What did Zhou Bai see?

Seeing the slender yellow snake that had not yet turned into a python, it was strong on the outside and dry in the middle.

Although in the face of the dragon carp, which is several times its size, it still maintains a fierce and vigilant external posture, but on the inside, it is afraid and does not want to fight.

If nothing else, just because the dragon qi at the core of the dragon snake is quietly and silently moving away.

If Zhou Bai is not a hidden dragon, sensitive to dragon qi, and not a complete qi technique, he can detect many clues from the subtleties of qi luck.

That may not be perceptible, a trace of purple qi extracted from the dragon snake's body escaped into the void.

It's just that where exactly it will go is unknown.

In a head-on battle, naturally it could not be as reckless as the vanguard, and the demon army did not attack for a whole afternoon, but set up camp first and set up a solid camp.

It was night, in the camp of the Chinese army, Zhou Baipan sat in the tent, and his thoughts were mixed.

From time to time, I think about military mobilization, strong attack, luring the enemy into a field battle, and how to break the city.

From time to time, I thought that the city was really broken, and after capturing and killing Sun Yucheng, because the Hidden Dragon Heavenly Mandate had been partially transferred, what should I do if I didn't finish the whole work.

Not to mention that the hidden dragon destiny is hidden, which will cause hidden dangers in the future, let's just say that his gentle carp dragon elephant, if he wants to change to the way of the dragon, then he must not miss the dragon qi of the Sun family.

The carp swallows the dragon, and the first one must not be too strong, otherwise it will be difficult to digest.

If Sun Yucheng knew Zhou Bai's thoughts, he would definitely fight with him desperately, and Bei'an County had only given birth to his hidden dragon for a hundred years.

Even if you are a little weak congenitally, how can you become the evolutionary food in your mouth, it's a shame!

And perhaps sensing the bad intentions of the dragon carp, the earth yellow dragon snake hissed highly, and the luck made Sun Yucheng upset.

It just so happened that someone proposed a night attack at the military meeting, so he decisively agreed, and ordered a brave and loyal general to lead 500 elite soldiers to sneak out of the night attack.

"Our army should attack the enemy camp at night while its foothold is not stable, or it may provoke the roar of the camp, sharpen its spirit, and destroy and burn grain and grass......"

Futong Town was defeated, lost the confidence of the field, and many strange eyes and voices made Sun Yucheng, who was in a doldrum, dizzy, and only saw the benefits of the night attack.

The words of the admonition of more generals should not be rash, the enemy's camp is solid, the army is elite, and the guard must be tight, etc., that is not listened to.

Soon, a shout of killing rang out in a corner of the camp, and there were even sporadic fires.

"Each battalion sleeps peacefully, and each performs his duty......"

In the face of the night attack, Zhou Bai still sat in the tent, not to mention panicking, not even a trace of negative emotions.

At this time, there was no one else on the side, only Li Yuan, a monk who was called over for consultation.

"Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his color remained unchanged, the general is kind and bearing, even if his subordinates don't understand the game of the two armies, they will be more confident because of your performance." Li Yuan's ears moved slightly, listening to the sound of fighting in the distance, and then complimented Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai shook his head slightly, and said indifferently: "This little thing can be described as the collapse of Mount Tai, at most it is just a night attack of hundreds of people, which does not hinder the overall situation, our army drills, and night attacks are a compulsory subject." ”

"What I want to ask is, does Daoist Li know the situation of the transfer of the Hidden Dragon's Heavenly Mandate in history?"

In this expedition, in order to deal with various situations, except for Yu Yueyun who led the necessary Taoist officials to guard, most of the Taoist regiment of the General's Mansion accompanied the army.

However, Zhou Bai likes to call Li Yuan the most, not only because he is in the second realm, and he is good at Lei Fa and has the strongest strength.

What's more, because he is close to Jiazi as an official within the Daxu Daolu Division, he has served in the yamen of provincial officials at all levels such as Jingzhou Prefecture and counties.

He was familiar with many secrets that were unknown to the sect and even the sect, and he had browsed and studied the records of Dao treasures such as luck and hidden dragons.

"The transfer of the Mandate of Heaven does not occur often, and there are many known situations, such as the hidden dragon is immoral, perverse, and causes the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people. Or in the process of fighting for the dragon, he was defeated and lost, and was robbed of the mandate of heaven by other hidden dragons......" In the face of Zhou Bai's inquiry, Li Yuan did not dare to slack off, and told the story of what he knew.

He now admires this demon general more and more, not only is he strong, but he is also good at governing places and leading troops to fight.

As long as you make enough meritorious deeds, the three realms can be expected.

Zhou Bai frowned slightly, and asked more clearly: "I didn't lose to the extent of being robbed of the Mandate of Heaven, but the Mandate of Heaven was transferred, can the dragon qi be traced?" ”

"You mean the dragon vein of the Sun family, there is a phenomenon of dragon qi transfer?" Li Yuan was taken aback and subconsciously asked.

However, he quickly reacted, knowing that Zhou Bai was not without purpose, and continued: "The most likely thing is to transfer in the bloodline, such as after the death of the first emperor, the mandate of heaven will naturally be transferred to the crown prince, so that his luck is enough to become the new emperor." ”

"There is a record in the file of the Daolu Division that when the troubled times were divided, a small country was destroyed by a neighboring large country, and as a result, the small royal family had orphans who were not killed, and the transfer of the Mandate of Heaven left hidden dangers."

"In the end, the orphans of small countries seized the opportunity to rise, destroy the big countries in one fell swoop, and complete revenge."

Zhou Bai bowed his head and said in a deep voice: "According to the bloodline of the hidden dragon? ”

"It should be like this, so that the Mandate of Heaven can be preserved to the greatest extent, and it can be transferred to the branches, although it is hidden, the loss of dragon qi is too much." Li Yuan said yes, and at the same time secretly pondered in his heart, he really didn't find anything wrong with Sun Yucheng.

As he spoke, the shouts and commotions outside had completely disappeared.

Qu Zhi, the commander of the pro-soldiers who had been silently guarding outside, came in at the right time to report: "My lord, the enemy army of 500 people attacked the rear camp at night, trying to burn grain and grass, but was completely annihilated by the army on duty. ”

"Well, come and don't be rude, tell Zhou Yuan that each city gate will send five hundred people to pretend to attack the city, and the movement will be big." Zhou Bai had expected this result and said with a smile.

He brought 15,000 men, 10,000 garrisons, and 5,000 demon troops, all of whom were the elite of the elite.

In the case of deliberately increasing meat and corn supplementation with vitamins, not to mention eliminating night blindness, at least 80 percent of soldiers can see at night.

"Also, call Zhou Qi."

"Whoa." Qu Zhi didn't have any superfluous words, just a solemn face, and took the order to retreat.

It didn't take long for Zhou Qi to hurry to report, and it could be seen that he was sleeping in his clothes, waiting for the summons at any time.

"The deputy commander of the Xuanyi internal guard, Zhou Qi, has seen the lord."

Li Yuan was very sensible, pretending not to hear Zhou Qi's identity, and immediately bowed down and retired.

Zhou Qi was born in the branch of the Zhou family, and Zhou Bai was born in the same class, and he was also a very beautiful young man in the family at that time, after all, it was not easy for the branch to produce a talent seed.

Later, with the improvement of Zhou Bai's reputation, a lot of manpower was needed, and Zhou Qi officially gave up the imperial examination for various considerations and turned to Zhou Bai.

At the beginning, he excavated red mud mines, and achieved a lot of results by selling red mud, showing his ability.

Later, he cooperated with Zhou Rui to keep the family business in order, and in the process, Zhou Bai found that Zhou Qi was very good at collecting information and was bold and careful.

Therefore, after consulting him, he went behind the scenes, became a low-key Xuanyi guard, and became a qualified spy leader step by step.

Until now, when Yao An sneaked into Bei'an County to preside over the overall situation, Zhou Qi also became the person next to Zhou Bai and presided over the overall situation of Xuanyiwei.

"It's done well, the battle of Futong, as well as the intelligence of Tingshan and the strategic location of the Quartet are very timely." Seeing this young man who is not a few years older than himself growing up so fast, Zhou Bai is also not stingy with his praise.

Zhou Qi's township branch started even worse than his seven-room lineage.

I still remember that in the memory of his previous life, Zhou Qi changed his most ordinary destiny before the collapse of the whole clan.

Of course, in this life, with the help of Zhou Bai, he has a famous position to nourish his qi, and he has more opportunities to sharpen and exercise, and he is already a red natal now.

"It's my subordinate's duty." Zhou Qi was happy in his heart, but he remained humble.

In the direction of the city, he could hear that his own night attack and harassment in the city had begun, so Zhou Bai did not delay, and asked directly: "Can you contact the shadows in the city now, there is a very important matter, it is best for Yao An to do it himself." ”

Zhou Qi had already had a case about various situations, and immediately replied: "Now that the city is under martial law, the four gates are closed, and it is too difficult to sneak into the city. However, Watergate has our people, and now the night attack is lively, just enough to deliver the news.

In the whole of Bei'an County, there are very few formed water veins and water sources are scarce.

There used to be the Canglan River, but now the Canglan River has dried up, leaving only a tributary of the Liang River, which flows through the county seat.

Therefore, one county and seven counties, only the moat of the county town will ensure that there is water in it, and play a certain defensive effect.

Knowing the concealment of the Water Gate, Zhou Bai immediately wrote a letter in secret language and handed it to Zhou Qi to deliver in person.

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For several days in a row, the Zhou army did not make too many moves except for building siege equipment and provoking and scolding battles.

This made many people in Jiedu Mansion relax a lot, in siege warfare, besieging the city is of course a conventional means, but you only have 15,000 people, how can you completely surround it.

"I thought that Zhou Baizhen got some immortal means from Heavenly Court to break the city overnight, and now it seems that this is the case."

"If it weren't for the fact that there were thousands of horsemen covering the battlefield, what would they be surrounded by such a small number of people."

"If General Lou pulls his 30,000 soldiers over, we will be able to defeat the other party with three times the number of troops?"

After the tension of the first two days, the subordinates of the Jiedu Mansion saw that Zhou Bai did not dare to attack the city at all, and all kinds of remarks came out.

Only Sun Yucheng, who suffered two losses in Futong and night attack, is now more stable than everyone else, and always feels that things are not so simple.

However, the uneasy atmosphere in the city was alleviated a lot, and Sun Yucheng, as the envoy of the festival, did not suppress it much, and let his subordinates boast and boost morale.

The big families who couldn't tell the situation for a while donated money and food to support, and many people also muttered in their hearts, if the demon general couldn't get in, then they had to settle down.

However, soon a series of battles spread into the city, and the situation was reversed in an instant.

On April 21, several important market towns under the control of Jiedu Province were lost, and after the sacrifice of a large number of sentinels, it was confirmed that they had been captured by the Zhou army.

It turned out that Zhou Bai not only brought 15,000 people, but also 5,000 partial divisions, led by Xu Yun, the head of the military room, and Gao Hu, the commander of the Ma army, to perform other tasks on a detour.

The first is to pull out all the strongholds of Jiedu Mansion, and there can be no existence like Futong Town.

On April 23, the last military town located on the southern artery surrendered without waiting for Lou Jinpeng to come to the aid of Tingshan.

The huge Bei'an City actually became a lonely city for a while, and only 30,000 soldiers from Tingshan could be counted on.

And in this process, without Sun Yucheng's urging, Lou Jinpeng has already taken the initiative to send several support troops.

It's not to find Zhou Bai's main force for a decisive battle, but just to protect a few more military strongholds, so that they don't have to be too afraid of cavalry, and they can have a certain strategic maneuver space.

It's a pity that even if there is no confrontation with the so-called main force, the combat power of the partial division alone is already beyond imagination.

More than 5,000 people were annihilated halfway through, with heavy losses, and the name of the silver spear and high tiger was already circulating in the military village of Tingshan.

One man and one hundred horsemen, attacking ten thousand armies, taking the head of the enemy general, the power is unstoppable.

It is rumored that Gao Hu can still stab the spear, and there is no grass within three zhang.

Only Zhou Bai didn't care about this, because he, the first fierce general under him, was the first person to break through the innate with his innate skills, and Yao Ping had to take the innate pill a little slower.

After Lou Jinpeng really realized the combat power of the Zhou army, he suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, if he had 20,000 troops in the county town, he might still have a chance to recover.

It's a pity that the 30,000 soldiers in his hands, not to mention the rabble, are only at the level of ordinary county soldiers.

Before the two counties were connected, it was purely crushed by military strength, plus proper command.

This is also the reason why Lou Jinpeng must take the soldiers and horses of the two counties with him, if he really encounters a strong army, he still has to consume.

On April 24, under the cover of 22 trebuchets, the moat of Baukan Fortress was successfully filled.

The main force has been outside the city for so many days, but it is not that there is no work, and the preparations for stone bullets and sandbags have long been completed.

After that, the artillery attacks continued day and night, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth, and all the blows were destroyed, and they sank into the ground seven feet.

This trebuchet is a counterweight trebuchet built by the Tiangong Institute according to Zhou Bai's counterweight theory.

It can fly 300 catties of stones, and it is a mile away.

Various buildings in the city, such as towers and arrow towers, were destroyed at designated points.

The people in the city were terrified, and they only thought that it was a punishment from the gods, and it was unheard of for a trebuchet to have such great power.

And many big gentry put a little pressure on Sun Yucheng from time to time, knocking on the side, whether this city can be defended.

Forced to be helpless, Sun Yucheng could only stimulate with money, and then send the Yajun to try to smash the counterweight trebuchet.

However, how could Zhou Bai be defenseless, and the infantry artillery coordinated, it must be the priority to protect the counterweight trebuchet.

10,000 Ya troops went out of the city, and 7,000 Ya troops responded in the back, and the battle lasted for several hours.

As a result, he didn't even touch the trebuchet position, until night fell, Mingjin withdrew his troops, leaving behind more than 2,000 corpses, and 3,000 soldiers were injured in varying degrees of severity.

This time, the people who fought with the soldiers who went out of the city were all the demon army who had practiced the foundation of innate skills and forged the physical realm per capita.

For a time, every family in the city wore filial piety, sad and sad? However, it is more about fear.

After a big defeat and loss, the situation seems to have become clear.

At this time, the opportunity that Yao An in the city had been waiting for finally appeared, and he turned into the envoy of the governor Lei Haomiao, and successfully won Sun Geng's "trust".

In other words, in a desperate situation, he can only trust the so-called envoy.

After tracing the bloodline and carefully eliminating it, the Sun family has the greatest chance to gather resources and luck, and only Sun Geng is the one who makes a fortune again.

(End of chapter)