Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 200 - 182: I Have a Method to Defeat the Enemy (6700 words in the - ) _3

Chapter 200: Chapter 182: I Have a Method to Defeat the Enemy (6700 words in the Chapter) _3

"I estimate that if it were not for his current reluctance to mobilize his troops and his worry of arousing the court’s suspicions, my life would already be gone. So, Li, if you hadn’t arrived today, I would have already prepared to abandon my post and flee. Even though it’ll bring endless trouble in future, it’s still better than having my head chopped off on the day of his rebellion," he said.

He went on to discuss the ins and outs of Lin Ziyang: "Li, you must not underestimate this old system. He still has many cards up his sleeve. I don’t know where Lin Ziyang got his funding from, but he has nurtured at least ten thousand private soldiers around Zhenjiang. They are all made up of displaced people from Changzhou and water transport workers that he has gathered in the past month and a half. They are well-equipped, strong and disciplined. Their fighting strength is no less than the regular army of Weisuo. Besides that, there may also be help from Maitreya Teaching and the Demon Tribe."

"Demon Tribe?"

Li Yan couldn’t help but exchange a glance with his wife, remembering Su Zhaojun’s encounter with two powerful demon cultivators on her way here from Jinling.

For the first time, a hint of worry appeared in his eyes.

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At this time, Li Xuan found himself in the storeroom of Tieweng City. His older brother, Li Yan, needed to reinforce the city walls as much as possible before the battle began. His task, along with Jiang Hanyun’s, was to supervise the captives and forcefully urge them to bring all the military equipment that could be used for city defense onto the city walls.

Jiang Hanyun was already there. She stood by the door, staring at the mountain of materials inside.

"Li Xuan, you’re here? We hit the jackpot today. Lin Ziyang has stored quite a lot of stuff here," she said.

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows and took a tour inside. He was also taken aback. The storeroom contained two thousand sets of armor, five hundred thousand arrows, six flanged cannons, twenty hudun cannons, twenty crossbow machines, three hundred barrels of Menghuo Oil, among countless other supplies.

There was also a large amount of food. There were thirteen thousand stones of rice alone, and nine thousand stones of hulled wheat. There were also about one thousand and nine hundred stones of ground flour.

It could be said that this warehouse alone could be solid evidence of Lin Ziyang’s treacherous intentions.

By the time they got the arrows and cannons to the city walls, Li Yan and Shi Shishi’s faces were pale as death.

"What’s wrong?" Li Xuan asked curiously. "Things aren’t going well?"

He remembered that not long ago, Li Yan was still very confident.

"Look there!" Li Yan pointed to the front. "That old guy is really bold!"

Li Xuan looked in the direction he pointed and also found himself holding his breath. To their southwest, fifty giants, each about sixty feet tall, were carrying huge logs and heading towards Tieweng City.

On their flanks, there were also one hundred and twenty bear demons and black tigers of similar size.

"Those are Mountain Spirits, Mountain Spirits with witch blood. Compared to the demon army, they are the most troublesome," said Shi Shishi, his face pale. "In the past, when the Mongols attacked Xiangyang, they made use of the Mountain Spirits. Their stone-throwing is more powerful than that of catapults and flanged cannons. In the early days of the Great Ancestor’s rule, it was expressly stated that anyone who colludes with demons and witches will be executed by all! I believe he’s gone mad."

Li Yan exhaled a breath of foul air: "I really can’t guarantee holding this place now. Younger brother, do me a favor and ask the Dragon King again. It’s imperative that he keep an eye on our several dozen ships. That’s our only route of retreat."

Li Xuan nodded slightly, his mood heavy.

He knew that people like Li Yan didn’t have to worry about their escape route. With their high martial skills, they could retreat whenever they wanted to.

The problem lay with Li Yan’s old division and the troops under Shi Shishi’s command. These people were willing to take risks with them and they couldn’t just leave them to die.

"And bring over the head monk Faxing from Ganlu Temple!" Li Yan threatened, his hand on his blade, "if he dares to refuse, I will send Shaobao Yu to cancel their ordination certificate!"

However, following this, Xue Yunrou came with another mixed piece of news.

Lin Ziyang had secretly repaired the array of Tieweng City. Although the city appeared old and dilapidated, the Array built into the foundation of the city was almost intact. A skilled Spellcaster simply needed to embed a few talisman stones to make it function normally.

The bad news was that Tieweng City’s ’Shifang Tiebi Array’ needed to be combined with the city wall to fully unleash its power.

Although Lin Ziyang had also accumulated numerous building materials in the city, including sticky clay and glutinous rice needed for making three-compound soil, with so little time left, they had no way to continue reinforcing the city wall.

After a tense half-hour preparation, a long line of fire gushing out of Dantu County has already reached the foot of Beigu Mountain.

A total of seven thousand soldiers stood arrayed in the open field at the foot of the mountain, with more than twenty thousand more on their way.

Lin Ziyang, who had come riding, acted again. A somber-looking blade aura, filled with wild wind force, abruptly struck towards the city wall of Tieweng City.

Li Yan’s eyes changed subtly. His figure immediately took to the air, in sync with Su Zhaojun who also sprang into the air; their swords combined into two huge flame dragons in the void.

But within a split second, the red flame dragon was shattered, and the figures of Li Yan and Su Zhaojun were thrown nearly a hundred feet back. The somber blade aura, however, still fell towards the city wall with leftover force.

"Break for me!"

The one who made the move was Jiang Hanyun. Her blade whipped up a fierce thunderbolt, exploding into the blade aura and ultimately forcefully dispersed it. However, this Fumo Xiaowei also slid back more than twenty feet in mid-air, with a trace of blood leaking from her mouth.