Liu Gui glared at him and said, "Let's not talk about whether the two hundred heavy cavalry can stop the King of Beiliang. Even if they can, how many of them will be left? Even if you don't feel sorry for them, I do! "
Lin Fu chuckled and did not dare to take matters into his own hands. He quickly turned and ran off to deploy the troops.
Liu Gui walked side by side with the Qi Refinement Warrior in white and the master from the Chess and Sword Music School. The Qi Refinement Warrior seemed to have been influenced by the general's calmness in the face of danger. He was no longer as anxious as before. He said softly, "General, please rest assured. The six hundred well-trained men that His Majesty has bestowed upon him are not very useful if they are used to break through the enemy's lines. However, they are very effective against these lone warriors. Although the King of Beiliang is indeed very powerful, I believe that he is not so powerful that … "
Liu Gui smiled and continued the conversation. "Killing people as if they are taking something out of their pocket, right?"
The Qi Refinement Warrior looked a little embarrassed. Liu Gui said calmly, "Although I don't know the depth of that Hsu Fengnian, I feel that if he really wants to die together with me, it is not difficult for him to kill me, Liu Gui. The difficulty lies in how he can escape unscathed. The reason why I say that he is crazy is not because the Hsu Fengnian knows that he cannot do it but because he feels that it is not worth it for him to exchange the King of Beiliang's life for my life, Liu Gui's. "
Liu Gui smiled and said, "I am very assured. All of you should be even more assured. Our Taiping Commandery is always meticulous. We may have a backup plan in the dark."
The swordsman from the Chess and Sword Music School smiled knowingly.
About half an hour later, an eye-opening army appeared in front of Liu Gui's army.
There were less than six hundred of them. However, each of them, who were known as the material officers in the Beimang army, was unusually burly and muscular. Everyone had the back of a tiger, the waist of a bear, and the arms of an ape.
Beiliang had many crossbows, while Beimang had many strong bows. This was a fact that everyone knew.
However, at this moment, Liu Gui's army was lined up in a ballista formation.
What was even more frightening was that there wasn't a single light crossbow in this battle formation. Even the waist crossbows were in the minority. Most of them were large ballistae and Cloud Piercing Crossbow Carts that could be used to attack and defend cities!
That Cloud Piercing Crossbow Chariot required twelve resource officers to operate and stored fifty crossbow bolts. Each crossbow bolt was three feet long, no different from a sword or saber.
Moreover, the tip of the arrow was coated with a green poison!
Back then, when Northern Mang's Empress Murong 'solicited' the forces of the pugilistic world, it wasn't something that could be accomplished just by moving her lips. It was precisely this item that had established a miraculous merit and ruthlessly crushed the sects and gangs that refused to be controlled one after another.
Within 200 steps, when an arrow was shot out, it was said to be equivalent to the full blow of a second-level supreme power master.
If this description wasn't enough to describe the fearsomeness of the ballista and the Cloud Piercing Ballista, then there was an even more shocking description.
Within 100 steps, an arrow was equivalent to a flying sword!
These crossbows were built and maintained at the cost of abandoning their original purpose. In exchange, the empress had said, "If the people of Jianghu are not willing to obediently jump around in Jianghu, then I'll skewer you into candied gourds."
On the battlefield, if one was really targeted to death by such a large number of crossbows, they would not hesitate to accidentally injure their own soldiers. How could a valiant person who could break through enemy lines fight hundreds of battles and live a long life?
Liu Gui was heavily guarded at the back of the army. He didn't deliberately put on his shining armor, nor did he set up an eye-catching flag. He looked straight ahead, squinted his eyes, and didn't say a word.
A subordinate general beside the general said worriedly, "In fact, the decisive factor is the three waves of arrows between 200 and 50 steps. If the last wave of arrows, which is as powerful as a flying sword, can't do anything, and that person breaks into the army, it's most likely too late to change the direction of the ballista."
Liu Gui pointed at the ballista formation in front of him that was constantly changing under the instructions of the Qi cultivators. He shook his head and smiled, "Then you've underestimated these Qi cultivators and material officers' ballista. If you look carefully at the width and thickness of the ballista formation, you'll know that the direction of attack of the arrows is not one line or a few lines horizontally. Instead, they're determined to shoot a huge fan-shaped rain of arrows vertically. Even if that person doesn't break the formation in a straight line, these ballista can also respond under the command of the Qi cultivators. The power of the ballista itself is indeed terrifying, but what's more terrifying are these Qi cultivators and material officers who came prepared from the beginning. "
The general lamented, "It's no wonder that our Beimang's jianghu is not as lively as Liyang's."
Liu Gui sneered, "What's the use of being so lively in the jianghu? A bunch of boorish men who only know how to use martial arts to break the rules. They don't care about the country at all. I dare say that in the future, when our dynasty steps into the hinterland of the Central Plains, there will be plenty of Liyang's jianghu experts who will help us kill people. They might even kill people with more heart and soul than our Beimang's army … "
Liu Gui suddenly stopped talking. A dazzling purple spot appeared in the farthest distance of the old man's vision.
The general beside him gasped and said in a trembling voice, "It's really coming!"
Liu Gui subconsciously raised his arm to give the order. After he put down his arm, his expression was complicated for a moment. He muttered to himself, "He's indeed Xu Xiao's son."
The purple aura came from the east without stopping.
There was a loud bang in the ballista formation.
The ballista arrows were shot and pierced through the air.
Almost at the same time, a second wave of ballista arrows rained down toward the purple aura in the sky.
In an instant, with the ballista formation as the fulcrum, hundreds of ballista arrows that looked like the bones of a fan were shot out. Half of them were no different from the sword of an immortal!
But after the blink of an eye, the purple aura swept through the sky without any pause. It continued to streak through the sky and disappeared in a flash.
It actually disappeared above Liu Gui's army just like that!
Liu Gui, whose back was facing the army, took a small step forward at some point. His face was gloomy. He casually pushed aside the swordsman's corpse in front of him and looked to the west.
A ballista arrow pierced through the corpse's chest and nailed into the ground beside Liu Gui's feet. Even the tail of the arrow could not be seen.
Liu Gui ignored the panicked shouts of the guards around him and said indifferently with a fake smile, "It's impolite not to reciprocate."
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