From Dali to the south is Sichuan, the Northern Song Dynasty Dali State Jianchang Mansion, that is, the current Xichang City, nearly 500 kilometers away from Chengdu, in ancient times this area is sparsely populated, high mountains and dense forests, there is no way to station the border army.

After entering the border of the Chinese Empire, they have been marching in the mountains and forests, avoiding the sight of the flying sword scouts, and reaching the city of Chengdu, which caught the defenders off guard.

After capturing Chengdu Mansion, the Nanzhao army was busy arresting the people everywhere to refine Gu, and the pace of the march gradually slowed down, otherwise Yuzhou City, which is not far from Chengdu Mansion, may not be able to wait for Chang'an reinforcements, and I am afraid that it will follow in the footsteps of Chengdu Mansion.

The Southern Zhao army was stationed in Chengdu Mansion, which seemed to delay the fighter plane, but its commander, the Moon Worship Sect Master, also had his own reasons.

There is a way to sharpen knives and not cut wood, the Central Plains martial arts masters are like clouds, and there are several major immortal sects in the town, if the Nanzhao barbarian army relies on the water monster to charge into battle, the plan to attack the Central Plains will never succeed.

Although the water monster is strong, it is extremely difficult to control, once it gets out of control, it will backfire on its master, and it consumes a lot of money every time it controls the monster, so the time to summon the monster is limited.

Of course, if the Moon Worship Sect Master goes out and doesn't be a human being, and simply sacrifices himself to merge with the Water Demon Beast, there will be no more restrictions, but at that time, he will also lose his self-consciousness, and his soul will be wiped out by the desire of the ancient Demon Beast to kill furiously, and he will lose control with the Water Demon Beast, and he will not give up until the flood destroys the world.

The Moon Worship Sect Master is a careerist, but he is not a madman, he just wants to use the power of the Water Demon Beast to dominate the world, not to destroy this flower world in a frenzy.

Because of this, the Lunatic Cult Master could not rely on the Water Demon Beast to solve all the battles, and the Nanzhao Barbarian Army also had to undertake at least more than half of the regular combat missions.

Only the treacherous and mysterious Miao Jiang Gu Technique is the biggest reliance of the Southern Zhao Army in the war, the power of the Gu Technique is not inferior to the Immortal Law, it is more vicious and ruthless than the Immortal Method, and the lethality is still excessive.

The Moon Worship Sect Master decided to raid Chengdu Mansion first, slaughter the local people, breed millions of Gu worms, give an epic reinforcement to the Gu masters accompanying the army, and then continue to march north to confront the main force of the Central Plains.

At that time, there will be countless Gu worms of all kinds in the Gu cup of each Gu master in the army, and the vicious spells can be thrown away at will, so that the Nanzhao army will have the confidence to fight head-on with the Central Plains army.

His plan was going quite smoothly, using the flesh and soul of living people as feed for the growth of Gu worms, and every day he was stationed in Chengdu Mansion, the strength of the Gu division of the Southern Zhao Army was constantly increasing.

It is very time-consuming to capture the people to raise Gu and refine Gu, and the suddenness of the surprise attack of the Nanzhao army has disappeared with the passage of time, and the spies in front have sent back information, and the Chinese Empire's crusading army is coming from Chang'an City at a rapid pace, and a tough battle will be fought next.

In this regard, the Moon Worship Sect Master is not too sorry, the grand strategy is not about the gains and losses of one city and one place, if the Nanzhao army blindly rushes and fights, even if it is a succession of battles all the way, and the soldiers are under the city of Chang'an, they will be tired of fighting for a long time, and they will be pushed back by the elite of the Central Plains who are waiting for work.

Entrenched in Chengdu Mansion to cultivate and refine Gu like this, the Nanzhao army has instead become a party that waits for work, and the huge amount of Gu worms accumulated can also give a big surprise to the crusading army who came in a hurry.

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The 120,000 crusading army, led by Jing Xiaolou and Li Xiaoyao, the overseer, spent a month rushing to Chengdu North Road and entered the territory of Chengdu Prefecture.

Chengdu is more than 700 kilometers away from Xi'an, and it can be reached in two or three hours by high-speed rail in modern times, but the road conditions in ancient times are extremely poor, and the army marches to open roads and build bridges in the mountains, and the Shenji army also carries a large number of baggage and ammunition, and the establishment of transportation and supply lines alone is a big project, and the marching speed is extremely slow, but it is not in a hurry.

The soldiers of the Shenji Army have relatively poor hand-to-hand combat ability, and if they don't have guns, artillery, or enough ammunition, they are incapacitated, and they are no different from a group of civilians.

In addition, not long after the formation of the new army, most of the soldiers were new recruits, and the amount of training was far from enough.

Jing Xiaolou and Li Xiaoyao were both anxious, but they were helpless, and they couldn't wait to leave the army and lead only a team of Shushan Flying Sword Battalion to kill them from the air, but due to Luo Guoshi's strict orders, they could only slowly follow the crusading army marching at a turtle speed.

Jing Xiaolou was impatient, because Chengdu Mansion had fallen, and Yuzhou was exposed to the Nanzhao army, he was worried that the speed of the march would be slow, and when the army arrived in Shuzhong, he could only watch his hometown be in a mess by the black Miao barbarians.

Yuzhou is the foundation of the Jing family, there is also Jing Xiaolou's mother's hometown Tangjiabao outside Yuzhou City, if these two places are lost, even if they win the war and kill all the invading barbarians, but the relatives died in the military accident, Jing Xiaolou will also leave a lifelong regret.

Li Xiaoyao was worried that Shushan was captured by the Nanzhao army, although he now said that he was working for the imperial court, but in his heart he still recognized his identity as a disciple of Shushan, and under the influence of his master Jiujian Xian, he valued the instructions of the ancestor of Shushan very much.

In Li Xiaoyao's view, Shushan is the node of the Six Realms, an important pass connecting the two worlds of demons and demons, if it falls into the hands of the Nanzhao barbarian army, the enemy breaks the Shushan sealing array and leads the demon army to attack the human realm, which will cause an irreparable catastrophe.

Although the march took a full month, which seemed to the two commanders to be slow, the soldiers of the crusading army were actually extremely exhausted, and they all showed a state of exhaustion.

After all, the two commanders are masters of the masters, and their physical fitness is far beyond that of mortals, and the two do not have to carry heavy ammunition like ordinary soldiers, one of them is a chivalrous and the other is a businessman, and they are not familiar with military affairs, which has produced cognitive biases, ignoring the actual situation that the soldiers need to be repaired before they can be put into the battlefield, and hurriedly sent messengers to hand over the war letter to the enemy army in Chengdu.

As for Li Xiaoyao, who is the head of the inner palace and serves as the supervisor of the army, why did he become an important commander of the crusading army, and he was on an equal footing with Jing Xiaolou?

This is because the Chinese Empire followed the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, and the power of eunuchs to supervise the army was very great, although Li Xiaoyao said that he was not a eunuch, but he was an official of the eunuchs, so he had the authority to supervise the army accordingly.

When the Moon Worship Sect Master received the battle letter, he was not worried at all because of the absolute superiority of the crusading army, but was overjoyed, knowing that his opponent, the commander of the Central Plains Army, was a war novice, and he did not know the art of war at all, so he immediately sent someone back to the letter, and made an appointment to arrange troops in the wilderness outside Chengdu the next day, and the two armies would face each other, and directly have a final decisive battle.

Jing Xiaolou and Li Xiaoyao received a reply from the Moon Worship Sect Master, and they were not in a hurry to respond to the battle, the two of them convened the generals in the army to discuss it, and changed the decisive battle tomorrow to a decisive battle three days later, which can be regarded as seeing through the small plan of the Moon Worship Sect Master, and leaving some rest time for the soldiers.

Replaced by Luo Feng to lead the army, it is absolutely impossible to follow the ancient combat etiquette like them, and what kind of war books are still engaged in war, and the battlefield is set up to confront each other, and the military knowledge of Li Xiaoyao and Jing Xiaolou is all learned from the ancient military books, and even the two of them have no actual combat command experience, and it is inevitable to make mistakes.

Of course, Luo Feng arranged for them to be the commander, and he didn't expect them to win the battle, it was nothing more than a black pot for one person, so that they could bear the responsibility of being incompetent and exhausting the army.