My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

At this time, the Black Mountain Ghost King was stabbed several times by Mo Mei. Although he did not die immediately, he was also seriously injured.

Seeing Jiang Li retreat to the edge of the ghost zone, he did not pursue him anymore, but just stared at him with resentment on his face.

Jiang Li looked at the Black Mountain Ghost King and did not take any further action. However, he did not relax his vigilance at all and continued to retreat cautiously.

As he felt the obstruction coming from behind, he then pushed his Xuanjia Gong, which he had been practicing non-stop, to its full potential, and activated the Xuanjia Gong's ability to break illusions and expel evil spirits.

The ghost realm behind him gradually became unstable, until a certain moment, Jiang Li felt that the obstacles behind him disappeared, and the sunlight shone on him again.

Only then did he feel a sense of relief in his heart, but this relief did not last long. He calmed his mind again, continued to face the gap in the ghost realm, and slowly retreated step by step.

After putting some distance between them, he immediately turned around and ran away, but the Black Mountain Ghost King had no intention of continuing to attack.

Not until Jiang Li went far away did it spit out a large amount of black air from its mouth. As the black air was spit out, its tall ghost body actually showed signs of instability.

But Jiang Li couldn't possibly know this at the moment. After he came out of the ghost realm, he covered the wound on his shoulder and staggered towards Shanyang County.

After running for more than an hour, he saw the defenders from Shanyang County coming to reinforce, so he immediately shouted loudly a few times and ran over.

When these soldiers heard the shouting, they became alert, but when they saw that Jiang Li was injured and had no weapons, they did not raise their guns to shoot him.

The garrison commander who led the team was an officer trained by Wang Zhi. He had also met Jiang Li at the medal awarding ceremony, so he recognized Jiang Li immediately after seeing him.

So he immediately dismounted and went to greet him. Jiang Li was relieved to see that he recognized him. But when he thought about the large number of ghosts over there, these soldiers would be just serving as food.

So he immediately asked the commander, "Where did you get the reinforcements from? How many people did you bring? Where are the others?"

The officer was confused by the three questions he asked in a row, but he did not hesitate and answered directly: "Commander, we are the garrison troops of Shanyang County, a total of 1,100 people!"

"The garrisons from several other nearby counties are on their way. They will probably arrive here tonight or tomorrow morning!"

"Also, according to the telegram from Guangdong, they have already dispatched a support team consisting of cavalry and a mechanized squad. They will arrive in about two days, and the follow-up large force will arrive within twenty days!"

Jiang Li was confused when he heard this. Why did it involve the support troops from Guangdong? But he didn't have time to investigate further.

He immediately gave the order: "Don't worry about anything else for now. Send your men to intercept the support teams from various counties and tell them not to go to the source of the Red River."

"Tell them there are a lot of ghosts over there, they can't handle it!"

Upon hearing this, the garrison commander glanced at the anxious and embarrassed Jiang Li who had not responded, and asked tentatively, "Should I ask them to return the same way they came, or to gather in Shanyang County?"

Jiang Li came back to his senses a little after hearing this, and then gritted his teeth and said, "Tell them to gather in Shanyang County, and remember to ask them to bring their cannons with them, because I'm going to blow their mother off!"

Upon receiving the order, the garrison commander immediately called the messenger and a battalion of soldiers and asked them to disperse to various intersections to wait for reinforcements. He told them that the commander had been found and they should immediately change their route to Shanyang County to assemble.

After giving these instructions, he took his troops to escort Jiang Li to Shanyang County.

On the way back, while treating the wound on his shoulder, he listened to the report from the regiment commander, and only then did he understand the situation.

It turned out that when a telegram was sent, one county made a mistake in relaying the message, which caused a huge mistake and alarmed almost all of his troops, even the troops in Guangdong.

Even in the telegram, he specifically mentioned what Uncle Jiu said, that this matter has alarmed the founder of Maoshan, and now all the disciples of Maoshan are rushing here, and once they arrive, they can capture the Black Mountain Ghost King in one fell swoop.

But Jiang Li didn't know what to say at this moment. At that time, the information was indeed transmitted incorrectly, but now, it just matched.

This made him sigh that luck was not an ordinary metaphysics. When encountering such a situation, he could actually guess it right by accident.

Back to the topic, after Jiang Li hurriedly returned to Shanyang County, he immediately asked someone to use a telegraph to notify troops in various places.

If such a mistake resulted in the depletion of one's own military forces and the surrounding warlords seized the opportunity, it would be very bad.

Only after he personally kept an eye on the people and issued orders that follow-up infantry from all over the place did not need to rush to support, did he breathe a sigh of relief.

But as soon as he sat down, he immediately thought of his hundreds of soldiers, as well as Ah San, Ah Si and Jiang Youchi.

When he thought of this, he clenched his fists unconsciously until they made a crackling sound. The more he thought about it, the angrier and more annoyed he became.

Why did he bring people there to eradicate some evil cult? Why did he stay in that Yao village after discovering the problem? Why didn't he abandon the vehicle and leave with his people overnight?

If it weren't for me, they wouldn't have died. Jiang Li felt more and more guilty the more he thought about it. He punched the table hard, paralyzing half of the nice mahogany table.

Because he was so angry, Jiang Li didn't even notice the haircut on his shoulder burst open. He just gritted his teeth and muttered, "Black Mountain Ghost King, I swear I won't be a human being if I don't kill you!"

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At this time, the Black Mountain Ghost King had just devoured the flesh, blood and souls of Jiang Youchi and those Taoist soldiers, and was now healing his wounds with satisfaction.

But for some reason, it shuddered unconsciously, and almost deviated from its practice route, so it immediately stopped practicing and checked the situation.

But after checking around, he didn't find any problems. He shook his head in confusion and continued to practice qigong to heal his wounds.

Back to Jiang Li, after he treated his wound, he found a room to rest.

Although his injuries were not serious, the fighting and high-intensity combat throughout the night, coupled with his full of self-blame and a series of other negative emotions, had already exhausted him physically and mentally.

He lay down on the bed without taking off his clothes, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, he fell asleep within two minutes.

He slept until the next morning. When he woke up in a daze, he felt the pain in his shoulder and knew that everything he had experienced yesterday was real.

So he stood up with a gloomy face and went to find the garrison commander. "Have the garrisons from the nearby counties arrived?"

"Commander, they arrived in Shanyang County last night and are currently stationed outside the county. If there is any mission, please give the order!"

Jiang Li nodded when he heard this, "Have they brought their cannons? Do they have enough shells?"