Chapter 685: The Crisis in the Continent
Although the battle of Yanjing has an unprecedented number of masters in the demon camp, it is essentially a tactic of a sneak attack of thousands of miles, and in the final analysis, the demon camp is worried about the action made by the demon camp when it is ignited by the Tianfeng Ancestral Fire, and there is no sign of a large number of demons entrenched within a radius of nearly a thousand miles in Yanjing.
Of course, despite this, the war in Vietnam was not all smooth sailing!
As the army moved north, the battle reports that should have been reported to the imperial city from all over the country fell into the hands of Feng Ling, who can now speak on behalf of the emperor, and it is also known to everyone, so that everyone can understand a little about the situation in Yue now.
Judging from the map, the reduced territory of the Yue Kingdom at this time is actually a bit like a long fritter, following the fall of Chizhou, the northernmost Dianzhou and Tam Zhou are barriers that do not have much geographical advantage to occupy.
In the past four or five cities in the east of the side were the Three Kingdoms, and now it is a frontal battlefield where the alliance of the four countries and demons are entangled, and the battle is raging every day!
Although there are also two cities in the south, the distance is relatively short and not very prominent, and although it is difficult to have a good natural danger barrier and a large number of martial arts masters who remain in the Yue Kingdom under the deliberate guidance of Jiang Litang, the battle situation is still flat.
In fact, the western side was originally very safe, looking at the famous mountains and rivers, the terrain was extremely dangerous, and in the past, Jiang Litang could only send one or two thousand soldiers to garrison to contain tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and the terrain was very favorable, but this was also the main place where Yanjing encountered a surprise attack.
Since the disaster of the demon war, first experienced a civil war and suffered a great change, when the troops of the Yue country were seriously insufficient, Jiang Litang changed the garrisons in these places to sentinels, thinking that this endless wilderness and barren mountains, it is impossible for the enemy to bypass this place and not be discovered, so he only monitors the troops for the time being.
This is also the reason why the demon soldiers can drive straight into Yanjing for a long time, normal people can't even distinguish the direction when they go far away in that kind of place, and only the demon soldiers who still maintain their animal nature will not get lost.
But the same method can not be repeated, no matter how you say that it is a natural danger after all, this time it is already the limit to survive the 40,000 demon soldiers, but more is unlikely.
Because even if the demon soldiers will not be lost, the transfer of grain and grass is not convenient at all, and it will not be able to accommodate more demon soldiers to cross, and a small group of demon soldiers will only see an empty city when they come in, and then it will be easily surrounded and suppressed by the three parties, and even the demons will not do this without sufficient interests, so the rear of the army is still relatively safe.
However, the overall situation in other places is not good, or even dire!
After watching the battle report all the way, I learned that after the fall of Chizhou ten days ago, the northernmost Dianzhou only supported for four days before it also fell.
In that battle, tens of thousands of people and officers and soldiers left to prepare for war in Dianzhou were all slaughtered, Huangzhou Mu and his following generals were basically killed, and the total number of people who were rescued by Shi Shuai, who was lucky enough to be rushed by the handsome soldiers, was only more than 30 people, and the bloody corpses were all over the city!
Two days later, the demon army of nearly 200,000 people approached the defense line of Tamzhou, attacking several times a day, and the corpses on both sides were piled up almost as high as the city wall, looking for an opportunity to steal the corpses of a large number of Terran soldiers, and the demon soldiers who were resurrected by special technology and beast stitching were fighting more and more, and Tamzhou also fell into a bitter battle when Shi Zhen was personally in charge.
At the same time, nearly 150,000 demon soldiers moved from the eastern battlefield to the two cities in the south with natural danger barriers and a large number of Yue Kingdom martial arts masters, and converged with the demon army that was originally entangled with the two cities, and now they have also exchanged fire!
And the southeast spies came to report, and nearly 140,000 demon soldiers were gathering in that direction, I don't know if they want to cross the distance of 800 miles to cut off the north and south from the middle or support which side, the situation is dangerous!
During this period of time, the demon camp has been constantly moving against Yue Guo, so it can be seen that the appearance of Zu Feng and the defeat of demons twice in a row have made these demon camps feel uneasy, close to 500,000 demon soldiers are not many demons who can use any corpse to create soldiers, but at this time, Yue Guo is even worse!
At this moment, the Phoenix Blood Army led by Feng Ling kept moving under Feng Ling's command and dispatch!
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"Move rocks and smash them at me! Heat the oil ...... Someone came, passed on my military order, and all the restaurants and buildings in the city were demolished and broken into stone and transported over...... The fourth battalion will quickly bring people to support Simon ......"
"Marshal, there are 700 people in the fourth battalion, and there are more than 300 wounded, most of them disabled......"
"Then give it to me, and heat up the hot oil again...... Firewood? Go to the people's houses and move half of the furniture, no, all of them, go quickly! ”
"Yes"
“……”
The icy cold wind was blowing as always, as if it wanted to be shrouded in the earth forever and refused to leave!
In the cold wind, Shi Zhen, whose hair and beard had turned white for more than ten days, stood on the city tower with a black simple knife similar to Jiang Litang and kept shouting and commanding, behind him were the soldiers and civilians of Tamzhou who were swarming like ants, and in front of him were demon soldiers who could not see the edge at a glance in the ice and snow, and were still roaring and attacking the city.
Being in his fifties is not too old for people like him, who is almost no less than Jiang Litang in terms of superb internal skills, but his old age has become more and more obvious under his mental strength.
The fall of Dianzhou was faster than he expected, so that the 400,000 people who had been evacuated from Dianzhou had not yet had time to withdraw from this side. The demons besieged the city for five days, and the six or seven hundred thousand people in the city added up to eat and chew every day, and the attacks they endured every day were even more wave after wave, and the demon soldiers seemed to never be able to kill them cleanly, and they died and lived and died.
If it weren't for the fact that nearly half of the people from Dianzhou joined the army and formed more than 200,000 temporary soldiers and horses, and cooperated with the tens of thousands of regular troops in Tamzhou, Tamzhou would have fallen like Chizhou and Dianzhou.
However, the new army had nothing but courage, no discipline, no tactics, and a chaotic battle together, and some even encouraged the city officials to open the door and fight the demons directly to the death.
It took him a lot of effort to barely adjust, but the loss of men and horses had reached more than 100,000, and although the courage of the open door decisive battle was commendable, he directly lost more than 60,000, and as soon as the battle report came out that night, he was so angry that he vomited blood and fell into a coma!
More than 60,000 soldiers who went out of the city died, in exchange for more than 20,000 corpses of demon soldiers, but within two days, there were more than 60,000 more troops in the demon soldiers, which made him feel desperate!
Because he knew that there were at least a hundred thousand corpses of people in Dianzhou and Chizhou combined, who could be turned into demon soldiers!
The battle report of more than 200,000 demon soldiers was sent by him in order to make the emperor feel at ease, because he knew that there would be no more reinforcements, and his heart was cold the moment the battle report was sent.
Because he found that not counting Chizhou and Dianzhou, he was now facing an army of demons close to 300,000, and the mobilized soldiers in the city plus the local area of Tamzhou were only about 200,000, with 200,000 against 300,000 tigers, wolves and bears, and nine-tenths of his side were recruits, even if the morale was available, what chance of victory?
The only thing that makes him feel at ease is that he doesn't know since when, although the demon soldiers are attacking fiercely, there is no demon head or the like, and they have always attacked the city with a huge force, and there are some masters here besides himself, and if necessary, he can make up for the captured place with a block of 100 and persist until now.
"Woo......"
Suddenly, the horn sounded, and the battle outside the city became more and more intense!
A herald rushed to the edge of the city tower in the sweat of the stones that were smashed in the sky, and fell to the ground directly with a weak body, shouting in a hoarse voice: "Dashuai, the north gate of the west gate can still be held, the east gate of the city gate has been broken, everyone is blocking the city entrance with stones, Zhu Xiong, Peng An, and Duan Xiaowei are leading more than 10,000 recruits to support." But the demons outside the city are attacking frantically with 30,000 troops, and they are about to be unable to hold it! ”
"Report ......"
As soon as the herald's voice fell, another person rushed over and knelt down in front of Shi Zhen: "Report to the commander, five miles ahead of you, there are 50,000 demons who have started to move, and it seems that they are going to attack my south gate next......"
"Attack here?"
Shi Zhen, who was with a straight face, was stunned: "Attack here?" They have been attacking the city regularly these days, why is it different today? This...... Is it ......?"
"Do we have reinforcements?"
The herald soldier with a little experience looked at him with hopeful eyes, for fear that he would say nothing!
Shi Zhen turned his brain teaser and avoided answering, turned around and pointed to two of the several colonels who followed on the side: "You two lead 30,000 new troops to support the east gate, and by the way, take 5,000 old defenders, be sure to ......guard the east gate."
The two elementary schools were already ready to support, and they were all stunned when they heard this, and one of them couldn't help but be surprised: "Marshal, there are also 50,000 more troops here, and the veterans won't stay?" ”
"With Ben Shuai here, what is the way to be with only 50,000? Go, if the east gate is lost, you won't come back!" ”
"Yes"
The two colonels hurriedly transferred their troops, Shi Zhen raised his hand and shook off the undried blood on the long knife, and waved his hand at the remaining captains and generals: "Go, follow me to rush and kill for a while."
"Order!"
Although several colonels were temporarily resting, the sweat on their foreheads had not yet dried, and when they heard this, they picked up the weapons around them and followed him to the most violent place again.
However, they were only halfway through when another herald hurried over: "Report, report to the commander, a 30,000-strong Chinese cavalry has rushed into the demon camp on our flank, and there is still a mile away from here!" ”
Cavalry?
Shi Zhen and the junior colonels were shocked, he stepped forward a few steps forward and lifted him from the ground with the collar of this soldier, his face was iron-blue: "Where did the cavalry come from, what are you doing if you don't go out in the city with only 30,000?" Is there anyone who has disobeyed the military order and led the troops out of the city? Cavalry? They also took the horses from the city? ”
"No, no...... It's reinforcements, big handsome."
The herald struggled to raise his hand and pointed in a certain direction of the demon army outside the city: "Look, that's them, that's our reinforcements!" ”
Shi Zhen threw him a few steps away and rushed to the city, raised his hand and let out a force to shoot down the dozen demon soldiers who stepped on the corpse, looked to the right, and after a closer look, he saw a battle flag unique to the human race in the demon army, and the banner was embroidered with a phoenix that wanted to fly high in the raging flames!
(End of chapter)