ps: It’s already awesome for three consecutive days and five updates - I don’t need to say anything more. I think I am an amazing man... I don’t have to make up for it, it’s great.

Chapter 988: Sword Guy

Xiahou Baichuan had been observing the enemy's defenses by the Qinhe River for several consecutive days. At first, he saw that the Gaojun on the other side was just like this, just a matter of course. The next day he thought of something and went to see it again, and found that there were indeed some tricks in the defense. When he went back on the third day, he found that Zheng Ziyu's defense had no flaws.

On the fourth day, Fang Jie personally arrived by the river.

"The subordinate is guilty."

Seeing Fang Jie coming, Xiahou Baichuan knelt down on one knee and saluted: "The lord strictly ordered the crossing of the river to be as fast as possible, but his subordinates did not fight for several days, and failed his lord's trust."

"reason"

Fang Jie walked to the riverside, and a cavalryman immediately moved a chair behind Fang Jie. Fang Jie threw away his cloak and sat down on the chair, waiting for Xiahou Baichuan's answer.

"No flaws"

Xiahou Baichuan said his observations over the past few days, and stood beside him, not daring to say anything. Before entering the army, Fang Jie had already ordered the battle to transition the river to be faster. Now, the rain will come down in this season. Once the rain is heavy and the water rises, it will definitely be much more difficult to cross the river than now.

"No flaw?"

Fang Jieying repeated it again, and then he wanted to come over to look at the other side.

"In such a war, there is no trick at all. If the opponent's arrangements are not flawed, he can only attack head-on. The enemy defends and attacks us, and there is no support from warships. Once the war begins, it will inevitably be tragic. My subordinates are worried that the casualties will be too great..."

"How long will it take you?"

Fang answered the question.

"Two days"

Xiahou Baichuan raised his head and said, "Please give my subordinates two more days. If you can't think of a plan to cross the river within two days, your subordinates are willing to engage in military law."

"Okay, I'll give you another three days."

Fang Jie stood up and threw Qianliyan to his personal guards: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are watching behind you, and you will know how much food and supplies you will consume in one day or more. Even if you transport grain from Liyin Cang, only seven or eight kilograms of grain will be left in the army. If you transport grain from southwest of Jiangnan, only half of the ten kilograms of grain will be left. I know that as a pioneer general, you have a heavy burden, but since you can carry it, you must go steadily."

"Here!"

Xiahou Baichuan nodded heavily: "In three days, subordinates will come up with a plan to defeat the enemy!"

Fang Jie nodded, and turned around and left without saying anything.

After returning to the camp, Fang Jie flashed his cloak to the side and his face looked a little bad. Dugu Wenxiu happened to come in to ask him for instructions. When he saw Fang Jie's face was strange, he immediately realized that it must be the matter with the Pioneer Army.

"Lord, what are the difficulties of General Xiahou?"

Dugu Wenxiu asked.

"He was worried that the casualties were too great and he was reluctant to start a war."

Fang Jie sighed: "But what Zheng Ziyu wants is that he is afraid to start a war! I just came back from the Qinhe River. The river was at least several meters wider than the previous few days. If nothing unexpected happens, it is already raining upstream. If there is a few more days, Zheng Ziyu won't even have to set up defenses on the shore."

Dugu Wenxiu said: "In fact, Xiahou is also thinking about the lord... The Qin River channel is more than one mile, and at this distance, the power of artillery can force the enemy on the shore to retreat. However, the enemy's crossing and stone throwing chariots can easily intercept half of the team that walks to the river, and attack them halfway through the army. Zheng Ziyu has gained a geographical advantage... Unless the Zheng Ziyu's crossing and stone throwing chariots cannot be used when the vanguard army crosses the river, the casualties will not be too small."

"Make Zheng Ziyu's crossbow chariot unable to be used?"

Fang Jie's eyes suddenly lit up: "Come, come and call for wine, sex and money."

...

...

Xiang Qingniu walked into Fang Jie's tent with a piece of cooked meat in his mouth, looked at Fang Jie, who was sitting behind the table reading, throwing half of the roast chicken in his hand over. Fang Jie reached out to catch it, and then gave Xiang Qingniu a fierce look.

"What are you doing? You asked another fat man to borrow all the tourists from me. Are you looking for bad luck from Zheng Ziyu on the other side? I heard that Zheng Ziyu is resourceful, so I am afraid that we will have to attack us while the night. If my hands are too damaged, what will you give me back?"

"You can't even get your butt blocked your mouth?"

Fang Jie sat upright and tore off a chicken wing: "The water has risen upstream. If you can't cross the river in a few days, it will be difficult to get over it if it rains heavily."

"Do you want me to go to the other side to step on the other side?"

Xiang Qingniu rubbed the greasy on his hands on the Taoist clothes, not caring at all.

"If you could trample tens of thousands of troops in Zheng Ziyuan alone to death, I would be happy. Gao Kaitai has been in Gyeonggi Province for several years. There are so many big names in Chang'an City, which one has not had many masters? If Wang Yiqu died or Yang Jian killed him, Gao Kaitai has been alive, and there are not many decent cultivators around him?"

"What are you afraid of, then just fight."

Xiang Qingniu said while picking his teeth.

"In fact, this is an unwritten rule. Try to solve the problems on the battlefield as much as possible. Since ancient times, great practitioners have rarely intervened in wars. Of course, it is not impossible. At that time, Luo Yao walked into Pang Ba's camp alone and slaughtered the generals in Pang Ba's army almost all, without following the rules at all."

"You go and slaughter it?"

Xiang Qingniu said with a smile.

"I always feel that Gao Kaitai is just waiting for me to go."

"Why?"

Xiang Qingniu asked: "Are you overestimating your opponent? There are very few people in this world who can threaten you. Old bull can do it, but he is a saint on the grassland in the west. Zhang Yiyang can do it, but he is practicing in seclusion in Wudang Mountain. Who else can? I can't even think of it even if I break my scalp. Unless..."

He glanced at Fang Jie: "Unless, there are a few great freedoms in Gao Kaitai's army..."

Fang Jie frowned slightly, but what Xiang Qingniu said might not be impossible. Zheng Ziyu's troops were deployed in a desperate manner. The defending party used everything he could and set up the best formation to wait. The attacking party would have a headache, and no one could bear the casualties of the soldiers. At this time, practitioners often need to solve the problem.

Zheng Ziyu could not have imagined that there were many tourists from the Black Flag Army. Did he really not be wary of it?

"Come!"

Fang Jie immediately gave an order: "Let Chen Xiaoru take people to chase after drinking, sex and money, and bring everyone back!"

The cavalry school outside the door knew that Fang Jie was really anxious when he heard the tone, so he quickly sent someone to inform Chen Xiaoru.

"What, do you really think how many great freedoms are there in Zheng Ziyu's army?"

Xiang Qingniu looked at Fang Jie and disagreed: "Jianghu is big, but not too big. There are only a few famous masters in the world, and now there are definitely more dead than living. If there are really such masters in Gao Kaitai Army who can threaten you, I guess he would have sent him to assassinate you long ago, instead of waiting..."

"Why did Gao Kaitai dare to bring only a few personal guards to our army for negotiations?"

Fang Jie suddenly asked.

Xiang Qingniu was stunned: "What do you mean... he was carrying a master that day?"

Fang Jie nodded: "It was me who was negligent. I didn't think that Gao Kaitai had such a master from the beginning, so I didn't care about those personal guards."

"impossible."

Xiang Qingniu shook his head: "Even if you don't care, as long as such a master stands in front of you, you will naturally feel it. You don't even notice anything about those guards so close to you. Either they have some special way to hide their cultivation, or they are not worth mentioning at all."

"A special way?"

Fang Jie thought about it carefully and remembered that there seemed to be no sect in the world who was good at this way of practice.

"I suddenly thought of one..."

Xiang Qingniu subconsciously glanced at Fang Jie, and his face turned a little unfair.

...

...

The body of wine, sex and money was a little unstable. If Chen Xiaoru hadn't helped him, he might have fallen down just now. There were at least four wounds on his chest, each of which was very deep. If it weren't for his good light skills, he might have died long ago.

He was not dead, but he brought more than a hundred tourists from the north of Qinhe, and only four of them came back alive with him, and the four of them were seriously injured. If Chen Xiaoru had not brought people to the reception in time, perhaps none of them would have come back.

"My subordinates... are not doing well, please punish the lord."

Jiu and Secret Money struggled to bow down, but the upper body felt a piercing pain, and blood was still flowing down his clothes, and soon dyed a large area of ​​red on the standing place. Fang Jie immediately stood up and asked someone to help Jiu and Secret Money find a place to lie down. He tore open Jiu and Secret Money's clothes, and at a glance he could see that his chest was covered with knife wounds.

Fang Jie personally cleaned the wound for alcohol, sex and money, then used medicine, and asked the military doctor to use needles and threads to stitch the wound.

"What will I punish you?"

Fang Jie shook his head while sewing the wound: "It was because I thought it was too late that I didn't have time to call you back. The fault was not on you but on me. What's more, I really couldn't think of a reason to punish someone whose wounds were on the front chest."

The wine, sex, money and money were slightly stunned and didn't say anything else.

"When my subordinates arrived, they were alone behind to block the pursuers, so the four people came back..."

Chen Xiaoru said something beside him.

Fang Jie nodded and carefully dealt with the wounds of alcohol, sex and money: "This matter was something I arranged for. I suddenly woke up after you set off. It was too late to send someone to call you back. I remember all your injuries in my heart."

I was suddenly a little scared of wine, sex and money.

The atmosphere he feared the most appeared again.

What he feared most was not the bloody and cold atmosphere in the abandoned brick kiln, but the warmth of entering the Fourth Prince's Mansion and Lao Liu squatting at the back door for dinner. Most of his life he experienced the cold feeling, which was too little and too little. So he was afraid that this feeling would disappear soon once it appeared.

"If you get a knife, I will scrape a hundred swords on Zheng Ziyu. If you get four swords, I will drive Zheng Ziyu to slay him."

Fang Jie treated the wounds of the wine, sex and money, and stood up to wash his hands: "Chen Xiaoru, bring someone to send wine, sex and money back to recuperate. When he is fully recovered, he will find a few meticulous people to take care of him. Don't ask for women, this guy is unreliable."

The wine, sex and money couldn't help laughing, covering up the warmth in the corners of his eyes.

“Those swordsmen are very unusual.”

He said: "I am a veteran and have seen many famous masters who use swords. But no one uses swords like those people. They use swords to the extreme and are extremely scary. The subordinates can come back alive because they have encountered too many situations before and almost died. The subordinates who have trained their reactions. These four swords cannot even avoid them..."

"I see."

Fang Jie patted the shoulders of the wine, sex and money: "Go back to recuperate, I will deal with those swordsmen."
Chapter completed!