Origin Paradise!

"My mind is made up," said the King of Da Shun, waving his hand.

"Your Majesty is wise!" the generals shouted.

……

At the end of October in the twentieth year of Yongqing.

Under the command of the Da Shun army, Generals Yue and Mo led 100,000 bandits westward to recapture Xuancheng. Including civilian laborers and auxiliary soldiers, the army was said to number 400,000. The Da Shun king specially bestowed the Kangtai battle flag upon them to see them off.

In mid-November, Kangtai Army entered Xuan County. The marching formation stretched for more than ten miles, a magnificent sight. Elder Yue of the Demonic Sect personally led the vanguard, with 30,000 infantry and cavalry directly attacking Xuan City to prevent the enemy cavalry from escaping or launching a surprise attack.

The vanguard army set up camp outside Xuancheng.

On the city wall, the afterglow of dusk was golden, and four illusory dragons lingered around Jiang He.

"The power of the four heavenly dragons".

From the end of October until now, he has been in seclusion in Xuancheng. The blessed land has entered the 600th year of the Gluttony Calendar, and there has been another two hundred years of blood war. This time, not only has the power of the Heavenly Dragon been added, but the Dragon Spear Techniques Shattering Dragon Spine and Brocade Ash have also been promoted to the sub-legendary level.

Jiang He has integrated all the martial arts techniques he obtained in Yangzhou into the Sacred Martial Arts Grand Canon. He now possesses the foundation to create custom immortal-level exclusive techniques. He originally planned to update the Animal Team, but due to limitations in his abilities, he ultimately only iterated from Immortal to Epic.

"Six thousand Anse Iron Cavalry, divided into twelve groups, will launch a surprise attack every half hour from today onwards, without interruption."

Jiang He stood on the city wall and gave the order. The six commanders of Ansai clasped their fists and accepted the order. After being tempered in the Blessed Land of Gluttony, it proved that there were indeed differences in the aptitude of the evil soldiers, but not by much.

That evening, a force of 500 Anse cavalrymen set out.

The skeletal warhorse possesses the best carrying capacity, explosive power, and endurance among all warhorses in the world. After leaving the city, it immediately accelerated to full speed. Upon noticing that the city gates were open, the vanguard immediately went on alert, and Elder Yue ordered the heavy infantry to don their armor and assemble.

However, the Anse cavalry did not charge into the military camp. Instead, they circled around the edge and shot arrows. The black arrows originated from solidified flames. As streaks of black light rose into the sky, the military camp immediately burst into flames.

Ordinary river water could not extinguish it at all; only the true energy of warriors could slowly wear it down. Fortunately, the vanguard witnessed the attack; otherwise, once the fire spread, no one would have been able to turn the tide.

After circling several times, the Anse cavalry shot and killed dozens of sentries before safely returning to Xuancheng.

Half an hour later, the second cavalry force left the city.

Just then, Elder Yue dispatched three thousand elite cavalrymen to storm the gate.

Anse Iron Cavalry sent out a thousand reserves to fight. Before Elder Yue could send out infantry to expand the victory, the enemy launched five volleys of rapid fire, and the three thousand elite cavalrymen of Anse Iron Cavalry lost more than a thousand of them in one charge. The subsequent cavalrymen were directly routed.

"wrong!"

On the wall of the military camp, Elder Yue's expression changed. The cavalry in Xuancheng was extremely elite, and everyone was a sharpshooter. Training a sharpshooter, not to mention the cost, would take at least three to ten years. Even if someone had talent, it would take at least half a year of training before they could see any results.

Such a long period of intensive, off-the-job training, with excellent equipment and unique warhorses, is something that local second-line troops and bandits could never achieve.

"Someone, immediately inform General Mo that the enemy is either a powerful family's private army or elite border troops!"

The Moon Elder nervously stroked the hilt of his sword at his waist, knowing that it would take the resources of an entire prefecture to support a cavalry force of several thousand men.

Chapter 576 Battle Outside the City

The night passed.

The Anse Iron Cavalry was dispatched nearly ten times.

The vanguard suffered few casualties, but the army, mainly composed of bandits, clearly lacked the elite skill to sleep peacefully in shifts. Most of the bandits did not receive orders to assemble, but remained on high alert in the camp until dawn.

At dawn, Elder Yue paced back and forth in his military tent. The three attempts to break through the city gates during the night had all ended in failure. He wanted to launch a full-scale attack on the city, but once his troops were dispersed, the enemy cavalry would break through and cause a rout. If he only attacked from the front, even if all his men were killed, he might not be able to climb the city wall amidst the arrows of the sharpshooters.

"The enemy commander wants to compete on the level of elite troops."

"Thousands of people were lost overnight. In another ten days... no, before that, the vanguard will collapse due to lack of rest. Two days and three nights will be the limit."

"Should we just retreat like this...?"

Elder Yue was somewhat unwilling to leave like this. He could easily imagine what kind of laughingstock he would become. If he didn't care about such things, he would neither have volunteered for battle nor led the vanguard army to approach Xuancheng first.

"Pass on my order to summon the veteran generals of all units. Those who have made meritorious contributions in military strategy will be generously rewarded by this elder."

The Moon Elder ordered that this was no time to be reserved at such a crucial moment. If necessary, he would not mind gathering ideas from all sides, since the greatest credit for victory would still go to him.

In an instant, all the generals gathered.

……

The city wall of Xuancheng.

A crow circled down.

"Boss, that elder of the Demonic Cult won't last more than three days," Wuhe reported. "He has summoned all the generals."

Jiang He stroked his chin and said, "In the early stages of the rise of the bandits, these guys haven't gained much experience in leading troops yet, so it seems we can be a bit bolder."

The bandits and their generals showed a huge gap compared to the Northern Wei border army, but it was foreseeable that the source of the bandits' troops meant that they had a lot of room for trial and error.

"Two thousand cavalrymen will lead the way, personally commanded by me."

"Two thousand cavalry will follow behind, and Zhuang Ya will lead the army to harvest the spoils."

"Send out a thousand cavalry on each side to encircle them."

"Send out scouts to keep watch around Xuancheng."

Once the order was given, the Anse Iron Cavalry demonstrated astonishing organizational skills; within a quarter of an hour, all units were ready.

The city gates opened, and Jiang He lightly spurred her horse. As the warhorse accelerated, a gust of wind rushed towards her.

"Boss, on the east side of the enemy camp, eight out of ten centurions have gone to the central command tent."

"understood."

Jiang He turned his horse around. The absence of mid-level generals meant that the enemy in the east could only organize a resistance of about a hundred men, and that was only after a day and night without sleep.

From the air, two thousand Anse Iron Cavalrymen shot towards the eastern side of the vanguard like arrows. The Dragon Spear Technique - Brocade Gray General's Fortress wall was reduced to ashes. The iron cavalrymen charged in and fired two volleys at the start.

Shhhhhh.

Arrows rained down on the camp ahead, killing several centurions. Jiang He charged ahead, his black blade slashing vertically, and his Dragon Spear Technique - Shattering Dragon Spine smashed a hundred-meter-wide crater in the ground, turning thousands of bandits into mush.

The strongest and only defensive line was breached, and two thousand cavalrymen charged in turn at each hundred-man battle formation. They attacked the weak with the strong and the few with the many, and a single charge could annihilate them. The Anse archers, who were in charge of mounted archery, hunted down officers, and more and more bandits scattered and fled.

Half an hour later, chaos erupted in the eastern part of the military camp as the dark, imposing Anse cavalry swept across the land, and fear spread rapidly.

In the rear of Anse's army, a young girl in white sat on horseback, with a hundred of the most elite skeleton dragon riders serving as her guards. With a single sword stroke, she beheaded more than a dozen people on her side. The rear army's task was simply to harvest the scattered and defeated soldiers of the front army.

Two arrows relentlessly slashed through the vanguard of the bandits.

Inside the central command tent, Elder Yue rushed out, his eyes bloodshot, and he couldn't help but roar repeatedly.

"Useless! A bunch of useless trash! You couldn't even last a single move! I'm ruined by you bunch of trash!"

A centurion who had surrendered from the army quickly said, "General, there is still room for maneuver in this battle. Please organize a defensive line in the rear immediately and gather the fleeing soldiers. As long as we can hold on, it will only be a minor defeat and will not damage our foundation!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Jiang He led two hundred cavalrymen to outflank the enemy from the rear. A large banner shaped like an ouroboros fluttered in the wind, and the centurions, who had initially shown some fighting spirit, turned pale.

"Failed!"

"Enemy reinforcements have arrived from Xuancheng!"

"The generals are all dead! Run!"

The next moment, the rear army collapsed, and the defeat was completely irreversible. The fleeing and pursuit were everywhere. The two Ansai thousand-household teams held the line, but the result of not leaving one side open when facing a group of bandits desperately trying to survive was that they suffered their first large-scale casualties.

"They're even more ferocious when they're fleeing than when they're attacking a city."

The rabble circled high in the sky, commanding the Anse Iron Cavalry to disperse into hundred-man squads, moving out like a pack of wolves in an attempt to crush the last resistance forces at each point of the enemy army.

At the front lines in Xuancheng, the massacre and slaughter began.

"I haven't lost yet!"

"As long as we kill the enemy's commander, we can turn the tide."

Elder Yue's face was contorted with rage. A radiant moon rose behind him and then merged with him. His entire body emitted intense moonlight. He was a fourth-realm sub-hero, possessing the Radiant Moon Body with extremely sharp power.

Whoosh!

Elder Yue raised his arm horizontally, his palm edge like a knife, and charged forward, his target the white-robed man who was indiscriminately slashing.

"Take your life!"

Jiang He turned around and threw a punch, unleashing a torrent of pure, immense power. Four illusory celestial dragons intertwined and surrounded a small black sword, instantly striking Elder Yue.

The power of the four heavenly dragons blasted Elder Yue to death, and his natal calamity sword seized the essence of the Radiant Moon Body. His body was completely destroyed, leaving only a hundred-meter-deep ravine blasted out by the immense force.

[Note: Due to absorbing the power of the moon, your natal sword, Crimson Moon, has been upgraded to the Undying level.]

"Humorous." Jiang He spurred his horse forward and continued to hack and slash.

……

November 19th.

On the western route of the Da Shun army, the Kangtai vanguard suffered a major defeat after arriving in Xuancheng. The Anse Iron Cavalry captured and killed 30,000 men, while the Da Shun army lost 1,300 cavalry. After replenishing their losses, Jiang He began to refine the evil spirits with alchemy and produced 8,000 evil spirit infantrymen.

The following morning, 6,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry, totaling 14,000 soldiers, left Xuancheng and headed north to Jiutou Mountain, where they set up their formation to prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of Kangtai's army.

Three days later, led by the branch guild of Moshu City, the main force of the Kangtai Army arrived, but the number was beyond expectations.

At the foot of Jiutou Mountain, in the military camp.

Jiang He looked at the map, raised an eyebrow, and casually asked:

"How did Mo Ju manage to get 70,000 men, bringing his total army to 140,000? I bet the King of Da Shun wants him dead even more than I do."

Wuhe replied, “Boss, he recruited the defeated soldiers from Xuancheng. First, he rewarded them generously in public, and then ordered them to disband on the spot. He said that if they called a hundred men after returning to the unit, he would be a centurion; if they called a thousand men, he would be a chiliarch. He would give them the corresponding official position and supplies for each man he called. The defeated soldiers from Xuancheng are all locals, and they can be called upon by a hundred men in the nine counties of Xuanjun.”

Jiang He pondered for a moment and said, "Then there must be a way to make up for the lack of elite troops."

With the battle outside the city over, his mission had achieved a phased success; this was simply another battle.

[Hint: The 10,000-player battle has been completed (3/3) - Joint Promotion Mission]

[Hint: Level 3000 War (3/7) - Main Quest ②]

Chapter 577 Seven Battles, Seven Victories

At noon, at the foot of Jiutou Mountain.

Dark clouds, as black as ink, pressed down on the earth in layers. Withered yellow grass shivered in the cold wind. The Nine-Headed Mountain Peak appeared and disappeared among the clouds. Gusts of cold wind swept by, the branches and leaves of the trees swayed, and a few crows perched on the treetops suddenly took flight.

Kangtai's army arrayed themselves on the plain in front of the mountain. On the wooden general's platform, Mo Ju gazed into the distance, his heart filled with heroic spirit.

"With 140,000 troops at our command, as long as we win this battle, it will be a matter of course how the Great Shun King can seize our military power and contend for the world. From this moment on, all members of the guild, listen to my command and begin the war!"

"Start the war!"

"Start the war!"

"White Tiger Battalion, move out!"

As Mo Ju waved his hand to give the order, the soldiers at the front of the fourteen 10,000-strong army moved to the sides, revealing small paths.

Boom boom boom!

A five-meter-tall Mohist weapon, resembling a giant tiger, emerged from the formation. Ten bandits sat in the slots, responsible for operating this weapon of war. Smoke and dust billowed as the Mohist tiger roared to the sky. Then came the second, the third, the fourth, and finally, a total of five hundred Mohist tigers appeared.

"Attack!" Mossaw ordered.

call!

The giant tigers of the Mo family strode forward, but not very fast. These guys, like tanks, always guided the front of the army. Three 10,000-man Mo armored army formations began to advance, with dust billowing into the sky. The heavy shields at the front lined up like a moving city wall.

At the foot of Jiutou Mountain.

Jiang He withdrew his gaze. There were clearly a considerable number of players among the enemy forces, and they were highly organized, attempting to compensate for their lack of bandit skills with technology.

"Ten rapid-fire rounds, release the arrows!"

The order was given, and six thousand iron cavalrymen simultaneously drew their bows upwards. The taut bowstrings echoed and overlapped, accompanied by the trembling of the strings. One after another, the final flame arrows rose into the sky. After ten consecutive strikes, the leading edge of the black meteor shower began to fall.

Boom boom boom!

Black flames erupted continuously.

Vast gaps appeared in the ranks of ten thousand soldiers, who fled in disarray, their bodies stained with black flames. The rain of sixty thousand arrows easily shattered shields and armor, killing thousands of enemies in a matter of moments. If it weren't for the fact that continuous long-range archery would significantly deplete arm strength, the relentless rain of arrows alone would have been enough to send the enemy army to their graves.

Figures wreathed in black flames darted about, and the other bandits scattered in panic. The three 10,000-strong black-armored army formations immediately collapsed.

"Charge forward!" Moji shouted.

The next moment, the guild's players sprang into action. Thirty players boarded the giant tigers that came to pick them up. When the "Armor Control Technique" was activated, the soldiers of the three armies, all clad in black armor, immediately stopped fleeing. Their armor forcibly controlled their bodies, and they charged forward.