The main force of the more than 80,000 Ming army was all using the medium to upper-class 10,000-mile force, which was 20,000 to 30,000 miles per day.
Why not use a spaceship?
Very simple.
The spaceship is a high-level flying magic weapon, very expensive, and cannot be equipped with soldiers at all.
Second, even large top-level spaceships can only carry a few thousand troops at most at a time. Large top-level spaceships are even more rare, and there are not many in the Shenzhou camp.
Third, even if you have so many spaceships to equip the army, it is difficult for the spaceships to arrange military formations like war horses.
Moreover, war horses are monsters and can also bless the battlefield and participate in battles. Can spaceships do the same?
Therefore, war horses are a must...
The Ming army's horses galloped and rested for half a day. Three days later, Jiang Yao finally led his army to the important town on the northern border: Xiegu Mountain City.
Seeing the Ming Dynasty flag appearing in the air, the Ming army guard guarding Xiegu Mountain City finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The Lord came just in time!
Because the Qiunan Allied Forces have already crossed the river south of the Lu clan.
As long as the coalition forces cross Nanchuan, they can reach the north of Xiegu City in half a day. With the 100,000 soldiers and city defense formations in the city, they can only defend it for more than an hour at most.
Xiegu Mountain City guards the gateway for the coalition forces to move south, and its strategic location is very important. Once the coalition forces advance straight in, the consequences cannot be imagined.
Jiang Yao rushed to Xieguguan and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Lord, the coalition forces are crossing the river. They will all pass through Nanchuan in half a day at most." the guard reported.
"So fast?" Jiang Yao could not have imagined that the coalition forces had crossed Nanchuan so quickly.
The great rivers in the real world will create their own water barriers, making it difficult for most soldiers to fly across.
Unless you fly high enough and stay away from the river. But once you fly too high and enter the void, you will easily be attacked by the void beasts.
Therefore, in the real world, when a large army crosses a river, it usually takes a boat or builds a bridge to cross the river like ordinary people.
And Nanchuan is a big river, and it's not that easy to cross.
Could it be that the mysterious commander-in-chief of the coalition forces is a powerful person who is proficient in the magical power of the water system?
Jiang Yao's consciousness spread out and he saw densely packed coalition soldiers crossing the Nanchuan River, which was more than a hundred miles wide.
It is true that the boat is traveling thousands of miles, and the flag is flying in the air.
There are at least a million people.
Such a large army is really frightening.
However, the more than 80,000 soldiers of the Ming Army showed no fear. They all had firm expressions and a fighting spirit.
What are you afraid of?
The coalition has at most hundreds of thousands of military soldiers, and most of them are just military soldiers.
If the lord takes action personally, the Ming Dynasty will surely win!
The morale of the Ming army was strong and their morale remained unwavering.
The Ming army had long had a belief in Ming Gong's ginger medicine.
Under the banner of the Ming army embroidered with the pattern of the sun and the moon shining simultaneously, Jiang Yao looked at the coalition forces from a distance, and his heart gradually grew with great pride.
At that time, Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty personally led an 800,000-strong army to conquer the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the Jin army only had 80,000 troops.
What if?
The Qin army was defeated and the former Qin Dynasty fell apart.
Could it be that the prosperous Ming Dynasty, which was united and prosperous, was not as good as the decadent Eastern Jin Dynasty?
Although Uncle Lang, Aunt Huan and others who followed as bodyguards were already strong martial arts masters, they all changed their colors when they saw the coalition's lineup.
"Uncle," Uncle Lang whispered, "should you inform the young lady and ask the Yu clan to send a martial saint who is proficient in the art of war to help?"
"If you don't give it a try, how do you know that the young lady won't agree? There is more than one martial saint in Yu Clan's Zhibing, and there is more than one martial saint in Mu Clan's Zhibing..."
Jiang Yao shook his head, "Yu Clan and Mu Clan won't help me this time."
He pointed to the army behind him and pointed in the direction, "My uncle and Yu Kuan wish that my reform failed and the Ming Dynasty would perish. What they care about is my personal safety, not the Ming Dynasty."
Uncle Lang, Aunt Huan and others stopped talking. They looked at each other and they all had something to think about.
Today, I will protect my uncle Zhou Quan at all costs. If something goes wrong, I will immediately take my uncle and flee the battlefield.
No matter what, my uncle cannot die on the battlefield.
"Pass the military order to all the troops: don't feel sorry for the alfalfa, use it all to feed the thousands of miles of horses and restore their horsepower!"
Jiang Yao ordered.
Fortunately, Yue'an Shicai graciously sent 100,000 stone spirit alfalfa, otherwise, this battle would have been even more difficult to fight.
Half a day later, all the coalition forces crossed Nanchuan and marched southward with great momentum.
Looking from a distance, on the ground, high in the sky... within sight, the sky is covered with coalition forces.
The number of coalition forces is indeed scary. But the fighting spirit of the coalition forces is definitely not as good as that of the Ming army.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming army were all the beneficiaries of Jiang Yao's reform. But what about the coalition forces?
The vast majority of the coalition soldiers were also from humble backgrounds. They joined the army to fight for nothing more than military pay and rewards for military exploits.
Facing the Ming army, do they really have the faith to be a guardian?
The combat power of an army, in addition to the number and average cultivation level of the soldiers, the most important thing is the morale and formation of the army.
Military morale creates a battlefield. The battlefield formed by the strong morale of the army is more terrifying than the realm of the Martial Saint.
There are also military formations.
Military formation is a unique formation, which is equivalent to a huge killing formation and trapping formation.
Therefore, even if they are as powerful as the Great Sage, no one dares to challenge the elite army with high morale. That would be courting death. Especially excellent commanders who are proficient in military formations can maximize the power of the army.
The greatest confidence of the coalition now is not the level of the military formation, let alone the morale of the military. It is the command of the troops by strong soldiers with martial arts skills.
Coupled with the overwhelming superiority in military strength.
Facing the Ming army, they will definitely be crushed.
The huge alliance commander, the great banner, was suspended in the air. On the commander's platform under the great banner, there was a man without armor and wearing a mask.
It was the mysterious commander of the coalition forces mentioned in Xishan's intelligence.
"Go out of the city and form an array to meet the coalition forces!" Jiang Yao ordered.
Why not defend the city?
Because once the city is defended, the coalition's millions of warriors can attack the city together.
When leaving the city for a decisive battle, the coalition's terrifying army of warriors found it difficult to join the battle.
In this way, the main force of the Ming army only had to fight against the coalition's 130,000 military soldiers to reduce the military disadvantage.
"Boom boom boom..."
The main force of the Ming army left the city and formed an array in the north of the city.
Both sides know very well that this battle is a life and death battle, and no one can afford to lose.
If the Ming army were defeated, the Ming Kingdom would cease to exist and the reform cause would be ruined.
And if the coalition forces are defeated, then the coalition forces will no longer be able to stop Jiang Yao from unifying Qiunan, and many martial clans will be attacked and destroyed by the Ming army.
The deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Le Po Di, the leader of Le Clan, shouted in front of the coalition formation:
"Listen, all troops, the Ming army is the life and death enemy of our army. Today we must destroy the pseudo-Ming army and bring order to the chaos!"
"Woo~"
The horns of both sides sounded again, and the atmosphere suddenly became extremely tense.
"General, all military formations have been set up. Please give me your instructions, General." Deputy Commander Le Po Di of the coalition forces came under the flag of the coalition commander and saluted the masked Martial Saint.
The coalition coach nodded, raised a golden seal, and shouted: "Attack!"
After saying that, the military seal immediately flew into the air, shining with golden light.
An iron-blooded aura of awe suddenly spread out from the big seal.
"Kill the Army of Light!" Le Potian shouted, issuing a series of hand gestures from his hands.
This is a magic formula for commanding military formations. Once it is issued, every soldier can sense it and form an array under the command of the magic formula.
Each team of ten thousand people is a unit and a chess piece, each doing its own thing in an orderly manner.
"The Ming Dynasty will surely win!"
Jiang Yao also used a military seal and the formation techniques.
"Rumble"
In the extremely complicated maneuvers, the armies of both sides instantly transformed into two huge three-dimensional space formations. Whether on the ground, low altitude, or high altitude, there were teams distributed in any direction.
The military formations on both sides are not fixed in place, but are moving at high speed.
In constant rapid movement, complex formation changes are carried out. To complete smooth and fast military formation movement, in addition to command level and warrior quality, excellent war horses are also needed.
This is the reason why the coalition's samurai army did not participate in the war.
Because of the movement speed of the samurai army, there was no way to cooperate with the Wu Zun army. Therefore, the samurai army, numbering in the millions, chose to press the formation from the rear.
But, is it really overwhelming?
of course not.
"Inform my generals that the army of warriors will bypass the battlefield and attack the pseudo-Ming while the main force of the Ming army is here!"
The masked coalition commander finally used his army of samurai.
It turned out to be this move.
Yes, this is a step forward in the coalition strategy.
As long as an army of one million warriors invades the puppet Ming Dynasty, the main force of the Ming army in front of them will be worried about the comfort of their families behind them, and the morale of the army will definitely be shattered.
Then, the coalition forces can annihilate the main force of the Ming army at the minimum cost and in the shortest time.
At this moment, the battle fields and military formations of both sides formed a monstrous killing intent, crushing each other. The space with a radius of thousands of miles was shrouded in the terrifying killing field.
"fire!"
The team in charge of the Lingwu cannon quickly arranged the gun positions according to the general's instructions. Lingyu was filled into the huge muzzle for free, and then a white light flashed and an earth-shattering bang exploded.
"Boom! Boom"
Large areas of blood mist suddenly erupted from the formations of both sides, and many soldiers were wiped out by the spiritual cannon.
"emission!"
The team in charge of the Thousand Machines Divine Crossbow fired a dense rain of terrifying giant arrows, and many soldiers on both sides were killed.
Almost at the same time, a huge dark cloud flashed out of the sky above the military formation, which turned out to be a large demon eagle.
The demon eagles are as fast as lightning, carrying cannons and divine crossbows, forming a bombardment array, and bombarding each other.
In just a quarter of an hour after the start of the war, more than a thousand soldiers from both sides had fallen.
The faces of Le Po Di and others became a little solemn.
The Ming army only had 80,000 Wuzun soldiers and a maximum of 3,000 Wuzong soldiers.
However, the coalition army has 130,000 Wu Zun soldiers and 10,000 Wu Zong soldiers! The nearly one million samurai army has not been dispatched.
However, the Ming army showed no sign of defeat.
At this moment, Jiang Yao had fully stimulated the military seal and found it difficult to persist.
His cultivation level is only equivalent to that of an ordinary quasi-sage. He is really unable to control the powerful military seal condensed by the will and soul of 80,000 Martial Lords and 3,000 Martial Lords.
The degree of activation of the military seal's mind power is only 70% as Li Yang said!
Fortunately, the Ming army had extremely high morale and an iron will to fight, which effectively made up for this.
"Boom boom"
The two military formations finally collided with each other. As the military battle fields crushed each other, the entire space was completely distorted. Soon, thousands of people died on both sides.
I don't know how many soldiers, their armors were penetrated by magic weapons and murderous intent, and dust fell from the air or on horseback.
"For the Ming Dynasty! Kill! Sacrifice yourself for the country today!"
"Suppress false knowledge! Everyone will be rewarded! Resources, women, everything you want! Kill!"
Blood energy, death energy, murderous intention, despair, resentment, fear, all negative thoughts suddenly gave birth to a strong evil space.
The wars that have raged in the real world for many years are, in the final analysis, a struggle for resources and territory.
In order to compete for resources and hegemony, the selfish Wu family nobles fought with each other, and more than a million warriors died every year.
The brutality of this decisive battle was very different from the war between martial clans.
The intensity is greater.
As the battle fields of the two armies crushed each other, the two armies also strangled each other.
The roar of the Lingwu cannon has never stopped, killing the opponent's warriors in large swaths and bombarding the opponent's battlefield all the time.
"The general's military formation is not only complex and mysterious, but also perfectly coordinated. His military skills are so high that the younger generation really admires him!"
Under the flag of the coalition commander, deputy commander Le Po Di said to the masked coach with a look of admiration.
The other lords also nodded and said that the general's military training was excellent.
The art of military training is actually very difficult to practice, and this mysterious commander's art of military training is indeed better than any of them.
Moreover, he is also a strong Martial Saint, who has stimulated the power of military seal to the fullest!
If it were not for the fact that the morale of the coalition soldiers was not as good as that of the Ming army, the Ming army would have been defeated by this time.
The mysterious coach smiled and said: "There shouldn't be too much suspense in this battle. The Ming army has few soldiers, and it can't last long just relying on the morale and morale of the soldiers to support their efforts."
Le Po Di smiled and said: "The general is wise. Judging from the younger generation, the Ming army's battlefield will be broken within an hour at most."
Lord Lu Clan also smiled and said: "No matter how strong the morale is, they are still made of flesh and blood. Once they are forced to burn their essence and blood, it will be enough."
"Hmph, when we catch Jiang Yao and those poor people who are reforming, we will twitch their muscles, skin them, extract their souls and refine their bones. Especially the traitor Jiang Yao, we must make his life worse than death."
In less than half an hour of the brutal battle, the number of soldiers killed in both armies exceeded 10,000.
These are Wu Zunbing and Wu Zongbing, not samurai.
"Ajiu..."
Jiang Yao could no longer bear it and summoned Ah Jiu to join the battle.
Ah Jiu is a seventh-level Demon Saint, equivalent to a Martial Saint (overcoming tribulation), but on a battlefield controlled by a powerful battlefield, personal force does not actually have much effect.
Her role is, of course, to cooperate with the ginger medicine to bless the poison domain!
"Boom!" The seven-headed demon snake appeared in form, opened its mouth to swallow clouds, and spit out a large amount of poisonous mist.
While Jiang Yao was activating the military seal, he usually gritted his teeth and performed medicinal techniques, releasing piles of poisonous materials.
A terrifying poisonous realm suddenly appeared in the sky.
Ginger medicine is now the holy medicine!
“Where did the poison come from?”
"This is poison territory!"
Because the Poison Domain was too powerful, after it was added to the Ming Army's battlefield, it immediately invaded the Allied Army's battlefield.
In an instant, a large number of coalition soldiers fell into the poison attack and were killed in an instant. The power of the battlefield also began to decrease at this time.
"Jiang Yao finally arranged the poisonous area, which means that he has no other means." When the mysterious coach wearing a mask saw this scene, he created a huge snow-white nest in his hand.
"Go ahead! Enjoy yourself and enjoy yourself, you don't get many opportunities like this."
As the mysterious coach spoke, each of the weird white-armored flying silkworms screamed and rushed out of the nest, instantly becoming several feet in size.
"Poison-eating Celestial Silkworm!" Jiang Yao immediately shouted in surprise.
If you want to talk about the things that poison masters hate the most, one of them is definitely the "Poison-Eating Celestial Silkworm".
The poison-eating silkworm is a kind of Gu insect that lives on poison. It can devour any kind of poison, and the more powerful the poison, the more it likes to devour it.
The strange thing is that the poison-eating silkworm itself is not poisonous, let alone attacks with poison.
Such a thing seems to be created to restrain the poisonous path.
Fortunately, poison-devouring silkworms are extremely rare and hard to find. I have never heard of anyone having a poison-devouring silkworm as a war pet.
But Jiang Yao met him today.
He must have cultivated himself to the point where he is a great sage in the way of poison. He cannot defeat these poison-eating silkworms even with poison alone.
Seeing the Poison Domain being devoured by the Poison-eating Celestial Silkworm, and the poison quickly passing away, Jiang Yao knew that it would be impossible to defeat the coalition forces with the Poison Domain today.
Unless these poison-eating silkworms are killed quickly. However, although the poison-eating silkworms are not strong in combat, their protective power is extremely strong. And they are protected by the coalition battlefield, so it is difficult to kill them.
As the poisonous path in the Ming army's battlefield disappeared, the coalition's battlefield immediately recovered and crushed them ferociously again.
Slowly, the three major disadvantages of the commander, Jiang Yao, were his inability to fully control the military seal, his inferior military skills, and the Ming army's small number of soldiers.
However, the Ming army was still as determined as a warrior and everyone was as strong as a dragon.
"kill!"
"The Ming Dynasty will surely win!"
"Die for the Lord!"
"Unify Qiunan!"
The soldiers of the Ming army spontaneously burned their essence and blood and attacked the coalition forces crazily, making the battlefield more powerful.
For a time, it even overwhelmed the coalition's battlefield, forcing the coalition's military formations to retreat continuously and move slowly.
The battle situation was even more tragic.
When many coalition soldiers saw the madness of the Ming army soldiers, they had complicated eyes and wanted to retreat.
We are also children from a poor family, why should we work for the Wu family and fight with the Ming army?
Why?
Just for rewards, resources, and positions?
They felt uncomfortable in their hearts, but as coalition forces, inspired by the military seal, they could only continue to fight.
Between heaven and earth, there was a state of solemnity.
Heavy snow is falling from the sky, this is a blizzard caused by murderous intent!
The expressions on the faces of the coalition generals were extremely ugly.
They could not have imagined that the Ming army would be so difficult to deal with, with more than 80,000 troops resisting the hundreds of thousands of coalition forces commanded by Master Wusheng Bingdao!
If the commander of the coalition forces had not been a military master with martial arts training, or if the Ming army had not been commanded by a martial arts master, they would not have been able to defeat the Ming army.
They knew that the Ming army had high morale and strong fighting spirit, but they did not expect it to be so strong.
However, the Ming army's offensive and advantage did not last long, and they were equalized by the coalition forces.
The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces had a very high level of military training. He entered the military seals one after another and commanded each military formation like an arm. He defeated the Ming army's military formations to death.
In this way, the Ming army was forced to consume forcefully and the Ming army's military formation space was locked up.
The coalition generals suddenly smiled again.
The ginger medicine is already burning the essence and blood at this time!
The military seal was as heavy as a mountain at this moment, oppressing him so much that he couldn't breathe.
But he can't retreat!
"Uncle, it's too late to leave now!" Uncle Wolf took a step towards him and whispered through gritted teeth, "When the soldiers have lost their mana and the enemy's battlefield has blocked the battlefield, it will be too late to leave."
"No, I can't abandon the army!" Jiang Yao's eyes were bleeding, and he gritted his teeth and growled.
"My uncle has worked very hard. Unfortunately, the power of the Wu family nobles is too strong."
"You can keep the green hills here, so you won't have to worry about running out of firewood, uncle..."
Jiang Yao looked at the soldiers of the Ming army who were fighting bloody battles and everyone was vying for the lead. He shook his head and said, "Uncle Wolf, stop talking. I won't leave."
Aunt Huan came to Jiang Yao's side in a flash, "Uncle, the coalition's millions of warriors have detoured to the rear, captured Xiegu Mountain City, entered the Pass and headed south."
"The troops in the mainland are empty and there is no way to stop them from going south!"
Jiang Yao burned his essence and blood crazily, gritting his teeth and said: "Someone will stop them! Win this battle now!"
Win the battle in front of you?
Can you still win?
Uncle Lang and Aunt Huan both showed bitter smiles.
Slowly, as the soldiers of the Ming army continued to burn their energy and blood in fighting, their stamina began to run low, and the battlefield was gradually suppressed by the coalition's battlefield.
good!
All the generals of the coalition army were celebrating with their foreheads and hands.
It seems that within two quarters of an hour at most, the Ming army's battlefield will be completely suppressed, and then the military formation will collapse and become the massacred party.
They seemed to have seen that tens of thousands of Ming troops died under the coalition battlefield, and they died with their eyes open.
"Hahaha!"
The leader of the Song Dynasty burst out laughing, "The Ming army is finished, Jiang Yao is finished!"
But at this moment, suddenly a strange and loud sound came from behind the coalition formation in Nanchuan.
what sound?
The allied generals looked condensed.
The coalition forces were fighting with their backs to the Nanchuan River, so the rear wing was the safest.
what happened?
When their expressions were released, they suddenly froze.
Countless ghost soldiers appeared in the wide Nanchuan River, and the gloomy ghostly aura shrouded Nanchuan like a black cloud.
Among the tens of thousands of ghost soldiers, a large flag with the word "Ming" suddenly appeared, and under the flag was a man in white.
"Kill! Your blood food is right in front of you!" the man in white shouted.
Countless ghost soldiers came out of the river in a ghastly manner, condensing into terrifying ghosts, carrying with them the sinister energy that devoured the sun and the moon, and came with a bang!
The faces of the coalition generals suddenly turned pale!
"Hahaha! Reinforcements have arrived! Kill!" Jiang Yao shouted to the sky, "Destroy the coalition forces and unify Qiunan!"
He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
According to his and Qin Yu's plan, while the fierce battle between the Ming army and the coalition forces was in full swing, Jiangshui ghost soldiers sneaked into Nanchuan from the waterway and appeared behind the coalition forces!