A silver-white spear swiped suddenly, and a strong wind blew out.
In an instant, the bodies of hundreds of demon cultivators suddenly exploded into streaks of blood mist, and a gap suddenly appeared in the originally dense demon phalanx.
The next moment, a large number of human cultivators suddenly attacked, breaking into the demon clan's square formation through this gap, and fought with the demon cultivators to prevent the opponent from forming another formation.
And the huge 15-foot figure that was swept across by the spear just now was also slowly dissipating.
As the huge figure dissipated, a signal seemed to sound on the battlefield. Dozens of huge shadows, ranging from several feet to ten feet high, began to dissipate one after another. However, before they dissipated, the demon cultivators who were fighting against each other began to dissipate one after another.
Every gap in the battle formation appeared, and then a large number of human monks pounced on them, rushing into the opponent's formation before the demon clan could refill the battle formation, completely destroying the demon clan's battle formation.
This is a relatively common way of war between the human race and the demon race in the land of Nanzhou.
If we were in Beizhou, the way of fighting would be slightly different.
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"puff--"
A middle-aged male cultivator wearing a Confucian shirt finally couldn't hold back the restlessness in his throat and opened his mouth to spit out a stream of blood.
The blood was golden in color, but the moment it came into contact with the air, it began to turn black quickly, and a fishy smell came out.
However, although this middle-aged man's face was still rosy, his energy and energy were obviously much weaker, and his whole body was much weaker.
The conditions of the hundreds of monks around this middle-aged man were much worse than this middle-aged man. Many of them could no longer stand still, and a small number of them had blood in their eyes, ears, and nostrils.
Bleeding and vomiting a few mouthfuls of blood are considered relatively mild.
Above the heads of these monks, the dissipating huge phantom of the general has not completely disappeared. However, if you take this opportunity to look carefully, it is not difficult to find that the facial features of this phantom of a general wearing armor and holding a spear are actually...
He is somewhat similar to the middle-aged male cultivator wearing a Confucian shirt.
This is a fighting method unique to military strategists.
Although Baijiayuan belongs to the line of Confucianism, it is actually not just one kind of Confucianism, but includes many different schools such as Mohism, Legalism, military strategists, novelists, painters, Onmyojia, strategists, miscellaneous schools, etc.
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Among them, the three schools of Confucianism, military strategism, and Taoism are collectively called the upper three schools, and the Mohist school, Yin-Yang school, novelists, miscellaneous schools, and painters are the next five schools. These eight schools are collectively called the Eight Great Schools of Baijiayuan. They are students of Baijiayuan.
The eight major schools with the largest number. As for other schools such as politicians, legalists, farmers, doctors, celebrities, etc., there are many students and disciples, but no matter how many disciples there are, it is impossible to compare with these eight schools, because both sides are completely different.
Not on the same level.
However, a sect that has only one disciple like the Strategist Family is the only one among the hundreds of schools. It is said that in a very long time ago, the Strategist Family and the Legalist School were the top three schools that could keep pace with the military strategists, but they were not
I don't know since when, the political strategists and the legalists began to decline. However, the situation of the legalists is not bad now. There are at least hundreds of students and disciples, which is many times stronger than the political strategists.
As for the military strategist, being able to become one of the top three sects in the Hundred Academy of Sciences naturally has advantages that are very suitable for this era.
That is the means of conquest and attack.
The exercises practiced by military strategists are very simple, so simple that they do not pay attention to talents at all. They are not as focused on talents as other sects' exercises. They even have some special talent requirements such as Yin body, Yang body, etc.
For disciples of the military strategist, as long as you can sense spiritual energy, you can practice the military strategist's skills and become what mortals call a "god".
As a result, the cultivation level of military disciples is generally very low, so they will basically be easily killed by other monks in a one-on-one situation. After all, if the talent is ordinary, the cultivation level will naturally not be too high.
.But fortunately, military strategist disciples do not pay attention to any realm of cultivation. As the saying goes, quality is not enough for quantity. Therefore, if the military strategist disciples are allowed to gather on a sufficient scale, they will definitely be able to burst out with extremely terrifying combat effectiveness.
For example, this time.
Most of the nearly a thousand military strategists beside the middle-aged man are only at the first or second level of the Divine Sea Realm. A disciple like this is even a small sect of the fourth or fifth level in the Xuan Realm.
In the sect, there are only outer sect disciples. Of course, some of them are monks in the Aperture Realm. As for the Life Realm and Soul Condensing Realm, there are only a few of them, and the number is not even thirty.
The only person with truly advanced cultivation is the leading middle-aged man. He is a genuine Earthly Immortal Realm monk.
Of course, he is also the chief military strategist of this session.
Shen Shiming.
He was responsible for presiding over the military battle formation, integrating the strength of all the military disciples, and then condensing the fifteen-foot-tall phantom.
Disciples of military strategists call this method "Battle Formation General". It is a special method used by military strategists for conquests and attacks. Compared with the battle formations in the Xuan Realm, it has higher flexibility and maneuverability. Compared with the Beihai Sword Sect,
As far as the unique sword formation is concerned, the battle formation general is not weak at all in terms of lethality, and is even more powerful.
In particular, by condensing the battle array generals for use in battles and killings, as long as the military disciples do not die, they will definitely be able to gain from it. Afterwards, as long as they do a little review and reorganize their own meridians, insights on the battle array, etc., all participating in the battle
The cultivation level of military disciples can basically be steadily improved - for military disciples, the improvement of cultivation is not as difficult as that of other sect disciples. The real difficulty is that there are few wars of sufficient scale in the Xuan Realm.
Get them involved.
Although the former Shen Shiming was the chief military strategist of this generation, his cultivation was only the first time he entered the Earthly Immortal Realm. Now he has vaguely touched the pinnacle of the Earthly Immortal Realm. Thanks to the fact that he was responsible for coordinating the Nanzhou war situation some time ago,
There were several battles with the monster clan.
If he hadn't lost three strongholds on the second line of defense in Dahuang City and his reputation had not been affected, he might have been promoted to the Daoji realm by now and could have become a "one-man general" and a teacher. Of course, if it really happened
In that case, the identity of the chief military strategist will naturally have to be changed. At that time, there will inevitably be a change of commander on the spot, and it is easy for the demon clan to seize the opportunity.
But what Shen Shiming didn't expect was that at the request of Sun Qing, the college president, there would eventually be a coaching change.
But the situation did not go as Shen Shiming feared, with the Demon Clan seizing the opportunity. Instead, because of Wang Yuanji's command, they successfully regained the three second-line defense strongholds lost in Dahuang City. They even caused the Demon Clan to suffer heavy losses.
As for the original
The first line of defense, which was firmly controlled by the Monster Clan, was actually short of troops. Then, with a series of strategic planning and tactical use, they actually captured two of them in just three days.
The first line of defense of Dahuang City.
Now, it's the last place.
But everyone understands that the last lost stronghold of the first line of defense in the deserted city is the real backbone.
Because the Monster Clan can finally gather all their forces here to have a real hard battle with the Human Race, unlike when Wang Yuanji ordered to attack three strongholds at the same time, the Monster Clan couldn't tell which road is the main force of the Human Race.
Troops, so a stronghold was lost immediately after a short period of contact.
After that, Wang Yuanji, with an astonishingly bold character, directly invested all the reserve forces, pretending to want to storm the middle, and let the left army retreat and set up camp after a feint shot. Instead, they blocked the stronghold and directly
Trap all the monsters stationed in the left stronghold of the first line of defense.
From the beginning of the battle, Wang Yuanji directly engaged the chief military strategist like Shen Shiming, as well as a large number of main monks from the other nineteen sects, so the middle army was completely in a fierce battle from the beginning, whether it was human monks or monsters.
The monks all suffered a large number of casualties. But unlike the current situation of the Monster Clan, where the alliance is unstable, under the premise of the Human Race uniting as one, the Human Race's middle army has greatly increased its victory, and it is completely like breaking the bamboo along the way.
Therefore, the commander of the demon clan, who was consciously fooled, had no choice but to order a large amount of reinforcements, including the demon clan's left army. He even tried to send a team to sneak attack the human clan's right army to see if they could take the opportunity to snatch it back.
Right stronghold.
As a result, the demon reinforcements that broke out from the left stronghold were killed by the human army on the left and the army in the middle that suddenly turned around and shot. They completed the dumpling-making tactic and directly swallowed up such a supporting army, and then
The two encircled armies took advantage of the situation and forced open the gate of the left stronghold, and captured two of the three strongholds on the first line of defense in Dahuang City, threatening the middle army with the force of a horn.
As for the demon team that tried to attack the human right troops, they were also defeated by the middle troops that were divided into two and the right troops stationed in the stronghold on the right.
As a result, the demon clan was defeated again.
This made the demon clan believe that from the very beginning, when Wang Yuanji pretended that she was determined to attack the middle road, she never thought about taking over the middle stronghold. Her initial strategic target was always the two strongholds on the left and right. But the demon clan
The tribe did not dare to bet, because Wang Yuanji's oncoming attack was too fierce, and if they really did not respond, the middle would inevitably be lost. After all, the defender was far less mobile than the attacker.
The middle stronghold is obviously very important for both the demon clan and the human clan. It is a key gateway that can directly connect both sides.
The demon tribe didn't want to lose it, so they had no choice but to hold on.
Shen Shiming once asked Wang Yuanji afterwards why he had to attack the center with no room left at the beginning. With her vision, she could have come up with a better way to win the left stronghold at a lighter cost.
There was absolutely no need to be like this, which resulted in almost tragic casualties.
Wang Yuanji’s answer to this was——
"You regard war as a training, so you are fooled by the demon clan. But to me, the so-called war is just a set of numbers. I will press forward with absolute advantage. As long as you don't cause trouble for me
Son, then the only ones who will be led by my lead are the demon clan."
"The Yaozu thought that my initial strategic goal was to have two strongholds on the left and right, but in fact my goal was any two strongholds, whether it was the left or right, the middle left or the middle right, it made no difference to me. From the Yaozu
The moment they lost the right stronghold on the first day, they had already lost. If they were unwilling to send reinforcements from the left stronghold at that time, then the center would inevitably be lost."
"In order not to abandon the center stronghold, they could only send troops from the left. They even deliberately leaked the news to let me know that a demon army was attacking the right stronghold. But so what? It was in my rhythm from the beginning.
How can they have a chance to make a comeback? Since they are willing to give me an army for free, why should I not eat it?"
"As for what you said that you had a complete chance of taking over the middle stronghold, I don't deny it. After all, the battle was so fierce. You even broke into the stronghold at one point, and you were just a little short of gaining a foothold. You started fighting in the stronghold and fighting for it.
A strategic location. But in this case, how long will it take to completely conquer the middle stronghold? Three days? Five days? Ten days?"
"Wouldn't it be better for me to take advantage of the Monster Clan's left troops being completely unprepared and capture the left stronghold directly with an encirclement force? If we capture two cities in three days, wouldn't it be a greater blow to the Monster Clan's morale? As for what you said
What tragic casualties there are, why the troops in the middle route feel that they have failed in their efforts, and what is damaging to the morale of the army. It’s really ridiculous! Go out and take a look for yourself. Is there any monk who feels that morale is low?”
"Dahuang City, Tianshan Sect, Lingjian Villa and even the Nangong Family are all beginning to prepare for the celebration banquet. They have already begun to spread the news of my victory in the hinterland of Nanzhou to the back of Nanzhou in the morning. Don't tell me.
The morale of the army has improved, and even the hearts and minds of the people have begun to rally towards me. It won't be long before a large number of monks will come to my aid to make up for my casualties in this battle. By then, I will be able to command many more monks.
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"Chief military strategist? Ha... Since you want to fight, you must first clarify your own identity. You are first of all a commander, and you are responsible for the victory of the entire battle. Secondly, you are the military strategist and the monk.
A military monk who relies on war as a means of cultivation. From the beginning, you have put the cart before the horse and only considered how to reduce casualties as much as possible in this war, perfect your own reputation, and improve your own cultivation. So even if I give you another hundred years
Even if you have a lot of time, you can’t beat the demon clan.”
"The most obvious judgment is that you don't realize that the Nanzhou Demon Clan and the Beizhou Demon Alliance are not a whole at all. They are just a cooperative relationship. And since it is a cooperative relationship, there must be gaps and flaws. So in
Before the interests of both parties are renegotiated, it is our only chance to fight back and expand our results. For this fleeting chance of victory, no matter how big the loss is, it is worth it."
"War is a comparison of groups of numbers, an exchange of chess pieces on a chess game. If you want to win well, you have to face an opponent whose chess skills are far inferior to yours. Slay the dragon how you like, and play the game however you like.
But if your opponent's strength is equal to yours, then the so-called war is to fight for every inch of territory by using all possible means."
"So, when I knew my opponent was Zhen Yu, all I had to think about was 'how to win', not 'how to win', because I never underestimated the opponent."
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Shen Shiming recalled what Wang Yuanji had said to him yesterday, and he admitted that his ideas had indeed been greatly impacted.
But what surprised him was that his cultivation realm did not fall because of this, but instead became stronger. There was only one final step left to reach the Taoist realm that was out of reach for many people. So he also
Then I understood that I had always thought too much and was too forward-looking and had missed many opportunities. Therefore, he was actually the one who was irresponsible to other monks.
Even though, under his command, the casualty rate of the war was far from as horrific as it is now.
But so what?
No matter how few people die in defeat, it is called a waste.
Only those who win the battle and die many times are qualified to be called sacrifices.
In the war commanded by Wang Yuanji, the casualty rate was almost one for one with that of the demon clan. However, Shen Shiming discovered that these monks did not have any low morale at all. Instead, each one of them was as precise as the gears Wang Yuanji said.
Executing all her tactics and risking one's own life, she interrupted the demon clan's attacks one after another, making the demon clan's originally good chance of winning almost impossible.
At this moment, Shen Shiming knew that it was no longer a problem for Wang Yuanji to capture this last stronghold.
Today or tomorrow, this war to regain lost territory should be over.
Then what to do next?
Shen Shiming took a deep breath. He no longer wanted to speculate. He suddenly felt that Wang Yuanji was right. He was not suitable to be the chief military strategist. Maybe it would be good to be a general in front of the battle. He didn't need to worry about so many gains and losses.
The only thing he needs to do is kill the enemy.
The change in mentality made Shen Shiming feel relaxed, as if the shackles that bound him had finally been released.
The next moment, a ray of light rose into the sky.
A figure that was exactly the same as Shen Shiming appeared above Shen Shiming out of thin air. This figure was not that big, at least not as exaggerated as the fifteen feet formed by the military battle formation he had formed before. It looked like it was only about one foot.
It's just high. But the strength between the virtual shadow and the real shadow is not so simple to rely on height. Just the figure floating above Shen Shiming's head at this time is enough to fight against the fifteen-foot-tall virtual shadow just now.
Shadowed.
One person becomes a general, and one person becomes an army.
One man general.
Shen Shiming has broken through to the Daoji realm.
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And further away in the sky, in the Nine Heavens Gang Wind, there are two middle-aged men facing each other.
At this time, feeling the violent changes in the way of heaven, one of the men suddenly said: "We broke through on the battlefield. Congratulations to Baijiayuan for adding a strong general."
Listening to the other party's compliment, Changsun Qing sighed: "Wannianqing, why are you doing this?"
Diwanqing did not answer immediately, but fell into silence.
Changsun Qing didn't bother to question him, he just stared at him quietly.
After a long time, Wannianqing sighed: "I'm old and won't live much longer. The Demon Alliance has been colluding with my tribe's subordinates in the past thousand years, but they just thought I didn't know... I'm sure,
Once I die, the Demon Alliance will definitely take advantage of the situation to intervene, and I'm afraid Nanzhou will be even more chaotic."
"Are you using yourself as bait?" Changsun Qing understood almost instantly, "Do you want those who colluded with the Demon Alliance to jump out on their own?"
"Wang Yuanji is indeed your appointed new commander. With her help, half of the unruly people have been eliminated." Wan Nianqing did not answer directly, but his words also proved Chang Sunqing's statement from the side, "Zhen Yu is conspiring." She is indeed a good tricker. She successfully caught you all off guard. Even I didn't expect that her methods would be so powerful... But she is not a qualified war commander, so she lost to Wang Yuanji. No injustice.”
"Where's the Zhenren?!"
"Gone."
"Leaving?" Changsun Qing couldn't help but raise his voice a bit.
"After Wang Yuanji took the left stronghold, she left. I don't even know how she left." Wan Nianqing said in a deep voice, "However, one thing I can be sure of is that she, or the Bihai Dragon King, followed That group of people are connected... Valley Master Huang should be very interested in this news."
"What do you want in exchange?"
"I know that Su Anran entered the ancient battlefield of the netherworld. If he is really the so-called destroyer of the secret realm, a mere ancient battlefield of the netherworld will definitely not be able to trap him. In fact, he may have already arrived in the ancient mausoleum." Wannianqing said solemnly. Said, "If he gets the Netherworld Ghost Jade, I hope to get the Netherworld Ghost Jade."
