Li Xiuer shook her head and said, "It's too far to consider this issue now. In the Qinhuai battle, the barbarian army is about to reach a million troops. This is a fight to the death. At least we have to hold on to this wave and completely defeat the barbarian army before we can consider challenging the Central Plains. If we can't hold on, it will all be a joke."
Tang Ze smiled and said, "What Manager Xiu'er said is true! But even if we don't make long-term plans, others may not be unwilling to make long-term plans."
Li Xiuer began to feel uneasy. She stood up to make herself look taller. A maid brought a fur coat, and she put it on. She took two steps up the stairs and looked back at Tang Ze: "Why don't you be more clear, Mr. Tang?"
Tang Ze said: "In the Qinhuai area, uprisings are emerging one after another, and these are the targets that the barbarian army must eliminate. Rebellions are breaking out in Daxing City, Bashan, Shudi, Liaodong and other places. The barbarian army has no time to deal with them in a short period of time, and these forces will inevitably take the opportunity to expand.
"If the Barbarian Army wants to wipe out these forces, it must rely on the Grand Canal and the Huai River. If we continue to attack Gaoyou and advance to Xuzhou, we will bear great pressure. The Barbarian Court will never allow us to cut off the Grand Canal, which they control.
"In this way, the pressure is all on our side. The Xuan Army can continue to expand its territory and troops, while we face the powerful offensive of the Barbarian Army. Not only will it be difficult to expand our territory, but we may also be overthrown at any time. This means sacrificing ourselves to help the Xuan Army.
"On the other hand, we can just give up Gaoyou and attack Haizhou. Many prefectures along the coast will fall into our hands. At the same time, because it does not affect the Barbarian Army's control over the Grand Canal, they will be spared by the Barbarian Army in the short term. In this way, the Barbarian Army's river transportation will not be interrupted, and the pressure will continue to shift to the Xuan Army.
“In that case, we will continue to capture cities and territories, while letting the Xuan Army and the Barbarian Army consume each other. When both of them can no longer hold on, we will make a concerted effort to wipe out Qinhuai and conquer the Central Plains.
"To put it simply, attacking Gaoyou will hurt our army and benefit the world, and will also benefit the Xuan Army. Attacking Haizhou will hurt the Xuan Army and benefit our army. As for the pros and cons, it's up to General Xiu'er to decide."
Li Xiuer stepped on the steps, and the generals below looked at her. She glanced to the other side, and saw Hong Dulan and Cui Tengniang, who were dressed as maids and retreated to the side, without moving.
—At this time, Li Xiuer felt a little dry in the mouth.
For Li Xiuer, she encountered unprecedented difficulties.
How could she tell these people that I am leading you to win battles one after another, and the ultimate goal is to lead you to surrender to the Xuan army
In the beginning, everyone just wanted to settle down and save their lives, but as the territory grew larger and the army became stronger, who wouldn't want to make achievements and become a noble or a general
I'm sorry, although I am your leader, I am actually a spy planted by the Xuan Army... Sister, are you kidding me
Once this matter was exposed, no matter how loyal these generals were to her, they would immediately rebel against her.
But if she really wanted to break away from the Xielian Sect and become independent like Li Badao did, the masters sent by the sect to protect her could also directly send her to the gates of hell.
Gaoyou must be fought. Even if it cannot be taken, the Grand Canal can be firmly controlled, which greatly reduces the pressure on Xuan’s army and gives them more time to capture cities and territories.
But what Mr. Tang said was not wrong.
If we only consider Huang Tianjun's own interests, we should not fight Gaoyou to death at this time.
Avoid the main force of the Barbarian Army, capture Haizhou, take over the vast land along the coast, and watch the Xuan Army and the Barbarian Army both suffer losses. How great would that be
If she didn't take the best strategy, how could she convince the generals to follow her and take the worst strategy
At this moment, Li Xiuer had a splitting headache. However, a capable person rushed in from outside: "Manager!"
Seeing him so anxious, it seemed that there was some important military information. Everyone looked at him quickly, and Li Xiuer asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter?"
The man said, "There is a girl outside who calls herself Yuncai Yao from Taisu Xian Pavilion and wants to see the chief steward!" Yuncai Yao? Li Xiu'er was surprised. She had a quick thought in her mind.
What is this woman doing here
—
At the same time, the Demon Commander of the Xuan Army had already left the army.
He had been away from the army for three days, although not many people knew about it.
The current situation was still chaotic, but because it was too chaotic, they held on everywhere and divided their troops everywhere, and overall it was still expanding with great momentum. His role in the army was not as great as it was at the beginning.
In the Qinhuai area, the rebel armies increased in number and became so complicated and chaotic that no one could sort them out, causing great difficulty for the barbarian army.
Many of them hung the flag of the Xuan Army. With just one order, they were willing to go through fire and water and do whatever it takes to overthrow the Barbarian Court.
We can no longer count on the Dragon and Phoenix Society!
Huang Tian’s army occupied Chuzhou and threatened the Grand Canal. Whether the next step will be to continue attacking Gaoyou or to make other responses remains to be seen.
While the barbarian army was putting out fires everywhere, they moved their main force eastward, built a solid defense line around Gaoyou, and kept a close eye on Huang Tianjun. If Huang Tianjun did not retreat, the river transportation would be threatened, and they would not be able to fully encircle Xuanjun.
Although the original grand strategy was for the Dragon and Phoenix Society to attack Shouzhou, which was close to the Huai River, the Dragon and Phoenix Society did not arrive, forcing the Huang Tian Army to attack Gaoyou. Li Xiuer must have been very troubled at this moment!
But no matter what, because Huang Tian’s troops were pressing on the canal, Xuan Jun’s strategic space was greatly buffered, and Shi Hao could also take a break from his busy schedule.
Now, he has reached Dengzhou. This city has no strategic value, so there are not many barbarian troops. The town to its west has fallen to the strength of the Hanshui League, and further north, it is close to Nanshan.
It was dusk at this moment, and he took a big knife, moved a big chair, and sat on the street. There were countless people around him, looking at him with fear.
In front of him, there were more than a dozen corpses lined up in a row.
There were two things under his feet.
The one on the left is called a skull.
The one on the right is also called the head.
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Chapter 413: Magical Instrument Upgrade: Beheading!
At this moment, Shi Hao maintained his appearance after using the Evil Shadow Disguise Technique.
At the same time, he asked Huan Tingting to help him make a slanted scar on his eyebrow, and his face was made darker by using a kind of potion.
The dozen or so corpses on the ground were all dressed as guards. There were knife marks on their bodies, and they were all killed with one knife.
The two heads placed at his feet belonged to two teenagers, one about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other a little younger.
Their headless bodies were thrown among the corpses of the guards. They were wearing colorful carved silk brocade robes of the same color, with gorgeous silver mouse coats on the outside.
There is no doubt that these are two brothers from the same big family.
The broken necks of the two boys were pressed directly on the cold stone ground. The blood was quickly frozen by the stone ground, and a pool of blood formed on the edge of the broken neck.
There was an overturned stall on his left and a restaurant ten feet away on his right. At this moment, the drinkers in the restaurant fled in panic and ran to the other side, not daring to approach him.
A few others didn't even dare to come out of the door and jumped directly from the window on the other side.
The people around had already dispersed, but they did not run far away. Instead, they gathered with others and looked in his direction.
Those people were talking about it, although they knew that when encountering such a thing, they should still run away as far as possible, the farther the better.
But the curiosity to watch the excitement from beginning to end is irresistible.
On the other side of the street, there was the sound of hurried horse hooves, and the crowd on the other side hurriedly dispersed.
The leader was a man in his twenties, wearing a red gold crown, a fur coat with arrow sleeves, riding a tall and mighty horse, and behind him were more than twenty warriors.
"Second brother, younger brother?" The man in fur clothes reined in his horse, looked at the two heads, and roared angrily.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, those warriors jumped off their horses and semi-surrounded the young man sitting on the big chair.
The young man, however, crossed his legs and leaned back.
The precious sword he used, with its sharp edge exposed, was placed horizontally across his thigh.
The warm light of dusk shone obliquely on the blade. The blood on the blade had not completely dried up. A drop of blood flowed from the tip of the blade and dripped onto the human head on the left and the exquisite and gorgeous jade crown.
"Who are you? How dare you kill my two brothers?" The man in fur coat, surrounded by warriors, shouted at the young man, "How dare you! Do you know where this place is? Do you know what we do?"
The young man sitting in the chair smiled. His face was angular, and the scar between his eyebrows was slightly raised because of his smile, which gave him an unspeakable coldness.
"I asked them before I killed them!" He showed a mocking look, which made him look even more vicious. "They said they were from Yuanyi, Dengzhou, and that they were people I couldn't afford to offend. But I'm not familiar with Dengzhou, and I don't know if they really are people I can't afford to offend, so I killed them first."
His sarcastic and mocking smile made the man in fur coat's forehead bulge with veins, and he tightly grasped the top-grade sword with a gorgeous scabbard at his waist.
The fur coat man said angrily: "You actually have the guts to kill someone here, it seems you are someone important, why don't you tell me your name?"
The young man smiled and said, "You are wrong. I have no background and am just a nobody in the martial arts world. In fact, I don't have much courage, but their behavior just now really made me unbearable. They bullied weak girls in the street and did whatever they wanted. They were not ashamed but proud of it. They were so vulgar at such a young age. It seems that they have done this kind of thing many times in the past."
At this point, he tilted his head, as if he was thinking hard: "But when it comes to Dengzhou Yuanyi, I seem to have some impression of it. Is it the Yuan family, the wealthy family in Dengzhou that has been running dogs for the Zonghai family for generations
"I heard that the Yuan family kowtows and fawns on the so-called royal family, and acts like a dog to please them every day, but exploits the common people. All the brothels in the city are owned by the Yuan family. I don't know how many innocent girls were sold into the brothels after their families were destroyed.
"I also heard that the Yuan family is a martial arts family. They got a martial arts secret book by currying favor with the royal family. There are masters from generation to generation. Are you from this Yuan family? We can't afford to offend them."
He said "I can't afford to offend you" but he said it in a tone of extreme disdain.
"Kill him for me!" roared the man in fur.
Those warriors, holding various weapons, rushed towards the young man with a sharp face.
The Yuan family is a wealthy family in Dengzhou. Although this status was indeed obtained by serving and currying favor with the royal family, they have been showing off their power in this territory for decades, and no one in Dengzhou dares to mess with them.
In any era, money and power are more important than anything else. If you have money and power, what can't you get
As a wealthy and powerful family for decades, the Yuan family naturally recruits more warriors than ordinary wealthy families.
These warriors have the support of the Yuan family, which is equivalent to the support of the Zonghai family. They are usually arrogant. How could they have ever been looked down upon like this
In this era, the most arrogant people are often lackeys... They are usually more arrogant than their masters.
The master has to pay some attention to his image, so they have to be arrogant and arrogant on behalf of their master.
But on the other hand, they are able to make wealthy families pay to hire them as bodyguards, which means they must be capable.
The wealthy and powerful have a lot of money, but they are not stupid and will not just keep people who do nothing for them.
These people attacked together with great momentum, with cold light flashing and strong energy running rampant.
There were two other people inside who were ruthless and used hidden weapons by taking advantage of the swords and sabers of others around them.
The poisoned hidden weapon was tricky and strange. It flew towards the young man with the help of strong wind and shadow, hoping to win with one strike.
The precious sword on the young man's leg jumped up, and with a flash of sword light, the flying hidden weapon bounced back.
The three people who were rushing in the front fell backwards and fell to the ground. One of them had blood oozing from his eyebrows, and two of them had knives stuck in their throats. All three died on the spot.
These hidden weapons were deadly in the first place, not to mention they could bounce back and hit their vital points directly!
The young man then leaped up, completely ignoring the large numbers of these people, and counterattacked with his precious sword in hand.
Like a ferocious tiger, it pounced on the swarming wolves, the sharp light of the knife stirred up waves of hot blood.
There were many wuxia people among the crowd watching from afar. They were worried about the young man who was surrounded.
But at this moment, he was stunned... He was clearly one against many, but it felt like the young man was wielding a sword and bullying the weak.
The surging sword energy was as violent as the sea. Soon, the warriors who came to kill him were like drowning people struggling in the sea, trying hard to grab their floating duckweed.
The exploding knife light blocked out the afterglow of the setting sun. It was so dazzling that everything they saw before them was filled with despair.
Swish, swish, swish, the precious sword killed three people in a row, and the sword light suddenly flashed horizontally, and another person's head flew up.
Under the Great Sun Demonic Art, Shi Hao seemed to have turned into a scorching sun, and the setting sun outside the city wall became a backdrop.
The Tian Kuang Juesha Sword rolled up a tsunami-like sword energy, which rolled and swept the three people in.
The three men, one holding a stick, one holding a sword, and one holding a knife, used their special skills at the same time.
There were almost simultaneous sounds, and the sticks, swords, and knives all bounced back.
The three men were greatly surprised. The powerful strength released by the young man actually knocked back all their killing moves at the same time.
The strength of this person's foundation far exceeded their expectations.
They wanted to escape, but they could no longer tell east from west, south from north, and the astonishing heat emitted by the sword brought them an oppressive heat in this season that had just entered early spring.
Heat rose up, and the heat came from their spilled blood.
Three figures fell to the ground at an angle, and the swirling sword light was like a tsunami, rolling forward and sweeping the other three people in.
Under the overlapping and interlaced knife lights, the three men's chests were splattered with blood.
The man in fur clothes held a sword in his hand. He wanted his men to take advantage of their numbers to kill the young man in one go, and then he would rush forward and chop off his head to avenge his two younger brothers.
As a result, although he was clearly accompanied by more than 20 warriors, these people fell down in front of him at an incredible speed.
It seemed as if the people rushing forward were not thugs, but straw to be harvested.
His face turned pale, and he took two steps back, thinking about giving up.
The young man holding the sword glanced at him at this moment.
The man in the fur coat felt a chill. At that moment, he felt that his whole body and mind were cold.
The young man's sword energy was as hot and dazzling as the sun, but it brought him a coldness that froze his blood.
He felt that he could no longer retreat. Even if he took another step back, the opponent would follow his energy and kill him with a single blow with the force of a mountain pressing down on his head.
The feeling was so strong that he had to grit his teeth, roar, and rush forward with the sword in hand.
Yes, they bully the people in the village, they bully the market, and even do lawless in their own territory. But they also have the capital to bully the people in the village. The rich and powerful are not incompetent.
As soon as the man in fur clothes drew his sword, the top-grade sword shone with light like a dragon, and took advantage of the gap between the young man's swords when he was breathing again.
The sword technique he practiced was called Feiying Benlei Sword, which was also a well-known superior sword technique.