The scar-faced knight opened the storage bag and looked at the contents inside. He was quite satisfied and asked Jianxiu curiously: "With your master's strength, killing these people is no different from crushing a few ants. Why do you want to kill them?" What’s the benefit to us?”
Although they did not kill any powerful demon generals this time, they annihilated more than 6,000 demon soldiers, most of which were elite warrior-level soldiers. There were not many miscellaneous demons to fill the numbers. They were quite conspicuous when the troops were suspended at the border. A battle achievement.
Therefore, in the eyes of Jiang Ze and Zhou Tong, this journey north to build fortifications was an extremely dangerous task.
At this time, Jiang Mingchuan took advantage of Jiang Yuwei's youthful ambition and desire to make more military exploits, and asked Jiang Yuwei to take the risk. In addition, Jiang Yuwei naturally belonged to Jiang Mingchuan's group, so no one would object.
It is definitely not a good choice to deviate thousands of miles north from Yunzhongsai to build Beiling Village at once, and the spiritual veins of the broken ridge were also broken in the previous battle.
Therefore, five days later, the manpower of the Engineering and Construction Department to assist in the construction of the fort was sent by Jiang Mingchuan to Yunzhong Fortress to follow Jiang Yuwei's instructions; as well as the seven or eight hundred low-level disciples and retinues left at Yantai Pass in Beiling Villa. Move to the clouds.
Although the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is still abundant as Mozhang Ridge goes north, the advanced magic circle still needs to be deployed in the spiritual veins in order to fully exert its power.
Go north to scout out the enemy and encounter a large group of demon soldiers. If you can't defeat them, you can still escape south. Now that you have built a fort on the north side of Yunzhong Fortress, you won't be able to advance or retreat at will. Once a large-scale war breaks out, or where is the Immortal Evil Realm? The demon lord and the young lord are full and strong, and if they want to launch a small-scale attack on the human defense line, they will definitely bear the brunt. No one knows how many people they will kill or injure during the garrison period.
With his current strength, even a strong man in the first level of heaven can cut him into two pieces with a casual sword energy.
Jiang Mingchuan was obviously in a good mood today. He was not dissatisfied at all because he allowed a fake alchemy realm demon general to escape with six or seven hundred demon soldiers. He said with a smile: "These bastards Dian Musi, I'm sending an order to You prepared your war horses, but they fooled you with bad horses, and it is not your fault that the demon leader escaped this time."
"Huh?" The masked sword cultivator snorted coldly and said, "If my master is easy to do everything, how will you have the opportunity to run around here?"
Therefore, no one will compete for the position of "chief general". It can even be said that no one will be sent to be the "chief general" unless he makes a big mistake.
Next, Jiang Mingchuan did not continue to entangle with Wu Xu, and discussed with the generals to appoint Jiang Yuwei to build another outpost to the north of Yunzhong Fortress to monitor the movements of the demon soldiers.
Wu Xu was also in a depressed mood. What could he refute
Although True Lord Yunhu left, they were strictly ordered not to act rashly. Jiang Mingchuan could not mobilize his army to advance to the front line of Tianluo Valley, so as not to cause a strong reaction from the demons. However, this did not mean that they could not fight when the demon soldiers came to the front line of Mozhang Ridge. A beautiful encirclement and counterattack.
Chen Haishou was waiting outside the tent and could hear Jiang Yuwei taking the initiative to apologize to Jiang Mingchuan as soon as she entered the tent upon being summoned.
However, when True Lord Yunhu came, he had strict orders prohibiting them from acting rashly. With Wu Xu and other generals restraining him, Jiang Mingchuan had no way to act alone. He could only continue to rely on low-level disciples like Jiang Yuwei to continue to bring him some surprises.
After discussing the matter of building a new outpost, Jiang Mingchuan, Wu Xu and others led their troops to detain the captured demons and return to the Yantaiguan camp. As for the situation inside Tianluo Valley mentioned by Jiang Yuwei, Jiang Mingchuan still needs to report it to the commander of Chongguo. The Xizhu Kingdom General Mansion, which defended the entire northwest border, knew how to deal with it.
All this was within Chen Hai's expectation.
Of course, in his words, he only pointed the finger at the officials of the Dian Mu Division, but people with a discerning eye could still hear Jiang Mingchuan's dissatisfaction with Wu Xu, and they all thought that Wu Xu had caused the death of his son, and Jiang Yuwei and other juniors were also blamed. There is indeed something unnatural about him.
At the same time, in the depths of the wasteland more than a hundred miles away, a dozen riders in black robes stopped in the bushes, looking at Beiling through an ancient bronze mirror that gave off a green light. The disciples of Gushan Villa watched every move they made near Duanling.
Although the four-pillar demon-slaying array is two levels worse than the mountain-protecting formation at Yantaiguan, it must be deployed at important checkpoints and outposts. Jiang Mingchuan was able to allocate a four-pillar demon-slaying array to them because he expected them to be able to do it. He made another military exploit.
Fortunately, the mountains collapsed and a considerable amount of Xuanyang iron ore was exposed. Jiang Yuwei and the others only needed to pick up the scattered ore and smelt it, which was enough for the initial consumption.
The Dian Mu Division was under the control of Chief Shi Wu Xu. Jiang Yuwei led his troops to the north to scout out the enemy. He only obtained 300 inferior cavalry from the Dian Mu Division. Jiang Mingchuan had known this for a long time. Of course, he could not go to Wu Xu for low-level disciples like Jiang Yuwei. Xu confronted him, but he did not expect that Jiang Yuwei, who led less than two hundred low-level disciples, could actually lead thousands of demon soldiers into their ambush circle.
At the northern foot of Broken Ridge, there is a ruined village among the rocks. The ruins of the mine are also behind the ruined village. However, the rock formations in the Stone Ridge have fractured and become extremely unstable. It is no longer possible to re-mining the ore by clearing the rockfall.
The sword cultivator only had Dao Dan cultivation, and the scar-faced knight could beat him to pieces with one hand. However, thinking that he still had to rely on him to deliver the message, he could only endure his rudeness and waved. He waved his hand and took a dozen of his subordinates to join the large army at the rear.
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Although Chen Hai did not personally experience the original war, seeing how the sword energy was able to cut into the rock formations more than a hundred feet deep, one can imagine how fierce the battle was at that time, and how powerful the Celestial Realm warriors were.
After preparations were made, Chen Hai and Jiang Yuwei led more than a thousand soldiers and two hundred craftsmen from the Engineering and Manufacturing Department. They set off from Yunzhong Sai and headed north, arriving at the site of Xin Sai in three days.
Only with a Xuanyang iron mine can they try to forge more Tianji war machines. Otherwise, why would Chen Hai ask Jiang Yuwei to take so many low-level disciples northward on this trip
At this time, whoever can lead them to kill the demon soldiers and gain military exploits will have a high reputation. This allows Jiang Mingchuan to further secure his position as Zuo Duhu Guard General.
Jiang Ze, Zhou Tong, Wei Teng, Ma Yan and others were quite dissatisfied with the new appointments.
They didn't know that Demon General Chi Yuan and the Winged Demon Red Army were actually under Chen Hai's control. Even if Chi Yuan and the Winged Demon Red Army returned, they would definitely be punished and would never have the chance to lead the army again. But as long as Chi Yuan and the Winged Demon Red Army were there, With Yuan and the Wing Demon Red Army present, Chen Hai can accurately grasp the gathering trends of the demon soldiers in Tianluo Valley.
Fortunately, it was not possible for Jiang Mingchuan to allocate such a powerful advanced protective array from Yantaiguan to them in the early stage, so this could be ignored.
The site selection for Beiling Fortress was reported to Jiang Mingchuan, who quickly responded. Not only did Jiang Mingchuan not object to their aggressive fortification site selection, he even deployed a four-pillar demon-slaying formation to strengthen their defense.
But in any case, Jiang Mingchuan's military order has been issued, and it cannot be changed by low-level disciples like them. Fortunately, when Jiang Mingchuan led his troops back to Yantai Pass, he directly allocated them twenty red suan beasts, two hundred green cunning horses and A certain number of soldiers and armors can be regarded as a considerable reward.
Chen Hai, Jiang Yuwei and the others are temporarily stationed at Yunzhong Fortress. After Jiang Mingchuan dispatches manpower from the Construction Department, they can go north together to select a site to build a new fortress.
If he hadn't used them, or if he hadn't cared about the life and death of the lower-level disciples, how could he have sent his direct disciples to such a dangerous place
Jiang Mingchuan's temporary appointment as Zuo Duhu Guard General was only for a few years. If he wanted to secure his position and obtain a long-term appointment, or have further development in the army, he would need to seize the time to establish military exploits.
Although it is just an outpost and not too large in scale, it can be regarded as the "chief general" of a party if it can lead the soldiers alone. However, Yunzhong Fortress is already nearly a thousand miles north of Demon Deer Ridge, and the newly built outpost will have to go further north from Yunzhong Fortress. Whether a large-scale war breaks out or a small group of demon soldiers attack, they will bear the brunt. This "chief general" can be said to be the Shanyu grilled on the charcoal.
Deep in the wasteland of Yima Pingchuan, the broken ridge is about a hundred feet high and stretches three or four miles from east to west. However, looking at the ruins of cliffs and fortresses and the sea of rubble all around, it can be seen that the scale of this broken ridge was much more than that in the early days.
Most of the demon-controlling generals who guard the border would like to have the opportunity to kill demon soldiers and generals. After all, apart from the pitifully low salary in the imperial capital, only military exploits can obtain large rewards from the imperial capital and sects.
At this time, Jiang Mingchuan wanted to bring up the old matter again and try to tease Wu Xu who was sitting beside him.
Yantaiguan relied on the main spiritual vein at the western foot of Mozhang Ridge to deploy the sixty-four-pillar demon-slaying formation. When the formation was activated, even if a demon king-level demon warrior led an elite demon army to attack, no matter how weak the defenders were, You can also rely on the Demon-Slaying Formation to withstand it for three to five days and wait for the army to come for reinforcements.
"My disciple is incompetent. He went north to scout for the enemy, but he accidentally exposed his whereabouts. First, he was chased by the demon soldiers and fled, and then he failed in the battle. He actually made the demon leader flee north. Please punish me, General Protector!"
During these five days, Chen Hai dived alone into the depths of the wasteland in the northern part of Yunzhong Fortress, looking for a suitable site for building a fortification, and finally selected a fortress a thousand miles away from Yunzhong Fortress in the south and less than two thousand miles away from Tianluo Valley. Ridge as the location of Beiling Fortress.
The Demon-Slaying Array is the most common standard defensive array in the military that is both offensive and defensive. It is divided into three levels: four pillars, sixteen pillars, and sixty-four pillars.
A sword cultivator with a black mask on his face stepped on a fiery red spirit sword, threw a storage bag to a scar-faced rider, and said: "Master Han, I guess you don't want to see it either. When the military forces extend to the south of Tianluo Valley, block your east-west passage. This is the deposit my master gave to Master Han. If you can let these disciples expose their corpses in the wilderness, you will get twice as much reward. For you guys."
Even if Wu Xu didn't send anyone to find them, just because these little lambs carried a four-pillar demon-slaying array deep into the wilderness, it was still worth their while.
What Chen Hai valued most there was not that there was a ruined village that could be used to reduce the construction workload of the outpost, but more importantly, that there was a ruins of a mine where the demons mined Xuanyang iron ore.
Jiang Yuwei and the others are said to be able to fly with the wind. At the critical moment, they should give up their inferior horses and fly with the wind to rush into the depths of the magic array to surround and kill the demon general
The Broken Ridge collapsed and broke into what it is today during the previous war between humans and demons. Chen Hai and the others could even see traces of sword energy slashing from the cliff mountain.
Although the mine was collapsed in the previous war, and it seems that the scale of the demon's mining of Xuanyang iron was not large before, but if the disciples of the villa really want to unleash the power of the heavy-bore crossbow, they must obtain sufficient Xuanyang. Iron materials are used to cast Xuanyang heavy front arrows for consumption.
They are not stupid either. They know in their hearts that Jiang Mingchuan is actually using them to take risks and gain his military exploits.
Although the conditions were difficult, Jiang Ze and Jiang Xuan were no longer protected by their clans and had not experienced many storms. They quickly deployed the four-pillar demon-slaying array in the residual village, with more than a thousand people and horses in the residual village. A temporary camp was set up outside the stronghold so that the craftsmen of the Engineering and Construction Department could restore the remaining stronghold to a little bit as quickly as possible and they could be stationed in it.