At the beginning of October of the nineteenth year of Hongwei, Tianqiwei left the Khan Court and quickly advanced to Rouge Mountain.

Rouge Mountain is a sacred place where the 36 tribes of the grassland jointly worship the immortal heaven, and for a famous people who are still in a state of ignorance, the power of faith is an important force for them to resist natural disasters and harsh environments, as well as tragic fate.

Both tribal leaders and ordinary herdsmen firmly believe that they are the descendants of the Immortal Heaven, and the Immortal Heaven will protect them to continue to live, and the Rouge Mountain, which is closest to the Immortal Heaven, is the embodiment of this belief.

Once the Rouge Mountain is not protected, then the entire grassland will lose the protection of the Immortal Heaven, and will even be abandoned by the Immortal Heaven, so the Rouge Mountain has a supreme position in the entire grassland.

In the past, when the Central Plains waged war against the grassland, there were also many people who fought for the idea of immortality, but first, Rouge Mountain is located in a remote area, and there are many difficult mountain roads along the way, so it is difficult to guarantee the supply line, and it is easy to be disturbed by small groups of people and horses.

Second, once a Han army marches towards Rouge Mountain, the entire grassland will be unprecedentedly united and united to the outside world.

The steppe people usually adopted a wheel tactic, and various tribes attacked the Han army day and night, leaving the Han army unable to repair and exhausted.

If the news of the interception of heavy grain and grass comes from the rear at this time, then the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable.

In addition, Rouge Mountain has almost no strategic value except for the power of faith, in order to avoid a rout that outweighs the losses, the first few Han army attacks on Rouge Mountain were halfway.

Therefore, until now, Rouge Mountain is still a virgin land, and it has not been touched by the iron horses of the Han people.

However, this expedition to Rouge Mountain was very different.

First of all, Xu Rui took the Jinshan Department led by Qingnu to the camp, and played the banner of escorting the Jinshan Department to Rouge Mountain to worship the heavens, and to support the Khan's throne in the name of Immortal Heaven, which broke the legal resistance from within the grassland.

Secondly, Sukhbaru had already torn his face with Uliji, and after the defeat of the Raven River, he once again felt the strength of Uliji, and he was deeply afraid that the king of the steppe would completely destroy his Ulan after changing his breath.

Therefore, the panicked Sukhbaru sent an envoy to wagging his tail to Xu Rui and begging for mercy, while regrouping the army, intending to defeat him completely while Uliji was weak.

As a result, the two most powerful forces on the grassland, the Khan King Uliji and the Yinshan King Sukhbaru, had no strength left to stop Xu Rui's attack on Rouge Mountain.

Finally, and most crucially, the Holy King of Rouge Mountain, Zhuoli Getu, and all the holy guards were buried in the vigorous Battle of the Khan.

Without the Holy King, Rouge Mountain has not only lost its most powerful protection, but also lost its previous appeal.

Xu Rui then went to Rouge Mountain in the name of killing the power of the Martial Saint in seconds and breaking through the demons of the Immortal Heaven, shocking many small tribes and not daring to move.

Despite this, the battle of the Apocalypse Guard's attack on Rouge Mountain was not all smooth sailing.

After receiving the news that the Han people were about to attack Rouge Mountain, seven or eight pious tribes such as Lunge and Aman ignored Han Qiang of the Apocalypse Guard, and immediately began to assemble, intending to use old tactics to attack and harass the Han army.

Several tribes dispatched 70,000 horses in a short period of time to frantically attack the logistics supply lines of the Apocalypse Guard, as well as the Chinese army camp.

In the beginning, the war would continue to be fought for almost twelve hours a day, causing great trouble to the advance of the Apocalypse.

However, without the two giants of Uliji and Sukhbaru, the tribe that attacked the Apocalypse Guard had dropped by more than one notch in terms of quantity and quality, and it was difficult to ensure the effect and intensity of the attack.

In addition, the hot air balloon cruises in the sky like a spy satellite, and the lookout post equipped with binoculars and Hai Dongqing can even gain insight into the opponent's position one step ahead of the steppe people.

As a result, when the army of the steppe people approached, they were greeted by muskets, artillery, apocalypse chariots, and repeating crossbows.

Often, the steppe cavalry was bombarded indiscriminately by artillery before they could enter the charging position, and the looser tribal cavalry would immediately be frightened, abandon the corpses of their companions and turn around and flee.

The more determined steppe cavalry was even more miserable, using the lives of their comrades as a cover, and struggled to rush through the artillery blockade with all their might, but what awaited them were bullets and crossbow arrows, and at this time they often could not escape the fate of total annihilation.

On the other hand, the Han army or the guards of the logistics supply line just fired at random, and they didn't even sweat.

In this way, the grassland cavalry that attacked the Apocalypse Guard was even more tired than the Apocalypse Guard, and after surviving the madness of the first three days, there were only sporadic raids left, and they couldn't set off any wind and waves at all.

In desperation, the coalition of several tribes decided to risk a massive ambush of the Apocalypse near the mountains.

The steppe people gathered almost all of their troops, entered the path of Rouge Mountain in advance, and then ambushed on both sides of a canyon, intending to use the terrain to inflict heavy damage on the Apocalypse when the Apocalypse Guard entered the mountain.

However, at this time, the Apocalypse Guard had already entered the mountainous area, and the hot air balloon had discovered the signs of the movement of the 70,000 army in advance, but Xu Rui pretended not to know and continued to advance unhurriedly.

It was not until the army drove near the mountain pass that Xu Rui ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and then slowly set up the formation.

Just as the steppe people wondered why the Han army that the scouts were about to arrive was delayed, they waited for the "rumbling" cannon.

Hundreds of artillery salvos created a barrage of bombs.

This time, Guo Shengbao used incendiary bombs designed to kill and injure infantry, and all places on both sides of the canyon where people could be hidden were instantly covered with gunsmoke and turned into a sea of fire.

The 70,000 company troops finally saw the hellish realm that the barbarian Timur had "enjoyed", and only a pillar of incense was inflicted on it, and the whole line was defeated.

However, their doom is far from over.

The Reaper Rifle Battalion, the Apocalypse Chariot, and the Apocalypse Guards had already taken advantage of the time of the artillery bombardment to ambush the steppe people on the retreating road.

When the revolved steppe army appeared, the powerful Apocalypse Guard immediately opened fire, mercilessly reaping human lives.

The battle did not last more than an hour from start to finish.

After destroying the enemy's main force, Xu Rui ordered the Apocalypse Guard to make a detour, and by the way, the tribes that had gathered heavy troops to harass them were wiped out in one fell swoop.

In order to reduce unnecessary delays and achieve the goal of shocking the grassland, Xu Rui learned from Genghis Khan that no one of the resisting tribes was left, regardless of men, women and children.

The news of this incident immediately shocked the entire grassland, and almost all the herdsmen and clan leaders gritted their teeth at Xu Rui, but no one dared to stop the Apocalypse Guard from then on.

The only remaining Rouge Mountain Holy Guard sent thirteen orders for help to the tribes of the grassland, but all the orders for help were like the sea of stone cities, and they did not receive any response.

At the end of October of the 19th year of Hongwei, Tianqiwei finally crossed the last hill and arrived at the foot of Rouge Mountain.

Unable to sit still, the Rouge Mountain Holy Guard organized all the masters to launch a suicide attack on the Tianqiwei camp that night, in a vain attempt to force the Han people back by assassinating Xu Rui.

But once again, their plans fell through.

Xu Rui had obviously prevented them from jumping over the wall in a hurry, and ambushed a large number of riflemen near the Chinese army, just waiting for these masters to appear, he immediately dragged them by Yaoli slightly, and then fired indiscriminately with his rifle.

As the saying goes, no matter how high the martial arts are, they are afraid of kitchen knives, not to mention that these masters are facing muskets from another era, and there are wolves like sheep to the sidelines.

The last strong man of the steppe people broke his wrist and turned into a few pitiful pools of blood in front of Xu Ruizhong's army, and more than a hundred corpses that were burned in public that night.

All efforts failed, and Xu Rui and Tianqiwei completely shattered all the defenses of Rouge Mountain, and finally set foot on this virgin land that no Han had ever set foot in.

At the moment before announcing the army's entry into the mountain, Xu Rui suddenly invited the young girl into his handsome tent.