Chapter 123: The foundation of the world's number one general, killing enemies is like cutting grass
Dingbian City is 150 miles northwest, on the banks of the Wuding River.
The former Tianjiazhuang Fort was now littered with corpses.
No one had expected that the one hundred rebel soldiers who stayed here to guard the fort were caught off guard and easily killed in a single battle by the sudden attack of Cao Bianjiao.
Do not!
It wasn't a battle at all, just a one-sided massacre!
This rebel army was completely unprepared and couldn't even survive a single encounter under the sudden attack led by Cao Bianjiao himself. They were slaughtered in just a few moments!
In front of the elite border troops led by Cao Bianjiao, who was at the peak of the fifth level of martial arts, the mere one hundred rebel soldiers were no different from lambs to be slaughtered. They didn't even have the energy to resist.
"Cao Sheng!"
After just finishing a surprise attack, he asked the captain of the personal guard beside him, "How long will it take for my uncle and his men to arrive?"
As the vanguard of the vanguard army, the soldiers under him rode at least top-grade dragon-scale horses.
Most of these spiritual beasts and war horses were captured from the Tatars outside the Great Wall, which is enough to prove the power of Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and their elite army.
The long-distance running capabilities of top-grade and best-grade Jiao-Scale Horses are extremely strong, far beyond the imagination of most people.
Cao Bianjiao led his 300 elite cavalry soldiers as the vanguard of the army, galloping all the way, day and night.
It only took six days to rush from Yulin City, 5,000 miles away, to Tianjiazhuang Fort, northwest of Dingbian City.
In order to ensure that military intelligence was not leaked, Cao Bianjiao took action personally. In less than a cup of tea, he killed all the rebel soldiers entrenched inside and outside Tianjiazhuang Fort without leaving a single one alive!
Afterwards, he immediately dispatched a hundred elite cavalrymen, led by two fourth-level martial arts guards, to carry out indiscriminate intelligence concealment operations around Tianjiazhuang to prevent the enemy from knowing the arrival of his own troops.
"Reporting to the general, the commander-in-chief has used a pair of spirit eagles he raised to contact us. They have already arrived at the official road beside the Wuding River, only three hundred miles away from us. They will be able to join our army at 3:45 pm!"
"The general's men are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles. Their mounts are at least mid-grade dragon-scale horses. It's no problem for them to charge a thousand miles a day, not to mention that they are only three hundred miles away from us now."
The Jiao-Scale Horse is a mid-grade spiritual beast.
Even a top-grade dragon-scale horse is still considered a mid-grade spiritual beast.
If a top-grade Jiao-Scale Horse could undergo a blood mutation, there was a high chance that it would be able to transform into a Dragon-Scale Horse through blood sublimation.
The dragon scale horse is a top-grade spiritual beast. As long as it grows up, it will most likely be able to break through to the fourth-grade spiritual beast realm.
Only a top-grade dragon-scale horse has the potential to break through to become a fifth-level spiritual beast.
If you want to break through to the sixth level of spiritual beast, only the top-grade dragon scale horse can do it.
Unfortunately, in today's world, no one has heard of the dragon-scale horse, a sixth-level spiritual beast, for hundreds of years.
The growth cycle of the dragon scale horse is very long, and it takes a long time to grow up. Even though there are a large number of spiritual grass pastures on the side of the Later Jin Tartars, there are not many dragon scale horses in number.
Their fertility rate is low because the dragon scale horse has the legendary dragon blood in its body.
The higher the concentration of true dragon blood in the dragon scale horse's body, the higher its growth potential will be, and the easier it will be to break through the level bottleneck.
If the Dragon Scale Horse wants to break through to the fifth level of spirit beast, it must obtain the assistance of the best natural treasures, only then it will have a chance to break through to the fifth level of spirit beast, or even the sixth level of spirit beast.
One of Cao Bianjiao’s two exclusive mounts is a top-grade dragon scale horse!
Under Cao Bianjiao's vigorous training, it has grown into a level five initial stage spirit beast!
To put it bluntly, Zhang Xianzhong was no match for Cao Bianjiao's top-grade dragon-scale horse, and he was a crushing winner!
There are now a total of thirty-six dragon-scale horses in Cao Wenzhao's army.
Fourteen of them were in Cao Bianjiao's vanguard team of only three hundred people.
Among them, Cao Bianjiao himself had two dragon-scale horses, one of the best quality and one of the top quality. The remaining twelve dragon-scale horses of different grades were all equipped by his twelve servants and guards.
"Hey! What a pity!"
Cao Bianjiao thought of something and couldn't help but sigh and said, "My uncle is too cautious. He specifically told me to wait for him to arrive and then lead the army to launch a surprise attack on Dingbian City."
"In my opinion, can this small army of rebels who have just started an uprising really stop me, Cao Bianjiao?"
"I'm not bragging. While the enemy is completely defenseless, I will lead you all in and defeat this mob-like rebel army with just one charge."
He is not exaggerating; he is telling the truth.
Don't underestimate Cao Bianjiao's elite cavalry of only 300 people.
Among this small group of 300 cavalrymen, there were two talented servant guard commanders: Cao Sheng and Cao Yu. Under Cao Bianjiao's strong training, they reached the late and middle fourth levels of martial arts respectively!
Among the remaining soldiers, the one with the worst cultivation level has reached the second peak of martial arts!
In addition, Cao Bianjiao is the undisputed number one master among the known practitioners in the Ming Dynasty. He can completely lead this elite cavalry to defeat Zhang Xianzhong's five-battalion army head-on in one fell swoop!
Zhang Xianzhong had a military killing formation, and the world-famous Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao naturally also had a military killing formation. This elite cavalry, experienced in hundreds of battles, not only had a military killing formation, but also had trained the military killing formation to the great perfection through actual combat!
If they engage in a head-on battle, even though Zhang Xianzhong now has three thousand warriors, he will be no match for Cao Bianjiao's three hundred elite cavalrymen!
So Cao Bianjiao is now full of confidence. He has absolute confidence that he can do it.
As the number one prodigy of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Bianjiao had an amazing adventure in his youth!
Not only had he broken through to the fourth level of martial arts at the age of fifteen, he had also successfully unlocked his star destiny.
The star destiny he opened was the strongest advanced star destiny. Although it was not as good as Zhang Xianzhong's Seven Killings Star Destiny and Li Dingguo's Pojun Star Destiny, it was only slightly different.
Cao Bianjiao has a big secret that is unknown to the public: during an amazing adventure in his youth, he obtained an ancient magical weapon: the Wuliang Tower!
This natal magic weapon, like the Xuanhuang Bell that Li Dingguo obtained, also has nine layers of seals.
Cao Bianjiao has now sealed nine levels, and through various coincidences he has unlocked three levels.
He also gained a passive magical power that comes with his own magic weapon: infinite power.
This Wuliang Tower, which has unlocked its triple seal, can not only protect Cao Bianjiao's soul from being invaded by evil spirits, but also provide Cao Bianjiao with infinite reserves of life essence, so that he will never be exhausted in battle!
This is just like the legendary Li Yuanba in Li Dingguo’s previous life, who possessed infinite physical strength and would never get tired no matter how long he fought!
Why is it that among the vast Ming Dynasty, with countless geniuses and evildoers, only Cao Bianjiao can be called the world's number one military general?
The Wuliang Pagoda played a vital role in making his fighting power infinitely durable.
After two years, if Cao Bianjiao makes another breakthrough and becomes a super master of the sixth level of martial arts, he will be even more terrifying.
Unfortunately, in this big world, there exists the military killing array. Even if he successfully breaks through to the sixth level of martial arts, he still cannot run rampant.
Faced with a military killing array composed of tens of thousands of elite soldiers, if you fail to break out in time, you will still be beaten to death by the concentrated fire attack of the killing array.
This is the magical world of martial arts, and the difference between it and the ordinary historical world: Cao Bianjiao could not even defeat an army of ten thousand, but the legendary Li Yuanba in the history of the earth could kill more than one million rebel soldiers alone.
"General."
Cao Sheng looked at his young master who had never lost a battle with infinite admiration, and replied respectfully, "The general has his reasons for ordering so."
"There are so many rebels, how can they be more than just Zhang Xianzhong's group entrenched in Dingbian City?"
"We still have a lot of enemies to deal with. It would be more appropriate for you to focus on stability right now, General."
"After all, there are many people who are eyeing our Cao family covetously. If we are not careful, they will find an excuse to target us."
"Besides, the general is loyal to the court and the emperor, so it is normal for him to have such considerations."
"Our border troops are elite and strong, but they have one obvious shortcoming: we don't have many soldiers."
"Once the loss is too great, it will be difficult to make up for it in a short period of time, which will be extremely detrimental to the future."
There was a hint of regret in Cao Sheng's words.
The reason for this situation is that their elite border troops have been at war for many years and have no time to rest and expand for a long time.
If Cao Wenzhao was allowed to stay in a border area stably and train and maintain his army for a few years, there would be no problem in expanding the Cao family army several times in one fell swoop.
Cao Sheng even wondered in his heart: Is there someone in the court who is deliberately targeting their Cao family army in secret and is trying every means to stop them, not wanting to see this elite army with super combat effectiveness expand in size?
After all, their Cao family army is the only powerful army in the current Ming Dynasty that dares to confront the elite cavalry army of the Later Jin Tartar with equal strength and can still win the battle.
"Yeah, too."
After hearing the persuasion from Cao Sheng, the commander of the personal guards, Cao Bianjiao's gloomy face finally relaxed.
He has always been accustomed to defeating the enemy with force, and he disdains to engage in any conspiracy or intrigue with the enemy. With his straightforward character, he does not consider as much as Cao Sheng, nor can he think as far ahead.
It's not that he's not smart, he's just too lazy to think about those things.
Anyway, my uncle Cao Wenzhao is a general with extremely rich combat experience, so all the strategies and military tactics can be formulated by my uncle.
"General, to be on the safe side, I need to personally lead a team of soldiers to eliminate all suspicious targets nearby, so as to avoid accidentally leaking the news and letting the bandit chieftain Zhang Xianzhong prepare, which would be disadvantageous to our next surprise attack."
Cao Sheng, who was very experienced in warfare, immediately took his leave from the young master.
Soon, hundreds of elite border cavalry rushed out of Tianjiazhuang Fort on horseback, quickly divided into four teams, and dispersed in all directions of Tianjiazhuang Fort.
In front of these elite border troops who have experienced hundreds of battles, it is basically impossible for any enemy spies to escape their dragnet search.
(End of this chapter)
