It was already daybreak. After a day and night of high-speed marching, these frontier troops from Xiyouzhou climbed over the undulating mountains and reached the depths of the Xiyouzhou mountains.
Compared with the outside world, the soil here contains rich Nine Nether Qi, which is not suitable for animals and plants to survive. Now, although they enter this place to fight, they cannot stay for a long time and strive to win a quick victory. Tu Haoyang also knows in his heart that now the DPRK is
Many old enemies are staring at him. As time goes on, various accidents will definitely happen.
Therefore, for this reason, he not only brought out all his own troops in the city, but also sent the few red-blooded dragon knights he could command to rush to the valley. On the one hand, it was for rescue, and on the other hand, he also wanted to confirm the current status of the Ximu Mountains.
the real situation.
Along the way, the straight-line distance was not long, but the terrain was difficult and there were various entrenched monsters attacking them, so they had to stop fighting every time.
Fortunately, the visiting envoy of Jinzhan Xuanhua Mansion used the secret technique of dragon veins to keep the army moving with the wind, saving a lot of effort and not being too tired.
After slashing all the way, they were finally close to their destination, but at this time the frontier soldiers finally encountered a cluster of demons in the Dusk Mountains.
Since the Youchi clan moved all their people to the vicinity of the deep valley, other places have been deserted and uninhabited. For these demons that came out of the cracks in the ground, naturally there was no food around. And in the end, slowly followed
Looking for those little breaths and soul sensations, they gradually gathered near the valley.
There are about 3,000 of them, most of them are demons from Necronomicon Sequence 3, but there are also those from Sequence 5-6.
Tu Haoyang stood on horseback in the army, looking at the restless monsters on the hills and wilderness from a distance, and felt lucky in his heart. Fortunately, he finally chose to enter the dusk mountains. If he let these guys escape, they could go into the continent and cause trouble everywhere.
, it would be difficult to deal with it then.
Nowadays, it is naturally easy to find in the wilderness, and there are no other ordinary people. But in the continent, if a monster escapes at random, you have to spend a lot of effort to hunt it down, let alone such a large number.
It is best to be able to defend against enemies from outside. He has also changed somewhat from his previous conservative thoughts.
"Let the train cars at the rear prepare." He raised his hand and ordered.
"Yes, sir." A military general wearing a helmet with gold and bronze feathers cupped his fists and accepted the order, and began to wave the flag in his hand. Immediately after, some changes began to appear in the rear of the military formation. One after another, red painted iron carts were pushed out.
Under the mobilization of a group of soldiers, they began to adjust the angle and direction.
It seems that the Plantagenet Dynasty has sufficient armaments. Lorraine Hill is also riding a horse in the army at the moment, watching the train cars getting ready to go under the quick operation of the soldiers.
Just as the mages of Lurna build war machines such as airships and golems, the armies of Eastern dynasties also have their own characteristics. The use of firearms is not less than that of the West, but the methods are slightly different.
In the wilderness, when the demons saw so many humans, they were extremely excited at first and rushed over in scattered numbers. However, these demons were soon taught to behave like humans.
The frontier troops of the dynasty are not comparable to the poor Youshi clan. The long red lacquered shields are arranged tightly and staggered. From the front, they look like red dragon scales and are extremely strong. When these bloodthirsty demons approach,
A pair of black crossbows stretched out from behind the shield, and then aimed at these monsters and fired.
The powerful crossbow arrows directly penetrated some weak demons and nailed them to death in the wilderness, while some sequence four demons were inevitably seriously injured.
After several rounds of shooting, the only ones who could get close to the military formation were those powerful monsters with 5-6 Necromancer Sequences.
"Raise the spear!" Several loud orders came from the army, and then the crossbowmen temporarily retreated, and then sharp spears were set up from behind the shields. The barrels were 4 meters long and stacked on top of each other in front of the general formation.
Wrapped like a hedgehog.
Several human-faced ghost snakes that rushed too fast collided directly with the sharp tip of the spear, and bloody holes suddenly appeared. Then the spear penetrated back and forth, pulled out of the snake's body, and then continued to poke in, tearing out a
A roiling pale white flesh.
hiss--
After their bodies were injured, these ghost snakes were also enraged. They raised their heads, and the patterns on both sides of their heads glowed with bursts of light, as if to frighten and eliminate the souls of these human beings.
But this is nothing more than a death struggle. Under the resonance of nearly 30,000 soldiers in the army, such a degree of soul impact is nothing more than drizzle falling on an iron plate, which cannot be shaken at all.
After a few powerful demons in front died, those behind them also hesitated. Although these humans were delicious food, if they had to sacrifice their lives to kill them, these demons would be a little hesitant. They don't have any moral principles.
Living your own life is the most important thing.
Seeing these demons lingering in place, not daring to step forward, Tu Haoyang sneered. As expected, demons are just like that, unorganized, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and afraid of difficulties.
"Fire the arrow."
"Yes!" A flag with a red border and a gold background was raised high, then waved down quickly, and the train cars behind were immediately set on fire.
Arrows as thick as a thumb are currently lying on the firing position of the train car. The arrows have inscriptions engraved by Dongguan's subordinate workshop to ensure the lethality of these arrows. And these arrows are lit after the tail feathers are ignited.
It will advance rapidly with the help of flames and fuel, and continue to accelerate and rotate in the air, until it finally cuts across the sky like a stream of fire and shoots into the enemy's formation.
Whoosh——
Continuous rockets were launched from the iron carriage, illuminating the wilderness with blazing fire, and then shot into the enemy's body carrying high temperature and gunpowder smoke.
Some Sequence 4-5 ghost apes, nightmare tapirs, corpses, etc. were directly penetrated into the body by these enchanted rockets. Afterwards, the violent dragon energy contained in the arrows exploded, causing the extraordinary core in the body to shatter,
Some weak souls were directly knocked out by such shooting.
Seeing that the black evil turtle wearing a rock shell could not withstand the penetration of these inscribed rockets, and was roasted and died from the inside, Lorraine Hill also understood why the Necromancer Sequence could unify the world in the Western Continent and establish the Mercury Dynasty.
, but there is no such reason in the Eastern Continent.
However, the dragon veins on this land gave the Dragon Sequence so many advantages that the Necromancer Sequence had to surrender.
After waiting for a stick of incense, the train car was launched. There were burnt and roasted monster corpses everywhere in the wilderness, with long metal arrows stuck in them, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke filled the air.
A large number of demons died. A small number of demons saw that the situation was not good and fled away in fear. However, there were not many of these demons left, and they could not make any waves for the time being.
After the battle, no more than one hand was killed on the frontier army's side, and less than 20 people were injured, most of whom were accidentally injured by rockets from the train cars.
After it was over, Tu Haoyang asked some soldiers to stay and clean up the battlefield, remove those demons that were not dead, and collect materials that could be recycled. After that, he led tens of thousands of troops to continue northward to the deep valley dozens of miles away.
"This Tu Haoyang is willing to give up." Bu Moyin and Luo Lanxier rode together and followed behind the main camp.
"Mr. Jia Lan may not know that although these train cars are powerful, they only cost money. Generally, the state animal husbandry saves money. Tu Haoyang is better, and he has rolled out more than 30 of them. You must know that every rocket on them costs money.
It is a silver-level creation of Mingwei. After a vehicle is launched, it contains 60 gold vessels, so 2,000 gold vessels fly away at once."
"The situation is urgent now, so it's not too much to waste a little. After all, military expenses are used to burn." Lorraine Hill looked at it and shook his head slightly.
"You, on the other hand, weren't you very worried about the evil clan before? Why are you worried about their money now?"
"Because... I have seen too many people die for a few silver rings." Bu Moyin said with a sigh.
Although she grew up in Luojing, she is very familiar with the living conditions in various parts of the dynasty because she travels around all year round. Some prosperous areas are fine, but in some remote areas, many villagers have to go to Luojing in order to earn a few silver rings.
If you don't take risks, you may risk your life.
"I made a rough estimate that day in the valley. Even if I bought all the goods in the valley, there would only be more than 200 gold dishes. This is what nearly 300,000 people produce in a year."
"In other words, this rocket firework has wiped out the nearly 10 years of accumulation of the Youchi clan." Bu Moyin had to sigh at such a huge gap, although she knew in her heart that Tu Haoyang was not wrong in doing so.
, even quite right.
"It will get better slowly." Lorraine Hill held her hand and comforted her a little, and then the two of them gradually approached the valley that had been separated for several days.
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In the Yougu Shrine, Grandma Geluo was sitting quietly in the main hall, closing her eyes and carefully feeling the condition of the dragon veins under her body.
After nearly half an hour, she slowly opened her tired eyes.
"How's it going, Master Gro?"
Besides Granny Ge Luo, the only witch in the hall was Qing Ling. At this time, she saw that Granny Ge Luo's face was not very good, and she felt worried in her heart.
Granny Grotto shook her head and then spoke.
"It still doesn't work. Now the Nine Netherworld Qi in the Ximu Mountains has exploded, and the several dragon veins that were originally sorted out have been contaminated and gradually lost their sensitivity."
"If things continue like this, without the guidance of these dragon veins, these Nine Netherworld Qi will only accumulate deeper and deeper, and I am afraid it will give birth to more and more powerful demons."
"Then there's no solution?" Qing Ling on the side said anxiously.
"Perhaps there is nothing we can do this time. If the dark energy of the entire Ximu Mountains finally breaks out, it is estimated that we will have to mobilize armies from several nearby continents and unite nearly five families to attack them in order to slowly wipe them out and finally re-seal them.
, restore the previous balance.”
"Now, these damaged gaps in the cave are like a hole in a paper window. Then the wind blows faster and faster, and the hole gets bigger and bigger, and it can no longer be closed." As she spoke, the old witch seemed to have aged again.
Some.
"Lord Jialan has persuaded Lord Zhou Mu to send troops, and then the Xiangyu Faction and Zhaoye Palace will probably send support. Even if this is the case, won't it be able to solve the problem?" Qingling seemed to want to find some comfort.
"If they can arrive in a short time, maybe..." Grandma Geluo is not sure whether the current sect is as powerful as before. After all, everything has changed too much.
The sun hung high in the sky. After defeating the demons in the wilderness, these elite frontier troops finally arrived outside the valley.
"Attack!"
The few demons entrenched outside the valley retreated one after another when they saw this continuous army arriving. However, now that the border troops had arrived at their destination and no longer had to rush, they changed their previous laissez-faire attitude and began to dispatch troops to pursue them.
The person responsible for this task is also Tu Haoyang's direct descendant 'Xuanbao Cavalry'. These cavalrymen wearing black and yellow armor, holding long halberds, wearing black and yellow cloaks on their backs, and apricot-yellow feathers on the top of their helmets, roam freely in the wilderness.
chasing these lone monsters.
The halberd was swung down on the horse that was advancing at high speed, bringing up a shrill bloody light, which directly flew the head of a certain ghost ape and rolled to the ground. After that, the headless corpse slowly fell.
On the other side, a slow-running nightmare tapir was also surrounded and killed by a dozen 'Leopard Riders'. They charged one after another, kept driving them away, and then inserted their halberds directly into its body one by one, until finally this man-eating nightmare emerged.
The tapir collapsed from exhaustion and was cut into several pieces by the blade.
Under such an iron hoof sweep, the wilderness outside the valley was finally cleared, and the gate to the entrance of the valley slowly opened.
Hundreds of ghost-killing envoys gathered at the door, standing on both sides, standing upright with long swords on their waists.
Although the Youshi clan was extremely weak, they still wanted to retain their dignity when they were rescued by the Plantagenet Dynasty.
Looking at this scene, Tu Haoyang was neither surprised nor moved. He had understood the unruly pride of these aliens when he was governing the local area in Huaxuzhou in his early years.
Sometimes as long as these customary behaviors do not violate the laws and rules of the dynasty, he does not mind catering to them, which can eliminate many unnecessary conflicts.
"Dismount." When he reached the gate, the state shepherd got off his horse and slowly walked into the deep, cold and dark valley with his entourage and military commanders beside him.
Seeing this, the men in black who stood silently on the side also breathed a sigh of relief.
If the state shepherd was allowed to ride his horse proudly into this last settlement, even if they were his saviors, it would be difficult for these wealthy clans to feel grateful.
Fortunately, everything did not happen like that. The state shepherd remained as gentle as he should be and no longer overly irritated these troublesome people.
After entering the valley, Lorraine Hill looked at the crowded faces and felt a little surprised. Unexpectedly, not long after he left, the camp outside the valley was lost, and now all the Youshi clan has retreated to the valley.
Judging from the appearance of some of them, they seemed to have experienced hard fighting, and many of them were injured.
I hope I can get better slowly, Lorraine Hill prayed in his heart, and then slowly climbed up the steps in front of the shrine with the state priest in front of him.
The valley was quiet at this moment. Although the emotions in people's hearts were somewhat complicated, most people were still grateful to have survived the disaster.
"I've seen you, sir." Dragon knights in brightly colored armor were guarding in front of the shrine. After seeing Tu Haoyang, they stepped forward to report.
"Yes, very good." Tu Haoyang nodded slightly, then raised his hand to stop the person beside him, and walked into the quiet shrine alone.
He had also heard a little bit about Granny Gro, and today he wanted to find this person to understand and check the situation again.
"Excuse me." The simply dressed state pastor took off his shoes and walked into the shrine. He walked on the wooden board and made a slight sound.
"My dear, Ziqiu Geluo, I would like to thank Mr. Zhou Mu for your rescue." Granny Geluo bowed and saluted.
"You don't have to be polite, Miko Glo. I'm here today to ask about how to completely resolve the Yumu matter."
As soon as the state pastor opened his mouth, he pointed out the purpose of his visit. He was not a good man with overflowing love, but a practical utilitarian, but his utilitarian goal was rather lofty.
"This..." Even though Grandma Ge Luo has been working in the valley for decades, she never thought that she could solve the hidden dangers of this thousand years in her own hands. After all, even the Phoenix of Five Virtues has not been able to do this.
thing, and when she was at her strongest, she was only at level eight.
The scene suddenly became quiet. Fortunately, not long after, a light figure also entered the shrine from the side door.
"Sorry Granny Gro, there are some things I didn't tell you before." Lorraine Hill slowly came to the two of them.