Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 475 - 228, Enchantress, so utterly vicious!_3
"All troops, quickly retreat to Longguan Prefecture! Those in the Gang Qi Realm and above, cover the retreat of the main force! Any violators will face military law; move it!"
As soon as Gu Tianyun saw Great Jin’s warships at the river mouth, he had already issued the retreat command. His reaction was extremely quick, but even so, it was still not enough to prevent the sheer collapse of the army. Watching hundreds, perhaps thousands, of his elite soldiers be slain by Great Jin’s troops, his heart twisted in agony.
After all, Great Jin had the advantage of being well-rested, and a retreat wouldn’t be so easy.
With a frosty expression, Gu Tianyun, not caring about the others, brandished the Melting Sky Sword and charged first into the Great Jin military formation, intimidating the Jin soldiers and saving a group of his own. Then he unleashed several bursts of fiery red Sword Qi like streams of magma. Perhaps to vent his frustration, he slaughtered dozens of Great Jin soldiers in one go.
With him leading the charge, the other experts from the Xuzhou Army also rushed forward to cover the retreat. Within hundreds of breaths, they actually managed to carve a gap in the battlefield, rescuing many Xuzhou soldiers.
"Weren’t you very pleased with yourself just now, Sword Master Gu!"
Even with his vital energy suppressed, Gu Tianyun’s strength was still leagues beyond ordinary people. Not to mention a Grandmaster, even the Yuan Dan Realm generals of Great Jin couldn’t get close to him. At this moment, the only ones who could approach him were Martial Cultivators of the Yin Yang Holy Realm.
A cold voice reached his ears, and Gu Tianyun swept away more than ten Great Jin soldiers in front of him with a single stroke of his sword. Then, his voice full of hatred, he turned and roared back, "I truly didn’t expect you, enchantress, to be so ruthlessly cruel!"
At this point, if Gu Tianyun still couldn’t’ see through it, then his title as Sword Master of Xizhao would really be a joke...
Zhan Taiqing had no intention of defending Longguan at all. Everything was designed to lure the enemy into a trap—forcing his army into Longguan.
If Zhan Taiqing really wanted to hold Longguan Prefecture, he would have just let the Great Jin forces enter the city. With his army of 800,000, there was no way to break through Longguan.
Losing Longguan was intentional. Without Great Jin’s soldiers, the Demon Sect couldn’t hold Longguan, but if the 200,000 elite Jin troops appeared prematurely, he might abandon Longguan and retreat to defend Ling Dong, coordinating an attack with the forces in the prefectural city to annihilate Zhang Zhenwei’s army of 100,000.
Zhan Taiqing dragged him into fighting at Longguan for two days and nights, sapping the morale of his army, then using a crushing defeat to bait him into pursuing the victory. That’s when the 200,000 troops of Great Jin would make their move—not only inflicting heavy casualties on his troops but also forcing him to retreat back to Longguan Prefecture.
Right now, Gu Tianyun was feeling desperate. From the moment he attacked Longguan to the moment he saw the Great Jin warships, throughout these entire two days and nights, he had been on guard against Zhan Taiqing’s deceit. It was only after seeing nearly 200,000 of the Demon Sect’s forces fall that he finally relaxed.
He had firmly believed that Zhan Taiqing could not possibly sacrifice the lives of 200,000 soldiers just to deceive the enemy. But he had severely underestimated Zhan Taiqing’s ruthlessness. How could she dare? How could she actually dare?
Seeing Zhan Taiqing standing calmly in front of him, her face showing no sign of the previous panic, deepened the sense of chaos in Gu Tianyun’s heart...
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Not to mention whether he could hold Longguan Prefecture with his army against the approaching forces of Great Jin and the Demon Sect, totaling nearly 700,000. Even if he did hold it, the lengths to which Zhan Taiqing had gone to force him into Longguan suggested an even grander scheme!
What kind of scheme would be worth the lives of 200,000 soldiers?
Once he retreated to Longguan, with Zhang Zhenwei’s army of 100,000 Earthshade Monastic Soldiers from Leiyin Temple in the prefectural city watching him, the forces Xuzhou had stationed across the Guangling Prefecture would be completely immobilized...
A flash of realization suddenly struck Gu Tianyun’s mind. He violently looked towards the direction of Lingyuan Prefecture to the south, his eyes filling with horror...
"My dear Sword Master Gu, you’re just realizing this now, but it’s too late!"
Taoba Tao’s mocking voice rang in his ears, sending a chill through Gu Tianyun’s heart, and the Melting Sky Sword in his hand seemed to dim a few shades.
