Rebirth of the Stars
v2 Chapter 189
As the forward "Fan Xiu", as the only ground-level practitioner on the battlefield, his own strength is still much stronger than that of any single soldier in the "Iron Juvenile Army" even under the suppression of military aura. The head-to-head "Fan Xiu" is not at all intimidating, and with the support of the best combination of the two physical body talents of the Second Realm Fitness and the Jiu Niu Power, even one to two, one to three, or even to five, yes Eighth, "Fan Xiu" can easily defeat it and achieve crushing.
But no one is a fool.
The enemies on the staggered battlefield are not just a few. With the blessing of the battle formation and the organization and command of the "Iron Juvenile Army" basic-level generals, "Fan Xiu" faces more than ten weapons almost all the time.
Although the "Iron Juvenile" was indeed taken aback by "Fan Xiu"'s terrifyingly powerful "Splitting the Ground" at the moment of the battle, it was also a little scared by "Fan Xiu"'s next few simple and brutal killing methods. Fearful. But this also made the organizers at the bottom of the "Iron Youth Army" discover the "hard idea" of "Fan Xiu".
When the soldiers recruited by the organizations on both sides joined the fight with "Fan Xiu", the speed of "Fan Xiu"'s breakthrough was quickly contained.
The battle on the battlefield is not single-handed, nor is it a simple gang fight. Who is more ruthless than others. Although the deterrence of brutal means and the impact on the morale of both sides cannot be denied, the most important thing on the battlefield is overall strength.
If the extraordinary power of an individual is a sign of a practitioner, then the military spirit of the army is the best explanation of the overall power of a mortal.
I said earlier that the existence of a city-state military system is one of the cornerstones of a secular civilization where practitioners and mortals coexist and blend together. The main reason is that the military spirit of the army has improved the overall strength of mortals and suppressed the individual strength of practitioners.
Practitioners, especially those who have stepped into the ground and completed the initial leap between mortals and transcendent species, are indeed extremely powerful. However, under the coverage of military qi, the ability of ground-level practitioners to attack with the most powerful attribute vitality will be completely "sealed", and their own strength will be suppressed to a realm in an instant.
In other words, even though the ground-level practitioners are still stronger than mortals under the suppression of the enemy's army, they are no longer invincible.
Of course, the promotion and suppression effects of the military formation are always two-way and mutual. Both the enemy and us, both practitioners and mortals, can get the blessings of their own military formations, and they will also be suppressed by the enemy's military formations. When the military spirits of both sides overlap and intertwined with each other, "I am in you and I am in you", it will exert a certain prohibition effect. The object of prohibition is the circulation of the vitality of heaven and earth.
Mortals have no or only a small amount of internal energy, so the effect of prohibition is not obvious, and even to a certain extent the so-called suppression can be said to be directly non-existent.
Cultivators are different. The strength of the cultivator depends to a large extent on his own "inner energy", or "true essence", or "origin energy." Regardless of the differences and connections between the three, they are essentially "heaven and earth vitality". The operation of these inner "heaven and earth vitality" needs to communicate with the outside world vitality at all times. Once the outside heaven and earth vitality is banned, it can be said that the cultivator is just a "mortal" with a stronger physical body.
As a cultivator, "Fan Xiu" has many methods of cultivator, but why the most used on the battlefield is the "three-strike" technique of "beheading", "cutting the heart" and "cutting the waist" is not because I do not want It is difficult to use the unique means of the cultivator in an environment where the vitality of heaven and earth is forbidden.
The mutually covering military aura not only "seals" the extraordinary power of the repairer, but also "seals" 99% of the specific talent abilities.
the reason is simple. This ninety-nine percent of the specific talents need to communicate the vitality of heaven and earth to activate. For example, the specific talent of "flame", this talent is actually equivalent to the warlock's fire method, which is activated by communicating vitality. In fact, this kind of specific talent can also be regarded as another possibility for mortals, perhaps extraordinary powers. It's just that the awakening of talent has too much contingency and uncertainty. Except for physical talents that can be activated through training, this way of gaining strength is not reliable.
But even so, with the body that has been cleansed by the vitality of heaven and earth, the strength of the cultivator on the battlefield is self-evident.
Moreover, not all cultivators can only become stronger mortals on the battlefield. When the military qi of the two sides do not cover each other, the strength of the cultivator will not be suppressed. On the contrary, the strength of the cultivator will be greatly improved under the blessing of the military qi of the side and the army formation. Cultivators with the ability to release out and those with long-range attack capabilities of warlocks can first use the powerful abilities of the practitioners to severely injure each other before the military spirits of the two sides are entangled. After the front military qi is entangled, the warlock-type repairmen in the rear can also launch long-range magic attacks with the help of the unaffected military qi. It's just that such an attack will be greatly weakened after entering the position of military entanglement.
However, just like "Fan Xiu"'s "Earth Splitting", even after entering the enemy's military range and being suppressed and weakened, it can still cause more than 20 casualties, and the attacks of warlocks can also weaken. Then it caused huge threats and injuries to the enemy.
This is also one of the reasons that warlock troops will exist on the battlefield.
If Fan Xiu hadn't been possessed by Ning Yuan, the breakout of the enemy line could have basically failed at the moment it was contained.
Because the entangled "Xiuyuan Remnant Army" will soon be divided and surrounded by the "Iron Juvenile Army" several times its own, and then annihilated.
Although Fan Xiu is strong, he will also get tired, make mistakes, get injured and exhausted in the face of siege. After all, the battlefield is not a place where you can do whatever you want with individual strength.
But the current "Fan Xiu" is not the real Fan Xiu. All physical bodies and strengths are the real Fan Xiu, but the consciousness is Ning Yuan's consciousness.
The two most fundamental abilities of Ning Yuan happened to be the mental and spiritual abilities that could be activated without vitality and physical body. "Xizhao" and "Yaoyan".
After the pace of the killing breakthrough was slightly curbed, "Fan Xiu" did not recklessly, but with the help of "Xizhao" and "Yaoyan" quickly found the gap of the "Iron Juvenile Army", and the direction of the sword turned. "Fan Xiu" attacked the weak spot he saw without any entanglement.
The soldiers charging on the battlefield basically followed blindly. After "Fan Xiu" changed the attack route, the entire triangular charging array naturally followed its direction.
The purpose of "Fan Xiu" now is to keep moving, no matter whether he can break through the "Iron Juvenile" or not, he can't stop. Once the momentum of the charge is blocked, everyone who is now behind will undoubtedly die.
The reason why the team led by "Fan Xiu" can attack and defend against each other with several times the "Iron Juvenile" seems to be quite a big part of the reason is the increase in combat power brought about by the increase in morale. Once "Fan Xiu" is blocked, this is because the morale brought about by "Fan Xiu" seems to be unstoppable will soon disappear. Once the morale is low, the military energy will become scattered and will be completely dispelled by the opponent's military energy. At that time, the Xiuyuan Army will completely become a chicken under the butcher knife of the Iron Juvenile Army.
As mentioned earlier, military morale is largely due to morale. Although the composition of military spirit includes "morale", "blood spirit", "war spirit", "resentment", "death spirit" and a lot of messy things in addition to "morale". But the most fundamental is the "morale" of the army itself.
The blunt point of the "morale" thing is the soldier's emotions, spiritual will, and other seemingly vague but real things.
The reason why there is a description of "single-blooded, exhausted, and decayed" and "sorrowing soldiers will win" is because the "morale" thing will affect the actual combat effectiveness of an army to a large extent. And the "morale" thing is completely determined by the soldiers' will and emotions.
When the "morale" is full, the soldiers can exert their own combat power 100% or even 120% or even higher.
When the "morale" is normal, a soldier can display his normal level of combat power, but the normal level of combat power is often not equal to his own true combat power.
When the "morale" is low, the soldiers can only exert half of their normal combat power or even lower.
When the "morale" collapsed, it was difficult for the soldiers to show even 10% of their own combat power.
And "morale" is just as contagious as will and emotion. This is also the reason why those brave generals existed and were admired in the war.
To put it bluntly, the brave general is to infect the will and emotion of the soldiers through their own bravery, and then elevate the morale of the army as a whole, so that the soldiers can exert 100% or even 200% of their combat power.
"Fan Xiu" now plays the existence of such a brave general.
However, due to the defeat of Zhongfu, the morale of the Xiuyuan Army had dropped to a very low level. Although "Fan Xiu" used methods such as "clarifying cause and effect" and "inspiring death will" to raise the morale of his guards, it only returned to a normal level. Even with the power of "Splitting the Ground" and simple and brutal killing methods to further elevate morale, it is far from the original full morale.
If the morale is 100, then the morale of the Xiuyuan army was 80 when it first went out, and the morale of the Zhongfu was 20 after the defeat. It recovered to 40 through the collapse of the rout and the abandoned barracks, and then fell under the siege of the Tie Zhijun. At 30, it was close to the edge of collapse. Then "Fan Xiu" raised the morale of the guard battalion to 50 through the order of self-breaking the back road and that sensational inference. Now with the addition of veterans and the morale of his own brave generals, it has increased to a level above 60 and close to 70.
With 70 morale of the Xiuyuan Army, those who followed "Fan Xiu" were all elite soldiers and veterans of the Xiuyuan Army. It is not surprising that they can attack and defend against the soldiers of Tiezhicheng.
But the current morale can be said to rely entirely on "Fan Xiu"'s unstoppable brave performance. Once the "Fan Xiu" offensive is contained, even if it is delayed for a long time, the "morale" that finally rises will be "Avalanche" fell like a.
Although with the continuous advancement of "Fan Xiu", more and more veterans came together on their own initiative, and even those recruits who were almost faintly waiting to die unknowingly followed the veterans to join in, so that morale began to steadily increase slowly. .
However, it is not enough.
Now on the battlefield, apart from "Fan Xiu", Deputy General Zhao and a limited number of basic non-commissioned officers who are themselves repairers, they can stabilize the system and defeat their opponents, even if they are the "Fan Xiu" troops who are elite soldiers in Xiuyuan City. And those veterans can only kill and wound each other with the Tie Zhijun.
"Fan Xiu" needs to find a way to further improve morale, so that all the soldiers under his command can at least be able to win one-on-one and remain unbeaten one-on-one. Only in this way can the possibility of a breakthrough success be increased.
"So what should I do?" "Fan Xiu" sidestepped the stab of three long spears. The big knife blocked another long spear on the left from his back, and handed it to his right hand. The muscles were stretched. Using his height advantage, he slashed and cut. Breaking off the blades of the three enemy soldiers, and then swept across the beheadings of the three men whose weapons had been broken, while constantly thinking and deducing in their minds.
Just as Ning Yuan once again killed a soldier, "Fan Xiu" caught the attention of "Fan Xiu" when "Xizhao" reproduced the scene that his eyes had just scanned.
It was a nine-foot man who kept rushing towards him, surrounded by a few guards in well-equipped armor.
"Are you the enemy's vanguard?" The "Fan Xiu" thought flashed, turned around and ignored it, and attacked another weak spot where it was estimated that the enemy would soon be vulnerable due to the movement of soldiers.
"Fan Xiu", who had killed several enemy troops and rushed into the depths of the enemy troops, once again discovered the bright armor, holding two handles, and looking at the vanguard of a five-foot heavy hammer that smashed people like a melon. official.
A cold light flashed in "Fan Xiu"'s indifferent eyes, and then once again, he ignored the spot that "Xizhao" had peeped through in the opposite direction and killed him.
"It's not the time yet."
In this way, as "Fan Xiu" continued to change the direction of advance, he intentionally or unintentionally clicked and killed the basic non-commissioned officers of the Iron Juvenile Army, and then used the enemy's attack caused by the death of the most basic organizational unit of the captain. Unsmooth, the overlapping of personnel blocked the enemy vanguard who had been trying to stop "Fan Xiu", slowly but firmly raising the morale of one's side, and weakening the morale of the enemy's soldiers in contact.
Ning Yuan finally felt a slight increase in strength after killing an enemy even more. The overall morale of his subordinates has finally risen to around 80.
"almost."
The thought of "Fan Xiu" flashed away a few long spears, and then turned slightly and made a forced turn, and slowly moved closer to the side of the vanguard whose face was obviously anxious.
The vanguard, who had been playing with "Fan Xiu" and "walking" with an unhappy face, saw that "Fan Xiu" was finally forced to his position by the soldiers' courage. His eyes lit up like a bell and opened his mouth. A silent grinning laugh appeared, and he couldn't wait to smash the soldiers around and approached "Fan Xiu".
When the two sides approached Zhangxu, the enemy vanguard suddenly swelled up to a height of one foot and seven feet wide like a little giant. He held two five-foot heavy hammers the size of a watermelon and knocked each other with a loud sound. Give a shout: "The enemy will die"
The soldier who smashed away in front of him slammed his heavy hammer high and slammed it at the head of "Fan Xiu" who had just blocked the side spear and slightly changed his breath.
Just as the pioneer officer laughed grinningly, and when Lieutenant Zhao, who had fought each other a few steps behind "Fan Xiu," and the other guards were shocked, the corners of the "Fan Xiu" who "changed breath" were slightly bent and pulled out a touch. The icy arc as cold as a knife.
Immediately the figure expanded and widened in an instant. The sword in his hand was turned on the nape of his neck, and his arms were swollen in two full circles. Both hands clenched the sword from the bottom to the top. The arc-shaped blades wrapped in the blade-like air are not tolerated. The shiny armor and shoulders of the opponent's chest are drawn diagonally upward from the waist of the enemy vanguard's left side.
"Um." The enemy vanguard kept charging forward, but the grinning expression on his face solidified in an instant, his copper eyes were wide open, and a smear of blood appeared on the bright armor on his chest after a muffled sound. The blood spurted out, half of his body separated from the sprinting legs, a big mouth on his hideous face, and a mouthful of blood spurted out with a "wow".
In the process of the little giant body separating and falling, "Fan Xiu" had already passed the heavy hammer attack that had lost stamina. Without any hesitation, he rose up and shouted: "The enemy is dead and the soldiers are killed."
Lieutenant General Zhao and others saw the corpse of the enemy vanguard slowly returning to a normal figure during the process of falling, and subconsciously followed and yelled: "Kill"
The formation did not know the specific situation in the distance, but clearly heard the main commander’s declaration of "the enemy general is dead", followed by a violent shout: "Kill"
The recruits who follow completely blindly subconsciously shouted, "Kill" as if they were infected.
Almost within a few breaths after "Fan Xiu made a loud announcement, the entire battlefield seemed to be reverberating with the hoarse but powerful "kill" word. The morale of the "Fan Xiu" department suddenly rose. A large part of it immediately broke through the original 80 to reach 95, and after a few breaths, it broke through the 100 mark and is still climbing.
In a word, the morale of the "Fan Xiu" team that launched a counter-charge against the enemy has been completely overwhelmed.
And in that hoarse "kill", the Xiuyuan army on the entire battlefield was scattered to the point of collapse, and its morale no longer declined as if it were contagious, but began to slowly rise, and the thinned ones almost disappeared. The army's energy also stopped dissipating and became strong again.
Feeling the more obvious combat power blessing coming from the morale increase, a smile appeared on "Fan Xiu"'s hard face.
"Sure enough, slaying enemy generals is the most effective way to raise morale." Ning Yuan muttered to himself in consciousness.
Depending on the standard and brightness of the opponent’s armor, and the two heavy hammers in the opponent’s hand that are different from those of ordinary soldiers, there is no doubt that it is a brave general who was used by the enemy to charge the battle. Although his cultivation is only lieutenant-level, he has a stature. "Strong" and "Physique" are two major physical talents, and they have been deepened well. It can be said that the strength of a body is definitely not weak.
It's a pity that "Fan Xiu" continuously ignored him, and his avoidance made the opponent's mood fluctuate sharply. That's why he was eager to vent his anger at the moment of the attack, and there was an obvious flaw like the open door on his chest.
However, as long as the speed of the attack is fast and ruthless enough to prevent the enemy from making a counterattack, and with a single force drop for ten guilds, such an attack is not a flaw. It's a pity that "Fan Xiu" left an eye on him at the beginning of the battle. Although he exposed his identity as a ground-level practitioner, he didn't fully utilize the two talents of his own "power" and "fitness". It also hides his true shooting speed.
Therefore, it was a matter of course for the "Fan Xiu" who showed full combat power to be easily killed under the lure.
But this is exactly what "Fan Xiu" needs.
In a normal battle, in an environment like the battlefield, the ground-level practitioners and the lieutenant-level practitioners can be said to be evenly matched to a certain extent. Although due to the difference in the actual realm and the resulting experience surprises, in terms of winning rate, the ground-level practitioners will be higher, but usually it is not a few rounds that can tell the winner. Not to mention that "Fan Xiu" almost instantly killed the opponent.
It is precisely because "Fan Xiu" deliberately designed this "instant killing" to completely revitalize the morale of Xiuyuan's army, the situation of the entire battlefield has changed from the original one at a glance to the faintly variable appearance now.
Morale is contagious. This is true whether we are foe or foe.
After Fan Xiu, who was possessed by Ning Yuan, "instantly killed" the enemy generals, the morale of the enemy soldiers on the front battlefield of "Fan Xiu" suddenly stagnated. Faintly declined.
"Fan Xiu" once again beheaded several enemy troops and felt it, his eyes gleaming coldly narrowed slightly.
With the rapid thinking, he took a breath and shouted again: "The morale of the enemy army has declined, kill."
Lieutenant General Zhao and others who also felt the faint drop in the combat power of the enemy's soldiers followed up and shouted: "Kill."
"Fan Xiu" did not change direction this time, but rushed straight towards the frontal enemy army, relying on its powerful strength and fast-moving "Xizhao" and "Yaoyan" to continuously kill the discoveries in the frontal enemy army. The grassroots organizers, that is, the existence of the corps leader, the leader, the team leader, and the team leader, further undermine the morale and organizational strength of the opponent.
The morale changes and the "Fan Xiu" consciously and frequently slaughtered. The soldiers under "Fan Xiu" and the veterans and recruits who were attached to the army all discovered that the enemy's combat power was faintly declining, and the local front army The situation is slowly becoming chaotic.
The novices who were originally fearful of hands and feet just blindly followed the team to kill after killing the enemy for the first time in the chaos, began to quickly change from the state of recruits to veterans.
With the change of mentality, the morale uplifting effect becomes more obvious, the morale and military strength are also strengthened, and the continuous improvement of their own combat power further improves the morale of the soldiers, thus forming a spiral of entanglement and upwards. Cycle, the more you fight, the more courageous you are.
The feelings of the soldiers of the Tiezhi Army are just the opposite. From the original crushing of combat power, to the slight resistance of the opponent, offensive and defensive, evenly matched, and now they are faintly suppressed. The soldiers of the Tiezhi Army have experienced a roller coaster ride. After the reversal, his mentality began to fall into confusion and self-doubt.
Under the original situation, as long as the basic organizers were still there, this mentality would soon be suppressed, but after "Fan Xiu" consciously killed and followed the other Vice-General Zhao and others in the same way, they faced the enemy. There are fewer and fewer organizers, making the enemy soldiers more and more trapped in this confusion and self-denial.
The chaos of the frontal enemy army became more and more obvious. There is even a tendency to spread to both sides.
However, before "Fan Xiu" was happy, the enemy generals commanding in the rear quickly took countermeasures.
I saw the soldiers rushing forward from the front of the battlefield began to consciously separate to the two sides, and some tall figures faintly appeared in the sight of "Fan Xiu".
When "Fan Xiu" saw exactly what those figures were, his pupils contracted almost instantly. .
He wears a chain armour, a round helmet, and a five-foot arcuate scimitar in each hand. Underneath is a huge wolf with a sleek brown hair and a fierce face with sharp claws and a seven-foot-high and three-foot-wide scimitar.
This is the group of wolf cavalry that "Fan Xiu" had seen when he was in Zhong Fu.