Chapter 1053: Both Together

Despite being extremely reluctant, the situation had still devolved into a two-front war.

Moreover, on the main battlefield, Cangwu was still dropping Dao soldiers into key areas from time to time. At this moment, Little Wei Yuan's Red Lotus Karmic Fire was exhausted, and he could only use the clumsy method of eliminating the gray-clad Dao soldiers bit by bit, effectively turning it into a multi-front war.

If this were any other of the Nine States, or even the Great Tang Nine Armies present, the war situation would have long since collapsed under the frequent key strikes of gray-clad Dao soldiers in their rear and key areas.

But the Qingming troops were not only well-trained and well-equipped, but the frontline troops also had a large number of warriors selected locally from the Ji State. These warriors knew very well that they were now defending the hard-won stable life, so everyone was willing to fight to the death.

The troops transferred over by Qingming went without saying; they had always known they were defending their own home and country.

Even the refugees recruited from Western Jin and Zhao State now had their own fields and houses in the Ji State territory and were living stable lives, so they were also fighting to the death.

Little Wei Yuan delineated six major war zones, which was equivalent to incorporating the command ability of the war zone commanders into the Myriad Realms Prosperity. Not only could adjacent war zones cooperate with each other, but even the two most distant war zones, Bao Yun and Xiao Yu, could coordinate their actions.

With numerous excellent generals in command, on the hundred-li main battlefield, hundreds of small Qingming units gathered and dispersed, flexible and ever-changing. The various bunkers and trenches served as solid support points, limiting the enemy's range of activity and making them pay a huge price for every bit of space they expanded.

In this way, both sides were constantly consuming each other cruelly on the main battlefield. The casualties of Qingming and the Ji Army were maintained at a ratio of one to three, but for every Qingming warrior who died, there was an additional consumption of three gray-clad Dao soldiers.

Little Wei Yuan was currently in the Guantun New City. Qingming warriors and gray-clad Dao soldiers were fighting fiercely just one block away, while Little Wei Yuan faced the real-time updated sand table map, constantly weighing his options.

Both sides were competing in endurance. At this moment, Little Wei Yuan still had five hundred thousand elite heavy armor troops urgently transferred from Qingming that had not yet moved, placing only fifty thousand Dao soldiers in the north to block the mountain folk.

Now, if he were to directly commit these elites to the main battlefield, Little Wei Yuan was confident he could defeat the Ji Army. The problem was, would this be exactly what the opponent was waiting for?

Immortals could be temperamental, but there were no fools among them. Little Wei Yuan could use various means to make the opponent misjudge and thus gain an advantage, but he could not assume the opponent would act foolishly.

Qingming had been invincible in previous battles. Zhao State and Western Jin had begun to copy Qingming's military system and were buying large quantities of armor and muskets. The bloody battle between Qingming and the Shaman tribe's Rain State was even more world-renowned. Therefore, Little Wei Yuan did not believe the opponent would misjudge Qingming's true combat power. The only possibility was that Little Wei Yuan's concealment of heavenly secrets had worked, causing the opponent to misjudge the military strength Qingming currently had deployed in the Ji State.

And this kind of misjudgment could only be utilized once. For example, Little Wei Yuan used Red Lotus Karmic Fire to destroy a million Dao soldiers. Once the karmic force was exhausted, Cangwu immediately re-deployed Dao soldiers, clearly seeing through the essence that Little Wei Yuan's karmic force was limited.

Therefore, Little Wei Yuan had been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that could settle the outcome of the war in one fell swoop.

And at this moment, there was another major problem placed before him: the mountain folk.

Wang Fu had already hinted very clearly that the secrets of the mountain folk were worth two sticks of incense, and he was not afraid at all that Little Wei Yuan would not take the bait.

Now the mountain folk were still arriving in an endless stream, their numbers far exceeding Little Wei Yuan's expectations.

Originally, based on Li Zhi's experience in the Zhenshan Territory, Little Wei Yuan had estimated that the scale of this mountain folk attack would be at most a million, with one or two hundred giants, and one or two Master Yu Jing experts suppressing the formation at the limit. Therefore, he had only deployed fifty thousand Dao soldiers.

Fifty thousand Dao soldiers holding the dangerous terrain, with sharp artillery fire, sufficient ammunition, plus the defense and regeneration capabilities blessed by the Dao Soldier Hall, and Wang Hu sitting in town to resist the Master Yu Jing experts, could steadily block the million-strong army of the mountain folk.

However, the mountain folk who actually arrived already numbered over three million just from what had been detected, with nearly a thousand giants, and there were even immortals sitting in town!

The gaze of the Immortal Lord Yan Shi had already been cast down, confronting the mountain folk immortal across the air. But in this way, the power to deal with Cangwu and the Venerable Master was clearly insufficient.

The Zhao Li Immortal Ancestor himself still had to sit in the Zhao State, secretly giving Little Wei Yuan some human luck to help him block some dark hands, which was already the limit; he could not enter the field openly.

If it weren't for Little Wei Yuan using one hundred million human luck to kill the Six Wonders, the situation would be even worse now.

The problem was, the mountain folk were still constantly increasing their troops, just when Little Wei Yuan was facing enemies on both sides and his military strength was at its tightest! Little Wei Yuan didn't even need to think to know that the mountain folk must have been brought by those immortals of the Ji State.

Now Little Wei Yuan had over twenty million people under his rule in the Ji State territory, including nearly two million children under the age of two. It was easy to scatter these people, but difficult to gather them back.

Even if Little Wei Yuan killed all the Ji Army now, if he couldn't block this flood of mountain folk, then these twenty million people would all be slaughtered and turned into food or fertilizer. The mountain folk had a very broad and varied diet; as long as it was meat, it would enter their mouths.

The mountain folk and the Ghost Chariot were the only two races among the great tribes that would eat sentient beings, but the mountain folk ate more than the Ghost Chariot.

Regarding the Ji State colluding with the mountain folk and bringing in the mountain folk army, Little Wei Yuan was not surprised and was no longer even angry.

At the level of immortals, any morality or great righteousness was illusory; right and wrong were meaningless. What was meaningful was only the result. ===== CHAPTER 1054 =====