Chapter 1844 - 590: The Army Presses In, Qingxun Divine Crossbow and Power Growth (3)

Chapter 1844: Chapter 590: The Army Presses In, Qingxun Divine Crossbow and Power Growth (3)

A single Qingxun Divine Crossbow alone requires 500, twenty of them means 20,000 men—twenty thousand Soldiers at Cold Resistance Level with strength above 20 zhang. If it were half a year ago, the Xia Army really wouldn’t have been able to produce that.

"All thanks to the batch of Dan Medicine the Lord let me bring back to Xia City. Starting from April, the Alchemy Pavilion has been rolling out new types of Dan Medicine one after another, even we Xianyang Level cultivators have all kinds to use. Only because of this did the Soldiers, including us, have our cultivation shoot up."

Thinking back to half a year ago, to that batch of supplies the Lord entrusted him to bring back to Xia City, Qiu Peng’s face was full of emotion at this moment. In fact, he’d had a hunch back then that this batch of supplies would bring a huge change to Great Xia, but looking back now, how could it be merely huge—this change was downright earth-shaking.

"In the past half year, quite a few people have broken through to Xianyang Level, but Xianyang Level with strength above 10 jun are still hard to find. Even with Shangguan Yang, Qin He, Qin Shan and the other Northern Five Towns’ surrendered generals filling the slots, it’s still not enough—we have to step up as well."

Hearing Yuan Cheng’s words, Xia Chuan’s brows knitted slightly, but quickly relaxed again. He waved his hand and said, "It’s no big deal. The Qingxun Divine Crossbows came to us all of a sudden to begin with. After all, they’re Divine Artifacts that can threaten the Tribulation Body Realm. As long as we can get them to function normally, that’s good enough!"

A single Qingxun Divine Crossbow requires two Xianyang Level cultivators with strength above 10 jun to drive it. Twenty of them needs 40.

Up to now, Great Xia does have a decent number of Xianyang Levels, but those with strength above 10 jun really aren’t many. If they hadn’t accepted a batch of surrendered Xianyang Levels from the Northern Five Towns at the start of the year, they wouldn’t have been able to muster them at all.

"The Yang Family has been completely slaughtered. From Beishuo we only took in Huang Yuhe, one Xianyang Level, but Jin Mountain has five, Wuchuan has six, and counting the father and son Li Yangtian from Dragon Valley, that makes fourteen in total.

Over the past half year, another 16 people have broken through one after another in Xia City. The current number of Xianyang Levels in our Great Xia has already exceeded 80. In the past few months, the Harvesting Department has been delivering good news again and again. On the eastern side within Moao Mountain, they found six Heavenly Yang Branches in total and brought back more than a hundred Heavenly Yang Fruits, all of which have been refined into Sun-Rising Pills one after another. Cheng Feng successfully duplicated the Yang Breaking Pill last month. In the second half of the year, there should be another batch of breakthroughs. It’s estimated we’ll be able to push past 100, maybe even more..."

Yet this number is still not enough—far from enough!

After doing some calculations in his heart, Xia Chuan still shook his head.

Each of the Four Vassals along Moao River, taken individually, has over a thousand Xianyang Levels. Even if Great Xia breaks past 100, it’s still a huge gap.

"Compared to the Feudal Towns, my Great Xia’s foundation is not just a little inferior. We barely have the qualifications to speak with the Feudal Towns as equals, and the core reason is still Big Brother. Last year’s three battles at Cai Qiu were all victories: first, Cai Qiu’s carelessness; second, the geographical advantage of Bone-Eroding Path; third, Chen Cang’s help pinning the enemy on the western front; and finally, Big Brother turning the tide. Not one of those four could have been missing..."

Today is different!

Xia Chuan drew a slight breath. By rights, facing these hundred thousand troops of Chen Cang today, not only does he have a threefold advantage in numbers; he also has twenty newly developed Qingxun Divine Crossbows; and on top of that, East River City is a city personally supervised by Great Xia’s own construction. They’d already left their little tricks in the city walls long ago.

At this moment, with heaven’s timing, terrain, and human factors all in their favor, Great Xia occupies them all. Factoring in the bribery of Chu Tianhe and the four Generals under his command, they’ve considered the battlefield inside and out. Great Xia clearly has no reason to lose.

Yet inside, he still felt a little tense.

There is only one reason: Big Brother isn’t here!

Xia Hong has left Great Xia before. The most recent time was those three years at Moao River. The problem is that in those three years, Great Xia never directly faced a powerful opponent like Chen Cang.

Moreover, before Xia Hong left, he left the Holy Tripod and the Cold Beast Stake behind and arranged every aspect of Xia City properly.

This time is different. Big Brother vanished suddenly, and he even took the Holy Tripod and the Cold Beast Stake with him, without leaving any message.

In other words, this is truly his first time in the full sense of the word, holding command of the Camp to solve an external crisis, and the opponent he faces is an enemy as formidable as Chen Cang.

It’s only natural that he’d feel a bit nervous.

"Ever since I, this Prefectural Governor, set foot in the Southern Slope Territory, I’ve often heard people say that the Xia people uphold propriety and are harsh on themselves, acting bright and aboveboard. Yet Lord Xia Hong launches war today without prior declaration—such petty conduct, Chu holds in utter contempt. When even the Lord of Great Xia behaves thus, the Xia people can’t be any better. Clearly, rumors are not to be trusted!"

Just as a faint anxiety rose within Xia Chuan, a cold laugh suddenly came from above his head. He immediately gathered up the tangled thoughts in his heart, raised his head to look upward, and his gaze turned razor-sharp.

Chu Tianhe had arrived!

And he’d brought five people along with him.

Coming in advance to probe the Xia Army’s reality—this man, as expected, just couldn’t sit still.