Chapter 517: Chapter 242: Peak of Fifth Grade, The Unity of Five Elements and Yin Yang! (Vote for Monthly Ticket)
In the Black Lao Mountain Camp, the Earth Star 3rd Corps had already assembled seven or eight large battle formations, preparing to support the direction of the 9th Corps.
As for why they were in such a hurry, it was naturally because they received news from the 9th Corps.
The Blue Star Second Army Group launched a massive invasion with a blitzkrieg!
Upon receiving the news, the Earth Star 3rd Corps quickly assembled their formations, intending to go support them.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Blue Star dispatched troops to intercept them.
As Wang Beiwang led his army across the 38th Parallel, entering the area of Black Lao Mountain.
Instantly, the two armies gazed at each other across several hundred miles.
In the Earth Star Corps, the leading Martial Artist of the Seventh Grade Middle Stage, who is also the commander of the 3rd Corps, Ma Gujuan.
At this moment, Ma Gujuan looked at Wang Beiwang from afar and coldly shouted: "How dare you step into the Heavenly Gate Territory? Aren’t you afraid of never returning?"
Wang Beiwang laughed heartily and said loudly: "You can cross this 38th Parallel, why can’t we from Blue Star? Ma Gujuan, today is the day you die!"
"A mere thirty thousand men dare to speak such bold words."
Ma Gujuan snorted coldly, with a trace of disdain flashing across his face.
Although the number of Blue Star’s martial artists was about the same as theirs, to Ma Gujuan, unless Blue Star had more than three times the numbers, they were nothing.
Earth Star can easily destroy them!
Ma Gujuan turned to look at the three commanders under his command and said in a deep voice: "First Division, Second Division, you stay behind to eliminate these people and guard the position. Third Division, Independent Brigade, follow me to support the 9th Corps!"
"Yes!"
With Ma Gujuan’s command, the commanders of the First and Second Divisions immediately led their troops forward to confront Wang Beiwang’s army.
While the Third Division and Independent Brigade followed Ma Gujuan to fly towards the rear.
Seeing this scene, Wang Beiwang immediately ordered: "Li Shuai, Commander Tang, you lead the 12th Brigade and 13th Brigade to intercept Ma Gujuan from the side! Remember, do not engage head-on!"
"Yes!"
Li Shuai and Commander Tang immediately stood out.
These two were Wang Beiwang’s two deputy commanders, powerful in the Seventh Grade Middle Stage!
The two deputy commanders took the 12th Brigade and 13th Brigade, two heavily armed brigades, and turned around to pursue Ma Gujuan.
Ma Gujuan was taking a division and an independent brigade.
The so-called independent brigade is similar to Blue Star’s heavily armed brigade, with around five thousand people, it is Earth Star’s elite force.
An Earth Star division plus an independent brigade clearly couldn’t be matched by Blue Star’s mere two heavily armed brigades.
Even adding two Seventh Grade Middle Stage would still be a very dangerous affair.
Therefore Wang Beiwang only commanded them to disrupt and intercept, not to engage head-on.
In the Black Lao Mountain Camp, both sides’ corps suddenly lost more than twenty thousand men.
However, both sides still had twenty thousand remaining, confronting each other.
In the 23rd Brigade, Zhong Qiang saw Wang Beiwang’s deployment and couldn’t help but secretly sigh: "This Commander Wang really doesn’t take our 23rd Brigade seriously."
Why did Wang Beiwang let the 12th and 13th Brigades intercept, rather than their 23rd Brigade?
Isn’t it because the 23rd Brigade was made up of remnants, and their combat strength was unclear.
Intercepting the enemy’s main commander is too important for the 23rd Brigade to have the qualifications.
Therefore, they could only stay beside the 108th Division, playing a supporting role.
Zhang Yuandong also sighed inwardly: "There’s no way around it, we are remnants."
Actually, many in the 23rd Brigade were aware, but with the battle imminent, even if they felt aggrieved, they could only swallow it down.
But what no one knew was.
The main reason Wang Beiwang didn’t assign the 23rd Brigade to intercept was because he thought Xu Zhou’s realm was too low.
Such a dangerous task obviously couldn’t be assigned to a commander who was only at the fifth-grade.
Wang Beiwang looked at Xu Zhou and said in a deep voice: "Major General Xu, are you confident in controlling this formation of eight thousand men? If you feel strained, you can give me some people, I can manage up to four thousand more!"
Xu Zhou shook his head: "Thank you for your kind offer, Commander Wang, but I can fully control these eight thousand men."
Wang Beiwang frowned slightly, feeling that Xu Zhou was somewhat wasting forces.
His kind offer to take four thousand men from Xu Zhou was actually refused.
But with the enemy right in front, Wang Beiwang didn’t say much, and immediately said: "Then later you enter from the side of Black Lao Mountain to prevent enemy forces from bypassing and launching a surprise attack, avoiding our forces from being caught in a pincer attack."
"Very well." Xu Zhou nodded.
As Wang Beiwang withdrew his gaze, Zhong Qiang couldn’t help but mutter: "This Commander Wang really looks down on us!"
"Trying to take our forces is one thing, now sending us to the flank, where the terrain on the side of Black Lao Mountain is extremely hazardous, no one is going to go that way, now we can hardly kill any enemies."
Not only him, Zhang Yuandong also felt indignant, feeling his unit was targeted.
Xu Zhou waved his hand, saying: "There’s no need for such, Commander Wang is also considering from the big picture."
Precisely because the side of Black Lao Mountain has hazardous terrain, it is also the safest and most suited for picking off stragglers.
If really a small enemy force launches a surprise from the flank, then the 23rd Brigade would profit greatly.
Clearly Wang Beiwang felt Xu Zhou’s realm was too low, thus made this decision to assign them to the flank.
But for the various elite units of the 23rd Brigade, they didn’t think so.
They came to kill the enemy, but ended up being placed in such a place, what’s the point?
"Let’s move." Xu Zhou had an optimistic mindset: "There might be a possibility the enemy thinks the same, then wouldn’t we gain a great advantage?"
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Very quickly, the 23rd Brigade arrived in the direction of Black Lao Mountain’s flank.
The terrain here was extremely hazardous, with dense mists obscuring the sky, bizarre peaks standing tall, and even soaring ten thousand meters couldn’t easily find the way.