"I thought there was military support, so I raised the flag to ask for help, but I didn't expect that the person who came was a warrior from the Great Zhao." The cavalry commander in front looked back and persuaded his subordinates who were still looking back:
"It is difficult for one person to defeat thousands of Yan Meng's troops. Even if you are at the level of Hua Jin, I'm afraid that you won't be able to hold on for long."
"It is difficult for us to turn back with just a few remnants, so let's continue to return to the military headquarters."
The soldiers obeyed the order, but their expressions were a little gloomy.
The former officer said:
"Today we raided the grain route but encountered a large enemy army because of incorrect intelligence. It was not our fault..."
After saying this, he put his spear behind his back and swung the reins of his horse to speed up.
Soon, Xi Heng caught up with the cavalry team with a scattered formation.
She passed through the gap in the team, and her red shadow landed in front of the cavalry.
The cavalry subconsciously pulled the reins to stop the horses' charge. She appeared first and announced her name, Princess Zhao Xiheng of the Great Zhao.
The horse landed with its front legs raised, and the soldiers above hurriedly saluted with their fists clasped on their horses:
"Welcome to Her Royal Highness, and thank you for saving me!"
Dozens of cavalrymen in the rear reacted and were obviously excited to see the princess, whom they had only heard of from storytellers, for the first time:
"Thank you for saving me, Princess."
Judging from the other party's tone, he seemed to have known that she would come. Xi Heng asked about this, and the other party immediately replied:
"I also participated in the battle of Jinshi City that day. I heard that the princess would come to the Northland, but I didn't know when and how. Now she has finally arrived!"
It turned out to be the soldiers back then...
Xi Heng asked again: "How is the war in the northern border now? Why are you being pursued by the enemy?"
"A month ago, all parts of the northern border were attacked at the same time. Yan Meng's 100,000 troops moved southward and spread all over the border. No matter how they defended, there would inevitably be gaps. Now Yumen has been breached! The enemy army has moved southward to the three cities of Qiming, Kezhou, and Xingzhou. The army is defending, and we, as the Tabai Guards, are investigating the enemy's situation and destroying the enemy's food supply route!"
After a brief narration, the cavalry leader looked ashamed:
"It's just that... because the intelligence sent by another vanguard was wrong, more than 200 of our soldiers attacked the food route without knowing that the enemy was nearby, so only a few dozen remnants were left."
Xi Heng thought about the names of the three cities and remembered that they were three fortress cities in the north, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and their locations were close to each other.
"Three cities are surrounded at the same time. It seems that the Great Zhao is somewhat weak..."
She raised her head and continued, "Do you have any important intelligence or results to report back to the military headquarters?"
The cavalry gritted his teeth and shook his head: "Your Highness, no."
"Then you will be under my command first, and then you can return after achieving some victories." Xi Heng said simply, "Relieve some of the pressure on the trapped city."
The surviving officer responded, "As ordered by His Highness!"
"Okay, follow me to defend our country and resist foreign enemies."
After saying that, Xi Heng asked the other party to take out the map, find out their current location, and point out the food routes confirmed by the intelligence in several surrounding areas.
"The eastern grain route is not far away, and it is also on the way back, so let's destroy this place first."
"But Your Highness, there is an enemy camp here, and there may be thousands of troops defending the surrounding area."
"Then destroy them together."
Xi Heng memorized the appearance of the map completely and turned to walk away.
The cavalry behind her didn't expect her to move so quickly. They stayed for a moment before urging their horses to catch up.
Looking at the map, this place is only one or two centimeters away from the enemy's food route.
But it actually took a whole afternoon to reach the destination.
The already cloudy sky became even darker, as if the layers of dark clouds pressed down even further.
The rolling black drew all kinds of strange shapes in the sky, the red sun in the west fell, and only the last few rays of red light were still shining on the world.
Xi Heng, with the military headquarters following closely behind, finally arrived at the vicinity of the enemy camp marked on the map.
"This is a logistics camp with a lot of cattle and sheep. There are at least a thousand soldiers hiding here, possibly tens of thousands..."
The cavalry captain in the rear dismounted and looked at the military camp filled with round tents, and recorded it on paper with charcoal.
He then advised:
"Your Highness, this place is a place for food storage and protection. There may be many dark forces or a transformation force warrior stationed here. Even if you are also a transformation force warrior, if you are surrounded by thousands of troops and entangled by the enemy's transformation force, it will be difficult to achieve victory."
"We can launch a surprise attack." Xi Heng only said:
"It's extremely dark today. You won't be able to see your hand in front of you at night. You just need to bypass the patrolling guards and light the granary tents to cause chaos in the enemy. Then you can charge into the enemy camp. The enemy may collapse in panic."
Xi Heng came to the north with the goal of increasing his own momentum and ending the war, so as to bring some stability to the Great Zhao that he would take over next.
So, since it is on the way, we must naturally inflict some damage on the enemy.
"But..." Someone else said:
"The enemy is on high alert day and night. Although your Excellency, as a warrior, can enter, it will be difficult for us to blend in."
"No need to enter the camp." Xi Heng estimated the distance:
"We only need to use fire magic from all directions at a distance of fifty meters, which is enough to confuse their troops. They will not know where the attack is coming from and where to rescue."
She possesses supernatural powers, so she must use this advantage skillfully.
An incomprehensible attack can cause the enemy to panic.
"Fire magic?" Apparently, the surrounding soldiers didn't know what magic was either.
"I went out to look for immortals some time ago, and found the immortal traces and magic on an island."
After a brief explanation, Xi Heng stretched out his hand like a magician and grabbed a fist-sized blood spirit stone from the blind spot of people's vision.
She ordered the cavalry captain to stretch out his hand.
He pinched his fingers and chanted a spell, then used the spirit stone like a flint to scratch the other person's back of the hand.
The next moment, strips of golden and red fire patterns of various shapes were pasted on.
"Contemplate this pattern." Xi Heng then explained the key points of activating the spell: "Think of a raging fire, make a sound from your mouth, and sense the heat of the pattern. Push your palms to release the spell."
Then she asked the man to demonstrate in front of everyone.
"Magic...?" However, the cavalry captain had not yet recovered from his shock.
"This thing is the method of immortals spitting flames as mentioned by storytellers. It can be turned into a talisman that can be attached to the body for mortals to use." Xi Heng explained briefly.
"Has His Highness become an immortal?" the other party was horrified.
Xi Heng didn't say much and urged his men to try.
The cavalryman obeyed quickly and tried it just once according to her instructions. Then a fireball the size of a human head burst out from the palm of his hand, floated in the air for a moment, and then smashed to the ground in the distance like a meteorite.
boom--
The fireball fell, making a thunderous sound.
The cavalry captain had a complicated expression on his face. It was hard to tell whether he was excited, shocked, or confused. It took him a while to recover.
The other soldiers around were doing the same. They looked at the magic over there, then looked at Princess Xi Heng. After a few turns, someone actually said:
"Your Highness is the reincarnation of an immortal."
"Your Highness Princess is able to receive instruction in magic from the immortals. Her coming to the Northern Frontier must be in accordance with God's will. May God help our Great Zhao!" someone responded.
Everyone sighed for a while, and was interrupted by Xi Heng:
"Don't say these useless things. Come here and each of you draw a fire spell. When night falls, we will destroy this camp."
After hearing this, the soldier who had been hesitant just now actively approached, and she left fire marks on the back of his hand.
"After releasing the fire magic, you must flee from here immediately. By the time the enemy reacts, you will have probably already run far enough away." Xi Heng reminded.
She herself did not plan to escape, as she still had most of her internal energy available, and she also had three spirit stones.
As long as there are no Hua Jin warriors in the camp, she can rush in and kill several times during the chaotic period after the attack until the enemy troops in the camp lose order and flee.
In the darkness of night, people will instinctively fear sudden accidents, react more slowly than during the day, and are more likely to panic.
With her strength alone, she might be able to defeat the entire military camp.
Gradually, the red sun sank below the horizon, and the few remaining wisps of red light in the world slowly disappeared.
Time passed for a long time, and just when Xi Heng was about to order everyone to get close to the camp and set fire to it.
Suddenly, an enemy team appeared in the distance, bypassing the hill, and the light of dozens of torches could be seen from more than a thousand meters away.
The firelight illuminated the bulging grain trailers covered with layers of coarse cloth in the team.
Xi Heng raised his hand, signaling his subordinates to stay put for the time being.
After waiting for the grain transport team to enter the camp and get busy, and the patrol guards in the camp were reduced by half to go and unload the grain, she asked the cavalry officer beside her about the possible structure of the enemy's grain transport team.
Finally, we learned that the grain transport team usually had no more than five or six hundred people, most of whom were just miscellaneous soldiers, and at most had one dark force warrior guarding them.
Xi Heng didn't care about it. As long as Hua Jin didn't come, no one could disrupt her plan.
No matter for Da Zhao or Yan Meng Kingdom, Hua Jin generals are extremely important combat forces. They either fight on the front line as generals, or guard the most important territories in the rear.
There should be no Hua Jin soldiers stationed in this small logistics camp in front of us.
After waiting for a moment, Xi Heng raised his hand and suddenly waved it forward, signaling everyone to take action.
"Remember to find a sufficiently dispersed and hidden location, and wait for me to take action before we activate the fire magic together..."
After giving the final reminder, she took the lead and moved towards the back of the camp with almost silent steps.
On the way, they encountered three enemy patrol teams holding torches, and Xi Heng drew his sword and accelerated.
These people didn't notice anything at all. A red line of sword energy suddenly appeared from the night sky, and the heads of the three people were chopped off at the same time. Blood splattered and their bodies fell to the ground.
In this pitch-dark night, the slight thump of an ordinary person falling to the ground did not cause any ripples at all.
Xi Heng passed by the three figures and circled the camp silently. A few minutes later, he arrived at the designated position - behind the two round sheepskin tents, where there was no illumination from the fire.
After waiting for a while, figuring her hands should have been in position, she started fingering and murmured softly.
The spirit stone was placed on the back of the hand, summoning out twisted patterns that looked like candle flames.
Nearly a hundred units of spiritual energy activated, causing the fire pattern on his hand to sway.
The darkness is illuminated by the candlelight.
The spell in her hand was not a long-range fireball spell like the one she cast on ordinary soldiers.
Instead, the raging fire covers the ground, sweeping forward like waves, which is the method of using earth fire with the largest range.
The pinched fingers rotate lightly and push forward.
The fire pattern was extremely bright, with red and yellow spots of light scattered across the ground.
Immediately, amid the shouts, raging flames surged up from the ground and rushed forward with a sweeping force.
The fire wave brought down the tent with irresistible force, causing dozens of people to scream in pain. The collapsed round tent was ignited by the fire again.
The enemy soldiers under the tent screamed due to the extreme heat, but they were wrapped in cloth and had limited vision and movement, making it difficult for them to pick up weapons and break through the tent. In the end, they would be suffocated to death.
The underground fire continued to move forward, igniting a total of more than a dozen large tents, stretching for nearly a hundred meters before finally stopping.
A large area of raging fire turned the ground into a purgatory, with roars and screams continuing.
Xi Heng stood at the end of the flames, quietly looking at the military camp that had been awakened.
Most of the patrolmen were just staring at the sudden fire and failed to notice her.
Immediately afterwards, head-sized fireballs suddenly appeared around the camp. After flying up, they dotted the sky like stars.
The enemy troops in the camp were attracted by the moving fireball. Looking up, they saw the fireball crashing down like a meteorite from the sky.
The sound of the explosion was deafening.
After the series of noises subsided, dust rose and dozens of fires ignited in various places in the camp.
Finally, someone in the camp shouted in a rough accent:
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Although no one knows where the fireballs come from, it is always right to shout "enemy attack".
As soon as the sound was heard, the entire camp immediately became extremely chaotic.
