Fairy, Please Let Me Explain

When the sun was shining brightly in Houting County, the surrounding area of ​​Beifeng City was still shrouded in snow that danced all over the sky.

The whistling sound of the wind and snow made the general's tent look extraordinarily quiet.

The temporary camp of the chief general was not too big, a dozen generals wearing the armor of the frontier army commander sat on both sides of the tent, and an old man with white hair and beard sat on the main seat.

Not one of them has a cultivation base lower than the third rank, and they hold heavy soldiers, and each of them is a big shot who can make the northern border tremble three times with a stomp.

But at this moment, a death-like silence spread among the powerful figures of the sect.

a quarter of an hour ago,

They have learned through various channels that a cloud qi bomb was detonated in Houting County.

A few days ago, when the imperial court took out two Yunqi bombs and asked them to go south immediately to reinforce Beifeng City, some people once had crooked thoughts about Yunqi bombs.

There is no way, Yun Qi Bomb is a good thing.

After seeing the efficacy of the cloud energy bomb, this new type of weapon that can change the sky immediately aroused their greed.

As long as they get a sample, their own formation master can try to reverse research.

Lou Ji didn't dump them at all.

Leaving a sentence of love or not, at worst, they will die together, and they directly shattered their greed.

The loss of the Northern Sealed City, and the death of 300,000 imperial troops trapped in the snow field would be a great loss to the imperial court at best, but it would be a catastrophe for the northern sects like them.

Once their 300,000 elites are lost, all kinds of large medicine fields, workshops, equipment workshops, banks and other industries will directly face the barbarian soldiers.

And besides some core disciples of the inner sect, only the second-line recruits of the eighth and ninth ranks remained in their hometown.

The core disciples have high cultivation bases, but they don't cultivate military formations. The recruits have never seen blood, and they are easy to collapse directly on the battlefield.

Forced to go south so far, but he didn't want to go all out, so he made a deal with the barbarian king.

From their point of view, it is impossible for the barbarian king to disagree with their handouts.

The reason why the barbarians dared to take a detour to the south was because of the blizzard, which brought them an almost crushing advantage.

But when the Beifeng Army and the Black Scale Army went south to join forces with them, a cloud qi bomb dispersed the clouds, and 700,000 troops formed an army formation. Without the protection of the large moat formation, the wall would have collapsed.

And now,

The third cloud qi bomb was indeed detonated.

But there was a slight error from their expected position.

Not in Beifeng, but Houting.

Having fought wars in the north for decades, of course they understand what this means.

in the dead silence,

The old man on the throne,

The Supreme Elder of Lingshui Palace, Qian Shuisheng finally spoke out:

"Everyone, tell me what you think now."

It's just that after he finished speaking, the silence remained.

half an hour,

A female general on the left suddenly stood up and cupped her hands towards the old man on the main seat.

The woman is slender and relatively short, but her appearance is not vulgar, with snow-skinned skin and beautiful eyebrows, her eyebrows are like green feathers, and her voice is as sweet as a silver bell:

"General Qian, I thought this was a plan by Marquis Wu Cheng or that woman Lou Ji to slow down the troops. There was no news of Hou Ting's fall from my Xuepo Valley contact point outside Houting County."

Hearing the woman's voice, a man with a scar on his cheek raised his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, and said:

"Qingfeng made some sense. The time did not match up at all. The Black Scale Army and the Beifeng Army are far away in Dali Mountain. Even with cavalry, it will take at least two to three days for them to reach the Houting area."

Qian Shuisheng, who has white beard and hair, smiled kindly when he heard the words, stroked his white beard, and nodded slightly:

"It is indeed possible."

Pausing for a moment, Qian Shuisheng's eyes that were slightly muddy due to old age suddenly became sharp:

"But even if it is true as you two said, who will contact that barbarian king? Who will make that barbarian king believe us?"

talking,

His eyes scanned the generals in the tent:

"Hehe. If you stood in the position of the barbarian king, would you rush to send troops to the north? I don't think so? At the very least, we will send a strong man with the army to confirm, but this way there may not be enough time."

The words fell silent.

Time difference.

The condition they offered to the barbarians was to give up the Houting County area, and let the other party take over all the equipment and the large defensive formation there, so as to block the returning reinforcements of the Black Scale Army and the Beifeng Army.

And the key to this is the time difference.

Now that a cloud qi bomb is blasted over there, even if they really don't arrive, they can buy time to arrive.

It is also obvious to tell the barbarians:

You hit you, don't come to me.

Think deeper,

If you barbarians don't act as soon as possible, the Beifeng Army and the Black Scale Army can come down with Yun Qi to find you at any time.

Just ask if you are afraid?

"Asshole!"

A burly man cursed in a low voice: "Marquis Wu Cheng and Zong Qingsheng really have a good plan. This is to let our frontier army face these hundreds of thousands of barbarians alone!"

"Okay." Another middle-aged man with cheeks sighed: "It's useless to talk too much, the most urgent thing now is to think about how to break the situation."

The burly man stared at him and opened his mouth to swear, but he held back, snorted and shut up.

And at this time,

The beautiful female general spoke again: "Today I am in charge of guarding the camp. The scouts found a lot of barbarian wolves riding around our camp. It is impossible to determine the location of their main force. The army may be attacked by those barbarians at any time."

Beifeng City is only about forty miles away from their camp, and they can reach it in two quarters of an hour with a normal march, but if they are attacked by barbarians in the middle of the wind and snow during the march, everyone will die together.

Forty miles away, close in sight, yet far away in the sky.

The cheeky middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice:

"Nowadays, the defense capability of our camp is almost equivalent to no. Whoever still has the stock will take it out. We need to strengthen the camp. The pattern masters accompanying the army should seize the time to engrave some simple defensive patterns to prevent those barbarians from attacking the camp."

At this moment, the man with the scar suddenly sneered and said:

"Fortify the camp?"

The cheeky middle-aged man frowned and stared at the man with the scarred face:

"Why, General Hou thinks we should not reinforce the camp?"

The man with the scar shook his head slowly, and smiled:

"Of course Hou has no objection. We still have some materials for strengthening the camp in Huangyue Palace. The rest of Houting County was repaired before, and some materials from your other sects should be able to increase the defense ability of the camp by an order of magnitude."

talking,

The man with the scar stared at the middle-aged man with cheeks: "But the question is... how much food do we have?"

Hearing this, everyone in the lord's camp looked at the first Qianshuisheng at the same time.

Facing the eyes of the generals, Qian Shuisheng pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice:

"In order to let the barbarians go north, we provided them with one-third of the supplies. Today's food, grass and supplies are probably enough to supply our army for 20 years. The reduced rations can last for about a month. If you are willing to slaughter the cavalry, beasts and horses, you should be able to last longer."

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January.

These words made some of the generals present start to have crooked thoughts.

Compared with the vertically centralized command system of the Black Scale Guard or Beifeng Army, their side is more like a coalition force, which was forced to form a coalition due to external pressure.

It was quiet for a long time,

A warm voice suddenly asked:

"What about the barbarians and the court?"

Qian Shuisheng glanced at the speaker, who was the only person present who was not from the northern sect.

A handsome young man with thin lips and peach blossom eyes, plump and handsome.

Wan Yaomen.

As long as there is a war, they are basically there.

for business.

Responsible for healing wounded soldiers, as long as you are willing to give money, they can even regenerate low-level soldiers with severed limbs.

certainly,

In addition to giving them money for hiring them, occasionally they also need to capture some living barbarians for them to do medical experiments.

Qian Shuisheng pondered for a moment, and said truthfully:

"The barbarians should have a lot of food and grass. The corpses of the three ice beast giant statues, the corpses of the soldiers in Beifeng City, and the corpses of their dead fellow clansmen can last for at least several months."

And the barbarians who live in the impenetrable snowfields in the extremely dark land all the year round have no moral values.

Survival is their only morality.

And the lower the bottom line, the more food you have.

Just like the corpses of monsters are to the human race, the corpses of human cultivators are a great supplement to the barbarians.

Speaking of which,

Qian Shuisheng glanced at the north:

"According to our information, Marquis Wu Cheng's original luggage can probably last for about a month, but Wu Yuan should have taken all the luggage that can be taken away from the city before he left."

Hearing this, the handsome young man narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile:

"That is to say, among the three parties in the northern border, our side has the least food and grass?"

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Qian Shuisheng didn't speak, but glanced at the dozen commanders of various schools below.

But as soon as his gaze arrived, everyone bowed their heads

Seeing this, the wrinkles on Qian Shuisheng's face trembled, and he sighed slightly.

When marching and fighting, who doesn't have a few Xumi rings in their hands?

As the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend never dies a poor Taoist. In fact, everyone has more or less some food in their hands, but they have to hand it in.

Hehe, isn't this the point where we have run out of ammunition and food?

When there is really no food, everyone will talk about it again, and maybe they can sell it at a high price and seek compensation after the war.

Looking at the meaning of the commanders below, Qian Shuisheng didn't say much.

Because it's useless.

He is the chief general in name only, and the command of the war has to be negotiated without negotiation, without distribution of benefits, without compensation, and it is very likely that he will fall apart directly.

The handsome young man from Wanyaomen rubbed his eyebrows and said in a low voice:

"That is to say, we can only spend here now? Who has more food and grass in the competition?"

Qian Shuisheng exhaled, leaned on the back of the chief seat, and asked:

"Our northern sect has paid so much for the overall situation, can't your other sects provide support?"

The handsome young man smiled, not in a hurry:

"Elder Qian, haven't the details of the compensation been submitted to you? That much material is enough for you to recover."

Once the imperial court is in trouble, the sects in the place of suffering will contribute their efforts, and the sects in other places will provide materials to compensate afterwards.

If one party is in trouble, all parties will support it, which can be regarded as an unwritten tacit understanding between the sects.

Qian Shuisheng took a deep look at the young man:

"This seat refers to sending people."

When the young man heard the words, he didn't even think about it and laughed directly:

"Elder Qian, this is a bad rule. What's more, the northern border is currently blocked by heavy snow, and the imperial court has blocked the important official roads going north. Even if we want to reinforce the northern border, we can't come in."

The voice did not fall.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!"

A series of bangs blasted over the camp of the frontier army, causing the brows of the generals in the chief general's camp to frown slightly.

If before that, there was still a sliver of hope in their hearts that the barbarians would use the route to go north, then this hope was completely wiped out at this moment.

The cloud energy bomb detonated over Houting County still made the barbarians choose to deal with the Zongmen frontier army here first.

The miraculously powerful catapult threw countless gravel and various ordnance towards the camp that stretched for several miles, and the high-level cultivators who accompanied the army flew to intercept it, but caught off guard, there were still dozens of boulders in the first round of throwing And the rotting acid beast fell to the ground, causing chaos.

However, these chaos were suppressed in an instant, and the commander did not even need to come forward to organize discipline.

Although the sect is expert in internal fighting, it does not affect their abundant martial arts virtues.

Therefore, when the barbarians fired in the second round, no more gravel or rotten beasts could fall into the camp

After half an hour,

Qian Shuisheng suddenly stood up from the main seat, cupped his hands towards the crowd, and said:

"Because of the imperial court's inaction, we can only wait and see how things change for the time being. I trouble everyone to organize an army to be ready to meet those barbarians' attack at any time."

talking,

He suddenly looked sideways at General Hou with the scarred face:

"General Hou, I have troubled you Huangyue Palace to strengthen the camp, and I will definitely make up for it later."

The man with the scar face grinned when he heard this:

"Elder Qian, don't worry, this is the responsibility of my Huangyue Palace."

"Report!"

A loud shout suddenly sounded outside the camp, attracting everyone's attention.

With surprise in his eyes, Qian Shuisheng said:

"Enter."

A man wearing the captain's armor quickly entered the camp, knelt down on one knee, and said directly:

"Elder Qian, someone outside the camp wants to see you and the commanders."

"See me?" Qian Shuisheng frowned, "Who?"

"The person sent by the Xiangguo Mansion." The captain lowered his eyes and reported truthfully: "He said he wanted to discuss a business with you."

Hearing this, everyone showed a strange expression.

Qian Shuisheng reacted the fastest, exhaled a breath, said with a light smile:

"What are you doing in a daze, please invite that gentleman in."

"Yes." The captain replied, and left the camp in an instant.

After counting breaths,

A middle-aged man with an unshaven beard walked into the general's camp under the leadership of the captain.

Looking at the strong men in the tent, Zhou Chen felt his heart skip a beat.

There were seventeen people in total, and except for the seven great masters, the cultivation of the rest was unfathomable.

Damn, I wouldn't have pretended to be dead if I had known.

At the beginning, he pretended to be dead, but now he is guilty of meritorious deeds, committing crimes.

Cursing inwardly, Zhou Chen said with a smile on his face:

"Yo, good afternoon everyone."

Qian Shuisheng stared at the visitor calmly, and smiled slightly:

"Mr. Zhou, the military situation is urgent now, why don't you just speak up if you have something to say?"

"Elder Qian is really impatient."

Zhou Chen's smile remained unchanged, he cupped his hands, and said with a smile: "Then Zhou won't be a joke anymore, my lord asked me to make a deal with you."

"What deal?" Qian Shuisheng's expression remained unchanged.

Zhou Chen looked around and said slowly:

"My lord knows that you, Elder Qian, are in a difficult situation. Let me ask you, is there any need to buy Yunqi bombs?"