Chapter 340 Cognitive Impairment (Part 2)

After Zhao Yuan was awarded the title of Champion Marquis, to everyone's surprise, he chose to return home.

As Zhao Yuan now understands the truth of martial arts more and more, he now only wants to break the shackles of martial arts and break through the realm of Grandmaster.

The desires of the secular world can no longer bind him, and he refused the emperor's marriage and official appointments.

In desperation, the emperor could only let Zhao Yuan go after conferring him the title of General of Cavalry.

But they also agreed that if Da Cai was in trouble, Zhao Yuan would come out again.

Zhao Yuan returned to the city of guards in a low-key manner with the gold and treasures rewarded by the emperor.

At this moment, it has been nearly two years since Zhao Yuan passed the examination for the status of a martial arts candidate.

Xie the butcher had already built a mansion outside the city of guards with the silver notes sent back by Zhao Yuan.

He was very sensible, and the sign on the mansion was Zhao Mansion.

Even though Zhao Yuan was just a son-in-law, this son-in-law has now turned over.

Xie the butcher also understood that the one who could really make the decision in this family was Zhao Yuan, not himself.

Today was a happy day, and he happily waited for the plaque of the new mansion that was customized from Fengxin County.

It was made of Huaixiang wood, which looked extremely luxurious, and the big characters on it were written by the governor of Fengxin County himself.

It was called "Champion Marquis Mansion"!

Zhao Yuan's outstanding achievements were enough to make everyone in Fengxin County look up to him.

Even Xu Zifu dragged his old body to the gate city to congratulate Xie the butcher's family.

Today, many Fengxin County officials gathered in the Marquis Mansion.

In the gate city, only the county magistrate and a few others were qualified to welcome Zhao Yuan here.

It was not until the evening that more than a dozen figures came galloping from the village road.

Xu Zifu narrowed his eyes and looked against the light in the direction of the sunset.

The body of the leader was so burly that it was frightening to see.

But from the familiar lines, he still recognized that this was the world-famous champion marquis and cavalry general Zhao Yuan.

It's just that Zhao Yuan's body has expanded again compared to when Xu Zifu first saw him.

Xu Zifu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, not knowing whether the food in the army was too good or the martial arts Zhao Yuan practiced had such an effect.

Zhao Yuan's abnormal strength and such a huge body.

Wearing heavy armor and holding blunt weapons, he is a living meat grinder on the battlefield.

As long as Zhao Yuan's physical strength is not exhausted, he is the nightmare of everyone on the battlefield.

As this team gradually approached, a cold breath of golden swords and iron horses gradually solidified the excitement.

The more than ten cavalrymen behind Zhao Yuan also had amazing temperament.

The indifference in their eyes seemed as if there would be no shakes even if the sky collapsed and the earth broke.

Xu Zifu knew that these must have been tempered after experiencing thousands of battles on the battlefield.

Each of them could be said to have walked out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses, and each of them had the lives of more than a hundred people on their shoulders.

Xu Zifu also knew one of them.

It was He Mingtao, who came out of Fengxin County and was recommended by him to join the Yuetian Cavalry.

Since he could see He Mingtao, and in the last battle, Zhao Yuan became the commander of the Yuetian Cavalry, he also knew the identities of the others.

These were the elite forces of the Yuetian Cavalry.

Xu Zifu was a little unbelievable.

If these people were put on the battlefield, the power they could exert could be comparable to that of thousands of people.

And if it comes to military merit, although not everyone can be made a marquis and appointed as a prime minister like Zhao Yuan.

But it must be easy to get a position as an officer in the army.

But now it seems that they followed Zhao Yuan back to this Huancheng County.

He was a little confused, not knowing whether Zhao Yuan's personal charm was too strong and worthy of their following, or whether Zhao Yuan made some promise to them.

Zhao Yuan's character is still the same as two years ago, and the blood of a scholar still flows in his bones.

After all, he has studied hard for nearly thirty years, and the meaning of the scriptures has penetrated into his bones.

Even if he is a prince, he is still humble to others, without arrogance, and has no intention of looking down on others.

After Zhao Yuan entered the mansion, the first thing he did was to reunite with his wife who had been away for two years.

He had nothing to hide, and told her all his experiences in the past two years.

Although Xie Cui'er was just the daughter of a butcher, she knew what was important.

After hearing that Zhao Yuan joined the army, Xie Cui'er worshiped Buddha and chanted scriptures all day long, just hoping that Zhao Yuan would be safe.

Seeing that Zhao Yuan had returned, Xie Cui'er's hanging heart finally fell.

However, Xie the butcher had already explained to Xie Cui'er.

She failed to give birth to a child for Zhao Yuan, although she had two daughters.

But without a son, she could not sit firmly in the position of the wife of the Champion Marquis.

Moreover, she was nearly 40 years old now. Even if she was willing, the doctor diagnosed that she could no longer have children.

So she listened to her father's instructions and asked Zhao Yuan to find a wife outside who could give birth to a son for him.

She only needed to be a concubine.

Facing such a sensible wife, Zhao Yuan just shook his head.

Now he didn't care much about these things.

It didn't matter to him whether he had a son or a daughter.

After receiving those dignitaries, Zhao Yuan finally took a breath.

He was also very grateful to Xu Zifu for giving him a chance.

Xu Zifu admired Zhao Yuan's ability even more.

After all, it was Zhao Yuan who helped Xu Zifu's niece to sit on the throne of the queen.

This also makes the Xu family extremely prominent now, becoming the leading family in the entire province.

It's just that Zhao Yuan is not interested in officialdom now, and Xu Zifu is very sorry.

After all, with Zhao Yuan's ability, he will definitely be able to help Da Cai expand its territory.

It may be possible to be crowned as the King of the Heterosexual in the future.

But now Zhao Yuan is completely obsessed with martial arts, and he longs to reach the realm of "human immortals" in his memory one day.

And these Yuetianqi soldiers he brought back are precisely because they have achieved success in martial arts under his teaching, so he dared to ask the emperor to bring them back together.

But there is also a condition, that is, after three years, he will return these soldiers to the army.

Zhao Yuan has no idea in his heart, and he doesn't know whether he can break the shackles of martial arts within three years.

After sending the guests away and comforting his wife and daughter, he returned to a peaceful life.

The gold and silver treasures bestowed by the emperor were almost innumerable, and together with the gifts given by those dignitaries, they were enough to support half of the county of Huancheng.

So Zhao Yuan was not stingy with food and drink, and he almost tasted all the meats available on the market.

Finally, he chose the ones with the best effect of replenishing qi and blood, and ate them in large quantities every day.

And supplemented with soup medicine, internal and external application, to strengthen the physique.

Many soldiers also ate and drank with Zhao Yuan, under such luxurious conditions.

The soldiers' martial arts cultivation was almost a thousand miles a day.

In just three months, some people began to enter the innate realm of martial arts one after another.

Don't think that this speed is very slow. According to Xie Que's memory, Zhao Yuan knew that these soldiers were rare geniuses among warriors.

But during these three months, Zhao Yuan himself did not make any progress in his realm.

He just felt that his qi and blood were getting thicker and his body was getting harder.

But what bothered him most was that he could not complete the step of breaking the dantian.

Zhao Yuan felt a little unfair. He punched the tree next to him and easily broke a thousand-year-old tree that two people could only hug.

With a loud bang, countless branches and leaves fell, and the soldiers practicing martial arts in the forest all stared at Zhao Yuan in front of them in amazement.

Although they knew that Zhao Yuan was amazing and had great strength.

But they didn't expect that his strength was so great!

They tried it, and even twelve people together couldn't lift the broken tree trunk.

But Zhao Yuan could lift it easily with one hand.

Zhao Yuan estimated that he should have almost seventy times the blood and qi of an ordinary master now.

Generally speaking, if you can reach five times, you can break the shackles and become a martial saint.

But when it comes to him, it is already fourteen times this number, but he still can't break the Dantian.

What is the problem? This puzzled Zhao Yuan.

Half a year later, heavy snow fell.

Due to the lack of food, the Yuansha people in the north began to invade the territory of Dacai on a large scale, plundering resources, clothing, food, etc. from the border towns.

Although each action was small-scale, there were dozens or even hundreds of teams acting at the same time.

When the emperor heard about this, he was furious and issued an edict that he would personally lead the army in the spring of next year after the ice and snow melted.

Although he was an emperor, he was not a fool.

Knowing that the Yuansha people had strong survival ability in such a harsh environment because they lived in such ice and snow, he should choose the right time even if he wanted to conquer them.

Before this, the emperor began to set up strict defenses on the border, and soldiers were on duty all night every night.

Although it could not completely stop the plundering of the Yuansha people, it was also effective.

In April of the next year, the emperor led more than 600,000 troops gathered from all over the country and began to attack the Yuansha people in the north.

The Yuansha people also have their own country.

But their culture is completely different from that of Dacai.

They do not farm, and almost entirely rely on animal husbandry and catching fish from ice holes for a living.

This is not the first time that the emperor has personally led an expedition.

Five years ago, he also went south to fight against the Yue slaves.

At that time, because of the great victory, the emperor's self-confidence began to swell extremely, leading to the current militarism.

After the emperor's army passed the Tianqian Pass, it completely entered the country of the Yuansha people.

The environment of the Yuansha country is extremely harsh. Apart from the grassland, there is an endless and desolate Gobi Desert.

There is a lack of water on it, and almost no living life can be seen.

Along the way, the emperor did not see any Yuansha people.

Even in the oasis rich in resources and relying on rivers, he only saw traces of the survival of the Yuansha people, but not any living Yuansha people.

If there were no traces showing that there were traces of the survival of the Yuansha people here not long ago, the emperor would have thought he had gone in the wrong direction.

As the supply became more and more difficult, soldiers died of thirst in just 300 miles in the Gobi Desert because they could not stand the too dry weather.

In desperation, the emperor had to dismiss half of the troops and return to the court.

He continued to advance with 300,000 troops.

Although the number of people was reduced by half, he was still extremely confident.

After all, the Yuansha people were just a small country in the north of Dacai, living in a small area, and the three countries of Jin, Gao, and Xian were entrenched in the north of Dacai.

After walking hundreds of miles, the army arrived at an empty city.

The water source was clear enough. Seeing the exhausted soldiers, the emperor knew that they had been exhausted all the way, so he wanted to rest in the city for a day to reorganize the army.

After testing for poison, the emperor found that the river water in the city was harmless and could be drunk freely, so he was relieved.

Only a few teams were left to take turns to guard the city gate.

After all, this empty city is a well-known gateway town of Yuansha people, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As long as the city gate is guarded, it will not be a problem to hold on for several months with sufficient food supplies.

But what was unexpected was that this empty city was also an ambush set up by Yuansha, Jin, Gao, and Xian for Da Cai.

They cooperated inside and outside, and at midnight, a big fire burned in the city.

The sound of rushing and killing also resounded outside the city.

The emperor calmed down and assigned people to put out the fire and guard the city. Everything was in order.

It was within half an hour that the fire was stabilized and the enemies from outside were blocked.

But because of this, they were trapped in this empty city.

The emperor gritted his teeth and wanted to send out spies to call for reinforcements.

But after several cavalry charges, he could not break through the army outside the city.

It was not until half a month later that a scout successfully returned to Dacai.

The scout did not go to the capital, but went directly south to the territory of Fengxin County.

At this moment, Zhao Yuan was still comprehending the mysteries of martial arts.

Until the scout's horse fell to the ground and the scout fainted in front of him.

He just knew that the emperor was in trouble. This person galloped for seven days and nights before coming to him thousands of miles away.

Zhao Yuan did not hesitate, and called twelve soldiers of Yuetianqi and set off.

Each of them rode a horse that was nearly ten feet high.

This is a foreign horse cultivated in the outside world. It is extremely powerful. Each one can pull thousands of pounds of things and even wrestle with elephants.

Its price is naturally very expensive.

It cost almost a thousand horses to get such a batch of precious horses.

Then, the thirteen riders arrived at the important town in the north. Zhao Yuan mobilized three thousand cavalrymen with the token of the general of cavalry and set off again.

But Zhao Yuan knew that the emperor could not wait at this moment.

They led the cavalry, each with two horses in rotation. Except for eating, drinking and resting, they ran all the way.

It was nearly four thousand miles from the city to Yuancha, and they arrived in five days.

Then, Zhao Yuan led three thousand cavalrymen to start a thrilling decisive battle with the armies of the four countries.

The thirteen riders led by him left almost no grass growing wherever they went.

For half an hour, they did not stop hacking and killing.

When the knife broke or rolled, they would change to the enemy's.

When the horse was tired, they jumped and grabbed a horse.

The thirteen of them, like a never-tiring killing machine, actually killed the more than 400,000-strong coalition army and made them flee backwards.

At this moment, although there were less than a thousand of the three thousand cavalrymen brought by Zhao Yuan,

But under the leadership of the thirteen cavalrymen, they fought their way out.

There were almost 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers from the four countries lying dead on the battlefield.

Even so, Zhao Yuan still did not give up.

The thirteen people took a short break and began a battle to continuously attack the enemy camp.

In the endless desert, the thirteen people killed more than 7,000 kilometers.

Weapons, horses, and supplies were all robbed, and in two months, more than 300,000 people were killed and the army was almost defeated.

Almost every night, there were soldiers sneaking away.

Because they didn't know when the thirteen figures like the god of death would come.

Finally, after the kings of the four countries took the initiative to surrender, Zhao Yuan stopped chasing and signed an agreement with them.

The thousand-mile territory from Kongcheng to the north of Dacai has become the territory of Dacai!