Chapter 3 The Fierce Battle of the Alluring City
Heaven and earth were slaughtered, the vast desert was shrouded in the sand and dust raised by the horses and the rising murderous aura, and even the desert wind seemed more manic and intense. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Looking at the influx of Imperial troops, the condensed expression on my face remained motionless, and my heart was calm. What a respectable enemy Tsikov is! In such a desperate situation, it is still possible to gather 20,000 tired troops and take the initiative to attack our army, in order to gain the initiative in this war - this veteran whose life experience and age are close to three times my age, and whose combat experience is more than ten times that of mine, is really not easy! Tsykov's prestige was condensed with every penny of blood and tears! Facing off against such a famous general is also the desire and glory of being a soldier......
When the enemy approached a certain distance, I raised the "unnamed" in my hand into the air and shouted: "Get up!" ”
At the feet of the Imperial cavalry, countless tripping ropes buried in the yellow sand rose in response, and thousands of enemy light cavalry fell from their horses one after another, forming a chaos, suffocating the enemy's desperate spirit and offensive, and it was difficult to effectively maintain a tight offensive formation.
At this time, I waved the "unnamed" in my hand, and then ordered: "Soldiers, go up!" ”
Then I instigated the mine, and first met General Tsykov, who was at the forefront of the enemy's army, and Meinster's central army rushed forward in close anticipation of my figure. The killing frenzy ensued.
In the midst of the killing, Tsikov and I also faced each other for the first time.
"You're Alex! The king of Mayinster? Tsikov asked in a deep voice.
I nodded, and Tsykov said no more, grabbed the horse's belly, raised his silver sword and slashed at me.
I also raised my sword and swung it, and started a series of exchanges with Tsykov, the red and silver sword lights kept intertwining in the air, and after several staggered times, I couldn't help but be surprised that with the "unnamed" sharpness, I couldn't cut Tsykov's long sword.
After a little look, I saw that the silver long sword in Tsykov's hand had a thin cyan star-shaped texture on the body, and I finally figured out the reason: "The famous sword Lu, the Shenfeng Qilin, the god shines on the earth, and Mo fights" - what Tsykov is in his hand is one of the four famous swords of the empire, and its quality is second only to the "Shenzhao Yinhua" of "Lu" and "Qilin"!
Tsykov's sword is as unpretentious and continuous as his personality, full of Tsykov's personal style, and his experience in horse combat is so great that I can't get an advantage for a while.
I know that it is difficult to win with ordinary swordsmanship, unless it is dragged until Tsykov is exhausted, but although Tsykov is old and can be bullied, he knows the way of horse fighting, and knows how to preserve every physical strength and give full play to every advantage in horse fighting, so it is difficult for me to succeed for a while.
Thinking like this, I changed the sword momentum, and the "Wind God Imperial Dance" was launched, and the "Weiming" with an incomparably sharp spiral energy sent a sword from the wind whirlwind to Tsykov!
Tsykov was shocked, Shen Ma stood up, condensed the fighting spirit of his whole body, and promoted the silver brilliance of the "Divine Shine Yinhua" to the extreme, trying to block the lightning-fast and domineering blow of my "beautiful sword technique"!
It can be said that the timing and direction of Tsykov's sword are just right and flawless, if the "Wind God Imperial Dance" is just a normal swordsmanship, not only will it be blocked by him, but it will also be immediately subjected to his fierce counterattack. However, the biggest feature of "aesthetic swordsmanship" is that in addition to being gorgeous and beautiful, it can also create flaws from scratch!
I saw that Tsykov's perfectly blocked sword was actually swept open by the high-speed rotating spiral sword qi in front of the blood-red sword body close to the "unnamed", and Tsykov's empty door was naked under my bright red sword light!
My sword swept lightly under Tsykov's right flank, breaking through the joint of his armor, forming a long, inch-deep wound, and as the blood continued to seep out, Tsykov's right hand hung down weakly, and his face looked a little pale, but there was no fear of death on his face, only a faint sadness.
The sorrow of Tsykov's heroic end did not shake my heart, but just as I swung my sword at Tsykov's neck again, ending his magnificent life, his lieutenant Azelio rode through us, and with a desperate swing of his sword to block my sword, and blocked Tsykov behind him.
I was blocked by Azelio's attack, so I swung "Weiming" again, and sent him a lightning-fast sword, "Boom" and cut Azelio off with his sword and arm! However, when they pursued Tsykov again, they found that they had lost all traces of Tsykov in the chaotic battlefield. The other target, Prince James, was always guarded by the guards, so I couldn't strike him directly in the chaos of the centaurs.
It turned out that at this time both sides were in a chaotic battle, and our army, due to its lack of combat experience and a large number of new recruits, was even in a mess in the face of the chaotic situation presented by the enemy, and was unable to organize an effective attack formation, which also presented a chaotic situation, but the enemy army showed a turning point under the organization of Tsykov, who had retreated to the rear.
Of course, compared to the exhausted Imperial Army, our army's well-trained soldiers also had an advantage in the melee, but this was not the result I wanted, so I dangled the "unnamed" into the air and ordered the Chinese army of Meinster to retreat slowly.
While our troops slowly and calmly retreated, the Imperial Army gradually regained the chaos and regrouped. At this time, Prince James suddenly shouted: "The enemy is timid! Everyone follow me to chase after the victory! Meinster City is right in front of us! ”
After speaking, he did not ask for the opinion of Tsykov, and personally led 6,000 heavy and light cavalry mixed soldiers and horses mainly from the pro-guard army to pursue our army.
"Can't chase! It's so rash! The enemy's flanks didn't move! The enemy army is not defeated, but retreats on its own initiative! "Unable to stop James' actions, Tsykov can only cry out in vain in the back.
Faced with the approaching James' forces, I suddenly ordered the Meinster cavalry to turn their horses and cover the enemy.
So our army once again engaged the enemy in a short encounter, and I drove the thunder to rush close to James's escort like lightning, and the "unnamed" dance place, there was no enemy, like a flesh and blood mixer, and the enemy cavalry close to the body killed the flesh and blood! The slaughter was so ferocious that even the enemy's horses seemed to feel fear and refused to approach in my direction, let alone the soldiers on horseback!
In just a split second, I slaughtered James's bodyguards to pieces, and soon came face to face with Prince James.
"Alex......" The sixth prince of James who faced me at close range was speechless, and the courage of the previous pursuit had long been thrown out of the sky by him, and all that remained on his face was regret and fear.
I just smiled coldly, and a sharp and fierce cold light burst out of my eyes, tightly covering James's timid and fearful eyes, and then without saying a word, with a wave of the long sword, "Weiming" brought out an arc of flame in the air and slashed towards James.
James, who is known as the superb swordsman in the imperial royal family, only knows how to instinctively raise his sword to block at this time, but the "Wei Jian" just suffocated slightly in the air, and then cut off the golden long sword in his hand from it, and swept over James's golden helmet - after all, the golden long sword of excellent quality cannot be compared with the divine weapon like "Shenzhao Yinhua", and the four major artifacts of the empire are all given to the generals of great military achievements, and they are not only available to those with honorable status.
By this time, I had returned to my sword, and stared coldly at James, whose face was shattered and trembling with a frightened face after the helmet was torn from it.
At this time, I didn't take advantage of the situation to make up for him with a sword to end his life, but just quietly stopped the thunder in front of James, and looked at him with the playful eyes of a cat scratching a mouse, without a trace of expression on my face, but in my heart I was trying to suppress the burning fire of hatred and the strong urge to kill James with a sword.
James's mind has been tightly grasped by my gaze, and the endless fear has been imprinted in the depths of his soul, and for the first time he has deeply realized his own fragility and insignificance, and has developed a deep fear and invincible cognition of me, and from then on, my cold gaze will become a nightmare that he cannot get rid of in his life.
At that time, General Tsikov had already led the main force of the Imperial Army to arrive in time to try to rescue their commander, and for this veteran of the Empire, although His Royal Highness James, the prince, had committed a reckless mistake and had a very bad personality, annoying and unpleasant, but he also had a reason to save himself - perhaps because of the loyalty of the imperial soldiers to the country, this veteran could not sit idly by and watch Prince James live or die, right?
"Very loyal subordinates, very boss!" I dropped a mocking word, and led my men to resist Tsykov's forces while retreating, and in the midst of the battle and retreat, my men and I had retreated to the main camp of our army, and the Imperial army that was close behind us was unwittingly drawn over.
When Tsykov knew that his troops had fallen into our army's net, it was too late, in fact, he did not realize that our army was determined to lure the enemy deeper, but he also had a last resort - because the Savior was anxious, the Imperial army advanced too fast, and engaged the Mains army in close combat, in this case there was no other way but to attack, because if you retreated, the formation would be chaotic, and then the fate would only be slaughtered.
At this time, the retreat of our central army was more resolute, drawing the enemy further into depth, and the two flanks of our army quickly completed the outflanking of the Empire, launching a fierce attack on the enemy, and the Imperial cavalry and infantry regiments fell in row in front of the wolf-like light cavalry of Meinster, and were killed beyond the power to parry.
When the battle had been going on for nearly two hours, the pace of the whole battle had slowed down, and instead of launching a fierce offensive against the enemy, our army had gathered back the main forces while attacking in a limited manner, and then I suddenly ordered the whole army to retreat.
General Tsykov, while reorganizing his troops, watched in disbelief at the retreating figure of Meinster's army, and with his vast military knowledge and combat experience, he could not judge the enemy's intentions: when the Imperial army could be completely annihilated, the enemy army strangely retreated, giving up the victory that was easy to win—this situation is too unreasonable and strange! It is also completely out of the art of war, completely beyond the scope of his cognition.
But Tsikov also knew that he had no way to retreat at this time, regardless of whether the enemy would attack again when the Imperial army retreated, even the desert of thousands of miles of yellow sand was enough to bury the Imperial army that lacked water and food.
Tsikov then ordered the Imperial Army to follow the rear of the Meinster Army into the edge of the Meinster Oasis. Looking at the slow and orderly retreating Meinster army within sight, Tsikov completely lost the courage to pursue, and even Prince James, who was aware of the hindsight and had always been arrogant, realized that the enemy army was not defeated, and that he was now just a mouse being played with in the palm of his hand - but when the cat got tired of playing, he would eat the mouse in one bite.
For Zikov, the pain in his heart at this time is indescribable, his dignity as a soldier has been gone, the enemy does not even give himself a chance to die, he can't do it with full fame if he wants to die on the battlefield, and the imperial army with less than 10,000 people left under his command has been completely crushed by the Meinster army from spirit to body! If that's what Meinster cruel was for, then they've done it!
When the Meinster army retreated into the city, there was no sound, and the whole city of Meinster was quiet, a dead silence, not only there was no guard on the tower, but even the city gate was only half-hidden, as if it had become a dead city without people.
General Tsykov wandered under the city for a while, pondered for a long time, and then spat out a helpless sentence from his mouth: "If you come, you will be safe!" Then he ordered the whole army to enter the city in batches.
To the Empire's astonishment, when they entered the city, they were neither attacked nor nowhere to be seen, and it seemed that the entire city of Meinster had become empty and abandoned by the Meinster army. Capable of winning but not winning, and giving away his most important stronghold, the city he had worked so hard to build, what did the king of Mainster have in mind? Everything was in a deep fog, everything seemed so incredible and confusing......
But Tsykov also breathed a sigh of relief, because although there was still no food supply in the city, the problem of drinking water was finally solved—when the imperial soldiers saw the huge Shuoyang Lake in front of them, they could no longer contain their excitement, and completely ignored the orders of the generals, and rushed into the lake to drink and bathe freely.
Although the water problem was solved, there was no food, and the end result was the same, just a few more days...... Could it be that the enemy's purpose is to starve our army to death in the city of Meinster?
When General Tsykov thought this, as if to confirm his thoughts, the Meinster army suddenly blocked the four gates with heavy troops at this time!
It turns out that the enemy army had planned to introduce our army into Meinster City from the beginning, and then trap our army in the city!
That's why we didn't hesitate to sacrifice our army's heavy cavalry and arrow battalions with assault capabilities! But why bother to carry out such a plan? It's completely unnecessary!
Tsikov couldn't solve the confusion in his heart, and he couldn't change the predicament he was facing, because after losing the heavy cavalry, it was impossible to break through, and even if he could break through, it would only become a snack in the desert of the "Heart of Death".
After five days, the Lone Imperial Army that had penetrated into Meinster was already very weak, unable to support the fallen soldiers one after another, of whom more than 3,000 died of disease and starvation. However, there was no movement on the part of the Meinster army, only besieging but not attacking, which became a lingering haze in the hearts of the Imperial army.
Due to extreme anxiety, mental and physical exhaustion, and the deterioration of his injuries, even Tsykov, a tough veteran, fell ill at this time, but still insisted on patrolling the camp with the wounded and sick to comfort the soldiers.
When Tsykov brought his illness into the marshal's account to meet the sixth prince of James, James, who was gray and dazed, and his eyes and cheeks were sunken, said to his lieutenant in a hollow voice: "General Qi! Help me! I don't want to die! ”
Tsikov shook his head and said, "Please forgive my subordinates for their incompetence, I can't save Your Highness, and I can't save the Imperial Army!" Our life and death are in the hands of King Meinster......"
A hint of eagerness suddenly flashed in James' empty eyes, and he breathed sharply and said, "Then surrender!" Let's surrender to Meinster! I don't want to die! I'm going back to the imperial capital...... I don't want to die here...... If Alecon spares my life, I can kneel before Him and beg for His forgiveness...... Isn't he just for the insult I gave him back then? That's why he took revenge on me because I robbed his fiancée...... If he promises to let me go, I can give him back Kalisa......"
Tsykov said sternly: "Please respect yourself, Your Highness!" As a member of the imperial family, how could you do such a disgraceful thing to the empire! There is no shame in surrendering, but it is extremely shameless to use one's wife as a condition in exchange for a living! Ordinary family members are still ashamed, and this is the prince's concubine? Where does this put the dignity of the empire and the face of the imperial family?!
Besides, our lives are not in our own hands, so what bargaining chips do we have? And will the king of Mainster be a villain who only cares about personal grudges and doesn't care about the overall situation? ”
By the early morning of the sixth day, a powerful arrow from outside the city slashed through the last trace of darkness before dawn, and broke the silence of the early morning in Meinster City.
The Imperial soldiers handed the captured arrows to General Tsykov, and when they saw the letterhead attached to the arrow, Tsykov couldn't help but be taken aback, and even had an incredulous and uncertain expression, and calmed down a little, and hurriedly put on his light clothes and hurried to the tent to meet James.
At this time, the people in the bureau have not yet realized that everything is going in an incredible direction, and the historical urchin has played a joke on the world with his peculiar sense of humor.
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