While these young cultivators were gradually silent but uneasy, in fact, in a village behind this hill, which was not too far away from them, a man dressed in black was also quietly watching the vanishing mountain.

The man had long black hair, longer than a woman's, up to the waist, but it was not tied with anything.

His long hair concealed his face a lot, but he still had a black scarf over his face, and only a pair of eyes glowed in the night.

He looked at the hill silently, motionless, as if he had become one with the whole night.

Most of the formation masters will want to appreciate their masterpieces after arranging the magic circle, and even he is no exception.

When the hill gradually calmed down, and the moist water vapor drifted in with the gentle night breeze, he was finally sure that when the power of the circle erupted, there was no more rioting heaven and earth vitality.

Any cultivator on the verge of death will definitely struggle beyond the limit, if these Southern Dynasty cultivators who are tracked by war horses fall into his magic circle, they will definitely burst out with many chaotic vitality forces when they die, but now they don't, this can only mean that even if his magic circle is arranged perfectly in his opinion, it is a rare masterpiece of his in recent years, but it still has no effect. It's like a punch that has gathered strength, but it still smashed into the air.

Being able to escape from the scope of the power of this circle in time can only mean that there is also a powerful array master among this group of cultivators, and only the array master can detect the clues in advance and detect the precursors of the explosion of the power of the magic circle.

Although he didn't think that the other party's formation master could be more profound than his own attainment, the existence of such a formation master would always be a big trouble for him.

He turned in silence and walked through the deserted village, through a woodland, to a depression formed by a dry riverbed. His long hair didn't move at all in the breeze, and he looked unusually bewitching.

"General!"

There was a carriage and several cavalrymen waiting for him in the depression, and when they saw his appearance, the sergeants saluted with great respect.

The man in black entered the carriage without saying a word.

The hooves of these war horses were not covered with anything, and there was no sound when they walked, and even the carriage he was in always flowed with a kind of fluorescence, and there was no sound of the wheels running over the stones.

The man in black in the carriage closed his eyes and quickly fell into a real slumber.

Unlike his own border armies in the Southern Dynasties, he led the army deep into the Southern Dynasties, and he needed to be the kind of decisive figure at many moments, and he needed to pay enough attention to opponents who might hinder his strategic objectives.

The return of the Sword Pavilion to the Tiece Army was not only a major event in the world of Southern Dynasty cultivators, for such a Southern Dynasty army with many cultivators, he thought differently from ordinary generals.

He could try to see if he could kill some of these cultivators, but he definitely wouldn't be like the vast majority of generals, who would first divide up their superior forces to try to wipe out this iron army.

In his opinion, the best way is to leave this iron army out of the battlefield, and make it impossible for this iron army to participate in the battle until he completes the crucial battle.

The same is true of this batch of ordnance, which may be somewhat threatening.

He only had to hold them back, and by the time he took that city, the ordnance and the iron army would be useless when they returned to that city.

He and Zhongshan Wang Yuanying are very different in leading troops, but this time the idea is the same, no matter how the tactics are, what they pursue is time.

The riverbed where his chariots and horses were located was still full of water dozens of days ago, but with the outbreak of some battles upstream, and the construction of many city fortifications, the flow of the river was completely cut off, and even if there were one or two rainstorms before, the accumulated rainwater quickly seeped deep into the ground in the dry riverbed, leaving only moisture among the rocks in the riverbed, making the grass growing on the riverbed more vigorous and lush.

The Southern Liang and Northern Wei Dynasty occupy most of the fertile land in this world, and for the world where the Southern Liang and Northern Wei are located, the border between the two is the middle of this world, but a flatter wilderness.

To the north along this meandering riverbed, the night-shrouded moor occasionally has some incongruous mountain protrusions, but the ground is more and more flat.

At the upper end of this riverbed, there are some lights in the night.

When the clouds obscure the moon and the night is darker, these lights appear clearer.

But only when you are close can you see the outline of a great city.

This large city, which is difficult to see in the deep darkness, is unusually majestic up close, with some walls sloping inward, towering and wide, and the water in the moat below is muddy and churning for some reason, even if the cultivators are close, they will have a sense of insurmountability.

There were also many official roads leading to the city, but those that had been ruined by the war were as different from the size of the castle as a farmhouse and a palace.

The light of the fire, which was clear in the darkness, came from the city walls, where huge fires were burned in many open areas, and hot stones were burned on the fires, which also played an important role in the war. When a red-hot stone is thrown by a catapult, it explodes in the air when it is so cold that a skull-sized block of red stone bursts into hundreds of sharp and angular pieces of stone in the air.

This kind of sharp stone flakes falling from the air, as long as one piece hits the vital point of an ordinary sergeant, it can harvest a fresh life.

The sound of heavy and small objects flying in the air kept ringing, and the night was dark, but the battle around the great city continued.

This night, the Northern Wei army outside the city has been repulsed several times to attack the city, at this moment it seems that the Northern Wei army is suppressed outside the moat, and it can't even get close to the river, but there are still soldiers of the Southern Dynasty falling down on the city wall.

Ordinary ordnance shot from the walls of the city could pose a deadly threat to ordinary sergeants, but it could not stop the cultivators from approaching.

Sometimes the figure of the other cultivator could not be seen at all in the night, but often the whistle of the flying sword suddenly sounded, and then blood flowers flew up on the city wall.

Ruyin Sword Sect is also a cultivation sect that has always been valued after the change of three dynasties in the south, its location is not far from Jiankang, whether it is in the previous dynasty or in Nanliang at this time, there are many powerful people who send their children to Ruyin Sword Sect to practice, thus also bringing a lot of resources to Ruyin Sword Sect. After Xiao Yan ascended the throne, the Ruyin Sword Sect was directly ordered to become one of the training institutions in the army, and many young people who performed well in the army would be transferred out and sent to the Ruyin Sword Sect to practice.

Compared to the Ruyin Sword Sect, although the students in these academies of the Southern Heavenly Academy may be more talented and have more prominent family backgrounds, their combat experience cannot be compared to the cultivators of the Ruyin Sword Sect.

Tu Yunqing, a cultivator of the Ruyin Sword Sect, had studied in the Ruyin Sword Sect for three years, and before that, he was one of the best scouts in the border army. At this time, he was dressed in a plain infantry leather armor, and stood a little cowering behind a stone-throwing ordnance.

In front of him was a Southern Dynasty general in light armor, who had already issued several military orders in succession.

The night ahead seemed empty, the water vapor churning in the moat was lower than the city wall, and standing on the city wall and looking at the Northern Wei soldiers in the wilderness below was like watching a very small person move in the clouds.

However, a dangerous qi appeared in his perception, and it was also the qi that he wanted to capture.

The true yuan accumulated in the meridians in his body exploded instantly, and the ordinary leather armor on his body made a palpitating cracking sound, and an extremely chilling sword intent bloomed from behind him, turning into a terrifying rainbow, directly hitting a quietly protruding water vapor in front of him.

Hearing only a loud bang, the two Southern Dynasty soldiers who were bowing down near the outside of the city wall were even knocked back by the sudden explosion of qi and fell to the ground.

The water vapor had dissipated invisibly, and the two small swords trembled violently in the air.

The corners of Tu Yunqing's mouth were already bloodied, but his expression remained unchanged, and in the fierce flickering in his eyes, his flying sword was forcibly slashed forward again.

The flying sword from the unknown Northern Wei Dynasty swordsman roared, like a poisonous snake that had been cut seven inches, and it was no longer able to breathe, and it fell above the city wall with a ding.

Tu Yunqing's expression was relieved, and the general in front of him who was using his body as bait suddenly let out a sigh of relief, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

However, at this moment, a sword light flashed in the darkness behind Tu Yunqing's head.

A flying sword suddenly appeared and pierced the back of his head before he could react, and then broke through the hardest frontal bone, rushing out with hot blood.

The bait general exclaimed in shock, and before he could turn around, blood was already spraying on his body, but the flying sword flew near his neck without even bothering to cut his throat, and sharply passed through the water vapor below the city wall.

.......

More exclamations rang out from the walls.

The loudest outburst of exclamations was at the south gate of the city walls.

In the field outside the south gate of the city wall is the main camp area of the Northern Wei army.

In the past few days, the initial arrival of the Northern Wei army numbered tens of thousands, after a siege, most of the Northern Wei army quietly retreated, and the number of the new Northern Wei army was only about 10,000.

There were 60,000 Southern Korean troops in the city, and in this case, the main general of the city naturally did not hesitate to go out of the city to raid, but what people did not expect was that on the wilderness outside the south gate, the Southern Korean army suffered a great defeat and lost more than 13,000 people.

The Northern Wei army, which combined with a total of less than 16,700 people, lost less than 3,000 people.

The biggest reason for such an incredible proportion of battle losses is not that the newly arrived Northern Wei army of more than 10,000 people is too elite, but because there are a large number of cultivators in this army, and at the time of the surprise attack that day, the soil in a large area outside the south gate suddenly became soft and muddy, from the original normal mud to a swamp, which instantly caused the Southern Dynasty army to rush out in a big mess, and it was impossible to fight according to the imagined plan.

This kind of change in the topography can only come from the formation division of the opposing army, and in the next battle, with the arrival of nearly 10,000 Northern Wei troops, the Southern Dynasty army in this city has no confidence to rush out at all.

It's just that the Southern Dynasty soldiers in the city have also observed a very peculiar phenomenon in the past few days, that the more than 10,000 Northern Wei troops who had a formation division at the beginning and the rest of the Northern Wei army are not mixed, and the distinction is strict.

This Northern Wei army occupied the large camp outside the south gate at this time, while the rest of the Northern Wei army set up camps outside the rest of the gate.

Nearly half of the Southern Dynasty army in the city was Lan Huaigong's army, which belonged to the border army, and half of it was the local army and other reinforcements mobilized at the battle site.

The temperament of the Northern Wei army outside the south gate is particularly gloomy, and even in the dark night, it seems that there is little fire, giving people the feeling that they don't need fire for food.

But tonight, the Wei army outside the south gate was surprisingly unusual, and piles of bright bonfires were lit.

In addition to the camp, the front of the camp to the battlefield a few miles outside the south gate, there are also sky-high fires, but before the tea time, the south gate of this big city is actually bright, like daylight.

In the firelight, more than 10,000 Northern Wei troops in the camp seemed to have poured out, led by several trains.

On the chariot in the middle, there were no men, but two female generals, one in red and one in blue.

I couldn't see my appearance clearly, but when I looked at the city, I could only see that the woman in red was tall and plump, and the woman in blue was slender.

The clothes on the two women were obviously not armor, but the cavalry behind the chariots of the two of them was wrapped in black armor, and compared with the glamorous and glamorous of these two women, their temperament was particularly cold.

The horses under these cavalry were slinged and dragged heavy loads.

The more than 10,000 Wei troops came unhurriedly towards the south gate like a tide, and the Southern Dynasty soldiers in the city were already extremely nervous in their hearts, and in the next moment, many people saw clearly what these cavalry were dragging behind, and they all screamed in shock.