Chapter 823 – Waiting for you
The army division had allocated three of An Zheng’s battleships, and the Holy Emperor Chen Wunuo had ordered the army division to transfer the best to An Zheng. The three battleships were newly built by Da Xi last year. They were equipped with the most powerful weapons made by the armory set up by the Da Xi army. After increasing the stability of the air, the number of off-gun increased from one to four.
Da Xi had never been stingy with her military investments. A large group of capable people had gathered in the weapons workshop of the military. These people received extremely high salaries. The reason they existed was to make the Da Xi army stronger.
An Zheng had made arrangements for these three battleships, two Yellow Dragon battleships, one for attack and one for support. The last giant eagle battleship was used as a backup and as a logistics supply. The Yellow Dragon Battleship was a standard battleship for the Da Xi military. It was eighty-eight meters long and was supported by runes. It was protected by a foot-long steel plate. Even if the crossbows were shot at it, it would only be a crater.
An Zheng assigned three hundred of the six hundred people to the two Yellow Dragon Battleships, and the other three hundred people to the Giant Eagle Battleship. The giant eagle battleship was a supply battleship that was equipped with the Da Xi standard. It was 160 meters long, and according to the standard, it could carry 800 soldiers and a large amount of supplies.
The Giant Eagle Battleship was like a moving fortress, much slower than the Yellow Dragon Battleship, but once it was launched on a large-scale battlefield, a giant eagle battleship could easily raze a small city to the ground.
There were four off-gun s installed on the Yellow Dragon Battleship, one in the left and one in the right, each in front and back. It was built last year, so the power of the off-gun was much stronger than the older generation of warships. The madmen in the weapons workshop had increased the lethality of the off-gun, especially the aerial attacks against the enemy infantry.
There were twelve off-gun installed on the Giant Eagle Warship, one of which was the upgraded version of the main cannon. In addition, the two sides of the battleship were also equipped with flying cannons, with four on each side. The Eagle Cannon didn’t have any destructive power, but the claws thrown out could pull the enemy’s small warship over, and with one hit, the ship would be destroyed.
After the three battleships left the Jinling, they advanced towards the northwest direction. Chen Wunuo had indeed placed special emphasis on An Zheng, and the Giant Eagle battleship that the Department had ordered for An Zheng was actually equipped with a small scale teleportation circle, which could allow the Giant Eagle battleship to jump for a short distance, but this kind of jump was not less than a hundred Li. After all, that battleship was too big. A single jump would consumerrifying amount of Golden-Rank Spirit Stone.
An Zheng sat at the bow of the Giant Eagle Battleship, the collision in front of him was more than ten metres long, purely made of steel. If he were to directly collide with the enemy’s small warship, he could pierce through it.
This was a war machine that could only be built by a powerful empire like the Great Xixi. In fact, a giant eagle battleship like this could make a small country like the 16 Swallow Cities tremble in fear.
This time, a portion of the disciples that An Zheng brought out from the Hollow Jade Temple were assigned to the two Yellow Dragon battleships. Ye Xiaoxin was arranged to lead one battleship, and Han Dakui commanded the other. In order to ensure that there wouldn’t be any problems while they were in command, they brought people selected by the military and Heavenly Awakening Sect respectively.
As usual, Han Dakui was a little disdainful towards An Zheng. As far as he was concerned, being commanded by a Daoist was a very shameful thing. Furthermore, they had never thought that An Zheng truly understood what war was. Fighting and killing in the martial arts world were completely different from war.
If it was just the two Yellow Dragon Battleships, it would at most take half a month to travel from the Jinling to the northwest. However, the giant eagle battleship’s speed was slower than Huang Long by half. Even if it travelled without rest, it would still take it at least twenty days to reach the northwest.
Along the way, An Zheng met with a few not so powerful summoner. He had always let them fight as they wished, because with the Da Xi war machine as a backup, it wasn’t difficult for them to eliminate those small summoner. They killed their way through, and after 20 days, they crossed the river and entered the northwest region. Their harvest was already quite bountiful. Everything obtained from the demon beasts that An Zheng ordered to be killed was distributed to everyone on the ship. Half of the people who killed the demon beasts took it for themselves, while the other half were divided among everyone.
To An Zheng, the crystal cores and skulls of those Goblin Beasts were nothing, but to those soldiers, they were too enticing. Even if the cores of low level demon beasts were sold in an auction house, the income would still be abundant.
Gu Qianye had been sitting beside An Zheng for the entire day, and had not moved. She simply sat there beside An Zheng, not saying a word. She knew that the Old Bull s were a sore point in An Zheng’s heart. If she did not save the Old Bull for a while, An Zheng would not be able to rest at ease. But the Old Bull was right, if they acted impulsively, then the two of them might not be involved.
The second day after they entered the northwest region, the Yuwen Clan’s battleship came to greet them. The team was led by Yuwen Wuyou, an expert of Yuwen Clan’s younger generation. This was a very easy-going young man, without the arrogance of someone from a large clan. He had been in the army since he was an adult and had lived on the border for more than fifteen years.
He was the type of person who had things to say to Han Dakui, but when Han Dakui saw him, he was unwilling to even say a single word more. An Zheng even heard Han Dakui whispering to Yuwen Wuyou, saying that it would be fine if he was the leader, but it was jusiece of tofu.
An Zheng knew that those soldiers would call him tofu in their hearts. He looked very square, but he definitely could not be used as a stone. An Zheng did not care, it was impossible to change the perspectives of these stubborn soldiers.
Yuwen Wuyou only chatted with An Zheng once after he finished talking with him. He spent the rest of his time with Han Dakui and the others. Three days later, the team entered the Northwest Dao, Fang Shan County. Yuwen Wuyou then came over from the Yellow Dragon Battleship to brief An Zheng.
“Did you see that, Master Hou?”
Yuwen Wuyou pointed to the front of the warship: “Although it’s not really a wild thousand miles, but at least crops can be grown. No matter how little you harvest, it’s still food. But look at this, this desert has already extended for almost eight to nine hundred miles, and the people cannot survive any longer, so they have all moved to the big city to gather. ”
He was afraid that An Zheng would scold the Yuwen Clan for not doing anything, so after he finished speaking, he started to explain: “The border troops of the northwest border do not dare to make a move, because once they do, there might be a chance that something big happens. The defending troops of each county were completely no match for those summoner, especially since that Eagle Horse could use the power of wind and sand, which was abnormally strong. Our Yuwen Clan’s cultivators have been chasing it for almost four months. However, it is too cunning and its movement is very fast.
An Zheng looked down at the desert and took a deep breath, telling himself that he had to temporarily put aside about the Old Bull. Although he already had a plan to save the Old Bull, his strength was not enough. He needed to improve himself as soon as possible. Furthermore, there was nothing that could speed up a cultivator’s cultivation as much as battle. As long as they did not die, the results of any battle would bring about enormous gains.
“Something even more unbeatable.”
Yuwen Wuyou pointed to the desert: “That Eagle Horse reproduces very quickly. It seems to bermaphrodite, and every month, it will give birth to a litter of cubs. Although the innate abilities of the majority of these cubs were very low, they were hidden in the desert, and if a team was not careful, they would be attacked. These disgusting things eat people without spitting out their bones. ”
“How many Eagle Horse’s cubs are there under this desert?”
“I’m afraid there are at leashousand.”
Yuwen Wuyou replied, “These cubs are cultivators comparable to Sumeru Stage, but they can’t be found even if they were to hide within the desert, and there’s no way they can be killed. Without sufficient manpower, he could only temporarily avoid the desert.
An Zheng walked to the commander’s seat of the giant hawk warship and sat down, then raised his hand and ordered: “Cast the flags, order the two Yellow Dragon warships in front to split up. From the left and right sides, off-gun s load up with Gao Lie glyph bullets, pull out the things underground.”
“Yes sir!”
The flagman on the mast began to wave the flag in his hand, and the bugle horn sounded. Soon, the two flagmen on the two Yellow Dragon battleships in front began waving their flags, indicating that they had received the order. The two Yellow Dragon battleships began to split apart, the distance between them widening. An Zheng’s Giant Eagle battleship followed the original route and flew forward, and stayed in the middle of the two Yellow Dragon Battleships.
Yuwen Wuyou could not help but become curious, “This desert thing is at least eight or nine hundred miles long. It’s also three to four hundred miles north and south.
An Zheng nodded his head, “You should believe in the sharp weapons made by the Da Xi Army.”
Ten minutes later, the distance between the two Yellow Dragon battleships was fifty kilometers. The two battleships then stopped in midair, and immediately afterwards, four huge fireballs were reflected from the off-gun s on both sides of the battleships. The fireball was sent flying several dozen meters away before it began to fall. It was like a meteorite with a long tail of flames as it fell into the desert. After the eight Talisman-Dollars landed, they did not immediately explode, but instead began to sink rapidly.
A few seconds later, Gao Lie’s Talisman disappeared. Yuwen Wuyou waited for another ten minutes, but there was no movement. He couldn’t help but to say with concern: “Those fellows basically don’t have anything to eat. Moreover, the depth of the desert is comparable to a large lake. Our weapons might not be effective.”
An Zheng said indifferently: “Just watch.”
The eight Fierce Talisman-Bullets fell into the desert for more than ten minutes without any reaction. Yuwen Wuyou saw that An Zheng’s expression still did not change, but he was very curious about the use of the so called newly created product of the Great Western Region.
After another three or four minutes, the entire desert seemed to shake. With a loud buzzing sound, the sand layer in the desert seemed to have been lifted, rising up by at least four to five meters! Soon after, eight fiery red pillars of light exploded from the bottom of the desert. Between the eight pillars of light, there seemed to be countless flowing lightning bolts connecting them.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The entire desert was engulfed in a sea of fire, as if another bowl of water had been poured intot of boiling oil. The flames moved beneath the desert like dragons, and the temperature of the desert rose. A few minutes later, the area between the eight pillars of light had turned dark red. From this, it could be seen that the temperature had reached a terrifying level. The area outside the light pillar was slightly better, but it was still hot and rising upwards, causing the air to seem to be distorted.
Even if they liked a dry and warm environment, they still could not withstand sucuge heat.
“Gao Lie’s Symbol Bomb only lasted for a few minutes.”
An Zheng instructed: “Send orders to Han Dakui and Ye Xiaoxin, clean up the battlefield.”
Following the order, four or five small battleships were separated out from the two Yellow Dragon battleships. There were about six or seven people on each small battleship, and they were all carefully selected warriors. These people rode their small warships to dive down, and started to shoot down those Eagle Horse’s cubs with the series of crossbow cannons on the warships.
Not long after the massacre started, a violent roar suddenly came from the distant sky. It was obvious that something terrifying was quickly moving towards them.
An Zheng slightly raised the corner of his mouth: “I’ve been waiting for you to come.”
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