The night ends and the day dawns.
By noon the next day, a total of seven companies of Wala cavalry passed by the huge boulder erected high by the people.
No one noticed anything strange, and no one dismounted to examine the traces of the fire on the turf of the huge stone arch bathroom.
I'm afraid no one except the vast world knows that there was once a pair of children clinging to each other here.
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It's about Mo Hai hour.
Maybe I felt the coldness of the autumn night, the bright moon penetrated into the heavy clouds, the stars in the sky shrank, and the moonlight and stars scattered on the earth looked particularly dim.
At this time, in the central and southern part of the Northland, a big, sturdy black horse was flying toward the southeast like a shooting star under the cover of night.
When they were about ten miles away from a towering city wall in the southeast, they slowed down and disappeared into a forest like stepping on cotton.
Half an hour later, in the middle of Xixing Pass, there was a single-person tent that could accommodate a table and a chair, and there was still a little room for sleeping. He was wearing a cotton fur coat, leaning on the seat, and was still feeling weird about the steady intrusion of the Walas. Luo Piaoling, who had not yet fallen asleep, heard the sound of wind chimes coming in.
Probably another blessing in disguise for his lost cultivation, Luo Piaoling's sleep can't be said to be very good. He can only say that he sleeps whenever he wants. Once he sleeps, he can fall into a deep sleep. When he wakes up, he has enough energy to deal with various matters. .
For this reason, Luo Piaoling also added a new worry, because he always fell into a deep sleep state, and had to agree with his companions on a way to wake him up every time he went out.
As long as he remembers what sound he wants to wake up to before going to bed, even if he hears the sound in his sleep, he will wake up naturally.
The sound of wind chimes was the wake-up sound he had agreed with his secret protector Han Wuyue during this trip north.
Luo Piaoling has not yet gone to bed, but the wind chimes are ringing. Naturally, it cannot be that Han Wuyue failed to keep the wind chimes or that he is deliberately teasing Luo Piaoling. There must be something else important.
Luo Piaoling thought for a moment, stood up, and said, "Mr. Han, who is here?"
As soon as the words fell, Han Wuyue's blurry figure was reflected on the camp curtain, along with a concise reply.
"Two people returning from the north."
After hearing this, Luo Piaoling's eyes, which were already showing signs of fatigue, suddenly took on a new color, and she quickened her pace towards the door.
Outside the camp, the visitor greeted Han Wuyue, who responded with "Thank you" and raised a corner of the camp curtain to let the two of them in.
Before the camp curtain fell, Han Wuyue's figure disappeared into the night again.
Then an autumn wind blew in, and two people appeared out of thin air.
I don’t know whether the autumn wind brought them two from the north, or whether they brought the autumn wind from the north.
"Love Sword" Luo Piaoling had no intention of being sentimental at this time. Is the autumn wind sending people away or people crossing the autumn wind? He only knew that his confusion about the Wala people being neither arrogant nor impetuous and advancing steadily could be answered.
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In the early morning of the same day, Lingnan City Pass.
Luo Yue once again mobilized 100,000 strong troops to attack the city.
This was Luo Yue's tenth frontal attack on Lingnan City in more than half a month.
Although Luo Yue has vigorously promoted maritime trade with the support of Japan in the past two decades, which is an important pillar of the recovery and development of the national economy, it cannot be achieved from scratch in just twenty years, and it is not enough now. Take action to pose any threat to Zhongzhou.
However, strengthening the mainland's combat power is still Guobang's main strategic policy.
In order to cooperate with Japan, Duzhu and other countries to launch an invasion of Zhongzhou this time, Luo Yue prepared 600,000 elite troops and strong generals to be ready.
The first batch of 150,000 soldiers and horses arrived outside Lingnan City. Most of them used psychological warfare to harass and feint attacks.
For example, seven of the nine frontal sieges were tentative attacks that were only attempted briefly.
In the other two siege battles, when the number of casualties approached 5,000, the troops were withdrawn in time to stop losses.
For the Lingnan defenders of Zhongzhou, even though their group has been replaced by more than 80% compared with the group of 20 years ago, the spirit of the army is still there, the military power is not down, and the number of casualties is less than a hundred people in most of the month. It is enough to show that the intensity of the Nanmanzi's attack is just scratching the surface and not something to be afraid of.
However, the victory after victory did not make General Cheng Cheng and his soldiers get carried away.
From the beginning, they all knew that Luo Yue's army was still thundering but not raining, and had not yet fully exerted its strength.
Secondly, Lingnan City's supply poses a big problem.
Although the Red Sect no longer exists and Wang Shuo is dead, his hard work on the southwest waterway of Zhongzhou and the Yunze realm was not completely in vain.
The Red Sect is no longer useful, but the Japanese can still make use of it.
The Japanese craftsmanship that has been deeply cultivated in the inland of Zhongzhou for many years but has not been exposed or excavated has led the Luo Yue people to cross mountains and rivers and secretly cross Chencang, allowing a total of 30,000 Luo Yue troops and 500 Luo Yue Jianghu people to circumvent the hinterland of Lingnan without anyone noticing. , combined with the power of the Netherworld Sect, the three supply lines leading to the back of Lingnan City were cut off.
After the foreign war twenty years ago, two new supply lines were opened at Lingnan City Gate in addition to the original three supply lines as a precaution.
Drawing an arc from the northwest to the east, they are Yunfu Avenue, Sanshui Road, Qingyuan Road, Heyuan Road, and South Fujian Avenue where Fujian and Lingnan are mutual supply lines.
At present, the South Fujian Avenue is cut off from the sea by the Japanese, and the Fujian army is working hard to regain control with the support of the Yiyun Villa Jianghu martyrs led by Shuangchi and Li Suran.
Only the Heyuan Road remained, and a group of Zhongzhou Jianghu martyrs and the Lingnan Army guarded this life supply line, barely keeping Lingnan City alive.
This group of Zhongzhou Jianghu people is mainly led by experts from Daoyi League, Tingyuge, Sanrenju, and Zui Hongyan Restaurant.
Feipiao, Zifeng, and Shi Zhonghuo, the three key members of Tingyu Pavilion, are among them.
In order to protect the convoy transporting baggage, there have been frequent offensive and defensive battles on Heyuan Road in the past ten days.
There were three confrontations between Fei Piao and Ye Shang alone.
Feipiao knew very well that he could not let Ye Shang, who was good at wielding a simple sword and had a huge killing potential, do whatever he wanted in this big scene.
As soon as they met, they locked onto Nightmare tightly, preventing the other party from using their hands and feet, and preventing the other party from having a chance to kill.
The double thorns used by Feipiao are not in a strange way, but are fast, agile, fierce, and never give up until the enemy is killed.
Why is Nightmare a vegetarian?
In the past ten years, he has been defeated and injured, but he has never flinched.
Even if the simple sword he wields is not as flexible as the double thorns, he can still make up for the deficiencies in defense by attacking with attack.
Therefore, if two people like this fight, it will naturally cause chaos and thunder!
In addition, the two of them have a desperate temperament, and the more they fight, the more courageous they become. The longer they fight, the more inseparable they become.
There is no room for a third person to stand within a radius of fifteen feet centered on the two of them, and no one can interfere at all!
If the two of them were not still on the battlefield, otherwise this would have completely reduced to a life-and-death contest among warriors.
In view of the fact that a large amount of cargo and grain were destroyed when the baggage was transported for the first time, only 30% of it was left when it arrived at the Lingnan city gate. Moreover, the mountains and rivers in Lingnan did not allow the Zhongzhou side to catch all these stowaways in one battle. When Zhongzhou once again transported supplies to the front line, Fang was forced to change his strategy - break it into parts, send small quantities in large quantities, and compete with the stowaways for human consumption.
In the second confrontation, the same fierce battle was staged.
Ye Shang and Feipiao are once again facing each other in life and death, but neither one can do anything about the other.
Each of them returned to the camp to recuperate with more than ten injuries of various sizes.
In the third round of fighting, perhaps the persuasion of Zifeng and Shi Zhonghuo took effect, and Feipiao finally took the lead in making changes.
She has realized that her one-on-one fight with Ye Shang only limited Ye Shang's personal combat effectiveness, but ignored the overall casualties.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer teammates on the battlefield together, Feipiao, who thought he still had the energy to do more, of course stepped forward to take on more responsibilities without hesitation.
She wanted Ye Shang to chase her and beat her, and let Ye Shang restrain her.
So, she went crazy on Heyuan Road!
The Jianghu people who smuggled themselves from Luoyue have never seen such a crazy woman in their lives.
A dozen or so people couldn't trap this woman even if they all took action together.
The thirty or so people taking turns taking turns could not slow down the woman's progress, just like a moth flying into a flame.
If it hadn't been for the Nether Sect's "Wolf Judge" to stop them with a horizontal sword, this woman who entered the battle in white clothes and changed into red clothes for a moment must have killed fifty of them and then slaughtered the other half!
After this battle, Feipiao has been engraved in the hearts of Luo Yue people as a female devil who is half white and half red with blood!
As for Nightmare, this is what he said to the Crying Lady.
"I almost fell in love with Feipiao.
"Obviously she was the one who stared at me first.
"Now she has abandoned me and ignored me. I really can't bear to let her go.
“She is, of course, the second woman besides Chasing the Moon that I find both interesting and troublesome.
"That's right, you can't compare to my crying sister."
In this fourth confrontation today, Ye Shang did not dare to let Feipiao go on a killing spree.
As long as they can keep an eye on Feipiao, the Luo Yue people will not be shaken in military morale and unable to lift their swords. Only in this way can they reduce battle losses and have the possibility of stalemate with the Zhongzhou side and avoid being defeated and fleeing.
And the Luo Yue army, which has less than 5,000 men left, should be able to spend another four or five days with Zhongzhou.
Four or five days later, no matter what the battle situation was like on the front line, their Nether Cult had completed its mission and was able to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield.
But when Ye Shang appeared, a sword light had already rushed over like a shooting star!
Since Fei Piao came to guard Ye Shang last time, this is the third opponent Ye Shang has faced, Ting Yu Pavilion - Zifeng.
Zifeng and Shi Zhonghuo jointly persuaded Feipiao to use Tian Ji's horse racing strategy to contain Ye Shang.
Use the "middle and lower-class horses" of the two of them to deal with the "high-class horses" like Ye Shang.
This will free up cutting-edge combat forces like Feipiao to do more things.
Nightmare's second opponent, Shi Zhonghuo, was born in the military.
After Shi Xin withdrew from the temple and established Shi Mansion, Shi Zhonghuo also changed his mind, actively sought changes, and entered the world half-step.
With the destruction of Shi Mansion, Shi Zhonghuo, who completely devoted himself to the world, gradually grew into a swordsman who could be called a first-class master.
It's a pity that he is a little older after all, and he started much later, and his martial arts talent is not as outstanding as Guan Dadao. When facing top masters like Ye Shang, apart from the restriction of the Suoyun Zhenqi in his hand, , basically beaten by Nightmare into danger.
Fortunately, the perseverance he had honed on the battlefield allowed him to not be afraid of strong enemies, and used methods such as stalking and dragging to deal with them for a long time. Even in a head-to-head encounter, he was slightly injured internally by the remaining energy from Ye Shang's sword, but he still managed to entangle him. His footsteps took a long time to get the big victory last time.
After seeing the "smelly and hard" fire in the stone, Ye Shang didn't dare to show any slights to Zifeng, who also came from Tingyuge.
He has discovered that the three words "Tingyu Pavilion" seem to be full of magic. As long as they are members, they have some kind of special halo blessing. They always have special attainments in a certain aspect, which always makes their opponents extremely difficult to deal with!
Feipiao is like this, fire in stone is like this, and Zifeng is no exception!
Zifeng Jin, who was holding a three-foot blue blade, attacked with mercury-swept swordsmanship. When he failed to attack, he used airtight swordsmanship to defend. If he could not withstand the fierce offensive of Ye Shang Pu Dao, he used a shooting star move. He forcefully opened his body and used continuous and various sword energy to mediate at the far end.
"It's like, it's so similar!"
This is not the first time Ye Shang has seen this kind of method, and even the same bone-chilling freezing air.
It's just that the last person who used this kind of method used the bold fighting method he taught, and used his big sword to have a fruitless duel with his big sword.
After that, Ye Shang never saw him again, and only heard about him from other people's mouths.
While thinking, Ye Shang swung his long sword and slammed away Zifeng, who was stabbing with his sword again.
Nightmare grinned, as if the cross scar at the corner of his left cheek was stretched horizontally like his mouth. He looked more like a wolf with its mouth open and salivating, about to start hunting.
Ye Shang smiled at Zifeng and said, "But if you just act like him, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to return to the camp alive today. Let me see what you're capable of!"
Before Zifeng could reply, Ye Shang and his Greedy Wolf Sword had already reached Zifeng's door.
Bang!
I saw the frost where Ye Shang dropped the knife exploded, and bits of ice shards fell on the ground. Zifeng actually used his sword to perform the opening formation, one of the eight formations, and completed it in another way. The golden cicada escaped from its shell!
However, as Ye Shang said, "If you look like you, you will die."
Even though Zifeng can be as versatile as Jiang Yichen, and even learned to perform eight formations with a sword, his level of mastery is still too raw. It is surprisingly useful but difficult to use for a long time, and he does not have the extraordinary lightness skills of Jiang Yichen. With his body skills, he could dodge ten moves and block hundreds of attacks from Ye Shang, but he would definitely not be able to withstand a thousand moves.
Ye Shang is already confident that he can teach the opponent a lesson within a thousand moves!
In the next cup of tea, Zifeng was really exhausted.
In the face of Ye Shang's devastating offensive, it was very difficult for Zifeng to think that he could still hold on, so how could he count the hundreds of moves he had received from the opponent?
It's just that the sword in his hand became more and more translucent with ice crystals, as if it were a cold jade ice sculpture naturally formed in the deep cold pool.
And everywhere he passed there were white spots like ice crystals, as if there had just been a slight icy rain last night.
Nightmare's fighting style is rough, but he has always been a person who is rough and careful, so he naturally noticed these abnormalities.
Therefore, after making the nine hundred and ninety-ninth move, he did not move forward to attack, but stopped looking for an advance.
Waiting for the suppressed volcano to erupt!
The eruption was of course not a volcano, but an iceberg to be precise.
During the battle at Ning Terrace, Zifeng watched helplessly as his second senior brother Ruan Gu died beside him, unable to do anything, so he regarded Jiang Yichen, who was able to turn the tide, as a guide in his heart.
Zifeng, who is lazy and fun-loving by nature, not only turned to swordsmanship in order to become stronger, but also endured all hardships. On the way from a fat assassin to a thin swordsman, Zifeng gave up half of his cultivation and took another more suitable one. The water attribute technique "Han Jade Jue" used in swordsmanship is also the reason why he can use the freezing energy like Jiang Yichen.
As a disciple of Long Yao and the younger brother of Qing Jian Luo Piao Ling, who switched from daggers to swordsmanship, Zifeng has no lack of foundation and guidance from masters of swordsmanship. The reason why he behaves like Jiang Yichen is just because he is involved in the field of swordsmanship. Jiang Yichen's performance in several battles was eye-catching and outstanding, but this does not mean that Zifeng does not have his own characteristics.
Not to mention swordsmanship, his skill "Hanyu Jue" is unique.
Three feet of ice is not frozen in a day, and ice becomes jade. It not only needs to be accumulated, but also needs to be polished.
Steel can be made a hundred times, jade can be made by polishing a thousand times!
Zifeng, who had been suppressed to the extreme, could use the "Han Jade Jue" to bottom out and completely release the icy air that was compressed and polished to the extreme in his body. This was the confidence he had to challenge Tong Ye Shang!
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Where there were white frost spots on the ground before, ice edges that were as thick as a bucket and exceeded the height of an ordinary person sprang out!
From bottom to top, from the back or front, it penetrated the chest of a nearby Luo Yue man and a member of the Nether Sect, without any accidental injuries!
Seeing the ice edges springing up from under his feet, Ye Shang smashed them one after another with the Tanlang Knife, and dispersed them one by one with his external breath. However, these ice edges actually sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Come out!
Within a distance of about fifty steps, about thirty people were stabbed through the body and hung on the ice edge. The ice edge was dyed red with blood, making it look particularly scary.
Bits of frost were falling from the air, as if a small-scale icy rain was about to hit everything.
Nightmare, who never flinched, finally retreated, at least more than ten feet away from where he was.
The icy rain fell, and an ice flower bloomed in it!
Nightmare knew very well that if he didn't retreat, he would probably be frozen inside.
It doesn't take long for him to be frozen, even if he only snaps his fingers, it's enough for Zifeng to use the meteor style to seal his throat with a sword!
Although there are similarities and differences in the expression methods, this is generally speaking Jiang Yichen's usual trick.
Nightmare was very familiar with it, so he rationally chose to avoid the edge for the time being.
And after such a move is performed once, it will be difficult for the opponent to complete it a second time.
Nightmare pretended to be relaxed and asked, "What is this fancy move called?"
The killing move at the bottom of the box failed to capture the enemy. It would be false to say that he was not discouraged, but he did not lose his fighting spirit under the opponent's ridicule. Zifeng raised his sword again and pointed at Ye Shang and said: "It looks good, this move is called 'Condensing Rain' Flowers are cold'!"
Ye Shang said sincerely: "It looks good and sounds good, but it's not very effective. It's a two-stage burst, and the interval is too long. The opponent uses enough time to avoid it."
Zifeng shook his head and said: "It's not like experts like you are everywhere, just enough is enough."
Ye Shang leaned forward to attack and said with a smile: "Have you rested enough? Let me see how many unique skills you still have, or try another 'Condensing Rain Flowers Zihan'?"
Zifeng said: "You will know if you try it!?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a thunderous explosion from the horizon!
The momentum is no less powerful than Zifeng's killing move that freezes the sky and splits the earth!
Patch Notes: You can see that the maps of Zhongzhou and various states in the book are only similar to those of ancient and modern times, but are not exactly the same, and it is impossible to compare them one by one. The Lingnan City Gate here is guarding Luoyue, so it must be bordering the land route. If we compare it with the current map, it is probably the superposition of the terrain of Guangdong and Guangxi to form Lingnan, and then Vietnam also happens to be connected to the southwest.
(End of chapter)
