By the time Song Zining and Zhao Jundu led the main force back to the base to rest, they already had a brilliant record.
In this round of attack, the troops from all walks of life took down four sacred tree forests, including one double sacred tree. Annihilate nearly 50,000 warriors of the demon descendants.
You must know that those who can enter the new world are elite troops, and there is no such thing as usual cannon fodder. Every soldier who enters the new world consumes the sap of the sacred tree. This precious resource cannot be wasted on cannon fodder.
In terms of the strong, two dukes were injured. Although one of them saved his life, he had to withdraw from the New World. He would have to recuperate from his injuries in the next few decades and could not recover his combat power.
And Wei Potian took down two marquises alone, one of them was captured alive, and his military exploits were the most brilliant. He became famous all of a sudden, and many aristocratic families were re-examining the Wei family.
When most of his peers were entangled in the quagmire of family inheritance rights, Wei Potian was invited to be crowned son early, which showed that the Wei family valued him and his talent. But for the aristocratic family, who doesn't have one or two secret seed characters? Besides, the reputation of the tortoise shell of "Thousand Mountains" is always not enough compared to the top secret method of the four valves.
It's different now. Those that can be truly transformed into combat power and tested on the battlefield should be given enough attention.
Some scholars who are good at textual research have dug up historical materials in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, proving that the Wei family was one of the earliest families to follow Taizu. Although the Wei family was just a small and unknown family at that time, the ancestors were the soldiers who accompanied the Taizu. This shows that it is possible that the Wei family's secret biography of Qianzhong Mountain has been personally instructed by the Taizu.
In this way, it can also explain Wei Potian's recent miraculous achievements. All of a sudden, the value of the Wei family was re-examined, and Wei Potian, who had not made a marriage contract, was also very popular, even overshadowing Song Zining.
Although Song Zining was also dissatisfied with Wei Potian, but he would not talk about it like he did. After carefully reading Wei Potian's battle report, Song Zining simply transferred him to his side and acted with him and Zhao Jundu.
Wei Potian said he was unwilling, but the smile on his face revealed the secret in his heart. What this guy thinks in his heart is that you don't want me at the beginning, now you know the value of Lao Tzu, right
Zhao Jundu was noncommittal. Although his fire-refined real gold is not afraid of battle, he doesn't mind having multiple meat shields by his side. At this moment, personal cultivation is one thing, but being able to kill more enemies is another, the latter is beneficial to the empire.
After resting, Song Zining led the troops to set off again when the troops were replenished with the holy tree sap potion. This time he did not disperse his forces, but gathered the main force, and only placed a small reconnaissance force on the two wings. The army is mighty and mighty, and it goes straight to the lair of the demons.
In this direction, there is a Three Sacred Tree Forest, which has already fallen into the hands of the demons. According to Song Zining's judgment, the demons will definitely build a fortress here and send heavy troops to garrison it.
Now that the development of the new world has entered the middle game, no matter which side understands the importance of the forest. A forest is like an island in the ocean, and it must be used as a springboard to jump over one island after another in order to continuously develop in the new world.
After subduing the lair center, Zhao Jundu also understood the importance of the power of the sacred tree. It can be said that the holy tree is the amulet on the surface of the new world, the more you have, the more unimpeded you will be. No matter from which point of view, the demons will definitely station heavy troops in this Three Sacred Tree Forest.
The advantage of the empire now is that after Zhao Jundu subdued the lair center, he knew the distribution locations of other lairs in the surrounding area, so he didn't need to carry out reconnaissance, so he wouldn't startle the enemy.
Therefore, after the initial big victory, Song Zining decided to take advantage of the fact that the demons had not gained a firm footing and the mobilization of the army had not been completed, and then dealt a heavy blow to the opponent. If he could pull out the Three Sacred Tree Forest, it would be equivalent to cutting off the number of demons. Thousands of troops.
Under the guidance of Zhao Jundu, Song Zining gathered the main force of the empire, and the four great princes were also in the army, forming a huge camp of six generals. At the same time, they mobilized nearly 100,000 troops.
There was no rest for the imperial army along the way, and the truck broke down halfway, and the soldiers on the truck were switched to other trucks. After a day and a night, the fortress of the demons finally appeared in front of the army.
The fortress is quite large, like a small city, and the forest behind it is endless, and its scale is far higher than those single or double sacred tree forests. Above the fortress, there is actually an airship floating, which can really be called a big deal.
No matter the floating ships of the Empire or Eternal Night, they will not last long in the new world. The floating ships of normal specifications will be damaged and scrapped after seven or eight days at most. So seeing the floating ship appearing above the fortress, you know that the demon descendant suffered a head-on blow and spent all his money to increase his strength by burning money.
The appearance of the airship was indeed unexpected by Song Zining, but it did not affect the overall situation. Song Zining ordered the naval guns on the vehicle to land, and shot down the floating ship with several shots of the tracking crossbow.
These air-to-air weapons were originally used to deal with flying beasts. Song Zining thought about it for a while, and ordered them to be brought without hesitation, and it actually came in handy. Even Wei Potian had to admit that Song Zining's luck was strangely good.
In the next few shots, although there were strong men in the fort trying to block the crossbow arrows, they were easily blocked by the empire. Therefore, they lacked long-range fire protection at the city defense level, and their speed and evasion flexibility dropped a little in the new world. This grade of airship has completely turned into a large target.
Although the fortress had discovered the whereabouts of the imperial army in advance, Song Zining wanted to concentrate the main force to attack, so the impact was not too great. Next, the imperial army arranged its formation in an orderly manner, and after the landing of various heavy weapons was completed, the storming of the Demon Fortress began.
In this battle, the empire occupies a comprehensive advantage from the strong to the strength of the troops. This kind of temporary fortress cannot be very strong in defense. What is more important is that the demons are all deployed against the alien beast army, and they attach great importance to air defense and short-range defense fire nets. dense. What they are now encountering is their old rival, the Imperial Army. Not to mention that all these targeted deployments have failed, they have become shortcomings.
Under the powerful long-range firepower of the empire, the outer walls of the fortress were quickly knocked down in sections, and several turrets were also ordered to be killed by the princes of the four major powers.
As for the strong men assigned by the fortress itself, Zhao Jundu and Song Zining's joint efforts are more than enough to suppress them. After a fierce battle for half a day, the 30,000 demon-born garrison was finally annihilated. The two marquises who guarded were killed and one injured, and the remaining strong only escaped the two timid earls. As for the empire, there were only a few thousand casualties, and most of the strong were slightly injured. After a little rest, they could return to the battlefield.
The victory was crisp and neat. After pulling out the most important stronghold of the demon descendant on the outskirts, the big target was only the base outside the door.
Without hesitation, Song Zining immediately dispatched scouts, while constantly writing and drawing on the map. Not long after, he said to Zhao Jundu: "Most of the 'doors' of the demons are in this area."
Zhao Jundu glanced at it, frowning in thought.
Wei Potian said carelessly: "I know the location, so let's call there!"
The four princes didn't speak, they just looked at Song Zining. After this period of fighting, they were completely convinced by Song Zining and had no other thoughts.
"The location of the door is just my guess." Song Zining said to Wei Potian.
Wei Potian opened his mouth and stopped talking.
Song Zining ordered someone to fetch a map of the new world, made several marks on it, and wrote down rows of calculations at the same time, saying: "During this period of time in the new world, adults must feel that the space here is a bit distorted. ?”
Several princes nodded. As top powerhouses, they are very sensitive to changes in space, and they all noticed some clues.
Song Zining pointed to the formula just written, and said: "I have been calculating with great concentration these days, and found that the spatial distortion produced by each forest is different, and the spatial distortion produced by the forest with more sacred trees is stronger. .For example, the forest under our feet, the distortion produced is already very strong. The specific algorithm is as follows."
Song Zining scribbled down a lot of calculations, and then said, "That's it."
Wei Potian stared round his eyes in a daze. He could recognize every number Song Zining wrote, but he didn't understand what it meant when put together. This large number is a holy book to him.
Three of the four princes also had general expressions, and only one looked at it carefully and thoughtfully.
Song Zining said: "Now the place we are standing on looks like a flat ground, but it actually has a curvature. It's just that our perception is also distorted, so we think it's a flat ground."
Wei Potian couldn't understand even more, he turned his head to look at other people, and found that most of them also looked blank, so he settled down. As long as he is not the only one who can't understand.
Song Zining drew several lines on the map of the new world, linking forests together, but each line was not a straight line, but an arc.
He drew another dotted line, pointing to a certain area, and then drew a circle there, saying: "The space warpers in each location are regular. According to this law, the space warping situation in this area , will be very similar to our Qin Lu's gate. In other words, a gate of the demon descendants is likely to be here!"
Among the four princes, the only one who understood the formula written by Song Zining, Mu Guogong said slowly: "If that's the case, then what are we waiting for? Soldiers are precious, and if you kill them now, you may be able to catch the demons by surprise."
Song Zining didn't answer, but clicked on the area and said, "If this is really a door, then there is another inference."
He wrote down a large number of calculation formulas, and then drew one or several lines according to each set of calculation formulas. Song Zining specially drew an arc connecting the two doors. The focus of the arc is in the distance, well outside the coverage of this map.
Song Zining drew another line, pointing from the midpoint of the arc to the focal point in the distance, and said, "This is what really matters. If I'm not wrong, the space distortion of the entire new world points to a core, where the space Maybe it is completely distorted and exists forever. That is to say, there may be an extremely huge door there, leading to a world that we don't know. And that door is the real goal of the dark race!"
Mu Guogong himself is also a master of Tianji, he stood up suddenly, came to the map, and carefully looked at each line of data. After half a day, his complexion changed slightly, and he said: "There may indeed be a door there. Or it is not appropriate to describe it as a door, but if there is a passage, it is probably a huge passage that has never been seen before. It appears in our The gates of the world are probably like nails nailed to the mainland, so as to use it to open the real gate!"
Song Zining nodded and said, "So the question we have now is, should we go directly to the central gate, or take out the small gate where the demon descendants are taken first."
Including Zhao Jundu, everyone frowned and remained silent. This choice is too big, and no one wants to jump to conclusions lightly.