The Villain's Counterattack

Chapter 502 Master Yijian, attack!

The Grandmaster in this world is of extraordinary significance and can govern an entire country. In his first battle, Fu Cailin killed Xin Shixiong, the general of the Left Tunwei. Yizhi Wende took advantage of the situation and defeated the Sui army. After that, he fought against Yuwen Shu. Several masters of the Yuwen family besieged Fu Cailin, but he still seriously injured Yuwen Shu. Fortunately, the Yuwen family had many masters and a large army to protect them, and they forced him back with their numbers.

Afterwards, Fu Cailin attacked everywhere, and the generals of the Great Sui Dynasty were greatly frightened. The offensive eased a lot for a while. However, Fu Cailin was only one person after all. He could not take care of Yuwen Shu, Yu Zhongwen and others if their troops were divided. If they were united, he could not defeat so many masters and soldiers. The situation on the Goguryeo side was still not completely resolved.

The Grandmaster appeared and disappeared without a trace, and his single-handed sword-wielding power significantly reduced the Sui army's marching speed, demonstrating his immense influence. Just as the generals were on guard, Fu Cailin suddenly disappeared. A few days later, news arrived that a general defending a city in the rear had been murdered. The murderer was Fu Cailin.

Such news came in one after another. Seeing his route was surprisingly heading straight for the central army camp, where Emperor Yang Guang was, the morale of the Sui army was shaken. This time, Yang Guang personally led the expedition, mobilizing a million soldiers and two million civilians. If the Grandmaster came and captured the emperor, the consequences would be disastrous.

They wanted to return to protect the emperor, but when they thought of Yang Guang's military orders, they did not dare to make decisions on their own. They stopped and sent messengers to ask Yang Guang for instructions.

What was Yang Guang doing at this time?

In the central army camp, singing was lingering and colorful clothes were fluttering. Outside the camp, soldiers were everywhere. Naturally, Yang Guang could not help but pay attention to his own safety. He led a million soldiers on the front line, with only more than 300,000 soldiers left in the nine armies, and more than 300,000 soldiers scattered across Liaodong. Excluding the navy, grain transport teams and battle losses, there were still 100,000 troops guarding Yang Guang.

What's more, Yang Guang is not without experts guarding him. Yang Guang himself is also a senior master, but he has too few opportunities to actually take action, so it is unknown whether he really has the combat power.

The sky was gloomy that day, with smoke and dust billowing in the distance. Suddenly, a Goguryeo cavalry of several thousand men appeared and headed straight for the central army camp. Yang Guang's interest was ruined, but then he suddenly became interested again. He summoned all the officials and ministers to lead the troops to meet the enemy. Of course, as the emperor, he could only stay in the rear.

On the high platform, Yang Guang was leaning in the arms of a beauty, with two eunuchs and beauties lingering beside him, and ministers of cultural relics accompanying him on both sides. However, Pei Ju (Shi Zhixuan) was missing. Generals such as Mai Tiezhang, Qian Shixiong, and Meng Cha were commanding the army to take care of the enemy on all sides, and there were brave generals leading cavalry to charge the enemy formation to prevent the holy carriage from being attacked by a mere clown.

There were only 3,000 Goguryeo cavalrymen. After a wave of horse and arrows, they suddenly turned around and headed to the side in a huge arc, attracting a group of Sui troops to follow closely. Suddenly, they heard whistling sounds coming from afar, and a group of thousands of Mohe cavalrymen came whistling from the side, attracting another force.

A faint smile appeared on Yang Guang's lips. He looked at a group of Khitan cavalry with over a thousand men charging desperately and reaching a distance of a thousand meters. He couldn't help but admire: "There are many brave warriors among the foreign barbarians."

However, the killing power of a simple cavalry charge was too small. Mai Tiezhang waved his hand, and the lieutenant colonel behind him waved the flag. The sword and shield soldiers scattered to the left and right, revealing the bows and crossbows behind them. A rain of arrows whistled in the sky along with the powerful crossbows, and the thousands of cavalry were reduced to half in an instant.

Before the cavalry could be defeated, a figure suddenly jumped up from the cavalry camp, waving the long sword in his hand, and easily deflected the arrow that was close to him. Then the whole person turned into a phantom and floated over. Wherever he passed, the arrows were like straws, and the soldiers were like wooden stakes, and no one could stop him.

"It's the chess and sword master Fu Cailin, protect the emperor!" Mai Tiezhang shouted loudly, and Meng Cha called out, and hundreds of soldiers suddenly rushed out, and groups of ten people pulled special fishing nets and moved forward quickly, trying to stop Fu Cailin.

Fu Cailin slashed the long sword in his hand, and with the sound of "ding~ding~ding~", he did not break the fishing net completely. But when he looked closely, he found that the fishing net was specially made with a three-layer structure, decorated with iron wire, steel wire, rope and silk. It was both hard and soft. Even if he did not use all his strength, it would be difficult to break it with one sword.

However, with his strength reaching this level, it was really difficult for ordinary soldiers to stop him. He leaped over but accidentally fell into the net set up by ten sets of fishing nets. These soldiers wore special soft armor and their heads and faces were tightly protected. It was not easy for Fu Cailin to kill them hiding behind the fishing nets.

"Swish~Swish~Swish~" Fu Cailin used his inner strength to cut a fishing net with a few swords. Suddenly he found that these fishing nets could still be used even if they were broken and could continue to entangle him. So he circled around and killed several people holding the nets, causing the fishing net formation to become clumsy, and after a few rises and falls, it landed on a platform hundreds of meters away.

"Shoot!" Mai Tiezhang took this opportunity to organize archers to block in front of the platform. At a command, countless arrows flew towards him. However, Fu Cailin didn't care at all. He protected himself tightly with his sword energy and quickly killed him.

Mai Tiezhang knew that ordinary soldiers, even ordinary masters, could not do anything to the grandmaster, so he waved his hand to send the archers away. The cavalry on both sides galloped over, forcing Fu Cailin to speed up and rush to the platform. On the platform, Yang Guang sat upright with his eyes bright, watching Fu Cailin kill through several layers of obstacles and reach within a hundred meters in front of the platform.

Just as all the civil and military officials were in a state of panic, Mai Tiezhang dropped his spear, drew his sword, and stood up, saying to himself: "The wandering knight of Shixing is a playboy, he travels five hundred miles a day and steals at night."

Everyone was amused when they heard this. This Mai Tiezhang was originally a dissolute knight from the south of the Yangtze River. He used to be the umbrella holder for Emperor Chen Houzhu. After Emperor Chen Houzhu retired from court, he would often walk more than a hundred miles to southern Xuzhou at night, climb over the city wall and enter the city, using the lights to rob and steal.

Qian Shixiong did not let him have all the glory, and followed closely behind him, sword in hand. "The Qian family is a family of generals in Jiangnan, and their loyalty has been passed down from generation to generation."

"Outside the city of Luoyang lies the Laojun Temple, and within the Laojun Temple lies the Laojun Biography."

"The chain of Tianxin is in Tianlian, and Tianlian is only passed on in Tianxin."

"The Purple Cloud Divine Art begins, and the Sunflower Manual reaches its peak."

"To the north of the extreme hair lies the Dark Ocean, thousands of miles wide, containing hundreds of rivers."

"Purple air comes from the east for three thousand miles, and the cycle repeats itself."

Mai Tiezhang, Qian Shixiong, Bichen, Anlong (dressed as a Taoist priest), Yang Ke, Yang Gai, and Yang Xuyan, armed with their precious swords, formed the Tiangang Big Dipper Sword Formation. This formation was originally Yang Xuyan's trump card for his seven brothers, allowing them to challenge opponents of higher levels together. However, it was rarely used later, as they each went their own way. This time, Yang Xuyan needed this sword formation to protect Yang Guang against Fu Cailin, but due to a shortage of helpers, he brought in Anlong and Bichen to fill in the gaps.

Why didn't they say Zhu Yuyan and other Yingui Sect masters?

Haha, as a disciple of Shi Zhixuan, how could Yang Xuyan dare to get too close to Zhu Yuyan? If he wasn't careful, he would be killed by the other party. Even now, he didn't dare to show off the Butian School's martial arts in front of Zhu Yuyan.

Yang Guang had many masters around him. The only masters who had a good relationship with Yang Xuyan, or the masters who could be persuaded by him, were Mai Tiezhang and Qian Shixiong, whose lives were saved by him. In addition, he was short of two of his three brothers. Fortunately, Anlong was helping with the business of Buzhou Trading Company (selling female slaves from Goguryeo) nearby, so he was drafted into the army. Bichen was later summoned by Yang Guang together with Zhu Yuyan.

Yang Xuyan had no relationship with Zhu Yuyan, but he had a lot of interactions with Bi Chen. When Buzhou Trading Company expanded its business to Luoyang City, it was inevitable that there would be friction and clashes with the richest man in Luoyang. As time went by, they became friends and he also got to know Rong Jiaojiao.

Yang Xuyan wanted to set up the Tiangang Big Dipper Sword Formation, but he was short of manpower, so he recruited him. After all, this was also a secret formation of the upper level. Naturally, Bi Chen was tempted, but the Tiangang Big Dipper Sword Formation was quite complicated. Each of the four newcomers only learned one path, and it took them half a month to barely get started, and a month to achieve some success. It was not easy to master all seven paths, and Yang Xuyan was not so generous as to teach them all.

Fu Cailin couldn't help but feel a little wary when he suddenly saw four masters and three innate masters blocking in front of him in a strange formation. However, he was charging into the battle alone and trying to hold Yang Guang hostage to force him to retreat. Although he was not experienced in many battles, it was very tiring for him to walk all the way. Moreover, this charge would expose all the Goguryeo, Khitan and Mohe cavalry lurking in the rear, and they might even be wiped out. If he missed this opportunity, there would be no next time. How could he give up? He stopped his sword and killed them first.