Chapter 21: Scuffle
"Hey, hey...."
Ouyang Cheng threw an appreciative look when he heard Han Yu's words, took a bite of sauce beef, and said slowly: "You kid is quite clever, this son will tell you today, but don't spread the word about it, these things are confidential." ”
Han Yu saw Ouyang Cheng's triumphant expression, knowing that although the other party was very obsessed with women and lacked strings in his brain, after all, he was the descendant of the city lord, and this person was not a person who spoke his mouth, so he immediately pricked up his ears and listened.
Seeing Han Yu's appearance, Ouyang Cheng also had the interest to speak, and asked rhetorically, "Do you know why the two sides are fighting and why the fighting has stopped?"
"I guess it's been too long, and both sides need some time to recuperate. Han Yu deliberately made an unbounded guess.
Han Yu wondered if it had something to do with that immortal, could it be for the spirit stone mine?
He wouldn't kill him with this kind of speculation, and he wouldn't say it, so as not to disturb Ouyang Cheng's interest.
Sure enough, Ouyang Cheng shook his head and cast a disdainful look: "This war is a means of no compromise! Our grain and grass battalion is only thirty miles away from the battlefield, and the grain and grass supply on the opposite side is only twenty miles, why don't the two warring sides burn each other's grain and grass, but only fight to the death on the battlefield?"
"Listening to Gongzi say this, it really makes sense! I have also heard that this army only fights during the day, and never attacks at night, even if one side has an advantage, the other side will not pursue, is there any way to do this?" Han Yu had also heard some strange rumors, it stands to reason that the favorable side should take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle, but neither side did so. In addition, Han Yu had read some biographies, and also recorded the great battles between other cities, from the victorious side to occupy the territory of the losing side.
"Of course there is a way to this!Let me tell you, this involves the secrets of the immortals!" Ouyang Cheng looked at Han Yu's small pockmarked face, feeling very funny, but forgot the shocked expression when he learned the news.
"Our Jian'an, including several surrounding cities, all the way to Frost City, are under the jurisdiction of a Immortal Cultivation Sect, Qingyang Sect, and now the cities that are fighting with us belong to the Imperial Sword Sect, and the purpose of the battle is also the ownership of the spirit stones in the mine. Originally, the Ten Thousand Methods Sect didn't look down on this low-grade spirit stone mine, but a while ago, a better quality spirit stone was discovered, which was the medium-grade spirit stone that the immortals said. Although the output is not high, it has attracted ten thousand methods, and the immortal masters of ten thousand methods have also come to get a piece of the pie. ”
After a long time, Han Yu digested the information he had just heard, and hurriedly poured Ouyang Cheng with wine: "Childe, you first drink a sip of wine to moisten your throat, and say more so that the little ones can follow you for a longer time!"
"Now the ownership of this spirit stone mine has become a problem, and after some arguments, the Immortal Master has come up with a way, let us solve this problem.
Each side sent 50,000 soldiers to fight here, and after a month, the interests of the spirit stone mine were decided according to the surviving soldiers.
We are in charge of logistics, transporting grain and grass, and there is no danger at all. ”
"Then can the immortals give any benefit by doing this?" Han Yu asked curiously.
"Of course, the immortals will definitely give us some benefits if we let ordinary people go to the battlefield to fight hard. Of course, I certainly don't know to ask my grandfather about these things. Ouyang Cheng took a sip of wine and said honestly.
Late at night, Han Yu sent away the drunk and shaky Ouyang Cheng, and then returned to his camp tent, lying on the bed for a long time and unable to sleep.
The news he got from Ouyang Cheng's mouth today had too much impact on him, and he learned the immortal cultivation classics by chance, and became an immortal in Ouyang Cheng's mouth, and words such as immortal magic magic were constantly circling in his mind.
Han Yu thought about it, glanced around, and carefully took out the storage bag that he had hidden closely.
After such a long period of recovery, Han Yu had regained his spiritual power, but he still couldn't take out the contents of it.
You must know that Han Yu used a trick to put things into the storage bag, and taking it out requires real mana, and it will not work without a trace.
The news he got from Ouyang Cheng's mouth shocked him, this battle was controlled by the three immortal cultivation sects behind their backs, ready to let hundreds of thousands of mortals fight, just to obtain the ownership of what spirit stones!
Han Yu was thinking in his heart, the mortals in the eyes of the immortals are the pigs, dogs, cows and sheep in the eyes of mortals!
According to Ouyang Cheng, he went to Qingyang Sect once when he was a child.
It is said that the immortal's spiritual mountain Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, and the sky is flying with some birds of prey, those immortals can fly to the sky, call the wind and rain, and will cast those powerful spells, and every immortal can easily destroy hundreds of mortals.
Han Yu remembered the black book in the storage bag, which must have a true record of immortals.
Han Yu also asked at the wine table, since these immortals are so powerful, why don't they compete by themselves, why spend time and effort letting mortals fight each other, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Ouyang Cheng sneered at Han Yu's short-sightedness, this immortal is life-saving, and his fighting method is dangerous, if the real fire immortal falls, it will be troublesome.
Immortals are in pursuit of old age, how can they easily wade into danger, and it is safest to use mortal forces.
Han Yu asked again if this city lord was a fool, just for the sake of a little benefit, he let his soldiers die in vain, what the hell is the plan, the immortals of the Qingyang Sect also gave the city lord to eat the elixir?
As soon as these words came out, Ouyang Cheng, who was provoked, laughed, and spit out another secret through the wine.
It is said that not long after Ouyang Cheng was born, the city lord had a strange illness, and the famous doctors in the city were helpless. Later, an immortal from the Qingyang Sect came, and gave the city lord a pill of elixir, and after a few days, the city lord was alive and energetic.
Ouyang Cheng drank a little too much, and mysteriously said that the immortal was still staying in the City Lord's Mansion, and he chose someone with spiritual roots to go to Qingyang Sect to cultivate.
But when asked about his identity, he shook his head and said nothing, and he refused to say more.
Han Yu asked curiously what kind of person can cultivate an energy immortal, but Ouyang Cheng had heard some of them.
According to him, not everyone is qualified to cultivate to become an immortal, and it is said that a mysterious spiritual root is involved. It is said that it is not enough to have a spiritual root, but also to have a spiritual acumen, and only with these two conditions can you cultivate immortals.
When he was a child, Ouyang Cheng was also tested by the immortals of the Qingyang Sect, he had no spiritual root, only three spiritual apertures, and he had no qualifications to cultivate immortals.
There are also spiritual roots and spiritual apertures, but the quality of spiritual roots and the number of spiritual apertures are also important factors in determining how far you can go on the road of cultivating immortals.
It is said that the purer the spiritual root, the better the qualifications of the person with the more spiritual aperture, the fewer obstacles when cultivating, and the faster the progress.
According to Ouyang Cheng's frank statement, those who have spiritual roots and spiritual apertures are one in ten thousand, and those with good spiritual roots and good spiritual apertures are even more one in tens of thousands and one in 100,000 miles.
Han Yu was very excited when he heard this, and he was also one in a million!
I wondered if I should go to the old Taoist of the City Lord's Mansion to worship him as a teacher, and see if I could go further on the immortal road.
But the next drunken words made Han Yu sober up.
Ouyang Cheng said that the son of the Wang family has a spiritual root and spiritual vein, so the city lord's mansion has to marry the Wang family, and if he becomes an immortal in the future, he can take care of one or two.
But how could it be so easy to cultivate? The Wang family gave up the mine, but they only got thirty low-grade spirit stones, which was the result of the Wang family's hard work.
These thirty spirit stones are a drop in the bucket on the road of cultivation, and the kid of the Wang family is not outstanding, and he is also an ordinary disciple when he enters the Qingshan Sect. There is no special chance, and he will wander in the Qi refining period for the rest of his life.
That night, Han Yu tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep for a long time. From Ouyang Cheng's words, Han Yu knew that being an immortal should be even more cruel than that mortal world, and only by being more cold-blooded and ruthless could he survive in the world.
On this day, Han Yu was counting the grain and grass, and the reinforcements from Jian'an City finally arrived. Countless armor soldiers came to the camp with the young men with no dead faces, distributed armor and blades, and hurriedly pressed them to the front line of the battlefield.
Among them, there are many acquaintances of Han Yu, some ruffians on the street, and some farmers who farm the land, Han Yu also saw that he robbed the old farmer who sold vegetables for the second time, and followed by his eighteen or nineteen-year-old son.
After a month and a half of silence, the fighting was rekindled and burned throughout the battlefield.
The soldiers of the three forces fought the battlefield, and countless soldiers fell in pools of blood.
Han Yu, who is the grain and grass department, has received a new task to bury the bodies of soldiers killed in battle. Every evening, he dragged an ox cart and pulled the corpses of the dead in battle, dripping with blood all the way, and came to the big pit that had been dug in the wasteland to bury them.
Han Yu, who learned the inside story, felt that these soldiers were very pitiful, and felt that they were like marionettes in the shadow puppet show, and their fate was in the hands of those immortals.
And he has gotten rid of the threads that are wrapped around his body, and he clearly knows the essence of this battle, and those soldiers who are fighting the battlefield do not know.
They all put their lives on the gambling table for the sake of that illusory fame and fortune. If they fail, they will become a blurred mass of flesh and blood, and if they succeed, they will become a small official with a sesame seed, and the life and death of their descendants are still in the hands of the immortals.
Soldiers are, so are officers, including those high-ranking city lords, they are all puppets in the hands of immortals, if you want you to live, you will live, if you want you to die, you have to die.
The fighting lasted for a month, and after a month all the fighting came to an abrupt halt, and the soldiers returned to their tents, and the immortals went to count the number of survivors.
"Sha Wenxuan, a soldier of the heavy cavalry battalion, broke into the enemy's battle formation because of his bravery, beheaded fifteen enemy soldiers, and was promoted to the general of the heavy cavalry battalion!"
"Trapped camp Wen Zhou, brave in battle, the enemy army broke through the battle and did not retreat, specially promoted to the centurion of the trapped camp!"
“.....”
On the high platform, a city government staff member was holding a military merit book in his hand, loudly announcing the rewards of meritorious soldiers.
The battle came to an end, most of the 50,000 capable warriors in Jian'an City died, more than 20,000 people remained, and more than 4,000 people were seriously injured, which can be described as a fiasco.
Han Yu's name is also on the credit book, Li Guang owes Han Yu a favor, plus Ouyang Cheng's recommendation, so he became the city patrol envoy of Bapin.
Don't look at the eight grades, but he is also a powerful official in the city, and he has great power.
With a smile on his face, he thanked the reward, but his heart was not shocked.
Looking at the people around him who had been promoted, some of them were colorful, some were proud, and some were surprised, Han Yu couldn't help but sigh.
It's sometimes good not to understand anything – really.