Chapter 196: Taking Fire Dragon Pass, Military Merit Evaluation (6K)

As the base city of the array, Yuanyue City did not consider the defense of the city itself when it was first established.

Its defense standards are not as good as Wang Ji's in City No. 92.

At least Engineer Wang knew to set up a few anti-escape magic arrays under the city wall!

But there is no such thing in Yuanyue City.

Due to their confidence in Fire Dragon Pass, Yuanyue City and other cities within the pass did not set up anti-escape formations.

There are some mechanisms, but these mechanisms are not used to prevent escape, but to extract the power of the earth veins.

Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie had already prepared the firecrackers yesterday.

The only difficulty is that you have to be careful when escaping.

Because fifth-level firecrackers are really flammable and explosive, and Yuanyue City is built on a fire vein, if there is a slight accident during the sneak operation, our people will be dead.

"set off!"

Chen Shijie gave an order.

One hundred sorcerers and ministers of agriculture who knew how to escape magic all headed towards Yuanyue City with a large number of firecrackers.

"God's Guardian!"

Zhao Xing stretched out his hand and pointed, and golden light enveloped a large area of ​​firecrackers and sank into the ground.

Then he carried firecrackers and moved around underground.

Yuanyue City is as big as 25 football fields.

But there aren't actually that many parts to fry.

It would be enough to blow up the City Lord's Mansion of Basta and the Four Judicial Arrays of Yuanyue City.

The most important of these is the City Lord's Mansion in Basda.

Because this is the core of Yuanyue City.

The formations distributed at the four corners of Yuanyue City, if these four nodes are blown up, the defense formation of Yuanyue City and the southern section of Huolong Pass will only be cut off and can be repaired.

But if the City Lord's Mansion is blown up, it will have to be completely rebuilt, which is what Pang Guangyao said, it will take three or four months to rebuild it.

This part can only be done by Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing.

why?
Because no one else can fully utilize the power of firecrackers, and the magic formation under the City Lord's Mansion is relatively complicated.

When a hundred people sneaked underground to the outside of the city, Chen Shijie sent orders to everyone through the underground veins.

"The four groups will retreat in half an hour and detonate in five quarters of an hour!"

"After half an hour, no matter whether you have settled in place or not, you must retreat! Do you understand?"

"understand!"

Chen Shijie said: "The action starts from now on!"

hum~
After that, the hundred people dispersed in multiple directions at the bottom of the city.

Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie continued to sneak towards the City Lord's Mansion in the center.

They carry the largest amount.

The route is more complicated.

The City Lord's Mansion is the core of the formation and is located on the fire vein. If you are weak, you will not be able to sneak through.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing stopped.

"We're here. The Fiery Dragon Formation is ahead."

In the ground vein ahead, there was a dragon-shaped flame jumping. The dragon head was huge, and it opened its huge mouth and looked downwards.

Countless earth fire forces were drawn into the dragon head, and then transformed through the magic circle and transported to small fortresses around Yuanyue City.

The small fortresses surrounding Yuanyue City are equivalent to array base transit stations.

Finally, they gathered at Huolongguan City.

The section of the Guancheng was the most vulnerable part of the Flame Mountains, but after the superposition of many complex magic arrays, it became the strongest pass.

"Act separately. I'll start from the Zhen position, and you'll start from... uh, I'll start from the southeast, and you'll start from the southwest." Zhao Xing said halfway when he remembered that Lao Chen didn't know the knowledge of the Gongjia magic array, so he immediately changed his words.

"Don't look down on me." Chen Shijie said, "Since I came back last time, I have been cramming my knowledge of the basic magic arrays of the Gong family."

"Li represents fire, and Dui represents marsh. You asked me to start the arrangement from the southwest. Isn't the principle that the Li and Dui positions can maximize the power of the firecrackers?"

"You set off firecrackers from the Zhen position, aren't you trying to use the power of the firecrackers to destroy the drainage port of the Fiery Dragon Essence Array, causing the ground fire to condense and eventually explode?"

"Awesome!" Zhao Xing gave a thumbs up.

"What's so great about that? Who doesn't know how to learn? It's just a small matter." Chen Shijie said calmly: "When you were farming in Dongsang City, I was also busy."

Although he said this, Chen Shijie felt secretly happy when he saw Zhao Xing's dazed expression.

After studying late into the night for more than half a month, I finally managed to surprise this boy. It was all worth it!

Since Lao Chen knows how to do it, it will be more convenient.

Zhao Xing carefully rolled up the firecrackers and controlled the approach to the octagonal underground palace.

He and Chen Shijie each brought one hundred fifth-grade top-quality firecrackers, a total of one thousand four hundred.

The power of fifth-level firecrackers is measured by section.

The explosive power of a fifth-grade top-quality firecracker is enough to penetrate the defense of a fifth-grade armor.

If it were somewhere else, to blow up the City Lord's Mansion, relying solely on these 1,400 firecrackers would not be enough.

Because they are now hiding in a relatively deep place, less than two hundred meters.

Moreover, the foundation of the City Lord’s Mansion was very solid, so it would not be enough to blow it up.

But this is Yuanyue City, which was built on a powder keg.

To make a fifth-level firecracker, all you have to do is light this gunpowder barrel.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Xing asked:
"Done?"

"Not even close." Chen Shijie was not so quick, "Please help me check to see if there are any mistakes or omissions."

"Okay." After Zhao Xing finished his work, he immediately came to check the firecrackers that Chen Shijie had placed.

Another quarter of an hour passed and it was almost time for the agreed retreat. Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie cross-checked each other twice.

After making sure that there was no problem, they immediately began to retreat.

After the two left, only the firecrackers were left buried in the ground, wrapped in golden light.

All the operatives can do this.

Because this is not a spell at all, it is just the energy attached to the firecracker and wrapping it up.

As long as one reaches the eighth level, the control over the vital energy can achieve this. After waiting for three quarters of an hour, it will automatically dissipate.

Without the energy wrapping around them, the firecrackers would soon explode in the scorching underground.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie were the first to arrive underground outside the city.

The rest of the personnel returned one after another.

Another quarter of an hour later, all one hundred operational personnel were present, and no one encountered any accidents.

"withdraw!"

Chen Shijie gave the order immediately.

It will explode in just a quarter of an hour, so they have to stay away, otherwise they will be affected.

In the city lord's mansion, Basta woke up from his dream.

The two beautiful Fire Demons beside him also woke up.

"What's wrong, sir?"

Basta covered his head and said, "I just had a nightmare. I dreamed that I was dead."

The Tiangang and Disha train their bodies, and Basda, a sixth-grade warrior, already has very powerful seven spirits.

The seven spirits feed back to the life soul, which can then frequently communicate with the heavenly soul and the earthly soul, and can gain some precognitive perception.

These sensations are generally related to "rebirth" and "cause and effect".

Therefore, the higher the level of the warrior, the harder it is to be attacked by surprise, because their alertness will be extremely high.

"How could that be? We are inside Fire Dragon Pass..."

"Shut up!" Bastar pushed the beauty away irritably, quickly put on his clothes, and opened the door, "Someone come!"

"City Lord!" Two guards immediately ran in from outside the door.

"Go find Master Hope, I want to go down underground to check." After thinking it over, Basdas decided to go for a patrol underground.

"Also, send someone to check on the wall to see if there are any enemy troops attacking the city."

"Yes."

Soon, a member of the Fire Demon tribe with a unique appearance came over. He was carrying a mechanical box on his back and had a limp on one of his horns.

"Respected Lord Bastar, are you looking for me?"

"Hope, come with me to inspect the underground magic circle." Bastard said, "See if there is any problem."

"This..." Hope was stunned. Why would Bastada think of such a thing?
Did he discover something?
"what happened?"

"Lord City Lord, it's just some small matters." Hope's face was stiff.

Bastard noticed that Hope was hesitating, and immediately shouted, "What's wrong? Tell me now!"

Under Bastard's questioning, Hope had to tell the truth.

During his routine maintenance last month, he removed several protective arrays, including the anti-escape array.

They also cut corners and replaced the base materials of the sixteen magic arrays with inferior ones.

In short, this guy is corrupt.

He thought he had been discovered by Bastada, so he immediately confessed.

"You, you bastard!" Bastard's uneasiness became stronger and stronger. He grabbed Hope's neck and said viciously: "Hurry up and take people down to check and make up for what needs to be done!"

"You bastards, you dared to be so careless when the Earth Fire Lotus was stolen last month!"

Hope agreed, but didn't care in his heart.

The Earth Fire Lotus was stolen, what does that have to do with me?
Aren't you also having fun all day long?

But he still quickly called for people and took Basta with him to dive underground through a special passage.

Not long after diving, Basta felt more and more uneasy.

But once we got there, this feeling of uneasiness reached its peak!

"Huh? What is that?"

When he reached underground, Basta immediately saw the faint golden lights floating next to the underground magic circle.

The people around Hope also looked over.

When Hope saw this, he felt as if he was going to die.

"That, that is..." Hope was so frightened that he couldn't speak, and his hands and feet went limp.

Bastard grabbed Hope and said, "You bastard, explain it to me clearly!"

The others screamed:
"Oh my god, that's a fifth-level firecracker!"

"There are so many of them, and they're about to explode!"

"Run away!"

"what?!"

Bastar turned his head and looked over.

Then the first golden light ball went out.

"Oh!"

The loud explosion instantly blew away the surrounding rocks.

"Whoosh~" A corner of the dragon head that was absorbing the earth fire was suddenly blown off.

Then came the second, third, fourth... thousands of golden lights went out.

"Boom boom boom!"

A blazing light appeared before Basta's eyes.

Then, his consciousness fell into complete darkness.

Pang Guangyao stood in the forest, looking at the Yuanyue City in the distance.

He knew very little about Sinong, and had no idea what this specialty was or what the firecrackers of the Great Zhou were.

He only knew that Xia Jing took a hundred people to Yuanyue City, but the army stayed here.

"Isn't that a bit too arrogant?"

"You want to take over Yuanyue City with just a hundred people?"

"In order to prevent the news from leaking out, shouldn't all three thousand people go there together to minimize the spread of the news?"

"Is he Xia Jing?"

Pang Guangyao was full of doubts.

But at this moment, 'Xia Jing' came back with his men.

"Prince..." Pang Guangyao couldn't help but ask.

"All troops, retreat! Retreat!" Chen Shijie roared!

But at this time, the earth began to shake.

"Boom~"

"Boom, boom, boom~"

"Swish, swish, swish~" The trees in the forest were shaking continuously.

The earth began to shake violently, and Pang Guangyao watched the soil in the distance arch up to form a small hill.

"Crack, crack, crack~" A crack several kilometers long suddenly appeared not far away.

"What's going on?" Pang Guangyao's heart skipped a beat.

He flew up quickly.

Then he saw a scene he would never forget.

"boom!"

The Full Moon City in the distance was flying up!
Yes, it flew.

It suddenly rose hundreds of meters!
Like a city burning in flames!

The entire city flew hundreds of meters into the sky in an instant, and then Pang Guangyao watched it disintegrate and disappear completely in an instant.

It completely disappeared without any residue!

Until this moment, a dazzling light burst out from the original location of Full Moon City.

The scorching light even made Pang Guangyao subconsciously raise his hands to cover his eyes.

The shock wave swept across the surroundings visible to the naked eye.

A mushroom cloud rose, the earth seemed to be boiling, and the soil on the ground swept around like waves.

"What?!" Pang Guangyao was shocked and immediately retreated while raising his body.

"boom!"

Until a shock wave swept through the mountains and forests.

Only then did Pang Guangyao hear a loud noise.

"Zizzizi~"

"Boom~"

"Crackling~"

At this time, Pang Guangyao saw that the mountains and forests below were blown away by the shock wave.

The shock wave carried flames, and in an instant, the forest was set on fire.

The sounds of burning, explosions, and commands mixed together.

Pang Guangyao followed Xia Jing in retreat.

There are three assembled simple flying boats in the vanguard camp, each of which can accommodate just one thousand people.

At this time, the three flying boats were like candles in the wind, swaying in the wind.

Before it flew far, it fell heavily to the ground.

Fortunately, the distance is far enough and the power of the shock wave is greatly weakened.

The flying boat did not disintegrate.

Pang Guangyao flew to the side of Xia Jing and shouted loudly: "Prince, what happened?"

"Yuanyue City, how, why is it gone?"

Zhao Xing looked at the Yuanyue City disappearing in the distance. He was also panicking just now, but at this moment he still said calmly: "As you can see, it was naturally us who blew it up."

"Exploded?" Pang Guangyao was totally unable to understand what Zhao Xing said.

How could a mechanical city covering an area of ​​100,000 acres be blown up?
Chen Shijie looked ahead with lingering fear.

"Damn it, we need to test the usage of firecrackers in different regions in the future. The quantity this time is too large."

The effect of firecrackers this time is extraordinarily good!

First, the firecrackers Zhao Xing cultivated were all fifth-grade firecrackers, and the overall grade was better than those Chen Shijie had used before. Most of them were top-grade and best-grade fifth-grade firecrackers, and a small number were medium and low-grade.

Second, Full Moon City is located on a fire vein and is absorbing the power of the earth's fire.

Third, because of the shoddy work done by Hope and others, the power of the firecrackers was not blocked by their own defensive array and was fully unleashed.

In order to be lenient with the enemy, Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing overestimated the power of the Yuanyue City when they were making their plans.

So make lots of firecrackers.

A combination of many factors has led to the current situation.

Yuanyue City and dozens of surrounding fortresses were all destroyed in this wave of explosions.

Not to mention people, even the stones melted.

If they hadn't run fast and noticed something was wrong, I'm afraid their own people would have had to answer for some of the consequences of the explosion.

"Yeah, we should do less in the future." Zhao Xing also responded.

This time, both of them were cured of their fear of insufficient firepower.

It will still have to be distributed in a certain quantity in the future.

"Prince, who are you?" Pang Guangyao couldn't help but ask. At this moment, he looked at Zhao Xing as if he was looking at a devil.

In the blink of an eye, the Full Moon City disappeared, which made Pang Guangyao feel terrified.

What kind of person am I following?

"At this point, there is no need for me to hide it from you anymore." Zhao Xing clapped his hands and stood up. "The one standing in front of you is Zhao Xing, the ninth section captain of the Great Zhou Shenwei Army. He is affiliated with the ninth section battalion under the command of Liao Rulong, the ninth commander of the Shenwei Army."

"Shenwei Army?" Pang Guangyao was dumbfounded. He really got on the wrong bus!

"But there is one thing I didn't lie to you about. Xia Jing and I do have a connection. He is my lifelong friend. We trained together in Shiyang Cave Heaven, and this time our two armies are fighting side by side."

"What I promised you is equivalent to what Xia Jing promised you. Is the minotaur who delivered the letter to you called Ye Chongxian?"

Pang Guangyao nodded.

He did know Ye Chongxian's real name.

"That's it." Zhao Xing looked at the lightning in the sky with a smile. He walked over and patted Pang Guangyao on the shoulder. "General Pang, the army will soon be able to break through the pass. Whether you can live up to the title of General of the Great Zhou depends on you."

On September 16, the Shenwei Army, the Xuanjia Army, and the Zhenhai Army approached Huolong Pass.

I thought these Great Zhou troops were here to die, but at this moment, a loud explosion that shook the world suddenly came from the southern section of Huolong Pass.

All magic arrays suddenly became ineffective for four hours!

Liao Rulong's troops drove the dragon-headed tower ship directly through the pass, and 5,000 people climbed the thousand-meter-high Fire Dragon Pass.

The main general defending the city, Yue Haisheng, hurried up to the city to supervise the battle, led 10,000 soldiers to try to wipe out the enemy, and ordered people to repair the magic array inside and outside the pass.

The two sides fought fiercely for less than two quarters of an hour.

Soon after, the magic arrays in the Guanshanbei and Guankou sections became ineffective one after another.

The effectiveness of the entire defense formation has been reduced to the lowest level in nearly two hundred years.

Hundreds of warships of the Zhenhai Army sailed to the top of Huolong Pass without any hindrance.

Dark Flame Warship, Three-Leaf Warship, Dragon-Headed Warship...

The God-Destroying Crossbow, the Soul-Breaking Crossbow Cart, the Soul-Restoring Shield Cart, the Heavy-Water Catapult, the Heavenly Net Throwing Array... the pinnacle craftsmanship of the Great Zhou, intensively bombarding the defense formation.

The barrier became dim and in just a moment, the Fire Dragon Pass's defense formation was completely destroyed and lost its effectiveness.

The Great Halberd Battalion of Wen Shaoyang's troops and the Dragon Cavalry Battalion of the Black Armor Army followed Liao Rulong's troops and climbed the pass one after another.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yue Haisheng led the remaining troops to escape from Huolong Pass, and raised the flag of the Great Zhou at Huolong Pass, which stretched for nearly forty miles.

Due to the difference in numbers and military strength, this majestic fortress that had stood for thousands of years was destroyed in just one afternoon.

September 16th and 17th were the days for the three armies of the Great Zhou to reap military merits.

After the pass was breached, the Fire Demon Clan's defenders became walking war heroes.

No matter in terms of numbers or strength, they are no match for the army of the Great Zhou.

"Pfft~"

The purple fingers pierced through the head of a seventh-rank barbarian general, and the electric light burned his entire body.

"Plop~" The seventh-rank barbarian general fell to the ground along with the spear he was holding.

"Hah! Ho!"

On the ground, a square formation holding three-meter-long halberds was moving quickly below.

When the corpse fell from a height of two hundred meters, when it reached a hundred meters, it was suddenly torn into pieces by a thousand-meter-long blood-red halberd in the air and turned into powder.

"It's Lin Ze, a captain under Wen Shaoyang."

"The Halberd Battalion is made up of all eighth-grade warriors, with a blood-filled battle formation and halberds like a forest." Zhao Xing had just finished chasing and killing a barbarian soldier when he saw the Halberd Battalion below.

A hundred meters above the phalanx of halberd soldiers, in addition to a blood-red halberd, there was also a phantom of a military flag two hundred meters above.

"The Battle Spirit Flag of the Divine Might Army." Zhao Xing looked at the flag. "This Battle Spirit Flag is similar to my Solar Terms Order."

"However, my solar term order replaces the solar terms of heaven and earth, while this battle spirit flag forms a battle spirit field."

"Under the coverage of this military flag, the willpower and life spirit of all warriors have been greatly improved."

"As the willpower and life soul are improved, the combat power will also be improved, and it will always be at its peak."

"However, the real bonus is still the battle formation below."

Zhao Xing took a closer look at the phalanx of halberd soldiers led by Lin Ze.

This blood-colored halberd is made entirely of condensed qi and blood.

It was as if there were invisible beams of light connecting the one thousand eighth-grade halberd warriors below.

The largest blood-red beam of light enveloped Lin Ze.

"When the blood and qi battle formation of the Great Halberd Warriors is formed, Lin Ze, a lieutenant of the seventh rank, will have the combat power of the sixth rank."

"In addition, Lin Ze does not need to use other means to pass on his orders. His fighting intentions will be instantly transmitted to the minds of a thousand halberd warriors."

"One thousand and one hundred people, as if they were one!"

"Any soldier who is injured can recover through the Bloody Halberd, because the injuries are evenly distributed."

"The same goes for vitality recovery. The blood-colored halberd will continuously grab the vitality of the surrounding heaven and earth, and even the vitality of life." Zhao Xing felt the blood and qi surging. A pulling force came from below, and he couldn't help but raise his body a little.

"Lin Ze's Halberd Soldiers have already trained to the fifth level of battle formation. The blood-colored halberds can break all kinds of magic."

"If I were to encounter this kind of battle formation, except for the high-level method of Teng Snake Transformation that has reached the sixth level, which can affect him, the other high-level methods are simply not able to seriously injure him, and he will also be impacted by the martial arts will of his thousand people."

"When this battle formation is trained to level five, it can be very effective against wizard teams." Zhao Xing said secretly.

At this time, the Halberd Camp's phalanx was chasing a group of Fire Demon Warlocks.

Occasionally a team of warlocks would try to fight back with spells.

However, any spell that comes within the coverage area of ​​the War Spirit Army Flag will be weakened by 30%.

Immediately afterwards, it was weakened by 70% by the 'Blood Halberd' in the sky.

Falling into the phalanx of halberd soldiers, it was totally painless.

Because this is the most elite Halberd Battalion of Wen Shaoyang's army, and the fifth-level blood-energy battle formation requires long-term training. The officers and soldiers must be one, and the skills they practice must be exactly the same to achieve this effect.

Zhao Xing hadn't seen such an elite battalion of halberd soldiers for a long time.

"Zhao Xing, what are you daydreaming about!" A familiar voice came. Zhao Xing turned his head and saw that it was Xia Jing riding a flying dragon.

His Black Armor Dragon Cavalry Battalion was also chasing and killing the deserters.

"If you don't take credit for your military exploits now, what are you waiting for?" Xia Jing said, "Hurry up and chop off their heads. Now all three armies have activated the Judicial Yin God patrols, and the Mirage Pearls are also recording them."

"We will not miss a single head when we chop it off now."

"Got it!" Zhao Xing smiled and immediately flew in a cloud to chase in one direction.

On September 19th, after the fall of Huolong Pass, the pursuit of the barbarians came to an end.

There were only tens of thousands of people, not enough to kill all the people on the side of Da Zhou.

Zhao Xing also participated in this kind of military merit hunting, but there were unwritten rules in the army that senior generals would not compete for merit with low-level soldiers at this time.

In a free pursuit battle like this, it was purely for the sake of merit. Zhao Xing was a seventh-rank warrior, so he had to kill seventh-rank enemies, unless he was surrounded by a group of eighth-rank warriors and had no choice.

Otherwise, all the military achievements would go to senior generals, while the subordinates would have no achievements at all, which would be too unfair.

The evening of September 20th.

The battle of Huolong Pass came to an end, and the news spread, causing a sensation in the entire Pingman war zone.

No one expected that the Eastern Front, which had long been considered the least likely to make a breakthrough, would achieve such great results.

The Fire Dragon Pass, which had stood for a thousand years, was actually destroyed by the Divine Power Army.

The news spread quickly throughout the war zone like the wind.

The impact it caused began to ferment in different places, not only in the Great Zhou but also in the Golden Feather King's Court...

At this time, Zhao Xing, Xia Jing, Wen Shaoyang, Liao Rulong, Chen Shijie, Long Xiao and others gathered in a castle in Huolong Pass.

Because the time has come for the military to judge their military achievements.

　This one is 6.6K, and the words will basically be updated to more than words for the rest of this month.

　　I’ll check how many words I owe at the end of the month!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)