Chapter 70

Before Wei Yuan arrived, Fang Hedong relied on the city wall to defend to the death, using strong bows and hard crossbows to shoot cold arrows, forcing the Liao tribe to abandon their horses and enter the city for close combat. Not on the horse, the Liao tribe's combat power was halved first, plus the blessing of the establishing merit article at the critical moment, the civilian braves could have combat power comparable to regular border troops in a short time, plus everyone fought to the death, using human lives to pile up, before they could kill the Liao tribe who entered the village back time and time again.

Tonight, with Wei Yuan's surprise attack, he killed seven or eight scouts at once, and accidentally killed the captain, only then did he have the record of wiping out the enemy.

This was the first time Wei Yuan truly fought with alien races. The mountain giant he faced during the small examination that year was only an incomplete version, and there were sect elders guarding him, so there would be no life danger, naturally there was no such pressure as now.

Although the Grand Void Palace has laid out a strict defense line in the two counties, the Liao tribe is not a puppet on a string, and will not obediently listen to the layout. They come and go like the wind, wanting to attack from wherever they want. The Grand Void Palace's defense system can only ensure that enemies at the Dharma Form level cannot rush in and kill at will. Those at the Dao foundation level may appear at any time, and it is not impossible to encounter a strong enemy in the late Dao foundation stage if you are unlucky. If you really encounter one, you can only defend and wait for help, send a distress signal, and wait for the mobile disciples in the palace to rush to rescue.

However, not all strongholds are alone like Wei Yuan. Some front-line strongholds seem weak, but their actual strength is extremely strong. Even if a Liao barbarian in the late Dao foundation stage hits them, they will be swallowed in one bite. Hundreds of strongholds are false and real, which also makes the Liao barbarians dare not probe at will.

As for the army sneaking deep into the raid... with the True Lord monitoring heaven and earth, the army raid is a joke.

Fang Hedong caught his breath, took out a bottle of elixirs, hesitated for a long time, and then took one, with a painful face. He called up a few strong men with normal eyesight, and let them go out to drag the bodies of the Liao tribe scouts back. The Liao tribe warhorse will return by itself after losing its master, so there are only two horse bodies outside the wall.

The civilian braves moved the bodies back and forth, and Fang Hedong and Wei Yuan guarded the wall head. Moving bodies is actually a very dangerous job. If there are Liao tribe scouts coming out again, whether to shoot the guards on the city wall first or kill the people moving bodies outside the city to vent their anger depends on their mood at that time. However, the people Fang Hedong pointed to were all willing to go out of the village, and no one complained.

Two warhorses need eight people to carry them back, and one Liao tribe body also needs four people to move. It took a great effort for more than ten people to move all the bodies back to the village.

At this time, the night in the distance stopped rolling, and retreated silently. Wei Yuan could see fifty li away again.

Fang Hedong felt something and said: "It seems that the Liao tribe will not come again tonight. I am guarding here, Junior Brother, would you like to go and rest for a while?"

Wei Yuan also remembered one thing: "I just happen to have to set up a formation, so I will trouble Mr. Fang."

As soon as he arrived at Shayang Village, he was busy with everything, and Wei Yuan almost forgot that he still had to set up a Feng Shui formation to pray for blessings.

Wei Yuan jumped off the city wall, first walked around the village, looked at every corner, and then returned to the ancestral hall, according to what he learned from the theory of heaven and earth, determined that this was the Feng Shui node around Shayang Village.

Grand Void Palace Dao foundation disciples have standard regulations when going to war, and changing the battlefield Feng Shui and praying for blessings to eliminate disasters are one of them.

Wei Yuan pulled open the incense table in the ancestral hall, took out a small box from the military supply bag distributed before the war, and took out a few talisman papers and five-element spirit objects from it. There were also a few formation disks at the bottom of the box, which were a concrete and micro Feng Shui formation when put together. Wei Yuan set up the formation disk, placed the five-element spirit objects in their respective positions according to what he learned, and then pasted the talisman papers in various places in the room, and finally input Dao power to activate it, and a micro Feng Shui formation was formed.

Wei Yuan used the Qi-watching technique and saw a thin line of clear light shooting into the sky from the formation disk, and circles of invisible ripples constantly swaying around. Some gray-black aura that could not be seen by the naked eye was illuminated by the clear light and slowly retreated backward. Wei Yuan nodded, knowing that the formation was successful.

If Wei Yuan's cultivation level was higher, and he looked down from a high place with divine eyes, he could see hundreds of clear lights rising in the entire Ganning and Bianning counties, like dots of stars connected into one, the starlight reflecting each other, illuminating the surrounding heaven and earth, making the originally entrenched yellowish-gray-black aura retreat to dozens of li away.

All formation disks, talisman papers, and spirit objects came from the Heavenly Mystery Hall, and setting up Feng Shui formations was also originally a requirement of the Heavenly Mystery Hall. Feng Shui formations certainly have an effect on the battlefield, but it is hard to say how much effect they can have. At first, this was not a necessary process for Grand Void Palace disciples to go to the battlefield, but after a long time, the disciples found that if the people around you set up Feng Shui formations and you didn't, then a Feng Shui depression would be formed in this area, and it is likely that something bad would happen.

Taking the battlefield where Wei Yuan is currently located as an example, if he did not set up a Feng Shui formation, it is possible to encounter a strong enemy. For example, what comes may not be a captain who has forged his body to completion, but a centurion in the Dao foundation period, or even a strong one among the centurions. Although if everyone set up Feng Shui formations, it is equal to not setting them up, but as long as someone around set them up, Wei Yuan had to set them up.

This is the conclusion reached by the True Persons of the Heavenly Mystery Hall after studying many battlefield cases, so they simply added the setting up of Feng Shui formations to the necessary regulations for the battlefield, requiring every disciple to comply.

Shortly after this regulation was implemented, other sects found that when they went to war with the Grand Void Palace, the casualty rate of their own disciples increased significantly. The sect masters and elders of various sects were not vegetarians, and after a little research, they discovered the mystery of the Grand Void Palace's Feng Shui formation, so they also strongly ordered sect disciples to set up Feng Shui formations when going to the battlefield.

Due to the strong popularization of Feng Shui formations, the talisman papers, formation disks, and spirit objects from the Heavenly Mystery Hall were in short supply, and the price rose sharply. The Heavenly Mystery Hall also became rich all the way, and its ability to grab money was not inferior to the Creation View, whose orders were lined up three hundred years later, and it strongly suppressed the Heavenly Work Hall.

In any case, after setting up the Feng Shui formation, Wei Yuan felt much more at ease for no reason. It seems that encountering the Liao tribe scout team tonight also had the reason for forgetting to set up the Feng Shui formation. Otherwise, when the Liao tribe came before, there were at most seven or eight cavalry, but this time there were twenty cavalry in one breath, and there was an extra captain inside.

Of course, there are also strong geniuses who deliberately do not set up Feng Shui formations to attract fierce enemies to hone themselves. There were really many such people before, but after a batch died in battle, there were fewer people doing this.

Wei Yuan jumped onto the city wall and looked north. After the Feng Shui formation was set up, the night retreated another ten li, and he could look out for sixty li.

At this time, torches were lit in the village, and many men were called up from their dreams to deal with the Liao barbarian bodies. The armor and clothes of the bodies were all stripped off, the bows and arrows and weapons were classified and put away, and all the personal belongings were turned out. In the blink of an eye, the nineteen Liao cavalry bodies were left with only a pair of underpants.

The two warhorses were cut and trimmed, and the horse equipment was placed on the side. These two horses were enough for three hundred people to eat for ten days.

Wei Yuan picked up a saddle at random and found that it was unusually heavy. This saddle was based on animal bones, wrapped in iron on the edge, and used thick animal skin as a cushion, with a pair of horse belly armor on both sides, also using animal skin as the base, nailed with iron armor pieces. This saddle with armor weighed three or four hundred catties, which was difficult for human warhorses to carry, but Liao horses could.

This saddle could not be used by humans, and it was not worth much money, so it could only be dismantled and sold for materials. Wei Yuan picked up the arrow quiver again and looked at the sharp arrows inside carefully.

(End of chapter)