Ouyang Shuo was temporarily unable to do anything about Lingxi City's predicament.
At this moment, Ouyang Shuo wasn't in the mood to pay attention to what was happening outside the battlefield. Because Chiyou's army of 100,000 had appeared 10km away from Shanhai City's army command center, and they'd set up camp.
Even an infantryman would need at most two hours to cross a distance of twenty li. As for the light cavalry, it would only take half an hour to break into the enemy's camp.
In other words, at this distance, the two sides could start fighting at any time.
The true battle between the two sides had officially begun.
Han Xin began to arrange his troops.
Zhang Han was appointed as the General of the Left, and he would lead the First and Fourth Divisions of the Leopard Corps on the left wing. Di Qing was appointed as the General of the Right, and he would lead the Third and Fifth Divisions of the Leopard Corps on the right wing.
Han Xin presided over the central army, leading the Leopard Legion's Second Division. The Imperial Guard Division was temporarily placed under Han Xin's command as the main force of the army.
Ouyang Shuo, on the other hand, commanded three thousand Shenwu Guards as the reserve force of the army. He personally guarded the rear.
More than eighty thousand soldiers spread out at the border, stretching for several miles.
As early as two days ago, the Shi Wansui Division and the Mountain Pillar Division had already received military orders from Han Xin, requesting them to immediately break camp and set out. They were to hide during the day and move out at night, avoiding the scouts of Wuzhou County and charging towards the rear of Chiyou's army.
Han Xin did not intend to raid Chiyou City.
As long as Chiyou existed, Chiyou City would be Chiyou City.
Without Chiyou, Chiyou City was an empty city.
Therefore, raiding his lair was completely useless against Chi You. As long as the war broke out, regardless of whether Chiyou City fell or not, Chiyou would lead the army and march forward bravely.
In other words, as long as they defeated the 100,000 Chiyou army, Wuzhou County would be settled in one battle.
This was a simple arithmetic problem.
It was precisely because Han Xin had seen through this that he decided to gather all his forces to annihilate Chiyou's army.
What was Chi You doing at this moment?
It was high ground.
The mountain was less than a hundred meters high, and Chiyou's tent was stationed at the top of the mountain. Later generations named this highland "Demon King's Slope", meaning the place where the Great Demon King Chiyou was stationed.
Although the mountain was not high, the forest was lush.
What was especially rare was that there was a large area of osmanthus trees growing on the top of the mountain.
The golden October was the season when the osmanthus flowers were in full bloom. Unfortunately, the desolate wilderness completely destroyed this beautiful scenery. The osmanthus trees on the mountain seemed to have suddenly withered overnight.
The osmanthus flowers that had just bloomed fell from the branches and covered the ground. After being repeatedly trampled by the barbarian warriors, it became even more dilapidated.
Scattered into mud and crushed into dust, only the fragrance remained.
The autumn wind blew past, and the air was mixed with the fragrance of osmanthus. It seemed to be somewhat incompatible with the desolate atmosphere that filled the wilderness.
Perhaps this was the reason why Chi You chose to station here!
In the eyes of the outside world, mountain barbarians were synonymous with uncivilized people. The leader of the mountain barbarians, Chi You, was naturally the embodiment of vulgarity, ignorance, evil, and ugliness.
The Great Demon King!
The people of the Central Plains feared him, but they would never worship him.
And all of this was just prejudice, a misunderstanding.
At the very least, Ouyang Shuo didn't think so.
As one of the few suzerains who had interacted with the mountain barbarians, Ouyang Shuo had never thought that the mountain barbarians were an ignorant and uncivilized race.
Because there were too many outstanding people among the Mountain Barbarians.
Whether it was the Mystic Bird Tribe's great shaman's wisdom, or the mountain barbarian warriors Shi Hu, Shi Bao, and Lei Jingtian's bravery, they all left a deep impression on Ouyang Shuo.
Not to mention, the Thunder and Lightning Tribe's chief, Lei Fan, relied on his own strength to rise to the position of Duanren Prefecture's magistrate.
Whether it was civil or military, the mountain barbarians could handle both.
Different from the Central Plains' craftiness, the mountain barbarians were simple and honest, more loyal and reliable.
Therefore, as the barbarian tribe's spiritual leader, how could Chi You be a vulgar person? As early as the ancient times, the tribe led by Chi You was already ahead of the world in terms of technology.
This was enough to prove that Chi You was an astute person.
Otherwise, Chi You would not have been able to conquer such a large territory and become a powerful force that could not be ignored in the wilderness. The Yellow Emperor and Flame Emperor who were his contemporaries had disappeared without a trace.
Of course, astute did not mean benevolence.
Chi You's cruelty was also an indisputable fact.
The mountain barbarian warriors stationed on the hillside exuded a terrifying bloody aura. These guards were the elites that Chi You had personally trained, known as the Chi You Blood Guards.
Compared to the Han warriors, the mountain barbarian warriors were much taller. What was strange was that the Chi You Blood Guards were even taller than the ordinary barbarian warriors. Each of them was more than two meters tall.
His sturdy muscles bulged, full of explosive power.
What was even more strange was that the Chi You Blood Guards' eyes were blood red. Even in the dark of the night, their eyes would emit rays of red light, looking extremely terrifying.
This was also the origin of the name 'Chi You Blood Guards'.
Every blood guard was a standard human-shaped killing machine.
They had no emotions, no pain.
Only killing.
The training of the blood guards was Chi You's top secret. Even in Chi You City, few people knew about it.
In the city, Chi You had specially built an enclosed courtyard for the training of the blood guards. The courtyard's walls were tall, isolating the outside world from the outside world. The commoners in the city could hear the screams coming from the courtyard even from far away.
Pain and hysteria, like the roars of wild beasts, despair and sorrow.
No one knew what kind of pain the soldiers who were sent to the courtyard were suffering.
Every day, corpses were carried out from the back door of the courtyard and hurriedly sent to the cemetery for burial. Even the corpses were covered with linen, making it difficult for outsiders to see their true faces.
After a long time, some secrets were no longer secrets.
Finally, someone accidentally saw the face of the corpse in the cemetery. It was said that the mountain barbarian was so frightened that he went into shock on the spot and almost died.
A devil from hell!
It was reported that the corpse that was carried out had a blurred face, blood vessels all over its body, and blood was flowing out of its seven orifices.
It was simply a man of blood.
No one knew what kind of secret technique Chi You was using to train these Blood Guards.
In addition, people even saw large numbers of Han people being escorted into the courtyard from time to time. These innocent people were never seen walking out of the courtyard again.
Even when the war was about to start and the courtyard was completely closed, no one saw them come out.
After a long period of training, even Chi You himself became violent. Chi You's eyes, like those of the blood guards, turned completely red and translucent.
In a year and a half, tens of thousands of mountain barbarians were sent to the courtyard for training. In the end, only a thousand blood guards were successfully trained by Chi You.
The remaining nine thousand mountain barbarian soldiers were all turned into cold corpses and slept in the cemetery.
If it was not for Chi You's high prestige among the mountain barbarians, as if he was the incarnation of God, such a large proportion of casualties would have caused a backlash and dissatisfaction among the various tribes.
One had to understand that the Barbarian Mountain Barbarian soldiers who were sent for training were all carefully selected, the elites among the elites of the various tribes. Such a large number of casualties was really shocking.
The soldiers who had gone through hellish training could no longer be tolerated in the world.
Therefore, the moment the Chi You blood guards transformed, they completely lost their individual consciousness. They no longer knew their past, no longer knew their relatives, and even no longer had feelings.
What was left was only obedience and killing.
They obeyed their master, Chi You, and killed all enemies in front of them.
These one thousand Chi You blood guards were the greatest trump card of the Demon God Chi You.
Other than that, there was also Chi You's transformation of the soldiers of the various tribes. Chi You City was formed by the gathering of countless mountain barbarian tribes. From the beginning, it was a tribal alliance.
Chi You was the leader of the tribal alliance, or rather, the common leader.
In history, Chi You's army was also formed in this way. It was rumored that Chi You had eighty-one brothers, but in reality, it was an alliance of eighty-one tribes.
In the battle of Zhuolu, Chi You suffered a crushing defeat.
Therefore, after being reborn in the wilderness, Chi You learned the lessons of his previous life. He was an extremely intelligent person, and he immediately understood the way a lord used troops in the wilderness.
Chi You ordered the soldiers of the various tribes to be gathered together, and then reorganized.
In the end, according to the organization of the wilderness, Chi You formed ten ten-thousand-man teams. Each ten-thousand-man team was divided into ten thousand-man teams, and so on, until it was a ten-man team.
The organization of Chi You's army was somewhat similar to the grassland army. The advantage of this kind of organization was that it was simple, easy to understand, and did not have high requirements for the commander.
Just this point alone showed how astute Chi You was, and how he could apply what he learned.
After the reorganization of the army, the hundred-thousand-man army could truly work together, and would no longer be hindered by the various tribal leaders. Chi You's absolute authority in the army would be established.
Besides this, Chi You also appointed a dozen of his brothers to be the leaders of the ten-thousand-man teams.
In this way, Chi You had the army firmly in his hands. His dozen or so brothers had gone through life and death with him, and were absolutely loyal to Chi You.
The various tribes had completely lost their right to speak in the army.
Other than the organization of the army, Chi You also placed great importance on the development of weapons and equipment.
In history, the bronze weapons used by Chi You's army were superior to the stone weapons used by the Yan Huang army. Although they did not win the war, the advantage of weapons was undeniably evident.
Therefore, in the wilderness, Chi You naturally placed great importance on weapons and equipment. He used the craftsmen of the Han in the wilderness, combined with the secret techniques of the Jiuli tribe, to develop unique weapons and armor.
Although these weapons and equipment could not compare to the Radiant Armor and Tang Saber, which were the best in history, they were much better than the weapons and equipment given by the system.
Therefore, even in terms of weapons and equipment, the army of Shanhai City could not have too much of an advantage.
These three points were where Chi You's confidence came from.
Chi You was confident that he could defeat the enemy before him, and enter Lingnan Province in one fell swoop. (To be continued.)
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