Chapter 84: Calculating Military Merits
Suddenly, a series of booms and rumbles echoed from the south. Then, two flying vessels appeared one after another and flew straight toward the battlefield. Both immortal vessels were about thirty zhang long and looked nothing like nothing Wei Yuan had seen before. Dark cyan glow covered their surfaces, and their forms looked short and stout. They radiated a grim, murderous intent.
The vessels, one ahead of the other, were flying straight toward the fort. They were such obvious targets that the Liao cavalry could not possibly miss them. They also knew that they could not allow it to enter the battlefield no matter what. Thus, countless swift-wind arrows, armor-piercing arrows, and more mystic artifacts flew into the sky straight toward the flying vessel in the lead.
Unfortunately for them, the arrows lost all power when they made contact with the cyan light and plummeted impotently toward the ground. At the same time, the vessel was unleashing its own arrow volleys and mowing down the approaching Liao cavalrymen in droves.
Seeing that the Liao cavalry could not stop the flying vessels’ approach, a column of yellow clouds suddenly emerged from the north. The yellow dust churned like an apocalyptic sandstorm and rose hundreds of zhang into the air in an instant!
Somewhere, an angry grunt erupted and shook the entire battlefield for an instant. Then, a piercing, desolate cry of a hawk echoed through the air, and a gigantic northern goshawk burst out of the sea of yellow dust. It crossed ten thousand zhang in an instant and rammed viciously into the flying vessel!
Wei Yuan’s eyesight was excellent, so he discerned that the enormous goshawk was really a giant arrow that was over a zhang long. The giant arrow ripped through the cyan glow protecting the flying vessel and sank nearly all the way in! As if its pilot was drunk, the vessel immediately started descending in an unsteady manner until it finally crashed outside the fort, killing a dozen or so Liao cavalrymen who failed to get out of the way in time.
“The audacity!” An angry shout erupted from the south, and a gigantic lightning bolt about a hundred zhang in width appeared out of nowhere. It flew straight toward the yellow clouds in the north.
The lightning bolt instantly evaporated several hundred zhang of yellow clouds. However, three more goshawks emerged from the yellow clouds—each one causing the yellow clouds to descend by a full hundred zhang—and sped toward the seemingly empty southern sky. They moved so fast they looked like a single line, crossing ten thousand zhang of distance in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, a devastating sword beam erupted from the void, zigzagging through the air like lightning and cutting down two goshawks in an instant! Unfortunately, the third goshawk managed to evade the counterattack and plunged into the void behind it, vanishing without a trace.