Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!-Chapter 1477 - 336: March to Lu’an to Rescue Sister-in-Law

However, this route should not be chosen by the Ruyang King. Firstly, the sailors under the Ruyang King are not very strong; his ace troop is his fifty thousand-strong White Deer Army.

Sailors are not his forte.

Secondly, during the last Treasure Book Glory Conference, he had thoroughly offended Fang Guozhen of the East Sea Divine Dragon Sect. The two parties are essentially hostile; if the Ruyang King dares to take the water route, the Divine Dragon Sect’s thirty thousand Divine Dragon Soldiers would definitely teach the Ruyang King a lesson on the water.

The Ruyang King is not foolish, so he definitely won’t risk taking the water route, which could easily result in losing both the lady and the soldiers!

Therefore, Chen Jie can be one hundred percent sure that the Ruyang King will not take the water route.

With no water route, he can only take the land route, and for the shortest distance, he must pass through Anhui Lu’an, which is very close to Chen Jie’s Huangzhou Prefecture. Hence, Chen Jie decided to intercept at Lu’an directly.

Due to time constraints, it was unrealistic for Chen Jie to gather a large troop to move towards Lu’an. Firstly, a large military mobilization would easily alert the Ruyang King, who might change his route or increase his defenses, making things very troublesome.

Therefore, at this moment, Chen Jie prepared to dispatch a surprise troop, and the Vermilion Bird Guards were his cavalry. The Vermilion Bird Guards should be the second-best troop after the Azure Dragon Guards. When leaving Huangzhou Prefecture, heading towards Wushan, he had passed down the military strategy from Wu Mu’s Legacy. As long as they truly practiced according to his strategy teachings, after a month, this troop should have become a elite unit.

Thinking of this, Chen Jie immediately ordered the outpost in Qianjiang Prefecture to issue his commander’s orders.

Watching the Hai Dongqing quickly deliver the message, Chen Jie breathed a sigh of relief, while instructing his men to prepare wine and food, followed by setting up a quiet room for his rest.

Originally, he intended to head straight for Longxing Prefecture, but changed his mind midway. Firstly, the distance from him to Longxing Prefecture was too far; five days would be entirely spent traveling, barely making it to Longxing Prefecture, such hurried travel would exhaust both people and horses.

Even if he reached Longxing Prefecture, his combat power would be greatly reduced. Besides, what kind of place is Longxing Prefecture? The Ruyang King’s stronghold, guarded by fifty thousand White Deer Army—how could he snatch or rob?

By that time, with the Ruyang King plus fifty thousand troops, not just himself, but even the few top Heavenly List figures wouldn’t dare to charge at the Ruyang King amidst the military formation.

These military-born princes include the Ruyang King, King Qi, and the fourth in the world, the Treasure Elephant Army Commander Boluo Timur. If speaking solely of personal martial power, the Heavenly List ranking would be correct, but when adding military strategy skills.

Relying on military formation power to charge in, these three’s strength far exceeds average Heavenly List experts, even nearing the Fourth Transition Melt God Realm level.

Someone asked, what is Fourth Transition Melt God? The Melt God Realm is divided into five transitions, each level is a higher realm. If reaching Fifth Transition, that would be the Land Immortal Realm.

For example, back then Han Shantong was at the Fourth Transition Peak; just taking the next step would be the Land Immortal!

Ordinarily like the Ruyang King, his combat power should be at around Second Transition; for example, Mother Gu is around First Transition, but if the Ruyang King combines with the White Deer Army formation, his strength could directly compare to Fourth Transition Peak!

Even the openly known Third among the Four Transition experts in the world, Yuan Sanjia, wouldn’t dare to fight the Ruyang King within the military formation, unless Yuan Sanjia also had a large army to support.

This is the fearsome nature of military formations, and commanders who use strategy like gods can even reach Land Immortal realm strength with military formation power.

Such individuals are known as Military Saints, like General Yue Fei from the previous dynasty. If only considering his personal martial power, he was about Second Transition Melt God. But if placed among his hundred thousand Yue Army.

That’s the Military Saint Yue Pengju, the Land Immortal Realm combat strength that is said to shake mountains but not the Yue Army!

If not for the Jin Dynasty’s despicable methods and Emperor Gaozong’s fear, recalling General Yue with twelve imperial edicts, would he have met his end at the Fengbo Pavilion.

Had General Yue been within the military formation, he would have been invincible in the mortal realm. But alas, no military strategy can surpass human heart’s malice—the world ultimately falls into the hands of the cunning!

This might be the Heavenly Mandate!

Therefore, Chen Jie madly rushing to Longxing Prefecture to save people, given his current Middle Melting Furnace Realm cultivation, if surrounded by the Ruyang King leading the army, Chen Jie likely faces only one outcome—body and soul annihilation!

Thus, along the way, Chen Jie thought through many things, developed many plans, finally coming up with a strategy—to bypass Longxing Prefecture and ambush directly near Anhui Lu’an, as the area is mountainous, if rescuing someone, he could take them into the forests and then find a way to leave.

Furthermore, blocking the Ruyang Royal Mansion’s men in Lu’an has the added benefit of saving a lot of time, giving Chen Jie the leisure to complete his arrangements.

Thus, it can be said, there are many advantages!

As for why it saves time, no need to elaborate; it takes roughly a day and a half to travel from Longxing Prefecture to Lu’an.

And the time needed from Chen Jie’s location in Qianjiang Prefecture to Longxing Prefecture is almost the same as to Lu’an, meaning, Chen Jie going directly to Lu’an could save a day and a half.

This is extremely crucial for Chen Jiusi who is very pressed for time.

Thus, Chen Jie quickly zeroed in on Lu’an, arranged everything, and immediately began to eat. Chen Jie, having rushed madly, hadn’t eaten anything en route, and was now extremely hungry.