Chapter 207: The powerful Tartar army attacks, and the field artillery battalion is dispatched
"Don't be afraid. This is the golden eagle I just met. It has become my partner."
"The situation is like this..."
Seeing Wan'er and Hongmei almost frightened, Li Dingguo explained to them the coincidence of encountering the golden eagle before.
"Dajin, this is Wan'er and this is Hongmei."
Li Dingguo introduced everyone to each other, and then said to the big golden eagle, "In the future, within our sphere of influence, if you do not encounter those who are hostile to you, do not harm innocent people, including the large number of livestock and poultry, spiritual beasts, war horses, and spiritual pigeons of our Fuxing Army."
In order to avoid similar situations in the future, he specifically gave instructions to the golden eagle.
There is no way to deal with this. It is simply that its cultivation is too powerful and its speed is too fast. Once it launches an attack, life or death can be decided in the blink of an eye. Most opponents do not even have time to react.
"Chirp..."
Da Jin nodded his big head to indicate that he had remembered it.
It will not leave the island in the near future. The most important thing now is to lay eggs and then start hatching its own children.
Everything else has nothing to do with it for the time being.
"Brother, is this the small Five Elements Sky-covering Formation you mentioned?"
"It's really amazing. It looks much more powerful than any formation you've set up before."
After looking around, Wan'er said in amazement, "If you hadn't already taught me and Sister Hongmei the relevant knowledge of this formation, as well as the seals for opening and closing the formation, we wouldn't have been able to get in before!"
"But the changes on this spiritual island are too great! It's like a complete transformation. It's so different that I even thought I came to the wrong place!"
"I just opened the portal of this formation and stepped into this Great Spirit Island. I almost got confused on the spot."
"Especially this five-colored spiritual root tree, it has grown so tall so quickly. I have never seen such a tall tree, and such gorgeous five-colored precious light, which keeps flowing on the surface of its branches and leaves."
"This small hill has miraculously grown so much taller!"
"It's the same with the spiritual spring. The amount of spiritual water flowing out has increased by more than ten times. The mountains, rivers and streams on the island in the middle of the lake have also changed a lot..."
If there had not been an important matter to report to Li Dingguo today, Wan'er and Hongmei would still be kept in the dark. They could never have imagined that the island in the middle of the lake where they originally lived would become so unfamiliar.
If it weren't for the various man-made buildings on this big island, which seemed to be protected by a magical force and did not change at all, the two of them would really have thought they had come to the wrong place.
"Yes!"
Hongmei said, "Sister Wan'er is right. This spiritual island has changed a lot."
"Especially in terms of the concentration of heaven and earth spiritual energy, it is much stronger than before."
"In the entire island covered by the formation, the spiritual energy is almost liquefied, and the spiritual mist is spreading. It looks not much different from the fairyland in myths and legends."
"The rumored large spiritual vein rebirth, will there be such a miraculous change in just half a month?"
Different from Wan'er's concern, Hongmei raised her own questions.
The three of them had read many books that recorded some situations regarding the birth of large spiritual veins, which were very different from what they saw with their own eyes now.
"Whatever!"
Wan'er pouted and said, "Anyway, this spiritual island is already ours, and my eldest brother has set up a magical protective concealment formation. No one can discover the abnormal situation here."
She was right.
Since it is already their own spiritual island, the richer the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the better. In the future, all kinds of spiritual herbs and roots can be cultivated and multiplied on this big island. Then the soldiers of the Renaissance Army will have no shortage of various elixirs and spiritual food to exchange for use.
"By the way, Brother Dingguo!"
"The two of us came to see you this time because there was an emergency."
At this time, Hongmei suddenly realized that she and Wan'er had come to this spiritual island in a hurry not because they had nothing to do, but because they had important matters to report to Li Dingguo.
It was just that he was so shocked by the giant golden eagle and the sacred island that he forgot about the important matter.
This is almost impossible for Hongmei, who has always been steady.
From this, we can see how much shock she was brought by the earth-shaking changes that had taken place on this island in the middle of the lake!
"The military intelligence personnel we sent out to the northern prairie thousands of miles away to be responsible for vigilance and investigating military intelligence, as well as the scout team in the army, have successively sent back extremely urgent military intelligence!"
She quickly handed the two intelligence reports in her hand to Li Dingguo, "Take a look at these two reports first. The situation is very serious now."
Hongmei's expression was very serious at this moment, even a little worried.
"Oh?"
Li Dingguo quickly took the two military intelligence reports and checked them quickly.
After a moment, his face turned very ugly. He looked up at Wan'er and Hongmei and said angrily, "Two elite Tartar cavalry armies have already arrived at the border only ten thousand miles away from us this morning?"
"They didn't even bring cattle or sheep with them. They relied entirely on hunting various animals and monsters on the prairie for food!"
"This is a long-distance raid to quickly wipe out our Renaissance Army in one fell swoop!"
"Hum..."
A sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he said coldly, "If it goes as expected, this is a conspiracy by those Shanxi merchants. They want to eliminate our Fuxing Army as soon as possible to avoid blocking their way to wealth!"
If Li Dingguo wasn't stupid, he could guess something. "Two months ago, the intelligence teams sent by the Military Intelligence Department to the three northwestern provinces sent back intelligence messages by spirit pigeons, indicating that the Southern Merchant Alliance had completely evacuated the three northwestern provinces and was concentrating on overseas trade. They had temporarily given up on being our enemy."
"The two intelligence teams we sent to the southeastern coastal areas also sent back intelligence a month ago, saying that the Southern Merchant Alliance has blocked the routes for Shanxi and Qin merchants to go out to sea for trade."
"After several large fleets disappeared in succession, these Shanxi and Qin merchants also completely evacuated the coastal areas and returned to the three northwestern provinces, concentrating on domestic business and trade with the Tartars outside the Great Wall."
"Now this situation has occurred. It is very likely that the Shanxi merchants spent a lot of money to invite the two large Tartar tribes to come south together!"
"There is only one purpose: to wipe out our Renaissance Army in one fell swoop!"
"well!"
"Very good!"
Li Dingguo laughed in anger, "I didn't expect that before we even bothered them, these bastards would jump out impatiently!"
"After we destroy these two Tartar cavalry armies, I, Li Dingguo, will repay them well and give them some great gifts!"
Although this would disrupt some of my own plans.
But Li Dingguo would never feel comfortable unless he expressed his anger.
In the past few months, the Fuxing Army has been growing rapidly. Now the number of soldiers has increased by 30,000, and the total number has reached 50,000. The Fuxing Army has enough strength to attack the Tatar tribes and the caravans of Shanxi merchants at the same time, and fight to support the war.
Li Dingguo's natal spiritual root, the Five-Colored Divine Tree, has begun to grow and is becoming more and more helpful to his cultivation.
Now that they have acquired a large spiritual island, their strength has increased dramatically.
Li Dingguo is confident that he can break through to the fifth level of martial arts before the New Year and become a true master.
With the help of the five war corps' increasingly sophisticated military killing formations, Li Dingguo would be confident that he could compete with the Later Jin Tartars even if they dispatched an elite army in the second half of next year.
Now that Li Dingguo has the confidence, he is not afraid of revenge from anyone!
If the Later Jin Tartars had acted slower and waited several years before launching their attack, it would not be a passive defense at that time. Instead, Li Dingguo would have led the various legions of the Fuxing Army to launch an active attack against them to take the initiative.
"Big brother."
"You're right. I discussed this with Sister Hongmei before, and I also think that this is the work of the Shanxi merchants."
Wan'er waved her fist angrily and said in a hateful voice, "The intelligence personnel we arranged in Jin Province to monitor the top ten Jin merchants sent reports back more than ten days ago saying that Fan Yongdou, the head of the Fan family, has not appeared in three or four months."
"Now it seems that this guy most likely led his men to the border areas! He must have personally persuaded the Tartar army to march south this time."
"The one who is at odds with us is the Huoluo tribe 40,000 miles to the north, not the Wengniute tribe and the Four Princes tribe, the remnants of the Chahar who are attacking from the south this time."
"Under normal circumstances, these two large tribes are at a critical time of recuperation. How could they have the energy to come and cause trouble for us in this early winter season?"
"If it weren't for Fan Yongdou, they wouldn't have heard of our power, and there would be no question of them coming here to take revenge."
"This time, the elite cavalry of their two major tribes went south on an expedition, each dispatching 20,000 cavalrymen, intending to crush our Renaissance Army in one fell swoop!"
"When their army marches south this time, they should stop by the border areas to collect the remuneration paid by the Shanxi merchants and obtain a large amount of food and supplies."
Wan'er is no longer the same as before. She has grown up through reading a large number of books and experiencing a lot of bloody battles.
After a little thought, she guessed some of the situations.
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo sneered, "I'm afraid they'll come alive but not live to take it!"
"The head of the Fan family, Fan Yongdou, might still be among those two Tartar armies!"
"If you find him, don't let him get away!"
"If we can catch him, we'll skin him, stuff him with straw, and light a sky lantern to warn the world!"
Li Dingguo hated Fan Yongdou very much because he disrupted his development plans.
If we catch him this time, we won't let him die so easily.
"I will inform all the soldiers that if they discover the presence of Han people among the Tartar army, they should come and report immediately."
Hongmei said, "The top-grade dragon-scale horses of the three of us have grown after absorbing a large amount of special life energy emitted by the five-colored sacred tree several times in succession."
"With the speed of the top-grade dragon-scale horse, once Fan Yongdou is spotted, he won't be able to escape from the battlefield!"
"This time, the elite Tartar cavalry numbered tens of thousands. The information our intelligence personnel sent back using spirit pigeons showed that they had a total of more than ten generals at the fourth level of martial arts, and two commanders at the late fourth level of martial arts."
"This strength is not much different from our Renaissance Army."
"If the two sides engage in direct combat, even if our army wins, it will be a pyrrhic victory."
Hongmei analyzed the strength comparison between the enemy and us, and said with some concern, "In view of this, I have used a spirit pigeon to send a message to Wei Jinfan, who is in charge of this intelligence work, to personally check the places along the route that the Tatars must pass through, and find an excellent location nearby, so as to try to catch the enemy by surprise."
"If we march out tonight with all our troops riding spirit beasts and war horses, we will encounter the Tartars five thousand miles north of our base in five days."
Like Li Dingguo, Hongmei does not like to engage in direct battles with the enemy, but is used to the tactics of ambush and sneak attacks.
Even though this is a bit unethical, but when fighting a life-and-death battle with the enemy, who cares about martial ethics?
Only victory is real, nothing else matters. As long as the war is won in the end, it doesn't matter how it is won.
"That's good."
Li Dingguo heard that Hongmei had already made the advance preparations, nodded, and ordered, "In this case, Wan'er, Hongmei, the two of you leave the island immediately, and order all the soldiers to go out this time, except for the navy soldiers who are responsible for guarding our territory!"
"We must do our best and be prepared to engage in a head-on confrontation with the Tartar army if the ambush fails."
"Fan Yongdou is not a kind person, but a cunning person."
"If he gives advice to the Tartar army, and if the Tartars follow his advice, our ambush will most likely fail, and we will have to engage in a head-on battle with the enemy."
"We must go all out in this battle!"
"Wan'er!"
He looked at Wan'er and said, "Go and bring along the Army Field Artillery Battalion that we just formed a month ago!"
"Anyway, we have everything we need right now, including spiritual beasts and war horses. We can use spiritual beasts and war horses to pull field spiritual energy cannons and spiritual crossbow carts, and we can follow the large army and move quickly."
The field artillery battalion that Li Dingguo mentioned was one of his masterpieces of daily weapon refining over the past few months.
During these months, Li Dingguo disassembled a psychic cannon and a psychic crossbow cart, and after a thorough analysis of these two most powerful weapons of war today, he improved and upgraded them.
Then he ordered the dismantling of a medium-quality treasure ship, obtained enough spiritual materials of various kinds, and used the Human Emperor Cauldron to batch-refine a large number of psychic cannons and spiritual crossbow carts.
These psychic cannons are second-grade top-grade magical weapons, and their power is similar to those captured psychic cannons and crossbow carts.
It’s not that Li Dingguo doesn’t want to refine these two large magical weapons of the third-level magical weapon level, but that he can’t find so many top-level spiritual materials.
On the contrary, the improved version of the second-level psychic cannon and the crossbow cart only requires a large amount of medium-grade spiritual materials and a small amount of high-grade spiritual materials.
These psychic cannons and crossbow carts, which were improved and mass-produced by Li Dingguo, are very different from the original ones.
Li Dingguo made a mobile and convenient psychic cannon and psychic crossbow cart with reference to Miss France 75 in his previous life.
These two new types of large-scale second-grade top-grade magical weapons are assembled from magical weapon components such as the gun body, gun carriage, formation base, and scale sight.
Not only do they have sturdy wheels, they can also be pulled by a spirit beast warhorse to run and march, and are not greatly affected by terrain restrictions.
Their size is much smaller than the original psychic cannons and crossbow carts, and they are medium-sized cannons and medium-sized crossbow carts.
In the current Renaissance Army, each of the five main combat corps has formed an artillery battalion of a thousand men, each equipped with ten magical weapon-level psychic cannons and thirty magical weapon-level crossbow carts.
This time the army is heading north, and it is these army field artillery battalions that are making their debut and showing their prowess in their maiden battle after being formed and trained for two months.
(End of this chapter)
