Chapter 68

After Fang Hedong finished talking about local defense, it was Wei Yuan's turn to explain the Grand Void Palace's defense deployment.

The Grand Void Palace had thousands of years of experience in resisting alien races, and the defense deployment in the two counties formed its own system. First, the True Lord is high above, monitoring heaven and earth; then the True Persons guard one side, acting as the Sea-Calming Divine Needle; strong Dao foundation cultivators such as Zhang Sheng patrol various places, check for gaps and fill them, and arrive in time to support; finally, disciples like Wei Yuan who have forged their bodies to completion or newly promoted Dao foundations are dispersed in various strongholds as defense fulcrums.

The Grand Void Palace is equivalent to laying a large net in the two counties, using stillness to control movement, and responding to the invasion of Northern Liao like wind and fire. This plan actually has a meaning of exchange. If alien races can pull out the outer strongholds, the troops used must be above the Dao foundation, which is easy for the Grand Void Palace to catch and swallow in one bite. Wei Yuan knew this very well, but had no complaints. War is a way of trade-offs, and victory must be accompanied by sacrifice.

After exchanging defense situations with Fang Hedong, Wei Yuan took the time to chat with the civilian braves for a while. At this time, the men had finished work, cooked a large pot of meat soup with the dried meat Wei Yuan brought, and were eating brown rice with meat soup, eating steaming hot. They had been hungry for several days, and this pot of meat soup was actually cooked with one piece of dried meat for every four people. At this time, each man only served a small bowl, no one scrambled, and no one asked for more.

People who have been hungry for a long time suddenly eat their fill, and it is easy to get sick. These farmers do not know this truth, and can only be taught by Fang Hedong. It is easy to say the truth, but difficult to do. The Grand Void Palace military ration dried meat can be called delicious in the mortal world. But hundreds of men can restrain themselves, not chaotic, not scrambling, in Wei Yuan's view, this is already a strictly disciplined army.

Being able to turn a group of illiterate farmers into a strictly disciplined army in just a few months, this Fang Hedong has great talent.

Seeing Wei Yuan, these simple men were full of gratitude, all stood up, but they did not dare to speak, and they answered whatever Wei Yuan asked.

In the blink of an eye, night fell, and the men drank meat soup and went back to rest. The special military rations of the Grand Void Palace can make ordinary people see things at night after eating for two days, but now it is only the first day, and they still can't see things clearly at night.

If body forging is completed, it will naturally improve the five senses, not to mention the divine eyes like electricity, at least seeing what a fly looks like more than ten zhang away is not a problem. However, Fang Hedong only led them to refine for two months, all relying on the ability of establishing words to make them have a little progress, at this time they only have more strength and their bodies are more durable, and they can't practice the five senses.

Fang Hedong had not slept for a long time, so Wei Yuan let him go to sleep first, and he guarded the first half of the night, and then came to change shifts in the second half of the night. Fang Hedong was not hypocritical, and went to rest himself.

Wei Yuan stood on the wall head, looking north. At this time, the night was getting thicker, and in the distance, he could only see a vast grassland, a few lonely big trees standing on the grassland. Further away was the rolling night, blocking everything.

Wei Yuan frowned slightly. He had been sensitive since he was a child, and after his body forging was completed, he was like a tiger with wings, and any little daylight was like daytime to Wei Yuan. Disciples with the same cultivation level used the Dao magic Thousand-Mile Eye, and they did not see as far as Wei Yuan's naked eye.

Outside Quyang County is the grassland. Not to mention a hundred li, seventy or eighty li can always be seen. But now the wind and sand are not rising, Wei Yuan can only see thirty li, and fifty li away is the rolling night, completely unable to see anything.

After watching for a while, Wei Yuan vaguely felt that the night seemed to be alive, intentionally blocking something. By the time it was near the third watch, the night was rolling and spreading over, and he could not see anything twenty li away.

Wei Yuan looked up, above his head was a crescent moon, and some sparse stars. With the moon, there is weak daylight. This little light is enough for Wei Yuan, and it is impossible to only see twenty li.

Wei Yuan picked up a rectangular iron box and placed it on the wall head, patted it lightly, and a short gun popped out of the iron box. Wei Yuan held the gun in his hand, staring at the rolling night.

"The Liao barbarians are here." Fang Hedong also appeared on the wall, his expression solemn.

"Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Wei Yuan asked.

"I'm used to guarding the night, I can't sleep. And once the Liao barbarians want to come, I will feel uneasy in my heart, thinking of coming up to see." Fang Hedong held a large bow in his hand, and there were several runes on the bow body faintly flashing with cyan light. However, there was only one magic treasure long arrow in the arrow quiver, and the rest were ordinary iron arrows.

Fang Hedong looked at the night in the distance and said: "Liao barbarian night raids are generally small teams, about seven or eight cavalry. If the defender is careless and has the wall broken, they will send a signal, and the large army behind will arrive soon. However, our small place has no oil and water, and the Liao barbarians don't like to come much. As long as we can block the probing team, there will be nothing."

Just as he was talking, Wei Yuan suddenly felt a chill in his heart, feeling something approaching quickly in the night!

The night rolled, and suddenly a cavalryman jumped out of the night, like a flying fish out of water. This cavalryman jumped several zhang, and when he landed, he was silent!

The daylight was dim, but Wei Yuan also saw this cavalryman clearly in an instant.

His armor was based on animal skin, with strips of square iron armor pieces inlaid on it, and the turned-up collar revealed fur. The helmet was also made of skin with armor pieces, revealing two pointed ears. He held a short bow with his four-fingered hand, and his eyes were disproportionately large, and the pupils were almost occupied by the pupils in the gray eyes. Besides that, his nose was flat, and the two nostrils were facing forward, shaped like a bat.

The warhorse under this Northern Liao cavalryman was about the same size as a human warhorse, appearing a bit small under this tall knight. But the horse had two fangs in its mouth, appearing particularly ferocious. There were a batch of breathing holes on the side of the abdomen, occasionally discharging groups of white gas.

This is a warhorse unique to the Hanhai Liao tribe, breathing through the nose and discharging gas through the side of the abdomen. This horse is ferocious by nature, eating grass and meat, its speed is about the same as human warhorses, but its endurance and load-bearing capacity far exceed human warhorses. Human superior warhorses can run a thousand li in one breath, and then they have to rest. And Liao horses need to rest after running three thousand li, and can go without eating or drinking for more than ten days after eating and drinking enough.

Therefore, on the grassland in the north, human cavalry is completely not the opponent of the Liao tribe. If there is no city or military camp to rely on, if they lose the battle, they cannot run away. Liao cavalry can chase one thousand li in one breath until the human warhorse is exhausted.

This cavalryman who jumped out of the night was a typical Northern Liao light cavalry, wearing short armor, with an arrow quiver hanging on one side of the horse's back, and a saber and throwing spear on the other side.

One after another, Northern Liao light cavalry jumped out of the night, and in the blink of an eye, there were twenty cavalry, running toward Shayang Village unhurriedly. Until this time, Wei Yuan heard the slight sound of hooves. If it were an ordinary Dao foundation cultivator, they would not hear any sound at all, and could only judge that someone was coming from the vibration of the ground. But the vibration of the ground when Northern Liao iron cavalry runs is much lighter than that of humans, more like a beast walking at night, which is difficult to detect.

Fang Hedong had already cast an invisibility spell, hiding the figures of the two, and then picked up a few straw-tied dummies and placed them behind the city battlements. If you look from outside the wall, it looks like someone is squatting in the middle of the wall battlements guarding the night.

However, Wei Yuan still had some doubts. According to the data, the Hanhai Liao tribe has excellent eyesight, and seeing things at night is like daytime, and their eyesight is equivalent to four times that of ordinary people, equivalent to human cultivators who have forged their bodies to completion. Fang Hedong's straw men are crudely made, how can they deceive people?

While Wei Yuan was doubting, he saw Fang Hedong take a few pieces of straw paper and stick them on the straw men's faces. The straw paper was painted with human faces, lifelike, and it had to be said that Fang Hedong's calligraphy and painting skills in the six arts of a gentleman were quite good. The straw paper was yellowish-brown, and the straw man only revealed a head, which was really not easy to see as a fake person in the night.

In the blink of an eye, the Northern Liao scouts had reached a hundred zhang away. A few people in front bent their bows and set arrows, and the flying arrows were silent. Wei Yuan just heard the sound of the string, and the sharp arrows had already pierced the straw man's head!

(End of chapter)