Witch Wind

Chapter 204 Total War (Part )

The wind is bleak and the clouds are thick.

In the thick clouds, a large airship shaped like a ray and covered with armor kept smashing through layers of thick clouds without making any sound, and passed through at an extremely high speed.

On the outer armor of the airship, a layer of faint blue electromagnetic light as thick as a palm floated. This layer of faint light ionized the air, so that no matter how fast the airship was, there was no sonic boom sound that was common among high-speed aircraft.

The tail of the airship, where the large propeller should be, was actually a row of twelve honeycomb-shaped nozzles as thick as water tanks. A faint blue light was emitted from the nozzles for nearly half a mile. It was these nozzles that allowed this large airship, which was about a mile long from beginning to end, to travel 100,000 miles at high speed in a day and a night.

In the cabin of the airship, Xing Tianli sat with his legs crossed next to the floor-to-ceiling glass window, eating fennel beans and drinking old rice wine, with Yang Huanglong and his brothers squatting beside him.

Several big black dogs, already full of tender beef, were drinking old yellow wine from large bowls with their heads down.

"This speed is not fast!" Xing Tianli pinched his fingers and calculated the speed of the airship. One day and one night, twenty-four hours, flying more than 50,000 kilometers, an hour is only a little over 2,000 kilometers, which is twice the speed of sound, right?

In the previous life on Earth, some advanced fighter jets normally traveled at this speed.

However, this airship is extremely large, more than a mile long from head to tail, more than fifty feet wide, and more than twenty feet high... Such a huge body can fly at twice the speed of sound...

"Why did I need to study literature? No matter how well I read the classics, I can't create something as big as this."

Xing Tianli picked up the wine bowl, took a big gulp of the old yellow wine, and looked down at the vast green land below - he could clearly see that more than thirty miles below, large groups of Saint Ross soldiers in iron-gray uniforms were wreaking havoc in several villages and towns.

Rows of men were shot en masse, and young women were raped in broad daylight by groups of soldiers.

Some buildings had been set on fire, with flames mixed with smoke rising.

Some soldiers walked out of some magnificent mansions happily, carrying bags of various sizes in their hands. Some even had gilded dressing mirrors and strings of pearl necklaces hanging on their guns.

On the hillside outside the village, a large number of refugees were struggling to move.

In the makeshift artillery positions of several Saint Ross people, several young officers who were drinking strong liquor were gesticulating and laughing. A group of artillerymen who were also drinking were carelessly adjusting the muzzles of their guns. The mortars, which had an astonishing caliber of more than 240 mm and were supposed to be used to attack heavy fortifications, were firing randomly.

Sporadic shells landed on the hillside, creating huge flames. Straight columns of smoke rose into the sky, and large pieces of broken limbs flew in all directions.

Those Saint Ross soldiers howled with joy as if they had won a great victory. Some even dropped the wine bottles in their hands, bent their knees, and happily slapped the thick soles of their boots with their hands, dancing a very Saint Ross folk dance.

The airship flew by quickly, and Xing Tianli just took a deep look at the war going on on the ground, indifferent and without making any expression.

These days, news from Saint Rose has also been reported back to the Eastern Land of China.

Over at Shanhaiguan, the Saint Ross Far East Army commanded by Maria paused its offensive - according to the intelligence feedback from all parties, she was busy dispatching a large number of Saint Ross laborers to frantically exploit several large mines near Shanhaiguan in a way that drained the pond to catch fish.

Just to the north of Shanhaiguan, near a beautiful bay, Maria and others found two large coal fields with extremely high grades. On land, they found a large oil field, and in the bay, they also surveyed two giant oil and gas fields.

Maria paused her attack and began frantic industrial infrastructure construction.

They planned an industrial zone with a radius of nearly 100 miles near the bay. Countless construction materials are being transported frantically, and an industrial giant of astonishing scale is being built rapidly.

Maria's attack was suspended, and Daxia, Ji Zhou, Ying Qin, Li Tang, Zhao Song, and Zhu Ming had enough time to quarrel - they gathered in the Jieshi Mansion all day long, arguing about how to deal with Maria's attack.

Everyone is certain that victory will belong to the Eastern Shenzhou and to the three ancient families with unfathomable heritage. This is a fact without a doubt.

The only question is who will command this victorious war.

The bigger problem is how to divide the spoils after victory!
There is only one world.

Kyushu, there is only one Kyushu.

Although the world is vast, it is already packed with just one dynasty, so how can it have room for anyone else?
So, fight and quarrel, Xing Tianli thought this kind of thing was boring. However, the foundation of the three ancient families was too strong, even old monsters like Xing Tianjiao and Xing Tianhu, who were at the Golden Immortal level, jumped out. The emperor who once hanged himself on a tree with a belt, he also had the cultivation of the Golden Immortal level!
This……

Come on, go ahead and fight and grab it.

The airship continued to speed forward and soon left the war zone. After crossing a steep mountain range, there was a vast plain in front of them, with fertile pastures everywhere. In the vast farmland, large tracts of winter wheat were creating waves of refreshing wheat in the wind.

Wandering herds, exquisite small buildings, and neatly arranged villages and towns are scattered across the vast plains.

Just by looking down from the air, Xing Tianli knew that this was an extremely rich and peaceful country.

He turned around and looked at the most detailed geographical atlas of the 100 countries in the Far West hanging in the cabin of the airship. Well, the country below should be "Orley", which is famous for its animal husbandry and agriculture and has the reputation of being one of the three major granaries in the Western Continent?

The status of "O'erli" in the Western Land is equivalent to the mountains, rivers and four provinces of the Dayu Dynasty.

Let's not talk about other outputs, just take cheese, which is indispensable to the people of the Western Continent. The cheese produced by the country of Orli alone meets half of the consumption of the entire Western Continent. Based on the cheese export business alone, Orli's wealth level ranks among the top ten in the entire Western Continent.

But for such a rich and peaceful country, the war was only separated from them by the Orbis Mountains. The Orbis Mountains were only 500 miles wide. If several defensive fortresses in the mountains were conquered, the army of Saint Rose could march straight into the heart of Orli, which was completely defenseless.

Below the airship, one could clearly see that groups of troops, ranging in size from one or two thousand to five or six thousand people, were rapidly advancing towards the east from the west, north and south along wide and flat roads.

Xing Tianli released a little of his spiritual power, and within a radius of five or six hundred miles, the number of troops advancing like this exceeded 500,000. There is no doubt that the Kingdom of Orli has also mobilized a large number of young and strong men to join the army.

However, Xing Tianli shook his head and curled his lips.

The most advanced weapons carried by these Orlians were actually rear-loading double-barreled shotguns?

Most of the soldiers were still carrying flintlock rifles with fixed-charge paper shell bullets?
Wow, this kind of gun was considered advanced thirty years ago.

However, driven by the black technology of Dis, Augustus, Maria and others, the military technology of the Holy Ross Empire, the Kingdom of Yingjis and the Kingdom of Holy Norman is distorted and mutated at an astonishing speed every day!

It's 'mutation', not 'development'!
You use flintlock rifles to deal with the Saint Ross army whose technology is rapidly changing?
This is not war, this is massacre!

Before setting off on the airship, Xing Tianli went alone to the vicinity of Shanhaiguan and secretly spied on the army under Maria's command. What he saw and heard was truly thrilling.

Xing Tianli kicked Yang Huanglong on the butt: "Old Black, tell me, what do you think of my proposal?"

The face looked more and more like a human, and combined with the body of an old black dog, at first glance it looked like a ghost in a nightmare. Yang Huanglong, who felt cold all over, burped, raised his head lazily, and glanced at Xing Tianli with a squint.

"Hey, a young man like me doesn't have the final say on this kind of thing, right?"

Yang Huanglong burped again: "Don't make things difficult for me, okay? For this kind of thing, you can just go and talk to those old monsters. However, I think, if you want those old guys to join you, or even help you lead the way and kill those Duoduo guys... uh, do you think you have the nerve to do that?" Xing Tianli narrowed his eyes.

Yang Huanglong jumped to the side and shouted, "A gentleman should speak with words instead of with fists. After all, we are friends, so we don't want to fight... Hey, do you really want to subdue those old monsters in our family?"

While Xing Tianli and Yang Huanglong were chattering, the airship had already passed over Orley and the two neighboring countries.

Ahead of us was an extremely steep mountain range that was much higher, wider, longer, and had a more complex terrain than the Orbis Mountains. It suddenly appeared before our eyes.

This mountain range is extremely steep and high. Most of the mountain peaks are covered with snow all year round. The climate in the mountainous area is harsh, and natural disasters such as flash floods and hail often occur. Even in summer, you will occasionally experience an inexplicable frost, and the living environment is extremely bad.

'Dusk Mountains'!
The largest mountain range in the Western Continent is also known as 'Twilight of the Gods'. According to legend, many years ago, there was an earth-shattering war here, and many gods fell here.

It is precisely because of the fall of the gods and their resentment before death that changed the natural laws here and made the environment here so harsh.

He Duo strode over and pointed out the huge glass window excitedly: "Grand Wizard, Dusk Mountains, look, to the south is Edoli, to the north is Falus, to the west is the Horus Port Federation, to the east is Saint Norman, and the Hundred Cities Business Alliance, which is wavering between Edoli and Saint Norman and taking over both sides."

He Duo's face flushed slightly as he gave a detailed introduction to the situation around the mountain range.

Yidoli loves luxury, its people are frivolous, and its smuggling trade is developed, making it the best place to sell stolen goods.

The people of Farus are free and easy, and their customs are dissolute. If you have a few dollars in your pocket, you can easily purchase suitable arms from Farus, and find a few passionate Farus lovers.

The Horus Port Federation is a complex of more than a dozen small countries in the southwest of the Western Continent and dozens of independent port cities.

Their internal competition was extremely chaotic and the transfer of power was extremely complicated, which led to the decline of national strength and they were not ranked among the 100 countries in the Far West.

But the Horus Port Federation is extremely rich, very rich. Over the past few hundred years, they have monopolized unique crafts such as mercury glass mirrors, glassware, and gem polishing and inlaying. Relying on these ancestral crafts, they have made a fortune.

They are also the largest employer of the tough mountain people in the Dusk Mountains, represented by He Duo.

In the Dusk Mountains, there are countless mountain tribes, and basically every family has men serving as mercenaries in Horus, even bodyguards, guards, thugs, assassins, etc. This kind of thing often happens. Two port cities gather tens of thousands of mercenaries to fight for interests, but when the two sides meet on the battlefield - hey, they are relatives?

Well, it’s not that you can’t beat up your relatives, but the employer has to pay you more!
Saint Norman is not someone you want to mess with. The people of the Dusk Mountains rarely have any causal entanglements with Saint Norman, and very few people go to Saint Norman to find work.

The Hundred Cities Business Alliance, also known as the 'Golden Fleece Alliance', is a historical legacy between Idoli and Saint Norman after the disintegration of the Saint Norman Empire that once unified the entire Western Continent.

This is an extremely long and narrow peninsula plain, located right between Idoli and Saint-Norman. Both countries want to get involved, but they are restraining each other. For many years, no country has been able to truly control this rich place.

The Horus Port Federation still has some prototypes of a country, and the Golden Fleece Alliance is just a chamber of commerce organization composed of a group of big businessmen. Its internal structure is extremely loose, and they just spend money lavishly when encountering problems. For so many years, they have only known how to use gold coins to solve problems.

Therefore, if the mountain people were short of money, they would often go to the Golden Fleece Alliance and pick a few fat sheep to tie up.

"However, after so many years, we have all gotten to know each other well." He Duo stroked his beard and looked at the prosperous cities of the Golden Fleece Alliance below with great affection: "All the procedures are very mature. When we kidnap people, they will never resist, but once they pay, we will never kill them."

"Moreover, once a family is kidnapped by our people once, then all their members will be safe for the next three years." He Duo smiled and said, "We can't drain the pond to catch fish. If we keep plucking the wool from a sheep, we will eventually make it bald... Anyway, there are so many big families here. If we kidnap them one by one, everyone will have a bite of meat to eat."

Xing Tianli smiled.

When he was in Pinghai City, he had heard about how He Duo, He Xi and their people survived in this barren, dangerous and harsh mountainous area. Now that he was there, he felt quite emotional.

"Except for the Five Mountains Hall, what are the other mountain tribes like in this mountain range?" Xing Tianli interrupted He Duo.

He Duo was silent for a while, then nodded slowly: "Some tribes, like us, should have the blood of the witch tribe. However, after so many years, the tribes in the mountainous areas are severely isolated from each other. Some tribes still have long-standing blood feuds, so..."

The mountain folk of the Dusk Mountains are nothing more than a group of starving beasts.

Not only do they grind their teeth and suck blood, greedily plundering the means of survival from all the countries and ethnic groups around them, they also compete frantically with each other and in the mountains for all resources that can keep themselves and their people alive.

It is conceivable that these equally powerful, cruel, brutal and bloodthirsty mountain tribes have extremely strong cohesion among tribes of the same bloodline, but their fights between tribes of different bloodlines are extremely cruel and bloody.

'Years of blood feud', how many lives are condensed in these five simple words?

The airship sailed into the Dusk Mountains.

The vast mountains are like undulating waves.

Xing Tianli stood up and overlooked the mountains below. The structure of this mountain range was a bit unnatural. In many places, the abrupt mountains were clearly the result of the earth's rock strata being violently crushed. The rock strata were impacted by tremendous force and the peaks suddenly emerged in a very short time.

In some places, where the continuous mountains were cut off, Xing Tianli could even judge from the traces of collapse that some broken rifts were where a mountain top was shattered by a heavy punch, some long and deep rifts were where the earth was split by terrifying flying swords, and some mountain basins with a diameter of dozens of miles, judging from the faint traces left on the ground, should be the depressions directly blasted out by powerful thunder magic hitting the earth.

This Dusk Mountain Range should be a brutal battlefield for monks.

The people who were fighting here had much higher cultivation levels than Xing Tianli... At least even if Xing Tianli possessed the strength of a mountain, it was impossible for him to smash a mountain that was dozens of times larger than Mount Tai into pieces with just one blow!
At least he is a Golden Immortal, right?
Tsk!
He Duo brought Xing Tianli to the cockpit of the airship and gestured to several Yingji soldiers who were controlling the airship, asking them to adjust the direction of flight.

The airship flew over the mountains and slowly lowered its altitude.

Ahead, surrounded by several peaks, a table-shaped alpine meadow loomed. The grassland, which was more than 20 miles in radius, had a fairly gentle slope. On the already withered and yellowed playground, some skinny cattle and sheep were lazily chewing hay.

Houses made of rubble are neatly stacked along the hillside.

These houses are connected by towering walls and secret passages. At first glance, the houses stretching for miles are like a huge maze. If outsiders accidentally enter, they will be trapped to death.

At the strategic locations of these houses, there are arrow towers ten feet high. Many skinny mountain people, about five feet tall, wearing sheepskin coats, are standing on the arrow towers, smoking cigarettes, carrying guns, and looking around vigilantly.

As the airship broke through the clouds and slowly descended from the sky, deep in the house, a deep drumbeat sounded from a tall stone building. Hundreds of horses carrying dusty knights were slowly walking towards the house from afar. In front of these knights, a large group of mountain children were running happily, carrying various swords, sticks and clubs.

"There's a war, there's a war!"

"The Saint Ross people have started a war!"

"Yidoli's sponsor is here again. Hey, this time he has to ask for a good price!"

"Let's go together? Let's go together! Beat the Saint Ross people and make a fortune together!"

(End of this chapter)