Chapter 450

July 5th.

The third day after the Killing Barbarian Army was officially established.

The Northern Border had a big move!

Troops were dispatched simultaneously from five large cities and twenty-one military towns, with a total of fifty thousand border troops gathering on a large scale on the border line.

This move naturally attracted the attention of the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes, and the scouts of both sides had already started frequent exchanges.

However, in the past, the Northern Border Border Army had also had such large-scale military exercises, so the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes were temporarily not too nervous.

Until over twelve thousand Green Frost Army soldiers all came out in full force, all rushing to the border!

Now the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes had to attach importance to it.

With only a little over fifty thousand border troops, even if they all charged into the wilderness jungle, they wouldn't be able to stir up much of a splash.

The seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes even had the opportunity to annihilate them all!

But the Green Frost Army was different.

A thousand-person-level army corresponded to Grandmaster combat power, and a five-thousand-person-level military formation could already contend head-on with a Martial Saint or True Monarch.

A ten-thousand-person-level military formation was a force sufficient to surround and kill top-tier powerhouses!

However, since the founding of the Great Lan Dynasty, apart from the Founding Emperor, no Son of Heaven had ever sent the Green Frost Army deep into the wilderness to fight.

The Green Frost Army was indeed astonishing in combat power; if it were just one or two major battles, it could completely settle the matter in one stroke, sweeping across the army!

But if the battle line were stretched long, and the timeline of a campaign were also stretched long, once the Green Frost Army fell into the situation of long-term combat, the situation wouldn't be good.

Whether it was the soldiers or the Sha weapons on their bodies, there was wear and tear; once the number of people fell below a certain limit, or the Sha weapons on their bodies were worn out too heavily, the combat power of the Green Frost Army would be greatly reduced!

The seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes wouldn't foolishly concentrate everyone together to fight head-on with the Green Frost Army, and would definitely use the terrain to continuously pull and drag, fighting the guerrilla warfare they were best at.

Therefore, even if the Green Frost Army were sent to slaughter their way into the wilderness, it would be very difficult to completely eradicate the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes; instead, there is a possibility that the Green Frost Army could get trapped in the wilderness jungle.

Once the Green Frost Army was annihilated, or suffered heavy losses and had its establishment beaten away, this loss to the Great Lan Dynasty would absolutely be no less than the loss brought by Qingxu's rebellion!

The Great Lan Dynasty had been founded for over five hundred years, and it had taken the strength of the whole country to barely maintain four ten-thousand-person-level Imperial Camp Armies.

There were over a dozen top-tier powerhouses in the world, and the Imperial Court only occupied three of them; under such circumstances, the entire Jianghu still had to honestly abide by the rules set by the Imperial Court.

Why?

These four ten-thousand-person-level Imperial Camp Armies were the most important reason!

Once, a Chief Grand Secretary even publicly published a statement:

As long as these four ten-thousand-person-level Imperial Camp Armies were always firmly grasped in the hands of the Imperial Court, the Great Lan Dynasty could have a stable country forever!

From this, one could see the importance of these four ten-thousand-person-level Imperial Camp Armies.

Since the Taizu Emperor, no Son of Heaven had dared to easily send these four Imperial Camp Armies out to fight.

These four Imperial Camp Armies, even if they did nothing, just by existing there, were enough to deter all directions!

So when the Green Frost Army gathered collectively and rushed to the border to converge with those fifty thousand elite border troops, the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes still didn't quite believe that the Great Lan Dynasty would have big moves.

On the border line, the army gathered on a plain.

Ahead was a large area of primitive jungle and continuous mountain ranges.

Fifty thousand elite border troops were arranged in five huge square formations, having finished lining up on the plain.

These fifty thousand people, the vast majority wore light leather armor.

Everyone apart from cold weapons, also carried firearms on their backs.

On the plain, there were also over a hundred large trucks, loaded with various supplies.

Hundreds of heavy machine guns!

Hundreds of portable mortars!

In this era, there are actually howitzers with longer range and greater power, but the terrain of the wilderness dictates that such weapons cannot be brought inside, so portable mortars are the most suitable weapons.

The earth suddenly shook, and dust flew in the distance.

A cyan torrent rushed from the distance toward this side.

This torrent carried a sky-high Sha aura and momentum, as if everything between heaven and earth would be leveled before this torrent!

The fifty thousand elite border troops on the field all became solemn.

They knew, the Green Frost Army had come!

Soon, the cyan torrent rushed onto this plain, lining up in front of the five square formations, arranged in a long snake formation.

When the torrent stopped, twelve thousand Green Frost Army soldiers wearing full sets of cyan armor, holding long spears and waist-worn battle blades, stood in front of the fifty thousand border troops.

Unlike the elite border troops behind them, they didn't carry any thermal weapons, because they didn't need to!

After the Green Frost Army arrived, Prince Cheng, wearing golden five-clawed dragon-scale armor, led a group of high-ranking Northern Border generals to climb a temporarily built high platform.

Prince Cheng stood at the very front, his gaze sweeping over the soldiers below.

He didn't speak, just stood in place and looked at everyone for a full minute.

Then he suddenly drew the sword at his waist:

"Kill!"

The aura of a peak Grandmaster was fully opened, rushing straight into the sky clouds!

On the plain, wind and snow appeared suddenly, and the sky was filled with ice and frost falling from the sky.

The next second, twelve thousand Green Frost Army soldiers drew their blades almost simultaneously.

Cyan light slashed white snow!

Immediately following, fifty thousand elite border troops also drew their blades one after another.

Tens of thousands of soldiers shouted in unison:

"Kill—"

The killing sound shook the sky clouds!

On the plain, the ice and snow dissipated.

Prince Cheng Qin Qin Shixian sheathed his sword, finally leaving one sentence:

"Expedition!"

Thus, this oath-taking meeting ended here.

Next, this great army did not immediately charge into the wilderness, but instead began to collect supplies on the spot.

At the same time, behind them, another team of over sixty thousand people was rushing toward this plain in a vast and mighty manner.

These over sixty thousand people were laborers conscripted from the Northern Border, everyone carrying a large bag of things, inside were food, water, and various medicines.

These laborers will follow the army into the wilderness together.

Because the soldiers had to wear armor, carry weapons and ammunition, and maintain timely combat power, they couldn't carry too much food.

Each soldier carried at most about five days of rations, while the laborers behind could carry about thirty days of rations.

So sixty thousand large army plus sixty thousand laborers, the food carried was enough for everyone to eat for about eighteen days.

If the return journey is included, the army has at most only nine days to venture deep into the wilderness.

Even if they live off the land, hunting wild beasts and exotic beasts in the wilderness jungle, and gathering wild vegetables and fruits, it would at most allow the army to hold out for a few more days.

Given the complex terrain and treacherous environment of the wilderness, one can march at most a dozen or so miles a day.

In a dozen or so days, they can only march no more than two hundred miles in the wilderness.

This distance couldn't reach many places at all.

This is an important reason why, for so many years, the Great Lan Dynasty has never sent a large army deep into the wilderness.

The logistics problem was difficult to solve, and no matter how strong the army's combat power was, it was useless.

After all, people would die if they didn't eat...

But this time, the Great Lan Dynasty was determined to take the initiative to attack!

The oath-taking meeting was held at 8 am, and it continued until past 1 pm, when the large army on the plain had received all the supplies and equipment.

Over sixty thousand laborers also all arrived on the plain and were incorporated into various teams.

At this time, this large army, which could claim to be one hundred and twenty thousand on the outside, finally set off.

One hundred and twenty thousand people marched in a vast and mighty manner toward the front, one after another entering the primitive jungle that couldn't be seen to the end.

The quiet jungle suddenly became lively.

The direction the large army chose to enter was the joint defense zone of the three major Northern Barbarian tribes, and these three major tribes had now all sworn allegiance to the Northern Barbarian King, and they had jointly set up a defense line in this jungle.

The sentries hidden in the dark, various fatal traps, poisonous insects, wild beasts, and even exotic beasts being raised, all together formed a defense line with Northern Barbarian characteristics.

This was the first defense line set up by the three major tribes.

If the large army marched normally, the casualties on the first day would likely be an astonishing number!

However, all the sentries, traps, poisonous insects, and fierce beasts were like foam before a cyan torrent.

On the first day of the march, Prince Cheng chose to use the strongest Green Frost Army!

Six thousand Green Frost Army soldiers jointly stimulated the military formation, turning into a cyan torrent with sky-high momentum and rushing toward the front.

Wherever it passed, let alone any traps and living things, towering ancient trees, dense ferns, everything was crushed!

Wherever the Green Frost Army passed, dangerous places became smooth roads!

If one looked down from the air, one could see a cyan torrent over a thousand meters long rushing into the green jungle.

Wherever it passed, the green was gone, leaving only a piece of gray-yellow land.

Nature's uncanny workmanship created this wilderness jungle, but at this moment, the Green Frost Army is using its great power to reshape heaven and earth!

After six thousand Green Frost Army soldiers rushed a distance toward the front, they were replaced by the remaining six thousand Green Frost Army soldiers rushing to the very front.

The Green Frost Army was divided into two, and just like this, it rolled forward in a relay manner.

One hour later, the Green Frost Army forcibly carved out a thousand-meter-wide, one-hundred-mile-long rugged "highway" through the wilderness jungle!

Even if a Martial Saint or True Monarch came, it would be difficult to do such a thing!

Twelve thousand Green Frost Army soldiers joined together and returned along the original path.

Behind, the eleven thousand large army was still moving forward slowly.

Under normal circumstances, one can march with great difficulty for at most eleven or twelve miles a day in the wilderness.

But now because of the strong opening of the Green Frost Army, by 8 pm, in just half a day, the vanguard of the large army had already marched over twenty li!

And the whole process was very smooth, without any reduction in personnel!

The Northern Barbarian three major tribes responsible for this defense zone were also stunned; they didn't expect Prince Cheng would choose such a domineering way to open the road.

This also completely disrupted their plans.

The place where the Green Frost Army finally stopped was less than twenty li away from the headquarters of one of the three major tribes, the Dream Lion Tribe!

According to the current marching situation of the Northern Border large army, it would take at most three days to kill their way there.

In three days, the people at the Dream Lion Tribe headquarters wouldn't have time to evacuate at all.

And just relying on the strength of the three major tribes, it was also impossible to block this Northern Border large army.

Dream Lion Rock.

A large area of wooden houses was built against the mountain, and there were also many tree houses and mountain caves.

This was the headquarters of the Dream Lion Tribe.

Among the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes, the Dream Lion Tribe belonged to the downstream in terms of population and strength, with a total population of less than two hundred thousand, and thirteen thousand people gathered at the headquarters.

Because of the special nature of the Northern Barbarian, the men of the tribe could all be counted as qualified warriors after reaching adulthood.

So setting aside the old, weak, women, and children, the Dream Lion Tribe headquarters had over forty thousand of the most elite warriors!

It was just that these elite warriors all used cold weapons, and the proportion of martial artists wasn't high.

If it were a different terrain, these forty thousand Dream Lion Tribe warriors against forty thousand fully armed Northern Border border troops, they could only be slaughtered!

And even in the wilderness jungle, fighting on the home turf of the Northern Barbarian warriors, after learning of the Green Frost Army's terrifying power to reshape heaven and earth, the high-level members of the Dream Lion Tribe did not believe their own warriors could block the enemy.

It just so happened that the Northern Border large army came too fast!

The Dream Lion Tribe didn't even have time to evacuate.

Fight, they couldn't win.

The option of retreating was wiped out by the Green Frost Army with their own hands from the beginning.

This was the predicament of the Dream Lion Tribe at this time.

A man over two meters three tall, covered in mysterious tattoos, with long hair, beautiful muscle lines, wearing a lion-head golden crown, and having a majestic aura, walked to the highest point of Dream Lion Rock with a solemn expression.

Here was an ancient tree over thirty meters high, and a wooden house was built on top of the ancient tree.

This wooden house was where the Great Elder of the Dream Lion Tribe lived.

The seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes each had their own customs; in some tribes, the highest leader was the tribe leader.

In some tribes, the highest leader was the Great Elder.

Still others were led by a council of elders for the entire tribe.

The Dream Lion Tribe usually decided all matters by the tribe leader, but the person who truly suppressed the tribe's luck and shouldered the most important mission of the tribe was the Great Elder within the tribe.

Nari Suqi easily climbed the wooden house, saluted respectfully outside the door, and said in the language of the Dream Lion Tribe:

"Great Elder, I need your guidance."

Nari Suqi was the tribe leader of the Dream Lion Tribe; he had already learned about the Green Frost Army forcibly opening the road, and immediately ordered to block the news, not allowing it to spread within the tribe.

"Come in."

A gentle female voice came from inside the wooden house.

Nari Suqi walked into the wooden house, inside sat a young woman wearing animal skin clothes, revealing most of her skin, with a well-proportioned figure.

She was the Great Elder of the Dream Lion Tribe, looking much younger than the tribe leader Nari Suqi.

In fact, her age was indeed nearly fifty years younger than the tribe leader Nari Suqi!

"Great Elder."

Nari Suqi saluted the woman very respectfully.

The Great Elder signaled Nari Suqi to sit down.

"Great Elder, you should already know about the Green Frost Army opening the road, right?"

Nari Suqi went straight to the point.

The Great Elder nodded calmly.

Nari Suqi: "What do you think we should do next?"

The Great Elder didn't hesitate: "Ask the Northern Barbarian King for help."

"But the enemy can kill their way here in at most three days, even if we ask the Northern Barbarian King for help, the other party won't have time to mobilize too many warriors!"

Nari Suqi's tone was anxious.

"Before the reinforcements arrive, we only need to fight hard to block them."

The Great Elder said calmly.

Nari Suqi was startled, hurriedly asking: "Did you foresee something?"

The seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes also had Martial Dao and Art Dao inheritances, the power system was the same as the Central Plains, it was just that they had their own characteristics in martial arts and art methods.

In fact, the Northern Barbarian wasn't just seventeen tribes, there were many very small tribes.

It was just that these tribes either lived in seclusion in the deep mountains, had very little contact with the outside world, or chose to attach themselves to the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes, becoming their vassal tribes.

And the reason the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes were famous, apart from the comprehensive strength of the tribes themselves, was also because these seventeen tribes all had complete inheritances of Grandmasters or top-tier True Persons!

Not only that, every tribe had its own secrets, they could ensure that the tribe's highest combat power wouldn't be cut off.

Either there were always people becoming Grandmasters or top-tier True Persons, or they could reach this level of combat power in other ways.

The Dream Lion Tribe mainly inherited not Martial Dao, but Art Dao.

The Great Elder was the only top-tier True Person in the tribe, and mastered a secret art that could predict the future!

Because of this secret art, whenever there was a major event involving the life and death of the tribe, Nari Suqi would come to ask the Great Elder.

The Great Elder shook her head with a smile:

"The Great Lan Dynasty has that True Monarch Yun Shu protecting it, the other party definitely cast spells to cover up the heavenly secrets before the large army set off, if I dared to use secret arts to predict information related to this large army, wouldn't that be seeking death?"

Nari Suqi subconsciously lowered his voice, seemingly wary of that True Monarch Yun Shu:

"But, isn't it said that the National Master suffered heavy injuries and is in seclusion to heal?"

The Great Elder: "This battle concerns the national destiny, even if the National Master has heavier injuries, it's impossible for him to stand by and watch."

Nari Suqi's expression was puzzled: "Then Great Elder, you..."

The Great Elder blinked at him:

"Some things don't necessarily have to rely on secret arts to be predicted."

Nari Suqi immediately stood up and saluted: "Please Great Elder, give me guidance."

The Great Elder didn't sell it anymore:

"Why do you think the Great Lan Dynasty suddenly launched this war?"

Nari Suqi could be a tribe leader, naturally he wasn't stupid, immediately saying:

"Because of the Northern Barbarian King!"

"Not bad, the Northern Barbarian King has already unified eleven tribes, the Great Lan Dynasty won't sit by and watch him completely unify the Northern Barbarian."

"Then why does the Northern Border large army have to rush directly at us?"

"Because we are the weakest."

"..."

"The Green Frost Army's combat power is indeed astonishing, but like today's forcible opening of the road, the consumption must also be astonishing. Just started fighting, and they chose to hand over the sharpest blade in their hands, why do you think the other party wants to do this?"

"... To catch us off guard and eliminate us at the fastest speed?"

"Who is their true target this time?"

"It's the Northern Barbarian King."

"If they eliminate us, will the Northern Barbarian King die?"

"No... I understand!"

Nari Suqi revealed a sudden realization:

"This Northern Border large army's true target is to lure the Northern Barbarian King!"

The Great Elder nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, so the enemy definitely won't eliminate us so quickly, they need to use us to lure the reinforcements. Whether the Northern Barbarian King sends people to rescue, or he leads the army to rescue in person, it will leave an opportunity for the other party."

Nari Suqi was somewhat anxious, he was someone who truly admired the Northern Barbarian King, and also truly believed that the other party could bring a different future to the Northern Barbarian:

"Can the Northern Barbarian King think of this point? Will he know that this is a trap?"

The Great Elder: "The Northern Barbarian King is a person with true wisdom, he certainly can also see this point clearly."

Nari Suqi said anxiously: "Then will he still rescue us?"

The Great Elder looked at him: "Do you hope he rescues us?"

Nari Suqi was silent instantly.

As a tribe leader, he naturally hoped the Northern Barbarian King could rescue them.

But he was also worried about the other party's safety.

"He will definitely choose to rescue."

The Great Elder said firmly.

Nari Suqi was surprised: "Why?"

Knowing clearly that it was the enemy's trap, why still so firmly step into it?

"Because he wants to become the true Northern Barbarian King!"

The Great Elder said so.

Nari Suqi: "..."

He understood.

The Dream Lion Tribe only chose to swear allegiance to the other party not long ago, now that their own subordinates were in trouble, if the Northern Barbarian King didn't choose to rescue, how could he convince the masses in the future?

How would the remaining six tribes that hadn't yet sworn allegiance swear allegiance to him?

So even if he knew clearly that it was a trap, the Northern Barbarian King had to rush in!

"Central Plains people call this kind of scheme a scheme under the sun."

The Great Elder said, "It is to uprightly lay out the scheme, even if the other party knows, the other party has to fall into the trap."

"Scheme under the sun..."

Nari Suqi felt a chill in his heart.

On the first day of the great war, the Great Lan Dynasty completed the placement of the general against the Northern Barbarian King.

Luring the enemy into the trap!

On the Northern Border border line, an army of only over seven thousand people also completed the gathering.

They were waiting for the moment they would draw their swords.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 451 =====