125: Chapter 125: Magma-Protected City, 11 Floating Giant Cannons – anyone interested?

That's right!

Xu Xuan was indeed advising them out of kindness, but he was also intentionally using reverse psychology.

He knew that Zhou Wu, Zhou Mei, Li Fei, and the others would listen to him and wouldn't send their troops up as cannon fodder.

But the other foreign lords wouldn't listen. As soon as they heard Xu Xuan looking down on them, their blood boiled, and they charged in blindly with their troops.

The more Xu Xuan earnestly advised them not to throw away their lives, the more their rebellious streak flared up.

This group of foreigners was worried Xu Xuan would steal their rewards, so they fought desperately to take Ailao Pass within two hours, before his Floating Island could fly over.

They fell for it; this group was provoked into a frenzy by just a few words!

Meanwhile, Xu Xuan held internal intelligence regarding Ailao Pass.

With Lv Bu inside Ailao Pass, how could Xu Xuan not know the situation within?

Sitting atop the high tower and gazing at the distant Death Valley, Xu Xuan muttered, "Three, two, one! Start!"

He watched as siege ladders and siege engines approached. The millions of soldiers across the battlefield looked like a dense, writhing colony of ants.

Aside from the dozen-meter-high wall in the middle of the rift, Ailao Pass was flanked by hundred-meter-high cliffs. The cliffs and peaks served as natural city walls.

There were numerous caves in these cliffs; the undead soldiers had hollowed out the entire mountain, connecting everything into a single entity.

As siege ladders were propped against the cliffs and siege engines lowered their planks, dozens of soldiers rushed into the cave openings on the cliff faces.

Then came the spectacular part!

There were roughly over a hundred thousand cave openings on the cliffs.

Those dense openings were like holes in cheese, and massive amounts of magma began to pour out of them.

How could one describe the scene? It was like squeezing blackheads on a strawberry nose; magma was being squeezed out and erupting from every single hole.

Like popping blackheads or pimples and squeezing out a mass of thick grease, the magma erupted from the holes, engulfing all the soldiers who had landed!

The soldiers screamed as they were swallowed by the surging magma. It completely encased their bodies, and their iron armor began to melt. They watched helplessly as they were boiled and scalded to death!

The melting armor turned into molten iron, fusing with their flesh as it cooled. The scene was absolutely horrific!

In an instant, over 200,000 soldiers were swallowed by the magma, losing their lives immediately.

The flowing magma continued to swallow more people. Countless soldiers abandoned their armor and equipment, jumping off the siege engines as the magma surged behind them like a tide.

Any soldier who ran even a bit too slow would be consumed by the rolling magma until not even dregs remained.

Beside Xu Xuan, Hu Zi Mei's eyes widened. "Great King, you knew there was magma inside that hundred-meter-high mountain wall!?"

Xu Xuan shook his head. "I didn't know either. I only received word from Lv Bu that there were mechanisms on the mountain wall. I didn't expect the undead to be able to pump out the magma from within the mountain to defend the city."

This was indeed beyond Xu Xuan's expectations, but he hadn't planned on attacking the wall anyway. He had his Floating Island and could directly ascend the hundred-meter peaks.

Watching hundreds of thousands of human soldiers being roasted, countless ghouls and zombies let out earth-shaking cheers.

Mocking laughter emanated from their rotting vocal cords, as if they were laughing at the humans' arrogance.

They had spent day and night excavating this Ailao Pass, hollowing out and connecting the two mountains on either side of the rift.

With the addition of Necromancers who could draw magma, anyone who tried to climb the mountains on either side would have to face the threat of the lava.

While the soldiers on the flanks suffered heavy losses, the troops attacking the middle of the rift weren't faring any better!

The million-strong army was restricted by the terrain; in the center of the rift, there was only a section of wall 550 meters long and 10 meters high.

With 300,000 soldiers in the central army attacking this 500-meter wall, crowding there was just waiting for death.

No wonder people in ancient times loved setting up passes; it truly was a case of one man holding the pass against ten thousand.

This small 550-meter section of wall was in narrow terrain, so the 300,000-strong army couldn't fully deploy and could only form a Long Snake Formation.

A massive number of soldiers climbed siege ladders and swarmed the battlements, attempting to seize control of the city gate.

Their swords pierced the zombies' bodies, but the zombie soldiers felt no pain at all and simply pushed the humans off the wall.

These zombies weren't the Eastern type; they were the Western Living Dead type.

They belonged to the lowest-tier cannon fodder unit, but even the lowest-tier zombie fodder could recover from wounds by biting humans and drinking blood.

In just one short hour, over thirty thousand corpses had already piled up in front of Ailao Pass, covering the ground in a thick layer.

A mere 550-meter-long wall simply could not be taken, making William howl with rage.

"What's going on? Didn't that Miyamoto Takeshi say the Undead Legion didn't have many soldiers? Only 500,000 undead troops!"

Miyamoto Takeshi explained from the side, "I didn't expect the enemy to have magma either! Look, their mountains are full of tunnels and holes, which looked like defensive vulnerabilities everywhere. I just didn't expect this."

What Miyamoto Takeshi said wasn't a lie.

The hundred thousand holes on the cliffs all looked like vulnerabilities; with three million people, they could have easily occupied the mountain and used the tunnels to break into Ailao Pass.

Who would have thought...

Those hundred thousand holes were specifically designed to release magma, not vulnerabilities at all!

Looking at Death Valley now, the sight was spectacular. Magma flowed over the entire mountain, a rolling dark red that looked like flowing, fiery-red liquid from a distance.

Ailao Pass! Both sides were covered in magma, leaving only that 550-meter-long section of wall in the middle to be attacked.

Losing hundreds of thousands of people in a single encounter—who could stomach that?

The siege had just begun, and before they even saw the enemy, they were hit by a wave of magma.

A large group of furious lords swarmed over and grabbed Miyamoto Takeshi by the collar.

"Miyamoto Takeshi, you misreported military intelligence!"

"You said our army of millions could easily take Ailao Pass and get the system rewards!"

"You brat, you tricked us so badly!"

The crowd surrounded Miyamoto Takeshi, pointing at his nose and cursing him furiously.

Miyamoto Takeshi felt wronged as well. "What does this have to do with me? You're the ones who fell for Xu Xuan's reverse psychology. You didn't scout for yourselves and were just in a hurry to attack. Can you blame me for that?"

These people only realized after the fact that that bastard Xu Xuan... had made them act impulsively with just a few words.

And looking back at the Floating Island, it had already arrived in front of Ailao Pass.

That fellow Xu Xuan was sitting on the high tower, unhurriedly mobilizing his troops: "All units, prepare to land."

Hmm?

Su Daji looked at Xu Xuan with great curiosity. "Great King, those peaks are over 110 meters high. If our Floating Island crashes directly into them, it will cause damage to the buildings on our island, won't it?"

The Floating Island could fly at an altitude of 100 meters, but if it were forced to ram into the mountaintops, the resulting earthquake could collapse the buildings on the island.

However, Xu Xuan simply snapped his fingers. "Consume 5,000 low-grade spirit stones to assemble 10 Floating Island Giant Cannons!"

At Xu Xuan's command, 5,000 low-grade spirit mines that had just been seized from the warehouse began to fly into the air. They automatically absorbed soil and rocks from the ground, forming 10 small islands with a diameter of 50 meters in the sky.

Including the previous one, a total of 11 Floating Island Giant Cannons surrounded the main island like funnels.

Under Xu Xuan's command, the 11 giant cannons began to condense spiritual energy and fire at the peaks of Death Valley.

With a single volley, 11 massive projectiles sheared off the 110-meter mountaintops, and the Floating Island flew easily over Ailao Pass.