The sword came out of Huashan, and swept the world from the world of swordsman

Chapter 160

In September of the 12th year of Daye, Wagangzhai sent troops to Xingyang.

Zhai Rang allocated 2,000 soldiers from Wagangzhai, and Li Mi allocated 3,000 soldiers from Pushanzhai, led by Yue Zhuoqun.

Li Mi led the remaining 5,000 soldiers from Pushanzhai as an army.

(In the last chapter, it was written that each army allocated 5,000, but Wagangzhai should not have been so powerful before it took Xingyang, so it was modified later.)

In order to prevent Yue Zhuoqun from taking the credit, Li Mi, Shen Luoyan, and Xu Shiji divided their troops into three groups and marched at high speed, attacking the towns around Xingyang, advancing at a very fast speed.

On the contrary, Yue Zhuoqun's army slowed down after leaving Wagangzhai.

The leader of the 3,000 soldiers Li Mi gave him was Wang Bodang, who was a diehard member of Li Mi.

Not only did he want Wang Bodang to be marginalized and monitored, but he also wanted to subdue the other 2,000 people.

Even the two thousand troops that Zhai Rang gave him had many problems.

The leader of these two thousand troops was Tu Shufang, who was originally Zhai Rang's general manager.

Yue Zhuoqun was nominally the commander of this army, but his orders had to be passed on by Wang Bodang and Tu Shufang first.

In addition, in the eyes of the Wagang people, he was just a weak and docile person who was proficient in Taoism and had no persuasive power.

The soldiers in the army seemed to be more obedient to him than to his orders.

He summoned Wang Bodang and Tu Shufang every day to discuss the matter of advancing troops, and when he passed on orders to the two, they both dealt with it hastily.

Yue Zhuoqun was not angry about this.

Until the fifth day, he summoned the entire army again, issued an order in public to train the troops at 1:00 a.m. tomorrow, and set strict military discipline.

The two still didn't care about this. Tu Shufang led the troops to gather at 1:30 a.m., while Wang Bodang didn't arrive until 1:06 a.m.

The two looked at Yue Zhuoqun standing on the stage with a calm face, and both curled their lips in disdain, looking down on Yue Zhuoqun even more.

Wang Bodang raised his lips and said loudly: "Mr. Yue, the army has been integrated, you can order the training."

He called Yue Zhuoqun with a little respect in the past two days, calling him the commander-in-chief.

This time he didn't even pretend, calling him Mr. in public, directly ignoring Yue Zhuoqun's identity as the commander-in-chief.

Yue Zhuoqun's expression was still calm, and his voice was plain but clearly transmitted to everyone's ears: "Wang Bodang, are you the commander-in-chief of this army or am I the commander-in-chief?"

"Of course it's you!" Wang Bodang curled his lips.

"Then who is in charge of the military orders, me or you?"

"You too!"

"What time did I set yesterday to check the troops?"

"Morning hour."

"Please be clear, is it exactly at the morning hour, or the third quarter of the morning hour, or the sixth quarter of the morning hour?"

Wang Bodang's face suddenly darkened, his eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Yue Zhuoqun like a hawk, but he did not speak.

"Hmph! Tu Shufang, you answer."

Tu Shufang's face was also not good, but he was different from Wang Buchang, and he obeyed Zhai Rang.

Knowing that Yue Zhuoqun was intentionally supported by Zhai Rang to check and balance Li Mi, even if he despised Yue Zhuoqun in his heart, he could not completely break up with him.

He narrowed his eyes and said, "Sharp at the hour of Mao."

"According to the military discipline set by this commander, what should be done to those who are late?"

"Ordinary soldiers will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane. Generals will be punished with eighty strokes of the cane."

"As the two of you are the left and right lieutenant generals, you took the lead in disobeying. This commander wants you to follow the military law. Do you obey?"

After these words came out, Wang Bodang couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "Yue Zhuoqun, do you really think you are the commander? To tell you the truth, the brothers of Pushan Camp only recognize secret officials. It's fine for us to play house with you, but if you really take chicken feathers as a token of authority, I, Wang Bodang, will shoot you with an arrow and take your place."

"Ignoring the commander and intending to rebel. Wang Bodang, you should be executed now!" Yue Zhuoqun smiled, but his eyes were extremely cold.

This is what he was waiting for.

"Okay, okay, if you don't accept my toast, don't blame me, Wang Bodang, for being rude."

Wang Bodang shouted angrily, stretched out his arms, and pulled a big bow to a full moon. The black and sharp arrow went straight to Yue Zhuoqun.

Li Mi had told him when he came that if Yue Zhuoqun behaved himself, he would just go through the motions.

If Yue Zhuoqun showed his talent, he would find a way to kill him and take over the army.

It had only been six days since the troops were sent out, and Yue Zhuoqun used him to establish his authority.

In this case, he was unwilling to pretend to be polite and wanted to kill Yue Zhuoqun directly.

Wang Bodang's archery skills were indeed unique.

His arrows never missed the target, and they were extremely fast and powerful. He was a master at shooting the enemy's main general on the battlefield.

However, Yue Zhuoqun did not have a good impression of him. He raised his hand and before the arrow could get within five meters of him, he smashed it into pieces with an invisible force.

ThisWhen his hand was revealed, the faces of the soldiers in the field changed.

They only knew that Yue Zhuoqun was proficient in Taoism, but had never seen him perform martial arts. They always thought that he was a weak and frail person.

Now they realized that he was actually an unseen master.

Wang Bodang's eyes shrank even more, and a sense of crisis suddenly arose in his heart:

Both he and Mi Gong had underestimated this Yue Zhuoqun.

As his mood changed, three arrows were picked up in his hand and shot at the three fatal points of Yue Zhuoqun's body at the same time.

"An ant trying to shake a tree is overestimating its own strength!"

Yue Zhuoqun waved his sleeves, and the arrow instantly turned back and went straight to Wang Bodang's fatal point with a faster and more terrifying force.

The arrow was surrounded by the power of heaven and earth, solidifying the air. Wang Bodang was fixed in place and could not dodge.

Puff, puff, puff~

The arrow pierced his body with three blood holes, and he flew backwards for more than ten meters and fell to the ground, dying on the spot.

The three thousand soldiers of Pushan Camp were restless, some were afraid, and some wanted to resist.

"Those who make trouble will be regarded as betraying Wagang and will be killed without mercy!"

Yue Zhuoqun shouted in a deep voice, with a power that shocked the mind. All the soldiers in the field were frozen in place and dared not make a sound again.

He smiled with satisfaction and turned his eyes to Tu Shufang: "Are you going to receive eighty military sticks, or betray me like Wang Bodang?"

Tu Shufang trembled and sweated like rain.

He was able to become Zhai Rang's confidant and general manager, and his strength was not weak.

But Yue Zhuoqun's decisive killing method had completely shocked him.

He knew that Yue Zhuoqun's martial arts was unimaginably high. If he didn't give in, he would end up like Wang Bodang.

Bang!

He knelt down on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I, I plead guilty and am willing to be beaten with a stick."

"You are smart."

Yue Zhuoqun smiled coldly and pointed at two soldiers: "You two, take off his armor and punish him with eighty sticks."

"Yes."

How dare the two soldiers disobey orders? They walked out quickly, pulled Tu Shufang to the front of the army, and began to execute him.

The military stick hit Tu Shufang's back, making a dull sound. After just a few sticks, his back was torn apart, which was horrible to look at.

By the time the eighty military sticks were over, Tu Shufang was already on the verge of death.

His martial arts were not weak, but he was afraid of causing Yue Zhuoqun's greater anger, so he didn't dare to use his martial arts to resist, and could only resist with his flesh and blood.

So after eighty military sticks, he was so miserable.

"Although you have been punished, you disobeyed orders first, so you are no longer qualified to serve as a lieutenant general in this army.

Go back to Wagangzhai to recuperate!"

Tu Shufang dared not say anything more, he could only stand up in frustration, endure the pain in his body, and limp away.

The five thousand soldiers in the field looked at each other, full of fear of Yue Zhuoqun.

Many of them arrived late, and they were afraid that Yue Zhuoqun would also punish them with thirty military sticks.

But Yue Zhuoqun smiled lightly, his tone like a spring breeze: "Considering that you have been deceived by Wang Bodang and Tu Shufang, this punishment can be exempted, but you must never disobey my military orders again in the future."

"Yes."

Everyone responded quickly as if they had been pardoned.

"I don't care whether you were from the Wagang camp or the Pushan camp. From now on, you can only belong to my army, Yue Zhuoqun, and you can only obey my orders."

Faced with Yue Zhuoqun's method of using both kindness and power, no one dared to object.

Yue Zhuoqun set up camp here and reorganized the troops.

He reorganized the two troops, so that you have me and I have you.

He selected five obedient and capable people from them, promoted them to cavalry officers, and rewarded them with dragon elephant pills to improve their strength.

After two days of training, the army was completely on the right track, and the Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong was passed down, so that every soldier began to practice.

Some of these ordinary soldiers were rebels and some were bandits, but in the end, they all came from poor backgrounds.

Yue Zhuoqun taught them such profound martial arts and instantly gained their loyalty.

Soon, two months passed.

Li Mi's three armies won battle after battle, and he captured many small cities and checkpoints around Xingyang and advanced to the vicinity of Xingyang City.

However, Yue Zhuoqun's army advanced very slowly, and spent most of the time training. When they occasionally fought, they were mainly training, and did not achieve much success.

At the beginning, Li Mi was worried that he would take away his credit if he had real talent.

After receiving this news, he was very disdainful, and completely confirmed Yue Zhuoqun's mediocre personality of talking about war on paper.

Li Mi, Shen Luoyan, and Xu Shiji were all talented generals. Even if the 5,000 Pushan camp troops were divided into three routes, their combat effectiveness would not be reduced at all.

Zhang Xutuo, the main general of the Sui army, finally couldn't sit still in the face of the continuous loss of territory on the front line.

He personally led 8,000 troops and led LuoShi Xin and Qin Shubao began to counterattack.

With 8,000 troops against 5,000, the speed of Li Mi's army's advancement was finally curbed. The two sides fought several battles, each with its own victory and defeat, and the situation became extremely stalemate.

At this interval, Yue Zhuoqun led his troops to bypass the battlefield between the two and marched straight to Xingyang City at a high speed.

Although Zhang Xutuo led 8,000 troops out of the city to fight Li Mi, there were still 5,000 troops left in the city, and the garrison commander was Pei Renji.

Pei Renji's name may not be known to many people, but his third son is very famous.

It was Pei Yuanqing who held a pair of hammers weighing 300 kilograms.

Pei Renji stood on the top of Xingyang City, looking at the 5,000 troops lined up outside the city, frowning:

Isn't Li Mi's army fighting with Zhang Tongshou? How did this army come? Could it be that Zhai Rang came in person?

Before he could figure out what was going on, he heard a voice coming from outside the city.

"General Pei, Zhang Xutuo is already at the end of his days. He will be defeated and killed in battle soon. A man who knows the current situation is a hero. Don't make any more fearless struggles. You should surrender the city to Wagang!"

"Who are you?" Pei Renji looked at Yue Zhuoqun and asked in confusion.

"I am Yue Zhuoqun."

"Yue Zhuoqun? One of the three heroes of Wagang?"

"Yes!"

"Oh, even Zhai Rang was defeated by the imperial army several times. You want me to surrender the city with your five thousand troops!"

Pei Renji was not afraid.

Five thousand against five thousand, he defended the city and had the advantage.

Yue Zhuoqun shook his head helplessly: "It seems that you will not cry until you see the coffin! Well, it's nothing more than a small city. I will capture it myself."

After he finished speaking, he stepped towards the gate of Xingyang City, ignoring the defenders on the city wall.

Pei Renji's face darkened, and he shouted coldly: "What an arrogant enemy general, he dared to come to the city alone to die, archers, shoot him for me."

Swish~

A sea of ​​arrows shot out from the city wall, dense and black.

But Yue Zhuoqun spread his arms, and the powerful innate true qi roared out, covering all the arrows in the sky.

With his hands, all the arrows shot back.

Ah, ah...

The screams on the city wall came one after another, and a large number of soldiers fell down.

Pei Renji's heart beat wildly when he saw this scene. As a general in the army, he had seen many bloody battles on the battlefield, but this method of controlling thousands of arrows was the first time he saw it.

But before he could come back to his senses, Yue Zhuoqun's palm had already slapped out, the void stagnated, and the air solidified.

Ang~

The brilliant golden light turned into an illusory dragon more than ten meters long, fiercely hitting the city gate.

Bang!

Boom!

With a loud bang, the heavy city gate weighing thousands of pounds was blown away by the phantom of the dragon, and the city was opened.

"Kill!"

Without Yue Zhuoqun's order, the 5,000 troops in the rear roared excitedly and swarmed into Xingyang City.

"Why, how could this happen?"

Pei Renji's body shook, and he almost squatted on the ground: "Stop them, stop them quickly."

However, in such a situation, no matter how many soldiers were sent, they could not stop the flood of troops.

Even if Yue Zhuoqun did not take action again, the cavalry officers in the army who took the Dragon Elephant Pill and raised the Dragon Elephant Prajna to the seventh level, possessing the power of seven dragons and seven elephants, were not something that ordinary soldiers could resist.

In just half an hour, the soldiers of the Sui army were beaten to pieces, and even the battle formation was difficult to form.

Yue Zhuoqun stepped lightly, jumped onto the top of the city wall and appeared in front of Pei Renji, smiling: "General Pei, do you still want to resist at this moment? The lives of the soldiers are also lives, you must always consider them."

Bang!

Pei Renji threw down the weapon in his hand dejectedly: "I am defeated, you can kill me or cut me as you wish, spare the soldiers in the city!"

He had never fought such a frustrating battle by destroying the city alone.

But Yue Zhuoqun smiled coldly: "I am a rebel, and they are the imperial army. Let them be loyal to the Sui Dynasty again and continue to resist Wagang? I am not so merciful."

"You, do you want to kill all these thousands of soldiers?"

"It's easy to keep these soldiers alive, you can take them to serve me."

Although Pei Renji is not a top general, he is also worth using.

He is now short of useful generals, and he can conquer one if he can.

Pei Renji's expression changed several times. After a struggle between his mind and his body, he finally sighed and said, "Forget it. I surrender."