Chapter 121

Fierce ghosts

The heavy army of Tubo attacked, the front line of Nanli contracted the defense, and the large and small troops entered the city nearby, relying on the fortress of the city to prepare for resistance, giving up a large open space in the field...... Even so, it was by no means easy for Liheba to lead 40,000 soldiers to sneak around Qingyang and sneak to the edge of the Yanziping fiefdom without being detected by the Nanli people.

Force and pull did it.

The Tibetan army of hundreds of thousands, counting it carefully, it is possible to do this, and only he and his subordinates can do it

Liheba is the marshal's own nephew, and the men and horses of the headquarters come from his and the marshal's clan army, but these 40,000 people can become the 'dependent' of the generalissimo by no means just because they are of the same clan.

Not only are they of the same race, they are also the real elite, and among these 40,000 people, there are 10,000 people who are the elite of the elite, the best in the army.

Just like the forbidden army of the Great Living Buddha in the past, the 'Buddha Light', these 10,000 people also have a resounding prestige on the plateau and have their own ** title: Binding Riluo.

Sanskrit, the ancient meaning refers to a fierce weapon in the scriptures and myths, and later it was gradually extended to mean 'King Kong'.

Whether it's an artifact or a King Kong, it doesn't matter what it's called, the key is only that they are fierce enough.

There is a saying on the plateau that there is only one place where the 'Ri Luo' is inferior to the 'Buddha Light': their number is small......

30,000 elites and 10,000 'Ri Luo' quietly sneaked to the edge of Song Yang's lair and lay dormant. It wasn't until Qingyang City was broken that they finally received the order of the commander, and under the command of Li He, 40,000 soldiers showed their banners and rushed into the fiefdom.

The most interesting part of this mission for him was the previous 'infiltration', and the final attack was a bit boring... He had already found out that the fiefdom was empty, and the people here were withdrawn when Song Yang sent troops, that is, there were monks, believers, and possibly some warrior monks in the auspicious land of Miaoxiang, which was not worth mentioning at all. There is no war without an enemy. Capture the fiefdom of the Marquis of Changchun? It sounds like it's enjoyable, but it's actually very boring.

However, elite operations have their own scheduling, even if there is no decent opponent, they still act according to the deployment of wartime, and each team responds to each other, steadily advancing step by step. It will take three days for Song Yang to escape from Qingyang back to his lair at the earliest, and the fans have time, they are not in a hurry, and they don't want to be injured by a cold arrow...... But what Rang Li and Ba didn't expect was that as soon as his troops entered the fiefdom, they received a report that the two hundred-man teams were missing. Inexplicably, quietly, two hundred people were lost and could not be found.

Lihe frowned slightly, but before he could speak, new military information arrived: another team of 100 people had disappeared... The general was not surprised, and immediately ordered the formation to be reduced and the response was strengthened.

As soon as he entered the fiefdom, there were no three hundred people, even a fool can understand that this place is by no means empty and undefended, and what really surprises him is that no one knows his son better than him, one of the best soldiers on the plateau, each of them has been strictly trained, has undergone iron-blooded experience, and is the best choice from skill to faith, they are not unable to die, but three hundred people died without a sound, and no one died alive or dead, such a thing is too terrible, if it is not for the power of gods and ghosts, The only explanation for that is this: the enemy is also the elite.

The formation of the soldiers began to shrink, the speed of movement slowed down further, and the connection between them was strengthened, almost giving the sneak attackers any space and space, but they still could not change anything, and they advanced three miles, losing two more centurs. What's even more hateful is that after a mile forward, the enemy seems to feel that the sneak attack is too easy, and he has become emboldened, and he actually attacked a thousand-man team!

This time there was a lot of movement, the surrounding soldiers immediately outflanked the past, but unfortunately it was still half a step slow, the enemy had already retreated when the fan arrived, and the thousand-man team that was attacked, from beginning to end, only fought less than a stick of incense, and more than half of the casualties: three hundred dead and three hundred wounded. There were almost no minor injuries, and the injured person either had a broken hand or a broken leg, and the flushing of the wound was obviously the work of a very weighty quick knife.

However, the enemy was finally revealed, and according to the surviving soldiers of the 1,000-man squad, the attackers were dressed in dark armor, wearing fangs to cover their faces, and their long knives in their hands were strangely shaped like 'modern' blades...... Lihe pulled down and snorted coldly, he had heard of this team with grimaces.

When Tubo sent troops from Tang Lou, Li Heba led his men and horses to break away from the brigade, and at about the same time, the two most ferocious troops in Song Yang's hands also left Qingyang. Liu Jiajun's power in the defense of the city was greatly reduced, and after leaving, he had been lying in ambush in the south, waiting to meet the final breakthrough of Song Yang and his party; Cicada Yaksha returned to defend Swallow Ping, during which a thousand men were assigned to destroy the sluice, and after completing the task, they also returned to Fengyi to join the headquarters army.

Sending Cicada Yaksha back to Fengyi, it was not that Song Yang and the others were sure that Fanzi would sneak in, but because even if Qingyang was lost, the battle around Qingyang was not over, and Fengyi, Yanziping, and Miaoxiang were auspiciously the last positions of the Marquis of Changchun.

The 40,000 soldiers of Liheba sneaked to the edge of the fiefdom and no one found out? It's just that they think no one knows, and the actions and hides of this army have all fallen into the eyes of the Cicada Yasha, and for the existence of the Cicada Yasha, Fanzi is really ignorant of it.

The more you advance to the depths of the fiefdom, the more frequent the raids and blows encountered by the Fan army, in terms of combat quality alone, the two sides are superior to each other, and the Fan army has casualties all the time, but the cicada Yasha is always difficult to find, as if it appears out of thin air and then dissipates with the wind......

Although the current loss force and pull can still fully bear, but the team has slowly begun to spread fear, and it is not a way to go on like this, it has to make people panic, force and pull changed the formation again, the forward retreated, and the 'bound sun', which had been in the middle of the army formation, stepped forward to act as a blade.

One of the most powerful armies was pushed to the forefront. Two elites in the full sense of the word, King Kong from the plateau and Yaksha who have been dormant for generations, face each other-for-tat.

Perhaps because of his high self-esteem, or perhaps because of the arrogance of the elite soldiers, 'Ri Luo' made a request to the general when he was ordered to be the vanguard: he did not want friendly troops to cooperate and support, and he wanted to fight ** and fight with the Ghost Face Army in front.

Liheba nodded in agreement.

The battlefield is empty, wide and deep, and there is no large-scale fighting between the two sides, and it even feels a little too calm and dull, but this is by no means to say that the gladiatorial battle between the two elite teams is not fierce, on the contrary, attacks, strangulations, ambushes, breakdowns and other means are staged one after another, and the only thing that can describe this battle is only: sinister.

A sinister battle.

At this point, the cicada Yaksha finally began to have casualties in the real sense, not killed in twos and threes, but the loss of the ten-person squad and the hundred-person march, and even the thousand-man brigade also suffered a blow. The baptism of the battlefield experienced by the remnants of Dahong is far inferior to that of the enemy.

But even so, in this confrontation, the Cicada Yaksha still won steadily, and the shortcomings were obvious, but their advantages were more obvious: terrible weapons, amazing physique, the largest killing array with the smallest explosion, and the 'geographical advantage'.

Even if this 'Ri Luo' is really King Kong, they are also King Kong from afar; Cicada Yasha has lived in the Nanli Mountains for generations, and has come to Yanziping for a while, Honghuang and secret envoys are stationed here, and protecting their safety is the most important duty of Cicada Yasha, Zheng Zhuan and Zheng Ji have never neglected this, I don't know how many times the training and exercises have been carried out to imagine the various situations of the enemy's invasion and how to deal with them, and there are positions they have developed and hidden fortifications built everywhere in the fiefdom, and they are familiar with every grass and tree here, They are local demons.

Not all foreign monks can recite the sutras, at least the sutras recited by the 'Ri Luo' here, in front of the Cicada Yaksha, are not so effective......

If this battle takes place on the plateau, the cicada yaksha may not be able to take advantage, but in the fiefdom they can win and win steadily.

The army followed the 'Ri Luo' and advanced for another seven or eight miles, and when it gradually approached the center of the fiefdom, it stopped again: the 'Rig Luo' 'walked' and could not move.

Less than ten miles away, but he walked for several hours, constantly strangling and fighting, so that Riluo suffered heavy casualties, and lost more than 2,500 elite soldiers, approaching the 3,000 mark. For this team, the attrition of 30% is a bar, their usual tactics, coordinated battle formations, tacit understanding between teams, etc., the minimum requirement should be based on 7,000 people, once the 'bar' is exceeded, the team's combat effectiveness will be sharply reduced. When approaching the critical point, the commander of the Riluo finally did not dare to be reckless, no matter how heavy the face was, it was more important to maintain his strength, and no matter how unwilling he was to lose, he could not be wiped out. The troops temporarily stopped, and personally went to see the force and pull out the brigade to cooperate with the operation.

Li and Ba didn't want to agree immediately, in order to cultivate Ri Luo, the clan didn't know how much manpower and material resources were spent, and they really had to explain them to Yanziping, and the marshal behind him had to cook him alive when he came.

Not only did he agree to the request of the commander of the Binding Ridge, but also Li Heba also blamed something, but instead patted the other party's shoulder and comforted a few words, and then asked with some curiosity: "We have injured more than 2,000 children, what about Nanban?" How much do they lose? ”

The commander is a Predator, and there has always been no expression on his face, but Leng Sensen's expression still couldn't hide the embarrassment in his eyes, and he replied firmly: "I don't know." ”

Liheba wondered: "I don't know? How could it not be known? Don't you have an approximate count of how many corpses they left behind? ”

"They have casualties, but... Basically no corpses were left, and they were all taken away by the same party. ”

"By the way of you, the Ghost-Faced Army still has a chance to take the bodies of the dead?" Lihe pulled a breath of cold air.

The chief officer of the Riluo snorted, and it was regarded as acknowledging the statement of force and pulling.

Li Heba waved his hand back and left and right, and lowered his voice: "Ba Tuo, you give me the bottom, how is this ghost-faced army of Nanban compared to our Riluo?" "Ri Luo is a clan army, and the chief officer Ba Tuo and Li Heba are naturally relatives, and they are direct relatives within three generations, and the two have often met since childhood, and they don't have any scruples when they talk.

"We can't compare. They, they're different. Batou's face was very ugly, and he shook his head slowly. He would say this because there were two inconsequential details in the battle: they were 'laughing' and they were 'watching'.

During the battle and the action, the cicada Yasha always laughed in a very low voice, and their eyes were full of joy and comfort, even when the blade pierced the vital point and their bodies twitched uncontrollably before death...... On Fanzi's side, the soldiers who can be selected to be bound by Riluo are all outlaws, and they will become wild and excited as soon as they enter the battlefield, but the two teams are different, 'King Kong' is not afraid of death at best and likes to fight, but 'Yaksha' is enjoying it, and even dying on the battlefield has become a part of that enjoyment;

As for 'looking', when you are dying, look at your eyes. Whenever the Cicada Yaksha kills the enemy to the ground, they will deliberately look into each other's eyes, and they will look so seriously, the enemy's eyes go from bright to dull and finally lifeless, this terrible process seems to them to be the most beautiful landscape in the world, and they never get tired of looking at it. And when the cicada Yaksha is killed, their eyes will still lock the eyes of their enemies, and they will still be the same, full of happiness.

Ba Tuo really didn't dare to let Ri Luo be entangled with the Ghost Face Army alone, although his expression was always cold and ruthless, but he clearly felt that a little fear had quietly risen in his heart for this Southern Barbarian elite. The commander is like this, not to mention the subordinates, if the battle continues, it will not only be more than thirty percent casualties, but the collapse of Riluo's faith, self-confidence and morale, they can't be afraid, once there is another team in the world that makes them feel afraid from the heart, Riluo will be finished......

Even if the elite soldiers are called 'King Kong', no matter how strong they are, they are human after all.

The cicada yaksha is a ghost: a fierce ghost who has wandered away from the world for hundreds of years, and has been looking forward to returning to the human world for generations to kill again, and now finally getting his wish!

Ba Tuo coughed, and changed the topic, making their ace embarrassed along the way, but it was not all without gain, at least he saw one thing: "The Ghost Face Army is protecting the fiefdom." ”

Nonsense, but the force and pull are not angry...... If this kind of nonsense is really spoken, Ba Tuo will not be qualified to lead Zhiluo, and his words mean something else: the two countries exchange troops, and there are fierce battles in the field, no matter what tactics are used, they are all aimed at destroying the enemy's living forces. And the Southern Barbarian Ghost Face Army, which has always been hidden in the shadows, rarely detours to the side to attack the enemy, and basically launches snipers and ambushes in the front, and they slowly retreat as the Tubo army advances, to put it bluntly, although they are also killing the enemy, but the more important purpose is to 'block'.

As the chief officer of the Ri Luo said, they were protecting the fiefdom, and this kind of resistance for the purpose of blocking was fundamentally different from killing the enemy with guerrilla attacks.

Li Heba frowned, groaned, and then slowly spoke after a while: "This team is a Buddhist soldier?" ”

"That's not how to play road protection." Ba Tuo nodded steadily......

The Marquis of Changchun has been defeated, what else is there to protect the fiefdom? There are only two possibilities to say that the sky is broken: to save a way for Chang Chunhou to escape into the mountains; Or to protect the auspicious place of Myoka. If it is the former, the 'Ghost Face Army' should not be this way of fighting at all, they will continue to hide, and wait until Song Yang leads the barbarians to Fengyi to attack again, and fight with friendly troops in front and back, creating a way for Changchunhou to escape to the mountains.

There is only one explanation left.

Judging from the previous military intelligence reports: the vanguard army in front had divided its troops to attack the fiefdom around the city, but it encountered the stubborn fight of the Ghost Face Army, and finally the whole army was destroyed; Although the Ghost Face Army did reinforce Qingyang with Song Yang, they also left Qingyang shortly after Nanli Buddha Lord Wuyan returned to the Holy Land, and they did not even participate in the Qingyang Guard Battle against the main force of Tubo.

Combining the past and looking at the present, it is natural for Liheba and Batuo to come to a conclusion: the 'ghost face' is the Buddha army, loyal to the auspicious land of Miaoxiang.

Recognizing this weight, it is completely clear how to fight the battle in front of him, and Li Heba and the chief officer of Ri Luo discussed a few more words, and then gave the order: Gather the whole army and take the auspicious place of Miaoxiang.

Hit the key point, attack the enemy and save it, and force the Ghost Face Army to appear in a frontal decisive battle.

Although they don't know the exact number of enemies, they can at least be sure that he will win the fight, forcing Oniface to give up their good guerrilla fighting methods, and it is as if the enemy's advantage is eliminated; The frontal battle undoubtedly expanded the opponent's numerical disadvantage...... Sure enough, when the army ignored even the slightest sniper or trap and launched an attack on auspicious land, the 'Ghost-faced Army' couldn't hold its breath.

When the army rushed to the edge of the sign land, the 'Ghost Face' army finally jumped out of the darkness and showed their formation.

How fortunate the fans who invaded the feudal province were to have the opportunity to see the Modao military formation that had been lost for hundreds of years.

Mo knife length can reach the adult strong man one and a half high, weigh dozens of pounds, the formation of the attack like a wall to advance, the frontal attack force is unmatched, the Great Hong Dynasty once swept the four corners with the Mo knife method, and even left three thousand Mo knives to destroy the legend of 30,000 Hu horses.

The legend is unverifiable, I don't know if it has been deliberately exaggerated, but the power of the Mo knife is beyond doubt. The killing range of this weapon is huge, and there are a variety of tactics such as decapitation with an upward swing, a downward swing to cut the hooves, an oblique stab around the neck, and a heavy jump attack on the cavalry. The killing method of the infantry is more flexible and diverse, and the Mo knife has always been used as the main force in the military sequence of the Great Hong Dynasty, and it is used to shake the enemy army head-on and destroy the enemy's front.

In addition to the rigid requirements for soldiers, Modao's tactics also require soldiers to practice formations for a long time... Even if you go back in time and go back to the heyday of Dahong seven hundred years ago, which Modao clan has been trained since the soldiers were born, and they have eaten, lived and trained together to cultivate a tacit understanding?

Stealth, strangulation, ambush, raid and other field methods, in the eyes of the cicada Yaksha is just a 'side business', they used to have too much time, they want to keep improving, so they go to learn these, and their real profession, the main business, is the neat array in front of Fanzi, the sword is clear, and the action is fast and unified is coming to the face of the 'Mo Dao Chong'.

Liheba did force the Ghostface Army to abandon the guerrilla warfare they were good at...... It also forced out the Mo knife killing array that Cicada Yaksha is better at!

Fierce ghosts, butcher knives.