In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, 20,000 soldiers and horses in the middle marched north overnight.
At the time of the second watch, the team stopped in an open area to drink water and rest, the moonlight was cold, the weather was the same, and the soldiers and horses were frosty.
"You lead the team first, and I will return to Tongzhou to investigate overnight to ensure that nothing goes wrong."
Mo Wen waved his hand and did not answer the water bladder handed by Pu Xiong.
Tongzhou is located on the only way to the north, if there is an accident, the middle army will face the situation of being flanked in front and back, and there must be no mistakes.
"Be careful."
Pu Xiong nodded in agreement.
Mo Wen then left the marching team, swept back from the mountains, and returned to the outside of Tongzhou City after a while, hiding on the top of the southwest mountain, looking at Tongzhou in the distance.
Alone in the deep mountains in the middle of the night, ordinary people will definitely feel fear, fear mainly comes from the darkness, people can see things at night in practice, and the purple qi dao people who have survived the heavenly tribulation can see things at night is not much different from the day, there is no darkness in the eyes, there is no fear in the heart.
The power of alcohol in the day has not completely dissipated at this time, Mo Wen took the opportunity to urge the wine to restore the aura, the aura is the foundation of the practice of people's spells, and it must be recovered as soon as possible in case of accidents.
When the aura is restored to fifty percent, the qi replenishing pill in the body is exhausted, Mo Wen has a feeling, frowns secretly, and frequently uses domineering spells to make the pill deplete quickly, these qi replenishing pills are treasures that are hard to find in the eyes of ordinary people, each one is enough to create a purple qi master, but this precious qi replenishing pill is like eating melons and swallowing dates when it comes to him.
It is precisely because of the support of the pill that he can use those domineering spells without scruples, if there is no pill for Ah Jiu, with his current aura cultivation, he will not be able to set up the previous kind of four-elephant killing array, if there is no pill, he will not be able to lead the army to attack the city, the terrain is like a bamboo, and the recovery of the three counties is not his credit alone but the result of the cooperation of the two Shangqing quasi-apprentices, although Ah Jiu did not participate in the war, he should be the first to take the lead.
The aura recovered to fifty percent, Mo Wen was not in a hurry to take the pill again, the pill should be used at a critical time, and the aura could be slowly recovered by meditating and practicing qi.
Due to the two formations blocked, Tongzhou City was dead silent, and when the fifth watch was not abnormal, Mo Wen wanted to leave here and go north, but just stood up and found that a figure appeared in the southern mountains, and it was a woman, and then it was Gui Sanniang.
Seeing Gui Sanniang, Mo Wen immediately flashed in the dark and looked at Gui Sanniang in the dark.
In autumn and winter, the sky is late, and the sky is not yet bright, and Gui Sanniang quickly approaches from the mountains.
Gui Sanniang's aura cultivation is considered high among the grass and tree elves, it is a grass and wood person, the body stays in place, and the out-of-body is only the aura of the primordial spirit, so it can be volleyed.
Gui Sanniang came to the outside of Tongzhou City and did not immediately approach the city, but took the lead in coming to the place where Zhao Jun had camped before to check it, and then went north to approach the city, but it didn't go far It was blocked by the invisible barrier, because the formation was inward, so the outside could not enter.
After being blocked, Gui Sanniang looked very puzzled, and looked at the edge of the formation carefully, and soon found a broken charm, this charm was a fixing talisman he had drawn earlier, and the figuring talisman could prolong the existence of divine beasts when they were still and motionless.
Gui Sanniang pinched the spell and looked at it for a moment, then left Tongzhou and swept south.
Because he didn't see the look on Gui Sanniang's face, Mo Wen couldn't judge Gui Sanniang's motive for coming here, and after Gui Sanniang returned, he quietly followed behind, traveled a hundred and ten miles south, and disappeared after arriving at an abandoned deserted village.
The deserted village where Gui Sanniang disappeared has been abandoned for at least a hundred years, the houses have all collapsed, a lot of trees have grown between the ruins and broken walls, and the abandoned village area is not large.
"Gui Sanniang meets Mo Zhenren."
Before Mo Wen could get closer, Gui Sanniang appeared and knelt down.
"Get up."
Mo Wen looked at the laurel tree in the distance, the laurel tree is high, and there are broken walls on all sides, which shows that it grew in a courtyard before, and the north country does not produce laurel trees, so it was brought here by idlers.
Gui Sanniang didn't get up when she heard this, whether it was people, insects, birds, beasts, flowers and trees, as long as you have spiritual sense, you will be afraid of death, and Gui Sanniang is no exception.
"Tell me about the situation in Tongzhou City."
Mo asked, seeing that it didn't get up, and he didn't force it.
"Hui Zhenren asked, there are more than 20,000 Yan troops in Tongzhou City, those cavalry arrived later, there are 17,000 households in the city, and the Ubu wizard and the sheep spirit are in the city.
The array was set up by a stranger, in his forties, with his eyes rushing upward, the corners of his mouth drooping, and a whisk in his hand, and there were not a few dust whisks left.
Gui Sanniang hurriedly replied in detail.
Mo Wen nodded slowly, he didn't know the person Gui Sanniang said, and he couldn't figure out why this person was embarrassed by him.
"The concubine only saw this person in a hurry, and didn't know his origin, and after this person came, he brought the concubine back with a vicious voice."
Gui Sanniang saw that Mo Wen looked suspicious, and hurriedly added.
Mo Wen still didn't answer when he heard this, the middle-aged Taoist drove Gui Sanniang away out of good thoughts, if the Four Elephants Killing Array was set up, Gui Sanniang would not be able to return to the body to replenish the aura, and it wouldn't be long before he died.
"Do you know why this person is here," Mo asked.
"That Taoist seems to have a deep prejudice against real people, and there is a lot of resentment in his words, as if he came to embarrass real people on purpose."
Gui Sanniang replied.
"Oh, how can I see it," Mo asked suspiciously.
"The concubine once heard that Taoist say that the ignorant Shangqing junior, dare to say invincible, when I am too clear and no one cares" Mo Wen Wenyan suddenly understood in his heart, this person should be from Taiqingmen, and it was difficult for him to come to Tongzhou to set up a formation, but he was not used to seeing him too popular, in addition, in order to mobilize morale, he had indeed shouted in front of the battle that he was invincible in the world, and if this kind of empty-eyed words spread outside, it would inevitably attract disgust.
"What's this person's accent?"
Mo asked.
"If it's not here, the accent is a little similar to a real person."
Gui Sanniang knelt down and replied.
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Mo Wen didn't ask again, Gui Sanniang couldn't wander around because of the limitations of her ontology, and she couldn't tell the difference between the voices.
However, according to what it said, that person should be the Central Plains people's clan, and this time he came from afar to make things difficult for him.
Since he had never seen the edict of the Zhao court announcing the world before, he did not know how the court publicized him, but through this incident, it should be seen that the court must have greatly deified him, which caused displeasure in the hearts of his fellow believers.
"Who knows that your body is located here" Mo asked Chong Gui Sanniang, although the goat weed that Gui Sanniang gave him was of no use to him, but after all, he had accepted gifts from others, so he should try to help him appropriately.
"The Ubud wizard once brought Yang Shi here."
Gui Sanniang replied.
"You can cultivate here with peace of mind, don't set foot in the world again, those two poor people will try to get rid of it and give you a quiet life."
Mo asked.
"Thank you for the real person, thank you for the real person."
Gui Sanniang kowtowed again and again, it was not easy for the body to be found to be able to save his life, it didn't expect Mo Wen to treat it so kindly.
Mo Wen didn't stop any longer, and turned north, chasing the army.
There was a lot of helplessness in his heart when he swept north, and the Taoist acted peacefully and uprightly, and he really shouldn't speak wildly, but he couldn't say that he was incompetent on the battlefield.
Although the army was in a hurry, it was only driven out of dozens of miles overnight, Mo Wen quickly caught up, and briefly talked to Pu Xiong about the previous things, and Pu Xiong was also helpless when he heard it, "That person is too stingy, who doesn't know that the words shouted on the battlefield can't be done accurately."
"I'm afraid there are not a few stingy people like him."
Mo Wen shook his head with a wry smile, Taoists are also people, they can't escape the preferences of human nature, let alone talk about people, even immortals can't completely transcend human nature.
As soon as Mo Wen's voice fell, he faintly smelled a stench, and after careful identification, he found that it was the smell of corpses.
Following the smell to find the source, it was a corpse in a ditch beside the road, the corpse was very badly decomposed, there was little flesh left, there were flies rising and falling, and maggots burrowing into the arch below.
Although the corpse was badly decomposed, the clothes it was wearing were not rotten, and on closer inspection, it was a dead soldier of the Yan Kingdom.
Seeing this corpse, Mo Wen was very puzzled, no matter which side of the soldier was, he would be buried by his own side after he died in battle, this is a consolation and respect for the deceased, why was this corpse abandoned here and no one to bury it "I've seen two before, and this is the third."
Pu Xiong followed and looked at the carrion.
Mo Wen nodded slowly, as long as the organization is straightened out, you can find a lot of problems, the 20,000 cavalry of Yan State was once transferred to the west road to attack Lizhou, the battle in Lizhou happened two months ago, and then the cavalry had to take a long time to come to Tongzhou, if the cavalry accidentally fell off the horse and died here when they were marching, their bodies should not be so badly decomposed.
"What happened to those two corpses before," Mo asked Chong Puxiong.
"It's pretty much the same as this one."
Pu Xiong replied.
"What do you think about this?"
asked Mo Wen.
"The last general can't figure out the reason, cavalry rarely fall to death, not to mention the Yan cavalry, which is famous for its bravery, even recruits shouldn't fall to death in this short hundred and ten miles."
Pu Xiong shook his head and replied.
The stench emitted by this corpse made Mo Wen really unbearable, and the Taoist loved cleanliness and did not want to be contaminated with bad luck, so he left the ditch and returned to the road after looking at it for a while.
Not far away, Pu Xiong's shout came from below, Mo Wen turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that Pu Xiong was using a branch to pluck the pile of rancid things.
"Real person, come and see."
Puxiong looked up and shouted again.
Mo Wen turned around and returned, and Pu Xiong pulled out a slender object with a tree branch, scraping off the filth on it, and it could be seen that it was an arrow.
"It's the arrow of our Zhao Kingdom."
Pu Xiong said that the bow and arrow of Zhao Guo were flat arrows, and the Yan Kingdom was a three-pronged arrow, so it was easy to distinguish.
"It should be the Yan cavalry who died in the battle of the deserted village before March."
Mo Wen nodded and said.
"Didn't they bury them on the spot?"
Pu Xiong wondered.
"There may be some that aren't buried."
Mo Wen frowned and shook his head, turned around and went back to the road.
Pu Xiong followed up, he was not a person from the Daomen, so he didn't think much about it, but Mo Wen was keenly aware of a hint of ominous aura, and the successive battles caused heavy losses to the cavalry of the Yan State, and the Yan State did not have the 500,000 male soldiers of the Zhao State, and the large amount of wear and tear of the cavalry was very likely to force them to use ruthless tricks: