On the chaotic battlefield, more and more troops are participating in the battle, the battle lines are getting longer and longer, and the battlefield situation is becoming more and more confusing.
In the middle and north of the battlefield, in the golden glow formation, Xue Changxiong, the general manager of the Hebei March of the Great Wei Dynasty, put on a new war horse and continued to stand in the center of the battlefield.
However, the hand he was holding the straight knife was still bleeding from the jaw, the obvious soreness in his shoulder had not gone away, his heartbeat was still significantly faster than normal, and the beautiful red cloak was also exerting force due to the squeeze of the fallen horse. One of the shoulder buttons was torn open, and it was a little bit untidy.
Obviously, he suffered a huge impact from the unexpected combined attack from the enemy's Zhenqi army formation.
Under the military banner, Xue Changxiong looked around. He suddenly had a strange thought, that is, it may not be a good thing that he was promoted to Grandmaster last year... On the one hand, he was not yet able to become a Grandmaster and unite the military formation, but on the other hand, he could not do his best. Dedicated to military command.
Of course, in just a moment, as a gust of wind with an obvious bloody smell blew, General Xue regained his clarity and realized that he had just been blinded and defeated the devil.
Speaking of the above, the unity of military formations is simple to say, but in fact, there are only a handful of them in the entire history of the Wei Dynasty. What Xue Changxiong saw in his life, except for the first conquest of Dongyi, was when Yang Bin defeated Chen March in the south. At that time, he was only the deputy commander on a ship. Most of the time, due to the lack of organization and military discipline, it is impossible to achieve that situation. Even Yang Shen couldn't do it when he rebelled, and the Wu Clan coalition forces in the siege of Yunnei couldn't do it either.
Therefore, Xue Changxiong does not feel that his grand master achievement can achieve this. He does not have the authority and ability to command the troops in the entire camp, and the camp also lacks enough echelon-level elixir-forming and elixir-condensing masters. .
And compared to the lower level, if you become a grandmaster, just think of yourself as a super-sized Chengdan. Isn't it better than before? And why did it delay military command?
The only problem is actually his own mentality... He shouldn't have inexplicably grown up after becoming a grandmaster, which caused many military generals and local officials to alienate him, but he only flattered him superficially; he shouldn't have regarded the grandmaster as someone to rely on and rely on. The name was publicized early, so that he was framed by this name later. He was deceived by himself, thinking that he still had enough control over the situation, and then repeatedly misjudged until he fell into the current situation.
Thinking of this, Xue Changxiong took a deep breath, forced himself to struggle out of all kinds of random thoughts, and continued to deal with the most troublesome problem at the moment.
The situation was already very clear. The gap in the division of troops was caught, and the whole band of thieves who could only retreat came to attack, forming a one-sided advantage. In this case, he and this military formation were actually the only ones among the official and military formations that hurriedly responded to the battle. The strong points. However, it is true that the bandit army has gathered a total of five Cheng Dan, and they are young and energetic, and are not afraid of themselves at all.
And the blow just now exposed a fatal weakness in his own military formation - that is, he was the only one who supported the attack, defense and maintenance of the formation, and there were no other Chengdan masters to share the tasks for him.
This is not a question of the strength of the true energy, but the combination of concentration, physical strength, and mental power.
There has to be a reaction.
"Go...tell Murong Zhengyan and Dou Pi, let them give the deputy general command, leave the flag, and come to help me. Even if the situation is difficult and I can't come in person for the moment, I must try my best to adjust my subordinates and lead my own elite to come closer to me. !" Trying to suppress his heavy breathing, Xue Changxiong turned his head and gave an order to a specific officer in the military formation.
After hearing the military order, Murong Zhengyan and two of the masters sent by Dou Pi's army immediately left the military formation and hurriedly went to look for the person.
The two divisions were actually about the same distance from the battlefield where the two great formations were fighting, but the traffic behind Dou Pi's division was smooth, while Murong Zhengyan's division was obviously deep into the battlefield, so Dou Pi was the first to learn about the military order.
"What nonsense?!" Dou Pi became angry and refused immediately. "I have less than 3,000 people here versus 5,000 people! It's all because of my own cultivation that the Lao Shi Zi Wang on the opposite side was half a level higher, and led his personal guards to independently block one side. If I were to leave at this time, the entire military formation would collapse! "
The messenger, who was originally a subordinate of Dou Pi, nodded immediately after hearing the words, turned around and left to report back.
"Don't go back!" Dou Pi scolded him again. "It's useless if you go back. You might get angry again. It's better to let him think you're lost on the road."
The messenger did not hesitate and returned to the team immediately.
There was no result here for Dou Pi, but it was very difficult for Murong Zhengyan to find anyone... In fact, the messenger first found Murong Huailian, and then found the rightful owner. At this time, the massive Sixth Zhenqi Army Formation The confrontation is over.
Murong Zhengyan stared at the high-hanging golden sword in the distance that collided with a purple flag and then dissipated easily. However, the golden glow array did not shift as quickly as the previous times. Instead, it seemed to be frozen on the spot, even He was brushed by another dark yellow tornado, and he could only passively take this blow. In a panic, he finally turned around and looked at the messenger who was being escorted by his clan brothers.
The messenger quickly came forward and told the whole story.
After listening to the description of the messenger, the well-born general of the Hejian camp fell into extreme uneasiness: "I just forced back Dantonghai, how can I save him? What if after I go, Shantonghai will merge The reinforcements behind us are coming, and our army is surrounded by people on three sides, plus there are pill condensation masters personally leading the attack."
"Then you won't go?" the messenger responded cautiously. "General, you just think I haven't been here?"
"But if you don't go, you will definitely be hated by the general. Our family is all in Hebei..." Murong Zheng said with difficulty. "Just follow me and I'll discuss it with Huailian."
The messenger could only respond.
In this way, Murong Zhengyan went to look for his clan brother Murong Huailian. When they met, the former had not spoken yet, but the latter shouted in the military formation dozens of steps away: "Brother, please go to the manager. I will do my best here." But for."
"What should I say?" Murong Zhengyan was almost stunned.
"What can I say?" Murong Huailian said with a bitter smile. "Brother, have you forgotten what you said before the war? If you can't quickly defeat the ten battalion leaders in front of you, this battle will be lost... At present, the ninth battalion of the rebel army's front army and the reinforcements have all joined the battle, and the fifteen battalions in the rear have The formation will be here soon, do you see any sign that we can defeat the rebel army?!"
Murong Zhengyan suddenly woke up as if he was struck by lightning.
Murong Huailian saw that the other party had awakened and continued to persuade: "The current situation is that although the rebel army has been frustrated, its morale is still sufficient and its formation is not broken. On the contrary, in order to maintain the siege posture, the flanks of the besieging units have been reinforced by the traitors. I can’t hold it anymore...so there’s no need to think about it any more, brother, just go to the manager and be a loyal minister and good general!”
Murong Zhengyan nodded blankly, turned around and nodded to the messenger before trying to escape to the north and turn to the center of the battlefield.
Unexpectedly, after walking only a few dozen steps, Murong Huailianfu called out to him from behind: "Brother, please bring all the good people in the clan with you. This should be considered as doing your best for Mr. Xue."
Murong Zhengyan was suddenly enlightened and did not stop him. He just stared at his brother, wanting him to take care of him as much as possible, but he felt that he was a little affectionate and had lost his own style.
But for a moment, as dozens of military practitioners followed, Murong Huailian waved his whip openly: "Brother, go ahead! Remember, you must take care of your life! You are the hope of the clan. As long as you are alive, the clan will be able to survive." You have the foundation to establish yourself!”
Murong Zhengyan's nose felt sore and he could only lower his head quickly and raise his hand: "You too, try to take care of yourself!"
With that said, he walked towards Xue Changxiong's army formation without looking back.
After entering the military formation, Xue Changxiong saw Murong Zhengyan and smiled bitterly: "I thought Dou Pi would come, but you might not come. But you did come, but he didn't react at all."
"The battle situation is chaotic. General Dou may not have a messenger there." Murong Zhengyan also laughed.
"Also..." Feeling that his true energy was slightly inflated, and there was obviously a strong point in the formation, Xue Changxiong rarely relaxed for a moment, but he came to ask again. "How is the battle situation outside? You brought so many people here, can the military formation be maintained?"
Murong Zhengyan did not tell the truth, he just came to laugh: "I can definitely maintain it before we come here. Even the flanking attack has not stopped. As for bringing people... I say, if we don't come here, we will lose the last glimmer of victory. It’s a chance, this is our only hope.”
"Yes." Xue Changxiong nodded, looking at the ice army in front of him who was attacking again, and became serious again. "That's what I mean, let's take another gamble! This time I will attack with all my strength, and you can control the formation for me!"
Murong Zhengyan nodded without saying much. He tried his best to escape the ice energy from his body and tried his best to combine with the golden formation.
But that was it. The gray-white formation on the opposite side once again hit the front like a giant beast. A few dozen steps away, the red flag with the word "Deposed" wrapped in a layer of purple light rolled up first.
Xue Changxiong stood still and just waved his hand to hit the straight sword. A huge golden sword that looked like a substance appeared out of thin air next to the huge glow formation.
The sword was nearly three feet long and looked very powerful.
However, instead of being excited, the original participants in the formation turned pale. Obviously, these already embarrassed military practitioners were not shocked at all by the scene that had been repeated six times, and were only excited about what was about to happen. Fear and worry of collision.
And some of the practitioners who arrived with Murong Zhengyan also became nervous after a moment of excitement.
Sure enough, the golden sword suddenly swung out and met the purple flag on the opposite side. Then the golden and purple zhenqi dispersed after a collision, and the red "deposed" flag was quickly placed into the formation. At the same time, a huge Zhenqi arrow with a white gold edge that was as thick as the mouth of a bowl suddenly flew from behind the flag and shot straight towards, or rather stabbed at, the official Zhenqi formation on the opposite side.
Murong Zhengyan staggered on his horse, but finally regained his composure.
But then, there was a collision between the Zhenqi array itself. To the people inside the array, this collision was like a mountain falling apart. Murong Zhengyan, who used the long spear in his hand to use his Zhenqi, turned over and fell down. The war horse neighed and fell sideways.
Besides, after all, Murong was born in a family of generals and knew a lot of Dharma and allusions. In times of crisis, he just turned over his long tree and thrust it into the soil beneath him. After falling off his horse, he also desperately poured out the ice energy in his Dantian. It is transmitted through the earth.
This time, he was actually stabilized.
Under the golden glow formation, the layer next to the ground turned faintly gray.
However, after the head-on collision, the Ice Qi formation of the Deposed Dragon Army did not stop at all. It just turned slightly to relieve its force, and then continued to rub the opponent's formation and strive forward. In this process that was so heartbreaking and debilitating, , unexpectedly another earth-yellow tornado rolled out, like a grinding wheel sharpening a knife, heading towards the army formation.
Murong Zhengyan lowered his head and held onto Changshan desperately, but his eyes were already red and his nose was bleeding.
But at this moment, Xue Changxiong, who reined in his horse and turned to the Dragon Army formation, looked at the thieves leaders whose expressions could almost be seen. Suddenly he raised his hand, and another golden sword appeared out of thin air at the edge of the army formation, and then raised his hand. He raised it high and then slashed towards the opposite side with all his strength.
At this time, Xu Shiren, Xiong Bonan, and Wu Jingfeng attacked separately, and there was no time to accumulate energy and draw energy. Zhang Xing, who was in charge of the formation, was even more embarrassed because of the collision. Seeing this situation, Bai Yousi did not hesitate and jumped up on the spot. Using the strength of the military formation, he volleyed his sword in the air. The golden light several feet long and wide hit the three-foot-long golden sword, and he grabbed the golden sword and landed on the zhenqi formation. Before that, he defeated the opponent first.
Xue Changxiong's eyelids twitched and he stopped moving. He just reined in his horse and turned slightly, staring at the flag on the opposite side, as if he wanted to sit back and watch with resentment as both sides' infuriating formations left again and reorganized to the southeast.
However, at the moment when the two armies were about to separate, the man suddenly let out a loud roar, like thunder, and then the golden light overflowed from his body and became thick like a stream, obscuring his body from view, so that the horse under his crotch whined and died on the spot. No one noticed, and few could clearly see that he was slashing forward with a knife in both hands.
But it didn't matter, because everyone, whether it was the people in the zhenqi formation or the soldiers of the two armies on the surrounding battlefield, were all attracted by the huge golden knife that suddenly appeared four or five feet in the air above the intersection of the two formations.
The sword is more than six feet long, gleaming with golden light, and chimes in the air. It is exactly the same shape as Xue Changxiong's straight sword, which is often worn by Xue Changxiong. It looks like a divine object.
At that moment, Zhang Xing finally understood how the so-called supreme gods killed the real dragon.
With all the strength of the Grandmaster, with this sword, if Xue Changxiong really reached the pinnacle of the Great Grandmaster, would it really be impossible to cut down a tiger with a forty-meter sword?
That's right, at this moment, Zhang San, who was clearly in a huge crisis, actually thought - Fenshan Jun can indeed be killed.
Bai Yousi, who had just fallen back, turned pale. He hurriedly condensed the light along her long sword, but obviously couldn't make it in time. At the critical moment, the purple-faced king Xiong Bonan personally grabbed the banner with the word "deposed" and roared. All the Zixia Qi in his body rolled out along the big flag and waved upward towards the golden sword.
But this time, the purple energy dissipated, but the golden knife just lifted upwards, paused for a moment, dissipated a foot long, then condensed into shape again, and continued to fall.
Xiong Bonan also landed awkwardly, but the flagpole rolled several times. He just got up, but it was obviously difficult to move.
Seeing this situation, Xu Shiren and Wu Jingfeng, who were still accumulating their strength, did not dare to neglect. An arrow flew out and rolled up, but it was just a lift and a pause. Even the two of them hastily joined forces. Just like the effect of Xiong Bonan, the golden sword was still four feet long at this time, and then it was condensed into shape again and cut down again.
According to the moving speed of Zhang Xing and the entire formation, there is no way to avoid it.
Therefore, even though Bai Yousi was an expert and bold, he delayed a little to gather his energy, but he did not dare to wait anymore. He was about to follow suit, but unexpectedly, at this moment, Zhang Xing suddenly turned his head and saw Seeing the scene, he suddenly shouted: "Sanniang, wipe the ground and attack his formation! Don't worry about the knife!"
Bai Sanniang didn't have time to think too much, she pulled off her warrior crown that was already a little crooked, kicked off her feet, and flew up towards the enemy formation, almost touching the ground. Then with the touch of her true energy, she just reached the place where the two formations intersected, and wiped it with all her strength. He touched the ground and waved the long sword in his hand.
The long sword rolled up more than three feet of golden light and made a desperate blow forward, but it actually succeeded in smashing the true energy of the formation into the opponent's formation, causing many wailing sounds.
The battlefield was quiet for a moment, because the golden sword suddenly dissipated out of thin air until it was only one or two feet long, and then fell on the gray-white ice true energy formation. After causing quite a stir, it disappeared.
At the same time, the gray-white ice formation of the Deposed Dragon Army still existed, but the glowing formation of the official army seemed to flash for a moment, and seemed to disappear for a while before reappearing.
Zhang Xing wiped his nose, shook off the nosebleed, stood up again, and laughed on the spot. Several Chengdan masters who participated in the incident woke up and laughed.
Chen Bin, who was originally shaking like chaff, laughed crazily and shouted towards the opposite side: "Xue Changxiong, do you see? Hebei's earth energy is not with you! The heaven, earth, sun, moon, three splendors and four emperors are despising you!"
In the opposite formation, the golden light on Xue Changxiong's body not only dispersed, but even seemed a little dimmer compared to the previous "big sun" form, but he just said nothing.
As for Murong Zhengyan beside him, he had already collapsed on the side of a horse corpse, covered in blood, and he was just breathing heavily.
It turned out that in order to carry out this attack, Xue Changxiong not only tried his best, but also tried his best to borrow the power of the military formation, but Murong Zhengyan, who was in charge of the formation for him, was exposed.
At that moment, Zhang Xing suddenly discovered that the lower half of the glow formation on the opposite side had almost turned gray-white, which seemed to be mostly filled with ice energy, and through some of the energy, someone could still be seen holding a long shot there. Although he didn't know who it was when he inserted his true energy into the ground, he could roughly understand that in order to perform this move, Xue Changxiong must have assigned a lot of the operation of the true energy array to this person.
In any case, compared with that overly powerful golden sword, the master of the ice energy is the weakness of this system.
Therefore, under his reminder, Bai Yousi struck hard and chose to hit directly at the bottom of the formation that had been replaced by the ice energy. Then it worked as expected, knocking down the operator of the formation on the spot.
Without the sea of true energy provided by the operation of the large formation, the power of Xue Changxiong's golden sword was greatly reduced, and the attack naturally lost the expected effect.
"Is it nine swords?" The shouts of killing suddenly started again, and before they got even louder, Zhang Xing also put away his smile and looked at Huang Qiao's horse and asked.
"What do you care about the nine swords?" Wu Jingfeng opened his eyes wide and stared at Xue Changxiong opposite, feeling inexplicably excited. "Behead Old Thief Xue right here!"
"Why is this necessary?" Chen Bin came back to his senses and tried his best to persuade. "Xue Changxiong is the master after all. Who knows if he still has any remaining strength? And in that round just now, although there was no direct victory, the movement was so loud that it was like capturing the flag, shaking the battlefield... We quickly took advantage of this opportunity to defeat Wang Yu's subordinates. Then the entire government and army will collapse right before our eyes."
"That's right." Zhang Xing nodded, but only gave a brief sweep of his horse, and then quickly issued a military order. "But we won't fight Wang Yu!"
Wu Jingfeng was a little dissatisfied, but he held it back, but Chen Bin was confused when he heard this: "Why is that so?"
"Because we are now located in the southeast of the opponent's military formation, we may have to go through the Zhenqi military formation to defeat Wang Yu." Zhang Xing blurted out. "And the troops with the Feng banner on our southeast side and further south, with the Murong banner, seem to be quite easy to deal with."
Chen Bin suddenly realized: "Yes, the Ice Qi master who just took charge of the military formation for Xue Changxiong must be Murong Zhengyan! Since he is here, his subordinates are naturally weak!"
"I really didn't know this was the case." Zhang Xing responded in surprise as he activated his military formation to clear the way to the southeast. "I just know that the Shang Huai'en camp over there is slightly weaker, but as a result, Murong's troops who are besieging him are still making progress at the same level as the officers and soldiers attacking Fubo Shi camp on the opposite side. It seems that the general does not have much fighting spirit and is deliberately doing it... …”
Chen Bin was stunned, but really didn't know what to say.
"General, I'm sorry."
Seeing the Ice Formation of the Deposed Dragon Army taking advantage of the situation and pulling away as usual, Murong Zhengyan, who was leaning on the horse corpse, finally let out a dry cough. "It's really because I'm not good at cultivation."
"I don't blame you." Xue Changxiong stood on the spot, his words bleak. "I'm very grateful that you can come here... Chen Bin is right. Hebei's anger is not mine. I am too self-righteous."
Murong Zheng was about to speak but stopped.
At this time, Xue Changxiong got on another horse, but he could not hide his tiredness and did not move anymore. He just barely maintained the Zhenqi army formation and looked at the gray-white Dragon Dethroning Army formation in the distance and the entire line beyond. It's just the overwhelming formation of the Dragon Army.
After watching for a moment, General Xue suddenly realized something and turned to Murong Zheng, who was still on the ground: "General Murong, they seemed to have noticed that you were injured here, so they took advantage of the situation and rushed past Lao Liu and Feng Duan's men. , heading straight for your troops, and the bandit army formation has already come up, your troops seem to be in danger of being surrounded... But now I no longer have the strength to run the formation to stop them... I just want to stop them, but I'm afraid your troops will be It can’t be saved either.”
Murong Zhengyan gave a wry smile, then looked up to the sky and sighed.
But after a while, the famous general seemed to have regained his composure. Instead of stopping his confidants from helping him, he pressed his horse's body in a pool of blood to persuade Xue Changxiong:
"General, listen to me. This battle is about to be lost. Don't be vindictive and leave when you have to! You must know that death is the only way to go through the ages, but there is only one death to be easy through the ages... General, there is no need to look at me like this... You must know that even if the Grand Master cannot be enthroned and the person dies, nothing will be lost. And even if the Grand General has lost his ambition to fight for the supremacy in Hebei, he should consider the few young masters... Without you, what will happen? I said, just a few young masters from your family, with their limited cultivation and some soldiers and horses, are just playthings in the hands of heroes like Zhang San, treacherous guys like Luo Shu, and nobles like Bai Li."
Xue Changxiong turned around in surprise at the beginning. He listened carefully to the end, but he was confused: "I understand what you said, but in the current situation, with the result like this, are you trying to persuade me to cherish my life? You came here to give away half of the money in vain." Why don't you risk your life if you throw your life here? And all the army members will be lost soon!"
"I have my own difficulties." Murong Zheng spoke sincerely. "General, our Murong family has been famous for several generations, and even once fought for hegemony in the north, establishing several kingdoms in Hebei... It is precisely for this reason that when the family weakens, we have rules. We must be loyal and try our best in everything before we can survive... ...Actually, to be honest with the general, Wang Fubei once advised me to cherish my life in front of the battle, and my brothers also advised me to cherish my life. But in fact, they don't know that the children of the Murong family when they were really in charge could not do that kind of thing, otherwise it would be the opposite. It makes it impossible for the family to survive."
Xue Changxiong was stunned for a moment and suddenly sighed: "I regret that I can't use you."
After saying that, he pointed at a Murong family general again: "Take your general out of the battle to the north. Don't worry about anything else. Just cross the Ma Mian River and go to the river!"
The general was relieved and hurriedly put Murong Zhengyan, who had countless broken bones, on a horse, then rode on one of his own and headed north without looking back.
On the other side, Xue Changxiong stood on the spot, reining in his horse and watching the battle. He watched as Murong's tribe was besieged by the three battalions of thieves under the banners of Dou, Dan, and Shang, and then the thieves' first three pro-supervisor zhenqi formations rampaged through it, but In a moment, Murong's troops were beaten to a pulp, and they fled directly... Immediately, the deposed dragon army formed a huge superiority of troops there, and then rushed north to attack Feng Duan's troops.
Seeing this situation, even though he had lost his temper, General Xue could not help but close his eyes and say nothing. At the same time, the zhenqi formation beside him gradually went out, and some people even fled scattered and did not react.
A moment later, a cry of surprise came.
Xue Changxiong opened his eyes again, and then he was surprised to find that the left wing of the thieves in front, that is, the thieves in front of him on his right, should be the camp of Fu Boshi, the leader of the thieves. Suddenly, hundreds of soldiers were released from his side and behind. Soldiers lined up with knives and spears.
These soldiers with long swords and spears were arranged neatly and well-trained, and they were tall and powerful. For a moment, they were like a forest of swords and guns, like some kind of comb suddenly appearing on the battlefield, advancing directly forward, and they were invincible.
However, here on the right wing, compared to Wang Changxie's department, which suffered a greater blow, Wang Yu's department, which only suffered a small part of the impact, suddenly collapsed, faster than Feng Duan's department on the left!
At the same time, the Ice Qi formation on the opposite side had also dispersed. It was obvious that masters of condensing pills and forming pills were coming and going repeatedly. Then, further away, the last two rows of the thief army's fifteenth battalion formation seemed to have obtained After the military order, they immediately spread out their formation without any scruples, wrapping up towards the official army brigade from the outside.
Just like an arrow spreading its wings.
"Instruct all ministries to withdraw their troops in an orderly manner and rely on the large battalions to resist at all levels." Xue Changxiong calmly issued the most accurate and reasonable military order.
Then, he turned his horse's head, intending to return directly to camp, but when he saw that the ground looked like it had been painted with many strokes due to the repeated sweeps of ice energy and glow energy, he couldn't help but flash in his mind I heard the words of the traitor Chen Bin:
"Hebei's bad luck is not with you!"
PS: Work and rest really fell apart overnight... It's too fragile... And I wouldn't have realized it unless you told me that it's been a year since I started the book...
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