At the end of April, Cao Du organized another attack, but this time it did not go well. Before the fleet reached Shuangzhou, it was blocked by a large group of monks halfway.
Although Xuan Mansion also had many men following them, the opponent was not afraid of death. Even some low-ranking monks carried Xuan soldiers with them, causing the fleet to suffer certain losses.
Only monks can attack the flying boat fleet in the wilderness, because they are the only ones who can carry out long-term and continuous activities in the wilderness without any support or station.
This role is irreplaceable. Even if the strength of some armored soldiers is not weak, their performance in small-scale battles is far inferior to that of monks.
Due to the heavy losses of the fleet and considering that it could no longer pose a great threat to Shuangzhou, the captain in charge of commanding the fleet immediately ordered to abandon the raid and turn back in advance.
Cao Du did not criticize the captain too harshly, but instead praised him.
Although this raid did not achieve its goal, it successfully forced out Shuangzhou's hidden power. And due to the captain's decisive action, the loss was within an acceptable range. He can be fully prepared next time.
Then organize another attack.
However, this incident also made him realize that he needed more support from Xuanfu.
But perhaps because he frequently and proactively seeks cooperation with Xuanfu, he has been receiving letters from some people in the continent in recent days.
Some of them were questioning, thinking that his behavior was not like that of a military general; some were admonishing him not to get too close to Xuanfu; some even suggested that he should purely use the power of the military to conquer Shuangzhou without having to
Too much reliance on Xuanfu.
He threw all these letters aside. In his opinion, these people only needed to talk at the rear, but when something went wrong, he was the one to be punished, not these people.
And trying to interfere in the war based on his own likes and dislikes is a big deal and a small matter. A more strict general would have already submitted the reference book to the imperial envoy's case, which means he is afraid of affecting the situation.
The situation of the battle was so silent.
Moreover, these people are more likely to fail than succeed, and it would be bad if it affects the promotion of sergeants after the war.
Therefore, he just secretly wrote down the names of these people, and planned to wait until the war had completely calmed down and the merit discussion was over before handing the book over.
After thinking about it, he wrote a sincerely worded letter, then called Chai An and said: "You and Zhang Xuan are old acquaintances, and it is easier to talk. Please go for me and return the report of this battle."
Send this letter to Xuan Zheng together."
After Chai An took the order, he turned back in the afternoon and said: "General, Xuan Zheng said that he already knew it. It's just that the general needs more manpower, and I'm afraid there are not enough people from outside the territory. They still need to be dispatched from within the territory. Xuan Zheng still needs it."
We need to discuss this with Taoist Master Yun Chen and we will reply to the general afterwards."
After hearing this, Cao Du was startled for a moment, then thought about it and said, "Marquis Chai, please go down and rest first."
Chai An cupped his fists and said, "General, my subordinates will leave first."
Cao Du stood there for a moment and shook his head. Zhang Yu was only Xuanzheng, but now he naturally treated him as the head of Xuanzheng, so he thought Zhang Yu could make the decision in everything, but he forgot about Zhou.
Inner Xuan Mansion.
This is probably also the result of Zhu Xuanshou's long-term disregard for the secular world. Even though he still has a disciple Yun Chen, his sense of presence is far less strong than Zhang Yulai's.
After Chai An walked out, he saw a beautiful sergeant in military robe waiting there. He walked up and said, "There should be nothing to do here today. I will accompany you for a walk."
The female sergeant looked at him and said, "Did you forget something?"
Chai An was startled and said, "What's the matter?"
The female sergeant sighed helplessly, took out a letter from her uniform, patted his chest, and said, "You don't even know how to care about your own students."
Chai An took it over and took a look, and was overjoyed when he saw that it was the recruitment order from his student He Mu.
In this battle to conquer Shuangzhou, because the chances of winning were high, many people tried to send their relatives and friends to the army to gain credit.
He had this plan before. Compared with these people, his student He Mu is at least really capable. It's just not difficult to recruit, but it's a bit troublesome to transfer him to the right position. There are a set of complicated steps to go through, and
There are many joints to open, so it has been delayed.
He looked at the female sergeant and said gratefully: "Yao Ji, thank you very much. I was thinking about how to transfer this guy here before, but I didn't expect that you have already done it. It's great to have you by my side."
The female sergeant complained: "You think about this, you think about that, when have you ever thought about yourself?" As she spoke, her face also turned to one side.
Chai An stared at the profile of her face, and suddenly an impulse surged in his heart, and he said: "Yao Ji, when this battle is over, we will..."
At this moment, he suddenly noticed that the sentry guard standing by was staring at them. He immediately stopped talking, coughed, and said, "Go back and talk, go back and talk."
The female sergeant rolled her eyes at him, turned around, and left with the sound of loud military boots.
At this moment, outside the Fangtai station, Zhang Yu was standing on a mound. His cicada sword rang out, and then he flew out. After a while, the sword light turned back.
In this short period of time, the Cicada Sword killed a spiritual creature thousands of miles away, but it was not that simple to deal with a monk or an enemy of the same level.
However, compared to last month, he has made some progress, and he does not expect to reach a high level all at once. For now, as long as he can cooperate with his magical powers and visualization diagrams, that is enough.
After cultivating in the wasteland for several days, he returned to his station. At this moment, a monk submitted a letter and said: "Xuanzheng, Taoist Master Yun Chen replied to the letter, and there are many books. The disciple has already placed it in front of the case.
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He took it over, opened it and looked at it. Yun Chen replied inside that he would dispatch enough manpower to support the war in one month at the latest.
He walked to the desk, put the letter aside, then sat down, took the book in his hand and started reading.
Here are the files he asked Yun Chen to collect on spells such as killing curses and making wishes.
After encountering the wishing box that day, he was also thinking about how to deal with such power.
Fortunately, Tian Xia had encountered similar supernatural powers in the kingdoms of gods that he had conquered in the past, and he had also written down methods to deal with them. Although these powers were different in some details, they were generally the same.
There's not much difference.
After reading it, he already had a rough idea in his mind.
Techniques such as making a wish and killing with a curse, if you need to target a certain person, you usually need to obtain the personal belongings that the person used in the past, even the essence, blood and hair.
And if you wish to curse someone to kill, you need to pay ten times or even a hundred times the price.
He thought for a while, if that were the case, it would be almost impossible to directly curse and kill some powerful mid-level monks. Even if it could be done, the gain would outweigh the loss. Instead of doing this, the caster might as well use this technique.
To directly improve yourself.
And if you are making a wish for something, then you need to instill a strong belief in it.
This is usually not something that one person can do. It requires long-term and determined accumulation. If it fails in the end, it may cause various changes, such as the Helian people turning into gods and ghosts between life and death.
Such situations.
He thought about it, and in general, if the wishing technique could be used, it would be very powerful, but once you make a wish for something, you cannot change it easily, and you need to continue unswervingly.
This is also consistent with what the Helier people did. The Helier people spent thousands of years fulfilling their wishes. Because of the function of the box, their beliefs were extremely firm, but even so, in the end, they still had a problem.
Accident.
Therefore, even if Shuangzhou possesses the art of making wishes, he does not have to worry that this generation will use it against the monks. As for whether it will be used for other purposes, we can only decide when the time comes.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another half month has passed.
The originally empty wasteland seemed to have been filled with military buildings, and as the boat rooftops were erected one after another, more and more flying boats flew here from the mainland.
Zhang Yu stood on the stage and looked at the scenery in front of him. Wen Liang was standing beside him at the moment and said: "Xuanzheng, the military government has dispatched three thousand flying boats, and they are all fighting flying boats.
There will be more, the number may reach tens of thousands."
Zhang Yu nodded, this is almost the number of fighting flying boats owned by the Rui Strike Army. After all, they are not attacking Taibo monsters, so there should not be any more. Even if they come again, they should be carrying flying boats.
His eyes moved at this moment, he turned around and looked behind him, and said, "Our people are here too."
Wen Liang also looked over. He didn't feel anything at first, but after a while, he saw hundreds of bright lights appearing on the eastern horizon. After a while, he could clearly distinguish that they were bright rays of light, and then they flew away.
The sound of rumbling vibrations that broke through the sky came together.
And this kind of movement also alerted many soldiers in the military base. They came out of the camp one after another, stood on the ground and watched, and saw one after another like rainbow-like escaping lights flying from the distance, and then over their heads.
It broke through the air above, and the air flow caused caused the flags above the military base to flutter.
Zhang Yu paid attention for a while, and suddenly looked towards the north as if aware of it, and saw dozens of rays of light floating there, flying towards the station.
After a while, dozens of rays of light were seen falling downwards.
After the light dissipated, the people who emerged from inside were all dressed in Taoist robes, and their bodies were full of magical power. There was no doubt that they were all true practitioners from the spiritual and mysterious realm, and the first five people were each trained Yuanshen Zhaoying.
of monks.
Wen Liang took a step forward, stopped in front of Zhang Yu, and looked at these true practitioners warily.
At this time, a young monk came out from the opposite side. This was Yu Fu, who had come to the square platform to pick up Mo Guangchen's soul. He came up to slap him and said: "Zhang Xuanzheng is polite."
Zhang Yu nodded and said politely: "So, fellow Taoist, you and these fellow Taoists don't know why you are here?"
Yu Fuzheng said: "It was Zhang Xuanzang's news before that we learned that many evil cultivators fled to Shuangzhou. This time, Lingmiao Xuanjing is also preparing to take advantage of the continent's attack on Shuangzhou to deal with this generation once and for all.
