Chapter 53: The Shadow Moon is defeated

In the camp on the front line of Yecheng, at this moment, a large number of Shadow Moon troops are repairing, charging into battle for five or six consecutive days, they are already exhausted, this time the 300,000 army is fierce, but I didn't expect to encounter extremely stubborn resistance, a large number of spirit masters on the other side are indeed fierce to defend the city, and a powerful spirit master is enough to resist dozens of warriors.

If it weren't for their powerful siege machines and powerful archers, they would have been defeated long ago, and now they could only wait for supplies to prepare for the next round of attacks.

A large number of spirit masters under the command of the military advisor had already been taken by Song Yue to Night City to escort supplies, and this time they had to launch the next round of attacks before Yecheng finished supplying.

The huge supply convoy drove out of the Dark Night City under the escort of the mighty army, and more than two hundred disciples sent by the powerful Moon Worship Sect followed and escorted, even if they encountered the raiders who came to destroy again, they were not afraid.

Song Yue had suffered a big loss before, but fortunately, he caught Jiang Heng and was exempted from the death penalty, but he was also punished, this time he didn't dare to be careless, and commanded the protective troops in an orderly manner to be cautious, if something went wrong again, he knew that no one was willing to save his life.

The amount of grain and grass was huge, and it was impossible to take the remote road or delay, so it could only choose to march during the day, and it was difficult to resist the surprise attack at night.

Lin Zixu was fully prepared this time, and he had already filmed the investigation of the exit of Scout Dark Night City and reported it to him in time.

This time, they had prepared a powerful arcane talisman, which, once detonated, would be enough to blow the banks of the Tianping River apart, and the flood would be large enough to cut off supplies.

The grain and grass army led by Song Yue was extremely fast, he didn't dare to delay the fighter, and many spirit masters under his leadership went back and forth to investigate the surroundings to avoid being destroyed again.

Along the way, they marched unhindered, and soon came to the road near the bank of the Tianping River, which was not suitable for ambushes, and they did not hesitate in the slightest, marching as usual.

The scouts in the distance grasped their movements at any time, Lin Zixu and his party hid on the bank of the river, and Lin Zixu observed their actions from a distance, appearing calm.

"Senior Brother Lin, it's almost over, they've entered the lowest place, and as soon as the flood goes down, they'll become water rats," Zhao Tianhu said.

"Let the Spirit Array Master prepare to launch the Trap Formation, I will let them suffer heavy casualties and avenge the senior brother", Lin Zixu commanded.

Under the cover of others, the ambushed spirit array master suddenly urged several trapped formations, and for a while, the glory was everywhere, and the army of grain and grass was in chaos.

"Hold steady, give me stability, other spirit masters began to take precautions, someone raided", Song Yue shouted.

Many other spirit masters investigated around, and at this moment, Lin Zixu and the others instantly detonated many arcane runes, and the huge explosion overturned the soil and rocks on the river bank, and for a while, the soil splashed, and a huge river water gushed out from the Tianping River.

Just when many spirit masters joined forces to fight against the spirit array, the monstrous water rolled in and flooded wildly along the low-lying road, and many warriors, military horses, grain and grass were all swept away by the torrent, and only those powerful spirit masters resisted slightly, and ordinary people were difficult to resist.

Song Yue led several powerful spirit masters to fly over, they found the troublemakers, several of them had reached the Heavenly Vein Realm and were barely able to fly for a short time, they crossed the monstrous torrent and killed them.

The other armies and supplies were all buried in the torrent, and Song Yue had no power to return to the sky, so he could only desperately break through and get a glimmer of life.

Lin Zixu looked at the few people flying in and said contemptuously: "The leader is left to me, and the others are all killed."

The double knives behind Lin Zixu were out of his body in an instant, Lin Zixu's body was as fast as lightning, and the two of them fought together in an instant, although his strength was not as good as that of the senior brother, but he had a fast sword that was unparalleled in several lifetimes.

Song Yue has been fighting for many years, but he is also rich in experience, and he has not been defeated quickly, he is extremely angry at the moment, and many failures have caused him to be punished, and now there is no way to retreat, "Bastards, you all go to die, come to death again and again, last time your leader was killed by us, this time you came to die?"

"Today may be different, you can atone for our dead senior brother", Lin Zi's eyes were empty, his hands were as fast as thunder, and his swordsmanship was strange and terrifying.

Song Yue felt the great danger, and broke out a few powerful hurricanes to get rid of its attack, "Wind and Thunder Fury", Song Yue's hands were sealed with a strong angry wind spirit frantically towards Lin Zixu, for a while, the wind was howling, thunder and lightning were roaring, and the power was huge, Song Yue made a move to the hole cards, and he knew that if he wanted to break through, he could only quickly defeat the strongest opponent in front of him.

"Good spiritual skills, it's a pity that it fell into the hands of a mediocre person like you, it's just a tyrannical thing", Lin Zixu was not afraid.

"Vientiane Heavenly Death Sword, Ten Thousand Swords Punish Evil", his double swords transformed into thousands of thousands, rolling up countless terrifying sword qi, and killed towards the Spirit of the Angry Wind, and the huge power made the others around him dodge and dare not approach.

The spirit of the angry wind was like a god and killed it, wrapped in thunder and lightning, Lin Zixu's thousands of divine swords frantically slashed, and a violent collision broke out between the two, the hurricane and thunder raged wildly, and the killing opportunity was unlimited, and Lin Zixu's swordsmanship was exquisite, and many sword qi slashed countless wind blades and thunder, and his angry wind and thunder could not hurt Lin Zixu at all.

"Being able to hold on until now, you are proud enough, you can die", as the angry wind and thunder dissipated, Song Yue was shocked, and few masters of the same level could catch this move.

Seeing the flying double swords, he could only turn around and run, "I want to go, it's too late", in an instant, Lin Zixuan quickly chased after him, and fought him in close quarters, Song Yue saw that he was unforgiving, his melee ability was weak, and he could only throw out powerful talismans to block.

Lin Zixu's elegant body dodged the huge explosion and continued to chase and kill, and Song Yue had some weird talismans to try to delay.

"Useless move, be targeted by me and accept your fate", Lin Zixu got rid of the control of the Fu Seal and cut through his body protection in an instant, and the thunderous double sword cut off one of his legs, and Song Yue fell to the ground in pain.

"This sword is to avenge the senior brother", Lin Zixu looked indifferently at Song Yue, who was rolling on the ground, and in other directions, Zhao Tianhu and others successfully killed several other disciples of the Moon Worship Sect and surrounded them.

"It's him, it's they who relied on the numerical advantage to trap and kill the senior brother", Zhao Tianhu recognized Song Yue.

"Kill him and avenge the senior brother", the Tianhua Sect disciple shouted.

"Spare my life, I am also instructed by others, it is all the order of the Shadow Moon King, as his subordinate, I can only obey orders, a good man spares his life", Song Yue wailed.

"No one has a sword to avenge the senior brother", Lin Zixu said indifferently.

Everyone else took turns to kill Song Yue with one person and one sword, and since then, the supply of grain and grass for the Shadow Moon King has been completely interrupted, and they have successfully reversed the situation, but seeing the vast torrent raging rapidly, countless farmland and villages have turned into water pools one after another, they also know that this is only killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.

Lin Zixu flew into the air and found that the torrent was spreading very fast, and many areas were slowly flooded, and he said to Zhao Tianhu: "Immediately organize people from the government to come and re-block the torrent, otherwise these places will be seriously affected in the future."

"I'll go find their people", Zhao Tianhu left quickly.

"We went to the surrounding area to inspect and found that the remnants of the Moon Worship Sect were all killed, and we felt that there was no mercy", Lin Zixu led the others to search for the remaining spirit masters.

Soon the news of the annihilation of the grain and grass army spread all over Yecheng and the Shadow Moon army, and the Shadow Moon King and the military advisor were shocked, "Song Yue, this bastard misunderstood me, we will find a way to immediately withdraw the army and temporarily retreat to Night City to hold on, they are bound to have a great increase in morale, and our attack will be a complete failure this time", the Shadow Moon King slapped the table.

"There is no way to retreat, the road has been flooded, we can only desperately break through, otherwise the army of more than 100,000 will be gone," Zhang Tiancheng said.

"Immediately reorganize the army and horses to face the battle, even if they die in battle, it can greatly weaken their strength, and when we return to the Dark City, organize an attack again", the Shadow Moon King was ready to fight.

But at this moment, the morale of the army has long been in turmoil, there is a lack of food, they can only fight hungry, and many people are already panicking.

Zhao Yu, the defender of Yecheng, laughed and said: "God bless my Tianyang Empire, the soldiers, our opportunity for revenge has come, and 200,000 soldiers will go out of the city with me to destroy the Shadow Moon Army in one fell swoop."

Zhao Yu led an army of 200,000 to kill the Shadow Moon camp frantically, seeing the crowded Tianyang army, the morale of the Shadow Moon army was extremely low, and the Shadow Moon King could only fight hard, and the two sides launched a three-day siege battle, the Tianyang Empire occupied the time, place, and people, and the morale was greatly boosted and brave at this moment.

The Shadow Moon army was already exhausted after three or four days of food, and the battle between the two sides was no longer suspenseful, in order to further reduce the losses, Zhao Yu chose to besiege them, as long as there was no military rations, they would kill themselves.

All the horses in the Shadow Moon camp were killed and eaten, the cavalry became infantry, many people couldn't even hold their weapons, and after five days, they were all defeated, and the Tianyang Empire used the least loss to kill the entire army of the Shadow Moon King, and he and a few elite high-ranking people broke through and fled back to Night City to defend.

The news spread throughout the Tianyang Empire, Yecheng cheered all over the city, and many refugees also joined the country's defense, this great victory encouraged the soldiers on all fronts The Tianyang Empire Emperor personally ordered Lin Zixu to commend their actions, and at the same time named Zhao Yu, the defender of Yecheng, as the king, to highlight his merits.

The Tianyang Empire around the camp had captured a large number of military baggage and ordnance, successfully defending the Shadow Moon King's ambitions, and his spring offensive had completely collapsed, and it would have to be delayed for a long time to launch another large-scale attack.

The battle report on the front line soon spread throughout many countries, and the morale of the military and civilians of the Tianxing, Tianheng, and Taiwei countries was greatly boosted, which was the largest military victory of the countries since the Danyang Empire provoked the war, and successfully disintegrated their annexation of the Heavenly Empire.

The Overseer angrily returned to the empire to meet Jiang Bingkun, "Your Majesty, the Shadow Moon King used his troops to brutalize the 300,000 loyal army of the Empire, and the corpses of Yecheng lost his armor in the first battle, he is ashamed of His Majesty's favor, and he should be beheaded according to the laws of the Danyang Empire", Liang Ming said.

Jiang Bingkun took a deep breath on the dragon chair: "Little Yecheng actually lost hundreds of thousands of elite troops one after another, did he grow up as a vegetarian when he returned to Yunhai?

Overseer Liang Ming said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to go out on behalf of Gui Yunhai, and the last general is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses."

Jiang Bingkun stood up and said: "Pass on my holy decree, exempt the Shadow Moon King from the king-level title of Yunhai, and remove him from the position of general, and then he will return to the fiefdom and wait for the fall", Jiang Bingkun was furious.

"Now I officially order the overseer Liang Ming to replace the Shadow Moon King in charge of the general Shuai Yin to continue to attack the Tianyang Empire, considering that the army is weak, the Tianyang Empire must be captured before this year, otherwise it will be dealt with by military law", Jiang Bingkun finally made up his mind to remove the Shadow Moon King, but due to the huge power of their family, they did not attack him for the time being, but only deprived the prince of house arrest in the fiefdom.

Liang Ming was angry now, although he had been in the position of overseer for many years, but he had no actual military power, he had a huge contradiction with the Shadow Moon King over the years, and finally had the opportunity to trample him under his feet.

Liang Ming held the emperor's decree in his hand, and walked into the city lord's mansion of Dark Night City with a large number of guards, and the guards did not dare to stop him, he walked in with a proud face.

"How did our powerful Shadow Moon King get disgraced today, and how did he not know how to salute when he saw the chief?" Liang Ming sneered.

"With a dead mouse in your pocket pretending to be hunting, you won't be proud for a few days, the position of the general relies on real skills, not the next three indiscriminate methods behind the scenes", the Shadow Moon King-for-tat.

"It's so angry, after such a big defeat, your mouth is hard, you better go back to the kennel and face Your Majesty's anger", Liang Ming issued His Majesty's order.

The Shadow Moon King got up and walked out with his military advisor Zhang Tiancheng and a few of his henchmen and generals, no longer paying attention to the arrogant Liang Ming.

"General, you look at Gui Yunhai's deflated appearance, it's really relieving, he has been against you for so many years, and he has suffered it this time", a lieutenant general patted his ass.

"Fight with me, he is still a little tender, if his father is still a little bit of a chance to win, the general will not be able to look down on him at this point", Liang Mingchun was proud, and a large group of subordinates flattered him with all kinds of sycophants.

In the distance, above the clearing, it was the Shadow Moon King and his party, "General, Liang Ming is too deceitful, do you want to find someone to teach him a lesson?" the military advisor said.

"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, this time you will go out to fight the forces, punishment is inevitable, but you remember that Jiang Bingkun will still need me to clean up the mess for him, Liang Ming is only a strong outsider, sooner or later the military power will return to my hands, and now I am just going back to secretly train my new army, and I will definitely give him a big surprise when the time comes", Gui Yunhai secretly planned.

"His Majesty the Emperor doesn't know how to punish you?"

"At most, it's a fine and house arrest, and it's too early to kill me", the Shadow Moon King wasn't worried at all.

"I'll wait for the general to make a comeback again," the advisor said.

"With your support, I am relieved, I will not treat you badly in the future, Liang Ming He thought that my subordinates were so easy to command, he could try? Hahahaha", the Shadow Moon King was confident.

More than half of the army in the Shadow Moon army are veterans of his own Shadow Moon fiefdom, most of these people are controlled by the children of their families, and it is difficult for outsiders to mobilize.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Gui Yunhai has returned to the Shadow Moon Fortress, and now he is cultivating like an idle cloud and a wild crane every day", someone in the court reported.

"Your Majesty, the Shadow Moon King has lost hundreds of thousands of troops this time, and he deserves to be punished for the crime, but the punishment is too light?" The Prime Minister said.

"Although the Shadow Moon King has suffered a defeat, but he has made great contributions to the empire, how can he be beheaded because of a defeat?" said the official who was friendly with the Shadow Moon King.

"I'm just acting according to the laws of the Danyang Empire," the prime minister said.

Many ministers began to discuss, some in favor of severe punishment, and some in favor of lighter punishment.

Jiang Bingkun didn't speak, he quietly listened to their gossip, he carefully observed who was interceding for the Shadow Moon King, and he also wanted to find out the influence of the Shadow Moon King in the court, but to his surprise, even the Tai Lieutenant, who was ranked as the third duke, interceded for him. Jiang Bingkun's brows tightened, he underestimated the influence of the Shadow Moon family.

In the end, he began to say: "Since many ministers have interceded with him, the widow will make an exception to bypass him once, let him stay at home for the time being, and make plans in the future", Jiang Bingkun knew that it was not yet time to eradicate them.

The news quickly reached the ears of the Shadow Moon King: "Congratulations to the general, the Taiwei and other ministers of the court have successfully slept with His Majesty the Emperor and exempted you from other crimes", said the military advisor Zhang Tiancheng.

"As long as I expected, I believe that Jiang Bingkun's Shadow Tiger Assassin Regiment has already entered my fiefdom and closely monitors my every move, you must be careful when you act, you help me secretly find someone who looks similar to me, do a good job of disguise, I will secretly train our new army", Gui Yunhai planned to get rid of the golden cicada.

"I'll do it", and the military advisor left.

The next day, a fake Shadow Moon King appeared in everyone's field of vision, every day like an idle cloud and wild crane doing nothing, eating, drinking and having fun all day long, Jiang Bingkun's Shadow Tiger reported all this, Jiang Bingkun was relieved.

Secretly, the Shadow Moon King has already appeared in a deep mountain in the Shadow Moon fiefdom, where a large number of soldiers are stationed, all of whom are secretly recruited this year, as many as two or three hundred thousand, and the Shadow Moon King takes this opportunity to train the recruits intensely to prepare for the future.

The quagmire of war dragged into the summer, and in addition to Yecheng being blocked, the other three fronts also suffered large and small defeats, which surprised Jiang Bingkun. However, the battle reports obtained all said that the enemy's morale was high, the combat strength was tenacious, and the city could not be defended by relying on dangerous points, and the forced siege of the city these days had long been completely lacking in vigor and entered a stalemate.

Lin Zixu's actions also reached the ears of Yin Qianxi, a disciple of the Divine Sword Valley, and at this moment, Yin Qianxi was leading hundreds of disciples of the Divine Sword Valley to help the Heavenly Star Empire build a defensive front.

"Senior Brother Yin has heard of the great victory of the Tianyang Empire? It is said that Senior Brother Lin Zixu of the Tianhua Sect successfully cut off the logistical supply line of the Shadow Moon army, dealt them a heavy blow, and the 300,000 army of the Shadow Moon was wiped out," someone reported.

"It's really an accident, I didn't expect this Lin Zixu's strength to be so strong, his light was blocked by Senior Brother Jiang Heng before, and now if he doesn't make a sound, he is already a blockbuster", Yin Qianxi was also surprised.

"Yes, I heard that Jiang Heng of Tianhua Sect was surrounded by a vast army in the Shadow Moon Valley and died heroically, although he successfully staged the supply line, but he suffered heavy casualties", someone said.

"Our Divine Sword Valley must not be compared to their Tianhua Sect, we must also work harder, we can't let them underestimate us", Yin Qianxi felt the pressure.

"Yes, we also planned a surprise attack to help the Celestial Star Empire achieve a great victory. Some disciples echoed.

Soon, a surprise attack organized by Yin Qianxi and them successfully intercepted and killed a reinforcement attacking the Celestial Star Empire, helping the Celestial Star Empire win its first big victory and containing the Danyang Empire's brutal attack.

The news soon spread all over the world, and the soldiers of the allied countries were greatly encouraged and their morale was greatly boosted, and soon the four fronts suffered setbacks one after another and stagnated.

Above the court of the Danyang Empire, it was extremely depressing at the moment, and many people did not dare to come out, and the prime minister said: "Now that the four countries of them have boosted their morale with a short-term victory, it will not be long before they fall into despair again, my Danyang Empire's army is invincible, and there is no need to care about small setbacks."

"Your Majesty, don't be careless, I heard that every time our army attacked the city, it was stubbornly opposed by many powerful spirit masters, both the Tianhua Sect and the Divine Sword Valley sent elite disciples to participate in the battle, and our empire received far less help from the spirit masters than them, it's time to propose to the Moon Worship Sect again to send additional manpower," said the soldier squire.

"Yes, the Moon Worship Sect has sucked so many spirit masters from us over the years, and it's time to contribute to us," someone said.

"I've heard that many people have started to worship the gods of the Moon Worship Sect, which is not a good thing for us," the prime minister said.

"This group of old gods, really don't have a good heart, they have been working hard all these years, they have not seen their figures in the war, but they have been stabbing knives in the back, and the widow will make him pay the price sooner or later", Jiang Bingkun thought of Yi Zhouyang's cunning and cunning.

Hubu Shangshu walked forward and said: "Your Majesty, we have entered the summer of green and yellow, our grain and grass continue to be tight, it is necessary to stop the actions of the army, and we must wait for the autumn harvest to fight, otherwise the grain and grass will be unsustainable, and the name of the people will be boring", Tobe Shangshu pleaded.

"How can the movement of the army be stopped when it is said to stop, how demoralizing this is, the soldiers have a cloud: one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion, the shortage of grain and grass is not only our shortage, the other four countries can withstand it, why can't we?", Zai retorted.

"But there are many complaints among the people, and they are blaming the imperial court for its inaction, which may be insulting to the holy name, and since the beginning of the war, the domestic resistance forces are now rioting everywhere, hurting the national body," said Tobe Shosho.

"Those insurgents, we have already sent a large army to suppress them, there is no need to worry, as long as we advance into the autumn and have a sufficient supply of food and grass, we will definitely take the four countries in one fell swoop, and then the war will be over, and it will not be too late to recuperate," the prime minister quibbled.

"You, is your heart made of stone? How can you have such a heart of stone?" said Tobe Shangshu, pointing at the prime minister.

"Your Majesty is in charge, and the Household Department Shangshu relies on the old and sells the old, and does not take His Majesty in his eyes at all," said the prime minister.

"Enough, the widow pays attention, no one can try to dissuade my decision, if it weren't for the fact that you are the patriarch of the Three Dynasties, the widow will definitely punish you for the crime of bullying the king", Jiang Bingkun said to the head of the household.

The prime minister's group immediately looked arrogant, they controlled the government, and over the years, there were fewer and fewer people in the court who dared to stand up and speak.