Chapter 703 Shu Dao fierce soldiers (twenty-three)
The last time, Chu Xunyu offered a plan to Yuan Feng and proposed a very risky and proactive strategy. To be honest, Chu Xunyu's military strategy is not as good as Sun Mengqing's "Supervisor", even half a general is not considered a general. Chu Xunyu has never read military books since he was a child. Even when he first joined Zhu Yuanzhang's camp, he didn't even know how to break the camp. He couldn't tell the difference between the steel knives used by the tourists in the martial arts world and the weapons used in the army. Therefore, after the war, he only served as the Left Minister in the Ministry of War and was a civil servant in the army. The main reason is that he was old and had a good reputation as a military doctor. As for the little scholarly aura he had, after all, he was a child from the Yaowang Mansion at that time, barely considered a half-literati. Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of arranging him to serve in the army, let alone becoming a marquis, there was nothing he had done about him. He had no idea how to command wars in his bones. Later, he was able to command some small troops entirely from the "memory" left by many years of wars. He learned from other excellent generals. In essence, he did not have high military talent, including his later assisting Sun Mengqing in commanding the team in the Valley of Death.
But in those years, he had been in the army. Although he was very unhappy with Sun Mengqing and repeatedly resisted her strategic policies that damaged people's lives too much, he had already had her strategic thinking on using troops in his brain. However, the depth of consciousness has always been in conflict. But now it is different. He and Sun Mengqing have developed feelings for him and are no longer so resistant. In the face of such military issues, he began to learn to think from a strategic and tactical way. Maybe Chu Xunyu himself did not show up. Now when he was using troops, he already had some Sun Mengqing's shadow on him. He measured gains and losses from a strategic perspective and considered how to compete for victory from a tactical perspective. As for looking at life from a doctor's perspective, I am afraid that Chu Xunyu's heart is no longer so heavy.
These "true teachings" of Sun Mengqing made Chu Xun's corpus Yu Xian and made a very accurate judgment. The Jieyuan Sect claimed that he was a smart person. This time, he was all involved in Chu Xun's corpus, which really gave Chu Xun's face. At this moment, they relaxed when Yuan Yang led his men to rush over from the front for the third time, because they felt that they judged that the Shushan people were still using suspicious soldiers to "run away if they hit", so they not only did not have the panic as before, but also sent dozens of disciples to symbolically resist. Bo Guang, Wu Chan and Luo Xiu, who came later, gathered together behind to arrange the attack deployment of their disciples in the morning. They did not expect that the Shushan people were really coming.
The battle on Shu Road is different from that on the plain. It is like building a temple in a screw shell. It cannot be made bigger or not. Although the plank roads under your feet are protected by formations, they are very weak in the eyes of the great masters. If Bo Guang and Yuan Yang and the six great masters who participated in the battle went all out, they would destroy this plank road in less than an hour. Then they would have to return to the old topic of "air", which is really unwise, so the two sides launched a battle without limiting the loss of life in an environment of limited space and limited means.
The battle was from noon to night. Afterwards, this section of Shu Road was called "Blood Ridge" by later generations. Because the entire plank road was stained with blood, the two sides had a total of eleven charges, and all the great masters participated in the battle. When the battle was most intense, more than 90 strong men in the divine stage were killed, and countless other disciples were killed. In the valley, on the plank road, the cracks of the stones were piled up, and more than 600 were corpses. Until the dawn of the next day, less than ten remaining disciples in Shushan found that they won because the Fengling Shou was still in his hands.
Many years later, someone asked Yuan Yi why the Tribulation Source Sect, which is stronger than Shushan, failed to successfully seize the important pass of Feng Lingshou? Yuan Yi calmly replied: "Because they can only advance along the bodies of Shushan disciples."
Very few people survived this battle, and they were all seriously injured. On the Shushan side, Yuan Yi was broken three fingers and injured his internal organs; Yuan Lu's entire lungs were penetrated, and his right calf was also broken; Yuan Yang was the most brave, but the price was the heaviest, with more than 30 vital wounds all over his body, and he was blinded. He could only barely hold on to his breath with his innate perseverance. Bo Guang lost an arm on the other side of the Tribulation Source Sect; Wu Chan was opened, and he retreated with his intestines; Luo Xiu was burned half of his body by Yuan Lu, and they had no choice but to give up the Yuling Shrine with his only two seriously injured disciples and retreated to the old camp thirty miles away.
In addition to the three elders of the "Yuan" character, only five people survived in the end. Among them, there was a disciple in the Nascent Soul stage, that is, Gongsun Yan. Gongsun Yan's cultivation was insignificant in this level of competition, but she miraculously survived and suffered only a slight minor injury. In the end, she took the risk to go down the mountain to investigate and then confirmed that the Yuling Shou was empty and completely abandoned by the Tribulation Source Sect.
But is there really a miracle? No, there will be no such miracle at all. Gongsun Yan knew very well that in yesterday's battle, she was arranged behind. Because her cultivation was not high, she was always arranged in the final reserve team. After Yuan Yi was finally here, especially when the night came, the two sides could not tell anything at all. They could not hear anything except shouting and fighting. The Yuan Yi's order she received was very simple and clear, that is: "Attack in all directions and kill anyone who is not Shushan." In this tragic hand-to-hand combat, can she survive so easily? There is only one answer, that is, being saved. Gongsun Yan herself knew
I remember that there seemed to be a young man in white who had been wandering around him in the dark. He was neither a Shushan nor a person from the Jieyuan Sect. Gongsun Yan didn't know this person at all. At first, he thought it was an enemy, but he had taken several actions to protect himself, which made Gongsun Yan very confused in the crowd. Until the end of this battle, Gongsun Yan had specially searched for this person, but found nothing. She even doubted whether she was too mentally stressed and caused hallucinations. How could a great master who she didn't know emerge out of thin air to protect herself for no reason. Afterwards, she went to Chu Xunyu to check her body and confirmed that it was not her gain or loss.
This battle ended with a miserable victory in Shushan. As Chu Xunyu expected, it would have a very profound impact on the entire situation. The Jieyuan Sect did not expect that the Shushan people would take the initiative to attack in a completely unfavorable situation. The defeat of Bo Guang and the other three led to the overall plan of Jieyuan Sect being forced to make modifications, because they had no way to tell how many people there were on Dushan in Shushan and whether the strength was as bad as expected in advance. During this period, Ge Tianming had a rare temper. He sent more than a hundred people to consolidate the camp where Bo Guang and the others were located.
Defensive, and repeatedly ordered the retreat not to retreat, at most, the elders were replaced, and Bo Guang and the others came back to recuperate. At that time, many of them were puzzled. You must know that this time, including those foreign aids, the Journey Source Sect had only more than 900 people, and less than 1,000 people. The death of the No. 300 elite disciples almost caused the power of the Journey Source Sect to be reduced by more than 30%. At this time, in order to complete the reserve plan for that "path", Bo Guang and the others could give up the "scattered" camp at the forefront and come back to rest, so as to avoid losing personnel in the battle, so as to preserve their strength.
However, as later generations pointed out, Ge Tianming stopped the retreat. If Bo Guang and the others were allowed to retreat, Shushan would use its familiar geographical environment to pursue and fight over, until it emerged and destroyed the "path" plan of the Jieyuan Gate. Only by consolidating the "scattered" camp thirty miles away from Dushan can it bring a threat to Shushan that is neither far nor near, so that Shushan people could not understand the reality of Jieyuan Gate and dare not attack rashly.
Although Shushan won this victory that was almost not a victory, it boosted the whole sect. This was a head-on battle. The Tribulation Source Sect, which was stronger than itself, was defeated in a battle with almost the same number of people, which immediately made the self-confidence of all Shushan disciples return. However, this self-confidence seemed to have a reaction. Many disciples felt that after being beaten away through this battle, it can be seen that the Tribulation Source Sect, which has always been known for its wisdom, is not too difficult to deal with. Can the war end early?
However, the leaders such as Yuan Feng and others were in a very heavy mood, because the price they paid was too heavy. From a big strategy, it can be said that they were extremely successful. As Chu Xunyu said, the situation of the war has become a rivalry, and it is no longer just a beating. Both sides knew the details of the other party's fighting. It was impossible to have a one-sided situation of losing the pass and losing the land. However, from the overall reserve situation, Shushan seemed weak and tired. Just when the Fenglingshu started the battle, Shushan was ready to fail, and they gave up the need to divide the troops to defend.
The three posts of "Tianling", "Hailing" and "Changling" have hoarded all the remaining people in "Tianling", and a road was formed there, which is easy to defend. Once Yuan Yi and the others were defeated, they would only stick to the important ground at the throat of the Fengchen Pavilion. However, they did not expect that they would win, but what should they do if they were left? After careful speculation, Chu Xunyu believed that at least he would have to experience such a large-scale bloody battle to see the final victory or defeat. However, there are few left in Shushan. Can the weak men with weak strength stand?
The overall situation has changed a little until now. Shushan captured the disciples of the Jieyuan Sect as prisoners for the first time. Although they were two seriously injured and unconscious disciples, they still got an unexpected gain after Chu Xunyu woke them up, that is, the whereabouts of Yuanhai. It is said that Yuanhai led a hundred disciples to guard Dongshantou. After being attacked, Yuanhai took the initiative to give up Dongshan for some reason and fled under the cover of night with his almost complete disciples. Relying on his own advantage of being familiar with the geographical environment, he did not know where he was hiding in the surrounding mountains and forests. The Jieyuan Sect also
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