He supervised the training of the troops for a few days, and at the same time wrote the official documents requesting the counties and localities to assist in recruiting troops, distributed them, and let the disciples take them to recruit troops in various places.

After dealing with these important tasks in the army, Lu Yuan finally had leisure time and could do some of his own things.

His self-disciplined personality kept him from wasting time.

Therefore, after just resting for a day, Lu Yuan began to think about how he should break through the innate nature.

Regarding the breakthrough innate nature, he actually already has some eyebrows.

The congenital, practicing the outer body of martial arts, with true intentions, the two are combined, and the true meaning of martial arts comes out, that is, the realm of the grandmaster.

In terms of the outer body of the martial arts, after listening to the words of the Purple Cloud Dao Lord last time, Lu Yuan already knew that in addition, the direction of the body was uncertain, and it could be transformed into a vientiane.

Just like the Five Poisons Sect in Dongting County now, the sect has always admired the body of ten thousand poisons, and there is also the theory of ten thousand poisons true qi, according to the information obtained by the imperial court and the Holy Maiden of the Five Poisons Sect now.

Yang Jing had deduced that the martial arts body condensed by Lan Cai'er should be the ten thousand poisonous true qi that she had used when she assassinated Wuyang Hou Li Rail.

When Wuyang Marquis Li Liang fell that day, the vicinity of the mansion, within a radius of 100 zhang, turned into a poisonous domain. Hundreds of residents in the vicinity were affected, and thousands of people died.

When Baling City was broken before, hundreds of defenders at the gate of the city were also directly poisoned by Lan Caier's poisonous gas, so the city gate was opened and the county town fell.

In both cases, survivors escaped.

Therefore, Lan Caier's specific methods are also known to the outside world.

Ten thousand poisonous true qi, it should be the opponent's martial arts body.

In the same way, in recent years, the most famous Wu'an Hou Bai Mengyang in the imperial court, it is rumored that the martial arts body condensed by this person is a unique military spirit in the army.

Condense the outer body with the ferocity of ten thousand soldiers, if you are in the army, you can get the blessing of military energy, and your strength will be several times better than normal.

Therefore, every time he led a large army to the battle, Bai Mengyang was almost invincible, invincible, and was known as the god of the Great Yue Army.

Even in the past few years, although when he was in Xichuan County, Bai Mengyang suffered heavy setbacks and retreated one after another.

But in the face of the enemy's strength nearly three times his strength and four times his innate grandmaster, Bai Mengyang was still able to hold on to the fortified city, and still blocked the Zhou Shu coalition army in Yuzhong Mansion, so that the opponent's army of more than 200,000 troops could not advance an inch.

There is another Yin Huixuan of the Liuyang faction who can be called the first master of the rivers and lakes of the Yue Kingdom.

What this person cultivates is the six yang qi of the Six Yang Sect.

The weather is yang, the earth is yin, and from November next year to April next year, it is the time when the yang energy rises, which is collectively called the month of the six yangs.

During this period of June, yang energy is at its peak.

The Six Yang Sect then refined the Yang Qi of Heaven and Earth each month according to the changes of Yang Qi every month, and then combined it with the Three Yang Qi of their own hands and feet, and used the Yang Qi of Heaven and Earth as the outer body of the martial arts.

And because the outer body of the martial arts is in harmony with the physical body, the person who practices this method does not need to send his own soul out of the body, and can directly combine with the qi of the six yangs in the body to form the true meaning of the martial arts.

In this way, with the double protection of the outer body and body, the safety of the true meaning of the martial arts is greatly increased, and it can even be turned into a bridge of communication, so that the body and the outer body are further fitted, and it is really the same as your own body.

Relying on this method of finding a new way to condense the outer body of the martial arts, the Liuyang faction was able to leap to the top of the national martial arts, and the powerhouses of the second realm of the martial arts in the door emerged in an endless stream, and they prospered endlessly for thousands of years.

Even Yang Jing himself, the "Clear Water Lotus Formula" in the clan he practiced, was also taken from the cleanliness of the Clear Water Lotus, and it could become a lotus body, which was a first-class defensive magic skill in the rivers and lakes.

Even more than these four people, the other major innate sects or families on the rivers and lakes have condensed the five outer bodies and the five true intentions, all of which are different, and there is no certainty.

From the above many examples, it can be seen that it really responds to the words of the Purple Cloud Dao Lord, the image of the outer body of the martial arts, all things in heaven and earth can be transformed.

But there are many examples, and there is actually one example to follow. That is, the martial arts of each grandmaster, most of them are formulated by the exercises of each family.

Just like the Five Poisons Sect inherits the Ten Thousand Saints, the outer body of the martial arts that is practiced is the true qi of the Ten Thousand Poisons.

The Liuyang faction inherits the Liuyang Divine Skill, and what is practiced is the Qi of the Six Yangs.

The Bai family inherited the method of turning soldiers, and what they practiced was the spirit of war.

The Yang family inherited the Qingshui Lotus Formula, and what was practiced was the lotus body, the pure qi.

The grandmasters of these many sects may be different from each other, but the external bodies of the grandmasters are generally the same.

Taking the exercises as the core to condense into the martial arts is a choice made by all families.

Although Lu Yuan is not clear for the time being, what the principle is.

But to be chosen by so many families, and at the same time to be maintained for thousands of years, even from the perspective of empiricism, this path is definitely the most convenient, popular, and best solution, even if it is not the best solution.

So after learning this, Lu Yuan condensed the choice of the outer body of the martial arts, in fact, there was only one option left.

With Chiyang Divine Skill as the core, he condensed his own martial arts body.

The image of the Red Sun Divine Skill is taken from the meaning of the Red Sun on the top of the head, and what is cultivated is the vast and blazing energy.

In fact, the true qi appearance that Lu Yuan has condensed now is also the fire of the red sun, which is mainly burned.

"Therefore, according to this evolution, I condense the outer body of the martial arts, and it is best to start from this aspect, take the fire of the red sun as the appearance of the outer body, and then use the true intent of the martial arts to dominate and form the outer body of the red yang, so as to break through the innate nature." Lu Yuan looked at the cheats of the Chiyang Divine Skill, looked at the last few volumes of the congenital speculation and deduction, and thought like this in his heart.

In fact, for how to break through the innate for thousands of years, Yuzhong Guo also has its own deductions and conjectures.

Although they don't know the secrets of the outer body of the martial arts, the path of the martial arts is a process of progressive levels.

There are also other congenital masters of foreign clans as examples, and some conjectures and secrets of the outer body of the martial arts are still roughly deduced by the Guo clan in Yuzhong.

Therefore, according to the goal of this deduction, the Yuzhong Guo clan has been slowly improving its own inheritance of the Chiyang Divine Skill since three hundred years ago.

Among them, the internal force and external phase, which is closer to the outer body of the martial arts, is one of the results of this improvement.

And the results of this kind of improvement, and even various improvement ideas, were naturally inherited by Lu Yuan at this time.

With the accumulation of hundreds of years of the Yuzhong Guo Clan, coupled with some secret information that Lu Yuan got from Yang Jing and the Purple Cloud Dao Lord, as well as the satisfaction of his own conditions, it is no longer a problem to summarize a set of martial arts external body system.

Even after those deductions of the Yuzhong Guo Clan, at this time, Lu Yuan could build a prototype of a martial arts outer body, trying to start breaking through the innate nature.

However, this prototype is still a little crude and crude, and it is not completely perfect.

Moreover, this prototype of the outer body adapts to the original pure Chiyang Divine Skill.

Lu Yuan's current internal strength has undergone three transformations, and at the same time, it has been tempered by the immortal qi.

With this property, most of the internal force has been changed, and it is suitable for the rudimentary form deduced by Guo's own internal force in Yuzhong, and the adaptability is destined not to be too high.

Therefore, in order to allow yourself to combine more closely with the outer body of martial arts, and to give full play to the power of your outer body, it is also essential to make some necessary modifications and optimizations to make it more suitable for you.

Therefore, after determining the Chiyang Divine Skill as the image of the outer body of the martial arts, Lu Yuan began his own road of external body transformation and optimization.

Staying in the camp every day, according to the ideas of the Yuzhong Guo family, and then driven by his own internal force, he slowly optimized and adapted, and improved the external body of the martial arts bit by bit.

This process is destined to be long.

According to Yang Jing, even if there is a suitable reference, it will take as little as one year or as long as three or five years to condense an external body that meets his own mind.

At the beginning, the Holy Maiden of the Five Poisons Sect spent three years in order to condense the true qi of ten thousand poisons.

And the Xishu Emperor Li Xiong is even more talented, but it took more than a year to break through the innate nature.

Although Lu Yuan had the help of the accumulation of the Guo clan in Yuzhong at this time, if he wanted to condense the outer body of the martial arts, in his own estimation, it would take a year or two to perfect the outer body of the martial arts and break through the innate realm.

This time also coincided with the plan of the imperial court.

The plan of the Ten Grandmasters customized by those princes in the court could not be achieved overnight. It was originally planned to take three years to carry out this matter.

It's only been a year now, and there's still two years left, which is very rich.

"And two years later, I'm pretty much ready to do that. If I break through the innate again, I will be like a fish turning into a dragon, and I will no longer be restrained. ”

Now in Lu Yuan's hands, the soldiers and horses that are really useful are only the original 15,000 people.

Even among these 15,000 people, the 10,000 people who were taken to Shaoyang Mansion by Zhou Qing have also lost thousands of people under the continuous consumption of the Five Poisons Sect.

In other words, the real available soldiers at Lu Yuan are just over 10,000 people.

With this bit of strength, even if he becomes an innate grandmaster, it would be vain to want to divide a county.

Although pure personal force can bring status and wealth, it is impossible to build a country by oneself.

Just like an eagle, if it doesn't have the help of wings, it can't fly at all, no matter how strong it is.

At this time, Lu Yuan was the eagle that was about to grow into a hero, and the soldiers and horses under his command were his wings.

Now not only does he need to progress and grow, but even the wings must be plump up.

In two years, an army of 50,000 was trained and woven into wings.

At that time, once you ride the wind, you will immediately be able to soar above the nine heavens.

……

Just as Lu Yuan was working hard to perfect his martial arts outer body, the outer world was also slowly developing according to his own trajectory.

On the sixth day of October in the fifth year of Hongdao, he was ordered by Lu Yuan to fight against Zhou Qing, who had been Miao people for half a year in Shaoyang Mansion, and sent people back to the army.

It is said that after the Miao people attacked Shaoyang Mansion for half a year, they have gradually exhausted their strength, and now the Miao soldiers who surrounded Fucheng have retreated, and the siege of Fucheng has been lifted.

But in the south of Shaoyang Prefecture, resources and Suining counties have also been trapped. There are 10,000 thieves in these two counties. In the south of Shaoyang Mansion, he refused to leave.

At the same time, the three counties in the north of Shaoyang Mansion were still controlled by the Miao people, and the three cities had tens of thousands of soldiers, and it was extremely difficult to recover.

Of the ten counties in Shaoyang, five counties have been lost.

The original 30,000 soldiers and militias in the prefecture have been reduced to less than 20,000 after half a year's attrition. Of the tens of thousands of soldiers led by Zhou Qing, there were only more than 7,000 left.

All the soldiers and horses combined, only 25,000 men remained. There is more than enough to defend the city, but it is not enough to be enterprising.

And the Miao thieves in the house, although they also suffered great losses because of the continuous siege war, with 20,000 dead and wounded. But there are still 40,000 left, which are still very difficult to treat.

In this regard, Lu Yuan's reply continued to stick to it.

There is no way, he only has 20,000 soldiers on hand, most of them are still new soldiers, and he can't pull them out to fight at all.

Even if you want to rescue, you can't do it at all.

Fortunately, with the strength of Zhou Qing's side, although it was still impossible to repel the Miao thieves, it was enough to defend the city.

Twenty-five thousand soldiers and horses were divided into five cities, each of which could have 5,000 men, which was enough to defend the city.

This point was also mentioned by Zhou Qing in the battle report.

This apprentice also thoughtfully said: The disciple is enough to defend the territory, and the master does not need to worry, but he can find a fighter outside to break the thief.

What can Lu Yuan say about this?

In addition to studying the outer body of martial arts, he spent more time and urged Li Liang to train his troops. I hope that I can train the army as soon as possible, and then bring people to help the thieves.

And when the situation in Shaoyang Mansion was becoming more and more stable, it was October 16 of the fifth year of Hongdao.

Under Baling City in the north, the imperial army and the Zhou and Miao coalition forces, which had been facing each other for several months, finally broke out into a big battle.

Nearly 100,000 men on both sides lined up outside the city to fight.

Wucheng Marquis Shangguan Ming personally risked the arrow, led the elite soldiers to break through the formation, and broke the left flank of the Miao people three times, forcing the general of the left pillar of the Zhou State to come out in person to stop it, and the two fought a duel among the ten thousand armies.

Similarly, Lan Cai'er, the saintess of the Five Poisons Sect, also led the defenders out of the city to help in the battle. But they were stopped by the troops led by the holy monk Jihui and blocked at the city gate, and the two innate grandmasters also started a duel.

Later, although Shangguan Ming tried his best, in the end, he was the new grandmaster, and he couldn't compare to the general of the Zuozhu Kingdom.

Therefore, after fighting with him for half an hour, he was still seriously injured and fled in defeat.

But taking this opportunity, the elite division of the imperial court has broken through the Miao people.

Even after several years of training, the Miao soldiers, who were composed of mountain people, still could not change the nature of the militia. At this time, facing the elite army of the imperial court, it was impossible to bear it at all.

It only lasted half an hour, and tens of thousands of Miao soldiers on the entire right flank of the enemy army were broken.

Implicated by this, the elite of the Zhou people who crossed the river to the south were also coerced by the Miao soldiers and retreated with defeat.

The general of the Zuozhu State of Zhou, although he won the duel, repelled Shangguan Ming. But in the face of the defeat of this army, there is no way to return to the sky.

Inevitably besieged by a large army, he had no choice but to retreat.

At the same time, the Holy Maiden of the Five Poisons Sect was also defeated by the Holy Monk Jihui and retreated to the city.

But the army outside the city was defeated, and the holy woman of his own country was defeated again, and the morale of the Miao defenders in the city was greatly reduced.

Lan Caier had no choice but to come out again to stop her.

But after fighting dozens of times, he was defeated again, and if it weren't for the desperate efforts of the sect members in the city, he almost lost his life.

At this point, Lan Caier no longer dared to stay in the city.

Taking advantage of the fact that the imperial army had not completely besieged the city, after leaving a part of the palace, he fled out of the city with more than 10,000 remnants and went in the direction where the coalition army had fled.

The holy monk Jihui took the opportunity to recover Baling City, and Dongting County was recovered.

In this battle, the imperial army killed 20,000 thieves and captured 20,000, but its own losses were less than 10,000, which can be described as a great victory.

The most important thing is to recover the county town, which is undoubtedly a great boost to the morale of the court camp in the county.

For the Pingshu army whose back road to the west was cut off, it means that the passage of life is unblocked.

With Baling City, at this time, the imperial court could already try to transport troops and grain to Jiangbei to restore the supply of the Pingshu army.

However, it is still a little difficult to do this.

Because after the defeat of the Zhou and Miao coalition forces, they did not completely evacuate Yueyang Mansion, but gathered 80,000 remnants of the army, and still entrenched in the area of Shiyang and Anxiang, threatening the Yangtze River waterway and the county seat.

If this thief army is not completely driven out, the back road of the Pingshu army will not be stable at all.

It's just that after this battle, the Zhou and Miao coalition completely extinguished the idea of fighting in the field with the imperial army.

After withdrawing to Shiyang and Anxiang counties, he set up a camp and defended the city, and did not fight head-on with the imperial army at all.

With their strength, relying on the remaining 90,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court, they are powerless to seek peace.

The situation in Yueyang Mansion has once again fallen into a long-term confrontation, and there is still no hope of which side will win.

In this torturous and long confrontation.

In early November of the fifth year of Hongdao, the disciples sent by Lu Yuan to recruit troops in Jian'an County and Nanhai County finally returned one after another.

After the last person returned, there were 30,000 more recruits in the military camp outside Luyang Mansion.

Yes.

After getting Lu Yuan's permission, his disciples who went to recruit soldiers did not strictly recruit soldiers according to the 20,000 posts, but recruited all of them as long as they met the requirements.

As a result, the number of new recruits exceeded 20,000, and there were 32,000 men.

At the same time, the autumn rice in Yuzhang County next door was once again ripe, and grain prices fell.

According to Lu Yuan's original instructions, Sun Siwen sent people to buy grain, and spent 600,000 taels of silver to buy back 700,000 stone of rice.

Counting the autumn harvest in Luyang Mansion, the military rations of the newly recruited army are barely solved.

On December 17 of the fifth year of Hongdao, Lu Yuan heard the news that Yan Wangqiu, the head of the Nanhai faction of Nanhai County, was invited by the imperial court to take up the position of national teacher.

After the Baifeng Temple, the Nanhai faction became the second grandmaster in the rivers and lakes to ally with the imperial court.

In the Ten Grandmasters plan, there is one more person.

At this point, in the imperial court camp, there are already seven innate grandmasters. If you count Lu Yuan and Yang Jing, then there are nine people.

The top ten grandmasters, only one person is missing, and they can be complete.

At the end of the same month, Lu Yuan received news from Jinling.

It is said that the imperial court has sent envoys north to the Liang State, and it seems that there is an intention to make peace with the country.

Faced with the pressure of the destruction of the Zhou State, Liang Yue, the two sworn enemies, gradually had a tendency to cooperate.

In order to protect the country, the imperial court also fought hard.

The entire five years of Hongdao came to an end in the midst of all these disturbances.

Lu Yuan, as in previous years, spent a New Year at Sun Siwen's house, because Sun Mansion added a big fat boy, this year he was even more happy.

After rejoicing, ushered in the sixth year of Hongdao.