Laughing at Chang'an

The departure time was set, and Li Shen returned home that night and told Geng Yan about it.

He did not hide Chang'an's plan from Geng Yan, and even revealed some details, such as the arrangement of the battleship and the specific time of departure. After finishing ten days' work, he silently moved his eyes away and sighed helplessly.

After tossing until midnight, Li Shen said he was hungry and insisted on making Geng Yan a supper for him. Geng Yan, who had been tossed and tempered, had to get up from the bed with his waist, put on his clothes and cook noodles for him.The noodles are ready-made, Geng Yan went to the big kitchen outside to find some vegetables, and lay down an egg by the way.A simple bowl of plain noodles, but Li Shen ate very deliciously. Geng Yan propped his head and looked at it, and smiled unconsciously.

After Li Shen finished eating, Geng Yan collected the bowls and chopsticks and took them back to the kitchen, where he washed them.While he was washing the dishes, someone pulled the belt behind him suddenly, and this special garment, which was so easy to take off, was split into two halves from the back, and hung on his arm.Geng Yan knew who was behind without guessing, turned off the faucet and raised his arms to let the sleeves fall back, so as not to get wet on his hands, he turned his head angrily and said, "I'm washing the dishes, don't make trouble."

A thick overcoat came up from the back, and the dark fabric style was extremely familiar. Geng Yan looked at the golden emblem of the chain and long knife on the neckline with some astonishment, and was hugged by Li Shen from behind through the clothes, with his arms wrapped around him. Around the waist, tighten the coat around Geng Yan's body.

Geng Yan was a little startled, and then thought that Li Shen wanted him to play with him in the uniform coat of the Geng Army, and was speechless.Of course he understands the man's hellish desire to conquer. He who has become a disabled person and he who is the leader of the Geng Army naturally have more sense of playing with the latter.

Just when he was hesitating whether to cooperate with Li Shen to play the role of his past self, he suddenly heard Li Shen behind him say something out of nowhere——

"The Geng Army will always be Geng Yan's Geng Army."

Geng Yan was silent.

Although the purpose was not simple from the beginning, the Geng Army was undoubtedly his heart and soul. Even compared to the status of the emperor of the Guangming Empire, the Geng Army built from scratch gave him a greater sense of accomplishment.If it weren't for Li Shenhe's subsequent series of changes, he originally planned to list the Geng Army as his own private army after conquering the Central Plains, so that it could be preserved as completely as possible... But nothing happened.

Winners and losers, that's all.

Because of Li Shen's words, Geng Yan could no longer be in the mood to play role-playing with him, but Li Shen didn't seem to have this idea either. After eating supper, he hugged Geng Yan to rest together.

The next morning, Li Shen kissed Geng Yan on the cheek, said goodbye and set off for the northern battlefield.After he left, Geng Yan slept for a while before getting up to eat breakfast.He doesn't have anything else to do now, except for three meals a day to cultivate, and occasionally go for a walk in the yard to bask in the sun, oh no, exercise to adapt to the sun.

While eating breakfast, Geng Yan finally noticed the box on the back of the bed. He remembered that there was no such thing in that place last night... Probably it was put there by Li Shen before he left in the morning.He was not in a hurry to check what was in the box. To be precise, he already had a good understanding of Li Shen's bad nature, so he didn't have any good hopes.The box is as high as the bed and about as wide as the bed, so it’s fine for a person to lie curled up. While eating breakfast, Geng Yan couldn’t help making all kinds of not-so-good associations in his mind... He was brought down by Li Shen, a shameless person.

After finishing breakfast a little slower than usual, Geng Yan finally came to the box, took a deep breath, and opened it when the servants took away the bowls and chopsticks.

The first thing that catches the eye is a set of exquisite and gorgeous battle armor. The drawing of the origin patterns on the armor surface not only has the complexity and elegance that elves love, but also has Zhang Puqiu's usual simplicity and toughness. This set was unearthed from the South Sea elves. The ancient battle armor of the ruins, after Zhang Puqiu's transformation, had been Geng Yan's exclusive battle armor, and he named it 'Luanmeng'.

In that duel with Hades and Li Tea House, Geng Yan brought the God Armor Kong Shanjin, and he left this set of chaotic dreams in the Geng Army Guild Hall.At this moment, Li Shen took it again, put it in this box, and returned it to him.

Geng Yan suppressed the surge of emotions in his chest, and looked at the neatly folded Geng Army uniform beside the battle armor. This was his uniform. It was different from the general cadre uniform. The golden fringe must have been the same one that Li Shen put on for him last night, but it was too dark in the kitchen at that time, so he didn't pay attention to it.

Geng Yan is also very familiar with the third and last item on the battle armor and uniform.

It was a long knife with a pitch-black body.

——It was the one he named 'Shuang' and gave to Li Shen.

This well-known long knife carried by Li Shen is now one of Li Shen's symbols to the outside world.Geng Yan looked at the three items in the box, remained silent for a long time, bent down, and closed the box lid again.

Although he didn't say it out loud, Geng Yan already fully understood that the battle armor represented strength, the uniform represented status, and the last knife represented Li Shen's trust.These three things, plus Li Shen's inexplicable words last night, nothing is unclear.

Li Shen wanted him to take back his own things, to take back the Geng Army that belonged to him—as long as he was willing.

Geng Yan felt that his mind was a little messed up. He figured out Li Shen's intention of leaving these three things, but he couldn't figure out what the other party meant.He still remembered that Li Shen said that he would go to live in seclusion after the war. Judging from his judgment, the other party's attitude was definitely not a casual mention, but a real intention to do so.so why?Why should he keep these three things and ask him to take back the Geng Army?Regret, conscience found out, and wanted to use the Geng Army as compensation, and then put the blame on it?

Geng Yan felt that he needed to calm down.

Sometimes he really couldn't figure out what was going on in Li Shen's mind, whether it was before or now, the other party would always make him worry about gains and losses, making him at a loss what to do.Apart from Li Shen, there is no other person in this world who can make him so confused.

There was a knock on the door of the room, and after getting Geng Yan's permission, the adjutant walked in cautiously, lowered his eyes and said, "Shuai Geng, the car is ready, do you want to go to the guild hall?"

Geng Yan raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, feeling a subtle feeling that his premonition had come true, he breathed out slightly, and said tiredly, "You go down first."

The adjutant didn't say a word, and retreated obediently. When he closed the door, Geng Yan suddenly punched the bedpost. Fortunately, he withdrew his strength at the last moment, so he didn't smash the bedpost into two pieces.

Even so, a deep fist mark remained on it.

He rubbed the space between his brows, feeling that he needed to calm down, very much.

………………

In the temporary staff headquarters in the west of the city, Bu Shi received the news, and complained to Li Mubai with a helpless face: "As soon as Li Shen and the others left, the army from the southern line of the empire came to Chang'an. Do you think the news leaked out too quickly? Are you tired?"

What he said was half-truth and half-false. Li Shen and the others left in a huge battle. Thousands of airships set off together, so they couldn't hide it at all. But even so, the empire received the news and reacted too quickly. , it seems that the link of thinking about countermeasures in the middle has been omitted.

Li Mubai reviewed all kinds of reports in front of him, without raising his head, he said: "Spies can't be killed cleanly, instead of thinking about those, why don't you start to deploy your defenses?"

"Wait until you talk about it before setting it up, the day lily is cold." Bu Shi said coolly, "I say Xiaobai, you need to correct your habit of pointing fingers."

Li Mubai finally raised his eyes, pointed at him with a pen: "You call again?"

Bu Shi was incomparably calm, and said crisply: "Xiaobai."

...So there was another bloodbath in the staff department, which is ignored.However, a new piece of news just before dinner finally changed Bu Shi's face.

He held the communicator and almost roared: "Say it again? The imperial warship bypassed Chang'an!? Headed north?"

Hearing this, Li Mubai who was sitting beside him also changed his expression.

The situation began to exceed expectations. Huang Sha and several other mercenary regiment leaders were summoned to the temporary staff headquarters. Bu Shi took out the report compiled from the newly received information and distributed it to everyone.Everyone quickly read the report, and their faces became a little ugly.

"The Empire's 30 Southern Army Corps went to support the Northern Front. The signal towers near the Northern Front battlefield were all destroyed. Our communication line with the front line was blocked. The intelligence agents we sent have not yet returned the news. The worst possibility , were all intercepted by the empire."

Bu Shi explained, with a serious expression on his face: "If Li Shen and the others cannot receive the news in time, they may fall into the trap of the empire. At that time, they will not only have to face the 20 Imperial Northern Expeditionary Army, but also 30 lurking troops. The imperial guards on the side... the consequences are disastrous."

The enemy has changed from 20 to 50. This lack of intelligence is simply fatal.The combined forces of Chang'an and the Blood Empire's combined forces are only 20, which is less than half of the empire's strength.

Chang'an mercenaries are very strong, but the main army of the empire is also the elite of the elite.The quantity difference of more than double is no longer a situation that can be used as a joke.

"But we don't have time to worry about the front line." Bu Shi smiled wryly, and raised the report in his hand, "As written above, more than 100 million imperial troops are encircling Chang'an, and it seems that they plan to use crowd tactics to attack Chang'an."

"Human sea tactics?" Mu Tuozi, the old soldier's regiment leader, sneered, "What can a million ordinary people do, exchange corpses for shells?"

"What if it's a million-day gate?" Bu Shi said calmly.

The wooden hunchback exclaimed: "This is impossible!"

Bu Shi shook his head, picked up something from the side, and threw it in front of the wooden hunchback.It was a book, and the cover was written in the language of the Empire of Light: Warrior Training Manual.Mu Tuozi opened the book cover in surprise, and after only reading a few lines, his expression changed slightly, then he quickly turned a few pages, and finally showed a horrified expression.The bayonet Han Danru who was sitting next to him took the book, and after turning a few pages, he was also shocked. The book was quickly circulated among the people, and then everyone showed expressions like they had eaten shit.

What kind of soldier training manual is this? It is clearly Yang Martian's Yang's method of opening the sky.

At the beginning, there was a lot of trouble about Yang's method of opening heaven, so now Chang'an is full of fairy roads, and the gate of heaven is not as good as a dog.Since the publication of Yang’s Heaven Opening Method, the threshold for ordinary people to become cultivators has almost disappeared, especially at the stage of opening the Heaven Gate, as long as they are willing to work hard and endure hardships, the need for resources is negligible... So, The Guangming Empire used Yang's method of opening heavens to train soldiers, and it was really not difficult to build 100 million heavenly gates in a few years.

"I really want to wake Yang Xingxing out of the coffin and ask him how he feels now." Bu Shi said with a face like a dead father, making fun of bitterness.

Just like the name of opening the gate of heaven, once the gate of heaven is opened and one becomes a cultivator, one is considered to have stepped into the ranks of 'extraordinary people'. An army composed of 100 million ordinary people is not to be feared, but 100 million Tianmen?I felt a chill down my back when I heard it.

"One person comes up and kicks, and Chang'an City will be gone." Li Mubai concluded concisely.

"The problem is that the defensive force in the city is empty now." Huang Sha frowned, "Almost all the elites of each family have been transferred, and most of the rest are civilians. The small groups below are scattered, and most of them will not really work hard. , the only ones that can be used now are the remnants of my second army and Wang Ziyun's first army, which add up to only tens of thousands, so it is difficult to defend."

The most troublesome thing about the crowd tactics is its comprehensiveness and continuity. If Chang'an is surrounded by enemies, the defensive manpower will definitely be insufficient, and there will be no chance for rotation and rest.Not to mention, the most disturbing trick of the crowd tactics is suicide attacks.

"There is no time to sigh." Bu Shi said in a deep voice, "Let's start to act now. Facing the attack of the crowd, the original defense needs to be adjusted. My plan is..."

As the night darkened, most of the people in Chang'an, who didn't know the disaster was coming, turned off their lights one after another and fell into a peaceful dreamland.However, the southern city of Chang'an was brightly lit. All the mercenary regiments were notified and received their assigned tasks. Those who argued and complained, those who silently counted their equipment, and those who asked the alliance to inquire about the news... It was destined to be a sleepless night. .

There are also many well-informed upper-level people who plan to escape, including the two vice presidents of the Datang General Chamber of Commerce. They bribed Yan Poyuan's guards and wanted to hide in the cargo hold of the transport boat to leave Chang'an, but as soon as they left Chang'an The city's air defense defense area was shot down by the empire's warships, and there were no bones left.

Not only the crowd tactics, but also the air and land siege, in the next battle, Chang'an City will not be able to get supplies from the outside world, the longer the time drags on, the worse the situation will be.

Almost all the warships were taken to the northern line by Li Shen. Whether it was a land or air blockade, Chang'an City had no way to break it.Fortunately, all kinds of materials stored in the city are quite sufficient. Even if the enemy resorts to dirty tricks like polluting water sources, all drinking water in the city has been purified, and there are strict inspection procedures during wartime.For a while, such a siege will not have any impact.

In the Li Mansion on Gubai Road, Geng Yan was still awake.

He thought about it all day, but he still couldn't understand what Li Shen was going to do, and what was the meaning of putting such an opportunity in front of him.Geng Yan tried to look at this issue from Li Shen's point of view, and finally came to the conclusion that if he were Li Shen, there would be no such problem at all, and he would not even give himself the chance to recover his cultivation.

Geng Yan was sitting by the bed, with the black long knife on his lap. When Li Shen left him with Feng He and others, he often held this knife and used it as a substitute for the other party. Longing is deep, like poison.

The ground shook suddenly, so slightly that it was almost imperceptible.

He slowly raised his eyes, the icy blue pupils glowed like will-o'-the-wisps. His experience from countless battlefields told him that this was the shock caused by many people running on the ground.

This is the harbinger of war.