Bai Qingyan steadied her breathing and loosed her arrow. Immediately drawing another arrow and nocking it, she calmly locked onto Bai Qingyu’s direction…

The feathered arrow grazed past Bai Qingyu’s right arm, flying straight to shoot down the Xiliang soldier on horseback with a single arrow.

Bai Qingyu wheeled his horse around and thrust with his spear, piercing the Xiliang general’s throat. As he withdrew the spear, blood splattered everywhere.

From the corner of her eye, Bai Qingyan detected a cold gleam near Bai Qingyu’s side. She turned her arrowhead and released… The arrow, radiating murderous intent, spun as it flew at great speed… striking the neck of the warhorse ridden by the Xiliang general who was raising his curved saber. The fierce horse let out a shrill whinny and collapsed. The Xiliang general who had been surrounding Bai Qingyu was instantly trampled to death under Bai Qingyu’s horse’s hooves.

The Rong Di soldiers initially felt fear upon seeing the Great Zhou archers on the city walls releasing arrows, but when they saw that those arrows seemed to have eyes of their own and did not harm them… instead helping them shoot down the Xiliang troops who had nearly taken their lives, only then did they feel at ease.

Bai Qingyan provided cover for Bai Qingyu from atop the city wall, and Bai Qingyu, having complete faith in his elder sister’s archery skills, could fight even more freely…

Seeing that the elephant army was about to charge beneath the city tower, Bai Qingyu shouted: “Stop the elephant army!”

The Rong Di army charged toward the elephant army with suicidal determination. If one rope couldn’t stop them, then two, three, five… ten ropes!

Bai Qingyan’s gaze dared not leave Bai Qingyu for even a moment. She only shouted: “Archers, prepare fire arrows!”

Shen Kunyang, who was guarding beside Bai Qingyan, loudly transmitted the order: “Archers prepare fire arrows, aim at those elephants and shoot them to death!”

Messengers scattered to both ends of the city wall, transmitting the order: “Archers prepare fire arrows, aim at the elephants and shoot them to death!”

“Archers prepare fire arrows, aim at the elephants, and shoot them to death!”

The high-pitched transmission of orders rang out atop Pingyang City’s walls. The first wave of archers withdrew, and archers with arrows dipped in burning oil stepped forward. They released their arrows, and fire arrows flew densely toward the giant elephants.

The division led by Wang Qiulu had also joined the battle.

Xie Xun led the Yan army charging into the great battle.

A mere six thousand Xiliang soldiers were simply not enough to kill…

The Tianfeng Kingdom general looked around in all directions, his whole body turning cold. Now Xiliang and Tianfeng were surrounded, and the only thing they could rely on was the elephant army, so they could only fight with their backs to the wall.

The Tianfeng Kingdom general steeled his heart and once again blew the bone whistle held at his lips.

Bai Qingyan, who was staring intently at A’Yu, moved her ears slightly. Got it!

She suddenly turned her arrowhead around, her gaze sharp and fierce, cleanly releasing the arrow.

The arrow shot out at high speed, striking sparks against the armor on the giant elephant’s body as it charged forward rapidly. The Tianfeng Kingdom general with the bone whistle in his mouth only felt his helmet struck by an extremely violent force. The arrow couldn’t completely penetrate the helmet that had been reinforced with ink powder, only embedding the arrowhead, both arrow and helmet suffering mutual destruction. The Tianfeng Kingdom general’s vision went black as he tumbled from the galloping horse’s back…

“General!”

“General!”

The Tianfeng Kingdom cavalry saw their general fall from horseback and cried out in alarm in their Tianfeng language, dismounting. Seeing their general covered in blood, they hoisted the unconscious Tianfeng Kingdom general onto horseback and shouted to retreat.

But where was there any room for retreat now? Surrounded on four sides, they could only rely on the elephant army to break through, but… the general who could control the elephant army with the bone whistle had now fallen unconscious, his head covered in blood, life or death unknown.

One of Tianfeng Kingdom’s giant elephants had already charged first beneath the city wall, stretching out its trunk with a long cry as it rushed toward the city gate…

The giant elephant’s first charge nearly broke the door bolt wrapped in iron sheets of Pingyang City’s ancient city gate, bending it. The soldiers hurriedly arranged defenses at the city gate entrance, compacting the accumulated snow solidly. The soldiers slid back and forth on the snow, creating an icy path so slippery that no one could stand on it…

The soldiers holding sharp blades and lined up behind the ice path were all tense, waiting for the moment when the giant elephant would charge into the city and fall.

After the giant elephant’s first charge, the thick, pungent, spicy air rushed into the sensitive nose of the elephant along with the cold air. The giant elephant that had been ramming the city gate became stimulated and went mad, swinging its long trunk wildly and crashing about without any method, sometimes hitting the wall, sometimes hitting the gate.

The city tower shook from the giant elephant’s impacts. Shen Kunyang, who had fought battles his entire life and had never seen such terrifying giant beasts, couldn’t help but step forward to support Bai Qingyan: “Your Majesty! You should leave first!”

“There’s no time to descend from the city tower now!” Bai Qingyan had lost sight of Bai Qingyu and drew out a feathered arrow, searching back and forth. Seeing a fierce Xiliang soldier raise his blade to strike down one of their Great Zhou elite soldiers, she raised her chin, aimed, gritted her back teeth, and drew the bow to shoot…

Before the fierce Xiliang soldier’s blade could fall, the feathered arrow had already pierced through the Xiliang soldier’s neck. That Great Zhou soldier glanced up at the city wall, knowing that his comrades stood on the city wall protecting them, that their sovereign… the renowned God of Slaughter, was standing on the city wall, drawing bow and shooting arrows alongside them!

That soldier couldn’t help but feel his blood surge with passion. He quickly got up, picked up a large blade, and charged back into the hand-to-hand combat.

Wherever Xiao Rongyan’s sword edge passed, blood mist sprayed. In this extremely cold winter night, the spraying hot blood became ice shards as soon as it hit the ground. His angry horse reared its hooves with a long whinny. He grasped the reins with one hand, sitting steadily on horseback, holding his blood-dripping long sword, guarding beneath the city wall, shouting sternly: “Shoot the elephants’ eyes, drive them back!”

Before the Yan army could shoot arrows at the elephants’ eyes, the pungent odor floating in the air had already made the sensitive-nosed elephants extremely uncomfortable. The elephant herd staggered about crazily, and one elephant swinging its long trunk… its feet trampling back and forth on the solid accumulated snow became slippery, and in a moment it fell heavily to the ground, the impact so great that people could feel the earth tremble.

Once the giant elephant fell, the soldiers roared and rushed forward rapidly, finding the gaps where the giant elephant’s armor pieces connected, using all their strength to thrust their sharp blades through the gaps, penetrating all the way. The giant elephant cried out in agony and struggled to get up, shaking off the soldiers who had managed to climb onto the giant elephant’s body, but before it could stand up, it slipped and fell again. The Great Zhou soldiers swarmed forward again, working together to stab knives into the gaps of this giant elephant’s armor.

Watching as Tianfeng Kingdom’s giant elephants fell one after another, soon covered densely by Great Zhou soldiers, like countless ants fearlessly challenging giant beasts.

“Your Majesty!” A general from the Zhai family, one of Xiliang’s eight great families, rode up quickly and extended his hand to Li Tianfu, saying, “Your Majesty, Great Yan has already brought troops to provide reinforcement. We are surrounded, the situation is hopeless, and we cannot remain attached to battle. This subordinate will find a way to escort Your Majesty in fighting our way out!”

Li Tianfu clenched his teeth tightly, glanced once at the brightly lit Pingyang City gate, gritted his teeth, and made his decision, grabbing the Zhai family general’s hand: “Retreat!”

“Xiliang soldiers, we must spare no effort to carve out a bloody path for His Majesty! Charge!”

The Xiliang soldiers had originally come with burning passion, but at this moment, they had indeed fallen into a situation of facing enemies on all four sides…