Chapter 696

Little Wei Yuan stands quietly, his gaze fixed on the ground three inches in front of his toes, motionless.

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi is silent for a moment, snorts heavily, says "take care of yourself," and then disappears.

Little Wei Yuan is confused, not understanding why Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi is suddenly angry, and asks Seeing Ji Liuli: "Why is the Patriarch angry?"

Feng Tingyu also asks: "Why does the Patriarch not like Little Wei Yuan?"

The two ask almost at the same time, and then all eyes fall on Little Wei Yuan. Seeing Ji Liuli snorts and says: "If the Patriarch likes him, that would be strange!"

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi left in a hurry, and Little Wei Yuan hadn't even had time to discuss sending troops to the northern mountain gate. However, Little Wei Yuan had already thought about this for several months and had formulated a complete plan, and it could no longer be delayed.

Taking advantage of Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi's arrival and the opportunity to turn the Azure Void into treasure soil, Little Wei Yuan finally made up his mind to send troops to the northern mountain gate and recover the lost territory!

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi left the flying boat directly when he left, so Little Wei Yuan took Yu Zhizhuo onto the flying boat and began to fully study the various mechanisms of the flying boat.

This is an ordinary flying boat of the Grand Void Palace, with a total length of thirty zhang. The structure and array of the flying boat are not complicated. The Heavenly Work Hall has a full set of manufacturing blueprints for ordinary flying boats and refining methods for spirit treasure flying boats, but the materials and array diagrams are not easy to obtain, so this most ordinary flying boat is also equivalent to a large magic treasure, and the price is not cheap.

After fully examining the internal structure of the flying boat, Little Wei Yuan, Yu Zhizhuo, and the cultivators responsible for driving the flying boat discussed it and decided to remove the partitions of the lower cabin, so that giant cargo boxes could be put in.

Afterwards, Little Wei Yuan installed ten cannons and fifty thousand shells in this flying boat, and the flying boat was already overloaded, so it set off first and flew to the northern mountain gate.

Little Wei Yuan then hired three large flying boats from the Chamber of Commerce, plus two flying boats transferred from the Grand Void Palace, totaling five thousand troops, and a full set of equipment, heading to the northern mountain gate.

Under normal circumstances, five flying boats are enough to transport twenty thousand people, and Little Wei Yuan originally felt that it was enough. Unexpectedly, when it was time to set off, Little Wei Yuan found that the equipment and materials required by the First Army were exceptionally large, and this was not yet loaded with military rations.

In the end, the five flying boats only transported five thousand soldiers, and the various equipment and ammunition of each soldier were almost twice as heavy as themselves, plus the infantry cannons configured with the army, which filled all the flying boats.

Little Wei Yuan stayed in the Azure Void to continue handling various affairs. At this time, the Azure Void expanded too fast, and all the cultivators were busy flying.

The old Daoist Chuhe was even more sleepless day and night, walking all over the Azure Void, surveying new field opening locations, and by the way, looking for foster fathers.

Yu Zhizhuo was not in the Azure Void during this time; he had just set off for the Red Sand Oasis, where a small mineral vein had just been discovered underground, and Yu Zhizhuo needed to go and explore the potential of this mineral vein.

Silk was continuously transported from Western Jin into the Azure Void, and then brocade was transported away on the return trip. More than half of the brocade shops in the eight counties had died, and the craftsmen were now ignored and changed their professions one after another.

Because of the Azure Void's acquisition, the price of silk remained high. Although the price of grain was also running high, as long as the price of silk did not fall, farmers and various major families would continue to change farmland into mulberry fields.

The most stubborn ones, like the Mi family, since the head of the family was attacked at Hanyang Pass and died in the hands of horse bandits, also quietly changed thousands of acres of mulberry fields, and directly exerted force, planting all thousands of acres with ice mulberry.

After such a change, the new head of the family suddenly found that he earned more than before. So he simply closed all the brocade shops and began to buy land and plant mulberry and raise silkworms on a large scale.

Everything in the Azure Void was on the right track, and Little Wei Yuan successively sent out several flying boats. Calculating that the first batch of troops was about to arrive at the northern mountain gate, Little Wei Yuan released a small aircraft and took the cultivators to the northern mountain gate together.

At this time in the north, spring had just filled the earth, and new buds were everywhere.

After Little Wei Yuan landed, a Daoist wearing armor greeted him and saluted: "Greetings, Senior Brother Wei! This poor Daoist is He Fang, currently commanding the Seventh Town of Dao soldiers, ordered by the True Lord to come and assist Senior Brother. Senior Brother's defense zone has been divided, please follow me. Military secrets need to be viewed in the main hall of the front camp."

Little Wei Yuan saluted: "Please lead the way, Senior Brother He."

He Fang released a magic treasure light boat, carried the cultivators, flew north all the way, and arrived in front of a strong city half a day later. After the city-guarding Dao soldiers verified their identities, they opened the array to let them into the city.

Afterwards, Little Wei Yuan came to the main hall, where three other Dharma Form cultivators were on duty. After handing over the magic treasure that controlled the city-guarding array, Little Wei Yuan officially took over the defense zone of the Seventh Town.

Afterwards, Little Wei Yuan came to the Military Secret Hall. In the hall was a huge water plate with a radius of several zhang, and the mountains and terrain within a thousand miles were all marked on the sand table. The guarding Dao soldiers also set up countless tiny warning arrays outside the city, which would be activated as long as the Liao cavalry approached, sending warnings to the city.

The northern mountain gate had been fighting with the Liao race for years, and before that, it was a bloody battle for several years, until the Liao race stopped attacking a few months ago, but they did not withdraw their troops, still stationing heavy troops at the border, confronting the northern mountain gate.

The current northern mountain gate only has a radius of five thousand miles, losing a large area of territory. But the loss of the last thousand miles was exchanged for the casualties of millions of elite Liao race, beating three medium-sized tribes to downgrade.

The city where Little Wei Yuan is now is guarded by the Seventh Town of Dao soldiers, with a standard configuration of ten thousand Dao soldiers, three hundred Dao Foundations, and five Dharma Forms, responsible for the defense zone of three hundred miles around.

Little Wei Yuan's arrival is to take over the defense zone of the Seventh Town and use this as a fulcrum to recover the lost territory. Little Wei Yuan's elite troops are not for defense.

In Little Wei Yuan's frontal direction, the Liao race also built two guard cities, each as a horn, each stationing forty thousand cavalry and twenty thousand infantry.

After looking at the terrain, Little Wei Yuan drew a circle on the left guard city, and then drew a line between the two cities to separate them. Then he said to He Fang:

"As soon as my troops arrive, we will attack. You lead one thousand Dao soldiers, use Daoist methods to cover the military Qi, pretend to be ten thousand, approach the No. 2 guard city, and contain the defenders in the city.

Another seven thousand Dao soldiers will cooperate with my troops to set up defenses between the two cities and intercept the reinforcements of the No. 2 guard city. I will lead the army to attack the No. 1 guard city."

After the simple layout was completed, the First Army of the Azure Void arrived in three days. After resting for one day, Little Wei Yuan led the army to attack.

The so-called army only had seven thousand Azure Void troops and ten thousand Dao soldiers. Little Wei Yuan only left two hundred to guard the city, and all the others were dispatched to kill the weak enemy of only a hundred thousand on the opposite side.

The city was not empty, although there were only two hundred small soldiers, there were two uncles, Sun Yu and Feng Chutang. One of these two uncles used poison and the other had accumulated a lot of karma. If the Liao soldiers came to attack, the outcome would be quite miserable.

Soon the Northern Liao scouts discovered Little Wei Yuan's army, but before they could go back to report, they were shrouded in a black fog and then knocked unconscious.

Afterwards, Little Wei Yuan's army followed up and captured these elite Liao scouts.

The Liao army commander saw that Little Wei Yuan's number was small, but he dared to take the initiative to attack, so he was also very cautious and chose to stick to the city.

Looking at the earth city that was no more than two zhang high and no more than one zhang thick, Little Wei Yuan waved his hand, and the central army pushed out ten infantry cannons.

(End of chapter)