The Savage Lady Wants to Kill Me! Reborn on the Path of Cultivation

Zheng Guang nodded in agreement, his tone firm: "Your Excellency has a good idea. If we can lure these 50,000 Jin troops into the Taishan ambush circle and annihilate them in one fell swoop, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the Jin people. After that, our army will be able to march straight to the enemy camp outside Mucheng!"

However, Lu Jingyuan frowned, shook his head and sighed: "We have to avoid being caught up by the enemy, and cleverly bypass their blockade. This is very difficult."

Zheng Guang nodded slightly, his eyes gleaming with wisdom. "It is true that there are many challenges, but our army has the falcon as its eyes, which can spy on the enemy silently. This help is like adding wings to a tiger, and the action will surely be twice as effective with half the effort."

Duan Tianyang clapped his hands upon hearing this, and looked around with a look of determination: "Okay, then let's do as planned!"

After a brief discussion, the strategy was decided. At this time, looking at the captured Jin army spy, he was no longer in human form, but was entangled by countless vines, turning into a strange thorn bush. The vines shuttled through his skin and flesh, and the scene was shocking.

And he was still alive, his eyes wide open, mouth open and tongue exposed, and his throat making bursts of heart-pounding noises. The scene was extremely horrifying.

Lu Jingyuan finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he strode forward, drew the sword from his waist, and with a flash of cold light, he cleanly cut off the spy's head, ending this heart-wrenching torture.

Under the guidance of the falcon, the Hongxing Army did not advance southward rashly, but cleverly detoured to the east and avoided the attack of the Jin Army.

At the same time, Shen Gu sent out a large number of spies, spreading out like a net, vowing to capture the traces of Hong Xing Army.

However, the spies returned one after another, bringing back empty messages. The enemy seemed to have blended into the night and disappeared without a trace.

As night fell, several spies arrived, covered in dust, and brought the exact movements of the Hongxing Army - they were quietly moving towards the southeast, and had obviously seen through their own layout and were cleverly circumventing it.

Shen Gu frowned, his mind full of doubts: How did the enemy know that our army was hiding so far? Could it be that their intelligence network was so pervasive?

He quickly unfolded the map and asked the spies to mark the enemy's whereabouts. The spies' captain drew a line with his finger, and a clear path appeared on the paper.

Shen Gu stared for a moment, his eyes flashing with determination. He ordered in a deep voice: "All troops, listen up, set off immediately, march east at full speed, and be sure to intercept the enemy!"

The 50,000 Jin troops surged like a tide and galloped towards the east.

While marching, Shen Gu once again sent out a large number of spies to investigate the enemy's movements. However, after waiting for a long time at the designated battlefield, they did not even see the shadow of the Hongxing Army.

The spies reported back one after another that there was deathly silence all around, as if the enemy had evaporated from the face of the earth.

At this moment, it was already late at night. Shen Gu had no choice but to order the entire army to stay where they were and search for the enemy the next day.

However, in the dead of night, the sound of hurried horse hooves broke the silence, and the scouts came galloping and brought shocking news - the enemy appeared at their original station. This discovery undoubtedly indicated that the enemy had quietly returned to their old route.

Upon hearing the news, Shen Gu's heart was filled with ripples. His side had set an ambush on the enemy's retreat route, but the enemy, like a cunning rabbit, fled to the southeast. His side intended to intercept them again, but unexpectedly the enemy returned to the old route.

In this situation, it seemed as if the enemy knew their movements very well. No matter how they deployed their forces, they could always cleverly avoid their attack and move in the opposite direction.

The enemy's actions were like having clairvoyance and super hearing, and they could see through Shen Gu's every move in advance. This made Shen Gu suspicious: Could it be that there were enemy spies hidden in his own army?

But on second thought, even if there really were spies, it would take time for information to be transmitted. It is really inconceivable how the enemy could adjust their strategy so quickly.

Shen Gu was completely confused by the erratic movements of the Hong Xing Army. After careful consideration, he decided to split his troops into two groups: one group would go in pursuit, while he would personally lead the remaining four groups to set up a dragnet along the possible escape routes of the Hong Xing Army.

The reason why the Hongxing Army was able to escape the encirclement of the Jin Army time and time again was all thanks to the falcons trained by Miller.

Although the 50,000 Jin troops under Shen Gu set up layers of defense, the Hongxing Army was like a fish in water, always able to shuttle freely between the gaps and break through the siege safely.

This chase turned into a cat-and-mouse game. The main force of the Jin army was never able to catch a glimpse of the Hongxing army. Only spies kept sending back fragments of their whereabouts.

Two days later, Duan Tianyang and his men were approaching the border of Taishan. As night fell again, the army happened to be walking into a dense forest.

Duan Tianyang decisively ordered the entire army to rest. After days of attacks, the two thousand elite soldiers were exhausted even though they had not fought in battle.

They galloped two to three hundred miles every day, and now they finally had a chance to catch their breath. The soldiers fell to the ground one after another and fell into a sound sleep.

At dawn the next day, when the sky was still hazy, Miller had hurried into Duan Tianyang's tent and reported that the Jin cavalry were galloping towards our camp.

This time, Duan Tianyang did not rush to order a retreat. Instead, he deployed his troops deep in the dense forest, intending to lure the enemy deeper.

Their goal this time was not to simply avoid the Jin army, but to lure the 50,000-strong Jin army into the heart of Taishan.

If you just run away, you may expose your weakness. The best strategy is to give the enemy an illusion at the right time.

The Hongxing Army quickly deployed defenses in the forest. In order to lure the enemy deeper into the forest, they even lit a bonfire in the forest to create the illusion of cooking. The smoke from the cooking rose up into the sky and could be clearly seen from miles away.

Shen Gu was tired of the pursuit over the past few days. The enemy's whereabouts seemed like a phantom, which made him almost desperate. He even wanted to retreat and lead his troops back to the base camp.

If it weren't for his remaining self-esteem that prevented him from repeating the mistakes of the Eighth Legion, he would have led his troops back to Mucheng long ago.

On the eve of dawn, a spy came to report that signs of enemy troops were found in the dense forest more than 20 miles away. Although such news had been coming in for days and had been proven false each time, Shen Gu still held out a glimmer of hope and decided to have a meal first before leading his troops to find out what was going on.

As the Jin army slowly advanced, the sky was already bright when they were about ten miles away from the dense forest.

Suddenly, a soldier exclaimed, pointing forward, his eyes flashing with surprise and nervousness: "General, look! There is smoke rising up ahead, the enemy must be cooking here!"

When Shen Gu heard this, his heart suddenly tightened. He looked up quickly and saw smoke rising from the distance.

This scene undoubtedly gave Shen Gu a shot of adrenaline. After several days of relentless pursuit, he was so close to the enemy for the first time. One can imagine how excited he was.

He quickly shouted to the soldiers around him: "Order the entire army to advance at full speed and annihilate this Divine Realm army in one fell swoop!"

Afterwards, Shen Gu led 50,000 Jin troops and rushed towards the dense forest where Duan Tianyang and others were hiding like a storm.

Although Shen Gu was excited, he did not dare to underestimate the enemy. When he approached the edge of the forest, he sent out an army as a vanguard to scout the enemy's situation.

Just when the vanguard army was a hundred steps away from the forest, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the forest, and thousands of arrows were fired at the same time, like a torrential rain, instantly knocking down the vanguard soldiers of the Jin army, and wailing was everywhere.

Facing the enemy's counterattack arrows, Shen Gu was not surprised or angry, but his eyes flashed with excitement.

Over the past few days, they went through untold hardships, walked almost a thousand miles, and finally found this enemy army.