TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 1058: Chapter 432 In the Jar Game Breaker_3 Chapter 1058: Chapter 432 In the Jar Game Breaker_3 Scraping together resources, just enough to sustain these people for a year’s supply.

But now, the Chu army has already besieged the city for half a year.

And it looks like the siege will continue, lasting another year is just a matter of time.

Once a year passes, no matter how frugally the city conserves food, they will face a crisis of complete grain depletion.

If the million-strong Xu Army outside the city joins in, that would mean a doubling of grain consumption.

Let alone holding out for another half a year, whether they can last another two or three months until winter brings snow is also in question.

By then, there’s a fear that without the Chu Army lifting a finger, the people of Liang and Xu within the city will starve to death due to the food issue.

At that point, the enemy will collapse without a fight, and the Chu Army will easily take the entire city of Da Liang.

Just from this aspect, Chu State isn’t the least bit worried about the arrival of the Xu people.

The sky is vast, the earth is vast, but having food to eat is of utmost importance.

By controlling Da Liang City’s lifeline, the Chu Army might as well have taken the city.

Of course, these are just passive reactions.

Although they will eventually complete the mission, the time spent and the potential variables that may arise during the wait signal that this is not the most perfect solution.

Rather than waiting for the enemy to starve to death, Lu Yuan prefers to take matters into his own hands, using his excellent strength to kill the enemy.

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As long as the people are gone, everything is settled, with no further problems.

And coincidentally, when it comes to this uninvited Xu Army, he indeed has the strength to kill them.

So what are we waiting for?

It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get down to business.

Therefore, to lure the opponent into the trap, the Chu Army in the northeastern region of Liang, under the guidance of Lu Yuan, withdrew from the guarded cities in advance of the Xu Army’s arrival.

They cleared the way to Da Liang for them.

The goal was to allow the Xu Army to reach Da Liang City without any worries.

Of course, this giving up of the cities is only temporary.

Once the main force of the Xu Army has passed through, those withdrawn Chu forces will quickly return and retake the cities they gave up.

They will completely block the retreat of the Xu Army that has entered the trap.

And what about the Xu Army’s defenders left at those retreat points, those who took over the cities?

With such a small number of forces, Lu Yuan believes that under the inexhaustible wear of his troops and the attack of his Inborn Grandmasters, they won’t be able to pose any real obstacle.

Taking back the abandoned cities is inevitable, not just a possibility.

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Not only did they open the paths, but preparations also began within the Chu Army’s main camp outside Da Liang City.

Over a million elite soldiers, long nurtured and carefully selected, have already gathered at the northern camp.

In the army, twenty Inborn Grandmasters, including Lu Yuan’s avatars and prince and princesses, have also assembled at the northern camp.

Half of the elite power of the Liang and Chu forces is now poised and ready, waiting for the Xu Army that has taken the bait to arrive.

Now that the bait has arrived and the vanguards of both armies have even started fighting, everything is developing rapidly as Lu Yuan wished.

Of course.

The current progress is also what the people of Liang and Xu desire, unfolding as they expected.

The so-called drawing the snake out of its hole doesn’t mean that the Chu Army is brilliant or that the Xu people are foolish and cannot see through the trap’s scheming.

The opponent certainly knows that the Chu Army harbors ill intentions and that going to Da Liang will undoubtedly be fraught with hardship and danger.

But even knowing this, the Xu Army still has to come.

Because they have to save Da Liang.

And they have to assist the State of Liang.

Qingping County, he simply couldn’t do without it.

Even for the Chu Army, the Xu Army had to fight.

Given all these unavoidable factors, even if they knew there was a trap ahead, the Xu Army still had to leap into it.

One way or another, they had to face a battle.

If they did not save Liang, once Liang fell, Xu State would not survive either.

Therefore, it might as well face the challenge.

Let’s see if your trap is deeper or if I can jump farther.

This kind of ruse, akin to the ruse of Zhou Yu against Huang Gai, thus unfolded in Liang Prefecture in such an absurd fashion.

However, this act wouldn’t end so swiftly; it had to last at least ten days to half a month to play out the drama involving over a million people.

So Lu Yuan merely paid attention to the start of the war, confirmed that the Chu Army had not fallen into a disadvantage but instead held a significant advantage, and then he didn’t focus too much on it.

He redirected his energy onto other matters.

For instance, he just received a piece of news.

On the twentieth day of the seventh month, Qingxuanzi, the Camp Commander of the eastern military expedition, finally made a breakthrough in Rencheng Prefecture after months of fierce battle.

In the Battle of Chengcheng, he crushed the Liang defenders of Rencheng, slaying two hundred and twenty-one thousand enemies and capturing one hundred and seventy thousand.

Subsequently, the main force swept through Rencheng, and it was anticipated that the entire prefecture would be pacified within the next few days.

With the loss of this prefecture, one of Liang’s most important rear bases, Jiaoxi Prefecture, and one of the two prefectures of Donglai and Jiaoxi, would be directly exposed to the Chu Army’s offensive.

Another core region within Liang’s territory had diminished, leaving only Donglai Prefecture, further reducing their war potential.

But that’s not all.

With the Rencheng Prefecture in the north acting as a barrier, the areas of Greater Liang and Shanyang County on the easternmost edge of Liang had become protrusions.

The current map of Liang resembled that of a tadpole, with a tail extending from the main body.

These extensions were Greater Liang and Shanyang County.

What’s worse, the southern part of Shanyang County, that tail, had already been occupied by the Chu Army, bitten off a chunk.

Therefore, this protruding part appeared even more winding and vulnerable.

In such a context, with the eastern military expedition threatening Jiaoxi and Shanyang, the issue was no longer whether Greater Liang could hold out.

For, as the apex of the protrusion, it had already become isolated like the tail of a gecko and was sure to fall.

The real problem for Liang was whether, with their rear under threat, they could still maintain the defenses they had prepared in Shanyang, that half a tail that was extended.

After all, Shanyang County faced the risk of being attacked from the east, south, and west by the Chu Army.

Under such dire circumstances, establishing a new stable defensive line here was no easy task.

And with Shanyang County as the precarious pivot in the rear,

Greater Liang, which relied on Shanyang, naturally had even less chance of holding on.

In Greater Liang, the Xu Army had just set its trap, and almost immediately, wonderful news came from the eastern military expedition.

Such delightful tidings naturally uplifted spirits.

Even Lu Yuan started to wonder if this was the result of his cultivation of the Way of Control Pneuma, after accumulating so much Qi Luck, beginning to gather momentum and feed back into reality.

Otherwise, why would he feel as if even the heavens were aiding him?

Wait a minute.

Given the current dire state of the Nine Provinces, and being the last Cultivator and a practitioner of the Fortune Dao, as well as the ruler of the greatest empire, encompassing so many halos in oneself,

this template seemed almost on par with that of a protagonist, right?

‘Could it be that I’ve become the favored child of heaven, and heaven intends for me to be the savior?’

Lu Yuan looked up at the sky, unable to help but speculate in his heart.

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