Chapter 554: Unrivaled!

December 26th.

The sky was snowing heavily, and the entire Northern Frontier was frozen for a thousand miles, with snow drifting for ten thousand miles.

Polu City.

One of the five large cities of the Northern Frontier.

On the tall city walls were placed heavy machine guns and city defense cannons; soldiers stood guard on the city walls against the wind and snow, with fire basins for warmth not far behind them.

Several thousand meters away from the city walls was a continuous stretch of camps.

A fifty-thousand-strong Northern Barbarian army was stationed here!

Since the war began, the million-strong Northern Barbarian army first split into dozens of teams, attacking the five large cities and over twenty military towns of the Northern Frontier respectively.

Now, half of the military towns had fallen!

As for the five large cities that were easy to defend and hard to attack, the Northern Barbarian army, lacking gunpowder weapons and siege equipment, adopted a strategy of surrounding without attacking.

They stationed tens of thousands of troops outside each of the five large cities, pinning down the Northern Frontier border soldiers inside the cities so they wouldn't dare to easily split their forces to support other places.

So in the days since the war began, other places were fighting exceptionally fiercely, and even the rear Beichuan Province was full of war, while the five large cities on the front line were exceptionally calm.

But this did not mean that these five large cities were unimportant.

These five large cities not only pinned down nearly three hundred thousand Northern Barbarian troops but also stuck firmly in key locations, preventing the Northern Barbarian army from flooding into the rear Beichuan Province in large numbers.

They could only climb mountains and cross ridges, take various dangerous paths and small roads, and bear a large number of non-combat reductions before they could slowly "smuggle" a portion of their forces into the rear Beichuan Province!

Inside the military camp of Polu City, the Prince of Cheng, Qin Qin Shixian, was browsing military intelligence in his room.

The Great Lan Dynasty had a total of four Provincial Military Commanders, plus the commanders of the three Imperial Guard Armies, the Deputy Commander of the Tian Lan Iron Cavalry, Huang Huang Qiyuan, and the Commander of the Forbidden Army, Han Mu.

The military had a total of nine Grandmasters!

Besides this, there were four top-tier True Persons among the retainers of the Military Intelligence Bureau, each guarding one of the four borders.

These four top-tier True Persons and nine Grandmasters were the thirteen strongest individuals in the military of the Great Lan Dynasty, besides the "God of War," Wen Ren Zheng.

There had never been a definitive ranking of the combat strength of these thirteen top powerhouses.

But who among the thirteen was truly the strongest had always been a topic of discussion in the military.

The Prince of Cheng, who possessed the cultivation of the peak Li Dao (Establishing the Dao) realm, had always been a hot topic of discussion.

Many in the military felt that the Prince of Cheng and the Commander of the Forbidden Army, Han Mu, should be the strongest in the military of the Great Lan Dynasty, besides Wen Ren Zheng!

Of course, now there was one more, the Grand General of the Northern Expedition, Li Fei.

With Li Fei.

Qin Qin Shixian and Han Mu could only compete for third place.

In the room, a flash of killing intent suddenly appeared in the eyes of Qin Qin Shixian, who was looking at the intelligence.

He remained calm, but his martial arts domain had already begun to circulate within his body.

The intelligence that this Northern Frontier Provincial Military Commander was in Polu City was top-secret military intelligence.

Just as the Regional Commander of the Northern Barbarian Allied Army, Boerhu, was also hiding his location to avoid being beheaded.

Qin Qin Shixian had also hidden his location after the war began.

He could be in any of the five large cities, but as long as the Northern Barbarians couldn't confirm it, they wouldn't dare to rashly send top powerhouses to attack the city, avoiding stepping into a trap.

In the room, space fluctuated, and a figure suddenly appeared.

After sensing the aura of the person who came, the killing intent in Qin Qin Shixian's eyes dissipated, but he still didn't relax his vigilance.

"Pay respects to the Provincial Military Commander."

Li Fei took the initiative to salute Qin Qin Shixian, addressing him by his military title.

As soon as he appeared, he felt his energy locked by an aura.

This meant Qin Qin Shixian had discovered him in advance.

This made Li Fei think of the conversation with the Emperor before departure.

The other party had specifically mentioned this Prince of Cheng:

"Before the Imperial Preceptor passed away, he commented on the few people in our Great Lan Dynasty most likely to step onto the peak; the one with the greatest chance was Bai Yan, followed by this imperial uncle of mine."

Bai Yan was already dead, so Qin Qin Shixian was the person with the greatest chance of becoming a Martial Saint in the Great Lan Dynasty, besides Li Fei!

Qin Qin Shixian slowly stood up: "Why did the Marquis of Jing'an come here alone?"

The news that he was in Polu City was known to the few high-ranking officials of the Northern Expedition Army, so it wasn't strange that Li Fei could find him.

What was strange was why Li Fei had come alone.

"Not just me; True Person Xuan Chen and the two imperial retainers will also arrive shortly."

Li Fei said.

He had the 【Hun Tian Jin Que】 to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for recovery, and the 【Refining Matter】 supernatural power to convert blood souls into the energy needed for implants and himself, so he could fly for a long time.

But Xuan Chen and the others didn't have such strong "endurance," so Li Fei had arrived at Polu City a step ahead.

Qin Qin Shixian relaxed his vigilance.

The news that the two imperial retainers would come to the Northern Frontier was also top-secret; Li Fei could accurately find him and state this piece of news, combined with this unique aura, so it was basically impossible for it to be fake.

"Sit."

Qin Qin Shixian signaled Li Fei to sit down and chat.

"Leaving the main army and coming north alone, do you have any plans?"

Li Fei didn't answer this question first, but asked: "Can the Provincial Military Commander determine the location of the Northern Barbarian King, Boerhu?"

A trace of anger appeared in Qin Qin Shixian's eyes: "You want to behead him?"

"If Boerhu could be found so easily, why would he dare to launch this war?"

He felt Li Fei was taking things too much for granted.

Leaving the main army and acting rashly without discussing it with him, the Northern Frontier Provincial Military Commander, beforehand, made him feel very disrespected.

Although the Emperor had appointed Li Fei as the Grand General of the Northern Expedition, the military official in charge of the Northern Frontier was still Qin Qin Shixian.

Li Fei sensed Qin Qin Shixian's anger and said sincerely:

"I certainly wouldn't have rushed here just for this."

"Then I'd like to hear the military strategy of the Grand General of the Northern Expedition."

Qin Qin Shixian looked at Li Fei coldly.

Li Fei looked at him calmly and repeated the words he had said to Xuan Chen and the others before.

After hearing his plan, Qin Qin Shixian was silent for a moment.

He looked at Li Fei with a complex expression:

"Does the Emperor know about this plan of yours?"

"If the Provincial Military Commander agrees, I will naturally report it to the Emperor."

"Even if this Prince agrees, will the Emperor agree?"

"I believe the Emperor will agree."

Hutuke was a Tuo Dou warrior of the Yanxin tribe.

He was only thirty-four years old this year; a Dao Ji realm powerhouse at this age was also a top-tier genius in the Central Plains!

Snow was flying, and all the snowflakes melted within a zhang of Hutuke's body.

Hutuke was like a furnace in the ice and snow.

He was bare-chested, revealing the totems of his tribe, and came alone, holding a spear, striding to within two hundred meters of Polu City.

Looking at the towering city walls and the row of pitch-black cannon muzzles ahead, Hutuke took a deep breath and shouted loudly in the broken Central Plains language he had just learned:

"Is there anyone who dares to fight me, Hutuke?!"

He used internal energy to drive his voice, making as many people in the city hear him as possible.

A mere Tuo Dou warrior dared to come under the city alone to challenge.

It wasn't that Hutuke wasn't afraid of death, but the defensive strategy Polu City had always adopted made the Northern Barbarians increasingly bold.

Since the war began, the Northern Barbarian army sent people to challenge under the city every day, but Polu City had never responded.

Not to mention sending people out of the city to "fight generals," they didn't even fire a single bullet outside the city.

Therefore, coming to challenge under Polu City every day had become a "welfare bureau" for the Northern Barbarian army.

After Hutuke shouted a few times and saw no response, he laughed loudly:

"You, Central Plains people, are all a bunch of cowards! Hahahaha—"

He stretched out his left hand, gave a thumbs-up toward the city ahead, and then slowly turned it downward.

He had already begun to fantasize about returning and bragging in front of his companions, making the name Hutuke ring out in the army!

On the city walls, a group of soldiers was indignant.

"Damn it!"

A young soldier suddenly cursed, "This is too stifling; even if we aren't allowed to go out of the city to meet the enemy, at least allow us to fire a few shots, right?"

He was a machine gunner responsible for operating the heavy machine gun on the city wall.

In these days, he didn't know how many times he had applied to fire.

But the reply was always "not allowed."

"I wish I could go down and fight these barbarians to the death, rather than guarding here and being pointed at and scolded every day!"

The young soldier was filled with indignation.

There were quite a few others who had the same thought.

Unfortunately, military orders were like mountains.

"Eh?"

"Look, everyone, there's one more person below!"

"Who is he?"

On the city walls, the soldiers were in a stir.

Below, a golden figure suddenly appeared beside the Hutuke who was cursing.

Hutuke was shocked in his heart and wanted to move, but found he couldn't move at all.

No matter how desperately he drove his internal energy, an invisible force was like a giant mountain, pressing down on him firmly!

"You... who are you?"

Hutuke was horrified, already prepared to disregard everything and launch a beast transformation.

The one who appeared suddenly was naturally Li Fei.

He could actually understand Qin Qin Shixian's order.

The number of Northern Frontier border soldiers was already smaller, so naturally, they couldn't abandon the advantage of the city walls and go out of the city for field battles.

As for fighting generals with the Northern Barbarians, or firing guns and cannons.

It was all a waste and had no meaning.

So it was better to insist on defending to the death and wait for reinforcements.

Now, although the ten thousand Forbidden Army troops hadn't arrived, Li Fei had already arrived.

He was stronger than the ten thousand Forbidden Army troops combined!

Li Fei ignored Hutuke and looked at the Northern Barbarian camp in the distance.

Just as Hutuke was about to launch a beast transformation, his body was suddenly split into two halves by a streak of sword energy!

This young Northern Barbarian genius died without even knowing who had killed him.

If he knew in the afterlife, he could at least gain a little comfort:

Next, his name would spread in the Northern Barbarian army in another way.

Because the person who killed him was named Li Fei!

In the wind and snow, Li Fei stepped forward, his speed getting faster and faster.

The violent wind tore the heavy snow apart; the drifting snowflakes were driven forward, the frozen earth cracked, and the cracks and the wind and snow spread forward together.

Boom!!

Amidst the huge muffled thunder, a long dragon of wind and snow charged straight into the camp of the Northern Barbarian army.

The earth was trembling!

The astonishing killing intent awakened the Northern Barbarian army; many Northern Barbarian warriors wearing rattan armor and holding long sabers or battle axes didn't even see what was happening before they were cut in half by a streak of red saber energy.

The snow curtain was torn open, exploding into a patch of scarlet rime.

Li Fei's first saber strike killed seventy-nine barbarian soldiers!

Hot blood instantly atomized in the cold air, broken bone spears were still spinning in the air, and Li Fei had already stepped forward to kill in the next direction.

One tent after another was lifted by the gale; the entire Northern Barbarian camp was like a giant awakened by pain, soon making a response—

The sound of war drums resounded through the camp, the huge sound waves shaking the snow-covered ground into ripples.

Over a hundred spearmen fired at the same time, and the poisoned animal bone short spears formed a death cloud, covering the area where Li Fei was.

Pop pop pop pop!

A patch of short spears was stuck in the frozen land, while Li Fei had already disappeared from his original spot.

"Look, everyone!"

"Heavens, which powerhouse in the military is this?"

"Should we go out of the city to support?"

"..."

On the walls of Polu City, all the soldiers were alarmed, all running out to look at the Northern Barbarian camp in the distance.

"It's the Marquis of Jing'an, Li Fei, who has gone out to battle!"

"It's the Grand General of the Northern Expedition who has gone out to battle!"

The voice that didn't know where it came from let the soldiers on the city walls know who had gone out to battle.

"It's Li Fei?"

Hearing this answer, the soldiers were stunned.

Immediately, they all became excited.

Killing into the camp of the fifty-thousand-strong Northern Barbarian army alone, just thinking about it made their blood boil!

In the military camp, saber energy flashed again and again; wherever it passed, there were corpses all over the ground.

The high-level officials of the Northern Barbarian army had already realized that a top powerhouse had broken into the military camp; at the first moment, no powerhouses came out to intercept Li Fei, but instead, all the powerhouses hid themselves in the crowd, hiding very well.

More ordinary soldiers were mobilized, gathering in the direction where Li Fei was.

Even if it were a Grandmaster, and possessed the supernatural power to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, such wanton slaughter would surely consume more than it replenished.

Using the lives of ordinary soldiers to consume the "essence, energy, and spirit" and the energy in the implants of top powerhouses bit by bit, and then having their own powerhouses find an opportunity to surround and kill them.

Using the lives of thousands or even tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers to trade for a chance to kill a top powerhouse was worth it!

This tactic was cruel, but this was war!

Looking down from the sky, in the ice and snow, the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Northern Barbarian camp were like tens of thousands of ants on the snow.

At this moment, a large number of ants were gathering toward a certain place, forming a large black spot in the snow.

Whenever a red light swept past, this large black spot would be swept away by a portion, and then turn blood-red.

Li Fei did not use the 【No Distance】 supernatural power to break out of the encirclement.

Firstly, continuously using 【No Distance】 would increase consumption.

Secondly, with the number of these barbarian soldiers focused, his killing would be more efficient!

In just this short while, hundreds of corpses had already fallen around him.

But more Northern Barbarian warriors were still shouting fearlessly and charging toward him.

These people were not completely unafraid of death, but were stimulated by the supernatural arts to have the strongest will, having already forgotten life and death.

Li Fei stood in place without moving, another simple sweep; the Ghost-Slaying Saber carried a saber energy one zhang wide and ten zhang long, drawing a circle in the snow.

The barbarian soldiers who surrounded him were cut in half one after another; six barbarian soldiers suddenly swelled, and nine tentacles emitting a foul stench grew out of their bodies!

These were six Tuo Dou warriors, all choosing beast transformation.

Li Fei stood in place, still a "Night Battle in Eight Directions."

The saber energy cut off all the tentacles, and the steaming poisonous gas erupted from these broken tentacles, the air filled with a fishy stench.

Li Fei stepped forward, instantly rushing out of the range covered by the poisonous mist.

The goose-feather snowflakes falling from the sky suddenly became as sharp as knives; thousands of blades descended from the sky!

This was the supernatural art cast on Li Fei by the sorcerers hiding in the dark.

To reduce consumption, Li Fei did not use the 【Hun Yuan Sword Realm】 to condense battle armor, only casting Sword State: Golden Body and Jade Marrow, stimulating a layer of golden light to protect his body.

Letting the snowflakes like blades fall on his body, then shattering one after another.

Some transparent ice silkworms hidden in the snowflakes appeared, attaching to Li Fei's body surface, trying to break through his protective golden light.

These transparent ice silkworms were exotic beasts raised by a Northern Barbarian tribe, specifically for breaking the protective internal energy of martial artists!

Li Fei's heart moved, sword energy erupted, and the transparent ice silkworms attached to his body surface all exploded into ice crystal powder.

Strange howls suddenly came from the wind and snow; over thirty black giant spiders as large as small mountain peaks charged toward Li Fei at an extremely fast speed.

These giant spiders were also exotic beasts raised by the Northern Barbarian tribe.

After approaching Li Fei within a hundred meters, these giant spiders spat out a large amount of frost silk, weaving into webs covering the sky in the blink of an eye!

Li Fei did not fight hard, choosing to use 【No Distance】 to break out of the encirclement.

These giant spiders immediately turned flexibly, continuing to surround Li Fei.

Such exotic beasts, with high defense and thick blood and strong control, were undoubtedly an excellent choice for causing consumption to martial arts powerhouses!

Li Fei turned around and glanced at these giant spiders.

The thirty-plus giant spiders all stopped moving, completely losing their breath!

The slaughter continued.

Various supernatural arts followed one after another, cooperating with ordinary soldiers to attack Li Fei continuously.

But no matter what kind of supernatural art it was, it was ineffective against Li Fei.

These sorcerers who attacked were then tracked down by Li Fei one by one and beheaded!

The formation of the ordinary soldiers became more and more scattered, trying their best to reduce the number of people he could kill with each saber strike while putting pressure on Li Fei.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured into Li Fei's body like a torrent, replenishing his consumption.

"Roar—"

A deafening roar suddenly came.

Li Fei turned his head to look and saw three blood-red giants over fifty meters tall striding toward him!

It wasn't that only the Great Lan Dynasty understood the military formation methods of the military path.

Other countries, although they couldn't reach the height of the Imperial Guard Army, still had various military formations.

The three blood-red giants Li Fei saw at this moment were a type of Northern Barbarian military formation, composed of over three hundred Tuo Dou warriors and several Tuo Dou warriors together.

This military formation could unleash the combat strength of a Ba Dou powerhouse, meaning a martial arts Grandmaster!

Clearly, after Li Fei had slaughtered for so long, the powerhouses of the Northern Barbarian army couldn't sit still anymore, wanting to test and see what Li Fei's state was at this time.

Li Fei didn't retreat but advanced, tearing through the battle formation in front of him and charging toward one of the blood-red giants.

Arriving in front of this blood-red giant, the saber blade swept up a moon arc from bottom to top, and the blood-red giant was cut in half from the crotch!

Blood rain poured onto the snow, forming a blood-red flower.

Soon, three blood-red flowers appeared on the snow.

The military formation possessing the combat strength of a martial arts Grandmaster was also not a match for Li Fei's saber!

Such terrifying combat strength shocked the powerhouses in the Northern Barbarian army.

Next, no more military formations appeared, only ordinary soldiers, after being stimulated by supernatural arts, killed toward Li Fei one after another.

On the walls of Polu City, the border soldiers, from their initial surprise, became boiling with blood, and then began to worry for Li Fei.

Many people took the initiative to ask for battle, wanting to go out of the city to help Li Fei.

But they were still not allowed.

"Ah—"

After seeing Li Fei behead three blood-red giants in a row, the young machine gunner finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Disregarding the prohibition, he operated the heavy machine gun and fired in the direction of the Northern Barbarian camp.

The muzzle spat fire, and intense gunfire finally rang out on the city walls of Polu City.

Actually, the Northern Barbarian army's camp was not within the range of the heavy machine gun at all, but this young soldier wanted to express his support for Li Fei in this way.

Even if he were to be dealt with by military law, he had to let Li Fei know—

You are not fighting alone!

Bang bang bang bang—

Following this young soldier's firing, more and more soldiers chose to fire toward the north.

"Grand General!"

"Might!"

"Grand General!"

"Might!"

Everyone fired while shouting loudly.

Boom!

The city walls shook.

Something even more exaggerated appeared; someone used a city defense cannon!

"Hahaha, Grand General, Might—"

After an old soldier fired a shell, he stood on the city wall and shouted with all his might.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

On the city walls, more and more city defense cannons opened fire.

Not a single one of these shells landed in the Northern Barbarian army's camp.

But the border soldiers on the city walls used this way to feel as if they were fighting side-by-side with Li Fei!

And what was wonderful was that, despite clearly violating military orders, not a single general came to stop this behavior.

The increasingly intense gunfire and shouting behind him finally attracted Li Fei's attention.

After he beheaded dozens more barbarian soldiers with one saber strike, he turned to look at Polu City in the rear.

Looking at the shells and bullets constantly hitting, listening to the shouting of the soldiers.

A smile appeared on Li Fei's face.

Snowflakes filled the sky, enemy camp, corpses all over the ground.

Li Fei stood in the blood, raised his right hand toward Polu City behind him, and gave a thumbs-up.

The 49th year of Emperor Hongguang, December 26th.

Grand General of the Northern Expedition, Li Fei, suddenly arrived at Polu City, killing into the Northern Barbarian army's camp alone.

On this day, Li Fei killed over eight thousand barbarian soldiers alone!

Unrivaled in breaking formations, no one could stop him!

The fifty-thousand-strong Northern Barbarian army was forced back by him alone.

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 555 =====