Bright Sword: I don’t want to be the king!

However, as mentioned earlier.

Just as the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army was ready to launch an all-out attack on the Japanese, the greater the turmoil caused by Cao Geng, the more advantageous it would be for them.

In this way, Cao Geng's side would naturally help the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army distract some of the attention of the Japanese evil spirits in Huairong City.

At this moment, if the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army could immediately gather the strength of its monks to launch a comprehensive magical attack on the Japanese, their offensive would probably proceed more smoothly.

"Since Cao Geng has already taken action, we can no longer stand idly by." Chu Yunfei continued to the shocked monks around him, "Originally, we planned to launch a general attack on Huairong Secret Realm within three days, but now it seems that the general attack on Huairong Secret Realm should be launched immediately!"

It was really helpless. The turmoil caused by Cao Geng was so severe. If the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army wanted to launch a general attack on the Japanese evil spirits in Huairong City, they had to seize every favorable opportunity.

At this moment, Cao Geng had created an excellent opportunity for them to fight.

Then they have no choice but to take decisive action at this opportunity.

However, when the high-ranking monks of the Jinsui Army reached a consensus and decided to immediately launch a general attack on the Huairong Secret Realm, what the high-ranking monks of the Jinsui Army did not know was:

The Qianlong Task Force, which had previously followed Cao Geng's orders and secretly sneaked into the Huairong Secret Realm with the intention of destroying the Japanese evil spirit Hyogo, also quietly infiltrated into the Huairong Secret Realm at this moment.

With the assistance of the Qianlong Task Force under Cao Geng, it would be easy for the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army to completely eradicate the Japanese evil spirits in Huairong City.

At this moment, when Chu Yunfei was preparing to lead the main monks of the Jinsui Army under his command to launch a general attack on the Huairong Secret Realm, Cao Geng had also quietly arrived here with his troops outside the Ping'an Secret Realm.

Originally, Cao Geng and the monks from the third battalion had agreed that everyone must arrive here within six hours. However, due to their eagerness to rescue the Weidi village, all members arrived after only four and a half hours.

"Captain, what should we do next?" After everyone gathered, Wang Huaibao, Kong Jie and others focused their eyes on Cao Geng.

Cao Geng led his troops and hid in the dark, holding the magic weapon of clairvoyance in his hand, looking towards the direction of the Ping'an secret realm.

On the other side, those Japanese evil spirits seemed to be unaware and continued to patrol and guard as usual.

Cao Geng showed a cold look on his face, and immediately began to explain to everyone in detail his tactical and strategic arrangements for conquering the Ping'an Secret Realm.

Cao Geng's eyes fell on the company commanders. He said, "Qingling Anyi City has been explored by our intelligence monks. This place is not a strategic location guarded by the demon tribe. Therefore, the demon tribe garrison in the city, except for the secret task force led by Yamamoto Ikki, only has a small demon army."

A small demon army is insignificant in the eyes of the monks of the third battalion. However, if these demon armies and the monks of the third battalion are just a simple battle to defend the city, it will also be a difficult matter for the soldiers of the third battalion.

Moreover, although Yamamoto Ikki's secret task force had suffered heavy losses at the hands of the monks of the Third Battalion, that was also the result of the monks of the Third Battalion's thunderous means of victory. If they were to fight head-on, it was difficult to predict how much damage Yamamoto Ikki's task force could bring to the key strategic positions of the Third Battalion.

After all, the strength of this kind of elite troops had been learned by the monks of the Third Battalion when they had previously confronted the Abyss Guards. In some cases, the strength of this kind of elite troops was not something that an ordinary army could resist.

Therefore, even when the battalion commander seemed to hint that it would not be too difficult to capture Qingling Anyi City, all the company commanders present fell into deep thought.

In short, if they were to engage in a head-on conflict with the demon army in Qingling Anyi City, they would not have a significant advantage even though their three battalions of cultivators assembled here numbered nearly two thousand.

To win this battle, they had no choice but to use wisdom.

"Captain, what's your plan?" Wang Huaibao asked Cao Geng decisively. It was the tradition of the deputy commander of the third battalion to consult the battalion commander whenever making decisions.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Cao Geng, who continued, "It would be foolish for us to go head-to-head with this small demon army."

"On the contrary, if we choose to attack Qingling Anyi City directly, it will be a tactic that needs to be honed for us."

"We don't have any more time to delay at this point."

"The Xiaweidi Village is under heavy siege by the entire demon army. We must quickly capture Qingling Anyi City!"

"Therefore, if we want to capture this city in a short period of time, we only have one strategy - besiege the city!"

"A siege must have a gap?" Hearing this, almost no one among the company commanders present, except Kong Jie, could understand the meaning. It was obvious that they were not familiar with this allusion in the Taiyi Military Classic.

Only Kong Jie, the former head of the clan, naturally knew the meaning of this idiom from "The Art of War" and instantly understood the meaning of Cao Geng's words. However, he still had doubts in his heart and had not yet asked questions.

"A siege must have a gap?!" The other company commanders looked at Cao Geng in confusion, not even knowing what this sentence meant.

Cao Geng then explained...

"When besieging a city, we must leave a gap. This means that when besieging a spiritual realm, we should surround it three times, but we must leave a ray of hope for the enemy. However, when we give the enemy this way out, we do not allow them to escape easily. In fact, we deploy heavy troops here to hide murderous intentions, so that the enemy will fall into the Senluo formation we have already set up while fleeing in panic."

The surrounding spirits must be open, which is one of the eight major combat rules described in the God of War chapter of "Xuan Sun Bing Lue".

Throughout the ages, this military strategy has helped many monk leaders win countless battles to defend their cities.

Even though the number of people under Cao Geng's command is smaller than that of the Japanese monks in Ping'an County, the overall cultivation resources of the Japanese are far superior to those of Cao Geng's disciples in the three halls.

But this does not mean that Cao Geng could not make the Japanese people run around in the city of Pyeongan County in a panic like a lost dog.

Just as Cao Geng had previously led his troops to attack the Huairen County City.

He ordered the rest of his disciples to deploy troops on the periphery to exert pressure, while he himself went deep into the county town and launched ruthless attacks on the strategic points of the Japanese.

By then, outside the city of Ping'an County, nearly two thousand disciples of the three halls of Cao Geng were ready to go, while Cao Geng himself would launch a fierce offensive against the Japanese strongholds inside.

With such internal and external complications, the only way the Japanese could escape was through the survival hole left by Cao Geng.

However, they did not know that the passage they thought they could use to escape through the hands of Cao Geng's three palaces was exactly the trump card that Cao Geng had carefully reserved.

Cao Geng's move also prevented the Japanese from launching a desperate counterattack with the disciples of the Three Halls once they knew that the Ping'an County City had been completely blocked after the situation became unfavorable.

At this moment, after hearing Cao Geng's words, everyone was still thinking deeply.

Cao Geng continued, “In short, Ping’an County is located in the heart of the plain, so we need to openly encircle and suppress it from three sides of the city wall. As for the other side of the city gate, we need to leave a glimmer of hope for Yamamoto Ikki and his ilk.

We must station at least three companies of elite monks and heavy magic weapons at this gap, ready to strike a fatal blow to the Japanese at any time."

"Before that, you don't need to worry about the Japanese gathering their strength to counterattack our army... Because I will sneak into the city and destroy the Japanese command post before you launch an offensive. You just need to follow my instructions and ambush."

"Once you receive the signal I sent from inside the city, you can launch the siege according to the tactics we agreed upon in advance."