Chapter 34: Crossing the River and Attacking
King An Yuan has been sitting in the carriage, but his carriage is a little behind, but it can be regarded as in the position of the Chinese army.
In this group, in addition to the princess's phoenix, there were no less than 30 carriages, most of which were used to transport military supplies, grain, grass, and camp tents.
During the Qi refining period, soldiers had to eat, horses had to eat grass, and although each soldier had a storage bag, the volume was too small to place only personal belongings.
As for the princess's dowry, the royal dowry, there are naturally a lot of dowry items, but they are all placed in storage rings and carried by the princess.
Five of the carriages were empty, four were used as spare cars, and one was Yi Jiuxiao's seat, but he didn't sit in them.
Yi Jiuxiao didn't put himself in the middle of the forbidden army to protect him, he didn't need others to protect him, he walked at the forefront of the team, walking side by side with Qi Bin.
A scholar dressed in white, especially in front of the uniformed team, also poses a great risk, and if he is attacked, he may be the first to bear the brunt.
Before leaving, Fei Tong had found Qi Changguo, the king of Anyuan, and asked him to try to protect Yi Jiuxiao along the way.
A scholar, and the only mortal in the entire team, has a very fragile life, and the slightest wind and grass can kill him. But this guy was not careful, and actually gave up riding in the carriage and rode a horse to swagger in front of the team.
When he first set off, King An Yuan asked Yi Jiuxiao to sit in the carriage, but the reason given by Yi Jiuxiao was in Kyoto and there would be no danger.
He originally learned more about the national situation on this trip, but if he was in the carriage, he would not see anything, and he would lose the meaning of the mission. There was some truth in these words, and Qi Changguo let him go for the time being.
But the county lord Qi Qingru was very angry, she didn't like it when she saw Yi Jiuxiao, a hairy child, a mortal, I don't know what luck I went, I actually became an envoy with her father, and I didn't cooperate, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
Qi Qingru is actually only one year older than Yi Jiuxiao, but she is the proud daughter of the sky who has built the ninth layer, so Yi Jiuxiao is naturally weak in her eyes.
Whether in the Qi Kingdom or in other countries on the continent, cultivators and mortals are two worlds, and their status, identity, and lifespan are very different.
It is usually difficult for mortals to integrate into the circle of cultivators, who have always been high-minded, and there are even many cultivators who regard mortals as ants. Even the most outstanding scholars among mortals are looked down upon by cultivators.
Xiaoxing stayed overnight, and it only took ten days for the team to leave the boundary of Bozhou and enter the boundary of Ningzhou.
After all, it is close to the important places of Gyeonggi, where it is prosperous, and the post road is a thoroughfare, and there is a lot of traffic along the way, how can a bandit who is not long-sighted dare to make a move against the royal mission.
Along the way, the officials of the counties were also carefully received and carefully arranged to ensure the safety of the team in their respective jurisdictions.
In Ningzhou, it is still safe to transit, and there is no wind and grass. The team paused in Ningzhou City, replenished supplies, replaced weak horses, and repaired vehicles.
It took more than 20 days before and after, and the team walked out of Ningzhou and entered another state of Qi State, called Ganzhou, and had left the capital for more than 4,000 miles at this time.
Because it is far away from Gyeonggi, the post road in Ganzhou is not as easy to walk as Ningzhou, narrow and rugged, and the speed of the procession walking on the road has slowed down, and it is the end of April, and there is more rain, and the road is dripping, which is very annoying.
Yi Jiuxiao suddenly became well-behaved during this time, hiding in the car most of the time, and only riding a horse when the weather was good. This made Qi Qingru even more contemptuous and disgusted, and secretly thought that if you have the ability, you will always ride a horse and don't hide in the car.
For almost a month, everyone trekked in Ganzhou, walking on a muddy road.
Yi Jiuxiao had carefully observed these carriages and found that each carriage was blessed with a magic circle carved by a monk, and if it was the carriage of the Great Song Dynasty in the previous life, it was estimated that it would have fallen apart long ago.
At the end of May, it was almost out of Ganzhou, and the next stop in Ganzhou was Shazhou, which bordered Wei and had a rather dry climate.
Everyone is looking forward to arriving in Shazhou as soon as possible, and they are afraid of rain during this time. In order to catch up with the schedule, the light rain kept marching, and only the heavy rain stopped to set up camp.
There is a river at the junction of Ganzhou and Shazhou, called Ganshui, there was originally a bridge on the river, due to the rain for several days, the river flooded, and when the team arrived at the river, they found that the bridge had been washed away by the flood. If the bridge is re-erected, I am afraid it will be half a month later.
Moreover, the river is so turbulent that the ferry cannot move at all.
The commander Qi Bin reported the situation ahead to King Anyuan, and King Anyuan also frowned, and led Qi Bin and Yi Jiuxiao to the river to inspect the water situation.
If you don't look at it, King An Yuan is even more anxious after seeing it, although he didn't urge everyone all the way, he didn't want to delay for a day.
Now it is blocked by the river, and a delay of half a month is the best result, if it does not go well, it is possible to delay for a month.
He thought about it again and again, and finally made a decision, a decision that he had no choice but to make. I saw a magic weapon appear in his hand, which was a five-inch long boat.
King Anyuan's mind moved, and under the blessing of mana, the boat instantly enlarged, becoming three zhang long and one zhang wide, suspended at a height of five feet on the ground, and the wind by the river shouted, and the boat stood still.
"Qi Bin, order everyone to get ready, and cross the river on this boat immediately!" King An Yuan said in a deep voice.
Qi Bin hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, and then ran back to the queue to give orders. This made Yi Jiuxiao, who was standing by the river, a little dissatisfied, what are you Qi Bin doing slowly, is it so troublesome to give orders?
At the same time, Yi Jiuxiao was a little envious of this cultivator's methods, it was really amazing, it could change like this. Thinking about it again, why did the emperor send hundreds of people to escort and mobilize the people, it is better to directly let King Anyuan's father and daughter use this magic weapon to carry the princess to Wei to complete the marriage.
Not to mention that Yi Jiuxiao was thinking nonsense, but seeing that the queue was approaching the river, a carriage and several sergeants had been taken into the flying boat by King An Yuan.
King Anyuan flew in mid-air, manipulating the flying boat, and after half a quarter of an hour, the flying boat returned from the opposite shore. After three hours, all the horses were sent across the river.
Yi Jiuxiao was the last to cross the river with King An Yuan, and when he landed with King An Yuan, he suddenly found something abnormal.
I saw that King An Yuan's face was pale and he was almost unsteady on his feet, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help him. Brother Jindan, his physique is far superior to ordinary people, how can he be so weak at this time.
That is Yi Jiuxiao didn't know, Brother Jindan was not a god, but also a human, just now he manipulated the flying boat too much, and the mana consumption was huge, almost to the point that the oil ran out of light, and the pills couldn't be replenished for a while.
The monk controls the magic weapon by himself, because the magic weapon is connected to his blood, and with the help of divine thoughts, the mana consumption is not much. If you use magic weapons to carry others or other living creatures, the mana consumption is more than several times, this is the rule of heaven, otherwise it is really a person who has attained the Tao and ascended to heaven.
King An Yuan is so weak now, what if the enemy comes to sneak attack at this time? Yi Jiuxiao has been on the battlefield for a long time and is familiar with military books, so suddenly he has a bad feeling,
Just as there was a flash of inspiration, two figures appeared in mid-air, and they were at least Jindan monks who could fly in the air.
These two people are tall and short, and King Anyuan's divine thoughts have already noticed that the short one is the mid-stage cultivation of Jindan, and the tall one is the early cultivation of Jindan, and he appeared in front of him at this time, and he is definitely not a friend.
He couldn't help but complain to himself, if on weekdays, even if the other party was two, he would not be afraid, after all, the exercises of the royal family of the Qi Kingdom were quite domineering, and they could be better than the monks of the same realm in the battle.
"Qi Changguo, come and die, we've been waiting for many days, hahaha~" The short man laughed in mid-air.
"Okay, let's see who will die!" King An Yuan suddenly seemed to be in good spirits, his pale face turned bloody, and at the same time, Qi Bin was ready to meet the enemy, and flew into the air.
The short monk apparently turned the tiger away from the mountain and entangled King Anyuan in mid-air, after which the tall monk attacked.
This tall monk was in the early stage of Jindan, and his means were also very good, and a stick-shaped magic weapon in his hand became ten zhang long, and the mouth of the bowl was thick, and it smashed into the princess's chariot from the air.
This will make him smash, and even the people and cars may be turned into slag.
But before the stick fell, a hundred shields had already flown into the air, forming a dense shield net, enveloping Feng Yuan and everyone in it. The giant stick hit the shield with a deafening crash, and the shield shook violently, but it was not breached.
At the same time, two hundred flying swords flew out of the shield net at the same time, heading straight for the tall monk. These flying swords are arranged neatly and stacked on top of each other as if they are one.
The tall monk's face changed, and he took out a flag-shaped magic weapon, and when he shook it in the wind, the flag became two zhang long, and it could be protected on the front of the tall monk.
Two hundred flying swords stabbed on the giant banner in unison, and the tall monk urged the giant banner to block, and for a while the flying sword could not move forward a bit, but the giant banner could not force the flying sword away, and the two sides were in a state of stalemate and stalemate.
But this balance only existed for a few breaths, and a silent thin cone broke this balance, this thin cone is called the diamond heart cone, which is Qi Bin's hair.
Qi Bin was originally a ninth-level cultivator, and his cone stabbed down from the top of the tall monk's head, if he was stabbed, the tall monk would definitely be destroyed.
The tall monk's divine mind had already sensed the arrival of the thin cone, but he could no longer resist it, and in the midst of the danger, he withdrew the giant flag, mustered up his mana and fled more than a hundred zhang away.
However, the powerful mana backlash made him squirt three mouthfuls of blood, and he was already completely powerless, but Qi Bin didn't dare to chase after him, and let the tall monk disappear from view.
Looking at King Anyuan and the short monk again, the two of them had already made several moves in mid-air, and King Anyuan forcibly boosted his mana to the peak state with his secret skills, he didn't dare to delay time, and all the mastery was used, forcing this short monk to have no power to fight back.
The short monk wondered while fighting if King Anyuan's mana had really been depleted before.
King Anyuan didn't dare to delay, and once again raised his mana to the peak, condensing it into a big hand that covered the sky, which was the Great Qi Royal Peerless Giant Spirit Palm.
This palm consumes mana very much, if you miss a blow, you can only run away, so you usually don't dare to use it at will, today King Anyuan is estimated to be in a hurry, so he will fight this one.
I don't know if the giant spirit palm is too strong, or the short monk is too weak, this palm knocked the short monk from mid-air to the ground, and the flesh and spirit were turned into flying ashes.