"May I ask what technique your Highness is practicing?"
"Bloodline Sword Technique."
"Sure enough..." Even though he had heard it before, the old general couldn't help but show a little surprise: "It is not easy to achieve transformation with the Bloodline Sword."
"That's true. No one in the world can do it except me."
Xi Heng accepted the compliment and mentioned, "I went to the sea half a year ago to look for magic and got a fire magic. Maybe it can increase our chances of winning an important battle."
"Fire technique?" the general asked, "Like the Sea of Blood technique?"
"You know magic?"
"More than ten years ago, Princess Qianqiu had acquired some magic skills and put them to good use in the army."
This great general who holds military power obviously knows more about supernatural things than ordinary people.
"Now that you know it, it's easy." Xi Heng continued to explain:
"Fire magic can create explosions in an area, like a catapult throwing kerosene, but the impact is a little greater, and it can be activated by simply printing the spell pattern on the soldier's hand like a tattoo... However, there are only a limited number of them, and only 200 can be equipped."
Two hundred fire spells are the available stock of one spirit stone.
She only had three and a half usable spirit stones on her now, and she needed to use them sparingly, so she reported an imaginary number.
"Two hundred shots of kerosene... How accurate are they? How far can they be thrown?"
"It's extremely accurate, with a range of fifty meters being the best."
"This method may not be as powerful and effective as throwing chariots, but it is lightweight. Your Highness, please pass this method on to the generals so that they can use it as a risky tactic in battle!" The other party quickly thought it out.
Xi Heng nodded.
"Your Highness, please wait in Qiming City for the next few days."
The other party walked to the cabinet next to him and took out a flat round silver token with a dragon pattern on the edge:
"This is the badge of the Yiwei official. From now on, Your Highness will be a military commander in the army and can lead 500 elite soldiers as a vanguard."
"If we win the battle later, Your Highness can use this order to lead the troops."
……
Then, Xi Heng bought a house in the city, and after a simple two-day renovation, he went to the general's mansion. He used the spirit stone to draw fire patterns on the backs of the hands of many generals who had achieved great success in Ming Jin or An Jin, just like striking flint.
The flickering fire pattern appeared on the back of his hand. By the time, even the warriors who had reached the peak of Ming Jin had been painted with it, he had no choice but to call in a group of warriors who had not yet reached the peak to do the prints.
Xi Heng used up a whole spirit stone like a stamp, feeling a little regretful.
If I were still like I was before, with hundreds of full spirit stones, I would naturally not take this small amount of spiritual energy seriously.
But now, we have to use it sparingly.
"After the next battle, there should be a lot of enemy corpses... Can I take them and use them?"
If she could have an army of tens of thousands of people obeying her orders, and helping her to move corpses and draw magic circles after every victory, perhaps after the war with Yan Meng Kingdom was over, Xi Heng would be able to gather another sea of blood.
But the Blood Sea Method is, after all, an evil method with a strange appearance. If one wants to establish power and reputation in the military, it is better to first establish a more positive image.
If the military knew that she was the blood demon in the legend, it might have a certain impact on her prestige.
Before ascending the throne, Xi Heng still wanted to maintain his image for the time being.
Three days later, at dawn,
Inside Qiming City, thousands of troops gathered.
The soldiers of the Great Zhao, stretching as far as the eye can see, formed a long snake-like marching array on the city roads, with elite soldiers and generals in front, and chariots and new recruits following behind, marching steadily towards the city gate.
In recent days, generals from other military units of the Great Zhao have been secretly entering the city. By now, the number of dark-force warriors in the city has expanded to hundreds.
There was even a Hua Jin warrior who came from the northern folk.
Up to now, there are three people who have reached the state of Hua Jin in this famous city.
Add to that the tens of thousands of Northern Frontier Ever-Victorious Army stationed here, the strongest military force in the entire Great Zhao is probably this Qiming City.
But even so, the old general He Yuanze still did not dare to say that he would win the battle. The closer he got to the battle, the more serious he became.
Qiming City is located in the mountains, while Shoumi Town, where the enemy troops are stationed outside the city, has a terrain of flat hills with small undulations, making it difficult to launch a surprise attack.
Moreover, a march of this scale could be discovered by the enemy simply by sending out some reconnaissance personnel.
The enemy was at most unaware of the changes in the number of generals in the city, and was unaware that some elite troops had been sent to the other two trapped cities and two important locations in the rear.
Today's march is almost a blatant head-on confrontation to see if the enemy will accept it.
Once the battle begins, there will be a winner.
If we retreat without fighting, the enemy's morale will inevitably weaken, camping supplies will be lost, and control of the area around Qiming City will be lost.
Soldiers advance.
After Xi Heng became a military general, he also changed into the light armor of a female general. The scales on his body would make slight noises when he walked, but the battle suit was still light enough not to affect his movements.
Ordinary arrows have difficulty penetrating armor, so if you are accidentally hit by an arrow, you don't have to worry about your clothes being damaged, and it can also reduce the consumption of body protection energy.
The wide city gates were opened, and tens of thousands of soldiers walked out.
Some officers and soldiers who had been dispatched from the small side door also joined the main army on the way.
The light of dawn shone from the east, and bright red flags with the word "Zhao" printed on them suddenly fluttered in the air.
A few chariots were moved to the front of the battle formation, pulled by oxen and horses, all covered with armor made of hard rattan.
There were also transport carts storing gunpowder and kerosene at the rear, with delivery carts following the army formation.
At the front of the army, there were many fully armored elite soldiers on horseback, similar to Yan Meng's Iron Pagoda cavalry.
If you want to deal with the enemy's heavy cavalry, besides suppressing them with powerful generals, perhaps the best way is to also use heavy cavalry.
The girl looked back at the tens of thousands of troops that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see behind her, then shifted her gaze to the road ahead.
In the past few days, she has read the enemy intelligence provided by the general.
As a military general, Xi Heng needs to pay special attention only to the Hua Jin warriors and An Jin masters among the enemy army.
The enemy's leading general Lou Guwang was a Hua Jin general who practiced the skills of "Tiger Crouching and Dragon Coiling".
This is an extremely solid method of body training and defense. No matter whether there is a landslide or a tsunami, one will remain calm and no matter how fierce the attack is, it is difficult to shake them.
This man is also an outlier among General Yan Meng. His military tactics are relatively calm, unlike other generals who are arrogant and domineering like bandits. His military tactics are well-organized and he advances cautiously step by step, with stability being the most important thing.
Therefore, the army he led was the most difficult to defeat the enemy with surprising tactics and risky strategies.
This steady military strategy and rich experience in leading troops made him one of the best generals in Yan Mengguo in terms of the number of troops he led.
He had experienced the war with the State of Zhao more than ten years ago, and still had many veteran soldiers from that war under his command, so he was no stranger to the Zhao's tactics.
With so many factors piled up, it is bound to be a fierce battle.
The second Hua Jin warrior who might be in this area is Yan Yinmu, the left military supervisor of the Yan Meng State Marshal. He is on par with the great general Lou Guwang, but he is a man who is smart in using troops and brave in fighting. The martial arts he learned are the authentic Yan family swordsmanship of the Yan Meng royal family. He is good at using many swords to deal with various situations. On the battlefield, he often holds a long-handled broadsword and rides his horse to kill the enemy. He personally takes part in almost every battle and has an arrogant personality.
As for other Hua Jin warriors, they should not be encountered here, Xi Heng just took a casual look at them.
While he was meditating, the surrounding troops had gathered.
The sun rose in the east, shining on the broad flag of Great Zhao.
Following the general's order, the army accelerated forward.
The town where the enemy camped was not far from Qiming City. After walking for a quarter of an hour, you could see many smoke rising from the distance.
Beneath the thick gray-black smoke, the enemy troops were ready to line up to meet the attack.
A vast army, no less than that of the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhao, covered the entire plain ahead, with no end in sight.
Yan Meng's army was not used to fighting a defensive battle in a town, so they abandoned the low city wall and formed an array on the plain.
The yellow and green flags were fluttering, with a big word "Yan" on top.
Seeing the Great Zhao army approaching within a hundred meters, a general in the distance roared loudly with a strange accent, causing countless soldiers around to draw their swords and guns or grab bows and arrows, and roar together with a loud and powerful voice.
A middle-aged general holding a Miao Dao rode on a steed and walked out of the army formation leisurely. Judging from his posture, he seemed to be a Hua Jin warrior.
He has an unruly temperament, a slightly thin body, but a tough face.
He raised his head and sneered:
"Who is challenging my army?"
"I am He Yuanze, the governor of Hejian, Zhao State, and I am here to fight against the Yan Meng bandits."
The old general followed the etiquette and responded:
"You Yan Meng are nothing but the remnants of the Eastern Mongols. You have gained power by chance, but you bully your former master without thinking about morality and justice. You plunder and rob like bandits and pirates. You are a traitor and must be punished! Now, my Great Zhao will lead an army of 100,000 and start with you--"
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Chapter 104: Bloodthirsty Shura
The two armies had a few words in front of the battlefield, which ended after a few minutes.
Xi Heng was listening from the side, both sides were scolding and boasting about their abilities.
I recalled the opening lines I heard before the battle with Fang Tiande at the foot of Jinshi City.
"Do you want to save a file here as well?"
After just thinking for a moment, Xi Heng shook his head and gave up the idea.
"No need for that. After all, we have already become Hua Jin, and the battlefield is not as dangerous as it was before... It is better to save the precious save opportunity for later when we set foot on the immortal path."
Saving here will not improve your game, it will just be safer.
The opportunity to save the game is extremely rare and cannot be used at will.
If you have never been able to embark on the path to immortality and still want to get the next save opportunity, you will probably have to wait until you achieve the level of Hua Jin.
That was really too far for Xi Heng.
dong dong——
The sudden sound of war drums drew her attention away from her inner thoughts.
The drumsticks made a dull sound and continued to vibrate, and the rhythm became faster and faster.
The enemy general in the distance pointed the long sword in his hand and issued military orders.
Hundreds of well-equipped vanguard cavalry suddenly stepped to the front of the formation and formed a triangular charge formation.
The Zhao army behind Xi Heng also shouted orders, and the spear and shield infantry were divided into two sides, and the archers in the rear moved forward.
Five hundred meters away, horns were blown among the densely packed Yan Meng army.
"Woo——"
The sound of the horn resonated in people's chests, and the soldiers drew their swords and raised their shields, and drew their bows and arrows.
At the same time, hundreds of heavy cavalry and nearly a thousand light cavalry galloped over.
As the enemy approached, the archers in the rear raised their longbows at the general's shout, and the arrows they pointed flashed faintly in the morning light.
When the general's arm fell, the herald in the corridor of the army shouted at the top of his lungs and asked the soldiers to shoot arrows several times.
Arrows rained down, covering the sky like a swarm of locusts.
A rain of arrows streaked across the sky and fell into the enemy's position with a sharp sound.
Bows and arrows were not very effective against the heavily armored cavalry in the front, but they were very effective against the light cavalry in the rear who were only wearing thick cloth and whose horses were not armored.
After a hail of arrows, one could hear the neighing of horses and the roar of people.
One after another, some people were shot and fell off their horses, some horses were shot and fell to the ground, and some people did not obey orders and fled in panic due to the pain.
Although the enemy suffered casualties, their formation was not disrupted and the assault momentum remained intact.
Several archer formations fired arrows three times in succession, and then retreated one after another at the command.
The shield-bearing infantry on both sides stepped forward and fired their shields against their spears, while the Zhao cavalry on the side also charged back at the enemy cavalry from both ends.
There were the sounds of war drums, shouts of heralds, the thunder of horses’ hooves like an earthquake, and the whirring of flags.
But amidst all the noise and chaos, the war was proceeding in an orderly manner.
