Chapter 216: Chapter 124: The Lu Family Wants to Form an Alliance, Fu Qiu’s Worries_1
Time flew like a swift steed.
In a blink of an eye, half a month had passed.
In this half month,
the conflict between the Huai Shui County Luo Family and Qingqu County Liang Family had gradually become more intense.
It had even reached a white-hot stage.
Such a situation was unexpected by everyone.
After all, one was Qingqu County, an absolute second-ranking power in Luo Mountain Prefecture,
while the other was the Luo Family from Huai Shui County, a clan with shallow foundations, having risen not even three years.
The strong and the weak should have been clear at a glance.
Initially, the Luo Family from Huai Shui County was indeed at an absolute disadvantage under the attack of Liang Family’s elite troops from Qingqu County.
One side had three hundred thousand armored elites.
The other could muster only a hundred thousand.
Even if Tang Jian was capable in strategy and even if Luo Yong had strong leadership in commanding the army,
under such an absolute disadvantage, it still seemed difficult to turn the situation around.
However, as time went on,
suddenly, a deluge from heaven occurred, and the climate underwent a drastic change.
From the initial heat, it gradually turned into extreme cold.
The Liang Family’s army was caught off guard, instantly losing a hundred thousand men.
Afterward, under Luo Yong’s leadership,
and the continuous attacks by the Luo Family’s forces,
the remaining over two hundred thousand Liang Family’s armored elites lost around fifty thousand.
Although the remaining one hundred and fifty thousand armored elites from the Liang Family managed to retreat in a sorry state back to Qingqu County,
from that point onwards, their people started to harbor fear towards the Luo Family and did not dare to readily initiate an attack on the Luo Family from Huai Shui County.
…
At the border between Qingqu County and Huai Shui County,
in the military camp where the Liang Family from Qingqu County was stationed,
inside a commander’s tent, sat Liang Shichun, the leader of this Liang Family army,
with a head of purple hair that even looked somewhat eerie,
and a robust and fairly tall figure.
He was presently frowning deeply,
sitting in the seat of honor inside the commander’s tent.
Before him, the robust and nearly two meters tall Liang Xu,
who was all sinewy muscle and had a face filled with savagery, spoke in a somewhat deep and husky voice,
complaining with a lack of satisfaction to Liang Shichun, “Damn it, this battle sure is freaking frustrating. We haven’t even properly clashed with the Luo Family from Huai Shui County, yet we were hit by a sudden deluge and disaster of extreme cold weather.”
“Is the heavens really helping that Luo Family and not our Liang Family?”
“What’s so special about that Luo Family…”
The more Liang Xu spoke like this, the more dissatisfied he became.
Eventually,
he even clenched his fists, creating a series of crackling sounds.
“Disaster?”
“Heavens?”
Sitting calmly in the seat of honor, Liang Shichun with the purple hair sneered upon hearing these words and then shook his head.
“The heavens helping the Luo Family?
That remains to be seen…”
Liang Xu grew puzzled and asked, “Liang Shichun, what do you mean by that?”
“Are you saying, it wasn’t the caprice of the heavens?
But the Luo Family?”
“How could that be possible…”
“If the Luo Family from Huai Shui County really could control floods and extreme cold disasters, how would they remain in this little Huai Shui County?
If the Luo Family from Huai Shui County really could control the changes in weather, wouldn’t the whole Luo Mountain Prefecture have already become theirs?”
As these words from Liang Xu were spoken,
the atmosphere in the commander’s tent gradually became silent.
“At first, I didn’t believe it either…”
After a long silence, Liang Shichun, sitting in the seat of honor, suddenly raised his head and said calmly to Liang Xu, “However, ever since I learned that the Luo Family from Huai Shui County also experienced a similar disaster as the sudden deluge when they dealt with the bandits of White Lotus Stockade in Yellow Mountain County,
I had no choice but to believe…”
Liang Xu’s brows furrowed slightly and his sinewy, savage face couldn’t help but show some confusion, “Could the Luo Family really be so inexplicably supernatural?”
Liang Shichun looked at Liang Xu and after a moment of thought, said softly, “Whether it’s true or not, supernatural or not, we’ll know once we test it.”
Liang Xu asked, “How do we test it?”
Liang Shichun replied calmly, “You’ll know when the time comes…”
…
In Huai Shui County, Qingshi County City, on the Luo Family Ancestral Land,
in the room where the Luo Family Patriarch resided.
Luo Ping was sitting firmly in the seat of honor.
He was dealing with administrative affairs with a calm demeanor.
In this half month, the number of matters Luo Ping needed to handle had gradually increased.
In addition to the administrative affairs within Huai Shui County,
he also needed to extensively dispatch food to the frontlines of the war against Qingqu County.
After all, as the old saying goes,
before an army marches, its provisions go first.
This highlights the importance of food supplies.
Even though the Luo Family had now become a family of cultivators, with the clan’s old ancestor having broken through to the Blood Refinement Realm,
all wars in the mundane world ultimately rely on soldiers to fight.
It’s not as if the family could ask their old ancestor to emerge and deal with the enemy in every battle, could they?
That seems somewhat impractical…
“Family Head… ”
While Luo Ping was burying himself in his work, diligently handling his duties,
a Luo Family servant silently walked into the room.
“What is it?”
Luo Ping glanced at the servant before him and asked in a low voice.