When Qin Ran's real body arrived in Wuyi City, his clone had also arrived at the Xuanqin military camp.
He first used the transparent nature of water to approach the Xuanqin military camp in stealth, then waited for an opportunity to kill a patrolling soldier, then transformed into the appearance of this patrolling soldier, and finally, in the appearance of this soldier, blended into the patrol unit and patrolled the military camp together.
Qin Ran's water clone basically has the ability to change into a thousand different forms. Moreover, he transforms and changes his form, not through illusion or deception. In other words, the things he changes into are difficult for ordinary people, even for Nascent Soul cultivators, to detect.
Because Nascent Soul cultivators do not yet have a soul, if they do not practice special techniques, then the world they see with their naked eyes is not much different from what low-level cultivators see.
Qin Ran used his water clone to enter the mortal army's camp. It was like entering an empty place, and he could do whatever he wanted.
He mixed in with the patrol team, walked around the military camp, and secretly collected some random intelligence.
Generals lead troops to fight... Everyone thinks "leading troops to fight" is one word, but in fact, it is two words, leading troops and fighting. The difficulty of leading troops is actually not much different from that of fighting.
A combat force of 10,000 people needs at least 20,000 to 30,000 logistics troops. In other words, if a general leads 10,000 people to fight, he will be responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of at least 30,000 to 40,000 people, because it is a war, and he also needs to be responsible for weapons, armor, and chariots and horses.
If one can take good care of these 30,000 people without causing any major chaos, and bring them back as they were taken out, then he is a qualified general; if one can take these 30,000 people to any place he wants to take them and make them ready for battle, then he can be called an excellent general.
As for fighting, that is another matter.
... Think about it, Qin Ran brought one Danfeng, including Yan Yi and Zhou Fu, that is four people and four monsters. That's eight creatures, and they are not of the same mind. If Qin Ran took these eight people to go on a sect mission, eight people would not necessarily come back.
(ps: If you are the monitor of the class and you are asked to take the whole class out for an outing, apart from other things, can you mobilize everyone to go away, and then bring everyone back safely? There are only a few dozen people in a class.)
Speaking of this, I want to say that Zhao Li is extremely powerful. He is indeed an incredible general. This 200,000-man combat force, hundreds of thousands of logistics troops, and the super-large camp built here were arranged by him clearly without any trouble.
Qin Ran was patrolling with the patrol team at this time. The ground was flat and the barracks were clean and tidy. There was no dirt or mess. It could be said to be a miracle.
Zhao Li's ability to lead troops is evident from this.
And Zhao Li was able to take over nearly half of Northern Chu within three months, which shows that his combat capability is also very strong.
To sum up, Zhao Li is an extremely powerful commander, even worthy of Qin Ran's murderous intention.
"If there is a chance, I will kill Zhao Li when I evacuate." Qin Ran thought.
The patrol suddenly passed by a barracks, outside which four soldiers were squatting in the snow drinking.
There was a pot of wine and peanuts as side dishes. Each person grabbed a few peanuts and passed the wine around.
They drank and chatted.
Qin Ran was far away when he heard one of the bearded men say, "Northern Chu is so delicate that even the snow is tiny. I'm afraid the men in Northern Chu are the same."
When talking about this kind of thing, everyone laughed knowingly.
One of the square-faced men drank some wine and suddenly sighed, "Oh, it's snowing. At this rate, I'm afraid we'll have to spend the New Year here this year."
"There's no way..." A dark-faced man took over the conversation, "I don't know what the higher-ups are thinking. They don't want us to fight or leave, and just leave us here to starve."
"That's right. The Northern Chu army is very weak and can't withstand our charge." The thin man replied, "Wouldn't it be better if we just charge in?"
The bearded man took the wine pot, pointed at the several star sword energies in front of Wuyi City, and sneered, "You want to break those immortal methods?"
"The methods of immortals need immortals to break them..." The square-faced man looked at the sword energies, fear in his eyes, and asked, "Where are the immortals of our Xuan Qin?"
The thin-faced man thought of something when he heard this, and lowered his voice, saying, "I heard that during the last siege, several gods died on our side. Do you remember how many times the light flashed overhead that night? That was when the gods of Xuan Qin died."
"Hush!" The dark-faced man glared at him and said, "Nonsense! How can a god die?"
But the bearded man followed the thin-faced man's words and whispered, "I've heard about this, too..."
After the others had all looked over, he continued, "It is said that too many immortals died, and a conflict arose between the immortals in the army and the general. The general wanted to attack the city and return early, but the immortals were afraid of death..."
"Yes, yes..." said the thin-faced man, "I heard that the general is looking for another immortal to deal with the sword immortal of Beichu."
After hearing this, the dark-faced man ate a peanut and said, "I heard that Princess Yaqing of the Zhao family seems to be back..."
"You guys over there!" Suddenly, a female voice shouted, "What are you talking about?"
The four of them were startled and looked hurriedly in the direction of the sound. They saw a beautiful young girl and a charming young woman walking towards them.
The one who scolded was the young woman.
"Princess Yaqing!" the black-faced man cried out in panic.
The four of them threw away their peanuts and drinks, stood up, and bowed in the direction of Zhao Yaqing.
Zhao Yaqing and her escort came over here, briefly glanced at the four people, and said in a deep voice with the arrogance of a superior: "First, you violated military discipline and drank in the army; second, you are treasonous and discussed state affairs. These two cases should be executed according to the law!"
The four of them were so frightened that they all trembled, knelt down quickly, and said urgently: "Princess, spare our lives."
Zhao Yaqing glanced at them with disdain and said to the patrol team that had already walked away: "Someone here violated the rules, aren't you going to deal with it?"
So the patrol team had to turn back and salute Zhao Yaqing.
The patrol captain stepped out and said to Zhao Yaqing, "My lord, please be magnanimous and allow me to take them away and punish them."
Drinking in the army is indeed against discipline, but... this kind of thing happens in the cold winter, so everyone basically turns a blind eye to it; as for discussing state affairs, who doesn't gossip about it in private?
It was just that they happened to meet Zhao Yaqing, and Zhao Yaqing was in a bad mood.
As for why Zhao Yaqing was in a bad mood?
Look at the sword energy in front of Wuyi City! How could she be in a good mood when someone she hated became so powerful?
"You take them away?" Zhao Yaqing knew that this was just a perfunctory move. If the captain took these people away and took them to a place where she couldn't see them, he would definitely release them secretly. So she became even more unhappy and shouted, "Humph! Bring a few of them to my tent. I want to punish them personally!"
At first, no one in the patrol team moved. After a few breaths, before Zhao Yaqing became even angrier, someone from the patrol team came out and pinned down one of the black-faced men. Then, three more people came out and pinned down the other three.
"Follow me!" Zhao Yaqing said coldly, gritting her teeth.
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