This martial saint's health bar is too thick

Chapter 503: Artillery Fire, Extraordinary War

Hundreds of armored cavalrymen from the imperial camp quickly passed by on the muddy road.

These imperial soldiers ride on second-grade exotic beasts, whose movement speed and endurance far exceed those of the cars of this era!
Behind the Imperial Camp Army were more than thirty large troop-carrying trucks, which were not traveling very fast.

Suddenly, the rear wheels of a truck got stuck in the mud, causing the entire convoy behind it to stop.

This team set out from the provincial capital, preparing to conquer the Gouchen Sword Sect.

There is a direct road from the provincial capital of Baisha Province to Gouchen Sword School.

But the road surface material of this highway is half coal dust and gravel, and the other half is dirt road.

Such roads are rugged and uneven, which is extremely harmful to the rubber tires of cars. Once it rains, the roads become even more muddy.

So although it seems that it only takes more than six hours to reach the headquarters of the Gouchen Sword Sect, it is actually very difficult to achieve a smooth journey.

Dozens of city guards got out of the truck, and then a group of people quickly lifted the truck out of the mud and replaced the spare tire.

After a delay of more than ten minutes, the convoy set off again.

Three kilometers ahead of the convoy, a huge ship was flying slowly in an invisible posture.

Li Fei and others are on this "Mirage".

'Mirage' flies in front of the team and can be used for reconnaissance.

If the Gouchen Sword Sect got the news and arranged people to ambush on the road in advance, Li Fei and others could immediately notify the team in the rear.

Starting at around 8 o'clock in the morning, by 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the ground team was only ten kilometers away from the Gouchenjian Sect's base.

In the air, 'Mirage' had already flown to the sky above the Gouchen Sword Sect's base.

Li Fei and others stood on the deck and looked down.

It is said to be a sect's headquarters, but in fact it is just a small city:
The square city wall surrounds a large area of ​​buildings, and the wall is more than 30 meters high.

The largest number of people gathered on the east city wall facing the highway, with at least a thousand of them at a glance.

These people all had rifles in their hands, some were the Tiger type produced by the Great Blue Dynasty, and some were the Eagle Strike III rifles produced in the Western Continent.

In addition, there is a city defense cannon every few hundred meters, and there are heavy machine guns placed on the city walls!

Rifles are easy to deal with, but cannons and heavy machine guns are top-notch military weapons. Their purchase and sale are absolutely prohibited, and once discovered, they will be severely punished.

As a result, when Li Fei took a look, he saw that there were at least twenty cannons and hundreds of heavy machine guns on the east city wall!

"The Gouchen Sword Sect uses the Western Continent's Type 7000 Burke cannon, which has a maximum range of meters. If our ground forces move forward, they will be ready to fire."

Xiao Ruixing stood beside Li Fei and spoke softly.

This master from the Xiao family seems to be very familiar with firearms and is also well-versed in war.

In the previous tactical discussion, he made many key suggestions.

For example, the 'artillery battle' before the battle begins:
Because the provincial capital's city guards had to travel a long distance and were in a hurry, they could not carry heavy cannons and could only carry portable mortars.

However, the maximum range of the mortar is only 3000 meters, which means that the Gouchen Sword Sect, as the defending party, can fully utilize the range advantage of the cannon to take action in advance.

After all, there is only one road, and as long as the enemy's scouts see anyone on the road, they can send a message back and ask the Gouchen Sword Sect to open fire.

If the Western Continent's Type 75 Burke Cannon is hit head-on, many Dao Foundation Stage warriors may be seriously injured!

Therefore, we must not let the Gouchen Sword Sect launch an artillery attack in advance.

There are two ways to deal with it.

The first was to have the ground troops leave the road and enter the fields before entering the artillery range, and continue to advance towards the Gouchenjian faction’s base in a skirmish formation.

Second, Li Fei and others took action in advance to tie down the enemy's artillery.

Choosing the former requires ground troops to cross mountains and march more than ten kilometers in the wild, which will increase consumption and slow down the marching speed.

If you choose the latter, you will expose some of your cards in advance.

In this regard, Li Fei and others chose the former after discussion.

After all, the key to this battle lies in their "surprise weapon", and the later it is exposed, the more advantage they will have.

Ten kilometers away, more than 1,200 city guards quickly got off the vehicles carrying weapons and equipment, and then ran quickly into the fields outside the road.

Hundreds of imperial cavalrymen rode on exotic beasts and continued to charge in the front.

After more than thirty minutes, the scouts of both sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat and sporadic clashes began.

After receiving the news, the Gouchen Sword Sect began to adjust the position of the cannons.

boom! boom! boom!
On the city wall, as the gun barrel vibrated violently and the muzzle flashed with fire, a shell rushed out of the barrel at supersonic speed, cut through the air, and whistled off into the distance.

After flying for half a minute, the shell landed on the field.

boom--

A huge shock wave accompanied by shrapnel swept in all directions, turning weeds into ashes, shattering rocks, and smoke and dust rising into the sky!

When the smoke and dust cleared, a large charred hole appeared on the ground.

At a distance of five or six kilometers, there is no such thing as precise aiming. The gunners of the Gouchen Sword School were just carrying out a covering bombardment on a certain area according to their prior training!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t hit it, because if you hit it, you’ll win.

Anyway, they have enough shells, so there is no need to save money.

There are a total of twenty-five Type 75 Burke cannons, which can fire six rounds per minute.

In the next ten minutes, more than 600 shells were fired!

Most of these shells missed their targets, but a small number hit their targets successfully, causing more than one hundred casualties among the city guards in the provincial capital of Baisha Province.

The Imperial Camp Army suffered no casualties, and even if they were hit by artillery shells, they could still withstand the attack with the help of their military formation.

It's just inevitable that there will be some losses.

A hundred imperial soldiers formed into a battle formation could rival a martial arts master.

An army of 500 people would be hard to contend with even for a martial arts master with seven supernatural powers!
Therefore, this imperial camp army in the provincial capital is also an important force in this battle. Artillery shells can cause certain damage to it. For the Gouchen Sword School, the purpose of the early bombardment has been achieved.

An hour later, the ground troops were less than three kilometers away from the east wall of Gouchen Sword Sect.

The city guards began to fight back with mortars.

The Imperial Cavalry began to charge!
The black evil energy surged from afar like a tide, with murderous aura rising to the sky and stirring the heart.

On the city wall, the cannons that had already adjusted their angles opened fire one after another!
Shells continued to fall on the heads of the Imperial Cavalry, and finally exploded above the "Black Tide" like blooming fireworks.

When the Imperial Cavalry was only the last kilometer away from the east city wall, hundreds of heavy machine guns on the wall opened fire.

Tens of thousands of bullets tore through the air, forming a metal storm in front of the Imperial Cavalry!
The black tide is unstoppable, charging against the metal storm with unstoppable force!
In the last 500 meters, on the city wall, thousands of disciples of the Gouchen Sword School also raised their guns and fired.

However, their firepower was still no match for the Imperial Cavalry.

A jade flute suddenly rose from the city wall, emitting a light golden glow.

Then, a passionate flute sound was heard, like thousands of waves, crashing towards the black tide layer by layer!
This is a real person who has sacrificed his natal magic weapon.

Not only that, three figures swept down the city wall like meteors and rushed towards the surging black tide ahead.

These are three martial arts masters!

If we allow the Imperial Cavalry to charge forward like this, the city walls will not be able to stop them and will cause great damage to the Gouchen Sword Sect's base.

Therefore, the Gouchen Sword Sect had to keep it out of the way.

A real person and three martial arts masters joined forces to fight against the evil spirit in the army formation.

After the imperial cavalry was consumed, the two sides fought on equal terms for a while.

In the air, the 'Mirage' remained hidden, and Li Fei and others did not rush to take action.

A confrontation between two armies is different from a fight between two people. Unless there is a huge gap in strength, the most important thing is not the temporary upper hand, but who has more "backhand cards" prepared and can keep them until the end.

Why was Liu Changwen injured in the first place?

Although his strength is not as good as Hong Zhi's, if the two of them were to fight one-on-one from the beginning, even if he could not beat the opponent, he would have no problem withdrawing safely.

But he was nearly seriously injured by Hong Zhi!

It was only because Hong Zhi hid in the dark from the beginning and waited for the right moment to launch a surprise attack, thus laying the foundation for victory from the very beginning.

The 'gaps' in the flow of energy, the weak points when a move is used out of date, or when a supernatural power is used against a target and the target cannot be moved immediately, these are all points that can be exploited.

On the battlefield, no one will challenge you in a fair one-on-one fight.

The key to winning is to let the strong players on your side strike back as much as possible and play the cards in your hand later and more specifically.

Therefore, in today's battle, the biggest goal of Li Fei and others is to force Hong Zhi to take action first, and it would be best if Huo Hansi could hide until the end so that the final decision could be made!
A moment later, more than a thousand city guards from the rear, along with several martial arts masters, immortals, a group of Taoist foundation-stage warriors, and great wizards in the possession stage arrived.

The thousand-plus people bypassed the battlefield where the Imperial Camp Cavalry was, and charged in a skirmish formation in the face of a hail of bullets. At the same time, various magics spread among the crowd, blessing the thousands of city guards.

These spells are cast by the sorcerers in the team and are most effective against ordinary soldiers who are not warriors. They can temporarily enhance the soldiers' strength, speed up their movement, enhance their reactions, and even make them become passionate and ready to die in a short period of time!
In war, the biggest role of a warlock below the level of a real person is not to fight and kill the enemy, but to apply group benefits.

Or cast a spell to affect the enemy.

With the help of various magic techniques, an ordinary soldier can burst out with combat power that is no weaker than that of a warrior in a short period of time!
If they are armed with guns and have the courage to face death head-on, these ordinary soldiers can also pose a threat to masters at the Dao Foundation Stage!

This is the meaning of the existence of ordinary soldiers in the extraordinary battlefield.

Although they are still cannon fodder, they are at least high-level cannon fodder with strategic significance.

After the various enhancement spells were cast, dozens of magical weapons rose into the air, forming various barriers to help the team block bullets fired from afar.

This is the great wizards in the possession stage in the team offering up their own magical weapons.

Then, a flash of light appeared, and the team that originally had only a few thousand people suddenly became tens of thousands of people, charging towards the east city wall all over the mountains and plains!
This is naturally an illusion, the purpose of which is to disperse the enemy's firepower.

However, the enemy also has ways to deal with it.

Soon, an expert came forward to break the illusion, allowing the attacks of rifles, machine guns and artillery to be relatively concentrated.

After a while, after suffering some casualties, the team from the provincial capital of Baisha Province successfully arrived at the city wall.

This is also another role of ordinary soldiers on the battlefield - to disperse the firepower for the strong.

Otherwise, if there are only dozens or hundreds of strong men charging, the fire suppression they receive will be more concentrated and more intense, and they may even be hit by several shells!
After arriving at the city wall.

In an instant, figures jumped high from the crowd, stepped on the city wall, and easily jumped to the top of the wall with a few leverages.

To be able to climb up a 30-meter-high city wall in the blink of an eye amidst a hail of bullets, one must have at least reached the Dao Foundation Stage.

These people are all strong ones in the team. They no longer hide deliberately, but suddenly rush into the crowd like a tiger among a flock of sheep, causing great casualties in the first moment!
At the same time, dozens of magical weapons were concentrated on smashing a city gate at the east gate.

boom! ! ! !

The steel gate burst into a blinding light and was dented inwards, but it was not broken.

There is a protective magic circle engraved on this city gate.

Not only the city gates, but there are also protective formations on the city walls.

The walls built by the Gouchen Sword Sect were not built for decoration, but were the result of a huge cost.

Otherwise, ordinary fortifications alone would be meaningless in an extraordinary war.

Soon, magical weapons also rose into the air from the city wall and smashed towards the crowd under the wall!

The sorcerers on both sides began to fight in the air, with magic weapons colliding with each other, and various magic spells were used back and forth, which was dazzling.

The martial arts masters from the Gouchen Sword School and Baituo Mountain also began to attack those who climbed up the city wall.

There are a total of seven martial arts masters and three immortals in the Gouchen Sword School and Baituo Mountain, and more than one hundred martial artists in the Daoji period.

The original strength of Baisha Province consisted of only three martial arts masters, one real person, and more than forty martial artists in the Dao Foundation Stage, in addition to the Imperial Camp Army.

Now the Imperial Cavalry has pinned down three martial arts masters and one real person, and the enemy can still mobilize four martial arts masters, two real people and a large number of manpower.

The group of strong men who climbed up the city wall were soon surrounded and put at a disadvantage!
If it weren't for Li Fei and others, it would have been impossible to defeat the Gouchen Sword Sect with the existing strength of Baisha Province.

"Master Xiao, bring your men up."

On the 'Mirage', Li Fei said to Xiao Ruixing beside him.

In the past, whenever there was a big battle, he was always the one who led the charge.

But this time, Li Fei served as the "head coach" for the first time. He became the one who sat in the rear and made plans.

It's not that he doesn't need to take action, but he, Liu Changwen, and Huo Hansi are the last "trump cards" and will not be easily revealed.

"As ordered!"

Xiao Ruixing bowed to Li Fei and then summoned a small boat.

In addition to the large flying magic weapon "Mirage", the Xiao family naturally has other small flying magic weapons.

At this moment, as Li Fei gave the order, Xiao Ruixing took Xiao Tao and two other martial arts masters of the Xiao family onto the boat and flew away from the "Mirage".

Xiao Ruixing also used the art of concealment to prevent the people below from seeing the landing boat.

On the battlefield below, a gray sword light appeared silently and stabbed towards the back of a martial arts master from the Gouchen Sword School who was fighting with someone.

This is Xiao Ruixing taking action.

He is not only a real person, but also a sword cultivator!
Two Daoji-stage warriors from the Gouchen Sword School who were nearby noticed the sword light and tried their best to block it. However, when the sword light was about to hit them, it suddenly drew an arc in a strange way, bypassed them and continued to stab the target.

However, the actions of the two Daoji-stage warriors also bought a little time for the martial arts master of the Gouchen Sword School who was attacked, and he used Dao power to protect himself in time.

The sword flashed, and a bloody hole appeared on the back of the elder of the Gouchen Sword Sect. He spat out a mouthful of blood and was knocked away.

The vice president of Baisha University, who was fighting with the elder of Gouchen Sword Sect, immediately seized the opportunity to launch a strong attack, putting the opponent in danger!
This is the advantage of striking last on the battlefield.

hum-

A fiery red flying sword suddenly appeared, as if carrying a raging flame.

Different from Xiao Ruixing's flying sword which follows a sinister and changeable sword path, this flying sword is majestic and carries the power of wind and thunder!

The person who made the move was the head of Luo Yunfeng in Baituo Mountain, who was also a contemporary immortal and a swordsman.

This flying sword did not chase Xiao Ruixing's flying sword because it knew it could not catch up.

The head of Luo Yunfeng directly controlled the flying sword to stab into the air, stabbing towards the invisible flying boat.

He has seen through Xiao Ruixing's concealment technique!

The sword light was like a red dragon, with a huge momentum.

A white Bodhisattva statue more than ten meters tall appeared out of nowhere, put his hands together, and just caught the flying sword.

No matter how hard the red dragon roared and struggled, it could not break free from the Bodhisattva's hands.

Capture the dragon with force!

On the flying boat, Xiao Tao stood silently beside Xiao Ruixing.

His biggest task in this battle was not to kill the enemy, but to protect Xiao Ruixing.

The other two martial arts masters of the Xiao family seized the opportunity, jumped directly from the flying boat, fell to the city wall below, and joined the battle forcefully!
With the addition of Xiao Ruixing's flying sword and two martial arts masters, Li Fei has gained the upper hand in high-end combat power.

However, on the city wall, Gouchen Sword Sect and Baituo Mountain still have more Daoji-stage warriors and ordinary disciples with guns, and they have the advantage in numbers, so the situation can still be stabilized.

"Master Zhao, take your men down and open the city gate."

On the "Mirage", seeing that Hong Zhi was still holding back from making a move, Li Fei gave another order.

"Yes!"

Zhao Caishu, the chief Taoist priest of Feng Province’s Zhengfa Department, also saluted Li Feixing.

She then used the wind control technique to fly away from the 'Mirage' with the two martial arts masters of the Huo family.

The three men landed directly inside a gate on the east city wall and suddenly attacked and killed!
Zhao Caishu was good at formations, and without any interference, he quickly broke the formation of the city gate. Then a martial arts master from the Huo family took action and smashed the steel city gate.

The city guards who had been outside quickly filed in.

The three strong men led the city guards and rushed into the headquarters of the Gouchen Sword Sect!
For a moment, the sounds of gunfire, artillery fire, and grenade explosions rang out one after another.

"Mirage, descend in altitude and follow behind the city guards."

Li Fei gave the order again.

He figured it out. After all, this was the headquarters of the Gouchen Sword Sect, not the family business of Baituo Mountain.

Even though it was smashed to pieces, Hong Zhi, the supreme elder of Mount Baituo, didn't feel sorry.

But the disciples of the Gouchen Sword School who are participating in the battle would definitely not think so.

This residence contains their families and wealth.

Seeing the enemy charging into the garrison, the morale of the army will inevitably be shaken!

Those strong men who were fighting on the city wall would inevitably be distracted.

Therefore, if Hong Zhi did not take action and allowed the city guards to continue killing, there would be no need to fight this battle.

When Zhao Caishu and others were passing by a hall, a powerful force suddenly descended, and the snow-white light enveloped Zhao Caishu and the two martial arts masters.

"Hey, old man Hong Zhi finally couldn't help but take action!"

Liu Changwen, who was also on the 'Mirage', laughed.

He did not wait deliberately to exchange the lives of Zhao Caishu and others for a suitable opportunity to fight. Instead, he jumped out of the deck directly and also burst out his own martial arts realm:
"Hong Zhi, today is the day you die—"

PS: This chapter is the first time I write about the conventional fighting methods of this book, so that everyone can get familiar with it~
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