Chapter 48: The Battle of Revenge (3)
In the afternoon, the cavalry teams sent out by Shi Jinshui all returned smoothly, and these cavalry teams were the same as Shi Jinshui and them, using the strategy of luring the enemy to eliminate the killing army in several camps, and the last statistics showed that Shi Jinshui killed almost 50,000 killing troops in one day. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info can be said to have wiped out all the mobile forces that killed the country in this area.
At the same time, Rowan also led the follow-up main army and began to attack the nearby killing towns. In order to cooperate with Luo Wen's offensive, Shi Jinshui and they did not care about resting, and they went out again, according to the original plan, to divide and encircle these towns, so that they could not send troops to support each other.
With the sharp siege weapon of artillery, Rowan's attack went smoothly, and it only took less than an hour to blast a big gap in the wall of the city. Then thousands of heavily armed swordsmen, armed to the teeth, immediately pressed down and launched an attack on the city.
"The enemy's offensive is too fierce! No, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it for long if we continue like this, so immediately ask other cities to send reinforcements! In the face of Rowan's powerful attack, the lord of this murderous city quickly couldn't resist it, and immediately ordered his subordinates to use falcons to send messages to the defenders of other cities, so that they could rush to support. In fact, there were originally two state-killing camps near this city, and there were about 5,000 troops stationed in them, but they had been killed by Shi Jinshui and his iron cavalry not long ago. Therefore, the city lord can only hope that the defenders of other cities will come to support in time.
And the defenders of the nearby cities did send reinforcements to support after receiving this letter of request for help. It's a pity that this support soldier has just left the city, and it was annihilated by Shi Jinshui, who had been waiting for a long time, with thousands of iron cavalry under his command. The number of reinforcements in this group was quite large, more than 7,000 people, which was the largest number of enemy troops that Shi Jinshui had encountered so far. However, it was not enough to see the new Carthaginian Iron Horse, equipped with stirrups, horseshoes, and improved saddles. What makes Shi Jinshui the most proud is that in so many battles, their casualties are extremely small, of which only a dozen people were killed on the spot, and more than 100 people were only injured of varying severity.
In the case of waiting for reinforcements, the city lord had to surrender directly with a white flag in order to save his life. This change couldn't help but surprise Rowan, in his impression, killing people rarely surrendered. But now it seems that after more than ten years of reign by that queen, the current bloodiness of these killers is far less than before. The lords of this dignified city are so spineless, they surrendered after less than a day, not to mention what kind of virtue the soldiers are underneath.
After Luo Wen's colleague accepted the surrender of the city lord, Adjani, who was far away in Shura City, the capital of the killing country, got a report of the enemy's attack, but this report came a little too late, at this time, almost one-third of the territory of the killing country was divided and surrounded by Shi Jinshui with his iron horse, completely cutting off the connection with other cities, which led to Adjani Although she knew that there was an enemy attacking her country, she did not know the specific strength of the enemy and the latest battle situation ahead.
She also tried to send cavalry to try to break the enemy's encirclement, but even if she sent more than 8,000 cavalry at one time, it still took Shi Jinshui and his iron cavalry to defeat it in less than half an hour. No way, this without stirrups and with or without stirrups is really too different for cavalry troops. Not to mention that the cavalry equipment under Shi Jinsailor was so luxurious, both men and horses were wrapped under a thick layer of steel plate armor, and most of the attacks could not even cause a little damage to the knights inside.
Adjani and Iron Bear were incredulous at how strong the cavalry of New Carthage could be, and they and most of the others had always felt that New Carthage was only powerful with a navy, otherwise they would not have been able to fight and flee in disarray eight years ago when the number of warships was at a disadvantage, and they would have suffered heavy losses. But now that the other party's cavalry is so powerful, what is the situation?
What the two of them don't know is that in fact, Shi Jinshui is not good at naval warfare, and the reason why New Carthage's navy has always been strong is only because of the advanced warships and the sharpness of artillery. As a veteran Luo Yi player, what he is really good at is actually war on land. For example, now, just relying on more than 5,000 iron horses, he played Adjani, who had hundreds of thousands of troops in hand, in applause, so that the other party could not detect his own reality at all, and he did not dare to act rashly at all. Dividing and surrounding, information masking, and luring the enemy to ambush him, Shi Jinshui relied on the high mobility of the cavalry to play these routines to perfection, and the vital force of killing the country was also being rapidly eaten away by him.
"The place! Xiang Tian, this liar! Didn't he say that he would be resurrected in eighteen years! Why is there no one to see until now! As the war became more and more unfavorable, Adjani couldn't help but curse in her palace.
Yes! A few days ago, Xiang Tian should have been resurrected, according to his own words, he set his resurrection point in the Temple of the God of War in Shura City, but a few days ago, Adjani and Tie Xiong waited there for a long time, and they didn't see this guy's figure appear. Compared to Adjani's anger of being deceived, Iron Bear was more worried about his God of War, he was worried that his God of War might have run out of resurrections, so it would be terrible.
What the two of them didn't know was that in the woods near Shura City, Xiang Tian was in a dark cave, listening to the report of a subordinate in a black robe shrouded in his whole body. Obviously, this god of war, although his personality is a little impulsive and reckless, is not stupid, the place he told Adjani is not his real resurrection point at all, and the black-robed man in front of him is the spy he has long placed beside Adjani. Unlike what Tie Xiong thought, he had actually been wary of Adjani for a long time, and his original plan was to wait for the other party to show his feet, and then he would justifiably get rid of the other party, but there were unforeseen circumstances, and people had good and bad luck, and he didn't expect that he would die on Crescent Island. As a result, the empire he painstakingly created was occupied by Adjani's woman.
"Huh! It's so much fun! Adjani, that woman, has actually handed over most of her military power to Iron Bear over the years, what does she mean by this, does she want to use this to show that she has no hostility towards me and lure me out? After listening to the report of his subordinates, Xiang Tian chuckled and muttered to himself. Compared with eighteen years ago, his whole person seems much calmer, and he will no longer make those irrational impulsive actions. In the words of him before, if he heard that his throne was occupied by someone else, then he must have taken his younger brother to the door without saying a word.
Due to the limited number of troops in hand, as more and more cities were laid, the troops in Shi Jinshui's hands were soon insufficient. Otherwise, maybe as soon as he left on the front foot, the remnants of the soldiers who killed the country would come back to take the city back. In desperation, he had to immediately urgently recruit a group of militia in the country for garrison.
"Recruitment! Recruitment! If you pass the quiz, you'll instantly become a glorious town militia and receive a settling-in fee of 100 silver! ”
Xiang Tian, who had just disembarked from a smuggling ship, heard the shout coming from the city gate, and walked over with great interest, and as a bystander, he watched how New Carthage selected its soldiers.
But because he was too burly, as soon as he stood there, he immediately attracted a lot of attention, and the squad leader in charge of recruiting was even brighter, and then he actually said to Xiang Tian: "This brother, you are so strong, you are the most suitable for being a soldier, and now His Majesty the King is employing people, if you join the army, you will definitely be promoted and make a fortune soon, and even become a general." ”
"Excuse me! I'm not a Neo-Carthaginian, so I'm afraid I can't say yes to your invitation! In the midst of crying and laughing, Xiang Tian smiled and rejected the kindness of the team leader.
Hearing that the other party was not a Neo-Carthaginian, the squad leader couldn't help but sigh regretfully, after all, Xiang Tian looked really too tall and strong, he was definitely a natural good soldier, and what he said just now was not an exaggeration, as long as the big man in front of him could exert combat effectiveness commensurate with his size on the battlefield, then he would definitely be able to get ahead soon.
Just as Xiang Tian wanted to turn around and leave, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded behind him.
"It's General Zhao Yun!" The squad leader in charge of recruiting shouted in surprise after seeing the person who was coming.
His shouting made Xiang Tian directly stunned, and he felt that he had a feeling that he had gone to the wrong set, otherwise how could Zhao Yun's goods appear here! He turned his head and found that the person who came was a young white man who looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, and he was really on par with the real Zhao Yun in terms of handsomeness, but he didn't know if he was qualified in terms of force value.
At this time, he also understood that the person in front of him should be one of the orphans adopted by Shi Jinshui, and the name Zhao Yun should also be given by that guy.
Coincidentally, the first person named Zhao Yun, the young general named Zhao Yun, noticed after he appeared, was also Xiang Tian, and at the same time, like the squad leader, he wanted to invite the other party to join the army, and he also promised that he could let the other party directly join the real combat troops, not the kind of third-rate urban militia troops.
Xiang Tian wanted to refuse the other party's kindness for the same reason, but he didn't expect that this General Zhao Yun would be so loving, pulling him just wouldn't let him go, and said that he could use a little privilege to make him a citizen of New Carthage directly, so that he could join the army.
After pestering for a long time, Xiang Tian could only reluctantly agree to the other party's invitation, in fact, in this process, he once had the urge to directly kill the other party, but after looking at the dozens of elite guards behind the other party, he could only give up this idea in the end, in the case of being unarmed, he might be able to kill Zhao Yun by surprise, but he would definitely not be able to escape the pursuit of the other party's dozens of guards.
In this way, Xiang Tian, the former emperor of the killing country, was forcibly dragged into the army by our general Zhao Yun and became a glorious Neo-Carthaginian soldier, and in a few days, together with the thousands of recruits who had just been recruited, he would join the war against the killing country, that is, his own country.