Chapter 365

Helan sword sect has been established in Helan Chuan for thousands of years, and its history is even longer than that of Taiwei sect. Even Taiwei sect was once a vassal of Helan sword sect. It was not until the rise of Wuwei God Hou Dong Liang that Taiwei sect got rid of the shadow of Helan sword sect.

Although the Helan sword sect has emerged two tianbang figures in the world of Taoism in modern times, Xie Jueyuan, a Dharma protector of the sword sect in Xiling, has a bad relationship with Huang's ancestor and Huang Qiwei, the leader of the Helan sword sect. As a result, Xie Jueyuan has lived in Yanjing for many years and served as deputy envoy of the Tianshu Academy. He has not returned to Hechuan for decades.

More importantly, Xie Jueyuan and Huang Qiwei, two tianbang figures, have been on the path of cultivation for more than 600 years. Their cultivation has already passed the peak stage, and they can no longer suppress Dong Liang's edge in the northwest region; Helan sword sect no longer has the glory of the first sect in the northwest.

Relying on the Helan Jianzong, the Huang family has ruled Hechuan county with the Hexiang army for more than 200 years. Although it is declining in the west, the details of the Hexiang army, the Huang family and the Helan Jianzong can not be seen.

Seven years ago, in the name of pursuing and suppressing the rebels attached to Hexiang army, Dong Liang, the God Hou of Wuwei, led his troops to kill Yulong Mountain and occupy a large area of land in the north of Hechuan mountain. However, considering the details of Helan sword sect and Hexiang army, he had no plan to invade Hechuan mountain in a short time.

However, after the seventy-two years of emperor Yitian, the situation in Yanzhou changed sharply, and the power of the royal family Ying family and the Jingjun Zong valve was seriously weakened. It can be said that the strong vassal of the border county has completely lost control. In order to establish a real overlord in the northwest region in Hexi, it is necessary to catch up with the royal family Ying family before straightening out the contradiction with the Jingjun Zong valve and revitalizing it.

Hexi was eager to marry the Western Qiang two years ago in order to attack Hechuan County as soon as possible.

However, the rise of juquanling really accelerated and changed the power balance between Hexi and Hechuan.

Whether it's Tianji war crossbow or Tianji chariot, the detailed manufacturing drawings are among the top Zong valves. It's not a secret for Tianji chariot. After all, the pavilion level Tianji chariot only needs less than 20000 kilograms of quenched gold and iron per ride.

Moreover, the Hexiang army has a strong foundation. Both the patriarchal clan and the military camp have built a large number of chariots. With a little transformation, it does not need to consume too much gold and iron. In the past two or three years, 70 or 80 Pavilion level Tianji chariots have been transformed. However, if Tianji war crossbow wants to be popularized in the army on a large scale, it is still necessary to have a sufficient supply of gold and arrows.

Even if the crane Xiang army can squeeze out 200000 or 300000 Jin of quenched gold and iron every year, it can only cast 20000 or 30000 pieces of quenched gold and iron every year. How can this be enough for a large-scale war?

For this war, the Hexi army hoarded 5.6 million quenched gold arrows in advance.

Led by Du Yu, Dong Pu and other generals, the Hexi vanguard's elite offensive against wenhubu is simple and effective. It is to use the Warbird battalion to control the airspace above the battlefield, and then use the battle array composed of Tianji chariots, heavy armor cavalry and shield halberd armor soldiers to advance layer by layer to many defense strongholds built by Hexiang army in wenhubu, and first compete for the open space outside the stronghold.

Those who are strong in xuanxiu or martial arts of zongmen take the imperial spirit bird to enter and leave the battlefield. This is a common situation in the battlefield in the past. However, whether it is sacrificing the imperial magic weapon spirit sword or shooting with a treasure bow, they usually only fight a close enemy. Except for the great difference between the two sides, it is difficult to determine the trend of the whole battlefield.

What really changes this situation is the use of mechanism crossbows.

In the wenhubu defense line, the Hexiang army also organized more than 500 sword cultivation disciples whose cultivation accomplishments were above the biling realm to strengthen the attack on the defense line.

The sword cultivation above the spirit realm and Mingqiao realm can resist the sword to attack and kill distant enemies several miles or even 20 or 30 miles away, which is far beyond the range of heaven's secrets and crossbows. However, as long as the royal bird sharp soldiers of the Hexi army can jump into the range of 2000 steps by taking the war birds, the quenched golden arrow rain shot by the mechanism war crossbow is strong and secret, which can not be resisted by ordinary sword cultivation disciples.

What's more, on the front line of the Hexi army, three or five hundred xuanxiu disciples were also organized. They didn't even have to directly participate in the attack and fight. They just needed to use defensive techniques and seal characters to resist the spirit sword magic weapon offered by the other party, and help the Royal bird sharp soldiers to make a successful and rapid breakthrough, so as to grasp the absolute advantage over the battlefield.

Each continuous firing of the mechanism crossbow is almost equivalent to a thousand blade sword amulet. The quenched gold arrows reserved by the Hexi army for this war are equivalent to 10000 thousand thousand blade sword amulets, which can enable the striker to spend recklessly.

The speed of birds such as black feather spirit vultures is far from the speed of ordinary disciples flying against the wind and fighting back and forth several times. Helan's sword cultivation disciple was seriously injured, so he didn't dare to kill out from behind the defense line and was given up competing for the air over the battlefield.

At this time, the Hexi army formed a battle array of heavy armor cavalry, Tianji chariots and shield halberd soldiers. They pushed forward layer by layer until they dug trenches close to the periphery of the enemy city, built retaining walls, set up defensive arrays, built temporary fortifications at a longer distance, and then pushed heavy stone catapults to the front of the array. Within a close range of three or four thousand steps, each weighing more than a thousand kilograms, Even two or three thousand kilograms of boulders to destroy the Garrison's stronghold.

In just three days, more than ten strong defensive strongholds built by the Hexi army at the north foot of Hechuan ridge and the front line of wenhubu were pulled out one by one by the Hexi army, and the Hexi army successfully pushed forward to the main city on the innermost side of the wenhubu defense line.

The main city of wenhubu defense line is also the key operation place of Hexiang army in recent years. The city is not strong under Chishan City, and a large defense array is deployed. However, in addition to several firm and powerful counterattacks, which caused no small casualties to Hexi soldiers and horses, it did not prevent the complete collapse of wenhubu defense line.

During the ten day offensive and defensive war, nearly 200 heavy catapult crossbows were destroyed in Hexi, but Chen Hai's counterweight catapult crossbow, which was first put into the battlefield in Heishan, is too easy to manufacture. The baggage camp of Hexi army on the Chishan defense line can build several heavy catapult crossbows and send them to the front line every day.

Of course, he Xiangjun also mastered the manufacturing drawings of counterweight catapult crossbow, and also tried to manufacture and deploy a large number of catapult crossbows in the defense line for confrontation, but the manufacturing of heavy counterweight catapult crossbow is not difficult, but the strength requirements of manufacturing materials are very high.

In addition to using 10000 year old trees, the main accessories should also be cast with grade 8 quenched iron, so as to withstand throwing thousands of kilograms or even thousands of kilograms of stone bullets from three or five thousand steps away - each heavy stone throwing crossbow consumes thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms of Grade 8 quenched iron only.

At this time, Hexi can obtain an additional 100000 to 150000 kg of high-quality quenched gold and iron from Lucheng every month. What does he Xiangjun take to compete with Hexi?

In addition, the operation of heavy stone throwing crossbow is too simple. No matter mining, transporting stone bullets, or operating stone throwing crossbow and throwing stone bullets in front of the enemy, ordinary people without any cultivation can complete it.

This enabled the Hexiang army to destroy several or even more than a dozen heavy stone catapults and kill or kill hundreds or even thousands of baggage soldiers who operated stone catapults every time they went out of the city to fight back. However, if they were killed or captured, they would lose hundreds of elite.

Compared with such a huge competition consumption, the crane Xiang army could not support it after sticking to the main city of wenhubu defense line for more than ten days.

Ten days later, more than 20000 baggage troops were lost in Hexi, and most of them were people who could be replenished at any time; In contrast, three or four thousand of the wounded generals of the Hexiang army are the most elite combat strength of the Hexiang army, which can be said to be extremely heavy casualties.

Hexiang army was finally forced to abandon the main city of wenhubu defense line and retreat from the valley to the depths of Hechuan ridge; Because Yu Hexiang army could not control the air in the battlefield, he withdrew from the defense line and suffered heavy casualties under several strong clashes in the battle bird camp of Hexi army.

Although the Hexiang army also made a large number of heavy shields and incorporated them into the army in order to prevent the coverage of the rain of quenched golden arrows, the sharp soldiers of the imperial birds came in by the sudden killing of war birds, and the tactics are flexible and changeable. It can be said that it is impossible to prevent.

After Hexi occupied the defense line of Wenhu port, Lord Wuwei and his son Dong Chou entered Wenhu city and took Wenhu city as a new forward base to gather all kinds of combat materials and deploy troops; Led by Du Yu, Dong Pu and others, the forward battle array continues to rapidly extend to the depths of Hechuan ridge along the wide valley to the south of wenhubu.

After heavy casualties, the Hexiang army abandoned the wenhubu defense line, which did great harm to morale.

From wenhubu to the south, in the deep valley in the middle of Hechuan ridge, although six strong defensive strongholds were built along the line of the Hexi army, none of them could support the attack of the forward battle array of the Hexi army for ten days. By mid May, the Hexi army opened the channel from the Valley in the middle of Hechuan ridge to the hinterland of Hechuan.

The empress Cang, the main force of the crane Xiang army, withdrew, and the big and small xuanxiu clans of the Helan sword sect had to give up the cave in Hechuan ridge in order to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the elite in Hexi.

These caves opened in the dangerous place of Hechuan ridge originally built a strong defense line in the north of Hechuan county together with the city stronghold of wenhubu. Who could have thought that in less than a month, they were ruthlessly and sharply torn to pieces by the Hexi army?

Four or five hundred miles to the south of Hechuan mountain and all the way to the coast of Hechuan lake, the weak Hexiang army dare not compete with Hexi in the plain cities here, although it has not suffered a devastating blow and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers available.

The main force of the Hexiang army and the big and small Zong valves in Hechuan county were forced to divide into two routes after the forward of the Hexi army killed Hechuan mountain, one to the foundation of Helan Jianzong, the other to Helan River and Helan Mountains, and the other to Meishan at the intersection of Hechuan mountain and Qinchuan county.

At this time, the two lines of soldiers and horses of the armed Tibetan army to reinforce Hechuan had just arrived outside the city of shining. They were preparing to attack shining, which was attacked and captured by Qin Mu Hou Dong Shou, and open the channel to assist Hechuan by water. At this time, they were also forced to retreat in a hurry and open contact with Dong Shou's headquarters.

On the other hand, the reinforcements of the armed Tibetan army have just walked half way in the hinterland of Meishan, which is two or three thousand miles long. At this time, they can only be forced to stop in Meishan. On the one hand, they accept the forces of the crane Xiang army fleeing south, and on the other hand, they choose dangerous valleys and mountain passes in Meishan to build stronger defensive fortresses to prevent Hexi from taking advantage of Meishan to invade Qinchuan County