Realm of Power

The war horse passed through the huge city gate of the city wall that was 20 meters high and 20 meters long. The echo of the horse's hooves rang in the ears, as if walking through the body of a giant. A ray of light shone. At the end of the city road, there was a huge space. Suddenly displayed in front of everyone, a huge The unbelievable Guangping, wooden two-story barracks are arranged in more than a dozen rows with almost no end. At the city gate is a row of blacksmith shops with flickering firelight, and the thick smoke is emitting a hint of pine and moss. A pale mist rises over the black earth and drifts in the wind

"This is within the long wall!" Fei Tang was a little distracted. What appeared in front of him was basically a city. In order to temporarily house the more than 200,000 soldiers and family members of the Fifth Army who had withdrawn from the Slavic areas, within the long wall Like a medium-sized city, the Fifth Army Corps later moved away, but these facilities were retained and became a camp for the long wall garrison and a gathering place for incoming caravans.

An imperial officer in charge of inspection at the city crossing looked at the certificate in Murphy O'Brien's hand and respectfully gave him a military salute: "Mr. Murphy O'Burn, the resting place is ready!"

"grateful"

Murphy O'Brien nodded solemnly and looked around with a heavy look. He would come to the long wall once or twice a month. In addition to exchanging wilderness specialties for food with the merchants here, he also One thing is to hand over the latest expanded terrain map to the Long Wall side. In return, the Long Wall The side would provide a relative amount of armor and weapons, otherwise Murphy O'Brien would not be able to gain a foothold in the wilderness with almost no supplies and expand his influence. At that time, the strength of the Long Wall side was only about 40,000 to 50,000 people. And the number of troops appearing in front of him now is obviously more than this number.

"Can I ask, who is the cavalry group that I just met outside the city?" He got off his horse and his armor made a clanging sound. Thinking of the terrifying cavalry group that he just saw outside the long wall, asked

"Sir, I am from Dongting. This article is written by... I don't know the details of the first post. I heard that one of their strongholds outside the long wall was attacked! There was also an important person injured. You know the nature of Dongting people. Anyone who touches them will definitely be killed!" the young imperial officer replied with a natural look on his face, completely unaware of the slump on Murphy O'Brien's face.

"Really? When I came here, I did see a camp being attacked!" Murphy O'Brien pretended to be casual and played with the riding crop gently with his fingers. His eyes swept across the vast flat outside the camp in front, and he saw a series of white tents that looked like clouds. His eyes tightened. The star and moon flags flying on the top of the tents were slightly different from the Dongting cavalry seen outside the long wall just now. What I saw just now was the silver-white stars and the moon, and what I saw this time was the sky-blue stars and the moon. From a distance, the blue flag looked like a sea in the wind, like a rolling wave fluttering in the wind.

"What are these?" Murphy O'Brien asked pretending to be calm, seeming to have guessed something in his heart.

"That's the Xiting people's camp!" the young officer responded naturally.

"Is the West Court here too?" Murphy O'Brien's body trembled unconsciously. He knew very well the intention of the empire to sign the agreement to place itself outside the long wall. It's neither good nor bad. Apart from being a little wary, it also means that the empire needs an outpost. One day, the empire will definitely use force outside the long wall! He had also thought about whether he could take the opportunity to become independent, but now he saw such military power. Secretly I feel lucky that I didn’t act rashly

"Yes, both courts are participating in the war this time!"

The young officer smiled slightly and said without surprise, "This time the empire marched north and assembled more than 300,000 troops. Princess Ruitang Tingna, who was born in the East Courtyard, and the two princesses from the West Courtyard came. In addition to the nearly 100,000 grassland cavalry, In addition, there are also armies from local families such as Maumo in the northwest and Dylans in the south.

"Three hundred thousand! So much!"

Fei Tang was shocked when he heard this amount.

Thinking of the fighting prowess and unique customs of the prairie people, Fei Tang asked cautiously

"I don't know why these prairie people are so surrendered here, but the prairie people are very famous for their unruliness and moodiness, and this time the opponent may be the prairie people. If there are no problems in the battle, will the empire Aren’t you afraid?”

"Question? Are you kidding me?"

Regarding this question, the young officer looked at Murphy O'Brien's entourage with some surprise. He realized that the serious look on his face did not seem like he was joking. He asked in a ferocious tone, "What do you mean by this? Murphy?" Lord O'Brien didn't tell you that His Majesty Falcon is the Emperor of the Empire and the King of the Grasslands!"

"Prairie people fight for their own king, but it is considered the most honorable thing by the grassland people!" the officer said in a solemn tone. Fei Tang's body trembled slightly, and his face suddenly turned a little pale. He did not expect that within the long wall, The ruler turned out to be an imperial emperor wearing the crown of the Prairie Khan. Has the Prairie Empire even occupied this area?

"Don't mind, Your Excellency. I believe you can see that he is not familiar with the situation in the empire." Murphy O'Brien quickly came forward to explain. When the imperial officer wanted to continue to say something,

"Murphy O'Brien, stay well!" A loud voice came, and the officer's face turned pale, and he chose to shut up very promptly. Murphy O'Brien's body trembled slightly, and he turned around and saw A group of black-armored cavalry came from the opposite side. The leader was a fat man.

He had black hair and black eyes, and was dressed in a dark black devil-like armor. Only his slightly narrowed eyes flashed with a frightening cold light, giving people a cold feeling. Seeing Murphy O'Brien here, the fat man suddenly stopped. The war horse came down from above and strode towards this side.

All the noise along the way suddenly stopped, and the people on the side of the road took the initiative to make way for this person.

"Your Majesty!" Murphy O'Brien saluted quickly. lower your head

"Okay, that's all. I have something to talk to you about. Do you know who attacked the Dongting camp outside the long wall? You know better than me outside the long wall." The fat man waved his hand to him , chattering in his mouth, his eyes unintentionally glanced at Fei Tang next to him, and his surprised voice stopped.

"Your Majesty, this is Fei Tang"

Murphy O'Brien raised his head, stretched out his hand and quickly introduced, "I accidentally rescued a Central Asian general who was once hunted for thousands of miles by the Dongting people. In the end, he stayed behind because the way back home was cut off by the Dongting people." He is more familiar with the situation outside the long wall than I am, so let him speak! "

"Then tell me. Who will attack the camp?" The fat man looked at Fei Tang. Fei Tang was nervously dripping with beads of sweat on his forehead. He didn't dare to raise his head. He didn't feel anything just now, but at this moment, he felt like he was being beaten. Dashan suppressed the same stiffness and took a deep breath,

He bit the bullet and said, "My subordinates don't know the situation, but there are five thousand troops in Walla and the camp. This is definitely a powerful force outside the long wall. But my subordinates believe that there can be strength outside the long wall." Apart from Murphy City, there was only one force attached to the Dongting Prairie people that attacked Wala and the camp, the Tianlang Mansion Army, which was mainly composed of some It is composed of grassland tribes that migrated from the eastern part of the wilderness. The leader is called Wugantai. This man was originally the leader of a medium-sized tribe. Since occupying the land in the middle part of Slavia, it has expanded with the support of the Dongting people, centered on the Tianlang River. It is very powerful and controls a large area east of Murphy City. If it is fully mobilized, its strength can reach more than 30,000 people.

This force has always been the pawn used by the Dongting people to block this exploration. Some time ago, the Tianlang Mansion Army sent someone to warn us. The Slavic Fertile Wilds is the land of the East Court. If we continue to explore further, we will attack! The attacks on Wala and the camp are probably related to the insistence on continuing to explore forward."

"Sirius Mansion Army? That's interesting!"

The fat man's eyes brightened when he heard this. The corner of his mouth curled slightly. The fertile Slavic region was just a piece of fat. If he could let Murphy O'Brien serve as the front station, the people of Dongting would also arrange one or two spokespersons, and in this wilderness, they would be even more threatening. The powerful Dongting people obviously have more say.

It’s time to change the entire situation. The empire must let all the wilderness forces know who is the master of this land.

"Come here, please pass this news to Ruitang Tingna. Doesn't she want to take revenge? Then let's use this Tianlang Mansion army to open the way for the empire to advance eastward!" The fat man turned to a guard cavalry behind him and said , the Guards Cavalry took the order and left,

In the smoky wilderness, the red flames licked the felt roof of the tent like a greedy cat. The burning tent supports crackled in the flames, and the sparks were scattered by the wind. Inside, thousands of naked corpses lay scattered in the muddy pool of blood.

It was in the afternoon of the next day that the rescue force from Dongting arrived at Wala and the camp.

The setting sun was like blood, and only ruins were left in the dilapidated camp. The searching Dongting cavalry galloped cautiously through the camp. Under the horses' hooves, bright red human blood splashed on the ground. It was so thick that it made people feel sick. , splashing onto the ground looked so shocking,

The faces of every Dongting cavalryman were very angry. They were surrounded by scattered debris, broken scimitars, and the corpses of horses lying in groups. The cattle and sheep in the camp were artificially driven away, and even the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle were Their mails were pulled out, and their flesh was mixed in the soil. This was a naked insult to those Dongting warriors who had fought to the death.

"Your Highness, no one alive has been found! This is the enemy's weapon we found, the scimitar of our prairie people!" Dongting General Wu Mu, with a pale face, held the half-broken scimitar and pointed at the ruins parked in the center of the camp. Rui Tingtingna reported next to her,

"This is not our scimitar!"

Ruitang Tingna paused for a moment on the broken knife and affirmed. Where the knife edge was as sharp as moonlight and connected to the handle below, a steel seal could be clearly seen. It seemed to be a kind of square writing. It did not belong to the East and West Courts. Mark, the scimitar is the life of the prairie people. All scimitars have the mark of the forger on the bottom.

Tang Tingna ordered someone to find the Slavic guide who was accompanying the team. After seeing it, the Slavic guide who was accompanying the team said with certainty, "Although I don't know him, there is no doubt that this is Central and Bian style!"

"Your Highness the Princess, it seems that it should be the Tianlang Mansion Army that Your Majesty mentioned!" Wu Mu's face was gloomy with a hint of ferocity, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The headquarters of the Tianlang Mansion Army is in the Tianlang River, let us kill it. Let’s kill him without leaving any trace, and avenge Valla and the people who died in the camp!”

In the early morning, the sky was dark, and the wind blew through the grass, blowing the broken grass to the sky.

Five huge cavalry queues of ten thousand people slowly appeared from the distant horizon. The well-equipped Dongting cavalry group advanced neatly. In the neat queue, the whistling of the grassland wind could be heard quietly.

All the Dongting cavalry looked in only one direction. A huge camp began to appear in front of them. It was a simple camp built with wooden rafts and fences, surrounding the entire huge river. It was obvious that the approaching Dongting was also found on the opposite side. A group of court cavalry. The alarm bell is ringing violently

"The whole army advances!"

Wu Mu raised the scimitar in his hand high. He was riding on a tall and thick black war horse. His eyes were instantly filled with blood-red threads. His vein-covered hands tightly held the reins of the war horse, and his fingertips dug deeply into the reins of the horse. In the flesh, a burst of excited Ku The git trombone sounded behind him, and dozens of smaller Qianrui cavalry with slight intervals began to accelerate. Among them, the most elite main force was in the center, which was 30,000 elite close combat cavalry, and 20,000 horse archers on the wings. It's like two protective wings protecting the center. Start moving at high speed. Like a dark cloud covering the earth

The battle flags began to rise across the river, and a blue-red wolf-head flag fluttered in the wind.

"Get ready to shoot!" As the two wing cavalry distanced themselves from the central formation, like huge wings that suddenly unfolded forward, countless compound bows began to lift into the air at an angle of 30 degrees. The cavalry on the opposite side reacted a little slower. Or maybe he didn’t expect the horse archers on the opposite side to be so bold.

Wearing light leather armor and a furry felt hat on his head, he held up a powerful compound bow unique to the Dongting people in his hand. "Pengpeng" When they were about 100 meters away, the compound bows held high by the Dongting cavalry bounced off one after another, and countless arrow clusters flecked with cold light were already shot into the air from the bowstrings with the sound of wind.

The shining arrow clusters were like a swarm of locusts rising from the horizon mountain, covering the sky and the earth, flying from the left and right sides, and pierced into the defense facilities of the opposite camp.

"Papa" the arrow clusters were nailed into the raft, like a violent rain hitting a banana leaf, leaving it full of holes.

"Asshole, he's actually an elite cavalry!"

A middle-aged man wearing a wolf helmet stood on a sentry tower and was dumbfounded. He was none other than Wu Gantai, the leader of the Tianlang Mansion Army. Because he had accepted the battle in a hurry, he had not yet figured out the identity of the enemy, but The elite level of the enemy suddenly made him feel troublesome, and the number was even more numerous than he could count. The three-star moonlight battle flag flying in the air made his pupils shrink unnaturally.

"Trouble!" He suddenly thought, and his eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes and regret. It turned out to be Vala and the tribesmen of the camp. His intestines were green with regret. If he had known that there was such a huge cavalry group behind Vala and the camp, He would never dare to take action without permission.

It was indeed him who attacked Walla and the camp. He learned from some news that the strength of the Long Wall was actually only 40,000 to 50,000 people. This made him covet him a little. He knew that the people of Dongting had long admired the Long Wall. It’s not pleasing to the eye, but I’ve been holding back for some reason. Without fighting, the purpose of supporting himself is to deal with the continuous invasion of the Long Wall. As the overlord who controls the middle section of the Slavic Wilderness, his troops have reached 30,000 people. I dare not say that they are elites who can compete with the soldiers of the East Court, and they are also in this area. The strongest military group,

However, the extreme shortage of supplies and weapons is the biggest bottleneck. According to reports from the informants sent to the Long Wall, just a few days ago, Wala and the camp, which have always been regarded as a thorn in his side, received a large amount of supplies, but only a small number of troops. If there are 5,000 people, if they can swallow the Wala and the supplies of the camp in one go, they should be enough to survive this winter!

With this idea, he personally led 20,000 people, four times the force, and cooperated with the previous informants to raid Wala and the camp. As expected, Wala and the camp were poorly prepared. He succeeded in the sneak attack and were preparing to obtain so many people. The supplies were happy, but they didn't expect the other party's revenge to come like a violent storm.

Tens of thousands of cavalry were like divine soldiers descending from the sky. Dozens of fast black lines wrapped around the raised soil and rushed towards this side with great momentum. He was so frightened that he shouted anxiously, "Give the order, go down, fight to the death and hold on, send the troops immediately." I’m asking for help from Lord Jamuhebi!”

He didn't think that the simple Hedi defense line alone could block the elite group in front of him who were armed to the teeth. The opponent's array simply wanted to swallow up the Sirius Hedi in one go, and then kill everyone on the opposite side. The light cavalry rushing forward from both sides had already drawn javelins with fine iron tips from the crotches of their horses, and threw them out 80 meters away from the raft fence, turning them into lines of death in the air. The metal light waterfall fell, and countless javelins penetrated the defense line of the river. The body of the archer behind the wooden fence was instantly pierced. The javelin shot the second person behind him into the air with blood spray; some people were even hit and rolled to the ground. After falling to the ground, he was nailed to the ground by the falling javelin. The person who hit the javelin fell from the sentry tower, and blood flowers bloomed in the air. People behind the fence screamed and evaded, but they were knocked to the ground together with their panicked companions.

"kill!"

The melee cavalry advancing in the middle finally began to accelerate. Holding the scimitar high in the hand and shouting loudly, under the cover of the cavalry on both sides holding javelins, they hit the outer wooden fence like a wave. "Bang bang" fierce collision in a short distance, the wooden fence was knocked over, like a push. The rolling waves suddenly dispersed, Then they collided with each other, using all available weapons to chop at the wooden fence. The two sides were so close that, to the eyes of the people behind the fence, it seemed as if the other party's cavalry was jumping on the backs of their horses. Jump off the wooden fence!

The ensuing rumbling sound was enough to cover up all the sounds. The ground shook violently under his feet. In the direction of the camp gate, at the moment when Wugantai was stunned, he saw a neat formation of black-armored heavy cavalry, as heavy as a towering tower. Like a huge mountain, it came from the front quickly!

"Heavy cavalry!" Wugantai's face immediately turned pale, as if he had seen a ghost.

The panic-filled shouts from the camp gate just started and stopped abruptly. The neat and straight Dongting heavy cavalry spears pierced the bodies of the Langfu soldiers from the front without mercy. The powerful impact directly lifted the Langfu cavalry from their horses.

"Go forward, crush them, and avenge the people in the camp!"

The black array that attacked like a steel thorn wall suddenly burst into a deafening roar. "Pah, pah" the broken weapons flew into the sky. The heavy armor of the heavy cavalry completely made the Langfu cavalry's scimitars unable to start. The ground shook violently under their feet. However, the lightly equipped Langfu cavalry didn't even have time to shout the first exclamation before they were blown away by the huge impact and fell under the iron hooves of the back row. (To be continued..)