When the sun was shining in Houting County, the area around the Beifeng City was still shrouded in snow.

The howling of the wind and snow made the tent of the main general seem extraordinarily quiet.

The tent of the main general, which was temporarily erected, was not large, and more than a dozen generals wearing the armor of the commander of the border army sat on both sides of the tent, and on the main seat sat an old man with white hair and hair.

None of them have a cultivation level lower than the third grade, and they have heavy troops, and each of them is a big man who can make the north tremble three times by stomping his feet.

But at this moment, a deathly silence spread among the powerful figures of this sect.

A quarter of an hour ago,

They had already learned through various channels that a Yunqi bomb had been detonated in the area of Houting County.

A few days ago, when the imperial court took out two Yun Qi bombs and asked them to immediately go south to reinforce the northern blockade city, there were still people who had crooked thoughts about Yun Qi bullets.

No way, the cloud bullet is a good thing.

After seeing the effectiveness of the cloud bullets, this new type of weapon, which could change the celestial phenomena, immediately aroused their greed.

As long as they get a sample, their own formation masters can try to reverse research.

Lou Ji didn't dump them at all.

Leaving a sentence of love that can't go away, it's a big deal to die together, and it directly shatters their greed.

The Northern Closure City was lost, and the 300,000 troops of the imperial court were trapped in the snowy field, which was a big loss to the imperial court at best, but it was a catastrophe for them, the northern sects.

Once their 300,000 elites are lost, all kinds of large-scale medicine fields, workshops, equipment factories, silver horns and other industries will directly face the barbarian soldiers.

And in addition to some core disciples of the inner sect who stayed in their hometown, there were only second-line recruits of eight and nine grades left.

The core disciples are highly cultivated, but they do not cultivate the military formation, and the recruits have never seen blood, and it is easy to collapse directly on the battlefield.

was forced to go south so far, but he didn't want to fight hard, so he made a deal with the barbarian king.

From their point of view, it is impossible for the barbarian king to disagree with their handouts.

The barbarians dared to take a detour south entirely because of the blizzard, which brought them an almost crushing advantage of the time.

But when the Beifeng Army and the Black Scale Army went south to join forces with them, a cloud bullet dispersed the clouds, and the 700,000 army formed a military formation, and without the protection of the city protection array, the wall could collapse.

And now,

The third Yunqi bomb was indeed detonated.

But there was a slight error from the position they expected.

Not in Beifeng, but in Houting.

After decades of fighting in the North, they certainly know what that means.

In the dead silence,

The old man on the throne,

The Supreme Elder of the Lingshui Palace, Qian Shuisheng finally spoke up:

"Everyone, tell us what you think about it."

It's just that after his words fell, the silence remained.

Ban Yu,

A female general on the left suddenly stood up and arched her hand towards the old man on the main seat.

The woman is slender and short, but her appearance is not bad, her skin is snowy, her eyebrows are like green feathers, and her voice is as pleasant as a silver bell:

"General Qian, I thought this was a delaying tactic by the Marquis of Wucheng or the woman Lou Ji, and there was no news of the fall of Houting from my Xueluo Valley's contact point outside Houting County."

Hearing the woman's voice, a man with a scar on his cheek raised his eyebrows, groaned for a moment, and also said:

"Qingfeng has a bit of truth in what he said, the time is not right at all, the Black Scale Army and the Beifeng Army are far away in Dali Mountain, even if they use cavalry, it will take at least two to three days for them to arrive in the Houting area."

Qianshuisheng, who had white hair, smiled kindly when he heard this, stroked his white hair, and bowed his head slightly:

"It's a possibility."

After a moment's pause, Qian Shuisheng's eyes, which were slightly cloudy because of old age, instantly became sharp:

"But even if it's true as the two of you say, who will contact the barbarian king? Who can make that barbarian king believe us? ”

Saying,

His gaze swept around the tent generals:

"Huh. If you stand in the position of the barbarian king, will you rashly transfer troops to the north? I don't think so, right? At the very least, a strong man with the army will be sent to confirm, but then there may not be enough time."

The words fell, silently.

Time difference.

The condition they gave to the barbarians was to give up the area around Houting County, so that the other party could take over all the equipment and the city protection array, so as to stop the Black Scale Army and the Beifeng Army from returning to help.

And the key to this is the time difference.

Now that a cloud bomb has exploded over there, even if they really haven't arrived, they can still buy time to arrive.

It is also clearly to tell the barbarians:

If you beat you, don't come to me.

Thinking deeper,

If your barbarians don't do it as soon as possible, the Beifeng Army and the Black Scale Army can come down with Yun Qi to find you at any time.

Just ask if you're afraid?

"Bastard thing!"

A burly and strong man let out a low scolding: "Marquis Wu Cheng and Zong Qingsheng are really good calculations, this is to ask our border army to face these hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops alone!" ”

"Alright." Another middle-aged man sighed: "It's useless to talk more, the top priority now is to think about how to break the game." ”

The burly man's eyes widened, and he opened his mouth to swear, but he still held back, snorted coldly and shut up.

And at this time,

The beautiful female general spoke again: "Today I am in charge of the garrison of the camp, and the scouts have detected a lot of barbarian wolves roaming around our camp, and I can't determine the location of their main force, and the army may be attacked by that group of barbarians at any time. ”

The Northern Closure City is only about forty miles away from their camp, and it can be reached in two quarters of an hour on a normal march, but if the barbarians are attacked by the wind and snow on the way, everyone will be finished together.

Forty miles away, close in front of you, and far away in the sky.

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice:

"Now the protective capacity of our camp is almost equal to nothing, whoever still has inventory will take it out, we need to strengthen the camp, and the formation division of the army should seize the time to engrave some simple defensive patterns in case those barbarians attack the camp."

At this moment, the scarred man suddenly sneered and spoke:

"Fortify the camp?"

The middle-aged man frowned when he heard this, staring at the scar-faced man:

"Why, General Hou thinks we shouldn't fortify the camp?"

The scar man shook his head leisurely and smiled:

"Of course Hou has no opinion, we still have some stock of materials to strengthen the camp in our Huangyue Palace, and the rest of the previous repair of Houting County, and some materials from your other sects should be able to increase the protection ability of the camp by an order of magnitude."

Saying,

The scarred man stared at the middle-aged man: "But the problem is. How much food do we have? ”

Hearing this, the Lord looked at all the people in the tent at the first thousand aquatic beings.

Facing the eyes of the generals, Qian Shuisheng groaned for a moment, and said in a low voice:

"In order to let the barbarians go north, we provided them with one-third of the supplies, and now the grain and grass are probably enough to supply our army for twenty years, and the reduced ration can last about a month, if you are willing to slaughter cavalry, beasts and horses, it should be able to last longer."

January

These words made some of the generals present begin to think crookedly.

Compared to the vertically centralized command system of the Black Scale Guard or the Beifeng Army, their side is more like a coalition army, a coalition army that has been forced to hold together due to external pressure.

It was quiet for a long time,

A warm voice suddenly asked:

"What about the barbarians and the court?"

Qian Shuisheng glanced at the person who spoke up, and the other party was the only person in the audience who was not from the Northern Realm Sect.

A handsome young man with thin lips and peach eyes, plump and handsome.

Ten Thousand Medicine Gate.

As long as there is a war, they are basically there.

to do business.

They are responsible for healing wounded soldiers, and if you're willing to pay for them, they can even bring them back to life with severed limbs.

Of course

In addition to giving them silver, they also need to occasionally catch some living barbarians for them to do medical experiments.

Qian Shuisheng pondered for a moment and said truthfully:

"The barbarians should have a lot of food and grass, and the corpses of the three-headed ice beast colossus plus the corpses of the soldiers in the Northern Closure City, as well as the corpses of their dead clansmen, can support at least a few months."

And the barbarians who live in the extremely dark land and the desperate snow fields all year round have no sense of morality.

To live is their only morality.

And the lower the bottom line, the more grass you have.

Just as the corpse of a demon beast is to the human race, the corpse of a human cultivator is a great supplement to the barbarians.

Speaking of which,

Qian Shuisheng glanced at the north:

"According to our information, the original baggage on Wu Chenghou's side can probably last for about a month, but Wu Yuan should bring all the baggage that can be taken away from the city before leaving."

Hearing this, the handsome young man's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said with a smile:

"In other words, in the three directions in the north now, our side has the least grain and grass?"

Qian Shuisheng didn't speak, but glanced at the dozen or so commanders of the various sects below.

But as his gaze grew, everyone bowed their heads

Seeing this, the wrinkles on Qian Shuisheng's face trembled and he sighed slightly.

Marching and fighting, who doesn't have a few Sumeru rings in their hands?

As the so-called dead friends do not die in the poor way, everyone actually has some food in their hands to a greater or lesser extent, but they have to hand it over

Hehe, isn't this to the point where you run out of ammunition?

When there is really no food, everyone will talk about it again, and maybe they can sell it for a high price and seek compensation after the war.

Looking at the meaning of the commanders below, Qian Shuisheng didn't say much.

Because it's useless.

He, the commander-in-chief, is only the nominal commander-in-chief, and the command of the war has to be discussed without consultation, without distributing benefits, without providing compensation, and it is likely to fall apart directly.

The handsome young man from the Ten Thousand Medicine Gate rubbed his eyebrows and said in a low voice:

"In other words, we can only spend here now? Who has more food and grass in the competition? ”

Qian Shuisheng exhaled, leaned back on the back of the main seat, and asked:

"Our Northern Sect has paid so much for the overall situation, and your other sects in other places can't support it?"

The handsome young man smiled slightly, not in a hurry:

"Elder Qian, hasn't the details of the compensation already been submitted to you? That's enough supplies to get you back on your feet. ”

Once the imperial court is in trouble, the sects in the place of suffering will help, and the sects in other places will provide materials to compensate afterwards.

When one side is in trouble, all sides support, which can be regarded as an unwritten tacit understanding between sects.

Qian Shuisheng glanced at the young man deeply:

"This seat refers to sending people."

When the young man heard this, he didn't want to laugh directly:

"Elder Qian, this is a bad rule. What's more, now that the northern border is closed by heavy snow, the imperial court has blocked those important official roads to the north, and even if we want to reinforce the northern border, we can't get in."

The voice did not fall.

"Boom!! Rumble!! Rumble!! Rumble!! ”

A series of roars exploded over the camp of the border army, making the brows of the generals in the main general's camp couldn't help frowning slightly.

If before this, there was still a glimmer of hope in their hearts that the barbarians would take advantage of the route to the north, then this hope would have completely vanished at this moment.

The Yunqi bomb detonated in the sky over Houting County still made the barbarians choose to deal with the border army of the sect here first.

The catapult that performed a miracle threw countless gravel and all kinds of ordnance towards the camp that stretched for several miles, and the high-level cultivators who accompanied the army flew to intercept it, but under the surprise of the first round of throwing, there were still more than a dozen boulders and putrid beasts smashed to the ground, causing chaos.

However, these chaos were suppressed in an instant, and there was no need for even the commander to intervene to organize discipline.

Although the sect is an expert in internal fighting, it does not affect their abundant martial virtues.

Therefore, when the barbarians fired the second volley, not a single gravel or putrid beast could fall into the camp

Half an hour later,

Qian Shuisheng suddenly stood up from the main seat, arched his hand towards everyone, and said:

"Now because of the inaction of the imperial court, we can only wait and see how the situation changes for the time being, and I am tired of organizing a military formation to be ready to meet the attack of those barbarians at any time."

Saying,

He suddenly looked sideways at General Hou with a scarred face:

"General Hou, the reinforcement of the camp will annoy you Huangyue Palace, and the compensation will be doubled afterwards."

The scar-faced man grinned when he heard this:

"Elder Qian, rest assured, this is my Huangyue Palace's business."

"Report!"

A loud shout rang out abruptly outside the camp, drawing everyone's attention.

Qian Shuisheng's eyes were surprised, and he said:

"Enter."

A man in the armor of a lieutenant walked into the camp quickly, knelt on one knee, and said directly:

"Elder Qian, there are people outside the camp who want to see you and your commanders."

"See me?" Qian Shuisheng frowned: "What person?" ”

"Someone sent by the Xiangguo Mansion." The lieutenant lowered his eyes and reported truthfully: "I said that I want to talk to you about a business." ”

Hearing this, everyone showed a strange look.

Qian Shuisheng reacted the fastest, exhaled, and said with a chuckle:

"Stunned, invite that gentleman in."

"Yes." The lieutenant answered, and left the camp in an instant.

After counting the breath,

A middle-aged man with a scruffy beard walked into the main general's camp without hurrying under the leadership of the captain.

Looking at the strong man in this tent, Zhou Chen felt that his heart was skipping a beat.

There are a total of seventeen people, except for the seven great masters, and the rest of the people are unfathomable in cultivation.

Damn, I wouldn't have pretended to be dead if I had known.

He pretended to be dead at the beginning, but now he is guilty of meritorious service and has done evil.

With a low scolding in his heart, Zhou Chen said with a smile on the surface:

"Yo, good afternoon, everyone."

Qian Shuisheng stared at the visitor calmly and smiled slightly:

"Mr. Zhou, now that the military situation is urgent, why don't you say it directly?"

"Elder Qian is really impatient."

Zhou Chen's smile remained unchanged, he arched his hand, and said with a smile: "Then Zhou Mou won't sell Guanzi anymore, my family will let me make a deal with you." ”

"What deal?" Qianshuisheng's expression remained unchanged.

Zhou Chen looked around and said slowly:

"My family knows that Elder Qian, your current situation is not easy, let me ask you, do you have any need to buy Yun Qi bullets?"