Chapter 145: Attack and Kill
It was already late autumn, the weather was getting cooler, autumn in the south was not as obvious as in the north, there were still patches of dry yellow fallen leaves, and the roads were full of dead branches and leaves, showing some sparseness and gloom. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the road leading to Yuezhou, a large procession was slowly moving forward, with no end in sight, but it was relatively quiet, only scattered steps and the sound of horses' hooves. The pace of this centaur was scattered, the broken flags hung low and skewed, most of them were unkempt, similar to the name Hanako, their clothes were so dirty that they could not see the original color, many of them were listless, depressed, and had no focus in their eyes, and they walked staggeringly, in a trance, as if they were sleepwalking. Not only those soldiers, but also the generals in the team had no spirit, and they were also at a loss in their eyes, moving forward silently.
This team is the Ming army under the command of Zoroastrianism, and not long ago, the same team was still full of morale and swallowed mountains and rivers, but at this time, it was the appearance of a lost dog. Looking back on the glory of the past few days, it is like a dream, and many people still don't understand, isn't it just that as long as the imperial army is defeated, you can take over the world in one go? Why did you lose all of a sudden?
The answer to this question is no longer important, after all, it was all in the past, and now, they are facing some practical problems, how can they find some food, fill their stomachs, when can they escape the pursuers behind them, and reach a safe place as soon as possible?
In the middle of the procession were some elite cavalry, clustered with some carriages, most of which were pieced together along the way, in different styles, loaded with some grain, grass and supplies, and some of the carriages with some important people. At this moment, one of the large carriages stopped on the side of the road, and around it gathered a cadre of the leaders of the army.
"King Ming...... Generals............ You're going to be stuffy for the little ones...... Be a pig! ”
One person knelt on the ground, speaking inarticulately, but this person was a messenger of light who went to the Lingzhou Brotherhood to deliver a letter, and he could be a messenger of light, and his appearance and temperament would not be bad, but at this time this person was a miserable appearance, the whole person was beaten so that he couldn't see his original appearance, his face was swollen and green, his mouth was almost torn, his lips were swollen, his mouth was black and full of blood, and his voice was so angry that anyone could hear the pain when he spoke.
The leaders of the surrounding Ming army had heard the Light Messenger and the people accompanying them speak, and all of them had extremely ugly faces and angry faces.
"What do you think?" It was King Xiao Ming who spoke, the son of the former King Ming, and as for his father, he had been beheaded by the generals of the imperial court.
A group of people bowed their heads and thought, everyone is not stupid, the situation at this time is very clear, behind is the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court is chasing after it, hundreds of thousands of people are chased like dead dogs, it is difficult to take a breath, they have also fought with the pursuers several times, but every time they are defeated, they no longer have the courage to face the counterinsurgency army. Everyone had long discussed that the only way to get rid of the counterinsurgency army was to enter Lingzhou, the geographical location of Lingzhou, coupled with the fortifications built by the Brotherhood, it was difficult for the imperial counterinsurgency army to break through. When the time comes, these people will not only be able to save their lives, but they will not be able to accumulate strength, and they will be able to make a comeback, but now the Brotherhood will not let them enter Lingzhou, leaving no room at all, and they will send envoys to beat them to the point of being inhuman.
Although Zoroastrianism was defeated, it also shocked the world, and everyone present was also a well-known figure, willing to go to Lingzhou, that was to look up to his brotherhood, he didn't give any face, categorically refused, and let them fight where to go back, how can people not be angry?
"These boys of the Brotherhood are toasting and don't eat and drink, let's send someone to greet them, that's polite, they don't know how to lift, we just take Lingzhou directly!"
"It's just that the Brotherhood is said to be difficult to mess with, and it has defeated the army of the imperial court several times."
"It's all about some small means and luck, the only people who are famous in the Brotherhood are those people, if they are really powerful and really capable, they will always shrink Lingzhou, and they won't dare to take a single Yuezhou?!"
"What the Brotherhood relies on is nothing more than a few gates, there are so many of us, as long as we are not afraid of the dead, what city can't be broken?!"
"Exactly, the Brotherhood is just a bunch of arrogant and ignorant boys, who don't know how to judge the situation, and think that they can withstand our army, which is really unwise."
"It's also a waste for them to occupy Lingzhou, Lingzhou has countless silver coins, so it's better for us to take it!"
"That being said, however, it is not advisable to waste any more time when there are pursuers behind me, and I think we should send another messenger to say some good things. Let's just say that we are willing to join the Brotherhood, but the Brotherhood is the first to look forward, ask them to take it in, if they can be coaxed, when we enter Lingzhou, who has the final say at that time will not be able to control them. ”
A group of people are discussing how to seize Lingzhou, and they are in full swing, but in fact, now they have no place to go, so they can only give it a go and seize Lingzhou, so that they can survive.
Just dozens of miles behind the Ming army, another army slowly marched in, the army was neat, the momentum was vigorous, all kinds of flags were flying high, and the soldiers were in high spirits, but this army was the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court. It is no wonder that the morale of the counterinsurgency army is high, and it has gathered many elite soldiers and strong generals, masters of the rivers and lakes, and it has pacified Zoroastrianism in the first battle, and then it has won successive battles.
Some small house-like carriages in the rear of the counterinsurgency army slowly moved forward, one of which gathered a lot of scribes, the carriage was filled with cigarettes, two scribes were playing a game, and the rest watched with bated breath, leisurely and contented, not at all like being in the army, but as if they were in the idyllic landscape.
"Report!" The herald handed over a small letterbox, "Gentlemen, the latest news from Lingzhou. ”
One of the scribes took the letterbox, took out the letterhead in the letterbox, opened it and looked at it carefully, passed it to the others, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, as Mr. Changqing expected, the brotherhood refused to let those defeated troops enter Lingzhou, and beat the messenger. ”
A scribe who was in the game said without raising his head: "The Brotherhood has always been fierce and domineering, so naturally it can't accommodate these Zoroastrians, and besides, hundreds of thousands of people will enter Lingzhou as a disaster, and the Brotherhood will not agree as long as it is not stupid." ”
"If the Brotherhood accommodates these people, wouldn't Lingzhou be much stronger?" Someone asked.
The scribe raised his head, smiled mysteriously, and said, "When the time comes, there will naturally be a way for them to fight, and if Lingzhou is in chaos, the army will naturally be able to drive straight in." ”
They are all people with outstanding resourcefulness, so it is clear that there must be an internal response in the Ming army.
At this point, another scribe who was playing the game asked, "What can the Brotherhood do?" ”
"The Brotherhood is rumored everywhere that the Ming army is going to Yuezhou to let the people hide." A scribe holding a letterhead.
"Oh, the Brotherhood is a strong wall, and it seems that it intends to give up Yuezhou."
"This is also expected, with the military strength of the Brotherhood, it is undoubtedly the safest to hold Yuezhou, and it is undoubtedly the safest to rely on Guancheng to defend it."
"The Brotherhood is also cunning, but will it know what I am going to do."
"You know, no matter how treacherous the brotherhood is, it has to take it."
"It's just that those hundreds of thousands of defeated troops, I'm afraid that they may not be able to break through the city, and the Brotherhood has a lot of means, so there must be something hidden."
"Even if it can't be attacked, it can make the Brotherhood tired, and then our army can just take advantage of the weakness to enter, originally, it was to use the hundreds of thousands of people in Zoroastrianism to smash the turtle shell of the Brotherhood!"
"Brother Changqing's plan is indeed clever, but it's just a little too ruthless."
"This is also a last resort, if you don't use this strategy, the situation in Great Xia can't be controlled."
What was present was some famous strategists in Daxia today, who designed a poisonous plan to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf, and took great pains to deal with the brotherhood, not only for the court, but also for their own fame, and there was also an element of revenge, for example, there was Lu Qian who had some small grudges with Xiao Tianlei on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang, and Xu Changqing, who had a deep grudge against Xiao Tianlei, but Xu Changqing was his brother Xu Zhongqing was humiliated by Xiao Tianlei and couldn't hold his head up all his life, readers probably can't remember this matter, not to mention that Xiao Tianlei never remembers people who don't care, There were also beloved women who were robbed by the Brotherhood, in short, the Brotherhood offended more people, but it was the anger of the people, and these scribes, although they were not very powerful, could take revenge on the Brotherhood through their wits.
Two days later, the Ming army entered the territory of Yuezhou, as a rout, the Ming army did not bring much grain and grass, hundreds of thousands of people to eat and drink, all rely on looting along the way, along the way to harm a lot of places, to Yuezhou is the same, began to plague some villages and towns in Yuezhou.
However, on the day of entering Yuezhou, the Ming army began to be attacked and killed by the army of unknown origin, and there were constantly small groups of troops being wiped out, and from time to time they encountered some cold arrows and traps, walking and walking, the ground suddenly exploded, killing and wounding, or poisonous smoke and poisonous arrows, so during the day, and at night, some people even sneaked into the camp to assassinate and were poisoned in food and drinking water, to say that the number of dead and wounded each time was not much, but it added up to a lot, and in a few days, two or three thousand people were killed and wounded.
Yuezhou is the territory of the Brotherhood, and the Brotherhood is notoriously unscrupulous, it is easy to guess that it must be the Brotherhood that did it, and the messenger sent by Lingzhou was beaten back before Lingzhou entered, which shows that the Brotherhood is iron-hearted and cannot get along with Zoroastrianism.
In order to deal with the attack of the Brotherhood, the Ming army had to try not to disperse the action, and the team sent out to collect grain and grass also increased the number of troops, and sent some generals and elite soldiers to accompany them, even so, these teams were still attacked and killed, according to the soldiers and generals who fled back, although the number of attackers was small, but it was extremely powerful, according to the characteristics, it was determined that it was some leaders of the Brotherhood.
To be precise, it was Xiao Tianlei and a dry brother who attacked the Ming army, this time, almost all the brothers with the hero template went out, and they were still in a group of five, and the hero templates matched each other, and each led a team of elite guards to attack and kill the Ming army. Originally, Xiao Tianlei planned to adopt a defensive strategy, directly abandon Yuezhou, and see the situation, but even the defeated army of Zoroastrianism was determined to look like a brotherhood, Xiao Tianlei decided to take the initiative to attack and clean up the counterinsurgency army of the Ming army and the imperial court.
Brothers who have hero templates, hoping to earn game gold coins through battles to upgrade equipment, but, they are still principled and will not kill people indiscriminately, but now, there is no psychological barrier to killing these Ming troops, hundreds of thousands of Ming army defeated soldiers, if they are all killed, how many gold coins can be obtained? How many new heroes can I buy, and how much equipment can I upgrade?
There is no need for any clever strategy or plan, as a training ground of the Brotherhood, Yuezhou is already familiar with the terrain, and there is air superiority. In view of the advantages brought by aerial reconnaissance, Xiao Tianlei recently gave another Falcon Ice Crystal Phoenix hero template, named Ice Phoenix, with two air units, a cadre of brothers can know a wider range of situations at any time, plus the private chat system can be contacted at any time, a cadre of people can be aggregated and dispersed at any time, and this tactic is brought into full play, almost invincible.
Relatively speaking, the Ming army is full of loopholes, hundreds of thousands of people of dispatch and command, it is not so easy, now the Ming army is tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to maintain a relatively complete structure and combat power, the others are basically cannon fodder, there is no military discipline at all, and refugees are almost the same, basically a group of frightened birds, a little rush to kill, only know scattered and fleeing, wolves rushing and rushing.
In fact, as long as the tens of thousands of people who are the main force are defeated, the Ming army will not attack itself, but there is no way to earn gold coins in that way, and there is no hurry anyway. Even in the face of such an opponent, Xiao Tianlei also asked all the brothers to be the most cautious, not to get carried away and capsize in the gutter, anyway, it was to bleed this Ming army, causing them to panic, and they were not greedy, and they ate it bite by bite, which was also considered training, so that some recruits could see blood.
The Ming army tried to send troops to ambush the Brotherhood, but instead fell into an ambush and lost a lot of manpower. The Zoroastrian leaders knew that on the ground of Yuezhou, they were afraid that they would not be able to play the brotherhood, so they had to let the various departments not stay away from each other, watch each other, so that the brotherhood had no loopholes to drill, so that the Ming army advanced towards the hinterland of Yuezhou, even so, there were some sneak attacks and assassinations every day, and some people died every day.
Some of the villages and towns that the Ming army passed through were looted and plundered, and many people died, and a lot of miserable scenes could be seen, but the poor people must have something to hate, and the Brotherhood had already notified the Ming army to come, so that they could hide or flee, as a result, these people refused to leave, thinking that as long as they were honest and did their duty, they would be fine, and now they have suffered a disaster, and it is purely their own death, and the Brotherhood has no spare time to care about the life and death of these people.
Yuezhou became a battlefield for the Brotherhood and the Ming Army, the terrain of Yuezhou was also complicated, the mountains and forests were dense, and the Lingzhou Army of the Brotherhood was like a group of wolves under the leadership of a leader, constantly biting the Ming Army, but the Ming Army was helpless. The masters of the Brotherhood also played a great role, killing the Ming army in fear, to say, Zoroastrianism originally had some masters, but the Zoroastrian Religion was defeated, the trees fell and scattered, these masters naturally found another way, and now there are only a few Zoroastrian diehards or the leaders of Zoroastrianism, where can they resist the attack and assassination of the Brotherhood.
If it really goes on like this, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops will have to be dragged to death, grinded to death, and starved to death by the brotherhood, which of course the counterinsurgency army does not want to see, so the counterinsurgency army also entered Yuezhou and joined this contest. (To be continued.) )