In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed, and the wheat harvest war is about to break out.
Ten miles west of Baiyun City, there is a huge valley. The valley is about a hundred miles long and nearly ten miles wide at its widest point. The entire valley has abundant spiritual energy. The terrain in the valley is uneven, with ravines and boulders everywhere, and the ground is sparsely distributed. Surrounded by clumps of dry and cold-resistant shrubs, this is the Shenmai Valley.
This valley looks like a barren land, but in fact it is not. The soil and rocks underground contain a special kind of spiritual power. At this season every five years, after the first rain in September, the sky clears up. A kind of spiritual thing will grow underground in the valley, which is the so-called "sacred wheat".
Divine wheat is very much like a fungus. A mature individual is about one foot tall, with a single stem and single leaf. Seven or nine finger-sized fruits will grow on the stems under the leaves. These fruits are divine wheat. It only takes three hours for it to mature from the ground up, and after another three hours after it matures, it will fall to the ground and break. Therefore, if you want to get this divine wheat whose spiritual power is not inferior to that of high-grade spiritual stones, you must Pick it within three hours after it matures, not too early or too late.
Divine wheat is distributed throughout the valley, but they all grow individually, neither in patches nor at the same time when they break ground and mature. They can grow anywhere and anytime within two or three days after a rain and when the sky is clear.
It is estimated that about three million plants grow in the Divine Wheat Valley every year, providing more than 20 million sacred wheat. For the current Shenmu Continent, this is definitely a shocking wealth, and more importantly, it is related to the survival of hundreds of thousands of people in Baiyun City.
On the night of the ninth day of September, the first autumn rain finally arrived belatedly.
At dawn on the second day, the rain gradually stopped, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately began to take action.
At dawn, the north gate of Beigu City, which had been closed for five years, slowly opened. The defensive formations outside the city were also temporarily closed. A large number of troops began to leave the city in an orderly manner, marching toward the north.
Beigu City is only a hundred miles away from Baiyun City. Between the two cities is the flat and vast Gobi Desert. The army of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance divided into two groups and approached 20 miles outside Baiyun City in less than an hour and a half.
The army on the left is the Gongli Army, with a number of about 25,000, most of which are Gongli Army, and the Rongli Army only accounts for one-tenth.
On the right is the 'Xianqu Army', which is composed of extremely powerful transformed demons, numbering about three thousand.
Behind the Xianqu Army was another army, an army of spirit beasts led by hundreds of beast-taming monsters. This army of spirit beasts mainly consisted of Kui tigers, wild megalodons, long-haired beasts, and Kui Niu. They are composed of evil beasts such as the Wild Demon Pig, and their number is about 20,000.
Fuyu, the third elder of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, is under unified command of the entire army. This year, whether it is the 'Immortal Qu Army' trained by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance or the Human Co-prosperity Army recruited, their numbers are 50% more than in previous years, and the spirit beast army is even larger. It's doubled.
In Fuyu's view, after years of attrition, the time has come to break through Baiyun City. With this march, he vowed to capture Baiyun City and achieve the final victory over the human resistance.
Arriving twenty miles south of Baiyun City, Fu Yu ordered the entire army to stop advancing, because going further north from here would begin to enter the defense range of Baiyun City.
After the army stayed for half an hour, Fuyu issued another order, ordering the Gongrong Army to turn northwest and march towards the Shenmai Valley, while the Xianqu Army camped in place and stood by.
Anfu summoned Qingshi and the five team captains and deputy captains to convey the order. Qingshi couldn't help but ask: "Commander An, shouldn't our Rongli Army prepare to attack the city together with the Xianqu Army? Why do we have to go to Shenmai Valley?"
"Shuai Fu made some temporary changes." An Fu said, "Shuai Fu ordered our Rongli Army to participate in the Wheat Harvest War."
"Why?" Tai Yang asked.
"Fu Shuai has his own considerations," Anfu said, "Fu Shuai is determined to win Baiyun City this time, so he has to change his strategy compared to previous years.
"According to Fu Shuai's speculation, this time the Shenmai growth period should be three days. Therefore, Fu Shuai requested that the first two days be carried out in a war of attrition to consume as much of Baiyun City's effective forces. On the third day, a general attack would be launched, and in one fell swoop Take Baiyun City.
"The war of attrition on the siege side is dominated by the Xianqu Army and the Spirit Beast Team, and our Rongli Army participates in the wheat harvest battle. In addition, this year's mission is different from previous years. Commander Fu asked us to share the benefits and the Rongli Army from From the first day, we must aim to kill the opponent’s soldiers.”
"This..." Yuda, the captain of the second team, said, "The distribution of the divine wheat is irregular. In order to grab more divine wheat, both sides will disperse after entering.
Generally speaking, both sides will be very restrained in the first two days and focus on grabbing the magic wheat. On the last day, when the magic wheat season is about to end, everyone will focus on killing each other and grabbing the other party's magic wheat. The commander-in-chief issued such an order, but he was afraid that he would not be able to execute it. "
"Yes," Tai Yang said, "The valley is too big. Tens of thousands of people from both sides can completely disperse in the valley. It is impossible for our people to gather together. Whether it is to harvest the divine wheat or to kill the enemy, we must Divide them into several small teams, but once they are separated, we cannot supervise the actions of the soldiers, so how can we ensure that they have the combat goal of killing the other party's soldiers?"
"Don't I know yet?" Anfu frowned and said, "Just pass it on like this."
The captains and deputy captains of each team went back to convey the order, and the army soon began to move northwest, heading straight towards the Shenmai Valley.
Qingshi knew what An Fu meant. There was no guarantee that such an order would be executed. However, since Fu Yu had given such an order, he must pass it on. As for whether the soldiers would listen to the order? How was the execution? Anfu cannot supervise, and Fuyu cannot supervise either. Therefore, the orders should only be conveyed and the soldiers would carry them out, just turn a blind eye.
However, Qingshi always had some doubts in his heart. Fuyu was not a fool. He should know that such an order had no practical significance. Therefore, Qingshi guessed that he might have arranged some back-up plan. Anfu should know about this backhand, but if he doesn't tell, Qingshi can't press him. Now that things have happened, Qingshi can only take it one step at a time.
Soon, the army arrived at the entrance of the valley. Judging from the time when the sun rose, the first batch of divine wheat had already grown out of the ground, but it would take about an hour for its leaves to fully expand and its fruits to fully mature. But the army was already ready to move, and they couldn't hold back anymore.
Ninth Elder Ya Shi and Tenth Elder Lu'an issued marching orders at the same time. As a result, the originally relatively neat army instantly turned into water and poured in from the entrance of the valley. Once it poured in, it immediately divided into small groups and marched towards the valley. Scattered in all directions.
In the Wheat Harvest War, the soldiers fought independently without unified command, and only humans participated, because the value of divine wheat was very low to spiritual beasts.
The spiritual power contained in a piece of divine wheat is roughly equivalent to that of a high-grade spiritual stone. Humans can completely absorb and utilize it, but for spiritual beasts, they can only absorb 1% at most.
More than 20,000 people filed into the valley and soon disappeared behind bushes, weeds, boulders and ravines. Looking from a distance, tens of thousands of people can see less than a third of it at a glance.
Everyone in the army formed their own teams. Qingshi Ziran, Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian formed a group of three. Seeing that most of the people dispersed, Qing Duan, Chen and the others began to enter the valley unhurriedly.
After walking out of Baizhang, Qingshi looked back and saw that only the ninth elder and the commanders of the five battalions of the Rongli Army were left at the entrance of the valley, as well as the ten elders and the ten commanders of the Gongli Army. They were all great monsters, and everyone who entered the valley was It's human.
The three of them walked deeper into the valley and slowly began to see the so-called divine wheat. The distribution of divine wheat was indeed irregular. There were more in some places and less in others. Almost every divine wheat plant was standing beside it. One soldier, while some teams simply surrounded a piece of land with more magic wheat by several people.
The three of them walked very fast, and soon they had traveled about forty miles. Here, there were very few soldiers of the Communist Army, and not far ahead, people from Baiyun City in white could be faintly seen.
Qingshi stopped and looked around, but saw Chen Tianye nuzzling his mouth to the right. Qingshi looked and saw four soldiers of the Honorary Army in a gully over there. There were seven or eight nearly mature plants growing around them. God wheat. A few dozen steps away from them, next to a few large rocks, there were three soldiers from Baiyun City guarding five sacred wheat plants. Both of them guarded the magic wheat in front of them, tacitly pretending not to see each other. In fact, they were both praying that the magic wheat in front of them would mature first.
Qing Duan and Chen exchanged glances and immediately walked towards the four Ronglijun.
"You four," Chen Tianye asked as he walked over, "Which battalion and which team are you from?"
"Hey!" The four of them looked a little nervous. One of them, who looked like the leader, said with a smile, "It turns out he is the commander of the forward battalion! We are the first team of the right guard battalion." Qing Duan and Chen were dressed in the forward battalion. These people would naturally recognize the official uniforms of the deputy commander and the captain and deputy captain.
"Oh!" Chen Tianye said angrily, "Since you know that we are officers, then move your position and go somewhere else!"
"Sir!" Another person said angrily, "We were here first. There are a lot of magic wheat around here, and there are also white clouds..."
"Since there are still some nearby!" Duan Wutian shouted loudly, interrupting the man's words, "Okay, you go quickly, these plants belong to me!"
"Are you going too far?" The man scolded, "You have the fucking ability to rob Baiyun City, but what ability do you have to rob your own brother?"
"Who the hell is your brother?" Duan Wutian suddenly jumped over and punched the man three feet away. At the same time, he cursed, "You trash who disobey the commander's orders, you will die." Bar!"
The man was punched away by Duan Wutian and died immediately. The other three were shocked. They really didn't expect that these three officers would kill people and seize wheat.
There will be several incidents of soldiers fighting each other to seize the sacred wheat during every wheat harvest war, but that usually happens when the sacred wheat season is about to end. Like this, the first batch of the sacred wheat has not been harvested yet. Killing a soldier, and killing a soldier as a commander, is really unheard of.
In addition, there were people from Baiyun City dozens of steps away who were also waiting to harvest the divine wheat. They did not kill people from Baiyun City but killed their own people. Obviously there was something wrong with these three officers. They were either insane or spies from Baiyun City.
The other three people were not stupid, so they naturally understood and wanted to escape immediately. However, under the hands of Qing Duan and Chen, they had no chance. Chen Tianye moved and the sword in his hand immediately pierced one person's chest, while the other three were not stupid. A man was bullied in front of Duan Wutian, and his heart was broken by a punch in just three moves. The last person jumped up from the dry land, pulling green onions. Just when he was about to jump into the ravine, most of his neck was cut off by Qingshi's wind blade.
Duan Wutian cleaned up the bodies of the four people, but found nothing valuable. Apart from weapons, they only had a few Qi-Reviving Pills and Healing Pills and other pills with them.
"Bah!" Duan Wutian spat and cursed, "These poor devils!"
"Haha," Chen Tianye said with a smile, "Don't you understand yet? The richest person on the Shenmu Continent is a pauper in front of you!"
"I understand that there are no spirit stones," Duan Wutian said, "but there should always be some weapons, magic weapons and the like!"
"Yes!" Qingshi said with a smile, "These guys are not really that poor. It's just that they come to harvest the divine wheat and don't even bring valuables with them. They have their own reliable people in Beigu City to keep their belongings. of."
While the three of them were talking, they kicked the four dead people into the depths of the ravine, and then waited for the divine wheat to mature.
Fu Yu wanted to eliminate as many effective forces in Baiyun City as possible, so Qing Duan and Chen naturally decided on a countermeasure, which was to eliminate as many of the Co-Prosperity Army as possible so that the human resistance in Baiyun City would suffer as few casualties as possible.
