Chapter 1259: The Power of the Yan Army
When the Sansheng Forest was in chaos, Dayan's first batch of soldiers had already entered the vast wasteland. When Ye Zhichen and others arrived in Mobei, Dayan's two vanguards had already fought with Buwugu and Zhigelin.
Compared with the war led by the two paths of good and evil, Dayan's army is obviously much more formal. Even the war led by the two paths of good and evil can't be called a war at all, but a melee and a fight. What Dayan is showing now is the real war.
It's also a melee, but Dayan is orderly in chaos, with clear responsibilities of each department, and various battle formations cooperate to kill Zhigelin and Buwugu.
It's not that they are not strong. In terms of personal strength, each of them is much stronger than most of the Yan soldiers. If they fight alone, it won't take long to kill the opponent at their feet. Some masters can even fight one against a hundred. But now it's not a one-on-one fight, but a war. The legend of fighting one against a hundred is simply a joke in front of Dayan's battle formation.
Many masters were stained with blood in the waves of encirclement and suppression, and even a great man in the Tribulation Period died in hatred under the siege of thousands of Yan soldiers.
Before he died, he took thousands of lives. With one palm, he could clear a piece of open space with blood and flesh flying everywhere, just like slapping ants. However, the number of Dayan's vanguards was more than 20,000, and he could not kill them all. When he wanted to retreat, he was surrounded by the battle formation. There was no way to go up to the sky and no door to go down to the earth. He wanted to escape into the void but was locked by the Yan soldiers who specialized in formations. In the end, he could only be consumed to death in the battle formation. The Daotai who exploded two tribulations took away hundreds of lives.
It is just as the saying goes, ants bite elephants to death. Dayan, which has no protection from the immortal ancestors but occupies the largest territory in the human world, fully utilized this advantage and studied the human wave tactics to the extreme.
Many people know that most of Dayan's soldiers are not real cultivators. They are just ordinary people with some cultivation qualifications, and Dayan has forcibly raised them to the current cultivation level with various elixirs.
This method is difficult for others to accept. Every cultivator understands a truth: if you can avoid using pills to promote cultivation, you should avoid it, especially when your cultivation is still low. Relying on pills to forcefully promote cultivation will not only make your realm unstable but also damage your foundation. In serious cases, you will stop at this point and never make any progress.
But these people are different. At first, they were just ordinary people with some qualifications but little potential. They had no family, no power, and mediocre qualifications. They had no chance to contact the immortal road. But Dayan gave them this opportunity. All those who joined the army after simple training and were not eliminated would be taught the most basic entry-level exercises. That exercise was not worth mentioning in the eyes of many casual cultivators, but it was like a treasure to them. It was a blessing that many people could not even dream of.
Practice, condense the sense of qi, and when the qi in the dantian condenses and does not disperse, they will become a cultivator in the Qi training realm who is not worth mentioning in the eyes of cultivators but extremely noble in the eyes of ordinary people. Under normal circumstances, they should have continued to work hard to build their foundation at this time, but their aptitude was there, and Dayan didn't have the time to wait for them to grow slowly, so the method of forcibly promoting their cultivation became a necessary means, and the elixir that was most likely to achieve the goal became the top priority.
After more than 10,000 years of improvement and development, Dayan has established a fairly complete system for training soldiers, and has given them corresponding elixirs according to their potential and aptitude, striving to raise everyone's potential to the limit.
This method is despised by many orthodox monks. The cultivation that is forced to grow is empty, but both the magic power and combat power are extremely superficial, far less than the strength that comes from normal hard work. But no matter how despised it is, no one dares to laugh at Dayan's approach.
Through this method, Dayan has cultivated tens of thousands of monks. With the battle formations, various simplified forbidden formations, and carefully improved weapons and armor, Dayan has stood for thousands of years without decline in the face of enemies on three sides, and no one dares to offend Dayan's national prestige.
Some people even say that their disdain is simply jealousy, because they can't learn this method even if they want to.
Even the most ordinary elixir needs spiritual materials to refine, and the most worthless spiritual materials cannot be easily exchanged for gold and silver. The elixir refined by Dayan is not crudely made, and it is graded according to the level of cultivation and aptitude potential. The higher the grade, the more precious the spiritual materials required, and some are even difficult to exchange for spiritual stones.
Leaving aside the best, let's take the lowest-grade elixir used by ordinary soldiers. The refining method is not complicated, and the spiritual materials required are not precious. Even many poor and destitute casual cultivators can afford it, but the problem is the quantity. You must know that Dayan has always recruited tens of thousands of soldiers. Excluding the eliminated ones, there are nearly 10,000 elixir.
Not to mention the elixir, even the price of 10,000 cabbages together can shock many people. How can the value of 10,000 elixir not make people astonished?
It may be possible once or twice, but in the long run, no force can afford it. Only Dayan, which has the most extensive and richest land in the human world, has enough population and resources to support such consumption. Therefore, many forces are jealous but helpless. They can only honestly search for raw jade and recruit masters, and honestly cultivate orthodox elites.
The result is that Dayan becomes stronger and stronger in the midst of contempt, and others can only huddle together for warmth and shiver if they do not surrender.
Just like now, a great man who has cultivated for hundreds of years to achieve the second catastrophe was besieged and killed by thousands of Yan soldiers who were forced to exchange their lives for their lives. Although he dragged thousands of lives to be buried with him before his death, ask yourself if it is really worth it?
Obviously not.
"Master?"
Su Quan looked at Hao Hongwei with a serious face, his eyes flashing with the intention of retreating.
The Hao family lived in Zhigelin. Now that Zhigelin was in trouble, they naturally could not stand idly by. The Hao family sent Hao Hongwei with many Hao family members to help, and he took the initiative to ask to accompany him to ensure Hao Hongwei's safety.
Although it was just a test by the vanguard army, Su Quan had long expected that this would be a tough battle, but he never expected that the gap between the two sides would be so big. It was not a problem of cultivation or momentum, but a problem of tactics and methods.
Although Dayan had a large number of people, Zhigelin was stronger in terms of strength. However, Zhigelin had power but could not use it. In front of Dayan's tacitly coordinated battle formation, his past experience was useless. It didn't take long for him to be divided and surrounded.
Those with masters might be able to rely on their personal force to lead people to force their way out, but those without masters were almost drowned in the crowd of Dayan. And the masters themselves did not have absolute protection, just like the great master who had just fallen. He came here to suppress the formation, and saw his side retreating step by step before he got angry and took action.
He wanted to gather Zhi Gelin's men and bring them out, but he was also trapped in it. He failed to save the people and ended up dying. The outcome of this battle was already decided.
Although there were also people trapped in the Hao family, most of the troops were still in the rear. Although it was hard to bear, it was better to abandon the trapped children and retreat quickly, and take the remaining people back with the details of this test.
Thinking of the test, Su Quan couldn't help but feel bitter.
He wanted to give Dayan a head-on blow to make it dare not be so reckless, but it was his side that was hit hard, and the opponent was just Dayan's vanguard. This result was like a mountain blocking Su Quan's heart, making him breathless. It was hard for him to imagine what a tragic end Zhi Gelin would face when Dayan's central army set out. Does the Hao family, which relies on Zhi Gelin, still have a future?
He naturally thought of Hao Hongwei, the fat man was such a smart man, he had wanted to leave a long time ago.
In the first wave of fighting, he was drowned by the opponent before even two waves were raised. At that time, his eyelids were twitching, and he really wanted to turn around and leave with his people. However, the commander here was not him but an elder of Zhi Gelin, who was said to have a very high status in Sankai Cave. Hao Hongwei dared not leave without his order. He wanted to persuade him but did not dare to speak because of the other party's angry look, for fear that the Hao family would be accused of "fearing the battle" and "deserting in the face of the enemy".
But now they have to leave, if this goes on, they will all die here. Even if they can end up dying together in the end, what's the use?
The enemy was just the vanguard of Dayan's front army. The main force of the front army and the more terrifying central army had not yet appeared. Even if all these people died, they would not hurt the others. At most, the commander of the front army would feel a little pain, but Zhi Gelin could not. Zhi Gelin could not afford the attrition war of life for life. He had to think of another way.
Nodding to Su Quan to show that he understood, Hao Hongwei gritted his teeth and went to the elder surnamed Gong.
I don't know what the two said, but the faint sound of the dispute and Elder Gong's face, which was darker than charcoal, made Su Quan realize the result. He frowned and relaxed his eyebrows, and sighed helplessly.
Sure enough, Hao Hongwei turned back with a dark face, and his eyes were full of sarcasm and anger.
Seeing Su Quan looking up, he snorted a few times: "That idiot said he would fight to the death and vowed to show the power of Zhi Gelin and let Dayan know our determination. Bah! Fuck him, this idiot has been sat on the brain by a donkey?"
Su Quan smiled bitterly, shook his head gently and said nothing.
He could guess some of Elder Gong's thoughts. It was not only for the false reputation of dignity and face, but also worried about the impact of retreat on both sides.
Dayan would think that Zhi Gelin was vulnerable, and the speed of marching would certainly be much faster than it is now, and Zhi Gelin must be panicked, and might fall apart before Dayan attacked.
Elder Gong wanted to use the death of these people to warn both sides, to shock Dayan and let it know Zhi Gelin's toughness and determination, and at the same time to warn Zhi Gelin and other cultivators of Dayan of their strength, and to inspire the living with his own death to inspire their determination to fight to the death.
In addition, there is one more point, that is, these people of his own.
After all, the Hao family is a new member, and Mu Tong believes in the Hao family, but his subordinates can't help but worry about their master.
What if the Hao family surrenders under the pressure of Dayan? They can't help but think about this. But if these people die here, including Hao Hongwei, the fourth young master of the Hao family, the Hao family will never think of him lightly again. Even if they still want to leave, at least they will not surrender to Dayan, and Zhi Gelin will be less dangerous.
Su Quan understands these principles, and Hao Hongwei naturally understands them, so he is so angry.
But it's useless to be angry. If Elder Gong doesn't say anything, the Hao family will definitely be charged with "deserting in the face of the enemy" if they dare to leave, and they may even be accused of "collaborating with the enemy" and "traitors".
Su Quan is helpless and has no solution. These Hao family men behind him are afraid that they will all die here today, but Hao Hongwei can't.
Silently adjusting his state, Su Quan's eyes are dim.
Waiting for the decisive battle, he must rescue Hao Hongwei no matter what, so that the head of the family will not suffer the pain of losing his son again.
The death of Mr. Hao San in the past was enough, and having another Hao Hongwei would absolutely not do!