"If this is the case, then letting this woman escape this time will not be considered as a loss."
Lu Yuan's expression improved slightly after hearing Yan Wangqiu's words.
Although he failed to get rid of Lan Cai'er, he felt somewhat regretful. But after all, the opponent is an innate master and is not that easy to kill, which is expected.
But if the opponent can be seriously injured and unable to take action in this battle, then this time, it can be regarded as something gained.
The Five Poison Sect Miao people lacked the combat power of an innate grandmaster, but they still had the old grandmaster Yan Wangqiu on their side.
The increase and decrease in strength between the two sides is equal to the gap between the two innate masters.
This time the expedition against the Miao people may really have hope of defeating them.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan felt a little hot in his heart, and when he saw the generals gradually gathering around him, he couldn't help but said: "The demon girl has escaped, but she has been seriously injured. At this time, the Five Poison Sect no longer has the protection of the innate master.
You immediately organize your troops, treat the wounded soldiers, collect the bodies of the soldiers, and then continue the march.
In this battle, I must defeat the Miao thieves. "
Lu Yuan said decisively.
Now, this great opportunity was rare and he would never let it go.
"yes."
When the generals and commanders around heard the order, they immediately bowed and retreated, going down to prepare.
Then, Lu Yuan and Yan Wangqiu got on the newly prepared carriage again and continued to lead the army forward.
This attack was too sudden.
Just now, if Yan Wangqiu hadn't warned him in advance, he wouldn't have been able to detect the assassination.
If an innate master wants to hide, it is really difficult to detect it without taking action.
This also made Lu Yuan deeply feel the danger and terror of the innate master.
I also deeply feel how happy and safe I am to have an innate master as my bodyguard.
Therefore, after this experience, he couldn't help but value Yan Wangqiu even more.
He has even made up his mind that during this battle, he will never be ten feet away from the opponent.
Otherwise it would be too insecure.
It is precisely because of this that he did not blame Yan Wangqiu for his mistakes just now, but instead comforted him.
I have no choice but to rely on others to protect my life from now on!
If you offend someone at this time, aren't you kidding yourself with your own life?
Lu Yuan was not stupid and would not do such a thing.
The Ten Thousand Poison Qi is really powerful. Basically, as long as a little bit of the smoke transformed by this Qi is inhaled, it is a death sentence for ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, although Lan Cai'er's killing was fierce just now, most of the people killed were direct deaths, and not many people were actually injured.
Except for a dozen lucky people who were lucky enough to survive, most of the others were corpses.
After leaving some people behind to collect the bodies, bury them on the spot, and place the wounded there, they quickly reorganized their troops and continued on their way.
Lan Cai'er didn't know the details of Lu Yuan this time, so she came to assassinate him rashly. As a result, it didn't work out, and instead he escaped with serious injuries.
The other party took the initiative to send a flaw, which caused the embarrassing situation of the lack of top-level combat power. Lu Yuan naturally wanted to suit the other party's wishes and give him a big gift in return.
He was almost assassinated. With such hatred and hatred, if he didn't go back with revenge, he would have lived in vain for so many years.
At this time, if Lan Cai'er doesn't take advantage of the opportunity to recover from her injuries, kill more Miao people and seize more territory, they will be sorry for this great gift from the other party.
At this point, it’s time to race against time.
…
Just as Lu Yuan's troops were gathering strength and marching quickly, they were on their way.
Lan Cai'er, who had just escaped from the battlefield, after briefly treating her wounds, endured the pain in her body and hurried back all the way.
Just as Yan Wangqiu said, the saint of the Five Poisons Sect was severely injured by his Wan Tao's true intention. It took less than a year and a half, and it was difficult for her to recover.
The reason why Lan Cai'er can estimate the healing time so accurately is because she is familiar with it.
Last time, she cooperated with Li Xiong and assassinated Li Gui, the captain of Dongting County, Marquis Wucheng.
At that time, both of them were just innate. When facing the veteran grandmaster Li Gui, although they took the lead in the assassination, both she and Li Xiong were seriously injured after the fight.
So after the assassination, the two people immediately fled back to their lair to recover from their injuries and did not dare to come out again.
It took Lan Cai'er a full year to recover from that injury. It took another half a year to regain his strength.
A fatal blow from a grandmaster made her cultivate like this.
This time, Yan Wangqiu's cultivation level was higher than that of Li Gui, and the century-old master's sneak attack caused more serious injuries to Lan Cai'er than last time.
'This time I lost a lot of money. '
As she rushed on her way, Lan Cai'er realized the wound on her left shoulder and felt extremely depressed.
According to her feeling, it would take at least a year for her to recover from her injuries and be able to continue shooting normally. And if you want to fully recover, it will take another half a year.
If you want to regain your strength, it will take another half a year.
Judging from the current situation, the Five Poison Sect is in danger, and the Miao people's survival depends on it.
How could the imperial court and that Lu Yuan give the Five Poisons Sect two years?
So it is inevitable that he will play due to injury.
The only question is how much time her enemies can give her to recuperate.
And before he recovers from his injuries and is able to take action, it is a certainty that the Five Poison Sect will strategically shrink and stall for time.
With this idea in mind, Lan Cai'er hurried for a day and finally arrived in Xinhua County, Shaoyang Prefecture.
At first, Lan Zhaoyun led his army to attack Shaoyang Prefecture from the north and south. In half a year, he defeated the three counties to the north of Shaoyang Prefecture in a row, and his troops were directed towards the city of Shaoyang Prefecture.
It is a pity that Shaoyang Prefecture City is heavily guarded. There are tens of thousands of soldiers brought by Zhou Qing to assist in the defense, and there are also tens of thousands of county militia soldiers to assist. Coupled with Zhou Qing, who had mastered the essence of Lu Yuan's stability, even though Lan Zhaoyun was provoking and scolding outside, he still refused to go out of the city to fight.
Therefore, even if Lan Zhaoyun launched a large army and launched a fierce attack in recent months, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties, he still could not capture the city.
On the contrary, he himself lost troops and generals one after another, and his morale was greatly reduced.
The Miao people's militia-type team couldn't fight a tough battle at all, so in the end, Lan Cai'er could only see Lan Cai'er hatefully lead his troops away after successfully attacking the county town, and go north to reinforce his daughter.
However, even though he left, Lan Zhaoyun did not throw away the results of his southern expedition.
The three counties of Xinhua, Xinshao and Longhui that were captured in the north of Shaoyang Prefecture were still divided by thousands of troops in each county, leaving ten thousand people behind.
The person responsible for this aspect of defense is Bai Shuxuan, the newly promoted local elder in Shaoyang Mansion.
Therefore, after arriving in Xinhua County, Lan Cai'er went straight to find Bai Shuxuan who was stationed here.
"Saint?"
When she saw Bai Shuxuan, the elder who was stationed on one side was immediately surprised when he saw the saint's face was pale and covered in blood, and he hurriedly asked: "Are you okay? Do you want treatment? I'm here. Have someone bring you healing medicine.”
"No need." Lan Cai'er stopped Bai Shuxuan's movements and went straight to the point: "I went to assassinate Lu Yuan this time, but unexpectedly he was protected by the innate master. The assassination failed and he was surrounded by his army.
After a lot of fighting, they finally broke out of the siege.
But now I have been seriously injured, and within a year and a half, I can no longer take action.
Now that the traitor has the innate master, without my control, the ten thousand people under your command will not be able to defend the three northern counties of Shaoyang.
So I'm here to ask you to withdraw your troops.
Nowadays, the Holy Religion is in a difficult situation, and our clan is in danger. No soldier or pawn can be wasted easily.
Send the people back to the head church and garrison Wuling Mansion. Wait until I recover from my injuries before I can argue with the Yue people. "
For the Xiantian Grandmaster, as long as the number of enemies does not exceed 10,000, entering Xiantian is almost equal to indiscriminate killing.
Just like this time Lan Cai'er was able to easily break out from the siege of thousands of Lu Yuan's troops without Yan Wangqiu's restraint.
And if the Xiantian Grandmaster is equipped with soldiers and horses, it will be equivalent to Yan Wangqiu's attack on Lan Cai'er this time, which is like adding wings to a tiger, and his power is directly doubled several times.
With Yan Wangqiu, a veteran master, Lu Yuan only needed to use him as the vanguard, and then charge head-on into the city, using Bai Shuxuan to point out people. With just one charge, he was afraid that the entire army would be annihilated.
Back then, Lan Cai'er and a ragtag group of people were able to sneak attack the county and conquer it.
At this time, it would be easier for Lu Yuan to lead a group of elites to capture Xinhua and other counties.
It is precisely because of this that Lan Cai'er did not immediately return to the Five Poison Sect General Forum to recuperate after being injured. Instead, they arrived in Xinhua and informed Bai Zhuxuan that they should evacuate.
The reason is to protect this little bit of family wealth.
"Yes." Bai Shuxuan's expression instantly became serious when he heard that the saint's assassination failed and escaped. He knew the seriousness of the matter, so he did not hesitate and said immediately: "My subordinates will gather the troops and withdraw the troops and return to Islam."
"Well, go ahead."
Lan Cai'er nodded, and then said: "I will stay here for a few days, waiting for you to gather troops and horses, and protect you all to return to Islam together. Hurry up and gather your troops, Lu Yuan may chase you at any time, don't delay."
Since the Five Poison Sect raised its troops, the sect also followed Li Xiong's example in Western Shu and took the opportunity to attack and destroy many Jianghu sects within the territory, and plundered the accumulated accumulation of the other sects over the generations to strengthen itself.
Among them, there was a first-class sect in the Jiuyi Mansion in the south, which was attacked and destroyed. Naturally, the sect's accumulated treasures from past generations, even divine blood species and various elixirs, fell into the hands of the Five Poison Sect.
Relying on these harvests, the Five Poison Sect's treasury collections, which had been completely depleted in order to provide Lan Cai'er with an innate breakthrough, became abundant again.
In addition, after the assassination of Li Gui, the left and right guardians of the sect were all killed in the battle, and the first-class masters suffered serious losses.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Lan Zhaoyun took out the captured divine blood elixirs and divine blood alien species and distributed them to outstanding young people in the sect to enhance their strength.
Among them, Bai Shuxuan is one of the beneficiaries.
Including him, the Five Poison Sect has promoted a total of four first-class masters, filling the vacancies after the death of the left and right guardians.
But because of this, the gains from the previous attack on that first-class sect, as well as the little remaining savings in the sect, were completely squandered.
Nowadays, the expansion of the Five Poison Sect has suffered heavy setbacks due to the imperial court's attacks and Lu Yuan's actions.
The original plan to continuously attack and destroy first-class sects and harvest the opponent's accumulated treasures has completely come to nothing.
Therefore, Bai Shuxuan and other four first-class masters are already the only high-end combat power left in the Five Poison Sect.
If any one dies, it will not be replenished within a few years.
In addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under the opponent's command, this large force is already extremely important to the Five Poison Sect.
Therefore, even though Lan Cai'er knew that it would be dangerous to stay, she still didn't want to leave like this.
Instead, he wanted to stay, escort him for a while, and at least take him back to Wuling Mansion.
Fortunately, Bai Shuxuan did not live up to her expectations.
It only took the local elder half a day to gather five thousand soldiers and horses in the city, and then set fire to the grain and grass treasury here. Under the protection of the saint, he led the people to Xinshao and Longhui counties.
In the next two days, Lan Cai'er and Bai Shuxuan gathered 5,000 soldiers and horses from two other counties, burned the treasuries of the two counties, and then headed north to Wuling Mansion.
When they arrived at Wuling Mansion, the two men led the army and did not stop.
Instead, they gathered the defenders from the two southern counties and retreated to Chenxi, an important town in the south of Wuling Prefecture. Then they used 15,000 troops to defend this strong city.
However, with this small number of soldiers and horses, it is still too difficult to carry the enemy's 200,000 troops.
Lan Cai'er had personally assassinated Lu Yuan, and had seen the opponent's army with her own eyes. It was indeed vast and boundless as far as the eye could see.
Therefore, even though the number of two hundred thousand claimed by the other party is a bit exaggerated, it is still higher than hundreds of thousands.
With so many soldiers and horses, ten times as many as Chenxi's defenders, and with the help of the innate master, even if Chenxi has fifteen thousand soldiers and horses, and the master Bai Shuxuan is guarding it, it is too dangerous.
Neither Lan Cai'er nor Bai Shuxuan is very sure that they can hold on.
Especially the latter, he was even determined to die in battle to repay the favor of the Holy Religion.
Fortunately, at this moment, the 60,000 troops led by Lan Zhaoyun finally returned to Wuling Mansion.
After receiving the news that his daughter's assassination failed and she was seriously injured, the southern part of Wuling Mansion was in danger. Leader Lan was even more anxious. He urged the army day and night to quickly withdraw to the south.
The Miao people from the Five Poison Sect were all born in Kuhaha. They traveled through mountains and ridges on weekdays and were used to hardship.
Although his combat power is not very good, his endurance and patience are extremely strong.
Therefore, even though he was pushed too hard, he still endured his complaints and hurried on his way day and night.
After traveling day and night, the army finally arrived at Chenxi three days later.
After arriving here, with the reinforcements of 60,000 soldiers and horses, Lan Cai'er and Bai Shuxuan finally felt relieved.
The saintly girl and her father hurriedly explained some things and explained the details of Lu Yuan that they had discovered when they went to assassinate him. Then they left with peace of mind and returned to the main hall to recuperate.
The injury was too serious this time, and the forced delay has further worsened the situation.
If it is not taken care of and treated, it will really damage the root.
After Lan Zhaoyun sent away his daughter, he began to arrange defenses with heavy worries.
He left Protector Zuo and Bai Shuxuan behind, and asked them to lead 40,000 troops and garrison Chenxi County.
Then he took the remaining 35,000 soldiers and horses back to Qianling County, where the main altar is located, intending to stick to his old nest here.
As for Linyuan Fucheng and other cities, they withdrew their defenders and gave up directly.
After doing this, Chenxi and Qianling counties each had 40,000 soldiers and horses, and there were also first-class masters stationed in the city. Even if they faced an attack from the innate master, they could be prepared.
Moreover, the two counties are only a hundred miles apart, and they can be like each other's horns. If there is a situation on either side, the other side can provide timely support.
With such a well-arranged defense, Lan Zhaoyun finally felt at ease.
Then he handed over the city defense affairs to the right guardian who was urgently transferred from the three southern mansions, and he returned to the main altar to see his daughter.
…
Just when the Five Poison Sect in the north was frightened by Lu Yuan's alarm, they were in panic.
On February 20th of the sixth year of Hongdao, Lu Yuan led his army into Shaoyang Prefecture, and then led his troops northward, aiming directly at Xinhua County, where the prefecture had been trapped by thieves.
On the 22nd, the army arrived at Xinhua County. The Miao people in the city had abandoned the city and fled, and the county was recovered.
On the 23rd, Lu Yuan divided his troops into two groups and ordered his disciples to lead 5,000 partial troops each to capture Xinshao and Longhui counties respectively.
On the 24th, news came back from the two counties that the Miao thieves had escaped and the county seat had been restored.
On the 25th, Zhou Qing, who received the news from the south, led 10,000 troops from Shaoyang Fucheng to join his master.
The master and the apprentice, who had been separated for more than half a year, finally met again. Both the master and the apprentice were extremely happy.
"Disciple has met the master."
As soon as Zhou Qing met, he knelt down and saluted Lu Yuan.
"Get up."
Lu Yuan stepped forward, pulled up his disciple, then looked at him carefully, and couldn't help but smile: "Not bad, not bad. In the past six months, my master has not been around, but you have not neglected your martial arts.
Not only is he becoming more heroic, but his internal energy aura has also been stabilized, and he can now try to practice the next strange scripture. "
After more than half a year of training, especially being responsible for some military affairs alone, Zhou Qing's transformation suddenly improved a lot.
Not only does he look more stable and mature now, but his state of mind has also improved greatly compared to a year ago.
At this time, there is no divine blood elixir. Otherwise, if I give one to the other party, my disciple will be able to break through a meridian on the spot.
"It's all due to the master's teachings. If the master hadn't arranged for the disciple to come here for training, the disciple wouldn't have been able to grow up to this point." Zhou Qing still respected his master very much as before.
"You..."
Hearing these familiar words, Lu Yuan couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and then said: "You are here at the right time. I am entrusting you with the important task of defeating the Miao thieves."
When Zhou Qing heard this, he immediately said solemnly: "Master, please give me an order."
Lu Yuan said: "According to the report from the spies, all the Miao people in Wuling Prefecture have abandoned the prefecture and the county, and gathered all the people and horses to their old nests in Chenxi and Qianling.
Now, there are 40,000 soldiers and horses stationed in these two places. Even with my army and the help of the master, it will be difficult to capture them.
And even if it were captured, tens of thousands of casualties would be inevitable. "
Speaking of this, Lu Yuan also felt a headache.
He was worried about insufficient population. How could he waste troops and horses at this time and let hundreds of thousands of people die under Chenxi and Qianling cities.
Therefore, it is impossible to attack the city by force without sacrificing casualties.
There is a saying in the art of war: the first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and the third is to attack the city.
Although Lu Yuan was not a pure military general, he had led troops and fought in many cities over the years. Knowing the horror of siege, of course he would not be foolish enough to do it at this time.
So he said at this time: "So the division is going to let you command the militia soldiers and horses in the army, with great fanfare, while regaining the prefectures and counties that the Aiming Thieves gave up, while slowly moving to Chenxi and Qianling, making a gesture of heading north.
For the division, he is preparing to lead his elite troops, together with the national division, to return to the south and make a surprise attack on Jiuyi Mansion.
The Miao soldiers and horses from this mansion may have been transferred to Yangshan mansion. They are invading Luyang and are fighting fiercely with Brother Sun.
Perhaps they have already settled in the south of Shaoyang Prefecture to guard against our army.
Nowadays, in Jiuyi Mansion and Lingling Mansion, the Miao thieves have no defenses, and they even have no soldiers to defend them.
If we can lead tens of thousands of elite troops to rush into this place, we can quickly capture the Miao people's back roads in the three prefectures in the south and defeat them. "
Lu Yuan said decisively.
