Chapter 387: Death of Dharma

　　 "Report to the general that the situation in Huaizhou is still not good."
"The traitor Chen Man's deeds are unpredictable, but he has appeared in Huaizhou many times. After suffering a loss, General Bai and General Huang did not dare to attack rashly to avoid being tracked by Chen Man in the wild. The two of them can now only lead most of them and stick to Luoyang City, relying on Luoyang’s fourth-order spiritual veins and the mountain guardian formation to hold on. As for those who clear the demons, they can only send a small group of troops to leave the mountain guard formation to the periphery. Do it."
"This is certainly possible around Paul Yang, but it has a very poor blocking effect on the spread of demon chaos. The demonist tried several times to attack Luoyang. Chen Man also sent his Nascent Soul clone to conduct common sense. After several failures, They didn’t fight any more. They surrounded and didn’t fight, they divided their troops around Luoyang, and continued to spread the demonic chaos..."
　　 "The problems surrounding Luoyang are not big, but Huaizhou is still falling inevitably..."
"So far, Xuzhou has fallen by half. Hou Xuanwu is in Xudu, and there is no need to worry about it north of Xudu. Our spies entered Zhaizhou, and the news reported that Zhaizhou was gone. Regardless of the government or the local cultivating families, small sects, and small organizations; even mortals, they will not be able to see them. In other words, there are no living people in Zhaizhou now; Huaizhou has fallen by half..."
　　 "The demons led by Chen Man, there is no clear statement yet, but by estimation, the total should be no less than 200,000..."
　　 "And among them, there may be hundreds of enchanters who are equivalent to Qiming cultivators and above, and if the golden core is over ten, there may be three or four if the Yuan Ying is over."
"Also, the army of the State of Yan has crossed the defense line of Dahe, and half of Hezhou on the south bank of the river has been completely sunk; the army of the State of Yan should have entered the territory of Yingzhou. From Yingzhou to Caizhou to Xuzhou, We have no established means of defense in the north of the country."
　　 "In the worst case, Xu will be attacked by demons in the south, and the army of Yan Nation in the north..."
　　 Listening to the report from his subordinates, General Wei Xia Cang was expressionless and said nothing.
　　 The reporter raised his head, took a peek at the general's expression, his heart was very tangled.
After a few breaths, he gritted his teeth and said what he was saying: "Also ask the general to withdraw his troops. If this continues, even if we win Qi, our country will not be guaranteed. "
　　 After he finished speaking, many of the officers of the Wei state who were also attending the meeting also stood up and said to Xia Cang, "Also please the general withdraw!"
　　 Xia Cang glanced at the people below with a pair of eyes, and he saw that a lot of people's foreheads were slightly sweaty.
This is normal. He Xia Cang, the undefeated God of War of the Wei State, had a great accumulation of prestige, in the army, and even in the entire Wei State, he was the one who said nothing.
　　 These officers, to be honest, are his confidantes, and most of them were pulled up by him with one hand. If it is normal, no one can imagine that this kind of situation will happen that is a bit like a forced palace.
　　 Of course, this is still completely different from Bi Gong. This was essentially a suggestion that even if Xia Cang didn't listen, this group of people would not be able to do anything. They would still be there when it was time to charge for the general.
　　 It’s just that, in the eyes of most people, it’s really a crisis of survival.
　　 They had the upper hand in the battle with the Daqi army. If the fight continues for a long time, almost every monk in the Wei Kingdom believes that it will be Da Wei who will eventually win.
　　 However, this victory cannot be achieved in the short term. Da Qi’s army can still be considered tough and tough, and it cannot be defeated in a short while; Da Qi’s lawmaker Cui Qing is secretive, and he won’t fight Xia Cang head-on. You Kill me, monk Qi, I will kill you monk Wei; if you forcefully come to me, I will lead a team to find a spiritual vein that Qi can control, and start the guardian formation.
　　Qi also knows the current situation. Although they are at a disadvantage on the frontal battlefield, as long as they hold on to it, the first to collapse must be the Wei state. Therefore, they are more resilient to war than ever before. After all, the dawn of victory is here.
　　 On the contrary, the one who is more anxious will naturally be the Wei people.
　　 This is why so many people even dared to break through the majesty of General Xia Cang, Lianzhong said.
　　 Xia Cang sighed slightly when he saw the gestures of so many subordinates.
　　 They may all have heard what the former reporter said and empathized, or they may have been connected in private, but in short, they have expressed their attitude very clearly.
　　 Xia Cang slowly said, "It's not that I don't want to withdraw, but I can't."
　　 "Ten days ago, I had sent an envoy to the Qi army to beg for peace. The conditions had been reached to the extreme, but Cui Qing still rejected it."
　　 The person below heard this, and couldn't help but let out an angry voice: "Qi people, I really don't want to die!"
　　 but no one agrees.
　　 That's not nonsense? The dispute between the Qi and Wei dynasties is not a matter of overnight. They are enemies for generations! In countless years of war, countless hatreds have been forged, which is so easy to let go.
　　Don't say what they think of Qi, just this time, isn't it Wei people who provoked the war? In this battle, the Wei people gave their full support to the army, which meant that they were rushing to fight a battle to destroy the country.
　　 "If our side retreats, Cui Qing will lead the Qi State army to chase after it. During the process of withdrawing, I am a soldier, I don't know how many deaths and injuries we will have."
　　 "Even if they don't chase and kill, but hang slowly behind them, and gradually nibble from east to west, we may have to face the evil situation of demons in front and the army of Qi in the future."
　　 I only acknowledged below, it was you who said it again.
　　There are not no optimistic people, but as long as you are more sober, it is not difficult to see that in this war that has almost determined the fortune of the Great Wei Dynasty, they have fallen to a very bad stage.
　　 Suddenly someone stood out and said to Xia Cang, "General, I have a way, or it is possible."
　　 "Speaking." The expression on Xia Cang's face did not change, but in fact he probably knew what the other party was going to say.
　　 This person who stood up was a monk at the peak of Yuan Ying, the mighty Marquis Zhang Shichang. The person, in the intelligence of other countries, is believed to be the person who concealed Wei state.
　　 Of course, now the world knows that the image is Xuanwu Hou Zhengyu, not Zhang Shichang.
　　 But in any case, being able to be thought of this way at least proves that he does excel. He is an old Yuan Ying, and has stood at the peak of Yuan Ying for many years. Even if the time stretches into the future a little longer, or some chance is given to him, maybe he can really become a true Buddhist monk.
　　 "The army is of course important to suppress the chaos, but more importantly, you are the general."
　　 "If you can go back to China and join hands with Xuanwuhou, you can go south to solve the devil. As long as you kill Chen Man, the devil can be suppressed."
　　 "And I, on behalf of the general, pretend to be you, try to fool Cui Qing as much as possible, I can delay some time."
"Before this, we can withdraw our troops first. If Cui Qing is cautious, and just follow behind, then just ignore them, general you go back first; if the army dared to chase fast, the general before leaving, But first lead me to kill a carbine. After suffering this big loss, with Cui Qing's cowardly and cautious character, I can't be sure that you are not in the army, so I would never dare to pursue too closely."
"And if we are finally discovered here...it can only be so. Try to make the army escape back to some people, how much can be escaped. Just ask the general to solve the domestic turmoil. After a hundred years, I will take a rest. , Look for Qi country again, and take revenge for me!"
After 　　 said, Zhang Shichang knelt on the ground, facing the direction of Xu Du, and kowtowed.
　　 After hearing these words, Xia Cang looked at the other people below and asked, "You also mean the same?"
　　 "For me, you will die!"
　　 "Let's do it with these words."
　　……
　　In the northern part of the Great Wei Dynasty, the army of Yan State continued to march south, but Yun's past temper has long since disappeared.
　　 Although he didn't want to admit it, let alone talk to Lu Qing, he had to admit that what Lu Qing said before, leading the army to go south, was really correct.
　　 There is no other reason, victory came too easy.
　　After breaking through the Dahe line of defense, Wei Guoyuanying, who was originally stationed on the line, escaped from the dead and two, but the army of Yan State almost did not encounter any effective resistance during the process of going south.
　　 Yingzhou fought in the first battle; after entering the territory of Caizhou, Wei Guo was organizing a resistance. First, the two Wei Guoyuanying who had fled before tried to use a fourth-order spiritual vein to protect the mountain, and resisted, but in the end, they were attacked by Weiyun and Lu Qing, and under the indiscriminate bombardment of the bursting artillery. , The mountain guarding formation was faltering, forcing the two to choose to continue to flee.
　　 Then, they were in Caizhou, gradually organizing a line of defense, preparing to fight against it step by step.
　　 But these are futile after all.
　　 The army of the Yan Nation continued to advance with great vigor, pushing them back to Xuzhou step by step, and there is definite information that can be known that they should have given up the idea of ​​gradual resistance and entered the Xu Capital.
　　 And this also means that Dayan will go south and take Hezhou, Yingzhou, and Caizhou all in his pocket.
　　 Three states, what does it mean? There are only seven states in Dayan, and among them, Selangor can only be counted as half a state. Although the land is vast, it is too barren.
　　 And Hezhou Yingzhou Caizhou, placed in Yan State, can be regarded as a big state, whether it is population, land or resource output, this is the case.
　　Especially Yingzhou, this is a richer place than Jizhou. In the entire territory of Yan State, I am afraid that only Wuzhou is comparable.
　　 And now, these three states are all under the control of Yan State.
　　 If Yan Guo can completely control this piece of land and digest it, then the national power of Big Yan may skyrocket by more than 60%!
　　 This is a very uncontrollable interest.
　　Even, Weiyun was already calculating in his heart whether it would be possible for Yan Guo after the war to really occupy this land in his hands.
　　 Lu Qing didn't say anything about this.
　　 Of course he doesn’t mind if he can.
　　 However, when the senior officials of Dayan were dreaming while leading the army towards Xuzhou in the south, two pieces of news came almost forward and backward.
　　 The first one is quite surprising: Wei Jun in Xu Duzhong is going south. There are not many people, but they are all elite.
　　 With the hard work of these people, Wei Jun recovered the occupied area in southern Xuzhou within a short period of time. Even if there was an invader at the Yuan Ying level, there was hardly any resistance, and it was quickly eliminated.
　　 And this troop did not stop, but broke into the territory of Zhaizhou at a faster speed.
　　 The last news about this troop is that they are moving towards Huhan County, looking like that, they are heading for the Valley of Ghosts and Gods.
　　 This is the trouble to find Chen Man.
　　Although, Lu Qing knew that Chen Man's real body was not there.
　　 If it's just Zheng Yu, then I'm afraid this guy has no such guts. In fact, judging from the information revealed in this piece of intelligence, everyone had a more consistent guess that Xia Cang might have returned.
　　 This point is actually a little unexpected.
　　 Some days ago~EbookFREE.me~ The peace talks between Dawei and Daqi failed to come to an end, but despite this, the main force of the Wei state has retreated from Qingxu Erzhou. Cui Qing led Qi's army and chased after him at the end of his rank, but Xia Cang led the team to kill a carbine, and the loss was quite heavy. Cui Qing himself had another face-to-face battle with Xia Cang, lost again, and suffered some injuries.
　　 As a result, I didn't expect that after only a short time, Xia Cang was actually very likely to return to Xudu.
　　 From then on, we can probably analyze Wei’s strategy.
　　 They should be planning to quickly find Chen Man, kill him, and solve the biggest source of the demonic chaos, then retreat from Qi State and Yan State, and finally slowly deal with the huge trauma left by the domestic chaos.
　　 Obviously, even if this matter is like Wei's plan, Wei will be greatly injured even if it is the hottest.
　　 Besides, it's hard to say whether this can happen.
　　 Where is Chen Man so easy to find?
　　Whether they will end the source of the chaos first, whether Yan's army will attack Xu Du first, or whether Qi will fight from the east is another matter.
　　 And three hours after the news reached the senior level of Yanjun, an earthquake-like news from the east also arrived.
　　 This news is even more incredible:
　　 Cui Qing is dead.
　　 This news is too explosive.
　　The first reaction of many high-level officials in Yan State, including Lu Qing, to this incident was to feel that the intelligence was wrong. This was false news.
　　 That's Cui Qing, a man who has been famous for hundreds of years, the State Pillar of Da Qi, and Xia Cang has the same status in Wei.
　　 just died like this?
　　 Xia Cang has returned to Xudu from the Eastern Front. Who can threaten Cui Qing? How did he die?