At Haishi, heavy snow fell in the mountains again, snowflakes fluttered in the air on the cotton fields, and the cold wind blew the torches "sizzling".
The 800,000 Jueji coalition vanguard had arrived near the fairy pond where Wei Changtian had killed the white-feathered red bird. Since it was already late at night and there was a sudden heavy snowfall, they camped by the lake to rest.
Not far away, the soldiers set up a densely packed tent and built a bonfire, and they were lighting a fire to cook.
Beside the lake, a few general-looking people were looking at the icy lake in front of them and whispering about something.
"It stands to reason that this lake should not freeze all year round. Could it be that the previous information was wrong?"
"Not necessarily, maybe it's just that it's colder than usual this year."
"By the way, is there any new news in the capital in the past few days?"
"Keep your voice down...I heard that the prince is so powerful that Prime Minister Liu will be dismissed from office and returned to his hometown soon."
"Alas, His Royal Highness is still cruel. Even my own father..."
"Hush...Brother Zhang must be careful. There is no conclusion yet on this matter. Besides, we just follow the orders of the Ministry of War. What does the dispute in the court have to do with us?"
"Having said that, the emperor has only fallen into the hands of his enemies and is not dead. Why doesn't he talk to Daning first?"
"Brother Zhang, compared to the throne, my biological father is nothing."
"Besides, His Royal Highness may just be unwilling to be restrained by Daning..."
"..."
What you say and what I say are all disrespectful things.
It is obvious that the relationship between these generals should be good, otherwise they would not be so candid with each other before.
But even so, they still kept their voices very low, for fear of being overheard by others, thus allowing those inattentive officials to take advantage of them.
The cold wind howled across the ice, tearing their conversation into pieces in the night, and covering up the noisy sounds of the surrounding soldiers cooking and setting up camp.
It has been more than ten days since the army entered the Tianshan Mountains, and it will take another four or five days to leave the mountains and reach the border of Liangzhou.
During this period, the Jueji coalition forces never encountered even a small amount of harassment, and apart from an occasional encounter with a few monsters, there was no fighting.
This is consistent with the intelligence from Liangzhou.
Daning deployed heavy troops in Liangzhou City, unable to retreat. It was clear that they wanted to fight them there.
Therefore, the Jueji coalition forces will certainly not be too vigilant now.
"Hoo ho ho!"
The wind and snow covered the sky, no stars and moon could be seen, and even the surrounding snow-capped mountains were hidden in the dark night.
All the generals by the lake have finished speaking and are now preparing to return to camp to rest.
However, at a certain moment, they all stood still.
"Brother Zhang, did you hear that?"
A general frowned and asked, "Why do I seem to hear someone shouting something?"
"Seems to be......"
Another general named Zhang also narrowed his eyes and shook his head after a while.
"Maybe it's the wind."
"Um."
Everyone looked at each other and turned around to leave.
But the next second, when the urgent cry in the wind sounded again, the expressions on everyone's faces became extremely shocked in just a moment.
Because this time they finally heard the voice clearly.
"Enemy attack!!!"
"Enemy attack!!!!"
...
...
"Hoola!"
The cold wind howled like a knife, and Chu Xianping looked at the snowflakes passing by with a calm expression.
The harpy stepped down and flapped its giant wings, looking like a black cloud in the night sky.
And there were thousands of flying monsters around him, forming a dense black cloud, chilling and oppressive.
That's right.
On the fifth day after Chu Xianping arrived in Liangzhou, after a series of preparations were completed, the Ningshu coalition finally launched its first attack on the Jueji coalition.
This was part of Chu Xianping's new combat plan, so he decided to personally lead the team to carry out this "air raid" despite Wei Changtian's dissuasion.
Five thousand flying monsters belonging to the Tengu Army, carrying five thousand barrels of "black powder", set out at nightfall, arrived at the fairy pond at midnight, and returned at midnight.
The tactics and purpose of this battle are simple.
He won't fight head-on, won't be greedy to kill the enemy, and won't get entangled with the enemy.
They only need to fly over the enemy company camp and drop the powder keg.
Although it sounds simple, this mission is not without danger.
Because after many tests, if you want to ensure the accuracy of "bomb dropping", then the monster cannot fly too high.
If the enemy had known that the Tengu Army had such an "air force", they would have certainly prepared "air defense" means.
Therefore, once you are "shot down" and fall into the enemy's formation, you will never be able to survive.
Because of this, Wei Changcai did not want Chu Xianping to go into battle in person.
But the latter was quite insistent, saying that this battle was of great importance and there must be no accidents, so he reluctantly agreed.
"..."
"call!!"
The eagle's wings quivered, and its black feathers were like ink.
Chu Xianping leaned over and lay tightly on the eagle's back, with all the rugged snow rocks in his sight.
If nothing else happens, if you jump over this mountain, you should be at the Immortal Pond.
According to the latest information reported by Zhang San and Huang Province, the enemy's 150,000 vanguard troops were currently stationed around the Fairy Pond, which was not particularly large.
It is densely populated and surrounded by mountains.
This is the best environment for a sneak attack and the best opportunity to deter Yan Huaiqing.
"Hoola!"
The eagle's head was raised high. At this time, the eagle demon was only a few dozen feet away from the mountain below. From a distance, it didn't look like it was flying. Instead, it seemed to be running against the mountain wall.
As he got closer and closer to the top of the mountain, Chu Xianping's breathing began to slowly become faster.
Then, just as a huge rock rolled down with a "rumbling", he finally crossed the top of the mountain and saw the valley below him that looked like daylight.
Countless torches illuminated the stretching military camp, illuminated the frozen fairy pond, illuminated the soldiers looking up from the darkness, and illuminated the densely packed longbows and giant crossbows.
Immediately afterwards, countless arrows came out of the string with the blessing of internal force, shooting towards him from bottom to top.
Seeing this scene, Chu Xianping did not panic at all.
He suddenly tightened the animal rope in his hand, and the hawk demon continued to fly upwards. In an instant, it climbed dozens of feet, greatly widening the distance from the valley bottom.
And in this way, even though the range of these arrows blessed by internal force is far beyond that of ordinary bows, most of them are unable to touch him at all.
Only a few arrows were obviously different. Even when the other arrows had fallen powerless, they continued to move upward at an extremely fast speed until they pierced the bodies of several monster beasts.
"ah!!!"
The horrified shouts fell from the air and were quickly lost in the wind.
Obviously, these "unusual" arrow feathers should be shot by a third-level or even upper-level warrior, so they can be so powerful.
But this small amount of lethality cannot change the overall situation at all.
"Everyone! Listen to my orders!"
At a certain moment, Chu Xianping was seen shouting in the strong wind: