Chapter 390: Count in Heart (Thanks again to Golden Alliance Leader Mr. Dong)

Wei Yuan did not notice that Li Zhi's face was different. His divine sense moved, and ten Dao Foundation martial artists appeared in the army.

As soon as these Dao Foundation martial artists appeared, they took over the corresponding army flags, and all troops immediately followed their flag signals to act. With the sound of the charging horn, the large army began to advance!

The two armies approached, and Wei Yuan summoned the Yushan again, smashing it toward the mountain people's middle army. At this time, the Yushan manifested to be thirty zhang, forcing the five Dharma Forms to jump around!

Then Wei Yuan blessed the Long Yi cavalry with the "Heavenly Madman," and five thousand iron cavalry rushed in against the mountain people's arrow rain. In the roaring sound of gunfire, large pieces of smoke permeated, the mountain people were blasted down in pieces, the military array was cut open like tofu, and in the blink of an eye, it was chiseled through by Wei Yuan!

Wei Yuan didn't stop for a moment, turned his horse around, and led the cavalry to kill back. This time, before entering the array, the cavalry fired continuously, beating the mountain people until they fell over. Wei Yuan kept casting the "Flowing Fire Technique," and wherever the fire flow fell, it was a mess.

No sooner had the Mountain Folk's Dharma Form dodged the Yushan than a scholar appeared on the battlefield. The multi-barreled flying sword machine cannon in his hands roared incessantly, and one flying sword after another swept through, sending the various Dharma Forms into a panic. One of them was targeted by Feng Tingyu, another was chased by a cat to the ends of the earth, and the remaining two, having to deal with Wei Yuan's Flowing Fire Art while also guarding against the pursuit of other opponents, were in constant peril.

In the blink of an eye, Wei Yuan chiseled through the mountain people's military array again and killed back.

At this time, the infantry had caught up, Wei Yuan led the cavalry to turn around and kill, chiseling through the enemy array for the third time! The infantry advanced and shot continuously, harvesting the mountain people like mowing grass. When the Long Xiang army also killed into the military array, the mountain people finally collapsed and fled over the mountains and ridges.

Of the five Dharma Forms, only one finally escaped. They originally all wanted to escape, but were fixed by Wei Yuan's "Previous Dynasty Embers," and then Feng Tingyu and Wei Yuan each killed a Dharma Form quickly, while the cat chased alone and also killed a Dharma Form.

Then Li Zhi saw Wei Yuan constantly drawing circles with his sword, firmly fixing the last Dharma Form, and then a group of Dao Foundations lined up to take action one by one, harvesting heavenly merit. The mountain people Dharma Form struggled for a long time before dying with hatred, and I don't know if it was killed or died of grievance.

When Wei Yuan was busy distributing heavenly merit, the infantry and cavalry followed their respective flags to pursue and annihilate the remaining enemies, completely without Wei Yuan's command.

Li Zhi and the generals under his command were all dumbfounded, feeling that this battle had fallen into Wei Yuan's hands, how could it be fought like child's play?

This battle annihilated tens of thousands of mountain people, most of whom still fled. Wei Yuan's troop strength was insufficient, so he could only fight a rout battle.

When Wei Yuan led the army back, Li Zhi stared at the fire guns in the hands of the Long Xiang army and said, "What is this, can I see it?"

Wei Yuan immediately took a fire gun from a soldier's hand, took a few bullets, and handed them to Li Zhi. During the last battle in Qingming, Li Zhi already knew about fire guns, but at that time he felt that fire guns were clumsy and had limited range, the rate of fire was slow, and the power was not how great, so he didn't take it to heart.

Li Zhi always advocated the elite route, so fire guns were clearly only suitable for ordinary people and low-level cultivators, so Li Zhi was not interested, feeling that this was just an expedient measure Wei Yuan came up with because he lacked elite troops. If it really reached the battlefield, it was clearly better to use elites who could fire thirty consecutive arrows.

But this time, Wei Yuan commanded in person. With the manifestation and blessing of the Ten Thousand Li Rivers and Mountains and the synchronized transmission of orders from the Enlightenment Dao Foundation warriors, the twenty-thousand-strong army advanced as one, with an endless barrage of fire. They used sheer firepower to break the Mountain Folk, which finally revealed the terrifying nature of the fire-lances.

Li Zhi saw with his own eyes that an ordinary soldier fired dozens of shots in a row and was fine, which would have exhausted elite archers long ago.

At this very moment, Li Zhi looked at the weapon of fire gun squarely for the first time.

Wei Yuan took another flying sword gun supplied by the sword box and handed it to Li Zhi. Li Zhi fired several shots with both guns, and only then had a more intuitive understanding. He immediately said to Wei Yuan: "Are there any extra flying sword guns like this? If there are, I want to buy a batch."

Wei Yuan was a bit surprised and said, "This gun is quite troublesome to use, not a Dao Foundation can't control it, and the consumption of flying sword ammunition is also large. As a military combat force, it is far inferior to fire guns. I think it is better to use fire guns."

"Fire guns are just things used by ordinary soldiers and do not have more advantages than strong bows and hard crossbows. Flying sword guns are more to my liking."

"Alright then, how many do you want?"

Li Zhi calculated and said, "Three hundred first."

"How many flying swords are equipped for each?" Wei Yuan asked again.

Li Zhi reacted, only then understanding that this was like buying crossbows and how many crossbow arrows to equip, so he said, "One hundred."

Wei Yuan recorded it and said, "I will send it to you in ten days."

"What about the price?"

Wei Yuan said, "I will give this batch to you, as a thank-you gift for the last battle of the Xu family." Li Zhi shook his head immediately: "How can this be? I have already received your breastplates last time. In the long run, let's talk about the price."

This flying sword gun was really hard to price. Wei Yuan pondered for a while and said, "How about this, I will still give this batch to you, and in the future, the gun will be five hundred taels and the flying sword will be five taels each."

"A very fair price."

The two sides finalized the matter, and at this time the battlefield had been cleaned up. The mountain people left a large amount of supplies, which Wei Yuan did not touch at all, leaving them all to Li Zhi. After Li Zhi returned to the domain, he would naturally send someone to collect them.

Wei Yuan finally hugged Li Zhi and was about to lead the army back when he saw dust flying in the distance, and two troops appeared, rushing over unhurriedly. Looking at the clothing and flags, they should be Zhao Guo border troops.

The two border troops added up to only a little over ten thousand, and Li Zhi's face was a bit ugly. Not to mention that the battle was over before they arrived, even if they arrived in time, what was the use of these ten thousand people? The mountain people had more than one hundred thousand, and this little bit was not enough for the mountain people to counter-kill.

Wei Yuan was also sizing up the Zhao Guo border troops, secretly evaluating their combat strength.

Leading the army were two regional commanders. They saw Li Zhi and Wei Yuan from afar, and vigilantly ordered the large army to stop and deploy the array, while they led a few personal guards to ride over.

"The end general Chen Jian, Wang Quan, has seen the Military Governor!" The two generals were very respectful in their salute, which made Wei Yuan quite envious.

As a Military Governor, most of the officials Wei Yuan met were yin and yang, provoking to his face, and stabbing in the back. Later, Yuan Qingyan and Niu Jinbao were all at the end of their rope, so they had to be hypocritical to Wei Yuan. How could there be someone like Li Zhi, where people naturally and sincerely had to be polite wherever they went? Compared with Li Zhi, Wei Yuan felt that he was an upstart.

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The two regional commanders looked at Wei Yuan suspiciously, and then saw the soldiers going north one by one, and vigilance flashed in their eyes.

After the salute, the two regional commanders said that as soon as they received Li Zhi's request for help, they gathered troops and left the camp, rushing day and night. It was just that the two had limited authority, so they could only move this many troops.

Li Zhi laughed and said, "The two generals came to rescue from ten thousand li away, this general will keep it in mind, and there will be a thick reward in the future!"

"Then we will escort General Li back to the station."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Two generals, wait a moment, I want to say a few words to my brother."

The two regional commanders returned to the troops to wait sensibly.

After they walked far away, Wei Yuan said, "These two know how to use troops, and the time they came was just right, almost when you were forced to break out."

Li Zhi laughed and said, "Their military career has exceeded fifty years, and they have spent most of their lives in the border army. Can they not know how to fight?"

"Hmm, looking at the arms they brought, it doesn't look like they are dealing with mountain people, but rather like dealing with your Southern Qi elite cavalry. If I hadn't come, you wouldn't have had many troops after breaking out, and these troops of theirs would have been enough. Anyway, it would have been enough to clean up your remnants."

Killing intent flashed in Li Zhi's eyes, and he said calmly, "I have a count in my heart about this matter, and I will slowly plan it after I go back."

Wei Yuan said, "Do you want some horse bandits in this domain?"

Li Zhi pondered for a moment and said, "This is not appropriate, I can't act as unscrupulously as the virtuous brother. The matter of horse bandits is very easy for people to get a handle on, which is not good. Don't worry, since they want to kill me, then I won't be polite.

Do they think Empress Dowager Xiao's money is so easy to take? Humph, it won't be long before I make Zhao Wang cut off their heads!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 391 =====