Name: Chang Qing

Gender: MaleRace: Human Title: Flame Demon King, Black-faced Dragon King, Chi Aotian, the sixth of the eight blades.

The acting captain of the Vulture Swordsman Battalion of the small mercenary group, just in the literal sense of the name, this soldier will undoubtedly be loved by most of his superiors. Chang Qing ...... You can only celebrate when you win.

According to uncertain news, when His Excellency Chang Qing joined the Little Mercenary Group, he was once selected into the Demon Swordsman Battalion, but because the number of magic elves in his body was too scarce, he had to quit and join the Vulture Swordsman Camp in just three days.

Maybe it's because he once wanted to become a fire magician, or maybe it's because of his hatred of the Holy See, in short, after the first battle of Gifu City, His Excellency Chang Qing was extremely enthusiastic about arson, and after every big battle, especially when it was necessary to slaughter the city with fire, His Excellency Chang Qing once carried a whole sack of spontaneous combustion powder and fell from the sky in a bag.

In terms of the number of kills rather than the number of enemies killed, no one in the entire Northern Expeditionary Corps dared to argue with His Excellency Chang Qing.

So much so, many years later, no one could believe that this big duke, whose hands were stained with blood and a hideous face, was once a teenager who loved to talk and laugh as much as Amy, the leader of the little mercenary group.

-- "Strong! The Eight Blades of the Black-Faced Dragon King" Chapter 67 The sudden blow of the martyrdom of Wasai caused one-third of the families in Bancheng to lose their loved ones, and under the iron fist of the conqueror, all the inhabitants lost the confidence to resist! Not even the idea of escaping -- no matter how fast the legs of a man and how many legs a horse has, can he compare to the wild vulture in the sky? Not to mention, there is also the legendary phantom beast knight. On the big meadow, not even a sheep can be hidden, let alone Tibetans.

If it is fortunate that the enemy is a regular knight army after all, most of the enemy did not even enter the town at all, and directly set up camp on the outskirts of the town. If it's a horse thief...... It is estimated that not many women in the town will survive.

The only two blacksmith shops in the town suddenly became the most expensive place, all the residents dismantled all the iron tools in the house, even including the big iron clock in the center of the town and the small iron nails that had been nailed into the wall, all sent to the blacksmith shop to return to the furnace, the four blacksmiths commanded the townspeople to rotate in a row, day and night to build the tip of the arrow, the residents' chickens, ducks, and geese were all killed, all of them were killed overnight, the horn bow was not strict for the directional tail fin, and most countries did use the largest flying feathers on the wings of poultry to process horn bows and arrows.

The requirements for strong crossbows are much higher, and ironwood - only found in rich and noble families, and most of them are large pieces of furniture, which can only be disassembled at this time......

In Bancheng Town, except for the children who were not sensible, almost everyone else stayed up for three days and three nights, until the morning of the fourth day, all the arrows were put on the town square.

It was still the previous wave of black knights, the huge iron hooves of the earth-walking dragon once again trampled on the bluestone pavement of the town, and the same vulture knights also landed on the roofs of the houses, and under the morning sun, the black long swords and silver arrow tips emitted a dazzling light. Clearly, the knights had to be wary of the conquered town.

More than a dozen light knights turned over and dismounted, pulled the middle-aged laborers one by one, and then randomly checked a few bags of grain and bean feed, and there was indeed no problem. The knight with the blue feather on his head ordered the middle-aged laborers to carry all the grain to the cart.

When checking the bow and arrows, there was a problem, the strong crossbow only provided more than 890, and all the ironwood and wood in the town were dismantled, and 1,000 strong crossbows could not be made, however, the acting mayor of the town was obviously much smarter than the predecessor, and his trembling hands presented a burden: "My lord, we really don't have so much wood here, this is 32,000 gold coins, which is the savings of all the residents in our town, can you please convert it into a strong crossbow?"

The knight in the skeleton mask groaned for a moment, then waved his whip and rolled up his burden and threw it to the knight behind him: "Okay! Two strong crossbow arrows, equivalent to one strong laborer, and then 50 strong laborers and 100 horses, with the army!"

"Yes, yes, yes. "The acting mayor has no mouth to agree, and the strong labor will not necessarily die with the army, but if he refuses to hand it over, he may ...... Will it really be slaughtered...... This is an account that everyone will calculate.

"After we leave, no more troops are allowed here! Every other month, each household must provide 200 catties of grain and 200 catties of horse beans, and we will send someone to come back to pick it up, and we must meet the requirements. Otherwise...... All the strong men of the army will be executed!" The Skeleton Mask Knight then stared fiercely at the more than 300 strong laborers: "If any of you dare to rebel, kill them! And all the Vulture Knights will return here overnight! This town will become the second Gifu Castle!"

At this time, the residents of Gifu City did not know what was happening in Gifu City, and listening to this tone, they could only let Gifu City ask for more blessings. The naked threat struck a blow to the nervous system of most people, and until this point, the threat of the Black Dragon Knights came directly and effectively, and no one dared to take the slightest offense.

The acting mayor nodded his head in resignation, not daring to complain at all.

"Let's go!" like a whirlwind, the black iron rider roared out of the town with the strong labor of the army, and plunged northeast. Bancheng Town became one of the few towns that was preserved during the Black Dragon Knights' conquest, but the fact that more than 80 graves stood outside the town overnight indicates that there was a war here.

I was anxious, such words fell on Chi Aotian at this time, which is not an exaggeration. At this time, Chi Aotian was extremely worried that the three brigades of the Snow Moon Legion would be calculated by the Holy See, but with the impression that the older generation of Northern Federation soldiers such as Long, Balbas, and Mo Ye usually left on Chi Aotian, it seemed that it was really difficult to ambush this army that was in a state of combat readiness all year round, otherwise it would not have left praise like "Snow Moon is not more than a thousand, and more than a thousand are invincible". With the pitiful combat strength of the Holy See's soldiers, it would take at least 100,000 people under the command of a famous commander to expect a tragic victory. Even if such an ambush was completed by the Fanos army, without the 30,000 or 50,000 troops interspersed and surrounded on a large scale, it was really unimaginable to trap the Snow Moon Army and then annihilate it in one fell swoop on this endless prairie. Considering that the total strength of the two strategic clusters in the east and west of Fanos is only more than 200,000, and it is not easy to defend many strategic places and suppress the resistance of residents in various places, it is definitely not an easy thing to withdraw so many troops at one time. What is the situation? Such questions have always floated in Chi Aotian's mind. The military department must have sent a flying messenger to inform them, and Uncle Balbas had already rushed to the east coast a month ago to "borrow troops", if it is really as Horns said, the 10,000 Snow Moon troops have formed a horn momentum and can echo each other, it will definitely increase the difficulty of the enemy's attack. Maybe...... Now the Snow Moon Legion is making trouble on the east coast, and Chi Aotian has to comfort himself like this.

No matter how anxious he was, Chi Aotian had to suppress his nervous nerves and keep the distance of the march to 120 miles per day—more than double the standard marching distance. An army of thousands of men is like a snow leopard that pounces on a wolf pack, and the most taboo points are three points: first, it is blocked in a small area; second, it is a crushing victory with huge casualties, and many wounded soldiers will become a fatal burden to the army; and third, the army loses its elasticity due to overwork. For the Northern Expeditionary Corps, which is dominated by the Black Dragon Knights, it is not difficult to advance 300 miles in one day and night, but after such a rapid march reaches the strategic destination, even the swordsman battalion may not be able to defeat, if it maintains this speed for three consecutive days, it is not to fight, but to send prisoners of war to the enemy.

Under the huge nerve pressure, the corners of Chi Aotian's mouth soon began to bubble. The doctor accompanying the army prescribed several sticks of anti-fire medicine to the young general in a row, but it didn't work at all - from the time Chi Hanfeng died in battle to the present, Chi Aotian's whole person had fallen into madness, and he couldn't sleep at all in the second half of the night. It was only after suffering serious internal injuries outside Gifu Castle that he slept two seemingly peaceful nights.

Fortunately, the officer team assigned by His Excellency Chi Changyun is extremely perfect, and in the march and camping, most of the work, there is basically no difference between the second young master of the Chi family and the second young master of the Chi family.

In this way, before arriving in Delhi City, the army of the Black Dragon Knights swept through six small towns in one go, and the overwhelming vulture knights, without hesitation, the stormy rain of arrows and arrows shook everyone's nerves, and the sense of honor of the four small town guardian mercenary groups and swordsman battalions quickly turned into bubbles, and they chose to surrender out of the city very wisely.

The last and closest town to Derry was the only victim - Wasai Town had more than 1,000 swordsmen, and the town was only 30 miles away from the large city of Delhi in the southern Xinjiang. Munch, the commander of the town's swordsman battalion, had a little confidence in the reinforcements from Delhi, and the town personally stamped it as "scrapped".

Qi had already received an urgent report of 800 miles from Ulu, and two bishops, six middle-level priests, and more than 30 junior priests in the city reported to the city guard every day, taking turns to strengthen the city walls and train soldiers. Delhi City is not big, but it is not small, with 24,000 households, a population of 98,000, a standing swordsman battalion of 3,000, and a registered number of mercenary groups of 3,400 people, plus the instructors temporarily transferred from the hinterland of the Huayu Plain, the total combat strength has reached 9,000 people. If it weren't for the detailed battle report of the Gifu City Massacre, it would have been possible for His Excellency Theseus to come to the rescue of Wasedia.

Poor Wase Town Swordsman Battalion Commander, as long as his level is one level higher, then he will have updated information three days ago, it is not difficult to make this judgment. Unfortunately, history does not stand up to hypothesis.

Sir Monk, who was loyal to his duty, gathered all the soldiers and mercenaries in a very short time, and the middle-aged men of the town were also gathered and rushed to the town wall with short knives that could only be used for herding. 2800VS6000, Sir Monker had a number flashing in his head. Theoretically speaking, this is really not a problem, in the history of the Eminole continent, two or three thousand weak brigades defended a small town and successfully pinned down one or two thousand enemy troops, there are too many such examples. One of the most exaggerated figures is that a town can be held for 35 days in a row. Sir Monker wasn't expecting to break the record with his sword, but the confidence was overwhelming.

This time it was Baron Qu Jianhong's turn to speak, His Excellency the Baron led his huge dragon beast, stood only 50 meters away from the town and shouted loudly, in fact, they are all words without nutrition, since ancient times, the only effective way to persuade surrender is overwhelming strength.

Unfortunately, the audience in front of them apparently did not comply with the most basic requirements for listening to the speech - first, they did not buy tickets, second, they were armed, and third, someone was so excited that someone threw pointed iron chopsticks instead of beautiful roses at the speaker.

Thorn, thorn, thorn...... The hundreds of swordsmen directly opposite Baron Qu Jianhong released the bowstring in their hands at the same time, and the brown arrow points slashed across the cast steel plate armor, and the moans from the rapid friction between the tip of the arrow and the plate armor tortured the ears of the knights fiercely - the horn bow, for a super heavy knight like the Earth Walking Dragon, the damage that can be brought is nothing more. The drake beast is draped in 1 cm thick dragon armor, and the knight is completely "embedded" in the 3 cm thick plate armor, and even the eyes are designed to be protected, unless the best longbowmen, there is no suspense at all.

However, even so, Qu Jianhong was still frightened, and the densely falling arrow feathers caused a great impact on the body, and even a few arrows were shooting on the iron mask, and his face was painful, and then he felt that the Earth Walking Dragon was obviously impatient, and when he looked down, he found that two arrows pierced the dragon beast along the armor leaves, and they should have been nailed to the scale armor of the Earth Walking Dragon, and there was already blood slowly flowing out of the cracks in the armor.

His Excellency the Captain's face behind the mask turned red, and just now he was jokingly betting with a few colleagues that he would definitely scare the enemy into surrendering, and now, behind him are 2,000 subordinates directly under him, and such a humiliating thing happened to him. The dragon knight let out an angry roar from his mask, and the one-and-a-half-meter-long heavy war hammer was raised high, and the huge Earth Dragon rushed forward in the rain of arrows.

"Shoot! Shoot him! he can't get up—" Sir Monk's prophecy came to an abrupt end, and a layer of white light suddenly appeared at the foot of the Iron Knight's fortress under the town wall, and the huge dragon beast burst onto the wall in an instant, and the 46-pound war hammer ended the honorary career of this low-ranking nobleman, and Sir Monk's head was blown away by the volley, and his body stood for a moment before falling down.

Qu Jianhong didn't pause at all, like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, the war hammer in his hand made a whirring wind, dozens of spears and short swords were kites, the sharp brown front grasp of the earth dragon was destroyed all the way along the narrow town wall, the swordsmen's standard horseskin chain armor shattered like pieces of paper, and the human limbs were scattered with screams. The warriors behind were pale and unable to dodge, and a considerable number of them jumped off the three-meter-high wall, and some even jumped outside the town.

"Rush to the door!" Qu Jianhong's direct subordinates took the lead in rushing forward with two or three low-ranking phantom beast knights, followed by more than 400 vulture archers, and the white-clothed boys shot more than ten rounds of arrows on the dancing vultures, and there were no more standing defenders near the gate of the town. The flying knights landed and opened the door. The more than 500 Earth Dragon Knights who had already rushed to the gate laughed wildly and divided into two teams and swept down the city wall - even the swordsman battalion of the Snow Moon Legion could not compete head-on with the Earth Dragon Knights covered in steel armor, let alone the pitiful combat power of the Holy See. According to the established command, the Earth Dragon Knights who suppressed the resistance had no desire to stay alive at all, and regardless of whether they laid down their weapons or not, as long as they were soldiers and mercenaries, they would be killed, and the corpses of swordsmen were constantly knocked out of the walls by the war hammer.

Chi Aotian, who was watching the wonderful performance from a distance, simply said to the knight captain: "Resisters, armed people, hostile ones, kill!"

The captain of the knight brigade understood and rushed in from the town gate with a squadron of trainee knights. Beginning along the gate, a group of knights went house by house to clear out the resistance.

Everything went smoothly as if it were a military exercise, two long knight spears picked the door of the account, three long swords broke in at the same time, and when any resistance was encountered, the long knight's spear pierced from the waist, and the thin knight's sword pierced directly into the chest...... It doesn't even take five minutes to settle a hut.

In just half an hour, the last survivors of the town were driven to the square in the center of the town by the bloody conquerors. In the bleak north wind, there were intermittent cries among the survivors, and it was impossible not to cry, and the inhabitants of the Holy See had already discovered that there were only a few hundred poor people standing in the huge square, and what was even more chilling was that there was not a single man in the prime of life among them......

"Your Excellency, General!" a bloody midshipman knight led his mount out of the town, "Your Excellency, we found a priest in the town. ”

The young man's delicate black eyebrows twitched slightly: "Execution." ”

"But......" the trainee knight showed hesitation on his face: "General, he said he must see you." ”

Oh? Several officers behind Chi Aotian showed surprise on their faces, it can't be an assassin, right? With the despicability of the Holy See, such a thing is not impossible to do.

"Okay, let's go check it out. There was no expression on his fair face.

Crisp horseshoe kicking and trampling on the bluestone paved streets, under the guard of many middle and high-ranking officers like the moon holding the moon, a man in black with a delicate appearance to the level of handsomeness gracefully led the black steed and slowly came to the town of early rice.

Unspeakable: Some readers have raised questions about whether a town can complete the quest of "24,000 Horned Bows and 1,000 Crossbows" in three days.

This task is actually not as complicated as imagined, first of all, it was specifically mentioned in the previous Tongyun Pass: the horn bow is the lowest standard bow and arrow, and the requirements for the arrow feather are much lower than the high-level bows such as crossbows and longbows. Therefore, the requirements are very low in terms of material selection. Can be made on the spot.

Secondly, there are at least 1,500 people of school age in the town who can be engaged in processing simple arrow feathers, and 24,000 points to 1,500 heads, each person only needs to make five or six arrows a day.

Some readers compare the difficulty of borrowing 100,000 arrows in the grass boat in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms with the task of 24,000, in fact, a basic point is ignored here, during the Three Kingdoms period, how many people in an army would be engaged in manufacturing work? Will there be one in 10 people? Definitely not. Will there be one in 100? Let's say there is. In the Chibi confrontation, the Sun-Liu coalition army was only 30,000, that is, only 300 craftsmen made arrows, and 100,000 arrows were made in three days, and more than 100 were distributed to each person every day, which is incomparable.

Also, in the real battle, the consumption of arrow feathers is quite high, skilled English archers, the rate of fire per minute is 8~10, 2000 archers in a battle to consume 100,200,000 or even more arrow feathers is a common thing.

Several readers were also surprised to provide figures on horses and dried meat, which were also obtained through some sources that were not consulted. In the steppe, a family of horses is always counted as ten, in the Mongolian army, each soldier is equipped with four more horses, and the meat is not difficult, a sheep out of meat at least 50 catties, for the pastoral area, if the number of sheep raised by each family is less than 10, it must be living in dire straits. In snowstorms, the number of livestock that freeze to death in a region is often in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. This gives a glimpse of the number of livestock raised in pastoral areas.