Yamada, who was moving quickly in the queue, suddenly noticed that countless birds suddenly flew up in the dense forest a few miles ahead. He also heard faint sounds, and his heart tightened slightly.
If the birds in the forest are frightened, there must be an ambush!
A thought flashed through Shan Zhi's mind: the art of war he had learned in the past few years was not in vain.
Lin Shuanghe also saw the frightened bird flying out. Without waiting for Shan Gao's instructions, he reached out and took the iron whistle on his chest into his mouth, and blew a short sound.
"Shh~"
Different whistles represent different meanings, and this short tone is aimed at detection.
Hearing the whistle, more than a dozen scouts who were exploring the path knocked their legs against the belly of the unicorn horse and galloped away into the dense forest like a dozen arrows.
At the same time, whistles came out from the mouths of the probing horses, and the golden-eyed eagles hovering in the air immediately spread their wings and flew towards the dense forest.
Lin Shuanghe once again took off the yellow triangular back flag from his back and waved it rhythmically a few times.
Many messengers immediately rode their horses to convey the instructions along the way.
"Command: Slow down! Be alert!"
Upon hearing the order, more than 2,000 sergeants from the "Tiangong Camp" School A immediately stepped up their guard.
By this time, they had left the mountain road, and the terrain became flat enough for thousands of people to spread out in formation.
Not far ahead, on the left is a dense forest that cannot be seen at a glance. In the middle is a wide and flat animal path that has been waded by wild beasts. On the right, there is a river several feet wide flowing slowly and slowly.
And this river is the destination of the "A" school trip.
The one thousand "Xianden" tribe servants at the front were driven aside, and three hundred warriors covered in heavy armor and holding life-size shields slowly came to the front of the queue and stopped.
Five hundred archers wearing light cowhide armor walked quickly behind the heavily armored warriors, and took eight-foot long bows from the shoulders of the infantry. No one said anything, and they all twisted the bow strings to adjust.
Bows and arrows are the most powerful individual weapons in the Suzaku Kingdom. In order to cultivate excellent archers, the Suzaku Kingdom often hosts archery competitions from villages to the capital.
The targets are all kinds of coins, ranging from one coin to a hundred coins. As long as your archery skills are good enough, you can live a very prosperous life even if you do nothing.
This also leads to the fact that almost everyone in the Suzaku Kingdom, regardless of age or sex, is good at shooting.
From this we can see how outstanding the archery skills of the sergeants in this camp who can be named as "Heavenly Bow" will be.
In addition to bows and arrows, each infantryman is also equipped with a spear and a six-foot horizontal sword, which shows that these infantrymen are not only capable of long-range combat.
A hundred heavy horses moved toward the rear. The dragon-scaled one-horned war horse with a shoulder height of one foot and four feet had a fish scale-like skin all over its body.
This is a strange species among the one-horned war horses, and only one dragon-scaled one-horned war horse will appear among a hundred one-horned war horses.
The defensive power of dragon scale skin is comparable to that of iron armor. It is also extremely powerful and can run extremely fast. It is the best mount there is.
These one hundred heavy cavalry are not in the "Tian Gong Camp" sequence, they are the benefits of Shanzhi as the heir to the Suzaku royal family.
They only obey Shan Chu's orders. If Shan Chu leaves the "A" school, these heavy cavalry will also leave with him.
Among the remaining 200 sergeants, more than 100 sergeants do not participate in combat. They are engineers and are a typical technical branch.
In addition, there were fifty white-robed sergeants without armor, who seemed a bit strange among the military ranks.
But almost all the soldiers who came close to them would intentionally or unintentionally put their bodies in front of them, making protective movements.
'Langzhong'
The most popular and respected personnel in the military.
In addition to these people, there are ten special sergeants. These ten people are wearing red robes embroidered with red birds, and each of them carries a bamboo basket on his back, with more or less totem poles inserted in it.
Under everyone's feet, there are circles of halos of various colors that expand and contract with breathing.
'Totem Master'
A kind of practitioner who has awakened the power of a special bloodline. They do not participate in anything other than fighting, but their status in the army is second only to Yamazaki.
Each 'Totem Master' is protected by two fully armed shield-bearing warriors.
The well-trained sergeants move extremely fast, and the entire army is ready for battle in just a few breaths.
A dozen scouts approached the dense forest quickly like a gust of wind. They did not enter rashly, but used various methods to investigate.
Some eyes flashed with lights of various colors, either directly exploring the scene in the forest, or using secret techniques to observe with the eyes of birds in the air.
Some flap their ears to listen, and some twitch their noses to smell.
Some of the scouts also made bird calls from their mouths, causing the remaining birds in the forest to chirp. The rhythmic chirps seemed to be conveying something to each other.
When conducting exploration, they were always in a state of galloping.
After a while, these scouts drove their horses back to report.
Seeing this, the thousands of people lurking in the forest could not sit still, and they all whispered to each other.
The majestic tribal leader was a little impatient. He liked to tear his opponents to pieces head-on, rather than ambush them secretly.
If his brother hadn't come up with this idea, he would have broken his neck long ago.
At this moment, when he saw his prey trying to escape, he suddenly waved the stone hammer in his hand and let out a loud shout, regardless of the obstruction of the people around him.
"Come out and kill them!"
After saying that, he was the first to take the first step out of the dense forest. Looking at the dozen riders who had fled far away, he opened his left hand and encouraged his blood power, and his heart beat violently.
"Dong dong~"
A circle of golden light burst out from the heart and shot into the left hand like lightning.
The vitality of heaven and earth was attracted by it, and the vitality in his left hand rotated rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, a light yellow stone ball condensed out.
"Ha~"
The leader let out a shout, swung his left hand outward, and the light yellow stone ball whizzed in the wind and threw it towards a scout.
The scout felt the evil wind behind him and did not look back. He shrunk his body to four feet in size, disappeared from the saddle, and hid under the belly of his mount.
"boom--!"
A pile of flesh and blood exploded, and the one-foot-tall one-horned war horse was shattered into pieces.
The moment the scout's mount died, his entire body fell to the ground from under the horse's belly.
When the mount of a companion passed by, he stretched out his body, put one hand on the outstretched hand of his companion, turned over and got on the mount, and the two rode away together at a gallop.
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'Um?'
The tribe leader, who thought he could kill the target with one blow, was slightly shocked.
The scout is obviously just a small soldier in the opponent's array, but he can actually make his attack miss. Then these people...
He couldn't help but look up at the neat queue two kilometers away.
'Do you want to leave?'
He likes to fight, but that doesn't mean he is a fool. After all, he is a tribal leader in charge of thousands of people.
From the soldier's response, he felt a faint sense of danger in his heart.
But before he could make a decision, the tribesmen behind him rushed out in a swarm.
Each one made a strange cry and rushed past his figure towards the military formation in the distance.
This tribe is called "Flying Stone" and is good at throwing stones. In the past hundreds of years, with this unique skill of throwing stones, they have never encountered an opponent.
Each tribesman had a bag made of woven rattan tied to both sides of his waist, and the round stones as big as a bowl made a "clatter" sound as the people ran.
In addition to the stone bags, each person also carried different animal bone weapons on their backs, but at this time they were not ready to draw their weapons and fight.
Only after they throw flying rocks to defeat their opponents, will they use weapons to harvest life.
They have been using this fighting method for hundreds of years with no disadvantages.
But the optimal distance for throwing stones is 600 meters, and now they still need to rush forward some distance.
The tribal leader opened his mouth, but he could only swallow back the command to 'retreat'.
For these humans who are more than three meters tall and have strong physical strength, the distance of two thousand meters is only a matter of a few hundred steps.
Now that the charge has been launched, it is impossible to evacuate.
Helpless, he could only rush towards the enemy formation quickly among the tribesmen, but he played a trick, and every step of his movement would be slowed down a lot, so he soon lagged behind a lot.
Looking at the barbarian tribesmen and horses making strange noises and approaching in the distance, the sergeant of the "A" school stood as tall as a mountain, motionless.
Lin Shuanghe turned his head and looked at Shan Gu. Seeing that he was not paying attention to the situation, he immediately took off a red pennant from his back and waved it violently several times.
This time the messengers did not ride their horses to deliver orders, but each blew the horn hanging on his chest.
"Du~~du~~du~~"
As the dull horn sounded, five hundred archers put arrows on their long bows, drew them to full length, and then released them.
"Peng——!"
A thunderous sound of bowstrings sounded, and five hundred white feathers pierced the air, moving like locusts towards the swarming barbarians.
After one arrow was released, the five hundred archers did not stop. They set their bows and arrows again and started shooting quickly.
"Swish swish - swish swish -"
In an instant, the sky was full of white feathers flying through the air, and the dense rain of arrows covered all the people of the "Flying Stone" tribe who were charging forward.
"Puff-puff-puff-puff-!"
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"
The sound of countless arrows penetrating into the body was mixed with the screams of countless people.
The leader of the 'Flying Stone' tribe was so angry that he broke his steel teeth when he saw the tribesmen around him falling down in pieces.
Just before the arrow rain came, he hurriedly pulled two tribesmen in front of him and was not hurt by the arrow rain.
Then he tried to attack from the front several times, but the arrows he saw were so numerous that he couldn't even raise his head.
The rain of arrows only lasted for a few breaths, but many remaining members of the 'Flying Stone' tribe felt that these few breaths were so long.
As a gong sounded in the distance, the rain of arrows flying all over the sky stopped.
The leader of the 'Flying Stone' tribe looked straight at a corpse not far away.
He recognized that this was his brother who had just shared the wild boar with him. He was extremely strong and could pull down a mad cow. He had also awakened several magical powers. Among the tribe, his strength was second only to his own.
But at this moment, his body was covered with arrows like a hedgehog.
'What kind of weapon is this and why is it so scary?'
The tribal leader's heart trembled, and he felt fear for the first time in his life.
The corpses of dead tribesmen were everywhere, some injured tribesmen who were lucky enough to survive were moaning and wailing, and some survivors were curled up and shaking, whimpering from their mouths, they were scared out of their wits.
The remaining three thousand members of the Feishi tribe who had not yet completely broken out of the dense forest were protected by the woods, so their losses were not too great.
But after seeing the tragic scene in front of them, they all turned around and ran away howling.
"咵咵~咵咵~"
The prone tribal leader faintly felt the ground shaking, and after calming down, he supported the bodies of the two tribesmen and looked out quietly.
I saw the neat military formation in the distance slowly advancing in the direction where I was.
The metal armor shone with dazzling light under the reflection of the sun, and the tribal leader's heart sank to the bottom of the abyss.
He knew that he was facing a desperate situation at this moment. If he wanted to escape, he had to make these people see his strength and not dare to chase them. Otherwise, he would not be able to escape the pursuit of the one-horned horse.
"Children, come closer to me and I will take you out of here."
The tribal leader shouted loudly that he needed someone to slow down the footsteps of these enemies from the Suzaku Kingdom, and immediately began to coax them.
After hearing the words of the tribal leader, these remaining members of the "Flying Stone" tribe who had been frightened out of their courage climbed up one by one and cautiously came to the tribal leader.
The tribal leader did not hesitate at all. The enemy was a thousand meters away, and there was no room for hesitation at this time.
The tribal leader activated the power of his bloodline, and the one-foot-six-foot natural long-handled stone hammer in his right hand burst out with purple light.
After a few breaths, the long-handled stone hammer disappeared, leaving only a round purple stone ball about a foot in the hand.
Taking a deep breath, the tribal leader concentrated all his strength in his right hand, then took a step back with his right leg, twisted his waist, bent over, and swung his right arm forward.
"call--"
A ray of purple light flew out from his hand, carrying a purple halo and quickly throwing it towards the military formation in the distance.
"Huhu~"
This all-out blow exhausted the tribal leader's strength, and he was sweating profusely, even his head was slightly dizzy.
Resisting the discomfort, he turned his head and looked into the distance.
'Whether it can make these enemies of the Suzaku Kingdom fearful depends on this attack.'
opposite.
When he saw purple light condensing, a red-robed totem master standing behind the shield-wielding warrior closed his eyes and sensed it carefully.
After a moment, he suddenly pulled out a totem pole from behind and stuck it on the ground.
‘Buzz——!’
As the countless runes on the totem pole glowed, a ray of earth-yellow light shot straight from the top of the totem pole to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a circle of earthy yellow light spread outward along the ground like water waves.
These khaki rays of light split into hundreds of talisman lines, condensing into an illusory shield-shaped array at the feet of three hundred shield-wielding warriors.
"shield!"
The totem master opened his mouth and issued a command.
As soon as this sound came out, three hundred warriors holding shields staggered their steps, five of them formed a formation, and the formations overlapped.
They all stood up in front of them with a bang, as big as their body-sized shields in their hands, and at the same time they all let out a loud shout.
"shield--!"
The nodes on the ground were injected with power from the big shield by the shield-wielding warriors, and the shield-shaped magic circle was activated immediately.
Then a shield-shaped shadow was condensed in front of three hundred shield-wielding warriors.
Join forces: shield
At this time, a purple light with a purple halo flew out from the opposite side quickly. When it passed through the air, ripples like water waves appeared in the air, and a burning smell followed.
This is due to the fact that the power contained in purple light is too powerful.
Before the purple light hammer could get close, a strong wind pressure had kicked up the dust on the ground, and the swirling vitality formed a cone-shaped storm and struck towards the 'A'-shaped school military formation.
The purple light hammer hit the shield formation heavily.
"boom--!"
With a deafening bang, a huge shock wave burst out where the two collided.
Three hundred warriors holding shields pressed down with their feet, taking root into the ground like a big tree. Despite the continuous shock waves, they stood tall and tall.
The five hundred archers behind him were hardly affected.
The wind pressure burst out from where the three hundred shield-wielding warriors were, then rolled back and rushed more than ten feet before dissipating.
The shield-shaped shadow above the shield array shook a few times, then stopped moving.
"Peng~!"
The gleaming purple stone hammer dissipated all its energy and immediately fell to the ground.
"...impossible!!"
The leader of the 'Flying Stone' tribe, who was staring at this place from a distance, couldn't help but exclaimed.
This unique move of mine has killed monsters as big as a hill, how could it be blocked so easily?
What he didn't know was that the formation method of 'joining forces and gathering strength' was something Zhang Ke learned when he was chasing Tu Shan in the Central Region in his early years.
At that time, Shentu Xiangzhi, commander of the demon-suppressing guards of the 'Lan Kingdom', commanded hundreds of military strategists to gather together to 'join forces and gather strength', which left a deep impression on Zhang Ke.
After learning that immortal cultivators might return in the future, Zhang Ke felt that this formation that could condense the power of low-level monks might play a certain role in confronting immortal cultivators in the future.
In addition to this set of formations, Zhang Ke helped the 'Bixiao Palace' fight against the beast-shaped people in the Great Rift Valley in his early years.
The beast-shaped priest sacrificed three hundred believers when he performed the 'Sacrifice of Incarnation Technique', and the white bull phantom materialized. Its powerful defense made him remember it deeply.
The foundation of Zhang Ke's practice comes from the 'Ruyi Golden Talisman', which has brought him countless benefits.
Relying on this golden talisman, Zhang Ke not only deduced the 'technique of materialization' and the method of 'joining forces and gathering momentum', but he also combined the two techniques into one and created a new formation.
At this moment, the shield-wielding warriors, under the guidance of the 'Totem Master', performed the 'Combined Forces and Gathering Forces' formation, which immediately showed its powerful effect.
Seeing the purple stone hammer that fell to the ground, Shan Jian raised his eyebrows and raised his hand to point to the opposite side.
"kill!"
The hundreds of heavy riders who surrounded him responded in a deep voice at the same time.
"Here!"
The leader, a burly heavy rider, raised his hand, a giant horizontal sword that was about ten feet long, above his head, and pointed the blade forward.
"rush!"
With an order, the archers and shield-bearing warriors at the front of the queue stood aside to clear the way.
Hundreds of heavy cavalry rushed out in a mighty manner. Among these hundreds of heavy cavalry, there was also a totem master in red robes who accompanied the team in the attack.
"Boom-boom!"
During the advance, the swarming heavy cavalry quickly changed their formations, forming two neat rows in an instant.
The 'Totem Master' in the queue took out a totem pole with his right hand and raised it above his head. He suddenly opened his mouth and let out a low shout.
"wind!"
A circle of cyan light flashed across the totem pole, and the legs of hundreds of galloping horses were immediately shrouded in green energy.
In an instant, the speed of the heavy cavalry increased by 30%.
"brush--!"
A long sword with a handle of about ten feet was held by the heavy rider's hands across the right side of the dragon-scaled one-horned war horse.
"Uh! Uh! Uh-"
The one-horned war horse charged straight forward, and a long sword passed by quickly.
After the two rows of heavy cavalry swept through, the remaining members of the 'Flying Stone' tribe were chopped apart sideways.
Some members of the 'Flying Stone' tribe at the back had red eyes when they saw that the tribesmen who used to be as close as brothers were brutally chopped into two pieces.
A member of the 'Flying Stone' tribe suddenly pulled out the arrow inserted into his left eye, letting blood splatter on his face.
The remaining right eye saw the red eyeball on the tip of the arrow. He opened his mouth and bit the eyeball in his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it.
He looked up and saw a tall, heavy horse rushing towards him from a distance of ten feet, with a ferocious face filled with hatred.
He summoned up the power of his blood with all his strength, roared loudly, and stamped his right foot hard on the ground.
A golden light bursts out from the heart and is transmitted to the right foot, and then this power is directed into the ground.
"Boom--!"
The ground a few feet ahead suddenly collapsed, forming a trench two meters deep, two feet wide, and more than ten feet long.
There is a hint of fierceness in the eyes of the one-eyed tribesman, waiting to see if you are still waiting.
At the same time, several members of the "Flying Stone" tribe used magical powers such as fire, thunder, ice and snow to attack the heavy cavalry.
The 'Totem Master' in the heavy cavalry saw this without any hesitation. He threw the totem pole in his hand and quickly pulled out another totem pole.
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"town!"
A circle of five-color light erupted from the totem pole, and a five-color halo enveloped hundreds of heavy riders.
Under the illumination of this five-color light, the vitality of heaven and earth was instantly suppressed, and all abnormalities caused by extraordinary power were restored.
The trench, which was more than ten feet long, quickly returned to level. Fireballs, thunder and lightning, ice and snow, etc. disappeared instantly after entering the five-color light.
"bass!"
The light of the sword disappeared in a flash, and the heavy cavalry rushed past without any pause.
A red line appeared on the neck of the one-eyed tribesman, and then his head silently rolled from his neck to the ground.
...
When Shan Zhu led a large group of people to the dense forest, he saw more than two thousand ragged members of the Feishi tribe squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Thousands of corpses lay scattered on the ground beside them. The bright red blood gathered into a river, and the strong smell of blood rushed straight into the mouth and nose.
A hundred heavy cavalry stood aside, guarding more than two thousand members of the 'Flying Stone' tribe.
Seeing the arrival of Shan Chu, the leader of the heavy cavalry came close to him on his horse, cupped his fists and saluted:
"Exit the school! More than a thousand people escaped, and the rest were arrested!"
Shan Feng raised his hand in return, thanked him for his hard work, and then said:
"Who are these people?"
The heavy cavalry leader said:
"I have inquired and found out that they are from the Feishi tribe, and their gathering place is called Jishi Mountain, a hundred miles south of here.
In addition to the more than a thousand people who escaped, there are still about five thousand people in the tribe."
Shanzhu made a sound of ‘huh’ and murmured:
"So, I'm afraid there are nearly ten thousand people in this 'Flying Stone' tribe. Since this 'Ji Stone Mountain' is so close to our country, why didn't we obey the call before?"
The heavy cavalry leader replied:
"I have also asked this question. It is said that someone is preventing them from surrendering to their country."
After a brief pause, he continued:
"From the description, the person who stopped them has purple eyes and is extremely good at inspiring people. It seems... he seems to be the 'devil'!"
After hearing the words, Shan Feng perked up. He didn't expect to meet the 'Heavenly Demon' so soon, and he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
He had seen Zhang Ke use his magical powers. Comparing them with each other, he had invisibly improved his evaluation of the 'Heavenly Demon'.
"Rest here for the time being and send someone to send a message to the camp for help!"
I took out the Kanyu map and searched for the location of 'Jishishan', and found that its location was exactly a leyline node.
Immediately he said in a deep voice:
"Shuanghe, please go down and bring all the people from the tribes you controlled before here. We are going to build a city on Jishi Mountain."