Tianren County, Hengyuan City.

Hengyuan City was originally a city in Shu County that was very important, but it was idle all year round. Hengyuan City lies on the Great Lonely Peak, and the entire Great Lonely Peak is hundreds of zhang high, even if a Void Spirit Realm monk wants to forcibly cross this peak, it will be very difficult, let alone a low-level monk.

The big solitary peak is not only extremely high, but also stretches for a long time, if you look down in mid-air, you can see that a big solitary peak almost forms a natural barrier, blocking all the smooth roads leading to Shu County in Pingyuan County, if the monks of Pingyuan County want to enter the hinterland of Shu County, they need to pass through the blockage of the big lone peak. Otherwise, you will have to take a detour.

Hengyuan City is the only place on the Great Lonely Peak with a slightly lower terrain, not so much that this is a city, but that this is a natural danger pass built in the Great Lonely Peak. Although the terrain where Hengyuan City is located is also dozens of miles long, because the left and right sides are surrounded by mountains with large solitary peaks almost towering into the sky, sometimes looking up in Hengyuan City will make people mistakenly think that they are in a canyon with a glimmer of sky.

The place where Hengyuan City is located is indeed very amazing, according to the direction of the mountain of Dagufeng, there should not be such a strange terrain at all, so in the legend of the locals, the place where Hengyuan City is located was originally the battlefield of the battle between two immortals, and a god cut off Dagufeng with a sword during the war, so the terrain of the mountain peak where Hengyuan City is located appeared.

The legend about Hengyuan City is basically like this, but the reason why such a dangerous pass has always been idle before is because it was not the original border between Shu County and Pingyuan County. When the king of Shu expanded outward, he sent a large number of Shu troops from Hengyuan City to kill blatantly, directly snatched a large area of the plain area in the plain county, and forcibly pushed the border line of Shu County forward for hundreds of miles, and then in the tug-of-war for decades, the Shu army narrowly won, although the king of the plain county was unwilling, but in the end he could only accept his fate and lose those territories.

As a result, Hengyuan City, a dangerous city that cannot be opened, has lost its significance and has been idle for a hundred years. But in this war in which Pingyuan County sent troops to attack Tianren County, because Tianren County was facing a huge crisis of shortage of people, Guo Yunshan and they could only give up a large number of plains outside Dagu Peak in the end, and gather all the Jinzhu Army monks scattered on the periphery in Hengyuan City to avoid the danger of being broken by the monks of Pingyuan County one by one.

After all, when attacking Shu County before, the method adopted by the Jinzhu army was to break them one by one, and the king of Shu also lost on the wrong idea of being reluctant to give up every city. Guo Yunshan and the others, although they had already weakened much at the beginning of the war, and they looked as if they were afraid of Pingyuan County, but at least after losing face, they still kept the opportunity for a decisive battle. At least now there are 150,000 monks gathered in Hengyuan City, sitting on the natural danger pass of Hengyuan City, facing the 200,000 plain army of Pingyuan County, they still have a chance to find a breakthrough in this decisive battlefield.

In Hengyuan City, Zhao Lingrui has also appeared in the city now, and now every monk is very precious to Tianren County, Zhao Lingrui is a monk of the Void Spirit Realm after all, and he can also contribute some strength when assisting in defending the city.

There can be 150,000 monks in Hengyuan City, and a lot of the credit is because of the Long Ting Army. Today, there are only more than 200,000 troops that can be mobilized in Tianren County, and among the 150,000 defenders here, only half of them are Jinzhu Army monks, and the other nearly 80,000 monks are all mercenary monks invited by the Dragon Court Army at a great price.

With the strong financial resources of the Dragon Court Army, as well as the momentum of the Celestial County in the Central Plains, it was barely able to recruit more than 100,000 monks, but it was necessary to divide the recruited mercenary monks into two, because Changyun Dao also needed a large number of defenders, and even the defensive pressure in Changyun Dao was many times greater than that of Hengyuan City, after all, there was no such dangerous pass as Dagufeng between Changyun Dao and Lanhai County, what they could do was to disrupt the entire Changyun Dao again, and then the mysterious true ghost commander would lead hundreds of thousands of Jinzhu Army monks to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall on the chaotic battlefield of Changyun Dao。

In fact, up to now, the eyes of the entire Central Plains have been cast on Tianren County, but the appearance of the Jinzhu Army of Tianren County can really be said to have disappointed many people, and the momentum of the Jinzhu Army when attacking the Shu Army has completely disappeared, and now it feels as if they are struggling to survive, not only do they not have the slightest bright spot, but even at the beginning of the war, they have made many practices that can be said to be active to show weakness.

In order to set up a defense line in Hengyuan City, it is enough to humiliate people to take the initiative to give up a large area of territory, but compared to Changyun Dao, the territory given up on Shu Road is much better, because the strategy of the Jinzhu Army on Changyun Road is basically a practice of semi-abandoning Changyun Dao, not fortifying in any city, and the monks of Lanhai County will retreat as long as they attack them, never fighting a decisive battle in the city or plain, and will only fight ambush battles in the mountains or jungles. Although the results of the battle were remarkable, in such a big battle, the Changyun Dao, which had just settled down, was completely destroyed, and many of the businesses that the Long Ting Army had just opened in the Changyun Dao did not even have time to transfer, and could only be destroyed by the Lanhai County monks or simply taken into the pocket.

Under such a huge loss, the results of the battle on the Changyun Dao were really not enough at all, even if they gave up the entire Changyun Dao, even if they won a few sneak attack wars, what could they do? By now, many of the Central Plains monks who were originally very optimistic about the Heavenly and Human County at the beginning of the war have finally begun to gradually waver.

The discussion in the teahouse in Longdu has also changed from the initial side to the current polemic, although Tianren County has put on such a posture of taking the initiative to show weakness and is constantly giving in, but in the final analysis, whether it is Shu Dao or Changyun Dao, in fact, the monks of Pingyuan County and Lanhai County have not completely occupied it. The Central Plains monks who really supported the Celestial Monarchy were still very optimistic about the Jinzhu Army, they thought that this was the strategy of the Celestial Bamboo Army, and believed the reason why their troops were so small as that came out of the Celestial Monarchy.

However, those monks who opposed the Celestial Monarch or had already made up their minds to see the jokes of the Celestial Monarch were now not optimistic about the Celestial Monarch at all, and they thought that the generals of the Jinzhu Army were already poor in donkey skills, and the tactics of chaotic warfare had already been seen through, but they were still using it, and the result was the complete chaos of Changyun Dao.

As for the situation they explained, in the eyes of the opponents, it was an untenable excuse at all, what did it mean to fight against two Xuan Realms at the same time, so a large number of monks were sent out? Even if it is to conquer the Xuan Realm, according to the calculation of time, it should only be just the beginning now, the situation is at most just opened, what is the wrong thing to withdraw the troops at this time, although all the nobles in the Central Plains yearn for the Xuan Realm to fight, but in the final analysis, the territory on the Central Plains will always be the top priority, if even the hometown is lost, even if it occupies the Xuan Realm, what is the use.

Moreover, for those supporters of the Celestial County to help explain that the frequent transfer of a large number of monks requires a lot of expenses, the opponents are even more scoffed at this, if there is no Dragon Court Army to participate in the war, with such a sudden rise of the Heavenly Men County, maybe it is really not enough spirit stones, after all, the problem of the lack of background of the emerging nobles will be everyone, but the wealth of the Dragon Court Army is also known to all the nobles of the Central Plains, and the Dragon Court Army is willing to take out tens of millions of high-grade spirit stones to hire mercenary monks to help the Celestial County defend the city, which is not too pale and powerless if they don't have spirit stones to teleport the expeditionary force back。

Up to now, although Tianren County still has a large number of supporters in the Central Plains by virtue of its previous brilliant achievements, but the support is only a cluster after all, and most of the nobles who like Tianren County are also nobles in Longdu, and their foundation is basically placed in the Xuan Realm, so Li Mingyang's strong rise in the Central Plains will not pose too much threat to them. But these people don't want to be allies of the Celestial County because they like it, so they don't really come to the aid of the Celestial County.

On the contrary, all the powerful nobles in the Central Plains are now secretive about Li Mingyang, after all, for such a war maniac who likes to fight everywhere, everyone hopes that he will die immediately, after all, no one can guarantee that Li Mingyang's butcher's knife will not suddenly reach their necks one day.

In such a situation, many Central Plains nobles did not follow the fall of the well at this time, it was already considered benevolent and righteous, if it were not for the Long Ting Army's participation in the war, Tianren County would only look even more miserable now, after all, isolation is often more humiliating than defeat in many cases, which means an extreme failure of diplomatic strategy.

In Hengyuan City, after another fierce battle, looking at the monks of Pingyuan County who receded like a tide, the people in Hengyuan City finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It's too difficult to fight, this battle is too difficult, everyone is tense and fighting a war of attrition, everyone is guessing whether the Celestial County still has a backhand, and all the Plains County monks don't dare to really fight and rush.

But only Guo Yunshan and the real decision-makers in Tianren County now know how bad the situation is, Tianyuan Realm and Fengtai Realm are both situations that have been opened with great difficulty, compared to the situation in the Central Plains, what they want more is the stability of Tianyuan Realm and Fengtai Realm. As long as you can firmly grasp the two Xuan Realms in your hands, even if you want to fight back in the future, it will not be wishful thinking.

Looking at the boundless enemy army outside the city, and looking at the already exhausted defenders in the city, Guo Yunshan suddenly thought of the disappeared Yuan Wuyu, and couldn't help but mutter: "Could it be that Tianren County really wants to have such a short life?"