Hearing "Tonggui Ridge", Li Yan couldn't help but be stunned. He knew that this area should be a sub-mountain range of Fengliang Mountain, and it should not have any other name. However, this name sounded so unlucky.
He and Bairou's Ninth Team had done missions nearby in the past, and were relatively familiar with the terrain in this area.
At the same time, some people in Gong Yuantai behind them suddenly trembled, and their expressions became a little nervous.
All this fell into the eyes of the slender monk and the plump female cultivator. They looked at each other, and this time it was the plump female cultivator who spoke.
"I have long heard that the 16th team of the 'Blue Bat Battalion' fought at the 'Mogu Mountain' not far away for half a month. It seems that there are still some people left. In this way, we don't need to pay close attention later.
It introduces the situation of 'Tonggui Ridge' and the importance of this place."
When she said the last few words "importance", anyone could hear the resentment in her tone.
Before Li Yan and the others could think about it, the slender monk immediately said, "This is the compass and the control method for controlling the Yin-Yang Boundary River Formation outside this mountain. Please take it, Fellow Daoist Li."
As he spoke, he reached out and turned over the bronze compass he had been holding in his hand, and handed it to Li Yan along with an extra white jade slip.
After handing the things to Li Yan, "There are ten caves here. The one we are in now is the largest cave in this mountain. In fact, it is also where the fighting monks gather.
The time of attack by demonic cultivators is erratic. If the cultivators are scattered, it will be difficult to direct them, so it is more convenient to gather here.
The other eight cave entrances I just saw outside can be used by at least fifty people. They are all used for meditation and healing by seriously injured monks who have no time to retreat to the rear.
As for the last cave, it is deep in the back of the cave. It is a cave within a cave. It is the core mechanism of the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" and the storage place of spiritual stones.
There are nine monks waiting there every day. They need to control the formation with their spiritual consciousness and magic power at all times, and to maintain the normal supply of spiritual stones in the formation. The spiritual stones there have detailed usage records. I will introduce them to Fellow Daoist Li later.
Went to check..."
Soon, Li Yan and others learned about the situation in "Tonggui Ridge". The second team of the "Chongfeng Battalion" was currently stationed here. The slender monk, surnamed Fang, was the captain here, and the plump female monk, surnamed Yang, was the team leader.
Vice captain of the second team.
The current number of people in "Chongfeng Camp" is fifty-six, of whom seventeen were seriously injured and thirty-nine were left. "Tonggui Ridge" is the most forward position on the way to Fengliang Mountain, and its rear two sides are shaped like "wings"
Expand horizontally.
The other garrisoned monks in Fengliang Mountain faced the enemy on the six peaks on the two sides. The east and west sides were within the defense range of the other two defense points. For example, the Qing Sixteenth Team previously defended the enemy on one side.
On the "wings".
"Tonggui Ridge" has a huge advantage for Fengliang Mountain due to its special geographical location, and its overall impact on the army of demons coming from here is a cone-shaped penetration. This is also the most important main attack direction of the demon army. If the demon army stops all the way north, it will undoubtedly leave a nail in their heart, which will explode their core at any time.
In this way, capturing "Tonggui Ridge" has become the first task of the demon army, so the fighting here was extremely fierce, and it was almost lost many times. The monks used their flesh and blood to grind it down bit by bit every day.
In just one month, Li Yan and the others were already the third group of monks sent to change defenses.
At first, Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. It sounded like the casualties were not as heavy as those of the Qing Sixteenth Team. The Qing Sixteenth Team had a casualty rate of more than 70% in half a month. Although the cost was heavy, compared with this place
The casualties were actually much less.
When the monk surnamed Fang saw Li Yan's expression, he immediately added with a smile.
"We have been here for half a month, and the second team has been replenished four times just to replenish monks on the battlefield, and each time it has been replenished to a hundred people.
There are currently only six monks in the second group of the first batch of 'Chongfeng Battalion', and the rest are monks who have survived from previous recruitments.
Moreover, the first captain was also a monk from the Sprite Sect, and he died in battle five days ago. I was appointed as the temporary captain, but my qualifications were obviously not enough, so Daoist Fellow Yang was appointed as the deputy captain to fight against the enemy together."
Li Yan was not only shocked after hearing the calm and unwavering words of the monk named Fang. Except for the old monks from the Qing Sixteenth Team whose faces kept twitching, everyone behind him took a deep breath.
, many monks' faces became embarrassed.
Calculating this, there are at least 200 to 300 death monks here in half a month. There is a probability of about 15 people dying every day. A hundred of them can withstand such consumption for several days.
Some monks had already lost their composure, their eyes began to wander, and they looked around. They were either trying to determine whether what Fang said was true or false, or they were thinking of ways to save their lives safely, or they even had thoughts of escaping.
Li Yan himself was silent for a while, thinking about the situation he was about to face.
Seeing the expressions of Li Yan and others, the monk surnamed Fang looked tiredly at his companions who had been with him through life and death in the cave, twitched the corners of his mouth, and revealed a smile that could be regarded as a smile.
"It's a coincidence that you came today. At least you didn't catch up with the demon attack. This may be the best send-off for us.
We have been crippled and our morale is so low that we can no longer fight. This is the main reason why the superiors sent you to take over the defense, just like when we came to take over the defense.
Come to think of it, since Fellow Daoist Li came here, has he felt any different atmosphere here?"
"Death, numbness!"
Li Yan's thoughts were interrupted
, but quickly said softly that everyone he met when he came here seemed to be indifferent to everything around him.
He doesn't care about his own image, doesn't care about himself in the eyes of others, and doesn't care about how others feel. His expression is sluggish, his body exudes a strong sense of death, and he ignores everything around him and life.
The monk surnamed Fang sighed heavily.
"Yes, there is death and depression. Everyone here has to face death every day. Watching the companions around us fall and disappear one by one, there is nothing we can do.
We can only do our best to preserve ourselves and survive as long as possible.
Then he continued to kill and be killed, roaring at the top of his lungs, blood kept flying up, throwing up, and then spilling, consuming all his mana, trying to kill those damn enemies as much as possible, and trying hard to ensure that he would not die.
Later, every attack was like a puppet, just attacking numbly until one party fell dead. The last time it was the other party, and the next time it might be you.
Hahaha, the seniors finally sent someone to change the defense, otherwise we really don’t know how long we can last!”
The monk surnamed Fang smiled softly amidst his deep fatigue, but everyone could hear the deep boredom and helplessness in his laughter.
Next, there was another period of silence.
After that, the monk surnamed Fang took Li Yan alone to the core office of the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" and took out all the jade slips recording the consumption of spiritual stones.
At this time, the handover between the two parties was roughly completed. Then, after a moment of reflection, the monk surnamed Fang personally told Li Yan about the important places in the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation".
For example, the yin and yang inversion between the gates of death and the gates of life in various places, the directions where the enemy attacks most often, etc. This at least allowed Li Yan to save a lot of time to understand the mountain formation.
Regarding this, Li Yan also felt that the monk surnamed Fang was very responsible, which added to his good sense.
When Li Yan and the others stood on the simple platform again, Li Yan saw all the monks in the second team of the "Chongfeng Camp", including some unconscious monks who had been covered with flying magic weapons.
There are fifty-six people left in the second team of the "Chongfeng Camp". When they left here, Li Yan saw the tears in many people's eyes from their dull expressions, and the eyes that swept over and over again to every place on the mountain and every corner.
Divine consciousness.
These people still did not say goodbye to Li Yan and the others. Only the monk surnamed Fang and the female cultivator surnamed Yang said goodbye gently, and after Li Yan activated the formation, they led everyone away through the air.
Just before leaving, the monk surnamed Fang sent a message into Li Yan's sea of consciousness: "Friend Li, you need to be careful of premeditated attacks by the demons. Their attacks in the past two days have been much less intense than in the past few days.
However, the attack range is spread wider. I find that their attacks always seem to be testing something. The final defense strength of our formation? Or the actual number of defensive monks in Tonggui Ridge?
We don’t know! I have a feeling that the demons are brewing a big attack. It’s very strange like today. There has been no movement from the other side for three hours.”
At this point, the voice suddenly stopped in Li Yan's heart, and the monk surnamed Fang had already left with his group.
Li Yan's eyes sparkled, and others didn't know what Li Yan was thinking after watching the second team of "Chongfeng Camp" leave.
From the faces of the second team of the "Chongfeng Battalion", they did not see the joy caused by leaving just now, but they still looked more indifferent.
Maybe somewhere here once lay their classmates, their partners, and their own memories.
In fact, many people understand that not long after the incident, when the second team of the "Chongfeng Battalion" regains its combat strength, the vast majority of them will still be sent to the front to fight the demon army again.
Death may be a matter of time, and many people may have lost the so-called hope of immortality and immortality.
Li Yan flicked the compass in his hand again, and the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" restriction was opened again.
He still looked at the sky and did not look back. Everyone behind him was silent, including the always good-natured Bro. After experiencing a short period of contact with the second team of the "Chongfeng Battalion", they all realized that something was wrong.
"You know why this place is called 'Tonggui Ridge'. Several of the peaks we defended were originally nameless, but now they all have their own names."
Gong Yuantai's voice came. He spoke not loudly, but there were all monks here. Everyone heard it. Many people's bodies shook slightly and they looked at Gong Yuantai.
"The place we were stationed in before is already like hell. We call it 'Mountain of Bones'. Every day, the flesh, flesh and bones of many monks are polished away, leaving no trace left.
Crushing bones and flying away, the most vicious curse in the mortal world, that is where we stay every day.
We have heard about this "Tonggui Ridge" for a long time, and its level of bloodshed is far from comparable to "Mogu Mountain". The monks from both sides came up, and basically none of them survived, as if they were dying together with the enemy all the time.
Unexpectedly, I, Gong Yuantai, would be so lucky in this life to participate in two dangerous places to confront the enemy and fight the demons at the same time, and this time I came to the frontier among the frontiers."
There was calmness in Gong Yuantai's voice, and suddenly his previous emotions were gone, as if he had accepted his fate.
His words made all the veteran members of the original Qing Sixteenth Team express complex expressions, including pain, memories, fear, and indifference.
Li Yan stood in front. He did not stop Gong Yuantai's words. Gong Yuantai's words could make a team lose confidence.
But Li Yan just stood in front, eyes narrowed to a slit, listening quietly, letting it go without any obstruction.