This battle can only be described as heavy casualties.
The Qingshiguan garrison was only killed, more than 4,000 people, not counting the wounded.
We have to urge localities to replenish their troops.
The recruits are just to make up the numbers. They are basically human shields. They need to survive the constant bloody battles and become veterans before they can barely be considered a combat force.
Recruits were replenished twice, and within a month, less than half of the recruits were still alive.
The guard general was wounded, not seriously.
Trying not to show off in front of others, he returned to the barracks and sat down slowly.
Zhou Xiaozhou followed him and wanted to say something. Seeing that his face was pale, he couldn't bear to say anything.
The guard sighed slightly: "The people of our country are really scattered. I have been fighting with the enemy for a long time, but no one came to help. It's ridiculous."
There are always some hermit masters on Wu Shengguo's side. Seeing him, a general of his own country, not coming to help when being attacked by the enemy, is so disgusting and chilling!
However, those people may have been disappointed by Wu Shengguohan for a long time, so why should they help you?
If you are injured or even killed in battle, where can you cry?
The current situation in Wu Shengguo is like this. People's hearts are scattered, and the higher the level of people, the more scattered they are. Instead, only the ignorant people at the bottom remain as ignorant as ever, being driven around like cattle and sheep, using their lives to protect this country that does not belong to them.
It's not considered guarding, it can only be regarded as filling holes.
Zhou Xiaozhou was originally just a cow and sheep being driven around, but now he managed to climb out of this level, gained some independence, was exposed to a higher level, and knew more things.
No one came to help, so the defender had no choice but to fight hard, barely win, and was seriously injured, making it difficult to recover in a short period of time.
If he was not in good condition at the critical moment, he would not feel safe. He was a little annoyed and was already considering withdrawing his troops.
You are unkind and I am unjust.
Sometimes, people's emotions will fluctuate continuously, which is closely related to their own situation.
No one helped him and he was seriously injured. He felt that the people here felt sorry for him and worked so hard to guard the door for you. Did he treat the uncle like a dog?
Zhou Xiaozhou also sighed slightly, unable to control anything, he could only remain silent.
On the contrary, those sergeants brought him all the trophies of the immortal cultivators. After all, it was useless for others to take them. The flying swords could not fly and the Qiankun Bag could not be opened at all. He is the only immortal cultivator here, and his performance today was very good, so naturally I brought them to him.
This made Zhou Xiaozhou a little unexpected. He didn't exert much strength today. At most, he was equivalent to an earth-level warrior. There were many more brave people than him, and many of them even lost their lives.
If you give these trophies to him alone, you deserve it!
This batch of loot is really quite a lot, including a lot of flying swords and a lot of Qiankun bags.
The Xichang Protectorate Sect lost at least two to three hundred people, including several Jindan monks, which was definitely an extremely huge property.
But they just gave it away. No one knew whether they would survive until tomorrow. Why did they need these useless things?
Who makes him the unique immortal cultivator here...
Zhou Xiaozhou looked at this pile of things, feeling a little embarrassed and even at a loss.
He no longer had the feeling of being hungry, and his eyes no longer turned green when he saw money. Instead, he felt a great pressure.
"Take it, you deserve it."
The guard said calmly, "I have asked for help so many times, but no one has come to help. You are the only one here. It is normal to get any reward."
Have you asked for help?
It is possible that he has heard the news of asking for help, but his own strength is low and he will not consider this issue at all.
This time I had to bite the bullet.
It feels like a huge profit.
"It's disrespectful."
Zhou Xiaozhou accepted the loot half-heartedly, who thought it was too much money!
With the accumulation of resources, you can practice well, improve your strength, and increase your own survival rate.
What is lacking now is time. It takes enough time to transform resources into strength.
I found a quiet place to draw the prize.
Opening someone else's Qiankun bag is like the feeling of drawing a lottery, flipping through it to see if there are any surprises, and then classifying the various items, including a pile of pill bottles, a pile of various exercises and secrets, and a pile of useful things. There are piles of things to use and two piles of money.
There are basically no copper coins, either gold or silver.
The items of the disciples of the Protector Sect are all distributed uniformly. It is difficult to find something particularly different, and no magic weapon is found.
There are no magic weapons in the Golden elixir stage.
The Xichang Kingdom's world of cultivating immortals has a somewhat closed-door feel. It is independent from the circle of cultivating immortals in Jiuchong Mountain. It seems that the cultivation of immortals in the whole country is booming, but in fact it is lagging far behind. Not a single country can refine magic weapons.
There are some really powerful people in the Golden Core stage or even the Nascent Soul stage, but they are unwilling to play house with them and stay away from the outside world.
No country can truly be united. There will always be different opinions, forming various factions and constraining each other.
Before he could sort out the loot, bad news came again.
Qingyuan County was occupied by rebels.
In this way, the guard became more determined to give up guarding Qingshi Pass.
To the west of Qingshi Pass, it is easy to attack but difficult to defend.
If an enemy army comes from here, he will be wiped out.
Zhou Xiaozhou quickly went to find the guard: "General, even if the county is lost, several nearby counties can serve as backup. Don't abandon the defense lightly."
Although military supplies can be provided, what he fears is that he will be surrounded from both sides and the entire army will be annihilated. Even if he is willing to fight until the whole army is annihilated, he will definitely not be able to leave by then because he is seriously injured!
If he is in good condition, even if he tries to annihilate the entire army, he can still escape alone in the end.
It doesn't matter if others die, but if you can't escape, it's wrong.
"Withdraw tonight, and you should leave with me. There will be a future."
If you abandon your family and follow him, your future will be worthless...
He had been chilled by others, and now he came to chill Zhou Xiaozhou's people.
"My family is here, and I really can't leave."
"Forget it, if you can survive, come find me.
You are young, as long as you survive, you can achieve anything..."
Including small families.
This means that at critical moments, you can give up when you have a young family. As long as you survive, then you can marry a wife and have children, and you will naturally have a small family again.
He was determined to leave, and Zhou Xiaozhou could only watch the guarding army disappear overnight.
They were indeed elite. They walked quietly and cleanly. Not only did they take away the wounded, but they also took away all valuable things.
It is not easy for an army to do this while retreating.
Early the next morning, the county lieutenant brought a large number of young men to fill the hole. As a result, the city gate opened and Zhou Xiaozhou was seen fighting alone on the city wall.
