For a Jianghu person, it takes a lot of energy to cultivate a disciple who is suitable for his heart.

Not to mention the soups, soups, water, and meat nutrition that assist in cultivation.

At the beginning, Lu Yuan practiced martial arts, and he needed to spend ten taels of silver a month. For a year, it was one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

For the qualifications of ordinary people, it takes about four years to refine a meridian. This is almost like refining a meridian, and it takes five hundred taels of silver.

And for a big faction, the disciples under him can be called a little accomplished, at least they have to be a third-rate strength.

According to this standard, it would take eight years and 1,000 taels of silver to cultivate a third-rate disciple.

This is only the most basic consumption, if you count the energy of other kinds of teaching, and the various unique cultivation resources in the door, then the cost will have to be increased by a few percent.

Even the above is only the practice of the two meridians, and the martial artists who have just entered the third rate are consumed. If three, four, or five meridians are connected, the cost and expense are doubled.

The elder in front of him died a son, three apprentices, and a large number of nephews.

Let's not talk about the emotional loss.

Speaking of the economy, it is equivalent to directly losing tens of thousands of taels of silver, and more than ten years of hard work have come to naught.

Such setbacks, such encounters, as ordinary people, how many can stand it?

It can be said that without the descendants of those disciples, the elder's pension in the future, the rise and fall of the family, there is no guarantee.

The evening scene is bleak, and it is already predictable.

After a lifetime of hard work, who can not cry after ending up like this?

And this elder is not alone in such an end.

In the past few days, there have been many elders of the Seven Star Sect who have suffered this kind of tragedy of white hair and black hair, and even lost their own lives altogether.

Many people in the tent have already experienced this kind of tragedy.

And some people who have not experienced it, seeing other companions encounter this incident, and thinking that they are likely to follow in the footsteps, how can they not feel related and empathetic.

So at this time, watching the elder cry, an atmosphere of sadness and grief permeated the tent.

This war is really miserable.

The rebellion was far less than I had originally thought.

After really fighting a few battles with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and feeling the huge casualties, the many elders of the Seven Star Sect who had been carried away by the victory had already woken up at this time and began to secretly regret it.

Some have even given up and don't want to fight here anymore.

Anyway, they are all Jianghu people.

Even if he was wanted by the imperial court after the rebellion, but he took his disciples and nephews to change their faces and went to other counties to beg for a living, can the imperial court still chase him?

Even if you can't take people to other countries, you can make a name for yourself with your own strength.

The Jianghu people who have mastered powerful forces still have much more choices than those ordinary people.

However, the Seven Star Sect is their sect in the end, and although some elders have this idea in their hearts, they don't dare to say it explicitly or do it when they care about the kindness of the sect.

It's just that even so, within the army, people's hearts are gradually scattered, and all kinds of pessimism are rampant, but they can't be contained.

Qiao Xiuyuan, as the head of the army and the commander of the army, was naturally keenly aware of the changes in the minds of his subordinates.

Although in his heart, because of these successive setbacks, he was born with regret and pessimism.

But as the backbone of everyone, he still knows his responsibilities and knows that he can't let things go on like this.

Therefore, at this time, I saw Qiao Xiuyuan and said: "Elder Wu, your sacrifice, I know, will not be forgotten in the door." In this way, in the future, you can select a few descendants from the clan and introduce them into the Seven Star Gate.

Since you have lost the camp this time, then you will lead your troops to retreat to the rear first and repair it.

In the next few days, there will be no need to go to the front again. ”

He was so appeased.

However, in the face of these compensations, Elder Wu did not have much comfort, but felt more and more sad.

It's just that he also knows that it is not easy to be in charge, so although his eyes are still full of tears, he still insists on saying: "Thank you, master." ”

With that, he stepped aside and hid in a corner and went alone.

Qiao Xiuyuan glanced at him helplessly, and then looked at the others and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, although our army has been broken by officers and soldiers and suffered heavy losses, but in the past few days, the losses of those officers and soldiers are not small, and the casualties are definitely more than three thousand.

If we can't bear it, can those officers and soldiers be able to bear it?

Therefore, as long as I hold on any longer, when those officers and soldiers can no longer bear the casualties and begin to mutiny, this will be my chance to turn defeat into victory. ”

Qiao Xiuyuan continued to boost the morale of his subordinates.

But looking around, it didn't turn out very well. Many of the subordinate elders still looked heavy, and their emotions and thoughts did not improve much at all.

This situation made the head of the house more and more sad.

Once upon a time, the high-spirited and invincible Seven Star Gate ended up in such a situation.

For a while, Qiao Xiuyuan didn't have any heart.

It's just a big deal, it's a big deal to hold on for a few more days, it's really not good, so let's withdraw from the army. ’

Master Qiao thought so, and his heart was bitter.

……

In the next few days, Lu Yuan did not continue to stare at the battlefield.

Some people may think that it is a very heroic thing to fight bravely on the battlefield and the battle robe is stained with blood.

But after the actual experience, you will know that this kind of thing, the hero is a hero, but the cruelty is also extremely cruel.

Because every time you are a hero, it means that a person loses his life.

Although you live and die on the battlefield, if you don't kill others, others will kill you, there is no right or wrong at all.

But staring at this cruel scene all the time, the psychological impact and impact on people is still great.

Although Lu Yuan is not unacceptable to this, after watching it for a long time, he is still a little uncomfortable, there is no serious illness, and no one wants to see more cannibalism of the same kind.

So I simply didn't look at it.

Anyway, there are people watching the battlefield, and he just needs to follow through on the order after he gives it.

And so three days passed.

In the originally set deadline, on the afternoon of the last day, Gu Wei came to repay his master with a blood-dripping long sword.

"Master, after the soldiers fought hard and fought bloodily for three days, I first boarded the army and then broke the five villages of thieves and beheaded 2,300 people."

At this time, this Captain Gu was a little more embarrassed than before, not only was his robe stained with blood, but there was also an extra scar on his body, and his hair was messy.

In the last period of today, seeing that the deadline has arrived, the first to board the army will not be able to break through the fifth camp for a long time.

Thinking of the military order he had made, Gu Wei was also a little anxious.

So in the end, he put on his armor and took his own soldiers, and took the lead in rushing to the battlefield.

After a fight, several of his own soldiers died, and even he himself was stabbed before he finally broke through the camp.

Now it's finally time to make a successful deal.

"Good, you're doing a good job."

Lu Yuan glanced at his disciple's embarrassed appearance, and knew that the other party was also desperate, so he nodded comfortingly: "Wait for your senior brother to get a bottle of tonic elixir." Take a good rest these days, heal your injuries, and improve your internal strength by the way. ”

"Yes, thank you for your reward." When Gu Wei heard this, his face was suddenly happy.

As a disciple, Gu Wei knew that his master's tonic elixir was such a precious elixir for practice.

That is a pill that can save five days of penance in the divine pill. A bottle of ten elixirs would save fifty days of penance.

These disciples, not to mention how greedy they are.

It's a pity that although Lu Yuan didn't hide the pill from them, he showed it to his apprentices openly.

But if you want to gather the hundred-year-old medicinal materials needed for a furnace of elixir, you need at least a thousand taels of silver, and now in troubled times, all kinds of materials are expensive, and the price may have to double.

And refining a furnace of medicine, in the end, can only produce ten pills of tonic elixir, which can only help people save fifty days of penance at most.

A thousand taels of silver for fifty days is an unaffordable consumption for many people, even for wealthy families in general.

It is only Lu Yuan who has scraped a mansion and plundered the savings of 100,000 Miao people that can support such a terrifying consumption.

Therefore, even if his disciples were greedy, even if they knew the formula, in the end, none of them would refine it.

Gain, if you practice once or twice, you will save two or three months at most, and the effect is not great.

And if you practice for a long time, you can't support this kind of consumption.

So instead of grabbing those two or three months, it's better to save the money and do other more useful things.

After all, even if you don't do alchemy, for martial artists, the consumption of practice on weekdays is already a terrifying number.

The cost of ten taels of silver a month, even for an officer like Gu Wei, is actually not small.

After handing over the task, Gu Wei didn't continue to bother Lu Yuan, and retreated with interest, and then happily went to find Zhou Qing, the senior brother, to receive a tonic elixir worth a thousand taels.

And Lu Yuan also took the time to take a look at the surviving Xiandeng army later.

After eight days of fighting, the first army, which was originally more than 7,000 people, now has only more than 700 people left.

The people who survived can really be said to be more than one out of ten, flowing out of the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses.

These seven hundred people got together, even if Lu Li saw it, he couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart.

For no other reason, this fierce and crazy energy is too strong.

Even he had a delusion.

If you rush up to fight this army, even if you are already first-class now, I am afraid that you will die in the end.

Elite, absolutely elite.

This idea came to Lu Yuan's mind, but then there was a burst of helplessness.

Because he knew that this elite army would never be able to return to him.

This is also normal.

After all, if you were forced to act as cannon fodder, fighting for your life with Hades in the sea of corpses and blood, and after you finally survived, could you not hate the person who gave this order?

Just like right now, when Lu Yuan looked at these soldiers, he could clearly feel that the eyes of many people were full of hatred when they looked at him.

It's just that most of these eyes are relatively obscure, and after two glances, they converge, and they don't dare to look at themselves at all.

But there are also some people whose eyes are extremely provocative, as if they have seen life and death, and are fearless, staring straight at Lu Yuan, full of rebelliousness.

For this, Lu Yuan didn't bother to care about anything.

After determining in his heart that this force could not be trusted, he gave it up.

However, although he gave up, he kept his promise.

Lu Yuan ordered that 700 people be organized into a battalion, included in the descendants, and continued to be led by Gu Wei.

The name of the Xiandeng Army can be regarded as completely disbanded.

And this newly formed battalion, he also has a disposition in his heart. In the future, if there are any dangerous actions and difficult tasks, let these people go to it.

Although these surviving soldiers of the Xiandeng Army were a little rebellious, they also have to say that they are indeed good knives.

If you use it, it works wonders.

I believe that in the future battle to destroy the Seven Star Gate, these soldiers can perform very well.

……

After completing the reorganization of the Xiandeng Army, without these cannon fodder, Lu Yuan did not stop attacking the rebel camp.

As previously said.

If the first army is gone, then his descendants will be on the army.

With 15,000 men, they soon began to attack the traitor camp in batches of 1,000 people.

Of course, as descendants, the intensity of their attack was naturally much lower than that of the first army.

Lu Yuan actually also intends to train his soldiers through these low-intensity battles, so that they can accumulate a little more actual combat experience.

And the rookie opponents of the Seven Star Gate traitors are dangerous, but their strength is not strong, so they are undoubtedly the best training objects.

As a result, this training plan, known as the encirclement and suppression of the Seven Stars, was officially launched in the army.

Time continued to flow, and another five days passed in the blink of an eye.

In five days, Lu Yuan's army broke through three more camps, killing and wounding more than 1,000 thieves, and its own losses were even less, only to kill and wound more than 700 people.

At this point, it has been half a month since Lu Yuan's army arrived in Changning.

In half a month, 12,000 thieves have been killed, and the remaining number of thieves has finally fallen below 10,000.

More than half of the dead and wounded could still bear it, which made Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel amazed, and sighed that the thieves of the Seven Star Gate were tenacious.

At the same time, I was wondering in my heart, is this kind of army built with the relationship between master and apprentice of the sect so resilient?

If it is, it will be a headache to encounter other sects rebelling in the future.

And at the same time.

The Qixingmen, which had been surrounded outside Changning City and had been unable to get out of it for half a month, finally waited for a long-awaited fog on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Then a quiet withdrawal was staged in the middle of the night.

The masters of the Seven Star Gate opened the way in front, and with their strong martial arts, they cleaned up the outposts they saw along the way.

The army behind them fled all the way south along the cleared safe road.

The tacit understanding of this action is definitely a rehearsal for a long time.

When Lu Yuan got the news, it was still time for the sentry rotation to come, and he didn't see those sentry posts come back for a long time, so he realized that something was wrong.

After sending people to investigate, it became clear that the rebels of the Seven Star Gate were about to escape.

"Chase! Send a great army to chase me! ”

Lu Yuan immediately summoned the generals and gave an order.

After fighting for half a month, 7,000 people died on his side, and finally when it was time to reap the fruits, how could he just let these thieves escape.