Chapter Seventy-Two: Circumstances
Seeing Yun Yi flee by crane, Yamata Yuan Lu Zhi had no choice but to show the main body of the Yaqi Snake to chase after him, but in fact, its speed was much slower than that of the crane, and the real purpose was to not retreat from the army.
"The ghost is endless, endless. Yun Yi scolded secretly, and then meditated cross-legged, rubbing his qi to heal his wounds.
Without calling for the army to withdraw more than ten miles, the crane flew at full speed and quickly caught up with the army retreating south, Yun Yi ordered the crane to land, first go to meet the bird.
"You're hurt. Asuka saw that there were still unwiped blood stains on his nostrils and the corners of his mouth, and his complexion changed slightly.
"That Yamata Yuan Lu Zhi's cultivation is a cut above me, and he was a little injured, but the injury was not serious, and it was fine. Yun Yi waved his hand: "What do I want?"
Asuka Yuan called for a guard, took two rough wooden cards from his hand and handed them to Yun Yi: "The march was in a hurry, and there were no tools to use, so only two pieces were made. ”
"Enough. Yun Yi took the wooden card and put it in his arms.
"Is this something from Middle-earth?" Asuka Yuan shifted his gaze to the bronze sword.
"Well," Yun Yi nodded in response: "I don't know where that Eight Fields of Fortune Lu Zhi came from, and I snatched it." ”
As he spoke, Yun Yi concentrated on the demonic energy of the Baqi Snake, and felt that the demonic qi was not far away, so he handed the bronze sword to the bird, took out the painting talisman, and then drew two wind-chasing thunderbolt talismans.
"It's coming?" Asuka saw him draw a talisman and guessed that the Yaki Orochi was chasing after him.
"It lost two heads and refused to give up. Yun Yi grabbed the drawn spell in his left hand, and took the bronze sword handed by Asuka Yuan with his right hand.
"What are your plans?" Asuka En, handed him a water bladder.
Yun Yi took the water bladder, raised his head to drink, and then replied, "I haven't thought about it yet." We've run out of dry food, so let's go to the nearest city to rest. ”
Asuka Yuan nodded and didn't ask again.
Yun Yi didn't take the initiative to speak, he was thinking about two things at this time, one was how the Baqi Snake knew the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman, and the other was where this bronze sword came from.
Through his previous judgment, he had denied the speculation that Yaki Orochi had seen a fat man. And he doesn't think that the other party has seen the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman now, the runes are mostly cloud seals, the Baqi Snake is not a Taoist, there is no reason to remember the runes so clearly, it should not have seen the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman, but it may have seen other charms.
ruled out the possibility that the Yaqi Orochi had seen the fat man, and the Yaqi Orochi could only have seen the charm from two people, Chenyangzi and Chenfengzi.
The storm raged at sea that day, and the two of them could not escape the storm, and they may have been brought to the land by the storm, although these two people could not draw the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman, but they could draw many domineering charms of the Ding Jia faction, and they would not necessarily lose to the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman.
But then I think about it, I think this may not be big, the so-called Tao is not the same, since ancient times, good and evil do not stand together, Taoist people act on behalf of the sky, kill demons, Kuang help humanity, if they encounter the Yaqi Snake, they will inevitably use force with it, with any of their cultivation and the spells they have learned, it is not difficult to kill the Yaqi Snake, if the Yaqi Snake has seen them, there is no reason to live until now.
Denied the speculation that the Baqi Snake had seen the two of Chenyangzi, Yun Yi no longer thought about this issue, any speculation was based on the clues that had been discovered, if the clues were interrupted, no matter how much he thought about it, it would be groundless and meaningless.
The origin of the bronze sword is even more uncertain, but this thing should be extraordinary, because he used this sword to attack the Yaqi Great Snake before, and the other party's performance was very cautious, and he was obviously extremely afraid of this sword.
But he didn't understand why the other party was afraid of this sword, because the other party had used this sword to cut off his head before, and he didn't see anything unusual about this sword.
If you don't have a clue, it's not worth thinking about it, feeling that the Baqi Giant Snake is less than five miles away from here, Yun Yi summoned the crane to ride into the air, and when it reached the sky above Baizhang, he ordered the crane to fly towards the direction where the Baqi Giant Snake was, and at the same time pinched the two wind-chasing thunderbolt talismans in his left hand, revealing only one of the corners.
His move was intentional, in order to make the Yaqi Orochi notice the small movements of his left hand, there was not much spiritual energy left in his body, and using the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman would consume a lot of spiritual energy, and using two at the same time might deplete the spiritual energy.
Although the Yaqi Snake has lost its bronze sword, it is impossible to cut off its own head again, but no one can guarantee whether it will jump over the wall in a hurry, bite off two heads and block the Chasing Wind Thunderbolt Talisman, and then he will have no aura to deal with the Yaqi Snake, and if he does not call the army, he will become a lamb in its mouth.
However, the Yaqi Snake is still afraid of the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman, as long as it is scared away, there is no need to fight it at this time.
The crane soon caught up with the Yaqi Snake, the Baqi Snake didn't know why Bai Yunyi went and returned, he looked at Yun Yi on the crane's back suspiciously, and immediately turned around and fled north after seeing the corner of the spell in Yun Yi's left hand.
Seeing that it was really frightened, Yun Yi secretly shouted in his heart that he was lucky, but he didn't leave there, and he had to be decent, otherwise the Baqi Snake would guess that he was a strong outsider at this time, and he would turn around and chase again.
The flying speed of the crane is much faster than that of the Baqi Snake, and it can't be deliberately slowed down, otherwise the other party will still notice the abnormality, and after careful consideration, Yun Yi let the Crane get close to the Baqi Snake. The Yagi Snake does not know the characteristics of the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Talisman, so as long as the distance between it and the Yaqi Snake is greater than 10 zhang, the Wind Chasing Thunderbolt Charm will not attack.
In order to prevent the Yaqi Snake from seeing the flaws, Yun Yi sent an ethereal spirit at the crane at all times, causing the crane to fly in a zigzag course, making an illusion of trying to surprise from both sides. Seeing this, the Yaqi Orochi was really deceived, and began to move in a zigzag shape to widen the distance between him and the crane.
Seeing this situation, Yun Yi's heart was slightly relaxed, the crane's flying skills were very clever, even if the Yaqi Snake maintained a zigzag movement method, it was easy to be caught up by the crane, and the reason why he was not caught up was because the crane deliberately kept the distance between the two sides.
If it were a normal time, the Yaqi Snake might still be able to see the clues, but at this time, it seemed to be a frightened bird, how could it have the heart to think about this.
He never stopped chasing the Yaki Orochi into the castle tower, and the Yaki Orochi fled for his life, and after leaving the castle tower, he did not go north, but fled east.
Seeing the Baqi Snake changing lanes, Yun Yi raised his head and looked to the east, only to see that there was a forest five or six miles away from the east, and the forest stretched for dozens of miles from north to south, and there was no end in sight. At this time, it is the height of summer, and the trees in the forest are luxuriant and densely green, and as far as the eye can see, they are all green.
Seeing that the Baqi Giant Snake was fleeing into the forest, Yun Yi had a little calculation in his heart, as long as the Baqi Giant Snake did not change its human form, it would not be able to restrain its demonic energy, so it could be concluded that it did not enter the woods to conceal its whereabouts.
Since it is not to conceal its whereabouts, then there is only one possibility left, the trees in the woods are very dense, and this terrain is not conducive to the crane flying at low altitude, which is conducive to it to widen the distance between the two sides.
Thinking of this, Yun Yi urged the crane to speed up and make the illusion of intercepting the Yaqi Giant Snake, which moved faster under the fright, and soon entered the eastern woods under Yun Yi's pursuit.
After the Baqi snake scurried into the woods, Yun Yi ordered the crane to fly high, and chased it more than ten miles to the east, and saw that the forest was densely covered with towering ancient trees, and the canopy was lush and connected, and there were few gaps to drill, so it was determined that the environment here was indeed not conducive to the crane, so that the crane turned around and returned the same way.
Heading south to join the army, he saw Asuka Yuan and discussed the retreat path of the army. When he came, he took a shortcut, but Yun Yi didn't plan to withdraw to Liuya City, so he couldn't retreat according to the original route.
After comprehensively comparing the situation of several border cities in the north of Buhu country, the two made a decision to withdraw to Ping'an City.
At the beginning of the war between the two countries, the Buhu army was divided into three routes to the north, and Ping'an City was located on the west road, because the Yamatai army was the main attack on the middle road before, the east and west roads lost not many cities, Ping'an City is located in the southernmost part of the west road, has not yet suffered from the soldiers, and there are still a lot of grain and grass in the city.
However, the nearest road to Ping'an City is also five or six days away, and the non-Hu army is traveling lightly this time, no cooking utensils are carried, and the dry food on his body has been eaten, and he will have to rely on hunting for the next few days.
In addition, Heian Castle is also the westernmost city of Buhu Province, and further west is the Sulu Kingdom, and there is a mountain range that runs hundreds of miles from north to south between Heian Castle and Sulu Country, called Kurosawa Mountain. There are many fierce aliens such as jackals, tigers and leopards in the Kurosawa Mountains, and they often go out from the border between the two countries to cause cannibalism, and Heian Castle is also deeply disturbed by it.
Knowing that Ping'an City was not safe, Yun Yi still chose to go there, first, the hoarding of grain and grass in Ping'an City was the largest among the cities in the northwest, and when he attacked Liuya City, the wolves sent by the enemy gave him a lot of inspiration.
At present, the Buhu army is seriously understaffed, and the reinforcements of the Yamatai army have arrived, and the situation is very unfavorable to the Buhu army, if the aliens in the Kurosawa Mountains can be controlled to participate in the battle, the situation of the battle will be changed.
On the way south of the army, Yun Yi has been thinking about how to fight the battle in the future. Asuka Yuan has been absent-minded and sullen, and he doesn't even have a word of superfluous words, unless Yun Yi takes the initiative to ask.
"When the army is settled, I will go back to the capital with you to quell the civil strife as soon as possible. Yun Yi saw what she was thinking and took the initiative to comfort her.
His words did not play a role in soothing Asuka Yuan's emotions, and Asuka Yuan listened to it with a sad look on his face: "It has been twelve days since my uncle forced the palace, and it will take seven or eight days for us to rush to Ping'an City, but I am afraid that by then, my uncle has already punished all the dissidents, and it will be useless for us to rush back." ”
Yun Yi was silent when he heard this, what Asuka Yuan was worried about was exactly what he was worried about, the supply of grain and grass had not kept up before, it was very likely that Yoshida An did after learning about the situation on the front line, if he had real power, he would lose the battle with Yama Taiguo.
After a little calculation, Yun Yi had a plan in his heart, and turned his head to look at Flying Bird: "Pass the order, let the army go first, and you will follow me to break the back." ”
Hearing this, Asuka Yuan was stunned for a moment, then understood its meaning, and said in surprise: "Now?"
"Now. ”