On the second day, when the sun rose, those knight commanders of Xuanyuan Fortress were inspecting the battlefield and checking the combat readiness on the east bank of Weishui River …
As the Weiji General of the theater of operations, Zhang Tie was also among them.
Zuoqiu Mingyue walked in front of Zhang Tie, followed by Zuoqiu Mingyue. Besides Zhang Tie, all the others who were patrolling with Zuoqiu Mingyue were heavenly knights who were stationed in the Western Theater of Operations of Taixia Country. Among all of them, Zhang Tie looked a bit annoying as an earth knight.
Earth knights were great; however, they had to be compared. On this occasion, an earth knight was really nothing. Among them, Zuoqiu Mingyue was a sage-level knight while the other 7 were all heavenly knights.
It was Zhang Tie's first time to walk with a sage-level knight and 7 heavenly knights. Although they were a bit low-level, Zhang Tie didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Because he knew that they were all the most powerful beings across Taixia Country, no, even the entire human race. It was rare to see so many powerful knights gathering together even in Xuanyuan Hill. If demons didn't invade Taixia Country, even ordinary knights could not see so many powerful figures in their entire lives, not to mention commoners.
It was not an exaggeration that any one of them here could change the overall situation facing Taixia Country by stamping his feet.
Among these people, Zuoqiu Mingyue was the commander-in-chief of Taixia Country and the Military God of Taixia Country. As for the other heavenly knights, Ye Qingcheng was the former commander-in-chief of Black Armor Army; 5 of the other 6 heavenly knights were the current or former commander-in-chief of the top 4 armies of Taixia Country; the last one was an elder of the imperial household of Taixia Country.
Besides Zuoqiu Mingyue and Ye Qingcheng, it was Zhang Tie's first time to see over half of these people after coming to the theater of operations for almost 2 years.
To be honest, if not Zhang Tie's duty as Weiji General and the fact that they were checking the combat readiness of the battlefield, Zhang Tie was not qualified to walk with these people at all.
Zhang Tie didn't ask for anything. Even though he was with some top powers in this age, he still treated Zhang Tie with a humble attitude. Zhang Tie's attitude made some heavenly knights who were observing Zhang Tie stealthily give him a higher evaluation in their hearts. However, these people didn't know that Zhang Tie had made a heavenly knight sleep for dozens of years in the tower of time. Therefore, he didn't feel restrained anymore when he was walking with a group of heavenly knights.
After staying with Yan Feiqing, Zhang Tie's biggest achievement was that he understood that heavenly knights were also humans who had emotions, emotions and mental obstacles. Heavenly knights were powerful; however, they didn't lose their humanity; instead, they were more temperamental. Take Yan Feiqing and Zhang Tie's master Zhao Yuan as an instance, a few heavenly knights gave people a weird feeling. Because they had high positions and had long experienced life and death situations, they didn't care about what commoners pursued anymore. What they pursued was unimaginable to commoners.
Only after one day, the sky over 100 miles away from the west bank of Weishui River had been overcast, which was caused by the smoke of demons' war trees. Meanwhile, some battle qi smokes and tornadoes were entangled in the blank region where the human and demon knights confronted each other. However, such a battle was just a normal small frictions for hundreds of thousands of human and demon elites. It was normal for there to be such frictions; it would be abnormal if there were no frictions at all.
The battlefield was in a mess. Some burnt corpses of iron-armored demons were lying on the ground in front of them. The burnt corpses of iron-armored demons had shrunk by 2/3 like burnt old tree trunks. Their original looks couldn't be identified anymore. However, there was still a looming burnt smell in the air.
They walked past the burnt corpses of those iron-armored demons leisurely.
The minefield on the east bank of Weishui River had been cleared by over 90,000 iron-armored demons yesterday. Therefore, an engineering corps of Taixia Country had already entered this minefield and was working intensively in the early morning.
Burnt corpses of iron-armored demons could be seen everywhere in the minefield. However, the engineering corps of Taixia Country didn't touch these corpses; instead, they started to lay mines on the bank of Weishui River. It was a dangerous job. However, the same engineering corps was responsible for laying incendiary mines in this minefield. Therefore, these engineering corps of Taixia Country had a general impression about where the mines were. When they entered the minefield, everybody was meticulous. The fighters of the engineering corps almost found those undetonated mines on the ground inch by inch. After that, they drew white lines around the mines and planted red warning flags. After that, they laid incendiary mines in those empty areas and drew up the damaged wire netting. Wire netting could effectively delay the attacking speed of demon ground troops. Numerous wire netting was like a huge quagmire for ground troops. When the ground troops of demons fell into the quagmire, it was time for the airship troops of Taixia Country to show their great power …
Zhang Tie knew that given the ability of heavenly knights and sage-level knights, even though they were 400-300 miles away, the demon commanders and heavenly knights could still see the scene that the engineers were laying mines on Taixia Country's side. However, it was useless even if the demon commanders and heavenly knights could see it. Because these incendiary mines were aimed at demon fighters who were charging on the ground. Even if the demon commanders and heavenly knights knew about it, they couldn't instill their memories into the minds of those demon fighters who were charging on the ground.
Previously, the engineering corps of Taixia Country was just an auxiliary corps. However, with the appearance of incendiary mines, they became a frontline battle force. They didn't need to fight demons at all; instead, they only needed to lay mines to kill demon fighters. Most of the 200,000 iron-armored demons were killed by the mines of the engineering corps. Such a victory boosted the morale of the engineering corps across the theater of operations at a stroke. Now, when it came to clearing the battlefield and burying the mines, teams of engineer soldiers were full of energy. Not far away, some engineer soldiers were even happily singing while burying the mines, causing the people around them to burst into laughter. Yesterday's victory had changed the atmosphere of the entire Western Theater of Operations.
"We need to strengthen the engineering corps!" Zuoqiu Mingyue watched everything on the battlefield carefully as he walked. After walking for quite a while, Zuoqiu Mingyue finally opened his mouth, "As for the reorganization of the provincial armies in the rear, besides a part of people being transferred to air cavalries, the scale of engineering corps should be increased from one division to two divisions; special ones could be increased to three divisions. The frontline engineering corps should realize mobility. All the vehicles and airships of the engineering corps should be allocated according to the requirements of Class A corps in the top four armies. Frontline troops might not be able to run faster than demon troops; however, the frontline engineering corps should be able to run faster than demon troops!" After saying that, Zuoqiu Mingyue watched Zhang Tie, "How many incendiary mines are stored in the rear?"
"As of yesterday, there are still 25 million incendiary mines in the four provinces …" Zhang Tie answered, "As too many mines were deployed in the frontline of Weishui River and Helan Mountain Range, the storage was consumed too much. As a result, the production speed of the military factories in the rear couldn't catch up with that!"
Zuoqiu Mingyue looked glassy-eyed when he saw Zhang Tie today. However, the moment Zuoqiu Mingyue opened his mouth, Zhang Tie had known that Zuoqiu Mingyue had already forgotten about what happened yesterday.
"Only so few?" Zuoqiu Mingyue frowned.
Over 20 million incendiary mines were too many for others; however, it was too few for hundreds of millions of demons in the Western Theater of Operations. In the past 2 months, Taixia Country had deployed over 170 million incendiary mines on both banks of Weishui River and Helan Mountain Range …
Through yesterday's battle, everybody had known the importance of incendiary mines. Previously, nobody could imagine that a lot of LV 9 demon corps could be killed by incendiary mines only. Zhang Tie was awe-inspiring on the battlefield yesterday; however, few people knew that it was Zhang Tie who insisted on deploying a large number of incendiary mines in the theater of operations before the battle.
"The munitions factories in the rear are now slowly expanding the production of incendiary mines. At the same time, after the war yesterday, I have asked the Heavenly Fortune Sect to urgently transfer a batch of incendiary mines to the theater of operations to replenish the demand of the theater of operations. The incendiary mines of the Heavenly Fortune Sect will arrive in about a week!"
"How many incendiary mines do you have Heavens Fortune Sect deliver?"
"200 million incendiary mines at the cost price …"
After hearing Zhang Tie's answer, besides Zuoqiu Mingyue, all the other heavenly knights slightly changed their faces as they threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie. Besides Weiji General, nobody else could have Heavens Fortune Sect deliver 200 million incendiary mines to Taixia Country at the cost price even if Zuoqiu Mingyue asked. After yesterday's battle, the value of various incendiary weapons across Taixia Country had skyrocketed. Besides the imperial court of Taixia Country, all the major clans had started to hoard these weapons. It was definitely timely for Zhang Tie to have Heavens Fortune Sect deliver 200 million incendiary mines to Taixia Country at the cost price.
Everybody knew that Heavens Fortune Sect cooperated with Zhang Tie's Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory in the production of Fiery Oil and various incendiary weapons. Additionally, Heavens Fortune Sect could produce Fiery Oil faster than that in the Western Theater of Operations. However, nobody could imagine that Zhang Tie could have such a great influence on Heavens Fortune Sect.
After hearing Zhang Tie's reply, even Zuoqiu Mingyue had to nod towards Zhang Tie and say, "Thanks for your hard work …"
"It's my pleasure. It's my duty to contribute to Taixia Country and humans in the holy war, not to mention that it's my duty!" Zhang Tie said modestly without being arrogant or complacent at all.
Even though Zhang Tie "threatened" Zuoqiu Mingyue in his office yesterday for the sake of a woman, in a split second, Zhang Tie had Heavens Fortune Sect deliver 200 million incendiary mines to him. He didn't neglect his duty for personal reasons at all. Additionally, Zhang Tie had long foreseen the expansion of the production scale of incendiary mines across Taixia Country. Such a person was really Zuoqiu Mingyue's right-hand man, the pillar of the country and the pillar of Taixia Country in the theater of operations. When he realized that his junior couldn't marry Zhang Tie and could only be Zhang Tie's sister-in-law, Zuoqiu Mingyue couldn't help but feel pitiful inside …
After "offending" Zhang Tie, Zuoqiu Mingyue valued Zhang Tie more.
"In the first battle between air cavalries and wing demons yesterday, both parties were evenly matched. You've made a great meritorious deed in establishing air cavalries in the theater of operations. Nobody could doubt your meritorious deed. I will report it to my superior and ask for your meritorious deed in the future!" Zuoqiu Mingyue "comforted" Zhang Tie as he watched Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie let out a sigh, "In the battle between air cavalries and wing demons yesterday, many air cavalries chose to perish together with wing demons after running out of incendiary bolts on airplanes or rush towards iron-armored demons on the ground by airplanes. Less than half of them jumped by parachute. I hope that commander-in-chief could issue a regulation. In the future, when air cavalries lose their battle ability in the air, they should protect themselves as their top priority instead of seeking for death …"
(To be continued.)
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