In order to further increase the flight speed and increase the loading capacity, the three warships Yuxu, Chongyun, and Lingyun are also equipped with wind flame jet systems.
At this time, three floating warships, including Yuxu, Chongyun, and Lingyun, rushed over from the south. Their speed was as fast as three rainbows piercing the sky. Finally, they arrived at Lingxu, thirty miles away from the Xuantian Thunder Ship. Stop in front of Chengshan.
However, the Longxiang Army and the Wu Chang garrison, surrounded by thirty Blue Whale-class battleships, have advanced to Lingbi County, which is about 7,000 miles away from Tianshui City.
It is unrealistic to build aircraft on a large scale, but it does not mean that Beiling County currently has only four floating warships, which cannot be modified.
When Beiling County was formally established, Chen Hai discussed with Xi Tongguang, Ji Jiangye, and Yuan Zhou, and decided to rename the three floating airships Yuxu, Chongyun, and Lingyun into the war bird camp to speed up the northward movement. The air superiority of the Ling Army.
The spiritual veins of Lingcheng Mountain have not been destroyed by the demons. From a distance, you can see the rich spiritual energy gathering in the valleys of the main peak. Three floating warships are parked on the mountainside of the main peak of Lingcheng Mountain. In addition to being beneficial to the battleships, In addition to the formation masters and sword repair guards recovering as quickly as possible, it also helps the weapon refiners and craftsmen who accompanied the battleship to use the existing conditions to repair the damaged hull as much as possible.
However, in view of the possibility that the demons would make such a choice, Chen Hai completely gave up his efforts to intercept the demon soldiers on the east route. Instead, he tried his best to use all the soldiers and horses recruited from the northern route to use the wind and flame airship to quickly go south from the western coastal areas. After gathering in Hailing City, they then sent troops eastward along the north bank of the Wantao River to intercept the southward retreat of the west-route demon soldiers.
Lingcheng Mountain looks unprepossessing, with a radius of more than a hundred miles and the main peak less than a thousand meters, but it is a rare paradise in Lingbi County.
Of course, the demons have another option at this time, which is for the west route demon soldiers to find a gap between Tianshui and Lingbi, enter the area east of Jitian Canal, and meet up with the east route demon soldiers.
Although Chen Hai left 2.5 million defenders in Lingzhou-Danxia Ferry and Taihua Mountain south of Danxia Ferry, the demon tribe left 2.5 million defenders in Wuhou Ridge east of Lingzhou and Yinhun Ridge south of Taihua Mountain. Five million soldiers and horses.
From the terrifying cracks on the hulls of the three floating battleships Yuxu, Chongyun, and Lingyun, it can be seen that they had just withdrawn from the fierce and bloody battlefield and rushed here to meet Chen Hai without taking a breath. .
Each floating battleship is equipped with four sets of wind flame jet acceleration systems, which requires 60,000 kilograms of Jingxuan gold and other extremely precious gold and iron. Its value is so high that it is equivalent to a low-grade Taoist weapon. It can be said to be the ultimate luxury. , but it can increase the speed of each floating warship to more than 20,000 miles per day.
If we include the forces north of the Nuchuan River that are still moving south via Fengyan airships and a large number of baggage trains speeding through the ice and snow, half a month later, it is possible that the Beiling Army will enter the south of the Nuchuan River. More than 12 million…
Of course, the two groups of demon soldiers can split up and go south, each looking for gaps between Lingzhou and Tianshui and between Tianshui and Hailing, and withdraw to the south bank of the Wantao River.
The finally modified Yuxu, Chongyun, Lingyun and Shantian, in addition to having eight hundred to one thousand formation mages and sword repair guards, also carried a large number of six-chamber heavy-loaded crossbows and heavy-bore crossbows. , can truly match the reputation of "floating battleship".
"Okay!" When Chen Hai said that the reinforcements from Fuso Island had arrived in Jinchuan City, Yu Cang, Jiang Pei and others all looked up.
If the demons choose the latter, Chen Hai will abandon the thirty Blue Whale-class armored warships that are stuck in the dry river and are difficult to move forward. He personally leads the Longxiang Army and the Wu Chang garrison directly to the south. When the demon soldiers on the west road try to Before crossing the Jitian Canal and heading eastward, intercept it.
"Longxiang's army is going south from Lingbi in advance to cut off the west route's demon soldiers from crossing the Jitian Canal. But if the east route's demon soldiers turn west to receive reinforcements, what should we do?" Jiang Pei thought of another idea. One Possible, asked.
At this time, Chen Hai summoned the three floating battleships Yuxu, Chongyun, and Lingyun to Lingbi County for rest and recuperation, just to see what choice the demons would make.
Until a more powerful heavenly secret restriction is developed or lightweight materials with sufficient performance and abundant reserves are found, it is unrealistic to build aircraft on a large scale in the Star Heng Region or Yanzhou.
This is already faster than the flying speed of most heavenly and powerful people in the three realms of heaven and demon.
Although over the years, a large number of elites from the three islands of Fusohai, led by Lei Yangzi, Wei Zhe, Liu Yafu, Zhou Yunshan and others, have been incorporated into the Beiling Army by Chen Hai, the soldiers and horses left behind on the three islands still have considerable strength. There are also three Heavenly Realm True Lords, Zhou Wanqing, Zhou Bin, and Liu Zhenghua, sitting in charge.
In a river canal more than a hundred miles north of Jitian Quling City, the embankment collapsed in a large area. A large amount of broken river water, with the raging river water, overflowed the collapsed embankment and poured into the wilderness on both sides, mixed with The corpses of thousands of demon soldiers and generals have turned the earth into a mess!
This time Zhou Wanqing and Liu Zhenghua once again led four thousand sword cultivators across the sea to come to the aid, and they advanced and retreated together with the three ships, which could actually triple the size of the three ships' sword cultivators. In that case, they and the elite winged demons of the demon clan When you engage in battle, you will become more calm and not as dangerous as before.
"Fairy Zhou Wanqing and Island Master Liu led four thousand sword cultivators across the sea to help. They have arrived at Jinchuan City to rest. You will rest in Lingcheng Mountain for another two hours and then go to Jinchuan City to pick up Fairy Zhou and Island Master Liu." Chen Hai said.
Yu Cang, Jiang Pei, Jiang Yuwei, Jiang He, Huan Wen, Ji Chengyun, Fu Shaoqun, Qin Sixuan and others flew out of the battleship and flew towards Chen Hai.
Chen Hai stood on the Tianxuan Thunder Ship, looking at everything below with an expressionless face.
In addition, there are still troops and horses moving along the western foot of Zibai Mountain to Lingzhou in the south. This means that as of today, the Beiling Army has gathered more than 8 million troops in the area south of North Nuchuan.
Eliminating unnecessary extravagant decorations that only reflect the supreme authority of the top sects in the world, we also spent two years completely transforming the ship body from the traditional half-covered boat shape to one that can reduce wind resistance and air vortex interference. to the weakest, full-coverage long fusiform.
The seven sects belonging to the Beiling County owned at most more than twenty flying ships. However, after more than ten years of hard battle against demons, by the second year of Emperor Lie's succession, only the Tianxuan Thunder Ship and Taiyan were left. The four ships, Yuxu Spirit Ship, Chongyun Spirit Ship, and Lingyun Treasure Ship, are still complete.
As long as the demons fully mobilized their superior forces in the southeast, Chen Hai would not dare to send the Lingzhou defenders out of the city to intercept the demons' eastward retreat.
In the past ten days, Qin Sixun, together with Fu Shaoqun, led three ships in the eastern area of Hailing City to delay the retreat of the West Route Demon Soldiers southward as much as possible. Before that, she only knew about the soldiers and horses gathering at Hailing City every day. Thirty to fifty thousand, or as many as one hundred and eighty thousand. Only then did we know that Wu Chang, who is north of Lingbi Realm, has gathered millions of soldiers and horses from the city north of Nuchuan River as of today.
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At this time, in the snow-covered wilderness to the north of Lingcheng Mountain, thousands of Tianji chariots were surrounded by a large number of horses and infantry, as if rolling dragons were gathering towards Lingcheng Mountain. Qin Sizhen had no doubt that Chen Hai was The determination of the demons to launch a great war.
Although most of the Jitian Canal is excavated and connected using the foundation of existing natural river channels, there are still a large number of artificially excavated canals after all.
The floating battleships Yuxu, Lingyun, and Chongyun are extremely powerful and extremely fast. However, the West Road Demon Soldiers summoned nearly 30,000 elite demon wings and more than a hundred demon dragons, which also caused their disturbance. The attack became very difficult. In just one stick of incense contact, the hulls of the three floating warships were also bruised and bruised, and they had to withdraw from the battlefield early.
The wind flame jet auxiliary acceleration system installed on the four floating battleships of Tiantian Xuanlei Ship, Chongyun, Lingyun, and Yuxu. In order to ensure the strength and be as light as possible, they can only use precision. Made of Xuanjin and other extremely precious gold and iron.
Qin Sixuan stood beside her husband Fu Shaoqun, and was secretly frightened when she saw Chen Hai's aura of scolding Baji when he spoke.
Although the demon soldiers will most likely not be able to cross the river between Lingzhou and Tianshui and evacuate to the south bank of the Wantao River before the river ice thaws after such a delay, they can go southeast and bypass Lingzhou on the north bank of the Wantao River. The city was withdrawn from the low mountain area at the southern foot of Zibai Mountain to Wuhou Mountain in the east.
The demons came to their senses at this time, and divided out a small group of elite demon soldiers and generals to destroy these fragile river dams. The river water drained away with the broken ice, and the river bed higher than the ground level was exposed, forcing Wu to The thirty Blue Whale-class warships heading south from Changcheng were unable to continue southward from the Jitianqu River and enter the Wantao River.
Yu Cang, Fu Shaoqun, and Jiang Pei brought three floating battleships to join them. Chen Hai exchanged greetings for a while and then patiently listened to them describe the process of the battle with the elite winged demons of the demon clan.
The equally powerful Wind Flame power box drives the chariot across the rugged wilderness, and the push-to-weight ratio is at least ten times worse than pushing the aircraft off the ground.
These floating warships and more than 10,000 elite war bird battalions were previously deployed in the north of the Nuchuan River. On the one hand, they restricted the demon clan from dividing their forces and marching northward. On the other hand, they accelerated the elimination of miscellaneous demons that had penetrated into the northern area of the Nuchuan River, and reduced the number of mortals as much as possible. However, when the main force of the demon army retreated south, Yuxu, Chongyun, Lingyun and more than ten thousand elite war birds were transferred to Hailing City and Tianshui City as quickly as possible to harass the demons. This forced the demon soldiers from the West Route to gather together and retreat south.
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After the Battle of Broken Star Gorge, the wreckage of the Taiyan Imperial Void Spirit Ship, the Chongyun Spirit Boat, the Lingyun Treasure Ship, and the other three floating airships were all transported to the Tianying City workshop for repair and transformation.
"Then our army will fight with the main force of the demon soldiers in Weibo!" Chen Hai said decisively.
Chen Hai had not considered developing a real aircraft based on the Wind Flame Power Box before, but the problem was that the Wind Flame Power Box and the related drive control system, which were made of Xuanyang fine iron, were too heavy.
Jitian Canal is more than 10,000 miles long from north to south, and it is impossible to guarantee that the land it passes through is on the same level. In addition to being relatively narrow, some artificial canals have river beds even higher than the ground level, relying entirely on embankments to restrain the river water. In the river channel, smooth flow from north to south is ensured, but it is also relatively fragile.
Looking at the messy river below, Fu Shaoqun said: "The demons are not stupid. At this time, they finally knew that they would send troops to destroy the river of Jitian Canal."
However, more than two million demon soldiers and generals west of Jitian Canal gathered to retreat south. They also had to drive away a large number of miscellaneous demons and captured ordinary people. The speed could not be increased no matter how hard it was, and it was very likely that they would eventually be taken from the sea. Ling gathered the soldiers and horses heading eastward and intercepted them on the north bank of the Wantao River, unable to retreat to the south bank of the Wantao River before the ice thawed.
For this reason, both Yuan Zhou and Xi Tongguang rushed to Hailing City to take charge. At this time, not only Feng Yichen and Wei Zhe led ten Blue Whale-class warships to Hailing City's water village to break the ice and march eastward, but Yuxu, Chongyun, and Lingyun also The three other floating warships were also moved to the southwest, doing everything possible to slow down the southward retreat of the West Route Demon Soldiers.
At the beginning of winter, the more than four million demonic soldiers who crossed the Wantao River to carry out the winter offensive were divided into east and west routes on both sides of Jitian Canal, and they also faced difficult choices.