Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 224 Tremors, Unbelievable

"Of the 300,000 Heavenly Strategy Army soldiers, not a single one is below the Vajra Realm?"

"This news seems absurd no matter how you look at it. What's terrifying is that it's actually true!"

"I've heard that the five strongest camps in the Tian Ce Prefecture are the Martial Guard Camp, the Heavenly Slaughter Camp, the Heavenly Spear Camp, the Heavenly Shield Camp, and the Heavenly Bow Camp. Each camp has multiple Grandmasters of Celestial Phenomena in charge, and the Martial Guard Camp is rumored to have multiple Earth Immortals."

"Are you kidding me? A battalion with multiple land-based immortals?"

All the spies who heard the news circulating within the Tian Ce Mansion were terrified, their hearts churning like a raging storm, unable to calm down or accept it.

Tian Ce, Wu Wei Camp.

Although it was the personal guard battalion of Li Chengen, the Grand Commander of the Tian Ce Mansion, and was known as the elite of ten thousand troops, it only numbered five hundred! A few terrestrial immortals and hundreds of celestial grandmasters??
What else is there to fight?
With just five hundred guards, they could probably sweep through the entire Ming Dynasty like a plowshare.

However, what's terrifying is...

The news has been confirmed; it is true!
At that moment, the hearts of the spies from all sides that had been hanging in suspense died completely.

What's the point of investigating?
Isn't that completely unnecessary?
The Wuwei Battalion alone is comparable to all the high-end combat forces of the Ming Dynasty. Add to that the other four battalions that are second only to the Wuwei Battalion, and even if the entire Ming Dynasty were to use human lives to overwhelm them, they would be easily slaughtered without any suspense.

After the news spread, the entire Jiayuguan area was in an uproar.

Even the common people cannot find peace.

They knew that the Tian Ce soldiers responsible for patrolling and guarding the border were all exceptionally strong, but the ones that were exposed were just too 'extraordinary'!
"My second son is said to be a top expert in the Vajra Realm now!"

"Expert my foot! They might be considered experts outside, but in the Tian Ce Mansion, it's said that even those who empty chamber pots are at the Vajra Realm."

"That's quite remarkable."

"Who could believe that Your Highness possesses such hidden power?"

"If the news is true, is Your Highness guaranteed to win?"

"That's not."

One of the more knowledgeable people found Bai Tianyu, who sold calligraphy and paintings at a stall inside Jiayuguan, and asked him to explain things to them.

Although Bai Tianyu was also extremely shocked, he chuckled and said, "You've come to the right person. To reach the Vajra Realm, one must cultivate to the point where one's body is like Vajra, regarding swords, spears, and arrows as rotten wood, impervious to swords and spears, and unable to be harmed in the slightest by ordinary sword and axe cuts."

"Such a level of skill is difficult for ordinary warriors and common soldiers to overcome. Only a group of dozens or even hundreds of extremely brave and fearless people could possibly kill them."

"His Highness Prince Su has equipped 300,000 Tian Ce soldiers with light armor, further enhancing their defensive capabilities. Any squad he takes out can fight against an army of a thousand men."

"Hundreds of thousands of Vajra Realm experts..."

As Bai Tianyu was analyzing the situation, he suddenly realized that the sounds around him had become eerily quiet. Apart from the heavy, labored breathing and the rapid beating of hearts, everyone was stunned.

Even Bai Tianyu was stunned!
A Vajra Realm expert can normally fight against dozens of opponents.

The best among them can even take on a hundred opponents single-handedly.

While battlefield combat and charges cannot be directly equated in this way, even with a significant reduction, it still represents an army of hundreds of thousands of Vajra Realm experts, including heavily armored cavalry, capable of taking on thirty or twenty opponents at a time.

There are also supposedly tens of thousands of Zhixuan masters mixed in with the army.

Thousands of astronomical masters.

Just thinking about that scene made Bai Tianyu feel an uncontrollable urge to urinate. He wouldn't even dare to fantasize about such a thing, let alone see it!
But now...

Looking at the Cangyun Army, Tian Ce soldiers, and the occasional light cavalry passing by the stall from time to time, Bai Tianyu sadly realized that although he had been out of the martial world for several years, he was like a piece of dregs discarded by the old era.

They are completely out of touch with the changes of the new era.

"Don't just focus on the Tian Ce Mansion and the Martial Guard Camp. The Cangyun Army is known as the first-ranked army under the Su Prince's Mansion, and it is the elite of the entire army. Their strength is even more terrifying."

A voice rang out from the crowd.

The analysis by Bai Tianyu not only startled the ordinary people around him, who were stunned and unable to control themselves, but also awakened Bai Tianyu himself.

A group of heavily armed and armored soldiers, riding large horses, appeared in Jiayuguan Pass as a black torrent of horses pounded the ground with each hooves. They passed right in front of them.

"That is……"

Bai Tianyu's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints. Although he was crippled, his knowledge and vision remained. At a glance, he saw that the aura of these heavily armored Cangyun Xuanjia warriors was like billowing smoke, soaring straight into the sky.

"Four thousand riders, two hundred celestial beings, and three thousand eight hundred finger-pointing realm cultivators?" Bai Tianyu was so shocked that he ripped off his beard, but he was still so immersed in the shock that he didn't feel any pain, which shows how much this scene impacted him.

Two hundred Grandmasters of Celestial Phenomena and nearly four thousand Masters of Profound Understanding, forming a heavy cavalry force?

Bai Tianyu felt like she might be going crazy.

Otherwise, how could one possibly see something so absurd and terrifying, like a nightmare, or even a nightmare or hallucination that no terrible nightmare could create?
But the reality is...

Bai Tianyu's blatantly probing gaze attracted the attention of a heavy cavalryman in the Cangyun Xuanjia armor, who coldly glanced at Bai Tianyu, the former number one swordsman of the Ming Dynasty and a Grandmaster of Celestial Phenomena.

With just one glance, Bai Tianyu felt the overwhelming pressure of the world collapsing and mountains crumbling.

"This is... a terrestrial immortal??" Bai Tianyu's hair stood on end, a chill ran down his spine, his body trembled like a leaf, and he frantically swallowed his saliva.

What's terrifying is that only one person was watching him.

But Bai Tianyu clearly sensed that at least ten subtle gazes were fixed on him.

In other words...

Among the heavily armored cavalrymen of the Azure Cloud Realm who were gradually passing by him, there might be several, or even more than ten, terrestrial immortals mixed in?
Thinking of this, Bai Tianyu's nerves snapped, and he inwardly wailed:
"Zhu Jinzhen, Your Highness Prince Su, Your Highness Prince Su."

"Are you out of your mind training an army like this?"

"Those are immortals on land, immortals on land! Looking across the world, they would be treated as honored guests in any country, and if they entered the court, they would either be the national advisor or a pillar of the state with a hereditary title! You want them to mingle in a group of thousands of people?"

Bai Tianyu couldn't even imagine what would happen if this Cangyun Xuanjia Army of only four thousand men faced the Ming Dynasty, or any other army outside of the Ming Dynasty, or were ambushed by experts...

That's absolutely cruel!
The enemy believed that the Cangyun Xuanjia was a heavily armored cavalry.

Upon meeting, they discovered that the entire force consisted of heavily armored cavalry at the Finger Profound Realm, an invincible army.

You think that's all, and send out more troops, or even terrestrial immortals, to intercept or charge into the enemy lines. But then they suddenly unleash a dozen or twenty Grandmasters of Celestial Phenomena, or even several terrestrial immortals.

How can the enemy fight an army like this?
Should we send a team composed entirely of Grandmasters of Celestial Phenomena from the start?
Or should we just send heavenly soldiers and generals directly?

(End of this chapter)