Although Lu Yuan was worried about the current crisis, he actually had some confidence to dare to take such a risk.

This confidence does not come from anything else, but his own strength.

When Lu Yuan broke through and condensed one qi, he naturally mastered one magic power and three spells recorded in the Taiping Dao book.

Among them, the Yellow Turban Lux has been divided into two clones of Huang Xuan and Qingyunzi one after another.

Relying on these two doppelgangers, it can be said that they have helped him a lot over the years, greatly alleviating the dilemma of the lack of top-level masters in the Chu State, and the importance and assistance are almost irreplaceable.

And in addition to this supernatural power, the realm of condensing one qi can also master three spells.

They are the quagmire technique, the ground stabbing technique, and the earth wall technique.

These three spells, the Earth Thorn Technique, are specialized in attack, and they can be used by a single person in a group, and they are extremely powerful, and they are the most offensive spells that Lu Yuan has mastered now.

However, this spell, although it also has a group attack, can summon multiple ground spikes at the same time to attack the enemy.

Even with Lu Yuan's current mana, he could only summon thirty or forty ground thorns with all his might, and the area that could be covered was small, and it was still quite difficult to achieve a large-scale attack.

As for the earthen wall technique, it is a defensive spell, so there is no need to say more.

In this battle, Lu Yuan really fancied, and relied on the hole card, it was still the quagmire technique.

A mire is a spell that turns an area into a mud swamp for a period of time, and is used to change the terrain.

Previously, when Lu Yuan had just broken through and condensed his qi, he cast this spell, and with all his strength, he could transform the terrain within a hundred zhang radius and turn it into a quagmire.

Taking the mainstream formation of the world as an example, when the large army is confronted, the formation arranged at the grassroots level is basically a formation of 500 people, that is, a battalion of soldiers and horses.

The area occupied by such a small battalion-level phalanx when arranged is only an area within a radius of twenty or thirty zhang.

Further up the battalion level, this is the first level of the captain who commands several battalions, and several phalanxes are arranged, which can almost reach a radius of 100 zhang.

Other words.

When he first condensed his qi, Lu Yuan went down with a quagmire technique, and a radius of a hundred zhang turned into a swamp, which could instantly envelop the battle cluster commanded by a school captain, and let the mire swallow up one or two thousand people.

And now that Lu Yuan has broken through and condensed his qi, it has been five years.

In the past five years, although he has not been able to break through the condensation of the two qi due to the thinness of the aura of heaven and earth, he has also made great progress in the realm of condensing one qi.

The most obvious point is the increase in the accumulation of mana.

Compared to when he first broke through, the mana accumulated in Lu Yuan's body now is about three times that of when he first stepped into this realm.

In other words, as long as he wants, he can turn the area of 300 zhang into a quagmire at any time.

With a radius of three hundred zhang, the area covered above can almost envelop most of the 10,000-strong army.

Some small towns are only so big.

Such a large area, to some extent, is already a game changer.

And Lu Yuan, who has mastered this power, undoubtedly also has the power to change the world.

As long as he wants, he can perform the quagmire technique in an instant. Kill six or seven thousand people, or destroy a small town.

Such great power, if displayed on the battlefield, can immediately defeat a legion.

And this is only the most direct effect, not counting the collateral effects.

Think about it.

The two armies lined up in front of the formation, each using their own means, arrows flying wildly, swords and spears moving in unison.

Even if there are some powerful martial artists, they are no more than dozens or hundreds of people, although they are still terrifying, but they are still within the scope of ordinary people's understanding.

Even if the innate grandmaster makes a move, he can use his martial arts outer body to change the environment within a radius of more than ten zhang, which is almost comparable to gods and demons.

But even if such a terrifying Innate Grandmaster wanted to kill thousands of people, it would take more than a dozen breaths, and it would be extremely costly, and it would not last long.

If there is a first-class master leading the team to block it on the way, and there are many battlefield weapons to assist, it may be difficult for an innate grandmaster to kill a thousand people on the battlefield.

With these restraints, although the Innate Grandmaster is extremely terrifying, the mortal army is not without the slightest power to resist.

If you are willing to pay the price, tens of thousands of people will still be able to repel the Innate Grandmaster.

Even if that innate grandmaster Tou Tie spoke, it was not impossible to consume him alive.

It can be exchanged for Lu Yuan's spells, and there is no need to fight hard at all, nor does it need to be time-consuming and labor-intensive, chanting spells, casting spells, and killing thousands of people in an instant.

And in an instant, thousands of people died in front of their eyes, and this kind of scene like heavenly punishment is simply unimaginable for the blow to the will of the people.

Lu Yuan can conclude.

As long as he casts the quagmire technique, he can not only instantly cripple a legion, but also directly collapse the morale of several legions of nearby enemies.

Tens of thousands of people were defeated at once, and tens of thousands of people collapsed, which is almost a sure defeat for a general battle, the kind that is irretrievable.

Therefore, relying on this spell, Lu Yuan only needs to pull out the people and horses and have a general battle with the Ning army.

Then the moment the quagmire technique appeared, the rout of the Ning army was inevitable.

The army of Chu took advantage of the situation to cover up and defeat the Ning army in one fell swoop, which is unlikely.

After all, the Ning army is also a well-trained standing soldier, and there are also second-level innate grandmasters in the Ning army, whether it is the bottom or the top, the strength and quality are not bad.

wants to defeat them in one go, which is really a little too contemptuous of the other party.

can take advantage of this big battle to wipe out tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of troops in Ningguo, and make their morale low for a while, but they can still do it in a short period of time.

And as long as this is achieved, then on the main battlefield, the difference in strength between Chu and Ning can gradually return from the original disparity to balance.

Balance, which means reciprocity; Reciprocity means holding each other.

At that time, on this main battlefield, between the Chu State and the Ning State, it will become a boring game where no one can help anyone, and in the end it can only be purely a boring game of consumption and foundation.

However, in the balance of the main battlefield, it seems that neither side has suffered.

Don't forget.

In the other three secondary battlefields, the Chu State has the advantage.

The main battlefield is stalemate, and the other three battlefields are dominant.

Then when these advantageous battlefields are over, the state of Chu will be victorious, and the excess forces will be withdrawn back to the main battlefield.

The original balanced situation will naturally be reversed, leaning towards the Chu State.

In the end, the victory of this war will also belong to the state of Chu.

Therefore, on the side of the main battlefield, as long as Lu Yuan can hold each other, it will be equivalent to victory.

Therefore, having mastered the quagmire technique, he is actually equivalent to mastering the key to the victory of this war and mastering the important weight on the scale.

In the other three battlefields, the Chu State was inherently invincible.

In this main battlefield, the state of Chu is also invincible.

"But ......"

Lu Yuan thought of the quagmire technique, and the various essences of this spell flowed through his mind, don't sigh slightly: "If you want to achieve the above effect, you must exhaust all my mana."

It can be as thin as today's aura, all of my mana has been exhausted, and if I want to re-accumulate and recover, it will take at least half a year.

Other words.

For half a year, I couldn't continue to refine my cultivation, so I could only purely recharge my strength and replenish my mana. ”

In today's world of the end of the law, mana has been consumed, and it is very difficult to make up for it.

When Lu Yuan participated in the Tianluo Fa, those Dao masters and real people, one by one, cast spells, they were extremely stingy, and they were reluctant to put any powerful spells at all, and they all got some things that were almost illusionary spells to make people in the lake.

Is this the Purple Cloud Dao Lord and the others not refining their techniques and cultivating deeply?

Naturally not.

This is because mana is transformed by aura, and aura has a fixed share, and one point is less than one point.

After using it, if you want to make up for it, you can only rely on time to accumulate it.

This huge flaw has made the monks in a strange state of high burst, low endurance, and long blood recovery.

Everyone knows that they are powerful, but everyone knows that they are easily impossible to do.

Between the immortal sect and the mortal, in the case of unequal combat power, it is difficult to say that it is not because of the cherishing of mana.

On weekdays, monks use it to refine their cultivation, and they have to be careful to calculate a little bit and save the mana they use, so how can they be willing to use it to fight meaninglessly with others?

Isn't it good to have that energy and mana to use it for intensive cultivation and to break through the realm?

If you have cultivated deeply, your realm has broken through, and you can live for dozens or hundreds of years?

If you can win the battle with others, what can you gain except for some spirit?

The monks were very shrewd, and of course it was impossible to do such a thankless task.

The same.

Lu Yuan is also very shrewd, he can not use spells on weekdays, but he will never use them.

Even his two clones consume a minimum amount of mana every day to maintain their activities.

If you can usually do it without doing it with others, you will never do it.

Even if he really wants to do it, he will rely on his own hard shell and purely rely on physical strength to fight people.

What is consumed in this way is only the ability of the clone's body itself, which will not consume too much mana, and can save a large amount of mana surplus, so that the clone does not have to absorb too much heaven and earth aura.

Yes, it's to let the clone breathe less aura.

Lu Yuan created the Yellow Turban Lux clone, in addition to alleviating the lack of high-end combat power in the Chu State, the biggest use is actually to assist himself in his cultivation.

With the help of the luck brought to the Chu State after the appearance of the clone, he cultivated faster.

For this purpose.

In the case that the aura is used less than one point today, the doppelganger is used more now, doesn't it mean that he will use less in the future?

Therefore, if you can save the mana used by the clone, it means that after Lu Yuan, you will have more aura that you can use, and you can go further on the path of immortals.

The same thing.

Now that he consumes himself, this is equivalent to condensing one qi, and all the mana that is close to the consummation realm in the later stage is equivalent to allowing him to use so much less spiritual energy in the future.

No one knows, for example, how much aura is there in the world?

It may be that there is such a little bit of spiritual energy missing, so that Lu Yuan can resume his cultivation and use, and if he wants to break through a certain realm in the future, it happens that his spiritual energy is insufficient, and he can only die at that critical point.

It's all possible.

Therefore, this kind of behavior is tantamount to exchanging the future for the present in disguise.

Of course, this is a long-term thing.

Even if the aura is thinner today, it can be used by Lu Yuan alone, and if he wants to suck it all up, it will take decades to say the least.

It's still a long time since that day.

Let's talk about it closer.

Lu Yuan is now in the late stage of condensing one qi, or almost in the realm of perfection.

This realm is far from breaking through the condensation of two qi, that is, it will take about a year.

Now, if he consumes his mana, then this breakthrough time will also follow the time of mana recovery, and it will continue to be delayed in the future.

This is also the future for the present, and it is the foreseeable future.

Sum up.

Although Lu Yuan can use the quagmire technique, the cost of using this spell is, in a sense, actually quite large.

Even to say the cruel point.

If he really chooses, he may be more willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of people in exchange for not using this spell and saving those mana.

After all, tens of thousands of people died, and in a year and a half, the Chu State would be able to make up for it.

But without so much aura, Lu Yuan couldn't let it recover.

Compared with renewable manpower, today's non-renewable aura is more precious.

The reality is harsh, but it's realistic.

"So whether to use spells or not can only be listed as the last backup option, unless it is really critical, otherwise what can be solved by ordinary people, it is better to use ordinary people to solve it.

In the end, this is only a war between secular dynasties.

Mortals return to mortals, and immortal law returns to immortal law.

In this world of the end of the law, the immortals are not visible, and all the spirits are extinct, so it is better not to interfere too much with ordinary people. ”

Lu Yuan thought about it, buried this last option deep in his heart, and hid it.

……

The boat traveled all the way, and at noon, the sailor finally arrived at the river bay outside Jiangxia City.

Standing on the bow of the ship and looking into the distance, Jiangxia City stands on the south bank of the Yangtze River, sailing inward from the crescent-shaped river bay, a wide wharf spreads to the depths of the river, and then countless boats and boats, leading all kinds of goods to handle.

As the third largest port in Dongting County, the wharf of Jiangxia Port is very large, which can accommodate hundreds of ships at the same time, and the area occupies more than three miles.

On the side of the wharf, along the river bend to the northwest area for two miles, it is also a wharf deep port.

However, the pier here is not open to the public, but only houses the ships of the navy, which is exclusively for the use of the military.

On this military wharf, a fortress camp was also built, all kinds of pillboxes and arrow towers were erected, and the city wall was built from the river bay, spreading all the way inward, and the city wall of Jiangxia City was connected in one place, forming a horizontal plane that was more than seven miles long, blocking the south of the entire Jiangxia City.

Therefore, after Lu Yuan led the sailor into the military port, the sailor soldiers manipulated the ships and began to return to the port one by one according to the instructions, and settled in the water village in the port.

He led the general's cronies directly to the city tower, and went all the way to Jiangxia City from the water port.

Jiangxia City is a mountain city.

The bottom of the plain at the foot of the mountain is the outermost part of the city, except for the north and west sides of the mountain, the remaining east and south sides, like a normal city, are wrapped by a circle of more than ten miles of long city walls.

The city is home to well-planned streets, with commercial and residential areas located here.

In this outer city, all the way to the mountainside, some special and important buildings such as mountain temples, Taoist temples, academies, and large mansions were built.

At the mountainside, this is the various institutions of the government, the yamen, the treasury, the barracks and other core buildings.

In addition, a large number of watchtowers and arrow towers have been built on the mountainside, especially one near the river, and a large number of platforms have been repaired, and many long-range weapons such as trebuchets and ballistas have been placed, and the number is as high as hundreds.

Relying on these long-range weapons, Jiangxia City, located high in the mountains, can almost block the hundred-zhang wide river outside, and firmly hold the water surface of this area.

Previously, the navy division of the Chu State was weak, and it was this dangerous riverside fortress that could curb the entry and exit of Ningren ships from entering and leaving the country.

Any Ningguo sailor who dares to drive into this place will face the blows of hundreds of catapults and crossbows, and under the rain of stones and arrows, even if the Ningren ships can pass through the waters here, they will have to sink dozens or hundreds of ships.

If a large number of crossbowmen are arranged in the mountain fortress, and there is no known fleet of boats and ships in the upper waters, then under the alliance of the three parties, even if the Ningren sailors are several times larger than their own, the Chu State will be enough to compete with them, and even defeat and repel them.

This is where Lu Yuan knew that Ning Guo already had 150,000 sailors, and only 50,000 on his side, but he was still not afraid and had the confidence to come with sailors.

The mountain where Jiangxia City is located is the fortress of Chu State in the south of this river, which will never fall.

As long as this fortress is in hand, Ning Guoshui will not want to take a step across the river.

Even south of the riverside, on land, as long as Jiangxia City is there, Ningguo doesn't want to pass through here.

Changsha, Hengyang and other southern provinces, Lu Yuan did not know whether Ning Guo would attack.

But on the boundary of Yueyang, on the boundary near Jiangxia City, two or three hundred miles around, this city is the most eye-catching core, and no one can bypass the key point of natural danger.

If the Ning State wanted to attack the Chu State from this road, then it would have to uproot Jiangxia City.

The city is not broken, not only can it be impassable by water, but it is also difficult to advance half a step by land.

Relying on this strong fortress, as well as the 150,000 soldiers and horses on land and water in the fortress, it is simply a city fortress attack and defense.

Lu Yuan was confident that even if Ning Guo's 400,000 main forces were dead, he would not want to take this city.

However, the siege is difficult and dangerous, and the Ning people should not be so unwise, and they are really hard-headed.

In the end, how this battle will go depends on the decision of the other party.

But Lu Yuan is ready, confident that he can face all moves, and now he is waiting for his opponent to come.

October 12, 10th year of Shenwu.

On the occasion of this late autumn and early winter, before the first snowfall, after Lu Yuan, the king of Chu, led his army to Jiangxia City, Emperor Ning Shenqiu, also handsome 150,000 main forces of water and land, hurriedly arrived under this city, and converged with the 50,000 pioneers who arrived here first.

So far, Ning Guo has gathered 200,000 soldiers and horses by land and water near Jiangxia City.

In contrast, this is the 150,000 land and water army of the Chu State.

The lords of both sides are here.

It is the so-called soldier against soldier, king against king, who is the master of ups and downs.