Chapter 204: Chapter 143: The Enemy Army Escaped 2
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Because every time you are a hero, it means someone loses their life.
Although it’s you versus me on the battlefield, if you don’t kill someone, they will kill you, there’s no right or wrong.
But constantly staring at this cruel scene has a great psychological impact on people.
Lu Yuan can accept these things, but after watching for a while, he still feels uncomfortable. Without a serious illness, no one wants to watch his own kind hurt each other.
So he simply stopped watching.
Anyway, there will be people watching the battlefield. After giving an order, he only needs to see if it can be carried out.
And so, three days passed.
In the afternoon of the last day, Bloodstained Long Sword in hand, Gu Wei came to report to his Master.
“Master, after three days of bloody battle, our Vanguard Army has broken through five enemy camps and beheaded 2,300 people.”
At this moment, military officer Gu was more disheveled than before; his clothes were stained with blood, he had a new scar on his body, and his hair was messy.
Today was the last day. Seeing the deadline approaching, the Vanguard Army still could not break through the fifth camp.
Thinking of the Military Order he had made, Gu Wei became anxious.
So, eventually, he donned his armor, led his personal guards, and went to the battlefield himself.
After a fierce battle, several of his men were killed, and he took a sword wound, but the camp was finally broken.
Now, at last, he could complete his task perfectly.
“Well done, you did a good job.”
Seeing the disheveled state of his disciple, Lu Yuan knew Gu Wei had tried his best, so he comforted him, “Go and get a bottle of Rejuvenation Pills from your Senior Brother. Rest well in the next few days, heal your wounds and improve your Inner Strength in the meantime.”
“Yes, thank you, Master, for the reward.” Upon hearing the news, Gu Wei’s face showed his joy.
As a disciple, Gu Wei knew how precious his Master’s Rejuvenation Pills were for martial arts training.
One pill could save five days of hard cultivation. A bottle of 10 pills could save
50 days.
The disciples, let alone how envious they were.
Unsurprisingly, although Lu Yuan did not hide the recipe for the pills, he openly showed it to his disciples.
But to gather enough 100-year-old Herbs for a batch, it took at least a thousand silver tales. In this chaotic world, the price might double due to the scarcity of supplies.
And refining a batch of medicine would only yield ten Rejuvenation Pills at most, only saving 50 days of hard cultivation.
A thousand silver tales for 50 days of Time was unaffordable for many people, even for those considered rich.
Only Lu Yuan, who had plundered a city and taken the savings of 100,000 Miao people, could afford such terrifying consumption.
So, even though his disciples were envious and knew the recipe, they didn’t try to make it in the end.
Because, even if you practiced once or twice, it could only save you two to three months of Time, and the effect wasn’t significant.
But if you persisted, you couldn’t support such consumption.
So instead of grabbing those two or three months, it’s better to save the money for something more useful.
After all, even if they didn’t refine the pills, the daily cost of martial arts training was already a terrifying figure.
A consumption of ten silver tales a month was already a significant amount even for a military officer like Gu Wei.
After completing the task, Gu Wei did not bother Lu Yuan anymore, but rather cleverly went to find Zhou Qing, his Senior Brother, to receive the precious Rejuvenation Pills.
Lu Yuan also took the time to visit the surviving Vanguard soldiers later.
After eight days of battle, the Vanguard Army, originally numbering over 7,000, was reduced to just over 700.
Only one in ten of the remaining soldiers had survived, and they had all come out of a sea of corpses and blood.
Gathering these 700 people together, even Lu Li couldn’t help but shudder when he saw them.
The reason was simple—this unruly, desperate force was too powerful.
He even had the illusion that if he fought against this army, despite being a top warrior now, he would likely die in the end.
Elite, absolute elite.
Such a thought crossed Lu Yuan’s mind, followed immediately by a sense of helplessness.
Because he knew that this elite force would never truly be loyal to him.
This was also very normal.
After all, if you were forced to be a cannon fodder, fighting for your life amidst a mountain of corDses. wouldn’t vou hate the Derson who gave the order?
Just like now, Lu Yuan could clearly feel the hatred in the eyes of many soldiers when they looked at him.
However, most of these gazes were subtle, glancing only for a moment before averting their eyes, not daring to make eye contact.
But there were those with extremely provocative gazes, as if they had already given up on life and had nothing left to fear, staring directly at Lu Yuan with defiance.
As for this, Lu Yuan didn’t care to haggle over it.
After determining in his heart that this force could not be trusted, he gave up on them.
However, he still fulfilled his promise.
Lu Yuan ordered that the 700 soldiers be incorporated into his own ranks as a battalion, still led by Gu Wei.
The title of Vanguard Army was officially disbanded.
As for this newly formed battalion, he had plans for them. When there were dangerous missions or difficult tasks, just let these people go first.
These surviving soldiers of the Vanguard Army, although they were defiant, were indeed good blades.
If used well, they could achieve great results.
Lu Yuan believed that they would perform well in the upcoming attack on the Seven Star Sect.
After the reorganization of the Vanguard Army, and without their cannon fodder, Lu Yuan did not stop the attack on the rebel camps.
As previously said.
When the Vanguard Army was gone, his own forces would advance.
His 15,000 soldiers quickly took turns attacking the rebel camps in batches of 1,000 each.
Of course, being his own core troops, the intensity of their attacks naturally was much lower than that of the Vanguard Army.
Lu Yuan wanted to use these low-intensity battles to train his soldiers and let them gain more combat experience.
The Seven Star Sect rebels were weak opponents with some danger, but not too strong, making them the perfect practice targets.
So this exercise plan, known as ‘Eliminating the Seven Stars,” officially began.
Time continued to flow, and in the blink of an eye, five more days had passed.
In these five days, Lu Yuan’s army had broken through three more camps, killed over a thousand bandits, and suffered even fewer losses, with only about 700 casualties.
As of now, it had been half a month since Lu Yuan’s army arrived at Changning.
In half a month, they had already killed 12,000 bandits, bringing the number of remaining enemy troops below 10,000.
Even with more than half dead, they still resisted, which made Lu Yuan feel astonished and praised the tenacity of the Seven Star Sect rebel army.
He wondered if all armies established based on sects and master-disciple relationships had such tenacity.
If so, it would be troublesome to eliminate other sects that rebel in the future.
Meanwhile.
The Seven Star Sect, which had been besieged outside Changning City and hadn’t been able to escape for half a month, finally got a long-awaited dense fog on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Then, a quiet escape operation took place in the midnight.
The top fighters of the Seven Star Sect cleared the way ahead, using their formidable martial arts to eliminate the scouts they encountered.
The main army followed the safe route cleared by these fighters, racing southward in a desperate escape.
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When Lu Yuan received the news, it was because the scouts hadn’t returned during the shift change, and only then did he realize something was wrong.
After sending someone to investigate, he found out that the Seven Star Sect’s rebel army was trying to escape.
“Pursue! Send the army to pursue!”
Lu Yuan immediately summoned his generals and issued the order.
After half a month of fighting, with 7,000 of his own side dead, it was finally time to reap the rewards. They couldn’t let the enemy army escape just like that..