Dark clouds covered the sky above the Great Shan Pass. The spirit rain fell on the faces of all the soldiers, but no one cared. Lianpo looked at the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the State of Qin leaving the pass. He knew that he couldn't waste too much time here. No matter the price, he had to take down the Great Shan Pass quickly.
Another 10,000 elites of the State of Zhao dismounted and carried ladders to attack the Great Shan Pass from the north, east, and south. 10,000 soldiers of the Yi Qu Aristocratic Family followed behind the Zhao soldiers. There were only a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators in the State of Qin. They would spread out and let the Zhao soldiers kill them.
The Foundation Establishment cultivators couldn't block the path of all the Zhao soldiers. Even if they self-destructed, they could only take down 1,000 Zhao soldiers with them. Soon, a large number of Zhao soldiers climbed up the city wall.
The old Qin soldiers on the city wall saw countless elites of the State of Zhao climbing up the city wall. These Zhao soldiers were the most elite troops of the State of Zhao. They wouldn't back down without orders. A Foundation Establishment cultivator of the State of Qin saw that 1,000 Zhao soldiers had broken through the pass. He quickly flew to the sky above the pass. A powerful explosion sounded. Because the 1,000 Zhao soldiers were gathered together, more than half of them were killed. The rest were seriously injured and lying on the ground.
Lianpo felt his heart ache when he saw this. More than 200 Qi Refining Realm soldiers were killed. At the same time, no less than 5 Innate Realm soldiers died.
Hundreds of people of the State of Qin were also killed. A gap that was about 10 meters wide appeared in the Great Shan Pass. Countless Zhao soldiers poured in through this gap.
"Boom!"
Another Foundation Establishment cultivator of the State of Qin chose to self-destruct here. There were fewer and fewer Foundation Establishment cultivators outside the city wall. They couldn't block the Zhao soldiers anymore. The Zhao soldiers learned their lesson. Each group of 100 people poured in through the gap in the Great Shan Pass. Each group was 100 meters apart. This way, even if the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the State of Qin self-destructed, they wouldn't suffer too much damage.
More and more soldiers of the State of Zhao had entered the Great Shan Pass. If this continued, the Great Shan Pass would fall sooner or later.
An old Qin soldier of the State of Qin saw another Foundation Establishment cultivator of the State of Qin self-destruct. He shouted the deceased's name and jumped down the city wall. He wanted to kill more Zhao soldiers under the city wall. This way, he could reduce the pressure on the Qin soldiers behind him.
Many old Qin soldiers of the State of Qin saw this and chose to jump down the wall. Slowly, some Qi soldiers of the State of Qin also jumped down.
They might not be able to display as much of an effect as a Foundation Realm cultivator, but with their fearless courage, they were able to stop Zhao Bing's continuous attacks.
Another sound of self-explosion was heard. The surviving Qin soldiers on Mount Guan no longer looked to see who had self-exploded. They fixed their eyes on the Zhao soldiers who were climbing up the city wall. If there was a chance to kill someone stronger than them, they would not hesitate at all.
The sky gradually darkened, and shouts of killing filled the Great Shan Pass. There were also the cries of women and children. The State of Zhao didn't have any intention of stopping their attack. At this time, there weren't many Qin soldiers left, and more than half of the people in the pass had died. As long as the State of Qin breathed their last, the Zhao soldiers would take over the entire Great Shan Pass in one fell swoop.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps could be heard. Lian Po flew into the air and saw numerous carriages and thousands of cavalrymen arriving.
When the Qin soldiers received the news that the Zhao army had attacked the hinterland of the State of Qin, they started to rush back to the Great Shan Pass. They knew that with the strength of the State of Zhao, only the Great Shan Pass could stop the elite cavalrymen of the State of Zhao. All the cities outside the Great Shan Pass would definitely fall into the hands of the State of Zhao.
After coming out of Hangu Pass, they rushed back while collecting horses and carriages. Finally, they rushed back to the Great Shan Pass in six days. Luckily, the State of Zhao hadn't broken through the Great Shan Pass, so they weren't too late.
More than fifty Blood Dragon Guards in heavy armor entered through the east gate of the Great Shan Pass. They didn't care about the Zhao soldiers who were fighting with the Qin soldiers inside the pass, and quickly went to the west wall to provide support.
All the Zhao soldiers below the Qi Realm were no match for the Blood Dragon Guards. Even the State of Zhao's Xiantian Realm cultivators were no match for the Blood Dragon Guards.
They went to the top of the wall where the Zhao soldiers were the most numerous. However, at this time, there were only a few hundred commoners and Qin soldiers on the wall of the Great Shan Pass. The Great Shan Pass had already been broken, but they were still holding on.
Another explosion sounded. At this time, there were only a few dozen people left in the Great Shan Pass. They forgot everything and charged into the Zhao army. Some of them had already lost their minds and were only stabbed to death by the Zhao soldiers at the last moment when they used up all their strength.
The twenty thousand Qin soldiers entered the Great Shan Pass in formation. When they saw the corpses of the elderly, women, and children on the street, they couldn't help but shed tears. However, everyone still gathered together and formed a formation to kill the Zhao soldiers in the city.
The elites of the State of Zhao were originally cavalrymen. When they dismounted, the long spears were much less effective than the Qin's infantry formation.
Although the twenty thousand elite soldiers of Qin State were very tired from traveling continuously for many days, they had also killed their way from Xiao Pass to Da Shan Pass, so their bodies were almost at their limits. Soon, the groups of elite soldiers of Qin State forced Zhao State and Yi Qu Army to retreat. They were surrounded together, and the two sides began to fight the infantry positional warfare in the city. How could the elites of Zhao State be their match?
Lianpo asked the State of Yi Qu's Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators to kill the Qin's Blood Dragon Guards. However, the Blood Dragon Guards were also experienced in the battlefield. When they saw the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators attacking, they immediately chose to flee to a place with more people. The State of Yi Qu's more than ten Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators only killed six Blood Dragon Guards before they disappeared.
At this time, he saw the situation of the Zhao army in the Great Shan Pass and knew that fighting the Qin soldiers in the streets at this time was courting death. Therefore, he ordered the soldiers to retreat.
The large group of Zhao soldiers started to retreat slowly. With the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators in the air, the Qin soldiers didn't dare to chase too deep. They watched as the Zhao elites retreated bit by bit. They retreated to the top of the city wall and started to occupy the favorable terrain of the city wall. They started to build their own defensive formation.
The sounds of the battle outside the pass became softer and softer. In the end, after the State of Qin's Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators self-destructed and killed almost a thousand Zhao elites, the remaining Innate Realm and Qi Refining Realm cultivators were quickly killed by the Zhao army.
When the Qin soldiers saw that the Zhao army had defended the city wall and stopped attacking, they destroyed the roads inside the Great Shan Pass and set up obstacles not far away from the gap in the city wall. They started to build houses and formations in the streets and alleys of the Great Shan Pass. They were going to fight the Zhao army in the streets and alleys of the Great Shan Pass.
Lianpo came to the top of the city wall and saw torches lit up in the streets of the Great Shan Pass. These torches were in the lampshades and wouldn't be extinguished even if it was raining heavily. He asked the Zhao army to light up their torches as well.
The Zhao army had taken down the walls of the Great Shan Pass, but they couldn't take down the entire Great Shan Pass. This was a strange thing.
On the wall of the pass, Lianpo observed the arrangement of the Qin soldiers according to the situation of the torches. At this time, a messenger came to him.
"Reporting to Marshal Lianpo, today's battle report has been calculated. Our army has lost more than 23,000 men and 4,000 are injured. Yi Qu has lost 11,000 men and 6,000 are injured.
Among them, Yi Qu has lost four Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators. Our army has lost one Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator and 19 Connate Realm cultivators.
Qin has lost more than 16000 men. Among them, all 18 Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators have died. "The messenger reported.
"Five Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and 19 Connate Realm cultivators.
The Qin army has less than 5,000 soldiers who can fight.
18 Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators actually brought us such a large number of casualties! "Lianpo looked in the direction of Xianyang City and muttered to himself.
If it was in the past, it wouldn't be a loss for the Zhao to kill 18 Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators of the Qin.
But now, they had lost nearly 30,000 soldiers. They only had about 40,000 soldiers who could fight.
Yi Qu only had about 20,000 soldiers left. The Zhao army had lost nearly half of their soldiers.
Neither side fought for a night. The next morning, the Zhao soldiers saw the gate of the eastern pass of the Great Shan Pass, which was controlled by the Qin army, open. Pairs of Qin soldiers walked into the Great Shan Pass. They were not soldiers because many of these soldiers were women. Half of them were elderly and children. The youngest of these children was only 12 years old. If placed in a normal family, children of this age would still be in their prime. If placed on the battlefield, they would only be cannon fodder.
Lianpo knew that Zhao's elite cavalry was slightly stronger than Qin's elite cavalry. On horseback, five thousand Zhao's elite cavalry could defeat twenty thousand Qin's elite cavalry. But now that Zhao's elite cavalry had dismounted and were fighting Qin's elite cavalry, they would be using their weakness to attack the enemy's strength. At most, Zhao's elite cavalry could only fight to a draw with the enemy.
He had fought with the Qin army for hundreds of years. He knew that the Qin army's strongest point was their neat infantry formations. So, they could only slowly pull the enemy apart and use their advantage in numbers to take down the streets and alleys, gradually taking over the entire Great Shan Pass. At this point, it was meaningless to quickly attack Xianyang City. As long as they could take down the Qin soldiers and civilians in the Great Shan Pass, it wouldn't be difficult for them to take down Xianyang City.
Zhao wasn't afraid of the Qin army moving from Wuguan, Han, Wei and other places. Those places were more than 2,000 li away from Xianyang City. If they dared to move, the Qin army would instantly collapse. But this Wei … sigh!
What the Wei should do now was to attack Hangu Pass with all their might. As long as they took down Hangu Pass, the entire eastern part of the Qin army would be within their attack range. But Lianpo knew that the king of Wei didn't have the courage to fight to the death with the Qin army. As the closest neighbor of the Qin army, the Wei army's fear of Qin Zheng was deep in their bones.
Taking down the walls of the Great Shan Pass was much better than attacking the city again. At the very least, the Zhao army could spread out their soldiers from the western wall and attack the alleys controlled by the Qin army.
In order to take down the Great Shan Pass as soon as possible, Lianpo sent out 30,000 Zhao soldiers and 15,000 Yi Qu soldiers. They were divided into more than a dozen brigades, more than a hundred squadrons, and more than a thousand small teams to attack the streets of the Great Shan Pass from the west to the east.
The Qin army's strength and numbers were indeed inferior to the Zhao army. From the beginning, they were at a disadvantage. Many streets and alleys were quickly taken over by the Zhao army.
But at this moment, Lianpo's expression changed. He saw a person who shouldn't be here.
"Lian Jun, how have you been?"
A figure floated above the Great Shan Pass. When all the soldiers saw this figure, they began to shout excitedly. The Qin army's defeat seemed to be stabilizing.
"Greetings, King of Qin!
I haven't seen you for many years, King of Qin, "Lianpo said as he looked at Qin Zheng in the distance.
"Marshal Lian, it's a pity for you to stay in Zhao. If you come to the Qin army, this king will definitely welcome you."
Qin Zheng slowly approached Lianpo. Many Foundation Realm cultivators behind Lianpo reminded him, but Lianpo flew toward Qin Zheng.