Chapter 300: The Killer (Eight)

On the border between the Tang and Da Su, the boundless primeval forest that stretched across the border between the two countries disappeared without a trace within more than three months. Instead, it was replaced by ashes with smoke remaining all over the ground. Under the constant watering of the rain, a black torrent that stretched for thousands of miles filled the border between the Tang and Da Su.

Li Ming personally led 150,000 newly equipped soldiers to station troops on the border between Yuanzhou and Nandian Prefecture, waiting for the attack of the Great Soviet troops.

When the forest fires were no longer raging, Li Ming's airship had already flew over the area that was still emitting thick smoke and penetrated into the border of Dasu. More than 300 kilometers away from the burning forest, Dasu's army was densely packed with countless troops, and the continuous barracks covered hundreds of kilometers.

Li Ming, who received this news, believed even more that this unprecedented forest fire was indeed caused by man. However, he did not expect that the Great Su Kingdom would have so many troops, covering a military camp of hundreds of kilometers, and at least one million troops. Although in this era, the Tang Dynasty had no idea about the Great Su Kingdom, but from looking up past historical materials, the territory of the Great Su Kingdom was only half of the Tang Dynasty. There were millions of troops on such a country. Li Ming had to admit that the emperor of the Great Su Kingdom was completely crazy.

Although Li Ming's troops were equipped with unprecedented advanced weapons in this space, Li Ming was not sure of using 150,000 soldiers to resist a million troops. For this reason, he urgently called the Fourth Legion to guard the Imperial City, allowing the remaining five armies to reach the border of Yuanzhou and provide support to his troops at any time. As for the guards of Nanguo City, the only way to let the retreating Fifth Legion take the responsibility.

The hazy light rain kept falling. Under such weather, the thick smoke that had been shrouding on the borders of the two countries gradually dissipated.

Li Ming knew that this unprecedented war was about to begin.

On this day, the airship troops, which had been closely monitoring the movements of the Great Soviet troops, sent a telegram. The barracks that stretched for hundreds of kilometers had begun to be demolished, and the dense enemy troops were slowly moving towards the border.

Li Ming became excited when he heard this news. For the first time, his troops fought against the enemy's cold weapons with modern weapons. Theoretically, this was simply a massacre. No matter what kind of armor the enemy used, they could not withstand the bullet strikes. It can be said that this battle was sure to win. However, Li Ming was always unsure of it. After all, he had never experienced any war in modern society. In this space, he commanded cold weapons to fight. It was the first time that he had such a war with advanced weapons.

In the new army, a military has a standard configuration of one thousand artillery. However, the current productivity of the military factory is still limited. Therefore, in the troops set out this time, each army can only be equipped with 300, but even this number can bring devastating blows to the enemy.

With Li Ming's order, the five armies had a total of 1,500 artillery pieces installed in Yuanzhou. There, they pointed the gun at the border between the two countries according to the report of the airship troops. As long as the troops of the Great Soviet Union dared to step onto the border with the smoke, the first artillery war in this space would begin.

The troops of the Great Soviet Kingdom were advancing very slowly. In a day, they only advanced more than fifty kilometers. At this speed, it would take five or six days for the artillery troops to show their power.

As the smoke and dust on the ground dissipated, the temperature of petitions in the fire began to drop, and the airship troops dared to lower the height and carefully observed the situation of the other party over the Great Soviet troops.

The sudden appearance of the airship made the soldiers of the Great Su Kingdom, who were ready to go and fighting spirit, panicked. This giant flying freely in the sky was something they had never seen before. What kind of monster was that made them feel unsure. Although the airship had always followed them in the air and did not show any hostility towards them, it was really unsettling to let these monsters follow in the air. Some soldiers who couldn't hold back even began to bend their bows and arrows to shoot the monsters in the sky. However, except for the arrows falling from the sky that injured many of their own people, the monsters in the sky had no damage at all, and the range of the bow and arrow was not enough to pose a threat to the airship.

As Li Ming expected, in addition to the general Tang Fei of the Great Soviet Kingdom, there was also the second prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Qing, who was commanding this huge team.

Seeing the airship flying in the sky, Li Qing knew very well that it was not a legendary monster. It was probably created under Li Ming's hands. Li Ming's secrets and the endless novel things in Li Ming's hands were always what he wanted to seize. However, he always took a fierce look in front of Li Ming, which made him very considerate of Li Ming. This time, he finally told the Emperor of Da Su to promise to burn the natural barrier on the border between the two countries so that he could have room for the heavy armored cavalry that he had vigorously developed in Da Su in the past two years. However, seeing the airship hovering in the sky made him feel a bad premonition about this expedition.

A fierce battle outside Nanguo City made him fully realize the power of the Iron Armored Army. The overwhelming iron cavalry made his more than 100,000 troops instantly collapsed. This prompted him to vigorously develop the Iron Armored Army after retreating. However, his innate conditions were limited and he could not produce high-quality steel. As a result, when he competed with Li Ming's troops again, his Iron Armored Army could not resist the heavy armored cavalry in Li Ming's land. The two battles in Yuzhou and Pingzhou, the Iron Armored Army he worked hard to destroy again.

However, when Yuzhou retreated, he still stole a set of heavy armored cavalry equipment.

It was the equipment of a soldier who fell into battle in a fierce battle. Li Qing knew his importance well, so he ordered his personal guards to snatch the soldier's body and then fled in panic. He did not even dare to return to Pingzhou's base camp, so he fled directly to the Great Su Kingdom.

In Dasu, after the efforts of Liu Zhang and his staff, they finally gained the trust of the Emperor of Dasu, and successfully encouraged the Emperor of Dasu, asking him to agree to send 400,000 troops to invade the Tang Dynasty during the chaos. At the beginning, it was really smooth. The 400,000 army successfully wiped out more than 100,000 soldiers from the Southern Dian Prefecture and occupied the entire territory of the Southern Dian Prefecture. However, they thought that Li Ming could have such great courage. In order to eliminate the Dasu army, they actually burned all the jungles in Yuanzhou. As a result, there were less than 5,000 remaining soldiers who were defeated and fled back to Dasu.

For this reason, the Emperor of Dasu almost beheaded Li Qing, but after another crushing defeat, Li Qing suddenly had a vicious plan.

The incident of Li Ming burning the jungle in Yuanzhou gave Li Qing a great inspiration. The troops of Dasu mainly focus on jungle combat. Such troops have more defense, but insufficient attack. Once they reach a wide area, they will definitely not be the opponent of the Iron Cavalry under Li Ming. Therefore, if they want him to return to the Tang Dynasty, they can only change the composition of the troops of Dasu.

With the armor and gun pierced back through hardships, Li Qing came to the Emperor of Da Su and explained to him in detail his thoughts and the power of Li Ming's heavy armored cavalry. After the inspection of all the veterans present, this set of equipment shocked everyone present. It damaged countless sword weapons and could not damage the armor. However, the gun pierced could easily pierce all the existing armors of Da Su. This result immediately made the emperor of Da Su.

The emperor began to become ambitious. The wealth of the Tang Dynasty had long made him salivate. How could he let go of such a good opportunity now? So, he devoted his whole country to the point where Li Qing could not understand and actually made something that was not much different from the equipment brought by Li Qing. This surprised Li Qing and began to conduct comprehensive training of the newly established heavy armored cavalry of the Great Soviet Kingdom according to the training method of the Iron Armored Army that he had known before.

After a year of hard work, the Emperor of Da Su brought such equipment from somewhere, and actually asked Li Qing to organize a heavy-armored cavalry unit of 700,000 people. In addition to the infantry that covered the cavalry unit, Da Su, who was much smaller than the Tang Dynasty, gathered more than 1.2 million soldiers. In order to invade the Tang Dynasty, the Emperor of Da Su was really desperate to make a bet.

In order to burn the natural barrier on the border between the two countries, he dispatched more than 10,000 soldiers and ignited tens of thousands of fire points in the forest that lasted hundreds of kilometers, successfully burning this natural barrier. He knew that with Li Ming's intelligence, he would definitely predict his intentions. However, at this time, he was no longer afraid of fighting head-on with Li Ming. His heavy armored cavalry could have faced head-on with the same troops of Li Ming. I believe that even Li Ming would not have as many as 700,000 heavy armored cavalry. If he had not yet to conquer the city and land, he would even turn all his troops into heavy armored cavalry. Under Li Ming's command, he had failed too many times. It was his greatest wish to defeat Li Ming's majesty. I believe that this time, he should be able to get what he wants.

However, the airship above his head now made him feel a little uncomfortable about this critical decisive battle.

If this is really something Li Ming created, then all his marching plans will be exposed to Li Ming, and his every move will make Li Ming understand it. This is fatal to a war. Although the strength of his troops is enough to sweep the Tang Dynasty at the moment, who can guarantee that Li Ming will not have any other way of dealing with it? He dare not underestimate Li Ming at all.

Therefore, the day after the troops were dispatched to the camp, Li Qing issued his order: "Emergency mobilize the crossbows of the subsequent troops, and be sure to shoot me the things from the sky!"
Chapter completed!