September 3rd, sunny.
The Pearl River Army marched forward in neat rows, and in front and behind them were other large armies from the literary world.
Fourteen armies from seven literary countries are advancing towards the war zone together today.
The entire Liangjie Mountain was surrounded by large and small peaks. After the 2.8 million troops ran for four hours, they bypassed a mountain and the view suddenly opened up, appearing in the war zone.
Under the same clear blue sky, the road ahead is unusually wide.
The mountains on both sides were dozens of miles away, and in front were countless human buildings, with all kinds of people coming and going in a hurry.
At the end of the battle zone, there is a dark and towering city wall.
Fang Yun was riding on his horse and looking up. He saw a huge city wall that was fifty miles long and two hundred feet high.
All the people in the literary world were shocked by the two-hundred-story-high city wall in front of them. They could not imagine that a city wall could be taller than many mountains.
The top of the city wall seemed to be in the clouds, tall and majestic, pitch black but emitting a metallic luster, like a black iron fortress, containing tremendous power, as if it was this city wall that supported the sky of Shengyuan Continent.
In a sense, this thick and majestic city wall is the real Mountain Between Two Worlds.
The soldiers looked at the huge city wall with a daze in front of their eyes, because in their perception, it was not a wall simply built with huge stones, molten iron or other magical objects, but an ancient and vicissitudes of life giant warrior, holding a fearless shield, facing the endless monsters.
It seemed as if countless voices were ringing in everyone's ears, and those countless voices eventually overlapped and converged into a loud and high-pitched roar.
“Never retreat!”
Including Fang Yun, everyone instinctively opened their mouths and shouted along with that soul-piercing voice: "Never retreat!"
Everyone seemed to see the majestic giant of the city wall smiling with satisfaction.
In a flash, the walls of Liangjie Mountain returned to their original appearance. Under the sunlight, the black walls reflected a metallic luster, containing a chill colder than ice, which was horrifying but also reassuring.
Everyone's expression eased, but Fang Yun's ears were filled with endless sounds, including roars, shouts of killing, screams, cries, charges, weapons clashing, flesh being cut, bones breaking...
Finally, countless voices converged into one sentence.
"The human race is invincible!"
Fang Yun sighed softly and murmured to himself: "The human race is invincible!"
"Keep going. You will stay in the military camp below the city wall tonight."
The fourteen armies continued to run forward, and as they advanced, all the soldiers looked around curiously.
Fang Yun was also observing this place. The front half was a military camp, while the back half was like an industrial city.
Everyone was at the rear of the battle zone, where there were numerous workshops, densely packed together. A large number of ox-drawn carts were coming and going, transporting various machinery and weapons. It was a busy scene.
After running through the workshop area, they came to the military camp area. Between the two areas, there was a large open space with several extremely tall objects on it.
Everyone had already seen those tall objects, but now they were getting closer and were talking in low voices.
“That ten-story-high object is covered by a huge curtain, but judging by its general shape, it should be the famous armillary sphere!”
"It could also be a seismograph."
"The one next to it is the seismograph."
Fang Yun looked at the tall city wall in front of him.
The most common thing on the city wall is the elevator, with an average of one every thirty feet. Those elevators are basically ten feet square, and there are a few large elevators, with the elevator cages as large as three feet square.
At this moment, a large number of lifts are constantly rising or descending, transporting soldiers or supplies.
There are many holes on the city wall, and some lifting mechanisms are parked next to those holes. Someone took away supplies from the holes.
"It seems that there is another world inside the city wall. I just don't know how wide the wall is. It looks like it is at least a hundred feet wide." Fang Yun thought to himself and asked Jie Bingzhi casually.
"Liangjie Mountain is fifty-one miles long, one mile wide, and two hundred feet high," Xie Bingzhi replied.
Su Lun at the side sighed and said, "Except for the saints, I can't think of anyone who can do such a big thing. This is not a city wall, it's a man-made mountain."
"So, this wall is also called the True Two Worlds Mountain, and has many nicknames, such as the Wall of Sighs, the Great City, the Invincible Great Wall, and so on."
"Huh? What's that?" Wang Li pointed to the northwest corner.
Fang Yun looked over and saw a white light curtain there, about three meters high.
"It's written on it that this is the military merit book that each army pays the most attention to." Qu Tong said.
Above the light curtain there were three large golden characters reading "Military Merit Book", while in the first row below it was simply written "The First, Eleventh Army", and in the second row it was written "The Second, Fourteenth Army".
Until the 30th place, there was this kind of number plus the word "army", and the 31st place was written as "Seven Armies of the Prison".
Everyone vaguely understood what this was.
Xie Bingzhi explained with a smile: "It's different from the way you name your armies. We have too many armies in Liangjie Mountain and some ancient lands, so for convenience, we name them with numbers. After all, Liangjie Mountain has thousands of armies at its peak, and naming them one by one is too complicated and redundant. Zhenyu Sea is named with numbers like Liangjie Mountain, but in order to distinguish it from the army of Liangjie Mountain, the word Zhenyu is added. The same is true for Shihan Ancient Land."
Zhang Qingfeng said, "I see that the first to tenth armies are not listed in the military merit book. Could it be that Liangjie Mountain does not have these ten armies?"
Qu Tong interrupted and said, "Those are the ten strongest armies in Liangjie Mountain. Even the most ordinary soldiers have the strength to easily kill the demon soldiers. Just a few of them can kill ordinary demon generals together. Once they appear, it means the outbreak of the second Liangjie Mountain War. Therefore, everyone in Liangjie Mountain hopes that they will not fight."
"Tongsheng is just equivalent to monster people. Ordinary scholars have the strength of monster soldiers. It's unbelievable that they are so strong..." Su Lun said.
"Some of the main forces of Liangjie Mountain are ranked very low in the military merit book. Could it be that they are weak?" someone asked.
"Some are indeed bad, but most of them have participated in the war for a short time, so naturally they have little military merit."
The generals nodded slightly.
Zhang Qingfeng sighed and said, "The military merit book only shows the top 100 armies in the Battle of Bi Can. None of our three armies from Chu State are on the list. Only the Qin State's 'Emperor's Guard' ranks 97th, and this army has been completely annihilated. It is said that the reason this army ranks high is because it cooperated with the mechanism to kill several great demon kings."
That Qu Tong said: "In two days at most, the Imperial Guard will be removed from the list."
The faces of the Zhujiang Army soldiers became even uglier.
Fang Yun wrote down the ranking of the entire military merit book.
There are one hundred rankings in the Military Merit Book, and the top fifty are all firmly occupied by the armies from Liangjie Mountain or other ancient lands.
At number fifty-fifth, there appeared a large army from Shengyuan Continent, which was the Wudang Flying Army of Shu Kingdom.
Fang Yun nodded. When the Wudang Flying Army fought against the monsters, they were usually arranged behind other armies. They were good at using bows and crossbows and poison arrows, and had a great advantage in defending cities, so their military exploits must be higher than those of other Shengyuan armies.
.(To be continued.)