Chapter 213 Lu Yu’s Dilemma (3)
June 8, the 19th year of Jiayou.
For two consecutive days, the defenders in Wuzhou City were busy recruiting laborers to clean up the mud outside the city and the corpses in the mud.
Bonfires were burning, turning the elite soldiers under the command of Dong Qibo into ashes, which were then placed in exquisite small jars. Next to these bonfires, there were piles of weapons and armor like small mountains.
High in the sky, more than two thousand giant albatrosses spread their wings, riding the wind, and circling in the air with Wuzhou City as the center.
The big parrot sat arrogantly on the head of an albatross, cursing at the albatrosses from time to time.
In a great flood, almost all of Dong Qi Bo's troops were wiped out, and all the disciples of Hao Jian Palace were also drowned.
These albatrosses barely escaped with their lives. Without their master, they were pinned to the ground and beaten by the big parrot. So they obediently came to Lu Yi.
It is worth mentioning that the Guixu Treasure Bottle extracted nearly ten thousand drops of Xuanyuan Divine Water during the flood.
Although it is a weakened version, and is far less magical and powerful than the original authentic Xuanyuan Divine Water from ancient times, but in today's world, this Xuanyuan Divine Water is also enough to exert amazing magical effects.
Take the big parrot for example. It is nearly six feet long from head to tail. When its wings are spread, its entire body is scarlet as fire, and among the red feathers, there are a few long light golden feathers.
This guy is becoming more and more extraordinary.
Moreover, its suppression of the bloodlines of birds became extremely terrifying, which led to the collective defection of more than 2,000 tamed albatrosses of Haojian Palace.
Lu Yi has been extremely busy these past two days.
The news that Dongqi Bo's main army was completely wiped out spread quickly.
Things are a bit awkward.
Because of the Zhuge family and Bai Changkong's disciples from the Imperial Academy, most of the counties, prefectures and counties in Wuzhou have surrendered and joined forces with Dongqi Bo.
To the east of Wuzhou, along the main road, more than a dozen states also completely surrendered to Dongqi Bo.
But now, Dongqi Bo was captured alive by Lu Yi, and Dongqi Bo's army was completely wiped out... Those local officials of Dayin who gave up their duties of defending the land and defected to Dongqi Bo are now in trouble.
Continue down this path till the end?
Or... quickly create some evidence to prove your innocence, and then return to the warm embrace of Emperor Dayin?
Other states and counties did not know about it for the time being, but within just two days, dozens of prefectures and counties near Wuzhou City sent enthusiastic letters to Lu Yi, expressing their stern loyalty to Dayin. At the same time, they quoted scriptures to criticize Dong Qibo, saying that he had wolfish ambitions and was destined to die a bad death.
Regarding this... Lu Yu was also a little crazy.
He had no experience in handling government affairs, so he could only send lukewarm letters to these local officials who had "repented and returned to the right path", asking them to govern the local areas seriously, and to deal with other matters after officials were sent by the court to take over.
The more lukewarm Lu Fu's responses were, the more uneasy the local officials became.
Faced with their own career prospects and the lives and property of their own families, the officials from the prefectures and counties that were closer to Wuzhou City brought carts large and small, carrying carts full of money to Wuzhou City, knelt in front of the governor's mansion, and asked to see Lu Yi.
this……
They delivered it to your door, didn’t they?
So, Lu Yi is a little busy.
He was busy receiving these local officials and copying down the gift lists they presented to him, and then sent them back to Haojing along with the military intelligence of Wuzhou City by falcon.
Moreover, in addition to the military and civil affairs situation, Lu Yi also had to "compose about ten poems" every day.
These poems are of extremely high quality, and each one can be regarded as a masterpiece throughout the ages.
While Lu Yi was sending the military sentiments and people's sentiments back to Haojing, he also used falcons to deliver these famous poems back to Haojing. It is believed that it will not be long before Lu Yi's reputation as a "master of poetry" will spread to all corners of Dayin with Haojing as its birthplace.
After several days of hard work, mainly due to the rapid speed of his cavalry, the bodies of the soldiers who were suffocated to death by the flood in the flooded area within a radius of hundreds of miles had been basically cleared out.
The bodies had been burned and buried in pits dug on the spot.
The main force of Lu Yi's scouts and cavalry began to spread to the east of Wuzhou City to inquire about the situation in many prefectures and cities to the east of Wuzhou City, with a focus on Dongjie City.
A small number of scouts and rangers followed the road and patrolled to the west to inquire.
Logically, the main force of the Canglang Cavalry under Lu Yu should have rushed to Wuzhou City to join Lu Yu. However, for several consecutive days, there was no sign of Lu Yu's army, and there was no eagle message from Lu Yu's army for several consecutive days. Lu Yu felt a little uneasy.
Of course, Dong Qi Bo’s main force has been completely destroyed, and the west of Wuzhou City should be a safe area.
Lu Yi didn't believe that Lu Yu's army would encounter an accident on the way.
He knew very well that during the years when Lu Yu was guarding Beijie City, a large number of his Canglang Cavalry had been turned into registered outer disciples of the Great Vajra Temple by Lu Yu.
These Canglang Riders are weaker than the real outer disciples of the Great Vajra Temple.
However, compared to the elite troops of the Dayin Kingdom, the strength of these Canglang Cavalry is much stronger.
Jing Yue sent two batches of Red Lotus Solid Pills to Lu Yi, and Lu Yu would not treat him unfairly. These days, the strength of the Canglang Cavalry under Lu Yu would definitely be greatly enhanced.
Conventional troops could not pose any threat to the Canglang Cavalry under Lu Yu's command.
The expected rendezvous date has been exceeded by several days...there must be something else going on?
June 11th, evening.
Scouts of the Yulin Army kept rushing back and reported to Lu Yi the military intelligence they had patrolled westward along the Chidao Road. The fastest scout had already traveled 18,000 miles westward along the Chidao Road, but had not been able to find the location of Lu Yi's army.
However, on both sides of the road, there were traces of the army's camps.
Judging from the traces, Lu Yu's army had at its closest point run to a place no more than 1,500 miles away from Wuzhou City.
But then, Lu Yu's army disappeared.
Lu Yu's heart was lifted.
He sent several times more scouts to patrol the west, and at the same time asked the albatrosses that had just surrendered to join the patrol team. They led a large group of scouts to explore the west at high altitudes.
Even the big parrot was sent out by Lu Yi.
June 12, no findings.
Lu Yu was a little nervous.
June 13th, no findings.
Lu Fu sent the information here back to Haojing by falcon, directly to the monk Shi E.
June 14th, no findings.
Lu Yi began to recruit able-bodied men in Wuzhou City and distribute military equipment. At the same time, he sent a message to the camps of the Eastern Expedition Army, asking them to speed up the pace of the follow-up army and rush to Wuzhou City to join him as soon as possible.
June 15th, noon.
The panting parrot rushed back, landed on Lu Yi's shoulder, and started chirping.
Three thousand five hundred miles west of Wuzhou City.
The Chidao Road is located in the south, nine hundred miles away.
There was a hilly area shrouded in fog, about two or three hundred miles in radius. Outside the fog, the big parrot found some bodies of the Gray Wolf Riders, and in the fog, there were faint shouts of killing.
The fog gave the big parrot a bad feeling.
It instinctively sensed that there was great danger in the fog, so it did not dare to go deeper. Instead, it looked around from afar and then hurried back to report.
Lu Yi asked someone to open the geomancy map of Wuzhou.
On the map, he found the hilly area that the big parrot had mentioned.
"It shouldn't be like this!" Lu Yi looked at the map in surprise.
Lu Yu's army should have marched straight eastward along the Chidao Road. In any case, his army should not have deviated 800 miles to the south.
No wonder the scouts sent out two days ago failed to find Lu Yu’s legion. It turned out that they had deviated such a long distance to the southwest. Who could have imagined this?
If the big parrot's bloodline had not been improved a lot in the past few days, and its flying speed had not soared several times, allowing it to soar into the sky and overlook the earth from above, I'm afraid it would not have been able to find this strange thing in such a short few days.
Lu Yi did not dare to delay and immediately arranged for the defense of Wuzhou City, and also asked Qingyou and the other two girls to set off urgently.
The baggage carried by Lu Yu 's army was limited. Just like Lu Yi, they only carried three to five days' worth of dry food. The rest of the food and baggage were replenished from the prefectures and cities along the highway.
After so many days, the army under Lu Yu's command might have run out of food and grass.
Soldiers were fine, grass roots and tree bark were fine, but Lu Yu's wolf riders, who were large, generous, and only ate meat, were a huge problem.
The three girls, Qingyou, Qingning and Qingmeng, sat on the dark cloud beast.
A cloud of water rose up under Lu Yi's feet and lifted up his body. Lu Yi didn't care about his appearance and directly grabbed the tail of the dark cloud beast.
These days, the Dark Cloud Beast, which had been fed with the Xuanyuan Divine Water and whose body had also undergone earth-shaking changes, roared, spewed out black smoke from its body, and rushed out of the west gate of Wuzhou City in a flash.
The dark cloud beast ran very fast and disappeared in a flash.
Lu Yi grabbed its tail and was dragged, following it and rushing out like a flying bird.
Qingyou, Qingning and Qingmeng couldn't help but chuckle when they saw Lu Yi grabbing the tail of the Dark Cloud Beast and flying closely after it.
In the vast white fog, Lu Yu's army had indeed found itself in an extremely dire situation.
The army was surrounded by white fog, but as long as they didn't wander around, there wasn't much risk.
But the biggest difficulty is food and fodder.
At the foot of a small hill, a group of fierce-looking Wolf Riders surrounded a dozen Leopard Riders in golden armor. A burly general of the Eastern Expedition Army was shouting at Lu Yu on the top of the hill in a rage.
"If anyone dares to touch my mount, I will kill his entire family!"
"Lord Tian'en Lu Yu, don't think that just because you are the emperor's favorite, you dare to do whatever you want!"
"Those wolf cubs of your Canglang Cavalry are your dearest treasures. Aren't these horses of my Baotu Cavalry my dearest treasures?"
"Do you dare to touch my horse?"
Lu Yu looked expressionlessly at the group of angry Leopard Cavalry generals and waved his hand gently: "I hold the emperor's axe and punish the disobedient... You dare to disobey the military order, you all deserve to die!"
A dozen golden-armored generals looked at Lu Yu in disbelief.
Beside Lu Yu, Lu Jun and Lu Yi suddenly pulled their longbows, and thousands of Canglang Riders shot arrows from all directions. A dozen Leopard Riders generals who came to reason with Lu Yu were immediately shot like sieves.
"Send the head, roam the camp... Kill the Leopard Cavalry, so that our soldiers and the Cang Wolf can fill their stomachs first."
"Any soldier of the Leopard Cavalry who dares to resist will be killed."
Lu Yu had an expressionless face as he threw the golden axe in his hand to his eldest son beside him: "Jun'er, you should personally monitor this matter."
