Chapter 528: Kill the thieves!

For a moment, Du Du Tiechuan fell into a dilemma.

It was naturally impossible to make the torrent of steel turn. If it could turn flexibly, he would not have gritted his teeth and continued the charge when facing the Ghost Gate Pass earlier—it would have been much better to bypass it; why suffer a twenty percent loss in troops?

And if he were to continue forward and crush his own vanguard, it would naturally not cause much loss to the main force.

However, this did not mean that combat effectiveness would not decline.

According to the art of war, the main body that carries and exerts military tactics is usually the soldiers. And the soldiers' morale and spirit have a huge impact on the exertion of combat effectiveness.

Once they kill each other, it is inevitable that the enemy will gloat and their morale will soar, while his own side will know: they have fallen into the enemy's poisonous scheme and are being played in the palm of their hand. Even if the military tactics are strong, they will appear foolish.

In this way, morale will be greatly reduced, combat effectiveness will plummet, and huge flaws will be created, giving the enemy an opportunity to exploit.

One must know that although the Iron Flow Flat Plain is extremely powerful, it has already penetrated deep into the enemy's hinterland. Once combat effectiveness declines significantly, it will definitely be besieged by the enemy.

Sure enough, before they even reached the vanguard camp, the main army was already in an uproar, and people's hearts were wavering.

The soldiers were shaken, and so were the generals.

If they really killed each other, how would they explain it when they returned to the Royal Capital? There would inevitably be major questioning. Those with weak backbones might even be imprisoned and convicted!

In the imperial court of the Liangzhu Kingdom, this was the atmosphere.

In the previous ambush, Sun Gan was a warning.

At that time, the Golden Halberd Army led by Sun Gan was trapped by the Light Mountain Heavy Mist Map. Although they broke out, they had already missed the opportunity for rescue.

The White Jade Camp suffered heavy casualties, losing both men and resources.

Many children of noble families were lost, and the imperial court had great opinions about Sun Gan.

By the time Sun Gan intervened in the General Mu Lan affair, he had further offended the monarch of the Liangzhu Kingdom.

Therefore, when it came to the subsequent probing, Du Du Tiechuan directly arranged for the Golden Halberd Army to go out as a pawn to probe the strength of the Thousand Peaks Forest.

This led to Sun Gan being captured and the entire Golden Halberd Army being wiped out.

And now, the situation of the heavy armored main force was undoubtedly even worse!

They were not missing a battle opportunity, nor were they failing to save someone in danger, but killing each other!

Even General Du Du Tiechuan would bear extremely heavy responsibility.

Even if the monarch pardoned him, his reputation would suffer a devastating blow.

One might ask—if he charged straight through, who would dare to fight under his command in the future?

This infamy was too heavy.

If not handled well, Du Du Tiechuan would be shelved, almost cutting off his path as a general.

At this moment, Lu Lu Lu Hongtu looked on with deep eyes, observing the battle situation.

He wore a smile, calm and relaxed, enjoying the wonderful feeling of being in control of the overall situation.

The surrounding cultivators cast admiring and awe-filled glances at him from time to time.

This leader of the Six Caves Sect displayed the power of his intellect at this very moment.

"Du Du Tiechuan, even if you are at the Soul Transformation level. Your choice at this moment will affect your entire life."

"So, how will you choose?"

"I, Lu, am very curious."

At this moment, Du Du Tiechuan seemed to have thought a lot, or perhaps he had not thought at all.

His face was calm, his eyes looked straight ahead, his gaze was neither unfocused nor wavering, and there was not the slightest hesitation.

Just as the deputy generals were urgently seeking his orders, he had already spoken—

"Advance."

The answer was only two words.

The deputy generals stared, some transmitted their thoughts through spiritual sense, calling out urgently: "But, Commander..."

"Continue to advance." Du Du Tiechuan spoke again.

His tone was ordinary, neither impassioned nor gnashing his teeth, still concise and to the point.

The deputy generals were dumbfounded, their whole bodies chilled, and their hearts were filled with awe.

"Stop, stop quickly, we are friendly forces." In the vanguard camp, some generals' expressions changed drastically, and they shouted one after another.

The garrisoned elite soldiers also became panicked.

This vanguard army was a regular army of the Liangzhu Kingdom, well-trained and of high quality. Many people knew the terrifying power of the Iron Flow Flat Plain.

"If we stay any longer, we will Zhao Die."

"Move quickly."

"Damn it! There are formations all around, we can't get out at all. To get out, we must break the formation."

But breaking the formation obviously required a lot of time.

At this critical juncture, this was fatal!

Some deputy generals hurried over to the side of the main general.

"My lord, it's too late to break the formation now."

"The enemy's scheme is too poisonous. Since they designed it this way, they certainly won't let us leave this place easily."

"What should we do now?"

"We will go all out, fight to the death to attack and defend, perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope!" A young general suggested with a face full of shock and anger.

His suggestion was agreed upon by many generals.

The middle-aged main general took a deep look at the young general and sighed heavily: "Things have come to this, we can only do this."

Immediately, the main general took out the general's seal, sat in the center, and let the other deputy generals leave to guard the various formation eyes and formation feet, forming the most powerful battle formation.

The soldiers were all mobilized, and in order to survive, they would definitely go all out this time.

"Go all out, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope to survive!" The young general shouted to encourage those around him.

However, just as the battle formation was about to be successfully concluded, it suddenly collapsed.

The formation failed, the soldiers wailed and fell to the ground, countless people vomited blood, and many others fainted on the spot.

The scene was in chaos.

The generals were also deeply backlashed.

The young general among them roared in disbelief: "Impossible!"

He bled from his seven orifices, ran to the main general's tent, and roared at the main general: "My lord!"

The main general suffered the heaviest backlash and had already fallen to the ground, in a pool of blood.

The subsequent deputy generals also gathered in the tent with wounded bodies.

Seeing the main general like this, the look of shock and anger on their faces gradually faded.

Only the young general remained indignant.

The main general looked around and said in a calm tone: "Everyone, if we resist stubbornly, we will inevitably offset the combat effectiveness of our main force."

"This is exactly the enemy's poisonous scheme!"

"If we do this, we will fall into the trap."

"Therefore, I deliberately failed the formation. In this way, letting the Iron Flow Flat Plain crush us is the best decision for the battle situation at the moment!"

"Marshal Du Du Tiechuan... although I don't like him, as soldiers of the Liangzhu Kingdom, we should see the situation clearly."

"The enemy's scheme is vicious. If we consume ourselves with the main army, the outcome of this battle is still unknown."

"But if we act like this, it will inevitably make this new army a sorrowful army, with soaring morale!"

"Everyone! You must recognize clearly that it is the enemy army that is framing us, not the friendly army. Only by doing this is it the most correct revenge, and the situation the enemy least wants to see."

"Cough, cough, cough."

Having said this, the main general lowered his head and coughed blood continuously.

Some of the deputy generals were solemn, some were furious, some were gnashing their teeth in hatred, but none refuted.

Even the young general was the same.

"Bastard! To be calculated by the enemy."

"Even if I become a ghost, I will not let go of the person who implemented this poisonous scheme."

"My lord is absolutely right, although I am very unwilling, I can only do this."

"Cough, cough, cough." Some people also vomited blood and smiled miserably, "What else can we choose? Even if we want to resist stubbornly, with such injuries, we have no hope at all."

"My lord, I hate you, and I admire you." "However, dying for the country like this, our clan will inevitably be rewarded and supported by the monarch. Forget it, let's just do this!"

The deputy generals were all persuaded, or forced to admit, and voluntarily gave up the struggle.

They left one after another, returned to their posts, comforted the soldiers, and revoked all defensive formations.

Only the young general remained.

He walked to the main general's side, squatted down, and wanted to help the main general up.

It did not succeed.

The main general's injuries were too severe, so that even a slightly larger movement could cut off his last breath.

Therefore, the young general finally just squatted on the ground and hugged the main general's upper body.

The young general gritted his teeth, but the unstoppable tears dripped onto the main general's blood-stained armor along his cheeks.

The main general's eyes were already dim, entering the countdown of life.

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He barely recognized the young general's appearance: "Sorry, I let you end up like this on your first battle."

The young general was originally sobbing, and when he heard this, he suddenly laughed: "Dad, son, I have practiced hard for decades, and I don't know how many times I have looked forward to and imagined my first battle to kill the enemy."

The main general also laughed: "Stinky boy, when you enter the army, you should call me my lord..."

His voice became lighter and lighter, and stopped abruptly.

The young general's expression suddenly stiffened, tears poured down, but the corners of his mouth split open, revealing a brilliant smile: "Dad, don't worry. Even if we all sacrifice, I still have a son, and you still have a grandson. My Wu family will inevitably flourish!"

He carefully laid his father's body flat on the ground.

Then, he stood up, put on his helmet, lifted the tent curtain, held his head high, and walked out of the main general's tent.

He ordered the gates to be opened, stood on the gate tower, fully armed, and shouted with his arms raised: "Soldiers, shout with me—Kill the thieves!"

Under the leadership of the generals, the vanguard army had already recognized the situation and was already solemn.

Hearing the young general's shout, many people felt their blood boil, pulled their throats, and many people had red eyes and shouted loudly.

"Kill the thieves!"

"Kill the thieves!!"

"Kill the thieves!!!"

They gave up all defenses, wore full armor, just for the sake of decency before death.

Their shouts, with all their might, resounded through the world and shook the clouds.

At this moment, it seemed to be even louder and more shocking than the buzzing thunder of the Iron Flow Flat Plain sweeping and rolling!

"The vanguard army, they..."

Countless soldiers in the heavy armored main force had tears in their eyes, their emotions stirred, and they were choked with sobs.

Du Du Tiechuan took a deep breath and shouted for the first time in a tone that was not flat: "Advance!"

Rumble...

The Iron Flow Flat Plain crushed the vanguard camp in an instant, grinding everything into powder.

The vanguard soldiers stood proudly in place, motionless, staring at the arrival of death with unparalleled courage.

The shouts of "Kill the thieves" continued until the moment they lost their lives.

This was a trust, a hope, and a heavy responsibility, which fell on the shoulders of the heavy armored soldiers like a mountain.

The morale of the heavy armored main force was violent!

"Kill the thieves!"

"Kill the thieves!!"

"Kill the thieves!!!"

They shouted while running wildly.

The shouts of killing the thieves did not Zhao Die out with the destruction of the vanguard army, but were passed on to the heavy armored main force very naturally.

No one wavered anymore.

Everyone was filled with roars.

Ning Zhuo was among them, and even as a person from another country, he was deeply shocked by this scene.

He was strongly infected, and at this moment, he also threw himself into it selflessly, becoming one of the thousands of shouting soldiers.

And when he was fully immersed in it, his realization of the Iron Flow Flat Plain military tactics broke through his previous limits and reached the peak.

He not only felt the emotions of the comrades around him, but even felt the thoughts of dozens of people around him.

"The enemy is too poisonous, find the person who designed this, and must smash his bones and scatter his ashes."

"Kill, kill the thieves! This time we must kill double to sacrifice to the vanguard army!"

"We will not give up until the blood flows all over the mountain!!"

Millions of people with one heart, military power soared.

The heavy armored main force slammed into the Dragon King Giant Wood Mountain with a violent and terrifying posture.

"Such iron-blooded heroism... magnificent." Even a weak woman like Shen Shen Qinghe could not help but have her heart stirred when seeing this scene.

Zhu Zhu Zhu Xuanji's eyes flashed, and he sighed: "Although the Liangzhu Kingdom is small, the soldiers are willing to Zhao Die, so they cannot be lightly insulted."

On the other hand, the alliance of the Thousand Peaks Forest, the faces of each cultivator were very solemn.

Lu Lu Lu Hongtu no longer had his previous grace, his face was livid, and in front of the vanguard army's voluntary sacrifice, he felt like a clown.

Long Ye had a worried face, and fear was revealed in the depths of his eyes.

He looked at the Dragon King Giant Wood Mountain with extreme heartache, and shouted wildly in his heart: "No, absolutely cannot let the enemy army knock down the Dragon King Mountain!!"

However, even as strong as he was, he did not dare to touch its sharp edge, and he also knew deeply that it was a pipe dream for one person to block such a torrent of steel.

Long Ye was powerless, and the other cultivators were even more helpless.

The mountain ground shook violently.

Countless ginseng roots, like giant dragons and pythons, rushed out from the ground one after another.

In the blink of an eye, it had transformed the battlefield into another appearance.

Brown-red ginseng roots covered the mountains, blocking the sky and the sun, thousands of them, rushing towards the torrent of steel.

Boom, boom, boom!

The ginseng roots smashed into the iron flow, splashing countless heavy black waves.

The torrent of steel continued to sweep.

Each ginseng root supported for at least twenty breaths before disintegrating.

Countless huge ginseng roots whipped, slapped, besieged, and divided this heavy armored main force from the front, side, and behind the torrent, from all directions.

A tragic hand-to-hand battle was staged in front of many cultivators.

The torrent of steel was truly contained for the first time, and its speed plummeted all the way.

Only the Ginseng Root Dragon King, a true Soul Transformation level combat power, could do this!

And in order to contain this torrent of steel, the ginseng roots also suffered heavy casualties. But no matter how many were sacrificed, new ginseng roots continued to emerge one after another.

"Kill the thieves!"

"Kill the thieves!!"

"Kill the thieves!!!"

The heavy armored main force was still shouting in unison, ignoring the sacrifice of comrades around them under the attack of the ginseng roots, fully executing military orders, and following Du Du Tiechuan to charge forward.

Boom!

They broke through the heavy siege and slammed into the Dragon King Giant Wood Mountain.

Countless defensive formations, spells, and talismans on the mountain peak shone with brilliant light.

It could not support for ten breaths, the mountain body shook violently, then slowly tilted, and landed heavily.

Rumble...

The mountain ground shook violently, and thick smoke rolled.

Dragon King Giant Wood Mountain, fell!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 529 =====