Hua Kai knew that with the strength of the Qinglong Reserve Corps, it would be difficult for the Beishan Army to do anything to them, after all, the Qinglong Reserve Corps was much more mobile than them.
The Gaoliu Merchant Corps was not easy to mess with either. If there was no Qinglong Reserve Corps, they could constantly wear down the Merchant Corps' will to resist, find loopholes and then break through the camp.
But now that they have the Qinglong Reserve Corps to contain them, they have to consider the possibility of being attacked from both sides. So when the Beishan Army approached the Merchant Corps, Hua Kai and Hua Mo quickly withdrew the chariot formation with more than 2,000 Qinglong Reserve Corps soldiers.
However, the Beishan Army tentatively attacked the Gaoliu City chariot formation. Seeing that the Qinglong Reserve Corps had begun to harass and attack them on both wings, they exchanged dozens of lives with the Gaoliu Merchant Corps, but the Qinglong Reserve Corps on the periphery seized the opportunity and killed hundreds of people on both wings.
A direct attack is nothing more than a wear and tear of the strength of both sides. The Gaoliu Merchant Corps is not afraid of doing so, but the Beishan Army cannot afford to be hurt. They came to take advantage.
Watching the Beishan army retreat, Hua Mo led the Qinglong Reserve Corps to kill the Beishan bandits who had entered the chariot array and had no time to escape. Hua Kai brought two thousand Qinglong Reserve Corps here to prevent the other party from opening a large gap in the chariot array.
When the Beishan army retreated, the Qinglong Reserve Corps came to the back of the Gaoliu Merchant Corps and blocked the Beishan army behind them. Seeing this, the Gaoliu Merchant Corps all stood up and started to hurry on their way.
If it was the Qinglong Corps here, Hua Kai would let them slowly erode the Beishan army and wear down the opponent's fighting spirit bit by bit, but when it came to the Qinglong Reserve Corps, Hua Kai was unwilling to let them take risks, as they had too little battlefield experience.
Both sides wanted to protect themselves, and no one was willing to start a fierce battle. Until the evening, the Gaoliu Merchant Corps had only walked 20 miles a day, and the Beishan army was like the tail of the Gaoliu Merchant Corps, following far behind them. They just wanted to slowly delay the Gaoliu Merchant Corps. When the Donghu army of 100,000 arrives, then all this will be left to the Donghu army. They want to let the Donghu Kingdom and Gaoliu County fight each other. That is what they want to see.
At night, Hua Kai saw the Beishan army camped 5 miles behind them. They were also afraid that the elite Qinglong reserve group would attack the camp at night and they would not have time to react. Hua Kai did not make a move all day. He had been looking for the other party's Xiantian realm, but the other party not only did not make a move, but also did not show up. Hua Kai was thinking that the Beishan Xiantian realm did not follow the army.
In fact, the Beishan army came this time with the intention of watching the fun. The Donghu Kingdom has agreed to let them send troops to strengthen their momentum. They are completely in a posture of quickly taking down Gaoliu County to avenge their hatred. The various mountain strongholds in Beishan sent troops together.
The high-level officials of the Beishan army knew that the number of Xiantian realms in Gaoliu County was definitely much larger than theirs, and their masters were determined not to make a move. If they made a move and were targeted by the Hua family Xiantian realm, would their lives be in danger?
At night, Hua Kai entered the [Family Secret Realm Space] and saw that his fifth uncle was actually in the family space.
"Uncle Wu, how did you get hurt? Did the King of Donghu do it himself?" Hua Kai asked worriedly when he saw that his uncle's face was livid and he looked weak.
"Hehe, I'm fine! This time, the Donghu Kingdom sent a half-step foundation-building warrior. Tang Lei, Xue Pan and I couldn't completely suppress the other party. Now I dare not separate the legions and can only gather together to delay the other party's march." Hua Zichen said.
Half-step foundation-building is a subtle realm between the great perfection of the innate realm and the foundation-building realm. The body has formed the power of internal small rules circulation, but it still needs time to perfect the small rules. I didn't expect that in addition to the King of Donghu, Donghu Kingdom actually had a half-step foundation-building warrior.
"The bandits in Beishan dare not fight us head-on. We have too many cattle and sheep, and the Qinglong Reserve Corps does not have the ability to fight a head-on battle. Now we can only waste time with the Beishan army. The mountain strongholds in Beishan hope that we will be beaten and hide in the Leopard Jade Pass, but they definitely don't want to suffer too much loss." Hua Kai told his uncle about the Gaoliu Merchant Corps.
Er Zhuang was on duty in the [Family Secret Realm Space] today. He heard that the family was fighting against the two major forces of Donghu and Beishan, and he was also very worried.
"Can we gather the power of Gaoliu County to destroy the Beishan bandits first, or let the Qinglong Corps go back and completely wipe out the Beishan bandits, and then we can focus on dealing with the Donghu Kingdom." Er Zhuang suggested.
"The Suzaku Corps has only 2,000 cavalry. It will take about ten days for the infantry to arrive from Gaoliu City. Even if they finally arrive, it will not be very useful. Now both sides are trying to buy time to see if we can enter Baoyu Pass before the 100,000 Donghu troops arrive. The Qinglong Corps is delaying the pace of the Donghu army, and the Beishan bandits are delaying the pace of the Gaoliu Merchant Corps." Hua Zichen said.
"Now our merchant corps can only walk 20 miles a day at most, and it takes at least one month to reach Baoyu Pass... Fifth Uncle, if the two of us attack at the same time, can we defeat the opponent's half-step foundation building." Hua Kai said at this time.
"I'm afraid it's difficult. The opponent has already comprehended the complete law and has suppressed us very much. Even if I have the [Eight Treasures Night Name Armor], I can't completely resist the opponent's attack. Xue Pan is now more seriously injured than me." Hua Zichen said.
If the opponent does not have this half-step foundation building, the Qinglong Army can completely rely on flexible speed and powerful combat power to wear down the opponent bit by bit. If the opponent cannot kill the half-step foundation building, then the Qinglong Army can only rely on constant harassment to affect the opponent's marching speed, just like the Beishan Army.
"According to the current marching speed of both sides, we will be caught up by the Donghu Army in 20 days at most. At that time, we can only give up all the cattle and sheep... Fifth uncle, have you ever thought about avoiding damage through the [Family Secret Realm Space], and then unexpectedly killing the opponent's half-step foundation building?" Hua Kai suddenly thought of something.
"Through the family space..." Hua Zichen's mind suddenly moved when he heard this. He knew that the [Family Secret Realm Space] could avoid attacks, but he couldn't think of how to kill a half-step foundation building by surprise.
The next day, Hua Zichen, Xue Pan, and Tang Lei rarely took action. The Qinglong Army's harassment ability against the Donghu army was immediately weakened. There were several times when the Qinglong Army had just killed the other side's slave auxiliary troops and saw the Donghu cavalry coming, they withdrew without hesitation, which made their influence on the Donghu army less and less.
Hua Zichen and Xue Pan were recovering from their injuries. Hua Kai's plan last night made them feel very feasible. As long as they killed the opponent's half-step foundation building, even if they could not solve the 100,000 Donghu army, they must deal with all the bandits in Beishan. In this way, with the Wild Horse Village as a springboard, it would be easy for the Hua family to take Beishan.
Hua Kai forged a [Dragon Gall Spear] the night before. This is a fourth-grade spiritual weapon. It is the highest-level spear that can be refined in Hua Kai's space. It can be used with a [Sky Spear].
It cost a total of 12,000 family luck points, which made the Hua family's family luck value fall below 9,000 points for the first time in half a year.
A [Gentian Spear] almost consumed all of Hua Kai's high-level strange stones. Now he only had enough high-level strange stones left to refine another first-grade spiritual weapon. He discussed with his fifth uncle that he would go to meet them after Tang Lei's injury was almost recovered in three days.
Three days, on the one hand, was for Tang Lei to recover, and on the other hand, Hua Kai needed to accumulate some family luck points to forge some protective gear for them.
On September 11, Hua Kai learned from the [Family Secret Space] that the wheat in Huajiabao, Guang County, had matured. This year, there were more than 80,000 stones of wheat, which could help Gaoliu City solve a large part of the food problem. Hua Kai asked his third uncle Hua Zijie to contact and continue to purchase food. The Hua family has been purchasing food and has never stopped.
Huacheng's spiritual rice has also been planted. [Crystal Persimmon] has grown to a height of one person in less than a year in the spiritual field. [An Shen Flower] is also growing well. [Tianma Field] is ready to accept horses. Now everyone in the family is looking outside the Leopard Jade Pass, and everyone is anxiously waiting for the merchant group to come back.
Hua Kai got up early in the morning before daybreak and quietly left the caravan formation. He rode the [Black Eagle] for more than an hour, and following the direction given by his fifth uncle Hua Zichen, he soon saw the 100,000 troops of the Donghu, and also saw more than 3,000 members of the Qinglong Legion not far away.
The Donghu army also tried every means to guard against the Qinglong Legion. They only had a temporary camp, with 100,000 people built in an area of 30 acres. The camp was full of horse pits, which showed how much the 3,000 Qinglong Legion had a deterrent effect on them.
Seeing several Qinglong Legion members scouting in the distance, Hua Kai slowly approached and returned to the Qinglong Legion area with the scouting team.
Hua Kai looked at the 3,000 Qinglong Legion soldiers leaning on their horses to eat dry food, and he couldn't help but respect them. Because they didn't even build a camp, the Donghu army had to pay attention to their movements every second. Every hour or so, as long as the Qinglong Legion got up and moved slightly, the entire Donghu camp had to move. They knew how powerful the Qinglong Legion was.
Seeing Uncle Wu and Tang Lei, with the help of elixirs, their injuries have almost recovered.
"Uncle Wu, your [Silver Spear] is not enough to deal with the half-step foundation building. Although this [Deep Purple Spear] is only a seventh-grade treasure weapon, it has the effect of weakening will defense. The opponent's foundation building is no worse than ordinary spiritual weapons.
Tang Lei, this armor is called "Wenshan Kai", an eighth-grade treasure armor. As a heavy armor, it can offset most of the damage of the foundation building. You have a divine horse [Sweat Blood Horse] to wear it." Hua Kai first distributed the equipment to the two when he arrived.
"Xue Pan, these are 12 [Cloud Piercing Arrows], all of which are treasure weapon-level arrows. Each of these 12 arrows is equivalent to a treasure weapon. Whether this plan can succeed depends on your performance!" Hua Kai said and handed the [Cloud Piercing Arrow] to Xue Pan.
In addition to the [Dragon Gallbladder Spear] used by Hua Kai himself, the remaining three weapons and equipment cost a total of more than 9,000 family luck points, which makes the Hua family luck value less than 10,000 points now.