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#558 - Vladivostok

A moment later, the women, having received Liang Yue's signal, began to gather and quickly arrived beneath a vine-covered corridor in the academy.

After briefly sharing his thoughts and plans with them, and seeing that no one objected, Liang Yue began assigning tasks to everyone.

"...This time, Shizuka, Nana, Hinata, Alwyn, and Yuriko, the five of you will stay behind to watch the house, responsible for guarding our academy and mountain gate. Contact me promptly if anything unusual occurs.

The rest of you, come with me to the Northeast. This time, I'm afraid we'll be killing quite a few people."

"I want to help Chunqiu fight too!"

Upon hearing that she was assigned to stay behind and watch the house, Hinata immediately stood up, raised her hand to express her dissatisfaction, and then looked at Liang Yue with a determined expression…

"There's no need to rush into battle. The war in Outer Northeast shouldn't end in a short time. Besides driving away that bunch of Russians, we also need to guard against their subsequent retaliatory invasions.

So, to be on the safe side, I plan to establish a fixed stronghold there, one that can be put into battle at any time. In the future, disciples will also be arranged to go there for training.

There will be plenty of opportunities."

After saying that, Liang Yue looked at Hinata, whose face already showed a hint of disappointment, reached out, patted her head, and softly comforted her with a few words.

Then he asked her to calm down and focus on studying the Spirit Light Wave Fist.

"Is it to establish a branch of the mountain gate in Siberia?"

Shizuka-sensei didn't seem to have any objections to Liang Yue's arrangement. After all, she didn't particularly like fighting anyway. Instead, she was more interested in establishing a permanent stronghold later on.

Presumably, this sister is treating it as a fixed base for future sightseeing trips, preparing to go there to escape the summer heat and enjoy the cool…

"If it's just for the initial battle, I have no objections, but you must remember to rotate people afterward. I also want to go fight with Brother."

Nana stepped forward at this time, held Hinata's hand, and looked at Liang Yue with a slight pout.

"Don't worry, I definitely won't forget. Oh, right, this is a set of techniques that I extracted from the 《Everlasting Spring》 when I was in seclusion before.

Familiarize yourselves with it first. After you're done, you can first select the first three layers of the technique and pass them on to those disciples who have chosen the path of cultivating immortality to practice."

As she spoke, Liang Yue took out the 《Spirit Origin Technique》 and handed it to Hinata and the others.

"What about the disciples who chose the path of martial arts? What internal cultivation method are you going to let them practice?"

Takagi Saya, who was beside her, leaned closer at this time, resting on Nana's shoulder, looked at the Spirit Origin Technique manual, and then asked him.

"Do you have any suggestions regarding the choice of martial arts internal cultivation?"

"If we're talking about suggestions, I think the 《Supreme Purity Qi Technique》 of the Kongtong School seems more suitable for laying the foundation."

"Yes, yes~! The 《Supreme Purity Qi Technique》 is indeed good. The internal force attribute is upright, peaceful, pure, and nourishing. In the later stages, its power is tyrannical, and there is no obvious threshold if you want to change to other techniques midway."

"It's just that the requirements for the practitioner's state of mind are relatively high."

"Indeed, this is a slow and steady technique similar to the 《Zixia Divine Art》. It may not be suitable for all disciples to practice."

"If that's the case, how about adding another one with a more overbearing attribute?"

"A more overbearing one… What do you think of the 《Pure Yang Profound Art》 of the Quanzhen lineage?"

"Adding another Pure Yang Profound Art would make it more suitable."

"I agree too~"

"Should we also pass down the Tendon Transforming and Marrow Cleansing Chapter from the Nine Yin Manual?"

"There's no need for that for the time being. Each disciple has their own destiny, and we don't need to require every one of them to become a genius. Let it be."

In the shady areas of the distant mountains, some places were even covered with snow, and on the distant sea, the sun was bringing the last ray of light below the horizon.

In the forest and mountains where everyone was, the surroundings were already blurred.

After landing, Liang Yue didn't say any nonsense. With a flip of his sleeve, he took out the panoramic sand table. After seven or eight seconds, the terrain and images within a hundred kilometers were immediately incorporated into his palm.

"It seems that our target isn't very alert."

About five or six kilometers to the west of where Liang Yue and the others were, a coastal city that wasn't very big was located there.

This was the first target of their trip ~ Vladivostok, known as Haishenwai in Chinese.

Due to the excessive pressure of the European war, the Russian side naturally evacuated the garrison located here long ago and transferred them to the front lines to die.

As the core city and main sea outlet in the Far East, in the end, less than ten thousand soldiers were left to defend it.

At least, Liang Yue only saw a mere four or five thousand Russians in military uniform from the panoramic sand table in his hand.

Each of them was lazy and seemed to have no energy or vitality. It seemed that these soldiers were also affected by the change of regime in their country and were full of worries about the future.

In addition, there didn't seem to be many residents in this small city. Judging from the number of houses, it was probably only about a hundred thousand people.

Even so, it was because Vladivostok itself had an exceptionally crucial geographical location and was the Far East stronghold that Russia focused on.

From this, it can be inferred that not only the coastal city in front of them, but also the armed forces retained by Tsarist Russia on the long border line in Northeast China and even the entire north would not be too many.

The reason is self-evident. First, because the European war was tight, compared to other Western European powers, Tsarist Russia's military combat capability was relatively weak and could only use human wave tactics to fight a war of attrition against its opponents.

Furthermore, they probably didn't think that in this era, China, which was in a state of poverty and weakness, had the ability and courage to actively invade their borders.

The actual situation was indeed the case. Although Tsarist Russia was frequently plagued by internal turmoil at this time, they were reunited under the leadership of that red regime in just a few years.

Then, just after stabilizing the situation, they directly aimed their knives at northern China.

With one cut, the 170,000 square kilometers of land in Tangnu-Uriankhai was gone.

During World War II, they directly forced China to accept the fact that Outer Mongolia was independent.

It can be said that when facing this powerful northern enemy, throughout the entire period of the Republic of China until the establishment of the new regime, China was almost always at a disadvantage.

Whether in dealings with Tsarist Russia or the Soviet Union, they failed to gain any benefits.

It can be seen that although the people in power changed wave after wave, the bear was still the bear, and the essence hardly changed at all. They were all so annoying.

Fortunately, Liang Yue's intrusion now seems to have brought some different turning points to the entire situation.

As for how far he can go, it depends on his plans.

…

"What are you planning to do next, solve them separately, or take them all away in one go?"

After roughly observing the situation in this small city, Nan Lixiang unconsciously licked the corner of her mouth and glanced at Liang Yue, asking.

"Let's split up. This small city can be preserved as a historical testament in the future. Maybe it can even drive the development of the tourism industry in a few decades."

Liang Yue smiled lightly upon hearing this.

"Then let's quickly allocate the targets. But what about the remaining prisoners?"

"Put them on the train and send them away together. For those who don't want to go, knock out a few troublemakers first, and then let them fend for themselves, keeping them to exchange things with their king in the future."

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