Chapter 904: Go and Stay
In addition to the basic materials such as Xuanyang Essence Iron and the pills such as the Cutting Pulse Pill that can help the generals to break through, the huge amount of resources accumulated by other Tianying City in the past ten years, including a large number of defensive Dao talismans and pills that replenish the true yuan of qi and blood, etc., were exhausted in the previous battle to defend Xinyan City, and the loss of the Xuanbing Spirit Armor, Spirit Swords, and Magic Weapons equipped by many generals was also extremely dramatic.
Chen Hai alone smashed seven pairs of heaven-rank battle armor when he was defending New Yancheng.
Martyr King Qin Ran is now very important to Chen Hai, but in addition to conferring heavy power, he is still in short supply of resources such as the elixir magic weapon spirit sword path talisman, and he can only symbolically reward Beiling Town when he rewarded his merits last time.
More than 100,000 defensive Dao talismans, tens of thousands of bottles of elixir wound medicine, more than 2,000 pieces of Xuanbing spirit armor, seven or eight hundred spirit swords, and six sets of ban-level iron-walled coiled dragon arrays seem to be a lot, but they may not be able to sustain the consumption of a large-scale battle.
But even if it's just these, in Zhu Tianhe's opinion, it is already an astronomical amount, after all, the military supply of tens of thousands and two hundred thousand elite combat forces needs the full support of two or three counties to maintain frequent war attrition.
The northwest region is more than 130,000 miles long from east to west, nearly 80,000 miles deep from north to south, and has more than 70 counties, 36 towns plus the elite private soldiers of various ethnic groups, which adds up to 5 or 6 million elite combat power in peacetime.
At present, the Northwest Regions will try its best to expand the military equipment at this time, but the newly added soldiers and horses, in terms of equipment, drills, and the elite degree of the grassroots military attachés, are all a cut behind, and can only be used as second-line soldiers and horses or reserve soldiers and horses at present.
Therefore, the resources they got back this time, the true monarch of Wanxian Mountain, who was a little poorer, and the reserves of the private arsenal might not be much more than this.
In particular, more than 2,000 elixirs such as the Pulse Cutting Pill that can help the middle and lower level generals break through the current bottleneck will almost increase the number of elites in the Spirit Clearing Realm of the Beiling Town soldiers to about 4,000, which is extremely precious at this moment.
Zhu Tianhe believed that even if Jiang Jin or even Yuan Zhou, the master of the Xuanhuang Palace, were far from being able to take out so many Pulse Cutting Pills at this time in the Demon Deer Mountains.
Although the Cutting Pulse Pill that Wanxian Mountain had refined in the past few thousand years and helped low-level disciples break through, there were millions of them.
In the past, in the eyes of the clan lords, the elixirs of the level of the Cutting Pulse Pill and the Punching Pill were definitely not very rare.
However, the problem is that in the past few decades, the three sects of the Northwest Regions have usually maintained a daily reserve of about forty or fifty thousand elixirs such as the Cutting Pulse Pill that can help the early disciples of the Xuan Realm and the Soul Clearing Realm to improve their cultivation.
This is also enough for the daily cultivation of the three low-level outer sect disciples.
And now that the Demon Tribulation is at hand, everyone knows that it is imperative to improve the cultivation of the middle and low-level disciples in the clan and sect at all costs.
If you want to break through to the Ming Realm, Dao Dan, and Dao Fetus, it depends more on chance, and for the low-level disciples of the Xuan Realm, as long as there are enough Pulse Cutting Pills, the probability of stepping into the Spirit Clearing Realm is extremely high, even if the qualifications are ordinary, there is almost fifty or sixty percent certainty.
And in an army, the number of grassroots military attachés in the Spirit Restoration Realm who can kill the enemy with swords and sacrifice defensive talismans on a large scale often determines the elite level of this army.
At this time, who has the Cutting Pill in their hands, where is it possible to continue to pinch it in their hands, and if they don't distribute it immediately, they can help the grassroots military attachés improve their cultivation?
The previous reserves were exhausted, and the growth of the spirit grass elixir for refining the Cutting Pulse Pill was fixed, and the Cutting Pulse Pill that could be refined every year was limited, and now who in the Northwest Regions could still take out one or two thousand Cutting Pulse Pills at once?
In Zhu Tianhe's opinion, even if there is, it can only be purchased on a large scale from the Yue Kingdom, the Tiannan Kingdom, and overseas regions such as the Nine Counties Kingdom and the Kuhai City, which are far away from the Demon Tribulation.
Chen Hai was able to borrow so many resources from the Nine Counties, Zhu Tianhe still felt a little incredible, he was worried that he didn't know how Chen Hai would clean up this kind of mess.
Cangyi, Xie Jueyuan, and Miao Fengshan came back, and Chen Hai finally had a group of people who could rely on him, and he asked Le Yi, Guo Hongjuan, and Huang Qiwei to go directly to Tianying City to take over the defense of Tianying City, the implementation of the government military system, and the production of Tianji weapons, leaving Cangyi, Xie Jueyuan, and Miao Fengshan by his side, and assisting him in commanding the Beiling Town soldiers after the reduction of elite soldiers.
In the past, Chongguo's military system used 600 people as a battalion, 35 or more than a dozen battalions as battalions, and 35 or more than a dozen battalions as a town.
Chen Hai couldn't manage anything else, King Lie gave him the right to specialize, not to mention the new army and horse governor's office in Beiling, but also between the battalion and the camp, adding two levels of town division and large battalion.
With 600 men as a battalion, the battalion lieutenant is the main general; with five battalions, plus scouts, baggage teams, etc., about 3,500 people are organized into a large battalion, with the captain as the main general; with five large battalions, about 20,000 people from the guard battalion, the sentry battalion, and the baggage battalion, a town division is organized into a town division, and the town division commander is set up as the main general.
Above the town division, three major battalions were formed, with the commander as the main general, and three to four town divisions under their jurisdiction.
After Cang Yu came over, Chen Hai also officially appointed Miao Fengshan and Xie Jueyuan as the chief and deputy captains of the first battalion, Yang Yin and Sun Dai as the chief and deputy lieutenants of the second battalion, Zhu Tianhe and Jiang He as the captains of the third battalion, and the 200,000 elites in Beiling Town were stationed and trained in three combat clusters.
The 5,000 elite guards of the personal soldiers under Chen Hai's direct jurisdiction were appointed as the chief and deputy lieutenants with Wei Han and Zhu Mingwei.
In addition, Chen Hai arranged Han Sanyuan and others to attach horse thieves to the independent cavalry camp, and also set up the Dongdu camp in Tianying City, with Huang Qiwei and Le Yi as the main and deputy lieutenants, and organized three town divisions to prevent a small group of elite demons from directly crossing the desert and invading Dongdu Mountain.
More than 2,000 more than 2,000 Cutting Pulse Dan can see the light of day at this time, and a group of generals who are stuck in the bottleneck period can break through, which alleviates the shortage of grassroots military attaches in Beiling Town, and almost makes the main and deputy teams of the 100-person team use generals who have the spirit realm, can resist the spirit sword, and sacrifice talismans, which also makes the soldiers of Beiling Town barely reach the entry standard of elite combat power in the Xingheng Domain.
At the same time that Beiling City was strengthening day by day, Tianluo Valley finally had a move, and in March of the thirty-second year of Jianxing, the demons of Tianluo Valley who had completed the assembly were completed, and the two million Rakshasa demon soldiers were divided into three directions and began to advance southward.
It's just that this time they have to be a lot more careful in their advancement, except for Black Rock City, on the basis of the ruins of the new wild goose city, Liya City and other walled cities, large-scale construction of the demon village, the speed of advancing to the south is very slow, and even the distance to the south every day is not fifty miles.
It can be seen that the demon clan did not expect to be able to capture the Demon Deer Ridge at once, and these many actions were to ensure that there was a stable supply line from Tianluo Valley when preparing to besiege the Demon Deer Ridge for a long time.
The situation suddenly became urgent again, and at this time, Han Sanyuan, who was stationed in Yangui City two hundred miles west of Beiling City, was naturally unable to sit still.
On the surface, in the past few months, Chen Hai has evacuated all irrelevant people to Dongdu Mountain, the soldiers of Beiling Town have been reduced to 200,000, not to mention, the military supplies stored in Beiling City are only enough for a month, it seems that Chen Hai does not look like he is defending Beiling City, but Chen Hai's intentions, Han Sanyuan has never felt through.
In particular, a small group of demon horses have infiltrated the periphery of Beiling City, and Chen Hai is still holding his troops, which makes Han Sanyuan feel like he is sitting on pins and needles, and it is not clear whether Chen Hai will go or not.
He didn't want to be like the Wu family, who had been deceived by Chen Hai in Xinyan City and didn't get out of the demon clan.
If Chen Hai really repeats his old plan, then he must make a decision early.
In the past period of time, Chen Hai handed over nearly 20,000 rogue horse thieves who had taken refuge in him to be reorganized into an independent cavalry camp.
After much hesitation, Han Sanyuan decided to take the risk to meet Chen Hai.
Looking at the towering head of Beiling City, Han Sanyuan felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and after the ceremony, Han Sanyuan entered Beiling City with his entourage and went directly to the town guard general's mansion.
Along the way, Han Sanyuan looked around, hoping to see some clues, but unfortunately, although Beiling City, which could accommodate a million people, now looks a little empty, the operation of Beiling City is still so orderly.
With a nervous mind, Han Sanyuan walked into the hall.
In the main hall, only Ning Chan'er, who had just cultivated into a Dao fetus, guarded Chen Hai's side like a shadow in the body of a succubus.
Chen Haizheng was sitting on the top, reviewing the case, and when he saw Han Sanyuan coming in, he didn't stop saying hello.
Facing this town guard general who he had regarded as an ant before, Han Sanyuan was somewhat at a loss, so he stood there quietly and waited.
After a long while, Chen Hai put down his pen and asked lightly: "Captain Han, the front-line military aircraft is tight, and the demon clan has raised troops to invade again, as the chief general of the cavalry camp, you don't stay in Yangui City to supervise the defense, and run to me, what's the matter?"
Han Sanyuan coughed lightly and said: "General, the Rakshasa Demon Clan has now built a city on the site of the New Wild Goose City, and at the same time, a large number of demon horsemen have begun to invade our border villages, but the general has not given a will, and his subordinates don't know how to deal with it, so they have come to inquire." ”
Chen Hai naturally knew Han Sanyuan's tentative intentions, in the past two or three months, he had too many things to deal with, and he couldn't spare his hands to really reorganize that gang of horse thieves and rogues, and he was afraid that as soon as he made a move, he would directly scare these speculators away.
Now that the edge of the Rakshasa Demon Clan has been revealed, there is not much time left for Chen Hai.
Of the 20,000 Mali under Han Sanyuan, there are as many as seven or eight hundred grassroots military attachés in the Spirit Realm, and there are as many as seventy or eighty elite generals above the Mingqi Realm, and the proportion is far higher than the main force of Beiling Town.
With such a force, Chen Hai didn't want to give up just yet.
Chen Hai put down the document in his hand and said: "The general of the right capital has also sent letters in the past few days, asking the soldiers of Beiling Town to stay, and specially in the northwest of Yantai City, leaving the Yunmen Stopper, hoping that I will lead my troops to garrison it." I've been hesitating about this for the past few days. Since Captain Han is here, you can get an idea for me......"
If Yantai Pass is just a city, it will naturally not be able to completely block the southward pace of the demon army at the western foot of the Demon Deer Ridge, and Yantai Pass is actually a solid defense line composed of hundreds of large and small sentry forts and city fortresses that stretch eight or nine hundred miles from east to west.
Yunmen Fortress is actually the western wing defense line of Yantai City, the main city is Yunmen Fortress, located on the northwest slope of the Demon Horn Ridge, and there are twenty or thirty outpost forts on the periphery - although the Yunmen Fortress is different from the main city of Yantai Pass, there is no direct protection of the Heaven and Earth Guarding Array, but it is less than two hundred miles away from the main city of Yantai Pass, and it is actually on the edge of the protective circle of the Heaven and Earth Guarding Array.
Han Sanyuan has been fighting in the area of Mozhang Ridge for many years, and he knows the defense line of the three towns of Mozhang Ridge well, and he is also talking eloquently at the moment, talking about the key points of attack and defense in the area of Yunmen Fortress, and the implication is to persuade Chen Hai to lead his troops to retreat to Yunmen Fortress with his back to Demon Zhangling as soon as possible.
"What Captain Han said is very true, I also plan that Yang Yin and Zhu Tianhe will lead the second and third battalions to Yunmen Sai to take over the defense line first," Chen Hai said calmly, "I will lead the Hu Guard Battalion and the first battalion to break down, Captain Han, do you think the cavalry camp will go with Yang Duwei and Zhu Duwei, or stay with me at the end?"
Where did Han Sanyuan dare to stay with Chen Hai at the end, if the demon soldiers were entangled, what would he do after Chen Hai ordered him to lead the independent cavalry to break the camp?
"Yang Yin and Zhu Tianhe, they may not be familiar enough with Yunmen Stopper, if the adults trust the lowly position, the lowly position is willing to go to the Cloud Gate Plug first and settle everything for the adult. Han Sanyuan said.
"It's okay for the cavalry camp to go to Yunmen Sai first," Chen Hai nodded and said, without waiting for Han Sanyuan's face to show joy, he said, "The cavalry camp will go to Yunmensai first, and then it will be mainly based on the defense of the city fortress, there is no need to make too many war horses, and after the first battalion stays and breaks, it can't run slower than the demons, and the cavalry battalion will bring out all the 20,000 war cavalry and give it to the first battalion......"
Han Sanyuan is stupid there, and the cavalry camp will hand over all the war horses, so can it still be called a cavalry camp?
"Why, does this make Captain Han very embarrassed, or maybe the cavalry camp is willing to stay and break the back?" Chen Hai asked as he stared at Han Sanyuan's pupils.
Do you break up in two and flee directly at the risk of being chased and killed by Chen Hai, or hand over the war cavalry and temporarily retreat to Yunmen Fortress first, or do you not hand over the war cavalry and stay behind to break off with the first battalion?
Three choices churned in Han Sanyuan's heart.
Chen Hai had no intention of entanglement with Han Sanyuan, and said: "If there is nothing else, Han Duwei, you go back first, I will send someone to Yangui City to take over the war cavalry before nightfall......
Chen Hai waved his hand and asked Han Sanyuan to return first if he was fine.
Han Sanyuan left Beiling City but still couldn't make up his mind, and he was dejected, surrounded by more than 100 horsemen, and rode back to the city.
At this time, Chen Hai summoned Cangyi, Miao Fengshan, Xie Jueyuan, Sha Tianhe, Yang Yin, Sun Dai, Wei Han, Zhu Mingwei, Zhu Tianhe, Jiang He and others to arrange the evacuation of the second and third battalions.
Chen Hai said to Miao Fengshan: "At this time, you will lead 20,000 horse infantry to Yangui City and take over the war cavalry of the cavalry camp. ”
"What if Han Sanyuan is unwilling to hand over the war horse?" Sha Tianhe asked worriedly, the demon soldiers were about to rush up, and he was worried that there would be extraneous branches.
"Why didn't he hand it over?" Chen Hai said with a smile, "Those horse thieves have war horses in their hands, and they may be scattered at any time, and there are a few horse thief leaders who will really be bound by Han Sanyuan? I now order them to hand over all the war horses, and Han Sanyuan's binding force on these 20,000 soldiers and horses will naturally be stronger." And when it comes to Yunmen Sai, he has 20,000 elite soldiers and horses under him who are not weak in battle, and it is enough to have enough weight to fight Jiang Mingchuan and Jiang Han again, do you think he will choose to directly resist the order and flee at this time, or persuade those horse thief leaders to hand over the war horses together?"
Sha Tianhe thought about it carefully, and under the trade-off, Han Sanyuan really had no way to escape Chen Hai's calculations, and said with a smile: "Han Sanyuan really can't calculate adults." ”
Although the soldiers of Beiling Town also have two or three hundred thousand camels and horses, the horses that carry goods on camels are not afraid of the fierce demon clan and the bloody killing breath, and at least they are considered low-level spirit beasts, and the spirit horses are two different things at all.
Although the cavalry camp claims to have 20,000 war horses, in fact, most of them are also indiscriminate, but there are still four or five thousand elite spirit horses, after all, they are the net worth accumulated by more than a dozen horse thieves for decades or even hundreds of years - Beiling Town currently only has five or six thousand low-level spirit horses in his hands.
Chen Hai's first goal was to bring these four or five thousand spirit horses over first, so that the first line of battalions could form a real 10,000-person heavy armored cavalry division.
"You go to guard the Cloud Gate Stopper, even if Han Sanyuan is eyebrow-raising over there, he won't dare to do anything openly, but you have to be careful of taking a dark loss. Chen Hai instructed Sha Tianhe, Zhu Tian and them.
"Aren't you really going to enter the Cloud Gate Fortress with us?" Sha Tianhe asked.
"The demon clan is camping step by step north of Beiling City at this time, they will not bite the hard bone of the Demon Deer Ridge, if I lead the first line of battalions to enter the Cloud Gate Fortress, once the north is blocked by the demon army, it will completely lose the ability to be flexible and mobile, and it is not conducive to the demon resistance," Chen Hai shook his head and said, "I will lead the first line of battalions to stay on the periphery and maneuver, and the effect will be greater." The burden on your shoulders is not light, and you don't need to worry about our safety!"
200,000 horses are hanging alone two thousand miles north of the Demon Deer Ridge, how can they resist the two million elite demon soldiers under the command of more than a dozen demon lords, but Chen Hai has to take into account that once they withdraw from Beiling City, once the demon clan is not in a hurry to attack the Demon Deer Ridge, nor is it eager to bypass the Demon Deer Ridge from other places and enter the hinterland of the Northwest Territory, but chooses to stand on the front line of Xinyan City and Beiling City first, and then transfer a large number of elites from Tiancheng Mountain to Yanzhou again through the Blood Cloud Wasteland, what should he do?
Therefore, Chen Hai decided that Sha Tianhe, Yang Yin, and Zhu Tianhe would lead the second and third battalions to retreat to Yunmensai first, and he personally led the most elite first battalion to stay north of Mozhang Ridge to maneuver......
After arranging everything, Sha Tianhe, Yang Yin, Zhu Tianhe, and Jiang He withdrew to arrange the retreat to the south, and at this time, Ning Chan'er walked in with an old man in a purple shirt.
Chen Hai waved his hand to let the guards on duty in the main hall withdraw, leaving only Cang Yi, Miao Fengshan, Xie Jueyuan and others, walked out of the long case, and greeted: "Master Zuo, why did you come here in person?"
"If the Demon Clan increases its troops against the Blood Cloud Wasteland through Tianluo Valley, you will definitely not sit idly by," Zuo Er smiled, "I have this physical body now to breathe, and no one can think of my identity......"