Chapter 54: Breaking the Formation Frontally

After Zhang Fan saw the beacon smoke coming from the north, he left the Lintian Emperor City and even the Lintian City where almost all the armed forces had been cleaned up as fast as possible, bowed down and used his spiritual power to make the qi wall seem to form the appearance of a top-level supercar suspended in the air, and continued to accelerate forward, and finally maintained the speed at a speed of one hundred and twenty meters per second like a strong crossbow, this speed is certainly not Zhang Fan's limit speed at this time, but it is extraordinary for the march.

In this way, the rest time is placed within the Qiankun shield, one minute is used for three hours, and most of the time can be in a state of marching to maintain physical strength, and in only about five hours, Zhang Fan has traveled a distance of about 2,000 kilometers quickly, and has arrived at the border between Tianfeng Country and Xia Country from Lintian.

According to some information that Zhang Fan had at this time: Xia Kingdom covers an area of more than 20 million square kilometers and has a population of more than 300 million, and its main national strength is the medicinal materials brought by the population and geographical area, and even the martial arts strength brought by the cultivation resources. The most powerful country in the north is the country of Tianfeng, with an area of only 3 million square kilometers, but half of the area is fertile land with abundant water irrigation, and a population of about 120 million people has more than 10 acres of high-quality fields per capita and even several acres of very high-quality playgrounds. After thousands of years of cultivation, it also has some livestock breeds that are not inferior to the modern excellent varieties of the other earth, and there are many woodlands and iron-rich ores with excellent materials that can be used as high-efficiency bows and crossbows. Therefore, compared with Xia, it has a stronger ability to mobilize national strength, and in extreme circumstances, it can mobilize an army of 15 million mules and horses, and the mobilization rate has caught up with the great powers such as France in the First World War era. These armies were often a level stronger than the Polish hussars in Earth's history and the English longbowmen at their peak. After all, the professional soldiers who have been fed by the strong national power and the supply of meat logistics, coupled with the more scientific training accumulated over a long period of history, are not comparable to the ancient times in the history of the earth. It is precisely because of this that he has been able to compete with the Xia Kingdom, which has several times the scale of martial arts, for a long time.

As for the other Wanshan Kingdom in the west and Yunluo Island in the south, they are small countries that are not very strong, and they are known for their shipbuilding and sailors, otherwise these two island countries that have shrunk ten times would have been wiped out by the Xia Kingdom long ago. Phantom Island is about 30,000 miles away from the West Sea Continent, much farther and more mysterious than Tianluo Island. In this worldly situation, it is only a small interaction with the other three countries. At most, sporadic drugs and poisons were provided, such as the last landing operation not far east of Shanyang Castle. No one from Phantom Island came to participate, and it was only nominal support.

Of course, even in this world, there are many high-level military food embalming methods, omnivorous horse breeds, more advanced vehicles and ships, etc., which were not available in the ancient history of the earth. The logistical limit of a single dispatch is often three million troops, and the number of troops that can be assembled along some waterway in the vicinity of the border is only five million.

At this time, although Zhang Fan had cultivated in the Qiankun Shield for a long time, from the impression of the Xiao family of the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, it seemed that it was not too far from the last battle of Shanyang City, and at this time, Zhang Fan's strength should not have reached the point where he could not resist by concentrating millions of troops, especially this time when he almost overdrew half of the family funds accumulated and kept for a long time, and carried a large number of prohibited weapons that had been avoided on the battlefield according to the unwritten agreement before. According to the agreement hundreds of years ago: as long as the God Emperor in the Heavenly Emperor City did not make a move, the Heavenly Wind Kingdom would not use a large number of those forbidden weapons.

In the face of a master of Zhang Fan's level, it seemed that the army of the Tianfeng Kingdom, which had seen the enemy's situation, had also gathered at the fastest speed, and no longer adopted the formation of the previous method of dispersing troops to prevent the killing of masters. Because according to the deduction of the central department of the Tianfeng Kingdom: when facing the top masters, the "blood bar" brought by the dispersion of troops, and even the role of keeping the opponent in a state of attrition at all times is not obvious, but because there are only about 1,000 troops at most on the periphery that can concentrate on projecting troops to deal with the enemy, it is easy to be broken by the opponent. Once the opponent breaks the formation or rushes into the formation, the officers and soldiers whose morale is locked by the blood Gu will not be able to exert too much of the effect of the square law at all, and they can only be killed and injured by the opponent piece by piece. Procrastination for a longer period of time won't help.

Therefore, this time, the army of five million was assembled in a dense circle, the distance between the soldiers did not exceed the arm span, the five million people formed a solid circle of six or seven miles and a radius of two thousand steps, and the outermost army of 300,000 was composed of elite soldiers composed of the backbone of the officer corps and veterans, and almost everyone carried a unique gas mask soaked in a unique antidote drug, carrying a carbon dioxide cylinder gas crossbow, and assisted in firing the crossbow with the power of cylinder gas diffusion.

In the case of firing with full force, each officer and soldier can fire poison steel arrows weighing about one or two at a combat rate faster than that of a semi-automatic rifle, the muzzle velocity can reach more than one-third of the speed of sound, and the maximum projectile range can reach 1,000 steps of a top-grade bed crossbow.

In this way, when Zhang Fan approached the seemingly dense military formation, tens of thousands of air crossbow poison arrows flying in the air that covered the sky and the sun flew over. In addition, there are many projectiles fired by cylinder air cannons, which often crack open at a certain distance in the air, releasing the original colorless and odorless top-grade volatile poisonous gas.

With such an attack that covers the sky and the sun, Zhang Fan can be sure that Zhang Ruzhen faced it in his previous life, and he can only temporarily retreat, or induce the enemy to open fire through continuous attacks, and there is no absolute certainty of defeat. However, for Zhang Fan, who is now comparable to the peak cultivation of the Transformation Realm, it is not an unbreakable threat.

I saw that Zhang Fan was calmly increasing his speed towards the black pressure arrow curtain and going straight, and he did not dodge left and right as before, the Qiankun shield tilted forward to meet the forward, and the seven-foot qi wall turned into a thick wall with a thickness of one or two feet like an arrow, like an invisible sharp blade, breaking through the heavy sharp blades that continued to attack, allowing Zhang Fan to break through the semi-automatic air crossbow dense defense area of about a mile in just a few seconds, and the countless poisonous miasma did not pose much harm.

When he broke into the dense enemy forest at a distance of about a mile, Zhang Fan violently shook the air around him with the primordial Wind and Thunder Palm First Style technique. The sound waves, which were so low that ordinary people could not hear them, swept away the surrounding area of nearly one square kilometer in a second or two, and hundreds of thousands of people were either killed or disabled in an instant, and one-third of the entire five-million-person army formation in the wider area was suppressed to varying degrees, and the continuous arrow curtain suddenly thinned out a lot.