"General Lu doesn't have to be like this..."
Jing Xuan waved his hand, motioning for the old general below to get down.
This man's name is Lu Cheng, he is the current general and the person he trusts the most.
No matter who does this, he will get into trouble, be thankless, and have no good ending.
Putting aside the safety of confronting immortal cultivators, even the most basic act of silencing someone will make this person infamous in history for thousands of years.
General Lu wants to take action personally, which shows his loyalty to the royal family.
"His Majesty!"
Lu Cheng suddenly shouted and knelt down suddenly.
"The matter of the immortal cultivators in Hanyue City is imminent, we can't wait any longer!"
"My veteran read the military reports coming from the front. Although our army was locked in a stalemate battle, the city could not be attacked for a long time, and it also faced flooding, epidemics and other problems. However, it did not suffer any real losses!"
"Even if the monsters in the city kill people, the number of casualties is only a few hundred, which is nothing compared to my 400,000-strong army!"
He clasped his hands in his fists, lowered his head, and quickly stated his purpose.
"As for the cultivator in the city, according to the old minister's opinion, his magic power is actually limited. Being able to attract heavy rain and set up an array is already the limit!"
"We must take this opportunity to capture Hanyue City in one go!"
"If we wait until the monk's magic power improves in the future, I'm afraid more soldiers will die!"
Lu Cheng suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of determination.
"I also ask your majesty to allow me to go and bring the Dongyue and Xiyue armies to support..."
"By then, our army will have a total of 800,000 elite soldiers gathered together, and veterans will be in charge. Their morale will be greatly boosted. We will definitely be able to break through the monster's defense in one fell swoop and capture him!"
"Your Majesty, please give me permission!"
"..."
As the old general finished talking about his plan, the Jin Shu Pavilion fell into silence for a while.
Several other ministers could not speak at this time and could only wait anxiously for His Majesty's conclusion.
"Alas...that's the case..."
After a long time, a sigh sounded.
Immediately, Jing Xuan's voice full of majesty and determination rang in everyone's ears.
"Lu Cheng listens to the order! I order you to immediately lead the army from the east and west mountains to go to Hanyue City to quell the evil cultivators and restore peace to our people in the world!"
"In addition, this expedition is extremely dangerous. I want you to bring the 108 masters in the palace with you. Maybe you can help in apprehending the demon!"
As Jing Xuan finished speaking, the eunuch on the side also recorded the emperor's order on the paper, and then carefully handed it to Lu Cheng's hand.
"Old minister accepts the order!"
General Lu took over the sacred order, and his rich voice shocked people's hearts.
In this way, a new plan for Hanyue City was completed. The reinforcements would go to their destination as quickly as possible. They could join the previous army within seven days and launch a general attack.
According to their thinking, the immortal cultivator has not appeared for three hundred years. Although the reason is unknown, but now it suddenly appears, it is very likely that some people have received the inheritance and learned something.
Now, it is necessary to eliminate the opponent in one fell swoop before it can truly develop.
Otherwise, once they break through in cultivation and advance to a higher stage, they will no longer be able to deal with them by mortals like themselves.
At that time, the fairy disaster of the past may happen, and the world will once again fall into an era under the current control.
In fact, to a certain extent, their guess was not wrong.
For ordinary people, immortal cultivators do possess powerful power and are almost invincible.
If you can deal with potential enemies in advance and avoid that situation, even if you need to make some sacrifices, you will not hesitate.
But what they don't know is that the truth of the matter is far from simple as several people imagined.
This world has entered the stage of spiritual recovery, and there will be more and more so-called immortals and monsters.
On the other side, the immortal cultivator who Lu Cheng considered to be at the end of his battle was also having a headache about related matters.
This so-called immortal cultivator is naturally the awakened person from the Star Alliance and the great elder of the Tianyuan Sect, Liu Ye.
Downstairs from Bai Han, in the city lord's mansion.
This is the center of the entire Hanyue City and the core of the current city defense formation.
Since the last battle of the Heavenly Blood Silkworm, the city lord's palace has been invaded by a sea of blood inside and outside. Flowers, plants and trees have withered, and a large number of buildings have been destroyed, forming a ruins.
After these days of repairs, although the surrounding environment has not yet recovered, it is finally not that ugly.
Now, due to its location and underground spiritual veins, Pei Laoliu set up a city protection formation here to cover the entire Hanyue City.
The imperial soldiers and horses outside were unable to break in because of the existence of this formation. They could only surround the city and engage in a war of attrition.
Regarding such a situation, Liu Ye was quite helpless.
This is the first time in his life that he has seen an army of hundreds of thousands of people, surrounded by an army of such a size. This puts a lot of pressure on people.
Even as a cultivator in the heartbeat stage, Pei Laoliu had no way to guarantee that he could deal with this 400,000-strong army.
If a fight really started, he could kill hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people.
But 400,000 is simply too much.
Even if 400,000 pigs are left to be slaughtered in front of you, they are not easy to kill.
What's more, there is also strong psychological pressure involved.
Liu Ye indeed promised Ye Lin that he would help protect Hanyue City.
But that kind of wanton killing was definitely not what he wanted.
Although in a certain sense, killing enemies in a military formation is different from ordinary killing.
Because it was a battle based on position, and what he did was not his original intention.
But even so, 400,000 people are too many.
Liu Ye asked himself that he did not have the mentality of ancient Bai Qi. At least for now, he was just a practitioner who had just been exposed to the extraordinary realm for less than a year.
A year ago, he was just an ordinary old man.
Even if he has extraordinary power and has gone through so many fights against monsters.
Ask him to be ruthless enough to kill a group of evil people, and he can do it.
But if he were to slaughter a total of 400,000 people without changing his expression, it would be a bit difficult to adapt to.
Therefore, in order to reduce killings and improve efficiency, Pei Laoliu chose to retreat from the enemy through formations and weather.
The heavy rain outside was caused by his magical power of making wind and rain.
But what I didn't expect was that those people were so persistent. Even when it rained heavily and was about to cause floods, they never retreated.
They found a high ground to garrison, and dug drainage channels to divert the accumulated water into the Li River, making it clear that they were determined to fight to the bitter end.
Now, the formation has been activated for fourteen consecutive days.
Even for this lowest level spirit protection formation, if it is turned on continuously in this way, its spirit stone consumption is still a large number, which makes Liu Ye very distressed.
"It's not okay to continue like this. Even if the formation can be maintained forever, continued heavy rains may cause the water level of the Li River to rise and cause floods..."
No matter what, the influence must stop.
Apart from anything else, once a flood occurs in the Li River, the people here will bear the brunt.
"Hey, I don't know if that boy Zhang Xiaoman has come back. If we want to completely solve the trouble here, I'm afraid he will need to take action..."
Just as he was thinking, a familiar voice came from the side.
"Chang Pei!"
Ye Lin, dressed in white, came over.
"I just received information from the spies that the imperial court has not retreated, and has sent hundreds of thousands more troops here. If they join together, we will probably face a siege with at least twice the current strength..."
When he said this, Ye Lin's face was full of worry.
The current situation is not optimistic, and the pressure faced by Hanyue City is really too great.
Outside there was a large army pressing down on the territory and besieging the city, while inside the people were panic-stricken.
If it weren't for the immortal leader of Tianyuan Sect here, I'm afraid there would have been riots in the city.
Since the end of the last Immortal Fate Conference, the imperial army had arrived in front of the city gate. By this time, it was no longer possible to hide the news that these people were under siege.
Even in order for the people in the city to settle down, Ye Lin had to take the initiative to tell them that the purpose of these people was to massacre the city.
Otherwise, under the long-term siege, some people's psychological defenses will inevitably collapse, and then they will direct their anger at the City Lord's Mansion.
Because for these people, the reason why the imperial court's soldiers and horses came here must be to capture the city lord, and they and others had avoided unreasonable disaster.
By then, there will be all kinds of troubles, and even the city guards may mutiny.
Therefore, you must tell them the truth of the matter and let them stand on the same front as you, so that similar situations can be avoided from happening.
After all, once the city is broken, everyone will die, and there is no point in surrendering.
Now, seven days have passed, and the imperial court has sent additional reinforcements here, looking determined to fight to the death. This made Ye Lin start to panic.
"Are 400,000 more people coming..."
Pei Laoliu couldn't help but frowned when he heard what the other party said.
He has now begun to think about whether he should go back to the sect first, pass the message through Niyang, and just ask Zhang Xiaoman to come over.
Eight hundred thousand troops, this was already more than he could handle.
If he breaks through to the spiritual silence stage, he may still have room for maneuver.
But with his current cultivation level in the heartbeat period, it is not enough to protect this city.
Seeing that the Immortal Chief didn't speak, Ye Lin was secretly anxious. Just as he was about to ask, his eyes suddenly darkened, and a figure appeared silently in front of him.
"You, you are..."
Although Zhang Xiaoman had visited Hanyue City several times, he had never seen him before, and he was a little surprised for a while.
"Little...master...why are you here?"
When Mr. Liu saw the visitor, he was overjoyed and subconsciously wanted to blurt out the other person's name, but he changed his words in time.
Zhang Xiaoman actually doesn't care much about these things, but Master Liu intends to maintain his image, so he won't object.
"Sixth Master, I'm here."
Zhang Xiaoman smiled slightly and lifted the two bags in his hands at the same time.
"A few days ago, there were a lot of things on Water Blue Star. Su Changqing couldn't handle them all by himself, so I took care of a few things myself... You see, I came over as soon as I was free, and I brought you two old geese. , to satisfy your craving."
After saying that, he handed the bag containing the saltwater goose to Mr. Liu, looking relaxed and comfortable.
Now, the formation has been activated for fourteen consecutive days.
Even for this lowest level spirit protection formation, if it is turned on continuously in this way, its spirit stone consumption is still a large number, which makes Liu Ye very distressed.
"It's not okay to continue like this. Even if the formation can be maintained forever, continued heavy rains may cause the water level of the Li River to rise and cause floods..."
No matter what, the influence must stop.
Apart from anything else, once a flood occurs in the Li River, the people here will bear the brunt.
"Hey, I don't know if that boy Zhang Xiaoman has come back. If we want to completely solve the trouble here, I'm afraid he will need to take action..."
Just as he was thinking, a familiar voice came from the side.
"Chang Pei!"
Ye Lin, dressed in white, came over.
"I just received information from the spies that the imperial court has not retreated, and has sent hundreds of thousands more troops here. If they join together, we will probably face a siege with at least twice the current strength..."
When Ye Lin said this, his face was full of worry.
The current situation is not optimistic, and the pressure faced by Hanyue City is really too great.
Outside there was a large army pressing down on the territory and besieging the city, while inside the people were panic-stricken.
If it weren't for the Tian Yuan Sect's immortal here, I'm afraid there would have been riots in the city.
Since the end of the last Immortal Fate Conference, the imperial army had arrived in front of the city gate. By this time, it was no longer possible to hide the news that these people were under siege.
Even in order for the people in the city to settle down, Ye Lin had to take the initiative to tell them that the purpose of these people was to massacre the city.
Otherwise, under the long-term siege, some people's psychological defenses will inevitably collapse, and then they will direct their anger at the City Lord's Mansion.
Because for these people, the reason why the imperial court's soldiers and horses came here must be to capture the city lord, and they and others had avoided unreasonable disaster.
By then, there will be all kinds of troubles, and even the city guards may mutiny.
Therefore, you must tell them the truth of the matter and let them stand on the same front as you, so that similar situations can be avoided from happening.
After all, once the city is broken, everyone will die, and there is no point in surrendering.
Now, seven days have passed, and the imperial court has sent additional reinforcements here, looking determined to fight to the death. This made Ye Lin start to panic.
"Are 400,000 more people coming..."
Pei Laoliu couldn't help but frowned when he heard what the other party said.
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