Ling Hua Sect, the Cabinet Elders, Fang Lin sat in the first place, and the twenty-eight Cabinet Elders were listed below, these twenty-eight people were called Ling Hua Twenty-Eight Su, there is no doubt that in Ling Hua Sect, in addition to the sect master, the power of the Cabinet Elders' Council is the greatest, but their cultivation is not the highest, for example, Fang Lin's master, the Great Elder, his cultivation is only a return to the void, and it is also a pseudo realm, Li Mengyang is only a reincarnation realm, of course, there are also high cultivations, Dongfang Minghui is the realm of life and death.

The scene was a little dull, everyone looked down and thought about something, and suddenly, Zhou Kuohai raised his head and said: "Sect Master, have you really decided to take advantage of this opportunity to kill Li Xianzong, you know, in that case, we will completely tear our faces with the Yeyue Empire, if Li Tianyou is desperate to deal with us, I am afraid, with our strength, we can only be destroyed." ”

Yang Mei also said solemnly: "Yes, sect master, the old body also feels that this matter should be treated more carefully, after all, as long as one wrong step is taken, it will bring us destruction." ”

It is very strange that this pair of guys, who often ridicule each other and target each other in the elders' meeting, do not look down on each other at all in this cabinet elders' meeting, but still attach great importance to each other's opinions. However, in the eyes of the cabinet elders, this is a normal thing, no one knows that Ling Hua Sect's requirements for the cabinet elders are not cultivation at all, but loyalty, contribution, significance, and a cool head to the sect and the overall situation beyond ordinary people, these five items are indispensable, and in addition to themselves, the rest of the people only know that Ling Hua Sect has the existence of the Cabinet Elders, but they don't know who they are, and because of this, only Li Haoran in Fang Lin's group of ten people has entered the Cabinet Elders.

In the Linghua Sect, the Elders are responsible for the daily affairs of the sect, they are a large group, there are more than 2,000 people, so they are mixed, and Zhou Kuohai and Yang Mei deliberately made such a gesture to show everyone; The Core Council of Elders is responsible for some of the core and secret affairs of the sect, and there are only eighty-eight of them, and the Cabinet Council of Elders is the supreme authority.

Feng Cheng thought about it and said, "Actually~~ Don't you think that we have already torn our faces with the Yeyue Empire now." Huanhua Wetland, Li Tianyou wanted us to take Tianxuanling, but instead of meeting his requirements, we also directly or indirectly destroyed his mad wolf guard, ruined his elaborate arrangement, and even his third son died, isn't that enough for him to hate us? ”

Speaking of this, he paused and continued: "If these are not enough, then we break his cage and show our ambition, and this one is enough for him Li Tianyou to buckle his hat to destroy us!" ”

Feng Lu also spoke: "Actually, we have long expected that there will be a battle with the Yeyue Empire, in that case, why should we be afraid of a war?" ”

Xue Mantian said: "The battle is definitely going to be fought, but the most important thing is to see when and how to fight, if we are given a hundred years, we will not be afraid of the Yeyue Empire, and now, I am afraid we really have no chance of winning!" ”

His words immediately received several voices of approval, but at this time, the Great Elder suddenly spoke: "Sect Master, the old man also feels that this move is too risky, once we attack Li Xianzong, Li Tianyou can deal with us without any scruples, after all, even if he wants to deal with us now, but due to the situation, it is impossible to come with great fanfare, which also gives us a lot of time, and he is on the cusp of the storm, and there is no chance for development." ”

Fang Lin smiled faintly and said, "Hehe, elders, your considerations are reasonable, and it seems to be the safest way, but have you thought about it further?" ”

"First of all, each of the pillars of the Yeyue Empire is not given in vain, it can be said that each of them is the existence of one side of the suppression, if it weren't for Li Tianyou's self-destruction of the Great Wall, the rest of the countries would not have the slightest chance at all, but now God has given us a real once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the nine generalissimos, the two of the Dongfang family were destroyed by Li Tianyou himself, Li Xiaofeng died in Nanyue due to arrogance, Ximen Changli was sucked in Xiyuan Pass by the coalition forces of the three major countries in the Western Regions, and Nan Guoyan also had to guard the south, as for Beitangmo, hehe, it's a question whether he can come back alive from the Eastern Regions; As for the rest of the unit dragons, they can't claim to be sick, and they want to protect themselves, but Li Yan, the head of the nine generalissimos, must sit in the Jingshi, if we kill Li Xianzong at this time, then our northern region will forever lose the suppression of the Yeyue Empire! ”

Fang Lin's voice fell, and the twenty-eight elders fell into a heated discussion, Fang Lin didn't urge when he saw this, he picked up the teacup and took a leisurely sip, after a while, the sound of discussion gradually became quieter, and Madam Shi spoke: "As the sect master said, after all, Li Tianyou still has two marshals available, whether it is Unit Long or Li Yan, their abilities should not be under Li Xianzong at all, when the time comes, Li Tianyou only needs to send one of them, and our efforts will not be in vain!" ”

The rest of the people couldn't help but nod slightly when they heard this, Fang Lin smiled lightly and said: "What Madam Shi said is true, but you have ignored a huge problem, that is, the strength of troops, in this battle, I am bound to destroy most of his Tiger Ben Guard, and at that time, even if they have a top marshal, but there is no top army, then what will he use to confront us and the entire Northern Alliance, then we don't need any strategy and tactics, just like this time the Northern Alliance Army dealt with Li Xianzong, just crush it directly and violently." ”

Everyone was silent for a while when they heard this, but at this time, Dongfang Minghui stroked his beard and said: "The background of the Yeyue royal family is far more than that, you know, Li Er, who is now ranked third, and the fourth Nan Guo has not moved, and in their Taishang Worship Palace, although Li Taisan was severely injured by the ancestor, there are still Li Taiyi, Li Taier, Li Taisi and Li Taiwu, the four powerhouses of the Ruins Realm, this time, if they send these strong people, plus some strong people from the worship hall to come to reinforcements, we are afraid that we will not be able to please them." , but on the contrary, it will lose its troops! ”

When Li Haoran heard this, he threw a "sure enough" look at Fang Lin, and said with a wry smile: "This, the sect master has already thought of it, first of all, in terms of Xiyuan Pass, plus the ancestor, there are a total of four powerhouses in the Ruins Realm staring there, so Li Tianyou must put his strongest person, that is, Li Taiyi, plus Li Taisi there; And his Kyoto can't be left unattended, so one of the five great Taishang worshippers will definitely not leave; And the Eastern Regions is the most difficult place for Li Tianyou to control at present, so either Li Taiwu or Li Taier, there must be someone to go to the town, of course, he can also recall Li Yi who chased and killed Mu Dingfang, however, that possibility is extremely low, at least not at present, so, next, the pressure we have to face is not as great as imagined! ”

Everyone couldn't help but light up when they heard this, but at this time, Lei Ming said: "You are all talking about how great the nine generalissimos are, but judging from the performance of Li Xianzong and Li Xiaofeng, it is not worthy of the name at all, I always feel that Li Xianzong's defeat and trapping are tiresome." ”

This sentence immediately pulled back the excited crowd, and looked at Lei Ming in astonishment one by one, Fang Lin smiled when he saw this, and said: "Elder Lei is thoughtful, Li Xianzong's defeat and retreat is indeed a cat, you can pay attention to the battle report to know that although he was defeated, but the loss was minimal, especially his Tiger Benwei, there were no casualties at all, and even those troops recruited along the way had very few losses, what does this prove?" ”

All the elders lowered their heads and thought about it when they heard this, and after a while, Fu Heng raised his head violently and exclaimed: "Li Xianzong, he is laying out a shocking overall situation, and he wants to eat or severely damage us and the Northern Coalition Army, so as to make a perfect paving for him to sweep the north next!" ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, but Fang Lin looked at Fu Heng with a smile and nodded: "In Elder Fu's words, Li Xianzong did not hesitate to use himself as bait and was willing to take risks, and his plans were very big. ”

"However, with his current strength of two million, can he eat so many of us, you know, there are more than nine million in the Northern Alliance Army alone, if we join again, it can reach at least 11 million, and there will be at least thirty powerhouses in the Life and Death Realm, and there are several masters on the list, even if he can transfer a Broken Ruins Realm powerhouse and some Life and Death Realm powerhouses from the Yeyue Empire, he doesn't have the power to eat us!" A cabinet elder said incredulously.

"Hehe, of course he doesn't only have a small number of troops on the surface, if I were Li Xianzong, I'm afraid he would have already lurked a large number of troops in the entire Qi country, just waiting for us to take the bait." Fang Lin said with a smile.

Li Haoran seemed to be enlightened at this time: "Oh, I understand, some time ago, it was rumored that a large number of caravans entered many northern countries such as Qi State, Song State, and Chu State from the Yeyue Empire, and also traded all kinds of goods with great fanfare, and then returned home on a swaggering return. ”

Fang Lin said: "Yes, if I were Li Xianzong, I would use the method of stealing beams and replacing pillars, although there is no evidence now, but I am sure that most of the ordinary people in the current Qi country have become the elite soldiers of the Yeyue Empire, as long as we attack Qi Yuan City, we will unknowingly fall into his heavy encirclement, and when the time comes, we will be slaughtered." ”

Zhang Fengyi said in a cold sweat: "Sect Master, since we all know Li Xianzong's plan, then don't go this time." ”

Fang Lin smiled confidently and said: "Since I already know his layout, will there be any problems in breaking the situation, not to mention, if we don't go, then the nearly nine million elites of the Northern Alliance, and more than a dozen powerhouses in the life and death realm, I am afraid that they will not be able to keep it, in that case, if there is a lack of containment, Li Xianzong will pour all his strength into us in the future, and at that time, we may be struggling." ”

When everyone heard this, they all sighed, and the Great Elder said, "Then when does the sect master plan to go out and how many troops will he bring?" ”

"You don't need too many troops, two million is enough, let's send troops in half a month, and the elders in the sect will have to worry a lot." Fang Lin Road.

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Kaiyang City is the closest city to the border of Linghuazong in Qi State, the city is not large, and it can accommodate about 200,000 people, but because it is a border city, it is also very prosperous and lively in ordinary times.

However, today's Kaiyang City is a solemn atmosphere, there is no bustling crowd in the city, replaced by criss-crossing patrol soldiers, on the city wall, swords and guns are numerous, armor is cold, and the eyes of the soldiers are staring into the distance without blinking, waiting for something.

At a certain moment, a black line suddenly appeared at the end of the earth, and then it expanded rapidly, and soon turned into a tsunami-like torrent rushing towards Kaiyang City, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the small city was surrounded on all sides, and the water was impassable!

Immediately afterwards, a loud shout sounded from under the city: "The defenders of the city listen, you have been surrounded by millions of troops of my Linghua army, you have absolutely no possibility of victory, but our sect master is merciful, give you and all the residents of the city a way to live, and limit you to open the city and surrender within one hour, otherwise, when the city is broken, it will be the day of the slaughter!" ”

The general defending the city was very tough, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, dignified imperial soldiers, only died in battle, did not surrender, come to war!" ”

In other words, he didn't care about the life and death of the residents in the city, but this was normal, after all, these were all Qi people, not people from the Yeyue Empire, but under the city, the corners of Fang Lin's mouth turned up when he heard this, and said, "Hehe, I want to cover it." ”

The sound of Zhenyuan's package soon spread throughout the city, and many residents immediately panicked, some even rushed out of their homes to escape, some shouted loudly, begging the defending general to surrender to avoid the next killing, and some even scuffled with the garrison, however, at least half of the residents just stayed at home silently, indifferent to the threat of the Linghua army.

"No matter who it is, as long as you dare to make trouble, you will be killed!" Hearing the report of his subordinates, the general defending the city did not hesitate to order.

Soon, the streets resounded one after another screams, followed by bursts of roars and curses, as well as sporadic weapons collision and true yuan explosions, and soon, the houses on both sides of the street were dyed mottled red, the bluestone paved roads also turned dark red, stumps and broken arms could be seen everywhere, and pain and wailing abounded, a scene of hell on earth!

"Fang Lin, isn't it a little too cruel for us to do this?" Wen Yue'er, who saw all this through the development crystal, said a little unbearably.

Fang Lin touched his hair lovingly, and said softly with some helplessness: "No way, you know, it is necessary to take over our slaughter of the city, and now we are doing this, just to let the Yeyue Army help us do most of the dirty work, and then our so-called slaughter of the city can be without psychological pressure, after all, most of the rest are ambushes of the Yeyue Empire." ”

Wen Yue'er stopped talking when she heard this, but the unbearable look on her face couldn't fade away, and she muttered: "After all, it's nearly 100,000 innocent people." ”

Soon, the shouts in the city disappeared, and the remaining civilians were driven home, leaving only sporadic sobs, an hour passed quickly, but the defenders of the city had no intention of surrendering at all, but were ready to fight to the death, at this moment, the horn of attack sounded in the Linghua army!

Boom, the catapult let out an angry roar, and suddenly, the overwhelming rune stones smashed towards the lonely city, and at the same time, a tall and wide wall of water waves rose on all four walls, and the sound of thumping boulders smashing into the water sounded continuously, and then slowly calmed down.

However, the next round of attacks of the Ling Hua army came one after another, and the defense of the defending army was also very in place, and the tsunami covering the sky great rune array was just right to block this attack, but the attack of the Ling Hua army seemed to have no gap, and then the third round of rune stones smashed again.

"Hmph, my imperial army is not the garbage army that you Ling Huazong dealt with before, and this kind of means is of no use to us." Looking at Ling Huajun's single attack method, the defending general sneered disdainfully.

However, at the next moment, just when his talisman array was about to be activated, hundreds of black dots with light tails suddenly flew towards the city head in the sky, the speed was really a meteor catching the moon, and before everyone could react, it had already smashed on the light wall of the city protection array, followed by a sound that broke people's eardrums, and the entire city protection array and the city wall were shaken for a while, although there was no harm to the large array, but this was enough to interfere with the excitation of the tsunami covering the sky rune array, And the next rune stone also fell on the city protection array without hindrance!

After a rumbling burst of dense explosions, the level of the city protection array, which was not too high, shattered, and in less than an hour, the city was breached, and the captured city defender general glared at Fang Lin angrily and sneered: "It is said that Fang Lin of Linghua Sect uses soldiers like a god, and when I see it today, it really lives up to its name, and it actually makes the powerhouse of the life and death realm lose the earth-shaking thunder, hehe, I am not afraid of people laughing when I say it!" ”

Fang Lin hadn't spoken yet, but Li Haoran was the first to speak: "This old man, how funny you have to be to say such a thing, we are fighting now, you think we are fighting a martial arts competition, you have to do everything on the battlefield, and you also talk about rules, hehe, in that case, you just go to find a sect to teach and learn." ”

When the general guarding the city heard this, his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, how could he not hear the ridicule in the other party's words, this was ridiculing him for not knowing how to fight, however, Fang Lin did not give him a chance to speak again, and directly ordered coldly: "Drag it down, cut it, order the army, slaughter the city in an all-round way, and no one will be missed!" ”

When the general guarding the city heard this, his face suddenly changed greatly, he struggled violently, and scolded: "Fang Lin, you demon, executioner, all the people in the city are civilians, the two countries are at war, if you don't kill civilians, if you do this, you will be punished by God, you will inevitably die without a whole body, and you will fall into reincarnation forever!" ”

Princess Xiangxiang smiled coldly and said, "Hmph, civilian? The civilians have already been killed by you, and the rest of them, hehe, I'm afraid they are all the people you want to stay. ”

When the general guarding the city heard this, his heart shook violently, and his face instantly changed several colors, and he was speechless for a while, and at this moment, a cry sounded in the city, followed by a violent fight, and the smoke and dust rising high almost covered the sky of the entire city, and also obscured the sight of everyone on the city.

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In the Generalissimo's Mansion of Qiyuan City, Li Xianzong circulated a battle report to everyone and said, "Let's talk about it, what do you think." ”

There was immediately a buzzing discussion below, and after a while, a gold-armored general spoke: "Generalissimo, could it be that Fang Lin already knew about our plan, so he adopted this method of slaughtering the city, the purpose of which is to purge our people!" ”

"It's impossible!" As soon as General Jin Jia's words fell, Li Tianhui immediately jumped out and objected: "We have been brewing this plan since three years ago, and what was Fang Lin doing at that time, he was still worrying about the traitor of Ling Hua Sect, even if he Fang Lin was a genius and a demon, it was impossible to think of it that far!" ”

The unwillingness and resentment in his tone could be heard by everyone, but everyone nodded in agreement when they heard this, not to mention, even their high-ranking generals didn't understand this plan at the beginning, until recently, after Li Xianzong completely successfully laid out and explained to them, these people also woke up like a dream, so they didn't believe that Fang Lin could see through Li Xianzong's plan anyway.

Another bearded general said, "But why is Ling Huazong's strange action this time, according to their previous behavior, they would not have done such a thing as slaughtering the city." ”

Another silver-armored general hesitated and said, "Could it be that they failed to persuade them to surrender, so they became angry and angry, so they poured all their anger on the heads of the civilians?" ”

"It's impossible!" Li Xianzong immediately spoke negatively: "Fang Lin is definitely not an impulsive and brainless person, remember, never underestimate him, otherwise, we will end up quite miserable!" ”

When everyone heard this, the adjutant general pondered: "Since it is not to vent anger, then the last general thinks that Fang Lin may adopt conservative tactics, step by step, take all the cities, and then attack Qiyuan City." ”

Li Xianzong was silent when he heard this, and everyone began to discuss, and after a while, Li Tianhui spoke: "I think Fang Lin will not use this step-by-step method, because he can't afford to wait for that time, after all, he is afraid of long nights and dreams, and he is also afraid of the arrival of reinforcements from our empire, and at that time, he will also draw water with a bamboo basket." ”

A smile appeared on Li Xianzong's face when he heard this, and he said, "Oh, then what do you think is the reason why Fang Lin did this?" ”

"Fang Lin is a very cautious and careful person, I think, he needs a transit station, or a nail inserted into the interior of the Qi country, in this way, no matter what, he can advance and retreat in a certain way, and Kaiyang City is the closest city to his sect country, and all kinds of equipment are also ready-made, he only needs to repair a little to use it, the reason why he slaughtered the city is because he wants to completely control it in his own hands, and turn Kaiyang City into a real military fortress!" Li Tianhui said with confidence on his face.

Everyone couldn't help nodding in agreement when they heard this, and some people even slapped their assemblies on the spot, Li Xianzong was also very satisfied with such an opinion, whether it was right or wrong, this was a psychological analysis of the opponent after all.

At this moment, someone from outside came to report, saying that Ling Huazong had set up a high-level city protection array in Kaiyang City, blessed the scale of the city wall, and also dug three feet into the city and its surroundings, searched carefully, and then transported a large number of materials to the city, and between Ling Huazong's practice, in addition to the more than 100,000 people lurking in the city, the 60,000 people in disguise in the surrounding villages and towns were also cleaned.

Everyone felt a burst of heartache when they heard this, after all, it was 160,000 people, and it didn't play any role, so they were killed by their opponents in such a humiliated way, but at the same time, they also praised Li Tianhui's analysis, and they were like sycophants for a while.

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Fenglin City is a big city six hundred miles away from Kaiyang City, with a population of about one million, but it is not on the only way to Qiyuan City, therefore, the defenders here are only less than 30,000, and they are not elite, and even more than half of them are still the original defenders of Qi City.

As soon as the hour passed, the city gate was opened, and immediately afterward, all kinds of people such as merchants and vendors, cloth clothes and bare feet poured into the city, waking up the city that had been quiet all night, and instantly became vivid, and the two city gate guards only stood on both sides of the city gate with spears in their hands, but they ignored the crowd that poured into the city, like a pair of sculptures.

About half an hour later, a rumbling sound of horses' hooves came into everyone's ears, which made everyone stop and look in the direction from which the sound came, and after a while, a black line appeared in everyone's field of vision, and just when everyone was looking at each other, someone suddenly shouted in panic: "It's cavalry, there is an enemy coming to attack the city!" ”

Wow~~~ With this shout, there was a sudden chaos in front of the city gate, countless figures scurried around, and the inaudible screams spread in all directions, and the city gate was suddenly chaotic like a pot of porridge, and the people with some organic spirits immediately ran to the guards and shouted: "My lord, close the city gate quickly!" ”

However, the two guards were indifferent, still standing there like sculptures, people were anxious, reached out and shook their arms, however, it was such a light touch, the bodies of the two guards seemed to have lost support, and fell straight down, until this time, people saw clearly, the two people had a thin line of blood on their necks, until now it suddenly cracked, but not much blood flowed out.

Suddenly, there was another burst of exclamation, seeing that the cavalry forward was getting closer and closer, everyone didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly ran towards the city, and not long after, the cavalry of the Linghua Army also rushed into the city without hindrance.

At this time, in front of the academy of the city defenders, there were about five or six hundred warriors of all kinds blocking the gate of the military barracks, and confronted the soldiers who were about to rush out. ”

However, in the face of his angry reprimand, a middle-aged man came out of the crowd, and said with a smile: "Haha, your so-called capital crime is of no use to us, we don't want to do anything today, we just want you to stay in the barracks obediently, rest assured, as long as you don't resist, we won't do anything to you, if you are disobedient, hehe, then it's no wonder us!" ”

The officer was furious and shouted: "Boldly disrupt the people, come and take them all down for me, if there is resistance, kill them!" ”

Immediately, a group of soldiers rushed towards the crowd in response, however, as soon as they rushed out a few steps, several True Yuan forces ruthlessly pierced through their bodies, and when the officer saw this, his pupils shrank fiercely, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Yin Yang Realm Martial Artist!" Who are you? ”

At this moment, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded, and then a deep voice shouted: "Everyone can hear clearly, all the incense sticks are back to their homes, and all outsiders have entered the nearby inns or restaurants, and if there are still people on the street at that time, they will all be killed as spies!" ”

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