Retrograde for thousands of years

Chapter 35
Zhou Huan slept well in the room for a whole day, eating a lot to make up for the loss of physical strength caused by his deformation last night.

When he woke up from sleep, Tang Yuniang returned home and told Zhou Huan that the Northern Wei army did not attack the city today.

This is understandable. In this era, the army needs a coach to maintain the integrity of the team. Once the coach is absent, the following powerful factions will be wary of each other and even fight. It will never be like the modern army that immediately elects a new leader and can use his arms and fingers.

After touching the little girl's head, Zhou Huan walked out of the guard and happened to hear a few soldiers chatting.

"Let me tell you, Mr. Zhou read a hundred thousand volumes of the Taoist Canon, and learned from it a skill that shocked the world and made ghosts and gods weep. He created three-thirds of the scriptures. Just one of the skills contained in it is enough to be passed down to the world."

"That's true. Luo Laoliu competed with me these days and won three games in a row. He said he learned Mr. Zhou's sword skills."

"I heard that Mr. Zhou is also proficient in the art of Qi training. Have you ever heard of Qi training? It's those skills that can make people control the wind and rain, just like gods."

These soldiers were chattering and chatting, and when Zhou Huan came out, they immediately became very respectful, with smiles blooming on their faces, and all kinds of flattery came over continuously.

This is an era of illiteracy and superstition. Even foolhardy men can deceive five or six people. But when someone with real skills appears in front of everyone, how can these soldiers not be admired?
"I'm not as powerful as you say, I just know a little bit of Qi refining and killing techniques. Are you ready with everything?"

"It's ready, please don't worry, Mr. Zhou."

"Mr. Zhou, the princess has told us that she will visit you soon after you wake up."

"No, as long as you prepare what I want."

They were some carbon powder, kerosene and poison-quenched crossbow arrows. When he flew above the Northern Wei military camp last night, he found many loopholes that could be exploited.

Defense in this era has never considered the sky. Zhou Huan's attack on the Northern Wei camp was tantamount to a dimensionality reduction attack.

Northern Wei military camp.

The army of the Northern Wei Dynasty was in chaos for a day, and Helian Tieshu's attack made everyone have different thoughts.

The army in the feudal era often consisted of several large military leaders united together, and then a larger military leader controlled the army. This is why the commander suddenly died on the battlefield, and the hundreds of thousands of troops below became useless. The reason for fighting spirit.

The final result of the game was that Murong Shiqing temporarily took over the identity of Helian's cavalry and commanded the army.

"The person who killed General Helian was an assassin named Zhou Huan from the Southern Dynasty. He sneaked into the tent last night and succeeded by luck. According to the reports from the spies in the city, he will continue to go out of the city to assassinate us tonight. The generals are already here Keep more guards around you.”

This is what Murong Shiqing ordered his men to do. He also wore heavy armor and was followed by dozens of guards on alert at all times.

Of course, there is more news that Murong Shiqing has not announced to the outside world. For example, Zhou Huan compiled a three-part scripture, and there are two sword manuals in the information sent.

"Commander Lin, what do you think?"

He gave the sword manual to the guard commander next to him, and the other party's answer was straightforward.

"The sword book is good, and the summaries in it are not bad, but in battle, first look at armor and weapons, and then look at blood experience. No matter how well these things are practiced, one can't be against ten. I mean ten men in soft armor. Soldier, general, don’t worry, no matter how powerful Zhou Huan is, as long as he dares to charge into the formation, he will die."

"But……"

Murong Shiqing was still a little hesitant.

"General, those martial arts people are very good at one-on-one mobile fighting, but when it comes to strong soldiers and long arrows, it is not worth mentioning. No matter how powerful the master is, he cannot be defeated by ten people. Even the ancient legend is invincible. The name is coming, give me nine guards and I can kill him!"

Commander Lin was explaining this, and suddenly, there was a loud noise outside the big tent.

"What, the food and grass were burned?"

After rushing out of the camp, Murong Shiqing looked at the fire rising into the sky in the distance, and his whole body was frozen.

———Separator————

Today's actions are much easier than yesterday.

The goshawk transformed by Zhou Huan has a good load-bearing capacity and can carry about one hundred kilograms of things flying in the sky. After Zhou Huan transformed into a goshawk, he took a bag full of kerosene and flew to the place where the Northern Wei army stored grain and grass. , scratched the opening of the belt with his claws, and sprinkled it on the open-air pile of grain and grass.

There were no radars and searchlights in this era, and the entire barracks was pitch-black except for a few bonfires. Soldiers were not allowed to wander around to prevent the camp from screaming, and the strength of the group was weakened to a minimum.

After several rounds of pouring kerosene on the open-air piles of grain and grass, Zhou Huan used a match rope to start burning the camp.After the raging fire burned, Zhou Huan flew into the sky to watch the excitement.

He has no idea of ​​assassinating the enemy commander for the time being. Even if he is a master of cold weapons, those enemy generals have experienced hundreds of battles. It is already very risky to attack the Helian Iron Cavalry. If the other party is not drunk, it may not succeed.The fire was so big that you could see it even if you flew to the top of Chuzhou City.Zhou Huan left only after seeing the flames burning.

"Who!"

The patrolling soldiers noticed something strange happening inside the city and roared loudly.

"It's me who just sneaked back from outside the city."

Zhou Huan touched his nose. He couldn't appear in the city every time. He had to show traces of his sneaking in from outside the city and don't make people doubt that he could fly.

"It's Mr. Zhou, how did you get up here? We didn't even notice it."

"How could Mr. Zhou be discovered by you? If he was discovered so easily, how could he sneak into the Wei army's camp?"

"Mr. Zhou has worked hard."

The soldiers who recognized Zhou Huan immediately came forward with smiles.

"It's not hard work. I went all the way tonight in vain. I didn't kill Murong Shiqing. I just burned a lot of their food and grass. It's a pity."

Zhou Huan imitated the appearance of an expert, with a calm and calm attitude.

"How is it possible? Burning the opponent's food and grass is a more powerful act than killing a general. Mr. Zhou, are you tired? Let's carry you back?"

The soldiers on top of the city all narrowed their eyes when they smiled. Burning the enemy's food and grass was a great achievement. Usually, those spies bragging about how powerful they were were just actively contacting the enemy. But Mr. Zhou went deep into the city alone. Besides, burning the enemy's food and fodder is simply a miracle.

Early the next morning, when Zhou Huan was still sleeping on the bed, the whole Chuzhou City began to spread the news of Zhou Huan's glorious deeds. What Zhou Huan? Picked eighteen generals of the enemy army, broke through nine camps, and approached Helian cavalry, no, in front of Murong Shiqing, bent his bow and shot an arrow, and the arrow hit Murong Shiqing's helmet.

Murong Shiqing pretended to be dead and escaped. Zhou Huan, who thought he had killed Murong Shiqing, turned around again and burned the enemy's food and grass before returning to the city.

What, you said Master Zhou is still sleeping?
This is bullshit. This is not sleeping. Mr. Zhou is closing his eyes to rest. After working hard all night last night, can't he take a good rest?

Even Princess Pingyang ordered not to disturb Mr. Zhou, who doesn't have a good eye?

In the following days, Zhou Huan would go out of the city for a few laps every night. The goshawk's eyes had the function of night vision, and there was no way to hide from any ambush from a high altitude.

Burn some food, grass and weapons every day, or kill two or three lone soldiers, or even sneak into the stables to attack the defenseless horses, or write "I'll see you tomorrow night" on the enemy's camp where there is no commander.

Zhou Huan acted very cautiously. He knew his own limits and did not attempt to kill the opponent's generals. When these people heard that martial arts masters were coming to assassinate them, they would definitely gather a large number of sergeants around them for defense. The elite sergeants of this era were all from The veterans who survived the battlefield, although they did not know any routine sword skills, were good at cold weapon combat. In a peaceful era, they were guaranteed to be double bonuses for major associations.

It seems that he still needs to improve his personal combat effectiveness. Zhou Huan thought and acted in this way.

He taught the sergeants the knowledge of cold weapon combat every afternoon, and at the same time practiced with them on wooden swords and wooden spears.One-on-one, one-on-one, he has made great progress.

This also made him understand that the cold weapon fighting master's exchange really cannot make him a superman, especially when he is under siege. He has lost several times in these sparring sessions, but no one thinks that Zhou Huan lost, because Zhou Huan told everyone that he would not use Qi during sparring, but would only use moves to fight with everyone.

No one thought Zhou Huan was lying. The numerous achievements outside Chuzhou City made everyone admire Zhou Huan very much - he went through life and death for everyone every night, fought on the battlefield, and taught everyone martial arts during the day, even to make everyone more capable. Exercise well and would rather get injured than use the extremely powerful Qi.

Time passes like this day by day. In Chuzhou City, which is surrounded by [-] troops, the morale of the soldiers and civilians actually rises instead of falling. Everyone can stand at the top of the city every night to watch the fireworks show outside the city and guess what is going on in the darkness.

The Northern Wei army attacked several times, but was repelled because of low morale.

Even Princess Pingyang, who would be worried every time after Zhou Huan's attack, was relieved, slept soundly until dawn, and waited for the good news that Zhou Huan would bring back.

On the morning of No. 16, Zhou Huan came back from his evening attack and told Princess Pingyang that he could attack that night.

The Northern Wei army, which had been harassed for two weeks, finally showed its flaws - the [-]-strong army had been hungry for several days. The harassment every night made them unable to sleep well. The army mobilized ambushes to make the camp defense even more difficult. Evacuation, as for the confidentiality of information?Zhou Huan often turned into an eagle and squatted in the camp to eavesdrop on the retreat plans of the Northern Wei army.

Retreat is the most vulnerable moment for an army.

That night, five hundred soldiers descended from the city wall and attacked the Wei army camp in the north of the city. At this time, the Wei army was in full retreat. An hour later, the Wei army was defeated and scattered for three hundred miles, with countless casualties.

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