Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 423 - 38: Capturing Fire Dragon Pass, Military Realm’s Battle Achievement Judgment (6K)_4

Chapter 423: Chapter 38: Capturing Fire Dragon Pass, Military Realm’s Battle Achievement Judgment (6K)_4

Seeing the grim prospects, Yue Haisheng led the remnants to flee the Fire Dragon Pass, where the flag of Great Zhou was raised along the nearly forty-mile stretch of the pass.

Due to the disparity in numbers and martial force, in just a brief afternoon, this mighty pass that stood for a thousand years announced its doom.

....

On the sixteenth and seventeenth of September, these two days were entirely spent by the three armies of Great Zhou harvesting battle accolades.

Once the great pass fell, the Fire Demon Clan’s garrison turned into walking battle honors.

In terms of numbers and strength, they were no match for the armies of Great Zhou.

"Puchi~"

A purple finger pierced through the head of a seventh-rank barbarian general, and lightning charred the entire person.

"Thump~" The seventh-rank barbarian general, along with the long spear he was holding, immediately plummeted towards the ground.

"Ha! Heh!"

On the ground, a square formation of soldiers holding three-meter-long halberds moved swiftly below.

As the body fell from two hundred meters high in the air, reaching one hundred meters, it was suddenly torn to dust by a kilometre-long blood-colored halberd in the sky.

"That’s Lin Ze, a Colonel under Wen Shaoyang’s command."

"The Great Halberd Soldier Camp, comprised entirely of eighth-grade martial artists, with their Qi and Blood Battle Formation, and Halberds like a forest," Zhao Xing had just finished chasing and killing a barbarian warrior, before seeing the Great Halberd Soldier Camp below.

A hundred meters above the Great Halberd Soldier formation, aside from a blood-colored halberd, two hundred meters further up there was also a phantom of a military banner.

"The War Soul Banner of the Divine Might Army," Zhao Xing looked at the banner. "This War Soul Banner is similar to my Seasonal Order."

"However, my Seasonal Order replaces the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, while this War Soul Banner has formed a Battle Soul Domain."

"Under the coverage of this military banner, the willpower and Life Souls of all martial artists are greatly enhanced."

"With willpower enhanced, Life Souls enhanced, their combat power also increases, constantly in peak condition."

"However, what truly receives the boost is the battle formation below."

Zhao Xing took a careful look at the Great Halberd Soldier formation led by Lin Ze.

This blood-colored halberd was completely condensed from Qi and blood.

It seemed as if invisible pillars of light connected the one thousand eighth-grade Great Spear Soldiers below.

The largest blood-colored pillar enveloped Lin Ze.

"Once the Qi and Blood Battle Formation of the Great Halberd Soldiers is formed, Lin Ze, a Colonel of the proper seventh grade, possesses the combat strength of the proper sixth grade."

"Moreover, Lin Ze doesn’t need to command in any other way; his battle intentions are instantaneously transmitted into the minds of the one thousand Great Halberd Soldiers."

"One thousand and one hundred men, as one!"

"Any soldier wounded can be recovered through the Blood-colored Halberd because the injuries are shared."

"The same goes for the recovery of Primordial Qi; the Blood-colored Halberd continually seizes the surrounding Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, even the Primordial Qi of life." Zhao Xing felt the surge of Qi and blood, a pulling force came from below, making him involuntarily rise a bit higher.

"Lin Ze’s Great Halberd Soldier Camp has practiced to the level of a fifth-grade battle formation, and the Blood-colored Halberd can break through ten thousand spells."

"Supposing I come across such a battle formation, aside from the Flying Snake Transformation, which has reached the sixth-transformation of high-tier spells, other high-tier spells would hardly be able to inflict heavy damage on him, moreover, his will of martial arts would strike at the mind of its opponents." Zhao Xing thought to himself.

"Such a battle formation, practiced to the fifth-grade, is a great counter to Magician troops." Zhao Xing mused.

At this moment the target of the Great Halberd Soldier Camp’s chase was a group of Fire Demon Clan Magicians.

Occasionally, a group of Magicians would attempt to counter with their spells.

However, any spell that entered the range of the War Soul Banner’s coverage would first be weakened by thirty percent.

Then, it would be weakened further by seventy percent by the ’Blood-colored Halberd’ in the sky.

By the time the spells reached the Great Halberd Soldier formation, they were rendered virtually ineffective.

This was because they belonged to Wen Shaoyang’s Division, the most elite Great Halberd Soldier Camp, and a fifth-level Qi and Blood Battle Formation, which requires long and arduous coordination, unity between officers and soldiers, and the same cultivation technique and martial skills, to achieve such an effect.

Zhao Xing hadn’t seen such an elite Great Halberd Soldier Camp in ages.

"Zhao Xing, what are you spacing out for?" A familiar voice came, and Zhao Xing turned his head to see Xia Jing, mounted on a Flying Dragon.

His Mysterious Armor Dragon Cavalry Camp was also pursuing and killing the fleeing soldiers.

"Why aren’t you claiming your battle honors at a time like this? Hurry and behead them, the battlefields of the three armies have started the patrols of the Judicial Yin God, and there are Mirage Pearls recording."

"The heads cut off now will not be missed by one." Xia Jing said, "Got it!" Zhao Xing smiled and immediately soared on a cloud towards a certain direction.

....

On the nineteenth of September, after the fall of Fire Dragon Pass, the pursuit of the barbarian soldiers came to a halt.

Originally, with only tens of thousands of them, they weren’t enough for everyone on Great Zhou’s side to kill.

Zhao Xing also participated in this battle honor hunt, but there’s an unspoken rule in the military: during such times, high-ranking officers wouldn’t contend with the lower-ranking soldiers for glory.

In this free-for-all chasing battle, purely for the sake of merits, Zhao Xing, being of the seventh grade, would have to target enemies of the seventh grade, unless unavoidably surrounded by a group of eighth-grades.

Otherwise, the battle honors belong to the high-ranking officers, and if the people below got none, it would be utterly unkind.

.....

On the evening of the twentieth of September.

The battle at Fire Dragon Pass paused, and the news spread, shocking the entire Pacifying Barbarian Battlefield.

Nobody thought that the eastern front, which had always been regarded as the least likely to break through, would achieve such a magnificent victory.

Fire Dragon Pass, which stood unbroken for a thousand years, was truly taken down by the Divine Might Army.

The news, like the wind, quickly swept through the entire battlefield.

Its impact began to ferment in different places, affecting not just Great Zhou, but even the Golden Feather Royal Court...

At this moment, Zhao Xing, Xia Jing, Wen Shaoyang, Liao Rulong, Chen Shijie, Long Xiao, and others were gathered in a castle at Fire Dragon Pass.

Because the judgment for battle honors in the Military Realm had arrived.