Chapter 209: The Counterattack Begins! (May Day Plus Update)
Cao Bao was staying in the camp, and suddenly there were shouts of killing, and the soldiers and horses were alarmed!
A team of more than 10,000 soldiers, led by Princess Pingyang, destroyed the antlers and other fortifications of the coalition army, broke through the camp, routed the patrolling guards, and set fire everywhere!
Xia Liang handed over all the supplies such as fire oil, straw, and fire arrows to Li Xiuning and the army led by her, and ordered them to set fire to Cao Bao's camp and create chaos.
If you want to win more with less, it is not enough to rely on sneak attacks, but also to supplement them with other means, that is, fire attacks!
The defenders of Xia City burned the joint camp, and the 100,000 allied troops fell into chaos, unable to distinguish which direction the enemy came from!
Li Xiuning took advantage of the chaos and directly killed Cao Bao, the commander of the coalition army!
While defending the city, she secretly observed the direction of Cao Bao as he withdrew to the camp, so as to determine the location of the enemy's main general's military tent.
As long as Cao Bao is successfully killed, then the 100,000 coalition army will soon collapse!
More than 10,000 elites are marching forward, slashing and killing more than 1,000 enemies along the way!
The defenders of Xia City, who were constantly besieged, seemed to pour out all the grievances of recent days, and they listened to their main general say that as long as the enemy's main general was killed, then the enemy's siege of Xia City would end.
The coalition forces ruined the peaceful life of Xia Cheng, and they hated this group of enemies who destroyed their homeland, so they fought extremely bravely, not just the charisma of the main general Li Xiuning.
Li Xiuning changed into iron armor, held a bow in his hand, shot Cao Bao's generals, and led the defenders of Xiacheng to behead him!
There is a sea of fire everywhere, and chaos covers her and Xia Cheng's troops' actions, and she has to complete the decapitation operation before the various lords react, and kill Cao Bao, the main general of the coalition army!
An elite Xuzhou soldiers and horses appeared, and a military general held a ring-headed knife in his hand, killing two Xiacheng defenders in succession! This team of elite Xuzhou soldiers and horses blocked the rapidly attacking defenders of Xiacheng!
Li Xiuning saw that the other party was a fierce general, so he pulled out his Tang knife and took the initiative to step forward to face it, trying to break through the opponent's defense!
"It turned out that you little lady expelled our first team, this time you threw yourself into the net, I will make your life worse than death!"
Standing in front of Li Xiuning's army was Tao Qian's subordinate general Zhenrong, who still had a scar on his face, he was fierce by nature, more fierce than a thief in Taishan.
Li Xiuning is fighting with Zhengrong!
The Tang knife and the ring head knife were connected, and the two rode past, but neither killed the other. Li Xiuning turned the horse's head, turned around in the sea of fire and charged at Zhen Rong again, if she didn't take Zhen Rong down, she would never be reconciled!
Rong is ferocious and fights Li Xiuning again!
The two generals fought seven or eight rounds in a row, and Li Xiuning had the upper hand!
When Zhen Rong fought with the other party, he found that Li Xiuning's force was higher than him, and he gradually became afraid of Li Xiuning.
The army under Li Xiuning concentrated some superior forces and gradually exterminated the Zhenrong soldiers whose morale had fallen.
Zhen Rong's personal soldiers were elite, but under the huge difference in numbers and morale, they were still wiped out by Li Xiuning's army.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zongrong planned to flee.
Li Xiuning rode the high-grade Turkic war horse that Xia Liang had rewarded her, passed through the collapsed and still burning camp tent, and caught up with Zhenrong!
A cold light flashed, the knife fell in his hand, and Li Xiuning slashed Tao Qian's troops and melted under the horse!
In order to prevent Zhen Rong from cheating to death, Li Xiuning took off his head and hung it on the saddle, which was extremely fierce!
Li Xiuning killed an enemy general, continued to lead the defenders to attack, and kept his morale high and moved forward!
Cao Bao, who was good at escaping, escaped from the main army tent early under the protection of his pro-soldiers.
Dolgon, who was good at cavalry raids, couldn't catch him in ambush, and even Li Xiuning couldn't catch Cao Bao who wanted to escape.
For escaping, Cao Bao is quite confident.
It's just that he's been killed to the point of fear now.
"An army of 100,000, a whole army of 100,000, was buried in the flames."
Cao Bao saw the rear burning company camp, and countless tents, weapons, flags, and shields were submerged in the raging fire, and his heart couldn't help but ache like a knife. The fire destroyed not only these supplies, but also the lives of many soldiers.
He suffered 40,000 casualties in the crusade against Beihai State, and he brought 50,000 people in this crusade against Langya, and Zhenrong later reinforced 30,000 people, and 80,000 people were almost wiped out, and he could not explain to the current Xuzhou Mu Taoqian.
Even if the territory and population controlled by Xuzhou Mu were several times that of Langya, he could not afford to lose 80,000 soldiers at one time.
If you put it in the era of cold weapons, a country with a population of millions, 80,000 professional soldiers died, especially veterans, and it will take a long time for the country to bounce back again. Even in the Lords world, where soldiers are recruited quickly, it takes a year or two for a new recruit to become a veteran.
Cao Bao's soldiers reminded: "General, not all the soldiers were killed or wounded, it is estimated that only about 10,000 soldiers were killed because of the fire, and the rest of the soldiers just broke down, and they will soon regather under your command." ”
"You think I don't know? Being burned by this fire, the morale of the whole army was completely lost, and it was no longer possible to fight. ”
Cao Bao is more concerned about the negative impact of the burning of the company camp. The morale of his army has seriously decreased, there is no morale, and if they clash again, they will be defeated by Li Xiuning's army. Even if there are more soldiers, without ten days and half a month, it will be difficult for morale to recover.
"I don't know who came up with such a vicious plan and directly burned 100,000 people."
Cao Bao inexplicably felt a chill. His opponent is not an ordinary person.
"My lord, this is the fate of the enemies who invade our Langya country. It would be nice if you were there. ”
Xia Liang leaned on the wooden pillar of the city gate tower, looking at the sea of fire under the city, and knew that this time Xia Cheng should be defended.
But she hasn't vented her hatred yet, and she still wants to destroy all the troops that have entered the Langya country.
Li Xiuning's troops broke through the opponent's camp, and the troops of each lord either fled, were burned to death by fire, or were completely lost by Li Xiuning's surprise attack.
Li Xiuning chased all the way to the Yi River, and two thousand enemies were driven down the Yi River and drowned alive!
100,000 coalition troops collapsed overnight!
The residents of Xia Cheng heard the shouts of killing outside the city, and thought that Cao Bao was attacking the city again at night, so the door was closed.
By dawn the next day, the enemy had retreated.
The civilians and players in the city were in disbelief when they heard the news.
Yesterday, Xia Cheng was still crumbling and precarious, and the enemy army had been broken through overnight?
"Could it be that last night's war drums were the movement of the defenders in the city to counterattack and break the coalition forces of the counties?"
"Breaking 100,000 with 10,000, this ...... Is this possible? ”
"Maybe the besieging side took the initiative to withdraw the siege, and they may not be willing to lose more troops in order to capture Xia City, or there may be infighting and a fire in the backyard."
The players in the city were spreading the news of the successful defense of Xia City, and for a while, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Yanzhou all heard about it!
The siege of Summer City has been lifted!
Except for the soldiers who participated in the counterattack last night, and the defeated coalition lords, no one knows how Xia Cheng broke the siege, and they are speculating about what happened last night to cause the 100,000 coalition troops besieging Xia Cheng to withdraw.
Even more unbelievable happened, the defenders of Xia Cheng escorted thousands of captives back to the city and concentrated guards, some of them were executed by Xia Liang's order, and the rest were declared enslaved forever.
This woman will not be soft in the slightest when she retaliates, because the other party has touched her bottom line.
Now the civilians and players of Summer City can roughly deduce the reason for the retreat of the 100,000 allied forces that surrounded Summer City.
The retreat of the 100,000 coalition troops was by no means a problem within themselves, but was defeated by more than 10,000 defenders!
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the defenders of Xia City captured thousands of prisoners alive. If the 100,000 coalition troops take the initiative to retreat, then there will definitely be an army queen, and they will definitely not lose so badly!
Li Kui, who was the captain of Diannong, couldn't believe that the two women had joined forces to defend Xia City, one was strategizing in the rear, and the other was fighting bravely to kill the enemy in the front, cooperating tacitly. It was only after he saw thousands of captives that he realized that this was true.
Li Kui breathed a sigh of relief: "We can go to Langya City to relieve the siege, and ask the lord to lead the main force back and pacify all parts of Langya Kingdom." ”
"Not necessarily. Leave it to me to clean up the enemies in Langya's country, otherwise I'm afraid that the lord will be soft. Relieve the siege of Langya City, immediately transport supplies to the lord, and inform the lord of General Li Xiuning's defection, and the lord will know that even if we don't have to come back, we can defeat the enemy who invaded Langya. ”
Summer Liang's tone gradually became cold, and she planned to use the second- and third-line troops of Langya Country to defeat the coalition army in order to promote the prestige of Langya Country!
Even if it is only a second- or third-line army, it can still fight the enemy from all directions!
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In Liangshan Town, the current defender is Sun Liuwan, a general of the water division and a silver-level hero.
Originally, Xu Sheng was supposed to command the naval division battalion, which is currently 2,000 people, but Xu Sheng was transferred by Chutian to serve as the guard general of Xia Cheng, and the task of commanding the naval division battalion continued to be undertaken by Sun Liuwan.
Sun Liuwan was only a silver-level general, and he commanded 2,000 men a little reluctantly, and he trembled, and according to Xia Cheng's instructions, he led the sailors to plunder any ships related to Tao Qian on the Yi River, especially the merchant ships transporting grain and grass.
The importance of the sailor battalion came into play. Under the constant harassment of Sun Liuwan, Cao Bao's plan to transport grain through the Yi River to supply the army was affected, which in turn affected the siege of Xia City. Cao Bao could only rely on horse-drawn carts and mules on land to transport grain and grass.
Xia Cheng couldn't be attacked for a long time, and Sun Liuwan also had a credit.
"The siege of Xia City has been lifted, and the rout is fleeing south?"
Sun Liuwan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned from the players in Liangshan Town that the siege of Xia City had been lifted by the coalition forces. He only had 2,000 sailors and 2,000 village warriors in his hands, and he was under great pressure.
Fortunately, Cao Bao didn't care about Liangshan Town, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, otherwise Liangshan Town would be difficult to hold.
Sun Liuwan was keenly aware of the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and immediately gathered all the soldiers and horses in Liangshan Town to intercept the Cao Bao rout who fled south!
Although Sun Liuwan's ability is not strong, and there are not many soldiers under his command, the coalition army was demoralized by a fire, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the southern part of Langya was full of deserters, which was an opportunity to capture deserters in a big way!
At the request of Xia Liang, Li Xiuning pursued Cao Bao from the north, and broke the rout of Cao Bao near Yunlai Town!
Cao Bao fled again and encountered Sun Liuwan in Liangshan Town, Sun Liuwan took the opportunity to defeat Cao Bao, who had no morale at the level of a silver-level general, and Cao Bao continued to flee south.
Sun Liuwan with 2,000 soldiers of the sailor battalion who went ashore to fight, plus 2,000 villagers from Liangshan Town, beheaded 500 and captured 2,500 professional soldiers, and won a complete victory.
Sun Liuwan himself couldn't believe his results.
He, an inconspicuous silver-level ordinary hero, actually defeated Cao Bao, the chief general of the Xuzhou Army, and captured more than 2,000 professional soldiers?
Sun Liuwan said to the soldiers around him: "Slap me in the face." ”
"Your Excellency, this is ......"
Sun Liuwan's personal soldiers had never heard such a strange request.
Cao Bao was defeated, and the lords of the coalition forces fled with their troops.
The 30,000 Xia Pi allied troops besieging Langya City realized that something was wrong.
"Now it is rumored that Xia City has been relieved of the siege, and the 100,000 coalition troops have been defeated, and our 30,000 troops may become lone troops!"
"Let's retreat quickly, otherwise Xia Cheng will call on soldiers and horses from all over the Langya Kingdom to come and assemble, and we will become a turtle in the urn!"
The various coalition forces of the Xia Pi Kingdom saw that Cao Bao, the Zheng Rong Division, and the Pengcheng Kingdom coalition army had been defeated, and they were currently sandwiched between Xia City and Snow Moon City.
Langya City is fifty kilometers north of Xia City and seventy kilometers south of Snow Moon City, and its location is very delicate. This means that once the strength of the defenders of Xiacheng is released, the north and south will attack, and the 30,000 allied troops of the Xiapi Kingdom will definitely be defeated!
The lords who had the courage to participate in the partition of the Langya Kingdom were more or less ambitious and capable, and they realized that something was wrong and began to retreat as soon as possible to avoid being cut off from the back road.
However, it seems that for them, it is still a step too late.
The scout cavalry they sent to patrol the north quickly reported: "The enemy infantry archers have been found in the north, numbering more than 10,000 people, maybe 20,000!" ”
The faces of the lords of the Xiapi Kingdom turned pale.
"Their main force has been trapped in Xia City, Langya City and Hedong Nine Towns, and we have at least 3-40,000 troops in containment, how can they still piece together 20,000 reinforcements?!"
"Langya Country is a bottomless pit, they must have reserved troops to counterattack, we have been tricked!"
"Quickly withdraw to the country of Xiapi, sooner rather than later!"
The 30,000 allied troops of the Xiapi State immediately pulled out the camp and left.
Liu Sandao, who was defending the city, saw that the other party was withdrawing, and in order to avoid being ambushed, he could not leave the city under any circumstances according to Xia Liang's order. His mission is to defend the most important and the only teleportation array in the Langya Kingdom.
Sun Kang and Wu Dun followed Xia Liang's order to take 20,000 newly recruited Qingzhou troops south and appeared outside Langya City, and Liu Sandao understood why the 30,000 allied troops of Xia Pi State would withdraw.
It turns out that there are still 20,000 reinforcements in the central and northern parts of Langya Kingdom?
"It's that woman who asks us to recruit troops around the clock, and we can't afford to mess with it."
Wu Dun had palpitations, he once led more than 10,000 Taishan thieves to be defeated by Xia Liang with 3,000 recruits, so he was always afraid of him.
When the 30,000 allied troops of the Pi State retreated in a hurry, they encountered the army of Li Xiuning who turned back, and Li Xiuning defeated the army of the Xia Pi State who had no intention of fighting in the field, killing more than 1,000 and capturing 3,000 prisoners.