Destiny is ashes

Chapter 472 Fighting (13)

Yu Jiang's cavalry moved forward, ignoring all the terrain and obstacles between heaven and earth, whether it was rivers or mountains, whether it was ice or snow, even the mountains could not stop their pace.

On the march, there was no other sound except the uniform footsteps that shook the earth. Even the neighing of horses disappeared. There was only the rolling waves of evil spirit and the roar of mines being detonated.

Surrounded by flames and thunder, they moved forward. The direction of this army's march was not Linjiang City, but Broken Blade Mountain.

And what could really stop them was not the weak natural terrain that could only stop mortals, but the equally silent Dachen Wu Army that had already deployed its positions next to Broken Blade Mountain.

The two armies faced each other across ten miles. A mounted archer leading the Iron Cavalry side pulled his longbow to its full extent, and an arrow as fast as lightning flashed by. Then it was disintegrated and shattered in the process of approaching the Dachen Wu army formation, and finally turned into ashes about thirty feet in front of the army formation.

It is not a black iron arrowhead and has no magic attached to it. Ordinary weapons will be shattered once they get close to the evil spirit of the military formation. If one wants to shatter the formation, they can only use another formation to collide with it.

“The number of people is wrong.”

Xing Mofeng was in the center of the battle formation. He stood on a hill. General Dachen was surrounded by a whole army of golden armored guards, forming a three-layer magic shield. His eyes were as sharp as arrows, and he quickly noticed something was wrong: "There is only one cavalry on the front battlefield, and there are two more."

Although there must be a cavalry unit on one side preparing for a surprise attack, there must be another unit hiding... Are they going to attack Linjiang City? Impossible, there are so many defensive equipment there that it would take him at least seven or eight days to defeat it, and he might not be able to take it.

Could it be that he wants to go around and make dumplings? Ha, if that's the case, let him make them.

"The front troops are advancing." A true commander dared to make a judgment. Xing Mofeng ordered: "Test the quality of these northern barbarians."

The army moved forward.

The Cangjia Guards in the vanguard were wearing white iron armor, holding shields and one-handed axes, with long swords on their left waists and crossbows on their right waists. The soldiers in the back row held magic spears, like a steel forest. The overwhelming rain of arrows whistled at them, and even if the black iron arrowheads broke through the evil barriers and hit their one-piece magic armor, they could only leave a few marks.

But hidden in the rain of arrows were giant arrows from heavy crossbows and even crossbow carts. As the name suggests, this cavalry unit is essentially a fast and heavy force that relies on demon-blooded war horses and the physical fitness of warriors to quickly deploy formations and transport equipment. If An Jing were here, he would definitely exclaim "blitzkrieg". The Iron Cavalry of the Tieli people is simply the mechanized force of the previous life.

The Cangjia Guards were blown away by the giant crossbow arrows. Their armor could save their lives, but their weight could not withstand such a huge impact. Moreover, if they were hit by an attack of this level, they would lose their combat effectiveness even if they did not die.

The attacks of these giant crossbows were not intended to kill the enemy, but to destroy the key nodes of the martial arts formation.

Xing Mofeng quickly adjusted the formation, the marching speed of the Wu army slowed down, but the sharp golden evil spirits began to roll like a whirlpool, and the rain of arrows was deflected like a school of fish in the tide. Even the giant arrows from the crossbow carts could not accurately hit the soldiers in the Wu formation.

At the same time, on the side of the battle formation, a dozen Cangjia guards holding javelins walked out. The platinum-gold ripples on their armor echoed layer by layer. The power of the martial arts formation was dispatched by the commander and concentrated on them.

With flashing cold light, the air along the way was violently blasted apart by the javelins attached with Taibai's power. The turbulent air waves even turned into shock waves, blowing away the ice and snow in the sky and tearing open the vacuum corridor. In an instant, three crossbow carts were blown to pieces. Although the other crossbow carts were saved by Kan Hao with the evil miasma, two unlucky guys were pierced through, becoming the first batch of casualties in this battle.

"This Wu army is different from other armies in the Northern Frontier... they are indeed elite troops from Hannan."

Kan Hao was not surprised by this. This was just a test. The enemy dared to push forward immediately, which meant that the commander was extremely confident. The ability to quickly change the formation and counterattack showed that he had a strong control over the army and was quite experienced, stronger than himself. If it was a head-on confrontation, it would indeed be a tricky battle, but before the martial arts formations collided, he still had a real mission to complete.

On the other side of the mountain range, another group of cavalry pushed heavy iron carts towards the Broken Blade Mountain Forest. The iron carts seemed to be modified from chariots, but the carriages at the back had been transformed into huge "water tanks".

However, it was not a water tank, but fuel. As the soldiers skillfully controlled it, rows of crossbows were deployed above the iron cart. The burning crossbows soaked in kerosene shot in all directions at a speed that could never be achieved by human power, like a flaming octopus swinging its tentacles wantonly, setting everything around it on fire.

Tongues of fire spread rapidly in the forest, and the rising steam from the melted ice and frost rushed straight into the sky. The white mist was reflected by the firelight as red fire clouds, and half of the sky was red.

"Fighting on two fronts? Burning the mountain?"

Xing Mofeng saw this scene from afar, and his heart suddenly sank: "They are trying to burn a path - their real target is Broken Blade Peak?"

An Jing and King De had vaguely told him that the most critical part of Broken Blade Mountain was the spiritual land around Broken Blade Peak, so he was asked not to stay near Linjiang City, but to protect the gateway to the spiritual land this time. Xing Mofeng originally did not understand why a completely frozen spiritual land was so important during the frost disaster, but seeing that the enemy would rather show weakness head-on and burn their way out of the dense woodland, he could see what the other party's real goal was.

However, it is not so easy to enter Broken Blade Mountain.

As the fire gradually spread, the rising water mist condensed into large patches of dark clouds in the air. The cavalry did not notice that some of the dark clouds were not formed naturally. As the roots and vines spread in the woods, they controlled the water mist to form clouds, and then intertwined into thunder. A deep blue lightning flashed from the sky, blasting an incendiary iron cart, and torrential rain of ice followed, putting out the newly ignited fire.

The lush and green creature is in the Broken Blade Peak spiritual land, but its control over the forests of Broken Blade Mountain is actually improving.

Located in the center of the spiritual land, it could clearly see the Iron Leopard scout teams rapidly exploring the nodes of the forest's earth veins, and the targets of those incendiary iron carts were these nodes. These heavy iron carts were not afraid of landmines. When they rolled over the ground, even if many landmines exploded, they would only cause it to pause slightly.

It seems that this is what this group of Tieli people have been preparing recently, and they are very familiar with the terrain of Broken Blade Mountain. Every step seems to be driving something.

"After all, it is their original holy land... Wait, these people want to release the source of the demonic energy underground by directly cutting off the earth veins?"

After realizing this, Cong Yucui immediately understood why An Jing would rather give it so many resources for free in order to let it strengthen its strength. Broken Blade Mountain is too big and the enemy is extremely mobile. It doesn't matter if they can't win in a head-on battle. At worst, they can just go around it.

Without the resistance of this forest spirit, the Iron Cavalry could completely bypass the Wu army and rush straight to the earth vein nodes from several different directions, detonate the mines, and then suppress the earth vein nodes to achieve their goal.

But now, with it here, the plans of these Tieli people are doomed to fail.
Thunderbolts struck one after another, smashing the iron carts with precision and accuracy. Blood, flesh and iron filings flew everywhere, and there were wails everywhere. Lush Green was originally worried that its own strength was insufficient in winter, but it did not expect that the fire would help it to form rain clouds that could bring down thunder.

Contrary to what everyone imagines, the first magical power mastered by tree spirits is definitely not the wood element, but 'water' and 'earth', and some even try to master 'fire'. Because they have a long lifespan and are almost immortal, they do not seek rapid and powerful strength, but rather abilities that can help prolong their own lives.

The side battlefield was blocked, and on the front battlefield, the Wuwei controlled by Xing Mofeng had already begun a bloody battle with the main force of the Iron Cavalry.

(End of this chapter)