The Helan Sword Sect has been established in Helanchuan for thousands of years, and its history is even more distant than that of Taiwei Sect. Taiwei Sect was even a vassal of the Helan Sword Sect for a time. It was not until the rise of the Wuwei Sect that Taiwei Sect got rid of the shadow of the Helan Sword Sect.

Although the Helan Sword Sect has risen two figures in the Taoist fertility realm in modern times, but as the elder of the Xiling Sword Sect, Xie Jueyuan, the elder of the Sword Sect, has a bad relationship with Huang Qiwei, the leader of the Helan Sword Sect, so that Xie Jueyuan has lived in Yanjing for many years and served as the deputy envoy of the Tianshu Court. He has not returned to Hechuan for decades.

What’s more important is that Xie Jueyuan and Huang Qiwei, two figures in the Heavenly List, have been in the path of cultivation for more than 600 years. Their cultivation has long passed the peak stage of cultivation, and they can no longer suppress Dong Liang’s edge in the Northwest Region; the Helan Sword Sect no longer has the glory of the first sect in the Northwest Region.

Relying on the Helan Sword Sect, the Huang clan ruled Hechuan County with the Hexiang Army for more than 200 years. Although it was in a state of decline, the Hexiang Army, the Huang clan and the Helan Sword Sect’s heritage cannot be overlooked.

Seven years ago, Dong Liang, the Divine Marquis of Wuwei, led his troops to break out of Yulong Mountain and occupy a large area of ​​land north of Hechuan Ridge, but considering the foundation of the Helan Sword Sect and Hexiang Ridge, he could not encroach on Hechuan Ridge in a short period of time.

However, after the 72nd year of Emperor Yitian, the storm of Yanzhou changed drastically, and the power of the royal family Ying clan and the Jingjun clan clan was severely weakened. It can be said that the strong vassals of the border counties had completely lost control. If Hexi wants to establish a real overlord of the Northwest Region, it must be said that the time is not enough before the royal family Ying clan straightens the conflict with the Jingjun clan clan and revitalizes it.

Hexi was eager to marry the Western Qiang Kingdom two years ago, so in order to make a quick move, he attacked Hechuan County.

However, Juquanling's rise in the sky has truly accelerated the power comparison between Hexi and Hechuan.

Whether it is the Tianji Battle Crossbow or the Tianji Battle Chariot, it is no longer a secret to the detailed manufacturing of the scroll between the top sects. It is okay to say that the Tianji Battle Chariot is, after all, the Pavilion-level Tianji Battle Chariot only consumes less than 20,000 kilograms of gold quenching iron for each ride.

What's more, the Hexiang Army has a large foundation. Both the clan and the military camps have built a large number of chariots. With a slight transformation, it does not require too much gold quenching iron. In the past two or three years, seventy or eighty pavilion-level Tianji combat vehicles have been transformed. However, if the Tianji combat crossbow wants to be promoted on a large scale in the army, it is essential that the gold quenching arrows need to be provided with sufficient supply.

Even though the Hexiang Army can squeeze out 200,000 to 300,000 kilograms of gold quenching iron every year, it can only cast 20,000 to 30,000 pieces of gold quenching iron every year. How can this be enough for a large-scale war to consume?

For this war, the Hexi Army stockpiled 500,000 gold-tempering arrows in advance.

Leading by Du Yu, Dong Pu and other generals, the offensive of the elite Hexi vanguards against Wenhubu was simple and effective. They used the battle bird camp to control the airspace above the battlefield, and then used a battle formation composed of Tianji combat chariots, heavy armored cavalry, and shields and halberds to advance layer by layer to the many defense villages built by the Hexiang Army in Wenhubu, first competing for the open field outside the city.

The powerful sects of the sect's mysterious or martial arts cultivators ride in and out of the battlefield by taking the spirit birds. This is a common trend in the battlefield in the past. However, whether it is sacrifice to the imperial magic weapon, spirit sword or shooting with a treasure bow, it usually only fights evenly. Except for the very different strengths of the two sides, it is difficult to determine the trend of the entire battlefield.

What really changes this situation is the use of the mechanism combat crossbow.

The Hexiang Army organized more than 500 sword cultivators on the Wenhubu defense line, and their cultivation was all above the Spirit Realm to strengthen the attack strength on the defense line.

Sword cultivators above the Piling Realm and Mingqiao Realm can attack and kill far-reaching enemies several miles or even twenty or thirty miles away, which is far beyond the range of Tianji Battle Crossbow. However, as long as the Hexi Army's fierce bird soldiers can sail within a range of two thousand steps, the gold-tempered arrow rain shot from the mechanism Battle Crossbow is powerful and secretly beyond the ability of ordinary sword cultivators to resist.

What's more, there are also three or five hundred Xuanxiu disciples on the Hexi Army's vanguard front, and they don't even have to directly participate in offensive battles. They only need to use defensive techniques and seal talismans to resist the opponent's spiritual sword and magic weapon, and help the sharp soldiers in the imperial birds to successfully advance and quickly, and they can master the absolute advantage of occupying the field.

Each continuous shooting of the mechanical crossbow is almost equivalent to a thousand-edged sword talisman. The gold-tempered arrows reserved by the Hexi Army for this war are equivalent to ten thousand thousand-edged sword talismans that can make the vanguard generals squander and squander unscrupulously.

The speed of war birds like the Black Feathered Spirit Vulture is far beyond the speed of ordinary disciples flying in the wind. They fought back and forth several times. The disciples of Helan Sect’s sword cultivators were seriously injured, so they dared not fight out from behind the defense line and were given up on the battleground.

At this time, the Hexi Army's heavy armored cavalry, Tianji combat chariot, shield and halberd armored soldiers formed a battle formation and advanced layer by layer until it was dug trenches close to the outer periphery of the enemy city, built a protective wall, set up a defensive array, and built temporary barriers at a longer distance. Then, heavy stone-cat crossbows were pushed to the front of the formation, and within a close range of three or four thousand steps, one huge rock weighing more than a thousand kilograms or even two or three thousand kilograms were used to destroy the defenders' defense camp.

In just three days, the Hexiang Army built a dozen solid defense villages on the northern foot of Hechuanling and the Wenhubu line were removed one by one by Hexi, and the Hexi Army successfully advanced to the main city on the innermost side of the Wenhubu defense line.

The main city of the Wenhubu defense line is also the key place for Hexiang Army to operate in recent years. The city is so strong that it is never below Chishan City. It also has a large defensive magic array. However, in addition to several firm and powerful counterattacks, causing considerable casualties to the soldiers in Hexi, it did not prevent the complete collapse of the Wenhubu defense line.

During the offensive and defensive battle for more than ten days, nearly 200 heavy stone-cat crossbows were destroyed in Hexi, but Chen Hai's first counterweight stone-cat crossbow to be put into the battlefield in Heishan was too easy to manufacture. The Hexi Army's baggage battalion on the Chishan defense line could build several heavy stone-cat crossbows every day to send them to the vanguard line.

Of course, the Hexiang Army also mastered the manufacturing drawings of counterweight catapults, and also tried to create and deploy a large number of catapults on the defense line to fight against it. However, the manufacturing of heavy counterweight catapults is not difficult, and the strength requirements for the manufacturing materials are extremely high.

In addition to the ten thousand-year-old trees, the main accessories must also be cast with eight-level gold quenching iron, so that they can withstand the stone bullets that weigh thousands or even thousands of kilograms of weights from three to five thousand steps away. For each heavy stone-throwing crossbow, the accessories alone will consume thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms of eight-level gold quenching iron.

At this time, Hexi can obtain an additional 100,000 to 150,000 kilograms of high-quality gold quenching iron from Lucheng every month. What does Hexiang Army use to fight Hexi for consumption?

In addition, the main reason is that the operation of heavy stone-capping crossbows is too simple. Whether it is mining, transporting stone bombs, or operating stone-capping crossbows in front of the enemy's formation, it can be completed by ordinary people without any cultivation.

This made the Hexiang Army defeat several or even dozens of heavy stone-throwing crossbows every time they went out of the city to counterattack, killing hundreds or even thousands of baggage soldiers who operated stone-throwing crossbows, but they either died or captured, and they would lose hundreds of elite troops.

Compared with such a huge gap in competition consumption, Hexiang Army held on to the main city of Wenhubu Defense Line for more than ten days, but could not support it at all.

In the past ten days, more than 20,000 baggage troops were lost in Hexi, and most of them were civilian courages that could be supplemented at any time. In comparison, among the generals and soldiers who were damaged by the Hexiang Army, there were three or four thousand soldiers with the most elite combat power among the Hexiang Army, which can be said to be extremely heavy casualties.

The Hexiang Army was eventually forced to abandon the main city of Wenhubu defense line and retreated from the valley to the depths of Hechuan Ridge. Because the Hexiang Army could not control the air superiority of the battlefield, it retreated from the defense line, and suffered heavy casualties due to several strong outbreaks by the Hexi Army's Battle of Bird Battalion.

Although the Hexiang Army also created a large number of heavy shields to be incorporated into the army in order to prevent the coverage of the gold-tempered arrow rain, the fierce soldiers of the imperial birds suddenly rushed in on the battlefield. The tactics were flexible and changeable, and it can be said that they were hard to defend.

After Hexi occupied the Wenhubu defense line, Wuwei Shenhou and his prince Dong Chou entered Wenhu City, using Wenhu City as a new forward base, gathered various combat materials, and allocated troops; and led by Du Yu, Dong Pu and others, the vanguard battle formation continued to extend quickly to the depths of Hechuan Ridge along the broad valley south of Wenhubu.

After suffering heavy casualties, the Hexiang Army gave up the Wenhu Bu defense line, which would greatly harm morale.

From Wenhubu to the south, deep in the valley in the middle of Hechuanling, although there were six strong defense camps along the Hexiang Army, none of them could last for ten days in the attack of the Hexi Army's vanguard battle formation. By mid-May, the Hexi Army opened a passage from the valley in the middle of Hechuanling to the hinterland of Hexiangchuan.

The main force of the Hexiang Army retreated in a hurry, and in order to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the elites in Helan Sword Sect, they had to choose to give up the cave in Hechuanling.

These caves opened in the dangerous land of Hechuan Ridge originally built a solid defense line in the northern part of Hechuan County together with the villages of Wenhubu. Who would have thought that in more than a month, they would be torn to pieces by the Hexi Army in ruthlessly and sharply?

Hechuan Ridge is four or five hundred miles south of the south, and it is all the flat along the Hechuan Lake. There is no danger to defend. Although the weak Hexiang Army did not suffer a devastating blow and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers available, they dare not compete with Hexi here in the plain city.

The main force of the Hexiang Army and the large and small clans in Hechuan County were forced to separate into two routes after the Hexi Army's vanguard broke out of Hechuan Ridge, all the way to the foundation of the Helan Sword Sect, retreating to the Helanchuan and Helan Mountains, and retreating to Meishan, which is at the intersection of Hechuan Ridge and Qinchuan County.

At this time, the two troops of the Musashi Army reinforced the Tsuru River. They had just arrived outside Shining City. They were preparing to attack Shining, who was captured by Qin Muhou Dong Shou, and opened up the passage to the Tsuru River from the water route. At this time, they were forced to retreat hastily and open contact with Dong Shou's troops.

The other Musashi Army reinforcements had just walked halfway in the hinterland of Meishan, which was traversing two or three thousand miles away. At this time, they could only be forced to stop in Meishan. On the one hand, they accepted the forces of Hexiang's army fleeing south, and on the other hand, they chose dangerous valleys and passes in Meishan to build a stronger defense city to prevent Hexi from taking advantage of the situation to attack Qinchuan County from Meishan...
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