On the 13th of December 9100 in the imperial calendar, the second day of the first battle of Rokuzan.

So far, the empire has organized nearly fifty charges, and until the evening of the next day, it still has not been able to advance an inch. According to satellite monitoring, the alien race has mobilized a large number of troops to the west of Rokushan, preparing to drive the empire back into the no-man's land.

The initial estimate is that there are still five days to go.

The battle at Rokuzan has reached a stalemate. Although it is said to be a war of attrition, such a consumption rate has made everyone start to be a little numb, even Zhu He is a little numb. There is no period of peace between humans and aliens that suspend the truce, and meeting on the top of the mountain must be the result of fighting each other.

Therefore, the demon slaying on the halfway of Lushan Mountain has no concept of cleaning up the battlefield at all. The corpses on the battlefield had been piled up layer after layer, and it was impossible to distinguish whether the bottom layer was human or alien, and all the blood was mixed together, and even gathered into a pool of blood at the foot of the mountain.

All the craters that were bombarded by missiles and missiles turned into blood pits of various colors. Before rushing up the hill, no one dared to look up at these corpses, even veterans of a hundred battles could not face such dripping blood, it was often the mecha that opened the way in front and pushed the corpses out of a pit, and the soldiers followed.

Simply, the corpses on the hillside became criss-crossed, like ploughed ground, one after another, deep and shallow. Zhu He began to worry about the plague, and disease control experts from the imperial capital came to the border to observe, and took the risk of taking the blood pool at the foot of the mountain.

After returning, they have stepped up the development of a preventive vaccine, but the vaccine does not mean complete protection: "According to the usual experience, if it is normal, within five days, this battle must be resolved, otherwise there is a possibility of a large-scale plague outbreak." ”

The plague is the nightmare of all living beings under the entire Heavenly Dao. It is like another heavenly punishment sprinkled by the Heavenly Dao, often when the living beings get carried away, the plague will quietly appear in the world, taking away a large number of lives. Mankind has fought against plagues many times in history, and has considerable experience.

Judging by the wars that took place in the past, the time of the outbreak of the plague can probably be speculated. In such a sea of corpses and blood, especially in the absence of sunlight in winter when the temperature is delicate, bacteria, fungi, and viruses are spreading and mutating in such a hotbed.

Even because there are still many cultivators and alien masters among these corpses, these mutated viruses and germs often have more powerful lethality and infectiousness, and of course, they also have a higher lethality rate. The speculation of disease control experts is already quite conservative, and if this war continues, the plague will only appear faster.

At nine o'clock in the evening, a heavy snowfall arrived as scheduled.

According to the Empire's satellite monitoring and weather forecasts, the heavy snow will last until about three or four o'clock in the afternoon of the third day, spanning nearly a day. This heavy snow will also be a major turning point in the plan of the first battle of Rokuzan, and whether it can successfully advance the battle line to the top of Rokuzan depends on the arrangement this time.

What was only a sporadic snowflake at the beginning slowly became fluttering, and a large number of snowflakes fell from the sky, covering the surrounding mountains, covering all the land, covering those pools of blood, covering the terraced corpse jungle on the hillside, and finally giving people some comfort.

Zhu He looked at the snowflakes flying outside the window, and finally said in a deep voice: "Let's start!" ”

More than a dozen teams quietly left the Empire's makeshift camp at the foot of Mount Rokuyama, and no one knew who these soldiers were or where they had gone, except for Zhu He and a few high-ranking people. At the same time, Jiudaoguan began to run wildly, studying the greedy wolf samples sent back by An Xiaoyu, looking for a solution to the negative energy smoke on the mountain.

Xu Fengxing sighed, even An Xiaoyu didn't say that they could solve these smokes, they were ready to fight in the smoke. In the midst of smoke, all electronic products will lose their effectiveness, and even the sense of direction will be lost, which is a natural disadvantage for human beings.

How did the aliens survive inside and not be affected? Xu Fengxing couldn't help but think.

For the next battle, Zhu He has mobilized a huge number of masters on the border, including twenty in the True Realm, and four masters in the True Realm. In the face of such a turtle shell defense of the alien race, they seem to have no other choice but to charge directly into the formation, and the alien race is also very aware of this.

The seventeen elders on the mountain also breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the human army at the foot of the mountain begin to stop. The frenzied attacks of the human race scared it all, and after more than fifty attacks in two days, how many humans died? Don't look at it, the number of alien soldiers consumed on their mountains is also no less than that of humans.

Condescending, defensive, and with the help of the fog, they are still a draw with humans? The combat power of the human race made the Seventeen Elders cold, like snowflakes falling from the sky that chilled the earth. It admits that it can no longer understand this war.

Of course, the Seventeen Elders also participated in the last all-out war, at that time it was not yet an elder, and the realm was still hovering under the real realm, and it had grown to this extent for thousands of years, and it was already considered the best among the Hong clan, but now this war still makes it impossible to see through.

Humans were completely different from the humans of a thousand years ago, and the Seventeen Elders didn't understand what was going on. Of course, he would not understand what effect such things as the opening of the Great World of Cultivation, the success of the reform of the Military Commission, the rise of new officers, and life-prolonging potions had on the people of the empire.

All it knows is that humanity is now more indomitable than it has been in thousands of years, and that their spirit is all together. As long as they stood on the battlefield and held the barrel of the gun in their hands, they no longer had any worries. What fear of death, what kind of alien toughness, in their eyes, is just as simple as obeying orders and shooting, and there is nothing else to consider, including their own life and death.

A series of changes in the empire have planted the seeds, and under the guidance of the five-person group, with the efforts of An Xiaoyu and many people of insight, the empire has finally regained the glory of 9,000 years ago. Huang Wuyi looked at it from above, as if he saw the group of soldiers under the command of the Three Thousand Emperors.

Ten thousand years ago, it was that kind of group of people, with a fighting spirit that was not afraid of death, gathered from more than 3,000 dynasties and swept away the alien races in the entire east. If it weren't for the timely intervention of the eight royal families at that time, I am afraid that the alien races would have been slaughtered.

Of course, there are many human sacrifices, but they don't care at all, and this is the state of battle that makes all races terrified. And they have such a spirit, which is also inexplicable, so that the alien race has no way to understand it, and does not know where it comes from.

Huang Wuyi looked at Lushan and quietly retreated, and his figure disappeared into the snow, leaving only a sigh in the wind. What's the use of it emotionally? Now that it has saved Hong Lingxian, the Huang clan and the human race, at least in this war, there is no possibility of reconciliation.

Feeling Huang Wuyi's departure, An Xiaoyu's tightly closed eyes, who were sitting in the tent, moved slightly, and finally completely changed from a translucent state to a transparent state, and disappeared in place. No one noticed what was going on, and only a master like Xu Fengxing knew-

The tone of this war has been thoroughly confirmed.

Honglingxian was defeated, An Xiaoyu retreated, and Huang Wuyi fled. This means that no matter the battlefield, the invincible under the holy realm of both sides has completely withdrawn from the battlefield. The top masters will not make a move, and the rest is to rely on their own means. Twenty True Realms were gathered on the human side, and the aura of the masters of the alien race also rose to the sky.

In a place that all ordinary soldiers did not feel, the snowflakes in the sky were disturbed by the momentum of the collision in the air, shattered, blended, and turned into even finer snow dust, and even mixed with ice particles and heavy ice balls in the middle, which fell to the ground, landed on the armor of the armored vehicle, and made a thunderous sound.

Zhang Changgong took a deep breath and straightened the breathing mask on his mouth, and the auto-adjusting night vision function on the goggles allowed him to see the snowflakes in front of him clearly. But what exactly is going on the other side of the snowflake, no one can know.

The thermal image-assisted picture is in the upper left corner of the goggles, ready to alert them to possible enemies ahead. They are now located further south of Rokuzan. The foothills of this mountain are full of pine and cypress trees, especially near the top, when the trees are thicker and there is no sign of life on the ground.

They set out overnight and have now reached an altitude of more than 1,500 meters on the mountainside. The temperature here is cooler and the winds are more intense. However, due to the drag of the upper trees, the snowflakes were relatively stable, allowing the visibility to remain within ten meters in front.

The breathing mask made a deflating sound, and the water vapor was treated and discharged into the air, and immediately turned into hoarfrost and drifted away in the wind. Their breathing masks, which are equipped with breath-processing devices, are able to remove the breath of the flesh.

Not only the masks, but also the newly developed fully enclosed treatment lining of Jiudaoguan's combat uniforms, which can isolate all the breath of life, especially the body odor, body temperature and secretions that are very sensitive to foreign races, in the clothes and dispose of them at the nano level.

Coupled with the breathing mask and the hood outside, the life counterattack of these people can be reduced to the maximum, even if a master of the Grandmaster realm is nearby, as long as he is within ten meters, he will almost only feel some faint life breath, which is almost equivalent to a few sparrows.

They are equipped with the most high-end equipment, combat uniforms, communicators, satellite positioning, weapons, all of which are the most cutting-edge existence of the empire, and the goal is to cross this mountain. This 7,000-meter-high mountain crosses this group of peaks and reaches the diagonal back of Mt. Roku.

The terrain on which Rokuzan is located, as mentioned before, is at the corner of the edge of an alien territory. The aliens did not have the experience and means to build fortresses, so they generally relied on the direction of the mountains as a defensive line. Therefore, Mt. Rokuyama is also located at the corner of the two mountain ranges, and is located in the position of a pass.

Behind Mt. Rokuzan is a passage between two mountain ranges, and on both sides of Mt. Rokuzan are two high peaks, which is why this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even for a warrior with a cultivator or an ordinary adult alien, the pressure brought by an altitude of more than five thousand meters can still be quite high.

So large-scale team fights generally don't happen at such heights.

Five thousand meters, it has begun to move away from the earth, the air has begun to become thinner, and even the laws have begun to stiffen, in order to reach an absolute high altitude and break away from the entire Heavenly Dao World as a transition. Further up, the air and the law will only be thinner, unless it is fused with the law origin and can continuously produce the law true realm level, it cannot go deeper.

Despite being assisted by a ventilator, Zhang Changgong still felt that his breathing had become a little difficult, and his body began to become heavy. Based on his education, he knew that it was due to physical fatigue caused by a lack of oxygen, coupled with increased gravity due to incomplete laws.

He tried to steady his breathing, looked at the jungle in front of him, gently left a series of footprints on the snow, and followed Cheng Yongwu forward. After the last battle, Cheng Yongwu was still their squad leader, but the deputy captain was handed over to him.

The position of vice captain made Zhang Changgong feel heavy, not only because of responsibility, but also because of the former vice captain Lu Tong, who had died. Lu Tong's sacrifice was caused by a mistake in their instrument. But they didn't know it at the time, they only knew that if the news was not transmitted back as soon as possible, the fighter plane would definitely be delayed.

And it turns out that the Empire's artillery bombardment is just after the meeting, if it is a day or two at night, maybe that mecha will be able to be adjusted and put into actual combat, and when the time comes, they will participate in the Rokuzan battlefield, I don't know what the consequences will be, so they did not regret making such a decision.

Zhang Changgong asked himself again and again in his heart if he was the one who accepted the task at that time, whether he would be able to leave the team with the same determination to die and go to the edge of the two areas like Lu Tong. Maybe even after being chased and intercepted by an alien race, and if you are seriously injured, you have to pass the news back and then simply die?

Of course he got the answer, but he also knew that when something was really going to be done, a lot of thinking would change, and no one was exempt. So he is always vigilant, reminding himself not to slack off, reminding himself to be a vice captain like Lu Dong.

Taking a deep breath again, Zhang Changgong looked at a little soldier beside him, this is a recruit who was replenished after the previous team sacrificed four people, it has only been more than a year since he graduated from the Army Academy, he graduated last summer, one year later than him, his name is Luo Yunpu, he is a communication soldier, a scientific and technological soldier.

Looking at Luo Yunpu's somewhat difficult steps, Zhang Changgong said softly: "Adjust your breathing, keep the muscles in balance and don't put too much effort into force, which will not keep your mobility for long." Look at the ground ten meters ahead, don't look far and to the side, and don't look back. ”

Luo Yunpu cast a grateful look, nodded slightly, took two deep breaths, and readjusted his physical state, and the other three newly transferred soldiers were also doing the same. In fact, they have learned all these in marching classes, but it is always overwhelming to practice them in the mountains.

Cheng Yongwu said: "This is only the gentle slope halfway up the mountain, according to the map, when we reach more than 3,000 meters, we will be accompanied by rocky ice and snow." In such weather, you must always be vigilant about your physical state, and there is no such easy way to walk on it. ”

He was carrying the heaviest piece of equipment in the group, two large metal canisters, each the size of an oxygen cylinder, and two other soldiers still carrying one of these large canisters. Zhang Longbow is a scout and sniper, so he does not carry heavy tasks.

They didn't even bring much weaponry and supplies, and all supplies had to be dealt with with through simple dimensional space doors, which was also due to the nature of the mission. They had to climb over the mountain in three days as soon as possible, and take their positions at the same time as their companions from several other directions, and they would not delay the plane.

However, except for Zhang Changgong and Cheng Yongwu, even the other soldiers in the team didn't know what the mission was about this time. In their opinion, it is nothing more than a sneak attack and harassment from the rear, or simply a backup support for the stage aliens.

It was almost like sending them to death, but they didn't have the slightest idea of wavering.

The battle between An Xiaoyu and Hong Lingxian not only had a great encouraging effect, but also set an example for everyone. Under the pressure of Hong Lingxian step by step, the video of An Xiaoyu's bloody battle was directly transmitted to the terminals of all the imperial people, and An Xiaoyu never gave up in the end, and finally waited for the decisive moment almost in a near-death state - yes, this is how the empire advertised, almost winning in a near-death state.

Now the most widely circulated sentence among all the imperial armies is: "Shaozun has worked so hard, what reason do we have to be afraid of death?" ”

An Xiaoyu didn't know that she had once again become the spiritual pillar of the imperial people, and in the process of her retreat, Wang Shu continued to shine in her soul. Even during the retreat, An Xiaoyu did not give up on those who were protected by Wang Shu.

Once they encounter absolute danger on the battlefield, karma will help them block the enemy's attack.

Of course, Zhang Changgong didn't notice that An Xiaoyu had left a trace of cause and effect in his body, he himself was also ready to sacrifice a long time ago, and he didn't even leave a suicide note, because his parents were no longer there, and he had no relatives, and all his relatives were just comrades-in-arms who died generously.

Finally the forest ended, and all the trees thinned out halfway up the mountainside, and the bare rocks hit the bare rocks like iron brushes in a violent blizzard, and even made a crisp sound.

Zhang Longbow raised his head, looked at the towering mountain, and pulled out an ice pick and rope.