Du Ren's death did not cause any turmoil in Xiapi City, because his alliance with Brother Cave had already lost the hearts of the people, and Jiao Hongjin was known for his prestige, so Xiapi City changed hands so smoothly and peacefully.

After Jiao Hongjin made a little arrangement for the affairs of the gang, he immediately selected two thousand elite children according to Long Tao's intentions and went to the small ranch in Zeshan in the west of the city.

Long Tao chose a healthy horse to lead the team with Jiao Hongjin, and because he had to deal with horse thieves who came and went like the wind, he also specially brought a pair of bows and arrows.

Luo Qifei was sent by him to contact Ren Meimei, who rushed to the east of Xiapi first, and prepared to intercept Brother Cave.

Long Tao and Jiao Hongjin led the team to rush and arrived at the small pasture at the foot of Zeshan Mountain, the Khitan horse thieves were at a loss and did not know that the enemy had arrived.

More than 2,000 people took advantage of the darkness of the night to kill the thieves and set fire to the tents.

The Vicuña Gang had the advantage in numbers, and it was a sneak attack, and the Khitans broke up almost as soon as they engaged, and they fled for their lives.

If you can't beat it, you can escape, which is also the true nature of horse thieves, but the Khitan horse thieves ride ** strong, and they fight back with bows and arrows while fleeing.

Long Tao also bent his bow and arrows, ready to shoot a few horse thieves.

When he poured his true qi into the arrow that was already stretched on the string, a strange feeling immediately surged in his heart.

He felt as if the arrow had acquired a spirit in an instant, and could change direction at his will and hit whatever target he targeted!

"Whoosh!"

Long Tao casually released the bowstring.

He didn't take aim on it, but focused on a horse thief who was about to break out of the ranch.

The arrow drew a curve in the air, and shot into the back of the thief's heart and through the chest along a completely unorthodox route.

The horse thief turned over and fell from his horse with a rain of blood, and was killed instantly.

Jiao Hongjin beside him was dumbfounded, and sighed in disbelief: "I have heard for a long time that the Great King's divine sword is invincible, and I can't imagine that even archery is so magical, it's incredible!" ”

Long Tao smiled silently, but he was quickly thinking about the reason in his heart.

On that day, after absorbing the abilities in He's bi, he discovered the existence of the spirit body, and at the same time, he also knew that the true qi of the martial artist was actually absorbed and operated in the spirit body.

When he poured his true qi into the arrow, he was actually pouring the power of the spirit into it, and when the spirit and body were separated, he also found that the spirit body had an inseparable relationship with his soul and mind.

When shooting arrows, his spiritual mind focuses on both the arrow and the target, and at this time, the "spiritual power" that he concentrates on the arrow has already attached his own spiritual power, and it is under the guidance of this "spiritual power" that the arrow can make an unreasonable turn in the air, and finally shoot at the target that is also concerned by his spiritual power.

The truth of this, Long Tao thought about it for a while, and then understood, and there was a surprise in his heart.

According to this assumption, he can shoot at any target covered by his mental mind without aiming with the naked eye, which undoubtedly adds another means of defeating the enemy.

However, his spiritual sense could easily spread out within a radius of hundreds of miles at this time, and it was obvious that there was no bow and crossbow in this world that had such a long range!

Long Tao recalled the original book and remembered that the range of bows and arrows commonly used by the general army was five or six hundred steps, but the arrow master in Yuyang had two folding bows with a range of 1,000 steps, one "piercing the sun" and the other "shooting the moon", which were later obtained by Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan respectively.

Now that he has this means of taking people's lives remotely, he can consider getting his hands on the Arrow Master's magic bow.

Long Tao recalled the day when he controlled the energy of heaven and earth through spirit induction, lit and extinguished the wick of the candle, and at that time his mind was also focused on his own spirit body and the wick, otherwise how could he do that accurately?

This kind of true qi, which is mixed with spiritual power, has become a kind of spiritual energy, which can already be called spiritual power.

Of course, not anyone's true qi can be turned into spiritual power after combining it with spiritual power.

Long Tao's true qi and spiritual strength have undergone a long period of accumulation and tempering, which is difficult for most martial artists to achieve.

Based on his own experience, he speculated that perhaps only people who could fully perceive their own complete spirit body could have "spiritual power", which was basically a realm that was difficult for a person to achieve in his life.

"Brother Cave, this group of horse thieves is only about 600, with our troops, if we make arrangements in advance, we may be able to wipe them out."

Jiao Hongjin's voice pulled Long Tao's thoughts back.

"In this raid, we only killed nearly 300 horse thieves, and even the dog thief of Brother Cave escaped!"

"Little Lu Bu" was unwilling.

Long Tao looked at the horse thieves who escaped from the ranch in a hurry, and said with a light smile: "As far as I know, Brother Cave still has three or five hundred horse thieves left in the coastal area, I will not kill Brother Cave at this time, it is to let him escape back and gather the thieves, and then we will annihilate them in one fell swoop, completely eliminate the East China Sea Alliance, and remove this great harm for the people of coastal counties!" ”

Then he turned his head and glanced at Jiao Hongjin, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Jiao Gang Master, I have already arranged for Ren Meimei, Luo Qifei and others of Peng Lianghui to lead people to ambush in the east of Xiapi, and chase and kill Brother Cave along the way, and I will never let him escape our control!" ”

Jiao Hongjin said movingly: "The Divine Sword King has the people in his heart, and his means are clever, Hongjin admires it!" ”

Then he said solemnly: "Yan Ye not only has the benevolence to protect the common people, but also has the ability to win and kill the enemy, such a master, the world is hard to find!" In the future, don't be commensurate with the helper, just call me Hongjin, Hongjin is willing to follow the saddle before and after the horse, and swear allegiance! ”

……

Long Tao stopped on the top of a hill and looked out at the plains and forests under the stars and moon.

Ren Meimei and Jiao Hongjin rode their horses to his left and right, followed by more than ten horsemen, all of whom were children of Peng Lianghui and the Llama Gang.

They chased and killed Brother Cave all the way from Xiapi, sometimes tight and sometimes slow, always pressing behind him.

As Long Tao expected, Gu Geguo gathered nearly 500 thieves and fled to the sea together.

After Long Tao and Ren Meimei rendezvous, they chased after Brother Cave on the one hand, and divided their troops to intercept them, after two days of pursuit, Brother Cave's horse thieves only had more than 100 lost dogs left.

At this time, the sound of hooves sounded, and Luo Qifei rode his horse out of the sparse forest under the hill slope, rushed to the front of Long Tao's horse, and reported: "The king's expectation is right, the Khitan dog thieves are indeed fleeing this way!" ”

Long Tao thought to himself, he had been monitoring the movements within a radius of fifty miles with his spiritual sense, so he naturally would not be wrong.

Jiao Hongjin pointed to the mountains ten miles away in the east, and said: "Feiying Gorge is the only way to the sea, and it seems that Brother Cave wants to go there, and after crossing the gorge, he flees to the sea. ”

Long Tao smiled: "Okay, let's ambush here, it's time to collect Brother Cave's dog's life!" ”

Half an hour later, the sound of horses' hooves came from the west.

Just listening to the sound of hooves, it can be concluded that the Khitan horse thieves have been hunted down and killed into frightened birds, and the team is not in a team and scattered.

"Whoosh!"

A powerful arrow shot out of the forest, carrying a strong wind, and went straight to the cave brother in the middle of the team.

Brother Cave also counted it, and hurriedly pulled out the double axe behind his back and blocked it in front of him.

With a muffled sound of "bang", the arrow exploded after hitting the blade of the axe, and the cave brother was also shocked by the fierce energy, and the big axe fell to the ground, and half of his body immediately became numb.

Brother Cave screamed for a second, but before he could react, the second powerful arrow had been shot silently, and it was inserted into his throat with a "poof".

Brother Cave's eyes widened, and he was so angry on the spot that his body flew backwards with a strong arrow and fell off the horse.

At the same time, Long Tao in the woodland looked at the longbow in his hand, sighed softly, and after two arrows in a row, this strong bow that had accompanied him for two days and two nights was finally forced by his strength and broke off.

This made him even more eager for the Arrow Master's folding bow.

"Kill!"

Jiao Hongjin beside him shouted, and after a rain of arrows, a large group of men and horses poured out of the forest and pounced on the Khitan horse thieves who fled in a hurry......

After this battle, the East China Sea Alliance completely disappeared, and Long Tao firmly controlled Liangdu, Pengcheng, and Xiapi in his hands.

The prestige of the Divine Sword Army spread, and the nearby towns and cities were annexed, and those who fled from other places also rushed back, and even the war-torn people from other places migrated here.

While asking Ren Meimei to rebuild Pengcheng, Long Tao ordered Jiao Hongjin to recruit troops and train soldiers, and at the same time slowly expanded from Pengcheng and Xiapi to the East China Sea, preparing for Bu Tianzhi's attack on Li Zitong's hometown.

Liangdu tightly chokes the gateway to the southward flow of the canal, and business travel is frequent, which is the gathering place of all kinds of news.

Eight days later, the news of Kou Zhong and Yang Gongqing's defeat of Li Mi in Yanshi finally came.

Li Mi tasted defeat for the first time, and was unwilling, and was eager to recover the situation after retreating to Luokou, but unexpectedly he was in the arms of Kou Zhong, and he used a trick to take Kim Yong and Luokou, and at the same time, Shan Xiongxin and Bing Yuanzhen also threw themselves into Wang Shichong's camp.

This time, Li Mi was defeated like a mountain, and had to retreat to Heyang, not only lost a large amount of land to Wang Shichong, but also many of his generals who originally belonged to Zhai Rang's family also defected and surrendered to Wang Shichong.

Long Tao knew that it was time, and set off for Yanshi overnight.