When he woke up again, Lu Qian found that he was tied up like a rice dumpling, lying on the hospital bed.

"Sir, are you awake?" The soldiers guarding him screamed excitedly when they saw him open their eyes.

"I'm not dead?"

"No."

"How was the battle going on? I didn't win the imperial capital?" Lu Qian asked.

"The war was not very good, and the imperial capital has not been taken down yet." The soldier frowned.

"Let's talk, what's going on? Haven't we rushed in?" Lu Qian asked.

The soldier didn't hide anything and told everything he knew.

Only then did Lu Qian realize that he had been in a coma for seven days and seven nights, and many things happened during this period.

First, Wei Hu ordered his men to fire rune arrows, and his men carried out the execution without fail. However, people were everywhere at that time, and the shooting realm of the rune arrow was blocked, so the rune arrow hit the person as soon as it flew out and exploded.

At that time, there were five or six rune crossbows in the defenders, and they launched at the same time and exploded almost at the same time. The power was so great that it was imagined that basically within two hundred meters above the radius, let alone people, even the surrounding buildings were completely flattened, and all the soldiers from both the defenders and the vanguard battalion died.

Lu Qian was lucky and was pushed into the hole in the city wall by the impact, so he saved his life.

After seeing him faint, the soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion did not give up on continuing the attack except to send him off the front line.

But at this time, the defenders also started crazy and gave up hand-to-hand combat, but kept greeting with rune arrows.

In this way, even if the soldiers of the Pioneer Camp were fearless, they were still flesh and blood after all, and they could not resist them at all. They were bombarded by rune arrows, and the big hole was blocked.

Seeing that the opportunity to get was missed, the generals on Song Li's side were inevitably disappointed, and even their morale was a little depressed.

Seeing this, Song Li had to temporarily stop the attack and then began to create a large number of **.

Song Li stopped siege, but Wei Qianli was not idle. I wonder if he was stimulated or inspired by Song Li, but he also began the strategy of using attack instead of defense.

Wei Qianli acted like a prodigal son, mobilized hundreds of rune arrows and crossbows in his hand, then opened the city gate and began to bombard Song Li indiscriminately.

If it was just bombing, it would be nothing. Just retreat some of the military camps. After all, although the range of the crossbow chariots is long, there will be an end. However, Wei Qianli did not intend to give up. When the rune arrows were bombing, he also sent cavalry to attack the military camps that gave gifts, and set fire on fire at the same time.

Although Song Li was in charge, there was no tragic thing like burning the 800-li in the camp, but it also damaged many soldiers, and their morale was inevitably traumatized again.

Song Li was never a person who was waiting to be beaten and refused to fight back. In order to retaliate against Wei Qianli, he began to set up a plan.

When Wei Qianli was preparing to use the same trick again, and then the cavalry then attacked Song Li's military camp, Song Li took action.

He ordered people to bury thousands of pounds of ** around the camp, and secretly buried a copycat earth bomb he made by himself at the gate of the Imperial Capital.

He did this and thought that Wei Qianli would definitely not stop if he took advantage of it. Because the crossbow cart was inconvenient to move, it would never be possible to leave the city gate too far without heavy troops. Otherwise, as long as he attacked desperately, he would probably leave it completely.

Because of these considerations, he arranged bombs at the city gate.

Seeing that Wei Qianli had indeed played this trick again as expected, Song Li lit the bomb without hesitation.

Due to the limitations of conditions, Song Li could not make the bomb too big. It was not that he didn't want it. If it was too big, it would be difficult to bury it at the gate of the city.

Although the bomb is not big, its power after the explosion is still very impressive.

The purpose of this bomb is not to kill the enemy, but to deal with those crossbows.

Although rune arrows are powerful, their disadvantage is that they are easy to explode. A slight violent vibration or impact will be triggered and exploded. This is also the reason why the rune arrows are not widely used in the imperial army, and they are too inconvenient to use and transport.

At this time, the bomb below sounded, shrapnel flew, the shock wave spread, the rune arrow that was closest to exploded, and other rune arrows also exploded.

In an instant, outside the gate of the imperial capital, it seemed like an explosion warehouse was lit. The explosion was earth-shaking, and the fire was rising, and at the same time, smoke and dust rose, forming a mushroom cloud.

The crossbows and the surrounding defenders all disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace of scum.

Just as the rune arrow exploded, the gunpowder buried outside Song Li's military camp also exploded.

At this moment, it was when the cavalry sent by Wei Qianli came to attack the military camp. Under the violent explosion, these cavalry suffered heavy losses. What's even more fatal is that before they evacuated, Song Li sent soldiers to launch a siege again.

In order to facilitate the retreat of the crossbows and cavalry, the gate of the imperial capital was not closed, but a passage was left.

Although the explosion of the rune arrow was amazing, it was still a little far from the city gate. In addition, the gate of the imperial capital was extremely hard, so it was not damaged. However, the passage left behind gave Song Li a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

So the battle started again.

But this time the increase is not the entrance of the cave, but the city gate.

The battle started suddenly but it was extremely fierce. Both sides were red and refused to give in. The dead bodies at the gate of the city were piled up into small hills.

In the end, Wei Qianli took advantage of defending the city. Although he paid a considerable price, he still closed the city gate.

The defender Qianli also learned his lesson and no longer took the initiative to attack. He was determined to carry out the turtle defense flow to the end.

Song Li was not discouraged. After two days, he started the attack again. This time he made 50,000 kilograms, and buried the explosion points in several directions, and then exploded at the same time.

Such a multi-point flowering strategy has a very good effect. Several holes were opened on the city wall at once. In addition, with the previous experience of Lu Qian and others in attack, various situations were taken to deal with, so the process was relatively smooth at the beginning.

However, when the defenders' defense line was about to collapse, some powerful cultivators suddenly emerged and joined the battle.

No matter how brave the soldiers on Song Li were, they were only for ordinary people. They had no advantage in the face of these cultivators. They were almost unilaterally massacred by cutting melons and vegetables, and then had to retreat, and the holes that were blown out were blocked by the defenders again.

There were several relatively smaller battles during this period, and both sides suffered losses, but they never decided the outcome.

"Has the general not come up with a better way?" Lu Qian asked.

"I heard that the Marshal often summoned generals to discuss matters recently. I heard that the Marshal was in a good mood this morning, and it seemed that he had a way to break the city."

"What are you waiting for? Help me up quickly. How can we not be there at this time?" Lu Qian struggled to get up, but the feeling of fatigue made him lie down before he could sit up.

"That's not possible, the general said, let you rest with peace of mind. When the city is broken, we will definitely be able to reward our Pioneer Camp when we are rewarded according to the merits."

"Oh." Lu Qian sighed, and could only lie down helplessly again, looking out the window, but thinking about the war outside.

After seven days and seven nights, he was unable to take down the imperial capital, and his subordinates suffered nearly 40,000 casualties. Song Li was indeed anxious.

He also asked about the situation on Zhanlong's side. The battle situation was much more tragic than on his side, and the casualties were even more serious.

These days, Song Li racked his brains to find a way, but no matter how good it was, he eventually rejected it, because no matter how good the plan was, someone would have to implement it.

However, although his soldiers were large, most of them were ordinary people, and there were no cultivators with too strong strength. If he only fought with ordinary defenders, it would be fine. However, whenever he finally gained the upper hand and the defenders sent out those cultivators, the situation that was originally beneficial to him would quickly reverse.

This made Song Li very depressed. He had thought that he would go up in person, but every time he would be persuaded by the generals before he could finish his words.

After all, he is the head coach of the first army and the backbone of everyone present. If he is here, no matter how fierce the war is, no matter how serious the casualties are, he will not be too panic from the generals to the ordinary soldiers. But if he has a few mistakes, the army will collapse in an instant without fighting this battle.

Song Li also realized this, so he could only stay in the coach's tent and find a way.

He thought of sending out the Blade Assault Corps, but then he thought that good steel must be used on the Blade, otherwise it would be wasted.

According to the information, there are quite a few monks hidden in the defenders, and their strength is not much different from those of the Blade Assault Corps. If they really encounter it, it is very likely that there will be a situation of no distinction between the top and bottom. In this case, if there is no strong force that has a final say and the final decision is made, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not evolve into a stalemate and constrained situation again.

Song Li was not afraid of simply wasting time. What he was worried about was that these cultivators were not cards in the hands of the Holy Emperor. If he still had other stronger powers, then when he played at this time, his blade assault regiment might be wiped out.

Of course, Song Li also considered whether to attract Li Jing, Li Kangtian and others who were still hiding in the imperial capital at this time to help him, as a powerful help to suppress these cultivators, but after repeated consideration, he gave up this tempting idea.

The reason is that he is also worried that the Holy Emperor still has trump cards he doesn't know, such as a mysterious force that Zhan Long mentioned.

If there were such a group of people, ordinary soldiers alone would not be able to do anything to them. At the critical moment, strong people such as Li Jing and Li Kangtian were needed to act as the final hammer.

What's more, they were lurking in the imperial capital at this time, which was also a force that could not be ignored. For him, he was a trump card that could reverse the situation at a critical moment, and for the Holy Emperor, he was a knife that was inserted into his heart but didn't know when it would be fatal.

Just this is enough to deter the Holy Emperor. Therefore, it is much better to use them than to use them.
Chapter completed!