Chapter 549: The Second Line of Defense
Less than 100,000 cannon fodder troops, but to block the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of Lingcheng troops, this is undoubtedly an extremely difficult thing, but this is related to the safety of their relatives, since they are fighting to the death, and eliminated a lot of Lingcheng soldiers, these cannon fodder is naturally Zhilu Dao, they have no way out, if they can't stop these Lingcheng soldiers, then their relatives, must face a massacre......
Although they are both citizens of Izumo Country, this northern barbarian land is based on clan and regional concepts, and the key to the country is weak, after all, the establishment of Izumo Country was only a matter of thirty years ago, and now they have killed and injured many soldiers in the city, but the two sides have torn their faces.
"Kill!"
These young men already have the will to die, without the protection of the city, they know that they are not the opponent of the other party's army, after all, the 600,000 army from Lingcheng this time is extremely powerful, and it is the national army on the right track, and they are not the opponents of these armies with the help of the city, and now they can't get 100,000 troops, how to resist, so these cannon fodder are already ready to die in battle, because they know that although they are not the opponent of the enemy army, if they don't stop them, their relatives will be slaughtered!
The blood is sky-high, the killing is boundless, General Lin leads the army to constantly rush and kill, and the six ten-star soldiers are also extremely dignified, their troops are weak, so they dare not attack, they can only defend passively.
But fortunately, the overall strength of these young and strong soldiers is equivalent to that of five-star soldiers, although there is a lot of difference between the Lingcheng army. But in the case of the young men holding on to death, they are also extraordinary, plus the bravery of six ten-star soldiers. It also greatly stimulated the morale of the young and strong, making them extremely brave!
Bloody war, this is a real bloody battle, the fighting continues, the blood flows like a river, the sound of fighting, the miserable shouts, and the unwilling voices of death converge together. General Lin's 200,000 soldiers and horses, under such circumstances, were also killed and wounded. reached an astonishing 20,000, plus the previous casualties, his 200,000 soldiers and horses, but there were only 160,000 left!
But the cannon fodder. But the casualties were even worse. Although they held the belief that they would die, coupled with the command ability of six ten-star soldiers, the huge gap in the inherent strength between the two sides still made the casualties of the army uncounted, reaching almost 30,000, so that the cannon fodder army suffered extremely heavy casualties, and only 60,000 remained!
But the good thing is. At this time, night fell, under the tenacious stubbornness of the cannon fodder young people. But it also made General Delin's army, extremely tired, and with so many dead and wounded, he was unable to fight again, so he had to retreat to the barracks!
After escaping by luck, although extremely tired, the army was still in a hurry to withdraw after resting, after all, General Lin's 200,000 army was just the vanguard force, and Lingcheng dispatched 600,000 troops, and more than 400,000 main army corps, behind!
Six ten-star soldiers, at this time first showed their amazing command ability, although it was at night, but it was easy for each to lead their own 10,000 soldiers, so although the people were sleepy, but overnight, the soldiers still retreated to another small city!
This small city is led by another veteran, this general is General Han Xuan, although Han Xuan is also a famous military general of the Three Kingdoms, but the force value is insufficient, but this time after he taught the military general apprentice, but it is also a good harvest, although it is not as amazing as Cai Zhong's progress, but this military general apprentice has also obtained the art of war of the intermediate infantry department, as well as the art of war of the intermediate bow and arrow department, and the strength is also relatively strong, so it is the second small city near the mausoleum to defend.
The total population adds up, but there are more than 500,000, and the number of young and strong people is as much as 100,000, led by five ten-star soldiers under his command, practicing day and night, and because the time is more abundant than Cai Zhong, these young men are more elite, of course, compared with the cannon fodder army under Cai Zhong who has experienced the war, there is a lot of gap!
According to Zhao Yun's instructions, this city, as well as the four surrounding towns, will be used as a military city, evacuating all the people, relying on this small city and the four surrounding towns as the second direction, blocking the Lingcheng army and honing the young army!
Therefore, this city is not only Han Xuan's army, but also the army of four new generals, they are the young generals of the town closest to Cai Zhong's small city and Han Xuan's small town, these four young generals, each with eighty or ninety thousand cannon fodder legions, although there are no ten-star soldiers under their command, but they have eight-star soldiers, and their cannon fodder legions are controlled by these eight-star soldiers, each of whom controls five or six thousand soldiers and horses, although the strength is not small compared to the cannon fodder army under Cai Zhong and Han Xuan, But it also adds up to a rare boost!
And Zhao Yun's military order is very obvious, that is, while honing the cannon fodder legion, slowly delay time, so in the future, Cai Zhong's six ten-star soldiers left the city, leaving only Han Xuan and four young generals, but these five generals will not participate in the defense of the elite army of Chelong Kingdom, but the soldiers and horses under the command of their five generals will each defend four towns, as well as a small city, for five cities, to fight each other, delaying the Lingcheng army!
In this way, give the army behind more time to train!
This is Zhao Yun's strategy, this attack on Lingcheng, if the main army is dispatched, then it will naturally be destroyed in an instant, but he knows that this is not in line with the plan of Che Long Country, this time he came to this northern barbarian land, it is to train the cannon fodder legion, and lay a strong and powerful thigh for Che Long Country, originally Zhao Yun also wanted to do this, but after seeing the situation here, he decided to improvise, at the lowest cost, and not to kill more people, Slowly occupy this Izumo country!
And in this way, it is possible to continuously hone the cannon fodder legion, although the expansion speed of the legion will be slower, but the victory is to get elite soldiers, and you can also get their allegiance!
In this way, four towns and one small city, with a total of 450,000 cannon fodder troops, have formed a second direction, waiting for the arrival of the Lingcheng army!
The second direction is not comparable to the first one, not only is the number of cannon fodder legions nearly four times more, but the four towns and a small city that are defended are also trained in one area under Han Xuan's overtime arrangement for the transformation of the people in the past few days, a total of five cities, which can be rescued at any time, although the defense is not as good as the medium city, but compared to the average small city, it is much smaller.
Although Han Xuan is a waste in the history of the Three Kingdoms, but as a famous military general of the Three Kingdoms, although it is a waste, it is not to be underestimated, plus Han Xuan's attachment to Ding Yuan is still early, this is also a battle-hardened general, plus the progress and improvement after teaching the military general apprentice, his strength is also good, so he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by Zhao Yun and acted as the main general in the second direction!
Most of the generals led by Zhao Yun's army are young generals, and there are fewer famous generals in the Three Kingdoms, which is also because Zhao Yunyi is lack of qualifications, so although he is also a rare commander, he cannot get the support of the generals.
But Zhao Yun understands the strength of each general, as well as the aspects he is good at, he has this arrangement, although this Han Xuan, although it is indeed not very strong, but because he has been a king in the future, this internal political talent, and the overall layout, but also has a small advantage, so the arrangement of this second line of defense, was entrusted with a heavy task, but it is a kind of Zhao Yun's full excavation of its strength, and now it seems that it has obviously achieved the effect!
It was actually the loss of nearly 40,000 troops, although it was to take Lin'an City, but this city was just an empty city, which made General Lin angry, and in the early morning found that the enemy army was silent, after retreating overnight, General Delin was furious, and after converging with the main force led by the city lord, the two armies were unstoppable and came to the second direction arranged by Zhao Yun!
In this direction, the five cities are connected as a whole, attacking any city, you can get the support of the rest of the cities, which is quite tricky, although with the military strength of the Lingcheng army, even if the five cities attack at the same time, it is very possible, but then the troops are extremely scattered, which is equivalent to encircling the five cities, which is not in line with the strategy of the art of war, so when seeing this second direction, whether it is the city lord, a junior congenital general, or General Lin, an extremely powerful senior peak general, his face changed slightly, The two of them are naturally the ones who know how difficult it is to defend themselves!
If they have five powerful commanding generals, then it doesn't matter, they can divide their troops into five ways and attack the city at the same time, but now they obviously don't, only this city lord and General Lin can be regarded as generals who can take charge alone!
Although there are many other generals, but after General Lin attacked Lin'an City, he deeply learned that the terrible generals of this mysterious army are not comparable to ordinary generals, if it were not for General Lin is indeed battle-hardened, and he also has an advantage in military strength, I am afraid it will be extremely difficult to force the defenders back!
After all, in a short period of time, the recruited young men can be trained to this point, and in the defense of the city, they can continue to train the young men, this kind of ability to lead troops, General Lin has already told the city lord, which makes the city lord naturally extremely solemn!
"General Lin, since we can't attack separately, then let's use hard kung fu, one town, one town attack, and the last attack is on this small city Linmu City, so that we can also reduce the loss of our army's troops......"
After hesitating for a while, the city lord suddenly said with a happy expression...... (To be continued......)