North of Mingdu and south of Qianshan.
This place is called the Forest of Thousand Mountains. Since ancient times, it has been a barrier between Shuzhong and Nanzhao.
This forest of thousands of mountains, like Jiange on the eastern border of Shu, is a place that military strategists must fight for.
If you want to go north from Nanzhao, you must pass through this forest of thousands of mountains.
Apart from these thousands of mountains and forests, the area between ancient Nanzhao and Shu is full of dangerous peaks that reach the sky.
Logically, these dangerous peaks cannot stop practitioners, but there are formations set up on the dangerous peaks, and they have been strengthened from generation to generation, for a full two thousand years.
The entire border only has the Thousand Mountains and Forests as a peacetime passage. There are no fixed formations, but only temporary ones.
The temporarily constructed formation was weaker than the other formations, and naturally became the place where the practitioners on both sides were in a stalemate in attack and defense.
To the north of the Thousand Mountains and Forests, countless Shadow Guards, countless Shu troops, and countless ordinary people gathered here.
One temporary formation after another rose up.
Outside, foreign practitioners were organizing attacks on the formation again and again.
The temporary protective formation became the last resort here. Once the formation was broken, more than 100,000 foreigners to the south of the formation would rush in.
The more than 100,000 foreigners outside the formation are all cultivators, all of whom are cultivators above the third level.
Among them, there are more than 800 fourth-level practitioners.
And within the formation, there are millions of soldiers and armors!
However, among the millions of soldiers, there were only 10,000 Black Armored Shadow Guards, and the army composed of cultivators from Shu was only 8,000. Shushan and its affiliated factions gathered 5,000 cultivators.
Afterwards, 70,000 cultivators from other forces gathered together. However, among these 70,000, 60,000 were below the first level, and more than 10,000 were at the first level, which could be ignored.
Then, there are 10,000 practitioners from the military and 100,000 ordinary soldiers.
Then, the remaining more than 700,000 were all civilians, the young and strong among the civilians.
They have no military training.
Some of them have started practicing, but have not yet had a systematic understanding of practice. They are just at the stage of just starting to practice, and not many of them have even opened the eight meridians.
And some ordinary people simply don't start practicing.
Although the spiritual energy revival plan has been implemented for a long time, it is still too early for the whole nation to practice it.
What's more, universal cultivation is an immature plan and a suppressed plan.
For the normal functioning of society, even if practice is to be open to the entire population, it will take at least decades or even hundreds of years to make the transition.
But the war came too suddenly.
The sudden war made all Chinese people suddenly aware of the existence of spiritual practice.
The top management is at a loss, and the bottom management is also at a loss.
Before this, the top leaders had imagined countless ways to publicize the practice of cultivation to the entire nation, but they had never imagined that this one would become a reality.
At this moment, the foreigners outside the formation are trying their best to conquer the formation.
The formation of the Thousand Mountains Forest flickered violently, and seemed to be on the verge of collapse at any moment.
As for the Chinese practitioners in the formation, some were trying their best to complete the formation, while others were trying their best to repair the three red cannons that were destroyed in the previous battles.
The rest of the practitioners had already gleamed with the red crossbows in their hands, and some were tightly gripping the hilts of their swords, ready at all times.
At the same time, the mortal army calibrated the aiming and preparation of various high-tech weapons.
Although we know that these ammunition and weapons have no lethality to practitioners, sometimes direct killing is not necessary.
For example, when enemy practitioners are fighting, firing a cannon at a cliff can, after careful calculation, cause the rubble on the cliff to fall towards the enemy practitioners.
Then, you can provide assistance to your own practitioners.
This is the only role of the mortal army.
As for the civilians...
Although the Grand Secretary had signed an order early on that all the people must fight, every inch of land and blood must be shed, and those who choose to fight must die for their country, and none of the land must be given up.
However, with the fall of various border defenses in China, the Grand Secretary has once again ordered civilians to move inland to avoid useless sacrifices.
But the Chinese people are attached to their land.
The Chinese, no matter what, are all full of passion.
Protecting our homeland is something that is engraved in the soul of every Chinese.
Therefore, even if you know you are powerless, you will still try your best.
Just like Kuafu chasing the sun, just like Jingwei filling the sea, just like Yugong moving the mountains, just like Xingtian dancing with the Ganqi, the fierce ambition is always there!
This is the reason why more than 700,000 people stayed, and this is also the reason why countless men, women, and children are busy setting some ridiculous traps in the mountains.
Everyone is busy.
The formation is becoming weaker and weaker.
The light of a formation suddenly shattered, and the foreigners outside rushed over excitedly.
At the same time, dozens of Xuanjia warriors rushed out of the formation without hesitation, blocking the foreigners outside the formation, while the people from the research institute quickly repaired the formation.
The moment the formation was completely repaired, Xuanjia, who had rushed out but had not yet died in the battle, had no way to retreat.
They went crazy and took out the spirit stones.
The roar resounded.
But soon, the light of another formation was shattered.
At the same time, the light of several formations was shattered.
Tang Zhen, the commander of the Shadow Guard's Black Armor Division, suddenly shouted angrily, "What are those people at the Research Institute doing? Speed up the maintenance of the formation!"
"Once the formation is broken, all living things will be devastated!"
Tang Jingjing stood beside Tang Zhen: "Grandpa, the Institute has done its best. Mr. Deng even fainted several times. The shadow guards have been forcibly draining his mental strength to keep him awake!"
Tang Zhen's face was silent.
Tang Zhen asked, "Is the red cannon repaired?"
A shadow guard appeared: "...No."
Tang Zhen looked towards the formation in silence.
In the sight, the swirling light of the formation became thinner and thinner, and the light of the formation was riddled with holes.
Countless Shadow Guards in black armor rushed out of the formation, trying to block the enemy's approach and buy time for the Institute to maintain the formation...
But it was too late.
Tang Zhen said softly: "Jing'er, notify the formation team to evacuate immediately, retreat to Hanzhong, and take the red cannon with them. You will retreat with them."
Tang Jing's face was pale. She wanted to stay, but the timidity in her heart prevented her from saying it.
"Hopefully, we can repair the Red Cannon before the enemy reaches Hanzhong."
Muttering, Tang Zhen stood up.
In an instant, all his dejection disappeared, and endless fighting spirit rose up from the void.
At this moment, he is a great general with swords and spears!
At this moment, he is a warrior protecting all people!
Tang Zhen pushed Tang Jing towards the Institute, and at the same time, his mental power spread out: "Shadow Guards, Xuan Armor, prepare for battle!"
"The military will fully cooperate with Xuanjia!"
"As for the rest of the civilians, I urge you to retreat!"
"It's meaningless to let more of you civilians die here. If you can give birth to some cultivators after you withdraw, that will be the way for China to pass on its legacy!"
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