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Chapter 265 Crisis
Cheng Jinzhou is not worried about the threat of force, but it does not mean that other star warlocks will think so.

After boarding the airship, Lu Guandao found Cheng Jinzhou and said, "We attacked too hastily. We have no intelligence, and the only source of intelligence is the knight who has not been identified. We are not ready for battle, either. The goal is not clear whether it is to destroy or repel the enemy's cavalry, to defend Nanling and De'an, or to frighten the opponent..."

"We have...nearly 20 people." Cheng Jinzhou pointed around, Cao Feng, Bai Jing and others got on the boat, but several gentlemen were not found.

"The enemy also has star warlocks." After all, Lu Guandao had been on the battlefield for several years, and he said with a clear mind: "If 2 cavalry want to break through the border and attack our big cities, they will definitely be followed by star warlocks, and There are many people, but we don’t have any advantage in terms of combat power.”

Cheng Jinzhou rode on Lu Xu, not very worried, frowned and said: "Then let's go back to De'an first, anyway, it's only two or three hours away, when we meet up with Warlock Jiang Huangxing, then we can think of a way."

Lu Guandao looked at Lu Xu, then frowned and said, "Don't you think it's too coincidental?"

Cheng Jinzhou narrowed his eyes, of course he considered the issue of coincidence.In fact, his team did pose a serious threat to the Astromancer Association, as well as the royal family.If I were standing in Liu Kuang's position as a star warlock and watched him recruit dozens of star warlocks in half a year, and under the circumstances of careful selection, "killing" would definitely be within the scope of consideration.

However, in his original design, he never expected that there would be a battle involving dozens of Star Warlocks, which would kill many Star Warlocks and even cause fighting within the Star Warlock Association.

Introducing Beihan seems to be a good idea.

The two people's eyes glanced at themselves, and Lu Xuyu, who was being ridden, asked unconsciously: "What do you think is a coincidence?"

Cheng Jinzhou patted his forehead, cleared his throat, and said, "Lu Xu. If Warlock Liu Kuangxing wants to kill us all, do you think it's possible?"

"Not surprising." Lu Xu grinned.

"Then if we fight with Warlock Liu Kuangxing..." Cheng Jinzhou trailed off, waiting for Lu Xu's answer.

"I have wanted to fight him for a long time." Lu Xu did not disappoint. He quickly added after speaking: "Liu Kuang always believes in a word."

Cheng Jinzhou immediately asked: "What are you talking about?"

Lu Xu thought about it and said, "It should have been given to him by his master. It's called 'Words should never be said, things should be done'."

If Lu Xu was not a well-prepared spy or traitor, Cheng Jinzhou's distrust of Warlock Liu Kuangxing had reached a critical point.He looked at Lu Guandao carefully, and said, "Liu Kuang, it's not like that..."

"No one is sure." Lu Guandao's face looked bookish and mature. No one would have guessed that he had been on the northern battlefield for nearly 10 years.

"Then let's turn around and find a secluded route back to De'an." Cheng Jinzhou said, and shouted loudly to the following: "Gentlemen, we are about to enter the battle preparation time, everyone prepare more, blackout, airship All lights are turned off and no one is allowed to shine, even in enclosed spaces."

A second later, the Star Warlocks began to complain, but fortunately no one violated discipline.

The brightly lit airship looks like an easy-to-hit torch from below.The Star Warlocks are also sensible.

Lu Guandao confirmed that only two people and one rider were present, and said in a low voice: "We can't go back to De'an. If I were Liu Kuang, it would be the same wherever I attacked you. On the road, and in De'an. Because none of us are ready for the fight."

"There is a warlock named Jiang Huangxing in De'an."

"Are you sure he will help you? Or that he won't fight back?"

Cheng Jinzhou was stunned for a moment. Of course, he couldn't believe that Jiang Huangxing Warlock was obviously a person who was unwilling to fight. He still belonged to the Star Warlock Association.

The airship glides through the dark night sky.

Lu Guandao's scholar's face was serious for a moment, and then he laughed again and said: "I was tired of life on the battlefield, and I hoped to get more initial contribution points, but I didn't expect to enter the battle thinking again. Maybe the situation Not that bad."

"Maybe it's bad." Cheng Jinzhou shook his head, smiled apologetically and said, "Sorry, I got you involved."

"It was my choice." Lu Guandao paused for a moment, and then said: "For the current plan, we can only speed up and go directly to the front line. We will go to the border first, and then turn back."

"It's more than 1000 kilometers from here to the border."

"That's four or five hours." Lu Guandao said and said: "The speed of the cavalry is much slower than ours. We wasted 5 hours and flew back in another 5 hours. It will be stopped by Jiang Huang Star Warlock."

Cheng Jinzhou was a little hard to make up his mind.If De'an is destroyed, all his hard work in the past six months will be in vain, and the cost of doing it again will take more time than it does now. Astrologists won't help rebuild it if they can't get repeated contribution points. of.

Lu Guandao looked at his expression, and said seriously: "When we came out, Warlock Liu Kuangxing was still in Shaonan. As long as we kept flying, he couldn't catch up with us. When we got to the border, we confirmed the situation of the Northern Han Dynasty. Then consider more situations based on known conditions.

Cheng Jinzhou had no better idea, and only looked at the dark night sky.

……

Five hours later.

The northwest frontier is in chaos.

Not counting as a tall city wall, it was completely turned into ruins.In places visible to the naked eye, many complete or messy wooden giants can be found, most of which are fragmented.Lu Guandao introduced with a heavy face: "Those are wooden city walls, some are designed according to the arrangement of stars, and some are not."

"Is it used to replace the old city wall?"

"That's right, the city walls are easily knocked down by astrologists." Lu Guandao said, ordering the airship to descend.

On the ground, more corpses, more weapons, and more armor began to appear.

The Northern Han army obviously didn't have much time to collect the prisoners and corpses. After they left, many defeated soldiers came back again, either to bury the corpses or to search for valuables.

Cheng Jinzhou saw with his own eyes a soldier inserting a gun into a colleague's chest, just to grab the necklace from his neck.

A soldier holding a shield was standing on the ground with his whole body scorched black, clinging to several other soldiers. When he walked in, he realized that they were all dead, not the last soldier maintaining order.

The chaos only happened in a short two-kilometer area. Lu Lushan looked back and forth, and came back with certainty: "The Northern Han Dynasty broke through in front of us."

"What's going on?" Lu's father's voice was serious.

"The star warlocks bombed and killed, and then the whole army broke through. They only had time to use the wooden city wall once." Lu Lushan touched his round beard with his fingers. When he was doing the experiment, it was also a movement, which represented thinking. Sometimes absent minded.

Lu Guandao carefully looked at the surrounding city walls, and said: "Only two attacks will open a gap of 2 kilometers. The enemy we have to face is not weak at all."

"There are 17 star warlocks?" Cheng Jinzhou brought 17 star warlocks, like all rookies on the battlefield, he believed in quantifiable things like numbers.

Lu Guandao said softly: "Maybe, maybe not."

"Liu Kuang dares to let in so many astrologists?"

"He may just be a star warlock from the Northern Han Dynasty who was brought in, not necessarily how many."

"Then shall we turn back?" As the altitude of the airship descended, Cheng Jinzhou could already see the blood-stained ground, what was trampled in the bloody mud, and human organs.

A fierce short-term border conflict vaguely had the demeanor of the meat grinder of World War I.

Lu Guandao did not answer Cheng Jinzhou directly, but flew down to find a few soldiers, and came up after careful questioning, saying: "Let's go back and see if we can catch up with the Northern Han cavalry."

"Are there 2 people?"

Lu Guandao said with great experience: "It must be more than 1 people. There is a cavalry team of 3000 people nearby, which was scattered and wiped out by them twice. There are quite a few human cavalry."

Cheng Jinzhou was very anxious, but still handed over the power of command to Lu Guandao.

From joining the team to the present, the Lu family father and son have also been here for four or five months, which is indeed not short in terms of the age of the entire team.Of course, the most important thing is that he has been on the battlefield.

Everyone, including Cheng Jinzhou, Jin Xi, Bai Jing and other star warlocks, has never really been on the battlefield.

As the airship turned around, everyone gradually became nervous.

Cheng Jinzhou opened his star map and slowly began to try to link it.

Only now did he understand the power of the fourth-level star warlock.If he can deactivate everyone's star map like Bishop Kant did, or increase the difficulty for everyone to link to celestial bodies, then the battle will become very simple, especially the battle in which many star warlocks participate.

When other star warlocks lack star power or even lose star power, it becomes normal for fourth-level star warlocks to be one-to-many.

Setting off from Shaonan in the evening, after five hours of driving, it was almost time for the sun to rise again, but none of the star warlocks had the energy to see the beautiful scenery such as the sunrise.Just like what Lu Guandao said, everyone became nervous.

Cheng Jinzhou linked 7 star lines in one breath, especially maintaining the link of Betelgeuse at all times, like a real third-level star warlock.The four-level star array behind him and Lu Xu maintained a low-power operation, although it seemed unnecessary.

The other astrologers are also trying their best to make reasonable preparations. Judging from their appearance, if they are attacked, it will be very bad luck.

Cheng Jinzhou couldn't help but think of Lu Xu's statement, "You can't say anything, but you have to do things." If he really wanted to do it, 50 star warlocks would be such a powerful force.

A force capable of submerging an entire airship.

……

The cavalry team of the Northern Han Dynasty galloped happily on the plains.

The geographical location of Daxia is very good, most of it is plains, and a few parts are hills and mountains.The fertile land, mountains and rivers are always the envy of other countries.

Beihan is like a neighbor kid who often drools, he is stronger than Daxia, and his family doesn’t have enough sugar, so he often wants to get some food from Daxia, sometimes not only for Something to eat, just for fun.

Daxia is much more developed than Northern Han, so it has advantages in the number of astrologists, etc., like a child who is very good at suing.Whenever the Northern Han Dynasty attacked Daxia, the latter would retaliate with more star warlocks.

The two sides have come and gone for hundreds of years, but they have not evolved into a large-scale war. We must also thank our respective enemies.

But when given the opportunity, the gentlemen of the Northern Han Dynasty would definitely not refuse to enter the customs.

Due to the peace in the Great Xia, they focused on developing defenses against the Northern Han Dynasty, so that the latter did not pass through the Juling Pass for five years. Even if they cooperated with more star warlocks, they could not achieve their wish.

Therefore, after finally succeeding, the cavalry unit seems to have a higher vision.

In order to go home smoothly, they are not prepared to carry heavy belongings, or even troublesome animals and women.Relying on their speed, they threw off the infantry following behind, and rushed inland at a fast speed.

If it was Hexi, they might have reached Xia Jing's location.

Entering the customs from the northwest, the largest city they could find was Nanling.

The commander of the cavalry is the young An Wenchang, a great nobleman of the Northern Han Dynasty who has obtained the earl since the day he was born. His cavalry is also well-equipped noble cavalry. The standard configuration of high combat power: 5.00% nobles, 50.00% Knights, the remaining 50.00% of civilians, and finally knight retinues.

Such a configuration can not only maintain the impact and combat effectiveness, but also maintain the cavalry's sense of honor and desire for victory.

Unlike other Northern Han troops who looted and smashed, An Wenchang's cavalry had only one action: burn.

They didn't care about property, they just burned it to their heart's content, and then took away all the gold and silver they could find, as well as the coats of arms of the nobility.The former is harvest, and the latter is military exploits.

There was no decent resistance, which made Wenchang both happy and uneasy.In order to be able to break through the city wall, he brought 30 star warlocks, most of them are first-level star warlocks, but there is also a third-level star warlock.But the Northern Han Dynasty never took advantage of the astrologists, and this time, Wenchang did not attempt to trust the astrologists either.

He just ran and ran, ran and ran, and kept setting fires, hoping not to be caught.

Before arriving at Nanling, Wenchang's cavalry ran for a whole day. They only rested half of the time. If the horses hadn't been unable to bear it, they would have continued running.

"We don't attack Nanling." Standing on the hill near Nanling, An Wenchang looked at the city he had seen in the portrait, and whispered to his officers: "We are divided into two parts, and the first thing is to clean up the surrounding area of ​​Nanling. All the troops, followed by burning the dam near Nanling, first flooding the city, our goal is to annihilate their reinforcements."

"Will they have reinforcements?"

"There will definitely be one. Nanling is an important town in the southwest of Daxia. If they don't pay attention, we will really attack again."

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