Chapter 193: Taking Fire Dragon Pass, the Military Realm

Full Moon City, as an array base city, did not consider the defense of the city itself at the beginning of its establishment.

Its defense standard was not as good as Wang Ji’s methods in City 92.

Wang Gong at least knew to arrange a few anti-escape magic arrays under the city wall!

But Full Moon City didn't.

Derived from the confidence in Fire Dragon Pass, Full Moon City and the rest of the cities in the pass did not set up anti-escape magic arrays.

There were some mechanisms, but these mechanisms were not for anti-escape, but for extracting the power of the earth vein.

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

The only difficulty is to be careful when escaping.

Because fifth-tier firecrackers are really flammable and explosive, and Full Moon City is built on the fire vein, once there is a slight accident when sneaking, your own people will have to burp.

"Set off!"

Chen Shijie gave an order.

One hundred sorcerers and Agricultural Officials who knew escape methods all carried a large number of firecrackers toward Full Moon City.

"Divine Protection!"

Zhao Xing pointed, golden light covered a large piece of firecrackers, sinking into the ground.

Then carried the firecrackers to shuttle underground.

Full Moon City has 25 football fields.

But in fact, there is not so much to bomb.

Basida’s City Lord’s Mansion, Full Moon City’s four judicial arrays, just bomb them.

The most important one is Basida’s City Lord’s Mansion.

Because this is the core of Full Moon City.

The four corners of Full Moon City, bomb these four nodes, Full Moon City and the pass defense array of the south section of Fire Dragon Pass, just cut off, and can still be rushed to repair.

But bomb the City Lord’s Mansion, then it must be thoroughly rebuilt, which is what Pang Guangyao said, it will take three or four months to re-establish.

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

Why?

Because others cannot fully utilize the power of firecrackers, and the magic array under the City Lord’s Mansion is relatively complex.

After one hundred people sneaked underground to the outside of the city, Chen Shijie gave orders to everyone through the earth vein.

"The four groups of personnel will withdraw uniformly in half an hour, and detonate in five quarters of an hour!"

"Withdraw in half an hour regardless of whether it is in place! Understand!"

"Understand!"

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

Hum~

After saying that, one hundred people dispersed toward multiple directions at the bottom of the city.

Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie continued to sneak toward the central City Lord’s Mansion.

They carried the largest amount.

The road to pass is also more complex.

As the array core, the City Lord’s Mansion is pressed on the fire vein, and if the strength is weak, it really can't sneak past.

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

"Arrived, ahead is the Fierce Fire Dragon Origin Array."

In the earth vein ahead, a dragon-shaped flame was jumping, the dragon head was huge, opened its giant mouth, toward the bottom.

Countless ground fire forces were drawn into the dragon head, and then converted by the magic array, and transported to the small castles around Full Moon City.

The small castles around Full Moon City are equivalent to array base relay stations.

Finally, gathered to Fire Dragon Pass City.

That section of the pass city is the most fragile part of the Flame Mountain range, but after many complex magic arrays superimposed, it became the strongest pass.

"Separate actions, I start from the Zhen position, you from... uh, I start from the southeast position, you start from the southwest position," Zhao Xing said halfway, then remembered that Old Chen didn't know the knowledge of the Artisan magic array, and changed his words again.

"You look down on people," Chen Shijie said, "Since I came back last time, I have made up for the basic magic array knowledge of the Artisan family."

"Li position is fire, Dui position is marsh, you let me start from the southwest position, isn't the principle that Li and Dui two positions can maximize the power of firecrackers?"

"You put firecrackers in the Zhen position, isn't it to destroy the diversion port of the Fierce Fire Dragon Origin Array through the power of firecrackers, making the ground fire condense, and finally explode itself?"

"Amazing!" Zhao Xing gave a thumbs up.

"What’s amazing, who won't learn? But a small matter," Chen Shijie said indifferently: "When you were farming in Dongsang City, I was not idle either."

Although he said so, looking at Zhao Xing’s stunned expression, Chen Shijie was also secretly cool.

Reading for more than half a month, finally quietly amazed this kid, it was not in vain!

Since Old Chen knows, it is more convenient.

Zhao Xing carefully rolled the firecrackers, controlling the Eight-Corner Earth Palace to approach.

He and Chen Shijie each carried one hundred fifth-tier top-grade firecrackers, a total of 1,400 sections.

Fifth-tier firecrackers, the power is calculated by section.

One section of fifth-tier top-grade firecracker, its explosive power is enough to penetrate the defense of fifth-tier battle armor.

If it were elsewhere, wanting to bomb the City Lord’s Mansion, purely relying on these 1,400 sections of firecrackers is slightly insufficient.

Because they are sneaking relatively deep now, at a position of two hundred meters below.

And the foundation of the City Lord’s Mansion is solid, wanting to bomb it away, it is not enough.

But this is Full Moon City, which is built on a powder keg itself.

Fifth-tier firecrackers only need to ignite this powder keg.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Xing sent a message to ask:

"Done?"

"Not yet," Chen Shijie was not so fast, "You check for me, see if there are any omissions."

"Good." Zhao Xing finished his work and immediately came to re-examine the firecrackers placed by Chen Shijie.

Another quarter of an hour passed, fast approaching the agreed withdrawal time, Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie cross-checked twice.

After confirming that there was no problem, they immediately started to withdraw.

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

Action personnel will all have this hand operation.

Because this is not a spell at all, it is just attaching vital energy to the firecrackers and wrapping it up.

As long as it reaches the eighth rank, its control over vital energy can do this, waiting for three quarters of an hour later, it will automatically dissipate.

Without the wrapping of vital energy, the firecrackers will soon explode in the hot underground.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie arrived at the underground outside the city first.

The rest of the personnel returned one after another.

Another quarter of an hour passed, one hundred action personnel arrived completely, and no one had an accident.

"Withdraw!"

Chen Shijie gave an order immediately.

There is only one quarter of an hour left to detonate, they also have to stay away, otherwise they will be affected.

In the City Lord’s Mansion, Basida woke up from a dream.

The two Fire Demon Clan beauties beside him also woke up.

"What’s the matter, Master?"

Basida covered his head and said: "Just had a nightmare, dreamed that I died."

Heavenly Gang Earth Evil body training, Basida, this sixth-rank warrior, his seven souls are very powerful.

The seven souls feed back the life soul, and the life soul can often intersect with the heavenly soul and the earth soul, and can get some predictive induction.

These inductions are generally related to 'past life' and 'causality.'

Therefore, the more advanced the warrior, the harder it is to be snuck up on, because their vigilance will be very high.

"How can it be, we are in Fire Dragon Pass..."

"Shut up!" Basida pushed the beauty away irritably, quickly put on his clothes, and pushed the door open, "Come here!"

"City Lord!" Two guards immediately ran to the door.

"Find the mechanism master Hop, I want to go underground to check," Basida thought about it, and decided to go underground to patrol.

"Also, send someone to look at the pass wall to see if there are enemy troops attacking the city."

"Yes."

Soon, a Fire Demon Clan person with a unique appearance walked over, carrying a mechanism box on his back, and limping a horn.

"Respected City Lord Basida, are you looking for me?"

"Hop, patrol the underground magic array with me," Basida said: "See if there are any problems."

"This..." Hop was stunned, how could Basida think of this kind of thing?

Did he discover something?

"What’s the matter?"

"City Lord, just, just some small things." Hop’s face was stiff.

Under Basida’s questioning, Hop shouted, "What’s the matter, speak quickly!"

Under Basida’s forced questioning, Hop had to tell the truth.

He removed several protective magic arrays during routine inspection last month, including the anti-escape magic array.

Also cut corners, and replaced the array base materials of sixteen magic arrays with secondary ones.

In short, this guy is corrupt.

He thought he was discovered by Basida, and immediately took the initiative to recruit.

"You, you scoundrel!" Basida’s anxiety in his heart became more intense, he grabbed Hop’s neck, and fiercely said: "Quickly take people down to check, and make up for what should be made up!"

"You scoundrels, the Earth Fire Lotus was stolen last month, you actually dare to be so careless!"

Hop responded, but didn't take it to heart.

The Earth Fire Lotus was stolen, what does that have to do with me here?

Aren't you also playing around all day?

But he still called people over, took Basida, and walked through the special passage toward the underground.

Just after diving down, Basida’s anxiety became more intense.

But when he reached the place, this anxiety reached its peak!

"Hmm? What is that?"

Arriving underground, Basida immediately saw the clusters of faint golden light floating beside the underground magic array.

The people around Hop also looked over.

Looking at this, Hop was scared out of his wits.

"That, that is..." Hop was already too scared to speak, his hands and feet were soft.

Basida grabbed Hop, "You scoundrel, speak clearly to me!"

The rest of the people screamed:

"God, that’s fifth-tier firecrackers!"

"So many, and they are about to detonate!"

"Run!"

"What?!"

Basida turned his head to look.

I saw the first golden light cluster go out.

"Bang!"

The intense explosion sound immediately exploded the surrounding rocks.

"Whoosh~" The dragon head that swallowed the ground fire was suddenly exploded at a corner.

Followed by the second, third, fourth... thousands of golden lights went out.

"Boom boom boom!"

A hot light appeared in front of Basida.

Soon, his consciousness fell into darkness completely.

Pang Guangyao stood in the mountain forest, looking at Full Moon City in the distance.

He knew very little about Agricultural Officials, and didn't know what this specialty and Great Zhou’s firecrackers were.

He only knew that 'Xia Jing' took one hundred people to Full Moon City, but the army stayed here.

"Is it a bit arrogant?"

"Just relying on one hundred people to take Full Moon City?"

"In order not to leak the news, shouldn't all 3,000 people kill over together, trying to reduce the wind leakage?"

"Is he really Xia Jing?"

Pang Guangyao was full of doubts.

But just at this time, 'Xia Jing' ran back with people again.

"Heir-apparent..." Pang Guangyao couldn't help asking.

"The whole army obeys the order to withdraw! Withdraw!"

Chen Shijie roared!

But at this time, the earth shook.

"Boom~"

"Boom boom~"

"Sieve sieve sieve~" The trees in the mountain forest also shook constantly.

The earth began to shake violently, Pang Guangyao looked at the mud in the distance arching into a small hill.

"Crack crack crack~" Not far away, a crack of several kilometers suddenly appeared.

"What’s going on?" Pang Guangyao’s heart jumped.

He hurriedly flew up.

Immediately after, he saw a scene he would never forget in his life.

"Boom!"

Full Moon City in the distance flew up!

Yes, it flew up.

It suddenly rose by a hundred meters!

Like a city burning in fire!

The whole city flew a hundred meters into the air in an instant, and then Pang Guangyao watched it disintegrate in an instant, completely disappearing.

It completely disappeared, not even a residue!

Until this time, a dazzling light erupted from the original position of Full Moon City.

The hot light even made Pang Guangyao subconsciously raise his hand to block his eyes.

The shock wave swept toward the surroundings with the naked eye.

A mushroom cloud rose, the earth was like boiling, and the mud on the ground swept toward the surroundings like waves.

"What?!" Pang Guangyao was scared, and immediately retreated, while raising his figure.

"Boom!"

Until a shock wave swept through the mountain forest.

Pang Guangyao heard a loud noise.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~"

"Boom~"

"Crack crack crack~"

At this time, Pang Guangyao saw that the mountain forest below was swept away by the shock wave.

The shock wave carried flames, and in an instant, the mountain forest was ignited.

Burning sounds, cracking sounds, command sounds, many sounds mixed together.

Pang Guangyao followed 'Xia Jing' to withdraw in a daze.

There were three simple flying boats assembled in the vanguard battalion, and each flying boat could hold 1,000 people.

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

Before flying far, they fell heavily to the ground again.

Fortunately, this distance was far enough, and the power of the shock wave was also reduced a lot.

The flying boat did not disintegrate.

Pang Guangyao flew to the side of 'Xia Jing' and shouted loudly: "Heir-apparent, what happened!"

"Full Moon City, how, how is it gone?"

Zhao Xing looked at the disappeared Full Moon City in the distance, he was also panicked, but still said indifferently: "As you can see, naturally we bombed it."

"Bombed?" Pang Guangyao couldn't understand Zhao Xing’s words at all.

A mechanism city occupying 100,000 acres, how could it be bombed?

Chen Shijie looked at the front with lingering fear.

"Damn, it’s better to test the usage of firecrackers in different regions more in the future, the amount this time is too large."

The effect of this firecracker was surprisingly good!

One is that the firecrackers cultivated by Zhao Xing are all fifth-tier firecrackers, and the overall grade is better than what Chen Shijie used before, most of them are fifth-tier top-grade, extreme-grade firecrackers, and a small part are mid-low grade.

Second, Full Moon City is on the fire vein, and it is absorbing the power of ground fire itself.

Third, because of the cutting corners of Hop and others, the power of the firecrackers was not blocked by its own defense magic array, and it was fully exerted.

Treat the enemy leniently, Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing thought this Full Moon City was too strong when formulating the plan.

So they made the firecrackers a lot.

Many factors combined, causing the current effect.

Full Moon City, and dozens of castles around it, all disappeared in this explosion.

Not to mention people, even the stones melted.

If it weren't for running fast and noticing something wrong, I’m afraid our own people would have to explain some in this explosion.

"Yes, we have to get less in the future." Zhao Xing also echoed.

This time directly cured the two people’s fear of insufficient firepower.

Still have to distribute quantitatively in the future.

"Heir-apparent, who, who are you?" Pang Guangyao couldn't help but say, he looked at Zhao Xing at this moment, as if looking at a devil.

Between turning hands, a Full Moon City was gone, which made Pang Guangyao feel fear.

What kind of person did I follow?

"Since things have come to this, I don't need to hide it from you anymore," Zhao Xing clapped his hands and stood up, "Standing in front of you is, Great Zhou Shenwei Army Ninth Section Captain Zhao Xing, belonging to the Ninth Column of the Shenwei Army under the command of Liao Rulong Commandant."

"Shenwei Army?" Pang Guangyao was dumbfounded, he really got on the wrong car!

"However, I didn't lie to you about one point, Xia Jing and I, indeed have origins. We trained together in the Ten Suns Grotto-Heaven, and this time we are fighting side by side."

"What I promised you is equivalent to what Xia Jing promised you, the bull-headed person who sent you the letter, is his name Ye Chongxian?"

Pang Guangyao nodded.

He did know Ye Chongxian’s real name.

"That’s it." Zhao Xing looked at the thunder in the wind layer in the sky, revealing a smile, he walked over, patted Pang Guangyao on the shoulder, "General Pang, the army will be able to break the pass soon, whether you can sit on this title of Great Zhou General depends on yourself."

On September 16th, the Shenwei Army, Black Armor Army, and Zhenhai Army approached Fire Dragon Pass.

Thinking that these Great Zhou armies were here to die, at this time, a loud noise that shook the world suddenly came from the south section of Fire Dragon Pass.

The magic array suddenly failed for four hours!

The Liao Rulong department drove the dragon-head storied ship directly through the pass, and 5,000 people boarded the thousand-meter-high Fire Dragon Pass.

The main general guarding the city, Yue Haisheng, hurriedly went up to the city to supervise the battle, led 10,000 barbarian soldiers to try to extinguish the enemy troops, and ordered people to rush to repair the magic arrays inside and outside the pass.

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

Immediately after, the magic arrays of Guan Shan North and the pass section failed one after another.

The effect of the entire pass defense array was reduced to the lowest effect in nearly two hundred years.

The hundreds of warships of the Zhenhai Army opened to the top of Fire Dragon Pass without any obstruction.

Nether Flame Warship, Three-Leaf Warship, Dragon-Head Storied Ship...

God-destroying crossbow, spirit-breaking crossbow cart, spirit-returning shield cart, heavy water catapult, sky net throwing array... Great Zhou’s peak craftsmanship, densely bombed the pass defense array.

The barrier became dim, and in just an instant, the pass defense array of Fire Dragon Pass was completely beaten to lose its effect.

The Great Halberd Camp of the Wen Shaoyang department and the Dragon Cavalry Camp of the Black Armor Army followed the Liao Rulong department and boarded the pass one after another.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yue Haisheng led the remnants to flee Fire Dragon Pass, and the Fire Dragon Pass, which stretched for nearly forty miles, raised the flag of Great Zhou.

Due to the gap

September 16th and 17th—these two days were entirely a time for the Great Zhou's three armies to harvest battle merits.

After the majestic pass was breached, the Fire Demon tribe's garrison became walking battle merits.

Regardless of numbers or strength, they were simply no match for the Great Zhou's armies.

"Pfft!"

A purple finger pierced through the head of a Rank 7 barbarian general, and electric light scorched his entire body.

"Thump!" This Rank 7 barbarian general, along with the long spear he was holding, plummeted to the ground.

"Heh! Hah!"

On the ground, a phalanx holding three-meter-long halberds moved rapidly below.

When the corpse fell from a height of two hundred meters and reached one hundred meters, it was suddenly torn apart by a thousand-meter-long blood-colored halberd in the air, turning into powder.

"It's Captain Lin Ze under Wen Shaoyang's command."

"A halberdier battalion where every member is a Rank 8 martial artist, using a Qi-Blood Battle Array; the halberds are like a forest." Zhao Xing had just finished chasing down a barbarian soldier when he saw the halberdier battalion below.

One hundred meters above the halberdier phalanx, besides the blood-colored halberd, there was also a phantom of a military flag two hundred meters higher up.

"The Divine Might Army's War Soul Flag." Zhao Xing looked at that flag. "This War Soul Flag is similar to my Solar Term Order."

"However, my Solar Term Order replaces the heaven and earth's solar terms, while this War Soul Flag forms a War Soul Domain."

"Under the coverage of this military flag, all martial artists' willpower and life souls are significantly enhanced."

"With improved willpower and life souls, their combat power also increases accordingly, keeping them in a peak state at all times."

"However, what truly provides the bonus is the battle array below."

Zhao Xing took a close look at the halberdier phalanx led by Lin Ze.

This blood-colored halberd was entirely condensed from Qi and blood.

It was as if invisible beams of light were connecting the one thousand Rank 8 halberdiers below.

The largest blood-colored beam of light was enveloping Lin Ze.

"When the halberdiers' Qi-Blood Battle Array is formed, Lin Ze, a Captain of the Upper Rank 7, possesses the combat power of a Rank 6."

"Furthermore, Lin Ze does not need to issue orders through other means; his combat intent is instantly transmitted into the minds of the one thousand halberdiers."

"One thousand and one hundred people, acting as one!"

"Any soldier who is injured can recover through the blood-colored halberd, because the injuries are shared equally."

"The recovery of vital energy is the same; the blood-colored halberd continuously seizes the surrounding heaven and earth vital energy, and even life energy." Zhao Xing felt his Qi and blood surging, and as a pulling force came from below, he couldn't help but raise his altitude slightly.

"Lin Ze's halberdier battalion has already been trained to the level of a Level 5 battle array; the blood-colored halberd can break ten thousand techniques."

"Assuming I encountered this kind of battle array, aside from the Teng Snake Transformation—a high-level technique that has reached the sixth turn—which could affect him, other high-level techniques would be impossible to use to severely wound him, and I would also be struck by the martial will of these one thousand people."

"Training this kind of battle array to Level 5 is very effective at countering 'mage' teams," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

At this moment, the halberdier phalanx was chasing a group of Fire Demon tribe sorcerers.

Occasionally, a team of sorcerers would attempt to retaliate with spells.

However, any spell that entered the range covered by the War Soul Flag was first weakened by thirty percent.

Immediately after, it would be weakened by another seventy percent by the 'blood-colored halberd' in the sky.

By the time it fell into the halberdier phalanx, it was simply painless and ineffective.

Because this was the most elite halberdier battalion under Wen Shaoyang, a Level 5 blood-Qi battle array required long-term tempering; the soldiers had to be one with each other, and the techniques and martial arts they practiced had to be exactly the same to achieve this effect.

It had been a long time since Zhao Xing had seen such an elite halberdier battalion.

"Zhao Xing, what are you dazing off for!" A familiar voice came. Zhao Xing turned his head to look; it was Xia Jing riding a flying dragon.

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

"Why aren't you grabbing battle merits at a time like this?" Xia Jing said. "Hurry up and cut off heads; all three armies have now activated the Judicial Yin Spirit patrols, and there are Mirage Pearls recording everything."

"The heads cut off at this time won't have a single one missed."

"Got it!" Zhao Xing smiled and immediately rode the clouds to chase in one direction.

On September 19th, after the fall of Fire Dragon Pass, the pursuit of the barbarian soldiers came to an end.

There were only a few tens of thousands of them to begin with, not enough for everyone on the Great Zhou side to kill.

Zhao Xing also participated in this battle merit hunt, but there was an unwritten rule in the army: at this time, high-level generals would not compete for merits with low-level soldiers.

During this kind of free-pursuit battle, a period purely for grabbing merits, Zhao Xing was Rank 7, so he had to go kill Rank 7 enemies, unless he was surrounded by a group of Rank 8s and had no other choice.

Otherwise, the battle merits belonged to the high-level generals; if the people below had no battle merits, that would be too unkind.

The evening of September 20th.

The Battle of Fire Dragon Pass came to an end, and the news spread, causing a sensation throughout the entire Pacify Barbarians war zone.

No one expected that the eastern front, which had always been considered the least likely to have a breakthrough, would achieve such great results.

Fire Dragon Pass, which had stood for a thousand years without falling, had actually been taken down by the Divine Might Army.

The news swept through the entire war zone like the wind.

The impact it caused began to ferment in different places, not just in Great Zhou, but even in the Golden Feather Royal Court...

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

Because the battle merit assessment from the Military Realm had arrived.

This chapter is 6.6K; for the rest of this month, I will basically maintain updates of over ten thousand words.

Let's see how much of the backlog I've paid off by the end of the month!