Just when Wen Zhong received the news that Chen Tong had died in battle and the food route had been intercepted, on the other side, Yang Jian, Yang Ren, Huang Feihu, Huang Tianhua and others had also returned to the frontline camp to report back to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi glanced at the bloody human head in Huang Tianhua's hand, and after confirming that it was Chen Tong, he waved his hand and asked Huang Tianhua to take it down and hand it over to Jiang Ziya for processing.

Today's era is still an era of slavery. When two armies are fighting and attacking each other, if the enemy has a special identity and a certain status, the victor will usually cut off the enemy's head and bring the head back as a trophy.

Bring back the proof of military merit and present it to your commander-in-chief.

However, Lu Zhi didn't have much interest in such bloody dead heads, so he might as well give them to Jiang Ziya. He really liked them and had collected almost dozens of them during this time.

After Huang Feihu and Huang Tianhua returned to the camp and handed over their tasks, they retreated. Then Yang Jian and Yang Ren came into the camp again, also coming to report back to Lu Zhi.

Yang Jian bowed and said: "Marshal, Junior Brother Yang Ren and I have successfully cut off the enemy's food road, and asked Junior Brother Yang Ren to use the 'Five Fires and Seven Feathers Fan' to burn all the enemy's food and grass. Now I'm here to return my orders."

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Hearing this, Lu Zhi couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face: "You two have done well. I will let someone record this achievement for you in the merit book."

"Thank you for your hard work. You can go down and have a good rest for a few days. However, you are not allowed to leave the camp without authorization. If you want to return to Xiqi City, you must first report to the commander for leave."

Yang Jian and Yang Ren both shook their heads. They had no friends or relatives to visit in Xiqi City, so they naturally did not need to ask for leave to return to the city.

Especially Yang Ren. Due to some changes, he had turned into a strange person with eyes in his eye sockets and eyes in his palms. His posture looked extremely scary, and he knew it himself, so if it was not necessary, he would simply

He won't appear in front of others, let alone wandering on Xiqi Street.

Yang Jian, on the other hand, glanced at Lu Zhi hesitantly and said: "Marshal, I haven't felt any tiredness during this trip, so there is no need to rest. If there are any more tasks, please give them to the marshal."

Let General Mo take care of it."

Lu Zhi glanced at Yang Jian and probably knew some of his thoughts.

Rumor has it that Yang Jian is the sister of the Emperor of Heaven. The goddess Yao Ji descended to earth and married the mortal Yang Tianyou privately, giving birth to three brothers and sisters, Yang Jian, Yang Zhao and Yang Chan.

However, according to the rules of heaven, it is against the rules of heaven for a goddess to marry a mortal privately, so the misfortune of Yang Jian's family has just come. After the affair between Yao Ji and Yang Tianyou was exposed, the heaven immediately sent the heavenly soldiers and generals to the front.

Come and capture.

In the end, Yang Jian's father Yang Tianyou and his brother Yang Zhao were killed, and his mother Yao Ji was also captured by the heavenly generals and suppressed under the Peach Mountain. Only two brothers and sisters, Yang Jian and Yang Chan, were favored by fate and were captured by Jade.

Master Ding and Empress Nuwa rescued them respectively.

But now, during the Great Tribulation of the Gods, Master Yuding sent Yang Jian down the mountain to help Xiqi. Firstly, he wanted to overcome the calamity, and secondly, he wanted Yang Jian to earn more merits from this great calamity, so as to relieve the pain of his mother Yao.

Ji's punishment, let her be released from under the peach mountain as soon as possible.

Therefore, unlike others, Yang Jian came here with the purpose of saving his mother in addition to being a teacher. Therefore, whenever there was a war, no matter how dangerous it was, he would be the first to ask Lu Zhi for orders to fight.

It means accumulating enough merit as soon as possible to rescue the mother under Peach Mountain.

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhi said: "In that case, I'll trouble my nephew to go to the Red Earth Mountain again."

"Previously, I sent Li Jing, Nezha, his son, and Lei Zhenzi to the Red Earth Mountain to ambush the merchant army. However, the merchant army in that direction was guarded by four generals of the Demon Family, but it was difficult to achieve any results. Master Yang, please go there.

Bar."

"Remember, you don't have to insist on any military achievements. You just need to implement the sixteen-character policy of guerrilla warfare, harass and encroach on the merchant army, and don't lose big for small things."

Yang Jian nodded and responded: "The general will know."

Lu Zhi nodded slightly. He was relieved about Yang Jian. His cultivation was the best among Nezha and other third-generation disciples of Chanjiao. Even when he met Wen Zhong and the four generals of the Demon family, he could

Get away whole body.

And what Lu Zhi appreciates most is that

His calm temperament, never being arrogant in victory or discouraged in defeat, and extraordinary magnanimity are truly the qualities of a general. With his ability, if it weren't for Lu Zhi, he might not have been able to become the Marshal of Xiqi.

After Yang Jian and Yang Ren withdrew from the commander's tent, several people came to return to Lu Zhi one after another. Each person who came back represented a victory.

Although many of the results are not great, and for Chaoge's 200,000-strong army, they are not a big deal, but they are blossoming on multiple fronts and adding up to a small amount cannot be ignored.

Lu Zhi led the generals to the front line and set up defenses at all levels to block the attack. At the same time, he sent more than a dozen small teams to launch guerrilla warfare against the merchant army, delaying it in the thousands of miles of mountains and forests. The scene in January was also

It has slowly eaten more than 20,000 merchant soldiers.

Moreover, after the bridges and roads in various places were destroyed by Lu Zhi's order, the merchant army had to reopen roads and build bridges if they wanted to advance. However, at this time, Xiqi soldiers would appear to harass them, making it almost impossible for the merchant army to move forward.

, as if stuck in a quagmire.

This time, taking advantage of the slackness of the merchant army, Lu Zhi sent Yang Jian and Yang Ren to go around the back of the merchant army through the trail and cut off their food and grass supplies.

Although this move did not cause many casualties to the merchant army, its impact was undoubtedly huge and could even affect the outcome of this war!

After all, it has been almost a month since the merchant army entered Xiqi, and the food and supplies they brought with them have been almost exhausted. Apart from the food and grass supplies transported from the rear, the merchant army has almost no means of replenishment.

The mountains and forests within a thousand miles have been cleared by Lu Zhi's order. Not to mention the farmland of the villages, even the prey in the mountains and forests have been hunted in advance by the Xiqi sergeants, and the rest have also been hunted down.

Towards the deep mountains of Xiqi.

Therefore, even the Shang army's way to go up the mountain for hunting and replenishment was cut off by Lu Zhi in advance. If Wen Zhong did not want his army to chew tree bark to survive, he would have already thought about how to re-send food and grass at this moment, or how to

Withdrew.

In fact, this is also the case. After receiving the news that the grain road was intercepted and all the grain and grass supplies were burned, Wen Zhong immediately ordered to recall the Chaoge soldiers scattered in various places, preparing to retreat to the five passes behind to reorganize.

Say it again.

As for the idea of ​​asking the rear to send supplies again, he just thought about it in his mind and rejected it instantly. The reason was for no other reason than for stability.

Although this time he can personally send people to serve as food security officers, which should be relatively safe, but he should not be afraid of ten thousand, but be afraid of the unexpected.

He could guess with his toes that Lu Zhi must also be keeping an eye on his food supplies. And if Lu Zhi was allowed to burn his food supplies again this time, then the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command would be destroyed.

We are really going to run out of food!

Once the army runs out of food and grass supplies, hundreds of thousands of people may even be involved in the defeat and death in the Xiqi Mountains and Forests with him!

After this month of confrontation, he had managed to figure out a little bit of Lu Zhi's tactics and knew that this man was very good at strategies and various tricks.

At first he didn't care, and even secretly laughed at Lu Zhi, the Marshal of Xiqi, for being so petty and using all kinds of unspeakable tricks. But today he was eaten by a thousand people, and tomorrow he was captured eight more people.

One hundred, and another two hundred will be worn away later.

After one month, nearly 20,000 people under his command were being eaten away by Lu Zhi bit by bit. Only then did he realize that he had underestimated Lu Zhi too much.

In addition, Lu Zhi made an uncharacteristically big move this time, directly killing his generals, cutting off his food routes, and putting his army into an embarrassing situation where they were almost without food. He immediately did not dare to underestimate Lu Zhi anymore.

Heart.

I just thought that this time because of his arrogance, he was tired and fell into such an embarrassing situation. Fortunately, the organization of his army was still intact and he did not suffer any major defeats. After retreating to the rear to recuperate for a while, he could still march into Xiqi again and fight with

Lu Zhi fights again.

By that time, he will no longer be careless and will be on guard against Lu Zhi's tricky tricks.

At that time, with the good ministers and fierce generals under his command, and an army of hundreds of thousands, under the overwhelming power, Lu Zhi and Xiqi's command combined could only be worth a hundred thousand soldiers, and the twenty or thirty generals, how could they compete with his command?
Chapter completed!