Bearing the blue sky

Chapter 223 Planning and Strategy

Next, the two discussed specific issues such as troop deployment.

Red Rice Immortal spread out a detailed map of Yuanyang City on the table, marking the troop distribution and defensive weaknesses of the four city walls.

After chatting for several hours, Zhu Ge tried his best to repeatedly examine, understand, and grasp every detail about Yuanyang City, as well as the information about the Plague God Sparrow and the Red River Dragon Python.

Zhu Ge was about to leave the next morning when Hongmi Daxian suddenly called him back.

"Congratulations, Palace Master."

"Um?

"Your brother—the Annihilation True Lord—really doesn't know what you did in Red River Prefecture?"

Zhu Ge turned around and smiled. "He knows, but he won't interfere. In his words, everything for humanity must be earned through its own efforts."

"It's all up to me—" Redmi Master was silent for a long time, then slowly nodded: "Okay, thank you."

"Okay, I'm leaving." Zhu Ge turned and walked out of the reception room, leaving the city.

When he swam out of the city from the river mouth, it was already broad daylight.

Morning light shone through gaps in the poisonous clouds onto the Red River, giving the water a dark red glow.

He climbed ashore, his blood circulated, and his soaked clothes dried.

Ma Zhu darted out of the woods and rubbed her head against his hand: "Master, I missed you so much."

"Stop being cheeky." Zhu Ge smiled. "Let's go back to camp."

"You have no idea how scared I was when you were gone for so long, Master!" Ma Zhu said as he took off running towards the camp.

By this time, the soldiers in the camp had been training all morning.

Zhao Tieshan led his warriors in practicing shield wall advances, the sound of the shields colliding like muffled thunder.

The soldiers were practicing changing formations; the four thousand men were perfectly aligned and obeyed orders without question.

Yu Xiucai sat on a large rock at the edge of the camp, holding a book in his hands, but his eyes were always looking in the direction of Yuanyang City in the distance.

When he saw Zhu Ge return, he immediately stood up.

"How is it?" Yu Xiucai asked with concern.

"Let's go inside and talk."

Zhu Ge entered the central command tent, followed by Liu Jianjian, Zhao Tieshan, Yu Xiucai, and others.

He took off his outer robe and hung it aside, then took out the map given to him by the Red Rice Immortal from the grass bowl and spread it on the table.

"The situation in Yuanyang City is worse than I imagined, but the Red Rice Immortal has agreed to submit to the Six Paths Palace and will use our attack horn as a signal to kill the Plague God Sparrow and the Red River Dragon Python together."

He gave a detailed account of the situation in the city and the battle plan.

However, Zhu Ge mentioned a few key points.

"Fight? Or fight the Plague Sparrow?" Liu Jianjian tilted her head. "Master, can you defeat a great god?"

"Even if we can't win, we have to fight." Zhu Ge smiled. "It's not like I'm fighting alone."

"Huh? Really fighting?" Liu Jianjian was dumbfounded: "It could kill us with a single spit of plague—we might as well lure it here to Six Paths Valley and use the Fungus God's Extermination Array—"

It took Liu Jianjian a while to realize what was going on.

Zhu Ge smiled and looked at her without saying a word, waiting for her to speak.

"Oh dear, Master, is that what you mean?" Liu Jianjian's cheeks flushed. "I thought we were really going to fight it out. I knew it, Master, you wouldn't be so unwise."

Yu Xiucai and the others laughed upon hearing this.

Liu Jianjian, on the other hand, is straightforward and outspoken.

Otherwise, everyone here knows that there is a fungus-destroying formation in the Six Paths Valley, so why bother fighting it head-on?

"A fight is the best policy." Scholar Yu nodded in agreement with Zhu Ge's method, but sighed, "It's just that the people of Chengli will suffer."

Zhu Ge, upon hearing this, was truly at a loss: "We can only hope that we can win."

"Indeed," Yu Xiucai nodded.

"Alright, let's all take another look, analyze it, and discuss it together," Zhu Ge said.

"good!"

Zhu Ge was so busy he barely had time to breathe.

During the day, he led Zhao Tieshan and Liu Jianjian to repeatedly rehearse the attack route, marking every street and every high ground.

At night, he practiced the water-refining method of the "Great Sun Lapis Lazuli Body" for twenty seconds each time, and then applied medicine. His body's resilience grew stronger day by day.

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Liu Jianjian wasn't idle either.

She used the "Demon Hunting Divine Technique" to refine several more second-realm demon beasts, and the number of demon beasts in her hair increased.

The mighty monkey perched on her shoulder, holding a bunch of bananas in its hands, its mouth full of juice.

"Master, do you think we can win?" On the evening of the third day, Liu Jianjian sat on the hill behind the camp, looking towards the distant Yuanyang City.

"Yes," Zhu Ge said, sitting next to her. "As long as we don't panic, we can win."

"What if the Plague Sparrow is even more dangerous than we think?"

"Then run." Zhu Ge smiled. "As long as we're alive, we can always fight again. If we can't win, we run; if we can't run, we fight to the death. I've always been lucky; I won't die."

If you can't beat them, just run away. What's there to say?

Zhu Ge still had some doubts about some of the things that Redmi Daxian had said.

Something just doesn't feel right.

However, given the overall trend, it doesn't actually have any impact.

In this particular arrangement, Zhu Ge did not focus too much on the quantity of items.

The last time the plan was flawed because the fisherman in the straw raincoat had too many weaknesses, and because we underestimated him.

This time, if we want to make a plan, we must at least focus on two major realms.

Zhu Ge even decided to keep a backup plan in mind.

What backup plan?

That is, what if the Redmi Master is also a bad guy?

Apart from that, Zhu Ge has basically done everything perfectly.

"I wonder how Yan Liyuan will handle this, and what about Sui Niang—"

Zhu Ge thought of the previous arrangements and plans, and felt somewhat relieved.

His arrangements and plans were certainly not as simple as just gathering a group of people.

In that case, we don't need him; Redmi Master can do it.

However, this time the size of the Redmi phone also gave him some good news.

Trial!

Even if people like the Annihilation True Lord and the Lantern-Carrying True Lord were just pawns, Zhu Ge couldn't imagine who was orchestrating this.

Could it be that the ancient philosophers were selecting their successors?

Or perhaps it's a battle between the strongest humans, barbarians, and demons?

I can't figure it out!

In fact, for him, making a plan based on the known situation was already quite good, but he knew that many times, a slight difference could lead to a huge error.

The lack of some key information could very well lead to ultimate failure.

Unfortunately, that crucial information was precisely what he couldn't access.

"It's alright—" Zhu Ge smiled as he looked at Liu Jianjian, who was chatting with the demonic beast in her hair. "By the way, Jianjian, the Plague God Sparrow and the Red River Dragon Python are actually demons. Can you enslave them?"

Liu Jianjian was so frightened that she trembled and almost tore off a strand of hair in her hand.

The swordsman protested from inside, "Master! Don't scare me! How could I possibly accept such a powerful being!"

"If that's the case, wouldn't they drain us all dry? Otherwise, where would Master get the demonic energy to refine the powerful beings?"

The air fell silent for a moment after he said that.

Zhu Ge's eyes lit up: "Oh? You can refine it by absorbing all of your energy?"

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