Helan Sword Sect has been established in Helan River for thousands of years, and its history is even longer than that of Taiwei Sect, and even Taiwei Sect was once a vassal of Helan Sword Sect, until the rise of Wuwei Shenhou Dong Liang, Taiwei Sect got rid of the shadow of Helan Sword Sect. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the Helan Sword Sect has risen two Dao Fetal Realm Heavenly List figures in modern times, Xie Jueyuan, the Xiling Sword Venerable who is the guardian elder of the Sword Sect, has a bad relationship with Huang Qiwei, the ancestor of the Huang family and the head of the Helan Sword Sect, so that Xie Jueyuan has lived in Yanjing for many years and served as the deputy envoy of the Heavenly Lord's Yuan, and has not returned to Hechuan for decades.

And what is more critical is that Xie Jueyuan and Huang Qiwei, the two celestial figures, have been on the path of cultivation for more than 600 years, and their cultivation has already passed the peak stage, and they can no longer suppress Dong Liang's edge in the Northwest Regions;

Relying on the Helan Sword Sect, the Huang clan has ruled Hechuan County with the Hexiang Army for more than 200 years, although there is a trend of declining, but the Hexiang Army, the Huang clan and the Helan Sword Sect are still not to be underestimated.

Seven years ago, in the name of chasing down the rebels who joined the Hexiang Army, Dong Liang, the Wuwei Shenhou, led his troops to brazenly kill Yulong Mountain and occupy a large area of land north of Hechuan Ridge, but considering the background of Helan Sword Sect and Hexiang Army, there was no plan to encroach on Hechuan Ridge in a short period of time.

However, after the seventy-second year of Emperor Yitian, the situation in Yanzhou changed dramatically, and the power of the imperial family Ying clan and the Jingjun clan was seriously weakened, and it can be said that the strong feudal clan of the border county has completely lost control.

Hexi was anxious to marry Xiqiang two years ago, just so that he could free up his hands as soon as possible to attack Hechuan County.

However, it was the rise of Juquanling that really accelerated the change in the balance of power between Hexi and Hechuan.

Whether it is a Tianji crossbow or a Tianji chariot, the detailed manufacturing map is among the top sect valves, it has long been not a secret, and the Tianji chariot is easy to say, after all, the pavilion-level Tianji chariot only needs to consume less than 20,000 catties of quenched iron per ride.

What's more, the foundation of the Hexiang Army is not shallow, whether it is the sect lord or the military camp, there are a large number of chariots, a little transformation, does not need to consume too much quenched iron, in the past two or three years, seventy or eighty pavilion-level Tianji chariots have also been transformed, but if the Tianji crossbow wants to be promoted on a large scale in the army, there must be a sufficient supply of quenching arrows.

Even if the Hexiang Army can squeeze out two or three hundred thousand catties of quenched iron every year, it can only cast twenty or thirty thousand pieces of quenched iron every year, where is this enough for a large-scale war to consume?

For this war, the Hexi Army stockpiled five or six hundred thousand gold-quenching arrows in advance.

Under the leadership of Du Yu, Dong Pu and other generals, the Hexi Striker's elite offensive against Wenhu Port was simple and effective, that is, to use the war bird battalion to control the airspace above the battlefield, and then use the battle formation composed of Tianji chariots, heavy armored cavalry and shield halberd armor to advance layer by layer to the many defensive walls built by the Hexiang Army in Wenhu Port, and first fight for the open space outside the walled city.

Sect Xuan Xiu or Wu Xiu strong, take the spirit bird in and out of the battlefield, this is a common situation on the battlefield in the past, but whether it is a sacrifice to the magic weapon spirit sword or a treasure bow to shoot, usually only fight evenly matched, except for the disparity in strength between the two sides, otherwise it is difficult to determine the trend of the entire battlefield.

What really changed this was the use of the Trap Crossbow.

On the Wenhu Port defense line, the Hexiang Army also organized more than 500 sword cultivation disciples whose cultivation was above the Spirit Clearing Realm to strengthen the attack on the defense line.

Sword cultivation above the Spirit Clearing Realm and the Ming Aperture Realm can attack and kill distant enemies several miles or even twenty or thirty miles away with the sword, far exceeding the range of the Heavenly Machine Battle Crossbow, but as long as the Hexi Army's Imperial Bird Sharp Soldiers can break through to a range of two thousand steps by the War Bird, the rain of quenched arrows shot by the machine crossbow is so strong and dense that ordinary sword cultivation disciples can resist.

What's more, on the forward front of the Hexi Army, there are also three or five hundred Xuan Xiu disciples who have been additionally organized, and they don't even need to directly participate in the offensive fighting, they only need to use defensive spells and seals to resist the spirit sword magic weapon that the other party sacrificed over, and help the royal bird sharp pawn to successfully advance quickly, and then he can grasp the absolute advantage over the battlefield.

Each successive shot of the machine's crossbow is almost equivalent to a thousand-bladed sword talisman, and the quenching arrows reserved by the Hexi Army for this battle are equivalent to 10,000 thousand-bladed sword talismans, which can make the forward generals unscrupulously squander.

The speed of the sudden advance of a war bird like the Black Feather Vulture was far beyond the reach of ordinary disciples flying against the wind, fighting back and forth a few times, and the Helan Sect Sword Cultivator was seriously injured, so he did not dare to fight from behind the defense line again, and was given up fighting for the sky above the battlefield.

At this time, the Hexi Army's heavy armored cavalry, heavenly chariots, and shield halberd armor formed a battle formation, advancing layer by layer, until they dug trenches, built protective walls, set up defensive arrays close to the periphery of the enemy city, and built temporary defensive bases at a greater distance, and then pushed heavy catapults to the front of the formation, and within a close range of three or four thousand steps, they used boulders weighing more than 1,000 catties, or even two or three thousand catties, to destroy the defenders' defensive fortresses.

In just three days, more than a dozen fortified fortresses built by the Hexiang Army at the northern foot of the Hechuan Ridge and on the front line of Wenhubu were uprooted by Hexi one by one, and the Hexi Army successfully advanced to the main city on the innermost side of the Wenhubu defense line.

The main city of the Wenhubu defense line, but also the Hexiang army in recent years to focus on the operation of the place, the city is by no means under the Chishan City, but also deployed a large defensive array, but in addition to several firm and powerful counterattacks, to the Hexi soldiers and horses caused a lot of casualties, did not prevent the complete collapse of the Wenhu port defense line.

In more than ten days of offensive and defensive battles, nearly 200 heavy catapults were destroyed in Hexi, but Chen Hai's first counterweight catapult that was put into the battlefield in Montenegro was too easy to manufacture, and the Hexi Army's baggage battalion on the Chishan defense line could build several heavy catapults every day and send them to the forward front.

Of course, the Hexiang Army also mastered the manufacturing of counterweight-type catapults, and also tried to manufacture and deploy a large number of catapults on the defensive line to fight, but the heavy counterweight-type catapults were not difficult to manufacture, and the strength requirements for manufacturing materials were extremely high.

In addition to the 10,000-year-old trees, the main accessories must also be cast with eighth-grade quenched iron, so that they can withstand the stone projectiles that weigh thousands or even thousands of pounds thrown from three to five thousand steps away -- each heavy stone-throwing crossbow will consume thousands of catties or even tens of thousands of catties of eighth-grade quenched gold iron for the accessories alone.

At this time, Hexi can get an additional 100,000 to 150,000 catties of high-quality quenched iron from Lucheng every month.

In addition, the main reason is that the operation of the heavy catapult is too simple, whether it is mining and transporting stone bullets, or operating the catapult to throw stone bullets in front of the enemy line, it can be completed by ordinary people without a little cultivation.

This made it possible for the Hexiang army to attack every time they went out of the city to counterattack, although they could destroy several or even a dozen heavy stone-throwing crossbows, kill, kill and wound hundreds or even thousands of heavy soldiers who operated stone-throwing crossbows, but they were either killed or captured, and they had to lose hundreds of elites.

Compared with such a disparity in competition and consumption, the Hexiang army held on to the main city of the Wenhubu defense line for more than ten days, and it was completely unable to support it.

In the past 10 days, Hexi has lost more than 20,000 heavy soldiers, and the vast majority of them are people who can be replenished at any time; in comparison, 3,000 or 4,000 of the generals lost by the Hexiang army are the most elite combat strength of the Hexiang army, which can be said to be extremely heavy casualties.

In the end, the Hexiang army was forced to abandon the main city of the Wenhubu defense line and retreat from the valley into the depths of the Hechuan Ridge; because the Hexiang army could not grasp the air supremacy of the battlefield, it withdrew from the defense line, and suffered heavy casualties under the strong assault of the Hexi army's war bird battalion several times.

Although the Hexiang Army also made a large number of heavy shields into the army in order to prevent the coverage of the rain of quenched arrows, the fierce soldiers of the imperial birds came in by the war birds, and their tactics were flexible and changeable, which could be said to be impossible to prevent.

After Hexi occupied the Wenhubu defense line, Wuwei Shenhou and his son Dong Chou stationed in Wenhu City, using Wenhu City as a new forward base, gathering all kinds of war materials and deploying troops and horses; under the leadership of Du Yu, Dong Pu and others, the forward battle formation continued to extend rapidly to the depths of the Hechuan Ridge along the wide valley south of Wenhu Port.

After suffering heavy casualties, the Hexiang army abandoned the Wenhubu defense line, which was extremely damaging to morale.

From Wenhu Port to the south, in the depths of the valley in the middle of the Hechuan Ridge, although there were still six strong defensive fortresses along the line of the Hexiang Army, none of them could support the attack of the Hexi Army's forward battle formation for ten days, and by mid-May, the Hexi Army had opened a passage from the central valley of the Hechuan Ridge to the hinterland of the Hexiang River.

The main force of the Hexiang Army, Queen Cang, withdrew, and the large and small Xuanxiu clans to which the Helan Sword Sect belonged, in order to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the Hexi elite, could only choose to abandon the cave mansion in Hechuan Ridge at this time.

These caves opened up in the desperate place of Hechuan Ridge, originally together with the walled city of Wenhubu, jointly built a strong defense line in the north of Hechuan County, who would have thought that it would be ruthlessly and sharply torn to pieces by the Hexi Army in just over a month?

Hechuan Ridge to the south of four or five hundred miles, all the way to the shore of Hechuan Lake, there is no danger to defend, in the weak Hexiang army, although did not suffer a devastating blow, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers available, but do not dare to compete with Hexi in the plain city here.

The main force of the Hexiang Army and the large and small sect lords in Hechuan County were forced to divide into two roads after the Hexi Army advanced out of Hechuan Ridge, all the way to the foundation of Helan Sword Sect, to Helan River and Helan Mountain Range, and all the way to Meishan at the intersection of Hechuan Ridge and Qinchuan County.

At this time, the Musashi army reinforced the two lines of soldiers and horses of Hechuan, all the way to the outside of the city of Shining, and was preparing to storm the Shining, which was attacked and captured by Qin Muhou Dong Shou, and open up the passage from the waterway to aid Hechuan, but at this time it was also forced to retreat hastily and open contact with Dong Shou's department.

On the one hand, the reinforcements of the Musashi army had just walked half of the hinterland of Meishan, which was two or three thousand miles long, and at this time they could only be forced to stop in Meishan, on the one hand, to accept the forces of the Hexiang army fleeing south, and on the other hand, to build a stronger fortified fortress in the Meishan Pass to prevent Hexi from taking advantage of the situation to attack Qinchuan County......