Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 771 - 341. The Prepared Hei Miao City_2

Boom, boom . . .

Three hundred thousand war horses galloped at once, producing not the sounds of clattering hooves but a massive booming that shook the ground across dozens of miles.

Above the heads of the Red Flame Army, a blood-red cloud approached the Hei Miao City as they charged, looking from afar like a colossal flood converging on the city from both the sky and the ground.

"How . . . how can we fight this?"

"This is the Hexi army. How could Hexi have such a strong force?"

"Ten Layers of Body Opening, Ten Layers of Body Opening, Gang Qi Realm . . ."

"These are elite troops from a Holy Land, not the grand army of Hexi!"

"We're doomed."

...…

All one hundred thousand soldiers of the Hei Miao Army on the city walls, without exception, showed fear on their faces. Although Nanjiang seldom communicated with Shenzhou, they were martial artists and could clearly see the cultivation of the troops below, as well as the horses they rode, which were top-quality war horses, usually ridden only by the high-ranking and noble of Nanjiang.

The Hei Miao Army was also a trump card force of the Nanjiang Five Miao Tribes, but their average cultivation was only at the Seventh Layer of Body Opening, and most of their soldiers were mounted on good-quality war horses, with only a few on top-quality ones.

How could they fight?

The battle had not yet started, but their hearts were already filled with fear.

"I am here; what is there to panic about? Just hold out until the reinforcements from the south arrive, and we'll make sure the Hexi army has no way back!"

Black Yan's voice echoed across the city walls. Although his pupils also showed shock as he looked at the three hundred thousand Red Flame Army, his face remained forcefully calm as he sternly said, "Your loved ones are in the city. I won't say more than necessary. There's no gate on the north side of the Hei Miao City. To get in, they must scale the walls. We just need to defend the walls. Everyone, pick up your weapons. Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy!"

As an elder of the Hei Miao Tribe, Black Yan's combination of hard and soft words immediately boosted the morale of many soldiers. Those few thinking of retreating dismissed the idea at his words "killed without mercy." They looked at the army now under the walls, clenched their weapons, dispersed their inner fears, and their blood energy roared to life.

"No gate on the north? I'll just install one for you!"

However, before their spirits could fully recover, a taunting laugh came from below, making everyone immediately look down.

Hou Yucheng, eyeing the north gate, had a glint of cold light flash in his pupils. He was the first to pull out a long spear from beside him and hurled it viciously in front, embedding its sharp tip deep into the wall.

He pointed towards the position of the long spear and turned his head back, giving a shout to those behind him, "Prepare the crossbow arrows, all of you, aim at that spot. After the arrows are fired, follow this general, and we'll scale the wall together!"

Whizz, whizz . . .

As soon as Hou Yucheng's words fell, the front ranks of the tens of thousands of Red Flame Army soldiers immediately fired tens of thousands of crossbow arrows at the position of the long spear. The Red Flame Army was equipped with Hundred-Stone Strong Crossbows, each with a force of several thousand pounds. Tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were shot at once, the powerful force instantly shaking the city wall of Hei Miao City, making it sway left and right and immediately riddled it with holes.

After the first wave of crossbow arrows, the Red Flame soldiers at the foot of the wall dismounted and followed Hou Yucheng up the wall, and the soldiers behind them soon sent a second wave of arrows towards the same spot . . .

With boulders, crossbow arrows, and fire oil, the soldiers of the Hei Miao Army on the walls, seeing the Red Flame Army's move to scale the walls, also started using various means. From their high position, they did have an advantage without engaging in combat, managing to take down quite a few of the Red Flame Army. But the effect was extremely limited.

Because those who scaled the walls first were almost all martial artists from the Gang Qi Realm or even the Grandmaster Realm. The Gang Qi and True Qi enveloping them could perfectly fend off these external means. Without making contact, the defending soldiers simply couldn't handle them. Only masters from the Hei Miao Army's Gang Qi Realm and Grandmaster Realm could wait for the climbing soldiers to come up before they could engage in a fight.

Unquestionably, the first to climb onto the wall was Hou Yucheng.

His body was surrounded by the swirling aura of the Black Extinction Demon Blade, which emitted a layer of black mist. His towering figure was immensely intimidating. As soon as he scaled the wall, no one dared to block his path.

"You scum of the Hou Clan, die!"

There were also experts within the Hei Miao Army.

A long spear suddenly attacked from the side, but Hou Yucheng turned his head and blocked with his blade. Noticing that the attacker's cultivation was comparable to his own, at the Great Perfection of the Three Realms of Yuan Dan, his lips curled into a fierce smile.

"Well met!"

After his fierce shout, his body shook violently. The black aura on his Demon Blade surged around rapidly, and with a sudden burst of power, the demonic aura swept through the air. Facing the spear attacking from the side, he not only didn't avoid it but instead raised his blade fiercely upwards.

Shoo...

The blade's gleam was like a bolt of lightning, flashing upward suddenly and colliding fiercely with the spear's edge, setting off a shockwave that instantly dispersed the thousands of soldiers surrounding them.

The one gripping the spear, a middle-aged man dressed as a general of the Hei Miao Tribe, had his pupils fill with horror in an instant as the spear and blade collided. Watching the blade's gleam slice through his spear's edge like cutting tofu, heading straight for his face, he didn't hesitate for a moment and quickly retracted his spear to flee backward.

"Thinking of running? Die!"

Hou Yucheng wouldn't give such a clear chance to a commander of the Hei Miao army to escape. He stimulated his Divine Origin again. The blade's gleam that had just reached the man's face suddenly intensified in momentum, with its speed increasing several times, and before the man could escape, it pierced straight through his skull.

Hiss...

A martial artist at the Great Perfection of the Three Realms of Yuan Dan, with all three aspects of spirit fully opened and his body filled with vigorous energy, had his skull split open, and his blood shot out like a towering blood arrow, spraying several meters high instantly.

This scene silenced the thousands of Hei Miao soldiers watching, their pupils loose with shock.

A warrior of the Yuan Dan Realm was an absolute powerhouse in the Hei Miao Tribe. After all, there were only a handful of warriors in the Yinyang Boundary in the entire tribe, and just over twenty in the Yuan Dan Realm, a top-tier presence whether in the army or throughout the Hei Miao Tribe.

Couldn't withstand a single blow from Hou Yucheng?

Crack...

Just then, the sound of something massive shattering came from below. The surrounding army of the Hei Miao outside the city wall trembled, looked down, and suddenly felt a chill rising up their backs.

After nearly ten rounds of crossbow salvoes, the marked spot on the city wall by Hou Yucheng's spear finally couldn't hold any longer. A huge crack slowly spread outward, with the sound of bricks and stones breaking growing louder and louder.

Boom... Crack...

The city wall had broken!

Though it wasn't a large breach, being about thirty meters wide, it was enough for the army to charge through. At that moment, the hearts of the hundred thousand Hei Miao army on the city wall plummeted to the depths of despair.

"Follow me in the charge and break the enemy at Hexi!"

"Kill..."

"Wipe out the Hexi dogs; defend the Hei Miao city."

...

The Hei Miao soldiers on the city wall were stunned; wasn't it supposed to be the Red Flame Army breaching the city? Why were they shouting to kill the Hexi army, and moreover, why did the voice sound like it was coming from inside the city?

"Four hundred thousand strong, yet you can't stop these mere three hundred thousand troops of Hexi. No matter the elites today, I will make you fall here!"

Black Yan, who hadn't made a move until now, roared with all his might, slashing down ferociously at the Red Flame Army gathered by the city gate. Beside him, Black Ting too, like him, struck downward with three streaks of Galaxy Blade Qi.

One man, three streaks of Galaxy Blade Qi, each falling toward the front and back of the Red Flame Army's formation, just as they had jointly done against Hou Yuxiao previously.

Meanwhile, the forty-thousand-strong Hei Miao army inside the city, already poised to launch, having waited for a long time, charged out like a dark torrent from the city gate just breached by the Red Flame Army's crossbow arrows.

No one expected that the defending Hei Miao, would directly deploy forty thousand troops behind the city wall, and even before waiting inside, they had actually struck before the Red Flame Army could...

This unexpected move, let alone the disheartened Hei Miao army on the city walls, even Hou Yucheng, Gao Changlong, and Gao Changhu, who were leading the assault, were caught off guard.

Even Hou Yuxiao, who was falling from mid-air ready to fend off Black Yan and Black Ting's Galaxy Blade Qi, had a face full of surprise.

"Not bad, not completely foolish. It's just a pity that your cleverness is misplaced. Do you think such tricks will work against the Red Flame Army?"

Hou Yucheng, unseen, had already jumped from the city wall, returning to the front of his own army. Before Black Yan and Black Ting's blade energies even fell, his mocking laugh reached everyone's ears.

"Red Flame Torrent, scorching the heavens and boiling the seas!"