Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 1122: Northern Wilderness Luck
The Northern Mang prince, Yelu Hongcai, was dressed in golden armor and was accompanied by tens of thousands of heavily armored Qiexue soldiers, as well as two thousand elite guards and the crown princess, Han Gu, who were closely protecting him.

It still didn't give him the slightest sense of security.

Due to his poor talent in martial arts, Yelu Hongcai was unable to reach the second-grade minor grandmaster realm throughout his life, and had no chance to enter the first-grade Vajra realm to temper his body and prolong his life.

With the Queen of Beimang around, he, the Crown Prince of Beimang and the legal heir of Beimang, is nothing but a joke in the eyes of the powerful disciples of the Northern Dynasty.

The strong are respected in the Northern Mang. Not to mention that he is not as good as masters like Hong Jingyan, even Zhong Tan who was captured in the first battle between Liang and Mang is more glorious than him.

He knew in his heart why the Queen of Beimang, who had always held power firmly, suddenly asked him to lead the 400,000-strong army.

It must be that his mother, the empress, has changed her temperament and is paving the way for his future ascension to the throne.

After experiencing that bloody storm, Yelu Hong realized that the empress promoted him to the position of commander-in-chief in order to use him as bait.

As long as he could lure Xu Fengnian out of Jubei City, he would be considered a successful bait.

As for your own life and death safety?
Now that the fish has been caught, who would worry about the life or death of the bait?

With Tuoba Bodhisattva, the military god of Northern Mang, around, even if ten Yelu Hongcai died, the Northern Mang army would still be able to attack the city.

Fortunately, the empress still has some mother-son relationship with me.

Only then did he receive the protection of the most elite Qiexue Army in Beimang.

Compared with the Imperial Guards of the Liyang Dynasty, which were praised as "the emperor's heavy armor" by successive Zhao monarchs, the Qiexue Army had a more superior status, as all of their members were from prominent families.

Over the past four hundred years, the grassland has produced many talented people, and it has always been the case that "whoever controls the Qiexue Army controls the grassland."

The greatest achievement of Xu Huainan, the old King of the North Court, during his lifetime was that he devoted all his efforts to assisting the current Empress in breaking this iron rule amidst the turmoil of internal and external troubles, and helped this illegitimate woman not only to successfully sit on the throne, but also to unexpectedly keep it even though she had not yet gained control of half of the Qiexue Army.

According to his original idea, what does it matter even if Beiliang has more than twenty masters from the Central Plains?

Anyone who dares to leave the city will be crushed to death by his own cavalry.

This is how the Sword Emperor of Western Shu died under the hooves of the Xu family's cavalry.

Xu Xiao led his army to roam the Central Plains for more than twenty years, but why was it the shortest campaign to pacify Western Shu that was mentioned most often in the streets and alleys, second only to the Battle of Xileibi and the Battle of Jinghe?
It was the Sword Emperor of Western Shu who provided timely assistance through his own strength and forged the reputation of the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry.

With such unprecedented and unparalleled achievements, Yelu Hongcai would surely be able to ascend the throne smoothly.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

As Yelu Hongcai wished, Xu Fengnian took the seventeen people from the Central Plains out of the city.

But what happened next was far beyond his expectations.

Xu Fengnian is so terrifying that his horror is beyond the range of a normal person.

The King of Beiliang had barely managed to win the fight with Gao Shulu before.

However, within just one year, he became able to kill thousands of people with a single strike.

You know, even a master like Li Chungang would have to exhaust his entire lifespan before he could achieve the level of breaking two thousand armors with his sword.

Now that it's Xu Fengnian's turn, it's really easy.

Any soldier who dared to appear before Xu Fengnian would end up dying a miserable death.

The iron-clad army formation that Beimang was so proud of was like thin paper in front of him.

If he didn't know that he would die if he retreated, the Crown Prince of Beimang would have ridden away when Xu Fengnian approached within 200 feet of the position.

The original plan of making a generous speech after meeting with the King of Beiliang and winning the hearts of the army was now impossible to say. Now he just hoped that Tuoba Bodhisattva would act quickly and the plan would proceed as soon as possible.

Tuoba Bodhisattva appeared as planned, and the Heavenly Light Pillar worked as expected, beginning to suppress the arrogant King of Beiliang.

But there are variables again.

The incarnation of the King of Beiliang, Yi Ye Shu of Bai Shi Jing Lun, arrived in time.

Judging from Tuoba Bodhisattva's attitude, it is obvious that he wants to compete with the number one martial arts expert in the world before he will deal with Xu Fengnian.

This made Yelu Hongcai very helpless, but he couldn't curse.

Because if that happens, the prestige that I have worked so hard to accumulate along the way will be destroyed.

Fortunately, the young Beiliang suddenly chose to remain in place when they were a hundred feet away from Beimang’s flag.

Even though he felt puzzled, he didn't care about it anymore.

He didn't dare to gamble, betting whether Xu Fengnian would be able to kill him under the protection of the Qiexue Army even if there was a large formation to suppress him.

As long as his escort cavalry and the Qiexue army do not anger the King of Beiliang, both sides will be safe. It would be best if the plan goes smoothly and he does not lose his life in vain.

Therefore, Yelu Hongcai just held the reins tightly with both hands and looked at Xu Fengnian from a distance.

As for the reason why Xu Fengnian did not move, it was that he was not very interested in killing Yelu Hongcai.

Spies from the Fushuifang have been sending back intelligence about Beimang. How could he not know that even if the prince of Beimang was killed, it would have little impact on the war?

Anyway, the Northern Mang will be destroyed, so it doesn't matter whether Yelu Hongcai, the prince of the Northern Mang, dies early or late, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

The reason for choosing to leave the city was to lure Tuoba Bodhisattva to appear, because the group of celestial beings in the sky took action.

By the way, destroy some of Beimang’s siege facilities.

In the face of these, the Northern Mang Prince Yelu Hongcai is not worth mentioning at all.

Xu Fengnian looked up at the pillar of light that symbolized the Way of Heaven and chuckled, "Queen of Northern Mang, you really put in a lot of effort to suppress me."

At this time, in the army formation behind Yelu Hongcai, twelve Northern Wild Knights, whose bodies were glowing with white light, abandoned their horses and quickly came to the light column, forming a circular arc formation.

One of them even stood between Xu Fengnian and Crown Prince Yelu Hong.

Before entering Tai'an City, King Yan and Li Yufu had worked together to calculate that according to the fortune of Beimang, even if it was not forced to grow like the Liyang River and Lake, it would still have the fortune of the Spring and Autumn Period.

But the difference in the number of first-grade masters between the two sides is too great.

In Liyang, there are Wang Xianzhi, Hong Xixiang, Li Chungang, Cao Changqing, Huang Sanjia, the father and son of the four great heavenly masters of Longhu Mountain, Zhao Huangchao who practiced seclusion, the monk Longshu of Liangchan Temple, Xuanyuan Jingcheng of Huishan, Gao Shulu and Liu Songtao who only appeared once in the martial arts world, and the eunuchs of Tai'an City who lived and died with the country, not to mention those who are not in the martial arts world.

There are still immortals on earth who are still alive, including Xu Fengnian, Peach Blossom Sword God Deng Tai'a, Chen Zhibao, white-robed monk Li Dangxin, Xu Yanbing, Gu Jiantang, Xuanyuan Qingfeng, Wen Hua, Wu Cuihua and Guanyin Sect's Tan Tai Pingjing.

Not to mention Yu Xinlang, Wu Liuding, Cheng Baishuang and other first-class masters.

On the other hand, in the Beimang martial arts world, apart from the ascended Qilin Zhenren Yuan Qingshan, and the Qijian Yuefu who has never revealed his true strength, there are only two masters of the land fairyland, Tuoba Bodhisattva and Huyan Daguan.

Hong Jingyan can barely be considered half a land-based immortal.

There was no one else left.

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(End of this chapter)