Chapter 346

Although the elite cavalry blocking the way in front of Xu Xu Zhongxing wore tattered leather clothes to show their identity as horse bandits, their disguise was really not attentive. They all had elite steel cavalry spears and bright, cyan-glowing four-foot-long curved cavalry sabers. Especially the cavalry sabers, which were the standard weapons of the Southern Qi elite cavalry.

This elite cavalry brought out by Wei Yuan had never been seen by anyone before. Their armor looked to be between light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and the weapons in their hands were the fire guns that had just made Xu Xu Zhongxing suffer enough.

Xu Xu Zhongxing's face was as heavy as water. He slowly rose into the air, and then he saw two Dharma Forms rise on the side of the horse bandits, and two Dharma Form puppets also rose on Wei Yuan's side.

This battle had no suspense. No matter how powerful Xu Xu Zhongxing was, it was difficult to fight one against four, and there was also Wei Yuan watching covetously on the side.

The leader of the horse bandits looked very young, and his cultivation was only at the late stage of Dao Foundation, but his spell amplification and defensive effects were amazing, and they had obvious effects on Dharma Form cultivators. Under his spell support, the combat power of the four Dharma Forms increased by a small margin, making Xu Xu Zhongxing very uncomfortable.

And the battlefield below also had no suspense. Ten thousand elite cavalry against forty thousand remnants who had survived the disaster was completely a massacre.

Xu Xu Zhongxing could only let the troops disperse and flee, while he himself set his sights on the young horse bandit leader. Suddenly, he launched a full-force attack, instantly wounding two horse bandit Dharma Forms and rushing in front of the leader!

Li Zhi was shocked and at the same time screamed that he was unlucky in his heart. He risked his life to take Xu Xu Zhongxing's blow and had two protective magic treasures destroyed by his sword, only then managing to escape.

Surviving the disaster, Li Zhi couldn't figure out why he had no fame in this area, and there is a debt for every injustice and a master for every debt; Xu Xu Zhongxing should be looking for Wei Yuan, so why keep staring at him?

Li Zhi didn't know that Xu Xu Zhongxing had a sharp eye. After fighting Wei Yuan several times, he knew that Wei Yuan was extremely difficult to kill, and he was afraid that he might not be able to kill Wei Yuan steadily even in a one-on-one fight, let alone now. So he turned his attention to Li Zhi.

Seeing Xu Xu Zhongxing fighting for his life, Li Zhi's cavalry could not care about killing the enemy and rushed back to protect their master, which allowed many cavalrymen to escape. Xu Xu Zhongxing saw that his goal had been achieved and withdrew.

He was surrounded by four Dharma Forms and still wanted to leave, which showed his ferocity.

After capturing some remnants, Wei Yuan and Li Zhi combined their forces and raided another supply camp. The two acted like lightning; the camp was already packing up and preparing to set fire. But before the fire could be lit, Wei Yuan arrived. The guards in the camp immediately scattered, leaving countless supplies and fifty thousand laborers to Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan did not stay long, but pointed at the map and agreed with Li Zhi to surround from the left and right and meet here.

Then the two each led elite cavalry to raid for hundreds of miles, drew a large circle, and finally met two hundred miles outside Hanyang Pass, and gathered more than ten thousand remnants.

On the city wall of Hanyang Pass, the four Xu family Dharma Form elders looked at the two army's Qi crossing back and forth in the distant sky, all silent.

There were still sixty thousand troops in the pass, but no one proposed to go out to meet them; instead, the four gates were closed tightly, and the pass-protecting formation was opened early.

At this time, the news of the defeat of the Prisoner Bull Fenhai Zhenjun had already spread among their upper echelons, but no one knew the whereabouts of Zhu Zhu Yuanjin. If they encountered this evil star after leaving the city, the few Dharma Forms would not be able to withstand a finger of hers.

Before this, who would have thought that she could hibernate in the Broken Domain for so long? She must have had some supreme treasure to cover the secrets of heaven. Being able to deceive the Heavenly Dao of the Broken Domain, she could naturally deceive the spiritual sense perception of cultivators even more.

A Dharma Form cultivator suddenly said, "She wouldn't already be in the city, would she?"

Everyone shivered subconsciously, and then glared at this Dharma Form. This Dharma Form knew he had made a slip of the tongue and hurriedly smiled awkwardly. However, as he smiled, he became more and more horrified.

In a bookstore in the city, a woman in cloth clothes walked in, born with a fair and clean appearance, and her figure was quite charming.

She came to the counter, poured out a small handful of copper coins from her purse, and said, "Shopkeeper, give me a few of the latest storybooks."

The shopkeeper stared greedily at the woman and took out seven or eight storybooks.

Watching the woman walk out the door, the shopkeeper muttered to himself, "She only looks okay, but why is she more and more alluring the more I look at her?"

He suddenly slapped his thigh and said with annoyance, "Alas! I actually forgot to ask her name and where she lives!"

Bianning County, Juncheng.

County Magistrate Xu Xi stood on the city wall, looking at the large group of cavalry passing by the city not far away, both angry and shocked. That cavalry team was escorting three or four thousand captives and heading west.

Half of these captives were Xu family private soldiers, and half were Western Jin official soldiers. Many of them were about to escape to the foot of the county city when they were intercepted by Qingming cavalry.

A small military officer on the city wall had once arrogantly clamored, but was hit in the face by a gun and lost half his head on the spot.

Since then, no one on the city wall dared to speak, and no one dared to open the city for the defeated army. The Jin army on the city wall watched helplessly as the defeated soldiers were captured and then taken to Qingming.

Xu Xi naturally knew the ins and outs, and at this moment his heart was full of coldness, just thinking: "Thirty thousand troops, with a Fenhai Zhenjun sitting in command, how could they be defeated like this?!"

Xu Xi had no intention of going out of the city to fight at this moment. Although he was a Dharma Form, he was a civil official and was not good at fighting, otherwise he wouldn't have been slapped unconscious by a cat that day.

Whether it was the Qingming cavalry or the horse bandits under the city, they were all looking at Xu Xi on the city wall, their eyes indifferent, as if they wanted to remember his face. Xu Xi snorted, said "Strictly guard," and hurriedly went down the city.

This place in the Western Regions is indeed not a good place. The military governor's troops openly walk with horse bandits, shoot and kill official soldiers if they disagree, and wantonly capture official soldiers under the county city. Where is the law of the King?

The aftermath took another whole day. Wei Yuan and Li Zhi captured tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, and together with the one hundred and twenty thousand laborers sent back to the domain, the war finally came to an end.

In this battle, the five thousand light cavalry brought by Li Zhi also lost hundreds and injured one thousand. Wei Yuan felt really sorry in his heart, so he pulled Li Zhi to a warehouse and ordered people to take out a box of breastplates, saying, "Brother Li, what do you think of this armor?"

Li Zhi picked it up and looked at it carefully, then praised, "The steel quality is uniform, the defense is outstanding, not bad, it is a top-grade armor, enough to equip the elites of my Great Zhao."

"Brother Li came to help from thousands of miles away, and I really have nothing to repay you. Your domain is also newly established, and it is exactly when you need military supplies. I will give you five thousand sets of this armor as a thank you gift, how about it?" Li Zhi was startled and hurriedly said, "How can this be! It's too precious! Besides, we are brothers; if you are in trouble, how can I not come? If I accept your things, wouldn't I become someone who seeks rewards for favors?"

Wei Yuan smiled and said, "To be honest, I have great use for those laborers. I originally wanted to buy them from you for one tael of immortal silver each, but later I felt that you should be more in need of armor. You have also seen that I am developing well in Qingming now. Only when your Zhenshan domain also develops can we help each other."

Seeing Wei Yuan's sincerity, Li Zhi did not decline anymore and said, "Then I will accept it!"

Wei Yuan ordered people to move out boxes of armor plates. Naturally, the small accessories needed Li Zhi's craftsmen to forge themselves.

After sending Li Zhi away, Wei Yuan ordered people to put the various supplies copied back into the warehouse. It was just that the meat chunks transformed by the blood of the Prisoner Bull Fenhai Zhenjun were a bit difficult to handle. Each of these pieces of meat weighed tens of thousands of jin. In the end, it was the old Daoist Master Chuhe who called over the naturally strong snakes to move all these meat chunks under the peak.

These meats contain the essence of heaven and earth. Wei Yuan still needs to discuss with everyone in detail how to use them.

The only regret is that it is said that the Xu family originally prepared two million shi of military grain, but most of it was stored in the county city of the border army. Wei Yuan had to give the Jin Prince some face, and surface work was still necessary; he could not openly attack the county city.

Otherwise, with the ten thousand eighteenth-line troops in the city plus a civil Dharma Form, Wei Yuan could take it down even with a cat.

At this time, the water in the pool in Yushan surged, but in the end, it could not produce a third Dharma Form. After brewing for a long time, there were no other souls reincarnated, so more than a hundred Dao Foundation warriors walked out of the pool water.

In the Privy Council of Qianqiu City, Xu Xu Zhongxing knelt in the middle of the main hall, and dozens of people sat on high chairs around, all looking down at Xu Xu Zhongxing below.

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The person sitting in the middle said slowly, "Thirty thousand people, the whole army was wiped out, and there was no result at all. Xu Xu Zhongxing, is this how you lead troops?"

Xu Xu Zhongxing raised his head, met the gaze of the person at the head without fear, and said in a deep voice, "The soldiers had the intention to die, but the superiors had no intention to fight for their lives!"

"What do you mean by that?"

Xu Xu Zhongxing said, "I know I shouldn't say this, but if I don't, I will be sorry to the injured Prisoner Bull Fenhai Zhenjun sitting in command, and sorry to the tens of thousands of brothers who fought to the death! Among the several elders who went to war with me this time, one saw that the situation was unfavorable, fled without fighting, and never came back. In addition, there were two others who only knew how to protect themselves and could not win after a long battle against a weak enemy. The battle situation collapsed, and these three should be the primary culprits!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was shocked. Immediately, some people cursed, and some began to make an issue of Xu Xu Zhongxing's identity and bloodline.

There were a total of four elders who went to war with Xu Xu Zhongxing this time. One died in battle, and the other three were scolded by Xu Xu Zhongxing. Most of those present were also elders, and their status was equivalent to those three. Everyone's stepping stone to promotion was the same, and they all participated in the great war in the role of supervisors, seeking qualifications and military merit.

These elders were all born noble, and their bloodline was very close to the immortal ancestors. And those like Xu Xu Zhongxing, whose background was not very good, had to crawl in the front-line army and slowly climb up by accumulating merit.

In daily life, when the main general sees the supervisor, it is like a mouse seeing a cat, and they don't even dare to breathe hard. When has anyone ever openly accused the supervisor elder of being afraid of death in the Privy Council hall?

The person at the head was silent for a moment, then said, "I will discuss the specific situation after asking the Prisoner Bull Fenhai Zhenjun. During this period, first throw Xu Xu Zhongxing into the Xuanbing Absolute Prison and wait for disposal."

Xu Xu Zhongxing raised his head suddenly, anger flashed in his eyes, but in the end he calmed down and let people take him away.

The Xuanbing Absolute Prison is deep underground and is one of the three absolute prisons where the Xu family imprisons heavy criminals. Being locked in here often means that death is not far away.

Several guards escorted Xu Xu Zhongxing all the way down, walked for hundreds of zhang in one breath, and then pushed him into a prison cell built of mysterious ice.

At this time, the head jailer suddenly handed Xu Xu Zhongxing a medicine bottle and said, "This is the Xuanhuang Fude Pill given to you by the Lord. The Lord said that this place is extremely yin and cold, which is just right for suppressing karma. After you take this pill and cultivate for a month, you can dissolve a little karma, and then the karma can be temporarily sealed so that it will not explode immediately. But it will be very difficult to eradicate it."

Xu Xu Zhongxing was surprised and grateful, took the medicine, and said, "Thank the Lord for me!"

"The Lord also said that your killing sword has been unsealed, so use it less in the future."

Ganzhou, Tianyin County, Juncheng.

In the garden of the County Magistrate's mansion, a man was standing by the pool feeding fish. The County Magistrate stood respectfully to the side. This is the County Magistrate's home, but he stood like a servant.

At this time, the County Magistrate quickly recounted the process of the Battle of Qingming, and then said, "That's how it happened."

The man took some fish food and scattered it in the pool. Suddenly, a piece of fish floated up and kept fighting for it. Those fish were gray, black, cyan, and white, all ordinary fish, and none of them were colorful.

The man looked at the fish in the pool and said, "Only these fish that look ordinary have a hard life. No matter what kind of environment, they can survive. The ancestor just likes this point about them."

The man put the fish food aside, looked at the sky, and said, "Now the Xu family's messenger should have arrived outside the city."

The County Magistrate asked, "My Lord, how should we talk to them this time? Should the previously agreed rules be changed, and should we ask for better conditions?"

The man smiled slightly and said, "Don't talk."

(End of chapter)