A great war was about to begin. The entire Nanyang Plains was filled with storms.
Li Chengfeng, Xiaobao and Han Tianxing were soon released from their new soldier training and transferred to the Great General's Sky High Camp as elite cultivator guards. They were in charge of protecting the Great General's central army.
Li Chengfeng and the other two were once again transferred to the central army for protection. Li Chengfeng knew that if the Flying Warship did not appear, he would not have the chance to fight.
However, even though they knew that they might not have the chance to fight, being in the middle of a sea of war still shocked Li Chengfeng and the rest.
Although the Nanyang Plain was a large plain, there was a low-lying basin in the middle. It covered a large area, about a hundred miles. Whether it was the Puppet Kingdom or the Da Qi Kingdom, they had both chosen to have the most important war here.
This was because this place was like a large basin surrounded by plains and mountains. Both sides were connected to a few large rift valleys for armies to pass through. This was the only place where such a large army could fight.
Moreover, the Da Qi Kingdom relied on their cultivator legions and light cavalry legions, while the Puppet Kingdom relied on their heavy-armored cavalry legions and puppet legions. Both sides needed a wide and flat terrain to engage in battle.
Earlier on, the two sides had engaged in a few fierce battles for the South Sun Plain. However, it was difficult for the Great Qi Kingdom to break through the heavy cannons of the Great Rift Valley. Similarly, it was difficult for the Puppet Kingdom to break through the formations set up by the elite cultivators of the Great Qi Kingdom in the rift valley.
Both sides wanted to draw the other away from the advantageous terrain to fight. Hence, after the peace talks broke down, the Puppet Kingdom's Marshal Wei Weian issued a declaration of war for both sides to fight in the Nanyang Basin. Long Tenghai also felt that the hundreds of thousands of troops were about to collapse. He did not want to drag this any longer. Now that the encirclement was complete, he immediately decided to fight the Puppet Kingdom here!
When the central army departed, Li Chengfeng and the rest of the cultivators flew to the Nanyang Basin together. Before leaving, Gao Shenghan distributed a large number of talismans to Li Chengfeng, Xiaobao and Han Tianxing, including ten flying talismans, speed talismans, Yellow Sand Armour talismans and Rejuvenation talismans.
This left Han Tianxing speechless. He had a whole new understanding of Qi's expenditure in this war.
Any one of these talismans could be sold for at least a thousand taels of silver on the market. Among them, the Rejuvenation Supplement was priceless because it was basically unpurchasable. These were all tools that could save lives on the battlefield.
These talismans were prepared for war. After being purchased by the army on a large scale, they would be distributed to cultivators. Those who had made a lot of contributions could even rely on their military merits to receive various magical treasures of various grades!
This also ensured the enthusiasm of these cultivators to continue participating in the war. Otherwise, who would be willing to pay without any compensation or benefits?
This was something that even the commoners were unwilling to do, let alone the cultivators.
Li Chengfeng and the rest followed the elite cultivators of the Sky High Camp above the center of the army, protecting the safety of the sky.
As long as there were no flying battleships or air defenses from the puppet countries, Da Qi would have absolute control over the skies.
A group of neatly arranged troops flew alongside the center of the army. After travelling for about two days, they arrived at Nanyang Basin.
Li Chengfeng and the rest saw that the originally lush plains were gradually turning into a desert. There were barren hills and strange rocks everywhere. Near the basin, the ground began to tilt and crack, especially the three most obvious ones. The widest was two miles wide, large enough for an army of five thousand people to stand in front of the valley.
The other two cracks were also about a mile wide, one of the three entrances to the east of the basin. On the opposite side, there were only two large rifts, but the entrances to the rifts were wider.
At this moment, the sky above and below the Nanyang Basin was cloudless. With a glance, one could even see the endless stream of Puppet Country's army coming from the opposite side of the basin.
In the great canyon on the opposite side of the basin, dark objects had been lined up both above and below the canyon. Because they were too far away, they looked like a series of black spots. However, the experienced Cultivators immediately warned the Cultivators who had never seen the 'black spots' that they were the light saber cannons that the puppet country specially prepared to shoot at their elite Cultivators!
As the name suggested, once these cannons were fired, they were extremely powerful, like a knife. Usually, they would arrive in front of the cultivator's face in an instant. Even cultivators with great reflexes could not react in time. If they were hit by one shot, it would be like being stabbed by a knife without any protection. Some people could even be cut in half with their bodies!
Fortunately, the accuracy of these light saber cannons was not high. They could only rely on concentrated firepower to cover the area of their movements. Only the unluckiest cultivators would be hit.
However, if they were hit, they would most likely be killed. The cultivators did not dare to approach the range of the light saber cannons.
Other than these black dots, there was also a mass of black lumps next to them. They looked like tiny black beetles lying on the ground, unmoving. They were about a hundred metres apart from each other. From a bird's eye view, there were about one to two hundred of them.
Li Chengfeng watched curiously while one of the cultivators flew to the highest point, using his All-Seeing Eyes to observe the enemy's position.
At the same time, a few small white dots rose from the opposite camp. Li Chengfeng could tell at a glance that these were the observation balloons from the opposite camp. There must be people on the balloons watching them with a telescope, calculating the situation here.
When Li Chengfeng's main army arrived, the frontline had already been here for a day and night. They had already set up temporary camps at the frontline, surrounding the eastern side of the basin. Behind them, the camps were densely packed like stars in the sky. On the eastern side of the basin controlled by Daqi, a large number of horse barricades were also quickly set up.
Li Chengfeng looked down from above. It looked like a large patch of thorns.
Meanwhile, the encampment on the other side was also arranged around the high ground of the basin. In the basin under their control, giant beasts conscripted by the Dijon Kingdom were dragging magic cannons one after another into the encampment. Apart from these giant beasts that were more than ten meters tall, there were also a large number of soldiers riding on oxen and horses. Like swarms of ants, they quickly dragged one box after another into the encampment.
They were neat and orderly, like a group of worker ants and soldier ants with a strict division of labor.
Both sides gathered here, facing each other across the valley. Both sides had arranged a troop of cavalry on one side of the basin, eyeing the other like tigers watching their prey. The moment the other side showed any signs of chaos or weakness, they would immediately charge towards the other camp.
The vast basin seemed to be filled with a murderous aura. The air seemed to freeze!