The army of the nine cities from Yunding Mountain to Jingwei Mountain has completed the assembly, with Long Yuhai, the city lord of Jingwei City, as the main general, and Yun Tianshen, the city lord of Luoyun City, as the deputy general, and the 100,000 army is marching towards Yunding City.

Since Zhu Ning supported the new king Gao Xuan to ascend the throne, Gao Fei also claimed the throne in Yunding City, and the Southern Chu State was officially divided into two, and a great war between the north and the south was inevitable.

Just when Zhu Ning formed this 100,000 coalition army to prepare to attack Yunding City, Yunding City also began to prepare city defense equipment early, and in the past few days, the city tower has been full of stones, pine resin oil, and countless arrows made from local materials in the woods.

However, Gao Fei, who is nominally the king of a country, still runs in the dense forest outside Yunding City these days, and he feels that this environment is suitable for him to think alone.

In his brain, he constantly simulates the offensive strategy of one enemy army after another, and then he comes up with a way to deal with it, and then he designs the enemy's way to deal with it, and then he comes up with a way to deal with it...... And so on, as if you are spreading out a chess game in your own mind, playing against yourself.

Now he was pacing back and forth in the woods, muttering to himself from time to time:

"The battlefield is like a chess game, but the two sides of the chess game are fair games, but the strength of the two sides on the battlefield is often uneven. ”

"The walls of Yunding City are not high, the city tower is not strong, the other side has 100,000 people, but our army is only 40,000, if the other party has a good command, I am afraid that this battle will be difficult to win. ”

"Winning a chess game, especially a master's game, is often not about how peculiar and subtle the winner's moves are, but about catching the opponent's mistakes. However, on the battlefield, under the condition that the enemy is strong and we are weak from the beginning, if the enemy army does not make mistakes, then it is unlikely that the war will be won. ”

"Whether the enemy makes mistakes or not, it mainly depends on the commander who commands the operation, the main general Long Yuhai, who is the confidant of the Zhu family, who is fierce but not reckless, commands the troops of more than 80,000 people in Jingwei City and other six cities, and is the most important vanguard force of the nine-city coalition. The lieutenant will sink the clouds, and the clouds will sink ......"

Gao Fei's thoughts stopped, and this name evoked some memories for him, "It seems that I haven't heard much of this person in Nanchu, but his surname is Yun, which is the surname of a big family in Dongfang Qingqiu......"

Gao Fei began to try to recall the secret he had seen in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion: the Yun family was originally the largest clan in Qingqiu Country except for the royal family, but because the patriarch Yun Qing died unexpectedly more than ten years ago, other clans and enemies who were afraid of the Yun family joined forces to take the opportunity to sneak attack, almost bloodbathing the Yun family, and even Yun Luochen, the only son of Yun Qing's young age, did not know what happened overnight, some said that he was assassinated by the enemy, and some said that Yun Qing was afraid that his young son would be killed by gangsters before he died, so he entrusted it to a friend.

However, in order to safeguard the interests of the royal family, cover up this scandal of cannibalism among comrades, and at the same time to arouse the people's hatred of the enemy country, he publicized to the outside world that this matter was committed by the people of Southern Chu. At that time, one of the most prestigious generals of the Yun family at that time was called Yun Tianshen, and after that night, it seemed that he had evaporated from this world, and he didn't know what to do......

Gao Fei's heart tightened, "Will they be the same person, if it is really Yun Tianshen from Qingqiu, he is a veteran of the battlefield, I am afraid it will be difficult to hide from him with these strategies I just designed......"

Goofy sighed a little irritably.

It was late when Goofy returned to the city, and as soon as he returned to the house, he went limp, and he had done nothing for the day, either sitting or lying down in the woods, occasionally getting up and walking, but he was very tired.

He had drawn up a complete set of combat plans, simulating hundreds of possible reactions and response plans for each of the opponent's steps, but he was still not completely sure.

In the Falling Goose Slope, which is less than fifty miles away from Yunding City, the nine-city coalition army is speeding up its march, and the deputy general Yun Tianshen leads his 10,000 people from Luoyun City and 8,000 people from Lingcheng to form a vanguard force to take the lead, and the main general Long Yuhai leads the remaining more than 80,000 main forces to follow.

At this pace, the 100,000 allied troops were about to cross Lishui and arrive at the city early the next morning.

Tianming Villa is located in the mountains in the west of Diyun City, the capital of Southern Chu State, where it covers endless bamboo forests all year round, the mountain wind blows, and the blue waves composed of thousands of branches and green leaves are swaying with the wind, rising and falling, like a verdant ocean.

As the headquarters of Mingfeng Hall, the famous Tianming Villa is extremely small in the bamboo forest here.

Lin Yuebai sat on the upper seat of the meeting hall of Tianming Villa, the twelve helmsmen sat in two columns, and Lin Qianyuan sat beside Lin Yuebai. The decoration in the hall is simple, and the desks, tables and chairs are all made of green bamboo in the mountains, which looks fresh and elegant.

Lin Yuebai glanced around at the helmsmen and said loudly: "You should feel it, this year is not too peaceful." ”

The first helmsman, Luan Yidao, said: "Is the hall master talking about the palace coup a few days ago?"

Lin Yuebai shook his head: "We are people in the rivers and lakes, and we don't ask about the temple." ”

Luan Yi was puzzled, "Then we went to the city gate last time......"

Without waiting for Luan Yi to finish speaking, Lin Yuebai interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Last time, it was for a personal friend of Lin, and besides, you didn't do anything with the people of the imperial court. ”

Luan Yi bowed his hand to show his understanding, and said: "What the hall master said is not very peaceful is something else, could it be that it means that there are recent folk rumors that there are demons in the Demon Realm Forest?"

Lin Yuebai nodded.

"Does the hall master suspect that the Demon Sect has reappeared in the rivers and lakes?" asked the Three Rudder Lord Que Lingxiao.

Lin Yuebai did not answer, noncommittal.

"A few years ago, the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and the Thousand Bat Cave, people there came and went much more frequently than usual. The Nine Helm Lord Crane Ruxue added, "Moreover, it is true that many of them are coming from the south, but the Demon Sect, since they disappeared eighteen years ago, it seems that they have not heard any movement from them. ”

Lin Yuebai nodded, glanced at Lin Qianyuan, and said, "Qianyuan, you just came back from the Demon Realm Forest, you tell everyone about it." ”

Lin Qianyuan stood up and saluted, "Ladies and gentlemen, Qianyuan went to the Demon Forest a few days ago to visit, and saw with my own eyes, those rumors are not rumors, I have seen a group of people in black, they are ghostly, their skills are outstanding, and the place they pass is demonic, and the leader is a person wearing a wolf's head mask, this person's skills are extremely terrifying, and the coercion and terror that are exuded are abnormal, within a hundred steps, even the fierce beasts such as saber-toothed tigers and gale wolves are fleeing in a hurry, lest they avoid it." ”

"Wolf Head Mask?" Crane Ruxue muttered, "I don't seem to have seen any sect like this. ”

Lin Qianyuan shook his head and said: "These people's demon methods are weird, their skills are profound, and they are absolutely beyond the reach of others, and that invisible sense of oppression ......"

There was a hint of fear in Lin Qianyuan's eyes, "I only felt it in those people who came down from Qiu Mountain five years ago. ”

Hearing this, some people present already gasped, and everyone was silent, and after a long time, they heard Lin Yuebai sigh softly.

Outside the city.

When the first rays of sunlight shone on the city wall of Yunding in the morning, Long Yuhai was standing under the city and looking at the city wall. The 100,000 allied troops had gathered a mile from the city, and did not encircle.

On the city tower, Gao Yuan held on to the city wall and looked at Long Yuhai, and in the attic behind him, the new monarch Gao Fei sat alone in the room and spread out the chessboard and put the chess pieces on the table.

This is an ancient chess game of simulated war, the chessboard is made of precious silk silk, because it has been a little yellowed because of the age, the chess pieces are solid silver mahogany, divided into red and black sides, both sides have different roles and different functions, Gao Yuan sat on the red side, he took the first step, so that the red archers and chess pieces walked out of front of the formation, and then he waited quietly, waiting for the other party to take the next step.

Long Yuhai saw more crossbowmen appear on the city wall, and they were waiting on the city wall, their sharp arrows shining in the morning light. He knew that the other party would defend with bows and arrows, but there was no other way than to rush through the rain of arrows and take the ladder to enter the city, and he was about to give an order, when someone stopped him: "Is the general preparing to give the order to attack the city?"

Long Yuhai turned around, the person who stopped him was a few years older than him, but he should not be around forty years old, but his beard was gray, but his eyes were still very resolute, it was the deputy general Yun Tianshen. Long Yuhai asked, "What is General Yun's opinion?"

Yun Tian replied: "The other party sent crossbowmen to forcibly charge, and it was bound to suffer heavy casualties. ”

Long Yuhai had never seen Yun Tianshen before, but he had also heard of the prestige of Yun Tianshen of Qingqiu Country more than ten years ago, after the decline of the Yun family, the name Yun Tianshen was also lost, until half a year ago, a person who defected from Qingqiu Country was named the city lord of Luoyun City by the monarch Gao Qiang, and only after inquiring privately did he know that it was actually this former Yun family general.

Long Yuhai was in awe of this famous general who had made the Southern Chu army suffer on the border more than ten years ago, but he also despised his defection to his mother country due to the decline of his family. At this time, seeing that he spoke to prevent himself from giving an order, but he just said a non-painful nonsense, he couldn't help but be more and more contemptuous of him.

"The reason General Yun said, even if he is new to the army, he knows the truth, but when attacking the city, how can he not dare to fight because he is afraid of casualties, since ancient times, he has used a bow and crossbow to defend the city, and since ancient times, he has to charge when the bow and crossbow are used to defend the city, but the courage to attack the city will not be exhausted!"

Yun Tianshen's face did not change and said: "Does the general really think that the courage of the soldiers will not be exhausted?"

Long Yuhai snorted coldly, ignoring him, he summoned the herald and ordered: "Order all troops, immediately line up and prepare, set up the ladder, and after a while, launch a charge!"

Yun Tian Shen saw that he couldn't stop Long Yuhai, so he didn't say anything more, but turned around and found Lin Qi, the city lord of Lingcheng, and he told Lin Qi: "Long Yuhai ordered the whole army to attack, I think that the charge at this time will suffer heavy casualties, and the initial battle will be frustrated, which is a very heavy blow to the morale of our army, the eight thousand troops in your Lingcheng are under my command, I want you to order not to charge, retain strength, and the 10,000 people in my Luoyun City will not attack, and when this wave of offensive passes and the opponent's crossbowmen are tired, we will launch a surprise attack!" Lin Qi nodded and took the order.

A moment later, the troops of the coalition army sounded the horn of the charge, except for the 18,000 people under the command of Yun Tianshen, the remaining more than 80,000 people, under the leadership of the main general Long Yuhai, launched the first round of charge towards Yunding City.

Looking down from the city tower, I saw a crowd of people pressed up by the black, and when I looked up from the city, I saw a rain of arrows covering the sky.

There were 2,000 crossbowmen arranged on the upper and outer three floors of Yunding City, and the dense arrows were overwhelming, and countless soldiers in the coalition camp that had just launched the charge were already shot to the ground before they could dodge.

Long Yuhai turned around and saw that Yun Tianshen's troops did not charge according to his orders, but he was very calm, he was very calm, he commanded the troops to retreat slowly while blocking, and when they were out of the range of the bow and arrows, he ordered a slow rest and immediately launched a second charge, and at the same time ordered: "Don't be fast, keep in formation, pay attention to blocking flying arrows!"

Gao Fei had already noticed the situation under the city in the attic, but because Yun Tianshen's troops were still hiding in the woods outside the city and did not show their heads, looking at the countless coalition troops under the city, he did not know that the coalition army still retained its strength.

He returned to the attic, took the infantry of the black chess piece forward, and muttered: "Mistakes were made from the beginning, it seems that it is just the cloud sky sinking of the deputy general, and it is not so terrible, after all, many times the decision is not up to you." ”