Chapter 473: The inexplicable formation
Late in early winter, on the edge of the imperial capital, the camp of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, fires soar into the sky.
As a sudden attack, the enemy seemed to descend from the sky, instantly broke through the defense of the front camp of the Eastern Prince's Mansion and rushed straight into the camp.
Fortunately, the central army led by Huang Yuanwu was extremely combat-effective and experienced. They could react as soon as possible and organize defensive counterattacks in haste. The sudden attack of the enemy did not cause chaos in the army of the Dongwang Mansion.
Huang Yuanwu led a group of guards, lifted his sword and rushed into the enemy group, and then slashed.
The enemy's attack seemed to have no main target. After entering the camp, it scattered and killed the soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion as much as possible. The soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion who reacted spontaneously gathered their formations based on a small team to kill the enemy as quickly as possible.
The sudden riot was quickly calmed down.
When I killed the last enemy in front of me, the flames burning on the side of the camp reached the most violent time.
A rumbling sound came from my ears, and reinforcements from the camps on both sides arrived, leading the team to lead the team to rush into the camp, and all they saw was a mess.
The strong smell of blood wrapped around the burning smoke, which made Huang Yuanwu frown.
Ding Jiang appeared beside Huang Yuanwu at this moment, knelt on one knee, and whispered: "The subordinates were not strict in their work, which led to the enemy's attack on the camp. Please punish the little prince!"
Huang Yuanwu glanced at Ding Jiang, without saying a word, gently threw away the blood on the Dongwang Sword, inserted it back into the scabbard, and turned around and left. Seeing this, Ding Jiang quickly stood up, quickly ordered to clean the battlefield, and followed Huang Yuanwu's footsteps and rushed to the camp that was not affected by the side.
Huang Yuanwu entered the camp of an ordinary team. At this moment, he looked gloomy and was in a very bad mood. All the guards were arranged outside by him, and he was the only one in the camp.
Ding Jiang quietly opened the tent and walked in, stood in front of Huang Yuanwu, lowered his head, and remained silent.
"Where is the catapult?" Huang Yuanwu sat on a bed, looked at Ding Jiang in front of him, and frowned.
"A brigade has been sent to search, and there will be results soon. It should be in the mountains not far away." Ding Jiang said softly.
A hint of chill flashed in Huang Yuanwu's eyes. He looked at Ding Jiang and whispered: "At such a close distance, isn't the scout rewarded?"
"There are no abnormalities in four daily inspections." Ding Jiang hurriedly said: "All the regulations are done according to the rules of the royal palace. A few days ago, there was a sneak attack, so the last group of people were specially arranged. The surrounding inspections were also very frequent, but no abnormalities were found."
"There is no abnormality. Did the enemy fall from the sky?" Huang Yuanwu's eyes became colder, and he became even colder.
When Ding Jiang heard this, he immediately knelt on one knee and said in a deep voice: "Little Prince, his subordinates have indeed been patrolling and strengthening their deployment in accordance with the regulations of the royal palace. Before the enemy appeared, the patrol team had just completed the inspection of the surrounding mountains and found no abnormalities. Moreover, there was no news about the secret sentry we placed in the mountains."
"Then are you talking about how the enemy came from?" Huang Yuanwu's tone was very cold. In this situation, he had to doubt any details that could be suspected: "Let me check now, and I will see all the rewards of all scouts myself!"
"Yes!" At this moment, fine beads of sweat had already oozed out of Ding Jiang's forehead. Of course, he knew that he was responsible for the defense of the entire camp. If such a thing happened, he would be the first to blame.
Ding Jiang quickly retreated, immediately began to explore all the details, and arranged to look at the soldiers entering the left and right mountains to search for traces of the enemy.
Huang Yuanwu sat quietly in the tent, frowning.
This sudden attack was really unexpected. It was not that he didn't want to believe Ding Jiang. Ding Jiang had been following the Eastern Palace for more than ten years, and he had been following him for most of the time and was committed to military achievements. His loyalty was absolutely believed. But the sudden appearance of the enemy and the large catapult can only be understood as Ding Jiang concealing the surrounding situation. Otherwise, would the enemy who looked at this really fall from the sky?
Huang Yuanwu frowned, and his palm never left the hilt of the Dongwang Sword. At this moment, Xu Xiuping's words echoed in his mind.
"Let's retreat while there is still room for choice."
As soon as Xu Xiuping left, the camp was attacked. In this strange situation, I really wanted to send another message to Huang Yuanwu: I want to hit you, I can do it any time.
But Huang Yuanwu didn't expect that there were any other ways for them to instigate the senior generals around him. If Ding Jiang was really instigated, the matter would be simple, but if it wasn't...
A few moments later, Ding Jiang brought the signed sergeant into Huang Yuanwu's tent.
"Little Prince, the scouts from all sides have already heard of it, and my subordinates have brought them here directly." Ding Jiang knelt on one knee and said in a deep voice.
"Say." Huang Yuanwu's face was deep.
"Black Prince, a low-lying valley was found in the mountain stream on the east side. A large number of footprints were found in the valley, and there was also a strange place with strange energy fluctuations." A scout said quickly.
"Reported to the little prince, a large number of footprints were also found in the mountains on the west side, and strange energy fluctuations were also heard. There were traces of suspected formations on the ground, but it was not certain."
"From the imperial capital, no abnormalities were found between all the mountain roads and mountains."
"No abnormalities were found in the direction of the return road."
After hearing the rewards of the four scouts, Huang Yuanwu waved his hand gently. The four of them immediately retreated. Huang Yuanwu then stood up, glanced at Ding Jiang, and whispered: "Go with me to see the strange energy fluctuations." Then, he strode out of the camp tent and took his own guards to get out of the camp.
Ding Jiang hurriedly stood up and followed Huang Yuanwu. Then he found the scout who had just taken the way, and ordered a large group of people, followed Huang Yuanwu and headed straight to the mountain stream on the east side.
At this moment, dawn broke out.
The winter dawn is biting cold.
A group of soldiers rode on war horses, stepped on layers of snow, and headed straight to the mountain stream on the east side.
There is a road in the mountain stream on the east side. Follow this road and you can directly reach the south city of the city of the accompanying city where Huang Zhengchu is. Last time, he was also attacked in this mountain stream. Therefore, the Eastern Palace has been patrolling this mountain road and the mountains on both sides. In the past few days, no abnormalities or suspicions were found.
Following the scout's war horse, the soldiers soon arrived at the place where they discovered the abnormality.
This place is located above the mountains, not far from the Central Army camp of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. It took only one stick of incense to arrive.
But this place is relatively secret, surrounded by trees. If you hadn't carefully investigated, you might not have discovered this place.
After passing through the trees and entering the valley, the scout pointed to the strange map with bright blue lights on the ground not far away, and said softly: "Little Prince, this is the strange thing that the subordinates found."
The valley was covered with snow, but now there were dense footprints above the snow. In the middle of the valley, a huge map similar to the formation and its similarity was lying there quietly, scattering strange fluorescence.
The army stopped and immediately a soldier asked for his order to come forward to investigate. However, Huang Yuanwu shook his head gently, turned over and dismounted, and was about to go forward to check.
"Little Prince!" Ding Jiang immediately jumped off the war horse, knelt in front of Emperor Yuanwu on one knee, and said anxiously: "The situation is unknown, the little prince must not."
Almost at the same time, all the soldiers dismounted, but none of them said anything more.
Huang Yuanwu looked at Ding Jiang, chuckled slightly, and said, "General Ding, please go with me." After that, he ignored Ding Jiang's dissuasion and walked straight towards the formation not far away.
Ding Jiang had no choice but to follow Huang Yuanwu and go with him. The same person was Huang Yuanwu's personal bodyguard.
Huang Yuanwu carefully checked the footprints on the ground. After Ding Jiang confirmed that these footprints were indeed left by the people who had just attacked the camp. They were wearing the same armor as the Northern King's Mansion and the same military boots.
Before walking to the formation, the three strange circles of talismans were scattered with a faint fluorescent light and lay quietly in the snow. The formation occupied a large area and could accommodate dozens of people to enter at the same time. However, Huang Yuanwu did not recognize the complex talismans on it.
This is also easy to understand. Huang Yuanwu himself does not have the ability to practice formations, so he knows very little about this aspect, and there are very few formation masters. Although formations exist in one path, they are part of the sect.
Huang Yuanwu frowned and looked at the formation map in front of him. Although he didn't know the formation, the matter was already very clear.
This is how the enemy fell from the sky.
Through this large formation, you can also guess that this formation must be used for large teleportation. Huang Yuanwu has never seen such a large teleportation formation.
Although the Qitian Empire is at its peak, there are only a handful of people with formation capabilities in the court. Moreover, the portrayal of such complex teleportation formations requires not only those who are proficient in the formation, but also the materials and energy required to consume are not something that ordinary forces can bear. There is no teleportation formation in the Nuoda Qitian, let alone such exquisite formations that can teleport multiple people.
Huang Yuanwu stood quietly in front of this huge formation and frowned. This sneak attack was aimed at the Eastern Palace, or rather, it was not an attack, but a warning, a warning against himself.
"Damn it!" He reached out and pulled out the Dongwang Sword beside him, and suddenly swung a sword at the formation in front of him.
A majestic red sword energy roared and cut the formation in front of him into two sections. The talisman was destroyed, and the bright light emitted around slowly dissipated.
After returning to the camp, the camp was almost completely cleaned up. The enemy's corpses were spread flat in the camp, with thousands of people, and none of them lived.
Chapter completed!