Xu Tianzhang listened to Ji Yun's words and ordered the troops to retreat, and the deputy general Huang Qisheng once again carried the internal qi for thousands of miles, and recalled the two pipe bands who led the army to pursue.

So the officers and men of the "Longmen" on the "Pharaoh" boarded Shen Long's Lingyuan ship.

After everyone boarded the ship, Shen Long, the pipe band of the "Lingyuan" and the captain of the Naval Division, knelt on one knee and hugged Xu Tianzhang with his fists:

"Report to the military gate, the last general and General Chen Liansheng led the army to pursue for a long time, but the speed of the foreigner ship is extremely fast, only the last general's 'Ling Yuan' and General Chen's 'Tengfei' can barely look at its shadow, the rest of the ships, are unable to catch up, and the main guns and auxiliary guns of the Tengfei have been damaged, if the enemy is forcibly pursued, the last general is afraid of going deep alone, but will be killed by the enemy, so even if the military gate does not give an order, the last general has the intention of returning. ”

Hearing this, Xu Tianzhang stroked his beard gloomily and said:

"In this way, this time it is thanks to the carelessness of the foreigners who underestimate the enemy, if they retreat early when our army charges, relying on the distance between the guns, pulling and fighting, our army will die early!"

After that, he looked at Ji Yun again:

"General Ji, although the foreigners are temporarily defeated and retreated, they can re-attack the whole army at any time, not like our army's vitality is greatly damaged, and the appropriate general said that the Taishi has a strategy to break the enemy, is this not a joke?"

"The Taishi does have orders, but the sea is dangerous, it is not appropriate to talk for a long time, and go back to the customs first, and then let the last general talk about it in detail. ”

Ji Yun bowed slightly.

Xu Tianzhang had to sigh slightly, and then ordered:

"Each battalion and each guard cleaned up the remnants of the army, counted the soldiers, and the squad returned to the ......"

In the meeting hall of the Longmen Pass Fort Barracks.

"Open the military gate, the battalions have been counted, and our army is stationed in the Guangdong Water Division of Longmen Pass, except for the 26,288 green battalion soldiers who have not yet gone into battle. Among them, there were 266 warships, 169 including the main force "Weiguang" were damaged, and only 97 remained; 28,499 sailors were brave, and 18,247 officers and men, including General Cao Wenxiang, the commander of the "Weiguang," were killed, and 10,252 remained! In addition, our troops sank about 60 enemy ships, including four large flagships and main ships!

Xu Tianzhang, who was sitting in the handsome case, listened to the report of the sergeant in the hall, the tiger body shook slightly, his expression showed a trace of pain, and he slowly closed his eyes and said:

"Got it, go down. ”

Immediately, he shook off his emotions, and asked Ji Yun, who was sitting at the top of the left side of the case, with a solemn face:

"General Ji, forgive the governor for raising the account before entertaining the general, but the general also saw it with his own eyes. The battle in front of the pass was extremely tragic, and now the situation is critical and even urgent, so we should give priority to state affairs; according to the measure of this governor, with the strength of the ships of our naval division, and the well-trained soldiers, the foreigners will not be able to defeat them.

Therefore, when I heard that the foreigners had pressed the front, in order to prevent the Yi army from persecuting the subjects of our islands, I led the army to take the initiative to attack them, but I never thought that the strength of its naval guns and the huge gap in firepower between the two armies caused our army to be almost destroyed!

Guangdong is an important town in the South Seas, and the Longmenguan Fort is the gateway to the South China Sea.

Before, I thought that with the deep wall of Longmen Pass, the high shore of the city, even if the defenders and garrison artillery were not as well prepared as the East China Sea and the North Sea, but it was not something that foreigners could break through, but now that I saw the long range and great power of the foreigners' naval guns, the governor was anxious.

Thinking that the enemy's artillery was far away, and the enemy could not be detected, the enemy's artillery fire had already hit the face, so even if the Longmen Pass city wall was high and deep, it could only be blindly beaten, so that the Longmen Pass would eventually be broken by the foreigners.

Since General Ji was ordered by the Taishi to convey the plan to break the enemy. Then please also ask the general to quickly inform us of the good strategy, so as to solve our worries and save the urgency of Longmen Pass!"

Ji Yun glanced at the anxious generals in the hall, and no longer shy away, and said bluntly:

"Can the military gate know the immortal spirit vein?"

Xu Tianzhang nodded:

"This is nature, the immortal Xuan spiritual vein is well known, and it is one of the real people who protected the country in my former Ming Dynasty - Feng Xun Zhenren Feng Xian was tired of dispersing his whole body before sitting down, and gave his true qi to the spiritual vein of Shandong Yuhuang Mountain, which is the first spiritual vein of the Heavenly Dynasty!

The Jade Emperor Mountain, where the Immortal Xuan Spirit Vein is located, has been completely turned into an Immortal Xuan Spirit Mine today.

The coastal defense walls and the coastal Great Wall of the provinces facing the Beihai and East China Seas are all built by the Xuanjing stone produced by the Xianxuanling Mine. This kind of Xuanjing city wall, whether it is a spear and axe splitting, or shelling and blasting, can not hurt it in the slightest, and even a trace can not be left, and the cannon body and ammunition of the golden dragon cannon of my Chaoshenji battalion are also made of the best in the Xuanjing Immortal Stone.

One of the reasons why our coastal defense is the weakest in the South China Sea is because the Longmen Pass Wall is not built of Xuanjing, but what does this have to do with how to retreat from the enemy? If the general wants to say that he is using Xuanjing to build a Xuanjing Pass Wall now, it will be too late at all. ”

"Then the military gate can know the shallow edge hole?"

"I know, it's the place where I sat down with another real person who protected the country, Jiang Mo, a real person from Xiyin, and his cave was in the local Guangzhou Mansion. General Ji's questions are all common sense, and please don't sell the general, what is the mystery of this?"

Ji Yun continued:

"The military gate knows the two real people, and they must also know that Zhang Hongyi Zhang Taishi, a scholar of the first rank of the dynasty and the first assistant of Wenyuan Pavilion, was the governor of the five armies when he was young, and the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the Celestial Dynasty, and went to the battlefield to resist the foreigners with one of the two real people, Jiang Mo, a real person in Xiyin. ”

Xu Tianzhang's heart suddenly sank when he heard this, and he immediately remembered some legends about Zhang Hongyi, the imperial master of the dynasty, and these anecdotes all happened when he was not yet born.

It is rumored that sixty years ago, when the Divine Sun Yao Empire invaded for the second time, one of the two real people of the Celestial Empire, Feng Hyun Zhenren, had already sat down (died at the age of one hundred and seventy-six), and at this time, only one real person was alive, and at that time, the Immortal Xuan Spirit Vein was in its infancy, and it had not yet produced Xuanjing Stone, and the Holy Sun Empire already had a variety of new ship cannons at that time, but the Celestial Empire still only had swords and old-fashioned firearms that could shoot a single shot and the Hongyi cannon with little power.

At that time, it was the most dangerous year in the history of the Celestial Empire, and the so-called troubled times produced heroes, and the fire saw real gold.

It was at that time that Zhang Taishi was born, and Zhang Hongyi topped the Chinese subject at the age of 22. At the age of twenty-four, he was the second champion of civil and military affairs in the history of the Celestial Dynasty after Zheng Guan.

When the so-called second "trade war" broke out among the foreigners, Zhang Hongyi, who was the governor of Zhili at the time, was only twenty-five years old, when the army of the Celestial Empire was losing and retreating, when the foreigners were about to attack the capital, Zhang Hongyi stepped forward and bravely recruited troops into the king of Jingqin, using the familiarity with the mountains and rivers around Zhili to win more with less.

As soon as Zhang Hongyi took office, he won successive battles and was awarded one after another, and finally led the governor of the Fifth Army and the marshal of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Hongyi, who was born in Wu Zhuangyuan and has a deep cultivation, knows the way of generals, and Xiaosheng did not dazzle him in the early days.

He knows that foreigners are powerful, he doesn't care about temporary victory or defeat, he doesn't want to be brave, he knows that if he wants to achieve the final victory, it will be difficult to achieve it only by personal force and the wisdom of the generals.

In order to support the general of the building, he widely promulgated, created a Hong Wutang, recruited talents, and founded the Beiyang Naval Division, he tried his best to defeat countless internal and external enemies, great foreign affairs, extensive construction of railways, large new factories and the introduction of a variety of new technology, the appointment of capable people from all over the world. After taking the risk of raising taxes and fighting hard, he finally led his army to cooperate with Jiang Mo Zhenren's incomparable immortal skills to defeat the invincible imperial army, so that the foreigners did not dare to attack for nearly sixty years.

After the success, Zhang Hongyi gave up all military power very shrewdly, handed over all the army to the emperor of the previous dynasty, and retired to civilian work, studying and studying. When the first emperor was dying, he said that Zhang Hongyi was the person who recreated Xuanhuang, and entrusted Zhang Hongyi to be alone, so Zhang Hongyi became the first assistant of the cabinet, ranked as the third duke, and as the emperor of the dynasty, he was in charge of Qiankun again.

That is, in the 60 years that the foreigners did not invade, the industry, manufacturing, and gun-making skills of the Celestial Empire made great progress. And built the Xuanjing Great Wall along the coast of the absolute defense, supplemented by the Xuanwu cannon, the golden dragon cannon of the Shenji battalion to resist the enemy, so that the Celestial Empire is impregnable, the military strength ranks among the top in the world, and consolidates the status of the world power, so Zhang Hongyi and his people simply represent an era.

It is precisely because of his legendary life that the new emperor Zhu Shijing sat back and watched Zhang Hongyi dominate the dynasty for decades, allowing him to monopolize power, even if he was unhappy in his heart, he did not dare to touch him.

To this day, Zhang Taishi is 84 years old, and although he is still quick in thinking and has deep internal strength, he has no choice but to die one after another in his henchmen, his subordinates, and his cronies......

Legend has it that Jiang Mo and Zhang Hongyi have a very close personal relationship, and there are even rumors that Xiyin Zhenren is simply favored and devoted to Zhang Hongyi, but Zhang Hongyi when he was young only knew how to make meritorious contributions and was dedicated to supporting the Heavenly Empire, and the only confidant Hongye died on the battlefield.

Xu Tianzhang thought about it for a while, and then he understood the key to the method of resisting the enemy, since the immortal Xuan spirit vein left by Fengyun Zhenren protected the two rivers and mountains of the North Sea and the East China Sea, could it be that the method of retreating from the enemy in Longmen Pass was on Jiang Mo Zhenren, who was an old friend of Taishi Zhang and had already sat down? So he hurriedly asked:

"The way to break the enemy can be in the shallow edge cave of the Xiyin real person?"

Ji Yun nodded:

"Exactly, Taishi once said that before Xiyin Zhenren sat down, he also wanted to dissipate his cultivation. The reason why the true qi is sealed in the spiritual vein to protect the rivers and mountains is that it has not been implemented, is that Zhang Taishi said to the real person that there is a fairy and mysterious spiritual vein of the real person, which is enough in a hundred years, and Zhang Taishi is afraid that the descendants will be too sheltered by too much, and they only know how to gnaw on the old book and not seek development, so they dissuade the real person.

On the other hand, he also wanted to preserve the integrity of Xiyin's true cultivation, so that he could pass away peacefully. But I never thought that Xiyin had lost contact for a long time before he was about to sit down, and it was only after he sat down that Taishi Zhang received a letter with his last words, which explained that Xiyin was a real person, and she still sealed her true qi in a treasure.

She knew that Zhang Hongyi cared about her family and country and treated her in the future, so she could send someone to find this treasure to retreat from the enemy. Now that the country of Yi is coming, although the Taishi is reluctant, there is no other way, so the general will come to ask for treasures. ”

"I see! Isn't this treasure in the Shallow Edge Cave?" Xu Tianzhang suddenly realized.

Ji Yun nodded again.

"It's really a great blessing for me to be able to get two real people to give everything they have and selflessly protect them! So I sent someone to take General Ji to the Qianyuan Cave, and asked General Ji to try to ask for treasures!"

The reason why Xu Tianzhang said that the two real people are selfless is because the few real people who have appeared throughout the ages and are about to sit down will mostly cultivate their bodies into several Bao Dan and pass them on to future generations, and the descendants will absorb the true qi in Bao Dan, even if they can't break through to real people, they can prolong their lives and increase their skills.

Jiang Mo also wanted to turn his true qi into a treasure pill and hand it over to Zhang Hongyi, so that Zhang Hongyi could increase his lifespan, and even have the opportunity to directly break through the real person, so that he could live for another hundred years and maintain his youthful appearance, but Jiang Mo's wish was rejected by Zhang Hongyi.

It's not that Zhang Hongyi doesn't want to prolong his life, he also wants to be a real person even more, not just for the boundless power of mana. He knew that even if he broke through to the real person, he would still not be able to help the Celestial Empire dominate at home and abroad with the power of one person.

Zhang Hongyi is in order to continue to lead the Celestial Empire to fight against the great powers as long as he can live for a longer period of time, relying on his own strategy and operation to gradually surpass other countries, in a sense, he is also like Pope St. Paul II, thinking of unifying every piece of the world under the firmament, if the Celestial Empire is strong enough, Zhang Hongyi will never be satisfied with only protecting the territory and defending the land like Emperor George and Emperor Zhu Shijing.

The reason why Zhang Hongyi rejected Jiang Mo was only because his self-esteem was at fault, even if Jiang Mo was a powerful real person, but in his eyes, Jiang Mo was also a woman as weak as water, born in a hierarchical patriarchal empire like the Celestial Empire, no matter how much he developed foreign affairs, he still had some machismo in his chest, so he didn't want to rely on a woman's sacrifice to achieve his great cause.

He would rather this pure cultivation stay in Jiang Mo's body, so that at least she could live a little longer.

And although Jiang Mo is a lonely person, Feng Hyun Zhenren is full of children and grandchildren, and he once founded a sect, but Feng Hyun Zhenren still turns his cultivation into a spiritual vein, which shows that he has really done his best for the Celestial Empire, and he has done his best, and he has died.

"Okay, so I'll go to the shallow edge of the cave, during this period, if the foreigners come to attack, please don't engage in the battle, just shell in the pass, I will return in half a day, I think even if the foreigners are artillery, it should not be able to break through the pass in half a day. This is also thanks to the soldiers of the military gate and the sailor division to attack the enemy in advance, fight hard and bloodily, and ask the military gate to send someone to take me to the shallow edge cave. ”

"Well, Shen Long, you let him go, you have a meritorious role in destroying the foreigner's flagship this time, I see it in my eyes, and when you and General Ji return, I will set up a banquet and celebrate your success. ”

Shen Long, the pipe band of the "Lingyuan", said with some reluctance:

"Military Gate, our department is the main force of the naval division, and we should stay to guard the pass, how can we leave lightly? ”

Xu Tianzhang's already depressed mood became even worse when he heard this, and immediately said angrily:

"Pocai! Let you go with General Ji alone, and don't let you carry the ships of the naval division! Can't you lead the army without being in the governor? What's more, you and General Ji will return in half a day, and you can't hold on to the governor for half a day? What the governor says is a military order, and you just have to carry it out, and you dare to disagree!"

"The last general will not dare, the last general will obey the order!" Shen Longcheng said in fear.

Xu Tianzhang glared at Shen Long, who didn't dare to say anything more, and then looked at Ji Yundao:

"General Ji, generals, go ahead, the governor is tired, and the governor is willing to stay alone for a while. ”

"Okay, military gate, the last general will retire"

"I'll retire—"

Watching the generals leave the hall, Xu Tianzhang, who had been suppressed for a long time and was in his liver and spleen, finally couldn't help but burst out at this moment, he slammed his fists on the handsome case, and bowed his head on the case and wept. Thinking of the casualties reported by Sergeant Shicai, and thinking of General Cao Wenxiang, who was still with him yesterday and a fellow villager, he was in tears for a while, and he was overwhelmed with grief.

Eighteen thousand two hundred and forty-seven people, this is not just a number, this is the pillar of more than 10,000 families, the husband, son, father of more than 10,000 families...... How should he explain to their fathers and fellow villagers? What kind of face should he have to continue to command the rest of the soldiers to fight bravely? As soon as he thought of this, Xu Tianzhang's liver and intestines were broken, and his heart wept blood! I thought that he had led his troops for many years and had suffered such a big setback, and this battle was really humiliating and tragic!