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

Seeing that most people had arrived, Jiang Li organized everyone to come to the military camp training ground and started a demon-hunting meeting.

He walked up to the platform, clasped his fists, bowed, and saluted to everyone. "My dear seniors, I think everyone knows the details. How do you think this matter should be resolved?"

After hearing what Jiang Li said, the Taoists whispered to each other, but Jiang Li did not interrupt them and just waited quietly.

It was unknown how long it took for the scene to calm down, but Li Lin, who had the highest seniority and cultivation level at the scene, stood up.

After clasping his fists towards Jiang Li, he suggested loudly, "Commander Jiang, I think we can set up a Golden Crow Fiery Sun Formation to trap and weaken them. Then we can seize the opportunity and rush forward to completely eliminate these ghosts!"

Upon hearing this, all the Taoists present at the scene carefully considered the feasibility of this method.

Jiang Li was also thinking about this. Speaking of the Golden Crow Fiery Sun Formation, he had also heard about it from his uncle Jiu.

This formation uses formation flags and magic tools to condense the power of the Golden Crow to kill the enemy, and its main target is evil spirits.

However, this formation has several major difficulties. Firstly, the Golden Crow's yang energy is too hot, and it requires many cultivators with high cultivation to share the burden in order to avoid being hurt by this extreme yang force.

Secondly, this formation has many requirements for the weather. If you want to exert its maximum power, it is best to do it at noon when the sun is shining brightly. If it is cloudy or raining, the power of this formation will be greatly reduced.

But if you miss the time and delay it until night, then this formation will lose its effect completely.

The most important thing is that he has no idea whether the Black Mountain Ghost King is still in the original place.

If we want to set up an encirclement and suppression, we have to set up a super large formation, which will consume too much time and materials, and there will naturally be more variables.

So he immediately expressed his concerns, "Elder Li's suggestion is indeed good, but I am not sure whether the ghost domain is still in its original place, let alone where the altar is."

"If we want to set up this Golden Crow Fiery Sun Formation to trap them, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time and energy to surround the entire mountain, and then close the encirclement little by little. This will probably increase a lot of uncertainty!"

Li Lin smiled and nodded when he heard this. "It is true that it costs manpower and material resources, but the fact that we don't know its exact location is not difficult to solve."

"The old Taoist can cast a spell to find out their exact location. We just need to slowly close the encirclement."

"Only in this way can we not give them any chance to escape and wreak havoc on the world!"

Jiang Li agreed with this. If they were really allowed to escape, it would be a disaster.

So after asking the rest of the people and finding out that they had no objection to it, I decided to do it.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly called out to everyone who were about to leave to prepare.

"Wait a minute, everyone. I just thought of a big problem. If we don't solve it first, I'm afraid this encirclement and suppression may not go smoothly!"

Hearing Jiang Li's shout, everyone turned around in confusion.

At this time Jiang Li frowned and explained, "I almost forgot something important just now!"

"The 500 men I led were completely wiped out, and all the weapons and equipment we brought fell into the hands of the Black Mountain Ghost King."

"If he distributes these things to the cultists and they take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack when we are encircling them, I'm afraid we will suffer a great loss this time!"

Everyone frowned when they heard this. This was indeed a big problem. If the enemy really attacked them in secret with firearms, they really had no good way to defend against it.

After Jiang Li thought about this problem, he was also very embarrassed. He had a lot of soldiers, so it was not difficult to deal with those cultists.

But if you encounter ghost soldiers, it’s hard to say who will win or lose.

After thinking for a while, he suddenly clapped his hands, "I got it. If it doesn't work, I'll just use a cannon to bombard him. No matter what monster he is, I'll blow him to pieces!"

Upon hearing this, Li Lin immediately explained, "Commander Jiang's method is very good, but if you want me to be an old Taoist, I can only find the approximate location of those evil spirits."

"But if we want to find the exact position and provide the gunner with an accurate target, it may be difficult to do!"

Jiang Li laughed when he heard this, "No need to go through so much trouble, just having a rough location will be enough."

"I have always believed in one thing, that is, if you are poor, you should use tactics, and if you are rich, you should bombard him!"

When Li Lin heard Jiang Li's words, he was speechless, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only turn his head and look at Uncle Jiu.

It was as if he was asking him, "Is this the disciple you taught?"

Uncle Jiu was also shocked when he heard this, but when he saw Li Lin's eyes, he just smiled bitterly without giving any explanation.

Jiang Li ignored their eye contact and just clasped his fists and bowed on the spot, then went to organize the troops and assemble the cannons.

After he left, the Taoists of Maoshan went to prepare materials and discuss the specific plan.

...

At six o'clock the next morning, after half a day and a night of assembly, Jiang Li had gathered all the cannons of the 30,000 troops that had rushed to Shanyang County for support.

There are hundreds of cannons with a caliber of 75 mm or above, and he took into account that the range of current cannons is generally less than ten kilometers, so in order to ensure that the artillery fire can cover the entire hill where the evil cultivator is located.

He simply divided the hundreds of cannons into four teams and used trucks to tow them all to the appropriate locations and set them up.

At this time, Jiang Li was at the artillery position in the south, watching an artilleryman stuffing a cannonball covered with runes into the gun barrel.

As for why runes were drawn on the shells, it was all thanks to Uncle Jiu who thought that ordinary shells might not be able to enter the ghost realm and harm the evil cultivators and guns inside, so he proposed drawing runes to break the formation on the shells.

Jiang Li thought it made sense, so he immediately equipped the four artillery positions with dozens of Maoshan seniors with fairly high cultivation levels, and had them stay at the artillery positions to draw talismans specifically for the artillery shells.

Jiang Li looked at his pocket watch and saw that it was the time they had agreed on, so he immediately asked someone to fire a flare into the sky.

Then he shouted, "Open fire, blow him up!"

Upon hearing this, the artillerymen on the scene immediately pulled the bolt rope. After a round of loud noises, twenty shells flew over a distance of seven or eight kilometers with a whistling sound.

It landed directly on the mountain that Li Lin had found through secret methods. As twenty explosions were heard, the cannons in the other three directions also began to unleash their power.

Amid this series of explosions, the Black Mountain Ghost King's resolute face immediately turned gloomy.

Didn’t the Black Mountain Ghost King escape from the underworld? Why didn’t he choose to avoid the attack and retreat back to the underworld after knowing that he had offended Maoshan?

This requires us to talk about his plans.