heavily on the ground, making a heavy landing sound and leaving a shallow footprint.
The sound of footsteps landing on the ground did not sound like they were stepping on the ground, but rather on the hearts of every defender on Chengtou Mountain.
"Hurry up and throw stones to kill him!" The commander of Anling City shouted hurriedly, his voice trembling slightly with unconcealable fear.
"Don't be afraid. He is alone and he doesn't even have a ladder. What's the use of him breaking into the city wall? Can he jump onto the wall and kill us all?" Perhaps realizing his subconscious fear or perhaps to boost morale, the commander of Anling City shouted again.
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"General, be careful!" Gu Tianyan, who was behind, looked up and saw dozens of large stones falling from the city wall like dumplings, and shouted almost subconsciously.
Stones are not like feathered arrows.
Feather arrows can also be cut off by waving a sword. Even if you miss, it will not be fatal as long as it does not hit a vital part.
But boulders are different. Not only can they not be broken by a sword, but once hit by a boulder, it would be a tragic end with your head bursting apart. There would be no room for mercy.
Gu Tianyan was extremely anxious, his eyes fixed on Lu Qingshan's back.
The next moment, his pupils suddenly shrank and his mouth couldn't help but open wide.
When Lu Qingshan was still ten feet away from the city gate, he bent his legs slightly, then straightened them, and his whole body shot out with a buzzing sound like an arrow.
His "shot" actually flew over a distance of ten feet, allowing Lu Qingshan to directly pass the falling rock area.
Then he continued to charge forward, using the dragon bird as a spear, and charged straight towards the city gate.
The land around where Lu Qingshan originally jumped was inexplicably cracked, dry, and extremely strange.
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"Break!" Looking at the tightly closed city gate, Lu Qingshan shouted coldly, a red light flashed on the Dragon Sparrow Sword, the power of mountains and seas in his body boiled, and the tip of the sword was aimed at the city gate.
Bang!
There was a loud bang.
The heavy city gate wrapped in a layer of fine iron was actually pierced through by his dragon bird.
Then a louder noise was heard.
boom!
The entire city gate exploded in the eyes of everyone in disbelief, and wood chips flew everywhere.
Lu Qingshan did not jump onto the city wall and kill them all, just as the commander of Anling City said.
But... he directly blew down the city gate.
Lu Qingshan took advantage of the situation and rushed into the city.
There were also guards at the city gate, and the noise was boisterous.
Lu Qingshan didn't even look at it. The dragon bird flew across the necks of the guards at the city gate with a clanging sound. Several heads were thrown high into the air and several blood arrows spurted out.
"If the city gate can't stop me, who else can stop me?" he shouted.
Lu Qingshan went deep into the enemy group and cut them like cutting melons and vegetables. Longque rolled into the crowd, covered in blood.
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"The city gate has been breached by the general!"
Outside Anling City, Gu Tianyan roared.
The problem that he was most worried about before the war was solved by Lu Qingshan.
Next, all they had to do was rush into the city and kill all the guards.
All the soldiers of the Qingshan Army were shocked and infected by Lu Qingshan's bravery, and thus burst out with indescribable terrifying momentum.
They roared together, like a tsunami, rushing towards Anling City.
There were people who were shot by arrows, but as long as the wounds were not fatal, they would immediately pull out the arrows, let the blood flow, grit their teeth and continue to charge, refusing to fall behind.
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"court death!"
At the city gate, a man in black armor holding a big knife slashed at Lu Qingshan's forehead.
He is the commander of Anling City, Hu Teng, and a member of the Hu family.
The moment the city gate was broken, Hu Teng led a large group of people and rushed down the city wall, intending to kill Lu Qingshan on the spot, and then block the city gate with stones to save it.
The battlefield at the city gate was in chaos, with no room to move. Facing Hu Teng's offensive, Lu Qingshan immediately deployed his bow and horse, and the Dragon Bird directly hit Hu Teng's broadsword.
The swords collided, making a sound that made people's teeth ache.
After the sudden exertion of force, Hu Teng only felt his wrist numb and extremely painful - the power contained in Lu Qingshan's sword was too terrifying.
After Lu Qingshan's Dragon Bird deflected Hu Teng's sword, it went straight in and penetrated directly into Hu Teng's chest before quickly pulling it out.
Hu Teng retreated repeatedly, blood oozing out of his chest.
His hands had no strength left and he could no longer hold the sword, causing it to fall to the ground.
Hu Teng pointed at Lu Qingshan with a look of disbelief, "Who... are you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he fell to the ground with a thud, powerless, and would never know the answer.
Lu Qingshan continued to charge.
The sword flashed and slashed into the enemy like a violent storm.
With the blessing of the power of mountains and seas, he became more and more courageous as the battle went on. With just a random slash of the sharp dragon bird, he could cause terrible damage.
Wherever the Dragon Sparrow Sword passed, limbs flew everywhere and blood splattered.
Lu Qingshan then rushed forward, killing his way into the city from the city gate, and cutting a bloody path through it.
At this time, Gu Tianyan finally led the Qingshan Army to the city gate and joined the fight.
The "mountain" flag was waving, the sound of killing was boiling, mud and blood were splashing together, and the sky and the earth were all scarlet.
The siege turned into hand-to-hand combat.
Lu Qingshan kills anyone he sees, making people terrified, like a demon descended from the sky.
When he could no longer see any Anling City guards around him, only a last ray of light remained on the horizon.
With the help of this sunset glow, Lu Qingshan stood on the bodies of the Anling City guards and looked around.
He was greeted with cheers.
All the soldiers of the Qingshan Army were covered in blood, looked miserable, and had one or two arrows stuck in their bodies.
But they seemed not to feel the pain and just looked at Lu Qingshan with great fanaticism.
It was their first battle and they experienced such a bloody and cruel scene, but they did not feel uncomfortable. Instead, they were filled with passion.
Lu Qingshan nodded slightly.
He felt a murderous aura from these Qingshan Army soldiers that he had never felt before, but was extremely important.
Swordsmanship is a way of killing .
You can never learn good swordsmanship without killing people.
After this battle, the Qingshan Army composed of miners completed a transformation in blood and fire.
And this battle will also be the beginning of the transformation of this world.
