Chapter 1516: Soldiers Enter the Two Realms Mountain!
The king of Chu gave the two armies ten days to prepare, and Fang Yun ordered Wang Li to return to Zhucheng with the most elite soldiers of Lianshan Pass.
In these days, Fang Yun had already organized the elite of the Lumen Army into the new army, from Hanlin to Xiucai. This new army, under the leadership of Wang Li, the general of the Pearl River Army, arrived in Zhucheng.
In the early morning of 12 July, 210,000 Zhujiang troops entered the Zhucheng Academy of Literature and lined up on the Temple Square.
Of the 210,000 Zhujiang troops, 110,000 were the most elite old Zhujiang troops, 50,000 were selected from the Lumen army, and 50,000 recruits were scattered and distributed to various armies.
The front, rear, middle, left and right armies lined up in the square in front of the temple, and from a high altitude, the 210,000-strong army lined up in a neat "ten" shape.
Fang Yun and the generals of the Fifth Army stood on a temporary high platform.
At this moment, Fang Yun was wearing a cyan bachelor's uniform, and some white clouds were embroidered on the hem and cuffs of the university uniform.
The generals of the five armies were originally Hanlin, but behind Fang Yun, there were four Hanlin and one scholar.
Zhang Qingfeng was promoted to a scholar last month, and politely rejected the king of Chu, remaining in the Pearl River Army, following Fang Yun to the Two Realms Mountain.
Even at eight o'clock in the morning, the sky was shining brightly with the scorching sun, sweat running down the soldiers' faces, and almost everyone's backs were wet.
On either side of the Pearl River Army, there stood local officials and scholars.
The gate of the academy was open, and the dense crowd of people in Zhucheng looked inside from the outside, many of them were family members of those soldiers, and some old people were secretly wiping their tears and sobbing in low voices.
The swearing-in meeting, which was supposed to be majestic and high-spirited, was full of sadness under the hot sun.
Fang Yun looked at those soldiers, their eyes were blank, they had no fighting spirit, and some of them even looked like ashes.
Going to the Two Realms Mountain is not to protect one's hometown, nor to protect Pearl City, nor to protect what can be seen and touched, but to protect a place that has only been heard of in legends.
For most people in the literary world, the Liangjie Mountain is more ethereal than the clouds in the sky, and they don't even know what they are, just like the mythical stories they heard when they were children.
However, everyone knows that it is an extremely dangerous place, one of the most dangerous places in the Ten Thousand Realms, and once you enter it, you will have to face the endless attacks of the demons.
Going there is no different from sending you to death.
Not only ordinary soldiers, but even those who raised people and even jinshi, could not hide the anxiety and uneasiness in their eyes.
Fang Yun suddenly sighed heavily, and said with a thunderous tongue: "I don't understand, why so many people don't choose, but choose me, a person who has just been promoted to a university scholar, to go to a place like the Two Realms Mountain." To let me go there is to send me to death. ”
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, officials, and civilians looked at Fang Yun with mixed sympathy.
"I know a lot about the Two Realms Mountain, more than most of the people present, after all, ...... There are rumors that my father, Zhang Wankong, has also been to the Two Realms Mountain. Of course, as you know, he has always been suspected of being a rebel. I think it's necessary for me to talk about the Two Realms that I know. ”
Fang Yun spoke as if chatting, attracting everyone's attention, and the look of confusion in the eyes of those soldiers gradually disappeared, replaced by curiosity.
"The Two Realms Mountain, in fact, is composed of thirty-six peaks, and it is the largest entrance of the Demon Realm to the Shengyuan Continent, and it has become bigger and bigger over the years. During the Shang Dynasty, that crack could barely allow the half-saints to pass through, and it cost a lot of money, so the demon world only sent eight demon barbarian half-saints to the human realm to use the king to control the human race. But now, all the hundred and half saints in the demon realm can enter the Shengyuan Continent through the Two Realms Mountain. ”
"You also know that more than 20 years ago, the human race and the demon world launched an earth-shattering war in the Two Realms Mountain, and the human race spent endless manpower and material resources to repel the demon barbarians with the help of the dragon clan and win a respite for our human race. Some people will say that the Two Realms Mountain leads to the Shengyuan Continent, which has nothing to do with the literary world, and has nothing to do with us people in the literary world. But you also know that the literary realm is connected to the Shengyuan Continent, and once the demon realm breaks through the Shengyuan Continent, it is equivalent to breaking the literary realm. ”
Some of the readers nodded slightly, and Fang Yun's statement was very similar to the rumors.
"The battle of the Two Realms Mountain is far more tragic than we imagined, and when it is the most intense, as long as you can stand up, you will be pulled to the city wall. The talent is gone, there are bows and arrows, bows and arrows are exhausted, there are swords, swords are broken, there are two fists, both fists are broken, there are teeth! Even if you have no teeth and lie on the city wall, you have to shout out and cheer for the soldiers! There, no one knows when they will die, and they will not know how to die. In the battle of the Two Realms Mountains that year, more than 500 million people participated in the battle, but only 20 million survived in the end, and more than 70% were severely disabled. In other words, a hundred people went, and only four survived. ”
"According to the calculation of the first battle of the Two Realms Mountain, we have 200,000 troops, but in the end, only about 8,000 can return to the literary world alive. ”
Under the scorching sun, everyone felt chills all over their bodies, and some even shivered.
Fang Yun paused for a moment and said slowly: "So, I am destined to be a failed general, because I can't bring all of you back, and maybe not even eight thousand." ”
Fang Yun's words were like hail falling in the crowd, and everyone was cold to the bone marrow.
"But, I will bring back victory and glory!" Fang Yun's tone was still steady.
Hundreds of thousands of people looked even more indifferent.
In the face of life, the so-called victory and glory are incomparably pale.
Fang Yun looked at hundreds of thousands of pairs of eyes, and continued to say with a spring thunder: "Indeed, victory cannot be eaten as food, and glory cannot fill the stomach, a soldier who dies in the Two Realms Mountain may not be regarded as a glorious ancestor, it is true." But ......"
Fang Yun's voice suddenly raised.
"Victory cannot be eaten, but it can allow our descendants to live! Glory cannot fill our stomachs, but it is more important than our food today! The reason why we can study in the academy, walk through the city, live in houses, and eat at the dinner table is because those 480 million souls have brought us victory! The glory that belongs to them is brighter than the sun in the sky!"
"The world of the human race is supported by those 420 million corpses, and the light we see is because of the burning of those 420 million heroic souls!"
Fang Yun's voice was deafening, and everyone's complexion was changing.
"Human beings are born without distinction between high and low, but the moment we set foot on the Two Realms Mountain, we are more noble than others!"
"I'm not a good general, I can't bring you back, but I will bring back victory and glory!" Fang used his best to say that the spring thunder bloomed.
"Wan Sheng!" a young soldier yelled with all his might, with tears in his eyes.
"Wan Sheng!" shouted all the soldiers.
"Wan Sheng!" shouted all the readers.
"Wan Sheng!" all the people shouted.
(To be continued.) )