Bright Sword: I don’t want to be the king!

Chapter 174 Xiaozhong's conspiracy, Tianhuang's nephew

Zhaojiayu.

This place is the new base of the New 1st Regiment to which Li Yunlong belongs. In the original novel of "Sword Breaks the Sky", Li Yunlong's first emotional entanglement unfolds here.

Unexpectedly, just after Cao Geng rescued Ding Wei and Zhao Gang, the Japanese soldiers in the direction of Zhaojiayu took action again.

However, Cao Geng fell into deep thought.

At this moment, those evil Japanese pirates are launching a massive cleanup operation against the entire northern Jinxu area. In fact, no matter where in the land of Jinxu, their shadows of chaos can be seen.

Today, the northern border area of ​​Jinxu is in the midst of war and chaos.

It was not surprising to learn that the Japanese pirates in the direction of Zhaojiayu had taken actions against Li Yunlong.

It was just because Cao Geng was once a subordinate of Li Yunlong, so he once instructed his subordinates that if Li Yunlong encountered difficulties, the intelligence personnel must inform him immediately.

Therefore, when the intelligence personnel came to report the matter, Cao Geng remained calm as usual.

"Well, what happened where the new group is?"

Cao Geng asked.

"It is said that the Japanese pirates not only maintained their original offensive against Zhaojiayu, but also dispatched an additional large force..."

Intelligence personnel reported back.

"An additional battalion of troops has been dispatched..."

Cao Geng thought about it for a moment.

He knew very well that before this, the evil Japanese pirates had deployed only about one battalion against Li Yunlong near Zhaojiayu. Originally, that battalion of troops formed a delicate balance of power with Li Yunlong's new regiment.

However, Cao Geng had never expected that at this moment the Japanese pirates would suddenly reinforce the troops where Li Yunlong was.

Although the number of troops around Zhaojiayu increased by only about one battalion, this move may not be a big threat to Li Yunlong. It is nothing more than a change from fighting against a battalion of Japanese pirates to dealing with a brigade-level enemy.

Li Yunlong certainly felt some pressure, but in the past, he was able to hold off the Sakata Brigade with only 800 warriors and eventually win. Now, facing a brigade-sized evil spirit pirate, it seems that he is not afraid.

"understood."

Cao Geng nodded in agreement.

Now he has withdrawn from the New 1st Regiment. Although he always pays close attention to its every move, unless Li Yunlong and Cao Dabiao are facing an irreconcilable crisis, he, Cao Geng, does not need to intervene too much and can concentrate on recruiting soldiers.

At present, although Li Yunlong is under some pressure, he can certainly deal with it properly.

Compared to worrying about Li Yunlong's situation, Cao Geng would rather focus on the recovery of Ding Wei and Zhao Gang and how to properly deal with Duan Peng's affairs.

After the intelligence personnel left, Cao Geng ended his daytime training and affairs and entered a state of meditation.

For several days, Cao Geng's life was still calm, and he continued to recruit disciples to enrich his school. Although the situation in the New First Group was slightly more tense than before, the evil spirit pirates did not make any more rampant moves.

Thanks to Duan Peng's potential foundation in Iron Sand Palm, Cao Geng decided to let him receive strict training as a special soldier in the future.

As for Duan Peng's mother, whom he was worried about, Cao Geng also personally used his connections to track down her whereabouts.

In addition, Cao Geng was unable to figure out the real intention of the Japanese pirates' sudden increase of troops against Li Yunlong.

After the battle of the New 1st Regiment defending Lingxiao Peak, according to Cao Xuanqing's intelligence, Li Xunfeng actually remained silent and did not stir up any more trouble. And Zhaojiayu is located in a remote place, not an important place for cultivation, and the Japanese invaders have no intention of seizing this place.

Therefore, in Cao Xuanqing's opinion, the Japanese monks really couldn't find any reason to target Li Xunfeng. However, this time, the Japanese invaders deliberately targeted Li Xunfeng, which could only be said to be Li Xunfeng's bad luck. Despite this, the Japanese invaders did not put too much pressure on Li Xunfeng. Even when facing a coalition of ghosts, Li Xunfeng still had the strength to deal with it.

However, when the Japanese invaders sent reinforcements to Zhaojiayu alone, everything was already decided.

Cao Xuanqing did not speculate too much about this, but just paid close attention to the changes in the situation and recruited disciples in an orderly manner.

Just when Cao Xuanqing was confused and puzzled about the Japanese invaders' surprise attack on the New 1st Regiment, he never expected that in the distant city of Taiyuan, Shinozuka Zhenren was in an unusually happy mood these days.

Of course, this was due to the Japanese invasion of the northern Shanxi fairyland, which was invincible. But the deeper reason was that Master Xiaozuka was about to complete the trap he had carefully laid for Cao Xuanqing.

That's right, Cao Xuanqing has been unable to figure out why the Japanese invaders suddenly attacked Li Xunfeng's sect in recent days. The truth is that Master Xiaozuka is plotting a plan against Cao Xuanqing. In the past few days, Master Xiaozuka did not attack Li Xunfeng with all his strength, but exerted pressure. His purpose was not as simple as Li Xunfeng's misfortune as Cao Xuanqing expected. The real reason was that Master Xiaozuka was secretly setting a deadly trap around Cao Xuanqing these two days.

Master Shinozuka was known for his prudence. He had previously issued a bounty order for Cao Xuanqing throughout the entire Jinbei Immortal Realm, but failed to capture him. Now that he had taken the initiative to induce Cao Xuanqing to reveal his flaws, he naturally wanted to ensure that the Japanese invaders under his command could directly point to Cao Xuanqing's weaknesses at the critical moment.

On the surface, he would indeed mobilize heavy troops to deal with Li Xunfeng, but he would control the force to a level that would put Li Xunfeng in trouble. If Cao Xuanqing heard the news and came to rescue, Li Xunfeng would most likely be able to survive.

But if Cao Xuanqing really fell into the trap and led his disciples to rescue Li Xunfeng, the Japanese invaders would then mobilize their troops in secret to ensure that once they clashed with Cao Xuanqing, they could take his life in one fell swoop.

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Cao Xuanqing was naturally unaware of all this. At this moment, he was still recruiting disciples in an orderly manner and was busy handling sect affairs every day.

At this moment, news came from the logistics hall of Cao Xuanqing's New Third Regiment that his two junior brothers Ding Li and Zhao Yi had regained consciousness and their injuries were gradually stabilizing.

After learning about this, Cao Xuanqing immediately put aside his official duties and rushed to the logistics hall. Seeing that Ding Li and Zhao Yi had both recovered 50% to 60% of their vitality, Cao Xuanqing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and joked to them, "I was really worried that you two would die."

Ding Wei and Zhao Gang could not help but smile bitterly. With the help of the fairy messenger from the logistics department, they had already learned that it was Cao Geng who rescued them in Wangjiagang.

At this moment, facing Cao Geng's joking words, Ding Wei and Zhao Gang both fell into deep thought.

"When our two sects joined forces and destroyed the important supply base of the Japanese tribe in one fell swoop, there were only a few of our independent sects left. We originally planned to find a blessed place to reorganize our cultivation forces. However, we did not expect to be surrounded and captured by half of the pseudo-immortal army in Wangjiagang..."

Obviously, Ding Wei and Zhao Gang were captured by Wangjiagang's pseudo-immortal army under such a dangerous situation.

As for what happened later, Cao Geng already knew roughly about the suffering they endured in the prison where the Wangjiagang Pseudo-Immortal Legion imprisoned the monks.

Just when Cao Geng was about to comfort the two men, he unexpectedly saw them look excited.

"However, our hardships in that prisoner-of-war camp were not in vain, because we learned a crucial secret from those pseudo-immortal legions..." Ding Wei and Zhao Gang both spoke with a smile.

"Important secret?" Cao Geng was slightly stunned.

It turned out that in the prisoner-of-war camp, Ding Wei and Zhao Gang spent most of their time building protective formations for the monsters and evil spirits, and were only occasionally locked up by those evil spirits. It was hard to imagine how they could have discovered such important secrets in such an isolated environment.

However, Ding Wei and Zhao Gang obviously would not lie without reason.

Cao Geng listened attentively.

Ding Wei then said slowly, "I heard that in mid-to-late July, the nephew of the Japanese Tianhuang Zhenren will come to Wangjiagang for inspection and stay for a short time. Now it is July 12, and there are less than three days left before the nephew of Tianhuang Zhenren arrives in Wangjiagang."

"And the Japanese puppet immortal army in Wangjiagang is so eager to strengthen the fortifications, just to create a perfect patrol site for the nephew of Tianhuang Zhenren."

When the "nephew of Master Tianhuang" was mentioned, Cao Geng was stunned.

"If this news is true, then it can indeed be called a major and shocking secret."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Geng nodded in agreement.

The Japanese Tianhuang Zhenren is the supreme leader of the Japanese immortal world, and his nephew is equivalent to the Japanese royal family. If Cao Geng can kill this person directly, once the news spreads, all the sects and forces in the entire Chinese land will be shocked.

Not to mention that if Cao Geng could hold the nephew of Tianhuang Zhenren hostage and ask for benefits from Shinozuka Yoshio, I'm afraid that even if he asked Shinozuka Yoshio to immediately stop the massive search and arrest operation in the northwest of Shanxi, he would have no choice but to agree, let alone ask Shinozuka Yoshio to give up a few cultivation sites to Cao Geng.

Thinking of this, Cao Geng suddenly came up with a bold plan - he wanted to use the nephew of Tianhuang Zhenren to blackmail Shinozuka Yoshio.

"How is it? Is this secret important enough? As long as you can find a way to deal with this nephew of Tianhuang Zhenren, the benefits will be extremely rich."

Ding Wei smiled.

But the next moment, he sighed again.