Chapter 554: Unparalleled!

December 26th.

The sky was snowing with goose-feather snowflakes, and the entire Northern border was already frozen for a thousand miles, with snow drifting for ten thousand miles.

Polu City.

One of the five major cities of the Northern border.

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, and not far behind them were fire basins for warmth.

Several thousand meters away from the city wall was a continuous camp of tents.

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 major cities and more than twenty military towns of the Northern border respectively.

Now half of the military towns had fallen!

As for the five major cities that were easy to defend and difficult 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 the five major cities respectively, pinning down the Northern border soldiers in the cities, making them afraid to easily divide 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 major cities on the front line were instead very calm.

But this did not mean that these five major cities were not important.

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

They could only climb mountains and cross ridges, walk various dangerous roads and small paths, and endure a large number of non-combat attrition, to slowly "smuggle" a portion of their forces into the rear Beichuan Province!

In the military camp of Polu City, the Prince of Cheng, 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 Tianlan Iron Cavalry, Huang Qiyuan, and the Commander of the Imperial Guard, Han Mu.

The military had a total of nine Grandmasters!

Besides this, there were four top True Persons among the retainers of the Military Intelligence Bureau, guarding the four borders respectively.

These four top True Persons and the nine Grandmasters were the thirteen strongest people in the Great Lan Dynasty's military, besides the "Military God" Wen Ren Zheng.

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

But among the thirteen, who was the strongest had actually always been discussed in the military.

The Prince of Cheng, who possessed the cultivation of the peak of the Dao-Establishment Realm, had always been a hot topic of discussion.

Many people in the military felt that the Prince of Cheng and the Commander of the Imperial Guard, Han Mu, should be the strongest in the Great Lan Dynasty's military besides Wen Ren Zheng!

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

With Li Fei.

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 Shixian, who was reading intelligence.

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

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

Just like the commander of the Northern Barbarian Allied Forces, Boerhu, was also hiding his location to avoid being beheaded.

Qin Shixian also hid his location after the war began.

He could be in any of the five major 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 Shixian's eyes dissipated, but he still didn't relax his vigilance.

"Pays respects to the Provincial Military Commander."

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

As soon as he appeared, he felt that he was locked by a strand of Qi.

This meant that Qin Shixian had discovered him in advance.

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

The other party specifically mentioned this Prince of Cheng:

"The National Teacher once 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 Shixian was the person with the greatest chance of becoming a Martial Saint in the Great Lan Dynasty besides Li Fei!

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

That he was in Polu City was top-secret military intelligence known to a few high-level officials of the Northern Expedition Army, so it wasn't strange that Li Fei could find him.

What was strange was why Li Fei came alone.

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

Li Fei said.

He had the 【Hun Tian Jin Que】 to absorb the world's vitality to recover, and the 【Refining Matter】 supernatural power to convert blood souls into implants and the energy needed by himself, so he could fly for a long time.

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

Qin Shixian relaxed his vigilance.

The news that two imperial retainers would come to the Northern border was also top-secret; Li Fei could find him accurately and could say this news, plus this unique aura, it was basically impossible for it to be fake.

"Sit."

Qin Shixian signaled Li Fei to sit down and chat.

"Leaving the 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 confirm the location of the Northern Barbarian King Boerhu?"

A trace of anger appeared in 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 for granted.

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

Although the Emperor appointed Li Fei as the Great General of the Northern Expedition, the military commander of the Northern border was still Qin Shixian.

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

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

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

Qin Shixian looked at Li Fei coldly.

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

After hearing his plan, 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 King agrees, will the Emperor agree?"

"I believe the Emperor will agree."

Hutuke was a Tudu warrior of the Yanxin tribe.

He was only thirty-four years old this year; a Dao-Foundation Realm powerhouse of this age was also a top genius in the Central Plains!

Snow was flying, and all the snowflakes melted when they approached within a zhang of Hutuke.

Hutuke was like a furnace in the ice and snow.

He was bare-chested, revealing the totem of his tribe, and came to two hundred meters outside Polu City alone, holding a long spear and striding like a meteor.

Looking at the towering city wall ahead and a row of pitch-black cannon muzzles, 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 his Qi to urge his voice, letting as many people in the city hear it as possible.

A mere Tudu warrior dared to come to the city to challenge alone.

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.

So 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 to the city ahead, and then slowly turned the direction, pointing the thumb downward.

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

On the city wall, a group of soldiers were full of indignation.

"Damn it!"

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

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

These days, he had applied to fire countless times to the higher-ups.

But the replies were all not allowed.

"I'd rather go down and fight these barbarians to the death than guard here and be pointed at and scolded every day!"

The young soldier was full of grievances.

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

Unfortunately, military orders were like mountains.

"Eh?"

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

"Who is he?"

On the city wall, the soldiers were in a commotion.

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

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

No matter how desperately he urged his Qi, an invisible force was like a giant mountain, pressing tightly on him!

"You, who are you?"

Hutuke was horrified and was already preparing to launch beast-transformation regardless of everything.

The one who appeared suddenly was naturally Li Fei.

He could actually understand Qin Shixian's order.

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

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

They were 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 Imperial Guards hadn't arrived yet, Li Fei had already arrived.

He was stronger than the ten thousand Imperial Guards combined!

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

When Hutuke was about to launch beast-transformation, his body was suddenly split in two by a sword Qi!

This young Northern Barbarian genius didn't even know who killed him until he died.

If he knew in the underworld, he could at least get 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 snow apart, the drifting snowflakes were driven forward, the frozen earth cracked, and the cracks and wind and snow spread forward together!

Boom!!

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

The earth was trembling!

The astonishing killing intent woke up the Northern Barbarian army; many Northern Barbarian warriors wearing rattan armor and holding long knives or battle axes didn't even see clearly what was going on before they were cut in half by a streak of crimson blade Qi.

The snow curtain was torn open, bursting into a piece of scarlet rime.

Li Fei's first blade 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.

Tent after tent was lifted by the gale, and the entire Northern Barbarian camp was like a giant awakened by pain, and soon made a response—

The sound of war drums resounded through the camp, and the huge sound waves shook the snow-covered ground, causing ripples.

More than a hundred spear throwers shot at the same time, and the poisoned animal bone short spears formed a death cloud, covering the area where Li Fei was.

Slap slap slap slap!

A piece of short spears was inserted into the frozen land, and Li Fei had already disappeared from the spot.

"Look, everyone!"

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

"Are we going out of the city to support?"

"..."

On the city wall of Polu City, all the soldiers were alarmed and all ran out to look at the Northern Barbarian camp in the distance.

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

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

The sound from nowhere let the soldiers on the city wall know who had gone to battle.

"It's Li Fei?"

Hearing this answer, the soldiers were stunned.

Then they all became excited.

Charging alone into the military camp of the fifty-thousand-strong Northern Barbarian army, just thinking about it made one's blood boil!

In the military camp, blade Qi lit up again and again, and 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 powerhouses hid in the crowd, hiding very well.

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

Even if it was a Grandmaster, and possessed the supernatural power to absorb the world's vitality, such wanton killing, the consumption must be greater than the replenishment.

Using the lives of ordinary soldiers to consume the "essence, Qi, and spirit" of the top powerhouse bit by bit, and the implants in their bodies, and then their own powerhouses would look for opportunities to attack and surround them.

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

This tactic, although cruel, 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 crimson light swept past, this large black spot would be swept away a part, and then turn blood-red.

Li Fei didn't use the 【No Distance】 supernatural power to break out of the encirclement.

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

Second, these barbarian soldiers gathered together, so he could kill them more efficiently!

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

But more Northern Barbarian warriors still shouted fearlessly and charged toward him.

These people weren't completely unafraid of death, they were just stimulated by magic to have the strongest will, and had already forgotten life and death.

Li Fei stood still, and with another simple sweep, the Ghost-Slaying Knife carried a blade Qi one zhang wide and ten zhang long, drawing a circle in the snow.

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

These were six Tuodu warriors, all of whom chose beast-transformation.

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

The blade Qi cut off all the tentacles, and the steaming poisonous gas erupted from these broken tentacles, and a fishy smell permeated the air.

Li Fei stepped forward and instantly rushed out of the range covered by the poisonous fog.

The goose-feather snowflakes falling from the sky suddenly became as sharp as knives, and thousands of blades fell from the sky!

This was a sorcerer hiding in the dark casting a spell on Li Fei.

To reduce consumption, Li Fei didn't use the 【Hun Yuan Sword Realm】 to condense armor, but only used Sword State · Golden Body and Jade Marrow, stimulating a layer of golden light to protect his body.

Letting the snowflakes like blades fall on him, and 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 breaking the protective Qi of martial artists!

Li Fei's heart moved, sword Qi erupted, and the transparent ice silkworms attached to his body surface shattered into ice crystal powder one after another.

Strange howls suddenly came from the wind and snow, and more than thirty black giant spiders as large as small mountain peaks killed toward Li Fei at a very fast speed.

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

After approaching Li Fei within a hundred meters, these giant spiders sprayed a large amount of frost silk, and in the blink of an eye, they wove into webs covering the sky!

Li Fei didn't fight hard, choosing to use 【No Distance】 to break out of the encirclement.

These giant spiders immediately turned flexibly and continued 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.

More than thirty giant spiders stopped moving one after another, completely losing their breath!

The killing continued.

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

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

These sorcerers who made a move were found by Li Fei following the vines, and were killed one by one!

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

The world's vitality was like a torrent, continuously pouring into Li Fei's body, replenishing his consumption.

"Roar—"

A deafening roar suddenly came.

Li Fei turned his head to look, only to see three blood-colored 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 in the world.

Although other countries couldn't reach the height of the Imperial Guard, various military formations still existed.

The three blood-colored giants Li Fei saw at this moment were a type of military formation of the Northern Barbarians, composed of more than three hundred Tuodu warriors and several Tudu warriors together.

This military formation could exert the combat strength of a powerhouse in the Ba-Du Realm, that is, a martial arts master!

Obviously, after Li Fei had been killing wantonly for so long, the powerhouses of the Northern Barbarian army couldn't sit still, 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 rushed toward one of the blood-colored giants.

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

Blood rain poured on the snow, forming a blood-colored flower.

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

The military formation with the combat strength of a martial arts master was not a single-strike enemy under Li Fei's blade!

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 magic, rushed toward Li Fei one after another.

On the city wall of Polu City, the border soldiers went from surprise at the beginning to boiling 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-colored giants in a row, the young machine gunner finally couldn't hold back.

Regardless of violating the ban, he operated the heavy machine gun and fired toward the direction of the Northern Barbarian military camp.

The muzzle sprayed flames, and the intense gunfire finally rang out on the city wall of Polu City.

Actually, the Northern Barbarian army's military 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 was punished by military law, he wanted Li Fei to 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.

"Great General!"

"Might!"

"Great General!"

"Might!"

Everyone shouted loudly while firing.

Boom!

The city wall shook.

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

"Hahaha, Great General, Might—"

After an old soldier fired a shell, he stood on the city wall and shouted hoarsely.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

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

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

But the border soldiers on the city wall felt that they were fighting side by side with Li Fei in this way!

And what was wonderful was that, although they had seriously violated military orders, not a single general came to stop this behavior.

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

After he beheaded dozens more barbarian soldiers with one blade, he turned around and looked at Polu City behind him.

Looking at the shells and bullets constantly being fired, listening to the soldiers' shouting.

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 Hongguang, December 26th.

The Great General of the Northern Expedition, Li Fei, suddenly arrived at Polu City and broke into the Northern Barbarian army's military camp alone.

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

Unparalleled in breaking formations, no one can stop him!

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

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