A disciple of a large sect like Xiao Qiao is always so self-righteous.
Once he has determined something in his mind, he will stick to it and stick to it.
Now, he believed that the monster army's attack on Meng Zhang was just a bait, so that he could lead the army to rescue him, and then take the opportunity to ambush the army he led on the way.
What Meng Zhang encountered was not the main force of the monster army. The main force of the monster army had been preparing to ambush him.
"Meng Zhang is a loser. He just encountered a group of monsters and got into chaos. He asked for help randomly and almost ruined everything."
With resentment in his heart, Xiao Qiao couldn't help but cursed in front of everyone. He seemed to have completely forgotten that Meng Zhang had saved him. He was also full of gratitude to Meng Zhang at the beginning.
As for why the monsters did not retain their main force in both directions, it was because Xiao Qiao believed that the monster army did not have such strength.
If the monster army was really so powerful, it would have come directly to the door and wiped out the remaining monk forces in Daheng Cultivation World.
He still believes that as long as the expeditionary army led by Meng Zhang successfully joins forces with him, and both sides join forces, they can defeat the monster army.
In this way, Xiao Qiao, who thought he had seen through the monster's conspiracy, remained silent and ignored the situation on Meng Zhang's side.
In order to avoid greater losses, he did not even continue to send out the reconnaissance team.
Meng Zhang used space teleportation and took Zhenjun Nanzhu with him. After getting rid of Xiang Huanan, he quickly reunited with the evacuated human monks.
After getting rid of the monsters' pursuit, the water tribe army and the human race monks fled far away in one breath before finding a safe place to stay temporarily.
This is a huge lake with several large and small rivers converging here.
The human monks were treating their injuries and recuperating on the shore next to the lake.
The water tribe army is also slowly reorganizing itself in the lake.
After this battle, not only the human monks suffered heavy losses, but the Shui tribe army also paid a heavy price.
The Shui Tribe army actually participated in the war for a short time, but in just such a period of time, it lost almost a quarter of its troops.
The strength of the monster was beyond everyone's expectations, and the mermaid prince, who was still somewhat interested in making achievements and exorcising monsters, became sluggish.
When Meng Zhang and True Lord Nanzhu came to join them, Meng Zhang couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he looked at the large group of defeated soldiers below.
The total number of the expeditionary force on this expedition exceeded 30,000.
However, many of the low-level monks are just making ends meet and have little combat effectiveness.
In addition, many conscripted production monks who are good at alchemy, weapon refining, and talisman making are also placed in the logistics department of the army. If there is no necessity, they will not be asked to go to the battlefield.
The more than 5,000 monks dispatched this time are not only elites, but also basically fighting monks.
After this battle, there was only a rough count of the number of people left, not even a thousand.
Of course, many monks fell on the battlefield and were separated from the group.
If you are extremely lucky, some monks may survive.
The defeat of the expeditionary army this time was a serious loss of vitality.
Of course, this defeat was also related to Meng Zhang's selfish thoughts.
If he hadn't been thinking of preserving his strength, but had brought the entire expeditionary army over, it would have been hard to say whether he would win or lose.
But Meng Zhang did not do this, and selected the cannon fodder monk in advance.
That's because Meng Zhang always remembers one thing firmly. He is the leader of Taiyi Sect, which is his foundation.
If he leads the entire expeditionary force and encounters an ambush like this, he will fight against the monsters.
Regardless of victory or defeat, the expeditionary army will definitely suffer heavy losses.
If all the Taiyi Sect monks were lost, it would be considered a victory over the monster, and it would be of no benefit to Meng Zhang if the demonic disaster was quelled.
Meng Zhang is willing to participate in the battle to quell the demonic disaster on the condition that the Taiyi Sect monks cannot suffer too much loss.
Without enough Taiyi Sect monks, he would not be able to control the territory on the Daheng Cultivation World, even the Jiuqu Province.
Meng Zhang knew even more clearly that it was precisely because he had the powerful Taiyi Sect that he had enough value in the eyes of the Purple Sun Sect.
If you don't use your brain and use all the strength in your hands, it will be really difficult to gain a foothold in the future.
On the other hand, even if the demon disaster spreads again, it will even spread to Jiuqu Province. As long as you have enough strength at hand, you can completely abandon your current business and start a new business somewhere else.
Moreover, after Xiao Qiao's unreliability was exposed this time, Meng Zhang could no longer fight monsters with confidence and had to watch his own back.
Ziyang Shengzong sent monks like Xiao Qiao to take charge of the overall situation. In order to protect himself, Meng Zhang tried his best to preserve his strength.
Now that he was separated from the monster and the communication device could be used normally, Meng Zhang contacted Xiao Qiao again.
The communication had just been restored, and before Meng Zhang could speak, he was greeted by Xiao Qiao's accusation.
Xiao Qiao accused Meng Zhang of being too timid and only knowing how to preserve his strength.
When encountering a monster, I didn't even understand the monster's strength, so I hurriedly asked for help, almost missing something important.
Meng Zhang was stunned for a moment, almost confused by the scolding.
Both the human monk army and the water tribe army suffered heavy losses and managed to escape. Could all this be faked?
Xiao Qiao didn't listen to Meng Zhang's explanation at all, and just scolded him, thinking that Meng Zhang was easy to bully.
After scolding, Xiao Qiao gave the order directly without waiting for Meng Zhang to react.
Meng Zhang was asked to lead his army to join him as soon as possible, and he must not waste any more time.
If Meng Zhang delayed the military flight, don't blame him for not remembering the old relationship.
Meng Zhang was too lazy to argue with him, knowing that it would be useless.
Meng Zhang ended the call without caring about Xiao Qiao's possible reaction.
Meng Zhang gave him face for the sake of the Purple Sun Sect.
Since the other party was so rude, he wouldn't be polite either.
Meng Zhang could see clearly that the losses incurred in this battle were enough to silence the Purple Sun Sect.
Even if Xiao Qiao wanted to put pressure on Meng Zhang through the sect, Meng Zhang would have something to say.
Now Meng Zhang still has a lot of use value, and the senior officials of Ziyang Holy Sect must not be so indiscriminate and blindly favor Xiao Qiao.
Apart from the Ziyang Holy Sect, Meng Zhang simply ignored Xiao Qiao.
Meng Zhang doesn't even have the thought to deal with Xiao Qiao now, let alone accept his random orders.
After the Shui Tribe army and the human monks have rested, Meng Zhang will lead everyone to retreat and return to the Shui Tribe's lair.
It wasn't just Meng Zhang's army of monks who suffered huge losses this time.
With the huge losses suffered by the water tribe army and the black jade forest monsters, this matter may not end so easily.
