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There was no need to continue the fight, Zhan Wudi already knew that he was no match for the enemy in front of him, he could not predict his victory at all. He anxiously used his blade and retreated out of the circle, after taking a few deep breaths, he tilted his head to the side to face the guards and shouted: "Brothers, charge together, annihilate the enemy!"

Just as he finished shouting, before the Ning Army could even attack, the rear of the camp was suddenly thrown into chaos. It turned out that Tang Yin, who was leading two thousand Feng Army s, had already caught up and started attacking the Ning Army from behind, sending them fleeing in all directions while crying for their parents.

Zhan Wudi might be a brave general, but he was definitely not a good commander who was proficient in leading troops. Seeing the enemy charge at him from behind again, before anyone else could react, he was already anxious and ordered without a care: "Retreat! Retreat immediately! The entire army is to return to the camp! "

In fact, if he were to look carefully, he would be able to see that the enemies were not many, that there were only about two thousand of them, and that the Shangguan Yuan who was in front of him had only three thousand people, with a total of about five thousand people, while Zhan Wudi had a total of eighty thousand soldiers, it would be easy for them to keep their balance and destroy the five thousand enemies. But at this moment, his confidence had been completely destroyed by Shangguan Yuan's broad sabre, and he felt that his side was being attacked from both the front and back, so it was not suitable for them to continue fighting.

If they fought head on, Ning Army would naturally have a huge advantage. But once they chose to retreat, the soldiers' fighting spirit would be gone, and even though there were a lot of soldiers, they would still be beaten up by the Feng Army which did not have many people following them.

Tang Yin and Shangguan Yuan brought them together, and the latter laughed out loud. He turned his head and looked at the brilliant flames in the northern army camp, and said excitedly: "Master, how about we go back and fight against him for another round?"

Hearing that, Tang Yin laughed, although he wanted to continue chasing and killing, but his logic told him to suppress the urge in his body. The reason why Ning Army was defeated was not because they could not defeat their own side, but because of the fire in the main camp and their morale, they could only continue to fight after entering the main camp. The reason was because of how many people their side had to send into the main hall to help Ning Army, not to mention the fact that the northern camp was on fire, the reinforcements of the other camps would quickly arrive and continue to fight, which was extremely disadvantageous for their side. Thinking of this, he waved his hand towards Shangguan Yuan and said without hesitation, "Don't keep fighting, retreat back to the city!"

"Oh …" Shangguan Yuan was a little dissatisfied, he turned around and looked at the chaotic Northern Ning Army camp, then looked at Tang Yin whose expression was unshakable. The corner of his mouth twitched, and he muttered a few sentences, but he still obeyed Tang Yin's orders obediently and led three thousand soldiers to follow Tang Yin and return to the city.

They retreated, and those Ning soldiers who had slipped down from the city walls also wanted to return to their own camps. Both sides met head on, and yet another battle was unavoidable. In the beginning, when they had almost twenty thousand soldiers, a group of Ning soldiers were killed on top of the city walls. When they retreated, another group was killed, and less than ten thousand of them safely returned to the camp.

Although the duration of the battle was not long, there were still a lot of casualties. Thousands of soldiers had been killed on the side of the Feng Army and a regiment commander had been killed, more than half of the original ten thousand soldiers under Shen Zhichen and his command had been killed while the Ning Army had lost nearly ten thousand soldiers. The casualties on both sides were similar, and neither side had gained an advantage.

However, there were too many Ning Army, and the deaths of tens of thousands of people did not affect their vitality. On the other hand, Feng Army was not the only thing that did not affect the lives of those people, the few thousand casualties were enough to shake the bones, especially with Bai Jie's death, which disrupted Tang Yin's original plans. The only thing they could do was to push Shao Yang against the North City wall and strengthen his defenses.

After some time, the large fire in the northern army camp was under control. At this time, Zhan Wudi's mood had calmed down, thinking about the battle just now, he became more and more depressed, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He had already led the army to attack the city walls, how could he not grasp the opportunity, and was even forced back by the enemies?

After the fierce battle, their side had suffered heavy losses, yet they had not obtained any results. How could they have the face to report to their big brother? At this time, Zhan Wudi was also worried, it was only until now did he remember her subordinates, the military generals. He gathered everyone together, looked at the Jinhua City, and asked: "Generals, Masters, should we continue our attack?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly in their hearts. Zhan Wudi was headstrong and self-centered, other than Zhan Wushuang, no one else could hear what he had just said. The situation was good earlier, he should have killed his way into the city, but he was worried about the fire in the rear, and missed the chance to strike. The crowd was silent for a moment, then said in unison, "Of course we have to keep attacking! In that battle, although our side had suffered heavy casualties, the enemy troops had suffered heavy casualties. The general should continue to pressure them, and not give the enemy troops inside the city a breather! "

"But …" At this time, Zhan Wudi's confidence was already running low, he spoke with misgivings: "The enemy is very powerful, if our army were to attack forcefully, I'm afraid … "He might not be able to take advantage of us …"

"Huh?" A strategist waved his hand and said: "General does not need to worry, the enemies are strong, but after all, there is only one man, and two fists is not enough to fight four men, if he can stop so many generals, and if General can send the students of Spiritual Martial Academy to the battlefield, let them charge in, with these students of Spiritual Martial Academy at the front to disrupt the enemies, our army's attack on the city will be much smoother!"

Ah!" Hearing this, the look of worry on Zhan Wudi's face suddenly disappeared as he thought in his heart: That's right, how could I have forgotten about those people from the Spiritual Martial Academy?! Rather than leaving them to eat in the army, it was better to bring them to the battlefield. With their spiritual force, it would not be a small help to their side.

He nodded repeatedly, even his tone became extremely courteous, and laughed: "What mister says is extremely true, we will follow your decision! Send my generals to bring all those students with Spiritual Martial Academy here to participate in the city siege! "

"Yes!" "General!" The guards around him answered and ran off.

After waiting for around an hour, the Spiritual Martial Academy students all received their orders and rushed over. The oldest was 23 or 24 years old, and the youngest was only sixteen or seventeen. There were men and women, and more than half of them were sons and daughters of influential and powerful people of Ning Country, while the other half were talented people who had been selected from the common folk.

When they saw that the Spiritual Martial Student was already there, Zhan Wudi brought them to a high ground and pointed to the Jinhua City in the distance, then said: "In a while, our army will attack the city in a large scale, at that time, all of you should cooperate with the army to attack the city and take the lead to attack the city walls, to disrupt the enemy's defense, and create favourable conditions for our army, is there a problem?"

These Spiritual Martial Student were just born unafraid of the tigers. After hearing Zhan Wudi's words, not only did they not reveal any signs of fear, they had excited looks on their faces, and the students said in unison: "General, don't worry, we will definitely kill all of the enemies here!"

"Yes!" Zhan Wudi liked hearing these words. He responded with a cry, then laughed out loud and clapped his hands together: "As expected of the young talents of my Da Ning Army! If today's battle can be successful, you all will have rendered a great merit. Once I return to my Liangzhou, I will personally request for rewards from my Lord! "

"Thank you general, just you wait and see!"

"If we can't win, we'll just head back!"

The morale of the students was high and they all had a confident look. As the saying goes, a man who has been raising his troops for a thousand days should be used for a time. "They had trained bitterly in the Spiritual Martial Academy for several years, never going to the battlefield, and never taking part in actual combat. Normally, they would be praised to the skies, but now, everyone wanted to fight against the enemy and show their face.

After Zhan Wudi heard this, he was overjoyed. Without further ado, he passed down the order and the entire army set out to attack the city.

Without taking much time to rest, the ninety thousand Ning Army troops rushed out of the main camp, attacking the North City s.

At this time, Tang Yin, Shangguan Yuanyu, Shao Yang and Shen Zhichen were all present, and the number of soldiers defending the city had also increased to twenty thousand. Seeing the Ning Country army from afar, Tang Yin squinted his eyes as his gaze flickered. No one knew what he was thinking about. Shangguan Yuan turned around and cupped his hands, "Sir, I will go out of the city to meet the enemy!"

Tang Yin waved his hand. There were too many enemies, so now was not the right time to face the enemy. He said: "Rather than going out of the city to meet them, it's better to stay on the city walls to wait for them."

Without waiting for the others to speak, Shen Zhichen nodded his head and replied, "Master, you are right. Bai Jie's death in battle was a painful lesson. It didn't matter if he died, but it also led to the death of a thousand of his soldiers. This caused the city guards that had just been defending to become abnormally passive, making Feng Army suffer a huge loss.

With Tang Yin stopping him, Shangguan Yuan had no choice but to suppress his desire for war. He walked to the edge of the city wall, with his trident and two-edged blade in one hand and the arrow stack in the other. He raised his eyes to look at the enemy's square formation.

When Ning Jun's square formation was less than a hundred meters away from the Jinhua City, Tang Yin knew that Ning Jun's arrow array was about to arrive. He turned his head and ordered the soldiers to raise their shields to dodge the arrows.

Sure enough, not long after, tens of thousands of arrows shot up into the sky from the top of the army's square formation. The Eagle Feather Arrow flew up into the sky with strong gales, drawing a beautiful arc in the sky, and then descended towards the city.

In an instant, the crisp sound of arrows hitting stone walls and shields rang incessantly. With such a dense barrage of arrows, the Feng Army s were suppressed to the point that their heads couldn't even be seen.

It was not until the frontliners of the Ning Army had approached the city walls and set up a ladder that the arrows of the Ning Army's phalanx finally came to an end. This was followed by the most intense and intense battle between the two sides.

Some of them were crawling, while others were shooting arrows to cover themselves. The Feng Army at the top of the city walls either to block the arrows or to smash down Rolling Lumber And Stone s, both sides had soldiers who had been shot by arrows on the ground from time to time.

Right after the city siege started, the Spiritual Martial Student s that were mixed in with the other Ning Soldier s quietly sneaked into a place with relatively less Feng Army. Each of them covered their spirit armor, and then quickly climbed up. If more than fifty Spirit Warrior of such cultivation were to suddenly appear on the battlefield, regardless of who their opponents were, they would all be caught off guard.