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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 unidentified knight. 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 had all boarded 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 20,000 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 was not very worried as he was riding on Lu Xu. He frowned and said, "Then let's go back to De'an first. It's only two or three hours away. Then we'll meet up with Warlock Jiang Huangxing and then figure out a solution."

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

Cheng Jinzhou narrowed his eyes, of course he considered the coincidence. In fact, his team does pose a considerable threat to the Star Warlock Association, as well as the royal family. If I were to stand in the position of Warlock Liu Kuangxing and watch him recruit dozens of Star Warlocks in half a year and carefully select them, "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 said with a grin.

"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, but things must be done'."

If Lu Xu was not a carefully 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 can be sure." Lu Guandao's face looked bookish and mature. Who would have guessed that he was someone who 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, shouting loudly to the following: "Gentlemen, we are about to enter the battle preparation time. Everyone should be more prepared, light blackout, airship All lights are turned off and no one is allowed to emit light, 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.

After Lu Guandao confirmed that only two people were riding on the scene, he whispered: "We can't go back to De'an. If I were Liu Kuang, I would attack you the same wherever I go, on the road and in De'an. Because none of us are ready for the battle."

"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 scholarly face was solemn for a moment, and then he laughed again and said: "I was originally tired of life on the battlefield, and I hoped to get more initial contribution points, but I didn't expect that I entered the battle mindset again. Maybe it's the situation It’s not that bad.”

"Maybe it's bad." Cheng Jinzhou shook his head and said with an apologetic smile, "Sorry for getting 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 1,000 kilometers from here to the border."

"That's four or five hours." Lu Guandao said and added: "The cavalry is much slower than us. We waste 5 hours and fly back in another 5 hours. Even if the cavalry is attacking De'an, they will not be able to fly back." It will be stopped by Warlock Jiang Huangxing.”

Cheng Jinzhou had difficulty making up his mind. If De'an is destroyed, all his hard work over the past six months will be in vain, and the cost of doing it again will take more time than it does now. If the Star Warlocks cannot get repeated contribution points, they will not help rebuild it again. 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 arrived at the border, we confirmed the situation in Beihan. Then consider more situations based on known conditions.

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

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Five hours later.

The northwest border is in chaos.

It was not a tall city wall, but it was completely in ruins. Wherever the naked eye can see, many complete or messy wooden giants can be found, most of which are in fragments. Lu Guandao introduced with a heavy face: "Those are wooden city walls. Some are designed according to the arrangement of the star array, and some are not."

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

"Yes, the city wall can be easily knocked down by the Star Warlocks." Lu Guandao said, ordering the airship to land downwards.

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

The Northern Han army obviously had little time to collect prisoners of war and corpses. After they left, many defeated soldiers came back again and either began to bury corpses or began 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 stood on the ground with his whole body scorched black, close to several other soldiers. When he walked in, he realized that they were all dead, not the last soldiers maintaining order.

The chaos only occurred in a short two-kilometer stretch. 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 bombarded them, and then the whole army broke through. They only had time to use the wooden city wall once." Lu Lushan touched his ring-faced beard with his fingers. He also made this movement when doing experiments, which means he is thinking. Sometimes it's a distraction.

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

"There are 17 star warlocks?" Cheng Jinzhou brought 17 star warlocks. Like all newcomers on the battlefield, he believed more in measurable things like numbers.

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

"Liu Kuang dares to let in so many star warlocks?"

"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 dropped, Cheng Jinzhou could already see the ground stained red with blood, and there were human organs trampled in the bloody mud.

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 after questioning them carefully, he came up and said: "Let's go back and see if we can catch up with the Northern Han cavalry."

"Twenty thousand people?"

Lu Guandao said with great experience: "There must be more than 10,000 people. There was a cavalry team of 3,000 people nearby. They were broken up and annihilated by them twice. Mainly because of the star warlocks, but their number could annihilate 3,000 people." There are a lot of human cavalry.”

Cheng Jinzhou was anxious, but he still handed over the command to Lu Guandao.

It has been four or five months since the Lu family joined the team, which is indeed quite long 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, have never really been on the battlefield.

As the airship turned, everyone slowly became nervous.

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

Only now did he understand the power of a fourth-level star warlock. If he could, like Bishop Kant, deactivate everyone's star maps, or increase the difficulty for everyone to connect to celestial bodies, then the battle would become very simple, especially the battle involving many astrologers.

When other star warlocks lack star power or even lose star power, it becomes normal for fourth-level star warlocks to fight against 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 connected 7 star lines in one go, especially maintaining the link to Betelgeuse at all times, like a true third-level star warlock. The fourth-level star array behind him and Lu Xu maintained low-power operation, although it seemed unnecessary.

The other star warlocks are also trying their best to make reasonable preparations. Judging from their appearance, if they are attacked, it will really be a disaster.

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.

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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 a bit stronger than Daxia, and his family doesn’t have enough candy, so he often wants to get some food from Daxia, and sometimes it’s not just for the sake of Food, just for fun.

Daxia was much more developed than the Northern Han Dynasty, so it had an advantage in terms of the number of star warlocks, etc. It was like a child who was very good at complaining. Whenever the Northern Han Dynasty attacked Daxia, the latter would retaliate with more star warlocks.

The two sides have been going back and forth for hundreds of years, and it has not turned into a large-scale war. They have to thank their respective enemies.

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

Due to the calm in various parts of Daxia, they focused on developing defenses against the Northern Han Dynasty, which made the latter unable to break through the Juling Pass for five years. Even if they cooperated with more star warlocks, they were unable to achieve their wish.

Therefore, after finally succeeding, the cavalry unit seems to have set its sights higher.

In order to return home smoothly, they were not prepared to carry heavy belongings, or even troublesome animals and women. They relied on their speed to throw away the infantry team following them, and rushed inland quickly.

If it was on the Hexi side, 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 young An Wenchang, a great nobleman of the Northern Han Dynasty who has been awarded a count since the day he was born. His cavalry is also a well-equipped noble cavalry, with a standard high combat power configuration: five percent of nobles, one hundred Fifty percent of the knights, the remaining fifty percent of the civilians, and finally the knights' retinue.

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

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

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 a little uneasy. In order to be able to break through the city wall, he brought 30 astral sorcerers, most of whom were first-level astral sorcerers, but there was also a third-level astral sorcerer. But the Northern Han Dynasty had never taken advantage of the Star Warlock, and this time, Wenchang did not try to believe the Star Warlock.

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 will not 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. First, we will clean up the surrounding areas of Nanling. All troops, secondly burn the dam near Nanling, flood the city first, and 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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