Chapter 38: The Wolf Hunter (Part I)
The war between the empire and the Wanzang tribe has reached a stalemate. The Empire was unable to defeat the bronze chariots of the Wanzang tribe, and a city separated the empire from the Wanzang tribe's base camp. The empire could not stop a large-scale offensive. Similarly, based on the fear of the top warriors, the strength displayed by those god-like figures also kept the wolf people from adventurous.
But this situation lasted only a month before it suddenly changed during an attack by the Empire.
It's still late at night. The wolf people who use Hongcheng as a fortress can spy on the big moves of the empire through Hongcheng. In the middle of the night, the west gate of Hongcheng slowly opened, and a spy rushed to the Wanzang tribe company camp west of Hongcheng.
Not long after, the troops of the Wanzang tribe began to assemble, and at the sound of the horn, all the wolf tribesmen picked up their scimitars, and dozens of bronze chariots began to start, and a deafening roar resounded through the sky. It didn't take long for the nearly 60,000 wolf army to be ready for battle. The six Golden Sword Warriors, as well as the Wolf King Zhuofa, were already sitting on their mounts, waiting for the upcoming battle.
The surprise attack of the Imperial army did not preemptively strike. Hongcheng's geographical location made it impossible for the empire to surprise attack, and even before the empire's army took the lead, the army of the Wanzang tribe had already been reorganized.
And the walls of Hongcheng are also covered with tens of thousands of archers, who are said to be archers, but in fact they are just civilians with bows and crossbows. In the teachings of the Haotian Sect, the true god Haotian needs them to destroy the evil empire and defend their homeland.
The empire's army has 40,000 of the most elite troops from the north of Hongcheng from Hulin Gobi to the west of Hongcheng, fighting with the wolf people, and the remaining 30,000 troops are led by Wei Chi and other participating troops, while staying in the imperial base camp are scholars and Ding Qiliang. And further west, those who fought head-on with the Wanzang tribe were Di Yueluo and Chenhui.
The battle came very suddenly, and for the wolf people, they were now based in Hongcheng, and with the help of the bronze chariot, they could bring enough food supplies from the distant green shade of Xiachuan, which could actually be consumed by the empire. And among the high-level of the wolf clan, they are more willing to consume with the imperial people, because the elite masters of the Haotian Sect have gone to another city of the empire at the moment, if they can wait for this group of masters to return, they will not be afraid of the young general who single-handedly shocked the entire Wanzang tribe on the battlefield not long ago.
But they didn't expect the empire to take the initiative to attack after successive defeats. And this offensive is no longer just a test like the last time, now there are still 70,000 troops left in the west of the empire, and 40,000 troops are mobilized at one time, in the eyes of the wolf people, this is a surprise attack that the empire wants to win or lose in a battle.
In a short time, the 40,000 troops of the empire crossed the Hulin Gobi at great speed and came to the front of the army of the Wanzang tribe, and the two armies were separated by less than five miles.
On the imperial side, 40,000 iron horsemen, two generals.
Wanzang tribe side. Fifty-five thousand wolf riders, five thousand crossbowmen, six warriors with golden swords, two high priests of Haotian, and Zhuofa, the wolf king, plus a large war machine, and forty-eight bronze chariots.
The difference in combat power is very large, but whether it is the two generals of the empire, or the 40,000 troops behind these two, they have no fear. In fact, to be more precise, there is only one general in the empire, and the empire will be the strongest in the future, the head of the four generals of the emperor star, Di Yueluo.
The other man didn't even have armor, a cloth coat, a long sword hung from his waist, the sword was darker than the night, he wore a kind smile, calmly looking at the beacon fire and wolf smoke in the distance.
He is a shopkeeper, and his name is Chenhui.
In the past, wars had to go through countless battles, and there was no such thing as a one-game victory, and this seemingly nonsense battle was initiated by the resolution of the shopkeeper and the scholar east of Hongcheng.
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It started 10 days ago.
After Chen Hui and Di Yueluo secretly fought once without success, Di Yueluo's attitude towards the scholar and Chen Hui changed slightly, and then the scholar gave a breakthrough idea for this battle. The first is to paralyze the bronze chariot, although the wolf people have successfully transported 60,000 troops through the bronze chariot through the dusk desert, but there is still enough food and grass in the green shade of Xia Chuan to support the wolf people to survive the whole winter, as well as tens of thousands of wolf soldiers who stayed in the green shade of Xia Chuan royal court. Only by paralyzing the bronze chariot can the supply lines of the Wanzang tribe be truly cut off.
The key to paralyzing the bronze chariot, the scholar has already given the answer.
It's a blueprint, not a blueprint for the loser's other, more powerful war machines, because there's no time left for the Reich to build a more powerful machine. This is the blueprint of the bronze chariot. Detailed record of the structure of the bronze chariot in each place, after many generals saw this drawing, they were impressed by the mechanism of the public loser, the dense gears simply made people unable to understand the principle of its operation, so many years, the three major countries can only copy the organ weapons of the public loser step by step, but they can not improve it at all, and the operation methods of some machines have been lost, and the bronze finch of the past years is not even able to imitate, in the absence of the design drawing, The bronze mechanism of the public loser could not be made by the craftsmen of other countries or even the empire.
Somewhere at the top of the bronze chariot, under the three-foot-thick copper shell, there is an extremely critical gear, once this gear is destroyed, even with countless gears will not be able to operate, and the entire bronze chariot can no longer move forward, and the soldiers in the chariot can only leave the chariot, otherwise it is tantamount to a caged beast.
It's just that even for the imperial military with many masters, it is extremely difficult to break through the three-foot-thick copper wall, for Di Yueluo, he can use the will of the Heavenly Emperor to make the entire bronze chariot deformed by gravity and then go deep into the ground, but he can't break through the three-foot-thick copper wall, and the metal shell of this thickness can even be used as the gate of a city.
Di Yueluo could destroy the bronze chariot as a whole, but for him, a behemoth like a war machine consumed a lot of internal energy. Therefore, although the scholar gave the weakness of the bronze chariot, it was equivalent to saying it in vain. It's just that at this time, Chen Hui pulled out his sword, and the sharp sword qi after the black sword was unsheathed instantly made Di Yueluo feel dangerous.
This is an artifact that can easily break through copper and iron, with the core part of the stone outside the sky, and then by the descendants of the famous swordsmith Xu Fuzi with painstaking efforts. In other words, the power to paralyze the bronze chariot is in the hands of Chen Hui, who has the sword of King's Landing. While increasing the scholar's shopkeeper's right to speak, Di Yueluo's fear of the shopkeeper is also deeper.
The second point of defeating the wolf people is to recapture Hongcheng. But Hongcheng is now garrisoned by the people of the former empire. After being brainwashed by the Haotian Sect, the common people now regard the empire as mortal enemies. In this regard, Di Yueluo's proposal was to slaughter the city, which was naturally opposed by the shopkeeper.
The conversation was full of gunpowder, which made the Divine Soldier Absolute General Battalion and even the scholars nervous.
Di Yueluo is the second strongest in the empire, but the potential is still above Xiang Wu, but it has been extremely low-key over the years, but Di Yueluo's reputation has been a lot, Di Yueluo's attitude towards the top of the empire is not so much a colleague, but a collaborator, he has a lot of relationship with the current emperor, but even in the face of the emperor, Di Yueluo can still say that my will cannot be disobeyed.
As it turns out, Di Yueluo has never missed a decision so far. And there are two most legendary things in this general's life, one is that when he was sixteen years old, he fought with the dragon general Xiang Wu, although he was defeated, because Xiang Wu evaluated Di Yueluo, who was still a teenager, as the strongest emperor star general. This also makes people wonder how strong Di Yueluo is. The second thing was to kill a high-ranking Imperial official against his will. This incident caused a lot of uproar at the time, but it was saved by the little emperor, and the crime of the dead official was cured.
Di Yueluo himself didn't feel guilty in the slightest. Everything he does seems to be absolute, unquestionable, and he can easily kill those who question him. And as Emperor Star General, Emperor Yueluo's subordinates also understand one thing, for this powerful future star, what they can do is absolute obedience. After the official was killed, the hundred officials were even more jealous of Di Yueluo.
Gradually, although Di Yueluo is very mysterious, but word of mouth has been passed on for a long time, and Di Yueluo's domineering posture has become a symbol of him. Only those who do not tolerate disobedience and absolute obedience can survive under Di Yueluo.
So when Chen Hui repeatedly confronted Di Yueluo, the atmosphere in the camp at that time made everyone scared.
But Chenhui is not a general, and his opinion does not mean anything. Di Yueluo's final plan for Hongcheng was to defeat the Wanzang tribe army west of Hongcheng, and when the squad returned to the camp, he would see the imperial flag hanging on the walls of Hongcheng. And the death and life of the people of Hongcheng, Di Yueluo had no intention of arguing with Chen Hui. He only cares about the result.
So Chen Hui decided to leave the scholars to cooperate with Wei Chi to find a way to conquer Hongcheng without harming the people of Hongcheng. He himself and Di Yueluo went to the enemy's camp -
Break the enemy head-on.
As a result, there was the next confrontation between the two armies.
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Zhuo Fa was not afraid of the imperial army at this moment, Di Yueluo's domineering performance on the battlefield not long ago made the entire army of the Wanzang tribe fearful, but at this moment, there were also two more masters of the peak realm of the Nine Leaves in the army of the Wanzang tribe. Zofa recalled his two sons.
Six Golden Sword Warriors of at least the Seven Leaves Realm, the Wolf King himself is also in the Nine Leaves Realm, and Zhuo Ao Zhuota and the two of them have the power of Haotian Palm, plus the cultivation of the Nine Leaves Peak Realm, in terms of generals, the gap between the two sides is huge. The same is true in terms of troop allocation.
The wolf king Zhuofa rode a horse from the Western Regions, carrying the wolf clan's Xiaoyue golden sword, wearing the skin of a tiger, and shouted in front of the battle: "Two yellow-mouthed children still dare to provoke my army of the Wanzang tribe, today is the beginning of the decline of the empire!" ”
Chen Hui looked blank, although he didn't like Di Yueluo beside him, but he didn't have anyone to talk to. Chen Hui said: "Is it true that before you soldiers fight, you have to shout for such a period of courage? ”
Di Yueluo didn't take care of Chen's return.
Di Yueluo was also on the battlefield for the first time, although he knew the meaning of these actions, but at this moment his expression was also like looking at an idiot. The werewolf people's understanding of combat is still stuck in the era of pure hand-to-hand combat hundreds of years ago. In Di Yueluo's view, in the face of any absolutely unquestionable power, all means are just to show ignorance.
When the soldiers and generals of the Wanzang tribe saw that the empire did not respond, they all thought that the imperial soldiers had been frightened by the disparity in their powerful combat power. The wolf people are angry.
The next moment, ten bronze chariots slowly drove out, and the two armies were only less than five miles apart, and the soldiers of the imperial army were a little frightened when they saw a row of huge war machines driving towards their side.
"It's my turn." Chen Hui said.
The moment the words fell, Chen returned to his feet, his knees bent slightly, and he jumped dozens of feet. After several jumps in a row, he single-handedly rushed into the middle of the war zone where the two armies were opposed, and in front of ten huge bronze chariots, he was like a flat boat under the monstrous waves.
Although three bronze chariots were destroyed in the last battle, under the analysis of Zhuota Zhuoao, he had already learned that although the young general had a strong destructive power, he could not keep up with the consumption of internal strength, and he could not do it too many times to destroy such a behemoth as a mountain of bronze chariots. Therefore, Zhuofa directly sent ten chariots to try to run over the Empire's defenses.
As the wolf people cheered and waited to see the Imperial soldiers retreat in disarray. They saw a figure rushing into the battlefield, and Zoo Drofa recognized it at a glance as the treasurer of the 100,000 bounty. But they didn't think even the shopkeeper could stop ten bronze chariots.
This is a mantis arm as a car, and in the eyes of all the wolf soldiers, it is no different from sending them to death.
But this group of wolf people was still cheering a moment ago, and all the sounds stopped abruptly at this moment. The figure of the shopkeeper was like an antelope jumping in the mountains and forests, and he quickly climbed to the top of the bronze chariot in a continuous vertical leap, and countless sharp spears pierced out of the small round holes at the top, like a wall of knives.
Chen Hui was surprised, even though this bronze chariot was deliberately left by Xiao Liuli, it was still a perfect war machine, and even the top had such a defense.
The wind and sand sword intent gathered on the body of the King's Landing Sword, and Chen Hui instantly broke dozens of spears in an elegant posture, and there seemed to be no obstacle where the King's Landing Sword passed.
The Excalibur whose sharpness surpassed that of Blowing Snow made everyone stunned at this moment.
And the next moment, when Chen Hui stabbed the King's Landing Sword into the thick copper shell, he heard the hilt of the sword touch the gear, and the roar of the bronze chariot suddenly changed rhythm, and then, slowly, disappeared.
Like a seriously wounded person slowly dying. After one of the gears stopped, all the gears slowly stopped rotating, and the bronze chariot finally could not be driven, and stopped in place, and at this moment it had turned into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.
The entire army of the wolf clan watched this scene in disbelief, and the Wanzang tribe and the silent empire that were cheering a moment ago suddenly reversed. The morale of the Imperial army was instantly high.
The time for Chen Hui to destroy a bronze chariot was extremely short, and there was not much internal force consumption during this period. This represents...... The dozens of bronze chariots that hindered the imperial army could be wiped out by him alone!
At the moment when the wolf people were shocked, Chen Hui's figure had already come to another bronze chariot, and he did what he had just done again with a more skillful and smooth attitude.
Another bronze chariot is scrapped! Chen Hui didn't pause at all, he was like an old hunter who had survived for decades, constantly bending his bow and shooting, without any joy at all about the death of a prey, as if everything was taken for granted.
The leaders of the wolf clan finally realized that something was wrong! The young man could not be allowed to constantly destroy the bronze chariot.
"Kill him! Kill him! Zhuofa shouted.
Thousands of archers instantly drew the feathered arrows behind their backs, and the six golden sword warriors jumped out in unison, and Zhuo Ao Zhuota's palms also emitted the light of flames, the two brothers looked at Chen Hui at this moment as the biggest threat, this person first took away the most powerful weapon in their eyes, and at this moment showed the ability to destroy the bronze chariot and change the situation of the war, it must be removed!
When the wolf people were shocked and alerted by Chenhui's actions, they seemed to forget. There was also an even more formidable general present. Di Yueluo's jealousy of Chen Hui is also deeper.
Almost instantaneously in the powerful defensive ability outside the space, the cultivation of the peak realm of the Nine Leaves, plus a divine sword that treats copper and iron as nothing, such a threat is definitely a monster.
But Di Yueluo's expression still did not change, elegant and calm with a hint of chill. He raised his hand lightly and said:
"Now that you're scared of everything, I hope your performance won't disappoint me."
At the moment when the wolf clan besieged and killed Chenhui, Di Yueluo also gave an order.
Empire, all the army attack!
(Tomorrow's chapter may have a lot of words, of course!) It's just possible~)
(End of chapter)