C39 (1/2)
Some had seen Demonic Beast, some had seen Wulian Border Army, but not many had seen Wulian Border Army in formation to fight against Demonic Beast, and to be able to stand beside the highest ranking officer of the Wulian Border Army, and watch a large-scale battle between Wulian Border Army and Demonic Beast from an overall perspective, was even rarer. As for Xiu'er, Chen Chu and Qu Feizhi, they fortunately took up three spots.
Rather than fighting, it was more like hunting. After battalion had discovered a group of Demonic Beast, at the same time that they had informed their brothers, they carefully went to the back of the group of Demonic Beast. As for the other battalions that had received the information, they immediately adjusted their positions according to where the Demonic Beast was. The closest camp to the Demonic Beast went to clear up the area, while the other four battalions were divided into four camps that continuously compressed the space in the surrounding area of the Demonic Beast.
The Demonic Beast s who were frightened showed their hostility, but fighting one on one couldn't stop the small army formation which consisted of only five units in Wulian Border Army. The five soldiers held their shields and sabers, two of them held their spears with hooks. They first lured the Demonic Beast close to them with their spears, then used their shields to trap the Demonic Beast, exhausting their energy. As for the two spearmen, they were looking for an opportunity to continuously create more wounds on the Demonic Beast's body. After the Demonic Beast's spirit had died down, the two spears would firmly secure onto its limbs.
Although this method would take a long time, it would be able to greatly protect the soldiers from the Demonic Beast. Demonic Beast s were extremely ferocious when they went berserk. Not to mention their physical bodies, even the standard chain mail would find it difficult to withstand a claw from them. And after using this kind of formation, the soldiers could use the coordination between themselves to trap the Demonic Beast, which would greatly reduce the casualties of the soldiers.
The Xiu'er was not deep yet, and Chen Chu, who was familiar with the methods of combat formations, and Qu Feizhi were amazed. This kind of small scale military formation was often involved with Imperial Military Academy, but none of them were suitable for the current situation. He had seen with his own eyes that this formation was not suitable for any kind of enemy other than fighting Demonic Beast, but it had become an almost invincible existence in this Wulian Mountain Range, protecting the soldiers greatly.
Following that, the group of Demonic Beast was compressed into a small valley, and the Wulian Border Army of the four battalions started to attack together. All of the Shield Soldiers were pushed to the front line, and the Spear Soldiers behind them were constantly using bow decked with horn of an animal s and pikes to kill the Demonic Beast under the protection of the shield. When they saw that more than half of the Demonic Beast had been killed, they started to fight back desperately, and hundreds of Demonic Beast started to attack the other side of the valley like madmen. The Wulian Border Army in charge of defense on this side of the road quickly gave up defending, opening up a path for the remaining Demonic Beast to escape. However, this did not mean that the remaining Demonic Beast s would be able to escape unscathed. The two battalions of soldiers that had been sent to the periphery earlier had already set up a formation on the spot after receiving the signal to stop the fleeing Demonic Beast for the second time. As for the Demonic Beast that had just escaped Death Valley, they were ambushed the moment their nerves relaxed. They couldn't care less about their comrades, and could only lower their heads and escape. After being surrounded and attacked twice like this, the originally huge group of Demonic Beast no longer existed.
The three Xiu'er s immediately congratulated Shi Donglai on his victory, but the old man only smiled and said, ”It's only normal for the six battalions with seven to eight thousand people to have such results against a thousand Demonic Beast.”
Qu Feizhi hurriedly said, ”Master Shi is too modest, he has only injured a few hundred Demonic Beast and lost less than two hundred of his own men. This battle competition is truly astonishing.”
Shi Donglai seemed to not care too much about this, and asked instead, ”General Qu, we fought for most of the day and killed hundreds of Demonic Beast. Counting it this way, this old man has been in the army for thirty years, and the soldiers under his command have killed tens of millions of Demonic Beast. But in the past few hundred years, we have never killed the Demonic Beast and the Demonic Beast's disease has almost never been eliminated. Do you know why? ”
Qu Feizhi was startled, he had never thought about this matter. Chen Chu replied lightly from the side: ”Could it be that Demonic Beast are extremely fertile? If you kill a thousand today, they will give birth to two thousand soon? ”
Shi Donglai nodded his head, ”That's right, this is a very important reason. For example, the demon wolves that we have just killed, their fertility is several times that of ordinary wild wolves. They can give birth to a nest of young wolves in three to four months, and only a nest can have three or four. And these pups would become young in half a year, and they could reproduce. Furthermore, these demon wolves have a lifespan of more than twenty years. If you count them like this, even the speed of Wulian Border Army killings would not be as fast as them living. ” As he said till here, Shi Donglai sighed lightly, ”It was just luck, and only the fecundity of this demon wolf is so terrifying. Demon tigers and leopards can only give birth to one nest every one to two years, and that demon bear only gives birth once every few years. Otherwise, what would have been destroyed would be Wulian Border Army, and not the Demonic Beast in front of me.”
Hearing this, the Xiu'er suddenly asked, ”Master Shi, are there also four types of Demonic Beast in the mountain?”
Shi Donglai shook his head. There are a lot of different kinds of Demonic Beast in Five Lotus Mountain. They are similar to the normal animals that you would normally see, except the Demonic Beast is bigger and fiercer. However, the Demonic Beast s are also like the rabbits, pigs, sheep and others with relatively mild temperaments, it's just that the four categories of Wolf, Tiger, Panther and Bear are the most threatening. ”
”This Wulian Mountain Range is really magical.” Qu Feizhi sighed.
Shi Donglai nodded his head, ”That's right, in the entire continent, only Demonic Beast exist. Furthermore, as I said before, the Demonic Beast are also improving, and what was just destroyed were just ordinary demon wolves. If we were to encounter the demon tiger leopards, or those Demonic Beast that can be formed into a formation, the number of casualties would be incalculable. ”
After saying that, Chen Chu suddenly asked: ”Master Shi, you have been here for a long time, please forgive me for asking, but what do you think of the Demonic Beast s who will gather in the formation to attack?”
After hearing this question, everyone, including Shi Donglai, fell silent. After a long while, Shi Donglai finally let out a long sigh, ”I don't know, or rather, I don't know what to say either. But I am very sure that our understanding of Demonic Beast s is still not enough. Let alone these thirty years, even in the previous few hundred years, what we touched were merely the skin of the Wulian Mountain Range. To these endless mountains and Demonic Beast, there are far too many secrets that we do not know about. ” After the old general, who was over the age of sixty, said these words, his entire body seemed to become dispirited and dispirited. The staff officers beside him were also more or less a little disheartened.
Xiu'er took over the conversation from the side, ”Please rest assured Master Shi. This time, we will pass through Wulian Mountain Range and perhaps, we may be able to come across the Demonic Beast's secret. I will try my best to arrange for people to send back intelligence along the way so that our Wulian Border Army can grasp as much information as possible.”
Shi Donglai laughed bitterly: ”Little girl, if I could have stopped you, I definitely wouldn't have allowed you all to do such a foolish thing. Since you all have decided to do it, I would rather you all not run into any Demonic Beast and pass through them safely. That would be for the best. ”
His words carried meaning behind them. He only said that he would be able to cross Five Lotus Mountain safely, but he didn't say that he would be able to return safely. Compared to what the Xiu'er and the others were about to do, crossing Wulian Mountain Range was just the beginning. In the following days, they were going to go deeper into the Moqiu, where no army of Fire Phoenix Empire had ever stepped foot before. What they would experience, what kind of fortuitous encounters they would have, what kind of sacrifices they would have, no one knew, nor could they predict. Shi Donglai was an old soldier, he would not say those emotional words, nor did he lie to others, so he chose not to.
In the next few days, all of the Wulian Border Army battalions either fought on their own or split up to attack together, continuously defeating the Demonic Beast s. Although the results were extraordinary, as they got closer and closer to the hills, the types of Demonic Beast they met became fiercer and fiercer, and the casualties of the soldiers also increased. Everyone understood that the real test was about to arrive.