Chapter 6728: Fight and run!

Chapter 6728: Fight and run!
A distance of several miles is not too far on the battlefield, especially for some top cavalry corps, a distance of several miles can be crossed in less than a minute, but for Yan Xing now, this distance is already a very safe distance.

"When can I retire?" Han Chong waved to his centurion while carrying his spear. "Shouldn't I be able to retire at my age?"

"Brother Han, don't even think about it. You are only 57 years old and it will take a few more years before you can retire." The centurion, who was in his forties and looked quite strong, said cheerfully to Han Chong who was complaining in the team.

"Normally, you can retire at the age of 35 if you are not a centurion. Isn't this the national regulation? Why is it not enforced?" Han Chong greeted the younger brothers around him with an expression that asked how this country could have developed to this point.

"You were a centurion when you were thirty-five, and you were still a centurion when you were fifty-five. I thought you gave up the centurion position because you didn't want to do it anymore and wanted to run away." Wang Zhi said helplessly, "Brother Han, you ran away and came back, didn't you? So you blame me?"

Han Chong was helpless when he heard this. "Damn it, Old Cao. I applied to leave, but you didn't allow me to leave. I am really fed up!"

"Brother, you are at the fifth level of smelting, you are not very old. If we really fight, who among the brothers present can beat you?" Wang Zhi looked at Han Chong speechlessly, "When the big incident happened, you ran away with them, and now that it's over, you want to run away. Lao Cao is not a fool. You are just a little old, not without fighting ability. How could he let you run away?"

"It's not humane at all!" Han Chong complained with a dark face, "Look at how humane the Taiwei is. If you want to retire at the age of 50, you can retire. People will only stay if they want to! I have to work until I'm 60. Is this humane? This is tyranny!"

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm already sixty years old and I haven't retired yet!" Another team marching in the rain heard Han Chong's words when they passed by, and an old man in the team directly responded.

"Hey, Brother Li, why are you still here? Didn't you go to get discharged?" Han Chong turned his head and saw Li Jiong, who was as strong as a bull under his bamboo hat and had black and shiny hair. He immediately mocked, "Didn't you retire a long time ago?"

"Retirement for nothing, Cao is such a bad guy. I submitted my application for discharge three months ago, but they said it was an emergency and that my qualities were excellent, so they rejected my application. They said that discharge at my level must be signed by Cao Sikong." Li Jiong was so angry that his head tilted. Damn it, I'm sixty years old and I'm still serving in the army, damn Cao Jili!

"If I take an oath for no reason, wouldn't that be courting death?" Han Chong taunted Li Jiong. To be honest, if he were in charge of discharge, he would not let Li Jiong retire even if he saw him applying for discharge. You are at the sixth level of smelting, what the hell are you doing? You've taken the muscle-building injection, the bone-strengthening injection, and you've eaten what you should eat. Your physical fitness has improved, you've been successfully bound by the oath, and you've regained eternal youth. And you tell me you're sixty years old and want to run away? Where's my capital!

"If I don't take the oath, my combat effectiveness will decline." Li Jiong said with a dark face. He was a standard centurion of the Three Rivers and Five Schools. He had very complete knowledge and did not have those wild ways to know how to continue his combat effectiveness and maintain his youthful posture. Li Jiong completed the oath at the age of 55 to ensure that he would remain at his peak before his death.

Su Zong actually popularized this knowledge to the veterans back then, but on the one hand, the talents of the five lieutenants of the Southern Army were rather evil, and there were not many people who mastered it. On the other hand, the adjustment of the oath constraints was also very troublesome. It was not that you could always maintain your peak just by making an oath to yourself.

The requirement for basic qualities and willpower alone is enough to stifle most of those who want to take a vow and maintain peak combat effectiveness.

However, Li Jiong said that he was from Sanhe Five Schools and was selected by the royal family. Except for his unsatisfactory physical fitness, other things were not a problem. But now there are such heaven-defying things as muscle-building injections and bone-strengthening injections. After taking them and taking them for a year, he found that his basic qualities actually met the requirements. What's the point of talking about that? I'm 25 years old every day from today on!
"Who can be blamed for that? Who the hell could have realized that you are already 25 years old by looking at your current state?" Han Chong mocked, "Your fucking physical fitness and willpower can actually withstand the constraints of the Eternal Oath at the age of . When I was hanging out in the Three Rivers and Five Schools, I never saw anyone really reach this level. Everyone was joking back then, but you actually did it!"

Taking a vow to yourself before you get old to maintain a permanent state is a way for the Three Rivers and Five Schools to maintain their combat effectiveness, but this method is very difficult to get started with because the vow also requires expenditure. Even if there is a way to cheat, taking the vow requires prior physical fitness and willpower.

Generally speaking, for a brother who has reached the fifth level of smelting, the physical fitness and willpower are barely enough. But as far as Han Chong knows, the brother who has reached the fifth level of smelting can use this thing to at most prevent himself from getting older. If he wants to restore his youth and maintain it forever until death, his physical fitness and willpower must continue to improve.

The problem is that smelting this thing takes time. Even among the Three Rivers and Five Schools, the fifth-level smelters are usually in their forties, and are about to pass their peak. In this case, they also have to smelt a vow constraint, and they are basically in their early fifties to finish.

Although this state will be maintained once completed, this special oath constraint adds very little to one's own combat power, resulting in an extra fifth-level smelting of fifty years old. This is of little use, so very few people in the entire Three Rivers and Five Schools take this path.

Those who can leave are all immortals among immortals, but among these immortals, there are not many who can rely on the constraints of the oath to recover to the state of about forty years old. There are even fewer who can recover to their thirties like Su Zong. As for Li Jiong, who is only twenty-five years old, Han Chong has only seen one in his life.

The state of a 25-year-old is much better than that of a 50-year-old. Those seemingly useless special effects alone are enough to replace a talent.

Besides, all the basic physical conditions are maintained at the state of a 25-year-old. Even if the oath constraint suppresses other talents, with Li Jiong's current state, he can slowly grind to the seventh level of smelting. It will take at most 20 years to grind to the seventh level. By then, Li Jiong will still be 25 years old. His explosive power, actual combat, and experience may be second to none among the seventh level.

"Luck, luck." Li Jiong laughed happily. Although Cao Jili was not a good person, his 25-year-old body felt really good. When he was under Le Jin's command, his brothers all felt that they were too old to do it. But now, he was young and strong.

"Why don't you smelt one too?" Li Jiong suggested to Han Chong.

"If I could, do you need me to tell you?" Han Chong sighed and said, "This oath binding thing seems to be very selective. I guess there is no hope."

When saying this, Han Chong's eyes looked towards Li Jiong with obvious envy. There was no way around it, regaining youth was something that was worthy of envy for everyone.

"There are also bad things. I want to retire now, but they won't let me." Li Jiong sighed. Han Chong curled his lips and was about to curse when he suddenly realized something.

"There is a large group of troops attacking us from the front, about 20 miles away." Han Chong suddenly said, "It's large in scale, but the target is very clear, it should be us."

Li Jiong raised his eyebrows when he heard that, and directly assigned one of his centurions to inform Yang Qiu. As a sixth-level smelter, with a small difference in rank, he would enjoy the same treatment as Yang Qiu's group. In other words, he could talk directly to the legion commander.

"Can you tell what team the other team is?" Li Jiong looked at Han Chong and asked?

"No, but with such a large scale, I'm afraid that Ardashir's entire army will be dispatched!" Han Chong said with a green face. Li Jiong's face also became very ugly. He had been beaten by the Holy Death Cavalry before. If his brothers were all there, he would not be afraid. But now, he has to be afraid now.

"That bastard Cao Jili wouldn't use us as bait, would he?" Li Jiong scolded with a dark face, but his voice became much softer. As a professional soldier, Li Jiong knew very well what could be said in the army and what could not be said.

"This is probably the only possibility. What should we do now?" Han Chong looked at Li Jiong and asked.

"You stay here, I'll go find the general." Li Jiong said with a sullen face. He switched from Le Jin to Yan Xing because Yan Xing was safe and he didn't want to show up. In addition, he had a special legion talent so he could survive. But...

When Li Jiong came over to report, Yan Xing had already received intelligence from five special investigators, all of whom were highly skilled in large-scale investigations. This was also the reason why Cao Cao did not allow certain old guys to retire, as this group of people were truly irreplaceable.

Just like Wu Xi in the Iron Cavalry, in terms of combat effectiveness, Wu Xi could be said to be in the top ten of the Iron Cavalry in the past few years, but in the past two years, Wu Xi can't even be in the top ten. There is no way, he is old, and his combat effectiveness has declined. It is considered a good maintenance if he can maintain this level.

But if Zhang Yong hadn't relied on his miracle to develop a special reconnaissance talent, Wu Xi would still be the 100th man of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. In the top legion, combat effectiveness is actually not that important. No matter how strong Zhang Yong is, can he really beat three or four Wu Xi?
But Wu Xi's skill, the reconnaissance radius of more than 50 miles, is very important for the Iron Cavalry. Strength weaknesses do not matter, as there are people who can make up for them. Anyway, the Iron Cavalry has no shortage of capable fighters. But in terms of functionality, as long as Zhang Yong fails to develop a large-scale reconnaissance capability, he can forget about replacing Wu Xi.

The same is true for the special investigation personnel under Yan Xing. They are all investigators from the three rivers and five schools. The youngest is Han Chong, who is fifty-seven years old, and the oldest are almost seventy. Although the smelting layer is very good, a seventy-year-old man will have his head knocked off if he really meets a thirty-year-old guard. Now, at best, he maintains the combat effectiveness of the conventional double talents, and is considered a garbage personnel in the legion.

Just because it's garbage in actual combat doesn't mean it's functional garbage. It can ignore environmental interference and has a detection range of more than 30 miles. This is a radar-level thing. We just need to arrange a team of young people to protect our radar.

To put it bluntly, if Yan Xing's army hadn't formed its own system, this kind of radar would have been taken away by others long ago. You have five radars in your army, which is too many. Give four to your brothers...

This is not a joke; it is the absolute fact. Just look at the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. For a long time, they only had one radar, but now Zhang Yong has made it. They have a surveillance satellite plus a radar. There is no talk of eliminating Wu Xi. Wu Xi is still the eyes of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

"Ardashir will lead the team personally." Li Jiong went straight to the point.

Yan Xing looked at Li Jiong's jet-black hair and felt his vitality. He always felt very strange and kept telling himself that this guy was sixty years old and was his uncle!

"What should we do now?" Cheng Yin looked at Yan Xing and asked, "Retreat directly?"

"I'm afraid not. If it's just one or two teams, we can retreat confidently. But if it's the entire army of Ardashir, even if we rely on our reserve cloud energy to separate shadow soldiers to stop Ardashir, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop the enemy's attack." Yan Xing shook his head and said, "Retreat to the mountain valley we saw before, rely on the terrain and the Wugang truck to hold on, and wait for rescue."

Yan Xing knew very well that they could not retreat. After all, Ardashir's legion was very mobile. Although not as fast as the White Horses, as cavalry, their speed was much faster than that of the infantry. Even if the cavalry was greatly affected by the rain, after the real battle, Ardashir would directly use the clouds to solidify the road and rush over as quickly as possible.

"Li Jiong, you organize the shield guards to cover my rear." Yan Xing said to Li Jiong. Although his legion was not large, it was well equipped with all kinds of countermeasures. After all, they had fought in the Empire War for so many years that even pigs had become wild boars.

"If the opponent is Ardashir, shield guards are useless, at least regular shield guards are useless." Li Jiong said very seriously. He was beaten by Ardashir in the past, and he knew very well that a physical defense corps like shield guards would be of little significance against the killing mad Ardashir.

"Here, mobilize the shield guards in the battle line." General Yan Xing handed the order directly to Li Jiong. "You know more about veterans than I do. You also know better than me what kind of qualities and willpower are needed to deal with Ardashir. Go and organize them. At least mobilize 300 people for me."

Li Jiong took the military order, nodded, and then quickly went forward to mobilize elite shield guards from various units.

Up to now, the Shield Guard Corps has been mixed with ordinary legions. Of course, most of these mixed Shield Guards are first- or second-level Royal Guards, integrated into other legions. Their forged talents will not change, but their steel-like bodies can bring a great sense of security to their teammates.

"Fan Hong, Sun Yu, the two of you hand over to your subordinates and follow me!" Li Jiong rushed into the various tribes and quickly began to recruit. He knew very well which veterans to recruit, and he also knew what qualities were needed if he really wanted to face Ardashir, so Li Jiong directly summoned the right people.

"Brother Li." Fan Hong and Sun Yu are already in their forties and look older than Li Jiong, but they still have to call Li Jiong brother when they see him. After all, it is rumored that Brother Li has achieved great success in martial arts and has become a god, proving that he will always be young!

Of course, this is all nonsense. Most of the elite veterans actually know what Li Jiong is like, but there is no room for replication. This thing requires talent, and it is obvious that Li Jiong is a typical example of a large forest with all kinds of birds.

"Come on, follow me to gather the others." Li Jiong took the two of them and quickly shuttled around the team, and soon gathered three hundred people. These people were all special veterans who were born as shield guards and possessed a talent for will. In terms of strength, there were many veterans stronger than these in the barracks, but for Li Jiong, only these veterans could participate in facing the Holy Death Knights. The other veterans were no different from grass to the Holy Death Knights.

Because he had fought against the Holy Death Cavalry head-on, Li Jiong knew very well that with the outrageous lethality of the Holy Death Cavalry, a legion with insufficient defense would be easily killed by the Holy Death Cavalry in one blow. And to withstand the physical attack of the Holy Death Cavalry, one would need at least 200 shield guards of armor. Of course, this kind of armor could not actually withstand the Holy Death Cavalry, but it was very difficult for the Holy Death Cavalry to break through it, so it could stop the enemy.

But if the Holy Death Knight activates the Miracle Stance, maximizes the attack and defense, and carries the same will damage with normal attacks, then the 200 shield guards are useless, because the fact that armor can withstand it does not mean that human consciousness can withstand it. The old brothers of the Tiger Guard Army, which could only scratch the Holy Death Knight's normal attacks, were also killed in seconds when facing the Holy Death Knight's will piercing. It can be said that the number of deaths in the Tiger Guard Army since its establishment in the past ten years has not been as high as in that one battle. There is no way, armor is armor, and real damage is real damage.

The veteran with shield armor, although he has a willpower talent and cannot withstand the real damage of the Holy Death Knight, at least he will not be killed instantly by the Holy Death Knight with a single blow. With adaptive foundation, as long as he is not killed instantly, he still has a future. If he is killed instantly, he will have nothing.

"All the people have been recruited!" When Li Jiong came to reply, the eight generals of the flag had already commanded their officers to move to another battle, while Yan Xing looked a little dazed, and it seemed that he was remotely controlling the shadow soldiers he created with the Shadow Fen Xuan Xiang.

"Retreat, it's not just Ardashir who's coming, but all the main forces under Ardashir's command!" Yan Xing's face turned pale, such an exaggerated situation made him unable to complain. What the hell, even if I, Yan Xing, have three points of iron, I can't withstand this beating!

"Really all the main forces?" Li Jiong was stunned. Their army alone was fighting against all the main forces of Ardashir? How could they fight? No, whoever went up would die!

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