Shennong Dao Master-Chapter 1397 - 24: Absolute Heaven and Earth · Battle of Cultivators (Part 2)_3

After listening, Zhao Xing not only felt no joy but also frowned slightly: "The court is aware of the news, so the Jiuyou God should also know of my whereabouts."

"Originally, we only needed to face thirty thousand Nine Nether Army and local garrison's interception, but now we might face four hundred thousand troops."

"No wonder the enemy reinforcements were so quick when we attacked Min City previously."

Before the second retreat, Zhao Xing had to engage in guerrilla warfare for half a month near Xue Ling and Tage, adopting a strategy of dividing forces into sixteen routes to harass everywhere and confuse the enemy's vision.

"If nothing goes wrong, there are already multiple forces encircling us." Zhao Xing pointed at the map and said, "Wang Ji, you and Xia Jing go contact those sect people who have surrendered, we don't need them to do much, just inform us about the intelligence and movements of the encircling troops. It's easy for them to provide intelligence on any enemy troops passing through or about to pass through their territory."

The mobilization of large forces is hard to consistently conceal. What Zhao Xing needs is timely information, and there are mainly three ways to transmit information currently.

One is to send someone personally, two is through carrier pigeons, three is the Mechanical Master's Wuliang Array.

The first and second methods are slow and risky, but the third method is very safe, though it has a very obvious disadvantage – short distance.

Like Wang Ji now, he is specifically restored to seventh grade, but his communication distance won't exceed a thousand miles. Beyond a thousand miles, whether he can contact the allied forces depends on luck.

"Jiuyou God..." Zhao Xing looked at the token, pondering in the night.

...

"You mean, so many people besieged, and Youyun not only didn't kill Zhao Xing's Ten Suns Army but instead lost Zang He's life?" Jiuyou God, dressed in a black robe, his face hidden in shadow, exposed only a pair of eyes flickering with eerie light. His body emanated a powerful dark aura as if capable of devouring all illumination.

"Yes." The Mechanical Master reported, "Youyun said he is on his way to Wind Witch City, determined to take down Zhao Xing."

"Foolish!" Jiuyou God was extremely furious: "Now he goes to the rescue, he will be fooled again!"

"Inform him, the besieging will be personally commanded by me, tell him not to make any rash moves."

"You must command both Lanhe Prefecture and Cangyue Prefecture as a whole, need to find the central position, otherwise mechanical communication cannot achieve real-time rapid transmission, the only suitable place for command is Guiyang County."

"I will personally go to Guiyang County to command the allied forces." Jiuyou God said coldly.

He already knows, Great Zhou is now rapidly gathering troops, preparing to invade from Keshen's territory to his territory, so Jiuyou God must resolve Zhao Xing before Great Zhou builds up sufficient strength.

Great Zhou can spare no expense, and Wu Yue God also said, to kill Zhao Xing, can spare no expense likewise!

As long as Zhao Xing can be annihilated, then Great Zhou will have no reason to continue supporting, it will prioritize considering the overall situation.

"Set out immediately!"

Jiuyou God's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

...

Reclaiming Wind Witch City once more granted the Ten Suns Army ten days of extremely precious breathing space, with substantial replenishment in military supplies and realm recovery.

But returning twice to Tianshui River, only allowed the Ten Suns Army to survive temporarily; the real crisis remains unsolved.

Because at this moment, Jiuyou God is already very angry, his subordinates being toyed with by Zhao Xing like this.

Thus, he personally went to the center of the two prefectures - Guiyang County, for overall command.

He knows very well the Ten Suns Army's unique style, adept at maneuvering warfare, trained for the longest time, the entire army's military literacy and organizational level are very high, paired with a good commander, actions are like mercury scattering, slipping from the encirclement unguardedly.

Thus Jiuyou God divided four hundred thousand troops into seven routes, decides to encircle Pin Prefecture once again! At the same time issuing instructions to the seven-route allied forces, must build solid forts, fight stubbornly.

Adopting fortress tactics, hundreds of thousands of troops advancing steadily, step by step, not allowing any one route army to advance rashly.

Gradually shrink the encirclement, gradually restrict the Ten Suns Army's maneuver space.

Making Zhao Xing unable to conduct maneuver warfare, ultimately annihilating Zhao Xing and the Ten Suns Army in Pin Prefecture area.

"Damn, these four hundred thousand are really all coming for me."

After capturing Wind Witch City, Zhao Xing, through Wuyao Army's connections, via secret messages, contacted sect people distributed across the two prefectures, and acquired Jiuyou God's army movement information from them.

But, knowing was not much use either.

"Enemy tight as a drum, our army has no way to penetrate. Being besieged is not viable, must initiate a breakout battle." In the council hall, Zhao Xing discussed with senior commanders.

"Now, we have two choices before us."

"One is to attack Jiuyou Army's direct line, Youyun Commander guarding Tianhe Upper City (originally attacking a small city)."

"Another is to attack Flame Light Royal Court's subordinate, Wan Yansong's Earth Evil City."

Long Xiao immediately said: "One is the core army, one is the auxiliary army, surely attack Wan Yansong right? He must be weaker, easier to attack."

"Right, I also think we should attack Wan Yansong."

"Flame Light Royal Court coming to Lanhe Prefecture, unaccustomed to the environment, the damp climate here, they are not used to."

"Attacking him gives us greater certainty."

Most of the senior authorities expressed their opinions, Long Xiao felt somewhat smug seeing so many agreeing with him.

Seems I, old Long, am sensible too!

"I advocate attacking Jiuyou Army's Great Commander Youyun." At this moment, Zhao Xing spoke up.