After hearing the report from his subordinates, Guo Huai's heart was filled with turmoil.
He even suspected that his ears had heard wrongly.
But the surprised expressions of the generals around him showed that he heard correctly.
Bei Yuan's 130,000-strong army was really repulsed with only 4,000 men.
This is simply impossible for Guo Huai, who always boasts of being a god in military use.
Because no matter how brilliant a general is, he feels helpless in the face of vastly different forces.
"Exactly what happened, tell me in detail, General."
Guo Huai deserves to be the general who leads the army. Even though he was shocked inside, his face quickly regained his composure.
"General Qi, my subordinates have learned that it is an army completely wrapped in iron armor. They wear masks on their faces and hold swords. Even their horses are surrounded by armored skirts. They are almost invulnerable."
"It is said that King Zhenbei's 30,000 troops were defeated by this army."
"So that's it."
Guo Huai couldn't calm down for a long time.
I heard before that King Zhenbei had been captured, and most people in the capital speculated that Li Qingxuan had mobilized troops from the two states.
However, after arriving in Youzhou, Guo Huai asked the governor of Youzhou and found that Li Qingxuan had not mobilized any soldiers from them.
That means there is another army.
But where did such a powerful army come from? Was it secretly cultivated by the empress?
Everyone is holding a Mo Dao. Isn't this the army the late emperor once tried to build?
It's a pity that Mo Dao is too heavy and it is too difficult to find such a strong man, so in the end it was abandoned.
Could it be that this plan did not actually stop, but was successful and passed on to the Empress?
No wonder Guo Huai thinks this way. After all, the establishment of an army requires many years of training and preparation and cannot be born out of thin air.
But there are still doubts. Since the empress knew that there was such an army, why was she so anxious to come to the border first? Before leaving, she also told herself to protect King You.
Why does King You need his own protection?
The empress seemed unaware of this army.
There are more and more questions in my heart.
"Send the order, the army will move forward and enter Beiguguan."
Guo Huai knew that it was useless to think too much now. Once he entered Beiguguan, he would know everything.
"Dingdong, congratulations to the host for successfully signing in and obtaining the Six Demon Sealing Bans."
In the early morning, Li Qingxuan signed in as usual.
As the system beeped, a parchment scroll appeared in Li Qingxuan's hand.
Expand it, click to study, and countless words will flow into Li Qingxuan's mind.
The Six Forbidden Demon Sealing contains six kinds of forbidden spells, each of which can cause indelible damage to the enemy.
The forbidden spell penetrates directly into the enemy's body, causing constant torture to the enemy, making it impossible for the enemy to survive or die.
This technique seems to be right but not right, seems to be evil but not evil, it is simply terrifying.
Li Qingxuan tried to execute the Six Demon Sealing Bans, and a black spell suddenly formed on his fingertips.
As this spell appeared, he suddenly found that countless black energy was surging on his arm, as if trying to escape.
This was the black energy that merged into his body when the demon signed a spiritual contract with him.
Li Qingxuan commanded the spell without hesitation and pounced on the black air.
Immediately, the black energy was so frightened that it left Li Qingxuan's arm and wanted to escape, but was directly imprisoned in the air by the spell.
What can be seen is a drop of blue-black blood, constantly struggling.
"Sure enough, this demon has no good intentions or any spiritual contract. He has clearly buried a nail in my body."
Li Qingxuan used the spell to penetrate directly into the blood.
A shrill scream came from the blood.
At the same time, thousands of miles away in Qingzhifang.
Chen Qingzhi was practicing swordplay in the courtyard. The black cat transformed into a demon was lying on the roof basking in the sun.
It was originally a happy scene, but suddenly the black cat let out a howl as if someone had stepped on its tail, jumped up ten feet high, and then rolled down directly from the roof and lay motionless on the ground.
died?
Chen Qingzhi scratched his head and thought: "This cat is fine, why did it suddenly become ill?"
He picked up the sword and was about to poke it to see if he was dead, when he saw the black cat that had just fallen to the ground suddenly stood up again, glanced at Chen Qingzhi, and then staggered towards the house.
After taking only a few steps, he fell to the ground again and got up again.
Chen Qingzhi took a step back involuntarily.
The look that Black Cat looked at him just now made him feel a great sense of crisis in his heart.
The sword heart that I finally developed almost collapsed.
"Nima, I was so frightened by a cat."
Chen Qingzhi took a deep breath, his eyes filled with sword intent.
The broken sword heart was repaired in an instant, and it became somewhat more refined.
If it were normal, the black cat would be surprised to see Chen Qingzhi's change, but at this moment, he didn't care much anymore. He just hid in the corner of the room and made vicious sounds from his mouth.
"Li Qingxuan, you damn thing, what did you do to my essence and blood? Why do I feel like something vicious is eating away at my vitality?"
"If I hadn't cut off that link in time, I'm afraid that thing would have endangered the main body. Damn it, damn it..."
"If my origin had not been damaged and I needed your bastard to help repair it, I would have to tear you into a thousand pieces, no, tear you into ten thousand pieces..."
Beiguguan, Imperial Envoy Mansion.
A soldier hurriedly came to report.
"Your Highness, King You, an army appeared outside the city, claiming to be the chariot general Guo Huai."
Li Qingxuan had long known about Guo Huai's coming to Beiguguan as commander-in-chief through Flying Eagle's letter, so he was not surprised.
"Guo Huai arrived very quickly. Let General Bai Wei welcome him in. I will wait for him in the lobby."
With Li Qingxuan's identity, it was naturally impossible for him to go out to greet Guo Huai.
"Take orders."
The soldiers leave.
Li Qingxuan changed his clothes and came to the lobby of the Imperial Envoy's Mansion.
At the city gate.
When Guo Huai, greeted by Bai Wei, stepped into Beiguguan, everyone was surprised.
"Are these the only soldiers and horses in the whole city?"
Guo Huai looked at Bai Wei.
"At that time, 130,000 troops from the Northern Yuan Dynasty invaded, and 70,000 troops attacked Pingding Town, so His Highness King You sent 40,000 people to support Pingding Town, leaving only 10,000 troops in the city..."
Mentioning the situation at that time, Bai Wei and Yourong Yan.
Although it was Shura Cavalry who defeated Beiyuan's soldiers and horses, he was still considered a participant after all.
"So that's it."
Guo Huai understood Li Qingxuan's arrangement.
"Let's go, take this general to see His Highness Prince You."
Guo Huai, who had always been arrogant, now admired Li Qingxuan, the empress's husband, whom he had never met before.
When I walked to the entrance of the Imperial Envoy's Mansion, I couldn't help but straighten my clothes, and my expression became much more serious and a little nervous.
There is a feeling of meeting a big shot.
You must know that in the past, even when he met His Majesty the Emperor, he was very calm.