Castle of Black Iron

“I’ve got a position which needs you to assume it voluntarily!” Ye Qingcheng slowly glanced around as the roars gradually faded away. Nobody lowered their eyes; even Zhang Tie was watching Ye Qingcheng frankly and calmly.

With a dignified and solemn eye light, Ye Qingcheng said, “This position could only be assumed by an earth knight. The earth knight should move 6,000 miles alone. He will face enemies without any relief. He even needs to deepen into the rear of the enemy. It’s very dangerous. The one who takes this position will be the vanguard of the land force, air force and water force. He will be the eye and ear of Taixia Country, the dare-to-die one among knights and the gut of marshal. As long as you take it, you’re forbidden to stop on the halfway. Neither will you be allowed to shirk work or responsibility; otherwise, don’t blame for the merciless military disciplines. Therefore, this marshal doesn’t want to assign anyone by force. Any volunteer?”

After hearing Ye Qingcheng’s words, everybody at present knew that black iron knights couldn’t be able to take this position. The one must be the scout and dare-to-die member among the knights. As the army of demons was arriving in an overwhelming way, the person would definitely highly risk his own life assuming this position in the place where demons and humans broke out the fiercest conflicts.

After hearing Ye Qingcheng’s words, Lu Dingzhi turned solemn; Mountain Lifting Hermit quivered his long eyebrows. They were all making decisions.

Even those dauntless people had to think twice before taking this dangerous and tough task.

When all the other knights in the lobby became silent, Zhang Tie strode one step out as he said calmly, “I…”

Bai Suxian became flurried as she wanted to say something; however, after Zhang Tie threw a solemn glance at her, she swallowed her words back.

Mountain Lifting Hermit raised his long eyebrows as he shot out shrewd eye light. The moment he wanted to say something, he heard Zhang Tie’s words secretly, “Elder brother, Iron-Dragon Sect needs an earth knight. If you and me both die, Iron-Dragon Sect will be collapsed. I will take it; not you!”

After hearing Zhang Tie’s words, Mountain Lifting Hermit became silent.

Elder Muray and Elder Muyu widely opened their mouths with a dumbfounded look as they had not imagined that Zhang Tie could take the most dangerous task.

At this moment, Ye Qingcheng and all the surrounding people moved their eyes onto Zhang Tie at the same time.

At the sight of the man with a teenager’s look, many people’s hearts pounded.

However, Zhang Tie looked as cool as a cucumber.

“Do you wish to be the volunteer?” Ye Qingcheng asked Zhang Tie as his eye light covered Zhang Tie like a sharp blade.

“Yes!” Zhang Tie nodded.

“Who’re you? Tell me your name!”

“Zhang Tie from Youzhou Province, Zhang Mushen…”

“Do you know that joking is not allowed in the army?”

Zhang Tie replied with a smile, “I know. It’s not my first time to attend the army; neither it is my first time to execute such a task.”

“Fine!” Ye Qingcheng threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie before moving his eyes onto the others and asking calmly, “Who else? This marshal needs another 19 volunteers!”

As if they were stimulated by Zhang Tie, soon after Ye Qingcheng’s words, a lot of more earth knights from Northeast Military Region stood out. In a short while, the 20 vacancies had been occupied.

Among the other 19 earth knights, Zhang Tie saw a Zhu elder of Yanzhou provincial governor’s clan, a Mo elder of Mozhou Province, 2 more came from provincial governor’s clans in Northeast Military Region. All the other 15 earth knights were strange to Zhang Tie.

Nangong Sheng the owner of Immortal Fist Position didn’t stand out; Lu Dingzhi’s face changed for a short while as he was a bit hesitated. However, before he made his decision, all the 20 vacancies had been occupied.

“Follow me, I will tell you about your tasks alone…”

Soon after the 20 vacancies were occupied, the “humanoid trumpet” that floated outside the military camp outside Yanzhou City had flown outside as he called the 20 earth knights to leave the lobby after him.

This “humanoid trumpet” was a shadow knight, who was on the equal footing with Guan Qianchong in Black Armor Army. Therefore, none of the 20 earth knights dared put on airs in front of that shadow knight; they just followed the shadow knight away from the lobby…

Before leaving the lobby, Zhang Tie heard Ye Qingcheng’s voice from the lobby…

“Demons are powerful. Through the negotiation between the crown prince and the top three chancellors, Taixia Country will set up a western theater of operations in Peacewest Military Region. Relying on the Military Region, we will build 11 advanced bases in 20,000 miles from Huanzhou Province, Kangzhou Province all the way to Ningzhou Province in the east of Helan Mountain Range and in the south of Weishui River. We will mobilize over 10,000 knights and over 800 corps to punch against demons and shatter them within the territory of Peacewest Military Region completely. The military minister will go to the frontier himself. The top 7 sects of Taixia Country will also organize powerhouses to fight demons in this region. Our current main task is to consolidate this line of defense, prevent the vanguard of demons from further moving towards the east and help commoners and armies in the west of Huaizhou Province to evacuate as soon as possible…”

After hearing Ye Qingcheng’s words, Zhang Tie immediately understood Taixia Country’s layout in the west.

On this occasion, small troops of Taixia Country couldn’t reverse the overall situation anymore; instead, they could only accelerate the failure. Before gathering enough power, the forces of Taixia Country in the west was at a disadvantageous position; they could only increase their forces at the cost of some space, which referred to the territory of Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province…

Although he knew that this was the most correct countermeasure as far and a right judgment that Chen Minggong the Yezhou provincial governor made before death, Zhang Tie’s heart still pounded the moment he realized that tens of billions of commoners had not evacuated from Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province…

Taixia Country didn’t give up the commoners in the three provinces; however, the brutal outcome of strategical decision inevitably fell on tens of billions of commoners in Taixia Country. According to Zhang Tie’s experience, it was already something if Taixia Country could evacuate half of the commoners in this critical moment. What about the other half?