On a hillside with lush trees, Qi Yuan used the vegetation to cover his figure and watched the Yin and Shang armies setting up camp from a distance, admiring Wen Zhong in his heart.
You must know that there are hundreds of thousands of troops here, but there is no chaos at all. The troops are doing the corresponding things in an orderly manner. Apart from anything else, Qi Yuan truly admires this command ability.
At least it would be impossible to let him come. He might not be able to control even a few hundred people, not to mention an army of hundreds of thousands.
Although Master Wen had already arrived, he had no idea of going to the military camp now.
Now that the time has not come, he will neither have any effect nor receive much attention, so it is not too late to wait for the opportunity to come.
Between the two candidates for apprenticeship, Wen Taishi and Zhao Gongming, Qi Yuan preferred Zhao Gongming in the end.
Not only because Zhao Gongming has higher strength and wider connections, there is also a more important reason, that is, Zhao Gongming originally had no grudge against Xiqi and did not have much grudge against Chanjiao. It was only after being invited by Wen Zhong that he started to
Explain and teach.
But Grandmaster Wen was different.
Wen Zhong has been loyal throughout his life and will definitely not leave the Yin and Shang Dynasties now, so he will inevitably continue to fight with Chanjiao.
Because of Qi Yuan's timid and fearful nature, he didn't have the guts to follow Wen Zhong and compete with Chan Jiao Jinxian.
No need to ask, with his little strength, as long as he goes to the battlefield, he will definitely get killed.
In Xiqi City, because Grand Master Wen Zhong personally led an army of 300,000 people to conquer Xiqi, the soldiers and civilians in the city were greatly panicked. After all, Grand Master Wen was not someone to be trifled with due to the shadow of a famous tree.
Fortunately, King Wu Jifa and Jiang Ziya comforted him in time, so no trouble was caused.
Jiang Ziya knew that the easiest way to improve the morale of the army and the people was to defeat Grand Master Wen on the battlefield. As long as he won the battle, his morale would be greatly boosted.
He specifically asked Huang Feihu to find out the details of Master Wen, and found out that although Wen Zhong was powerful and had many soldiers under his command, he had a fatal weakness.
Wen Taishi has too few strange people under his command. Unlike him, not only are there many disciples from the third generation of the Chan Sect, but the Twelve Golden Immortals behind him can come to support at any time.
However, after actually going to the battlefield, Jiang Ziya realized that he still underestimated Wen Zhong.
This old master was so powerful that he managed to injure several people with his own strength.
Not only Jiang Ziya himself was injured by Wen Zhong's male and female golden whip, but Nezha, Jin Zha, Muzha, Han Dulong and others were also injured by Wen Zhong one after another.
Moreover, I don’t know where Wen Zhong recruited several generals, all of whom had extraordinary abilities.
In particular, there is a strange man with two wings on his ribs. He can move freely in the air, as fast as lightning. He hammers and drills in his hand. It is obviously a set of magic weapons. As long as he hits the drill with a hammer, thunder and lightning will fall out of the air. It is very powerful.
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Another general used a wind-gathering flag and waved it. The sky was dark and the earth was dark. The sun and the moon were dim, like wind and residual clouds. He beat the Xiqi soldiers until they lost their helmets and armor. Under the strong wind with flying sand and rocks, it was difficult to distinguish the west from the east.
There was no distinction between north and south, so they had to retreat in defeat.
With their defeat, the high-level generals were fine, but the soldiers and people at the bottom were panicked.
Seeing rumors spreading all over the city, Jiang Ziya was angry. In order to get rid of the current predicament, he decided to launch a sneak attack at night.
Since it's difficult to fight on a frontal battlefield, it's better to attack secretly.
Although Grand Master Wen is powerful, I really don't believe that the soldiers under your command can stop the steps of my disciples.
Wen Zhong was also proficient in the art of divination. He felt that the murderous aura was wrong in the camp, and on a whim, he immediately made a divination.
Seeing that the hexagram showed that there would be a big battle tonight, I immediately understood that this was the Xiqi side who wanted to take advantage of the darkness to attack the camp.
Wen Zhong immediately made arrangements for the generals and asked them to ambush in the camp in advance. Unexpectedly, Chan taught his disciples to be cunning and gave him a surprise in all directions.
Even though he had the four newly recruited generals Deng Zhong, Xin Huan, Zhang Jie, and Tao Rong under his command, as well as two apprentices, Yu Qing and Ji Li, he could not prevent Chan's disciples from attacking the camp from different directions.
Yang Jian, in particular, was so elusive that he even came out of the back camp and directly used the Taoist Samadhi True Fire to burn down the food and grass in the back camp.
If it were ordinary fire, that would be fine. After all, things like food are not flammable and cannot be burned that easily.
But the Samadhi True Fire is a divine fire that can only be made from the true teachings of Taoism. It is so powerful that it can be used to burn these mundane things with ease.
In an instant, flames shot into the sky and spread, illuminating the heaven and earth.
Even if the merchant army hurriedly mobilized manpower to put out the fire, such divine fire could not be extinguished by ordinary water. In the end, they could only watch the food and grass being burned to the ground.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of merchant soldiers have been in disarray. Without food and grass, how can they still fight this war?
Wen Taishi had no choice but to abandon his opponent and lead his army to retreat.
Along the way, he was chased by Xiqi's soldiers and horses. Fortunately, he used his troops skillfully and worked step by step, so there was no big defeat.
Even so, after re-establishing camp and setting up camp, the generals counted their losses and found that more than 20,000 soldiers were killed in the battle, which made them very angry.
He had never suffered such a big loss in his whole life of fighting. He didn't expect that today he would be attacked by a surprise attack and all his food and grass would be burned down, but so many people would die.
Although I was very angry, I had no choice but to send people to the rear to deliver orders and allocate food and fodder for emergency response, otherwise the battle would really be impossible to continue.
Just when Wen Zhong was frowning, his disciple Ji Li reminded him that since there are many strange people in Xiqi, why not invite some experts from three mountains and five mountains to help him.
With Master Wen's identity and strength, the Taoist friends he interacts with must also have good magical abilities. As long as he invites a few here, there is no need to worry about defeating those Qi refiners in Xiqi City!
Wen Zhong suddenly realized that he was also busy with military affairs and had forgotten this.
So he made arrangements for the defense of the camp, ordered the generals not to go into battle without authorization, and waited for him to come back before arranging everything. Then he rode on Mo Qilin and headed for the East China Sea.
Wen Zhong originally wanted to invite a few close friends to come, but he didn't expect someone to take the lead and persuade Shi Tianjun and others in advance.
After seeing Wen Zhong, Shi Tianjun followed Wen Zhong to the formation of the two armies without saying a word.
As for the person who heard about it first and invited all the immortals to Xiqi to help in the battle, it was Shen Gongbao, the Qi practitioner.
Although this Shen Gongbao is a disciple of the Chan Cult, he is different from his fellow disciples. Other fellow disciples will look down on the Jie Cult disciples and bluntly mock them as people wearing hair and horns, people born from moisture and turned into eggs.
However, Shen Gongbao never cared about this. Instead, he liked to travel all over the world and make friends with capable people and strangers from all over the world. His communication was extremely broad.
When they were in Kunlun Mountain, he and Jiang Ziya had a close friendship, but he thought that the task of presiding over the title of god would definitely fall on him, but in the end, Jiang Ziya got it.
Then he was humiliated by the Antarctic Immortal. Under the huge loss, he started to have a rebellious mentality and wanted to ruin Jiang Ziya's good deeds. He called friends all over the world to find someone to go to Xiqi to cause trouble for Jiang Ziya.