Chapter 83 Preparation before the war
A night passed as everyone in Tianjiazhuang Fort was worried.
As a result, nothing happened that night, and it was a false alarm for both the enemy and us.
The soldiers on both sides took turns sleeping, which had some impact on their mental state, but it was not a big problem.
The sky had just begun to turn pale, the morning light was illuminating the earth, and the rebel army began to become bustling with noise and bustle.
The soldiers of the logistics battalion were busy distributing weapons and other supplies to the combat soldiers in accordance with the orders of the generals, while the cooks began to prepare breakfast.
The logistics team of Li Dingguo's camp of orphans was independent and not mixed with the soldiers in the main camp. They had their own special group.
After everyone had breakfast, Li Dingguo and four other captains began to order the troops to prepare for war.
The current orphan camp is completely different from the past. Its operational efficiency is much better than those of the logistics camp and even the old camp.
In less than an incense stick of time, all the soldiers in the youth camp had lined up and were ready for orders.
Unlike previous individual training by each team, the military formation formed by everyone today was a Seven Star Bagua formation that was four times larger than usual.
The power of the Seven Star Bagua Formation lies in this: with a minimum formation of fifteen people as the basic unit, it can be expanded infinitely.
The expanded Seven-Star Bagua Formation, when viewed from a distance, still appears to be in the shape of a Bagua diagram with seven stars contained within it. However, no matter how this Bagua diagram operates or where it moves, the core Seven-Star Killing Formation will not be disrupted.
There are no blind spots in any direction of this military killing formation. Wherever it turns to, the soldiers who meet the enemy there will be the sharp knives that kill the enemy.
Moreover, they would attack and then leave, and the next round of attack would be launched by the soldiers who followed, moving in turns.
If there is a general in the Qi Refining Realm presiding over the formation and serving as the main attacker, he can use his own external divine thoughts, under the traction of Qi, to gather the Qi and blood power of all the soldiers in the formation and use his killing power!
The power of this killing array is closely related to the soldiers' level of cultivation, number of people, etc.
Any formation magic power of the military killing array can easily challenge opponents of higher levels.
This is the terrifying aspect of the military killing formation, and it is also the biggest reason why those great masters with high cultivation levels generally do not dare to rely on their own cultivation levels to carry out decapitation operations against the enemy.
Once you are trapped in a military killing array, as long as the scale of the killing array is large enough, the soldiers are elite enough, and the training of the military array is sophisticated enough, you basically have no chance of escaping unscathed. It is like being trapped in a quagmire, and finally being attacked by concentrated fire and beaten to death.
Any magical attack launched by a military killing formation will consume a large amount of the soldiers' energy and blood, and it is impossible to sustain it for a long time. It can only be used as a killer move and cannot be used as a conventional means.
Generally speaking, each legion will only use this kind of killing power once or twice in a battle, and definitely not more than three times.
Otherwise, the soldiers forming the formation would have their own energy and blood exhausted, and would not only be unable to maintain the formation, but would also become limp and weak, finding it difficult to even walk, let alone continue fighting.
If this happens on the battlefield, the consequences will be disastrous.
In the battle between the enemy and our soldiers, the army that is capable of forming a military killing formation will, under normal circumstances, not activate the killing formation's magical powers at will.
Unless you are launching a surprise attack and need to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, or you are at a life-and-death moment and have no choice but to launch a Jedi counterattack.
Or if your side has a huge advantage and is on the verge of winning, it would not hurt to use one or two formation magical attacks to secure victory in one fell swoop.
Today's soldiers in the Youth Camp are limited by the cultivation level of the person in charge of the formation, so they are naturally unable to use the formation's magical powers to launch concentrated fire attacks on the enemy.
But it does not prevent the soldiers from using this military killing formation as an ordinary battle formation.
Even so, this Seven Star Bagua Formation is much more powerful than ordinary military formations.
"Dingguo!"
Ai Nengqi stood at the center of their team's formation, acting as the main attacker of the army formation, and shouted to Li Dingguo who was not far away from him, "Today, the two of us will compete to see who kills more enemies and who kills the most powerful enemies!"
"Hahaha……"
This war maniac laughed loudly and said, "I must kill more than ten enemies today! It would be best if I could meet an enemy at the peak of the second level of martial arts so that I can try my hand!"
He was not just bragging. With his demonic background, he was capable of doing this.
It is estimated that most of the martial arts practitioners at the peak of the second level would find it difficult to defeat Ai Nengqi, and there is a high probability that they would be killed by him.
As for the upcoming battle, will the soldiers of this youth camp encounter a master of the third level of martial arts?
This possibility is not small.
But with the Seven Star Bagua Formation, with the help of the power of the formation, even an ordinary third-level martial arts master would not be a match for the combined forces of the soldiers, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
Unless you encounter an enemy who is a third-level martial arts practitioner and leads his soldiers to form a military formation, that would be quite dangerous.
But the enemy before them was just an ordinary landlord, not a regular army at all. The chance of encountering such an unfavorable situation for them was so small that it could almost be ignored.
"Hey!"
At this time, Ai Nengqi sighed again and said to Li Dingguo, "I just don't know why the king didn't let us launch a sneak attack last night?"
"In this way, wouldn't it be easy to capture this Tianjiazhuang Fortress?"
Last night, because of his overwhelming desire to fight, he went directly to Zhang Xianzhong and proposed an idea of a night attack to capture Tianjiazhuang Fort in one fell swoop, but his idea was not adopted by the king, so he was still a little depressed.
"Sneak attack?"
Li Dingguo sneered, "If this kind of gentry's manor house could be captured so easily by surprise attack, it would be a huge joke."
He is not talking nonsense, but has other reasons.
"If you want to deal with these wealthy landlords, you must first get rid of the vicious guard dogs they keep at home."
"Otherwise, it would be easy to alarm those vicious dogs, and then alarm those guarding servants, causing the sneak attack to fail."
The vicious dog he mentioned is the Chinese native dog that was kept in the homes of almost all dignitaries, powerful gentry, and wealthy families in that era.
I'm not referring to the servants and guards.
Dogs' perception and sense of smell are more than a hundred times greater than those of humans. Once they sense any malice or movement from any uninvited guest, they will bark continuously, thus alarming the people at home.
The Chinese native dog is the best in this aspect among dogs and is most suitable for guarding the house.
In all the turbulent times in history, why were the manors and castles of the gentry and landlords so difficult to capture?
It's not just because the walls are high and the courtyards are deep, there are sufficient supplies, and there is no way to retreat, so the servants and guards and farmers fight back with all their might.
The biggest contributor was the vicious dogs they kept at home, which guarded and warned day and night, so that the thieves were discovered from a distance, and the family was able to prepare for counterattack early.
Almost all sneak attack plans would be difficult to succeed if they wanted to break through the manor fortress guarded by a large number of vicious dogs.
Once discovered, the only option is to storm.
Ai Nengqi proposed to achieve success by surprise attack and quietly break into Tianjiazhuang Fort. The first thing to deal with is the well-trained guard dogs living in it.
This kind of operation is extremely difficult. Unless someone cooperates from inside and outside, it is impossible to succeed.
Not to mention that in this world, there are many wealthy and powerful people who raise dogs, many of which are mutant spirit dogs.
Their perception and keen sense of smell are much stronger than those of ordinary vicious dogs.
Before there is a way to deal with the guarding dogs in the manors of these wealthy and aristocratic families, wanting to achieve success by sneak attack is basically a joke and simply impossible.
(End of this chapter)
