The system asked me, a weak woman, to challenge a saint

When Lin Yue was about to suffer backlash from the formation and desperately called Chen Subaru for help, Chen Subaru had not actually figured out how many puppet troops had entered the formation.

People outside could not see through the situation in the ice fog. Chen Subaru was not much better in the ice fog. His consciousness was constantly entangled with the female ginseng at the edge of the ice fog, and he His spiritual vision was not as clear as that of the female ginseng general, so he only knew that the puppets were releasing people into the ice mist breaking formation in an orderly manner, but he did not know how many puppets were waiting outside.

The formation collapsed prematurely, forcing Chen Subaru to take emergency measures. Because he was not ready to retreat, Chen Subaru was fighting with the puppets in front, a little far away from Lin Yue. He had no choice but to use the Yin and Yang Gates on himself and Lin Yue respectively. When Chen Subaru and Lin Yue appeared in the tunnel, the spiritual energy consumption in Chen Subaru's Qi Sea had reached 70%.

After that, Chen Subaru led Lin Yue to escape by burning spiritual energy like crazy, which even consumed more than 80% of the spiritual energy in the air sea.

After returning to the military town, Chen Subaru had no time to meditate to restore the air and sea aura, so he could only absorb the aura of heaven and earth while walking on the way to Dongyan County.

Using the sword escape technique, Chen Subaru had no way to absorb spiritual energy while rushing along the road, so he chose the sword control technique and let Xue'er lead the way, while he could restore the depleted spiritual energy in his body on the way.

Although the sword control skill increases Xue'er's speed, the spiritual power that Chen Subaru can provide to Xueer is very limited, so her speed is still far behind Chen Subaru's sword escape skill.

Although the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the outside world is more abundant, the absorption efficiency during movement is low. It took Chen Subaru a whole night to fill the air sea spiritual energy to 50%.

The spirit body resumed its automatic replenishment, and Chen Subaru felt a little relieved. He asked Xue'er, "Xue'er, have we arrived at Dongyan County?"

Xue'er replied: "We're almost there. Master, have you had a rest?"

Chen Subaru said: "I'm not fully trained yet, but I'm much better than last night."

After saying that, he increased the spiritual power input to Xue'er, and the speed of Liangyi Tianbing Sword also increased accordingly.

Xue'er said: "Master, we are almost here, so there is no need to waste spiritual energy."

Chen Subaru said: "We have already wasted a lot of time. Let's hurry up if we can. We will do our best to obey fate."

After hearing Chen Subaru's words, Xue'er stopped talking and silently moved towards Dongyan Military Town.

When Chen Subaru arrived at the military town, his Qihai aura had recovered to 60%, which was the same state as when he took the sword from the female general.

His consciousness had already been locked on Lin Ping, and he sent a message in advance to inquire about Lin Ping's current situation.

After receiving Chen Subaru's message, Lin Ping immediately went to greet him outside the military town.

At first, Chen Subaru sent Lin Ping to the military towns of Dongyan and Chenliu to carry out work, which did not go well. Although she had Li Zhong's token, Lin Ping did not gain the trust of the two county guards at all, and she was not even assigned an investigation mission.

Lin Ping's identity is very embarrassing. She is Chen Subaru's person, but she does not have the support of Lingxi's connections; she accepted the transformation of Qinglong Castle, but does not have the status of Qinglong Guard; although she can use charm, she is not During an infiltration mission, her charm skills were not as concealable as Lin Yue's. Without any basis, relying on charm skills to gain military power was undoubtedly a recipe for death.

Fortunately, after Chen Jiao attacked the puppet stronghold, the news brought back by the returning monks improved Lin Ping's status in the two counties.

After taking some real power, in order to implement Chen Subaru's new strategic goals, she formed a surprise force that could fight and run, and targeted the cavalry teams in the two military towns.

In order to gain military power, Lin Ping began to lobby the leaders of the two armies. With the cooperation of Mei Shu, she successfully obtained the talisman to mobilize the cavalry. After that, she "persuaded" the cavalry captains and commanders in charge one by one, and then recruited a group of monks with good cultivation skills.

After learning that Lin Ping could take away almost all the elite forces of the two military towns at once, Chen Subaru was secretly grateful that Sister Jiaoer had "incited" the four female monks to rebel, which saved him a lot of time.

However, Chen Subaru did not intend to take away all the elites from the two army towns. After all, no one could guarantee whether the puppet army would move dangerously and forcefully break through the defenses of these two counties and bypass Gaoping County, or attack directly in the direction of Xiangping County.

After meeting Lin Ping, Chen Subaru asked her to immediately summon the Dongyan County cavalry and half of the monks that could be summoned to go to Chenliu County without stopping.

That night, Chen Subaru and Lin Ping led 300 cavalry and 200 monks who could control magic weapons to support Gaoping County.

And that night, the eight thousand army, the main force of the puppet army, had wiped out all the defensive formations and traps outside Gaoping County, and launched a fierce attack on the outer city of the military town.

The leader Li Zhong personally led 1,500 defenders on the outer city wall to resist the attack of the puppet army.

Everything went as Chen Subaru expected. The battle on the outskirts of Puyang Military Town still shocked the puppet army. The strange formation not only had strong defensive capabilities, but the power of self-destruction was also frightening. Moreover, it was just a formation on the outer defense line of Puyang Military Town.

Before finding out the details of Gaoping County, the high-level monks of the puppet army did not take action. Even those thousands of households just continued to use long-range spells instead of siege spiritual cannons to bombard the defensive formation in the outer city.

Those who personally led the army to attack the city were hundreds of households under each thousand households. The attacks of these hundreds of households were also very conservative. Instead of letting the soldiers charge rashly, the soldiers of the Qi Gathering Realm formed a heavy shield formation and advanced slowly to attract firepower. Elite soldiers continuously suppressed the long-range firepower of the defenders from the ground and the air.

Li Zhong was observing the offensive of the puppet army on the outer city wall. Because he had not been reminded by Chen Subaru in advance, he did not know why the enemy's attack was so conservative.

But even with a conservative attack, the defenders were still under tremendous pressure, especially the long-range spells of those puppet Qianhu. Although the frequency was not high, they could break through the defense of the city defense formation every time. If the puppet army ignores casualties and takes advantage of the opportunity when the city defense formation is breached to attack the outer city wall, even if the defenders are not afraid of death, after several rounds of attack and defense, the outer city wall will inevitably fall.

But the army of human puppets didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack the city. After powerful spells broke through the defenses, the heavy shield arrays always slowly approached the outer wall alternately. After a certain array received the firepower of the defenders and began to increase significantly, they retreated in an orderly manner. Other arrays continue to approach.

Since these heavy shield arrays were led by puppet Baihu, under the protection of the Nascent Soul Realm, the defenders' spiritual arrows could not cause substantial damage. Only the attack spells launched by the city defense formation can cause minor losses to the puppets.

The offensive and defensive sides seemed to be in a state of confrontation, but under the attack of thousands of people, the defenders suffered much greater losses than the attackers. Moreover, the outer city wall was in a state of emergency repair at all times. If it were not for sufficient reserves of supplies, it would be able to continue to do so. If repaired, the long-range attack of the puppet army can destroy the temporary outer city wall.