Chapter 371: Subversion
Shu County, Shu Wangfu.
"How is the prince?"
"I don't know, there's no news coming out. β
"Alas, I didn't expect the prince to be so breathless, didn't he just lose a few cities, how could he fall ill all of a sudden?"
"Who said no, although our Shu army has won many battles over the years, it is not a sure victory in every battle, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, how can he be, alas, ......"
"Not really...... Wait, let's not talk about it yet, Lord Liu is here. β
In front of the door of the King of Shu's bedroom, the two guards carefully lowered their heads, not daring to take a breath.
Liu Qing frowned and walked over and asked one of them, "How is the prince?"
"The adults inside haven't come out yet, so they don't know much about the situation inside. One of the guards hurriedly replied.
Liu Qing's brows furrowed even deeper, and he muttered to himself: "It's been a day and a night, and there must be a letter whether to fight or not." After speaking, Liu Qing walked in, and when he entered the door, he suddenly turned around and said: "Chew your tongue less in the future, now is a very important time, don't talk about things that shouldn't be discussed, understand?"
The necks of the two guards all shrunk, and they nodded with a panicked face and said, "Yes, yes, the little one should be damned, and I will definitely not dare to talk more in the future." β
Liu Qing ignored the two of them anymore, turned around and walked in. Probably at this time yesterday, a battle report came from Changyun County, for the monks of Shu County, although Changyun County has not been completely pacified, but it is no longer a big problem, originally thought it was just a war report to report ordinary information, but did not want this battle report to be sent to the King of Shu, the King of Shu was furious on the spot, and then he did not breathe, and fainted.
The King of Shu is also a monk of the True Spirit Realm!
A monk of the Spiritual Realm was stunned by a battle report, such a thing is rare, not to mention the dignified king of Shu County, no one has seen him react like this for hundreds of years, but this time it can be regarded as an eye-opener, but the timing of this eye-opening is not necessarily good.
Liu Qing happened to be present at the time, and some generals in Shu County were reporting the current battle situation to the King of Shu, and after the King of Shu fainted, people were busy with him, and they all saw the information on the battle report at the same time. Thinking of the news in the war report, Liu Qing can't help but feel emotionally when he thinks about it now.
"What a ruthless character, I can't get it myself, and I definitely won't let others get it. Thinking of what happened in Changyun County, Liu Qing didn't know how many times he sighed in such a day and a night.
-- The three cities of Muhuang, Daimyo and Yutian in Changyun County were attacked at the same time, and the soldiers of our army bravely defended the city, but they were defeated by the enemy army, and they were helplessly defeated, and 5,000 people were wounded in the battle of Muhuang, and more than 1,900 people were killed, and the soldiers of the two cities of Daimyo and Yutian were killed...... The whole army was destroyed, a total of 33,000 men.
Kill, seven thousand.
This is the news presented in the battle report, when Liu Qing and the other Shu County generals who had already been raised by the Changyun Army and the Xiliang Army saw such a battle report, everyone gasped, and even they felt their scalps tingle. As the two guards said, although the Shu army has not lost in the southern and northern wars over the years, it is extremely rare to lose so miserably.
Muhuang, Daimyo, and Yutian are the outposts at the forefront of the defense line arranged by the Shu army in Changyun County, facing the battlefield of the dead wind. A total of nearly 60,000 monks have been deployed, which has already occupied thirty percent of the troops deployed in Changyun County. Especially the big city of Muhuang, it is a city of monks that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is even a fourth-level large array outside the city.
But when the battle report came, the three cities of Muhuang, Daimyo, and Yutian actually fell at the same time, and the terrifying information contained in them really made it difficult for these Shu generals to digest. But the most terrifying thing is that the Shu army was beaten so miserably by the enemy army while occupying the advantage of defending the city, and in the end only 7,000 enemies were killed.
Lost 7,000 monks, captured three large cities, and broke the first line of defense laid by the Shu army in Changyun County. If such a record is spread, it will set off earth-shattering waves in the entire Central Plains.
The guards outside the palace of the king of Shu can't think of these deep things, and they don't know the detailed information on the battle report, so when they talk about it, they will say "but two cities have been lost", if they know the proportion of casualties in this disparity in combat power, they will also know why the entire Shu palace is now immersed in a very solemn atmosphere.
Liu Qing also knew that what the King of Shu was sad about was not the three cities, not just the dead monks, and not just the three spirit stone veins around the Muhuang City, but because of the Xuan Realm.
The three castles of Muhuang, Daimyo and Yutian were actually built in places that were not very suitable for construction, and the reason why this was so was because the three castles were like horns of each other, and they were built around the two magic circles. Because between the three cities, there are two entrances to the Xuan Realm. None of the four Xuan Realms owned by King Han had found boundary monuments, so if he wanted to control the Xuan Realm, he could only place heavy troops around the entrance of the Xuan Realm, and there was no more practical way than to directly build a city.
However, the loss of these three cities has completely deprived the protection of these two Xuan Realms. The war in the Central Plains is fought over resources, and there are boundless resources in the Xuan Realm that can be developed, and if you lose two Xuan Realms at once, even if you are rich and have a county king like the King of Shu, it is difficult to accept. What's more, among these two Xuan Realms, the King of Shu has invested heavy troops, and there are only 60,000 monks guarding the three cities, but there are already 100,000 Shu troops fighting in the two Xuan Realms, and their purpose is to find the boundary monument, as long as the boundary monument is found, the entrance circle of the Xuan Realm can be transferred to Shu County, which is the biggest victory.
However, in the battle report, there was such a sentence - after the enemy army occupied the Xuanjie, all the entrances to the Xuanjie were destroyed.
The destruction of the Xuanjie entrance magic circle means that it is impossible for the two expeditionary forces to come out of this entrance, and there must be no other exit to the Central Plains in those two Xuanjie, and although there are formation mages in the expeditionary army, they are not fifth-level array mages, and it is impossible for a formation mage of less than five levels to establish a teleportation circle connecting the main realm and the Xuanjie, which means that even if the expeditionary force finds the boundary monument, they will be trapped in the Xuanjie forever.
Lost three monk cities, killed more than 40,000 monks, lost three spirit stone veins, lost two Xuan Realms, and lost 100,000 expeditionary troops. Such losses add up, and it is impossible for any king to calm down. The king of Shu is rich, but it is precisely because his foundation is too big, and there are too many places to spend, although the conquest of Changyun County is a victory of devastating and decaying, but the consumption is also quite huge, and these consumptions, the king of Shu is counting on excavating from Changyun County. But now just cast the net, before the net was closed, someone tore the fishing net directly, and in the face of such a huge blow, it seemed very normal for the king of Shu to faint directly.
After entering the dormitory, Liu Qing put away his thoughts, but when he heard the people around him talking about what happened in Changyun County over and over again, he couldn't stay deaf. It's just that he has already digested the news in the battle report, and even the detailed information in the three major battles has come one after another within this day, but when he thinks of the last news on the first battle report, Liu Qing's eyes will always flash a trace of incomprehensibility.
-- Commander of the enemy army, Li Mingyang.
"Li Mingyang, Li Mingyang! The old man will definitely crush your bones and scatter ashes!" In the dormitory, the angry roar of the King of Shu suddenly came out.
Liu Qing stood in place in a daze, thinking about the young strong man who had only heard of it in rumors, but had never met him, and his eyes began to become more and more dull for a while: "He doesn't seem to be twenty years old, what kind of person is he?"
Changyun County, Muhuang City.
At this time, it had been three months since Li Mingyang killed Qin Zhan on Taihe Mountain, and after that battle, Li Mingyang took advantage of the situation to help Qin Yan to the throne of the head of Taihe Sect. Then it was announced on the spot that all the monks who were on Taihe Mountain at that time were requisitioned by Taihemen.
The original Taihemen monks naturally responded, and they were naturally overjoyed to be able to let the orthodox heirs sit on the throne of the sect, as for those monks who were incorporated in, they didn't dare to disobey when they saw their three new bosses cut off their heads at the same time. As for those small forces that were originally obedient to Taihe Mountain, they originally took refuge in Taihe Mountain, but now it is just that Taihe Mountain has changed its owner and called back Taihe Gate, so no one has spoken out against it.
Only those monks who originally came to watch, although a few of them had a little disagreement, but thinking of Li Mingyang's terrifying combat power and the war knife on Yan Guang's back that was constantly dripping blood, they didn't dare to say a word in the end.
Immediately, on the first day of Qin Yan's ascension, Taihemen directly expanded to nearly 20,000 monks.
And just when Qin Yan and Qin Yuqing thought that Li Mingyang was going to recuperate after the war, Li Mingyang only rested for three days, and then brazenly sent troops. But I don't know if Li Mingyang's record in fighting Qin was too brilliant, or if these forces in the Death Wind Battlefield were not as strong as he imagined, Li Mingyang swept away half of the forces on the Death Wind Battlefield in only one month.
At the beginning, the top ten forces were still able to calm down, but as Taihemen began to win a hundred battles under the leadership of Li Mingyang, and the team of monks began to grow larger and larger, they realized that Taihemen was not suddenly convulsive and wanted to grab territory, they seemed to be planning to occupy the entire battlefield of the dead wind. Realizing this, several of the top ten forces couldn't hold their breath and began to make a move against Taihemen.
Qin Yan is most worried about this matter, in fact, in the battlefield of the dead wind, except for the top ten forces, in fact, the rest of the small forces have no value in battle, but once the top ten forces start to act against Taihemen, such a super war will not be able to face, after all, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses if it is against such a super force, if the losses are too strict, even if there are more victories before, it is meaningless.
However, Qin Yan's worries had almost no effect, when the top ten forces were almost about to unite to attack Taihemen, Li Mingyang suddenly changed the rampage style when he was fighting against the small forces before, but suddenly played tactics.
Prior to this, Qin Yan didn't know that Li Mingyang could actually play tactics, and when he followed Li Mingyang to fight, he had already noticed that Li Mingyang was a formation master, and it was said that he had reached the Cheng dΓΉ of a fourth-level formation mage, and he was proficient in battle formations at the same time. Taihemen has been rooted in the Central Plains for thousands of years, and is naturally no stranger to battle formations, but he is not very familiar with tactics.
In fact, because of the continuous study of the battle array, the Central Plains monks have developed a lot of exquisite battle formations, and they are used to fighting head-on in the big war, competing with the achievements of the two bosses in the battle formation, and also competing with the overall strength of the monks under their hands. The so-called tactics and tactics are not worth mentioning at all in front of the battle array, and to put it bluntly, they think that tactics and tactics are small conspiracies to play when their strength is insufficient, and in the face of absolute power, what tricks can conspiracies play.
Although he also saw Li Mingyang's good strength and good battle array strength, when he saw that Li Mingyang suddenly began to lead the team to hide in Tibet and play guerrilla tactics in the battlefield of the dead wind, Qin Yan really had a feeling that Li Mingyang might have run out of donkey skills.
But just when the entire Dead Wind Battlefield really became a battlefield because of the crazy battle of Taihemen, Qin Yan gradually discovered that although it seemed that they were always running away, it seemed that the enemy troops chasing them began to become fewer and fewer, and the strength of the attack on them began to weaken, and after this discovery, Qin Yan suddenly realized that it seemed that they had begun to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.
In the later stage of the fight, Qin Yan divided his troops with Li Mingyang once, and after joining forces again, he found that there was a team he had never seen followed behind Li Mingyang, and the appearance of this team made Qin Yan completely sluggish. What kind of team is this, Qin Yan, who was born in Taihemen, is used to seeing masters, and the Void Spirit Realm cultivators are no longer considered to be strong for him, but when the three thousand Void Spirit Realm monks appeared in front of him together, he was already a little unable to believe his eyes.
And in the team, there was a tough guy like a hill, when he saw this behemoth for the first time, although he hadn't fought yet, he didn't dare to sprout a little fighting spirit. What's even more strange is that there is a real ghost in the team, and after arriving, Qin Yan learned that the real commander of this big battle turned out to be this real ghost named Xie Bi'an.
A real ghost actually has the ability to arrange troops and strategize, and Qin Yan feels that everything he knows is being subverted.
And it is such a strange team, a strange commander, a tough general, who led him to a more subversive life little by little.