"Sirs, please take care of Xueyang City." Ren Baqian cupped his fists at Zuo Cheng and Qingyun Sword.
"The two of us can't stop the army!" the two of them said.
"No problem. Her Majesty will leave 1,000 soldiers here to guard. You just have to be careful not to let the local experts take advantage of the loopholes," Ren Baqian said.
There were three most important cities in the Three Rivers Valley. One was Xueyang City, the other was Youxin City where Tie Zihe was, and the last was Chun City where Rao Yu was.
Xueyang City faced the Wang Estuary, Youxin City faced the Ghost Ridge in the northwest, and Chun City was in the south. The three cities supported each other.
In particular, Xueyang City was the most important city in between the two cities.
Originally, the rebel army was going to delay the aboriginal army in Xueyang City. When the other two cities arrived, the aboriginals would be attacked from three sides.
However, they didn't expect that Xueyang City would be breached in just one night. Xie Kun was defeated and escaped with tens of thousands of soldiers.
At this time, the empress was preparing to attack Youxin City in the northwest because it was the only way to threaten the aboriginals' food supply. However, she was worried that Rao Yu would take advantage of this opportunity to attack, so she left 1,000 soldiers in Xueyang City. Ren Baqian also asked Zuo Cheng and Qingyun Sword to guard the city.
It was impossible for them to attack the city, but it was still possible for them to guard the city, and they didn't refuse.
1,000 aboriginal soldiers were enough to be used as 10,000 soldiers. Moreover, they were guarding the city. Even if they were attacked, they could hold out for two days.
Instead, they had to be careful of the enemy experts' surprise attacks.
There wasn't much difference between a Spirit Wheel expert killing a Wheel expert and an ordinary person. Killing 1,000 was definitely much easier than killing 10,000.
"I'll leave that sleeping fellow to you. If the enemy experts are difficult to deal with, call her." Ren Baqian took out a bag of White Rabbit Creamy Candy and threw it to Zuo Cheng. "Just give this to her when the time comes."
Ren Baqian now trusted Zuo Cheng more than Qingyun Sword.
Zuo Cheng wasn't as idealistic as Qingyun Sword. The Lingshan Sect was his root.
Now, other than Zuo Cheng and Sect Master Su Xing, there were only a few people left in the Soul Mountain Sect. The rest had all entered the Rearguard Commandery.
On the other hand, even though Qingyun Sword was the first to surrender, he had too many thoughts and misgivings. As a result, he was always restrained. Even when Ren Baqian forced him to do a few things, he was still unable to act freely. This made Ren Baqian somewhat dissatisfied.
After chatting with them for a while, Ren Baqian let them leave.
The two of them walked out of the house side by side. Zuo Chengcai said lightly, "What are you hesitating for? Being overcautious and indecisive won't accomplish anything. "
After he finished speaking, he did not look at Qingyun Sword's reaction and walked along the stone path, disappearing into the crowd in just a few steps.
Qingyun Sword stood there in a daze for a long time before heading in another direction.
Not long after the two of them left, Ren Baqian followed the empress's carriage out of the west gate under the escort of the army and headed northwest.
"How long do you think it will take for Rao Yu to come?" the empress asked faintly as she reclined on the animal skin and ate some fruits.
"When we arrive at Youxin City! The general guarding the city is Hong Cheng. As the saying goes, like father, like son, I believe he will be able to defend the city. Moreover, Your Majesty has left 200 of your sharpest knives for him, which should be enough to deal with most situations. "Ren Baqian laughed. Furthermore, he had left so many skunk bombs.
As he spoke, his gaze swept across the empress's exquisite body, which was wrapped in a red muslin.
The empress said in an eerie voice, "If you continue to look, I will gouge your eyeballs out."
She even licked her lips as she spoke, which made her look even more seductive. It was the complete opposite of her tone, which made people feel as if they had been doused with a bucket of water from a well.
"Your Majesty's appearance has already been engraved in my heart. Unless I gouge my heart out," Ren Baqian said as he covered his chest.
Qing Yuan and Hong Luan stuck out their tongues. Sir Ren was still the most daring!
The empress glared at him fiercely. She liked and hated shameless Ren Baqian at the same time.
"You dog!" the empress said with a soft voice and a soft gaze. Even though she said such vulgar words, her soft voice made people's hearts burn.
"Your Majesty, where did you learn this? If the officials in the imperial court heard this, they would definitely skin me alive. " Ren Baqian looked at the empress's suddenly gentle face and asked with a smile. His fingers danced on the ground and jumped onto the back of the empress's hand.
Then, the guards at the side saw a person fly out of the imperial carriage.
"Damn it!" Ren Baqian sat back on the fork-horned cow and muttered to himself. You were the one who seduced me, yet you kicked me out!
Your tricks are getting more and more sophisticated!
After walking for half a day, everyone stopped to rest at noon. Lunch was four fist-sized coarse grain dumplings and a little meat soup.
Not long after everyone started eating, the periphery began to become chaotic.
"What's the matter?" the empress asked with a frown.
"Sir Ren! What happened? "Hong Luan asked Ren Baqian.
"I will go and take a look." Ren Baqian was about to go forward with a barbecued meat bun in his mouth when a baihu ran to his side and said, "Sir, a large number of poisonous insects have appeared outside!"
"What happened?"
"It should be the insect soldiers of the Six Doors!"
"Since they are insect soldiers, there must be someone controlling them. Find them and kill them!" Ren Baqian said coldly. He had heard a little about the Six Doors, so he immediately calmed down.
He walked forward as he spoke and found a tall figure standing outside the crowd — Qing Ping.
He waved his long saber, and the ground in front of him seemed to have been plowed. All the soil was turned up, and masses of yellow and green liquid burst out of the soil.
Ren Baqian looked ahead with rapt attention and finally saw clearly.
The ground in front of him was covered with snakes and insects of all sizes wriggling on the ground. There were spiders, snakes, centipedes, and unknown insects. It was colorful and densely packed, and it was disgusting.
In particular, the rustling sound they made when they crawled made people's scalps go numb.
"Captain Qing, these insects should be controlled by someone! Listen and see if there are any strange sounds! " Ren Baqian said from behind Qing Ping. After speaking, Ren Baqian listened attentively, but there were no strange sounds at all. There was only the rustling sound of crawling everywhere.
Qing Ping slashed again, listened attentively, and then frowned.
Obviously, he didn't hear anything either.
"Anyone who can find out who is controlling these poisonous insects will be rewarded handsomely!" Ren Baqian shouted to the people behind him.
"Sir, they might not be directly controlled by someone!" a baihu stepped forward and said. "I found this!"
As he spoke, he took out a plant with fragmented yellow flowers in his hand.
"What's this?" Ren Baqian asked.
"This is a ginger flower. There's nothing special about it, but if it's sprinkled with a special powder, it can emit a smell that many poisonous insects like. The ginger flower that we found in our resting spot had been sprinkled with this powder.
In other words, these snakes and insects weren't controlled by someone to attack us, but we blocked their way! "
"How do you know all this?" Ren Baqian asked.
"When I was in the south back then, I coincidentally learned about some miscellaneous methods," the baihu said.
"How did they know that we would rest here? Who found this place? "Ren Baqian asked with cold eyes.
"Sir, they might not have known where we would rest. This type of ginger flower is very common. If I were to do it, I would just need to sprinkle the powder on the ginger flowers in every spacious place that is suitable for setting up camp and resting. When the army rested, they would release the insects from a distance, and they would naturally come to us. If one didn't know, it would be easy to think that these snakes and insects were being controlled to come to us. "
"Well done!" Ren Baqian patted his shoulder and praised him. "In other words, as long as we retreat, everything will be fine, right?"
"Yes!"
"Everyone, retreat to the road! Carefully check if there are any small red flowers on the ground, "Xi Wanya, who had just arrived, shouted after hearing this.
After a while, everyone returned to the road and found that there were many such small flowers at the edge of the road. There were even some that had been thrown to the ground in the middle of the road.
These things weren't easy to attract attention. If it weren't for that baihu, they would have suffered quite a bit.
After burying the ginger flowers that had been thrown on the road, the snakes and insects stopped advancing when they reached the roadside. Instead, they surrounded the ginger flowers and crawled up and down. Finally, they gathered into a group of insects, which made people's scalps go numb.
"What's your name?" Ren Baqian called the baihu over and asked.
"Sir, I'm Yue Kaiyang!"
"As I said just now, if the person controlling the snakes and insects is caught, you will be rewarded handsomely. Even though you didn't catch the person controlling the snakes and insects, you have made a great contribution. Take note that Yue Kaiyang will be promoted by two ranks and will be promoted to a baihu! "
"Thank you, Sir!" Yue Kaiyang said happily.
"Well done!" Ren Baqian was very satisfied.
"Well done!" A burly voice came from the side.
Ren Baqian turned his head and saw Xi Wanya nodding at him.
"Thank you for your praise, Sir and Protector General!" Yue Kaiyang said.
"You may leave! I'll get someone to send the token to you later. As for the warrant, I'll make it up in the future, "Ren Baqian said.
After Yue Kaiyang left, Ren Baqian turned to Xi Wanya and said, "It seems like we really have to be more careful along the way. I heard that in addition to the insect soldiers, the Six Doors also have monkey soldiers and elephant soldiers, which are very difficult to deal with!"
As soon as Ren Baqian finished speaking, he felt the ground begin to shake.
The source of the shaking was in front of them.
This shaking seems like a large number of cavalrymen are attacking in this direction. The rebel army definitely wouldn't dare to face them head-on. Since they aren't cavalrymen, it seems like they are elephant soldiers! Ren Baqian, who had just seen the insect soldiers, suddenly had this thought.
Since the insect soldiers had appeared, it was reasonable for the elephant soldiers to appear as well.
If he and the others didn't notice the problem with the first wave of attacks with the insects, he was afraid that some people would be injured. However, they would eventually realize that the attacks on the road were relatively less and retreat here.
After that, the elephant soldiers would charge over! If everyone blocked the path of the elephant soldiers, they would definitely suffer heavy losses.
If they entered the bushes on both sides, they would become food for the insects.
The other party's plan was really good!
Ren Baqian looked forward as he thought about it.
He then saw the behemoths, which were up to six meters tall and had tusks that were more than three meters long, charging in this direction!
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