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Chapter 203: Heroes Raise Their Arms, and the Sun Shines

Pang Shuiyun witnessed the transformation of those 1,800 people with his own eyes. Although this old man who was good at the art of diplomacy had many things to say, in the end he just looked at everything that happened in front of him in disbelief. Finally, the old man turned around and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.

He grinned and thought:
"My Lord... The young master's heroic spirit is not inferior to yours."

After Li Guanyi turned around, he apologized to Pang Shuiyun. He knew the old man's good intentions, and then he told Pang Shuiyun his reasons. Pang Shuiyun nodded gently and just said, "Young Master, you have a broad mind. I already know that. I will assist you in your strategy."

A family of diplomacy and strategy can use the kingly way under a powerful leader, and can use the treacherous way under a scheming leader.

Pang Shuiyun changed his previous approach and fully assisted Li Guanyi in fulfilling his requirements.

However, after the young man released the original Taiping Army veterans as scouts to determine the location of Yuwen Tianxian, he began the second operation that made the old strategist's eyes twitch. Li Guanyi gathered everyone together and passed the "Taiping Book" directly.

Pang Shuiyun almost cried out, as if he was looking at a prodigal son, wishing he could just drag this brat down with him!

You you you, what are you going to do!
That was the technique created by Duke Taiping.

It can only be considered as the best second-rate and worst-rate internal skill in the martial arts world.

It cannot be compared with the real unique skills, let alone the martial arts of the god-general level and the Dharma martial arts. Whether it is attack or defense, it can only be regarded as second-rate martial arts. The only difference is that it has strong internal energy, which can barely be regarded as the top second-rate.

But this martial art has one, and only one, very exaggerated characteristic.

It does not require roots!

Even those who are generally recognized as useless in martial arts can still practice, but the progress will be slower.

There is definitely no way out.

Even people with broken legs can practice it, but the progress will be very slow. This kind of martial arts, even in the Taiping Army back then, was not taught to everyone. Pang Shuiyun clenched his hands tightly, suppressing the urge to stop the young master.

"My dear son, my dear son, my dear young master, I can't, I can't."

In Pang Shuiyun's eyes, the group of people who stayed behind actually understood why they stayed - they knew that even if they left, they would have no way to survive, so they might as well stay here and fight with this young man.

Such a person will not give up any opportunity to increase his strength.

Not to mention the "Taiping Book", which is considered to be one of the best in the world.

But the time was too short after all. After returning, the news I got was that the army led by Yuwen Tianxian had about 3,000 people and 500 cavalry, including 300 heavy cavalry and 200 light cavalry. They were advancing towards here slowly.

And they have already started building mountain-attack equipment.

Pang Shuiyun said: "Yuwen Tianxian is indeed a famous general. Even though his apparent advantage far exceeds ours, he never underestimates the enemy and advances rashly. He advances steadily and cautiously. Such an opponent is the most troublesome."

Li Guan nodded and looked at the surrounding terrain map.

Once they are targeted, they can only fight or escape.

No commander would be so extravagant as to charge the enemy with cavalry, but no one would dare to turn around and run when he knew that there were 500 elite cavalrymen on the opposite side. These 500 light cavalrymen could make detours and harass the enemy, which was enough to hold back thousands of troops.

Once under this kind of roundabout harassment tactics, the deserters became a defeated army.

Then these cavalrymen will start charging and harvesting.

With such tactics, it is not impossible to annex and kill a defeated army that is ten times larger than one's own.

Faced with such cavalry, turning around and running away would be seeking death.

Only heavy infantry were used to confront the enemy, but the most terrible thing was that no more than one-third of Li Guanyi's men were wearing armor, and most of them were private soldiers of the City Lord's Mansion. These private soldiers were only wearing light leather armor, and no real heavy armor.

They didn't even have the ability to form heavy infantry formations, use giant shields, and use halberds to counterbalance heavy cavalry like the regular army, and it was difficult for them to fight against elite armored warriors.

This is what Pang Shuiyun is most worried about.

No matter how high the morale is, wearing armor and not wearing armor are two different levels.

Only an incoming warrior would be able to kill an elite armored soldier without armor. However, when facing two or three armored warriors, even an incoming warrior who can use internal energy to release his body can only end in regret.

Li Guanyi ordered the people in Changfeng Tower to go out and avoid Yuwen Tianxian's troops, and go to other cities from the rear. He tried his best to buy crossbows, chariot crossbows and other equipment from Xue's gate, and cast crude shields with pig iron.

On the one hand, Pang Shuiyun was in charge of logistics and training. No matter how slow Yuwen Tianxian was, he would be able to reach the foot of the mountain in a few days. The slow advance during this period of time was to put pressure on Li Guanyi with great momentum and create fear in the hearts of those under Li Guanyi.

Even in this situation, Li Guanyi still set up regulations for public toilet areas and living areas to ensure food and drink. Well water was not allowed to be drunk directly but had to be boiled before drinking. These people didn't know why, but they still did as he said.

Pang Shuiyun watched as the young Taoist priest gave orders and the soldiers, who had been trained by the veterans for a month, began to transform.

After completing the training for the day, Fan Qing went with the other soldiers to cut trees and build defensive measures. When he came back, he smelled an extremely fragrant smell, which was the smell of meat. He swallowed his saliva but remained calm.

He was a soldier.

Even the border troops only had meat for three days, and even then it was only a few pieces.

This kind of meat should be eaten by the young general, he just hopes that it can have some fat today. Thinking of this, his mood became a little happier. Then he walked over, took the bowl, and filled it with a large bowl of rice. It was not a very delicate rice, but it was filling enough.

Then, when he was thinking about what to eat today, a large spoonful of meat fell into his bowl.

Fan Qing was stunned. He saw the young man over there holding up the spoon and asked, "Isn't that enough?"

Then he put the second big spoon on it and said:

"That's not enough. After eating, go over there and take a rest."

"Come on, next one!"

Fan Qing was still stunned until he walked to the side. He took a mouthful of rice, then took a big bite of a piece of meat. After a couple of bites, the meat was delicious, with a good taste, fresh and tasty. He swallowed almost instinctively, but paused slightly.

Suddenly I thought of my parents who were bullied at home, had their fields taken away, had their legs broken, and were almost starved to death. For some reason, my nose felt sore and I ate my food hard, but I couldn't stop my tears from falling.

He gritted his teeth and just cursed under his breath.

Eat hard.

Li Guan nodded, scooped up some of the leftover food, and sat with them to eat. They ate, trained, and brought in two thousand sets of clean and tidy clothes, all of which were very heavy. Li Guan gathered everyone together and said:
"No armor, just strong cloth clothes like this, and then a piece of iron is stuffed in the vital parts."

"Everyone just use it reluctantly."

"Go and get them one by one."

Pang Shuiyun didn't understand the young man's strange ideas. Why didn't he seize the time to train his troops but did these things instead? However, he completed all these tasks very seriously, and did a better job than Li Guanyi expected.

Fan Qing was the first to go over, and he walked over in silence.

I was slightly surprised when I took the clothes in my hands. The fabric was not very good, but it was solid enough.

It's much better than these rags on my body.

He simply threw away the rags on his body and put on this set of clothes, including leggings and wrist guards. Then he walked forward, picked up the knife, a piece of cloth, and some medicinal herbs. Although Fan Qing didn't understand why he did this, he took them all.

Pang Shuiyun personally led a group of people to empty out the cloth shops in several cities.

Of course, money had to be paid, and the money in Changfeng Tower was all gone.

Li Guanyi raised the strip of cloth in his hand, tied it around his left arm, and said, "Everyone, you should have a badge, but we don't have one, so just make do with this..." Fan Qing looked at the strip of cloth, which was not big, only three fingers wide, and a fiery red color.

He tied the strip of cloth around his left arm.

Then looking sideways, I saw men wearing similar clothes, standing upright.

The red cloth on the left arm fluttered up and then became like a flame.

Fan Qing felt something growing in his heart. For some reason, he thought of the conversation he had with the young man that day.

Aren’t we a group of bandits?

of course not!

There seemed to be a fire growing in his heart, burning him and making him feel uncomfortable.

Pang Shuiyun looked at this army and was in a trance. This was certainly not an elite force, but they stood there, their spirits were much better than before, with calm brows, carrying weapons, and neat manners.

Even if the Grand Tutor of Ying State came, it could no longer be said that this was a mob.

There was not much Li Guanyi could do. After confirming the geomancy map of the place, he already had a strategic plan in mind. But no matter what, the soldiers here had no armor and their martial arts were poor, with most of them only having mediocre martial arts.

Pang Shuiyun reported today's intelligence to Li Guanyi.

Morale on the mountain had died down.

Yuwen Tianxian approached within a range of 200 miles and had already built siege vehicles.

Zhenbeicheng had no reaction to this.

The people in this area also knew about this. In a state of public outrage, the general of Zhenbei City announced that the people occupying the mountain were bandits, the traitor Li Guanyi, and that Yuwen Tianxian was a reinforcement who came to help the State of Chen fight against the bandits in order to appease the people.

In addition, all soldiers would recite the military regulations required by Li Guanyi.

Pang Shuiyun sighed: "Military regulations, I have only listened to military orders in the past."

Li Guanyi used a pen to re-write the geomancy pictures he had recorded. The silver-haired girl beside him ground ink for him. Li Guanyi said, "A gentleman told me this. Mr. Pang, just treat it as something I said randomly."

Pang Shuiyun said: "These are not needed at the moment."

Li Guanyi raised his eyes and said, "It will be used eventually. We'll talk about it when it's used. It's just a backup, right?"

"Anyway, all actions must be carried out under command; nothing should be taken from the people; all confiscations should be returned to the public, and no raids should be carried out privately. These three are the basics."

"For those who go down the mountain to resupply, they have those eight requirements."

"Speak kindly, trade fairly, return borrowed items, and compensate for damaged items."

“Don’t hit or scold people, don’t damage the people’s crops, don’t molest women, and if you take prisoners in the future, don’t mistreat them.”

Pang Shuiyun said gently: "The great kingly way is grand and upright. I understand."

Li Guan nodded, looked at the topographic map, and asked, "What do you think our chances of winning are, Mr. Pang?"

Pang Shuiyun said: "There are four military forces. Military skills are to practice the hands and feet, to use weapons, to accumulate mechanisms, to facilitate the victory of attack and defense. Young master, your force is very strong, but the time is too short. If we fight head-on, it will be almost impossible."

"In my opinion, Yuwen Tianxian's army has 3,500 soldiers, 500 of whom are elite cavalrymen from the first-line corps who have participated in many battles, and the remaining 3,000 are only second-line corps. However, even the second-line corps are all trained in martial arts, and all the soldiers have internal energy."

"There are 1,800 people here, but no more than 600 of them have internal energy." "There is a lack of head-on methods. In my opinion, the only thing that can be used is..."

The old man stretched out his hand, pointed to the river in front of him, and said, "This river."

"After all, they look down on us."

"Yuwen Tianxian and Yuwen Hua are both from the north and don't know much about the climate in the south. The plum rain season is not far away and the water level is rising rapidly. If we can pile up huge rocks and mechanical devices on the river, we can block the water flow and accumulate the water. When they are halfway across the river, we can use the water to wash them away."

"You can then disrupt their army, seize the opportunity to attack, and defeat the strong with the weak."

Li Guanyi said: "Okay!"

"Just do as you said, Mr. Pang."

Pang Shuiyun cupped his hands and said, "Although there is a water plan, it will take time to complete. I can borrow the Qilin to flatten the rocks to form a simple dam and store water to block the river."

The dozing Qilin shuddered.

Qilin, who had been idle for a long time, suddenly felt a chill on his back and grimaced.

? ? ? !
Li Guanyi had already picked it up and said, "Thank you."

The young man looked at the terrain map. Even with a water plan, it would be difficult to win a great victory against the powerful army. Even if he rode a Qilin, he was only at the top level of the sixth level. Yuwen Tianxian, who had 500 cavalry and 3,000 infantry under his command, was definitely superior to him and Qilin.

Famous generals are in charge of the military forces and formations, and even the masters of the martial arts world have to avoid them.

Li Guanyi wanted to bring all these people back, hoping that more of them would survive. He stared at the map, which was connected to another landscape map.

"Duke Chen, the secret realm of Chen Baxian."

Li Guanyi's expression was calm.

That secret place is very large.

One of the entrances is no more than a hundred miles away from here. Li Guanyi stared at it, and the final technique to strengthen the army has emerged in his mind. As long as the medicinal herbs in the secret realm are taken out, no matter what, the physical fitness of these soldiers can be improved.

Morale is high, and even in a situation where death is inevitable, there is still a chance to survive.

But this inevitable death requires the soldiers to have the awareness of inevitable death, but it does not mean that they will really charge headfirst into the blade. Having the awareness of inevitable death and executing sophisticated tactics are the basis for a great victory. What he wants is never a tragic victory!

Li Guanyi looked at Yaoguang beside him.

The silver-haired girl nodded and said in a calm voice: "Okay."

………………

In the Yuwen army formation.

Yuwen Tianxian was calm, riding an exotic beast mount. Yuwen Hua also rode a warhorse, wearing a black armor and following his uncle. After experiencing a great defeat at the hands of Li Guanyi, he did not become depressed, but instead regained his spirits.

Five hundred cavalry, including three hundred heavy cavalry and two hundred light cavalry.

The heavy cavalry were fully armed, riding maroon horses, equipped with extremely long lances, chopping sabers, heavy bows on one side, crossbows and arrows on their waists, and three pots with a total of seventy-five wolf-tooth and inverted hook arrows. This was the most expensive and powerful type of soldier of this era.

As long as they don't lose speed because of the heavy armored infantry, they will be able to dominate anything.

The two hundred light cavalrymen were equipped with scimitars and spears, but they wore light armor and their horses had no armor. They ran at an extremely fast speed and were not good at charging, but at flanking and containing the enemy, cutting off supply lines and other tactical tactics.

The rest of the infantry are all wearing armor and have strong internal energy, which can support long-term combat.

They also recruited 2,000 able-bodied civilians along the way to transport supplies behind the army.

General Zhenbeicheng acquiesced and supported such behavior because he knew that Li Guanyi might have the upper hand over him.

The infantry weapons are spears, giant shields, scimitars, and bows and crossbows, which are equipped differently according to different types of troops. Yuwen Tianxian is an extremely standard general. He will not make mistakes if he is needed to lead the troops. If there are famous generals of the same type around, he can also become the most perfect deputy general and Yuwen Lie's assistant.

But even so, Yuwen Tianxian also had the experience of using only 5,000 men to wipe out the 12,000 flank troops of the Chen State.

The multi-army complex coordinated corps combat is like a perfect millstone, which can crush all single-army types. Yu Wenhua said calmly: "Uncle, the tongue we caught said that Li Guanyi allowed them to leave and gave them money for their journey."

Yuwen Tianxian said: "... Collect your hearts and minds, and have the same desires from top to bottom."

"But this step is only to make the soldiers and the commander work together. For someone like him, giving money to release the soldiers is like crippling his own arm." After a moment of silence, he continued, "Many commanders will personally suck the poisonous blood for the soldiers and share the joys and sorrows with them."

"But these are more or less deliberate expressions. The bottom line is that they will never let the soldiers leave their control. But people like Li Guanyi are not like that. Rather than trying to calm down, his actions seem more like he really wants to let them go."

“Give them choices.”

"A merciful man cannot command an army. How can such a woman's kindness make her a famous general?"

Yuwen Tianxian didn't understand what Li Guanyi had done.

"To weaken your own military strength for the sake of mercy will actually cause everyone to die with you. This is truly a foolish act."

Yu Wenhua nodded calmly: "However, among the remaining people, there must be brave people. Li Guanyi is not a weak enemy." Yu Wen Tianxian looked at his nephew who had grown up after experiencing several defeats, and said: "It is a great thing that you think so. In this battle, we will defeat Li Guanyi with a large army."

"Cleanse the stain in your heart, defeat him, kill him, and then go back and become a famous general."

"The world is about to be in turmoil. The war against the State of Chen will surely begin within five years."

"The opportunity to be knighted for military merit is right before your eyes."

Yu Wenhua said calmly: "Yes!"

This army of thousands of people was rolling forward with a heavy momentum, and under the order of Zhenbei City, all cities remained on guard, but just like Yue's army before, no one tried to stop them, and they would arrive in just a few days.

The border area of ​​Ying State.

Eight thousand armored cavalrymen were galloping forward in formation, which meant that this army was at the critical point of launching a charge along the way. Anyone who understood battle formations would feel terrified when seeing this scene.

It is able to break through the defenses of two countries in a formation state close to a charge.

Then they rushed tens of thousands of miles northward. The whole journey was simply a hellish level of hard training. This armored heavy cavalry had already shown a tendency to transform from a front-line elite corps into an ace-class corps comparable to the three major heavy cavalry in the world.

One day, a scout came back with a post from "The Number One Restaurant in the World" in his hand.

Yue Qianfeng took a look during the break and his expression changed slightly.

"【Halberd Maniac】Li Guanyi broke into the Zhenbei City Lord's Mansion at night, and tried to balance the power between the Angry Scale Dragon King, the Great Elder of the Yin Yang Wheel Sect, the Sect Master of the Motian Sect, and the Angry Sword Immortal of Kunlun. He fought Yuwen Tianxian head-on and was undefeated. Although he was seriously injured, he still left and his whereabouts are unknown."

"Afterwards, Li Guanyi gathered his people in Chongshan, and Yuwen Tianxian led 500 heavy cavalry and 3,000 infantry."

"They are marching forward in a mighty force to surround and kill Li Guanyi."

Yue Qianfeng and the others were furious. Yan Xuanji looked unhappy. Yue Qianfeng held the information and passed it to everyone. The generals all looked unhappy. One of them said, "What should we do? We have already come here. If we turn our troops back, there will be a battle."

Another general said: "But, for our sake, Li Guanyi is trapped in a desperate situation."

"How can you just ignore it!"

"But, Commander Yue——"

The generals fell into a state of struggle and silence, when suddenly a familiar voice was heard. They were slightly startled and turned their heads to see two cavalrymen coming over with a man on a stretcher. Yue Pengwu was sitting on the stretcher with a pale face.

This world-famous general finally woke up briefly a day ago.

From time to time, he would fall into a coma and pretend to be dead, and occasionally wake up.

The poison had eaten away at his body, weakening him greatly, and tormenting his spirit. But at this moment, he simply put the letter down. The famous general looked around at the generals around him, smiled, and said, "I heard him say that those who carry firewood for the people should not be allowed to freeze to death in the snow."

"He treated me like this, so I should answer him."

"Cough, cough, cough—"

Yue Pengwu lowered his eyes and said, "Ling Pingyang."

The young general, who had just turned thirty and was already ranked 97th on the Godly Generals List, took a step forward, half-knelt on the ground, and said solemnly: "I am here!"

Yue Pengwu looked at the information and said:

"The Yuwen family has 500 cavalrymen, and we will also provide 500 heavy cavalrymen."

"I want you to destroy his cavalry."

"You will personally select five hundred heavy cavalrymen, turn the troops around, and immediately gallop three thousand miles to support Li Guanyi, and then..."

Yue Pengwu paused. He was very weak, with the flesh on his face sunken, but his eyes were still like cold stars in the dark night, still full of ambition to roam the world. He smiled gently, burned all the information, and then said:
"You don't have to come back."

Ling Pingyang's pupils suddenly contracted as he looked at Yue Pengwu, understanding the meaning and expectations behind this sentence. Yue Qianfeng, Yan Xuanji, Situ Boshen, and Yue Pengwu, four famous generals from the previous era, looked at this young junior.

They are going to rush north to another battlefield in the world, but young people should not go with them. Yue Qianfeng patted Ling Pingyang on the shoulder, then Yan Xuanji, Situ Boshen, we have our battlefield, and you have yours.

Finally, Ling Pingyang bowed slowly and saluted:
"promise!"

He said, "We will meet again."

Yue Pengwu was so weak that he could hardly sit up. He smiled slightly and said, "Well, we will meet again. On that day, you and I will fight side by side for this world, because -" The weak general stretched out a finger, pointed at the sky, and said softly:
"The sun is shining brightly."

"How can you let me down?"

Ling Pingyang almost shed tears when he saw his weak appearance. He gritted his teeth, bowed, turned around and strode away.

The sky is clear!

Five hundred battle-hardened heavy-armored cavalrymen separated from the main army on this day.

A top-notch corps that can maintain its pre-charge state even after galloping for tens of thousands of miles.

In order to return a favor.

Turn the troops around!

They all rode exotic beast horses with shoulders eight feet high, wearing thick and hard full body armor, holding Golden Roc lances and flying feather arrows, and the sound of their horses' hooves hitting the ground was like thunder. They were led personally by Ling Pingyang, who was ranked 97th on the list of Godly Generals and the best cavalry general of the younger generation!
Come forward as ordered!
rush to the rescue!

rush to the rescue!!!

(End of this chapter)