Section 15: The Last Line of Defense of Wei State

When they retreated to the remote city, the Wei army realized that the city had been lost and was surrounded and attacked. After the heavy losses, less than 300,000 people finally emerged.

Ling Luo did not miss the opportunity to take advantage of the victory and pursued the victory. The Zheng army left some defensive troops, and the others divided into eight groups and drove straight into the territory of Wei.

Within a month, the Wei army, which was severely injured in vitality, was unable to organize effective forces and retreated step by step in pursuit. When Wei finally gathered troops to defend Shandong city with the help of natural danger, the land occupied by Zheng and the Soul Army had exceeded 4 million square kilometers.

One million of the land was occupied by the Soul Army, all of which were in the north, most of which were sparsely populated and few cities. The remaining three million were obtained by the Zheng army, and the number of prosperous cities exceeded 250. The Wei State lost these lands and was truly damaged and its majesty was no longer there.

Before the war, the Great Wei, which owned 15 million square kilometers of land, was caught off guard at the beginning of Zheng's advance and lost 5 million land. After several months of guarding, he was defeated by the Soul Army and the Zheng army. After retreating step by step, he lost 4 million land. In addition, the Soul Army occupied the uprising of the Soul Army, the so-called Great Wei now has only more than 5 million square kilometers of land left.

Many officials, generals, Wuzong, merchants, and even the people of Wei State were discouraged and desperate, and defected to Zheng State. Many officials in the Wei State court tried to take the initiative to collude with Zheng State or the Shenhun Army, hoping to have the opportunity to sell intelligence and seek credit.

The battle in remote cities was extremely fierce. The Wei State had more than 300,000 soldiers and horses were killed and killed and more than 200,000 were captured. This made the strong people unexpectedly. Everyone in the world thought that although the Wei State had lost a lot of land at the beginning of the attack by the Zheng army, they would definitely be able to withstand the Zheng army's attack after reacting.

The name of the wealthy family in the remote city, Chen Shui, is famous all over the world. Everyone knows that the Wei State was defeated because of him. The Wei State's incredible betrayal was also because of him. The lowly Immortal Soul Rebel Army, which was originally looked down upon by the powerful, has never dared to look down on it anymore.

All the powerful were willing to watch Zheng and Wei continue to fight, but they were unwilling to see Zheng win this great victory, and they were even more unwilling to see Zheng destroy Wei. Qi, Chen contacted Han, sent envoys to Zheng, and put pressure on the envoys of Wei to plead for the envoys of Wei, hoping that Zheng would stop the troops and reconcile. King Zheng was shaken by this. Although Wei suffered heavy losses, the lean camel was larger than the horse, and although the land was lost a lot, it was precisely because of the small land, and the troops could be concentrated on defense without worries.

Shandong City is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and there are still hidden worries about the large amount of land obtained. Only a truce can deal with those hidden dangers. It is already unexpectedly a great joy to be able to capture the remote city, but this kind of luck will not happen in Shandong City for the second time.

After Ling got the secret decree of King Zheng, he replied that he was willing to truce, but the premise was that Wei State would be given the price of cede land.

This request is indeed too much. However, the King of Wei, who was afraid that he would destroy the country, agreed, so he ceded 800,000 square kilometers of land that was not easy to defend to Zheng State. In this way, the truce agreement seemed to be about to be signed.

Shandong City is located in the Wei Plateau area, surrounded by steep and continuous. The entrance is the Low Mountain Pass of Shandong City. The 260,000 troops and horses that the Wei army fled were all concentrated in this city. The Low Mountain Pass originally had 20,000 defenders. After the remote city, Wei State was defeated, it dispatched 30,000 troops to Shandong City. Now there are a total of 310,000 troops.

The walls of Guancheng are far thicker than ordinary city towers, and are made of whole pieces of hard rocks. The Wei State sent almost all the martial arts practitioners who could be dispatched, and many loyal wanderers from the country were spontaneously helping each other. What is most worrying is the terrain. The roads that can be used to advance in front of Guancheng are narrow, and the terrain is getting higher and higher.

The attacking army is located below, and the narrow terrain cannot exert its advantage of numerous troops. Even if there are more troops than Shandong's East City several times, it will be difficult to break through. The barely attacking and casualties will definitely be heavy and unacceptable.

When the army led by Bu Jingxian and Ling Luo arrived, the towns and residents outside the low mountain pass fled one after another.

When the generals chased after him, Bu Jingxian found that among the people of the fleeing Wei, a middle-aged man in his thirties was carrying a large box and was taken away by a large group of escaped Wei troops. The group was about to go to the Low Mountain Pass, but was blocked by Zheng's army and finally turned around and fled northwest.

When Ye Bu Jingxian and Ling Luo checked the low-sanguan city wall together, they felt it was difficult to attack. The walls of Guancheng were narrow and thick, and many martial artists helped the guards defend the city wall. So they retreated and made plans. Bu Jingxian walked alone in the village. When passing by a blacksmith shop, they saw more than a dozen Zheng soldiers guarding them, and some people were looking for something inside.

"Are you guys?"

Most of the Zheng army knew Bu Jingxian. After hearing his question, he hurriedly clasped his fists and replied, "Reporting to Beijun, General Chen said that the blacksmith is extremely capable and is afraid of being killed and injured in chaos. He is very lucky to protect us. Unexpectedly, no one was there when he came."

"So that's it." Bu Jingxian walked away after saying that, and couldn't help but think of the middle-aged man who was protected and fled like a guard. After thinking about it, he got on the horse alone and chased the deserters in the direction they were going.

July was wandering around the town, carrying bags to find food from food stalls and restaurants in the town. Many people in the town fled, and most of them didn't have time to take away anything. She ate and walked, and didn't care about the soldiers walking around the street looking at her greasy appearance.

When he left the town, he saw a figure flying northwest under the night. When he looked closely, he turned out to be the left bank of Beijun. July couldn't help but doubt it, so he used his light skills to chase him from afar.

Bu Jingxian rode a horse to track the traces left by the deserter. After running for half an hour, he found that his footprints were on the mountain. The grass and trees at the foot of the mountain were trampled in a mess, and there was no suitable road for horses. So he tied the horse to the foot of the mountain and walked into the mountain. Not far away, he found someone following behind. When he turned around, he saw July chasing him with chicken legs and ate it.

The moonlight shone through the branches and leaves of the trees and fell sparsely on her golden brocade robe. Her clear eyes half reflected a soft gaze, and half hidden in the darkness under the trees.

The night forest was silent, and suddenly the sound of chicken bones being bitten.

July's ten fingers are covered with greasyness. After a while, I ate the muscles of the chicken legs and chew them finely with my bones in my mouth.

Suddenly he jumped and landed beside him, spitting half of the chicken bones on the ground, the mastoid oil inside had been sucked dry.

"What are you doing?" July chased after him all the way, but he couldn't understand what Bu Jingxian ran out alone to do, so he simply followed up and asked directly.

"When I came, I saw a group of Wei soldiers, which was suspicious."

July was speechless, Bu Jingxian smiled slightly and continued to walk up the mountain.

‘Swoosh--’

An arrow suddenly flew over from the darkness. Bu Jingxian heard the sound but was too lazy to move. He didn't care about the arrow shooting, grabbed a stone and threw it in the direction of the arrow. The arrow shot on his neck, and the one that could not hurt him was bounced away and fell to the ground. At the same time, the archer was killed by the stone, rolled a few times, and stopped under the tree.

July looked behind and suddenly asked, "Doesn't it hurt?"

Bu Jingxian was stunned for a moment, and looked at the smile gradually in July's eyes. "In order to maintain the reputation of the left bank of ten thousand people, of course you know that the arrow is sharp, how can it be unreasonable?...I didn't expect that the first person to ask me like this would be you, and my two ladies have never asked this."

"It seems to be on it." Bu Jingxian changed his tone and walked up quickly, regardless of whether he would start to alarm the guard post in front of him.

He ran for a while, and when he was about to go up the mountainside, two rows of soldiers emerged from the front, and two groups of archers with bows and arrows stood up in the forest behind him.

"Who are you!"

Bu Jingxian then realized that July didn't know where he went.

"Left Bank."

"The leader of the chaos army! I will receive a heavy reward when I take him down!" The surrounding Wei army immediately took action under the order of a general who looked like a leader.

However, when Qiyue saw Bu Jingxian running up the mountain, he felt that his words sounded quite sad. Everyone knows that the Northern King is brave, and the Shenwu Race has a vital and indestructible body that is stabbed to the vital and sound. However, few people know that it will still hurt when attacked. What Qiyue didn't expect was that even his wife had never asked about this.

"Lonely person." July did not follow him up the mountain, knowing that there must be an ambush ahead. He stood there and ate three more chicken legs. Finally, he sucked the greasy on his fingers, and then he flashed into the forest on the left and used his light skills to leap towards the high place. On the way, he saw Bu Jingxian fighting with some Wei soldiers from afar, ignored it and just went to the high place.

Not long after, she saw a fire, and quickly flew over and found a cave. The two Wei soldiers standing at the entrance of the cave were killed by her before they could shout. She saw that all the Wei soldiers outside the cave had to set up an ambush to siege Bu Jingxian, so she walked into the cave.

The cave was not very big. When I walked inside, I saw a man in his thirties sleeping. His martial arts skills seemed not very good and he didn't notice her intrusion at all.

There was a large square box next to the man. After July opened it, he saw half of the box filled with weapons, and the other half put four Jinmu sword boxes. He took out the sword box and weapons, and found that the shapes of these weapons were very strange.

On one side, the blade is seamless, it is said to be a sword, and the blade head is slightly curved; on the other side, it is said to be a knife, and the blade body is narrow and straight as a sword.

The sound of July fiddling with these weapons woke up the sleeping man. He stood up and saw a strange and beautiful woman. He was quite surprised. He looked at her for a few times. Seeing that she ignored her and just looked at the weapons, he asked, "Do you understand weapons?"

"I don't understand." July answered simply, and took a chicken leg from the cloth bag and threw it to the man. The latter took it happily and ate it. He swallowed it and asked her, "Do you have any wine?"

July shook the wine pot on his waist and said, "It's finished."

The man said, "What a pity." After finishing the chicken legs, he asked Qiuyue again, and then ate three fat chicken legs in a row, and then said, "You don't understand why you keep watching weapons?"

"What weapon is this? A knife is not like a knife, and a sword is not like a sword." July took it hand by hand in his hand, and asked in confusion.

The man laughed and said, "What's the point? Why do you have to be like a knife and a sword? The weapons I made are more practical than swords. Although they are not as skillful as long swords used by the Jianghu Rangers, their stabbing power is even more powerful than ordinary swords, and their power is greater than that of swords used on the battlefield."

"Are you a blacksmith of Wei Jun?"

The man said disdainfully, "The officials of Wei State are all idiots, how can they know how powerful my weapons are!"

"Then why are you here?"

"The centurion in the town is good friends with me. He has always admired the weapons I have made. In the past, I have recommended them to the generals of the Wei army many times, but it is a pity for me. Today, your Zheng army and the Soul Army have attacked, and he will take me to escape if I am afraid that I will be killed." After the man said that, he asked again, "Are you a martial master in Zheng State? I see that the golden phoenix ornaments on your head are like the martial master phoenix crowns that others rumored."
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