The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Chapter 745: Looking south at night

It's really quiet on the north side.

Of course, the Oara Army did not give up the Ulanbaat City they had acquired just because of a defeat, let alone retreat back to the grassland.

The chain reaction after the disastrous defeat of Langya Valley was that it failed before Xixingguan and Beiwangguan.

The lasting impact was that the advance in the central and northern parts of Zhongzhou was temporarily stranded.

No matter how difficult this year's severe winter is, we still need to keep a low profile and rest our troops.

Fighting is the most resource- and time-consuming thing.

Even if the whole country mobilizes troops and generals, it will be difficult to muster the combat power that can attack the enemy's defense line in just ten and a half days.

Therefore, what the Fifth Marquis and Mo Shang said was that if they fight out 50% of the troops of Wala, they can interrupt the offensive pace of Wala in the central and northern areas for at least two months. It is indeed a conservative estimate.

The Zhongzhou court can be distracted from the war during these two months.

Wala can wholeheartedly make more complete preparations for future advancement.

However, this wholeheartedness will still be compromised.

Just talking about the vastness of the country, Wala is no less generous.

It's just that the land and water resources that people rely on for survival are relatively sparse and scattered, and the climate is harsher, forming a mainly nomadic tribal lifestyle. This makes the entire state structure look loose.

In particular, the distribution of the three branches of the East, Central and West is like a family divided into three parts. In many cases, it is difficult to use the three forces in one place. The instability and lag in domestic information exchanges are one of the reasons that often delay the war effort. .

Although today is different from the past, and forced by increasingly severe weather, the Oara people have shown unprecedented unity.

However, there is still limited improvement in the chronic diseases caused by the long-term influence of geographical environment.

Time is quite tight to reorganize a new round of offensive in two months.

It's just that the Royal Court in the Middle Court has issued a death order, and the three East, West, and Middle Courts will have to use their lives no matter what this time.

The greatest pressure among them is undoubtedly Nanwang City, which has to bear the main force and half of the baggage transportation this time.

Nanwang City is located more than 1,500 miles to the northeast of Ulanbaat City, and 500 miles away from the royal tent in the Atrium to the northwest.

Although it is named Zhongzhou, it is not the city of Zhongzhou.

There have been wars between the grasslands and the Central Plains for thousands of years. In small battles, we win more and lose less, but in big battles, the result is the opposite.

And compared to the nomads who were running around looking at the sky to make ends meet, the Central Plains dynasty had a strong sense of territory and was growing in size.

On the grassland, on the other hand, your family will sing and I will appear on the stage. Whichever tribe is stronger will be the leader and carry the banner for a while.

When the stamina is insufficient or has been weakened, another tribe will take its place. Over and over again, it is usually the new faces of less than ten old tribes who claim the throne one after another in a chaotic and disorderly manner.

During the three hundred years that the Zhu family was in power in Zhongzhou, Oara on the grassland was a latecomer.

However, despite being a noisy neighbor for more than a hundred years, they have not yet fallen into the quagmire of decline, been destroyed by Zhongzhou, or been occupied by other grassland tribes for their own reasons. One of the reasons is very important.

These generations of Oara people are very good at learning.

Learn from Zhongzhou to manage and control a huge territory, build cities and towns in suitable places, and strengthen cohesion.

Learn from Zhongzhou and introduce various talent selection mechanisms to maintain the strong vitality of the tribe.

Learn from the Zhongzhou military system to form a system that suits your own characteristics and needs, so that your already excellent combat effectiveness can be improved to a higher level.

Nanwang City is one of the gates built by the Wala people to imitate Zhongzhou City.

Most of the terrain in Wala is gentle and broad.

The stones that can be found on the land of Wala are also particularly rough and huge.

In addition, the Oara people are never smaller than the Zhongzhou people in terms of size and strength.

Therefore, the structure and layout of Wala's cities are not as complex and changeable as Zhongzhou's cities according to local conditions, but they are all taller and larger than Zhongzhou's.

In the tall city, not only the streets are wide, but also the buildings stand next to each other and rise toward the sky.

Anyone who enters such a city cannot help but marvel at its majestic power.

The most famous place in Nanwang City is the Nanwang Tower in the center of the city.

The South Observation Tower is a platform with a height of more than ten feet and a radius of ten feet.

There is nothing superfluous on the platform, except for a telescope imported from thousands of miles away from the west.

Nanwang, as the name suggests, sits north and looks south.

With this telescope, you can get a glimpse of the grassland under Ulanbaat City.

In fact, regardless of whether the city of Ulanbaat was captured or not, the usefulness that this telescope can provide is extremely limited. However, the main purpose of building this city, building this building, and giving this name is to aspire.

Looking south is naturally for the southern expedition!

This is the ambition that every generation of Wala rulers should have.

Ouillard is such a careerist.

He is the owner of Nanwang Tower, the master of Nanwang City, and one of the three governors of Wala Zhongting.

He holds the power to deploy 100,000 troops and is responsible for guarding the royal tent in the middle court. He is also responsible for the expansion of the southern expedition.

The fame of the South Observatory also owes its own contribution.

Because the blood of the Holy Khan Choros of Wala hundreds of years ago is still flowing in Ouild's body.

Most of the Wala Courtyard has high hopes for it.

There is no falsehood under the prestigious name. The reason why Oylade is able to hold great power and gain trust is all due to his hard work over the past twenty years.

Twenty years ago, he was only ten years old and witnessed the failure of the previous generation.

So he secretly vowed to shoulder the heavy responsibility on behalf of this generation and realize the dream of being shaded and cool under the big trees in the south without fear of severe cold.

Oylade never dared to slack off.

Whether in martial arts, art of war or strategy, he devoted extraordinary energy and perseverance.

Since he settled in Nanwangtai ten years ago, he has regarded Nanwangtai as his home.

In addition to accepting the summons from the king's tent and bringing his family to spend three days together every month, he would take time every day to handle government affairs, study martial arts, and train soldiers and horses. If we take the ranking of martial arts in Zhongzhou Jianghu as an example, Oylade can be ranked among the top masters.

When it comes to the ability to lead troops in united battles, the Zhongting Wangzhang's evaluation of Oylade is on par with that of the Fifth Marquis.

It's just that Oylade's fame still stayed in Oara and did not go abroad.

This time, the first shot of Wala's southern expedition in the central and northern part of Zhongzhou was fired by the Xiting Pioneer Army.

Although they swallowed the city of Ulanbata, they hit a wall in front of Beiwang Pass and Xixing Pass and suffered heavy losses.

After two months of logistical combat preparations without the slightest complaint, Onylade was given the command to command the second round of attacks.

From the entire Wala Zhongting Army to himself, they couldn't help but sharpen their knives to clear their name!

Since receiving the order, the number of matters that Ouild needs to personally attend to and handle every day has doubled.

Although he can still cope with it in an orderly manner, the time consumption still inevitably increases.

In order to maintain concentration, he appropriately reduced the time he spent practicing martial arts on the South Observatory and going to the school grounds.

More than twenty days have passed, and everything is progressing intensively under the control of Ouild.

Even if there is another glitch, Ouillard is confident that it can be settled in the remaining month.

There is no room for error in this southern expedition!

Not only was Oylade looking forward to that day, he was also hoping to meet a man named Yexian from the Zhongzhou Jianghu Rebels.

According to the information, this person was originally from a small nomadic tribe in the central and northern part of Zhongzhou.

He took the name Yexian because most of his tribe members died under the iron hoof of Oala twenty years ago, so he decided to take revenge in the name of the Holy Khan of Oala a hundred years ago!

Ouillard could understand this emotion and admired the fact that such a small person attracted his attention with just one name.

Naturally, he wants the other party to pay a heavy price for this.

Oylade looked up at the sky and thought.

Today, when I came back from school and finished my meal, the curtain was already drawn up.

I spent a bunch of time on the South Observation Deck doing a boxing set, but I still didn't shed a drop of sweat just like the previous few days.

In the weather at the end of November, Nanwang City is usually covered with a layer of gauze.

But unexpectedly it has only snowed once or twice so far this year.

In the past twenty days, the weather has become colder, but half of the snowflakes have disappeared.

However, the clouds above our heads are getting thicker and thicker, making it quite depressing during the day.

The whole city seemed to become a lot quieter because of this.

When you arrive at the South Observatory where you could pick stars and admire the moon at night, it feels more like you are wearing a thick velvet hat.

It always feels overwhelming.

If there is anything unsatisfactory recently, Ouillard feels that this is the only day.

In his opinion, this weird weather is not a good sign. According to the saying in Zhongzhou, if anything goes abnormal, there must be a monster.

Even if you don't think about ghosts and gods, or wonder whether the Southern Expedition is just or not, it means that this thief is holding back a very, very, very abnormal rain and snow.

Ouild, who was more than eight feet tall, punched the sky, as if he wanted to break through the clouds and let the rain or snow fall earlier, so as not to be delayed by the weird weather.

Oylade laughed and shook his head, wondering if he should find time to personally pray to the omnipotent God of Immortality. Not only would he receive help from God, but at least he would not be affected by the bad weather.

Deciding to make an idea tomorrow morning, he walked back into the house and put on his underwear and mink fur.

I went to the study to handle official duties for half an hour, and read the Art of War with a stick of incense.

Then he returned to the bedroom and sat down on the edge of the bed, preparing to wash up and go to bed.

The time happened to be at 1:00.

A maid came in carrying a wooden basin, dirty towels and other things.

Place it in front of the bed and kneel beside it.

Oyled lives a self-disciplined life, and does not like to take other people's hands in his own affairs. He never needs attendants to wash his body.

He hasn't sweated during practice these past few days. He only needs a basin of warm water to wash his face, body and mouth.

But when he noticed that the wooden basin was placed a fist farther from the edge of the bed than usual, he still frowned.

He never liked scolding his servants. If such a thing happened more than once, he would correct it himself and tell the servant to pay attention next time.

Therefore, he had not seen the tub in its correct position for a long time.

Perhaps due to the recent depressive weather, he also had accumulated depression in his chest.

Fortunately, I just punched the sky, and now I can still have the patience to bend down and adjust the wooden basin.

Just as he was about to speak, he reminded the maid next to him that she would not do this again.

Suddenly, my heart felt cold!

Oylade's pupils tightened, and he quickly realized what had happened!

He looked at his chest, and a black sword tip appeared and disappeared!

He looked at the maid next to him. The maid's face was familiar to him, but her eyes were definitely not his own!

The maid raised her head and looked back at him. She didn't move but was always on guard against him making any noise.

It was obvious that the replaced maid was one of the assassins.

Finally, with the help of another assassin, he lay back on the bed and looked at the large tent ceiling directly above the bed.

Ouillard is cold and desperate!

He didn't see the so-called revolving door before death that people in Zhongzhou said.

He only thought of scenes from his childhood.

He had slept and grown up under such a big tent since he was a child. After moving to the South Observatory, he also built a big tent above his bed.

His last ray of consciousness was the thought that his body would not be discovered until at least half past midnight tomorrow!

At that time, the two assassins had disappeared...

(End of this chapter)