At the end of noon, Wei Changtian and others who bid farewell to Liang Qin returned to Jinzhou City.
Although all the 300,000 troops have left the city, they are still far away from Xinfeng anyway, so there is no need for Wei Changtian to accompany the army all the time.
Therefore, he planned to stay in Jinzhou City for one night and do two things by the way.
"Son."
Passing through the busy streets, the carriage slowly stopped at the door of a cleared inn.
Chu Xianping, who was waiting outside the carriage, immediately came up to him and whispered to Wei Changtian, who had just got out of the carriage:
"An hour ago, Qian Hui Erguo had completed the encirclement of Fengyuan."
"Now Fengyuan is completely an isolated city."
"..."
"Um."
Without stopping, Wei Changtian asked calmly: "How many people have returned to Fengyuan City?"
"Less than a hundred thousand."
Chu Xianping lowered his head and replied: "Even including the monks who have not rebelled, there are only about 120,000 or 30,000."
"Twelve to thirty thousand..."
Wei Changtian nodded and asked, "How many people are currently besieging the city in Qianhui Erguo?"
"At least half a million and counting."
Chu Xianping's expression was not very good: "It seems that they are not planning to advance slowly by occupying one city and defending one city, but are preparing to wipe out the entire Xinfeng area in one go."
"If this happens, Miss Xu may not be able to hold on for too long. I'm worried that Fengyuan may fall before we arrive."
"Sir, would you like to make the armies march faster?"
"Or let the Tengu army rush over first, at least it can delay the enemy's offensive..."
"..."
While walking towards the inn, Chu Xianping quietly analyzed the current situation and gave a timely solution.
Wei Changtian, on the other hand, listened without saying a word and was not in a hurry to express his opinion.
Hundreds of thousands of people guard a large city like Fengyuan.
And there are many Buddhist monks among them who are not necessarily reliable.
Looking at it this way, Xu Suisui's current situation is much more dangerous than Li Qi's before.
At the beginning, Li Qi defended Fengyuan with nearly 300,000 old and weak soldiers. Facing Daning's more than 400,000 elites, he finally defended Fengyuan for more than a month.
But now, the power in Xu Suisui's hands is less than half of Li Qi's, but the enemy's power is even worse.
How long can she hold on despite the ebb and flow... This matter is by no means a simple mathematical problem.
Last time, although Daning's military strength was much stronger than that of Da Feng, the difference was not enough to subvert conventional tactics.
In other words, Daning still needs to fight and stop when attacking the city, and Dafeng also has enough troops to rotate when defending the city.
But this time, the enemy was five times stronger than Qian Hui Er Guo. There was no need to adjust his tactics at all, and he could maintain a non-stop high-intensity siege.
As for Xinfeng, once most of the soldiers get on the city wall, they may never have the chance to come down again.
Therefore, the answer to how long Xu Suisui can last may be very pessimistic.
but......
"Brother Chu, we are already marching in a hurry. If we move faster, I am afraid that even if the soldiers can arrive a few days earlier, they will be like a pile of scattered sand and will no longer be able to fight."
"As for the Tengu Army, they are indeed brave, but their numbers are too small after all. They can only be used as surprise troops to be effective. To face the enemy head-on will only injure the enemy by one thousand, but oneself will lose eight hundred, which is unnecessary."
"So we don't have to adjust our marching plan for the time being, and everything can be business as usual."
"Squeak~"
Pushing open the door of a guest room, Wei Changtian walked to the table and sat down. He turned to look at Chu Xianping, who was frowning.
"Brother Chu, I know you are worried that we will be late."
"Actually, you don't have to worry about this matter."
"Let me ask you, has Xu Suisui received any new news today?"
"this......"
Chu Xianping was stunned for a moment, and seemed to understand what Wei Changtian meant: "No, Miss Xu hasn't sent a message yet."
"Look, it's okay."
Wei Changtian smiled: "Since she is not in a hurry, why should we be in a hurry?"
"Don't worry. Didn't I tell you that Xu Suisui is as capable as me."
"If I'm really at the end of my rope, she'll push me."
"..."
"Yes, I understand."
Lowering his head, Chu Xianping didn't say anything more.
"Sir, if nothing happens, I will go out first."
"Well, go ahead and call Zhang San over."
"yes."
"..."
Lowering his head and taking two steps back, Chu Xianping quickly turned around and left the room.
Wei Changtian also turned his gaze to Yang Liushi who was making tea and remained silent.
"Have you checked the matter I told you yesterday?"
"Yes, checked."
Yang Liushi came over with a cup of tea and placed the tea cup in front of Wei Changtian: "Last night, the Nu family secretly went to the Yellow Maple Valley, and felt an intermittent scent of monsters in the mountains behind it."
"It seems that the information given by the Xuanjing Division should be correct. There is indeed an old demon with profound knowledge being imprisoned there."
"Well... ok, let's go tonight."
Wei Changtian nodded, took a sip of tea from the cup.
This was one of the two things he planned to do in Jinju.
After getting the Solar Eclipse Bead, he asked the Freemasonry and the Xuanjing Division to secretly investigate where the big monsters were in Ningshu and Shu.
The former has not found any accurate information until now, and all it has obtained are basically rumors with low credibility.
However, because the Xuanjing Division is in charge of both demonic matters and Jianghu sect affairs, it has already provided a lot of information.
For example, the "Yellow Maple Valley" is both a place name and a sect.
The latter is considered a relatively large force in Jinzhou. The mountain gate is not far from Jinzhou City, less than a hundred miles north of the city.
If we put it into the fantasy of the past life, Huang Maple Valley can be regarded as a standard "medicine sect". It grows many kinds of fairy grass and elixirs, and is also very good at medicine and alchemy.
However, compared to the elixirs and elixirs it "produces", a poison called "Half Moon" is more famous.
Not only is the output extremely small, but it is also extremely toxic. It is one of the few poisons that can threaten practitioners.
It is said that just one drop can cause a low-ranking third-grade martial artist to have his heart broken and die within three breaths, and three drops can cause a middle-grade third-grade martial artist to faint and die on the spot.
It is impossible for ordinary poisons to produce a poison that can have such a powerful effect on practitioners, so Huang Maple Valley must have some other means.
Ordinary people will never know the truth.
But he couldn't hide it from the Xuanjing Division.
According to the latter's information, there is a high probability that Huang Maple Valley secretly raises a snake demon with a Taoist tradition of at least five hundred years, and "Half Moon" is made from the venom of this demon snake.
The information from the Xuanjing Division is very reliable, and Yang Liushi personally verified it last night, so this matter is basically not false.
In this way, Wei Changtian became interested.
Of course, he was not doing it for the poison, but was planning to kill the snake demon to "charge" the Solar Eclipse Pearl.
Anyway, I happened to be in Jinju, so I did it easily, and I will have to make another trip in the future.
And as for why not go there right away, we have to wait until night...
"Dong dong dong!"
"Sir, madam."
There was a knock on the door. Zhang San came in and said hello to the two of them. Then he approached Wei Changtian and asked, "The carriage is ready. Do you want to go to Wang's house now?"
"Well, go now."
Wei Changtian drank all the tea in his cup, stood up and said to Yang Liushi, "I'm going out and I'll be back soon."
"good......"
Yang Liushi nodded in surprise, but didn't ask any more questions.
She watched Wei Changtian and Zhang San push out the door, and then blinked in confusion.
"Wang family?"
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