Chapter 840: Athletic Warfare
Lin Xiao raided Seven Star City this time, brought 150,000 elites, and left secretly after the end of the battlefield yesterday, took the fastest flying boat in Lin Xiao's hand, took a long detour, and arrived in Seven Star City in the middle of the night today.
However, Lin Xiao only spent 50,000 people to easily capture Seven Star City, thanks to the work of Meng Qi and others, and also relied on Lin Xiao's means to force away Kang Duhe and contain Li Wuyuan, otherwise how could it be so easy.
The high-level monks of the Seven Star Pavilion had no fighting spirit, and the war was much smoother, after dawn, the Seven Star City had already fallen into the hands of Lin Xiao, in fact, there were not many dead people in the fierce battle at night, it is estimated that there were no 10,000 people, most of them escaped over the city wall, after all, the city wall is nothing to immortal cultivators.
After dawn, Meng Qi's people led the monks of Nanzhou to loot on a large scale, where there was a treasury, where there was a big business, they knew it clearly, after this operation, they would also return to Nanzhou, so they were not afraid of offending people at all.
"Boss"
"Meng Qi, congratulations, you can retire honorably after this operation"
"It's better to be in charge of the guidance, so I can make such a great achievement"
"Yours Reward"
Lin Xiao threw out a jade slip, Meng Qi looked at it, and was immediately overjoyed, above was an order from Lin Xiao, asking Ye Nanyu to accept Meng Qi's youngest son as a personal disciple, Meng Qi knew that Ye Nanyu would definitely not refuse, and his son's future was very bright.
"Head, Meng Qi still has something to ask for"
"Say"
"Can you please ask the head not to burn down the Seven Star City, this is the home of millions of monks and mortals, once it burns, many people will die, leave them a little hope"
"You can have such a kind heart, this is the master"
"Thank you, boss"
"Go and do something, before noon, the army will withdraw from Seven Star City"
"Yes"
At this time, there were only sporadic battles left in Seven Star City, which did not affect the overall situation, under the organized looting, the important places of Seven Star City were looted, but most of the residential areas and the like, the Nanzhou monks did not move, and at noon, the 50,000 army slowly withdrew from Seven Star City.
At this time, Yun Zhonghe had also broken through the Yun family and killed the enemy who framed him back then, and then Yun Zhonghe took away hundreds of Yun family members and a large amount of treasure.
"Meng Qi, give you a thousand people, retreat with the cranes in the clouds and the booty, go to the Nanzhou camp first, and someone will send you away when the time comes."
"Lin Alliance Leader, I want to stay and help"
"You just take a few people to stay, and the rest leave"
Lin Xiao didn't refuse, Yun Zhonghe is also a Divine Void Period cultivator, and it is good to have one more.
Meng Qi quickly evacuated with a thousand guards and the men and horses of the Night Stalker and the Yun family, while Lin Xiao was in front of the Seven Star Pavilion, at this time, the chaos in the Seven Star Pavilion had passed for more than a day, and the front line of the Seven Star Pavilion should have already moved.
"Report, Qi Yu Alliance Leader, the sentry in front has sent news, there is a large army coming, the number of men and horses is unknown, and the forecast is between 100,000 and 200,000"
"Report, Qiyu Alliance Master, news has come from the Nanzhou Battalion, the army of the Seven Star Pavilion can't shrink today, and the Qingyang Sect asks if it will be attacked"
"Reply to the Qingyang Sect, stop the attack, and coerce"
Lin Xiao asked people to reply, at this time, there was no point in attacking strongly, and Yun Guguang only sent less than 200,000 horses, so he committed a taboo and made such a thing as adding fuel tactics, Lin Xiao decided to eat this group of people.
Half a day later, the people of the Seven Star Pavilion arrived, and when they saw the Nanzhou army waiting in formation, they were immediately extremely frightened, and immediately stopped, and also prepared to camp for a confrontation.
"How can I make you so wishy-washy, Bai Zichen"
"In"
"Lead 50,000 horses to attack, the leader of this alliance will lead the main force to press the formation for you, pay attention to maintaining the rhythm"
"Yes"
Bai Zichen shouted angrily, and then led 50,000 elites to ride on the dragon horse to attack, these 50,000 people were all the elites carefully selected by Lin Xiao before, and the equipment was also the strongest, and they rushed out majestically, and Lin Xiao led the rest of the men and horses to immediately follow behind.
The Seven Star Pavilion reinforcement army originally wanted to camp and confront, this was the best way to deal with it, but those monks were not happy, the people in the Seven Star City were their relatives and friends, and now that the city was broken, they were very worried about the safety of their relatives, and they just wanted to expel Lin Xiao and the others as soon as possible, and they didn't want to drag it out at all.
Therefore, when Bai Zichen led 50,000 horses to attack, the returning monks immediately decided to meet them, they had 180,000 horses, which was superior in terms of numbers.
Bai Zichen saw that the enemy did not use the camp to set up a defensive array, and he actually wanted to fight him, and he was immediately overjoyed, Bai Zichen had fought so many battles, it was really rare to see such an idiot high-level.
Without saying a word, Bai Zichen ordered the army to speed up, and the 50,000 monks turned into cavalry, and directly broke through the enemy's battle formation with earth-shattering momentum.
The men and horses under Bai Zichen's command are extremely elite, and the other party is a tired army that has come to the aid of thousands of miles, even without Lin Xiao's help, he has a good fight with the other party.
When Lin Xiao arrived at the battlefield with 100,000 neat and complete battle formations, the enemy's morale was almost over, and some people began to flee.
"Don't let it go, kill"
Lin Xiao asked 50,000 of them to disarm their battle formations and make a detour to both sides, while the remaining 50,000 were to advance and kill the enemy.
The rabble did not have any ability to resist in front of the battle array, a large number of monks were harvested by the Nanzhou army, when the death rate exceeded thirty percent, the army of Seven Star Pavilion monks collapsed, but unfortunately, under Lin Xiao's preparation, there were less than 10,000 people who could really escape, and most of the rest were captured.
"Lin Alliance Lord, what about these captives"
"Have you collected your stuff?"
"Soon, right away"
"Crane in the Clouds"
"Here, give you a chance, let you become a big man, and the Yun family will have to respect your orders in the future, how"
"Please show me the Lord of the Lin League"
"There are more than 100,000 captives here, I will give them all, and I will give you another 3,000 Nanzhou monks to listen to your orders, you are responsible for plotting against these people, how many people you can rebel against depends on your ability, they will all be your subordinates in the future, how"
"Is that true?"
"In plain sight, I can't lie to you"
"Thank you Lin League Master, Lin League Master rest assured, the crane in the clouds will be your head in the future"
"Let's talk about it later, the people left by Chen Hongyan will also be given to you"
Lin Xiao nodded, Chen Hongyan is an idealist, Lin Xiao has heard Meng Qi's report many times, but unfortunately Lin Xiao died before he saw it, and Lin Xiao was willing to give them a future.
Yun Zhonghe and Zhang Feiyu and others have known each other for a long time, and they only have more than two hundred people in total, but they soon became the core of Yun Zhonghe, selecting people among the captives.
These are all Seven Star Pavilion monks, many of them know, Zhang Feiyu took the lead in selecting a lot of people like them who have no background and persuaded them to join him.
And the crane in the cloud is the main people to win over the Yun family, the crane in the cloud has recovered its original appearance at this time, with the identity of the Yun family, the disciples of the Yun family are willing to surrender to the sincerity, and by the morning of the second day, they have more than 2,000 people.
Lin Xiao left 3,000 people to assist Yun Zhonghe and the others, and then led the remaining 100,000 horses to the south, at this time, Yun Guguang in the army of the Seven Star Pavilion already knew the news that the reinforcements had been eaten, which made him realize that his strategy was wrong, and he didn't dare to send people in small batches, and chose the entire army to go north.
The Seven Star Pavilion army still has more than one million people at this time, and it is very difficult to move in the case of a threat from outside, and the Qingyang Sect and the Nanzhou army have also started their own harassment moves, they use dragon horses, flying boats, and even monks above Daogang to form a team, constantly harassing, eating their men and horses little by little, if the Seven Star Pavilion monks lead the team to counterattack, they will quickly retreat and hide in the army.
This kind of raiding tactics didn't seem to have much effect, but the accumulated results were very high, in the first day, they had thousands of results, and the army of the Seven Star Pavilion had only traveled less than a thousand miles, and there were still more than ten thousand miles before they reached the Seven Star City.
What's more critical is the morale of the monks, one of the nests was ended, the army fled in panic, and there was a big enemy on the side, this pressure was very great, not ordinary people could bear, and when they camped at night, there were monks howling and crying, almost causing the camp to roar.
Even at night, the Nanzhou monks are not willing to let go of this opportunity, countless sentinel rangers set out, and the opponent's sentinel rangers fight, once the advantage is confirmed, there will be a team of monks from the Nanzhou army, they are the artillery team in the Nanzhou army, a few people are responsible for a Xuanjing cannon, outside the Seven Star Pavilion army, set up a Xuanjing cannon, and then put a few cannons and quickly leave.
On the second day, Yun Guguang changed his tactics and sent elite men and horses to guard the outside of the army, while the army moved at an accelerated speed.
Of course, the enemy's strategy has changed, and the Nanzhou monks have also changed their strategy, they have sent a large number of men and horses, and have repeatedly made a posture to attack the main force of the Seven Star Pavilion to delay their speed, while on the other hand, they are sending more men and horses to eat these elites with superior forces.
After repeating like this for five days, the Seven Star Pavilion army had completed half of the journey at the cost of more than 200,000 horses, and at this time, Lin Xiao occupied the only way on their way forward, several important passes, if they wanted to make a detour, they had to walk thousands of miles, and the Seven Star Pavilion army had entered the end of the road.
Yun Guguang naturally would not admit defeat, he ordered the army to stop moving, and then chose a place to hold on, learn from Lin Xiao's practice, dig a large number of back ditches, ram the earth city, and make a turtle retreat on the defensive, while on the other hand, he sent people to contact Lin Xiao and threatened to negotiate peace.
Lin Xiao knew that he was delaying time, but he didn't directly refuse, Lin Xiao pretended to negotiate peace on the one hand, and sent a large army to besiege the Seven Star Pavilion army on the other hand, and to mobilize more Xuanjing cannons, preparing to blast away the opponent's turtle formation, it was at this time, Lin Xiao was not afraid that he would not die.
However, what Lin Xiao didn't expect was that he hadn't broken the tortoise formation of the Seven Star Pavilion yet, but he had received news from Nanzhou, Kunlun, Qingyang Sect, Haoyang Sect and other parties, and the demon clan had made a move.