"General, general, we succeeded! We successfully captured the Tianhui Ridge!"
Zhu Zhen, covered in blood, shouted excitedly.
"Yes, it worked..."
Xie Wenyi looked at all this as if it was a lifetime ago.
Not long ago, when he was surrounded by seven or eight Jin masters, he already felt that he was going to die.
But then the masters who suddenly appeared took advantage of the situation and killed all the golden men.
"Is this all part of His Highness's plan?"
He looked at Wu Shiyan, who was standing upright not far away, and asked.
Wu Shiyan's expression remained unchanged, staring at the corpses on the ground and replied:
"I don't know, I'm just following orders."
Finally, he came back to his senses and asked:
"General Xie, this place has been successfully captured. Do you want to go back with me?"
"No." Xie Wenyi shook her head and looked into the depths of Qingzhou:
"The Jin people may counterattack at any time, and I need to stay here to garrison."
He ordered to the adjutant beside him:
"Zhu Zhen, count the casualties, then follow them back and report the battle to His Highness."
Zhu Zhen looked serious:
"As you command!"
"Pay attention to your attitude." Xie Wenyi reminded again.
He thought of the crazy look the other party had before, and felt a little uneasy.
Zhu Zhen laughed and said:
"Haha! Don't worry, General, why don't you think I can support His Highness as if he were my father?"
Before the war, he only thought that the other party was a guy who didn't know anything and was just born with a good child.
But after this victory, his attitude towards Sun Yu completely changed.
Especially after Sun Yu secretly arranged for people to rescue Xie Wenyi and killed all the Jin Ren's masters.
Xie Wenyi immediately laughed and cursed:
"Bah, you have a good idea, boy, he is the prince!"
He was in a good mood and made a rare joke, which made everyone present laugh.
…
Binzhou.
Daqian frontline military camp.
"Haha! Your Highness, I, Old Zhou, have lived up to his trust. All the Jin people who went to support us were killed by us."
Butler Zhou quickly walked into the tent and said with a smile.
Sun Yu, who was thinking in his position, looked up at him and asked:
"What are the casualties?"
Butler Zhou said proudly:
"We laid an ambush in advance, occupied the right time, place, and people, and used various traps to annihilate thousands of enemies. In the end, we killed and injured no more than a hundred people."
"good."
Sun Yu praised him and smiled slightly:
"The reinforcements have been intercepted. It should be no problem to return to the ridge one day."
"Haha, that's natural!" Lao Zhou laughed.
At this moment, another person walked into the tent. It was Wang Yu, the partial general who was going to the Fenggu stronghold to pretend to attack.
As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down on one knee, cupped his hands and saluted:
"See Your Highness."
"No need to be polite." Sun Yu waved his hand and asked quickly:
"How's the situation over there?"
Wang Yu looked sadly and said:
"The Jin people's desperate obstruction at the last moment caused us a lot of trouble. The casualties were probably close to a hundred people."
Sun Yu nodded slightly.
This number is still acceptable to him.
"Take a seat, you two. I want to come to General Xie Wenyi's side. There will be news soon."
Steward Zhou and Wang Yu took their seats in response.
Not long after, Wu Shiyan, who looked indifferent, led Zhu Zhen into the tent. He nodded to Sun Yu and said:
"As His Highness said, all the Jin masters in the Tianhui Ridge were killed by us, and no one was spared."
"very good."
Sun Yu praised him, then turned his eyes.
Zhu Zhen immediately knelt down and saluted:
"See Your Highness! Your Majesty, Zhu Zhen, is General Xie's adjutant. He is here specially to report the results of the battle to Your Highness."
Sun Yu immediately waved his hand and said:
"Without courtesy, please tell me what the casualties of our troops are."
"The number of casualties is two thousand, but the casualties of the Jin people will only be more serious than ours, at least twice as many as ours!"
"Very good, where is General Xie? He hasn't come back?"
"No, the general said that the Jin people may counterattack at any time, so they stayed there to garrison."
Zhu Zhen explained and asked again:
"The general also asked me to ask His Highness if the main tent should be moved to the Tianhui Ridge. That place would be easier to defend and harder to attack. It would be much better than this place now!"
"Easy to defend but hard to attack... Haha." Sun Yu smiled, then shook his head and said:
"There's no need to move there. The main tent is right here, which is fine."
"Your Highness, why don't you go over and take a look first?" Zhu Zhen changed his tone and said tentatively:
“That place has a natural moat blocking the road, which is a huge advantage.
Moreover, it is a battleground for the Jin people. Once we move the main tent there and station a heavy army, it will be impossible for them to break through."
"Is it impossible to break through?" Sun Yu smiled.
"Let's go and take a look first, so..." He ordered everyone:
"Let all the masters of the Sky Breaking Realm come with me."
"As you command!"
Wang Yu and others responded one after another and left the tent to start contacting people.
But Wu Shiyan stayed here. He threw something to Sun Yu and said:
"Your Highness, please take a look."
"oh?"
Sun Yu raised his hand to take it, and then realized that what the other party threw over was a small porcelain bottle.
As soon as he opened the stopper, he smelled an extremely strong smell of blood.
But what's a bit strange is that the smell of blood is also mixed with a strange fragrance. A rough smell makes people feel relaxed and happy, and even the blood in the body starts to stir.
"This is?"
Sun Yu asked. He tilted the porcelain bottle slightly and poured out a drop of thick crimson liquid that looked like blood.
Wu Shiyan said calmly:
"The trophy this time - the essence of ancestral blood, is only four small bottles. In addition, there are two magic weapons. How will your Highness deal with these?"
Sun Yu raised his eyebrows.
He had heard of the ancestral blood essence before, but this was the first time he saw it.
This thing, like the Five Elements Stone, is a rare thing used for cultivation.
It's just that one is used to enhance the power of the five elements, and the other is the power of blood.
And relatively speaking, the ancestral blood essence is more powerful than the Five Elements Stone.
"Put the divine weapons in the arsenal. As for this..." Sun Yu put the small porcelain vase on the table: "Bring them all to me."
It just so happened that his bloodline power had not improved for a long time.
"As commanded."
Without saying a word, Wu Shiyan took out three other small porcelain bottles from his arms and placed them in front of Sun Yu.
…
Qingzhou front line, Jinren's big tent.
"Report to the general that our army suffered nearly 6,000 casualties on the Tianhui Ridge this time. Including the intercepted support troops, the total number is 7,000..."
"Seven thousand..." Gu Zheng gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tightly.
The number of casualties today is more than all these months combined!
"Where are the casualties in Da Gan?"
He took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice.
However, after waiting for a while, there was no reply from his adjutant.
Gu Zheng frowned and said displeasedly:
"Are you mute? Why don't you speak?"
The adjutant who reported the news was half-kneeling on the ground and lowered his head.
He sounded like a mosquito, stuttering and said:
"Over there... the estimated casualties are... around two, no, three thousand..."
He deliberately exaggerated. In fact, the total number of casualties in Daqian this time was far from reaching this number.
"What! Bastard! Bastard!"
Gu Zheng cursed angrily, his face filled with anger, and he paced back and forth in the tent angrily.
This battle loss ratio can simply be said to be a shame!
What a shame!
"Check it for me! Find out which general came here this time! Then Xie Wenyi definitely doesn't have such a method!"
Gu Zheng ordered sharply.
He has been on the Qingzhou frontline for so long, and he and Xie Wenyi are old rivals, and they know each other well.
He knew very well that the other party was a conservative person and would never be so radical.
This time, he must have had help from an expert to make him suffer such a big loss!
"As commanded."
The adjutant responded, and then asked:
"General, however, we suffered heavy casualties this time. Do we need to ask the prince for help?"
"Well..." Gu Zheng sighed.
The number of soldiers in his hands was only 20,000, and now he suddenly lost 7,000, which can be said to be a serious loss of vitality.
This huge number cannot be suppressed even if we want to.
Gu Zheng sat weakly on the chair, rubbed his temples on both sides of his head, and said tiredly:
"You don't need to worry about the prince's side. I will go to his place in person later to plead guilty, and by the way, ask for support."
…
At night, a crescent moon hangs high in the sky.
The main account of the golden man.
Zhenhai King Wanyan Guyu was sitting in the tent, watching the latest battle report.
He flipped through page after page and soon saw the last one.
Then he frowned and said:
"Why is there no news from the area that Gu Zheng is responsible for today?"
The scholar-looking Jin Army Advisor Zhong Ying walked in from outside the tent and said:
"General Gu Zheng sent word that he has something important to report to the prince in person."
"Where are the others?" Wanyan Guyu asked.
"Already waiting outside."
"Let him in."
"Yes." Zhong Ying responded and left the tent.
Then, Gu Zheng walked in with a solemn expression.
Wanyan Guyu glanced at him:
"If you have anything important to do, tell me."
Snapped!
Gu Zheng knelt down directly, and before King Zhenhai could ask questions, he immediately spoke and explained in detail what happened today.
After Wanyan Guyu finished listening, her face showed no expression and she just said lightly:
"you mean……
Not only did you lose Tianhui Ridge, but you also killed and injured seven thousand soldiers?
The number of casualties in Daqian is less than half of ours, and you still want to ask me for support?"
"yes."
Gu was so ashamed that he didn't even dare to look directly at King Zhenhai.
Wanyan Guyu didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.
The silence in the big tent was eerie, with only one or two insects chirping from outside.
Gu Zheng's clothes were already soaked with sweat, and this inexplicable pressure even made his legs start to tremble.
Just when he was about to bear it no longer, Wanyan Guyu suddenly spoke:
"How many people do you need."
Gu Zheng's eyes lit up and he immediately shouted:
"Seven thousand! Give me another seven thousand people, and I will definitely be able to recapture the Tianhui Ridge!
I have figured out the tactics of the new general of Daqian, and I will definitely succeed this time!"
Wanyan Guyu's expression was cold, he leaned down and stretched out his index finger:
"I'll give you 10,000 people. If it fails again, next time, you can come directly to me with your head raised!"
Gu Zheng kowtowed quickly and said:
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Wanyan Guyu sat up and coldly snorted:
"Huh, there's no need to thank you. It's just that you have done something good for your crime. Go down and find Zhong Ying to lead someone."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Gu Zheng, who thanked him repeatedly, left the tent. He looked at the crescent moon in the sky with a look of determination on his face:
"Just wait, I will never lose this time! Tianhui Ridge must be mine!"
…
Tianhui Ridge.
"Join Your Highness!"
Xie Wenyi, who saw Sun Yu and others from a distance, took the initiative to greet them.
Sun Yu nodded and stood on the top of the mountain looking at everything under his feet.
Under the cold moonlight, the continuous ridge looks like a prostrate beast.
It opened its mouth wide, as if it wanted to swallow up all the creatures that entered it.
"Your Highness, why not use this place as our main tent? As long as we hold on to this place, it is impossible for the Jin people to attack Bingzhou."
Xie Wenyi brings up old stories again.
Sun Yu turned to ask:
"How many people do you have now?"
"Uh..." Xie Wenyi lowered her head and said in a low voice:
"Less than eight thousand."
"Eight thousand... is too little." Sun Yu shook his head:
"If the Jin people attack, we won't be able to defend it."
Xie Wenyi's expression changed slightly and she didn't say much, but Zhu Zhen next to her couldn't help it anymore:
"Your Highness, we have the advantage of the terrain. The Jin people need at least 12,000 people to capture this place..."
"Then what?" Sun Yu glanced at the entire ridge and chuckled:
"Along with the corpses of 8,000 of you, are you going to give this battleground to the Jin people again?"
"Uh, this..." Zhu Zhen stopped talking.
"Let's go, let the soldiers go back."
Sun Yu turned to look at the soldiers patrolling here and said.
Xie Wenyi and others were stunned:
"Go back, go back?"
"Yes, go back." Sun Yu repeated:
"Let all the soldiers go back."
"But we have just conquered it! If we don't send people to garrison, doesn't it mean that we have given this place to the Jin people? Don't we want this place anymore?"
Xie Wenyi asked two questions in succession in disbelief.
Zhu Zhen next to him was even more incomprehensible. He stared and couldn't figure out what was going on in his highness's mind.
"Yes, no more, no more." Sun Yu raised his hand and touched the artificial stone wall beside him:
"Since this place is so precious, we might as well give it to the Jin people."
"What, Your Highness, you..."
Xie Wenyi looked shocked. She never expected that the place where they had sacrificed the lives of more than 2,000 brothers and fought tooth and nail to conquer would actually give up like this!
Zhu Zhen's eyes were red and he was panting like an ox. He stared at Sun Yu and wanted to ask for an explanation.
But Sun Yu ignored them and just turned around and ordered:
"After all the soldiers leave, the nine of you will wait here."
Behind him were standing seven masters of the Sky Breaking Realm.
On the far right are the three members of the Wu family.
Although Wu Shiyan is only a first-grade celestial being, he is the leader of the Wu family and has extraordinary strength, so he can be counted among them.
In the middle are Butler Zhou and two black guards with two feathers.
The one on the far left is Wang Yu, the general sent by the military, plus Xie Wenyi and Zhu Zhen in front of him, there are exactly nine people.
"What, Your Highness, do you mean..."
"Don't the Jin people want this place? Then we will give it to them." Sun Yu smiled coldly and looked into the depths of Qingzhou under the moonlight and said:
"Together with the Jin army, they were all destroyed."