We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 389: It Seems Heaven Wants Me to Be Buried Here
The next day, Qin Jingsu led two hundred thousand troops to garrison Caiyun City.
These two hundred thousand troops were all Northern Frontier elite forces that Xiao Mo left for Qin Jingsu.
Among them were even many soldiers who had defended Yanmen Pass together with Xiao Mo back then, possessing rich experience in defending cities.
As for Xiao Mo, he led the remaining army and charged straight for Yaoqin City!
Although Xiao Mo and Qin Jingsu hadn’t set a deadline, Xiao Mo knew Qin Jingsu would do his utmost to defend the city, and Qin Jingsu also believed Xiao Mo would use every possible method to speed up the siege!
After the Jin Kingdom’s ruler learned of Xiao Mo’s strategy, there was some panic in his expression but the Jin Kingdom’s ruler also knew this was an excellent opportunity for him!
The Jin Kingdom’s ruler strictly ordered cities like Yaoqin City to desperately slow the pace of Xiao Mo’s army, then summoned armies from various Jin Kingdom lords to attack Caiyun City!
If they could capture Caiyun City and kill the Qin Kingdom’s Crown Prince! Then surround and trap Xiao Mo’s army then the Qin Kingdom would truly be finished!
But many things sound good when you think about them, yet are very difficult to actually do!
Xiao Mo’s army was like a sharp spear. In less than half a month, it pierced through Yaoqin City and charged toward Cangmang City.
At the same time, while Crown Prince Qin Jingsu defended Caiyun City, he ate and lived together with the soldiers, staying day and night atop the city walls without the slightest negligence.
And because the Crown Prince personally led the army and brought two hundred thousand elite troops, everyone in Caiyun City from top to bottom was united in heart.
Not to mention they all knew what Caiyun City meant, so nearly everyone was prepared to die here!
However, as Jin Kingdom lords arrived from all directions, the pressure Qin Jingsu faced grew increasingly great.
This siege battle that nearly determined the fate of the four kingdoms made these lords attack the city at any cost.
No matter how many people died, as long as they could wear down Caiyun City’s formation even a little, that was good.
Two months later, Xiao Mo led his army to within thirty li of the Jin Kingdom’s imperial capital!
The Jin Kingdom court fell into great panic. They never imagined Xiao Mo’s attack speed would be so fast.
A surrender faction appeared again in the Jin Kingdom court. However, most of the Jin Kingdom ministers still had backbone.
The voice of surrender was immediately suppressed.
The Jin Kingdom’s ruler ordered them to defend the city to the last moment!
Xiao Mo never expected the Jin Kingdom’s ruler to surrender anyway.
Xiao Mo set up camp on the spot, rested for one day, and discussed siege strategies with his military generals.
The next day, Xiao Mo personally led the army to attack the city.
On the other side, beneath Caiyun City, after the various Jin Kingdom lords deliberated, they once again launched a general assault on Caiyun City.
Both sides were racing against time, afraid of being one step too late.
Under Xiao Mo’s continuous assault, the Jin Kingdom capital’s protective formation had already been worn down considerably. Xiao Mo had even feigned defeat once during this time.
The Jin Kingdom’s ruler, who had been constantly beaten back, thought he had finally won and broken Xiao Mo’s myth of invincibility. He was quite delighted in his heart.
So the Jin Kingdom’s ruler decisively ordered pursuit.
As a result, he fell into Xiao Mo’s ambush.
Not only did Xiao Mo slaughter the Jin Kingdom army until they fled in disarray, he even took the opportunity to tear a gap in the Jin Kingdom’s protective formation but Xiao Mo simply didn’t give the Jin Kingdom a chance to repair the formation’s gap.
Xiao Mo commanded the army to attack day and night without cease, tearing the formation’s gap wider and wider.
“Just a little more! Just a little more!”
Xiao Mo’s bloodshot eyes stared intently at the formation above the city walls, involuntarily gripping his spear tighter.
If he was given just half a month more, he could breach the Jin Kingdom!
This time, he couldn’t possibly leave any of the Jin Kingdom’s royal family alive.
Because the Jin Kingdom hadn’t been completely controlled yet.
Only if the entire royal family died would those lords be unable to unite as one force.
Like scattered sand, he could then break them one by one.
And after taking the Jin Kingdom’s capital and annihilating the Jin Kingdom’s royal clan, he would immediately rush to reinforce Caiyun City!
But on Caiyun City’s front, the situation wasn’t as optimistic as before.
Qin Jingsu hadn’t made a single mistake.
He kept the city closed and simply held fast!
No matter how the enemy side provoked him, it was useless but what Qin Jingsu hadn’t anticipated was that Caiyun City’s protective formation would be so weak.
As one of the important passes, Caiyun City’s protective formation shouldn’t have been so fragile.
Moreover, at that time, before Caiyun City had even been attacked by the Qin Kingdom, the city lord had abandoned the city and fled but who knew the result would be that this formation had gone without maintenance for years. If not completely damaged, it was like a rusty old sword!
And at that time, because the attack was too urgent, and moreover no one had expected the Zhao Kingdom battlefield to suffer defeat, causing the Jin Kingdom battlefield to fall into a desperate gamble.
So at that time, the army only stayed in Caiyun City for one day before continuing their advance. They simply hadn’t inspected the formation!
Now, Qin Jingsu also understood why the previous Caiyun City lord had abandoned the city and fled, even running toward the demon clan’s realm.
The root cause was that all the spirit stones and heavenly materials and earthly treasures that maintained the protective formation had been embezzled by him. So he simply fled without a trace!
After learning of this, although Qin Jingsu was extremely angry, he still formulated detailed strategies and tried his best to reduce the formation’s depletion but five days later, the formation was ultimately shattered.
The shattering of Caiyun City’s formation made these Jin Kingdom lords charge forward excitedly as if smelling fresh blood!
They thirsted for the Qin Kingdom’s First Prince’s head!
This would be an unparalleled achievement!
Qin Jingsu knew the cause was hopeless and led the remaining one hundred fifty thousand troops out of the city to fight!
But the enemy forces numbered more than four times Qin Jingsu’s, and the number of Upper Three Realms cultivators far exceeded Qin Jingsu’s forces.
After fighting for two days and two nights, Qin Jingsu led his army in retreat back into Caiyun City.
Qin Jingsu divided his forces and continuously conducted guerrilla warfare against the Jin Kingdom army within Caiyun City.
Although Qin Jingsu’s method did indeed effectively delay the Jin Kingdom army.
Unfortunately, Caiyun City was ultimately too small.
Moreover, after the Jin Kingdom army took control of Caiyun City’s protective formation, although the formation was shattered, through the formation masters’ modifications, it could still function to seek out enemy troops!
Three days later, Qin Jingsu knew the cause was hopeless and led his army to withdraw from Caiyun City.
Qin Jingsu planned to retreat to Yaoqin City and continue defending the city but how could the Jin Kingdom army possibly give him this opportunity?
The Jin Kingdom army pursued frantically, launching several encirclements against Qin Jingsu.
Although Qin Jingsu successfully broke through each time, the losses were devastating.
Of the original two hundred thousand soldiers, only thirty thousand remained.
“What lies ahead?”
Qin Jingsu weakly asked the deputy general beside him.
“Reporting to the General, ahead is a plain in the Jin Kingdom called Shuling,” the deputy general answered.
“Shuling… Su Ling (to be buried).”
Qin Jingsu smiled.
“It seems Heaven wants me to be buried here.”
