MTL - Martial Arts Master Travelled to Ancient Time and Farms-Chapter 318 The deepest dark hour before dawn
Chapter 318 The deepest dark moment before dawn
Xiao Man actually wanted to lead troops to attack Chixia City a long time ago, but due to various reasons, he couldn't do it right away.
It is one thing to wait for Cheng Lingshang to heal, and another thing is that Xiao Man didn't want to take the water route to attack Chixia City head-on, but he had already thought about it. Attack!
This decision can be said to be very dangerous, because the city to the west of Chixia City originally belonged to Wang Yong, the faction of King Ming.
After Qidu was captured by the Wei army, Wang Yong was captured, and Cangtian King occupied Chixia City again, the pattern around Chixia City also changed accordingly.
For nearly a month, Cang Tianwang took Chixia City as his base, and began to frantically sweep all the cities along the south bank of Shenchuan.
Most of these cities, states and counties belonged to the royal family in the past. After Wang Yong was captured, the subordinates of the royal family also split up like scattered sand. King Cangtian took this opportunity to gather the remnants of the royal family.
King Cangtian stayed in Chixia City, but he didn't advance northward for a long time. It doesn't mean that he really stayed here stupidly, just waiting for Wei Jun to attack, and then he didn't do anything.
In fact, the waiting of the Heavenly King is also accumulating strength.
From his actions, it can be seen that he may want to quickly unify the south bank of Shenchuan first, and then concentrate his strength on a decisive battle with the Wei army.
Of course, Wei Jun is not dead, but it may not be that he will wait there obediently and act according to the steps envisaged by the King of Heaven.
Therefore, Cangtian King deployed a large number of warships in the area of Shenchuan, which is separated from Chixia City and Qidu.
The Qi army is generally weaker than the Wei army, there is no doubt about it, but not necessarily the water army.
Especially between offense and defense, the offensive side always needs more power than the defensive side!
In this case, if the Wei army wants to attack Chixia City, it is easier to go by water, but it will undoubtedly be more difficult.
Xiao Man's bold decision won the approval of most of the generals of the Wei army, and those who liked to disagree with Xiao Man, such as Yang Fang, the **** and supervisor of the army, were "solved" by Xiao Man in advance.
It wasn’t some clever and complicated scheme, it was just that a young general in the Wei army “accidentally” opened the window of Yang Fang’s room to ventilate during the night patrol, and Yang Fang suffered from the cold from that night.
At first it was just a low fever, but after taking medicine, it was not good, and the low fever turned into a high fever.
The high fever subsides, subsides and comes back up again and again, with coughing and stuffy nose, making people dizzy and very uncomfortable.
If it was a fatal illness, it wasn't, but Yang Fang couldn't stand the lingering wind and cold.
Come on, what else can I do? Yang Fang could only rest.
Not to mention running out to contradict Xiao Man, this is what Yang Fang is best at, quietly making small reports to Jingzhong... He doesn't have the energy to do it again.
The naysayers were gradually isolated, and the rest naturally listened to Xiao Man's voice, so Xiao Man actively planned a detour.
Of course, there is one more episode worth mentioning in the interim.
Earlier, Xiao Man was very emotionally unstable, and sometimes even split into a "second personality" strangely. Not long ago, Xiao Man discussed this matter with Cheng Ling, but Cheng Ling raised a question, suspecting that there was something wrong with the incense Xiao Man used daily, which might contain drugs, which could arouse people's emotional changes.
Xiao Man naturally attached great importance to Cheng Ling's guess.
But he didn't want to involve Cheng Ling too deeply in these matters, so after returning, he just silently checked everyone around him, and at the same time secretly checked all the commonly used things around him.
After such a sweeping search, Xiao Man really found out many problems around him.
Some of these problems were already well known to him, but he deliberately turned a blind eye to them. Others are horrifyingly terrifying.
For example, the incense he often used, on the surface, actually can't detect any problems. But there is a scent of glass dragon in the incense, and when it is combined with the smell of cloud smoke ink that Xiao Man used to use in his study, it is easy to produce a strange phantom poison.
The existence of this phantom poison is concealed and long-lasting. It will not obviously harm the human body, but it is easy to make people excited and energetic. Over time, it has the same effect as the five stone powder that was once popular in Qi State.
The nobles of Qi State are used to eating five stone powder, and they regard it as a strange thing to improve the spirit, enhance the understanding, and stimulate the spiritual sense.
As everyone knows, this thing overdraws the vitality of the human body, and after a long time of use, good people can turn into lunatics!
The things in the censer of the little emperor of Qi actually have such characteristics.
It's just that he is not like Xiao Man who practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he is endowed with extraordinary talents.
Therefore, Xiao Man usually doesn't seem crazy, but only splits into a "second personality" at certain times.
Of course, this is not a good thing.
So Xiao Man started "fishing" after clearing away all the phantom poison around him.
This night, Cheng Ling pretended to be Koizumi, and waited for the dawn together with the little emperor of Qi, separated by a wall.
At the same time, Xiao Man led his army through the two cities in the southwest of Chixia City overnight.
The defenders of these two cities were instigated by Xiao Man's subordinates in just half a month!
Luring them with profit, forcing them with power, plus all kinds of weakness attacks... After all, as long as you are a person, you must have weaknesses. As long as you catch them, as long as the opponent is not a die-hard loyalist who is loyal to the emperor—
Of course not, with the dilapidated state of Qi, how can there be any loyalists now?
The Wei army went all the way, came down from the upper reaches of Shenchuan, bypassed Baochang County in the west of Chixia City from the Southwest Road of Qi State, and Changlin City, and quietly marched towards the west of Chixia City.
In the position of the central army, the chariot that Xiao Man was riding in was guarded with the highest standard among numerous personal guards.
But among the personal guards, some of the most capable and sensitive confidantes were sent out by Xiao Man and became the leading generals in the army today.
For these generals, it is more promising to lead troops to kill the enemy on the battlefield than to serve as the prince's personal guard. For Xiao Man, infiltrating his confidants into the army would naturally help him control the army even more.
This is a win-win approach, and there is nothing wrong with it.
The only problem is that, in this way, the defense force around Xiao Man will inevitably decline.
Especially at such a moment, even the powerful hidden guards around him were dispatched by him, either as scouts to explore the way, or as assassins, focusing on killing the scouts belonging to the King of Heaven.
Xiao Man's side seemed to be heavily guarded, but actually it seemed to be a vacuum.
In this way, the chariots and horses glisten, the moon enters the clouds, and when the last star in the sky is darkened, the deepest dark moment before dawn has arrived.
Sitting in the chariot, Xiao Man seemed to be resting with his eyes closed. Suddenly he felt an unspeakable palpitation. When he opened his eyes suddenly, he saw a cold light.
(end of this chapter)
