The Sacred Ding

Helan Sword Sect has established the sect in Helanchuan for thousands of years, and the history is even longer than that of Taiweizong. Even Taiweizong was once a vassal of Helan Sword Sect until the Wuwei god Hou Dongliang. With the rise of Taiweizong, he escaped from the shadow of Helan Sword Sect.

Although Helan Sword Sect has risen two Heaven Ranking characters in modern times, but as the Sword Sect protector Elder’s Xiling sword master Xie Jueyuan and Huang’s Old Ancestor, Helan Sword Sect palms The relationship between Huang Qiwei and Huang Qiwei was not harmonious, and he thanked Jueyuan for staying in Yanjing for many years and serving as deputy envoy of the Tianshu Yuan. He has not returned to Hechuan for decades.

More importantly, Xie Jueyuan and Huang Qiwei, two Heaven Ranking figures, have entered the way of cultivation for more than 600 years. The cultivation base has already passed the pinnacle stage, and can no longer be suppressed in the Western Northern Domain. Dong Liang’s edge; Helan Sword Sect no longer has the glory of Western Northern Domain First Sect.

Relying on the Helan Sword Sect, the Huang family has ruled Hechuan County under the Hexiang Army for more than two hundred years. Although Western Mountain is declining, the Hexiang Army, the Huang family and the He The background of Lan Sword Sect is still not to be glimpsed.

Seven years ago, the god of Wuwei, Dongliang, in the name of chasing and suppressing the rebels who were attached to the Hexiang army, led his troops out of Yulong Mountain and occupied a large area of ​​land in the north of Hechuanling, but he considered With the background of Helan Sword Sect and Hexiang Army, there is no plan to embezzle Hechuan Ridge in a short time.

However, after the year of Celestial Emperor seventy two, Yanzhou’s situation changed drastically, and the influence of the Imperial Family Ying and Jingjun Zonglord was severely weakened. It can be said that the powerful vassal of the border county has completely lost control. If Hexi wants to establish the real overlord of the Western Northern Domain, it is necessary to hurry up before the imperial family wins to straighten out the contradiction with the Jingjun clan and rejuvenate. The time can be said to be insufficient.

Two years ago, Hexi was eager to marry the West Qiang country, just to free up his hands as soon as possible to attack Hechuan County.

However, the horizontal rise of Juquanling really accelerated the change of the power balance between Hexi and Hechuan.

Whether it’s the celestial war crossbow or the celestial war chariot, the detailed manufacturing drawings are among the top sects. It’s no secret for a long time. Fortunately, the celestial war chariot, after all, the pavilion class war chariot, every Multiplying requires only 20,000 jin of hardened iron.

What’s more, the foundation of Hexiang Army is not shallow. Both the clan and the barracks have built a large number of war chariots. With a little modification, it does not need to consume too much gold and iron. The seventy-eighty pavilion-class war chariot was transformed, but if the Tianji war crossbow is to be widely promoted in the army, there is still a sufficient supply of gold quenched arrows.

Even if the Hexiang Army can squeeze out two 300,000 jin of hardened iron each year, it can only cast 20,000 to 30,000 pieces of hardened iron each year. How can this be consumed by a large-scale war?

For this battle, the Hexi Army stocked five 600,000 quenched gold arrows in advance.

Led by generals such as Du Yu and Dong Pu, the Hexi striker’s offensive against Wenhubu was simple and effective. It used the war bird camp to control the airspace above the battlefield, and then used the secret war chariot and heavy The battle formation composed of armored horses and shields, halberds, and soldiers advanced to the many defenses built by the Hexiang Army in Wenhubu, and first competed for the open space outside the city.

sect Xuanxiu or Wuxiu powerhouse, enter and exit the battlefield by the imperial spirit bird, this is a common situation in the battlefield in the past, but whether it is to sacrifice the imperial magic weapon Spirit Sword or shoot with a bow, usually only It will be evenly matched, except for the extreme disparity between the two sides, otherwise it is difficult to determine the trend of the entire battlefield.

What really changes this situation is the use of organ warriors.

On the Wenhubu defense line, the Hexiang Army also organized more than 500 additional cultivation bases, all of which were established above the Spirit Realm sword repair dísciple, to strengthen the attack on the defense line.

The sword repair of Spirit Realm and Ming Aperture level and above can attack and kill several li and even distant enemies outside 20-30 li. It is far beyond the range of the Celestial Crossbow, but as long as the Hexi Army’s imperial Birds of war can rush into the range of two thousand steps. The attack of gold-hardened arrows fired by the organ war crossbow is so strong and dense that it cannot be resisted by ordinary sword repair dísciple.

even more how Hexi Army’s forward front also organized an additional three to five hundred Xuanxiu dísciples. You don’t even need to directly participate in the battle and fight. You only need to use defensive spells and seals to resist the opponent’s sacrifice. The Sword Art treasure from the imperial spirit can help the Yuqi Ruizuo to successfully advance forward quickly and grasp the absolute advantage over the battlefield.

Each consecutive shot of the organ continuous crossbow is almost equivalent to a thousand-edged sword talisman. The gold-hardened arrow reserved by the Hexi Army for this battle, equivalent to 10,000 thousand-edged sword talisman The forward general’s unbridled profligacy.

The speed of advance of war birds such as the Black Feather Spirit Eagle is far beyond the common disciple flying in the wind, fighting back and forth several times, the Helan Zong sword repair dísciple suffered heavy damage, so he dare not kill from behind the line of defense. Out, was abandoned to fight over the battlefield.

At this time, the Hexi Army’s heavy armored knights, heavenly secret war chariots, and shield and halberd soldiers formed a battle formation, pushing forward layer by layer until they dig trenches and build walls close to the periphery of the enemy city. Set up a defensive array, build temporary defenses at a longer distance, and then push a heavy catapult to the front of the array. Within a close range of three or four thousand steps, one piece weighs more than a thousand catties, even 2,000-3,000 To destroy the defenders’ defenses.

In just three days, the dozens of strong fortifications built by the Hexiang Army at the northern foot of Hechuanling and on the front line of Wenhu Port were removed by Hexi one by one, and the Hexi Army successfully advanced to Wenhu Port. Before the innermost main city of the defense line.

The main city of Wenhubu’s defense line is also the focus of the Hexiang Army’s operations in recent years. The city’s strength is by no means under Chishan City. A large defense array is deployed. A powerful counterattack caused considerable casualties to the soldiers and horses of Hexi, not at all to prevent the complete collapse of the Wenhubu defense line.

In the ten-odd days of offensive and defensive battles, nearly two hundred heavy catapults were destroyed in Hexi. However, the first counterweight catapult that Chen Hai put on the battlefield at Black Mountain was too easy to manufacture. Hexi The army’s heavy battalion on the Chishan defense line can build several heavy catapults to the forward front every day.

Of course, the Hexiang Army also mastered the manufacturing drawings of the counterweight catapult, and tried to manufacture and deploy a large number of catapults on the line of defense to fight against, but the heavy counterweight catapult was not manufactured. No matter how difficult it is, the strength requirements for the manufacturing materials are extremely high.

In addition to the use of thousands of years old trees, the main parts must also be cast with eight-grade quenched iron, so that they can withstand throwing thousands or even thousands of catties of stone bullets from three to five thousand steps away- -Each heavy-duty stone-throwing crossbow requires several thousand jins or even tens of thousands of jins of eight-grade gold-hardened iron for its accessories.

At this time, Hexi can get 10 to 150,000 kilograms of high-quality hardened gold iron from Lucheng every month. What does Hexiang Army use to consume with Hexi?

In addition, the operation of the heavy catapult is mainly too easy. Whether it is mining, transporting stone bullets, or operating the catapult to throw stone bullets in front of the enemy, ordinary people without a little cultivation base can complete it.

This allowed the Hexiang Army to counterattack every time it went out of the city, although it could destroy several or even dozens of heavy stone-throwing crossbows, and kill and injure hundreds or even thousands of people who operated the stone-throwing crossbows. Soldiers, but either dead or captured, they will lose hundreds of elites themselves.

Compared with such a disparity in competition consumption, the Hexiang Army held on for more than ten days in the main defense line of Wenhubu, but it was completely unable to sustain it.

For more than ten days, Hexi lost more than 20,000 heavy soldiers, and the overwhelming majority are all people who can replenish at any time. In comparison, there are three to four thousand generals in the Hexiang army. People are the most elite battle strength in the Hexiang army comparable to the Dao Ya soldiers, which can be said to have suffered extremely heavy casualties.

The Hexiang Army was finally forced to abandon the main city of Wenhubu’s defense line and retreated from the valley into the depths of Hechuan Ridge; and because Hexiang Army could not control the air dominance on the battlefield, it withdrew from the defense line and was in Hexi The army and the poultry battalion suffered heavy casualties after several strong outbursts.

Although the Hexiang Army also made a large number of heavy shields to guard against the coverage of the golden arrow rain, and incorporated into the army, the Yuqi sharp soldiers came in by the poultry, and the tactics are flexible and changeable. Yes you can’t guard against it.

After Hexi occupied the Wenhubu defense line, Wuwei Shenhou and Shizi Dongchou stationed in Wenhu City, using Wenhu City as a new forward base, gathering all kinds of combat materials, deploying troops and horses; and in Du Yu, Led by Dong Pu and the others, the forward battle line continued along the wide valley south of Wenhubu, and continued to quickly extend to the depths of Hechuanling.

After the Hexiang army suffered heavy casualties, the abandonment of the Wenhubu line of defense was extremely harmful to morale.

From Wenhubu to the south, deep in the valley in the middle of Hechuanling, although there are still six strong fortifications along the Hexiang Army, none of them can fight the Hexi Army forward. The attack lasted for ten days. By mid-May, the Hexi Army had opened up the channel from the central valley of Hechuanling to the hinterland of Hexiangchuan.

The main force of the Hexiang Army retreated, and the large and small cultivation sect family of Helan Sword Sect, in order to avoid being encircled by the elites of Hexi, at this time they had to choose to abandon the Cave Mansion in Hechuanling.

These Cave Mansion, opened in the most dangerous place of Hechuanling, was originally built together with the walled city of Wenhubu to build a strong defense line in the northern Hechuan County. Who would have thought that it would take more than a month. Time was torn to pieces by the Hexi Army ruthlessly and sharply?

Hechuanling is four to five hundred miles south to the coast of Hechuan Lake. There is no danger to defend. The weak Hexiang Army, although not at all suffered a devastating blow, still There are several hundred thousand soldiers available, but they dare not fight against Hexi in the plain city.

The main force of the Hexiang Army and the large and small sect lords in Hechuan County were forced to split into two paths after the Hexi Army striker broke out of Hechuan Ridge, all the way to the foundation of Helan Sword Sect , Retreat in the direction of Helanchuan and Helan mountain range, and retreat all the way to Meishan at the turn of Hechuanling and Qinchuan County.

At this time, the Musashi Army reinforces the two soldiers and horses of Hechuan. They have just arrived outside Shi Ning City all the way. They are preparing to attack Shi Ning, which was captured by Qin Muhou and Dong Shou, and get through the waterway. The passage in Hechuan was also forced to retreat hastily at this time, opening up contact with Dong Shou’s subordinates.

And the other way of Musashi army reinforcements in the 2,000-3,000 li in the hinterland of Meishan has just gone halfway, at this time they can only be forced to stagnate in Meishan, on the one hand, accept the forces of the Hexiang army to flee south , On the one hand, choose the dangerous valley and mountain pass in Meishan to build a stronger fortification city to prevent Hexi from invading Qinchuan County from Meishan…