Chapter 15: The Beginning of Failure
After deciding on the strategy of "preserving strength and passive resistance", the northern coalition of the Earth Alliance composed of Yushenzong and Tiejianmen was stationed at the border between the northern part of Yingzhou and Jingzhou with great fanfare.
The same situation happened in the western part of the Yingzhou Domain, and the Western Alliance of the Earth Alliance formed by Lingyun Hall and Huazong also adopted the same method, placing the defensive position in front of the defenders of the Yunzhou Domain of the Tianyu Sect very clearly, and did not launch a single soldier to take the initiative to attack, but just kept shouting and drilling.
According to such a formation, the Heavenly Alliance does not send secret agents, and it already knows the deployment and arrangement of the two forces of the Heavenly Alliance.
Originally, the Heavenly Feather Sect's preparations for the Northern Expedition of the Earth Alliance Alliance were not sufficient, and the Wujimen troops and Zijin Pavilion logistics troops in the Heavenly Alliance Alliance had not yet been fully deployed. The Tianyu Sect needs to disperse its Tianyu army into the four states under its jurisdiction, especially the Dingzhou Domain, The Yunzhou Domain also belongs to the border states between the Heavenly Alliance and the Earth Alliance, and the Tianyu Sect cannot transfer all these defenders to the Yingzhou Domain, so although the Yingzhou Domain occupies more than sixty percent of the military deployment of the Tianyu Sect, compared with the alliance of the seven major sects of the Earth Alliance, it is only equivalent to about one-tenth of the latter.
Therefore, in order to preserve the strength of Yingzhou Domain, Tianyu Sect took the initiative to abandon the defenders of the pass between Yingzhou Domain and the Prefecture Alliance Domain when the allied forces of the Earth Alliance were ready to attack Yingzhou Domain, and deployed all the personnel and materials to Yingqing City, the state capital of Yingzhou Region. In this way, you can take advantage of Yingqing City's defense of the city and hold on for a longer time, so that the reinforcements of the Heavenly Alliance can rush to the rescue.
Although there was already such an arrangement, the Tianyu Sect was still afraid, and the Earth Alliance Alliance gave up attacking other towns and passes in the Yingzhou region, and targeted all the troops of the Earth Alliance at Yingqing City for a fierce attack. If there is such an arrangement, then even if it is the largest sect in the world, the powerful Tianyu Sect will not be able to last long, because the gap in numbers is too big. According to the strategy of the Tianyu Sect, if the final Earth Alliance is such an arrangement, and the Heavenly Alliance alliance does not arrive, then the Tianyu Sect can only strategically abandon the Yingzhou Domain, avoid the "edge" of the Earth Alliance's high morale, and retreat to the Yunzhou Domain with all its might. Although the Tianyu Sect did not want to do this, this was the most effective way to preserve its strength, and it could wait for the withdrawal of the Earth Alliance Alliance, and after the situation in the Ying Prefecture was basically clear, it would launch a separate attack on the sect that had captured the Ying Prefecture and recapture the Ying Prefecture again.
According to the research and judgment of the Tianyu Sect, there have been several major battles over the Yingzhou domain and Wanfeng Forest, if the Earth Alliance wins the Yingzhou domain, then it must be Wanfeng Lin's. And this time there was a big war between the Earth Alliance and the Heavenly Feather Sect, which was also transferred by Wan Fenglin. Wan Fenglin saw that he was not the opponent of the Tianyu Sect, so he coerced and lured the other six major sects of the Southern Empire to form the Earth Alliance, and tied the Earth Alliance to himself, the most sinister intention was that Wan Fenglin changed the "battle between the two sects" between himself and the Tianyu Sect into "the war between the three major sects of the Northern Empire and the seven major sects of the Southern Empire".
Originally, the reinforcements of the Heavenly Alliance had not arrived, and the troops of the Earth Alliance were approaching Yingqing City, and the defenders of Tianyu Sect were ready to fight against the water, and even when they strategically abandoned Yingqing City, Tianyu Sect was "dumbfounded".
The number of coalition forces that so-called frontal attack on Yingqing City was far lower than the number estimated by the Heavenly Feather Sect, far less than ten times the number of the defenders of the Heavenly Feather Sect, and at most only four times. And judging from the composition of the coalition army, more than ninety and five of them are still the Wanfenglin army that has fought with the Tianyu Sect many times in the Yingzhou region, and the remaining army is the so-called "South Pole Gate" that has not been heard of much. The defenders of the Tianyu Sect in Yingqing City never expected that the attacking army would be composed like this, and their hearts that were originally hanging suddenly relaxed. Because Wan Fenglin's combat strength Tianyu Sect is the clearest, especially the defenders of Tianyu Sect in Yingzhou Domain, after many battles, they have already figured it out. According to Wanfeng Lin, which is four times larger than the defenders of the Tianyu Sect, although he has an advantage in numbers, because the Tianyu Sect occupies the advantage of defending Yingqing City, and with the help of the residents in the city, the materials are abundant. If you just defend the city and don't take the initiative to go out of the city to attack, then in the face of these troops of Wanfenglin, Tianyu Sect has an eighty percent chance of winning and can hold on until the arrival of the Heavenly Alliance Alliance, when the defenders and reinforcements can give Wanfenglin's army an "internal and external attack" to completely eliminate the big hidden danger of Wanfenglin.
The most important thing is that now he has carried out many battles with Wan Fenglin in the Yingzhou region, and the patience of the Tianyu Sect has also been lost, and the Tianyu Sect wants to use this time that Wan Fenglin poured all the power of the sect into the "Northern Expedition" of the Yingzhou region, and the power of Wan Fenglin's sect will be drawn from the bottom of the kettle, and all the core disciples of his clan in the Northern Expedition will be eradicated and wiped out.
Because in the war between the sects, in addition to the foundation of money, the factor of manpower is also very important, if the sect does not have core disciples and young disciples who can fight, then there are some old and weak, sick and disabled, children, women and children left, then what is there to fear in this sect!
Wan Fenglin didn't think of this at all, he just wanted to use all his power to take Yingzhou Domain into his hands, that would do, and at all costs. Because in Wan Fenglin's thinking, the combat effectiveness of his own sect was about the same as that of the Tianyu Sect, and the defeat in many previous battles was due to his insufficient preparation and the gap in the number of troops. Because before the establishment of the Earth Alliance, Wan Fenglin, as the only major sect in the Southern Empire that occupied two major states, due to the wide jurisdiction, before the situation in the Southern Empire was clear, he had to leave a large number of defenders in his Suizhou domain and Linzhou domain to defend, so as to avoid that when he and Tianyu Sect fought in the Yingzhou domain, his own state domain would be taken advantage of by other sects in the Southern Empire. Therefore, in the previous battles with the Heavenly Feather Sect, his own troops could only send about fifty percent, and the other fifty percent had to stay in the two major states for defense.
And this time is different, because the Earth Alliance has been formed and signed an oath of mutual non-aggression, so Wan Fenglin threw himself alone this time, and transferred more than ninety percent of the troops of the sect to carry out the Northern Expedition, and all of them stayed in the "middle army" that attacked Yingqing City head-on, plus a little army from the South Pole Gate, so the number of troops this time is still quite considerable. Because of the absolute superiority in the number of troops, Wan Fenglin dared to transfer the four most powerful sects of the Earth Alliance, Yushenzong, Iron Sword Sect, Lingyun Palace, and Huazong, from the army that attacked Yingqing City and formed the so-called Northern Army and Western Army.
Wan Fenglin's plan was for the Feather God Sect and the Iron Sword Gate to go north to resist the reinforcements of the Heavenly Alliance of the Purple Gold Pavilion and the Wuji Gate, and the Lingyun Hall and the Flower Sect to resist the reinforcements of the Heavenly Feather Sect from the Yunzhou Domain and the Dingzhou Domain. He used the advantage of numbers to successfully take Yingqing City.
And imagination is beautiful, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly! Wan Fenglin seriously underestimated this battle with the Tianyu Sect and the Heavenly Alliance, and even overestimated the fighting desire and wisdom of the other six major sects of the Earth Alliance, this is the beginning of failure!