one's door

According to Wu Kui's arrangement, he did not fully implement Zhang Yan's plan, but had some trade-offs in it.For example, Wu Kui didn't put all his attention on those movable dead paths, and didn't have the idea of ​​completely blocking them.The choice is to block six to seven achievements, and let the rest go, so that even if it affects the people on the side, it will not cause large-scale casualties.The vacated ghost-sleeping bells can be sent to the front line of Xiyuan County as a guarantee for the final goal of the whole plan.

If you do the math, for every three Ghost-Storing Bells provided by Zhang Yan to the Special Cases Division, one of them will be sent to Xiyuan County.

Zhou Cang, who was stationed in a military camp to the southwest of Baishiqian in Xiyuan County, received his second ghost-suppressing bell this morning since he was stationed here.

"My lord, where do you think this bell is going?"

"I gave Li Mangzi the last one, and this one is for Wu Kun. Let him make good use of the warning ability of this thing, and don't run around when the bell rings."

Zhou Cang sat in a simple wooden shed, with a clay pot of plain noodles in front of him, and ate quickly with his head down.

"It's my lord, I'll go right away."

As soon as the adjutant took the bell and walked away, Zhou Cang raised his head with worry and fear flashing across his face.

Zhou Cang knew that the bell must have been written by Zhang Yan, because the lines on the bell were very similar to those on the "Feng Zhan" knife on his waist and the sleeve inner armor worn inside the battle robe. Know that it comes from the same way.This is why Zhou Cang attached great importance to this kind of bell from the beginning.

Zhou Cang's status is not high, he doesn't know anything about the Spirit Race.The aristocratic family behind him can't reach this level of news.So after getting the bell, Zhou Cang carefully pondered the words in the order.

The order was issued by the Yamen of the Ministry of War and the Department of Special Cases to the Yamen in charge of the West Road Army Road Branch, and then transferred to the first-line military camps outside Baishi City.

The order requires that the soldiers in each army station must wear the bell when they are patrolling. If they find that the bell is ringing innocently, they should immediately retreat to the army station and cannot go outside.If the army is dispatched, whether it is moving between military bases or returning to Baishi City, any action that only needs to leave the station must also wear this kind of bell as a warning.When the bell rings, if there is no army to retreat, then form a tight formation and not stand alone...

This order was the first weird order that Zhou Cang had seen in the army for decades. He had no idea, and there was no explanation at all. He had never heard of such a thing in the usual military style on the battlefield.

Zhou Cang's adjutant is a veteran, and has been on the front line of Baishi City. He was a team leader half a year ago, and now he is an adjutant of the army.The speed of promotion is placed elsewhere, even the children of the big family in the army don't have this kind of promotion method.But in Xiyuan County, on the front line of Baishi City, it is not uncommon for an adjutant like Zhou Cang to be promoted at such a speed.Because too many people have died, the vacated positions need to be filled, and whoever has the most life will be able to move up level by level.

But even Adjutant Zhou Cang, a soldier who has been on the front line of Baishi City all year round, is the first time he has heard such an order and the first time he has seen this strange bell.

So what Zhou Cang can use as a message is only the contents of the order.It mentioned "ringing the bell" and "warning" more than once.These two words are mentioned together.That is to say, when this kind of bell rings, it means that there is danger. Either avoid the military camp, or form a defensive formation.

But what is the danger?Anyway, Zhou Cang has never heard any soldiers mention the dangers encountered when ringing the bell these days.Although he acted according to the order, no one knew why he had to avoid it.

Zhou Cang couldn't figure it out at the beginning, but later on he gradually discovered some patterns.That is, under normal circumstances, as long as the bell is not far away from the military village, the bell will not ring.But once there are dead bodies confiscated outside the military camp, the bell will ring, but it won't ring for too long. Usually, it won't ring again after a cup of tea.

Is it because of dead bodies?Not all.Because the bells around the wounded soldiers who died in the army will not ring.Even outside the military camp, fresh dead bodies would do, and those stinky ones would not cause the bells to ring.

It is Zhou Cang's limit to be able to touch these doorways.He couldn't guess more contexts by just relying on his brain.

But although I can't figure out what is hidden in this order.But Zhou Cang could feel that since this kind of bell was sent from the rear, the impact of the monster clan on the army station began to weaken slowly.The weakening was not obvious at first, but in the past few days, it has been enough for the soldiers in the army to feel it clearly.

Every day before, the monster clan would attack the bunker fortifications of the military camps like crazy. Even with the support of the fortifications, they still fluttered like fallen leaves in the strong wind. In the end, they could barely stand still relying on the force of the corners between the military camps, and Containment of the secret roads between the military colonies arranged by the gossip array.But the casualties were too great.

Zhou Cang was able to withstand this flesh and blood mill for so long not because of his strength, but because the sleeve armor on his body saved his life several times.The most recent one was the day before yesterday.The heavy hammer from a monster clan hit it, although the inner armor can miraculously offset most of the impact force, but the remaining part still caused serious injuries to Zhou Cang's inner mansion, a mouthful of old blood spewed out, and it still hurts to this day. Burning sensation when inhaled.

And the ferocity and strength of the Yaozu also left a deep impression on Zhou Cang.

However, the continuous violent attack had a pause a few days ago, and then maintained the rhythm of fighting every day and stopping every day, which greatly relieved the pressure on the army.

"Is it because the monster race is timid? Or is it that their troops can't keep up?" Zhou Cang dismissed this thought before it stayed in Zhou Cang's mind for a long time.Because if it is these two reasons, the Yaozu can retreat, but now the Yaozu's military stronghold is still less than [-] miles away, and there is no sign of retreating at all.

"That means the monster clan is in trouble. And this trouble should have something to do with the weird bell sent from the rear."

After Zhou Cang synthesized all the information he could see, as well as his own guesses, he finally came to the conclusion that in Xiyuan County, apart from the soldiers of the Western Army and the demon clan on the opposite side, there seemed to be more other things.

Chapter 350

Compared to what Zhou Cang could only rack his brains to guess, Lin Zedong who was sitting in Baishi City naturally knew much more.

In fact, Lin Zedong first heard about the spirit race not long ago. It was the first time he was informed of the signs of chaos caused by the sudden rampage of the spirit race in the rear.He still remembered the mixed feelings of horror and bewilderment when he heard the existence of the Eldar.

I am horrified that there is such a strange existence in the world. After death, people can break away from the world due to hostility and evil spirits and become evil existences.

Suddenly, he figured out some strange events that he had heard before, and if it were the spirit clan doing evil, it would all make sense at once.

It was also after that that Lin Zedong began to regain motivation with the mood of "being able to hold on", dragging his crippled body and continuing to run between the military commander's tent and various military camps, making preparations for possible turning points. Get ready.

When Lin Zedong saw Zhou Cang, he just patted each other's shoulder vigorously, and the two of them drank two bowls of cold water in a row, and the old days were over.I don't have time to talk too much privately.But Lin Zedong is still full of joy that Zhou Cang can live till now.

It's not that Lin Zedong never thought of transferring Zhou Cang to Baishi City, but he really couldn't do it.Even if he now has a considerable say in the defensive arrangement.Because the whole Xiyuan County has long been turned into a mill, grinding flesh and life. Once anyone relies on relationships to save their lives or get preferential treatment, the entire Xiyuan County, which is stretched to the limit, may break at any time, and it will be sand and mud. The situation of collapsing thousands of miles.

Yang Shiming, the commander of the Western Army, has lost a son, two grandsons and a nephew in Xiyuan County.Never seen Yang Shiming transfer his family back?Therefore, everyone in Xiyuan County is red-eyed.

Early in the morning, Lin Zedong leaned on crutches and walked all the way into the tent of the Chinese army in Baishi City. He said that the tent was actually a stone house. It was not only spacious but also strong. It was one of the few remaining in Baishi City Stone House.The rest have all been dismantled and piled up under the city wall as stone materials, serving as consumables for defending the city.It is also helpless, the terrain of Xiyuan County is flat, suitable stone materials are hard to find, and the stone houses in the city are actually reserved for such moments to a large extent.

Today is the general meeting, and people from all key positions in the Western Army and Central Army will be present to participate.Lin Zedong, as a partial general in charge of defense and deeply trusted by Yang Shiming, naturally wanted to participate.

In fact, not only Yang Shiming respected Lin Zedong, but also other people in Baishi City also respected Lin Zedong.

The most important thing in the army is real ability, especially in a place like Xiyuan County, which lives on blood.Even the customary favors in the military can only be ranked at the bottom in Xiyuan County.

Lin Zedong's ability does not refer to his martial artist realm, but his exquisite arrangement of eight trigrams.At the beginning, the whole Xijun just looked at Lin Zedong's arrival with an attitude of giving it a try. Many people secretly even thought of watching a joke. Exaggerated ingredients.

But in fact, the front line of Baishi City can be defended until now. Although it is in danger, it has been standing still. The reason for this is that apart from the iron and blood will of the Western Army, a large part of the credit must be attributed to Lin Zedong.

Using the army station as a chess piece and the entire Xiyuan County as a chessboard, the Eight Diagrams array was arranged on the southwest plain.This tone alone scared many people at that time.Then when it was implemented, many generals gradually saw the substantial improvement in the overall defense capability after Lin Zedong's arrangement.

So far, some people have said that it would have been better if Lin Zedong had arrived at the Western Army earlier, otherwise the monster clan would have more confidence in making a large-scale invasion, and would not be as uncomfortable as he is now.

This is true.If Lin Zedong could complete all the layouts, Xiyuan County would indeed not be in such a dangerous situation as it is now, at least [-]% better.

The second respected aspect of Lin Zedong is his tough style of not fearing death.One time when he was deploying defenses in the military village, he was confronted with monster soldiers coming over him. Instead of fleeing back, Lin Zedong stayed in the military village and followed the defenders to resist desperately.In the end, the military settlement stood still, but there were only a hundred soldiers left in the military settlement.And Lin Zedong was dragged out from the pile of dead people, without an arm and an eye.

"Marshal!"

"Well, Sawatou is here? You sit down first."

Yang Shiming is over eighty years old, and he is considered old among the top generals in Nanyuan Kingdom.Relying on his cultivation in the early stages of Duanshan, he has been in Xiyuan County for many years.

Lin Zedong's legs and feet were inconvenient to stand for a long time, so Yang Shiming asked him to sit down first.After waiting for almost a cup of tea, the small hall was already full of people.

At this time, Lin Zedong saw a new face, but the big red robe and accessories on the other side were enough to reveal his identity.

It's someone from the Special Cases Division.

Most of Lin Zedong's time in the army had never dealt with any members of the Special Cases Division, but recently he had done so frequently, and he could even clearly perceive that the Special Cases Division had already participated in the overall military strategy of the Western Army this time. In the middle.

Yang Shiming's style is neat and tidy, and he starts to talk about business when everyone is here.

"Today, most of the intrusion channels of the Demon Spirit Race in the rear have been blocked, and the strength will continue to be strengthened, as far as possible to maintain a level that can stabilize the overall situation in the rear. After that, starting from the day when the first bell came, The forces targeting the demon spirits will gradually participate in our Western Army's operations.

But everyone, keep in mind that this time, in Xiyuan County, the demon spirits are not completely enemies to us, just avoid them, and don't use bells to attack the demon spirits unless necessary..."

The number of bells is slowly increasing.In the case of only focusing on vigilance instead of trapping the Eldar, only three to four bells are enough for each military camp.Therefore, according to the judgment of the Special Cases Division and Lin Zedong, the entire Western Army currently needs forty bells to meet the demand.

As long as you don't leave orders and don't go out of the army, you don't need to be afraid of the demon spirit clan.

This sounds puzzling. Lin Zedong also asked this question, and the answer he got was "thousands of people in the army can become morale, and the evil spirit is so strong that the yang energy is much higher than other places, and the spirits dare not enter easily."

"After all the bells are put in place, we can basically guarantee the safety of the military camps... The food shortage of the monsters in Xiyuan County cannot last long. Up to now, there is not much food they can get on the spot. As long as they continue to guard Baishi On the front line of the city, the monster race must retreat.

Then I asked to divide the troops from the central army, and follow the pace of the demon clan's retreat to re-establish the army that was destroyed by them as soon as possible, so as to become a pursuit..."

After hearing this secret meeting, Lin Zedong couldn't hide his excitement.It's finally time for a change.According to Yang Shiming's strategy, although it can't be called "pursuing the victory", it can definitely regain the lost ground quickly and achieve the effect of driving the monsters out of the country.

Chapter 351 Channels

Although Zhang Yan will always know the situation in Xiyuan County later, it is always faster than the general news channels outside.

On the one hand, the Special Cases Department will tell him some things from time to time, and on the other hand, there will be some news from those scholars who are rooted in the army of Xiyuan County in the field of miscellaneous studies.

Generally speaking, the current situation of Nanyuan Kingdom has gradually improved over the past month or so, and now Xiyuan County has discovered signs of the demon clan retreating.And boldly followed the retreating footsteps of the Yaozu, quickly rebuilt the army on the lost ground, and forced the Yaozu to speed up in the form of a gossip formation, as if chasing.

This kind of "running after the monster race" posture swept away the difficult situation of the Western Army before, and it is even said that it has been featured several times in military newspapers.

But Zhang Yan knew very well that even if the monster clan retreated, Xiyuan County would not return to its previous state.

Because there are more unstable factors such as the demon spirit race that can hardly be eradicated and will be rampant once they relax.

In fact, if I really want to talk about it, not only Xiyuan County has become different from before, but why is the whole Nanyuan Kingdom not like this?

The appearance of the demon spirit clan will naturally not do evil in a sneaky way like the human spirit clan did at the beginning, but will seize every opportunity to slaughter all creatures they see, even mice will not be spared.In addition, the death path of the monster race cannot be completely blocked, so the threat of the monster spirit race will form a long-term chronic disease that cannot be eradicated, and can only be resisted normally.

And Zhang Yan now deservedly became the most important key to dealing with the demon spirit clan in Nanyuan Kingdom.Whether it's the ghost-suppressing bell he provided, or regularly using the soul-snatching method to help Nanyuan Kingdom draw the movable dead silence road directions, these are all things that only he can do.

And now the ghost-sleeping bell that came out from Zhang Yan's hands has been enhanced by several times, and it has many differences from the first-generation ghost-stalking bell. The biggest difference lies in the distance of warning and the protection against ghosts. Enhancement in the ability to collect difficulties.Today's ghost-stealing bell can guarantee to trap most of the ghosts below the level of ghost generals, and the same is true for the demon spirit clan.

The new ghost-killing bell has improved the special case department's ability almost linearly, making it easier to deal with those movable passages.As a result, it is very difficult for the demon spirits to escape from the entrances and exits of the dead silence that can be moved.That is to say, there may be ghosts running out in the early stage of changing positions, but after being followed by the special case department, there will hardly be any.

Even the strength of the demon spirit clan's impact on the entrances and exits of the dead still road has become smaller and smaller.

In contrast, the number of demon spirits in Chonglan County and Xiyuan County has increased sharply, and the only remaining dead silence road with a fixed location is a movable dead silence. people sniping.It is also one of the reasons for the multiplication of the demon spirit race in these two places.

It's like letting water out of a water pipe and blocking some water outlets. The water in the pipe can only go out towards the unblocked outlets, and naturally more will come out.The reasoning is the same.

But what is very interesting is that even though the demon spirit clan is still surfacing, there are almost no ghosts of the level of ghost generals.It seems to be deliberately avoiding.

In addition, Chonglan County and Xiyuan County, which are the "water outlets", did not have large-scale murders due to the large number of demon spirits.Instead, he consciously borrowed the route from these two counties, and his final destination was within the territory of the Haoyue Demon Kingdom.

As I said before, ordinary ghosts will not come in places like military camps and military settlements. Even powerful ghosts will easily be made uncomfortable by the evil spirit and yang energy in the army, unless it is really unavoidable. This kind of place will choose to take a detour.

Therefore, except for the case of being alone, there are not many cases of soldiers of the Western Army dying at the hands of the Yaoling clan.They prefer to pounce on the corpses to pick up the newly dead souls for nothing during the interval of the battle.

But the Yaozu have more ways to deal with ghosts, and also have the military camp to condense evil and yang energy, so it is difficult for the Yaolingzu to take advantage of it.Then why did the Yaozu choose to retreat since they have experience and means to deal with ghosts?

This is similar to the predicament Nanyuan Nation faced back then.

The rear is unstable, and the front is naturally unsustainable.

Under Xiyuan County's strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, there was not much food that the monster army could plunder on the spot. Even if they captured an army camp, they would only get two or three days' rations for more than a thousand people.For the monster army, it doesn't quench their thirst at all.This is also the purpose of not keeping large luggage in the military village.

And most of the food and grass, Yaozu needs to be transported from their own territory.

In the past, the monster race would not invade the front line of Baishi City.After all, plundering food is not consuming food, it is just taking away the food within a hundred miles, and Nanyuan Kingdom will not say anything.As a result, the Yaozu went straight to the front line of Baishi City abnormally and attacked wildly for more than half a year.A posture of wanting to win Xiyuan County.Only then did the Nanyuan Kingdom be dragged to the point where even the imperial guards were sent to take care of their lives.

Now the army of the Yaozu was blocked by the soldiers of the Nanyuan Kingdom on the front line of Baishi City. Although it was in danger, it would not take a day or two to break through the line of defense.Most of the food and grass consumed had to be supplied from the rear.But now the supply line of the Yaozu is under great threat, and was even cut off at one point.

Nanyuan Kingdom has been exhausted for a long time, so naturally it has no ability to shorten the long supply line of Haoyue Monster Kingdom here.But the demon spirit clan has this ability.

The rear supply line was under great threat, and it was naturally difficult for the Yaozu to form an effective attack on the front line of Baishi City, and the longer it dragged on, the more dangerous it would be.So retreating became the only option.Naturally, the flesh and blood mill in Xiyuan County slowly stopped.

But this is the end?of course not.

In the words of Shen Wujiu: Now Chonglan County and Xiyuan County have become a "passage", and those demon spirit clans like us to have a tacit understanding without words, and they will not cause trouble with each other, and they will use this channel to enter Haoyue Demon Kingdom .

This seems to have solved the plight of Nanyuan Kingdom.But Zhang Yan seems to be only temporary.New problems also follow.

For example, although the Yaoling clan was diverted to the Yaozu's territory, it was regarded as "returning", but the Nanyuan Kingdom made the Yaozu have no definite way to block these Yaoling clans, because these Yaoling clans left The Dead Silence Dao is in the territory after that and no longer in the territory of the demon country, so it can only resist guerrilla everywhere.Then the "passage" of Nanyuan Nation naturally became the thorn in the flesh of Haoyue Yao Nation.

Is this a perfect interpretation of what is meant by a wave of ups and downs?

Zhang Yan, on the other hand, sent out more and more ghost-killing bells following a series of disturbances.Because of his familiarity, Zhang Yan can now forge three of them in an hour, and it is no longer difficult to deal with the special case department, and the special case department's demand for ghost-killing bells is also dropping sharply.Nowadays, it is the demon species that really have a great demand for the ghost-killing bell.They spread all over the countries of the human race. In addition to bringing great benefits to them, the ghost-killing bell also brought Zhang Yan a step-wise increase in ghosts for salvation, as well as various precious medicinal materials.

Chapter 352

While harvesting ghosts from all over the place to use for salvation, he then turned his head to reap the benefits from this side of the Desolate Heaven Territory.

While receiving a large amount of precious medicinal materials from the demon species, they quickly filled up several secret rooms in Zhang Yan's mansion, but Zhang Yan still didn't think it was enough, so he borrowed a few more from the martial arts academy in Langyuan City. There is an empty stone building to store these medicinal materials that come in a steady stream.

Many people wondered what Zhang Yan was doing.Because these medicinal materials are very different from the medicinal materials he bought before.It doesn't look like it's used to make medicinal baths, nor does it look like it's used to refine bone-strengthening pills.

This makes those who stare at Zhang Yan, hoping to find a chance to get some bone-strengthening pills somewhat incomprehensible.

If this is not refining bone strengthening pills, then what is it?

It is indeed to refine other pills.But not all these medicinal materials are used immediately.Some of them are currently needed by Zhang Yan, and most of them are just medicinal materials he hoarded for future preparation.

Zhang Yan has been tempered by Zhuanggudan and Biqingdan, and the one who has been practicing since then is Peiyuandan.All the Yuzhilan stems that were exchanged for threatening the prince's son of Beiwu Kingdom have been used up.In addition to helping Zhang Yan raise the proficiency of Peiyuan Pill to the point of Cheng Dan, three finished products were finally produced.

Peiyuan Pill is of extraordinary significance to monks.According to the Taoist scriptures, although Peiyuan Pill is only one of thousands of pills, it opened the door for monks to speed up their practice in the world.The significance even surpasses the discovery and use of Lingshi for the first time.

Because Lingshi is born, and Peiyuan Pill can be artificial.

There is even a record in the relatively old classics in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain Gate that in the legendary era, in addition to the role of consumables to assist cultivation, Lingshi also served as "coins" in the realm of cultivation.Because there is no demand for secular coins in the square city where many monks gather, Lingshi can make transactions between monks more diverse.

In fact, the importance of Peiyuan Pill directly raised the importance of the alchemist to many heights.

After all, it took so long to successfully refine the top alchemy furnace like Zhang Yan in the early stage of returning to the gods, plus the magic of the Wanxiangzhu.Therefore, alchemists who can refine Peiyuan Dan are sought-after top talents even in the legendary era of the earth.

Zhang Yan ate the first batch of three Peiyuan Pills by himself.I also found out the characteristics of Peiyuan Pill.

The aura contained in one Peiyuan Pill is equivalent to the aura contained in half a general-quality spirit stone.That is to say, if you take a Peiyuan Pill, you can instantly obtain the spiritual energy content of half an ordinary quality spirit stone.

That's a lot already.At least for Zhang Yan, if he doesn't stop Dan, he can at least increase his practice speed by [-] to [-]%.But for Wang Nian and the other three children, the speed of practice would increase exponentially.

The law of wealth and marriage, these four major practice fundamentals once again reflect the importance of their order. In Zhang Yan's eyes, the word "wealth" means pills and spirit stones.Now he can finally shake his purse to show that he has "money".

The large number of medicinal materials that followed was Zhang Yan's confidence to make the alchemy, and he only needed to go to Yuan Pharmacy to buy some cheap auxiliary materials, which was enough to start refining.

When the three children each received a Peiyuan Pill, they directly ushered in a period of rapid growth in their cultivation realm.

In just over a month, Liu Rui, with the help of Pei Yuan Dan, successfully induced the cyclone to officially enter the air-entraining environment.Yang Rui, on the other hand, has touched the barrier in the middle stage of entraining Qi, and can break through after consolidating the medicinal power of the elixir.Even Wang Nian, who has the highest cultivation base among them, has taken a big step forward, and it is estimated that he will be able to break through and step into the late stage of Qi Entraining Realm in a short time.