On the county square of Beishan County, a large defensive array stood in it, isolating a circular area, and around this circular area, clouds and mist filled the surface of the large array, and it was hazy and difficult to see the scene inside the array. ◢ with * dream ◢ small *.lā

However, the entire large array was already surrounded by all kinds of cloud beasts, they gathered into a sea, constantly flocking to the large array, either with a strong body impact, or with sharp claws and bites, they desperately wanted to break through the large array.

Although the large array trembled under this impact, it showed no sign of being destroyed immediately.

In the large array, the soldiers of the Snow Wolf Rider and the Futu Iron Rider had already dismounted and meditated and cultivated in place to replenish the cloud power consumed along the way.

With the help of the people, the soldiers of Beishan County carried out simple treatment and bandaging of the wounded, and almost all of these soldiers were injured in a life-and-death battle, and some were even mutilated, and from time to time there were irrepressible painful moans, and the scene was quite miserable.

Xiang Yun ordered some soldiers to clean up a few huge cloud beasts, set them up with spears, and roasted the meat of cloud beasts with fire crystals to satisfy the hunger of the exhausted people.

At this moment, in addition to the 3,000 Futu Iron Cavalry and 300 Snow Wolf Cavalry, there are also more than 700 soldiers from Beishan County, as well as more than 500 women and children.

In this big array, they enjoyed a hard-won moment of peace, ate their first hearty meal in a few days, and filled their stomachs, most of the soldiers and civilians of Beishan County fell asleep deeply.

Resisting the tide of cloud beasts and beasts for three consecutive days and three nights has been in a state of high tension, whether it is these people or soldiers, they are already exhausted.

In the corner of the big array, Bi Hongzhang was also short, his legs were stretched, and he sat on the ground without any scruples, and Xiang Yun also sat on the ground, and the two lowered their heads as if they were communicating something.

"Bi Taishou, are there only these people in Beishan County now?"

Xiang Yun glanced back at the people who were sleeping sweetly in the big array, looked at the soldiers covered in blood, and the people who were still talking in horror in the dream, and frowned and asked.

"Hey......" Bi Hongzhang couldn't help but show sadness in his eyes when he heard this, and said with a long sigh, "As His Royal Highness the Prince can see, I have a huge Beishan County, with more than two million people, except for a part of the fleeing south, and now ...... There are only less than 2,000 soldiers and civilians left!"

Bi Hongzhang has served as the Taishou of Beishan County for more than 20 years, and has almost witnessed the growth of Beishan County step by step and gradually prospered.

Seeing that everything was thriving and developing in a good direction, he didn't expect that a beast tide would throw all this to waste, how could he not sigh sadly.

"Hey......" Xiang Yun also sighed, he had traveled to the northwest counties, and he had naturally witnessed the prosperity of Beishan County, but in the blink of an eye, all this was full of devastation.

"Bi Taishou, the matter has come to this, it is useless to lament, you tell me, the specific situation of the three counties in the northwest now, when did this beast tide break out?"

Hearing Xiang Yun ask about this, Bi Hongzhang also became serious, and he recalled seriously.

"When Xiaguan received the news of the outbreak of the beast tide, it was seven days ago, and a flying pigeon from Xiliang County said that Xiliang County had been affected by the beast tide, and asked Beishan County to pay attention to the evacuation of the people and prepare preventive measures as soon as possible. ”

"But I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, because there were occasional small-scale beast tides in the northwest region, and at most, dozens of Chongyun beasts broke into villages and towns, snatching food or attacking the people, so Xia Guan sent additional people to guard the northwest border of Beishan County. ”

"And in the next few days, it was indeed discovered that some cloud beasts were wandering to the border of my Beishan County, harassing the local people, but they were all destroyed by the border guards. ”

"A few days later, Xiliang County again

sent me an alert, saying that a large-scale beast tide had broken out in the entire Xiliang County, and asked me to evacuate the people of the county in time. ”

Speaking of this, Bi Hongzhang's eyes also showed a strong look of self-blame, "It's all my fault! If the people had been evacuated earlier, there would not have been a tragedy like today, so many innocent people have lost their lives!"

Xiang Yun did not interject, but continued to listen to Bi Hongzhang's narration.

It turned out that when he got the news, although Bi Hongzhang raised his vigilance, he did not immediately let the people flee south, firstly, because there had never been a large-scale beast tide that could threaten a county on the northwest border, and secondly, he was worried that it would cause panic among the people and cause turmoil.

Under many concerns, Bi Hongzhang chose to send troops to the northwest to investigate, but none of the first team sent out returned.

This aroused Bi Hongzhang's high vigilance, and he hurriedly sent a second team of sentry spies to inquire about the news.

And this time there was finally a reply, the entire sentry team of hundreds of people, in the end, only one person escaped with serious injuries, but the news brought was that the beast tide had reached the border of Beishan County, and the scale was unprecedented!

At this time, Bi Hongzhang finally knew the seriousness of the matter, and immediately ordered all the people in the northwest of the county to take refuge in the county town, and the people south of the county immediately fled south.

Although the order was given quickly, the best time was missed, and in the direction west of the county seat, the people suffered heavy casualties, and finally hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into the county town.

And Bi Hongzhang finally saw the so-called 'beast tide', the mighty army of cloud beasts like a tide, which made him feel a chill in his heart.

For the sake of safety, Bi Hongzhang first sent a message to Longcheng asking for help, and then gathered the troops and resources of the whole county, and opened the county's protective array, intending to resist the attack of the beast tide this time, thinking that as long as he resisted the impact of the first wave of beast tide, he would be able to wait until the cloud beast returned to the nest.

As a result, he never expected that the scale of the beast tide this time was far greater than he imagined, this group of cloud beasts not only did not give up the siege, but as time went by, more and more cloud beasts gathered, and the offensive launched was stronger than one wave.

However, a large number of cloud beasts continued to attack for several days, day and night, and finally broke through the protective array, and then broke through the city walls one after another, rushing into the county town, and the soldiers of the county resisted desperately, and borrowed the geographical advantage in the city to fight with the cloud beasts for three days.

During this period, Bi Hongzhang had been waiting for reinforcements from the Dragon City side, but he never saw a single shadow, and in the end, he still couldn't resist the increasingly large number of cloud beasts, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city, and only these people on the square remained.

"Now half of the entire three counties in the northwest have fallen into the cloud beast tide, and my Beishan County has been completely breached, only the county seat of Xiliang County is still holding on!"

After listening to Bi Hongzhang's narration, coupled with the bloody scenes he had seen along the way after entering the city earlier, Xiang Yun could also imagine what kind of hellish torture the soldiers and civilians in the entire Beishan County had experienced in the past few days.

Seeing the painful look on Bi Hongzhang's face, Xiang Yun patted the old lady's shoulder and comforted, "Bi Taishou, you can't be blamed for this matter, don't be too guilty." ”

Through the news obtained from Xiang Jinglei, coupled with the thinking along the way, Xiang Yun also had his own judgment in his heart, this time the beast tide must have been involved, the seven major sects of Qin Feng City competed for the Heavenly Divine Call, and it was reasonable that Bi Hongzhang could not make a correct judgment.

"Hey...... What Xia Guan didn't understand was why Xia Guan sent more than a dozen messages asking for help in a row, but Long Cheng didn't reply at all, if Long Cheng sent troops to rescue, how could my Xiliang County end up in such a miserable situation!"

Now in the entire northwest land, because Xiang Lingtian took away a large number of Xiliang iron horsemen from the south, and then it was rumored that he was in the south

With the news of the assassination, almost the entire army of the Silver City Snow Wolf Cavalry has been dispatched, and they have all gone south.

The troops in the northwest region were empty and there were no troops to adjust, and Bi Hongzhang could only ask Longcheng for help, but he didn't expect to hear from him.

Hearing this, Xiang Yun's face showed a touch of coldness, "Hmph, I'm afraid that some people can't wait to see the northwest land being swept away by the beast tide once!"

When Bi Hongzhang heard this, his face couldn't help but change slightly, obviously understanding the meaning of Xiang Yun's words, what was involved was the dispute between the royal family, even if he Bi Hongzhang had a bright heart, he didn't dare to speculate, so he could only keep his mouth shut, but the resentment against Longcheng in his heart was a little more aggravated because of this!

Just when Xiang Yun wanted to ask about some information, he suddenly felt something in his heart, and turned his head to look at the silver array disk suspended in the void in the center of the large array, and he had already seen that a crack appeared under the array disk.

Bi Hongzhang also turned his head to look, and when he saw this scene, his face suddenly changed.

"This formation ......"

Xiang Yun nodded calmly, he had actually expected it in his heart, and he whispered to Bi Hongzhang, "Bi Taishou, if this formation lasts for three more hours at most, it will be broken by the cloud beast." ”

"What!"

Bi Hongzhang was shocked, now everyone relies on the protection of the big array, if the big array is broken, then what can the soldiers and people in this array, and those wounded, Bi Hongzhang looked at Xiang Yun for help, in this case, he has no idea.

Xiang Yun looked at Bi Hongzhang calmly and said, "Bi Taishou don't need to panic, now that the beast tide is coming, the number of cloud beasts will only increase, even if the big array lasts longer, it will be meaningless, sooner or later it will be broken by the cloud beasts." ”

"On the contrary, the number of cloud beasts is not too many now, with the snow wolf rider and the Futu iron horse to protect these soldiers and civilians, we can still break out of the encirclement in one go, otherwise if we wait for the cloud beasts to gather too much, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave if we want to." ”

Bi Hongzhang nodded suddenly when he heard this, but then the question came again, which direction should the army go, originally chose to go south and stay away from the beast tide.

However, now that the route of the beast tide spreading southward is too long, and there are still so many people and wounded people who need to be escorted back, it is naturally not feasible to run long distances, and there may be accidents along the way.

And more importantly, Xiang Yun must now move towards the northwest, just such a number of people, if the troops are divided into two ways, it will undoubtedly be more dangerous, for a while, both of them fell into contemplation!

Time passed minute by minute, and seeing that it was only an hour before the time when the big array was broken, the soldiers and civilians of Beishan County didn't know it, and they were still sleeping sweetly.

Bi Hongzhang's thick eyebrows were tightly locked, scratching his hair vigorously, but he couldn't think of any way at all, it was impossible for him to give up these people and the wounded!

Just when time was getting more and more urgent, and Bi Hongzhang was anxious in his heart, Xiang Yun, who had been bowing his head and contemplating silently, suddenly turned his head to look at Bi Hongzhang!

"Bi Taishou, what you just said...... The county seat of Xiliang County hasn't been broken by the cloud beast tide yet, has it!"

Bi Hongzhang nodded when he heard this, and said, "Two days ago, I received a summons from Meng Yuezhang, the Taishou of Xiliang County, who was domesticated by the Cloud Beast Eagle, he said that the Taishou of Dongling County has abandoned the city and led the army to settle in the county seat of Xiliang County, and combined the forces of the two counties, plus the large array of Xiliang County's city protection, can temporarily stabilize the situation and ensure that the county town is not broken." ”

"It's a pity that the county seat of Xiliang County is in the northwest direction, which is the upper reaches of the Cloud Beast Tide, otherwise I would definitely lead the army to fight them. ”

"Hmm......" Bi Hongzhang suddenly looked at Xiang Yun with some confusion, "His Royal Highness, what do you mean by asking Xiliang County, could it be that you want to ......?"

The corners of Xiang Yun's mouth hooked, and a look of determination appeared in his eyes!

"That's right, let's go against the current and kill Xiliang County!"

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