"Sun Yu, you have been stationed here for a month. Where did you agree to counterattack the Jin people?"
Prince Li Tianran rushed into the tent and asked.
Although he suffered heavy losses in the battle at the Danjiang stronghold, and his entire army was almost destroyed.
But even so, he didn't want to leave quietly like this.
After all, rushing back to Jingzhou in a gray state is tantamount to showing everyone that he is a loser.
So as a last resort, he could only choose to stay here and work under Sun Yu.
A month ago, the Danjiang stronghold was destroyed.
Sun Yu led his troops to settle here. At that time, he said that he would use this place as a base to counterattack the Jin people.
However, a month has passed, and apart from sending some small troops to occasionally explore and harass the Jin people, there has been no substantial action.
Sun Yu himself sat in the big tent every day, ignoring worldly affairs and only focusing on cultivation.
Affected by this, the Jin people in Qingzhou, who had been beaten by them and could not hold their heads up, gradually showed signs of resurgence.
The Jin people began to take frequent actions to regain lost ground, moving the front line outward inch by inch.
Seeing this great advantage slowly being lost, Li Tianran was naturally unwilling to give up. He had spent a lot of effort to win this!
And his patience has been completely worn out in this month. He is not here to waste time...
Seeing Sun Yu's unmoving appearance, still focusing on his own cultivation, Li Tianran couldn't help but shouted angrily:
"Sun Yu! I'm asking you something!"
"Do you know what is the key to winning or losing this game?"
Sun Yu then spoke leisurely, his voice calm.
"The essential……"
Li Tianran was stunned for a moment, and just when he was about to answer, Sun Yu's voice sounded again:
"Power, absolute power."
"Huh, isn't this nonsense?" Li Tianran waved his hands and snorted coldly:
"Furthermore, don't we think our strength is enough? I have a strong army and strong horses, and there are as many as 800,000 soldiers under my command..."
Sun Yu suddenly asked:
"Then why haven't the Jin people been completely wiped out yet? In fact, they have even taken over Qing, Qi, and Jiang states?"
"this……"
Li Tianran was suddenly speechless.
"It seems that you have some misunderstandings about absolute power..." Sun Yu shook his head and continued:
"The absolute power of Da Gan is not the 800,000-strong army you mentioned.
The same goes for the Jin people. The so-called soldiers, military formations and even those war machines are just the icing on the cake.
Their real absolute power is the King of Zhenhai, Wanyan Guyu, who is sitting in the center of Qingzhou at this moment."
Li Tianran was startled. He seemed to understand what Sun Yu meant, and then asked in surprise:
"You mean, you want to deal with him directly? That Zhenhai King?"
"good."
"Hahaha! Is it just you?" Li Tianran's laughter contained a hint of mockery, and he said coldly:
"The Golden God Blood Realm is divided into three levels, the Heaven and Earth people, and the Wanyan Bone Jade is the Earth level, carrying six pieces of supreme blood bones!
If it were said by the top Sky-Breaking Realm masters in the court, this would still sound like that.
But, just you? A little guy from the Celestial Realm?"
He didn't know Sun Yu's true strength, but even if he knew, he would still think so.
"Yes, it's up to me."
Sun Yu stared at the other person with a smile:
"Also, I'll correct you for free. Wanyan Bone Jade is the highest celestial being in the divine blood realm. He is the second master of Dajin. He has nine supreme blood bones in his body."
"What……"
Li Tianran was shocked.
Sun Yu smiled again:
"Why do you think the emperor sent us here?
Does he really take a fancy to you, a little prince who has no military knowledge and whose cultivation level is only at the celestial realm?"
Li Tianran came back to his senses, thought for a moment and then frowned:
"You mean, my father's goal is always King Zhenhai?"
"Yes, it doesn't matter whether we win or lose on the frontline battlefield. As long as King Zhenhai dies, no matter how great the advantage the Jin people have, it will instantly turn into nothingness.
Therefore, what the emperor really values is the masters behind you who are capable of fighting against or even killing King Zhenhai!"
After saying this, Sun Yu chuckled:
"It's just that those guys are also very skilled. They know that Wanyan Guyu is the second master of Dajin. If you want to kill him, you need to pay a huge price, so they hide them one by one and refuse to take action."
Li Tianran thought carefully for a while and felt that what he said was right.
He nodded slightly, but still looked a little unconvinced and looked for an attack point:
"You? Hehe, you are talking as if you are not a prince."
Sun Yu chuckled:
"No. I'm different from you."
"Huh, then I'll wait to see you show off your power. I hope that when you have that strength, Wanyan Bone Jade will still be alive."
Li Tianran mocked and then left.
As soon as he left, Xie Wenyi, who had been waiting outside, came in.
"Your Highness."
"How is the matter you were asked to do?" Sun Yu asked.
Xie Wenyi immediately said excitedly:
"According to His Highness's instructions, our people cooperated with Wei Wutian to find two underground strongholds of the Five Elements Sect and obtained a large amount of supplies!
Venerable Kuang Lei and others who escaped at the same time have also been killed."
"Very good." Sun Yu nodded.
Since Fang Dong, the leader of the Five Elements Sect, was killed by him, several great sages in the sect died and fled.
Most of Sun Yu's attention was focused on finding the underground stronghold of the Five Elements Sect.
He first sent people to work with Wei Wutian to retrieve the Wu Xing Zong Wuzhou underground stronghold that he had visited in the simulation.
Supplies worth 40,000 Five Elements Stones were obtained, as well as many clues to other strongholds.
Since then, Sun Yu has been out of control.
The Five Elements Sect, with its extremely powerful masters, was simply unable to stop them.
In the past month, Sun Yu had taken away a total of 170,000 pieces of Five Elements Stones alone, not counting some of the wonders of heaven and earth, magic weapons and the like.
Therefore, even at his current level, he needs 50 Five Elements Stones to exchange for a simulation opportunity.
His number of simulations is still as high as four figures.
"Exchange these supplies into Five Elements Stones and send them to me as soon as possible."
Sun Yu gave an order.
"As commanded."
Xie Wenyi responded, but did not leave.
"Do you have anything else?" Sun Yu asked.
"Yes, Your Highness." Xie Wenyi hesitated for a moment and then said:
"I heard that the Jin people seem to have made a lot of moves recently. Do we need to do something?"
Sun Yu waved his hand and said:
"No need, don't worry about them, pass on my order and shrink the defense across the board."
"Isn't this a bit..."
"Um?"
Sun Yu frowned slightly.
Xie Wenyi immediately lowered her head and responded:
"Yes, as ordered..."
After leaving the big tent, he touched the cold sweat on his forehead and looked back with some resentment.
I don't know when he started to face more and more pressure from Sun Yu.
It was as if the person in front of him was not a person, but a giant dragon that shook the heavens.
That kind of indifferent coercion, even if it wasn't deliberately aimed at him, made him fearful and eager to bow down.
"His Seventeenth Highness's progress in cultivation is a bit too scary..."
Xie Wenyi whispered in her heart, then shuddered and left quickly.
Qingzhou.
The Great Account of the Golden Man.
The scholar-like military advisor Zhong Ying saluted and said:
"Your Majesty, there is no response from the Danjiang stronghold to our temptation. I suspect there may be some fraud involved. Why don't we delay our future plans?"
Wanyan Bone Jade waved his hand:
"There is no need. Continue to follow the plan and capture the surrounding small strongholds one by one first."
Zhong Ying obviously felt that this was not feasible and frowned:
"But now Daqian is shrinking its front and is fully engaged in defense.
If we attack by force, we will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and it will take at least half a month for the next batch of reinforcements to arrive..."
"Heavy casualties?"
Wanyan Guyu glanced at him coldly:
"Hmph, as long as I, Wanyan Guyu, am still here, even if all my soldiers die, it won't be considered a heavy casualty. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Zhong Ying lowered his head and responded.
"When you understand, just do it." Wanyan Guyu waved his hand casually and said again:
"Also, let me tell your Majesty that everything is going well here."
"yes."
…
Danjiang Stronghold.
Woohoo!
At midnight, the emergency bugle sounded.
Adjutant Zhu Zhen hurried into Sun Yu's tent and shouted:
"Your Highness, the Denghui stronghold on the right has been attacked by the Jin and is about to be defeated!"
"I got it." Sun Yu didn't raise his eyebrows and continued to practice on his own.
Zhu Zhen was extremely anxious and asked again:
"Your Highness, won't we send someone to support you?"
"Let them retreat as a whole and abandon their strongholds."
"But, this..." Zhu Zhenzheng was planning to say something more, but when he saw Sun Yu's eyes, he couldn't help but lower his head and said:
"yes!"
It didn't take long.
Zhu Zhen is here again:
"Your Highness, the Jin people have begun to attack the Dishi stronghold!"
"Understood, let people retreat."
…
"Your Highness, the Jin attacks..."
"Got it, retreat."
…
One night.
Seven small strongholds around the Danjiang stronghold were directly captured by the Jin.
Early the next morning.
Everyone started talking. They didn't know why Sun Yu didn't send troops to support last night.
Obviously they are at an advantage now.
Logically speaking, one should take advantage of the victory and pursue it while the iron is hot.
However, in the past month, not only have they not taken the initiative to attack, but now they have not even responded to others knocking on the door.
This kind of frustration made the soldiers and generals in the stronghold unbearable.
"Adjutant Zhu!"
General Wang Tianyun stopped Zhu Zhen, who was passing by with his eyebrows furrowed.
Xie Wenyi was called by Sun Yu to cooperate with Wei Wutian in searching for the Five Elements Sect's supplies, so now Zhu Zhen is the person in charge here.
"Do you have time to chat?"
Zhu Zhen looked around and nodded:
"Let's go to my place."
The two of them walked in tandem and soon arrived at Zhu Zhen's room.
As soon as he entered the door, Wang Tianyun couldn't help it. He immediately stepped forward and asked:
"Adjutant Zhu, what does His Highness Sun mean?
There has been no fighting this month. I just asked the brothers to do reconnaissance work every day, and also sent many people to Wuzhou, but I haven’t heard of any Jin people there!”
Zhu Zhen knew that Sun Yu sent people to Wuzhou for the sake of the Five Elements Sect.
However, he really didn't know why he hadn't sent troops in the past month, so he could only say perfunctorily:
"Well, Your Highness naturally has His Majesty's arrangements."
"What about last night?" Wang Tianyun asked with a look of unwillingness:
"Seven small strongholds were captured by the Jin in a row. Is this also His Highness's arrangement?"
"this……"
Zhu Zhen looked embarrassed, he knew that the other party was here for this matter.
But the problem is that he can't tell why Sun Yu did this.
"Adjutant Zhu, all my soldiers have started gossiping behind my back..."
Wang Tianyun looked around and said in a low voice:
"They said whether His Highness Sun accepted the Jinren..."
Zhu Zhen's expression changed:
"You bastard! How dare you spread such treacherous gossip?"
Seeing Wang Tianyun's cowardly look, he pretended to be calm and replied:
"Don't worry, His Highness has his own arrangements."
Wang Tianyun raised his eyebrows slightly, hurriedly stepped forward and asked in a low voice:
"Lao Zhu, do you know something?
Why don't you let me know the truth for you? It will also give me an idea, otherwise this battle will be uncomfortable all over my body!"
The two of them actually have a good relationship in private, otherwise Wang Tianyun wouldn't have the guts to stop each other and ask.
But upon hearing this, Zhu Zhen's head was pounding.
If he really knew something, he wouldn't have frowned along the way.
Now, he really can't see through Sun Yu and doesn't know what the prince is thinking in his mind.
Obviously a month ago, he led them to two great victories with great success.
I thought I could attack the Jin man's lair with overwhelming force, but I didn't expect that the other party seemed to be a different person now, with no energy at all.
He stayed in the military camp every day to practice, and occasionally gave orders to the Five Elements Sect in other states.
However, they didn't even care about the battle facing the Jin people, and just let them retreat and defend.
Not to mention the soldiers and generals under his command, even Zhu Zhen felt angry and aggrieved.
In the past, without Xie Wenyi's pressure, he would have rushed to Sun Yu to question him.
But now, like Xie Wenyi, he always feels an inexplicable fear after seeing Sun Yu.
He knew very well that this was a crushing exercise in strength.
It was also one of the main reasons why he didn't dare to be presumptuous.
"Lao Zhu! Just tell me some inside information!"
Wang Tianyun looked distressed, this battle was really unwinnable.
Zhu Zhen looked solemn and just kept silent.
He himself doesn’t know anything, so he’s the only one who can reveal it.
"Lao Zhu! Our brotherhood has been lost for so many years?"
Wang Tianyun shouted again.
Zhu Zhen was so entangled that he couldn't help it. He coughed hard and said seriously:
"Hey, how can you reveal a major military aircraft incident so casually?
You just need to know that this is all part of His Highness’s plan.”
Wang Tianyun's eyes lit up:
"Oh? Seriously? This is all His Highness's plan."
Zhu Zhen's expression remained unchanged and he said seriously:
"Of course it's true. If you don't believe it, ask His Highness yourself."
"Ahem, let's forget it then." Wang Tianyun, a tall and thick man, shrank his neck.
"Brother, thanks, I'll treat you to a few drinks after this battle is over!"
Wang Tianyun left happily after getting the answer he wanted.
But Zhu Zhen here lamented.
He sat on a chair with his head in his hands, constantly tearing his hair, and whispered:
"Your Highness, Your Highness, what are you thinking about?"
at the same time.
Several more people carried the box filled with Five Elements Stones into Sun Yu's tent...