"Report..."
A long shout rang out, causing the group that was advancing at a constant speed to stop. A strong man rode over from the front, and only when he was a few steps away from the group did he flip off his horse and kneel on the ground.
This was the scout from Zhang Xuan's 500 Strongman Battalion. He was a martial artist at the peak of the Muscles and Bones realm. Initially, Zhang Xuan did not know how to arrange the military. It was Yue Fei who said that the scout had to be the best of the best so that he could quickly complete the mission while gathering information without being discovered by the enemy.
Many battles had failed because the scouts could not withstand the torture after they were captured. They were interrogated to obtain military intelligence, causing an army to lose the initiative in the battle and lose.
This Muscles and Bones Realm scout was carefully selected by Zhang Xuan from the army. Before entering the Road of Peace, he was a paladin in Ye City. He traveled around Hebei Province and was familiar with the geography of Julu Prefecture. Zhang Xuan immediately appointed him as a scout and treated him well.
Although it was possible to use spiritual cultivators to replace scouts in this world where immortals showed their divinity and ghosts were alive, there was a downside. The soul of the night wandering was not strong enough and could not leave the body during the day. Although the soul of the day wandering could leave the body during the day, it would be eroded by the murderous aura of the militarists if it was too strong. If it was Ghost Immortals or Yang Gods, it would be too overkill. Therefore, the scout military system was not abolished.
"But did Guangping do anything?”
Seeing this, Zhang Xuan knew that something must have happened to Guangping. Otherwise, he would not be so anxious.
"Reporting to the canal commander, after this subordinate arrived outside Guangping City, I hid in the forest and secretly observed the movements on the top of the city wall. After a while, I saw that the defense on the top of the city wall had changed. I looked around the outside of the city and roughly judged that there were about three hundred soldiers guarding the east, south, and west gates, while the north gate had the least number of soldiers, no more than a hundred.”
"Then I saw another person, who looked like a scholar. He placed a few bamboo slips on the north gate wall. As soon as he put them down, there was a blinding white light. When I blinked and looked again, there was nothing else on the city wall other than the county soldiers. Not only were the bamboo slips gone, but even the scholar had disappeared.”
Ye Zhao frowned when the scout told him all the information he had gathered. According to the Yellow Heaven Peace Scripture he cultivated, spiritual objects were needed to suppress the formation to prevent the formation eye from being broken. Using bamboo slips to set up the formation was definitely not an ordinary thing.
" Search again! Report again!"
"Yes!"
After the scout answered loudly, he mounted his horse and galloped away.
Zhang Xuan looked at Yue Fei and Liu Bowen and asked,""Jizhou's literary style and martial arts are extremely prosperous. There are many famous Confucians and masters of the art of war in the past dynasties. If Guangping City really has the bamboo slips carved by the Confucians and the secret military books of the militarists, it will be a little troublesome.”
Yue Fei shook his head and said," According to the scout, this person held a bamboo slip and placed it on the city wall. However, he did not mobilize the soldiers and warriors on the city wall to change. This shows that the array he set up is not a military array. I wonder if you have any brilliant ideas."”
Liu Bowen urged the horse lightly. At this moment, he was also thinking. Hearing this, he said," The three sides are heavily armed, and the formations are set up on the city walls with few people. It does remind me of a formation, the Anti-Three-Elemental Formation. This formation poses that the north gate is the weakest and that the army is weak, luring the enemy to attack. However, the north gate is indeed suppressed by bamboo slips and spiritual objects. Once you enter the formation, it will be extremely dangerous. Even if there are more than a hundred county soldiers, they can slowly devour a powerful army that is several times stronger than him. Not to mention that there is a Soul Cultivator hiding at the north gate.”
Zhang Xuan wasn't very clear about formations, so he immediately asked,""Then how do we break this formation? Bowen knew about this formation, so he must have a plan to break it.”
"I can't be sure if it's an anti-three-element formation. I need to see it myself to know. As for the bamboo slips on the north gate, I have a way to suppress them. Before seeing the array on Guangping City with his own eyes, Liu Bowen did not dare to make a firm judgment.
Yue Fei nodded when he heard that. He looked at his 500 strong men and said,"The militarists 'killing formation focuses on momentum. If the killing formation is formed, it can flatten this small city. Unfortunately, we have too few soldiers under us, and many of the militarists can't even set up their battle formations. Time is tight, and we don't have the time to train our army.”
Zhang Xuan naturally knew that time was of the essence. However, the uprising was supposed to take advantage of the fact that the Imperial Court had yet to discover it. By the time the Imperial Court discovered it, he would have already divided the provinces and counties. He did not dare to say that his troops were definitely good, but he would definitely have enough food. He would not have to eat one meal after another like now.
"Since that's the case, then let's go first. It's already late, so I think the sky will be completely dark by the time we reach the city. At that time, Bowen's soul will leave his body to observe the array on the city and plan to break the city!”
"Yes!"
The two of them answered in unison, and the troops immediately sped up.
They didn't speak along the way. The sky gradually darkened during the march. The moon was not good tonight, and the dark clouds covered the moon. No one knew who was unlucky.
Was it the Han Imperial Court or the Road of Peace?
Taking advantage of the moonlight to reach Guangping City, Zhang Xuan ordered the strongmen to take out the prepared dry food and eat to their hearts 'content. They were ready to attack the city, but because they wanted to catch the government troops off guard, they could not start a fire and could only eat cold food.
Yue Fei was patrolling the army, while Liu Bowen's soul had already left his body and was heading up the city wall.
Zhang Xuan looked at Guangping City with interest. The city walls of Guangping City hundreds of meters away were not too high, but they were still four meters high. The battlements were quite solemn.
Not long after, Liu Bowen's body moved, but his divine soul had already returned. He shook his body and said to Zhang Xuan,"My lord, I just entered the formation with the Ghost Immortal's divine soul and found that although the formation on the city is an anti-three-element formation, it is not completely the same. There are also some principles of the formation of water and wood, but it is not difficult to break.”
Zhang Xuan paused for a moment and said happily,""I didn't expect Guangping to still have a master, but the military counselor is still more skilled.”
"The Anti-Three Elements Formation gathers the power of the East, South, and West Gates at the North Gate, which is why it can strengthen the power of one gate. However, if you add the principle of the Water and Wood Formation, and connect the water power of the North Gate with the Wood Qi of the East Gate, it will be like water producing wood.”
"But whether it's the Anti-Three Elements Formation or the Water and Wood Formation, they are both extremely limited. It would be fine if they weren't seen through, but now that I've seen through them, there's nothing to be afraid of. My lord only needs to attack the south gate. The power of fire is incompatible with water and wood.”
"Alright, then let's break through the south gate!"
"Yue Fei, listen up. You lead the armored soldiers to the broken city first!”
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