"Stop." Cheng Liang shouted angrily from behind. He looked like he was crazy and rushed towards Wu Gen desperately, trying to save his martial soul.
The martial soul is bred from the human world and is the essence of the human body. Once it is destroyed, it will have a great impact on the martial artist's own cultivation.
Although it can still be slowly reshaped after being destroyed, this also means that years of accumulation have been wasted, and it will also hinder one's own practice. How could Cheng Liang not know about such consequences and why he was not in a hurry.
His martial spirit has not yet gone through the thunder tribulation, so he cannot leave his body for too long, and his foundation is also somewhat floating. Just now, he was really frightened by Wu Gen's heavy punch, so he released his martial spirit to gain some breathing space for himself.
Unexpectedly, Wu Gen would take advantage of this opportunity to kill his own martial spirit. Every time the martial spirit is seriously injured and recovered, it takes a lot of blood. If it is destroyed a few more times, it will really disappear, and the cultivation of the past decades will be wasted.
Glancing at Cheng Liang behind him, Wu Gen didn't dodge at all and activated the Tianluo Style without hesitation. In the blink of an eye, waves of sword energy washed over the figure, and the martial spirit quickly became weak.
At the same time, a yellow halo suddenly appeared on Wu Gen's body. The golden body method was activated, and a punch struck the figure. The fist penetrated the figure, and its surface rippled sharply like a pebble dropped in a basin of water.
With a pop, Wu Po finally couldn't bear the repeated heavy blows and turned into a puff of smoke.
At the same time, Wu Gen received a heavy blow from Cheng Liang in the back. His body was sent flying and fell to the ground far away.
Cheng Liang, who had just succeeded, had a face like gold paper, spat out a mouthful of blood, and his momentum suddenly weakened. Cheng Liang turned around and left without waiting to check Wu Gen's situation. The destruction of his martial spirit completely made him lose his will to fight.
In the distance, Wu Gen stood up from the ground with a broken knife. The yellow halo on his body shook a few times and burst like a bubble. The two arms were already bloody, with blood dripping down, looking quite miserable.
Despite destroying his martial spirit, Cheng Liang's heavy punch just now also caused Wu Gen serious injuries, and he could no longer maintain his golden body. Fortunately, Cheng Liang finally ran away out of fear, thus avoiding more serious injuries.
While the two were fighting fiercely, the Cheng family's cavalry was not idle either and charged towards the city gate risklessly. Fortunately, the city gate is full of debris and it will be difficult to break through it for a while.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhuo Ke and others exchanged fire with the cavalry below the city tower, and achieved many gains. Seeing that they could not enter the city through the city gate, someone from the Cheng family threw their flying claws, grabbed the debris in the doorway and dragged them out. Some cavalry simply walked around the city, dismounted and climbed up the wall with flying hooks in hand.
Zhanliu City is a small city, so how can such a low city wall stop these people. Soon, the cavalry climbed onto the city wall and rushed towards the eight Ling Yun cavalry at the west gate from both sides.
Seeing that they could no longer stop their opponents from climbing up the city wall, Zhuo Ke and others had no choice but to tighten their formation and gather at the west gate to resist the opponent's attack.
After all, the number of people was too small, and soon Ling Yun Baqi and Suo Ji were surrounded. Various swords were thrown at several people, and soon all nine of them were covered with paint. Two of them were seriously injured and were surrounded by the rest of the people to protect them.
Although Ling Yun's eight cavalry cooperated tacitly and together could compete with a fifth-level Qi practitioner, it was very difficult to face these battle-hardened cavalry.
People were still coming in a steady stream, and looking at the dense crowd of opponents, several of them felt a little desperate.
Suddenly, the opponent's attack stopped for a moment. Immediately afterwards, these cavalrymen, who were almost successful, rushed out of the city. After a while, except for the people lying on the city wall, there was no more Cheng family cavalry.
Suoji dragged his injured leg, stepped over the scattered weapons on the ground, and came to the wall with difficulty. Outside the city, these cavalrymen quickly ran towards their general, protecting him in the middle.
Outside the city, Wu Gen took a breath and staggered forward a few steps. Whoosh, a dense row of arrows shot over, leaving a forest of arrows not far in front of him. The feathers at the tail of the arrow move with the wind, looking like a field of reeds.
Stopping, Wu Gen looked at Cheng Liang opposite, with a calm expression on his face, and stretched out his fingers to hook.
There was a trace of resentment in Cheng Liang's eyes, but he did not respond to his opponent's provocation. He waved his hand and turned around and walked back with his men. Cheng Liangfang stopped when he reached Hulan Fuyan's side.
Seeing the puzzled looks of his men, Cheng Liang could only break his teeth and swallow it. It's not that he couldn't charge just now, but if nearly a hundred of his men rushed forward, would they be able to catch up with the opponent's agility?
Moreover, what if the opponent avoids the chasing cavalry and takes the opportunity to capture or kill Hulan Fuyan. It would be ugly if this happened. Do the Cheng family still want to establish a foothold in Bailing Province? Even though Hulan Fuyan is just an embroidered pillow, he is also a descendant of the Hulan family. The Hulan family may not pay attention to it, but your Cheng family is nothing.
The most important thing is that Cheng Liang was injured, and the injury was not serious. He did not want to die at the hands of Wu Gen, like a dog, on the wasteland in front of Zhanliu City.
Therefore, he called everyone over to protect Hulan Fuyan and himself. At this time, he had already lost the confidence to fight Wu Gen again.
The Cheng family's cavalry slowly left and walked among the team. Cheng Liang looked gloomy and had many thoughts on his mind. This bandit suppression has killed so many people. It has already failed. It is better to stop the losses in time.
As for Wu Gen, even though he was so arrogant, he didn't dare to break into the team rashly. He can kill ten people or fifty people, but one person is weak after all, and with so many people here, even a pile of people can kill him. As for the book saying that there are thousands of enemies and ten thousand enemies, that is pure nonsense. It means that ten thousand pigs are standing there motionless. If you chop them down, they can drink a pot of them.
Wu Gen stood behind the forest of arrows and did not try to chase the Cheng family. He watched the cavalry go far away before walking towards the city gate.
When he arrived in the city, he glanced left and right, and Wu Gen nodded slightly, "Good fight." He said and sat down slowly against the wall.
It's not that he doesn't want to chase the Cheng family cavalry, but he can't. Under Cheng Liang's heavy blow, Wu Gen was also seriously injured. In short, today's battle is the result of a lose-lose situation for both sides.
"Zhuo Ke." Zhuo Ke greeted softly, handed over a pot of water, took out the wound medicine he brought with him, and carefully applied medicine to Wu Gen's arm, "Those people from the Cheng family are planning to camp outside the city based on signs. Don’t notify Commander Xue and let the brothers outside the city harass the other party at night.”
"First call the brothers who are ambushing at the east gate. Let's prepare to pursue them. The Cheng family may have to escape." Wu Gen took a sip of water and gently ordered, "Inform Commander Xue to ambush on the road when the enemy comes. Now we One hundred people can fight against more than two hundred people from the Cheng family."
"Want to escape?" Zhuo Ke glanced outside the city in confusion.
"Master, if we pursue them, what will happen to Zhanliucheng? We can't take away the food we collected. Once we leave, these merchants will definitely rebel." Ha Ying was worried at the side.
"It doesn't matter, those merchants are just wallflowers. When we return with victory, they have to surrender obediently." Wu Gen looked at the Cheng family cavalry who were gradually retreating outside the city. "Wait until night, hide the seriously injured in a secret place." At the same place, the rest of the people will attack with me."
At night, Wu Gen took the remaining five people and thirty subordinates of Ling Yun's Eight Cavalry and hurriedly ran through the night.
During the day, Ha Ying had found out clearly that the Cheng family had indeed left and stopped on the river bank sixty miles away. There was a big battle during the day, and the Cheng family suffered heavy casualties. In addition to the wounded, there were also corpses that were about to be buried, so they had to stop to rest and wait for a letter from home.
Sitting in the tent, Cheng Liang felt unhappy. Someone has been sent to the head of the family about the situation of the war here. Let him decide whether to continue to increase the number of troops and fight again, or to let the thieves leave.
In today's battle, the strength of these bandits was indeed astonishing, but their numbers were small after all. It was only their bravery that allowed them to defend the city today.
According to Cheng Liang's estimation, the bandits in Zhanliu City, after seeing him leaving, most likely collected gold, silver, food and grass and left quickly. As a thief, don't you just want to steal some property? Why are you fighting with yourself?
In fact, Cheng Liang cannot be blamed for this misjudgment. Over the years, they have had many encounters with various bandits and horse thieves. Most of these people's purpose is to seek money. As long as they grab enough things, they will usually leave. Even if the bandit leader wants to fight, his subordinates will probably have to defeat him. With money, who wants to work hard?
Next door is Hulan Fuyan's tent. Cheng Liang plans to send someone to send this guy away at dawn. If something goes wrong here, he should stop doing it and go to the mountains to become a bandit. .
As for Cheng Jie, he was already under guard. If the head of the family questioned him, he would be blamed. The enemy clearly had 800 troops, but he said there were less than 100. They were not spies.
Distraught, Cheng Liang ordered his men to be more vigilant and lay heavily on the couch. The consequences of losing his martial spirit were gradually revealed.
Bang, Cheng Liang killed a small insect on his arm. Why were there so many bugs here? They didn't stop all night. They kept tossing until late at night before Cheng Liang fell asleep in a daze.
By the small river shrouded in night, the waning moon cast a few afterglows, passing over the treetops and falling on the meandering river. The breeze blows, and sparkling water ripples appear on the water, just like the fine lines on silk, smooth and delicate.
It's not very quiet at night like this. Because it's next to the river, the sounds of frogs, insects, and owls are all mixed together endlessly, just like a lively vegetable market.
Wu Gen slowly emerged from the water and looked at the Cheng family's camp by the river. He had to say that the location they chose was quite good. Far away from the jungle, the camp has water and is surrounded by open space. If there is an enemy attack, it can be detected from a long distance.
Xue Xin has long been lying in the forest far away. His men have been recuperating their strength for the past two days and have not participated in the war. Wu Gen originally planned to let him harass the returning Cheng family cavalry on the road, but Cheng Liang unexpectedly stopped here, so he had to retreat from the preset place and attack the opponent's camp with him.
It can only be said that no matter how good the plan is, it will encounter changes.
Ha Ying took a frog off his head and spit out the reed pipe in his mouth. "Sir, it should be almost done. Can we attack?"
Wu Gen looked at the situation in the Cheng family's military camp and said, "Souji has gone. Let's wait until he leads the horses out of the camp before we attack again." That night, the Cheng family's cavalry never stopped and was attacked by all kinds of enemies. The insects and ants kept harassing us until late at night.
Now Wu Gen is waiting for Suoji to lure the Cheng family's horses out, and then send troops with Xue Xin.
Wu Gen also saw along the way that without horses, the consumption of people would still be too great, so he just happened to seize a batch of war horses from the Cheng family for his own riding, even if they were used to carry things, they were good.
A slight neighing sound came from the camp, and several horses stood up in confusion and walked toward the outside of the camp. Due to the hard work in the first half of the night, the soldiers on duty had already fallen asleep holding their swords in their arms, and did not even notice the horse passing by.
As these horses left, more horses stood up and followed the ones in front of them one after another towards the outside of the camp. Since it was a temporary camp, there were no wooden fences around the camp, so the horses easily wandered away into the distance.
After it was done, Wu Gen pulled out the broken knife, waved it lightly, and moved toward the Cheng family's camp under the cover of the sound of insects and running water.
At the same time, in the dense forest on the opposite side, there were also figures shaking.
Some people died, but not completely...
