"Boom-boom-boom-"

Explosions were heard continuously, and torches fired from outside the city fell on the city walls, shattering some of the masonry or destroying a torch cart, and even some soldiers were killed or wounded.

Of course, the Pingzhou army never stopped counterattacking for a moment, and the torch stone carts on the city wall roared one after another, aiming at the target for a burst of bombardment.

Shang Ji looked at the confrontation between the two armies with a blank face, and no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

It has been a full five days since the enemy attacked in full force. Five days ago, the army in the Mysterious King City suddenly moved out in a big way.

The three million soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way under the leadership of Le Yi, with two million troops, they went straight to Yanhuang, and the target was the three nodes guarded by Yanhuang.

The other way, under the leadership of Wu Qi, attacked Luofeng Pass.

The direct force responsible for attacking Luofeng Pass was only 600,000, and the other 400,000 troops were divided into two routes, respectively responsible for containing Wutong Pass and Xiangjiang City.

But it was these 600,000 troops who forcibly beat the more than 2 million troops led by Shang Ji personally in Luofeng Pass and did not dare to show their heads!

When the enemy army first came, Shang Ji was still a little unconvinced, and personally led 50,000 of the most elite black-armored Xuan cavalry to meet the enemy vanguard.

The vanguard of the enemy army is also cavalry, which should be some kind of relatively high-level special troops, all seventh-order troops, and their combat power is quite considerable.

It's just that they are strong, but they are not enough to see in front of the most elite black armor Xuanqi. Shang Ji led his troops to fight them, and he was about to defeat the enemy, but unexpectedly the enemy's reinforcements came!

Shang Ji dared to swear that he had never seen such a fierce army in his life!

The number of reinforcements was not much, only about 10,000. The whole army is dressed in three layers of heavy armor, holding a long ge, hanging an iron sword from the waist, carrying a huge shield and a longbow, and a pot of arrows!

Typical heavily armed super-hoplites!

However, what almost shocked Shang Ji was that these hoplites were moving very fast!

Smoke and dust billowed all the way, all of them were like humanoid Gundams, approaching quickly at a speed far beyond that of ordinary cavalry.

What's even more incredible to Shang Ji is that this super-heavy infantry can still perfectly maintain the army formation in a high-speed maneuver state!

Judging from the speed and momentum of this hoplite, this army must be a top-level high-level army, and it may even be a ninth-order army.

However, it was not Shang Ji's style to turn around and leave, and he immediately divided more than 10,000 elite cavalry to meet this hoplite.

The two armies went toe-to-toe, and it only took a few breaths to get into combat range.

The black-armored Xuanqi still made the opening remarks with a very characteristic spear throwing, and the steel spear wrapped in ten thousand internal strength directly attacked the enemy.

In the face of the menacing black armor Xuancai, the enemy army was not chaotic at all, and even the mobility was not affected, and the formation change was completed in the process of continuing to run wildly.

The three columns of soldiers at the front quickly removed the giant shield from their backs, forming a joint shield wall before the spears could strike. The shield wall was erected almost instantly, and the cyan waves of water rippled on the surface of the shield wall. A similar method Shang Ji had seen in the giant shield soldiers, and it was a fairly high-level legion defense method.

Sure enough, the invincible flying spear slammed into the shield wall, only stirring up waves layer by layer, but it never broke through the shield, let alone the soldiers behind the shield.

And the enemy's soldiers in the rear were not idle, took off the longbow behind their backs, bent the bow and arrows, and the rain of arrows hit the black armor Xuanqi!

A layer of white internal strength condensed on the surface of the arrow, and it hit the black armor Xuanqi with a buzzing sound. It is also thanks to the fact that this part of the black armor Xuanqi is well-equipped and powerful, and they have a contract of life and death to share the damage with each other, and there are not many people who really die in battle.

After the first round of fighting, about 100 black-armored Xuanqi were killed by the enemy's rain of arrows, and about a similar number of enemy soldiers were killed by flying spears.

However, before Shang Ji could catch his breath, the second round of arrow rain followed!

In just two breaths, the enemy army shot a full ten rounds of arrows in one go, but the flying spear counterattack of the Black Armor Xuanqi was only three.

The casualty ratio of the two sides is about 1 to 3, with 1,000 black armor cavalry and 300 hoplites!

Fortunately, the flying spear is only an auxiliary attack method for the Black Armor Xuanqi, and it really relies on hand-to-hand combat.

However, Shang Ji ignored one point, judging from the outfit of the hoplites, they were obviously not full-time ranged troops!

In hand-to-hand combat, the Black Armor Xuanqi did not show the momentum of the past. On the contrary, as soon as they made contact, the number of casualties on both sides began to surge.

Although wearing multiple layers of heavy armor makes the enemy look a little bloated, the speed shown in the actual battle is not slow at all, and it can even be said to be quite agile!

The Black Armor Xuanqi has the contract skill of living and dying together, and the enemy army also has advanced formation skills. The purple qi flickered, and all the black armor Xuanqi who were in the purple qi had decreased to varying degrees in terms of speed and strength.

With a spear in hand, he was not afraid of the heavy cavalry. The sound of shouts, hisses, blade impacts, and explosions is endless, accompanied by the gorgeous light and shadow effects of the gun's sword energy, and there is a strange beauty in the blood!

In the bloody hand-to-hand encounter, the Black Armor Xuanqi didn't seem to have achieved much advantage!

Shang Ji did not participate in the front-line fighting, but watched the battle from a distance under the escort of the 19th Order Guard.

Seeing that the black-armored Xuanqi and the heavily armed foot soldiers were in a stalemate, he couldn't help frowning. Looking at the battlefield again, my brows are furrowed even deeper!

The morale of the enemy vanguard cavalry, which was already on the verge of collapse, suddenly rose because of the arrival of the heavy infantry soldiers, and the will to fight increased even more sharply.

Shang Ji guessed that this heavily armed infantry should have special attributes to boost the morale of his own side and enhance the combat effectiveness of friendly forces.

However, in this way, the Black Armor Xuanqi fell into passivity. Although it is impossible to lose for a while, Shang Ji does not dare to consume it.

You must know that in order to ensure mobility, he only brought 50,000 black-armored Xuanqi with him in this sortie. It can be said that except for a thousand guards, all the forces that can be invested at hand have been put in.

And the enemy army can send reinforcements at any time.

In this case, of course, Shang Ji did not dare to be careless, he was afraid that he would fall too much, and he would be dragged by the enemy army in front of him, and finally he was surrounded and annihilated by most of the enemy army!

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through in a short period of time, Shang Ji immediately ordered the whole army to retreat.

However, there was also an interesting episode in the retreat. Naturally, the hoplites and the enemy cavalry would not watch Shang Ji leave the battlefield with such a swagger, and the two armies invariably chose to pursue.

However, as a cavalry unit, the mobility shown in the pursuit process was not as good as that of the hoplites, and they were soon left behind by the black-armored Xuancai, but in order to get rid of these hoplites, Shang Ji abolished some means.

After this battle, 50,000 black armor Xuan cavalry killed nearly 20,000 enemies, and their own battle losses were about 8,000. However, more than 80 percent of the 20,000 battles were contributed by the enemy's cavalry units. The hoplites killed were only about less than 3,000!

At the same time, most of the battle damage of the black-armored Xuancai was also caused by these heavily armed foot soldiers, and those high-ranking cavalry who looked majestic became supporting roles.

After the first vanguard battle, the unwilling Shang Ji took the initiative to lead the troops three times in succession.

However, the results of the three times were worse than the first, and the second time the battle loss ratio was already negative. The last time he was almost ambushed by the enemy, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army.