Chapter 37: Phantom War (7)
Although with the continuous advance of "Fan Xiu", more and more veterans took the initiative to gather over, and even those recruits who were almost waiting for death unconsciously followed the veterans to join in, so that the morale began to slowly improve steadily.
However, it is not enough.
Now on the battlefield, except for "Fan Xiu", Vice General Zhao, and a limited number of basic non-commissioned officers who are cultivators themselves, they can steadily suppress and defeat their opponents, even the "Fan Xiu" headquarters pro-army and those veterans who are the elite soldiers of Xiuyuan City can only achieve mutual casualties with the main soldiers of the Tiezhi Army.
"Fan Xiu" needs to find a way to further boost morale, so that all the soldiers under his command can at least be able to win one-on-one battles, and one-on-two can remain undefeated, only in this way can the possibility of a breakthrough success be increased.
"So what should be done?" "Fan Xiu" dodged the stabbing blow of the three spears, the big knife blocked another spear on the left side from the back, handed it to the right hand, the muscles were stretched, and he used his height advantage to slash down obliquely, cutting off the blades of the three enemy soldiers, and then the big knife swept the beheading of the three people whose weapons were broken, while constantly thinking and deducing in his mind.
Just when Ning Yuan killed another soldier, when "Xizhao" reproduced the scene that his eyes swept just now, a detail caught the attention of "Fan Xiu".
It was a nine-foot man who was constantly advancing towards him, surrounded by several well-armored guards.
"The enemy's vanguard?" The thought of "Fan Xiu" flashed, turned around and ignored it, and attacked another weak point in the enemy army that was estimated to be flawed due to the flow of soldiers.
After killing several enemy soldiers and then rushing into the depths of the enemy army, "Fan Xiu" once again found the vanguard officer with bright armor and holding two handles, which at first glance was a five-foot hammer that smashed people like crushing melons.
A cold light flashed in Fan Xiu's indifferent eyes, and then he once again ignored the other party's "sunset" to peep through the killing.
"It's not the time yet."
In this way, as "Fan Xiu" continued to change the direction of his advance, he intentionally or unintentionally re-killed the basic non-commissioned officers of the Tiezhi Army, and took advantage of the poor enemy attack caused by the death of the most basic organizational units such as the captain and the chief of the army, and overlapped personnel to block the enemy vanguard officers who had been trying to stop "Fan Xiu", slowly but surely improving the morale of their own side and weakening the morale of the enemy soldiers on the contact surface.
After killing another enemy chief, Ning Yuan finally felt a slight increase in strength. The overall morale of the command has finally increased to about 80.
"Almost."
"Fan Xiu" thought flashed, and after brushing aside a few spears, he turned his body slightly again, made a forced turn, and slowly moved closer to the side of the vanguard officer whose face was obviously anxious.
The pioneer officer, who had been being teased by "Fan Xiu" and "walking", saw that "Fan Xiu" was finally forced to his position by the soldiers, his big eyes lit up, his big mouth opened to reveal a silent hideous laugh, and he couldn't wait to knock away the soldiers around him and approach "Fan Xiu".
When the two sides approached Zhangxu, the enemy's vanguard officer suddenly swelled up, rising to a height of one zhang and seven feet wide like a little giant, holding two five-foot hammers the size of watermelons and knocking each other, making a loud noise, shouting: "The enemy will die!" ”
Slammed into the soldier who was blocking the way in front of him, and smashed the head of "Fan Xiu" who had just blocked the side spear and slightly changed his breath.
Just when the vanguard officer laughed loudly, and Vice General Zhao and the guards who were fighting a few steps behind "Fan Xiu" were shocked, the corners of the mouth of "Fan Xiu", who "changed his breath", curved slightly, and pulled out a cold arc as cold as a knife.
Immediately, the figure also swelled and widened in an instant, the big knife in his hand turned on the back of his neck, his arms swelled a full two circles, his hands clenched the big knife from the bottom to the top, and the arc blade wrapped in glowing sword qi did not allow a hair, and the bright armor and shoulder guards that slashed diagonally from the left waist of the enemy vanguard officer to the other party's chest were swept upward.
"Uh." The enemy vanguard officer charged forward without stopping, but the grim expression on his face froze in an instant, his bronze eyes opened widely, and after a muffled sound, a blood line appeared on the bright armor on his chest, and then blood spurted out from the blood line, half of his body broke away from the sprinting legs, and his hideous face opened his mouth, and a mouthful of blood spurted out with a "wow".
In the process of the body of the little giant-like big man separating and falling, "Fan Xiu" had already dodged the heavy hammer attack that had lost his stamina, and without any hesitation, Gao Sheng shouted violently: "The enemy general is dead!" Kill all the soldiers! ”
Vice General Zhao and the others saw the corpse of the enemy vanguard officer slowly returning to its normal body shape in the process of falling, and subconsciously shouted: "Kill!" ”
I didn't know the specific situation in the distance, but after clearly hearing the general's announcement that "the enemy general is dead", he shouted violently: "Kill!" ”
The recruit, who was completely blindly obedient, subconsciously shouted as if he was infected: "Kill! ”
Almost within a few breaths of "Fan Xiu's loud announcement, the entire battlefield seemed to be echoing the hoarse but sonorous word "kill", and the overall morale of the "Fan Xiu" department suddenly rose a lot, and immediately broke through the original 80 to 95, and after a few breaths, the peak of breaking through the 100 mark was still climbing.
In a word, the morale of the "Fan Xiu" team, which launched a counter-charge against the enemy, has been completely bursting.
And in that hoarse "killing", the morale of the Xiuyuan army on the entire battlefield, which was originally scattered to the point of collapse, was no longer declining, as if it was infected, but began to rise slowly, and the military spirit, which was already thin and almost disappeared, also stopped, and the dissipation trend became rich again.
Feeling the more and more obvious blessing of combat power from the arrival of the morale boost, a smile appeared on the cold face of "Fan Xiu".
"Sure enough, killing the enemy is the most effective way to raise morale." Ning Yuan muttered to himself in his consciousness.
Looking at the standard and brightness of the opponent's armor, as well as the two heavy hammers in the opponent's hands that are different from ordinary soldiers, there is no doubt that he is a brave general used by the enemy to charge into battle, although he is only cultivated to the appearance of a captain, but he has two physical talents of "strength" and "fitness", and the deepening is good, and his strength can be said to be definitely not weak.
It's a pity that he was continuously ignored by "Fan Xiu" and dodged so that the opponent's mood fluctuated violently, so he was eager to vent his anger at the moment of attack and there was an obvious flaw such as the empty door in his chest.
However, as long as the speed of the attack is fast and ruthless enough, so that the enemy has no time to counterattack, plus one force to reduce ten times, such an attack is not a flaw. It's a pity that "Fan Xiu" kept an eye on it at the beginning of the battle, and although he exposed the identity of a ground-level cultivator, he did not fully exert the true power of the two talents of "strength" and "fitness" that he possessed. It hides his true shooting speed.
Therefore, in the case of lure, it became a matter of course to be easily killed by "Fan Xiu", who showed full combat power.
But that's exactly what "Fan Xiu" needs.
In a normal battle, in an environment like a battlefield, a ground-level cultivator and a captain-level cultivator can be said to be evenly matched to a certain extent. Although the difference in the actual realm and the resulting experience surprise, in terms of the victory rate, the victory rate of the ground level cultivator will be higher, but it is usually not a matter of a few rounds to tell the winner or loser. Not to mention that "Fan Xiu" killed the other party almost instantly.
It is precisely because of this "instant kill" deliberately designed by "Fan Xiu" that the morale of the Xiuyuan army has been completely revitalized, and the situation on the entire battlefield can change from the original glance to the current appearance of faint variables.
Morale is contagious. This is true of friend and foe.
After Fan Xiu, who was possessed by Ning Yuan, "instantly killed" the enemy general, the morale of the enemy soldiers on the frontal battlefield of "Fan Xiu" suddenly stagnated. Faintly declining.
"Fan Xiu" felt it after killing several enemy soldiers again, and his eyes flashed with cold light narrowed slightly.
Under the rapid operation of his thinking, he raised his breath and shouted again: "The morale of the enemy army has declined, kill!" ”
Vice General Zhao and others, who also felt the faint decline in the combat power of the enemy's soldiers, shouted violently: "Kill!" ”
"Fan Xiu" no longer changed direction this time, but rushed straight to the frontal enemy army, relying on his strong strength and the rapid operation of "Xizhao" and "Yanyan" to continuously kill the grassroots organizers found in the frontal enemy army, that is, those who are the captains, captains, captains, and team leaders, further disintegrating the morale and organizational strength of the other party.
Under the decline of morale and the conscious frequent killings of "Fan Xiu", the personal soldiers under the command of "Fan Xiu" and those veterans and recruits who had attached themselves all found that the enemy's combat strength was faintly declining, and the military situation in the local front was slowly becoming chaotic.
The novices, who were originally timid and just blindly followed the team, began to quickly change from recruits to veterans after killing the enemy for the first time in the chaos.
With the change of mentality, the effect of morale promotion is more and more obvious, the blessing of morale and military spirit is also strengthened, and the continuous enhancement of their own combat power has further improved the morale of the soldiers, so that a spiral cycle of entanglement with each other has been formed, and the more you fight, the more courageous you are.
The feelings of the soldiers of the Tiezhi Army are just the opposite, from the crushing of the original combat power, to the slight resistance of the other party, the attack and defense of each other, the evenly matched, and now faintly suppressed, the soldiers of the Tiezhi Army have experienced a reversal like a roller coaster, and their mentality has begun to fall into confusion and self-doubt.
Originally, under this circumstance, as long as those basic organizers were still there, such a mentality would soon be suppressed, but under the conscious killing of "Fan Xiu" and the subsequent Vice General Zhao and others, there were fewer and fewer organizers of the frontal enemy army, making more and more soldiers of the enemy army fall into this confusion and self-denial.
The confusion of the frontal enemy forces became more and more obvious. There is even a tendency to spread to both sides.
However, without waiting for "Fan Xiu" to be happy, the enemy generals commanding in the rear also quickly took countermeasures.
I saw that the soldiers who were constantly rushing forward in the rear of the frontal battlefield began to consciously separate to both sides, and some tall figures faintly appeared in the sight of "Fan Xiu".
When "Fan Xiu" saw what those figures were, his pupils contracted almost instantly.
Dressed in chain mail, wearing a round helmet, holding a five-foot curved scimitar in each hand, and beneath him was a huge wolf with a supple brown coat and a fierce face, sharp claws and teeth.
This is the group of wolf cavalry that "Fan Xiu" once glimpsed when he was in ambush.