Chapter Ninety-Eight: Losing Both

Yang Zhiyi is a rising star of the Yang family, whether it is in martial arts cultivation or in military governance, he has made achievements, and has won the recognition of the Yang family's bigwigs.

If you want to make achievements in the imperial court and officialdom, martial arts cultivation is not the only criterion. To put it simply, it's not that the higher your martial arts, the better you will mix. Martial arts are Tao, and official Taoism is also Tao, each with its own rules. The official way pays attention to low-key people, does things calmly, and has to learn to cling to nobles. Yang Zhiyi has Wu Zetian as a backer behind him, he is modest, strict in governing the army, and has a very high prestige in the stroke of Zuo Qiancai, and his people are not lacking in flexibility, seeing that Li Rong's training method is effective, he is not afraid to quote it to train the soldiers of the headquarters, so that the combat effectiveness of Qianqi has grown rapidly, and there are signs of surpassing the flying cavalry in just a few months.

The javelin held by Yang Zhiyi was essentially a short spear, and with a wave of his big hand, the short spear turned into a bolt of lightning, with a strange thunder on the tip of the spear, wrapped around the faintly visible electric wire, and shot through the air towards Li Zhaokun.

At this time, Li Rong seemed to have expected it, his body sank, fell to the bottom of the water, and got out of the way, so that everyone on the dam could shoot with all their might.

"The Yang family's heavenly thunder jin," Li Zhaokun saw that the short spear shot was full of thunder and lightning, and recognized that this was the secret "heavenly thunder jin" of the former Sui Yang clan, "The power of the imperial court is huge, and the number of masters in the snares is not a certain family of the Jianghu sect, and one surname can be compared." ”

There was no time to sigh that there were many masters in the imperial court, Li Zhaokun swung his fist, spit out the fist, and knocked the short spear away.

Next to Yang Zhiyi's short spear was Yu Chi Xiu's serial arrows. Yu Chi's Lianzhu arrow is the sharp weapon of Yu Chi Gong's famous earthquake field, three long arrows are special armor-piercing arrows, the blade is three inches long, made of stainless steel, the arrow is conical, breaking through the air, and finding the sound of whining.

Then there were the short spears, crossbow arrows and long arrows thrown by the soldiers, as many as hundreds of crossbow arrows, as dense as a swarm of bees returning to the nest, and shooting at Li Zhaokun as the target.

Li Zhaokun, with the strength of a seventh-grade grandmaster, did not dare to shake the many fifth-grade and sixth-grade masters to help, and hundreds of well-trained elite soldiers. If the environment is changed, Li Zhaokun can take the form of fighting and defeat each of them. Now that we have a clear goal, and we are fighting on the water, it is not easy to move, and it is really difficult to deal with.

Faced with long arrows and short spears flying like locusts, Li Zhaokun's choice was the same as Li Rong's, his feet moved, and his body sank into the water.

Wei Chi Xiu's series of arrows obviously expected this situation, and the three long arrows targeted Li Zhaokun's head, chest, and abdomen from top to bottom.

Li Zhaokun deserved to be a grandmaster-level master, with a flick of his fingers, three finger winds flicked the long arrow aside, and his body still sank quickly, avoiding many short spears and sharp arrows.

Before Li Rong faced Li Zhaokun, he secretly transmitted the news to Yang Siqiao, Yang Zhiyi and others, planning a triple offensive.

The first heavy was used by Li Rong himself to use the "flowing water" to consume part of Li Zhaokun's true energy, the second was by Yang Sixuan, who gave full play to the characteristics of the "Shadow Sword" with strong defense and lethality, and dealt a blow to Li Zhaokun, and the third heavy was Yang Zhiyi's short spear, and Yu Chi Xiu's continuous arrows were combined with many soldiers' intensive attacks.

The successive triple offensives forced Li Zhaokun to hide in the water to temporarily avoid the edge, which also showed the amazing strength and exquisite cooperation of Li Rong and others.

Just as Li Zhaokun dived his body into the water, Li Rong began to move, kicked his feet back, and his body dived in the water like a swimming fish.

Li Zhaokun's spirit has been tense, paying attention to the movements around him, he will not take Li Rong lightly, and he noticed Li Rong's movements for the first time.

At this time, Li Zhaokun felt very depressed, every move he made since the beginning of the fight seemed to fall into Li Rong's calculations, this was not a failure in the martial arts realm or move martial arts, but a failure in strategy and tactics. Li Rong made precise use of the environment and devised wonderful tactics with manpower, forcing Li Zhaokun, a seventh-grade grandmaster, to suffer many losses and block his progress.

"Flowing water, a thousand tides attack," Li Rong said secretly in his heart, and the dragon sword pushed the water forward one after another in the water.

The layers of dark waves were heavy one after another, containing pure and soft water true qi, constantly impacting Li Zhaokun's body, making him feel that the quality of the water had suddenly increased a lot, and his body seemed to be locked and unable to move. ,

Soft water is made of true weather, which has excellent malleability in the water, and can exert the power of true qi.

Li Rong's timing was quite clever, and the moment Li Zhaokun entered the water, he launched a tidal attack.

"Bang Bang" The water flow containing the true qi continuously hit Li Zhaokun's body, which caught him off guard, and he could only resist Li Rong's knife flow with the true qi of the body. The soft water true qi invaded Li Zhaokun's body through the water flow, shaking Li Zhaokun's meridians slightly, and a trace of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

After using many means, Li Rong finally injured the Seventh Rank Grandmaster Li Zhaokun.

"Seven Stars," Li Zhaokun struck out seven punches like lightning, rolling up the waves of water to counterattack Li Rong's sword qi.

The movements of the two are said to be lightning fast, but in fact, they are not too fast because they are used in the water. Because of the characteristics of soft water true qi and the fact that he had injured Li Zhaokun just now, Li Rong actually caught Li Zhaokun's seven punches hard and did not fall to the downside.

The dark waves pushed by the sword qi intersected with Li Zhaokun's fist waves, and a huge whirlpool was created at the bottom of the water.

With a "bang", Li Rong and Li Zhaokun jumped out of the water at the same time.

"Heroes come out of youth," Li Zhaokun began to look squarely at the seemingly overly young master in front of him, "However, I have promised the Dragon King that I must complete the task." ”

"What a strong boy," Wu Youxu was still watching the entire battlefield in the battle with Li Ruoxue. The battle between Li Rong and Li Zhaokun also fell into his eyes, and the little sixth-grade master even used strategies to block a seventh-grade grandmaster, which was really not simple.

The situation of Li Rong and Li Zhaokun fighting naturally fell into the eyes of the grandmaster-level masters next to him, and they couldn't help but feel admiration or jealousy for Li Rong in their hearts. At least when these people were young, they didn't have such strength and overly flexible minds.

"The qi of the five elements regulates yin and yang, hurts the heart and lungs and destroys the liver and intestines," Li Zhaokun said silently in his heart, running the seven wounded fists, his body seemed to have swelled up, his clothes were stretched tightly, and it seemed that people were much fatter.

"One punch and seven injuries, first hurt yourself and then others, break it for me," Li Zhaokun said in his heart, stepping on his feet, his burly figure was like an elephant in heat running extremely fast on the water, and the big fist of the fight slammed towards Li Rong with a compelling fist wind.

"Fight, seven emotions and qi, eight veins vibrating strings," Li Rongxin said, at this time, he could no longer use his body to dodge the opponent's attack, in the face of the absolute speed and strength of the seven-rank grandmaster, he couldn't dodge at all, he could only connect head-on, and use the secret technique to stimulate his potential, and for a while, the shortness of breath changed, the beating of the heart suddenly accelerated, the qi and blood were boiling, the meridians of the whole body seemed to be about to surface, and the green tendons were exposed, as if covered with a huge net of steel.

"Xiang Xiang crosses the river, angry thunder breaks the sky," Li Rong used his strongest attack, his legs seemed to become a little thicker, and he stepped on the water quickly, shaking the water surface ripples, while his body was as light and abnormal as a flying swallow, the dragon yin knife flashed with gold and white true qi, extending a five-foot-long sword shadow, slashing towards Li Zhaokun, the sword instantly magically changed into a basketball-sized thunderball, with a piercing thunder roar and thundered towards Li Zhaokun's fist.

The "boom" thunderball collided with the fist wind, and a violent explosion was found, which shocked the audience.

Li Rong and Li Zhaokun were shocked by the huge anti-shock force, and they each flew backwards.

"Good guy, you actually repelled the purple-clothed lion king Li Zhaokun," Yuan Xingchong's eyes swept over Li Zhaokun and knew his identity, and the iconic "Seven Wounds Fist" was undoubtedly like a signboard showing Li Zhaokun's identity.

In addition to the battle of the grandmasters on the water, the warships of the snake spirits were also entangled with the warships of the imperial court.

Because of the support of the imperial court soldiers on the shore who constantly fired rockets and strong crossbows, the imperial court's warships were small and did not fall behind.

Seeing this, the sailors on the Serpent Spirit Warship gave up their oars, and hundreds of soldiers in leather armor and long knives poured out of the cabin.

They jumped over the side of the ship in groups of three or five, came to the imperial warship, brandished long knives and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the sailors.

These soldiers in leather armor are superb in martial arts, and many of them are still masters, and it seems that they should be elite warriors in the Tubo army.

For a time, the sailors on the warships of the imperial court retreated step by step, suffering heavy casualties.

"Wei Chi, Taichu, hurry up to the boat to help and block the Tubo people." Li Rong fell into the water, held back a mouthful of blood gushing out of his chest, turned over and jumped out of the water, and ordered Yu Chi Xiu to go with Yang Zhi.

Taichu is the word of Yang Zhiyi.

"Collusion with the Tibetans!" Wu Youxu said, and with a punch, he smashed the golden snake sword shadow sent out by Li Ruoxue, and his figure appeared on Li Ruoxue's side in a flash, and he slammed his palm on Li Ruoxue's shoulder, blasting her away.

Wu Youxu jumped onto the warship in a few vertical leaps in succession, and in the face of the swarming Tubo warriors, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, he killed dozens of Tubo warriors with a light movement of his palms.

Here, Yu Chi Xiu Lin and Yang Zhiyi also boarded their own warships and stabilized their positions to repel the attack of the Tibetan warriors.

More than ten miles upstream of Luoshui Weir, a small lake at the tributary has built a dam out of nowhere, and after several days of heavy rain, the water of the small lake is so full that it is about to overflow.

"Dig it up," several snake spirit warriors in green clothes stood on the dam, directing dozens of ordinary people to dig the dam.